Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Every Day Should Be Record Store Day

Last year, a couple months before the first Record Store Day, my favorite Atlanta record store closed. (Yes, I'm still grieving.) It happened again this year: Ella Guru closed in March. But there's also good news for record store shoppers. Reactionary Records reopened in East Atlanta (at 465a Flat Shoals Avenue, across from the EARL). As a service to Atlanta visitors, here are the remaining independent retailers of CD's and vinyl in the ATL area:

Audio Alternative
website
Book Nook
review
Circle Sky
myspace
Criminal Records
website
Decatur CD
website
Fantasyland
review
Feed Your Head
myspace
Full Moon Records
review
Low Yo-Yo Stuff
myspace
Moods Music
website
Reactionary Records
myspace
Records Galore
review
Secur Music
website
Stickfigure
website
Sweet Melissa
website
Wax N Facts
myspace
Wuxtry
website

Check out this
documentary about Rough Trade, founded on the idea that (in Geoff Travis' words) "a record shop could be a lot more than just a place where you bought records". The film is about the birth of independent labels, and about the contradictions between idealism and commerce. I love the part when Mayo Thompson muses that Rough Trade's ambitions to balance the two may have been a case of "drinking too much of your own piss".

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Legacy Management: Mixtape '08

After much deliberation (and no small amount of procrastination), I finished a mix of my favorite new songs from last year. Download the zip file here.

1. "Archaeologists" - Wintersleep
2. "Konny and Jim" - Love as Laughter
3. "Lucky Lucky Luck" - Evangelista
4. "Come to New York" - Paramount Styles
5. "Volatile" - The Old Haunts
6. "I Admit My Faults" - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
7. "She Doesn't Belong to Me" - Pete and the Pirates
8. "Can Can Summer" - the Fall
9. "This Is Not for You" - Blood Red Shoes
10. "Enraged" - Girl Loves Distortion
11. "Living in Lines" - Statues
12. "Sleet" - the Futureheads
13. "Speak" - Dark Captain Light Captain
14. "Shovel to Ground" - the Colour Revolt
15. "Giving Up & Getting Fat" - You Am I
16. "Fish to Fry" - the Jim Jones Revue
17. "Marathon Mansion" - Pegasuses XL
18. "Count It Off" - the Saturday Knights (featuring the Dap-Kings)
19. "Life Is Better" - Q-Tip (featuring Norah Jones)

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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Indubitably Maybe


Dawn Penn - No, No, No
Terry Adams - Yes, Yes, Yes
Audrey Scott - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps