Vinylism

A look back at the best of the year in local recordings It’s a safe bet that “physical copies” of albums will become less common as we hit 2019. But format, shmormat. The real story this year isn’t how the latest music from Greater Cincinnati was delivered; it’s how it sounded. And 2009 sounded pretty kick-ass if you were a follower of local music.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Tom Waits has given the devil his due with wry song lyrics, asking if the devil made the "world while God was sleeping" or musing "don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk." Now Waits is the devil incarnate in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, playing a dapper demon with a bowler hat, trim suit, and pencil-thin moustache who loves ...

It wasn’t Britain’s Got Talent that made Susan Boyle a superstar all over the world. It was YouTube.

While major labels spent the decade playing catch-up with the evil internet, the tight-knit Halifax music community kept a steady beat, coming out stronger and louder than ever. by Stephanie Johns Ten years is an awfully long period of time to cover, at least in the life of the average Halifax musician. Because of our diverse scene, turnover is high---Halifax could be named the call centre of ...

TORONTO - This past year, Malajube released two new albums, garnered a Polaris Prize nomination, and scored an award-winning new film.

Can’t say this is too surprising, but it’s sad nonetheless. El Cerrito cafe and record store 33 Revolutions closed its doors on Christmas Eve, citing the “challenging economy,” according to a message written by owners Dave and Taryn on their web site . The spacious store/cafe, which opened in Spring 2008, meshed a vinyl record store with the ambience of a cafe, and hosted live music as well. No ...

Dave Kloski will catch his patrons, at the least the ones who came to 33 Revolutions in El Cerrito for the vintage vinyl records, on the flip side.

Since time immemorial, gadget buyers have been discarding their most prized gizmos for newer, thinner, sleeker gizmos, often at the expense of practicality, durability, and stupendous amounts of money. But in the last few years, emaciated machines have also become economical. The latest company to get it right is Dell. The new Vostro laptop accomplishes the trifecta: thin, competent and ...

n Owner will reopen record store portion on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley

It's Infintesmal Records, not Infinitesimal. That isn't a spelling mistake, say founders Nick Schoeppel and Jimmi Bayer, who started the Springfield-based record label a year ago. Since then, their efforts to unite and rouse Jacksonville's underground music community haven't stopped, and they plan to continue in 2010.