August 3, 2010
How to clean a vinyl album? It’s a question that plagues crate diggers from Lake Geneva to the Finland Station. (Heh.) Do you want to know how SOME people clean their vinyl records? One rocket scientist on a message board somewhere suggests you IMMERSE your vinyl records in STEAMING HOT WATER.
Run right out and try [...]
July 6, 2010
by Joe Wallace
I’m throwing this question out because I’d really like to know what Turntabling readers think (there’s a hint–post your opinions in the comments section!) about the state of indie record stores in America. In the last two years we’ve lost a LOT of good ones, but the ones that have survived seem to [...]
June 5, 2010
This edition of WTF Bad Album Covers is NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Now that we have that formality out of the way…
We’ve seen some fairly bad album covers together, no? But an utterly jaw-dropping piece of dreck is a wonderful thing to find. This album is one of those 60s-era “adults only” LP, not some [...]
December 14, 2009
It was a very busy time last week prepping for the Holiday of Horror show at the Portage Theater here in Chicago–the last Horror Society blowout for 2009. Thanks to all who came out, it was a fantastic time! Turntabling debuted scary tees from StrangerTees.com, and sold plenty of Goblin albums and other fun stuff.
The [...]
October 8, 2009
The mighty Antone’s Records in Austin, Texas does NOT disappoint. Don’t be fooled by the modest exterior in this Austin strip mall, or the (comparatively) smallish space this shop takes up. Much like Doctor Who’s Tardis, this store seems to expand from within as the stock gets larger. And what a collection of fantastic records [...]