Vinyl Road Rage 2 Chicago to NYC Dates and Itinerary

Vinyl Road Rage Two gets underway on August 12. The Chicago-to-New York road trip will hit a dozen or more indie record shops along the way, starting in Indiana and winding up in Greenwich Village.

Turntabling blogged last year’s Vinyl Road Rage from Chicago to San Antonio, Texas and this year should be even wilder. If you have a suggestion for record stores we should hit along the way from Chicago to NYC, please drop a comment and let us know what we’re missing on our current list.

The itinerary looks something like this–subject to revision, addition, etc. The stops include but aren’t limited to:

Michiana Used Music & Media 4609 Grape Road  Mishawaka, IN 46545-8257 ( 574) 247-1188

Record Revolution 1828 Coventry Road Cleveland Hts, OH 44118-1692 (216) 321-7661

Zombie Disco 2 With DJ Paisley Babylon

Tonight, Saturday July 24 at 9PM I’ll be spinning as DJ Paisley Babylon at Chicago’s excellent Lucky Number Grill. It’s Zombie Disco Night, an event put on by the Chicago Horror Society. Last year’s Zombie Disco was something to behold and this one should be even more fantastic. There will be zombie makeup artists on site to bring out the corpse in you, plus some fun events, contests and all the retro disco insanity you can stand. Bring a bag of disco biscuits and get your groove on!

If you can’t make it to this for some sick reason, I’ll be posting a set list mix later in the week. Stay tuned. DJ Paisley Babylon rides again, terrorizing Chi-town from behind the decks.

–Joe Wallace

Join Turntabling at Terror In the Aisles 4: Undead By Dawn

Friday May 21st at 7PM, Turntabling will have a table full of obscure and rare goodies at the zombie film festival TERROR IN THE AISLES 4: UNDEAD BY DAWN at Chicago’s legendary Portage Theatre.

Don’t miss this one, as it features a midnight screening of Lucio Fulci’s ZOMBIE, a Turntabling favorite. Complete details below–join us for all the fun and bring your vinyl LP carrying bag–you’ll NEED IT!

Vinyl Road Rage Two: Chicago to NYC

by Joe Wallace

It’s official, Turntabling’s second Vinyl Road Rage is in the works. This time, I’ll be hitting indie record stores from Chicago to New York City. Consider this a sort of Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, except without the fear or the loathing. Everything else is up for grabs as I blaze a trail from Chi-town to Greenwich Village.

Dates and record store destinations to be announced, but here’s your chance to throw your two cents in. Know of an awesome record store in South Bend? Pittsburgh? Maybe Allentown? I’ll be looking for places to stop, do video, blog, recharge, refuel, catch shows and meet up with fellow vinyl junkies.

Drop me a line: jwallace242 (at) gmail (dot) com and say hello, make suggestions, name a good stop for recaffeination, etc. More info on dates and destinations coming very soon. Stay tuned, the road rage is about to begin…not in the next two weeks, but soon!

Join Us at Women of Horror 2

Turntabling will have a table at the second annual Women of Horror film festival sponsored by the Chicago Horror Society. Saturday May 1, join us at Chicago’s Portage Theater for an evening of scares, giveaways and much more…Turntabling will have the usual eight foot table crammed with glorious vinyl and hard to find soundtracks…don’t miss it!

An Update from HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis

This is just a quick update to say thanks to everyone who came to the Turntabling booth at HorrorHound on Friday night. It’s been great to meet fellow vinyl junkies and soundtrack heads. I’ve been updating via Facebook and will have plenty more images and such from the show for the rest of the weekend.

A quick note about online orders—HorrorHound Weekend has been successful thus far thanks in part to a stunning lineup of guests including George Romero, Ken Foree, Sid Haig and many other horror luminaries (Clive Barker and Richard Lynch are also here). Some of the Turntabling stock has sold out–we brought quite a lot out for this one. Any online orders will get personal attention via e-mail as soon as the show is over. If your titles are sold out we’ll work out a back order for you, rest assured!

–Joe Wallace

Join Turntabling at HorrorHound Weekend Fri March 26-28

Join Turntabling.net this weekend, Friday March 26 through March 28 for HorrorHound Weekend. We’ll be running a booth right next to the Kitley’s Krypt table and will have all of the stuff you find for sale on the site plus PLENTY that’s not been added yet–we’ve got a huge pile of rare titles on vinyl and CD.

While it’s excessively annoying that we’re listed on the Horrorhound Weekend site as “Turntable.net” we’re still thrilled to be running a table at this event, which boasts and amazing lineup of luminaries from the horror world including appearances by Clive Barker and George Romero. You DO NOT want to miss this. Join us in Indianapolis at the Mariott at 7202 East 21st Street in Indianapolis.

Back From Capricon

It was a very interesting weekend at Carpicon XXX–the thirtieth science fiction convention and the only four-day show for sci fi fans in this area. Many thanks to all who stopped by the Turntabling table and picked up hard-to-find vinyl, talked music and other ephemera and made the show a lot of fun to be at in general.

One of the more interesting features of this convention was the concept of party suites–something I haven’t seen at the horror conventions so far. Turntabling may well get involved in organizing a suite at some of these shows to try something new, spin some tunes and throw a monster party to promote the site. Stay tuned, that is something in the works that we’ll give updates on shortly.

It’s great to be back–there are plenty of new titles to be added to the site this week, keep your eyes peeled for those plus the usual run of bad album covers and much more.

–Joe Wallace

Join Turntabling at Capricon 2010

Things have been a bit quiet here as Turntabling prepares for its first appearance at Capricon, the Chicago area’s only four-day science fiction conference. It’s an experiment for Turntabling–there’s no telling how many vinyl junkies or genre fans (outside sci-fi) will be there, but it’s a lot of fun running the Turntabling table at shows so it’s an experiment worth doing.

Come visit the Turntabling table at Capricon this weekend, February 11-14 located at the Westin Chicago North Shore:

601 North Milwaukee Avenue, Wheeling, IL 60090
(847)777-6500 www.westinnorthshore.com

Reader Poll: Where Should Vinyl Road Rage 2 Go?

Many of you will remember the Turntabling Vinyl Road Rage road trip we took in 2009, driving from Chicago, Illinois to San Antonio, Texas. I  blogged about a host of indie record stores along the way, and it looks like a spring 2010 version is shaping up nicely. But here’s the big question–where does Vinyl Road Rage #2 go?

The starting line is Chicago, Illinois, of course. But from there it’s anybody’s guess, so I thought I’d throw this one open to suggestions. Please feel free to get in touch directly by dropping me a line on Facebook. I am open to any suggestions at this point, short of looking for a record shop on the moon or in a place I can’t drive to within the continental United States.