Join Turntabling at Cyphan Friday June 25 2010

Uncategorized, , , ,

Turntabling has a table full of delicious vinyl and rare CD finds in the dealer hall at this year’s Cyphan con. The show is Friday June 25 through Sunday June 27 at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel in Wheeling, Illinois.

The Turntabling table features some vintage Goblin, Morricone, Bruno Nicolai, Tarantino soundtracks, a bit of the old Rob Zombie on vinyl, even some Doctor Who-related vinyl for the sci-fi set. We’ve also got a line of tees for sale this time out including the infamous “Sweet Innocent Teenagers” tee.

Cyphan is an experiment for Turntabling…sci-fi shows aren’t what we’re used to doing, but this one features a Friday The 13th reunion and a few other tasty treats, so we’ve decided to give it a go and see what happens. Come out join Turntabling for a weekend of fandom, vinyl, and something called the Browncoat Bash which features Firefly star Jewell Staite as the guest of honor. These maniacs have made the Browncoat Bash an OPEN BAR affair–a dangerous thing to do with a bunch of vinyl junkies in the room.


A Handy Guide to Digitizing Vinyl Records from Soul-Sides.com

Blogs, , , ,

Soul-Sides dot com
Soul-Sides.com is an awesome vinyl/MP3 blog featuring rare soul finds including 45s, 12-inch singles and much more. The music selection is fantastic and highly recommended, but the added bonus of a well-informed and non-snobby guide to high-quality vinyl-to-mp3 digitizing makes this blog even more valuable.

Oliver Wang, AKA DJ O-Dub, has been running this since 2000 (as a blog since 2003), so he’s got more than enough to obsess over in the archives. I’ve only just discovered this blog but am already impressed by the scope and quality. Bravo! Continue reading A Handy Guide to Digitizing Vinyl Records from Soul-Sides.com →

Vinyl Road Rage Tour 2010: Chicago To NYC Itinerary Announced

vinyl road rage

vinyl road rage two

The first Vinyl Road Rage was Turntabling’s shameless grab for publicity, vinyl records, and the 411 on cool independent record stores between Chicago and San Antonio, Texas. Along the way I hit shops in Springfield, Illinois, St. Louis, Springfield Missouri, Dallas, Austin, OKC, and finally San Antonio itself.

This year we have an equally ambitious itinerary from Chicago to New York City, which includes a lot of side journeys along the way including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Here is a partial list of indie record shops I’ll be hitting and blogging about along the way.

I’m posting this for several reasons–one of the big missed opportunities of the last trip was the chance to meet up with other vinyl junkies en route after the day’s blogging is done and be social. This time, we’re not letting that happen. If you live along the route and would like to recommend a good hangout for live music, good food and drink or other record shops, please consider this an open invitiation to get the conversation started.

Our route includes (but is not limited to) stops at the following:

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

15801 Waterloo Rd Cleveland, OH 44110

11600 Detroit Avenue Cleveland, OH 44102-2320
(216) 221-9200

2136 Murray Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Mr. Mike’s
27 S 3rd St Harrisburg, PA 17101

808 St John St Allentown, PA 18103

239 Bleecker St New York, NY 10014

210 Thompson Street New York, NY 10012-484

With a little luck, we’ll have the KLF blasting the whole way. Get in touch if you don’t see YOUR record store on the list, but would like to…we’d be very happy to do something fun in-store as I’ll be blogging and video-blogging this entire trip.

Would love to do a video shoot with indie music types–bands and stores–ESPECIALLY about their favorite CRAPPY ALBUM COVERS.

WTF Album Covers: God Is A Killer

WTF?, ,

WTF album covers God Is A Killer

A lifetime of gratitude to the blog A Basement of Curiosities for turning me on to the wonders of A.A. Allen, who was apparently a bit of a revolutionary in the pulpit as he was a pro-integration activist at the height of Jim Crow, separate drinking fountains and the rest of America’s big ugly period where the Constitution only applied if you were the right sort of white anglo-saxon-protestant jackass.

Progressive as Allen might have been on some fronts, he was a fire-and-brimstone loony and faith healer. But like all religious maniacs, he couldn’t heal himself and is said to have dropped off the twig in 1970 due to alcohol-related liver failure. Whoops!

This album cover is a treat. Allen looks more than a little like a Wild Bunch-era Ernest Borgnine, but that expression on his face implies that something long and wriggly has just crawled up his rectum. The title is a hoot–of COURSE God is a killer! Look at all those church collapses, Jihads and right wing holy wars. God’s in it up to his eyeballs, a river of blood to flood a thousand universes.

Funny thing is, Allen doesn’t seem to mind. From what I read at A Basement of Curiosities, Allen seems to get off on telling his audience that if they don’t wanna “get saved” God might just have to disembowel them (my words, not his) and send them downstairs to have sex with the devil. (My words again, I can’t help myself. Maybe I’m possessed.)

This one’s a real treasure.

[ad#Google Adsense]