Found via the Flickr account of vinyl junkie and album cover lover Epiclectic, this WTF album cover defies any sort of snarky exposition. It’s only appropriate to exclaim, W…T…F???? But rest assured, this record does actually exist. The title of the book on the album cover is “AA For Beginners”.
Turntabling is hitting the convention trail again soon and I’ve got plans to increase the number of shows I’m doing in 2012.
There’s been such a great, positive response to the vinyl and CDs I sell at Horrorhound Weekend, Flashback, and elsewhere that it seems like the right time to expand the amount of stuff I’m bringing to the shows and the number of shows I bring it to.
That’s why I’m very pleased to be part of two new-to-me shows. Dark Carnival in Bloomington, Indiana is one I’m catching in October (details below) and I just committed to doing Days of the Dead in Atlanta in March 2012.
Cinema Wasteland, September 30 – October 2 2011 in Strongsville Ohio. It’s at the Holiday Inn at 15471 Royalton Road in Strongsville.
Dark Carnival Film Festival, October 21-23 2011 in Bloomington, Indiana. For ticket and location info call (812) 323-3020
Horrorhound Weekend November 11-13 2011 in Cincinnati Ohio. This one is at the Crowne Plaza Hotel 11320 Chester Road.
Capricon is a fun sci-fi show in Wheeling, Illinois held February 9-12 2012. I had a table two years ago and the experience was a lot of fun, so I look forward to getting back there for another go in 2012. This year Turntabling plans to co-host a party room and there should be a lot of mischief, mayhem and fun. Did I mention there will be an open bar?
Days of the Dead Atlanta is March 9-12 2012. This is my first Days of the Dead show so I look forward to getting to meet a lot of you who haven’t made it to the shows I normally do because they’re so far away. Turntabling will bring hundreds of rare, weird, sought-after and collectible records and if you’re in the Altanta area, you should NOT miss this show. Sid “Captain Spaulding” Haig is already confirmed for this show and word has it he’ll be taking photos in the makeup again. Yes, you need to be at this show!
As always, thanks for your support at these shows–I really love meeting people who read the blog and vinyl junkies in general. Thank you!
–Joe Wallace
As a rule, daytime television sucks the air out of a deceased camel. But I have to say, I was totally surprised by this clip from the Ellen show, because not only did she NOT trot out some bad album covers that everybody has seen before a million times, she actually SURPRISED ME as a connoisseur of shitty album art with two records I didn’t even know existed.
Honor Blackman recorded a record? The former Bond girl turns songstress? Or was she always a singer and I just didn’t know it? That album cover isn’t as awful as some, but Ellen DeGeneres does have just as much fun at Honor Blackman’s expense as I would here–her riffs on these records were pretty funny. And I hate daytime TV.
Then again, maybe some producer out there in TV land has been watching this space, and I should consider a lawsuit.
Only kidding–there are plenty of crap album covers and enough jokes to go around for all eternity. Plus, right-wing extremist knuckle-draggers hate Ellen DeGeneres, which makes her a good egg in my book. How could I possibly tilt lances at her when she gives the righties nightmares? Behold three wretched album covers and commentary as featured on the Ellen show:
by Joe Wallace
During the London riots, I heard some horror stories about the effects of indiscriminate looting and burning. Some were true, and some were not.
Fortunately for indie record shop Dub Vendor, the reports of their demise were wrong, as evidenced 
by the picture I found courtesy of Reggae.com which shows Dub Vendor (the shop with the blue sign) coming out more or less unscathed compared to the unlucky tenant right next door.
But SonyDADC didn’t fare so well–it went up in flames resulting in untold numbers of vinyl records being destroyed–including a lot of stock by the awesome Ninja Tune label. Others affected include Sub Pop, Secretly Canadian, 4AD and other names.
According to several online reports, many labels lost “most or all of their stock”. How this affects the bands, the record sellers and the fans? Well, do the math. Indie artists who were counting on all that vinyl now have to figure out not only how to get the records out there, but how to recoup the costs associated with any reprinting needed to get the release to the shops.
Lots of people were screaming in August about “revolution” and how people were getting something back via these riots that they might have felt entitled to…but the burning also wound up affecting musicians and indie businesses too.
This little screed might be a bit late, but it’s also the sort of thing you don’t really think much of when events are literally blowing up–how does the insanity on the streets translate into crippling or destroying somebody’s livelihood–someone you would never make a target of for any reason if you understood what you were really doing?
I was grateful to hear about Dub Vendor surviving the riot for a variety of reasons, and while it’s easy and fun to point fingers at the record industry and companies like Sony for being the clueless dinosaurs they prove themselves to be time and again.
But at the end of the day there are still a LOT of non-corporate, indie friendly people working in and around this business. And when you torch the SonyDADC plant, you’re also setting fire to some of those people’s hopes and dreams, too.