How To Clean Your 45s

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Elevator to the Gallows

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Train Of Though Derailed Mystery Stream 118

This planet just lost one of it's best inhabitants. Rip Randy Goss - miss you already, I love you man!



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The Velvet Underground Book

The Velvet Underground's association with Andy Warhol is well documented; perhaps what is less well known is the art that was actually made to promote the band's gigs and albums during the mid-to-late 60s. A new book documents the rise of their decidedly New York art.


New from Rizzoli books, The Velvet Underground: A New York Art (edited by Johan Kugelberg) collects together a wealth of early photography of the band, alongside a wonderful archive of posters and flyers.

More from the smart folks over at: Creative Review UK.

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Episode 114: Splashdown!

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Accordiana!

Grab it and dig it: Charles Magnante's Accordiana!

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The Little Library Of Factory Sleeves

Check out the groovy Little Library of Factory Record Sleeves.

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Palms Away: Atlantis Revisited

Well I thought that... You said that... We were gonna...

At this point when I plan you know I plan on going wrong it`s just I
never thought I'd plot the course of failure for this long...

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Meet Barky!

Holy crap this is awesome!

Barky is a simple table made from a raw-edged wood round. Rega RB251 arm, Premotec motor, and upgraded glass platter. Poly-sealed and paste waxed.

Available from Audio Wood.

Yup. Audio Wood pretty much sums it up for me!

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Syracuse University Scores 50 Tons of Vinyl

A vast collection of 78 rpm records is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.

The more than 200,000 records represented the entire inventory of "Records Revisited," a landmark Manhattan store owned by Morton Savada, who died in February of lung cancer at age 85.

The collection, valued at $1 million, weighs 50 tons and represents more than a half-century of American music history.

Included are recordings from 1895 to the 1950s, with big band, jazz, country, blues, gospel, polka, folk, Broadway, Hawaiian and Latin among the genres. The collection also contains spoken-word, comedy and broadcast recordings, and "V-disks," which were distributed as entertainment to the U.S. military during World War II.

"It's a treasure trove of that era," said Joe Lauro, founder of Historic Film Archive, whose holdings include more than 40,000 musical performance clips and which holds exclusive rights to such famous shows as "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert."

I love the fact that Savada often lent his 78s to movie and music producers rather than selling them, and never sold the last copy of a recording because he regarded his collection as an archive, not an inventory.

"He was more interested in making you a $5 copy on tape than selling you a record. He considered himself a keeper of history more than a collector," Lauro said.

Read the rest over at: CNN.

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Thanks to Guy Mauve for the cool shot.

HMK Mystery Stream: Bohemian Mai Tai Jet Set

It's On! Grab a towel, a cold one and tune in!

HMK Mystery Stream: Irregular Frequency Episode 107: Bohemian Mai Tai Jet Set

Some material might not be appropriate for the young ones...

Carpe Los Dias!

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For Sale: 3 Million Records and 300,000 CDs

Wow! The World's Largest Record Collection is for Sale on eBay.

A physical music collection purported to be the largest in the world is on sale on eBay, with a minimum reserve bid of $3 million.

The collection includes more than 6 million songs on 3 million records and 300,000 compact discs. If you were to buy the whole thing on iTunes by the song -- not that you'd be able to find all of them -- the collection would run you $5,940,000 (in that sense, $3 million is a bargain).

Read it all from Eliot Van Buskirk and the smart folks over at the Wired Blog or listen thanks to NPR.

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