Kind of a controversial figure depending on who you ask, but no one would argue her influence on hip-hop, being the founder of Sugarhill Records. She died yesterday at the age of 75.
I picked this copy up on a roadtrip through Halifax. Anyway, like I say, kind of cheesy but a pretty listenable album and I recommend picking it up if you find it.
Crosley Spinnerette turntable, $150 at Dijital Fix. It plays and digitizes, and looks cool across the room from your Olivetti Valentine. Kind of Need but mostly just Want.
Front and back cover of the forthcoming Flexions LP Golden Fjord, designed for the newly-minted Cairo Records by yours truly.
The album is out August 2nd and in addition to band members Robin Stein, Devin Welch, and Tyler Swan, also features Margaret Jones and Morgan Henderson (Fleet Foxes, Past Lives, Blood Brothers, and, perhaps most importantly, Mt. Henderson).
A new Women song?! This is potentially great news – maybe they don't hate each other after all.
They Call Me Mister Tibbs – 1970 sequel to In The Heat of the Night (click here for the trailer)
In Like Flint – 1967 sequel to Our Man Flint. (trailer)
Emmanuelle 2 – 1976 sequel to, um, Emmanuelle (boring but just to be consistent: trailer)
Jeroen Diepenmaat: Pour des dents d'un blanc éclatant et saines, 2005. (Record players, vinyl records, taxidermied birds, and sound. Dimensions variable.) From The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, an exhibition exploring "the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art" – through February 6, 2011 at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University. Artists exhibited include Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Jasper Johns, Christian Marclay, Mingering Mike, Dario Robleto, Ed Ruscha, Malick Sidibe, Carrie Mae Weems, and many more. Info and images here.
I've been doing some weeding of the collection recently. As much as the music on these is unremarkable or bad, I have to keep them for the covers alone. 
Plus, who knows, I might listen to them another time and like them. 
Imagine the horror if I thought "what I really need right now is some soul sauce," only to realize that I had given that record away on some forgotten whim. Unacceptable.
Or what happens if I'm feelin' saxy and I can't find my Herb Larson record, because I gave it away, just because it's horrible? Do you think Herb Larson would do that to you? 
Exactly.
I'm not sure where to find it but I have always wanted a shirt like the one Lalo Schifrin is wearing on the front of Medical Center (I believe this is called Swiss dot or dotted Swiss). Need.
William Furlong interviewing Philip Glass for Audio Arts, ca.1982
Furlong produced Audio Arts for over thirty years, and at its high-point circulation reached into the thousands. But for being what the Tate Museum describes in the article as "the most comprehensive collection of artists' voices in the world," it remained an obscurity, known to only those who knew. Luckily for the rest of us, the Tate acquired the magazine's entire archive in 2004, and now Phaidon will publish transcripts of some of the best of Furlong's interviews in a new book, Speaking of Art. 
I don't have any of them but I'll be on the hunt.
This year for RSD, Light In The Attic is releasing a special Rodriguez gatefold 7" (which I designed). You can't tell from the image but the type and the frame around the photo are silver foil-stamped.
We also did issue No.2 of the Light In The Attic zine. It's 7" square with a cover illustration of Kris Kristofferson by Drew Christie. The page-count is a little lower than issue No. 1, but it's jam-packed with useful info:
Emily interviews Betty Davis about her modeling career and status as a fashion icon (more about that in a later post).
Charles Peterson talks to Jini Dellacio about her photographs of legendary Northwest garage bands such as The Sonics and The Wailers.
Andy Beta interviews Miss Jane B. about her time with Serge Gainsbourg and what that was like. Light In The Attic has a couple Jane Birkin projects coming up that I'm way psyched about.
Kris Kristofferson and Charlie Louvin have a quick convo about old-time country and being, you know, legends.
There's also an excerpt from Andria Lisle's liner notes for the forthcoming Jim Sullivan release, and articles on or by Lou Bond, Gabor Szabo, Rodriguez, Kearney Barton, and more.
Come to Ballard next Tuesday night!
Yep, what's up Jeans.
Play my song again!
Again?! 
It may be true that the best things in life aren't things, but records don't count. Here's a little playlist of some joints I picked up during our recent trip to Moscow.
(Click the images to enlarge.)
