Articles by Mike Elias

NEW RELEASE VINYL JANUARY 2016

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th, 2016 Basement – Promise Everything Chuck Berry – After School Session Clan Nugent – Night Fiction Phil Collins – Face Value Phil Collins – Take A Look At Me Now Crooked Fingers – S/T Crooked Fingers – Bring On The Snakes Doom – Born Like This Featuring Raekwan & Ghostface Killah Benji […]

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NEW RELEASE VINYL DECEMBER 2015

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015 Funkadelic – Shake The Gate FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2015 Baroness – Purple Black Crowes – Amorica Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker (Re-Issue) Clutch – Psychic Warfare Deafheaven – New Bermuda San Francisco’s Deafheaven found massive critical success when their 2013 album Sunbather was an unexpected crossover hit, earning the […]

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NEW RELEASE VINYL NOVEMBER 2015

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2015 All Them Witches – Dying Surfer Meets His Maker Boy & Bear – Limit of Love Neko Case – Black Listed Cicada Rhythm – Cicada Rhythm Coil – Backwards The lost album & essential bridge between “Love’s Secret Domain” and the “Music To Play In the Dark.” Recorded 1992-1996 in London […]

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We Are An Authorized Blue Note Dealer

Posted on October 6, 2015

Blue Note Records is celebrating their 85th anniversary by bringing back the #BlueNoteAuthorizedDealer program, and we’re happy to announce that we are one! That means you can find a large selection of new and classic Blue Note titles in our bins, as well as exclusive color variant releases, and more, coming monthly to independent record stores like ours. 

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NEW RELEASE VINYL OCTOBER 2015

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015 Beach Slang – The Things We Do To Find People Like Us Buena Vista Social Club – S/T (180 gram double vinyl) Peter Case – Hwy 62 (Yellow vinyl w/download card) It’s been five years since we’ve gotten new material from Peter Case! The Chills – Silver Bullets First new album […]

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Beg, Borrow & Steal, The Ohio Express

Posted on January 2, 2013

“Beg, Borrow & Steal” is a great pop-rock single. It is obviously based on the “Louie, Louie” chord changes but it employs British invasion harmonies. The Ohio Express is the same band that would go on to score the huge bubblegum hits, “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy” and “Chewy Chewy” as well as “Down At Lulu’s.” Or was it the same band?

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Crocodiles, Endless Flowers

Posted on July 6, 2012

They have the ability to fins beauty in solution, trepidation and apathy, which is perfect for the disenfranchised American and the anxious youth. Plus, they wrote riff so accessible, you’d swear they stole them. Even the onslaught of sound cannot bury them.

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The Primitives, Echoes and Rhymes

Posted on June 5, 2012

…with current bands out there like, The School, the Pipettes and The Like trying to recreate that girl-group feeling, The Primitives show a good way to attack it is straight on.

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Beck, I Just Started Hating Some People Today

Posted on June 3, 2012

Is this song supposed to be funny? Is it a parody of country music? Or does Jack and Beck have to step back every now and then and realize not every creation is worth a pressing. Yes, I understand this is a one-off recording and maybe the two were just having a little fun, but I still don’t get it.

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Best Coast, The Only Place

Posted on May 25, 2012

These songs are like singing phone texts.

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