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Pearl Jam Record Shopping

Seattle’s Music Mecca

GEORGETOWN RECORDS IS AT THE CENTER OF THE NORTHWEST’S MUSIC AND COMIC SCENE by John Ohannesian Georgetown, Seattle, Washington. A small business and residential area in a vast sea of industrial buildings and trucks, rail...
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A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters John Coltrane

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Books
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Tin Pan Alley: The Rise of Elton John

AUTHOR KEITH HAYWARD REVISITS DENMARK STREET, LONDON’S TIN PAN ALLEY, WHERE ELTON JOHN MET BERNIE TAUPIN AND A ROCK MUSIC LEGEND WAS BORN By Harvey Kubernik Soundcheck Books has just published the wonderful and educationa...
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The Record Parlour

Hooray for Hollywood Record Stores

DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD by Jim Kaplan ~ When did Hollywood become hipster haven? A dozen years ago I was employed by the LA Weekly, its offices at the time were on Sunset Blvd. near Highland Ave. We didn’t go out to our cars alon...
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T.H.E. Show: Coming to Newport Beach

Happy 2015 Everybody This year is starting out to be our best ever here at RCN World Headquarters. I say this, course, because I moved my speakers from the long wall to the short wall. Did you know speakers always sound best wh...
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Burger Records

Succulent Sounds

BURGER RECORDS: STORE, LABEL, EVENT PROMOTER AND HOME OF THE COMPACT CASSETTE RESURGENCE By Michael Enzor These days, record stores abound in Southern California. In Orange County alone (according to these pages) there are at l...
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Halloween Hootenanny

Halloween Hootenany

Enter the Crypt of Forgotten Screamers! By Greg McWhorter ooo-ee-oo!!! As the mighty Nervous Norvus would quip when pondering the down-right unexplainable, unex-pected, and unknown curi-osities that abound in the vinyl round! ...
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Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention

Zappa 50th Anniversary

Frank Zappa’s celebrated 1970 Mothers of Invention lineup is being commemorated with an unreleased 70-song collection of studio and live recordings for its 50th anniversary; Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman remember Zappa The...
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Bill Doggett

Bill Doggett

Celebrating the Centenninal of a 1950s Jazz Legend, the “Honkey Tonk” Organist Bill Dogget By Bill Doggett II February 16, 2016 marked what would have been the 100th birthday of Philadelphia musical legend, Bill Dog...
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