Dear friends, It took us a while to recover but we are happy to report that Sweastock #5/Record Store Day 2014 was the best day ever! The RSD exclusives flew off the shelves, the 30+ bands and DJs kicked ass, there was free Panther Coffee and ice cream, All Access Photo Booth were snapping pics, …
If you come into the shop regularly and/or follow the blog, you know about the incredible vintage turntables restored by Oscar Herrera of Spin Alley. What you might not know about Oscar is that he’s also an incredible musician who’s been a member of a few notable bands since the 80’s. One band in particular, …
Hey everyone! As you can tell from our phonograph post, we’re back to blogging after our Sweatstock recovery! Check your inbox tomorrow for our newsletter with all our thanks, photos, links & love from that wonderful day. If you don’t get our SweatList emails, you can sign up to the right. Before we get to …
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Every time Spin Alley brings us their gorgeously restored phonographs, we post them on Instagram and they fly off the shelves. We only have one left from the last batch, and you can watch it in action and read their words about it here: The RCA Victor 45 players were the “ipod” of their day. …
Dear friends, Holy mountains of records, the best day of the whole year is tomorrow: Record Store Day 2014 and Sweatstock #5! Of course there will be lots of exclusive records to get at in the morning, but the spirit of the day is about celebrating record stores as part of their local communities and …
So, even though this is “This Just In,” where I ramble on about something and then list records, this week is obviously a special case due to Record Store Day on Saturday. And, sorry, but I’m not going to paste a list hundreds of titles deep of what we have, ’cause that’s no fun. Saturday …
Hooo doggies! This Saturday is our fifth annual Sweatstock festival – a free, all-ages, all-day block party and pop-up music festival celebrating our store’s 9-year anniversary as well as Record Store Day 2014. Some people ask us, “Why do you go through all the trouble of doing this when you don’t make money off it?” …
Bermuda Triangle bass king Otto Von Schirach is ready to release more music on Modeselektor’s Monkeytown Records. His digital single Tipo Tropical (featuring a synth line from Nayib Estefan & Pepe Billete) comes out on April 18th with La Plancha as the B-side. Read some words from Monkeytown about the track below, and preorder both …
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In 2004 I was deep in the throes of post rock… I spent a ton of time drumming in an impossibly arduous post rock outfit with a rotating cast of guitarists who just couldn’t handle “these long-ass songs”. Twice a week I’d make a 1-hour trek to a suburb of Portland to play in this …
After tonight’s Emerge Miami meeting, Casa de Haha returns to Sweat! Last Monday Daniel Reskin took his crew to The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse for a live taping of the new variety talk show (find one of the segments below!), Casa de Haha Tonight. It was such a success that they’ll be doing it …