The celebration of April’s Record Store Day has mirrored the resurgence of the vinyl record sales over the last decade. As vinyl now accounts for more than a third of all physical music sales, its highest percentage since 1988 according to information from Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), April 13th’s Record Store Day is […]
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Track record
Guestroom Records Turns 15 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-Saturday Guestroom Records 125 E. Main St., Norman guestroomrecords.com 405-701-5974 Free If you’re a fan of vinyl in the Oklahoma City area, chances are you’ve stepped into Guestroom Records at some point. Maybe it was the Norman location, 125 E. Main St., with its concrete floors and industrial […]
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Nuclear option
He is often called the godfather of alternative rock music, but if a few things go in his favor this year, Tyson Meade could soon be called something very different: United States Congressman. In April, Meade — most known as frontman of the late-1980s and ’90s bands Defenestration and Chainsaw Kittens, which have been cited […]
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Guestroom Records partners with rapper Jabee for the Black Future vinyl release party
Guestroom also will unleash more than 1,000 unpicked used records to the public on Black Friday.
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“I’ve sold Scorpions albums to 10-year-olds and Glenn Campbell albums to high-schoolers.”
“I’ve sold Scorpions albums to 10-year-olds and Glenn Campbell albums to high-schoolers.”
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“Whether you love Black Friday or hate it, that is the beginning of the holiday season; it’s like the Super Bowl of being a store.”
“Whether you love Black Friday or hate it, that is the beginning of the holiday season; it’s like the Super Bowl of being a store.”
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Local record stores celebrate indie holiday Saturday
Part of what makes local record shops so great is their ability to bring people together while flouting traditional music industry rules.
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Lip service
Brad Gregg Oklahoma City’s band is back with a double-vinyl release, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, which features collaborations with Ke$ha, Biz Markie, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, Yoko Ono, Neon Indian, Tame Impala, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. Tracks include “Superman Made Me Want to Pee,” “Helping the […]
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Superchunk — Here’s Where the Strings Come In
I was about to write that Superchunk’s solid, if unexceptional 1995 release, “Here’s Where the Strings Come In,” is pretty much only for fans of the band and devotees of the genre, totally forgetting for the moment that they used to be all who cared about indie rock. The re-release of the album, which hit […]
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Hear It Is
Although they’ve often abandoned traditional music-delivery methods for more unique ones, The Flaming Lips do, in fact, have albums. And on Record Store Day, April 16, Oklahoma’s most famous weirdos will reissue a decade’s worth of records on actual vinyl, in a box set titled “Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002.” Including […]