Apr 212012
 
Gramophone / Phonograph / Record Player - Engi...

Gramophone / Phonograph / Record Player - Engines in Enginuity, Coalbrookdale (Photo credit: ell brown)

Another year, another Record Store Day.

Some blogs I read are heralding it as the largest music event in the world. Pretty sweet sauce – you’d think that for something of that magnitude, a cultural European center the size of Ljubljana might have something going on. Unfortunately, no. Ljubljana has no proper record shops, just a couple of music stores that look like they transported here from the mid-90’s, and I have to read about events like Other Music’s in-store DJ lineup of Suckers, Four Tet, Ex Cops, The Men, and Wild Nothing, not to mention the fact that the releases I’m listening to online are actually available there on 7 inch vinyl

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Last year I prepared myself better and made a day trip to Zagreb to see some in-store performances and buy some vinyl, and despite talk of making a road trip to Austria this year with some friends, this year finds me unprepared and sitting on my couch. Oh well. I guess I’ll have to settle for internet streams this year – at least this year finds me with a record player to listen to the few vinyls I’ve been able to collect over the past year.

Either way, here are my picks:

And a couple of non-RSD picks: Happy Record Store Day. Next year in Jerusalem!
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Mar 072012
 
Beach House performing at Coachella 2010

Image via Wikipedia

Wow. We All Just Want Someone To Shout For said it proper – “2012 just got real.” Check out this new Beach House:

[new]: Beach House – Myth (via We All Want Someone To Shout For)

In other music news:

Also out this week:

Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself The Magnetic Fields – Love at the Bottom of the Sea

Preview:

Krzysztof Penderecki And Jonny Greenwood (via NPR)

Bonus feature:

A buddy of mine named Zoran has been publishing an online zine called Addicted to Nothing, offering excellent new mixtapes every Sunday, which have been pretty popular in recent weeks in the Ljubljana blogger community. This week’s installment features a mixtape from another friend, Tadej Štrok, and comes highly recommended from this happy subscriber!

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Looking for something to do tomorrow night in Ljubljana?

Check out Tune-Yards at Menza pri Koritu (in Metelkova)

That’s all for now. Veseli sreda, y’all!

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