In one of those serendipitous moments, last month I mentioned to Mrs. Life in the Vinyl Lane that I was interested in checking out the music of Moondog and lo and behold a few days later while digging at Cheapo Records in Minneapolis I came across a used copy of the 2017 re-release of his […]
Month: March 2024
Record Shopping – Rome (and Florence), Italy Style
We were fortunate enough to spend a week in Italy recently, based in Rome, and as always I made a point of checking out as many record stores as I could. Rome doesn’t have the same vinyl reputation as the top tier cities like Tokyo, London, and Berlin, but it has at least 20 shops […]
Kaos – “Product Of A Sick Mind…” (1980)
Kaos was a short-lived punk band out of Los Angeles whose entire output during their existence comprised of the three-song Product Of A Sick Mind…, which interestingly came out both as a 7″ and a 12″. I found this copy on the wall at Extreme Noise Records in Minneapolis, and the price was right so […]
Hermigervill – “Switched-On Iceland” (2023)
You will never witness a musician who performs live with more joy than Hermigervill. Full stop. I’ve seen him play probably half a dozen times, both in a duo with the dream pop vocalist Berndsen as well as solo in a wide range of venues, from large halls to record stores. And the look of […]
DJ Dorrit – “TUN025 – 2003” (2023)
Móatún 7 has been one of Iceland’s most interesting and prolific labels over the last few years. Operated by electronic musician Árni Grétar, aka Futuregrapher, it has put out somewhere in the ballpark of 300 releases over the past five years across formats – digital only, CD, cassette, and vinyl. I have a good friend […]