MONO: Live at the Casbah

Mono live was an incredible experience… When a ragged sonic beat thrusts at your gut, sweet melodies dance along the edge of your bones and an unrelenting pull of strings vibrates throughout your gums you know it’s a great show! And Mono: Holy Ground Live is now available at the store!

Record Store Day Special!!

Come into the Used Store and pick up a box of CDs! Each box is only $5 and there are about 30-50 CDs jam packed into each box. What’s inside?? Nobody knows! Solve the mystery for yourself, you could stumble upon your new favorite band (or some pretty neat coasters).

I love you Soundgarden!

Oh look! My Jesus Lizard seven inch collection from last year’s Record Store Day has a new friend! I love Record Store Day!

(P.S. if we run out of totally awesome exclusives from Record Store Day in the New Store breeze on over to the Used Store and check out a fresh batch of some good old punk rock vinyl)

RECORD STORE DAY!!!!!!

It’s coming, kids!!! Record Store Day 2010 is tomorrow!! So come on down, hear some bands, get some exclusives and support your local independent record store! (We’ll give you up-to-the-minute reports as they become available!)

Shrinebuilder @ The Casbah

Before the show even starts a belligerent, weathered man yelled loudly and repeatedly out to the show goers about his adoration for Wino and eventually presents this admiration to Wino himself. I had a strong feeling this guy would not be surviving the entire show and he was eventually kicked out about 3/4 of the way into the show. He made it longer than I would have guessed. But the band is the important thing here.  Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Scott “Wino” Weinrich (Saint Vitus), Dale Grover (Melvins) and Al Cisneros (OM) are the band. The members give a clear clue to the sound of the music; a low end assault sounding not surprisingly a bit like OM mixed with the guitar growl and cry of Scott Kelly and Wino.  The lows pushed throughout my chest cavity and the guitars occasionally offered moments of reprieve, creating some surprisingly melodic moments.  Something that struck me was the different relationship each of these musicians has with his instrument.  Scott Kelly dominates his guitar pushing it forward then pulling it back like a wild animal that must be tamed, forcing it to do as he commanded. Dale Grover pounds away, never letting up, focused and serious. Al Cisneros takes his bass on a hypnotic journey swaying back and forth, back and forth in a musical trance.  And Wino’s guitar was like an extra appendage on his body, comfortably, naturally hanging and responding to his every move. Yet another great show at the Casbah…

Every Little Bit Counts

Folk! Seriously, though, Andrew Vladeck is a pretty cool guy.

“What do you want a leather jacket for?” Jeremy asked me, incredulously.

I was incredulous that he couldn’t understand why.

“All of my heroes have leather jackets,” I protested, “Suzi Quatro, Joan Jett, The Fonz– The Greaser (note: it was later discovered that The Greaser does NOT own a leather jacket but he said that his skin is, in fact, tough like leather and I was permitted to use his name in this example).”

“It’s Southern California and you’ll never wear it,” Jeremy refuted, calmly.

“I’ll wear it on stage.”

“No, you won’t.”

End of discussion. For now, anyway. But not because Jeremy was right (which he sort of was). I probably won’t ever wear a leather jacket on stage but that’s just because I’m saving up all of my pennies for one of those sweet leather jumpsuits like Suzi Quatro used to wear. I mean, if I’m going to do this– I’m going to do it right, right?

This brings me to Andrew Vladeck.

Andrew Vladeck is a multi-instrumentalist/multi-talented musician out of New York. He’s currently on tour with one of his many projects, The Honey Brothers, and we here at Lou’s Records were lucky enough to snag him for a solo in-store on Monday, September 14th at 5pm, just before his show with The Honey Brothers at the Belly Up!

Andrew has managed to take the best of independent rock-and-roll and mash it together with old-time folk music making for an end product that is somehow sweet, thoughtful, rough around the edges and easy to listen to without being boring or predictable. His music is energetic without being abrasive and his record, The Wheel,  is comfortable like that leather jacket that you’re being told not to get.

Now back to the leather jacket–

Not two weeks after my aforementioned conversation with Jeremy, do I get Andrew Vladeck’s album, The Wheel, for the record store. I open up the CD to play it in the store and staring back at me is one, Andrew Vladeck, sporting a leather jacket. I realize then, as if I didn’t know it already, that besides being a great musician, Andrew Vladeck must be a pretty cool guy.

Suzi Quatro, Joan Jett, The Fonz, The Greaser (leather skin, remember?) and now Vladeck… think about it, Jeremy.

Come check out one cool guy on Monday, September 14th at 5pm here at Lou’s Records and be sure to check out his band later that night at the Belly Up!

Andrew Vladeck’s album, The Wheel, is available at Lou’s Records and signed by the man, himself.

You can hear samples of his stuff at: www.andrewvladeck.com

And check out his band, The Honey Brothers, at : www.thehoneybrothers.com

TWILIGHT! TWILIGHT! TWILIGHT!

Hello everyone!

As it turns out we have a Used copy of the Three-Disc Deluxe Edition Twilight DVD for only $14.99!

Seeing as how I am a little Twilight crazed right now, I’m throwing in a Comic Con exclusive promotional poster with the purchase of this used copy of the Twilight DVD.

You’re welcome.

Pretty Cool DVD New Releases

All of your dreams have been fulfilled. Demetri Martin’s hit comedy show, Important Things with Demetri Martin, is out on DVD today. It’s up to the brim with sketches, stand-up, hand drawings and even some songs. Hooray! Come pick it up!

And here are some other new release DVDs that you can pick up while you’re here:

Mad Monster Party (Special Edition)

The Office : Season Five

Crank 2 (also available in Blu Ray)

Criminal Minds: Season Four

Parks and Recreation: Season One

Requiem for a Dream (Blu Ray)

This week’s Top Twenty

1. Thieves and Liars: American Rock N Roll
2. Thieves and Liars: When Dreams Become Reality
3. Jeremy & his Time Machine: Paint by Numbear
4. Dead Weather: Horehound
5. Men of Suit: Stereo Safari
6. Matisyahu: Light
7. Julian Plenti: Is… Skyscraper
8. Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
9. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
10. Dave Matthews: Big Whiskey and Groo-Grux
11. Wilco: Wilco
12. Jeff Beck: Performing this week (DVD)
13. Miike Snow: Miike Snow
14. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
15. Levon Helm: Electric Dirt
16. Rebelution: Courage to Grow
17. The Farmers: Fulmination
18. Slightly Stoopid: Chronchitis
19. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s: It’s Blitz
20. Mono: Hymn to the Immortal Wind

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