having some shows to celebrate the shop's 15th birthday, come by & join in please~

sunday at 7pm come on then

tonight at 6pm, come on through~

big one incoming, one week from tomorrow. same trip as always, free w/ donation, get in here~

nice school style; new old stock stylus, banger speaker~

gonna need you to go ahead and come on through on saturday, nkay... time tbd, prob 6-7, shall clarify asap~

incredibly unhinged evening... JOIN INN & be there.

mentioned this to a customer yesterday, maybe he's on here arthurmag.com/2013/04/27/o...

a lot of this sort of thing lately... more to come as always~

saturday tape "drop"

also, dig this: liam grant & glenn jones are coming through to play the shop on 9/27. thrice attempted, long in the works, excited to welcome them~

hit VHF hard for your bandcamp trip... one of the best & purest out there.

Sweet vintage Miracord Elac 10, similar to my longtime shop unit. Low hours vintage Shure cart/stylus... I love these. Wheel drive gives belt sound with direct drive reliability. For those who enjoy the "vintage sound"... out now~

This is the show I caught last month at @reverberationvinyl.bsky.social! Big sounds in a little space!#FreeImpovisation #JazzSky youtu.be/9jfkEDZo55Q?...

OCTOBER 18! "A New Formation in Free Improvisation - Surge Quartet with gabby fluke-mogul, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Keefe Jackson, and Chris Bré. Four extraordinary musicians from the international improvisation scene..." Be here, please~

the old classic "records are coming back, huh?" phased out by "have you seen the (roundly scoffed popular legacy artist) documentary? you know, he was actually pretty good", followed by probably buying a $40 reissue somewhere else instead of the minty $8 original they're looking for via first name~

SANSUI kit... out nowww~

dig out in progress; gonna be a while. deep goodness to come~

tonight at 6! come on then~ balancepointacoustics.bandcamp.com/track/wrecke...

after hellish in shop realities of covid times, i let go of most record handling gripes. things that still confuse, if not enrage: removing plastic sleeve when a) its a single pocket LP, & b) you CANNOT get it back on. this applies to inner sleeves as well. i'm open side, man: gravity is your pal.

RIP ozzy... always wished a blown out AUD of this 1970 peoria show would turn up. what a poster though~

coming up very soon: explosive, creative, free. in all the ways you want it to be. roll up, we're lucky to have this sort of thing~

Thankful for all of this, & you, & music, & the privilege of sharing & discovering it in three dimensional, dusty reality. Crafting a space representative of what I love & vs what I despise has never been more important & necessary than right now. Thanks for riding along. Perspective gets cloudy.

Solid Technics stack out now... matching SL-5 turntable coming next week~

see you saturday~

prepping the old spot in the early days adding a newborn baby to the mix just because

RIP to an old friend. I recorded this music on a hot August day in 2011, shortly after we met. We co-released it because we wanted to, & I am so glad that we did. Love you Zak. thesewonderfulevils.bandcamp.com/track/mk5-al...

TONIGHT... come on through, FREE show with your kind & appreciated donation. This was the first Forsyth record I owned, still love that era. Music at 7pm! chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/track/the-ba...

MOHOLO destination-out.bandcamp.com/track/black-...

Original promo poster "drop": Zappa is a original 1968 Verve "Absolutely Free" promo, Beefheart are early '70s Warner Brothers promos on heavier "card stock" paper, & the Iggy Pop is '80s, square shaped. Panther Burns Animal Records similar to Iggy not pictured~

if it feels like the country is being run by a giant truck covered with various salt life & flag stickers, not using turn signals, it is

you know what to do tonight friends~

stoked for swim ignorant fire to kick things off saturday night for BCMC... be here! doors 6:30, music 7~ swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com/track/cloudy #blono #livemusic #swimignorantfire #BCMC #reverberationvinyl #recordstore #bloomingtonillinois

as a longtime pulp person, joyfully surprised. jarvis was wise to keep pulp's sound/essence separate from his solo moves, it heightens the impact of hearing a NEW PULP RECORD & reminds how special they always were. an unfussy candidate for best 90s band reunion record, bar none. in stock! #newmusic

Wednesday afternoon multimedia "drop"~

august! stoked these will be back in print, expect a heavy dose around here~ warprecords.bandcamp.com/track/smokeb...