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1-2-3-4 Go! Records -- Why Record Stores Should Still Matter

Melissa Webster | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Oakland, 1234 Go Records, Green Day, Punk Rock, Prima Donna, Kepi Ghoulie, Live Music, Alternative, Music, Record Stores, Punk, Records, The Phenomenauts, Emily's Army, The Dollyrots, California Bands, Video, Entertainment News

I refuse to buy an iPod, a Kindle, or download any movies that go straight to my computer or television. Face to face social interaction and good times, that was the true value of these businesses.

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Record Store Day 2012

Amber DeGrace | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Record Store Day, Records, Music, Record Stores, Lp, Vinyl, Vinyl Records, Culture News

Vinyl. You either get it or you don't. If you do, get out there and participate on Record Store Day! Grab some good stuff, take it home, and enjoy listening to your bounty.

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I Was a Retro Teenager

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: History, Psychadelic Poster, Art, Records, Clothing Styles, Parenting, Grandparents, Hippies, Music, Nostalgia, Mothers, Teenagers, Fathers, Fifty News

Let me tell you about some of the aspects of my colorful childhood and teen years that parents may relate to but may be totally foreign to the younger set. It will be a good history lesson.

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WATCH: Artist Explores His Childhood Artifacts

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Toys, Nada Fair Miami, Adulthood, Miami Art, Escapism, Childhood, Comic Books, Art, Records, Nada Fair, New Jersey, Contemporary Art, Ada Gallery, Jimmy Trotter, Cartoon, Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Video, Arts News

One of the spaces that caught our eye at NADA Fair in Miami was that of Richmond, Virginia-based ADA Gallery. The selection of works presented was ref...

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WATCH: Man Bites Apples While Juggling Them

Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Video, Records, Record Breaking, Urlesque, Apples, Biting Apples While Juggling, Juggling, Juggling Apples, World Records, Brian Pankey, Comedy News

According to Record Setter, this video shows Brian Pankey setting the world record for most bites taken out of three apples while juggling them. He ta...

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Record Breaking Sales At Old Masters Auction

Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Art, Records, Art Auctions, Venice, Thomas Gainsborough, Auction, Michelangelo, Old Masters, Christie's, Painting, George-Stubbs, UK Arts, Sotheby's, Anthony Van Dyck, Bonhams Auction House, Arts News

(Via Mutual Art) Sotheby's and Christie's made headlines this week for record-smashing sales, achieving the second and third-highest Old Master auc...

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The Original Indie Record Store

Crane.tv | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Virgin, Internet, New York, Records, Other Music, Bands, Hmv, Josh Madell, crane.tv, Indie, Music, Musician, Tower Records, Arts News

Crane.tv meets owner of New York indie music store, Other Music's Josh Madell, who gives an insight into what it takes for an independent music store ...

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McQueen Beats Van Gogh At The Met

Bloomberg | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Jeff Koons, Bloomberg, Records, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vermeer, Alexander McQueen, Van Gogh, New York City, New York, Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty, Arts News

It looked like the food lines in my old hometown of Leningrad. That’s how long the queue is to get into the hit show at New York’s Metropolitan...

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WATCH: As Louisiana Drowns, Texas Is Aflame

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Gottesdiener | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Natural Disasters, Texas Drought, Flooding, Droughts, Texas Wildfires 2011, Records, Mississippi River Flood, Brewster County Wildfire, Louisiana Floods, Texas Drought 2011, Texas Wildfires, Wildfires, Fires, Extreme Weather, Tornadoes, Mississippi River Flooding, Video, Green News

A battle raged in the backcountry of Western Texas last week. On one side: 35 volunteer firefighters from Brewster County. On the other: two w...

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Record Store Day

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Record Store Day Deals, Cds and Records, Records, Record Store Day, Deals for Record Store Day, Record Store Day 2011, Record Stores, Record Store Day April 16, Home News

Miss the smell of vinyl? The clack of a CD case? Can't get enough of out-dated formats? Hipster? Record Store Day 2011 is Saturday, April 16, and r...

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Art About The Things That Make Life Worth Living

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blum and Poe, Disco Ball, Installation Art, Art Center, Records, Dave Muller, Radio, Pasadena, Drawing, Cowboys, Los Angeles, Beautiful/Decay Studio Visits, Music, Beautiful/Decay, Studio Visit, Arts News

(Via Beautiful/Decay) If you are lucky, once in a while you find an artist that helps you remember why you started getting into art in the first pl...

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POP ART: How Jeff Koons's "Balloon" Sculpture Could Make History, Again, at Christie's

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Auction, Art Auctions, Jeff Koons, Artwork, Christie's, Artists, Records, Germany, Sculpture, Berlin, Arts News

In November 2007, Jeff Koons's "Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)" sold for $23.6 million at Sotheby's New York, setting a world auction record for a work ...

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ALBUM ART CONTROVERSY: Kanye West Album Art By George Condo "Banned"?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, George Condo, Records, Twitter, Art Controversy, Kanye West, Phoenix, Def Jam, Album, Cover Art, Music, Album Art, Best Buy, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Arts News

Read the fine print on the better-reported stories about Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and they contradict the headlines. West's cov...

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The Death of Touch and the Lost Joy of the Unexpected

Marc Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Records, Video Stores, Touch, Kindle, Books, Ipad, Media News

At some point, in the not so distant future, we will live in a world without the places that used to give us physical access to music, cinema and literature.

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Supreme Court Cameras: Senate Judiciary Committee OKs Bills To Allow Broadcast From Courts

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Television, Senate, Records, Bills, Supreme Court, Audio, Federal Court, US Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee, Legislation, Transparency, Public Records, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court would televise many of its public sessions and cameras would be permitted in lower federal courts, at a judge's d...

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Books On Vinyl?

Telegraph | Sukhdev Sandhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vinyl, Short Stories, Underwood, Jordan Crane, Books, Vinyl Records, Records, Audiobooks, Nathan Dunne, Books News

At a time when a) the MP3 has supplanted the CD as the most popular format on which to listen to recorded sounds; b) literature as a physical artefact...

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Palin's Pie Spy Business Revealed In New Financial Filing

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Documents, Piespy, Palin's Business, Thomas Van Flein, Pie Spy, Palin's Pie Spy Business, Going Rogue, Palin, Palin Book, Meg Stapleton, Records, Sarah Palin, Anchorage, Alaska, Financial Records, Politics News

Sarah Palin is the owner of a small marketing business called "Pie Spy" that was founded during her last few months as Alaska governor, according to f...

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afrika Bambaataa, Tommy Boy Records, Rapper's Delight, Spray Paint, Urban Culture, South Bronx, Salt -N- Pepa, Female Rappers, Music, Mc's, 1970's, Spinderella, Angie Stone, Planet Rock, Aerosol Paint, Africa, Graffiti, Soul Music, Martial Arts, African-American, Women, Sugar Hill Gang, Rap, Brazil, Sugar Hill Records, Hip-Hop, Mc Lyte, Jazzy Joyce, Dancing, 1981, Microphone, Breakdancing, Soul Sonic Force, Capoiera, Dj, The Sequence, 1979, Monica Lynch, Sylvia Robinson, Turntables, Costumes, Black Women, Clothing, Harris Publications, Whitney Museum of Art, Business, Vh1, Stylist, Hip Hop Records, The Oscars, Photographers, Spotlight, Image Makers, Editors, DJ Beverly Bond, Publicist, Behind the Scenes, Magazines, Music Careers, Queen Latifah, Bet, Hip-Hop Films, Fox Network, Denise Dee Barnes, Wendy Williams, Female Graffiti Artists, Fetish, Art, Mtv, Choreographers, Subways, Living Single, Pump It Up!, Hot 97, Multi-Tasking, The Source Magazine, The Wendy Williams Show, Photography, Guidence, Murals, Mentoring, 1990's, Cover Girl, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flip Mode Squad, Images, Apparel, Wild Style, Lady Pink, Sarah A. Friedman, Eve, New York City, Music Videos, Dancers, Black Girls Rock Inc!, XXL Magazine, Costume Design, Entrepreneurers, Vibe Magazine, Art Museums, Viacom, June Ambrose, Leadership, Alumni, Jennifer Lopez, Elements, Michelle Spaise, Minneapolis, TV Shows, Curator, J-Lo, Exhibitions, Rosie Perez, Making the Band, Future, Past, B-Girl Be, Living Color, Festivals, B-Girl, Painting, Tv, Fly Girls, Unleash, Theresa Sweetland, Politics, Video, Political Activism, Female Artists, Art Festival, Laurie Ann Gibson, Education, Tv Sitcoms, Spike Lee, Midwest, Deanna Cummings, Minnesota, Expression, Mama, Television, Activism, Mama Said Knock U Out, Brewing, Do the Right Thing, Concerts, Lauri Lyons, Social Activism, Visual Art, Women in Hip-Hop, Mother, Communication, Intermedia Arts, Sculpture, Commissions, faith47, Sound, Cinema, Music Downloads, Arts Education, Installations, Mixed Media, Art Commistions, Roxanne Shante, Martha Cooper, Marketplace, Fashion, Museums, Art World, Block Parties, Albums, Textiles, October, Youth, Film, Streets, Records, September, Girls, Youth Programs, Cd's, Recording Technology, History, Technology, College, Balls, Music History, Belle, Music School, Universities, Money, Comeback, Scholarship, Undergraduate, School, Diploma, Language, Hip-Hop Studies, Fellowship, Mcnally Smith School of Music, Recording, Music Business, Author, Fab Five Freddie, Flag International, Video Music Box, Yo! Mtv Raps, Flag an American Story, The Bridge, Ralph Mcdaniels, Vinyl Records, Prince, Juxtaposition Arts, Stefskills, Sarah White, Jennifer Rasinski, Corinne Santiago, C-Rocka, Keegan Xavi, Jessica Kitzman, Janelle Olson, Toofly, Tiffany Smith, Niz, Lichiban, Katrina Knutson, Jamel Shabbaz, Tamiko Mitchel, Erotica 67, Motel 7, Ladykfever, Monica Kelly, Amanda Lopez, Abeni Garrett, Desdamona, Catiesha Pierson, B-Fresh, Wendy Williams Show, Alice Mizrachi, Niz Graphics, Kanye West, Chanel Kennebrew, Shannon Joyce, Manifesto Festival, VH-1 Hip-Hop Honors, MTV VMA, Michaela Angela Davis, Essence Magazine, Dream Hampton, Amsterdam, London, South Africa, Charlie Ahearn, Henry Chalfant, Japan, Jamaica, Walker Art Center, Toronto, France, Cuba, In the Frame, Harvard, Rhode Island School of Design, Zimbabwe, Barcelona, Argentina, San Francisco, Represent Inc., International Center of Photography, Berlin, Germany, Belgium, Spraycan Art, James Prigoff, Puerto Rico, Powerhouse, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mexico, Sao Paulo, Norway, Paris, Star Tribune, Kulture Klub, Tokyo, Mexico City, Bronx, Zulu Nation, Hip-Hop Degree, Kimora Lee Simmon, Baby Phat, U.K., Russell Simmons, Phat Farm, Getty Images, Icp, Somalia, Somalis, Bling a Planet Rock, Raquel Cepeda, Black History Month, African American Photographers, Black Female Photographers, Female Photographers, Black Photographers, Carribean Photographers, Carribean Artists, Black Journalists, African American Journalists, Entertainment News

When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Walter Cronkite Records Destroyed By FBI

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Television, Foia, Records, National Archives, Research, Cronkite, Walter Cronkite, Fbi, Freedom of Information Act, Rosa Parks, FBI File, Alex Heard, Cbs, Media News

A search of the agency's main index of the subjects of FBI investigations found some records tied to Cronkite's name were destroyed in October 2007, t...

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Peter, Paul and Mary -- and Me

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: England, Iran, Records, Songs, Folk-Songs, Music Industry, Grammys, Multicultural, Music, America, Peter, Peter Paul and Mary, Healthy Living News

"Puff the Magic Dragon" became my son's first favorite song. Without failure, he stopped whatever he was doing when the song began and crawled over to the tape recorder.

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The Long-Awaited Return of Butterfly Boucher

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cliff Notes, Scary Fragile, Grey's Anatomy, Butterfly Boucher, Bitter Song, P.J. Harvey, Record Label, Music, Sarah McLachlan, Label, Records, Electric Guitar, Hotel Cafe, Polydor, Flutterby, Entertainment News

There was anything wrong with the songs or the album I made ... it was just that the record label were idiots!

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Remembering the Other Eartha Kitt

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam War, Racism, Records, Lyndon Johnson, Films, Entertainment, Eartha Kitt, South Africa, Hollywood, Entertainment News

The Eartha Kitt that I knew, remember, and pay homage to, was an impassioned contributor to peace and civil rights.

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