

BAY AREA ARTIST SELECTED BY AMAZON
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, May 09, 2016—San Francisco based artisan, Heather Jacks has spent the last four + years...


Bay Area Writer & Entrepreneur gives new life to unplayable records by rescuing them for creativ
Have you ever wondered what to do with those scratched, cracked or unplayable records? Local crafter, Heather Jacks, is giving new life...


Remembering U2's Boy In A Retro Style Record Purse
In the eighties, I was a huge U2 fan, but, then again, it was the eighties, and everyone was. Like many young girls, I collected all the...


6 Punk Albums That You Must Have in Your Vinyl Collection
Over the years there have been so many people and bands who have claimed to carry the "punk" banner that its essence and spirit has been...


6 Fun Facts About Vinyl Records
Do you remember the first record you ever bought? I do. It was T-Rex, The Slider. The year was 1981 Minimum wage was $3.35 Although the...


RECORD STORE REVIEW: Rasputin on Haight
Do you remember buying records? Going into the store and shuffling through bins of over-sized vinyl discs? Studying the artwork? Reading...


The Godfathers of Punk: The Ramones
I flunked high school Algebra, and I like to believe that it was an unfortunate scheduling conflict, most surely the fault of the high...


MUSIC REVIEW: The Spaghetti Incident?
I’m an eighties kid; not as in I was born in the eighties; but, I was living in the eighties. Madonna was Queen. Michael was King and the...


RECORD STORE REVIEW: Music Millennium, Portland, Oregon
'New release’ days, like so many things in the music industry, have gone the way of the dodo. Thinking back on my teenage years, I...


Best Record Stores in NYC: Interview with Jonathan Sklute of Good Records
The East Village, bundled neatly between Greenwich and Gramercy, is home to such mini-neighborhoods as Alphabet City, (think Prince) and...