Word: vinyl
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...nothing short of graceful. That’s not to say, of course, that silly shenanigans were in short supply. Carefully poised between center stage and Adams’ guitar amplifier was a tweed-clad phonograph, which he called upon several times during the evening to play a vinyl of Madonna’s “Material Girl.” “Come on Boston!” Adams implored: “Don’t you like Madonna? She can throw plates at me all she wants…I’ll just duck...
...High Church for music geeks, and strolling through Amoeba with Beck--the wispy singer who has made a career out of fusing rap, rock, folk, funk, irony and earnestness--is like cruising the Vatican with the Pope. As Beck moves from the back-room blues section to the used vinyl, everyone sneaks a quick, reverent glance and returns to flipping through the racks, or at least pretending to flip through the racks. All eyes still follow Beck, curious about what the king of musical collage has on his shopping list...
...most astonishing new talent on the decks is neither spinning 10-hour-long sets at London nightclubs nor waging vinyl warfare against belligerent turntablists at the DMCs, but wonders if there isn’t a more financially sound profession...
...starts with a drumbeat or bass line, adds piano or guitar to carry the melody, sprinkles in a few odd elements--a triangle, a cello, an organ--to make things interesting, and finishes the whole thing off with vocals. But before he begins, he has to comb through old vinyl bins for raw materials. "In the most passive way," says Davis, "what I put out depends on what comes...
...flipping through 10,000 records--mostly rare new wave European singles--that had been frozen in a storage locker for the past decade. "DJ Shadow is my best customer," says Village Music's John Goddard, who guesses that Davis has relieved him of around 7,500 pieces of vinyl over the past two years. "If there's an artist I've never heard of before, in a genre I've never heard of before...