Archivist Quinn MacRorie pictured before the start of our sale. Notice the custom ARC wine label courtesy City Winery! After the ARC Party, no more wine, but we still have lots of great stuff on the wall! Last night’s members party at… read more >>
posts tagged: 45s
ARC Holiday Record + CD Sale! Dec 7 – 15
The LONG wait is over. More than 20,000 never before offered recordings just in time for the Holidays. Join us as for one week every December ARC is the largest record store in New York City! when: Sat Dec 7-Sun Dec 15,… read more >>
Do “The Ostrich” one last time…
With the passing of an artist that one admires, one always returns to favorite works by that artist in order to commemorate him or her; in this case, Lou Reed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgAqWsv7xMs Around 1963 or so, after graduating from college in Syracuse, where… read more >>
643 Blues and R+B 7″ Singles Added to The Keith Richards’ Blues Collection
Longtime ARC supporter and pal, Don Voisine has made a move and it was ARC’s good fortune to be given his record collection. Among the thousands a great many wonderful Blues recordings here, but we thought we would focus on his 643… read more >>
Simon, Nile + Reed – in the news
Well, quite a few of our Board Members are in the news these days. First off here’s a pic of Paul Simon who visited the ARC last week (ignore that other guy). We had a mint copy of his Jerry Landis early personae… read more >>
1 Week 2 Go til ARC Summer Sale
Yes, just about a week till the ARC sale and this is just about the last time we’ll be letting you know. About 40K new LPs + CDs have arrived, we’ve been staying up late sorting it all, and you can reap… read more >>
Swingin’ Summer Record + CD Sale
Country, Folk and Cowboy Songbook Collection
In October, Edward J. Ward of Wisconsin pulled his rented U-Haul van up to the steps at 54 White Street and unloaded 46 giant plastic tubs containing hundreds of magazines, music folios, LPs and 46,000 forty-fives, mostly country. All of this material… read more >>
Soul Session @ the ARC
This year’s winter Members Only Party, a preview and a shindig held on the Thursday evening before the semi-annual Record and CD Sale kicks into full swing, was a very soulful event. Frank Lipsius, whose father founded Jamie and Guyden Records in… read more >>
Punk Singles – including Lora Logic
This single by Lora Logic (Rough Trade, UK, 1981) is just one of the great vintage (?) Punk singles recently hung on the wall @ the ARChive Holiday Record and CD Sale in Tribeca, Goes everyday, 11-6, until Dec 16th. Do drop… read more >>
Today’s the Fifth, so here’s some $5 LPs for Sale!
Hi! Here is a nice batch of LPs that will be available at the ARC’s hot WINTER Holiday Record + CD SALE, Dec 8-16, everyday from 11am – 6 pm. Any of the above – $5 each. The sale is our major… read more >>
ARC Holiday Sale for only $6
Our Holiday Sale is only 6 days away, so here’s a batch of some near-mint LPs, curiously all by ARC Board member Lou Reed, that we’ll be offering for only $6 each! Hope to see you at ARC’s hot WINTER Holiday Record… read more >>
ARC Holiday Sale + other things 2 do…
Hi! Here is a nice batch of LPs that will be available at the ARC’s hot WINTER Holiday Record + CD SALE, Dec 8-16, everyday from 11am – 6 pm. Any of the above – an odd accidental religious grouping – all… read more >>
What Storm?
Well it’s the storm that is keeping me in India – That’s what storm. So as no one from United Airlines has the slightest idea what to do to help, I’ll show you this sky related item: A beautiful specialty generic 45… read more >>
TAXI DANCER
Traffic moves at a snail’s pace and a high db here in Mumbai. The car horn outranks the conch shell for summoning the gods, or at least warning them that a taxi or cycle-rickshaw is cumming up on the inside. Here’s a… read more >>
Backtrackin’
Just realized that I have skipped over a few important things, and so, I would like to show you… A series of unissued discs from Rupayan Sansthan, The Rajasthan Institute of Folklore, Jodhpur. They were graciously donated to ARC by Mr. Kothari,… read more >>
Beatles + Elvis + India
Well the Beatles Made-in-India 78 was not affordable (there’s still a chance if you all make a donation!) at $1000, but I did muster the lucre for these swell 45s. In Rajasthan now on the music tour organized by the American Institute… read more >>
MY Bed of Roses INDIA
First day in New Delhi, and today spent the morning on Old Delhi looking for old LPs – not a lot out there and ‘flea markets’ here are pretty much permanent vendors, so unlike Brazil, where there were corner vendors on every… read more >>
Make Something Great
Our pal, Eilon Paz, is ‘so close’ to getting his book funded on Kickstarter <http://tinyurl.com/Dust-and-Grooves> He’s taken some great shots of the ARC, and the book will feature a world-wide cast of collectors, crazies and champions of vinyl record collecting. Eleven days to… read more >>
Touch A Star
Ok, even thought I should be writing about the ARC sale (June 9 – 17) and not fooling around with ‘prose’ or ‘ideas.’ But… There has been a recent thread on the ARSClist, (Association for Recorded Sound Collections – record collectors, audio… read more >>