ARC’s cool SUMMER hot Record + CD SALE Sat, June 9 and runs through Sun, June 17 – everyday, 11am – 6pm. Come by for some tasty 60s bossa CD, all donated by Verve Records. $8 each – cheaper than downloading! You… read more >>
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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 >>
Mom’s Sly Dwarves 4 Sale!
Chicago garage/punk band the Dwarves is just one of the thousands of recordings for sale at our next sale @ the ARC! This is a sealed copy, 1st pressing on Coxx Records, $25 ($85 on Popsike, not sealed – over $100 on… read more >>
In the Indie Eighties…
Here’s a sample of some of the emerging, alternative and simply swell 80’s music that we will be having at our Summer Sale @ ARC beginning June 9. So if you need great vinyl at WAY BELOW e-bay + Popsike prices, featuring… read more >>
ARC’s cool SUMMER hot Record + CD SALE
Well its Summer Sale time again, details below. Thought we would highlight some rare-ish mint Punk books that we will be selling, beginning Saturday June 9! First, of course, is my book, Volume One: The International Discography of the New Wave,… read more >>
Blue Post
Its been a long time since we offered info on our Blues recordings here at the ARC and the Keith Richards’ Blues Collection. We hope to make the metadata on the whole 10,000 plus discs available online soon, so stay tuned. For… read more >>
Cuban Treats In NY
Sure Hillary is swigging it down at a Cuban ‘theme’ club in Cartagena, and Obama remains locked into a 50 year hissy fit against the mouse that roared, but we, the sensible ones, the friends of the ARChive, People Who Like People,… read more >>
Opening Day
Ah, Spring – ribs, crocuses, baseball. Opening day, and an old man’s fancy turns to the sports section of the ARC. This year, have a look at one of the honorific anomalies of the musical world, “Go Fernando.” I don’t know much… read more >>
Are We Not Mad Men?
Mad Men, one of the highest regarded dramatic serials on television today, has received a number of awards including prestigious Peabodys and Emmys, and TV critics as well as fans seem to adore the show. Indeed, Mad Men has been especially lauded… read more >>
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte have been on our radar since 1990 when we got in the LP ‘Para Adoloridos’ (uh, ‘For Shaking You Up’?). These Californians are in the news this week as Juarez, the capital of Chihuahua State and a major… read more >>
Revolt Into Style
Looking around the ARC for some interesting things to show visiting fashion students from FIT I picked up Revolt Into Style, by a typically pompous and penetrating Brit, George Melly, in 1970. The title by the way was later a song by Bill… read more >>
FASHION + MUSIC
Grad students from FIT will be visiting the ARC next week to get a tour and look at some fashionable things from our collection. So we thought we’d pull a few covers by groups who have a strong or ever-so-weak link to… read more >>
FUG YOU
ARCsters recently attended the opening, book signing and reading at the swell Ed Sanders gallery show at Boo-Hooray Gallery on Canal Street. Ed was kind enough to sign a copy of his new book, Fug You, (here’s a good review from the… read more >>
Spiders from Kenya
ARC has written extensively on the one time common 45 adaptors, and just recently, in a self described 70-89s text, “Retrohell,” the claim is made that these were called “45 Spiders”. Makes sense, given the shape. But I never heard the term. … read more >>
Still Time to Donate to the ARC!
Friends – We KNOW next year will be a great deal better than the last, and we hope you will join us in building an even larger, better and more active ARChive. Next year we’re going to launch an online site of… read more >>
Classical CDs + LPs at ARC sale
There are hundreds of Classical CDs (most $4) and LPs (all $1 each) @ the ARChive’s Holiday Sale. Including a a big pile of Deutsche Grammophon CDs like the above. Last two days! We gotta move this stuff! Admission is free! Over… read more >>
Even more vintage vinyl @ ARC Holiday Sale
Even more vintage vinyl LPs available as we approach the final weekend of our Holiday Record + CD Sale here at the Archive of Contemporary Music. Any of the above – $10 each! Admission is free! Over 20,000 items for sale. New… read more >>
New Pile of Vinyl Arrives!
Great new vinyl LPs have just arrived for the final days of our Holiday Record + CD Sale here at the Archive. Nice things like thios Revolting Cocks LP for $18, and all the early Neil Young LPs. Admission is still free!… read more >>
Some nice LPs @ the ARC Holiday Sale
Just when we thought the cupboard was bare, Fred and Keith picked up over 4000 CDs today from DefJam/UMG/Universal and Elias Arts, a leading music company that does original scores for media (commercials, movies, games, etc), music supervision and audio branding. Upstate… read more >>
ARC HOLIDAY RECORD + CD SALE
Well, it’s the Holiday Season and that means that for one week in December the ARC becomes the largest record store in New York! Starting Sat Dec 10 and going a full week till Dec 18, everyday 11-6. CDs are mostly NEW… read more >>