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 >>
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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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Book Digitization @ ARC
Some thoughts on scanning the ARC’s 20,000+ music books in partnership with the Internet Archive by project coordinator Alexis Cavaretta… The ARChive is the kind of place that will say yes to just about anything – no exclusions. Their collection of music… read more >>
Record Hunting in Brazil
While hob-nobbing with Katy Perry was fun, lets get down to the real nitty gritty of the ARC’s Brazilian trip; record hunting. Our host was Allan Bastos, a collector and dealer from Rio+NYC. Our point man was Beco Dranoff, a producer, DJ… read more >>
Me + Katy Perry
I lied yesterday in this blog; there were only 100,000 people at Rock In Rio yesterday. That aside, the real mystery is how all of them, and nearly every one of them under 20, knew the words to Queen’s “Love of My… read more >>
Allo Allo Brasil…
B. George here in Rio, typing near-but-not-on a beach, in the peculiar upmarket suburb that everyone insists in IN the city, Barra. Just a quick note before a visit to MIS, Rio’s (there is also one in Sao Paulo) Museum of Image… read more >>
I started the car + the clock said 9;11…
Driving into the city on 9/11, I had to wait until after 8pm, when my street in ‘Ground Zero’ would reopen. I started the car and the clock read 9:11. Spooky? Contrived? Well, it was no surprise. It matched the mood. It… read more >>
windy + naked tape
We’re back at work here @ the ARC, but it was a wild windy week, as the neighborhood braced for the hurricane (look caution is one thing, but you don’t tell people to evacuate by 5, and close the subways at noon!). … read more >>
Goodnight Irene…
Overwhelmed by the endlessly boring, redundant, over the top, never ending TV news coverage of the hurricane, here are the BAND NAMES gleaned from just ten minutes of coverage, channel 2 News, CBS, NYC, around 9pm, August 27, 2011: Stinging Pellets Fingers… read more >>
Two From Colombia: Satan’s Sandwich + the Great Joe Arroyo
In the latest Congressional budget mash up, I heard one faction describe the compromise as ‘a sugar coated Satan’s Sandwich’ (Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Dem)! Ah, such linguistic succulence. Diabolical culinary rhetoric reminded me of my favorite hellish street food, Columbia’s… read more >>