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PLAYING MELBOURNEA Virtual Tour In Recognition of Record Store Day Australia

Photo provided by Chris Gill of Northside Records. Melbourne is a city of laneways and Victorian Gothic buildings, which has earned the city its many comparisons to European capitals. If you're brave enough to look away from Google Maps, you could dedicate an hour or a day to just wandering...

Cat Woods

How I Fell in Love With 7-inch Singles and Why They Still Matter

ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we're shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Beth Winegarner flips through an old collection and finds it relevant even today. When I was a teenager, I had a ritual every Saturday afternoon. My mom and I would...

Beth Winegarner

PLAYING NASHVILLENashville Vinyl Gets to ‘Spin On’ at Showfields in NYC

Nashville and New York City have established a deeper connection by honoring the history of vinyl with a new pop-up store, Spin On: Nashville’s Vinyl Collection. Spin On finds Nashville’s beloved independent record shop Grimey’s New and Preloved Music partnering with the Nashville Convention and ...

Cillea Houghton

PLAYING BLOOMINGTONLandlocked Record Store Day

It is no secret that in the increasingly capitalized digital age we now find ourselves living in, independently owned record stores are struggling more than ever to remain afloat. The first annual Record Store Day was celebrated ten years ago as an initiative to support independently owned record...

Rebecca Kunin

ONLY NOISELost and Found

I take the same path to the same coffee shop every week. Down DeKalb Avenue, a right on Franklin Avenue, a left on Greene Avenue, and a final right on Bedford Avenue. My gait is calculated and mechanical. A determined trudge. There is nothing romantic about this habit, and while I’d like to applaud...

Madison Bloom

ONLY NOISEFor the Love of the Struggle

But here exists the dilemma with a junk shop record dive: it’s 99 percent grueling pursuit and one percent success.

Madison Bloom

PLAYING DETROITDJ Duo Haute to Death

It was the day of my grandmother's funeral. Having spent the better portion of my day mourning the loss with my father and chain smoking while driving familiar streets of my hometown where the old bars had new signs, I was unnerved with realizing not everything was as I left it when I moved out and...

Jerilyn Jordan

Willona on Wax - Old to NewModest Mouse

The Moon and Antarctica and Strangers to Ourselves I just bought Modest Mouse’s 2015 album, Strangers to Ourselves (Epic), which is the band’s sixth record. A couple of months ago, I also snapped up a 10th anniversary reissue of their Moon and Antarctica (that reissue being now five years old). The...

Willona Sloan

WILLONA ON WAXHozier and The Fugees

Hozier Hozier The first time I heard Hozier’s breakout (and Grammy-nominated) single, “Take Me to Church” I was sleeping. I woke as if from a beautiful dream, jumped out of bed and went to my computer. I needed to know what the song was before it slipped away. Although I found out that the Irish...

Willona Sloan

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WILLONA ON WAXHeartbreak and Poetry

New Vinyl Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were Island British singer/songwriter Ben Howard’s second full-length album, I Forget Where We Were, is a melancholy and musically-complex record. Howard experiments with tones and effects on each intricately crafted song. Instrumentally the work here is...

Willona Sloan

WILLONA ON WAXSeattle Grunge and African Psych

Each month in Willona on Wax, Willona Sloan reviews new vinyl, reissues, and vintage finds. For her first installment, she reviews a Soul Jazz comp of lesser-known Northwestern grunge bands, and an Analog Africa comp of psychedelic sounds from Benin and Togo. NEW VINYL No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds...

Willona Sloan