# The ARChive of Contemporary Music

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A not-for-profit music library dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing information about popular music from around the world.

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## Posts

- [News](https://arcmusic.org/news/): There are a variety of feeds and posts here. The bulk comes from our blog - about 400 entries over the years - now accessed through this site. Features are in-depth stories, a bit more scholarly, reflecting our interests. Finally there are the links and how-to's on our large annual projects on other cultures, our
- [Rockwell](https://arcmusic.org/blog/rockwell/): Well, it's a great name for a donor to a popular music archive and John Rockwell, for decades a leading critic at the New York Times (1972-2006), has been a major contributor of thousands of great recordings to ARC. That's to say we just finished packing up the last of the John Rockwell's recordings.
- [Brasilian 78 Sleeves](https://arcmusic.org/blog/brasilian-78-sleeves/): The other day a box of Brasilian 78s and LPs was dropped off unannounced. While many of the 78s were rare - like the first Dorival Caymmi release - the condition was so-so. But some of the generic label and store sleeves caught our eye. These are great to have for the graphics, marketing and
- [Steve Lacy Digital Collection @ ARC](https://arcmusic.org/features/steve-lacy-digital-collection-arc/): In 2012 ARC created a digital archive of Steve Lacy’s handwritten manuscripts and notebooks containing over 500 published and unpublished compositions. Mr. Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was a pioneer of the soprano saxophone, who excelled as a performer and composer who embraced both 'free' jazz and classical idioms. Much of the
- [This 'n That Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-n-that-day/): ARC celebrated Labor Day with long drives and short stops, adding a great many wonderful items to the library. Here's a few. Uptop, the Clash patch. A mere buck and on the back label the news that "The Clash" is a registered trademark of Dorisimo Ltd. Seems they are a UK company specializing in entertainment
- [John Coltrane is 100 years old!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/john-coltrane-is-100-years-old/): It is generally regarded that John Coltrane is one of the greatest American musical artists of all time. Here at the ARC, we tend to concur. His saxophone playing, compositions and philosophy have been extremely influential over the years. He was born 100 years ago on September 23, 1926. Several official events are being planned
- [Very first visitor to the new ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/very-first-visitor-to-the-new-arc/): In 1986, when the ARC began, the very first visitor was Brian Eno. He trekked up three flights to the loft at 110 Chambers Street to hear a record. He said it was something he'd been looking for for many years. I have no idea how he found us. I didn't ask. I think it
- [Books R Us -Just added to our 35,000 edition library](https://arcmusic.org/blog/books-r-us-just-added-to-our-35000-edition-library/): Great day @ the Recycling Center and the Booth Library Book sale in CT. Of note in this list is the Mancini tome containing 3 seven inch 45s -gotta love the Peter Gunn theme and the rare Tin Pan Alley book with the classy subtext, "A Chronicle of the American Popular Music Racket." Already scanned
- [Oui Oui 250](https://arcmusic.org/blog/16591/): What better way to commemorate our 250th anniversary than to honor one of the most essential people who made it all possible. It doesn't hurt that he (pardon my pronoun) has a remarkable association with popular music of the era. Of course we're talking about French opera librettist Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799). Beaumarchais
- [Porky The Poet + Housekeepin' the Housemartins](https://arcmusic.org/blog/porky-the-poet-housekeepin-the-housemartins/): ARC was recently given a great donation package by Tony Fletcher—DJ and founder/editor of the now-defunct UK magazine Jamming. One item that caught our eye was a framed ink-on-paper ad, seemingly signed by “Parley” or Porley.” In actuality, it was signed “Porky,” which was glaringly obvious once pointed out to me. Porky, in this case,
- [Just In + Just Salvaged](https://arcmusic.org/blog/just-in-just-salvaged/): Today received a swell box of 43 Golden Records, 6" Children's 78rpm discs from Ms. E. Schneider. My favorite, the one from Tomorrowland with the rocket on the label. And over the weekend removed some nasty tape from a lovely 7" forty-five box that came in with the large recent Latin and Cuban Collection from
- [FILK Music](https://arcmusic.org/blog/filk-music/): As someone who frets over misspellings and is often outsmarted by self-correcting aps, it’s fun to discover a genre named by a slip of the pinkie, one line up on the keyboard. Filk music is a loosely defined music exploring themes of gothiness, si-fi, fantasy and horror. It’s another one of those great things that
- [Shameless Self Promotion!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/shameless-self-promotion/): Chronogram Magazine is a serious periodical that emphasizes arts and happenings in the Hudson Valley. In fact, it calls itself "The defining voice of the Hudson Valley." An occasional feature is called Sound Check, where a member of the local community is asked to discuss his/her current listening habits. For the February issue the
- [Space is NO LONGER the place](https://arcmusic.org/blog/space-is-no-longer-the-place/): Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out. • Good thing we’re saving all them Space Helmet discs! Please help save libraries. Any library. All libraries. Donate via every.org or via PAYPAL
- [In Case You Didn't Know...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/in-case-you-didnt-know/): A big thanks to the cast of Christmas In July for a Seasonal reminder of who we are and perhaps why you should consider offering support. ARC has been preserving our audio cultural heritage for 41 years now. And with your help we will build the perfect home to house it all. With enough support
- [The Erik Brady Music Collection](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-erik-brady-music-collection/): As we prepare our year-end review we realize we never posted an important new Special Collection that came in at the beginning of the year. The Erik Brady Music Collection is a vast group of primarily new and somewhat unheralded music that filled in many gaps here at the ARC – like the 49 Lambchop
- [Another Giving Tuesday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/another-giving-tuesday/): Well it's Giving Tuesday, and once again we ask you to consider ARC. Please donate to causes that save lives, then consider saving music. As we move towards building our new home upstate, sure we need funding. But holding money is not that exciting. Holding a record we've never seen or heard is a thrill.
- [Remember Extras!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/remember-extras/): This double spread of newspaper front pages above are part of a Beatle-based treasure trove of clippings donated by ARC supporter Rob Atwood. Included in six small binders, two folio sized scrapbooks and a box of loose clippings and photos are more than 2,000 press accounts of the band's life and times. More than a
- [The Wild Side of Life](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-wild-side-of-life/): Now that we're actually living on the wild side of life thought it would be good to thank a very generous donor who has been delighting us with his donations for the past few years. The photo above is the latest from donor William 'Wilbur' Houghtaling. To date Wilbur has dropped off 1226 Hillbilly +
- [The Loot Table 9.13.2025](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-loot-table-9-13-2025/): After a day visiting yard sales, the recycling center and a major flea, well, things just add up. So while relocating the ARC is an overwhelming concern, I took the day to once again go a'huntin.' This batch is not a crazed praise-worthy stack of rare items. Like those collector brags that flood social media.
- [24 years ago, living 5 block away](https://arcmusic.org/blog/24-years-ago-living-5-block-away/): No one hurt, 2 months to clean the dust @ ARC. Latest interns were not even born. b.
- [Space Odyssey + Punk Oddities](https://arcmusic.org/blog/space-odyssey-punk-oddity/): Here are a few recent things both seen by and donated to ARC that are quirky and wonderful. Like the Sid Vicious jewelry display above I saw at the fleamarket! How about these proto-Devo covers by the Spotnicks? This instrumental surf band was a sixties sensation in Scandinavia, and this donation dodged the tariffs into
- [Too Much Yellow?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/too-much-yellow/): Well a great many of very nice things, curiously most of them colored like a Donovan song, have been donated or rediscovered lately... Above is our 17,643th book we just catalogued, first US edition. Below is a matchbook donated from a close friend of Jerry Wexler and the ARC. It’s Ahmet, Neshui and Jerry made
- [Only our Second Poster Post in 40 Years](https://arcmusic.org/blog/only-our-second-poster-post-in-40-years/): OK, so maybe our Second Poster Post since 1993 when the web thing became real, but still, these deserve to be honored. It's just one of the 217 amazing posters that ARCtivist Tim Broun donated today from his personal collection. They're mostly from his erstwhile teenage years, in amazing shape. Above is one of the
- [17,371](https://arcmusic.org/blog/17371/): Well it was chilly last night night and 77 this afternoon, so that means it's Spring and time for a trip to the dump and a book sale. The result is a curious number for our title of today's post, telling you I just cataloged our 17,371 book here at ARC. That book, and the
- [No Comment...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/no-comment/): There's a tariff on thinkin' here at ARC, so thought we'd just show a pile of recent donations here at the library. As we ALWAYS say anyone can preserve the hits, but we rejoice in the huddled masses. Like these John Wesley Harding Fan Club singles Or this Latin Flavored gum eraser How about a
- [Happy Valentines Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-valentines-day/): As you may know the dump is one of our favorite stop-and-shops. Here we find the detritus, the once-loved, outgrown and purchasing mistakes of the common man. And by that I mean a great many records we have never seen before. Like a whole lotta love in this world, this LP is a bit moldy.
- [Become a Friend of the ARC!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/become-a-friend-of-the-arc/): Here’s a photo from our first full year of operation, 1986. It’s deep inside Jeep Holland’s house. Jeep founded one of the great indie labels, A-Squared Records, home of the MC5. The house was condemned and sinking from the weight of his collections. We organized the sale of his 10,000+ Classical discs for him, and saved
- [ARC's Year End RoundUp 2024](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arcs-year-end-roundup-2024/): As we approach year’s-end, here’s a list of materials donated, Named Special Collections built, a bit of news and some swell new items that arrived at ARC. First, and most importantly, we’ll be moving to our 24,000 sq ft new home in upstate New York in the New Year. Details to follow when all the
- [Mystery Fan, Jo Anne, JoAnn, Jo Ann, JoAnne, Joan](https://arcmusic.org/blog/mystery-fan-jo-anne-joann-jo-ann-joanne/): No Matter how how you spell it Jo Ann was where the action was in the 60s. Proof is her remarkable collection of concert show programs from the Charlotte Coliseum in North Carolina. What a time she must have had. She taped her ticket stubs on the inside cover of every booklet. Always Row A,
- [Quincy Jones](https://arcmusic.org/blog/quincy-jones/): Today we remember Quincy Jones. A full life, well lived, leaving us all a prodigious amount of remarkable work that made our lives a whole lot richer. And fun. So here's a few things we like, things we own, that come to mind right off the bat. 'Best' is always silly. Everything he
- [Devilish Days Ahead](https://arcmusic.org/blog/devilish-days-ahead/): The very nice graphic above is from the film "Damn Yankees." Truly one of the best credits sequences in American films. Now about them Yanks. Here's a playbill from the original Broadway musical production we have here at ARC. We can only hope that the devil will once again come to our aid as the
- [The Magic of a Stereo Triple Play](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-magic-of-a-stereo-triple-play/): Barry Mayo was a very successful African-American radio executive. He is considered the first radio programmer to put rap records into regular rotation at station WRKS in New York. He now lives here in the Hudson Valley and he recently donated about a dozen boxes of records to The ARChive. The boxes included lots of
- [The Parallel Universe...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-parallel-universe/): Unsettling coincidences here @ ARC lately. Going trough a recently donated batch we came across this single, "The President Song" by Victor Trumper. At first glance all I saw was, "Victory Trump." THEN, last Saturday, the day Mr. Trump was shot, "Are My Ears On Straight," arrived. Coincidences? I think not. That
- [Songs South of the Shawangunks...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/songs-south-of-the-shawangunks/): Upstate neighbor William “Wilbur” Houghtaling has been dropping off early C&W, Bluegrass and Hillbilly 78rpm 10” shellac recordings lately. Daily visits. Now over 1000 discs. The disc at the top, "Blue Moon of Kentucky," is the original version of a song that Elvis later recorded at Sun Records. Another piece of audio archeology is, "Everybody's
- [$5 in 5 Minutes x 2 = bliss](https://arcmusic.org/blog/5-in-5-minutes-x-2-bliss/): Sometime you can spend hours at a flea market, walk for miles, and the best thing you buy is some fried dough. Today was just the opposite. The record tote above, Marie's record tote, was on the first table I saw. Like most of the more than 200 record totes that hold 7" singles here
- [Punk - older and newer](https://arcmusic.org/blog/punk-older-and-newer/): Big thanks to the one & only Julia Gorton for her recent generous donation! We are big fans of her work, and we’re excited to add these to our book collection! If you’re not familiar please click over to @julia_gorton_nowave. To purchase these visit juliagorton.com Not from Julia's swell books, but taken from the just
- [Happy Birthday Quincy Jones](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-birthday-quincy-jones/): One of my favorite albums by QJ is Big Band Bossa Nova (Mercury, USA, MG 20751, 12", 33, LP, n.d.). featuring the great “Soul Bossa Nova”. Still it’s the productions and arrangements that floor me. And the best? What I adored, I played, and still play, and have yet to donate to the ARC, is
- [ARC in the NEWS](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-in-the-news-2/): Lots of buzz these days since ARC was featured on CBS Mornings. They did a great job. The goal is to help us find a new home, and an 'angel' (read ARCangel) to help fund it. Our goal is to transition from a preservation and research organization to a full fledged Center for Popular Music.
- [Recently in @ ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/recently-in-arc/): Here's a swell R&B release that recently arrived at ARC. I found "Mexico/Dee I" by the Rocketones at the recycling Center, the only record that was there that day. Now this is a terrific bit of Doo Wop, only scarce because of the format - It's on a 10" shellac 78rpm disc. Looking on DISCOGS
- [A Few Unanswered Questions?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-few-unanswered-questions/): Where is the James Smithson of our times? Someone who sent a young Nation the money, to create a scientific institution, established “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge ...." Where is the Andrew Carnegie of our times? Someone who funded 2,509 library buildings and asked only that the staff fill them with books. Where
- [Natty or Nice?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/natty-or-nice/): Tis the Giving Season and he knows if you've been natty or nice! So why not be both? Consider a donation to ARC - help us preserve all things musical. We're in the middle of our Capital Campaign and can use the help. Here's the very Natty Nile Rodgers on behalf of ARC VIDEO-2023-12-14-08-48-35 from
- [Giving EVERY Tuesday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/giving-every-tuesday/): ARC’s not-for-profit status was granted on Nov. 24th, 1985. Sure we were collecting long before that, but now we were official. Since that time we’ve grown to be the largest popular music collection in the world with more than 3 million recordings. You can read all about the folks involved, our Special Collections, and what
- [11 boxes of Gold Coins](https://arcmusic.org/blog/11-boxes-of-gold-coins/): In 1838 James Smithson’s estate sent the United States 11 boxes of gold coins. $508,000 then, worth about $16.5 million now. Smithson’s will stated it was “to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” He never visited America, knew no one
- [1984 Wasn't So Scary](https://arcmusic.org/blog/1984-wasnt-so-scary/): As you all know ARC has been inundated with amazing collections lately. The latest is from the wonderful Sarah Lazin, a leading book agent who established Rolling Stone Press and has remained an ARC pal for more than 30 years. Every year Sarah outdoes herself with a great donation of the popular culture books she's
- [So you can Labor less](https://arcmusic.org/blog/so-you-can-labor-less/): Well for Labor Day, trying to give everyone a little less WORK, and realizing that most of the coloring book pages I’ve been creating for Wax on Wax are detailed, for colored pencils. This one’s kinda casual for crayons. Of course if you want to give this a try you’ll need to get a printer
- [Listen to 470 singles @ ARC - that's ARCology](https://arcmusic.org/blog/listen-to-407-singles-arc-thats-arceology/): This playlist has been lovingly assembled by ARChivist Tim Broun as he began cataloging the first one hundred thousand 45's here at the ARChive of Contemporary Music. As we do everyday, each record is individually processed, the donor noted, and in some cases we actually listen to them! As 45’s are cataloged, it's easy enough
- [From Her to Eternity](https://arcmusic.org/blog/from-her-to-eternity-2/): From Her to Eternity is the first comprehensive overview of all the pioneering women photographers who offer glimpses into the life - on and off stage - of suspicious characters, idols, movers, shakers, and mere geniuses. It's also ARC's first traveling exhibition. It's a thousand running feet of amazing photographs. It's free. The project is
- [Some Good Rainy Day News](https://arcmusic.org/blog/some-good-rainy-day-news/): Some good rainy Day News. To date we’ve catalogued 5,322 LPs, 8,413 CDs, 2,542 seven-inch 45rpm singles, 1509 ten-inch 78s and 7 flexidiscs as part of the Keith Richards Blues Collection. All-in-all that makes 17,793 Blues discs housed here @ ARC. Illustrated above, this copy came in recently as part of the John Rockwell Collection.
- [Headshots](https://arcmusic.org/blog/headshots/): As you may know we cultivate obscurata along with the everyday. You know, like the hundreds of classic James Brown recordings along with the variations that make our daily cataloging grind run smoother. So today we added 14 just catalogued 45s featuring variations on JB's mug, in our gallery of recordings that have small heads
- [ARC mini Record Sale is back, sorta, kinda...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-mini-record-sale-is-back-sorta-kinda/): Like the label says, we're joining some of our upstate neighbors on Memorial Day Saturday for a little get together. This sale is organized by record maven + ARC's number 3 essential employee, Tim Broun. We'll just be bringing 3 or 4 big boxes, but they're all sealed, near-mint or never played. Not like the
- [MayDay](https://arcmusic.org/blog/mayday/): No Maypole in the yard, but plenty of birds up here at the ARC. Including these metal ones chirpin' a Chilliwacky number. Above image gives you an idea of how they will look in the coloring book we are creating, based on LPs in our collection. Happy May Day!
- [Donate and Save the Earth](https://arcmusic.org/blog/donate-and-save-the-earth/): "If you don't take these we are going to throw them away." That was the message we got recently. 55,000 CDs. AND we were given 18 days to accept and relocate the collection. And it was a-way-out-west. 2,190 miles a-way-out-west. After we picked them up, the donor wrote, "Thank you all for your help on
- [What to do with that tax refund?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-to-do-with-that-tax-refund/): On April 7, 2023, the NY Post, posted this tid bit on the upcoming Adele stint, part of her ongoing “Weekends With Adele” residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, from June 16 through Nov. 4. These are the lowest priced seats posted… Friday,June 16 at 8 p.m. $584 Saturday, June 17 at 8 p.m.
- [Forget the Fabelmans, Here's the Berkmans!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/forget-the-fabelmans-heres-the-berkmans/): Sure it's swell to find every Barry Manilow LP in an attics, but sometimes, just sometime the real treasure is a tad more exotic. More electrostatic. More spaced out. So here a new pile Tim, Fred and b., painstakingly hauled out of J+L Berkman's third floor attic using sliding buckets and hydraulic muscles! Behold, 17
- [J&L Berkman Collection - part 1](https://arcmusic.org/blog/jl-berkman-collection-part-1/): Well, it's been a a while since our last post - but we've been busy. And before we tell you about the 50,000 CDs we're getting, here's a bit about a sweet collection of more than 8,000 near mint or sealed LPs coming our way. The above quick snap is just some of the Nina
- [A Day In the Life...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-day-in-the-life/): Yesterday - After a day of chats and e-mails with land use attorneys, realtors, firemen, store owners, MIT, the estate, the charities registration office, the bank, zoning officers, Filemaker, record stores, auctioneers, employees, donors, grantors, family and friends, THIS petty bureaucrat, thinking of Peggy Lee, gave up and finished this sweet coloring book page…Lady and
- [Happy](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy/): WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY + SAFE HOLIDAY SEASON FROM THE ARC! WE’RE OK... DOING WHAT WE DO SORTIN’ CATALOGIN’ PRESERVIN’ COLLECTIN’ LOOKING THINGS UP IT’S BEEN 39 YEARS! IF YOU CAN HELP US OUT WITH AN END OF THE YEAR DONATION THAT WOULD BE SWELL WE SUGGEST USING WWW.EVERY.ORG/ARCMUSIC MAIL AND PAYPAL ALSO WORK REGARDLES,
- [We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends](https://arcmusic.org/blog/we-get-by-with-a-little-help-from-our-friends/): As you can see I've drawn a few friends together for the Holidays. Since then they've been bugging me to remind everyone it's Giving Tuesday. Sure it's a sketchy holiday. Not very colorful. But it's a nice way to remind everyone about what we do. ARC saves records from the ravages of time. We collect,
- [THIS FALL YOUR DONATION IS MATCHED!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-fall-your-donation-is-matched/): When we first began ARC, 38 years ago, we solicited donations through our mail slot Since then they invented the internet, we have moved to upstate New York, and we are just a tad more sophisticated So, beginning Nov. 1, Every, our major funding portal, will match the first two months of any ARC supporter
- [Do the Math](https://arcmusic.org/blog/do-the-math/): “In case you’re wondering, I’ve, uh, transferred my entire swing era collection of 78s to tape. It’s probably worth more than this whole car if I decided to sell it” I came across the above quote in a 1973 film, Slither. The title belies the theme of an inept collection of principals seeking an embezzled
- [Stereosonic](https://arcmusic.org/blog/stereosonic/): A great many remarkable things arrived @ ARC over the weekend. The largest and loveliest is this (46 x 64 in) poster "Philips Stereosonic." Produced by the Dutch Philips Company it just glows - what you'd expect from a company that still produces most of the lighting in the world. By the way Philips also
- [Bill Evans Special Collection](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bill-evans-special-collection/): Thanks to the family of Bill Evans the ARC is the happy recipient of 90 LPs by the great Jazz pianist. Most are mint and first pressing. Some sealed. Some with ringwear. All the vinyl is sweet. The twist is that we recently did research for Craft who are doing the Riverside reissue of Waltz
- [LA Punk Flyers](https://arcmusic.org/blog/la-punk-flyers/): That's ARChivist Tim above, who just happened to be wearing an Avengers tee when this great donation arrived. These 'onesheets' as we like to call them, are from Doug Arbesfeld who miraculous preserved more than 125 late 70s flyers from bands and clubs in LA. Normally these would have been taped to posts, plastered on
- [So Loved...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/so-loved/): So nice that so many are posting on the Joni Mitchell appearance at Newport. When I was in Ann Arbor, in the late 60s (1967 I think) I used to set up chairs at Canterbury House in order to see the shows for free. One night they introduced the first appearance here by a young
- [Our First SALE (sorta) In Years!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/testing-the-waters/): Fred and I will be loading up the Subarus and bringing a few choice albums along with some less-than-exciting ones to Tim's sale this coming Saturday. What makes it SPECIAL will be our first time selling some of the 1200 Rolling Stone tour tee shirts that the band donated to the ARC. BTW only a
- [Reliquary](https://arcmusic.org/blog/reliquary/): We frequently visit the world of obsession and the unlikely paths to preservation. One trippy trip began when Nick Cave asked his friend whether he still had the gum he had snatched from Nina Simone’s piano that strange and transcendent midsummer night in 1999. The friend was Warren Ellis, musician and longtime Cave collaborator, and
- [We Got The Beat - Women In Music Summit - Discount Tickets Just Announced!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/we-got-the-beat-the-women-in-music-summit/): One of the great things ARC supports is the Women In Music Summit, "We Got The Beat." There's food, talks, workshops and performances - a highlight of Women's History Month. Now offering discount tickets to all! It's in Woodstock, at the Bearsville Center, so that's another reason to check it out. Our own Creative Director,
- [Every Day Is A Surprise](https://arcmusic.org/blog/every-day-is-a-surprise/): OK. I'm of Ukrainian descent. Covid. A sleet storm outside. Everything costs 30% more. And yet. Nearly every day there's a surprise in ARC's mailbox. Sure the mail is running 3 days late, but then again, packages like the one above, rare and amazing, are placed on my desk... This 1963 autobiography by the recently
- [Good Day Dumping](https://arcmusic.org/blog/good-day-dumping/): A remarkable Saturday at the Recycling Center (OK, dump). This morning, before the blizzard, picked up an amazing array of music related items. As you know ARC can only buy odds-and-ends, as we’re chock full of just about ordinary everything. But when they’re free, we take a chance. Here’s today’s haul on our “Loot Table.”
- [Happy 2022 = Solyent Green + Food for Thought](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-2022-solyent-green-food-for-thought/): Soylent Green, the film, is set in 2022. The Harry Harrison novel its based on, Make Room! Make Room, takes place in 1999. Ah, if only Prince were around and singing us forward. But its 2022 and we're going all the wrong kind of Green. Soylent is a Dystopian Novel. It makes the case for
- [Lucky Number 2022 from ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/be-good-be-happy-and-be-lucky/): Be Good, Be Happy and "Be Lucky" That's what Lene Lovich once scrolled across her 'Lucky Number" 45 here @ ARC. And that’s our 2022 wish for you from your pals Freddie, Tim, Jon, Julie, Miranda + B. @ The ARChive of Contemporary Music Most of you know all we've
- [Those Were The Days...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/those-were-the-days/): In the early days, when we we're in Tribeca we would post this sign on one of our doors, above the mail slot. Every day someone would shove something through. Maybe coins, often a few bucks. Occasionally a slice of pizza. As we welcome 2022, everything has changed. If you can send a donation
- [Year End Notes](https://arcmusic.org/blog/year-end-notes/): As we welcome 2022, our goal is to finally get out from under wraps - that's physically, metaphysically and metaphorically. With your help we'll be unpacking millions of our recordings, launching our first ever Capital Campaign, and planning public events. Most of you know all we've done over the past 36 years. New to ARC?
- [In the Pink!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/in-the-pink/): As most of you know ARC has relocated to upstate New York, on the Hudson. Well, until the new building is in place, the collection remains largely in storage. So that puts major research, events, parties and our in-house Record Sales on hold for a while. But as you can guess from the album above,
- [Giving Tuesday!  Why ARC? Because of our great Odds + Ends](https://arcmusic.org/blog/giving-tuesday-why-arc-because-of-our-great-odds-ends/): Giving Tuesday. That means you should consider a donation to as many worthy organizations as you can. And we hope you consider ARC. To egg you on Every.org has initiated a #FallGivingChallenge. That means for every donation through them your gift will be matched up to $100 dollars! AND THIS OFFER ENDS TODAY
- [Matching Funds to ARC via Every.org](https://arcmusic.org/blog/matching-funds-to-arc-via-every-org/): We are excited to announce a special gift matching opportunity offered by every.org to the ARChive of Contemporary Music when people donate at every.org/arcmusic. They call it the #FallGivingChallenge - we call is ever-so-kind! So, from now through #GivingTuesday on November 30th, donors on the Every.org website will be matched up to $100 per person. A total of $250,000 of
- [More Than A Rumor - A Legend!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/please-feed-the-animals-2/): Browsing through the Jacobson collection, the name Johnny Legend caught my attention, and the photo of a bearded, wild-eyed lunatic flanked by two lady friends caught my eye. Given enough time and money, some record collectors develop tastes for types of record covers. Sometimes the music is good, sometimes bad, but in many cases this
- [PLEASE FEED THE ANIMALS](https://arcmusic.org/blog/please-feed-the-animals/): The Mark Jacobson collection had a lot of great records—as the regular reader of the ARC’s blogs will certainly agree. Mr. Jacobson also had some strange records and we want to present one of those here. Please Feed the Animals (Arc Records, Canada, A 755, 1967) is a collection of mostly British Invasion songs—seven hits
- [Top Banana in our VU box](https://arcmusic.org/blog/top-bananna-in-our-vu-box/): Recently brought on board here at the Arc, I was thrown into the archiving deep end by helping with the Mark Jacobson collection. As I like to tell Freddie Patterson, “It’s the collection that keeps on giving.” Not only are there many, many rare & desirable titles within, but what really astonishes me is the
- [Good, Good Mr. Brown](https://arcmusic.org/blog/good-good-mr-brown/): Among the 12,000 or so records donated to The ARChive of Contemporary Music by the Estate of Mark Jacobson (see previous posts) are more than 75 James Brown LPs. Many of them are original mono pressings with the black King label. Almost all of them are in near mint to VG+ condition—which in itself is
- [Freewheelin’ = Confusin’](https://arcmusic.org/blog/freewheelin-confusin/): As you may have been reading in the ARChive’s recent blog posts, the ARC has recently receive a very generous donation from the estate of Mark Jacobson, a North Carolina car dealer. He collected certain artists more than others—see a previous blog regarding Jimi Hendrix records. One of the artists Mr. Jacobson collected heavily was
- [We're More "Experienced" Than Ever Before...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/were-more-experienced-than-ever-before/): Nestled in the more than 300 Hendrix releases in the Mark Jacobson Collection of 12,000 plus recordings donated to ARC is this never played French LP – Part of the Series Panache. (Are You Experienced? Barclay; France, 0820143, 12", vinyl disc-LP, Mint, Mono [1967]). Besides having a satisfyingly psychedelic cover this album offers 8 songs
- [ARC + Sir Paul + The Jacobson Collection](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-sir-paul-the-jacobson-collection/): Here's another gem from the Mark Jacobson Collection of 12,000 plus recordings donated to ARC - a set of 8 vinyl singles comprising an album, housed in a 1950s style pink tune-tote carrying case, nicely decorated. It’s a limited edition and numbered release, ours # 4136. The set contains 12 covers of both classic and
- [7/21/21 - The Mark Jacobson Special Collection](https://arcmusic.org/blog/7-21-21-the-mark-jacobson-special-collection/): 7/21/21 – Those numbers sound pretty lucky to us. And why? Because today we finished sorting out the 12,721 items donated by Mr. Mark Jacobson. But you can’t impress us with just a pile of lucky numbers – they gotta be prime and rare. And they are. This is, far and away, the best large
- [Feeling frisky? magnanimous? bored? flush?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/feeling-frisky-magnanimous-bored-flush/): Well here's an idea! There is a fab auction goin' on at Heritage Auctions for the next week and ARC thinks it would be swell for you to have a look. Even sweller if YOU would bid, win and donate a bit of music history to ARC. Sure we're pushing our luck, but this would
- [From Her To Eternity](https://arcmusic.org/blog/from-her-to-eternity/): The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is pleased to announce our latest initiative and focus for 2021, From Her To Eternity. Our mission is to create a physical collection of recordings and related music materials and to organize events and activities that focus on & celebrate the contributions of women to Popular music. We're lucky
- [Slow but sure...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/slow-but-sure/): So sorry for the dearth of posts these days. Renovating the new space and new buildings are a full time occupation. But more soon as we get ready to launch new initiatives and get ready for our first group of new interns and volunteers in a coon's age. Have a gander at the event space/dance
- [Earth Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/earth-day-2/): Remembering a chant or two @ at The Dream House in Lower Manhattan, around the corner from ARC. This his first LP, 1972, from our collection. Still not clear if the planet's groove is a rut. And yet, Happy Earth Day!
- [Out with the Old...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/out-with-the-old/): Our last post was about the changes that came with the new year, so, out with the old, (above) and in with the new ! (below) Above is a street shot of the outside of the old ARC in Tribeca - inside a sleet cookie-cutter art gallery - clean like a morgue. (pardon our prejudice).
- [New Year, Old Song](https://arcmusic.org/blog/new-year-old-song/): This is the first of a few posts by Henry Locke, ARC's intern from Bennington, working remotely on contacting labels for us and doing some blogs - here's his first... We've added the above, a related 45 from ARC's collection. At the stroke of midnight the familiar sound of Auld Lang Syne can be heard
- [Wha Happened? A Few ARC 2020 favorites...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/wha-happened-a-few-arc-2020-favorites/): Happy New year. But as Fred sez, it doesn’t really start ‘til Jan 20! That said, we’re busy working on our end-of-the-year Record Roundup. Still waiting for a few more things to come in. BTW as of Jan 1 there have been 186,831 separate donations since 1985 to ARC! So very many great things generously
- [The Shirt Off Our Back?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-shirt-off-our-back/): In our humble efforts to massage, entice and cajole - how about this? Donate $100 and we'll send you a Rolling Stone Tour tee shirt. The Band's office sent 1,200 tees recently to help fund our relocation and reopening. Better yet, donate $10,000 and we'll send you 1,000 Rolling Stone Tee Shirts! Of course we
- [About Donating](https://arcmusic.org/blog/about-donating/): On these cyber and giving days, here’s what we think : if you can, please give to folks who need food, help out some musicians who need work, and then consider The ARChive of Contemporary Music. We’ve finally completed our new office and storage facility. Picture above. We think it’s pretty cool. But still so
- [Karen Dalton](https://arcmusic.org/blog/karen-dalton/): More serendipity – Quite by accident, on the day I got this Facebook notice below, I watched the Karen Dalton documentary that is part of the NY Doc Fest. This is what my pal Tim Broun wrote on his page. “Today’s mission accomplished. I went with my friends Andy & Ted to find the camper
- [Nov 2](https://arcmusic.org/blog/nov-2/): Chance, coincidence and serendipity are curious things. Last night in search of a Halloween film, chilling and not gory, I watched The Thing (1951). Maybe for the 5th time. It hosts an incredible ensemble cast, effortless overlapping dialog, Howard Hawks the rumored co-director and Marshal Dillon as a plant-based spaceman. (Don’t forget Bob Dylan cites
- [The Essentials](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-essentials/): The Essentials. "Fast Music In A Slow Town EP : Turn Off Your Radio / I Don't Get // Johnny / It's Essential." (Safety Net Records, US, Net-1, 1982; picture sleeve, includes a 6.5" square white paper insert printed both sides with band pictures, lyrics and release info.) As I mentioned I am working on
- [You Sure That's The Correct Number?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/you-sure-thats-the-correct-number/): Today Sothebys Auction House auctioned off the Hip-Hop classic, “Beat Bop” to benefit The ARChive of Contemporary Music. It was donated by Cory Robbins, the founder of Profile Records. It sold for $126,000.00 Here’s the dope : Rammellzee vs K-Rob “Beat Bop” (Tartown Record Co., TT001 Vinyl 12" 45 rpm., 1983). Sealed. Jean Michel Basquiat designed the
- [Cupolas 4](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cupolas-4/): It's not often you get to ask folks to have a look at your cupolas. But here ya' go. Just painted in the newly renovated temp ARC office. Still in an undisclosed location on the Hudson. This is our 19th c. Piggery. Can't wait to show you the Cow Palace! Soon come.
- [A Label is Born](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-label-is-born/): Before they rocked the world of Hip-Hop, the boys in the dorm issued this very Punk single. It's the first Def Jam seven-inch release : Hose. Mobo // Girls / Zoo. (7" 45 rpm, no mfg. #, matrix DEF-SP-1, no date [1982]). Both sided have etched labels drawn by vocalist Mike Espindle, one side with
- [](https://arcmusic.org/blog/14111/): As I slowly catalog our Punk era singles I am amazed by the value of these scarce, independently released, 45 in ARC's collection. These are not the mass produced and widely promoted bands we are familiar with. These are releases by mostly ephemeral outfits, with highly personal vision, that never gained a large audience -
- [9:40 pm - Time to Start Work](https://arcmusic.org/blog/940-pm-time-to-start-work/): 9:40 pm. 3 screens running - the Yankees game, the nominating roll call at the Democratic convention, and the ARC singles database. Going through a stack of 45s I start cataloging a few from Girls At Our Best and the first disk entered was "Politics!" Girls was a short lived (1979-1982) Leeds based Punk outfit
- [Dead But Not Forgotten](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dead-but-not-forgotten/): Not the Grateful Dead cover band but an LA punk group formed 1977, and this was their only single. While the “Kill the Hippies” cover catches your eye, the b-side sound of “Brainless” is the weirder wonder, with some nice arty No New York style blipping short-stroke guitar work. Geza X was on guitar and
- [](https://arcmusic.org/blog/14090/): The above is not a minimalist canvas, but the cover of a scarce Bauhaus release. I discovered it while going through our Punk era singles. We're cataloging this large group of 45s in preparation for a graphics book on our collection, and for something worthwhile to do while our permanent collection is in storage since
- [ARC on the Telly](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-on-the-telly/): Hi! For the last 35 years, the ARChive of Contemporary Music has preserved over 3 million records in its Tribeca facility, making it one of the largest record collections in the world. Now, rising rents are driving ARC out of New York City. VICE News takes a look inside the archives on VICE News
- [C+C = Celebratin' + Catalogin'](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cc-celebratin-catalogin/): Well I haven't worn shoes for a week as I go into the 4th of July weekend! And it will be a few weeks before we can start workin' at the new ARC. So I thought I'd pass the time on my book about Punk 45s. So the Fourth was my first day sorting and
- [Juneteenth et Midsommar](https://arcmusic.org/blog/juneteenth-et-midsommer/): Juneteenth marked the final day of ARC @ NYC. Here’s Fred + B (above) finishing a clean sweep of our White St. home of nearly 20 years on White St. Remember the main room? Now it looks this-a-way. For more than 40 days its been up at 5am, load up the Subaru with the more
- [The End Days Are Upon Us!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-end-days-are-upon-us/): Well it may seem like the End Days are here out on the streets, but they’re pretty real down here at the ARC. Here’s a pic of some of the empty shelves that we’ll be taking down today. So far we’ve loaded up 30 vans and quite a few subarus. our collection now safe and
- [Sleepin' on the job](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sleepin-on-the-job/): As you know we are loading a 26' van a day for 30 days and quite a few small vans are making deliveries to our new home. Even Paul Stanley is plain tuckered out! And this is what it takes to keep our lovely neighbors from parking illegally... Hope you are all doing fine. If
- [Giving Tuesday, but...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/giving-tuesday-but/): Well there are so many heartfelt pleas going out today. For healthcare, healthcare workers, food aid, education, candidates who actually could make things better. So after you help them, consider the ARChive. We are relocating. We love New York City. It's been our home for 35 years. But the City has never offered an once
- [Gettin Loaded](https://arcmusic.org/blog/gettin-loaded/): Well here's the crew - Ray, Corey and David loading the first truckload - first of 24 - out of the City and to our new location Upstate. And the very first batch ready for cataloging? The Forbes Elvis Presley UK Collection. about 700 LPs, singles, books and video staring the King. Proper shelving coming
- [ARC still GOing](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-still-going/): Well ARC is busy packing up for our move to our new home. One thing we discovered is a few boxes, much used and re-used, the above from 1989, when we moved from Chambers St. to a desolate Crosby St. Looks like the box has been overused at least 4 time and still holding
- [ARC is GO!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-is-go/): Well ARC is busy packing up for our move to our new home. Bad timing, but we have no choice. Of course it’s hard for everyone these days, we understand that. We hope you are all staying safe. But we do need to move the library and Fred and I are working on separate floors
- [Trippin'](https://arcmusic.org/blog/trippin/): OK, You can't take a trip to Europe this summer - uh, anywhere really. Not ARC. We gotta move and we're packing it all up and outa here by June (maybe). One great donation off the shelf and into the boxes is a pile of great handmade Beatle's notebooks created by a starstruck teen.
- [Home Alone](https://arcmusic.org/blog/home-alone/): Well we're not quite home yet. I'm here at ARC, alone, so as to keep others safe. I live a few blocks away and can walk here without any contact. I am safe and not a danger to my neighbors. So.... here's what I did yesterday! As you may know ARC is packing up to
- [A Clean Slate + A Great Match](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-clean-slate-a-great-match/): The board above shows us that schools have closed down and our 9 interns are now safe at home. Bad luck for everyone everywhere. Even our latest hire is now quarantined. On the bright side Benevity today announced they will make matching donations up to $300K. They are an IT based group that usually
- [Packin'](https://arcmusic.org/blog/packin/): Last weekend we had 8 folks sorting 45s on Sat, 10 on Sunday. Great fun. Pizza for everyone. You shoulda been there.
- [ARC - In the News, on the move and packing’ our bags!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-in-the-news-on-the-move-and-packing-our-bags/): This Monday NPR's “All Things Considered” will run a feature, and the New York Times will post a short update on the two semi-secret locations of the ARC’s new homes. Tune in and then join in at out Packing Party as we present "Record Savings Time." That's daylight savings time weekend, March
- [Movin' ARC!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/movin-arc/): Yes it’s true, the ARChive of Contemporary Music is on the move—it will be moving out of our current Tribeca location by the summer. In order to commemorate this event, we have placed Movin’ Wes by Wes Montgomery in the window. Where will the ARC go? At the moment it is undecided—but there have been
- [Super Sunday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/super-sunday/): Just back from looking at one of ARC's potential new homes, Sunday, back in the office, and found this pushed through the mail slot. Now we get a great many things donated here at the library, and because we save everything musical, we are blind to quality. But sometime, some things, are so delightful, it
- [A Smith Drops by](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-smith-drops-by/): In the midst of our packing up as ARC prepares to move, Andy Rourke, bassist from The Smiths dropped by. We brought out 80 or so of the band's LPs and 12" singles that we have here at ARC for perusal, some of which he's never seen. I took a snap of the inside of
- [Flashy, eh?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/flashy-eh/): Fact 1162 has been flashing on Link kiosks all over the city lately. Fun to see even if not exactly true. What is true is all the great folks contacting us and offering space at great rates. Will ARC stay in NYC? Maybe. Still not a peep from the Mayor or any City agency, so
- [ARC in the News](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-in-the-news/): There have been a ton of stories on ARC's need for a new home and 100s of offers of space. Like the offers pouring in from home and abroad, from Memphis to Stuttgart, Troy to Brazil. So fingers crossed. Still not a peep from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs... Pic above is from
- [On the Go Go...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/on-the-go-go/): As you may know ARC has to relocate. To that end the nice folks at the NY Times placed a story today online and will publish in hard copy this Sunday, Jan 5. Thanks to writer Derek Norman and photographer OK McCausland. Have a look and continue to support the ARC and all we
- [What We Do](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-we-do/): This is what we do. We go around the world, meet amazing people, and save the things they love. Here's a bedroom in Carmel CA. Eccentric, essential, exceptional. We pack things up, we clean them, we catalog them. Our only mission is to preserve the music. We've been doing it for 35 years now. To
- [LAST DAY of ARC's Holiday Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/last-day-of-arcs-holiday-sale/): Shop TODAY Dec 22. We gotta get rid of this stuff, so come on down for some extra DEALS + DISCOUNTS $1 items are two for $1 (gotta take two or $1 each) $2 and $3 items are $1 take $1 off all items $10 and under take $2 off all items over $10 books
- [FINAL DAYS for ARC HOLIDAY SALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/final-days-for-arc-holiday-sale/): Yes folks, today and tomorrow, Dec 21 + 22. Then it's all over until the next sale in ??? So PLEASE drop by and support the ARC! On SUNDAY we will offer some major discounts as we empty out the store and clean out the space for our next big donation of recordings. We've been
- [Better Weather and Fab Records](https://arcmusic.org/blog/better-weather-and-fab-records/): The ARC Holiday Sale continues as we bring out new materials and discover extra copies that we need to dispose of as we work towards the massive task of moving the ARC. So PLEASE drop by and shop. We're here until Sunday the 22d, open everyday 11-6pm. If unable to attend, and want to help
- [X-Mas Shopping?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/x-mas-shopping/): Before we tell you about Bill Adler's great new swingin' Holiday compilation DON'T FORGET that ARC' Holiday Sale is still on and runs till the 22 of Dec, everyday 11-6. We just put out half boxes of Punk/New Wave 45s, original Rolling Stones' LPs and Weill-Brecht LPs - something for everyone!!! So the cover is
- [It's In the Bag](https://arcmusic.org/blog/its-in-the-bag/): Today another six boxes of recordings arrived, by surprise I might add, with the latest installment of the massive Richard Zirinsky Collection. Sure there were the usual 10 Paul Weller box sets, more than 250 music DVDs and dozens of Jamaican singles. But the real treat was this paper singles record bag from Kingston, Jamaica.
- [Watch the Holiday Sale Film](https://arcmusic.org/blog/watch-the-holiday-sale-film/): https://vimeo.com/377947827?ref=em-share Holiday 'Kissin' Christmas' Record + CD Sale Dec 7 - 22, 2019 @ ARC Headquarters located at 54 White Street, Tribeca, NYC Open everyday 11am-6pm • Be nice and we can stay a little later! • Free admission • As always - more LPs and CDs than ever! For a few weeks in
- [](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-sale/): Holiday 'Kissin' Christmas' Record + CD Sale Starts Tomorrow! Dec 7 - 22, 2019 @ ARC Headquarters located at 54 White Street, Tribeca, NYC Open everyday 11am-6pm • Be nice and we can stay a little later! • Free admission As always - more LPs and CDs than ever! For a few weeks in December
- [Look Away, Look Away...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/look-away-look-away/): Today critic David Hinkley dropped off his twice-a- year carload of donated goodies. As usual hundreds of LPs, CDs, books and swag in great condition. This year he outdid himself by donating these two rare 45s. The almost cleverly named Hatenanny Records (OK subBoomers, it's a play on ‘Hootenanny,’ minus a syllable, a 60s gathering
- [Sorted, Packed and On The Road!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sorted-packed-and-on-the-road/): Yesterday ARC sent off the Saul Nowitz Collection, a Gift of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, to Philly to be digitized by George Blood Audio and the Internet Archive. This batch 23,124 seventy-eight rpm shellac discs and 1200 sixteen-inch transcription discs, V-discs and one-of-a-kind acetates. Just wanted folks to see what a portion of
- [Caribbean Gold](https://arcmusic.org/blog/caribbean-gold/): For the past week ARC has been sifting through the more than 300 boxes of recordings recently donated as the Saul Nowitz Collection, a gift of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation. While predominately 78 rpm discs there are nearly 5,000 LPs. The two above brightened our day. They are by Trinidadian singer, actor, folklorist and
- [Help Wanted](https://arcmusic.org/blog/help-wanted/): Today the all-Brazilian all-excellent crew from Collins Bros. movers loaded in the Saul Nowitz Collection today. 302 boxes. 32,000+ recordings. Mostly 78rpm discs. Ah, but 78s are mixed in with LPs, and CDs and singles. So now we're building better boxes and getting them ready to be shipped off to be digitized. To do all
- [Ric](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ric/): Maddux Pearson, a graduate student at NYU, has been working at ARC to lay the groundwork for a database and image gallery of our memorabilia collections. Here's his take on one of the nice things he discovered in the very first of a 100 or so boxes he will be looking at... As I lifted
- [Is Music a Universal Language?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/is-music-a-universal-language/): ARC intern Dionysius Arya Nataraja comes to us via Bennington College via the Netherlands via Central Java. He's just finished up a few months here and used some of his time to explore the ARC's World Music Collection. As a scholar of both Eastern and Western musical cultures he offers these observations... Aesthetic Relativism in
- [Summer Fun + Beatles' Love](https://arcmusic.org/blog/summer-fun-beatles-love/): Summer is almost gone. A change of seasons. A change of heart. Plans. Memories. "To Everything There Is a Season." Which leads me to this. One of our favorite donors, Nina b, dropped this drawing off recently. As a 12 year old the lady was gaga over George Harrison. Nina has donated voluminous notebooks
- [What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record?](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/what-was-the-first-rocknroll-record/): Deke Dickerson is a person who knows about music; mostly early rock’n’roll music. He’s a guitarist who specializes in roots music—especially rockabilly and hillbilly styles. He’s also a record producer and songwriter. Plus, he writes about music with passion and authority. He knows his stuff, that’s for sure. So when we saw that he wrote
- [Drop by, say Hi!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/drop-by-say-hi/): ARC will be selling rare and not so rare choice LPs and CDs (duplicate items from our vast archive) this Sat at the Discogs/Crate Diggers Event. FREE ADMISSION, Sat July 27, 10am-6pm, Playstation Theater, 1515 Broadway, NYC @ W. 44 St. Drop by, say Hi!
- [A Borough Of Basses and Baritones: Brooklyn’s Doo Wop History](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-borough-of-basses-and-baritones-brooklyns-doo-wop-history/): above: The Cashmeres - "Satisfied Part 1" (Lake 705, 1960) • All 7" discs and scans are in the collection of the ARChive of Contemporary Music As a Nineties baby my unusual love of doo-wop records stems back to a Time-Life commercial for an oldies CD collection I saw on TV when I was around
- [ARC [heart] Interns](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-heart-interns/): Well our Summer Sale is over and we want to thank all YOU shoppers and especially the many great interns and volunteers who made it happen. Pics above and below are from the idle hands of some of our favorite interns, penned between sales. Nina Hill made the the guy with ARC in his eyes
- [Forget Those $20 Eggs in Tribeca - SUNDAY Last Day of ARC Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/forget-those-20-eggs-in-tribeca-sunday-last-day-of-arc-sale/): Today, Sunday is the FINAL day of ARC's Sizzlin' Summer Sale! Ask for a discount on our already LOW prices and you'll get it! Fab stuff @ Fab prices… WHAT: ARC Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale WHEN: Sat June 8 – Sun June 23 • everyday 11 am – 6 pm WHERE: 54 White
- [Swingin' Tribeca](https://arcmusic.org/blog/swingin-tribeca/): Last night ARC hosted a guided tour and concert as part of the Tribeca Art+Culture Night Festival. 18 folks took the tour and a full house squeezed between the aisles to hear the Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. play Country + Rockabilly favorites! They has a lot of lost animal songs and a twangy
- [Free Concert @ ARC Thursday Nite!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/free-concert-arc-thursday-nite/): There’s a FREE Concert @ the ARC SUMMER RECORD + CD SALE! Thursday • June 20 • 7-8pm Come to hear the Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. Playing Country + Rockabilly favorites! It's part of the Tribeca Art+Culture Night Festival. SHOP LATE – We’ll stay open till 9pm on June 20! So come by
- [MORE Than Just Records @ ARC Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-than-just-records-arc-sale/): Yes, we got vintage mags and fanzines and a whole lot more @ ARC's Sizzlin' SUMMER RECORD + CD SALE! NOW – June 23 everyday 11-6 Come if you can – tell everyone you know We have TONS of Jazz recordings. hundreds of mint Jamaican + Brazilian CDs + LPs and the usual pile of very nice rock
- [Why Golf When You Can Buy Records?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/why-golf-when-you-can-buy-records/): It's Father's Day Sunday so we baked him a cake in the shape of a record! Sorta. Anyway, all kids who bring their Dad to our sale get a 10% discount on anything and everything. It's easy - Fab stuff @ Fab prices and fun. A piece of cake! WHAT: ARC Sizzlin’ Summer Record +
- [Bug Your Pop This Sunday!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bug-your-pop-this-sunday/): This Sunday is Father's Day and all kids who bring their Pop to our sale get a 10% discount on anything and everything and maybe pick up some insect pops for yourself! Fab stuff @ Fab prices… WHAT: ARC Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale WHEN: Sat June 8 – Sun June 23 • everyday
- [Emmitt Basquiat???](https://arcmusic.org/blog/emmitt-basquiat/): ARC's littlest shopper visited yesterday and penned-painted this promo plea to get folks down to the ARC's Summer Record + CD Sale. As the man says, "Shop...I beg you." a Fab stuff @ Fab prices… WHAT: ARC Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale WHEN: Sat June 8 – Sun June 23 • everyday 11 am
- [Check out the film - Come to our SALE!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/check-out-the-film-come-to-our-sale/): Fab stuff @ Fab prices… WHAT: ARC Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale WHEN: Sat June 8 – Sun June 23 • everyday 11 am – 6 pm WHERE: 54 White Street • Tribeca • bet Church + B’Way WHY: In support of America’s largest popular music library WHO: info@arcmusic.org • 212-226-6967 • www.arcmusic.org The
- [Sizzlin' Summer Sale is Jazz HOT!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/suzzlin-summer-sale-is-jazz-hot/): Forgive the lousy image, but rejoice at the more than 2,300 Jazz CDs and LPs at this years sale. The above is a pic of the pile of some of the Jazz box sets …Fab stuff @ Fab prices… WHAT: ARC Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale WHEN: Sat June 8 – Sun June 23
- [Time Rolls On Like A Train And A River…](https://arcmusic.org/blog/time-rolls-on-like-a-train-and-a-river/): Got this yesterday at a fleamarket. Hard to believe that the biggest selling group in history, is, uh, history? We’re the ARC. We save everything about music, even long forgotten groups like these here Bugs. We’re also in the last few days of our Fundraising campaign Help if you can. Remember you must! Don't forget
- [Why You Should Support Libraries](https://arcmusic.org/blog/why-you-should-support-libraries/): OK - Saw John Wick 3 last night. In the opening fight the protagonist kills an antagonist, quite brutally, with a book, in the Main Branch of the New York Public Library. The uninterrupted action was believable of course because no one reads and no one was visible in the stacks for the entire 5
- [War + Music](https://arcmusic.org/blog/war-music/): A recent donation here at the ARC included 500 jazz books. One of them was by a journalist I had once met in Paris, Mike Zwerin. The book reminded me of a new acquaintance, Amanda Petrusich, who has just published a terrific and terrifically researched story in the New Yorker, "The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained
- [Speaking of Matching!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/speaking-of-matching/): This is the final week for our Matching Grant Fundraiser and today we just happened to find a whole pile of Matching 45s! These 1956, all-different Belafonte singles sport the same face photo sleeves, not to mention some gentle folk-revival and Caribbean vibes. We'd save 'em even if the pictures were different. That's our job
- [Turn Up The Volume!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/turn-up-the-volume/): Resurrecting those 60s psychedelic posters from the basement last week also turned up a pile of late 70 this-and-thats. Like this first edition of VOLUME by the ARC director. We'll have them at our next sale - June 8-23 - for 75% off the online/Amazonian/booksite prices. And if you join the ARC you get
- [Still Grand via the Grande](https://arcmusic.org/blog/still-grand-via-the-grande/): Grand Funk is getting ready to rock out at Jones Beach Theater (opening for Bob Seger) in Wantagh, New York, on May 30, at 7:30 PM. In 1968 (?) it would have cost you $3.00 - $3.50 to see the band in Ohio. But this is NY and tickets range from $87 to $187. Lets
- [Wonderful + Ephemeral](https://arcmusic.org/blog/wonderful-ephemeral/): Here’s a streetart homage to Amy Winehouse at the Portobello Market area, London, in 2011 that we shot shortly after her death. ARC not only saves the real, but the ephemeral, including graffiti and all sorts of painted and scribbled imagery. Give us a hand and join our fundraising campaign Rebuilding the ARC
- [Better Red Than Dead](https://arcmusic.org/blog/better-red-than-dead/): As we celebrate a purely American Holiday, May Day, ARC found this very nice Commie sleeve, one of the many we were donated from a 78 collection in the EU. So admire the sleeve and remember that in the fight for an 8 hr workday, in light of the many massacres of worker and responses
- [Empty the Garage - Fill the ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/empty-the-garage-fill-the-arc/): Sometimes ya gotta kick the dead rat out of the way to get to the stax o’ wax. The latest dusty snap from out West as former archivist and longtime pal Jon (not pictured) risked Jacob’s ladder in search of black gold. ARC goes anywhere and saves everything music related. Give us a hand
- [Tunes YOU Missed](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tunes-you-missed/): Sleeves from the "Tunes You Missed" series of 45s that just arrived from a donor in LA. Forgettable releases - fabulous graphics. ARC saves everything music related. Give us a hand and join our fundraising campaign Rebuilding the ARC Any and all sleeves and discs welcome -we love things we've missed! ARC is Americas largest
- [Nina et Les Beatles](https://arcmusic.org/blog/nina-et-les-beatles/): Today, Nina (last name a State Secret) one of our favorite people, dropped off a pile of her treasured 45s. Mighty tasty items with a French twist and only the beginning of more things to come. Can't wait to see her Beatles' diary. Stay tuned for a blog on her entire collection. So be like
- [Earth Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/earth-day/): Earth Day and just a reminder of when the world saw the World for the first time. It was on the cover of the Whole Earth Catalog, - a NASA image that Whole Earth creator Stuart Brand had to pressure the government to release. Hard to imagine that no one had ever seen a picture
- [Congress Usta Carry a big (fire) Stick...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/congress-usta-carry-a-big-fire-stick/): THE report has been issued. Just as I found this LP at a Goodwill. ARC BELIEVES YOU CAN LINK GOODWILL AND CONGRESSIONAL ACTION! So don that furry hat of Crockett, Franklin and Rousseau! Remember; you got to fight for your right to a party. ARC not only saves good records, but relevant ones! That's why
- [All Things Must Pass](https://arcmusic.org/blog/all-things-must-pass/): We get a lot of things a lot of times. That gives the things ARC treasures a better chance of surviving. We also try to place them in a few different locations. The Notre Dame fire brings it all home; how important it is that we maintain a safe place for culture artifacts. That's just
- [Record Store Day Beer](https://arcmusic.org/blog/13448/): Visited Gerosa Records in CT - a fab place - on Record Store Day. GO for the NEW, stay for the BLUES! But the REAL find of the day was 45rpm beer - the perfect complement to any platter... We’re independent and America’s largest pop music archive with more than 3 million recordings. See
- [Roomful of Blues](https://arcmusic.org/blog/roomful-of-blues/): HI! The ARC Website is undergoing a code update for the next few days - S0 Main Stories in the center are active, but our side panels are down for now. You can still see and contribute to our fundraiser - Rebuilding the ARC! ============================================================ ARC even saves whole rooms filled with music - this
- [Pearl Jammin' on a Uke](https://arcmusic.org/blog/pearl-jammin-on-a-uke/): We've shown you Labor Movement discs, turbans, garage rock, Reggae 45s and music from outer space lately, how about an example of one of our great signed items here at the ARC? Beyond the more than 1,500 signed albums ARC also has very personal "things" Like this ukulele autographed by Pearl Jam. It came with
- [Mountain Music in Manhattan](https://arcmusic.org/blog/mountain-music-in-manhattan/): We've shown you Labor Movement discs, turbans, garage rock, Reggae 45s and music from outer space lately, how about an example of our hundreds of songbooks from West of the Hudson? A major contributor to ARC is Ed Ward, who along with the tens of thousands of recordings donated over many years, sent along stacks
- [NOT On Pins + Needles](https://arcmusic.org/blog/not-on-pins-needles/): Just discovered here at the ARC. As we were sorting Broadway albums we found this rare 12” 78rpm disc of "The Red Mikado” (Labor Stage Inc, R-2147, 1939) from the stage production of Pins and Needles. It’s a song written by Harold Rome and Joe Schrank for the play, appropriating Gilbert and Sullivan, but not
- [Fluffy Memorabilia are US...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/fluffy-memorabilia-are-us/): Did you know we collected Memorabilia? Not JUST those round and square things, but fluffy and ragged things. Like our Beatles' sweat above. As well as ticket stubs and handbills (below). Oh, and we also have very nice square things, like the Butcher cover. . So help if you can and contribute to our GoFundMe
- [Space Helmets vs Turbans](https://arcmusic.org/blog/13397/): One of the main reasons we are asking for your help is Space. As Sun Ra said, “Space is the Place.” OK, a lot of people say that. But our rent in this space is sky-high (in Outer Space) and there are fabulous donations of great quality and enormous quantity being donated, and we need
- [Outer/Outa Space](https://arcmusic.org/blog/outer-outa-space/): One of the main reasons we are asking for your help is Space. As Sun Ra said, “Space is the Place.” OK, a lot of people say that. But our rent in this space is sky-high (in Outer Space) and there are fabulous donations of great quality and enormous quantity being donated, and we need
- [Rebuilding the ARC!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/rebuilding-the-arc/): As costs and rents have skyrocketed we are launching a Go Fund Me campaign to help keep ARC alive. Thanks to the generous support of The Jaharis Family Foundation the first $50,000 raised will be matched dollar-for-dollar. We are also seeking other matching funds with a goal of $100,000. Contribute here and help us reach this goal! All
- [Carnaval](https://arcmusic.org/blog/carnaval/): Well its Ash Wednesday, and that mean farewell to meat, and let the fasting begin. We prefer Samba to somber, so here's a recent addition to ARC's collection, a lovely Japanese pressing of Orfeu Negro (Philips, Japan, SFX-5034 (M), 12" 33.3rpm, 1972). This original soundtrack is one of 1,200 LPs that accompanied the CDs from
- [Another White Album](https://arcmusic.org/blog/another-white-album/): In homage to our pal Rutherford Chang, who is showing the project, "We Buy White Albums," ARC offers the above - "We have Ventriloquist Albums." No one knows how they got here, but just one, Jimmy Nelson's "Instant Ventriloquism" seems to be breeding. Only eschatological verification will reveal the value of watching your lips move
- [Queen's Reign!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/fred-steffen-is-tops/): This is a double dose version of our weekly blog - what I did yesterday and in honor of the Queen biopic success at Sunday's Oscars. Above is our signed copy of A Night At The Opera LP (Elektra, 7E-1053, 12" 33.3rpm, LP, gatefold sleeve, 1975). Here's the 'cast' description of Mr. Mercury's role on
- [We're on the Right Track!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/were-on-the-right-track/): The weather is yo-yo-ing, no one has any idea where the government's going, but the ARC is the Wendy Hiller of archives (Look her up. Hint : 1945). Yep, on the good foot and the right track. And here's a few 8-tracks players to illustrate! We are in an incredible growth period these days. The
- [Need We Say More?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/need-we-say-more/)
- [Things a Little Wobbly Here @ ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/things-a-little-wobbly-here-arc/): Fred and b. went into deep Brooklyn this week to pick up the second round of donations from Henry Finkelstein & Shirley Ranz. You can now visit their Gallery of Activist LPs, from our first pickup and here's a few images from the recent one. This batch is just as good with box-after-box of Folks,
- [This Just In!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-just-in/): Well the discs just keep on coming. Here's a pic of Seth, Fred and the delivery crew, Patrick, Robert + Tony, posing with 200 boxes--that's 40,000 CDs. This is The Richard W. Zirinsky, Jr. Collection generously donated by the family to the ARC. A high percentage of these are Brazilian recordings, all mint and fab.
- [Happy 2019!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-2019/): Here at ARC we wish to thank the folks who have helped out last year and hope everyone has a swell 2019. The good folks at Dub-Stuy were one of the many supporters who lend a hand, and lent their great Tower of Sound array (above) for our end-of-the-year benefit party. We hope you too
- [ARC needs a HUG!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-needs-a-hug-2/): Arc needs a hug now and then. Here's Laurie Anderson hugging DJ Bunny Ears at our Benefit Dance Party. They're big ARC fans and we hope you will join them in supporting the ARC. Help us grow and prosper. We're the only, largest, and best independent music library in the world with more than 3
- [ARC Needs a Hug](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-needs-a-hug/): Arc needs a hug now and then. Here's Laurie Anderson hugging DJ Bunny Ears at our Benefit Dance Party. They're big ARC fans and we hope you will join them in supporting the ARC. Help us grow and prosper. We're the only, largest, and best independent music library in the world with more than 3
- [Bongo X-mas!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bongo-x-mas/): “Just once I’d like to spend Christmas listening to carols instead of bongos!” Not me! Therefore I suggest you abandon those old saws and try a few new Holiday traditions, or at least films. Our go-to is "Bell, Book and Candle "(1958). Sure we all love the fact that Kim Novak dies twice in Vertigo,
- [All This Weekend - 25% Off @ ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/all-this-weekend-25-off-arc/): Hi everyone - It's the final weekend of the ARC's Sale and still plenty of swell records left at our Holiday Record and CD Sale. So do drop by and support the library! ARC is @ 54 White St, Tribeca. All weekend 11am - 6pm. Next Sale in June. AND 25% OFF ALL RECORDINGS +
- [Heading Towards the Final Weekend](https://arcmusic.org/blog/heading-towards-the-final-weekend/): ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale is still going, but ending soon. We're here all week until the 23d, everyday 11am - 6pm. Come on down for tons of great bargains. New LPs added daily and great folks drop off great albums. Here's a photo of happy (or at least focused) shoppers. Do drop by
- [The Sale is STILL on!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-sale-is-still-on/): OK, the Dance Party is over, but ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale is ongoing. Come on down for tons of great bargains. New LPs added daily. Here's an example of the variety above. Do drop by and support the ARC!
- [Happy Are We...at the ARC Party](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-are-we-at-the-arc-party/): Here's the first snap from the evening. More info soon when more pics arrive. This great one of Laurie by a dancing photographer and photo historian, Guido Harari. On Monday night we threw a Benefit Dance Party with spinning vinyl-only sets by Laurie Anderson, Jellybean Benitez, DJ Bunny Ears, Fred Schneider, Craig Kallman, Hank Shocklee
- [ARC BENEFIT DANCE PARTY... Come Dance With Me...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-benefit-dance-party-come-dance-with-me/): Well sorta. ARC is hosting our end of the year Benefit Dance Party to help us stay in NYC. And we're making it affordable for all, just $25.00! ARC BENEFIT DANCE PARTY THIS MONDAY DEC 10 2018 7 pm - Midnight Our Party rounds out Chanukah and launches the Holiday season with what will be
- [ARC Holiday Record + CD Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-record-cd-sale-2/): Sat Dec 8 - Sun 23 everyday 11am - 6pm Yes, we're back - and better than ever. All the swell folks who donated discs this year gave us plenty of extra copies that we can offer to YOU. Remember LPs and CDs are so much CHEAPER than downloading, PLUS there's no corporate weenie oogling
- [It's A Wrap...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/its-a-wrap/): Dear Arcsters, As you may know I have been 10 days in Roskilde, Denmark, packing up a large donation of recordings to be digitized by the Internet Archive. You can listen to more than 100,000 sides @ Great78Project. Here's a picture of the generous donor, Leif, with some of what we started with - about
- [DK - Day 2](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dk-day-2/): Busy packing up 78s here in Denmark to be digitized and have found TONS of great images on the record sleeves. More than half of the 5,000 discs in our first shipment are advertising images for the shops selling the discs, not sleeves issued by the record companies. When they are record company sleeves, like
- [Viking Music](https://arcmusic.org/blog/viking-music/): Here's a very nice embossed image from one of the 78rpm record sleeves, from a collection of 50,000 discs I am packing up in Roskilde, Denmark. Like American releases these EU discs seldom contain the recording that should be in them, or even the correct label. But they're might nice. Gallery of more sleeves coming
- [Holiday Sale + Parties One Month Away](https://arcmusic.org/blog/holiday-sale-parties-one-month-away/): I'm getting ready to go to Denmark, but YOU should be saving up for that trip down to the ARC for some tasty vinyl treats as we're a month away from our annual Holiday Record and CD Sale! Sat Dec 8 - Sun Dec 23 open everyday 11am - 6pm Yes, the usual thousands of
- [The Past is Pretty Scary!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-past-is-pretty-scary/): Here's an Al Jolson sleeve for a 78 rpm disc on Brunswick Records. Freddie found it this morning and will be doing a blog soon on all the very decorative sleeves from this bowling company cum record moguls. Al Jolson usually performed in blackface, and we thought this was scary enough for today... Happy Halloween!
- [The Greatest Cover...Ever!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-greatest-cover-ever/): Every few months or so we unearth the greatest record cover we've ever seen. Here's the latest, "Buonumore e Canzoni," by Neapolitan singer/actor Gino Maringola. It arrived by mail with about 60 other Italian 45s and 78s last week. Thanks to the Costantini family for these treasures and a bit of history. They noted,
- [Latest donation from Ed Ward](https://arcmusic.org/blog/latest-donation-from-ed-ward/): This week ARC received another donation from Wisconsin based Ed Ward. In the past Ed has focused on this C&W materials. His 15,0000 or so discs are one of our treasured Special Collections and we've posted a gallery of his Cowboy + Country songbooks. This trip's drop-off is some of Ed's singles collection - and
- [The Deacon Rides Again!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-deacon-rides-again/): On September 16, the great saxophonist Big Jay McNeely passed away. It would be remiss of The ARChive if we did not bring him to the attention of those who may have missed his contribution to the world of music. His wild, frantic, uninhibited style of saxophone playing, beginning in the late Forties, helped shape
- [Imagine](https://arcmusic.org/blog/imagine/): Arc was at the First Day of Issue ceremony for the John Lennon Stamp here in NYC. It was held at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. Nice, in that Lennon had filmed the video for "Mind Games" there in 1973. So here's a shot of that video being shown in the place where it
- [Labor Day, and that means...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/labor-day-and-that-means/): Back to school is just around the corner. So what better time to remind you about the Student Teachers! We only thought about 'em because of a new book out by Laura Davis, the woman drummer, 17 when she began hittin' the skins. It was also a good excuse to go into the basement (30º
- [Ridin' the Red Wave...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ridin-the-red-wave/): Since joining the ARC team as an intern in July, I’ve been busy listening to, translating, and researching the Internet Archive’s collection of over 300 Russian 78rpm records. My Russian-immigrant family’s story and culture were always fascinating to me, and I wanted to complement the intuitive knowledge acquired through immersion in my family’s ex-Soviet culture
- [The Queen Is Dead! Long Live the Queen!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/the-queen-is-dead/): It has just been reported in the news that the great soul singer Aretha Franklin has died, so today the ARChive presents in the window Aretha’s Gold—14 of her best tracks that she recorded for Atlantic Records between 1967 and 1969—the tracks that cemented her position in life as The Queen of Soul. Unless you
- [Today is Wednesday, and...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/today-is-wednesday-and/): ... that means it's Hawaiian Shirt Day here at the ARC! Once a week we're forced to don colorful garb, lunch on exotic grub and catalog tropical discs in our little grass shack on the isle o' Manhata. Enjoy the shirts from the 50s and 60s and listen to some 78rpm discs from the 30s
- [Bastille Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bastille-day/): We're big on Bastille Day here at ARC. Join the fun by having a look at one of our favorite covers featuring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau. No need for names - beautiful women and big guns - bridging the gap between France and America! I hope to one day break the seal on this
- [A-WAY OUT WEST](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-way-out-west/): Some musical notes from Utah as I hiked, climbed and sweated (who knew chocolate melts at 106º ?) in the great outdoors in search of new sounds to add to the ARC. First off the above. This is a 1984 hardcore EP by Salt Lake City local band, Massacre Guys. I 'm searching for any
- [Sorting Records In The Twilight Zone...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sorting-records-in-the-twilight-zone/): So I'm sorting and re-boxing about 16 pallets of 78rpm discs, LPs, CDs and 45s that have been donated to us and the Internet Archive out in the San Francisco warehouse. Looks like this: Quite unexpectedly a car pulls up and all of sudden we're helping a donor from out of the past unload her
- [Happy 4th! and Hello to the Newbies](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-4th-and-hello-to-the-newbies/): I'm off for San Francisco, but leaving a pile of patriotic cupcakes for all the great new batch of interns that are hard at work as we enter the second half of the season (baseball talk). Pictured above is: Brendan, a recent graduate from Purchase College who has studied classical guitar; Sean a music industry
- [Happy Satchmo Day!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/happy-satchmo-day/): For many years, Louis Armstrong claimed to have been born on the Fourth of July in the year 1900. Because of that, the Fourth of July has been a time to celebrate the great jazz trumpet player by playing his records. Satchmo, as he was nicknamed, died in 1971, but more than ten years later
- [Plenty of NEW ARRIVALS and Rainy Day CUREs](https://arcmusic.org/blog/plenty-of-new-arrivals-and-rainy-day-cures/): Here we are. The FINAL two days of ARC's Sizzlin' Summer Sale. Above a glimpse of all the new LPs we've put out today. And if it rains? We've got the CURE. And if you're WORLDLY... Sale NOW til Sunday June 24 open everyday 11am to 6pm 54 White St • Tribeca • 212-226-6967 •
- [Midsummer Means Scandinavian Music Week is One Year Away!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/midsummer-means-scandinavian-music-week-is-one-year-away/): As you may know every two years ARC focuses on a region or genre of music and pulls together hundreds or essays, performances, articles, blogs and recordings highlighting the culture and music of our chosen topic. Last year it was Cuba, before that Brazil, India and the music of the greater Muslim world. Well 2019
- [NEW @ ARC Summer Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/new-arc-summer-sale/): Everyday ARC adds new things to sell at our Sizzlin' Summer Record + CD Sale - such as hundreds of African CDs donated by Sterns Records in London and these tasty vinyl items above, in really beautiful condition. If you've dropped by earlier please check out the 'New Arrivals' bin. So do drop by and
- [World Cup + World Music + Pop + ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/world-cup-world-music-pop-arc/): ARC has just been donated this SUPER CD of African music that is the perfect Father's Day gift for those football crazy Euro-dads + old fashioned American Dad soccer fans. Features Youssou N'Dour, Super Diamono de Dakar, Sam Fan Thomas, Papa Wemba, Thomas Mapfumo and many others. All to commemorate the 1998 World cup where
- [Out of the Vaults - Music Magazines](https://arcmusic.org/blog/out-of-the-vaults-music-magazines/): For the first time ARC is featuring a vast quantity of music magazines at our Sale that we have recently unearthed from down in the vaults. Not only the expected tons of Rolling Stone, but a vast offering of off-beat and punk era fanzines. You know Dad would just LOVE a copy of Punk Magazine
- [Cupcakes GONE - Plenty of Records still here!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cupcakes-gone-plenty-of-records-still-here/): A big thanks to all the ARC members who JOINED ARC and shopped at our opening Party. They were treated to some tasty vinyl and suspect (but beautiful) cupcakes. Not to worry there are tons of 45s yet to consume. Here's a pic of the wall of singles available at our sale starting SAT JUNE
- [Beggars Arkive is here](https://arcmusic.org/blog/beggars-arkive-is-here/): Of course, you're ALL dropping by for our Sizzlin' Summer Sale starting this Saturday (June 9), but we wanted to let you know about our generous Sale sponsor, Beggars Arkive. The Beggars Group has been a thriving label for over forty years now and Arkive is the catalogue and archive department for past and present
- [Sortin' Singles @ Sizzlin' Sale Startin' Saturday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sortin-singles-sizzlin-sale-startin-saturday/): Yes, that's our all-Irish intern team, Brendan + Sophie, sorting the many hundreds of 45s we'll be offering for the first time at ARC's Sizzlin' Summer Record + CD Sale. Lots of rarities as always, including a nice group of British Invasion, picture sleeved singles, mostly Rolling Stones. PLUS the usual pile of "geeze why
- [Wassup on Hawaiian Shirt Day?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/wassup-on-hawaiian-shirt-day/): Well it's Wednesday here at the ARC, and that means it's Hawaiian Shirt Day. And that reminded us that there will be a big pile of Hawaiian LPs offered at our Sizzlin' Summer Sale this year. In fact there will be a pile of swell discs from all the hot climes - the Caribbean, South
- [(B.) George ( goin' 2) Washington Crosses the Delaware](https://arcmusic.org/blog/b-george-goin-2-washington-crosses-the-delaware/): Well yesterday, driving through driving rains, we picked up a swell modern Jazz collection in Delaware. This group of about 1,000 LPs was generously donated by Brad Pires. The recordings were collected by Brad and his father over the years, and Brad says a great many came from a store in Washington selling off LPs
- [Getting In the Pink](https://arcmusic.org/blog/getting-in-the-pink/): Soooooooo much happening here at ARC these days, thought we'd fill you in. Well we've never seen a pink 45 insert, but now we have. This from a great new collection of more than 8,000 recordings from South America, the David Chomowicz and Esther Ready Collection. This lonely little pinkie came with just a handful
- [Blind Boy Grunt @ our Summer Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/blind-boy-grunt-our-summer-sale/): Join us in about a month when ARC becomes the largest record store in New York! WHAT: ARC Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale WHEN: Sat June 9 – Sun June 24 • everyday 11 am – 6 pm WHERE: 54 White Street • Tribeca • bet Church + B’Way WHY: In support of America’s
- [ARC's Summer Sale Is Going To Swing!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/arcs-summer-sale-is-going-to-swing/): It is May at the ARC and spring is in the air. Also in the air is the excitement that comes with another Archive of Contemporary Music Record and CD Sale! Yes, sirs and ma’ms, the big Summer Sale is right around the corner… June 9 to 24th—three big weekends and all the days in
- [70s Jazz Discographies](https://arcmusic.org/blog/70s-jazz-discographies/): A very nice little donation came in today - about 1800 items. Now we thought they were all Big Band and Jazz LPs, but there were also boxes of CDs, 78s, cassettes and discographies. So here's a sample of these 1970s era, staple bound books from the more than 50 that were dropped off. They're
- [TeenBeat Mayhem](https://arcmusic.org/blog/teenbeat-mayhem/): Modern scientific thought states that the universe was created after a tremendous explosion: “The Big Bang Theory.” According to Mike Markesich, rock’n’roll had it’s own “Big Bang” in America. That “Bang” was The Beatles’ performance on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9, 1964. Soon after that, teenagers all over the country bought guitars and
- [Stormy Monday Blues](https://arcmusic.org/blog/stormy-monday-blues/): Forgive our posting the obvious, but the torrential rain today, AND the appearance of Stormy Daniels at the courthouse a few blocks away here in Lower Manhattan, leave us no other choice. Here's a few (hundred) of the recordings (artists + songs) here at ARC that came to mind... ? And the Mysterians (11-66; #66)
- [Finkelstein-Ranz Recorded Music Collection](https://arcmusic.org/blog/finkelstein-ranz-recorded-music-collection/): Last week we picked up a great folk, bluegrass and political collection in Sheepshead Bay - more than 800 LPs collected and curated by Henry Finkelstein. Henry is a retired Civil Servant who lovingly described favorite cuts off of his favorite LPs as we packed them up one-by -one. Around the house we also noticed
- [Almost Round Robert Johnson](https://arcmusic.org/blog/odds-ends/): It is a hope of the ARChive of the Contemporary Music to some day find an actual 78 RPM record of the great blues singer Robert Johnson among a pile of 78s that get donated to us. The possibility of this ever happening, of course, is very slim—winning the lottery slim. It has become a
- [March Music](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/march-music/): It’s March—time for some March Music!! Here we have in the ARChive window an excellent example of March Music, as performed by the St. Joseph’s Junior Fife & Drum Corps on the LP Fife & Drum March Music (Major Records LP-1007; no date). Great armies have marched around behind men banging on drums and blowing
- [WVON = "The Voice of the Negro"](https://arcmusic.org/blog/wvon-the-voice-of-the-negro/): Well It's Black History Month and maybe you missed the story on the LP we have on display in our front window on White Street. So here it is ... Fred Schneider, lead singer and driving force behind The B-52’s rock band, is a good guy. Every year he donates hundreds of LPs, 45s, CDs
- [Sharks!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sharks/): The Pres. says that his greatest fear is, "sharks." Well, maybe it was Stormy Daniels' pillow talk. What we do know is that just after saying he hoped “all the sharks die.” marine life conservation groups reported that donations to preserve sharks skyrocketed. Hates 'cause not all great and white? So here's a few shark
- [Be a Good Guy!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/be-a-good-guy/): Fred Schneider, lead singer and driving force behind The B-52’s rock band, is a good guy. Every year he donates hundreds of LPs, 45s, CDs and other stuff to the ARChive of Contemporary Music. To illustrate this fact, in the window is one of the records he recently donated to the ARC: WVON – The
- [In the 18's it's the 80s again...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/in-the-18s-its-the-80s-again/): While sorting through a few thousand Brit tabloids (NME, Sounds, Melody Maker, Hot Press, Disc) from the 1980s, and hoping the dust wasn't the cause of my 3 days in bed, I found some of these early video mags and newsletters. A great many of these were from the mind of our pal, Ed Steinberg,
- [The New Year is a Piece of Cake?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-new-year-is-a-piece-of-cake/): Well no. Not exactly. We have no idea how the hastily passed and completely unvetted new Tax laws will affect donations to ARC. Funding may diminish, donations of materials may drop off. We have faith, crossed-fingers and and a few tricks up our sleeve to insure the New Year brings a furry of new donors
- [Looking Forward > Nice Way to End the Year!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/merry-from-the-arc/): Hi! As we plan our escape from 2017, please consider a donation to the ARChive of Contemporary Music. We are not as essential as world peace or feeding the hungry, but we believe our work of preservation has great cultural value. In 2017, along with our partners at the Internet Archive, ARC digitized more recordings
- [Merry Everything!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/merry-everything/): Here's a disc from out of the ARC vaults, that somehow reflects the the times we live in or maybe a long forgotten past. Now we are not political, nor religious, but I can tell you one thing - THIS RECORD SMELLS! Yes, one of the great ideas of all time - a needle that
- [Final Days of ARC's Holiday Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/final-days-of-arcs-holiday-sale/): This is it. Last weekend. Where else can you find a skippin' Hitler next to a prayin' Madonna? We're putting new things out daily. So come on down and support the ARC. There are still some rare and wonderful World Music albums available. Specials include the thousands of CDs priced at 2 for $1, and
- [Interns Earn Their Stripes?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/interns-earn-their-stripes/): Sure we're corny. But interns Tony and Kathryn looks pretty sharp today as they catalogued CDs back-to-back, looking for extra copies to sell at our Holiday Sale here at ARC! Speaking of corny - Here a pic of some of the Christmas sheet music available at our sale. This and thousands of great LPs and
- [Chilly?  Warm Up To Our Prices!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/chilly-warm-up-to-our-prices/): Above snap of all the $1 CDs STILL left at our Holiday Sale. Sooooo..... until the end of the Sale, on Dec 17th, everyday, ALL of our $1 CDs are two for a dollar! That includes the tons of Classical and Latin CDs. So do drop by, support the ARC and take home some great
- [The ARC Sale THIS Weekend!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-arc-sale-this-weekend/): Lots of really good LPs for even better prices at the ARC Holiday Sale and we put new things out daily. Still TONS of CDs also. Look for extra discounts this Sunday. And don't forget we have amazing 1960s Rock posters from the Grande Ballroom - still smelling inky-fresh!
- [Pa-lenty Still available at our Holiday Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/pa-lenty-still-available-at-our-holiday-sale/): Al kinds of music at great prices!
- [ARC Holiday Record Sale Starts NOW!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-record-sale-starts-now/): Yep, Today, Sat Dec 2, 11am and going to 6pm. Continues everyday until Sunday, Dec 17. What better gift than music? What better place to shop? Cheaper than downloading. Cheaper than online auctions. Great stuff at great prices, all in support of the largest popular music collection in the world.
- [ARC Holiday Sale THIS Saturday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-sale-this-saturday/): The above photo shows shopping frenzy by ARC members at last nights Holiday Party. ARC members are those generous individuals who actively support the ARC with annual donations. But today, Friday, we're goin' nuts restocking with great new items for the general public in anticipation of our opening day Holiday Sale, Saturday, Dec 2, at
- [Give + Go](https://arcmusic.org/blog/give-go/): As we all know, saving recordings is not as important as saving people, or at least doing all we can to make things better. So this Giving Tuesday, give to a charity that helps people get by. THEN, if you can, support the ARC. And then, drop by our sale this weekend. Oh, and another
- [Moog is cyber, isn't it?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/moog-is-cyber-isnt-it/): Well regardless, it's about as close as we can get to 'cyber' around here when hyping our Holiday Sale. Now there are a few other electronic gems for sale this year - including some Kraftwerk. So do stop by this weekend, and for the next few weeks before X-mas. (using an "X" is sorta cyber,
- [Too Many Turkeys These Days...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/too-many-turkeys-these-days/): Ah, those were the days. Poor James Brown. Harassed, humiliated, ashamed - practically undressed by those fan's eyes. "Please, Please, Please" a thing of the past. But he's smiling through it all. So forget those turkeys in DC and on TV. Even Public TV! But do come down and support the ARC. This and other
- [This record belonged...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-record-belonged/): Well you may not be able to read it, but this is what it's all about. The donor of a large collection wrote, in meticulous detail, at the bottom of each LP back sleeve, a little about each record he owned, like, " (THIS • RECORD • BELONGED • TO • SOMEONE • ELSE •
- [Sortin' 45s](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sortin-45s/): That's Seth + Ari sortin' 45s, getting ready for ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale. But there's so much more at this year's sale than those hundreds of singles - you'll find tons of LPs and thousands of CDs - most for $1. Info below - you gotta go! JOIN or DONATE 2 ARC
- [Our Holiday Sale is a Month Away!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/our-holiday-sale-is-a-month-away/): Hope you like our invite taken from bits of Jim Flora covers. More importantly, hope you like us enough to join the ARC. If you join you get first dibs on all the records for sale AND food and drink. This year's party is sponsored by 108 Leonard , a landmark building around the corner
- [Angel Pavement](https://arcmusic.org/blog/angel-pavement/): I park my car on the pier at the end of Houston St. I live on Chambers St. This is the route that the truck took that mowed down the bicyclists and strollers in Manhattan, yesterday at about 3pm. I walk this same greenway to get my car. It’s about a mile. At 6pm I
- [Happy Scary!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-scary/): About the only thing scary around here these days is all the NEW discs being donated to the ARC. Pics later this week - like 35,000 CDs just dropped. And YES we're gearing up for the ARC Holiday Sale (DEC 2-17). But for this Holiday how about a few pics of paper records with a
- [Fats Domino: Rest In Peace](https://arcmusic.org/blog/fats-domino-rest-in-peace/): Today the ARChive of Contemporary Music salutes the great Rock’n’Roll singer and pianist from New Orleans Fats Domino, who has just passed away. In our window is one of his albums, Million Sellers by Fats. Fats did, indeed, sell millions and millions of records during the Fifties—over 65 million by many estimates, second only to
- [It's All About The 78s](https://arcmusic.org/blog/its-all-about-the-78s/): Fred and I are just back from San Fran where we helped celebrate the Internet Archive's Anniversary, this year titled, "the 20th Century Time Machine." Good Centurions all ARC hauled hundreds of discs, turned heaps into rows out at the warehouse, and filled the display cases at headquarters with a tasty array of our favorite
- [Newbies!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/newbies/): This is a pic of the forearm of Johnny Maguire honoring the boys from Sun Studios. Johnny was a founding member of the Rhode Island based Rockabilly outfit, The Amazing Royal Crowns. It's resting on two psych record totes - a matching set for 45s and LPs - that now belong to the ARC. Johnny
- [Denmark Final Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/denmark-final-day/): Began the day early at DOKK1 , the gigantic fantastic library in Aarhus, above. Hey, they even have whitelined parking slots for baby carriages and strollers, inside, like at a supermarket lot! The library itself was packed, as much a social center as a reading room. Easy, as a trolley comes right to the front
- [Denmark DAY 3 København + Roskilde](https://arcmusic.org/blog/denmark-day-3-kobenhavn-roskilde/): Began the day in København at Denmark’s National Radio Station, DR. Their collection is probably the best in the country – they even had 3 copies of ‘O’Superman’ released on my old One Ten Records label. But alas, like all radio stations, sufficiently stickered-up and annotated on the front covers to identify properly, discourage theft
- [Denmark + Roskilde Day 2](https://arcmusic.org/blog/denmark-roskilde-day-2/): Well the Fall has finally arrived here in Denmark. After a few warm days the chill has come, and what better way to spend the Fall than to curl up alongside the fireplace and enter The Wonderful and Frightening World Of... EMBROIDERY. Yes, that's what Lars Kjelfred has done, a stitch in spare time, as
- [Copenhagen Day 1](https://arcmusic.org/blog/copenhagen-day-1/): Just off the plane and went with old pal, radio host and guitarist Morten Alfred Høirup for a six hour walk throughout the city. Sure we inspected the hash dealers in the independent kingdom of Christiania, learned that amber from Copenhagen is highly sought after by Chinese visitors, that it would be nice if the
- [Cha Cha Into Autumn!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/cha-cha-into-autumn/): Summer is over, so here at the ARChive of Contemporary Music we have decided to heat up the cooling autumnal months with some hot Cha Cha records in the front window! Cha Cha (technically, Cha-Cha-Cha) music is, for all intents and purposes, a deviation of the Mambo—a Latin dance/music that originated in Cuba during the
- [How nice...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/how-nice/): Well just about the same time that someone donated a set of record coasters, another person dropped off a Coaster's record. Another nice thing is that there are now 160 images of musicians wearing space helmets on our space gallery page. There's more. A post about the great78project has garnered over 1,000,000 hits. See what
- [Speed Demon?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/speed-demon/): Well the latest polls show that the Pres. has dropped in popular approval from around 45% to 33%. Politics aside, "Pop", "33" and "45" sure makes us think about those lil' spinnin' things we preserve here at ARC. Well you can't think of spin without thinking of current events, and you can't think of speed
- [Hurry Sundown](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/hurry-sundown/): The ARChive’s “In the Window” feature is not always about music. Sometimes it can be about the packaging of the music—the cover. Such is the case at hand, with the cover of the soundtrack to the film Hurry Sundown. Otto Preminger, whose movies almost always are accompanied by a stark, often minimalist graphic, directed this
- [Early Printed 78 UK Sleeves](https://arcmusic.org/blog/early-printed-78-uk-sleeves/): ARC recently processed a trove of 78rpm discs with heavy printed cardboard sleeves from the UK, part of our work with partners @ the Internet Archive. While we’re not experts on 78s, we have handled 100’s of thousands and we’ve not seen the like. Most 78 sleeves are either plain paper or printed with the
- [Finally a Day Off!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/finally-a-day-off/): It's the 4th and we're celebrating out here in San Francisco where we just finished repacking and sorting the legendary KUSF archive - 22 pallets full, maybe 60,000 (whose counting?) discs. This collection was accessed in 2012 by our partners the Internet Archive, and this is the first look since then. The surprise is the
- [A new Adopt-a-Record](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-new-adopt-a-record/): We've recently added a few discs to our 'adopted' collection by Gwen Sciora (aka Verlaine Hell). Gwen is "on the Air" on WUSB 90.1fm - that's a station in Stony Brook, NY. Gwen came down recently to pose with two album from her personal collection, signed of course, but through her generous donation ARC's copy
- [Something Cool for the Summer.](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/something-cool-for-the-summer/): After a winter and spring of complaining about the cold weather, summer is here once again—no one seems to be able to stop it, or the hot weather that comes with it. The ARChive of Contemporary Music has decided to offer something cool in the window in order to help lower the temperature of those
- [A BIG Kiss...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-big-kiss/): A big Kiss to all of our friends who stopped by for our Summer Record Sale the past few weeks. Our sales help us prune the collection, and are great fun. Our next Sale begins Dec 9th. And just what are we up to this summer? Well mostly working on the Great78Project in partnership with
- [FINAL WEEKEND + SUNDAY FARTHER"S DAY SPECIALS](https://arcmusic.org/blog/final-weekend-sunday-farthers-day-specials/): Come on down for the FINAL WEEKEND of our SALE Sunday, Father's Day, it's 10% off any purchase $10 or over Also all $1 items are 2 for $1 (or $1 each - hey we're trying to get rid of these things!) ARC's Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale June 3 -18, 2017 NEW extended
- [People are Shopping from Tasmania!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/people-are-shopping-from-tasmania/): Today we sold this record off our wall to someone who saw it on ARC's site while lounging in Moina, Tasmania. That's in Australia, Mate. Look, all YOU have to do is come down to lower Manhattan! So I hope you do drop by as our sale winds down and ends this Sunday. Plenty of
- [Plenty of Great Records Still here!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/plenty-of-great-records-still-here/): So do drop by for our : Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale June 3 -18, 2017 NEW extended weekday hours 11am -7pm • Open weekends 11am-6pm @ ARC Headquarters located at 54 White Street, Tribeca, NYC Cheaper than downloading! Most discs less than a coffee and pastry in Tribeca! • Free admission •
- [Free Stuff @ ARC Sale 4 Archives Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/free-stuff-arc-sale-4-archives-day/): Well it's International Archives Day, not that everyday isn't International Archives Day around these parts. But we are celebrating here at the ARC by giving away, for free, all 8-tracks and cassettes at our Summer Sale. These are extra copies, and what could be more archival than archaic formats! Online you can also now BORROW
- [ARC Sale New Hours 11-7 Weekdays!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-sale-new-hours-11-7-weekdays/): Here's a pic of happy shoppers over the weekend. But that's so yesterday! Now we're open every weekday, 11am - 7pm for those seeking after-work fun. So drop by and buy and give the ARC a hand by taking some of this swell vinyl and CDs off our hands. Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale
- [ARC Sizzlin' Sale Starts Tomorrow!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-sizzlin-sale-starts-tomorrow/): Do have a look at this section of the Great Wall of Groovy Discs and come by tomorrow for the ARC's Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale June 3 -18, 2017 Open weekends 11am-6pm • NEW extended weekday hours 11am -7pm @ ARC Headquarters located at 54 White Street, Tribeca, NYC Cheaper than downloading! Most
- [Tangos Are Us - starting Saturday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tangos-are-us-starting-saturday/): One remarkable group of recent donations includes a wonderful stash of Latin recordings from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. And a lot of these are extra copies that we will be offering at our sale this weekend, all between $3 - $7. One nice group are Tango LPs as in the
- [Holiday OVER and the Fun Begins!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/holiday-over-and-the-fun-begins/): Hope everyone had a great few days off, and now it's back to the real fun - The ARC's very Cool Summer Record + CD Sale to heat up the official start of summer! Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale: June 3 -18, 2017 @ ARC Headquarters located at 54 White Street, Tribeca, NYC •
- [](https://arcmusic.org/blog/11040/): Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale: June 3 -18, 2017 @ ARC Headquarters located at 54 White Street, Tribeca, NYC The MOST African and Latin and World records we've EVER offered, so shop early and often! Open weekends 11am-6pm • NEW extended weekday hours 11am -7pm so you can shop after work! • Free admission
- [Almost Here - Another Incredible ARC Record Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/almost-here-another-incredible-arc-record-sale/): Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale: June 3 -18, 2017 @ ARC Headquarters located at 54 White Street, Tribeca, NYC • Open weekends 11am-6pm • NEW extended weekday hours 11am -7pm so you can shop after work! • Free admission • This years thousands of 12" dance/DJ discs • PLUS a great selection of Latin
- [Deep in the Heart of...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/deep-in-the-heart-of/): A Texas Tornado of activity last week as the Internet Archive and ARC introduced the Great78project at the 51st Annual ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Conference (May 10-13) in San Antonio. Our talk was entitled MASS DIGITIZATION OF 78RPM RECORDS WITH THE INTERNET ARCHIVE presented by the team of Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive, B.
- [HOT NEWS + The great78project + ARC SALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hot-news-the-great78project-arc-sale/): RECENT ARC PRESS • Latest article on ARC, the Internet Archive and our great78project- saving the 78s in Atlas Obscura by Kelsey Kennedy, 5.4.17 • Interview for Variety, April 25, 2017 by Roy Trakin, on Eight Ways to Get Rid of Your CD Collection • My work with Laurie Anderson was recently mentioned in the
- [Jonathan Demme](https://arcmusic.org/blog/jonathan-demme/): What can we say? Learned this morning that our pal and filmmaker Jonathan Demme has died of a heart attack at 73. Jonathan used ARC for research on his films, hosted two fundraising parties for us and donated a great many of his beloved LPs. His love of the quirky groove was what got me
- [Freaky Friday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/freaky-friday/): Yes, It's a freaky good times today as our pal and long-time ARC Board member Nile Rodgers is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Just wanted to share a few images from a few of the things Nile has donated over the years - like the horn and string charts for about
- [Long Live Chuck Berry!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/long-live-chuck-berry/): On Saturday March 18, Chuck Berry died of natural causes at his home near Wentzville, Missouri—a town west of St. Louis. If you have to ask, “Who’s Chuck Berry?” then I suggest you get back into your space ship and return to the planet from whence you came. Or check these links: 15 Essential Chuck
- [Bluegrass in the house!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bluegrass-in-the-house/): A few weeks ago, a fellow named John Prael contacted the ARChive about donating his record collection. He said it consisted mostly of bluegrass and country records. He was able to deliver the records to us here on White Street on Monday, and boy, are we glad he did. The country records he donated were
- [Repeal + Replace...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/repeal-replace/): Did I praise Spring in the last blog? Well, snowstorm today, a Nor'easter Tuesday? Regardless, we're doing some spring cleaning in these-here parts, and wanted to re-visit some recent discoveries we've unearthed. We term our endless comparing of existing recordings in the collection with new donations, "Gardening." You know - deep digging, pruning, replanting,
- [Spring A Head...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/spring-a-head/): As we've been going through thousands of 78s to begin digitizing them with our partners at the Internet Archive, we've notice many odd little things. Our favorite little thing is the little floating heads at the top of these old labels. Here's a few relevant, obvious ones just for March (Presidents; Black History; In
- [Love's A Gas!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/loves-a-gas/): As we end the month of Feb. and all the love stuff we've been posting on Instagram, #ARCnyc we're gearing up for a few new things coming your way. After all Spring is in the air and that means hula-hoops and whoop-de-doos. Look for an exhibition of artist autographed recordings this MayDay here at
- [Not All You Need..](https://arcmusic.org/blog/not-all-you-need/): ...but LOVE helps! And there's plenty more LOVE on our Instagram thing, #ARCnyc
- [Talkin' "Craps"](https://arcmusic.org/blog/talkin-craps/): This Thursday ARSC will present a talk on the early recordings of Richard Pryor's comedy LPs on Laff Records. Sounds like fun. Here's the details for any and all in the NYC area. Dan Blazek presents Richard Pryor’s Laff Recordings. 7:00 P. M. Thursday, 2/16/17, At the CUNY Sonic Arts Center, West 140th Street &
- [Million Dollar Twang](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/million-dollar-twang/): On January 20, the Million Dollar Man will move into the White House. Here at the ARChive, we have our own idea of what is worth a million dollars: Twang! We’ve got $1,000,000 Worth of Twang, a compilation of Duane Eddy’s biggest hits up until 1960, hanging in our window to remind folks about the
- [Mr. Santa's Boogie!!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/mr-santas-boogie/): ’Tis the season to be jolly, and all that, here at the ARChive. We’ve just completed another successful Holiday Sale and soon we will be off for a bit. So we thought we would put something in the window that is appropriate for the season. Mr. Santa’s Boogie is a 1985 compilation of cool R&B,
- [Happy + Relaxed + Ready for 2017!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-relaxed-ready-for-2017/): Happy Everything as we wind down 2016 and prep for 2017! Look for our first new posts in the coming year highlighting all we've done lately - Big things like collecting more than a quarter million seventy-eights and smaller things like finding Sue Lyon's autographed copy of the Lolita LP. Great or small, it's all
- [](https://arcmusic.org/blog/10475/): ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale is OVER!!! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME BY AND SHOPPED AND MADE THE SALE A SUCCESS. NEXT SALE, BY THE WAY, IS - JUNE 3-18, 2017 ALL ARC MEMBERS CAN HELP US CLEAN HOUSE THIS TUESDAY, DEC 20 ANY LP 25% OFF, ANY CD 50% OFF Call or e-us.
- [The End Days are HERE!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-end-days-are-here/): No, we're not talkin' bout the new administration, or some other Apocalypse, but the final two days of ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale This Sat + Sun, Dec 17 +18, 11am-6pm Still plenty of bargains to be had, like these above and below... And whataya get if you come by at the VERY end?
- [But Baby, It's Cold Outside...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/but-baby-its-cold-outside/): Sure it's cold. It's supposed to be cold. But here at the ARC the deals are still hot, hot, hot. See above for some of what we got. So mitten-up and come on down to our Holiday Sale and take home some great sounds. After all, an MP3 is NOT an impressive gift. So consider
- [Yet Another Reason for the Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/yet-another-reason-for-the-sale/): You know, the Holiday sale is not just for getting rid of extra copies, it's a clarion call for MORE. Responding to that call was ol' pal Ben Young who dropped off ten cartons of record and distribution company catalogs accumulated over years as a jazz programmer and radio head-honcho. Nice to see a pile
- [More Jazz + More...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-jazz-more/): Here's another batch of great Jazz LPs we'll be offering at our Holiday Sale STARTING NEXT WEEKEND. So do drop by. I am sorting and pricing this weekend and also found lots of amazing reggae, Brazilian, modern classical and experimental music to sell, all in great condition. Remember, it's all cheaper than downloading, and way
- [Why We Do the Things We Do...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/why-we-do-the-things-we-do/): While dodging the hoards of Whole Foods workers delivering $80 turkeys to the 1% in Tribeca this AM I saw this in the trash. Marriage breakup? Death? Eviction? Space problems? New beginnings? Whatever the reason a portion of history, albeit personal, was tossed. While our focus is different, we're here, like all archives, to save
- [Jazz Me, Baby...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/jazz-me-baby/): It's sale time again and ARC has an unprecedented group of Jazz LPs for sale at this years Holiday Record + CD Sale! Sure we have all styles of great music, but Jazz is really strong this year. You can see a few examples above and there are hundreds more, all in awfully great shape,
- [Clean your closets! ...please.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/clean-your-closets-please/): ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale Well, it's sale time again and we need your help. This year we have tons of nice jazz LP - really beautiful stuff. Not to mention the World Music CDs - the best we've ever had - rare and remarkable discs. Fab soundtrack from hip films are another low-priced
- [Decor d'Audio](https://arcmusic.org/blog/decor-daudio/): Before a recording was marketed by eye candy designed to appeal to your audio sweet tooth, 78rpm singles were housed is generic sleeves touting the record label, not the artist. But people, the great wild-card in any scheme, felt the need to personalize the things they loved. Here are a few more we've recently run
- [Scary how many records](https://arcmusic.org/blog/scary-how-many-records/): The above is one of the recently donated 80,000 seventy eights - yet another scary collection! You can read a bit about our work with all this frighting material and Fred's great DJing gig a-way out West where we packed up the 78s and Fred DJ'd the Internet Archive's 20th Anniversary Party. https://boogaloobag.com/2016/10/31/the-internet-archive-turns-twenty/ AND, I
- [Fan-tastic, Fan-tabulous, Fan-delicious…](https://arcmusic.org/blog/fan-tastic-fan-tabulous-fan-delicious/): Loving an artist enough to build your world around them is not a new idea. Even those Roman’s knew how to cheer with a little Latin "fanaticus" meaning 'inspired by god,' So while we knew you could swoon for Sinatra, be bitten by Beatlemania, or chant Todd is God, we were delighted by this hand-crafted
- [ARC HOLIDAY SALE - just around the corner](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-sale-just-around-the-corner/): Yes, records are the stuff that dreams are made of. OK, maybe a few nightmares too. But if you love to cuddle up to some great music, at great prices AND support the ARC in our 31st year, do drop by for our Holiday Record + CD Sale! We're busy sorting a getting ready now.
- [Lazy Days + Kid Plays](https://arcmusic.org/blog/lazy-days-kid-plays/): Slowin' down here as we approach the Holidays, and thought the most we could muster was a nice pic of a pallet-full of mostly early 10" children's records that have recently arrived here at the ranch. So what are we doing for Labor Day? Unpackin' + sorting + shelving + metadatin.' And we do it
- [Prince Buster](https://arcmusic.org/blog/prince-buster/): Last Thursday, September 8th, saw the passing of Prince Buster (real name Cecil Bustamente Campbell), one of the most influential figures in ska and rocksteady music. Starting in the early 1960s, when sound system DJs began recording their own, distinctively Jamaican music, rather than simply playing American R&B records, Campbell wrote and produced countless songs
- [We Preserve Insect Parts!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/we-preserve-insect-parts/): Today The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts announced they would launch a Hip Hop Collection. Congrats. Well we LOVE this great library, so to honor their being 39 years behind the times, and 31 years after we started collecting Hip Hop, ARC is also going back in time! Or maybe back to
- [ARCHIVE SPOTLIGHT](https://arcmusic.org/blog/archive-spotlight/): Leonard James and His Orchestra—Boppin’ and A-Strolllin’ (Decca) By Phast Phreddie Patterson Leonard James was a high school friend of Mac Rebbenack—AKA Dr. John the Night Tripper. They went to different high schools together. James was also a saxophonist and bandleader during those days, the mid fifties. Rebbenack originally played bass when he hooked
- [The Next President](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/the-next-president/): The best thing about presidential elections is the humor that they invoke. At this time, we at the ARChive feel a need to remind folks of one of the pioneers of political humor: Mort Sahl. Mort Sahl was one of the first, if not the first, to incorporate political satire into his stand-up act. People
- [Crown Heights](https://arcmusic.org/blog/crown-heights/): On this 25th anniversary (not the best term) of the violence and riot in Crown Heights I want to show two 78rpm recordings donated recently here at the ARC. Why? Well I was on Utica Avenue the morning of August 19, 1991, the morning that a motorcade of a Hasidic Jewish Rabbi hit two Guyanese
- [Bridging the Gap](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bridging-the-gap/): If you've been following Alex's excellent Instagram posts, you know that last month we focused on flexidiscs and paper recordings, and in August we are exploring the outer reaches of space from inside a space helmet. Well, lo and behold, we came across this Russian flexidisc magazine with a helmet-head on the cover! This gem
- [Instagram: Space Helmets](https://arcmusic.org/blog/instagram-space-helmets/): ! We're changing up the theme for our Instagram account every month, and for August the theme is Space Helmets. Here at the ARC we have countless recordings with outer space related artwork, and these are a few of our favorite covers depicting the headgear that makes space exploration possible. They range from realistic to
- [Goon bones + Oysters](https://arcmusic.org/blog/goon-bones-oysters/): B. here. In San Fran. Goin' through tens of thousands of 78s in our collection, stored a-way out West in partnership with the Internet Archive, and these caught my eye. Old as the hills, buried in the dirt, throughout history bones made Mesopotamians hop, Brits jig and Minstrels reel. Folkies brought them into our world
- [We Get Records!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/we-get-records/): In my capacity as Head Archivist, I am often asked to go out into the field in order to pick up donations for the ARChive. On July 13, two of those donations were picked up, with the aid of semi-official van driver Keith Streng and, for the second pickup, two of our strong young interns,
- [Paper or Plastic?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paper-or-plastic/): Have you checked out the ARChive's Instagram (username: arcnyc) lately? This month we are highlighting some of the interesting paper and plastic flexi discs in our collection. These are phonograph records pressed into very thin plastic or plastic coated paper. Popular from the 60s through the 80s, they were often used as promotional material
- [Hills + Heels](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hills-heels/): Hills + Heels. That's what they got here in San Francisco, and as you can see from these LP covers from our collection out here. I'm going through boxes and boxes of LPs and 78s for the next few weeks. Speaking of the weather, it's seldom above 70, a nice break from NYC. More soon
- [Bobby Rydell Delivers That Old Black Magic!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bobby-rydell-delivers-that-old-black-magic/): For the last dozen or so years, I have been asked to DJ at least one night at the Lincoln Center’s excellent Midsummer Night Swing series of outdoor events. Each event consists of a DJ, a dance instructor to teach the proper steps for that night’s theme, and a live act, usually a big band
- [Red, White and the Blues](https://arcmusic.org/blog/red-white-and-the-blues/): This Indi Day I found a few very nice blues LPs at a flea market upstate. Above; here I am shopping in my usual 4th outfit. Below; some records I found. Like all good Americans I also watched the latest Independence Day film this weekend and reveled in the truths it espoused. One All-American scene
- [Polka Patriots](https://arcmusic.org/blog/polka-patriots/): A tip-o-the-tricornered-cap to Rachel Austin Shapiro who donated a box of Holiday Happiness to light up our 4th! These LPs were mostly polkas, mostly Patriotic PA based bands, all on independent labels - just perfect for celebrating our Independence Day. And who can resist discs as completely Stanky as these? You see just because the
- [But It's All Over Now...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/but-its-all-over-now/): Well, the walls are nearly empty as dealers start buying up all the left-overs from ARC’s Sizzlin Summer Record + CD Sale! We've got buyers from Lebanon, Brazil and even far-flung Jersey City. You may not know it but we clear out EVERYTHING, every sale. Space is the Place, and we just can't afford the
- [Sunday DEALS!  Last day of the SALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sunday-deals-last-day-of-the-sale/)
- [Some Disks that made a Brexit!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/some-disks-that-made-a-brexit/): As England swings to the right, we've still got a few British pop record left at the ARC’s Sizzlin Summer Record + CD Sale! So come on down and support America's largest (and best) popular music archive. Only a few days left - now till Sunday June 26, everyday 11am - 6pm. Not only Britdiscs,
- [45s + forty-fives = singles](https://arcmusic.org/blog/45s-forty-fives-singles/): Pa-lenty of very nice 45s available at the ARC’s Sizzlin Summer Record + CD Sale! Thousands in fact - punk, country and good ol' rock n' roll - all at great prices. So do drop by, the sale going on now and running through Sunday, June 26, open everyday 11am - 6pm.
- [Moon, June, Swoon...Moog](https://arcmusic.org/blog/moon-june-swoon-moog/): It's the Summer Solstice, and uniquely (every 70 years) it's also a full moon, AND a Strawberry Moon (corresponding to the berry harvest). So while we sold our Prince's Strawberry Beret single right off, and The Longest Day LP is pretty rare, you can still come by for some classic Moon Moog recording here at
- [ARC's Worldly Sale continues...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arcs-worldly-sale-continues/): Do drop by this week as ARC’s Sizzlin Summer Record + CD Sale rolls on! Come by anytime during our sale... Sat June 11- Sun June 26 everyday 11-6 54 white st, tribeca Above is a shot of some of the hundreds of World Music CDs. As you know we have one of the great
- [](https://arcmusic.org/blog/10088/): Sure it's clever to sell that Tripod Jimmie record with a dog on the cover next to a Skinny Puppy LP, but what's really cool is this Ray Charles over-the-top box set! Pure Genius: Complete Atlantic Recordings 1952-1959 is in a faux dansette record player, with 8 boss CDs. It's $120 new, but new here
- [Still shoppin'](https://arcmusic.org/blog/still-shoppin/): Sunday morning, and like all New Yorkers, these nice folks came to shop at the ARC’s Sizzlin Summer Record + CD Sale right after church! You can join them or come by anytime during our sale... Sat June 11- Sun June 26 everyday 11-6 54 white st, tribeca
- [ZEP + ZAP!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/zep-zap/): Yes, Rounding out the alphabet, and front-and-center at our checkout counter, you can catch some "Z's" today - OPENING DAY - of the ARC's Sizzlin Summer Record + CD Sale. Sat June 11- Sun June 26 everyday 11-6 54 white st, tribeca DO drop by for THOUSANDS of bargains in support of the worlds
- [Sale Starts Sat](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sale-starts-sat/): Here's a pic from the Member's Party last night, and now we're restocking for the opening for the general public. Lots of new stuff that members donated, so DO NOT THINK that the best things are gone! Paaa-lenty of great 45s, jazz LPs, DVD, and more CDs than ever. SO do drop by, Sizzlin Summer
- [Hawaii + why we....](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hawaii-why-we/): As you may know yesterday was Wednesday, and Wednesdays are Hawaiian Shirt Day here at the ARC, a long standing tradition for the past 60 or so years. And this Weds was no exception, and Alex and Fred and B donned some Wiki-waki duds during a horrific tropical storm and worked the beaches of the
- [Warhol Art Sale in Tribeca](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/warhol-art-sale-in-tribeca/): Andy Warhol was one of America’s great artists—of this there is no dispute. During his early years, he designed some album covers for mostly jazz artists. There’s a cool Count Basie one and several that he did for Blue Note Records. The cover he designed for the first Velvet Underground album is legendary; as are
- [AutoCubano](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cuba-roundup/): Back at work @ ARC weds, now focusing on our Record Sale. June 11-26. On our final night in Havana we had one of our best meals of the trip (onionskin-thin swordfish carpaccio) at Mediterraneo Havana Restaurant. Then a few jazz clubs, packing, early am swim, meeting with library folks, sneaking rum onto the plane,
- [Flamenco in Cuba](https://arcmusic.org/blog/10001/): Kind of a lost day here in Havana as the lunch place we were going to had closed it’s dining room, the rumba place was crowded beyond belief, the temp hit 90+, and shows scheduled for 5pm were now to begin at 10! Maybe. But we had a private concert by a Cuban Flamenco guitarist
- [Jazz + Rap Yesterday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/jazz-rap-yesterday/): Saturday night we passed on the big show and Cubadiscos awards for a more intimate event at the lovely Teatro Marti. The space is small with luxurious seating and lacy filigree ironwork reminiscent of New Orleans. The concert was lacy also, as master jazz pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa invited other musicians in-and-out of these intricately crafted
- [Mantanzas](https://arcmusic.org/blog/mantanzas/): Today was a daytrip seventy-seven miles outside of Havana to Mantanzas. We stopped at the beach along the way of course, but the real reason for the trip was a performance by Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. This folkloric dance, chorus and percussion group has been around since 1956, one of the best known and respected
- [Havana Notes](https://arcmusic.org/blog/havana-notes/): Sometimes you need to get folks to pay attention. And in old Havana, where the exquisite decay is compelling, a little 3d floor eatery, above, decorated their stairclimb in a way that got my attention. Not exactly archival. Then again a joy to see. But hearing is the prime reason we're in Cuba. A highlight
- [Why go to Cuba](https://arcmusic.org/blog/why-go-to-cuba/): Because the only thing someone needs on the plane is a guitar and the latest edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Because at the end of a meal at San Crystobal you are offered a cigar from a boutique grower, from their vintage humidor. Because cars are still beautiful monsters Because it is one of the
- [Concert last night - Cuba Music Week](https://arcmusic.org/blog/concert-last-night-cuba-music-week/): No sleep, loading in, and finally the launch of Cuba Music Week. Nap and then off for my first concert, Mambo Memories, Reliving the Palladium Era at the Hostos Center in the Bronx. If you don't live in New York City let me tell you that I live in lowest Manhattan, Tribeca, and Hostos in
- [Cuba Music Week starts tomorrow!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cuba-music-week-starts-tomorrow/): Well after a year of planning, some of which panned out, Cuba Music Week is here. The soft launch version is @ www.cubamusicweek.org, with a lnks and data complete version avail SATURDAY, MAY 14. So there is a list of all that's happening tomorrow below, and we'd like to let you know about a special
- [Random notes](https://arcmusic.org/blog/random-notes/): We're busy getting ready to launch our Cuba Music Week website - next Monday we hope - and so some recent thoughts on recent happenings here @ ARC. I came across this quote recently from a paper by Columbia professor Gustavo Pérez Firmat. "It seems as though there is always bad news coming from Cuba.
- [You say you want a revolution](https://arcmusic.org/blog/you-say-you-want-a-revolution/): Well it's MayDay, and we're going to Cuba, so I thought this just might be a good time to show you this! This a facsimile of a very popular comicbook /save-them-all sticker book celebrating the Cuban revolution. It has 32 pages with places to paste in 268 trading cards, each a historical mini-story of who
- [Do we really need a text?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/do-we-really-need-a-text/)
- [More Past, but NOW + Peelie](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-past-but-now-peelie/): As a sort of an adjunct to Tuesday's O Superman graphs in the Guardian, I will be part of a discussion about John Peel - the man and his music, as they say - at NYU this Monday eve, April 25. This Unpopular Culture event is hosted by the quite popular Sukhdev Sandhu, Associate Professor
- [O' the past, man...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/o-the-past-man/): There's a nice snippet in today's Guardian UK about my old record label's release of 'O Superman' by Laurie Anderson. Like all reporting some minor misunderstandings, and like all memories some facts, like worn carpets, get a bit fuzzy. Read 'How we made Laurie Anderson's O Superman' .
- [Pay the Piper](https://arcmusic.org/blog/pay-the-piper/): Sorting thousands of ten-inch recordings in San Francisco, an extension of the ARC in NYC, so naturally I applied for a tax extension, and turned up these two timely tunes... Yes, that's Mr. McVouty himself topping the page, using his given first name rather than his better-known nickname, Slim.
- [For the Record](https://arcmusic.org/blog/for-the-record/): As I was at the car rental counter in San Fran, a crack in the corporate infrastructure allowed a peek into the internal workings at Enterprise. Seems they celebrate all their sales 'records' and goals by scribbling stats on actual records. Cute. Makes me wanna write a review of their service on a car door.
- [LA Punk flyers - New Gallery @ ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/la-punk-flyers-new-gallery-arc/): Fred Patterson (Senior Archivist) has a history, a great deal of it in LA. Here are a few of his small posters and handbills from the scene, circa the late 1970s. Fred says: Back then, practically the only way one could advertise an independently promoted show was by drawing up a poster and circulating it
- [Leon and Merle: Rest in Peace](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/leon-and-merle-rest-in-peace/): This week the ARChive salutes two fallen heroes: Leon Haywood and Merle Haggard. Each died within a day of each other, Mr. Haywood on the 6th and Mr. Haggard on the 7th of April (his 79th birthday). So in the window we display the covers of early albums by these two gentlemen of music. Merle
- [The Hard Rock Cafe might have Madonna's corset, but we have Jeep Holland's tooth.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-hard-rock-cafe-might-have-madonnas-corset-but-we-have-jeep-hollands-tooth/): I followed the path down the middle of the Arc's basement: Between the disco singles and the stack of 45s marked '???', avoiding the urge to peer into the 'totally f#$%^d' box, and turning right at Brazilian music literature. There it was. A tower of boxed memorabilia stood before me. Six decades worth of merchandise,
- [Tattoo You!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tattoo-you/): Just back from Miami and Havana, as I've been working on Cuba Music Week (May 14-22) and was invited to see the Stones in Cuba. OK, they're old, but hey, I saw James Brown bounce when he shoulda been in a rocker, and no one picks on old blues guys. I've seen the band three
- [A little bit about Havana](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-little-bit-about-havana/): In Havana and not far from home at the Central Park Hotel. Only here they use creative spelling, not doubt something to do with Spanish, and call it the Parque Central Hotel. So far a trip with the usual ups and downs,: Uber was great to the airport in Miami: TSA confiscated my sunblock lotion
- ["Gotta Get Away" and "Dancing in the Light"](https://arcmusic.org/blog/gotta-get-away-and-dancing-in-the-light/): Well, like my bud the Pres., Havana is where I'm at. Sadly I'll miss the ball game as I gear up for the Rolling Stones' concert. As Cuban aficionado Ned Sublett points out, an added on-stage treat will be Entrevoces performing "You Can't Always Get What You Want" with the band. Hey, that's a song
- [American 3.14...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/american-3-14/): OK, let's tie together National Pi Day and the National elections in our own, odd little vinyl way. Today is Pi Day, 3.14 etc..., another fabulous fake holiday that sells more eatin' pie than math scholarships. But back in the 1970s there were rude jokesters that refused to run for office, like the band Mom's
- [George Martin](https://arcmusic.org/blog/george-martin/): George Martin has died at 90. Leave it to experts to offer proper tributes to the exemplary work that he did, and the wonderful legacy he has left us. Searching our shelves, here's one of the three odd little and lesser known instrumental LPs he recorded drawing on his fabled association. George Martin Instrumentally Salutes
- [They've Got Their Head In The Clouds](https://arcmusic.org/blog/theyve-got-their-head-in-the-clouds-2/): Scott Kelly's back on Terra Firma, but that's no reason for ARC to come back to earth. So here's a new batch of musicians who thought it was a really good idea to put on a space helmet, and THEN put out a record. These and eighty other helmet-heads are in our Gallery,
- [National Day of Slayer](https://arcmusic.org/blog/national-day-of-slayer/): Lest we forget, today is the one year anniversary (06-06-07) of the National Day of Slayer (6-6-06). My official statement on participation will be by forcing Jon and Phreddie to listen to South of Heaven here at the ARChive. No, they won't like it, but them's the breaks on the National Day of Slayer. Hey,
- [Mom's basement may be too small](https://arcmusic.org/blog/moms-basement-may-be-too-small/): In last week's New Yorker is a supremely bugged out article about a guy who is keeping a "Lifelog" documenting practically every moment of his life. He walks around with a heat sensitive camera around his neck which takes a couple thousand photos EACH DAY. To say nothing of the zillions of scans of ephemera
- [Love's Labour's Lost](https://arcmusic.org/blog/loves-labours-lost/): Well it’s Labor Day in America, and that means nobody’s workin’ – certainly not here in Tribeca where they have closed down their forges and bare breasted washerwomen have turned off their bear-headed spigots. Well at least that’s the impression I get from these placards on the nearby Labor Building. Nary a barge to lift
- [Live Long and Prosper](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/live-long-and-prosper/): A long time ago, back in my Hollywood daze, I was asked to DJ for a movie's wrap party. The movie was produced by Paramount pictures, and the people who hired me told me that I had to go get my check from an office on the Paramount lot on the following Monday. So I
- [Preservation via Recreation](https://arcmusic.org/blog/preservation-via-recreation/): In 1967 John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote a song titled "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" for the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The inspiration, and many of the lyrics, came from a letterpress-printed Pablo Fanque circus poster from 1843 that Lennon had bought in an antiques shop. This song,
- [It's really nice and sunny here...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/its-really-nice-and-sunny-here/): As you may know the ARC is working closely with our new partner, The Internet Archive in San Francisco. I'm hangin' out West Coast Style, and learning more about them and all the great things they do. (Not to mention today's lunch of an Ultragoliath Chicken Waffle Sandwich @ Hot Sauce and Panko.) Meanwhile back
- [Spring things](https://arcmusic.org/blog/spring-things/): Yes, Spring is here, welcomed with a snowstorm and a few psychedelic tape boxes. Harder to find than a warm day in New York are these zodiac infused, honest-we're-a-big-company-but-really-hip, Peter Max - who's he, tape boxes chock full of musical aspirations and radio leftovers, lovingly recorded on 1/4" tape on 7" reels. At one time
- [Take Time to Know Him: RIP Percy Sledge](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/take-time-to-know-him-rip-percy-sledge/): This morning, Tuesday April 14, 2015, the great soul singer Percy Sledge died of liver cancer at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was 73. Mr. Sledge’s biggest hit was “When a Man Loves a Woman”—arguably a song that should be sung at every wedding! The soul ballad was such a huge hit—Number One
- [STILL Waiting....](https://arcmusic.org/blog/still-waiting/): Yes, here in lil' ol' NYC we're still a-waitin' for Spring to sprung, so let's inch our way into the future by adding some newfangled items to old favorites - all with dedications. For the US Astronaut with a twin on the ground, we've added a few, new, heady, highflying recordings in our Space Helmet
- [Some Bedrooms are Better Than Others!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/some-bedrooms-are-better-than-others/): I am winding down my San Francisco trip and work with the Internet Archive as curator of their sound collections. One of the things I did was trip out to Carmel to see a jazz collection being considered for donation. If it all happens we'll be sure to let you know. But I did want
- [Oh Magoo, You've done it again!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/oh-magoo-youve-done-it-again/): It is time to get excited about the semi-annual ARChive of Contemporary Music Record and CD Sale that will be taking place this June. There are major changes in the future for The ARC, so we have been extensively scouring the shelves for extra copies of records in order to facilitate these changes when they
- [Sometime I Can See Right Through You](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sometime-i-can-see-right-through-you/): Flexidiscs, cardboard cutout records and magazine soundsheet inserts are in the news these days. Recent buzz was on the ARSClist lately, with a link to a nice snippet on NPR. You may have guessed that ARC has a few of these items -- about 1,200, including a few of the Beatles Christmas Fan Club releases.
- [Sale will be Really SIZZLIN' this year!](https://arcmusic.org/for-sale/sale-will-be-really-sizzlin-this-year/): Sure it's hype, but it's ARC hype - guaranteed to be almost true! About three weeks til our biggest and best record sale ever. More GOOD vinyl than can fit in your luxury loft or behind your trailer. Hope to see you here beginning Saturday June 13. This year the sale is so big, our
- [Wall Items Extravaganza Part 1](https://arcmusic.org/for-sale/wall-items-extravaganza-part-1-2/): Folks, the famous ARChive of Contemporary Music Summer Record Sale is almost here... less than three weeks away. There will be some very fabulous things for sale. In the photograph accompanying this text, you will see only nine of the many fine items that will be up for sale starting June 13 (June 11 if
- [Wall Items Extravaganza Part 2](https://arcmusic.org/for-sale/wall-items-extravaganza-part-2/): Frank Zappa has been a favorite of record collectors for a long time. At the next ARChive Record and CD Sale there will be a LOT of his records -- and records associated with him -- available for sale. The accompanying photo shows the spines of many of them. Also, most of these are white
- [ARC Sizzlin' Summer Record + CD Sale](https://arcmusic.org/for-sale/arc-sizzlin-summer-record-cd-sale/): NOT just vinyle and CDs, this year there are hundreds of Music DVDs $2 each - samples above Sizzlin' Summer Record + CD Sale: June 13-28, 2015 ARChive of Contemporary Music • 54 White Street •Tribeca The sale will be open every day 11am-6pm • Free admission • New recordings added daily! This is our largest
- [Latin Music @ our Sale + a hot tip!](https://arcmusic.org/for-sale/latin-music-our-sale-a-hot-tip/): Ok. Here are a few of the many wold music titles, these with a Latin flavor, at our upcoming sale. Great stuff - great prices - so GREAT in fact that we are extending the sale a full two weeks. Sizzlin' Summer Record + CD Sale: June 13-28, 2015 ARChive of Contemporary Music •
- [Wall Items Extravaganza Part 3](https://arcmusic.org/for-sale/wall-items-extravaganza-part-3/): Our next installment of stuff on the wall during the 2015 Summer ARChive Record & CD Sale shows twenty great items. If you click on the thumbnail below, you will see a Big-O-Fied version of the photo and you should be able to read everything. The fellow in the lower right corner is Terry Allen,
- [Lookie all dem rekerds!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/lookie-all-dem-rekerds/): Putting the finishing touches on the sale room today for the Members only party tonight. Join up or do drop this weekend. Don't forget the sale goes till the 28, so drop by anytime. Sizzlin' Summer Record + CD Sale: June 13-28, 2015 ARChive of Contemporary Music • 54 White Street •Tribeca The sale will be
- [Damn!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/damn/): This morning, the ARChive received a call from the Mayor's office informing us that they had received our invitation to the Summer Sale. You can imagine our excitement. It was with great regret, however, that we learned he would not be able to attend. Maybe next time, Mike?
- [Tomorrow's the DAY - ARC Sale Begins](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tomorrows-the-day-arc-sale-begins/): Last night ARC Members enjoyed a evening of food, fun and shopping at our Summer Party. Today we've been frantically restocking the bins to make sure there are plenty of tasty vinyls at great prices when we open up Saturday at 11. Do drop buy for bargains and to support the Library... Sizzlin' Summer Record
- [A Dizzying Look at the ARChive Sale!!](https://arcmusic.org/for-sale/a-dizzying-look-at-the-archive-sale/): [youtube url="http://youtu.be/pBS2MclgRvI"] Take a minute and a half of your time to see this short art film that features the Sizzlin' Summer Sale here at the ARChive of Contemporary Music! Still lots of good stuff available. Still more than a dozen boxes of more stuff to be put out! Come every day! Sizzlin’ Summer Record
- [ARC SUMMER SALE - NOW THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-summer-sale-now-through-the-end-of-the-week/): Still plenty of great vinyl and CDs as new things are added daily. Check back for SUPER as well as pretty good and not-exactly-terrible discounts we will be offering on Sunday!
- [FINAL DAY of ARC's SIZZLIN' SUMMER SALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/final-day-of-arcs-sizzlin-summer-sale/): LAST DAY • SUNday SPECIALS $1 LPS = 3 for $1 • $1 CDS = 3 for $1 3 for $1 CD are STILL 3 for $1 20% off all LPs + CDs unless marked
- [Let's Have a Dance Party!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/lets-have-a-dance-party/): OK—The ARChive of Contemporary Music Sizzlin’ Summer Sale is over. It was the biggest and best ARC sale of all time. Several thousand fabulous LPs and CDs were purchased and are now being enjoyed by our equally fabulous customers and supporters. What are you going to do with all those records that you bought? Why
- [4 for 4th](https://arcmusic.org/blog/4-for-4th/): Well, the weather on this 4th of July was dreary, so who could blame me if I got the blues? A drizzly walk through an Upstate flea led to some real bargains, and allowed us to add some very nice LPs to the Keith Richards' Blues Collection. A real surprise is that we did not
- [More Pulp with Plenty of Juice](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-pulp-with-plenty-of-juice/): Here's a music pulp paperback that we just couldn't resist. There's a whole new few in our fab gallery dedicated to words that swing, babes that sing and death, like romance, "...is something in life which happens with an exquisite aptness and a splendid finality." 'Cus it's not just just platters here at ARC, but
- [Spacey](https://arcmusic.org/blog/spacey/): We've added a few new space helmet covers to our gallery. Remember while other archives may have a collection of music with an outer space theme, only ARC has actual music from outer space, covers with people in space helmets, records with rockets on them AND a sputnik corner! Back here, more or less on
- [No Breaks - Short Takes -  from Tribeca 2 Shenzhen](https://arcmusic.org/blog/no-breaks-short-takes-from-tribeca-2-shenzhen/): Summer’s usually a bit slow here at the ARC, but not this year. The above is a pile of recently donated LPs by North Carolina horn player and jazz professor George Broussard. Mostly jazz and very nice. Thanks to appraiser Scott Neuman (and his lovely daughter) for making this donation possible The picture above reminds
- [The Daniel Jan Walikis Collection](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-daniel-jan-walikis-collection/): As you all know yesterday, August 24, was Ukrainian Independence Day (Day of the National Flag). It just so happens it was also the day that the Daniel Jan Walikis Collection was delivered here at the ARC. This collection of more than 2000 LPs and 78s celebrates American Polka music, with about a quarter of
- [End of Summer Blues](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/end-of-summer-blues/): Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer in the United States. We now look back at the summer and think, did we go to the beach often enough? The answer is always a resounding, NO! Somehow, we never go to the beach as often as we would have liked. The cover of Freddie Hubbard’s
- [Just Added / Just Addled](https://arcmusic.org/blog/just-added-just-addled/): Tons of new things pouring unto the ARC these days, so PLEASE check out the catalog pages where we've just added about 200 cataloged and scanned books and 27,000 newly cataloged recordings -- a great way to begin the fall. As to addled, the above is another curious cover from the the J. Walikis Polka
- [Où est la....](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ou-est-la/): Finally. I said it. I've been waiting all my life. It was the first thing I, and every other American ever learned or remembered from French class. Emerging from the Paris metro, and seeing no signage anywhere, lips pursed, with confidence..."Où est la bibliothèque?" I was in Paris to attend the 46th annual IASA (International
- [Back to the Future, past...perfect](https://arcmusic.org/blog/back-to-the-future-past-perfect/): Fred and I are out here in San Francisco to be a part of the Internet Archive's (IA) annual party to celebrate the past year's doings, Building Libraries Together. It so happens that the party date coincides with one of the target dates from the film, Back to the Future, Oct 21, 2015. Well we're
- [THINKING ABOUT CARNIVALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/thinking-about-carnivale/): Just now I was thinking about Carnivale and the first meeting of the Preservation Cartel in Rio (very PC - a get together of the largest indie record collectors in the world) - lo and behold an angel (Susan Rakowski) alights (drives up in a Subaru) with a fabulous cache of Brasilian music! The collection
- [ARC Holiday Sale is Just a Month Away](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-sale-is-just-a-month-away/): Yes, we're back at it again. The donations keep pouring in and we keep sorting and pulling the extra, and extra special goodies for our sale, just for you! So please do drop by in early December. It help us with space and with our work of cataloging and preserving all this great music. Oh,
- [Once upon a time...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/once-upon-a-time/): Once upon a time there was great wealth, vision, extravagance, pride and really cool ideas floating around in the music world we swam in. Here is a prime example of what might never come again, and what we are working so hard to preserve. In 1969, Capitol Records produced 12 albums, each was a sampler
- [Punk People Pounce!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/punk-people-pounce/): For this year's Holiday Record + CD Sale Fred forced me to sell off some of my extra copies of Punk era singles. Lots of English stuff, as in the early 80s I was working out of the back room at Rough Trade in London, and well, I picked up a lot of great music.
- [Just One Week Till our Holiday Sale Begins!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/just-one-week-till-our-holiday-sale-begins/): We hope everyone is eatin' leftover turkey and smacking their lips this Saturday in anticipation of ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale. It's just a week away, and the picture above shows the set up as of today. The fun begins NEXT Saturday, Dec 5, and runs 'til Sunday Dec 20, everyday from 11am to
- [Every Day is Giving Tuesday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/every-day-is-giving-tuesday/): OK, today is an imaginary promotional day to stimulate you to stimulate us. National Day of Giving – #GivingTuesday. Its also National Pie Day, National Eat a Red Apple Day, Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day, Day With(out) Art Day, World AIDS Day and Rosa Parks Day. So as you work your way through this
- [We're Ready!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/were-ready/): Well, here's a look at the sale set-up, ready for action this Saturday. Incredible jazz books, bins of sealed records, tons of 45s (heavy on punk), nice world music LPs, CD box sets - just a whole lot o' great records in great condition. So do drop by and support the ARC. We have a
- [Sale Starts Today!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sale-starts-today/): Come on down and support the ARC. It won't hurt. Music here is cheaper than downloading + no postage to pay. The weather's swell. It might be fun - you never know...
- [New Discs Added Daily...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/new-discs-added-daily/): Just a quick note to all the nice folks who came out for the first weekend of our Holiday Record + CD Sale @ ARC. Thanks so much for your support! But there's still plenty of swell goodies left, and we are putting out great new stuff daily. Like the LPs on the wall here.
- [Cuba ¡Sí - See Cuba](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cuba-si-see-cuba/): Cuba is in the News. Cuban records are at our Holiday record + CD Sale. And we'd like to invite you to join the ARC on it's first tour to Cuba! Of course it's more musical than anyone else's - and we'll try to make it more fun. It's coming right up, May 17 -24,
- [Rudolph Shops Here!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/rudolph-shops-here/): Yes, Christmas is coming, and Rudolph can help. Please stop by for ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale and ask for your free copy of vintage Reindeer sheet music. Totally secular? No Problem. The Holidays are coming and you can get your free copy of Miss Brenda Lee singin' "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." Of
- [Last Day of Sale Discounts @ ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/last-day-of-sale-discounts-arc/): Come on down and support the ARC this Sunday. The weather is crisp and nice, the discounts nicer. Buy any 20 items over $1, get 20% off. Volume, volume, volume. Simple, simple, simple. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
- [Happy Everything!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-everything/): Well ARC's Holiday Sale is over - thanks to all those who attended! And the Cuba Tour is coming up - thanks to all who are showing interest!! And now it's time for everyone who likes us, even a little, to consider a donation!!! You can make an end of the year, tax deductible donation
- [Who Else Saves Dizzy Gillespie Cookies?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/who-else-saves-dizzy-gillespie-cookies/): Sure they were meant as a gift, but how could we eat them? Thanks to long-time ARCster Karen McBurnie, we got some Holiday cookies (using the acorn shape cutter) decorated to look like Dizzy Gillespie! He was a genius, and so is Karen; therefore into the celebrity candy vault they go, to be opened and eaten
- [This just In - Me Almost Out...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-just-in-me-almost-out/): Just as I'm getting ready for three weeks in San Francisco to work on our collections at the Internet Archive, this very sweet collection Mambos in! Sure every hipster in the world has these 10" Yma Sumac classics, but are they signed? Well now ours are, thanks to donor Hilary Knight. Mr. Knight is an
- [David Bowie](https://arcmusic.org/blog/david-bowie/): I learned of David Bowie’s death while watching an old film, The False Madonna (1931). In it a very beautiful young man dies. He is blind, wealthy, kind. Maybe it’s only a coincidence that makes for a good story, but it makes the blow ever harder. David was on ARC’s Board of Advisors since the
- [We're Here!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/were-here/): Fred + B are out on the West Coast working on collections stored at, and with, the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Organizin' Sortin' Cagtalogin' You know, regular stuff. But took some time off to drive over Mt. Saint Helena and back down on US 1 along the coast. I et oysters. Fred
- [Bowie 'Love'](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bowie-love/): I had mentioned a few days ago the David Bowie had hosted an ARC party in 2000, but I only hinted at how really sweet he was. When one of our guests asked (ambushed?) him and Iman to hold up his 'Love' cutout for an upcoming book, well...they did. The resulting image above graced the
- [Our Interns Are Babies?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/our-interns-are-babies/): At two and a half months Zinnia Dupler takes the cake as the youngest volunteer to give us a hand here at the ARC and the Internet Archive. Strapped to her mom, Lindsey, the duo is hard at work out here in San Francisco as we sort about 100,000 LPs. Ten minutes later I encountered
- [Like/Hate Relationships With Records!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/likehate-relationships-with-records/): In a previous ARC blog post, it was noted that we had received a very generous donation from the illustrator Hilary Knight that included two autographed Yma Sumac records, as well as a fine collection of film soundtracks and Broadway cast recordings. The donation also included many albums by popular vocalists. With Valentine’s Day coming
- [Holidays + Cuba + Monkeys + SanFran + Free Association](https://arcmusic.org/blog/holidays-cuba-monkeys-sanfran-free-association/): Just a reminder that it’s Chinese New Year and we’ll be closing out reservations on Valentine’s Day for our first music tour to Cuba. There are only 4 spots left, so reserve now for this exciting trip in May. It may be your last chance to see the island before it changes forever. Follow the
- [Coolidge, Obama, Miguelito + YOU?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/coolidge-obama-miguelito-you/): Coolidge went to Havana, Obama has that tropical trip on his agenda - so how about you? We've got two slots left for our Music Tour of Cuba, May 17-24. We promise to treat you like a king, uh, I mean, like a president... Click below for details, or give us a call: 212-226-6967 Overview.
- [ARC Year End Roundup 2014](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-year-end-roundup-2014/): Yup, once agin it’s time for thee ol’ rekerd roundup – news, reviews and rendezvous from 2014. Probably the biggest thing to happen in these here parts last year was the launch of the revised website on May Day. The designers at Open retained the same color-coded concept devised for our original site, but greatly
- [#ARCbot: Our Friendly Social Media Robot](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arcbot-our-friendly-social-media-robot/): Techies, tumblrs, IT people: Have you seen our Tumblr blog? Or maybe our #imageoftheday posts on Twitter and Facebook? We’ve been sharing images from our online galleries for your viewing pleasure. And it’s done almost entirely automatically thanks to a pair of Python scripts. We have a trove of images of great album and book covers,
- [Alphabetically Speaking...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/alphabetically-speaking/): Here at A (ARC) while the USA is preoccupied with O (Ohio + Oregon) we're locked into B. Today A adds new B (blues) records to our recordings database, a pile of B (books) to the books catalog and all the instruments beginning with B to our instrument database. So X those O's and don't
- [Like Cool, Daddy-O!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/like-cool-daddy-o/): January can be the coolest month, to somewhat paraphrase T.S. Elliot. With recent snow and temperatures under ten degrees, we don’t really need a reminder, but a recent donation to the ARChive included not one but two copies of Eddie Bert’s Like Cool album, and it presented an appropriate display for the ARC window. Eddie
- [End of the year Donations to ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/end-of-the-year-donations-to-arc/): We can't all shop like Elvis, or give away Cadillacs on a whim. But we can take a few moments to consider donating to the only independent popular music archive in America, and the largest, The ARChive of Contemporary Music. We preserve Elvis, as well as El Vez, legendary impersonators like Carl 'Cheesie' Nelson and
- [30 Days Away](https://arcmusic.org/blog/30-days-away/): Now the fun begins! The ARC's Holiday Record and CD Sale is just a short month away. We'll be posting short and sweet tempting tidbits here every few days, designed to get you down here to shop and say hello. Here's the first - a small group of sealed or mint compilation LPs from the
- [Trashy, but Not Trash](https://arcmusic.org/blog/trashy-but-not-trash/): As we've been telling you, THIS SALE (dec 13-21) is going to be amazing. And, as promised, we'll be posting a few choice covers of things in the sale every few days. This group is girlie-centric, early rock'n'roll in modern compilation form. Despite the covers, this batch is virgin vinyl! You know, quickie cuts for
- [Jazz Me, Bookish](https://arcmusic.org/blog/jazz-me-bookish/): Here's a shot of some of the Jazz books that will be available at the ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale, Dec 13-21. More that 600 titles never offered before, all shinny new + nice. Zoom in if you can and see the titles. Beyond domestic titles, there are many rare EU discographies, like "V"
- [We're SO Modern](https://arcmusic.org/blog/were-so-modern/): Today's shot is of just a few of the Modern Experimental LPs available at our Holiday Record + CD Sale this year from Dec 13-21. Cage, Carter, Glass, Harrison, Wendy/Walter Carlos, Ashley, and yes, that's a Karlheinz Stockhausen hiding there. New World and CRI labels are well represented in this wide spectrum of experimenters on
- [Picture This!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/picture-this/): For the first time ARC will be offering about 40 picture discs at our sale beginning Saturday Dec 13. We've gone through the hundreds in our collection and found a pile of dupes and trips, and will pass along the redundancy to all our pals. So forget the glare on this photo and drop by
- [ESP Needs to be Investigated!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/esp-needs-to-be-investigated/): Thanks to ESP-er Steve Holtje, ARC has been given a very sweet pile of CDs from this important avant-garde label. And guess what? There will be a great many extra copies just for you at our Holiday Record + CD Sale, Dec 13-21. Amazing items by Albert Ayler, Bud Powell, Pharaoh Sanders, Yma Sumac and
- [The Hits Keep Coming - from Africa + Beyond](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-hits-keep-coming-from-africa-beyond/): This year the ARC's Holiday Record and CD Sale will be remembered for all the choice African, Latin, and Asian LPs that are being offered. Remarkable stuff - good prices - do drop by! join the ARC to attend our pre-sale HOLIDAY PARTY on Thursday evening, Dec. 11, for great food + people + first
- [Did We Mention Brazil?  uh, Brasil...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/did-we-mention-brazil-uh-brasil/): As you all know by now, Brasil loves the ARC and we love Brasil. That's why we will be offering some amazing LPs at this year's Holiday Records and CD Sale, Dec 13-23. Just saying 'Savuca' makes me happy. So do drop by this upcoming weekend and support the ARC, if for no other reason
- [ARC Holiday Sale starts Tomorrow!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-sale-starts-tomorrow/): Yes. Finally. Do drop by for the ARC's Holiday Record + CD Sale. Sale starts tomorrow, Sat Dec 13 and everyday til Sun, Dec 21, open 11am-6pm. We're on the ground floor, 54 White St in Trbeca. Our Host this year is Vinyl.com. Bill Douglass, pictured here in front of his display at our sale,
- [A Record Day @ ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-record-day-arc/): In the twenty-or-so years of our sales here at the ARC, Saturday's sale moved more recordings and had more visitors than ever before. WHY? Because the prices are great and the selection vast. There 's still plenty left to choose from and we will do a major restocking of vinyl on Weds, and again for
- [Men Are From Marr - Eveyone Else is French!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/men-are-from-marr-eveyone-else-is-french/): Artist Steve (he did our fab outdoor ARC sign) Powers bought an original print of Johnny Marr at our sale yesterday. The Marr photo was taken by Will Ellis, who had a show here at the ARC, and left a few choice prints behind for people attending our Holiday Record + CD Sale. The sale
- [Final Weekend ARC Holiday Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/final-weekend-arc-holiday-sale/): Please join us for the final weekend of our annual Holiday Record + CD Sale, Sat 20 + Sun 21. Of course there are still thousands of great LPs, CDs, books and music related books and magazines. We've been restocking, and the latest batch going out Sat morning is a nice pile of Fela Kuti
- [Our Musical Valentine just for YOU!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/our-musical-valentine-just-for-you/)
- [Another Symbol of our LOVE!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/another-symbol-of-our-love/): ...or is that cymbal.
- [One LP Ongoing Exhibition](https://arcmusic.org/blog/one-lp-ongoing-exhibition/): Here's a shot by Bob Barry from the opening night party of ONE LP, ARC fist gallery exhibition. Folks are engrossed in reading the captions that describe why a particular album is so important to the musician photographed, or have gone to the QR link to read the entire interview accompanying each image. The show
- [Sheet Music](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sheet-music/): Just a short interruption in letting you know about the ONE LP exhibition to let you know about a recent donations of sheet music. 50 great things arrived in the mail last week, a lovely batch from longtime donor Kevin Lanagan. Kevin has been slowly donating his beloved stash for more than 10 years or
- [ONE LP - Last Days Today and Tomorrow (Friday Oct 3)](https://arcmusic.org/blog/one-lp-last-days-today-and-tomorrow-friday-oct-3/): The above picture is of Al Jarreau with his favorite album, Les Double Six. It's one of the 63 portraits from our One LP exhibition by William Ellis, ending this Friday, Oct 3. The show is at the ARC, 54 White St, NYC. Open 11am – 5pm. Here's a bit of what Mr. Jarreau says
- [WHAT IS MUSIC GOOD FOR?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-is-music-good-for/): What is music good for? That is a question the curious among us have been asking for ages. Here at the ARChive of Contemporary Music, we have a whole section of “Music For.” Among these recordings is a series of five LPs by Peter Barclay and his Orchestra. The 5-LP series is noted as “Music
- [Sooo Relaxin'](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sooo-relaxin/): Just back from warm and winning San Francisco where ARC helped launch the prototype of a Listening Room through the largess of the Internet Archive (IA). Tucked behind the columns of their majestic building, turn left, have a seat, hoist an iPad, don some earphones and swipe your way through more than one million albums!
- [The Sale's Over - But There's Still a LOT TO DO!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-sales-over-but-theres-still-a-lot-to-do/): Once again we've cleared out all the extra copies of recordings here at the ARC to make room for new things - some very large collections - that will be arriving in January. The sale was the best ever and and the sale and Member's party were great fun. There's still time to join the
- [View from a Plane Window](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/view-from-a-plane-window/): In order to commemorate the madness of September 11, 2001, The ARChive has placed in its window an album cover by Supertramp that depicts a New York still augmented by the World Trade Center twin towers. We’d also like to commemorate an old friend. The album is called Breakfast in America. Look close at the
- [Dracula a' Go-Go!](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/dracula-a-go-go/): …’Tis the season for all things spooky. Here at the ARChive, we have dug up a very appropriate album cover out of our deep dark vaults to display in our front window during Halloween week: Blues for Dracula by the legendary drummer Philly Joe Jones (AKA, The Be-Bop Vampire) (Riverside 12-282; 1958). Apparently, Jones was
- [Go Mankees!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/go-mankees/): Today we were given a wonderful donation of 500+ LPs and among the treasures was this Cold War relic, a one-sided transcription disc from Radio Liberation. No doubt the typist got a little excited while listening to the game, and inspired thousands of bewildered Soviet protesters to chant, "Mankees Go Home." We can't wait to
- [She's in the jailhouse now](https://arcmusic.org/blog/shes-in-the-jailhouse-now/): Paris Hilton is in the clink, poor thing, but jail can be a source of creativity – witness the glory of The Prisonaires. Can't wait for that new album, honey. You should try a few Leadbelly covers. – Jonny UPDATE: 'NOTHER UPDATE:
- [Ice Cream Truck Music, Today’s new BOMB Pop](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ice-cream-truck-music-todays-new-bomb-pop/): It's become that time of the year again, when the ice cream trucks come out of hibernation and flood city, town and village neighborhoods with little cascades of sound. I keep an ear as wide open for the first of the year as I do my eyes for the first Robin…the first one came REAL
- [Conga Can](https://arcmusic.org/blog/conga-can/): Check it out! The garbage cans at the airport in São Paulo, Brazil, look like conga drums! Does anyone out there know if these can be found elsewhere in São Paulo? dtn
- [ARC an "inspirational model?"](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-an-inspirational-model/): This Sunday the New York Times Magazine will focus on our pal, Zero Freitas, and his bid to create the largest record collection in the world. ARC director B. George visited Brazil to meet with Zero when we created Brazilian Music Day, and the Times article points out the fruits of that visit: "In March,
- [The One LP Project - ARC First Gallery Show](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-one-lp-project-arc-first-gallery-show/): The ARChive of Contemporary Music is pleased to present its first gallery exhibition by British photographer William Ellis. The exhibition offers 50 portraits of musicians holding one of their favorite albums. The above portrait is of Jack Bruce with his copy of Olivier Messiaen’s L'Ascension. Friday Sept 19 – Friday Oct 3 Each portrait is
- [One LP - Portraits Sold Out!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/one-lp-portraits-sold-out/): We are pleased to announce that the six portraits offered by Will Ellis sold out in a few hours! Mr. Ellis, to accompany his gallery exhibition One LP here at ARC, generously offered to photograph ARC supporters with their favorite album. We are now accepting folks for the waiting list if there are cancellations. But
- [On vacation, but the hits keep coming...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/were-closed-but-the-hits-keep-coming/): We're supposed to be on vacation, but there are just too many nice people out there who want to give the ARC a record or two! So in just the last few days we got a hundred or so from Cecil Hopkins, who dropped off his usual assortment of pop and his unusual assortment of
- [Exitos](https://arcmusic.org/blog/exitos/): NEWS FLASH This is just one of the 13,621 new recordings added to ARC's online catalog today! And on Sunday you can read a little about ARC and a Brazilian collection we helped with in the New York Times Sunday Magazine... Now back to this recording. As you may know the ARC has a great
- [It's COOL inside](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/its-cool-inside/): In the middle of a long, hot summer, what we all could use is something cool. What is cooler than Miles Davis, the man who gave birth to the concept of cool? Now appearing in the ARC Window on 54 White Street is the inside of the gatefold cover of Miles Davis’ 1985 album You’re
- [45th rpm Anniversary of the Moon Landing](https://arcmusic.org/blog/45th-rpm-anniversary-of-the-moon-landing/): Sure the main stream press and nearly everyone on this space rock can celebrate our landing on the moon, but only ARC has made sure every moonscape and space age record is preserved - sure to be party time favorites when aliens bother to pay us a visit. If you missed the news, 45 years
- [More Hairy Records Arrive](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-hairy-records-arrive/): You can never have enough fake Beatles records. So here's a new one just donated to the ARC. This cover is almost as realistic as our scariest piece of memorabilia, a pile of Richard ("MacArthur Park") Harris' hair. Don't ask how or why we got that scrap o'scalp. Cosmetology aside, new donations offer a great
- [B 4 iPhone U...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/b-4-iphone-u/): Before the iPhone there was the Talk-O-Phone, Gram-O-Phone and the Psyco-Phone. OK, maybe these are early playback devices, but who uses the iPhone as a phone these days? Face it, it's a playback device. But is yours nickle plated and housed in a faux leather case like this early cylinder player? And the Psyco-Phone was
- [Music Unusual, As Usual...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/music-inusual-as-usual/): On most weekends we go digging for records, but sometime they fall from the sky. Like this mint condition theremin double seven-inch that Fred bought in, Music Out Of The Moon. The cover claims it's "Music Unusual" and on the back you learn that, "The music in this album is an exploration...using exotic harmonies, timbre
- [Great Pretenders](https://arcmusic.org/features/great-imposters/): In a 2010 obituary, Cat Coore, the guitarist and cellist for the seminal reggae band Third World, called Gregory Isaacs "the Frank Sinatra of Jamaica." It was one of those "it’s a stretch" references, necessary throughout the world to make a foreign performer resonate in dominant culture. I've been collecting these references for 25 years
- [Sale is Over - Next Sale is December](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sale-is-over-next-sale-is-december/): Well our Sizzlin' Summer Record Sale has come to an end and this week various dealers come in and buy the leftovers. That means that the December Sale offers a fresh start with everything new! A big thanks to all the individuals and companies who donated recordings for our sale, all the great interns and
- [MW is ARC's 6,000th Record Donor!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/mw-is-arcs-6000th-record-donor/): Just acknowledged our 6,000th donor of recordings here at the ARC. Of course there are a whole lot more nice folks who have given us recordings, but we have only been keeping track for the past 20 years. So here's to Matthew W. who sent us 406 LPs and 125 CDs for the collection, including
- [Fabian… is In Our Window](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/6327/): Who doesn’t love a stuffed tiger? Fifties teen idol Fabian sure does! Dig this groovy cover of his album Hold That Tiger! Was Fabian obsessed with tigers? Perhaps. He cut the Dixieland standard “Tiger Rag” (from which the phrase “hold that tiger” comes) and “Love Me, Love My Tiger” for this album. It entered the
- [Final Weekend of ARC's Summer Sale...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-summer-sale-is-just-about-here/): Please drop by and support the ARC by coming to our Sizzlin' Summer Record + CD Sale going on everyday, 11am to 6pm, from now until Sunday June 15. More CDs than ever, lots of jazz, and a few specials - like a tablefull of swingin' new releases from Norton Records + Kicks books -
- [Keith Richards’ Blues Collection](https://arcmusic.org/features/keith-richards-blues-collection/): The Keith Richards’ Blues Collection at the ARC was launched when Mr. Richards joined our Board of Advisors in 1991. The gem of the 10,000 disc collection is the Robert Johnson 78, "Me and The Devil Blues"/"Little Queen of Spades" (Vocalion, 04108, 78rpm, 10″, 1937). Johnson (1911–1938) was a seminal bluesman, his music the launching
- [Maya Angelou](https://arcmusic.org/blog/maya-angelou/): I learned that poet and author Maya Angelou passed today. I met her a few years back - she was a bit wobbly, but as always, in fine strong voice. I showed her this LP that has always been a favorite. Not only was she a babe, but the record is actually pretty good -
- [Recent visual contributions -- Muslim World Music Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/recent-visual-contributions-muslim-world-music-day/): A lot of very nice graphics have come into the ARC office recently and will be a part of Muslim World Music Day (sure wish we had the recordings also!) on April 12. Here are a few nice ones. Chris Bishop, a record collector who originally contacted us about an unusual 45 insert, will provide
- [When You Loose Your Marbles...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/when-you-loose-your-marbles/): The IASA conference (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) wound up today here in Athens and two of the final sessions got to the heart of what is going on in the field. One room touted music minus 1, that one being people. Maybe a bit harsh, but hoards of companies and schools are
- [Greek Garage](https://arcmusic.org/blog/greek-garage/): Breezy, sunny and delightful weather here in Athens, Greece. Attending International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, IASA, where I will giving a short talk this Thursday. So what did I do 20 minutes after getting off the plane? Why, go record shopping of course. A quick trip to a flea market in Monastiraki where
- [Ellie + Emily](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ellie-emily/): Here's another early Ellie Greenwich release, as a member of the Raindrops. It feature's her song, Hanky Panky (written with Jeff Barry), that became a hit by Tommy James and the Shondells. I saw it performed by Mr. James, at the Carousel Teen Club, outside Yougstown Ohio, around '66 or '67. About the same time
- [Not that we’re obsessed...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/not-that-were-obsessed/): Not that we’re obsessed, exactly, but sometimes it seems our world actually does revolve around records. Last night I watched two films, chosen at random, one made in 1945, the other set in the same year. Now what are the chances that both had a 12” disc as major plot point? Delightfully Dangerous is a
- [Cinco de Mayo](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cinco-de-mayo/): Not quite Independence Day, but commemorating a big battle with a great outcome- that's the ARC's experience with creating our first NEW website since 1997! www.arcmusic.org We hope you'll have a look and see all the new features. Like the 250,000 records you can now search in our online catalog, or the many galleries with
- [FOR COLLECTORS ONLY (everyone is a collector)](https://arcmusic.org/blog/for-collectors-only-everyone-is-a-collector/): Artist Allen Ruppersberg has a show up in London based on a large collection of 78rpm recordings here at the ARChive. The Barrie H. Thorpe/Batavia Public Library Collection was donated to ARC last year, comprising some 48,000 seventy-eight rpm discs, and is scheduled for digitization, But for now you can virtually tour the show here,
- [What to do on a Saturday](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-to-do-on-a-saturday/): One of our favorite people, and photographer of the vinyl elite, Eilon Paz is launching his book this weekend at the PowerHouse Arena, 37 Main St, Brooklyn, New York. The fun starts at 4pm and looks like it will go late into the night at the afterparty. Party this Saturday, April 19. All the details
- [PercPan](https://arcmusic.org/features/percpan/): What's a desk jockey to do? It's been five sedentary years since my last out-of-office experience (see Colombian stories; Picolandia and Vallenato) -- much too long to go without nudging the equator, swizzle-sticking fuzzy drinks and scooping up rare petroleum based audio product. So at the end of March I took off for PercPan, the
- [I Herd of Theremins](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-herd-of-theremins/): Herding cats, collecting moonbeams, getting a great $10 dinner on the upper East Side - these are a few of the impossibilities that can't hold a candle to an upcoming NY Theremin Orchestra concert this Sat in Brooklyn. Yes they'll be waving their arms in the air (say ho!) to a hard-to-wrangle SiFi beat, slipin'
- [Warren Covington... is In Our Window](https://arcmusic.org/in-our-window/warren-covington/): The Music Window is a new blog concept developed in the laboratory of the ARChive of Contemporary Music. It consists of displaying an album cover in the ARC window (conveniently located at 54 White Street, Tribeca/lower Manhattan) every couple of weeks (or whenever we find one worthy) and saying a few words about it. With
- [Música Vallenata](https://arcmusic.org/features/musica-vallenata/): As a matter of pride and common conversation point Colombians will tell you, "Colombian accordion players are the best in the world." It's 110°, 3 am. People have been drinking very good whiskey for over five hours at a house party in Valledupar. Peacocks move across the open courtyard, kids peek out from upper floor
- [Lou Collage](https://arcmusic.org/blog/lou-collage-2/): Photographed on Church St this am - collage in window, Downtown, NYC...
- [Fleshtones](https://arcmusic.org/blog/fleshtones/): Yesterday at the ARChive, we listened to the Fleshtones's album Hexbreaker. It was awesome. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCzXvzcuIk] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPEF28DI7E]
- [Today's Special Guest](https://arcmusic.org/blog/todays-special-guest/): As happens now and again, we have visitors who knock on our door looking for records. Although we are not a record store, we do have a twice-annual record and CD sale that helps keep us going. This year, our sale starts Saturday June 23rd, and ends Sunday July 1. Once the flyer is scanned,
- [The 45 Adaptor](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-45-adaptor/): Few inventions are as useful or as elegantly simple as the "centering device for phonographic records" or put more plainly, the 45 adaptor. We have upwards of 200,000 45s here at the ARChive, and since people often just left them in their 45s, we have accumulated a rather nice collection of these little wafers over
- [Ann Coulter + Afrika Bambaataa, Together Again!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ann-coulter-afrika-bambaataa-together-again/): Strange bedfellows last night at the the We Are Family Foundation Gala in NYC. But for a good cause. The evening honored Little Steven Van Zandt and your host was ARC Board member Nile Rodgers, whose foundation mentors young high-minded go-getters and builds schools around the world. OK, so AC and AB were not on
- [Paris - Day five - Locks'o'Love](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-five-locksolove/): Passed over the Pont des Arts today, a bridge sagging from tens of thousands of padlocks, left by lovers, a recent trend here in Paris. So while I'm taking this picture, a man falls off a tour boat under us in the Seine, a police boat hurries towards him sirens blaring, two rescue guys dive
- [Paris - Day six - L'Empire des Signes](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-six-lempire-des-signes/): The Marché de Noël des Abbesses in Montmartre was offering a course on Roland Barthes this Christmas Eve, with vinyl examples... Here a vendor uses the disc to advertise his wares. Enamored by it's surface, and delighted by its re-application, I forgot to read it, or have a drink. Using vinyl discs as a canvas deKo
- [Paris - Day eight - EEU + Hungarian Zoot Suiters](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-eight-eeu-hungarian-zoot-suiters/): Today we moved Paris a bit to the East as we started the day at the massive Brassai show (born: Gyula Halász - like me, a Transylvanian) @ the Hotel de Ville, lunched at a Jewish delicatessen Sacha Finkelsztajn in the Marais (old Jewish quarter - now Yuppieville) and took in the Béla Bartók, Allegro Barbaro
- [Paris - Day ten - Noel fini + Last Django In Paris](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-ten-noel-fini-last-django-in-paris/): Keeping with yesterdays flexi theme, here's another audio bauble, both plastic and Christmasie - the Nov-Dec 1961 issue of Sonorama (No. 35, includes text and 5 white, two-sided flexi-discs, 33-1/3rpm, France, 1960. Hole for playback drilled though entire package). Aside from the format, graphics and ads (ie; everything) of interest here is the cut and
- [exhaling 2013 - inflating 2014!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/exhaleing-2013-inflating-2014/): As we deflate 2013 and welcome 2014, a big thanks to all of you who supported the ARC! Don't forget to mail that check you wrote last year, or post a donation for this year. What's coming up? We will FINALLY update our website for easier access and more content. This year will be a
- [Happy New Year from Chinatown](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-new-year-from-chinatown/): Happy Chinese New Year! And wasn't it nice of New York City to fly in a heard of Broncos to celebrate the year of the Horse on Super Sunday! I visited Chinatown for some casual music and big bangs. http://youtu.be/0sk6frz4o2A Wading through foot-high piles of red firecracker paper and dodging explosions are a thing of
- [A Hollow Muscular Organ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-hollow-muscular-organ/): Yes, it's that time of year again - Happy V day from your pals @ the ARC - B, Fred + Quinn!
- [Paris - Day 9 - Europunk + the Anonymous B.George](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-9-europunk-the-anonymous-b-george/): Today a visit to the immense and impressive music complex at the Parc de la Villette to see the exhibition Europunk @ the Cité de la Musique. Cité is a wonderful space hosting a musical instrument museum, concert, teaching and listening areas, a library and special exhibitions. Europunk showcases the influences and output of punk
- [Balkans + Benefits](https://arcmusic.org/blog/balkans-benefits/): Two things on the horizon over the next few days, to begin and round-out the MLK weekend. Once again I will be at the Balkan extravaganza that is GoldenFest. Its tonight, but I 'm going tomorrow, Saturday January 18, 2014, 6pm-2am, when nearly 100 bands are supported by hundreds of dancers at the Grand Prospect
- [The History of Jazz](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-history-of-jazz/): The history of jazz is a long, often-told story for which there are quite possibly over a hundred books. Here at the ARC, we have cataloged more than one thousand books that make reference to jazz in one way or another. In 2011, Oxford University Press published the second edition of a book suitably titled
- [ARC Holiday Record + CD Sale! Dec 7 – 15](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-record-cd-sale-dec-7-15-2/): Our Holiday Sale Starts this weekend, and we hope to see you there! Great stuff, good people, all to help support the not-for-profit ARChive of Contemporary Music. A full week of X-mas shopping fun. more than 25,000 items - More vinyl and CDs than we've had in years - all genres and formats - 45s,
- [The Wine Is Gone, but We Still Have Plenty of Records](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-wine-is-gone-but-we-still-have-plenty-of-records/): 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 the archive was a great success. As you can see from the “After”
- [I Turn the Floor Over to the Chair to Read the Record...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/i-turn-the-floor-over-to-the-chair-to-read-the-record/)
- [Punk Singles - including Lora Logic](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 by. Say Hi!
- [Swingin' Summer Record + CD Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/swingin-summer-record-cd-sale/)
- ["Some are dead and some are living…"](https://arcmusic.org/blog/some-are-dead-and-some-are-living/): Silence of the lambs... Yes it was lug nuts in the carcasses last weekend at the more-or-less annual Lamb Roast and Bulgarian Folk Music & Dance Party upstate at Breezy Hill Orchard near Poughkeepsie NY. Tell me Clarice, how noisy are those lambs? Providing the uptempo line-dance frenzy was the Kabile Bitov Wedding Band, along
- [Picture this:](https://arcmusic.org/blog/147/): Nifty update this morning on NPR of ongoing progress on a visual scanning technology for reading records that the Library of Congress is funding. A no-toucha-my-vinyl routine which will preserve a whole lotta music without damaging the original artifact. Basically this machine takes a photo of the groove and strings it out in a line
- [ARC Beatles LP worth $125,000?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-beatles-lp-worth-125000/): At the end of January Goldmine magazine published a list of recent auction sales, and we noticed that we had a few of the featured items. The headline of course is the Beatles first US LP on Vee-Jay, selling for $125,000.00 There was a lot of follow-up online chatter, some claiming the record was fake,
- [The bar has been raised.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/turn-that-bloody-thing-down/): Today, Gizmodo blogged a YouTube video of a woman playing Ode to Joy on a panpipe made from tampon applicators. It's an amazing idea whose time I am surprised hasn't yet come (apologies if it has; I am as of yet totally ignorant of it). As good as the video they posted was, the better
- [Don’t MIND me…](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dont-mind-me/): Accept it; he is the Master of Self-Suggestion. Nay, the Impossibilist. But, relax? This Reveen is in the Valley of Creepsville. The Latinate vocal pace is, we hope, slightly, electronically altered slowspeech that one could imagine the devil or an alien brain-only intelligence in a B film mouthing. The catch phrase, “I maintain at all
- [WKCR Brazilian Music Day Marathon](https://arcmusic.org/blog/screen-shot-2012-09-12-at-2-14-25-pm/): Radio – Full Day of INCREDIBLE Brazilian Music Day on WKCR. 89.9fm Go to site linked above and you can stream this event... Sept 12 – 13. Wed, one pm – Thurs, one am. 12 hours of Brazilian Music in coordination with the ARC’s Brazil Music Day. With LIVE performances! 2pm Nanny Assys and friends
- [Picolandia!](https://arcmusic.org/features/picolandia/): "See. Up, down...up, down...pick up, pico." Dago, one of Colombia's mobile DJs was defining the term "pico." It's slang for the tonearm or "pick-up arm" you raise and lower to cue a record, and, by extension, it has come to mean a mobile DJ's entire set-up. Language being what it is, sometimes the DJs refer
- [bacteria music](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bacteria-music/): Apparently a team of researchers at Keio University in Japan are coming up with a way of storing data in Bacteria. The linked article reads: "Character combinations can stand for specific letters and symbols -- so codes in genomes can be translated, or read, to produce music, text, video and other content." It gets me
- [Our First Post.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/4/): Welcome to our blog, this is our first post. Phast Phreddie's phavorite album is Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. Ever since he was a teenager, this record has been his springboard into all sorts of different music, including delta blues, free jazz and anything that sounds as if it will never be on top 40
- [What's On at the ARChive?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-on-at-the-archive/): Today, Bryan picked out this record by The Baroques for us to listen to. He tells me it's quite valuable and has always been curious about what it sounds like: Chess Records 1967 psychedelia madness. You know, there might be nothing more haunting than a prop baby doll without eyes. Yes, the music's groovy (really,
- [Hoo Hah!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hoo-hah/): If you are old enough to remember when MAD Magazine was subversive – I kid you not: it really was an under-the-parents'-radar how-to journal of anarchy for preteens – then you know the central importance of Jack Davis. One of the original "usual bunch of idiots", his knobby, loose-limbed art was a perfect visual conception
- [Bo Diddley is Our Hero.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bo-diddley-is-our-hero/): From all of us here at the ARChive to all of you, Bo Diddley. We wish you well on a speedy recovery. Without you, there'd be a lot less interesting music to listen to.
- [Calypso Website and Radio Show](https://arcmusic.org/blog/calypso-website-and-radio-show/): Right now at the ARChive, we're listening to Irwin Chusid's excellent radio show "Muriel's Treasure" on WFMU. It happens every Wednesday from 2:00-3:00 and can be streamed simply by navigating over to the WFMU website. Muriel's Treasure now has a blog, upon which you will find scans of of really wonderful older calypso album covers.
- [Thank you Ms. Ariel!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/thank-you-ms-ariel/): Yesterday, Ariel Hyatt of Ariel Publicity donated nearly 1200 CDs to the ARChive!! For the rest of the day, Bryan, Diana and I went through them to determine what we needed and what we could sell (The ARChive sells the third copy of any item that enters its domain). Result (numbers are approximate): 1100 CDs
- [Crazy Bumpkins](https://arcmusic.org/blog/crazy-bumpkins/): B here. Am in Singapore with Göran Andersson, who is on our Board of Trustees in ARC’s Paris office, to discuss the possibilities of an ARCeast. Singapore is an oasis of hygiene in South East Asia. Think of it as similar to Japan, but casual. Despite the rumors and reality of a rigid society, the
- [Back from Bahia](https://arcmusic.org/blog/back-from-bahia/): Dan here, just back from the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) meeting in Bahia, where I presented a paper looking at the intersection of early Jamaican mento records, eBayers in Jamaica and eBay's potential role in the theory of historical ethnomusicology. I'm glad to say that it went very well. A big thanks to the panel
- [The MP1 is in the Lotus](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-mp1-is-in-the-lotus/): No idea exactly what to call this playback device, but found it in a religious store, between a Buddhist and Hindu temple in the Little Indian section of Singapore. Buttons on top switches tracks, and this battery operated chocolate colored plastic item has a power chord outlet, volume control, and an earphones pinport. Slap a
- [The Making of a Governor](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-making-of-a-governor/): In January of '07, ARC was asked to create the soundtrack to accompany the exhibit "Making of a Governor" that would also be played at the New York City reception for the new Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Station. The trick was to find interesting songs about places
- [Boris Vian, instrumentiste](https://arcmusic.org/blog/85/): I first heard about Boris Vian (3/10/1920 – 6/23/1959) in James Campbell’s Paris Interzone, heralded in the punk-friendly chapter head, "We will spit on Boris Vian." Interzone describes literary post-war Paris seen from the perspective of Black American expats and the porn publishers who embraced their writings. "J'irai cracher sur vos tombes" (I Shall Spit
- [The Buddha Box is Back!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-buddha-box-is-back/): Readers will doubtlessly remember B.George's post a little while back about the Buddha Box. Well, when B.George finally returned from Singapore, a demonstration was in order. Turns out, his box has 18 loops of nirvana-seeking awesomeness. It runs either on three AA batteries or, on an AC adapter, which is made for American outlets, leading
- [The Boys in the Backroom](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-boys-in-the-backroom/): Every year there is a major music industry trivia contest organized by Rich Appel up at Sony, and a cast of indefatigable characters in-and-out of the music industry. They have a lot of fun and the event raises money for good causes. This year ARC’s B. George combined his "hobby" of watching films with his
- [The sound of Greenland melting](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-sound-of-greenland-melting/): I wonder if this is a relatively new sound that is now happening more often (thus providing sonic evidence that climate change), or something indigenous Greenlanders have heard for hundreds of years? (I suspect the former.)
- [Checkout](https://arcmusic.org/blog/checkout/): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J1U7rcTLZE] O, you and your notions of Western modernity, superiority, creativity. I'm in Singapore and that America is in yesterday's timezone is more than a metaphor. This is the book checkout system in Singapore at all the libraries. A credit card, National identification card, or just about any valid ID can get you some good
- [Fame.  Sweet, sweet fame.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/fame-sweet-sweet-fame/): Yes, you read right, I'm famous and it's sweeter than Yoo-Hoo. The other day, an Associated Press reporter interviewed me for a podcast called "Lick for Licks" about ice cream truck music. I understand that this particular division of the AP is aimed at smaller, regional newspapers looking to grow their online presence. The papers
- [Spotlight on Singles](https://arcmusic.org/blog/spotlight-on-singles/): The other day I was down in the dungeon (ARC's basement where we keep the 45s) searching for Sly & the Family Stone singles for a Vanity Fair project. While there, I found these four groovy records: The first was "The Mash" by Bud Spudd & the Sprouts. This is basically the exact same
- [Paris, Back in the Hoose Cow](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-back-in-the-hoose-cow/): [Added June 19: HEY! FOR ANOTHER PARIS COMPARISON, CLICK HERE!] [...and don't forget our big summer sale!] Quelle pauvre! Paris, she is going back to the slam! I thought I might commemorate the event with a list of "prison" songs (Don'tcha Hear Poor Mother Calling, Paris?). However, we have SO many albums with a
- [Chlorine your eyes, pop your ears!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/chlorine-your-eyes-pop-your-ears/): Today, we've invited our friend and volunteer Diana to write a post on the topic of her choosing. (She has her own blog, wouldn't you know?) Enjoy! =============== The ice cream trucks are tinkling away, mosquitoes are out for blood, and free summer concerts have begun. Despite the fact that we are still twenty-one days
- [Mento, Calypso, The Beat, Oh My!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/mento-calypso-the-beat-oh-my/): This month's issue of The Beat arrived today. Although it's special because it's the "25th Annual Bob Marley and the Wailers Collectors Edition," it has particular meaning for me because it includes two obituaries I wrote about friends who have recently passed: mento singer Alerth Bedasse (lead singer of the 1950s group, the Chin's Calypso
- [New ARChive Uniforms!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/new-archive-uniforms/): In Singapore they are offerings to the dead. Here in NYC they're a fashion statement. Bob brought all the kids sacrificial paper shirts. Mine is an example of a very rare imprint; Ralph Lauren's Pollo. Tastes great with arroz y frijoles negros. – Jonny
- [Best case scenario for an Ethnomusicologist.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/best-case-scenario-for-an-ethnomusicologist/): Yea, so what if Xeni Jardin got there first. I'm loving it, so it goes up here, too. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7qxbD1tk18]
- [DOG DAZE O’SUMMER record + cd sale! ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dog-daze-osummer-record-cd-sale/): FOLKS! It's that time of the year for the big DOG DAZE O’SUMMER record + cd sale! Our sale raises money to help fund the ARChive. It begins Saturday, JUNE 23 and lasts until Sunday, JULY 1 and runs from 11 am to 6 pm everyday. The sale is held at our ground floor office
- [Ice Cream Wars](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ice-cream-wars/): Today, Boing Boing did a little bit on the Ice Cream Patent Wars of the 1930s and linked to two archive.gov articles by Jefferson Moak entitled The Frozen Sucker War: Good Humor v. Popsicle (click here for links to part one and part two; it's a wonderful article). It's got some neat-o pictures in it,
- [Another great donation.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/another-great-donation/): Today the ARChive received an incredibly generous donation from a fellow whose marriage was in jeopardy—his wife told him to get rid of his records, or to get rid of her. With that ultimatum, he packed up more than 30 or so years of record collection into more than 40 boxes and called the
- [Reggae.  ReggaeReggaeReggae.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/reggae-reggaereggaereggae/): One afternoon in late 2002 (November?), while I was living in Jamaica doing fieldwork on mento for my dissertation, I bumped into Colby Graham at the National Library's circulation desk. I don't exactly remember why we started talking - maybe someone suggested we compare notes? - but I'm sure glad we did. Colby was there
- [Yes, It's Perfunctory Now.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/yes-its-perfunctory/): On father's day, a singer named John Ogrodowczyk sang "God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch at the Red Sox game at Fenway. Normally I change the channel during this little bit of baseball "tradition" because I feel like it was an arbitrary and fairly poor choice of songs, but I quite liked John
- [More Paris Hilton Madness!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-paris-hilton-madness/): Today is the ARC is annexing the adjacent space so we have some friends over helping us prepare four our BIG SUMMER SALE (I encourage anyone in NYC reading this to clink on the link and learn more). One of the folks lending a hand in the expansion is our friend BeBop. (Some context: BeBop
- [Tiki ARChive.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/99/): So, it's Wednesday again. ARChive insiders know that can mean only one thing: Hawaiian Shirt Day is here again. Also known as Tropical Shirt Day, or occasionally referred to as Day of Phony Pan-Polynesian Cultural Appreciation. Nerds? Maybe. But the whole staff came through today which is especially encouraging since this is a day of
- [What a Difference a Day Makes!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-a-difference-a-day-makes/): Overture, curtain, lights This is it, the night of nights! Members, don't forget! Tonight is our big pre-sale party! We want to see you all there not simply because we love you,and not merely because this will be our biggest sale EVAR, but because we want to show off our new space. That's right, we've
- [National Day of Stryper](https://arcmusic.org/blog/national-day-of-stryper/): Last night's members pre-sale party went GREAT, thanks to all the members who stopped by, and to all the new members who signed up! Today we're busily preparing for tomorrow, the first "official" day of our summer sale. It promises to be a grand time in the new space, and we look forward to seeing
- [Hey Joe, Where You Gonna Go (With Gary US Bonds in Your Hand)?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hey-joe-where-you-gonna-go-with-gary-us-bonds-in-your-hand/): Sunday is a slow day at the sale, so I decided to punch a hole through the wall from the old to the new space. Drill in hand, I exit oldARC and who do I see, like a vision, crossing in the middle of the street, but THE Joe Franklin, NYC’s legendary talk show (on
- [Guess what I have in my hand](https://arcmusic.org/blog/guess-what-i-have-in-my-hand/): I'm becoming a bit of a specialist, I'm afraid. Whenever a comedy record comes over the transom, usually found tucked discreetly in a dark corner of a large donation of music, it lands on my desk. Don't know what gave it away, but when this one surfaced there was a distinct suspicion that it might
- [Gore Verbinski, Pirate of 1980s Punk Rock](https://arcmusic.org/blog/gore-verbinski-pirate-of-1980s-punk-rock/): The other day I was cataloging a box of 80s punk and metal records (lots and lots of bad 80s metal from Metal Blade Records) and came across this record: Not a bad cover, I s'pose. Anyway, it stood out because it was the only record in the box that had a textured sleeve. (Plus,
- [Pour some Shuggie on me](https://arcmusic.org/blog/pour-some-shuggie-on-me/): Did a little shopping for my brother-in-law's birthday at the ARChive sale today. Is everyone hip to this trip? Shuggie Otis' Inspiration Information re-issued on vinyl, with bonus tracks, we got a big stack of them, AND THEY ARE TWO DOLLARS APIECE! A slice of pizza costs more. Dave's a fan of all things Otis:
- [Tiki Redux](https://arcmusic.org/blog/122/): Wednesday is Hawaiian Shirt day, again. Let the ukuleles ring out, and we'll celebrate with one of my favorite cereal commercials: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvCxfdcl1yM] Aloha, – Jonny
- [A Sprinkling of Dub](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-sprinkling-of-dub/): Today the ARChive got a package from Sanctuary Records that included some really amazing albums. In the glamorous world of ARChiving, what happens normally is that material shows up, it gets cataloged and it gets put away. Now and again, we pull things aside we want to hear and since I opened the box, THIS
- [The Anti iPhone Contest.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-anti-iphone-contest/): Edit: ALL SYSTEMS GO NOW! GO HERE TO HEAR! Yes, the iPhone's out and I can't read anything without having to wade through all sorts of iPhone crap. I'm sure our readers have had enough about the iPhone as well, so in the spirit of antiquated-technology-as resistance, I offer you a contest. If you're game,
- [Avril v. Rubinoos:  Is it theft if you leave out the hook?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/avril-v-rubinoos-is-it-theft-if-you-leave-out-the-hook/): So Avril Lavigne is getting sued for stealing the Rubinoos' super pop classic "I Wanna be Your Boyfriend" First, let me say I like both these songs a lot. What can I say? I'm a sucker for bubblegum! Naturally in the interest of cosmic justice Avril should cough up a big wad of cash just
- [7-7-07!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/7-7-07/): Happy National Day of Stryper, y'all! How are you celebrating? Let us know in comments! I know I said I'd be listening to metal, but instead I'm writing and listening to dub: In a couple of minutes I'm going to mess around on my banjo a little (a tenor banjo at that). The banjo...a devil's
- [An Exotic Sheet Music Cover Collection Online!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/an-exotic-sheet-music-cover-collection-online/): While cataloging New York based organizations for the New York Musicians Index and Archive (or the NYMIA, a forthcoming resource for musicians in New York State), I found a really cool link on the New York Sheet Music Society's web site to the "Hula Pages," a website whose purpose (according to it's "introduction" page) "is
- [Music of the Living Dead.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/music-of-the-living-dead/): Compliments of 1982... HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC AND ITS ILLEGAL I come across this kind of a lot on records from the late 70s and early 80s. If someone makes this into a t-shirt, please send some over to the ARChive, size XL. Thanks!
- [Dr. Luke Exposed: Rubinoos v. Avril part deux](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dr-luke-exposed-rubinoos-v-avril-part-deux/): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Ec9sRh8FI] Nice. Every time I listen the conviction that the "old people," as the Rubinoos are known on the Avril Lavigne fan forums, totally kick teenybopper ass. In the comments section of part one of the Avy-noos saga HeyHeyYouYou outs producer and co-author of "Girlfriend" the nefarious Dr. Luke's alleged machinations bearing directly on the
- [I bet Avril has never even HEARD of Peaches!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/shes-never-heard-this-song-in-her-life/): Over on AbsolutePunk they're doing the vergleichende Musikwissenschaft thing again, this time examining the connections between Avril Lavine's "I Don't Have To Try" and "I'm The Kinda" by Peaches. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0d2z-dWZmE] Oh, when are they gonna leave it alone. The two CLEARLY don't sound alike! Looks like Avril's people are going to have be on the
- [iPhone Contest (continued)](https://arcmusic.org/blog/iphone-contest-continued/): Yes, folks, my "New Edison-style Cup Phonograph Kit" has arrived safe and sound. Now, when you send your contest entries in, I should be able to listen to them. (If you're just finding our blog, I launched the "Greatest Contest Ever" a little while back. Cicking on the link here will take you to that
- [Shoutout to Mr. Butch](https://arcmusic.org/blog/shoutout-to-mr-butch/): A friend just told me that a Boston institution, Mr. Butch (the King of Kenmore Square) has passed. Vaya con dios, sir. http://bostonist.com/2007/07/12/boston_has_lost.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Butch
- [Jr.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/junior-reid-in-brooklyn/): So I took the ‘G’ train. I’ve never taken the ‘G’ train. NO ONE has ever taken the ‘G’ train. But two Dutch stops later ( Hoyt-Schermerhorn and Bedford-Nostrand} I was in Bed-Sty, past alternating magnificent and run-down town houses, passing under the only ponderosa pine I’ve ever seen on a NY street, approaching Von
- [Woody Guthrie](https://arcmusic.org/blog/woody-guthrie/): Tomorrow, July 14, Woody Guthrie would have turned 95. Happy birthday, Woody! Here's a short little clip of him playing (gotta love the part where the narrator says "lost in archives for over 40 years"; sounds so nefarious): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5NJKx8ObDY] Also, some really interesting news from the Woody Guthrie Archive: The Live Wire, Woody Guthrie in
- [Wanted!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/149/): “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.” Sure, anyone can quote a clown. But for your consideration, “Notes”
- [Rubinoos / Avril update](https://arcmusic.org/blog/rubinoos-avril-update/): Part three, kids, hang in there. In case anyone was curious, the musicologist the Lavigne camp hired is Anthony Ricigliano. He was the expert – on the losing side – when the Isley Brothers sued Michael Bolton. In 1994, a jury found that Michael Bolton's 1991 pop hit, "Love Is a Wonderful Thing," infringed on
- [Dashboard Confessional Secret Show!  To-nite!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dashboard-confessional-secret-show-to-nite/): So, b.ARC comes in today and says "hey, you got your camera? There's a line of people outside of the Knit. Go over and figure out what's going on." The Knitting Factory is one of our neighbors, so I waltzed right over and was back in a flash. Here is what the scene looked like
- [Dashboard Confessional at the Knitting Factory Part II!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dashboard-confessional-at-the-knitting-factory-part-ii/): As promised, here is a picture of the line for Dashboard Confessional's free show at the Knitting Factory. A few comments about the photo: I love how happy the guy in the front in the hat looks. And he deserves to be-he's at the front of the line! Why, for that moment he was the
- [Paris Hilton has nothing to do with Hawaiian Shirt Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-hilton-has-nothing-to-do-with-hawaiian-shirt-day/): This is a watershed Wednesday. Everybody came be-decked in their ersatz Polynesian finery. It's getting embarrassing. Maybe next week we'll bring in our ukuleles. Hang loose, wahinis.
- [Never Talking, Just Keeps Walking ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/never-talking-just-keeps-walking/): Spreading his magic... What with the imminent release of the newest and last Harry Potter book, this morning's Marketplace ran a little feature on Wizard Rock. Well, this piqued our interest here at the ARChive because we maintain a database of genres, and Wizard Rock wasn't in it. Until today. So what is it, you
- [Tunes and Beer](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tunes-and-beer/): Brian McNamara, Tim Collins* and Michael Rooney Yep, the craic was good and the tunes were flying this week at the annual Irish Arts Week in East Durham New York. We were only able to manage a last gap weekend visit, but seeing friends and playing in some nice sessions made the trip worthwhile.
- [Kioku / Happy Fun Smile](https://arcmusic.org/blog/kioku-happy-fun-smile/): My friend Wynn Yamami leads a great experimental music group called "Kioku" (Japanese for "memory"), and they're going on a west coast tour this summer. You can go to their myspace page to hear what they sound like, but if you'd rather see them in action (and who wouldn't?) look no further. Here they are
- [Oops!  There Comes A Smile!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/oops-there-comes-a-smile/): Click on any cover for a larger view. Tammy Faye fell from grace Tammy Faye had a make-up face She + Jesus cut lots of wax “Oops” is our favorite trac RIP TFB 7/23 Select Discography (or, "Tammy" things, plus other relevant material easily at hand): Jim & Tammy & Their Friends. Building on the
- [Hotcha!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hotcha/): Wandering around the internets recently I found a really well done blog entitled = VITAPHONE VARIETIES = Observations On Film, Music & Imagery of the Past ARChivers, as inveterate fans of antique recording technology (and rabid ukulele heads) will dig these pages to the infinite. There's tons of art and fabulous sound clips to illustrate
- [Harry Bradshaw at the ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/harry-bradshaw-at-the-arc/): For fans of Irish music, Harry Bradshaw is something of a household name. Although long an engineer and producer at RTE, what he is probably best known is his work researching and reissuing Irish music recorded during the 78rpm era. Indeed, most of the era's music was recorded in the United States and shipped back
- [Carolina Chocolate Drops](https://arcmusic.org/blog/carolina-chocolate-drops/): The opening act at NYC's Downtown River to River Festival series tonight was a group called the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The group consists of Justin Robinson (fiddle, vocal), Rhiannon Giddens (banjo, vocal), Dom Flemons (banjo, guitar, jug, vocal) and Sule Greg Wilson (percussion, vocal). You'll see them described in press coverage as: "An African-American string
- [Queens in Space](https://arcmusic.org/blog/queens-in-space/): Congrats to Brian May, for FINALLY turning in his doctorial thesis, "Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud," to supervisors at Imperial College London. May explained he had placed the draft in a guitar case in 1970, while he was still a student. Then with the success of Queen, well, other velocities took over.
- [If you keep picking at it, it'll never heal.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/if-you-keep-picking-at-it-itll-never-heal/): A band most of us here had never heard as of two weeks ago is now part of our life. We found this while cataloging today. I bet it's the best record ever.
- [Anti iPhone Contest: All Systems Go!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/anti-iphone-contest-all-systems-go/): Hey kids! Remember our Anti iPhone Contest? Well, it's still on [not really - check below]! But what's changed is that I can now listen back to your submissions! As you can see, my New Edison-style Cup Phonograph Kit is here, it's together and it's fabulous. Really, it's exceeded my expectations. Now, don't buy this
- [Garage Sale Find](https://arcmusic.org/blog/garage-sale-find/): Last week the Baroness Von Oomph and I made the scene in the swingin' Finger Lakes region of New York State. If you are a fan of Coneys (local white hot dogs) root beer, drive-ins and very skinny lakes, go there. Nuff said. And did I mention world class thrift stores? Here's one score which
- [Goodbye Tom Snyder](https://arcmusic.org/blog/goodbye-tom-snyder/): CNN's reported that Tom Snyder died yesterday. Snyder had lots of important musicians through his various shows over the years, including John Lennon, Johnny Rotten, Kiss, Iggy Pop, The Plasmatics, U2, the Grateful Dead and this band, The Clash: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiazWlawUY]
- [Death Goes To The Movies](https://arcmusic.org/blog/death-goes-to-the-movies/): So if you weren't paying attention to the Spears/Federline bust up, you will have noticed the death of Ingmar Bergman. But another giant of post-war art cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni passed on the same day, bad luck for him because I don't think he got the ink he deserved. Everyone will have his own take on
- [Hey, a-look!  Is enough pizza to have a Party!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hey-a-look-is-enough-pizza-to-have-a-party/): As I was looking through the ARChive's Biz Markie holdings, I happened upon Pizza Party, a 1957 album featuring accordionist Joe Biviano. Joe who, who ask? A founding member of the American Accordionists' Association (and its President from 1942-5, 48-9, 61-2 and 67-8), Biviano got his musical education at the Damrosch Conservatory and was an
- [What I did this weekend.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-i-did-this-weekend/): On Saturday I went to the Ulster County Fair. It was great. There were 4-H (the four Hs are Head, Heart, Hands and Health) exhibits, a chainsaw sculptor, barbecue, a petting zoo, a wild animal exhibit (with lemurs, a kangaroo and a panther!) fried pickles (totally awesome, by the way) and pig races: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A8RbaJuz3A] And,
- [Helicopter Girl on Hawaiian Shirt Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/helicopter-girl-on-hawaiian-shirt-day/): It's a long story: P. went to Sweden as a High School exchange student. P. loved it. Abba dominated the airwaves. P. was an amateur classical cellist. Later in life, P. went back to Sweden to learn to weave. One of her Swedish "sisters," Annmari, gave her an LP of Swedish folk music, by "Skaggmanslaget"
- [Hep Cats, N'est-ce pas?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hep-cats-nest-ce-pas/): Last weekend the hillbilly combo I am a member of, Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co., played the Red Hot and Blue Rockabilly Weekend fest in beautiful St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. Kind of a hike for us, but we had a wonderful time. We shared the bill with Sun recording legends Sonny Burgess and the Pacers.
- ["A Kazoo With Strings"](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-kazoo-with-strings/): Over at Boing Boing yesterday, Cory Doctorow blogged about Patrick Costello, a Maryland based banjoist who wrote a book - free online, with a creative commons license - called the How and Tao of Old Time Banjo. Costello's quite prolific with the pedagogical materials. He has written a couple of other books, posts lessons on
- [Acoustic Pulmonary Imaging](https://arcmusic.org/blog/acoustic-pulmonary-imaging/): Anyone who has read Jonathan Sterne's work on audile technique and mediate auscultation (and for those interested in the cultural history of sound reproduction, Sterne's The Audible Past is a must read) will appreciate the potential of this, a new device that will help aid the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory conditions. According to a
- [It Makes Brushing Okay, I Suppose. ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/awesome/): Hasbro has a product line called "Tooth Tunes" which consists of toothbrushes that play music while you brush your teeth. What makes these toothbrushes different is that you hear the music through your teeth via bone conduction while you brush. They even have a new commercial that makes brushing your teeth look like rockin' party
- [More Osteo-Musicology](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-osteo-musicology/): To prove there's nothing new under the sun, witness the Bone Fone. A classic white elephant of the 'Seventies, you could usually find one in anyone's basement next to the yogurt maker and the wood burning kit, waiting patiently for the next yard sale. The principle is the same as your Tooth Tunes; vibrations are
- [Cugat](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cugat/): Everytime you think you’ve seen it all, done it all, lived long enough – wham, there it is, in a pile, on the ground, at a flea market – the Cugat Calypso Tie Collection. No matter that Calypso + Cugat go together like cha-hua-huas + timbales, this is another example of choice music-related fabric and
- [Crazy like a fox.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/crazy-like-a-fox/): God knows we love Britney Spears, y'all. But she's troubled. Oh, so troubled. "Celebrity train wreck" troubled. The divorce from K-Fed, rumors of a sex tape, botched rehab, crotch shots, hair weaves that don't fool anyone, greasy couture chicken fingers and a falling out with her momma. But now, we're seeing reports that the next
- [Happy Birthday, The CD.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-birthday-the-cd/): Today is the 25th anniversary of the compact disc. Although there seems to be some consensus that today is indeed the CD's silver anniversary, astute readers may note that different sources disagree over which one of the above three CDs was in fact "the first CD ever." Allow me to untangle: CNN says it
- [Past Lives](https://arcmusic.org/blog/past-lives/): If you ask, nearly everyone you know went to Woodstock, or was in a band, or once dated someone in the Eagles - or at least it seems that way. So it's nice to see some proof every now and then. [Joshua Light biz card; click on this and other images for larger view] Our
- [In Today's ARChivewear Fashion](https://arcmusic.org/blog/in-todays-archivewear-fashion/): When I arrived, I learned that it wasn't simply Hawaiian Shirt Day, but that it was Tiki Hawaiian Shirt Day. Neither Jon nor I have tikis on our Hawaiian shirts, so once again B. and Phreddie are Wednesday's fashion elite. Here they are: Now the reason for Tiki-specific Hawaiian Shirt Day (every Wed @ ARC)
- [French Girls Are Vicious!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/french-girls-are-vicious/): As you head out on vacances let us suggest some light reading... ARCster B., having donated all his records to the ARC, exposed a gap in his psyche. Luckily, rushing in to fill the abyss were the ladies of France. Go to his new webthing, http://www.ouiouipulp.info to view his collection of French pulp fiction paperbacks...
- [Cool T-shirt of the day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cool-t-shirt-of-the-day/): Today, this T-shirt was spotted on a fellow talking on his cell phone across the street from the ARChive. This is one way of saying "corporate rock sucks."
- [RIP Jah Jerry](https://arcmusic.org/blog/rip-jah-jerry/): August 11, 1921 - August 13 2007 [dailymotion id=12x6bSM2C1JevjyIf]
- [Beat & the Unbeat](https://arcmusic.org/blog/beat-the-unbeat/): Never one to miss an opportunity to hear some Spontaneous Beat Prosody, while grazing at a local purveyor of vinyl slabs I recently laid a paper George Washington head on the checked-out counter and strolled away with this item. Click here to take a tour of Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. Jean Shepherd does
- [Brooklyn Baseball](https://arcmusic.org/blog/brooklyn-baseball/): Well the Sox are in town, and baseball fever grips the ARC. Fred, our archivist, is star (only) softball pitcher for the “The People”, who ended the season tied for first place (MAYBE a playoff?) in the amateur Zen League last evening in Brooklyn. So in his honor we offer this baseball flexi-disc, with Brooklyn
- [The Message: Run-Off Grooves and Pop Music Consciousness](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-message-run-off-grooves-and-pop-music-consciousness/): In the manufacture of phonograph records, there are a number of blank or "musicless" grooves at the end of each record. These are put there for several reasons, among them the inability of the operator of the recording machine to raise the recording stylus from the "master-wax" immediately after the last note is recorded
- [One Billion Year Old Run-off Groove](https://arcmusic.org/blog/one-billion-year-old-run-off-groove/): Thirty years ago today the US Government launched Voyager 1, a spacecraft designed to provide data on Jupiter and Saturn. By now scientists expected Voyager to be damaged or lost, yet it is still zooming through space, more than 10 billion miles out and transmitting data. As a concession to perhaps a two-way exchange, astronomers
- [Elvis was the male Janis Martin](https://arcmusic.org/blog/elvis-was-the-male-janis-martin/): Janis Martin, rockabilly immortal, passed away this week. Sadly, she will forever be known, courtesy of the boys in publicity at RCA, as "The Female Elvis". That moniker would be plenty for a novelty flash-in-the-pan mediocrity trying to cash in on the rock 'n' roll fad before it was swept aside by the impending tide
- [Teen-a-rama!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/teen-a-rama/): So this week K. and I are wading through decades of accumulated crapola in preparation for the big yard sale (11th Street near First Ave. this Saturday, if you're around) and we uncovered this vintage Beatles scrapbook. This was given to K. long, long ago by a girl she worked with when she lived in
- [I WAKE UP SCREAMING](https://arcmusic.org/blog/i-wake-up-screaming/): The world’s first post-modern film is I Wake Up Screaming from 1941. The culture-quotes are relentless, beginning with the Gershwin-esque music intro, a quick take on Pygmalion/Galatea, a restaging of a Hopper diner scene, a protagonist named for a early Renaissance Florentine painter, endless “Over the Rainbow” variations and enough Citizen Kane-like angles to make
- [If Artists Ran the Country . . .](https://arcmusic.org/blog/if-artists-ran-the-country/): I acquired this poem in Tompkins Square Park, which is located in the East Village section of New York City, during the recent HOWL Festival. No mention is made of what musicians would do if artists ran the country, but I imagine every street corner would resonate with the sweet and sour sounds of the
- [Satan™ v. Jesus™: Who Cares? the West Memphis Three still aren't free.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/satan-v-jesus-who-cares-the-west-memphis-three-still-arent-free/): If you saw the documentary Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills , (1996) or the 2000 follow-up, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, you already know about the West Memphis Three; Damien Echols, sentenced to death, and Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin, sentenced to life in prison for the murders of three young boys
- [Hey You Guy-ys!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hey-you-guy-ys/): Sure, we all watched the Electric Company at one point or another. Chock full of famous actors (Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman were regulars while folks like Gene Wilder, Victor Borge, Mel Brooks and Joan Rivers all popped in now and then). But what do we know about the people who provided the
- [Pop and Lock](https://arcmusic.org/blog/pop-and-lock/): The ARChive is a deep and wonderful place. As I was sorting through the children's section for the records I wrote about yesterday, I came across these two gems, both from 1984 and I just had to share. First, we have Break Dancin' For Fun and Fitness (Atlantic 80187-1) It's a gatefold talk-over instructional album
- [popPULPmusic](https://arcmusic.org/blog/pulpmusic/): By now you've all seen our collection of French pulp paperbacks at ouiouipulp.com, but did you know we also have pulled together a few of our favorite paperbacks pertaining to music? Oh sure we have 25,000 old fashioned popular music books here at ARC, but these are 'special' - not histories, biographies or discographies, but
- [Sonny Rollins live at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday September 18, 2007](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sonny-rollins-live-at-carnegie-hall-tuesday-september-18-2007sonny-rollins-live-at-carnegie-hall-tuesday-september-18-2007/): On November 29, 1957, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins played at Carnegie Hall for the first time leading his own group--a trio consisting of ex-Duke Ellington bassist Wendall Marshall and drummer Kenny Dennis. Although he was only 27 at the time, Rollins had already played and/or recorded with such leading lights of modern jazz as Bud
- [One of Six](https://arcmusic.org/blog/one-of-six/): Canadian poet/singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen was born in Montreal on this day in 1934. Cohen was an accomplished literary figure prior to beginning his now four-decade-long recording career for Columbia Records. Along with most of his Columbia Records catalog the ARChive's holdings include the hard-to-find Folkways Records release Six Montreal Poets (FL 9805) which was issued
- [Boop, Boop, Shakey Jake Woods Is on the Move](https://arcmusic.org/blog/boop-boop-shakey-jake-woods-is-on-the-move/): If you've spent any time in Ann Arbor, MI in the past thirty years it's likely you are familiar with the inimitable Shakey Jake Woods. He was a constant presence around town, playing his guitar and waving at people passing by while dressed in his signature suit, hat, dark sunglasses, and colorful scarf. Many people
- [That Transitional Time of Year](https://arcmusic.org/blog/that-transitional-time-of-year/): Yes, once again, as we drift through time, and green turns to brown, its the soothing T-Rex sound of "Celebrate Summer" that prepares us for the shock of Jackie Gleason's raucous "Autumn Leaves". T.Rex. "Celebrate Summer" / "Ride My Wheeles" EMI, MARC 18, 45rpm, 7" single, 1977 vs Jackie Gleason. conducting "Autumn Leaves" / "Can
- [Sputnikary](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sputnikary/): For more than 20 years now ARC has been setting aside singles and LPs, sheet music and CDs, all with space age themes. The goal is a gallery show, when we gets a gallery, titled, “Music of the Spheres.” What better time to highlight some of these gems than the 50th Sputnikary. Appropriately, about the
- [Calling All Vipers](https://arcmusic.org/blog/calling-all-vipers/): Today's blog concerns the evils of the demon weed. Tell your children, Mr. and Mrs. America OR THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHjHFkDZ1nk&rel=1] Well, that's what we were supposed to believe in 1936. The truth is marijuana can have a negative effect on your short term memory, which could mean you forgot on which Bad
- [We Love Joe.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/we-love-joe/): As B., Phreddie, Jon and I turned the corner of White Street on the way to work this morning, we noticed Joe Torre sitting on our stoop. Just sitting there, waiting. When we got close, he stood up, stretched out his hand and sheepishly said "hey guys...guess you musta heard about the game last night.
- [Boogie Children](https://arcmusic.org/blog/boogie-children/): A couple weeks ago the Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. played a show at Banjo Jim's. Hijinx ensued, as always, what was unusual was how much I liked the band following us – Swamp Cabbage. Strange because musically the two groups are as different as Hillbilly Boogie and Southern Boogie (or as the lads
- [WM3 Shocker: Satanic Ritual Abuse isn't real!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/wm3-shocker-satanic-ritual-abuse-isnt-real/): The Damien Echols defense team have filed a new motion which you can read in full here. The DNA evidence, as hinted in the earlier West Memphis 3 post, points to another individual. Also the wounds on the children's bodies that had every quack self-appointed "expert" screaming "Satanic Ritual" seem now to be consistent with
- [Old Dirty.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/old-dirty/): On this date in 2004, the world lost Ol' Dirty Bastard, a.k.a. O.D.B., a.k.a. Dirt McGirt. I had a brush with O.D.B. once. It was an afternoon in the late 1990s and I was sitting in front of the Knitting Factory on Leonard Street waiting for my friend Jordan, when out of nowhere O.D.B. walked
- [Tis the Season...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tis-the-season/): Tis the Season. This time of year every night is party night in the city. Tuesday it was The Gish Prize ceremony for Laurie Anderson. The event began with a short piano solo by Phil Glass, lots of nice words and some new-fashioned story tellin’ by LA. One bonus was the reunion of all
- [It's Official](https://arcmusic.org/blog/its-official/): It's Official - Today, The New York Times became the Onion - the headline reads : "Study Links Drop in Test Scores to a Decline in Time Spent Reading" And may we suggest: "Music Linked to Instances of Listening"
- [Larry King Live From Death Row](https://arcmusic.org/blog/larry-king-live-from-death-row/): From CNN's webpages: "It's another Larry King Live exclusive! Damien Echols' interview from Death Row. Does he belong in jail at all? Evidence - or lack of it - has many asking questions in this controversial case involving the murders of three boys in 1993." Anybody who read my first West Memphis Three post, or
- [Global Reggae](https://arcmusic.org/blog/global-reggae/): Got back yesterday from spending a week in Kingston, Jamaica at the aptly named "Global Reggae Conference" held at the University of the West Indies, Mona. There, I presented a paper about mento music's role in the 1968 Festival Song Competition on a panel that included Ken Bilby (from the Center for Black Music Research)
- [Bell Biv DeVoe](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bell-biv-devoe/): While riding the 7 train into work today, I found a pair of business cards wedged into the plastic liner above the doors. You know the spot - it's where you'd usually see fliers telling you either how to lose/gain 30 lbs in 30 days or how to make $2,000/wk working from home. Normally I
- [Reason 5446 Why I Love Jamaica](https://arcmusic.org/blog/reason-5446-why-i-love-jamaica/): Calling All Vipers? Yeah...for a "listening party." The "records" (*wink* *wink*)just arrived. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLXMkdAXDZw] So maybe it's not the best Jamaican smuggling scheme I've ever heard (my favorite involved a calypso band and a banjo), but its a damn good one. And it would have worked, too, were it not for those bumbo claat Royal Canadian
- [The Oldest Playable Phonautogram.  Ever.](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-oldest-playable-phonautogram/): The New York Times has a new article about the newly recovered, mid-nineteenth century recordings of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian "tinkerer" who invented a recording device called the Phonautogram YEARS before Edison (that bad bastard) ever even thought about recording. This phonautogram of "Au Claire de la Lune," which dates to 1860,
- [Tuesday Wrap-Up](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tuesday-wrap-up/): 1. Dear Wes Anderson, Why haven't you hired the McMahon family to score one of your films? Behold Michael McMahon's Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co's MySpace, where you can listen to their humorous little ditty "I Hate You." (Michael is pictured at right. See also SIT&DIE Co's website. BTW, SIT and DIE Co. is
- [Pure Pop for Now People](https://arcmusic.org/blog/pure-pop-for-now-people/): There was a time, children, when we thought Nick Lowe would save the world. In the dark days of late '70s AOR radio programming, when dinosaurs like Led Zeppelin and synthetic prog-sludge like ELP and Styx clogged the FM airwaves like musical cholesterol, there was a moment when it seemed possible. It was a short
- [Cinco de Mayo, 1948](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cinco-de-mayo-1948/): In honor of Cinco de Mayo, we offer this little booklet, from the Mayo of our collective, festive, musical past... And Jon, who is working on our NYMIA (New York Musicians Index and Archive) is busy adding musicians and music related businesses from: Mexico, NY Sonoraa, NY Acapulco Street, Atlanic Beach, NY Tabasco, NY and
- [Things We Said Today](https://arcmusic.org/blog/things-we-said-today/): It is a frustrating day here at the ARC as we seek out the last of over 800 discs to scan for the new Grammy Hall of Fame that will open in LA in Dec. We're missing about 100, and they all seem pretty common, until you actually need them - stuff like GOD BLESS
- [Adam Goldstone Memorial + Donation](https://arcmusic.org/blog/adam-goldstone-memorial-donation/): On September 20th, 2008, the Goldstone Family will be dedicating a memorial tree for brother and son, Adam Goldstone. It's at 4pm, In Tompkins Square Park. All who knew Adam are invited. Adam was a friend of ARC and the family generously donated his remarkable record collection to ARC last summer. Adam had come to
- [Sale is FINALLY here!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sale-is-finally-here/)
- [HOLIDAY RECORD + CD SALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/holiday-record-cd-sale-2/): Yes, It's that time of year again! Please join your pals at The ARChive for their twice a year, once in a lifetime, Record + CD Sale. We sold EVERYTHING at our last sale, so this year 100% of the sale items are new stock! As always -- lotsa good stuff, New CDs, ol' LPs,
- [Do “The Ostrich” one last time...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/do-the-ostrich-one-last-time-2/): 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 he played in frat bands, Lou Reed returned to New York City and
- [45 adaptors](https://arcmusic.org/features/45-adaptors/): Few inventions are as useful or as elegantly simple as the "centering device for phonographic records" or put more plainly, the 45 adaptor. We have upwards of 200,000 45s here at the ARChive, and since people often just left them in their 45s, we have accumulated a rather nice collection of these little wafers over
- [The Jazz Messengers](https://arcmusic.org/features/the-jazz-messengers/): The great drummer Art Blakey led The Jazz Messengers from around the mid-fifties up until his death in 1990. The concept for the group originated with a big band called The Seventeen Messengers that was formed in 1947. It is often described as a "rehearsal band." probably because it never recorded and apparently didn't play
- [Oui, Oui, all the way home...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/oui-oui-all-the-way-home/): Back from Paris and have added a pile of new pulp paperbacks to my ouiouipulp.com page featuring French girl pulps, like this two-covered, covering all the bases take on the Loos novel that you probably never read, but perhaps saw.
- [Paris - Christmas Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-christmas-day/): Yesterday was a BIT opaque, so today, Crystal Creche on a platter, 4 Christmas @ N. Dame... [youtube=http://youtu.be/6G5Q5rXg0BM]At one time selling things in a church, by a church, cost the church half of Europe - these days only 95 Euros!
- [Paris - Day four - Sun Ra Learns to Weave](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-four-sun-ra-learns-to-weave/): Visited Decorum, a tapestry exhibition by artists @ Musée D'Art Moderne and there was an unexpected soundtrack running throughout. My ear caught by Sun Ra's aptly named "Tapestry From An Asteroid." Pretty hip, not to mention Can, Dave Holland, John Cage, Aphex Twin, Eno and the Poetics. All programed by a Jean-Philippe Antoine. Never been
- [Paris - Day Three = Pagan](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-three-pagan/): As you may or may not know ARC (et moi) maintain websites of rock pulp paperbacks , and those depicting French girls - the infamous Oui Oui Pulp page. Odd maybe, yet you must collect something when you give away all your records! (by the way you should consider doing so). 'Chanson Paienne' is one
- [Paris - day two = lonely Santas](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-two-lonely-santas/): aidez-moi à trouver les enfants de Paris!
- [Paris - day one](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paris-day-one/): I'm back in my favorite neighborhood in Paris, after a grueling flight, wrong metro turns and no sleep. And yet. Visiting friends in the 16e I met the downstairs neighbor, a Madam Paturel, who, like most French women, just happens to have a great American jukebox in her apartment. Here she is, charming, jukebox and
- [SUNDAY - Final Day of ARC's Holiday Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sunday-final-day-of-arcs-holiday-sale/): Sun Dec 15 - Outside it looks like this...Inside it's warm and colorful- not only records, but lots of lovely housewares from donated estates like this "Slick and Fancy" Jeannette glass punchbowl set with enough cups to egg-knock over your whole family. Great stuff, good people, all to help support the not-for-profit ARChive of Contemporary
- [ARC Holiday Record + CD Sale!  Dec 7 - 15](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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, everyday 11 am - 6 pm where: Our Tribeca space - 54 White
- [Happy Hallow](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-hallow/): The Candy Korn packs were discovered recently in a Cartoon Network donation from 2007! We gave them to the interns...
- [Lou Reed](https://arcmusic.org/blog/lou-reed/): As many of you know by now Lou Reed has died. He was a friend, as well as a great supported of the ARChive, serving on our Board of Advisors from the very beginning. At one of our benefits he brought an audience to tears with a solo rendition of Smokey Robinson's "The Tracks of
- [643 Blues and R+B 7" Singles Added to The Keith Richards' Blues Collection](https://arcmusic.org/blog/643-blues-and-rb-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 Blues and R+B singles. All are 7” vinyl 45 rpm singles. N.d at
- [ARC Boardmember (Almost) Looses his Cool (Guitar)](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-boardmember-almost-looses-his-cool-guitar/): ARC board member Nile Rodgers had a close call last week when he nearly lost his beloved 1959 Stratocaster on the Metro-North railroad. The guitar has been nicknamed the "Hitmaker" due to the number of hit records ("Good Times," "We Are Family." Bowie's "Let's Dance." and most recently this summer's hit with Daft Punk, "
- [Charming Chinese Indian Fusion](https://arcmusic.org/blog/charming-chinese-indian-fusion/): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9-Q3bwf49c ARC pal, Prof. Victor A. Vicente at the Chinese University of Hong Kong had his students in “The Music of Bollywood” course, arranged, performed + recorded some of the best-known Bollywood songs of the past decade. It was their contribution to India Music Week + to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Indian film industry.
- [What Am I Doing Tomorrow for India Music Week?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-am-i-doing-tomorrow-for-india-music-week/): B. George here - Saturday I'm heading out to flushing Queens to the Ganesh Hindu Temple Canteen for a quick dosa in the basement, then a FREE concert across the street @ Saraswati Hall. Take the # 7 train to 45-57 Bowne St., Murray Hill, Flushing, Queens. (718) 460-8484). Concert starts @ 2:30 pm. Smt. M.
- [More India Every Day!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-india-every-day/): Every day more and more data and info and fun things to do are pouring into the India Music Week, Oct 6-13 webthing. Just last night • a discography of Tibetan music from in India • links to the audio for a massive 78 collection • Indian music programs from the 80s on WNYC radio
- [THIS SUNDAY – Oct 6 – Seaport, NYC – World’s Largest Bhangra Dance!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-sunday-oct-6-seaport-nyc-worlds-largest-bhangra-dance/): We've been working hard on India Music Week - Our launch event coming right up. Please join us as ARC + DJ Rekha set the Guinness World Record for the the Largest Bhangra Dance in New York City! You can sign up on facebook here -
- [B. wet, Fred hot + Quinn dry ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/b-wet-fred-hot-quinn-dry/): ARC was closed late august, so I went swimming, Fred went to LA where the heat was all they talked about and Quinn, to everyone's surprise, attended Burning Man - a week-long annual festival held in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Here's her low-down on this low humidity event... Burning Man is founded on
- [Gone Swimming...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/gone-swimming/): Everyone - ARC is officially closed from Monday Aug 19 until day after Labor Day Sept 3. We WILL BE HERE, but doing some major clean up, organizing and preparing for India Music Week (Oct). So you can send an e-mail, and if needs be, we will get back to you. Enjoy the rest of
- [Shop the NY Public Library Tomorrow +](https://arcmusic.org/blog/shop-the-ny-pyublic-library-tomorrow/): Just a reminder that tomorrow, starting at noon, NY Public Library for the Performing Arts will be selling off their more than 20,000 doubles and triplicate LPs. Maybe 70% classical, but plenty of right-down-my-ally items, like... Support the library, have some fun, get some nice records. Thursday, August 8, 2013, 12 - 7:45 p.m. Friday,
- [Grubby Dub Surfaces](https://arcmusic.org/blog/grubby-dub-surfaces/): Everyone knows that ARC has the BEST interns in the American League, and today's All-Star is Arlo, who, while inspecting classical LPs for surface worthiness, discovered some booklets stuffed inappropriately in inappropriate sleeves. Who could have have thought to place these very pricey items (going for up to $125 online) into totally trashed Bach variations?
- [2 new adds 2 The Keith Richards Blues Collection + 1 Jazz LP](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-just-in-blues-jazz-lps/): Our fearless leader here at the ARC, known affectionately as B., often prowls rural flea markets, combing the stalls for unique and/or interesting sound recordings. The recent Fourth of July weekend was no exception, as B. returned with an armful of 12-inch discs. Among them were three LPs of note: “Low Down Blues” by Champion
- [Tutti Fruity Rings of Saturn...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tutti-fruity-rings-of-saturn/): Today John Schaefer's show on WNYC ( Soundcheck's Writers Club: Talking with Authors About Music ) will explore music and literature, and just by coincidence, THIS arrived in the mail today. We've added it to our pop music pulp page @ http://www.ouiouipulp.com/pop_pulp_open.html I mean how can you NOT love "Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station
- [Simon, Nile + Reed - in the news](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 release, "The Lone Teen Ranger," for Paul to peruse. What we didn't have
- [1 Week 2 Go til ARC Summer Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 the benefits and help support ARC and get some great bargains by coming
- [Feelin' Kinda Moogy?  ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/feelin-kinda-moogy/): OK - So much news, and yet, the ARChive Swingin' Summer Sale is fast approaching, so here's one tasty item that YOU can get when you stop by, beginning Saturday, June 8. OR, if you join the ARC, at our pre-sale PARTY on Thursday Eve, June 6. It's Moog Power, by Hugo Montenegro, RCA LSP
- [French Girl Paperbacks](https://arcmusic.org/blog/french-girl-paperbacks/): Sure the next ARC sale is looming (June 8 - 16), but does that mean all the REAL fun is over? Non! Here's the latest find from a flea, posted on the French Girl Pulp Page, joining the 66 other lonely and pouting heroines at Oui Oui Pulp.
- [Brazil vs India - go with the flow](https://arcmusic.org/blog/brazil-vs-india-go-with-the-flow/): Some things are just too good to be true. While finishing off the cataloging of recordings that ARC collected for Brazilian Music Day, in preparation for India Music Week, I came across this album by Egberto Gismonti. It's the perfect transition - the perfect bridge between the two cultures and the annual focuses here at
- [The Girls In the Band = Women+music+film 2 C](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-girls-in-the-band-womenmusicfilm-2-c/): We recommend you hike over to Lincoln Center the end of this week (May 10 - 16) and enjoy a new award winning documentary on female jazz and big band instrumentalists - The Girls In the Band by Judy Chaikin The trailer looks great and its a chance to see performances by artists you may
- [Country, Folk and Cowboy Songbook Collection](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 is now catalogued in our database and integrated into our ever-growing country collection.
- [Yo-Yo Ma and the Vilcek Prize](https://arcmusic.org/blog/yo-yo-ma-and-the-vilcek-prize/): On Monday night, B.George and ARC Board of Trustee Chair Amy Larkin attended the annual Vilcek Awards Gala. Each year the Vilcek Foundation honors achievements in bioscience and one of the arts, this year music. I was one of the jurors awarding this prestigious prize in music, and this years winner was Yo-Yo Ma. The
- [Our take on the Spring Holidays in Song...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/our-take-on-the-spring-holidays-in-song/)
- [Retro + Active](https://arcmusic.org/blog/retro-active/): Thought we needed a new tagline here, so now its, "Would You Take My Mind Out for a Walk," a fitting title for our random postings. Have a listen to this late 60s ditty by The Tiffany Shade. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWGIym_GFTg And just to keep that retro psych theme going (downhill) and your mind ever-expanding, here's one
- [HAPPY VAL- the new lovedrug from ARC - take two and call me in the morning...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-val-the-new-lovedrug-from-arc-take-two-and-call-me-in-the-morning/): B.here.now (70s ref. - look it up) : I once DJ at Danceteria on Valentines Day in the 80s. It was a disaster. I only played old 30s - 60s songs. EVERYONE hated it and wouldn't dance. So much for trying something diff. Lucky for us everyone is diff. these days. People actually want to
- [A Blizzard of Sound](https://arcmusic.org/blog/a-blizzard-of-sound/): Last Thursday Fred + B wandered over to lower Soho to see a gallery show that caught our ear, “We Buy White Albums.” It’s by artist Rutherford Chang, who confesses a passion for cataloging, so of course we liked him instantly. Here you can view the 650+ copies of the first pressings of the Beatles’
- [Blue Lotus Festival in Rajasthan](https://arcmusic.org/blog/blue-lotus-festival-in-rajasthan/): [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thiqGsGqHzU?rel=0&w=560&h=315] My trip to India was a wonderful experience and has led to a host of new friends and musical information. One stellar event that’s coming right up is The Blue Lotus Festival in Rajasthan. This is a massive, well-organized event, featuring more than 300 talented artists from nearly every state and representing the
- [ARC roundup 2012](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-roundup-2012/): Did you clean 4,500 LPs covered in talcum powder? Did you work during Hurricane Sandy searching for albums by flashlight? Did you wade through a mile long alley of engine parts and motors, piled 4 ft high, in 96 degree weather, to find a Beatles 78? Did you unload 150,000 recordings? Well that's only a
- [Music Makes the Holidays Glow - ok, lets say bearable...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/music-makes-the-holidays-glow-ok-lets-say-bearable/): Here's some vinyl X-mas magic available at our Holiday sale - ends this Sunday, so do stop by. Lookit how cute, and cuddly and fuzzy and Christmasy our sale is! There's also copies of Punk Magazine from the 70s to give the Holidays an edge, and tons of music books that make swell gifts.
- [Soul Session @ the ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 Philadelphia during the fifties, planned to have a celebration in honor of the
- [Hot Item @ Our Cool Sale - Starts Sat!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/hot-item-our-cool-sale-starts-sat/): Well the sale at the library starts tomorrow, with bargains like this early LP by author Maya Angelou, for $5! ARC's hot WINTER Holiday Record + CD SALE. Sat, Dec 8 - Sun, Dec 16, everyday, 11am - 6pm. ARChive of Contemporary Music, 54 White Street in Tribeca, between Broadway and Church Streets - North
- [Today's the Fifth, so here's some $5 LPs for Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/todays-the-fifth-so-heres-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 fundraiser, so come by and shop - books, CDs, LPs, singles, VHS, DVDs,
- [East Coast - West Coast, all around the towns!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/east-coast-west-coast-all-around-the-towns/): No New York is $25, and the San Fran 415 Records release is less, the left coast is ALWAYS less than NY, @ $5. Yes, great classic Punk Era travelog vinyl at the ARC sale this year. Here's some of the regional and International compilations we will be offering this Holiday sale. Most of these
- [ARC Holiday Sale for only $6](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-holiday-sale-other-things-2-do-2/): 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 + CD SALE, Dec 8-16, everyday from 11am - 6 pm. The sale
- [ARC Holiday Sale + other things 2 do...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 in near mint condition, $8 each. The sale is our major fundraiser, so
- [You Light Up My Life](https://arcmusic.org/blog/you-light-up-my-life/): It's festival Time in India. I was in Varanasi (Benares) during Durga Puja and took a breakneck bicycle rickshaw drive trough the streets - highly recommended in a city offering hash and opium on every corner. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCcRdZjzaTs?rel=0&w=420&h=315] Festivals are pretty darn festive. Here's a shot from "Outer Space" (you know, about 62 miles away)
- [Cardboard 78 Player from India](https://arcmusic.org/blog/cardboard-78-player-from-india/): While in India I had the great pleasure of meeting Suresh Chandvankar, a scholar and one of the catalysts behind the Society of Indian Record Collectors (SIRC). He also spoke at the IASA conference in New Delhi, is an author and has helped Dust to Digital to release material from the Young India Label. His
- [Why I'm A Bit Crabby...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/why-im-a-bit-crabby/): Because of the storm it took 4 days to get out of Mumbai, India. After 8 hrs at the airport, only 42 hrs to get from Mumbai to Cleveland, and still not back in NYC yet. ARC is safe and dry, but no power. Fred is there now doing a job for Muscle Shoals
- [What Storm?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 sleeve that Angel in India had made to package their 'ethnic' releases. Very
- [TAXI DANCER](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 car horn dealership in Chor Bazaar. Honest, they will blast each one for
- [Sale-ers Delight](https://arcmusic.org/blog/salers-delight/): Here's a pic of Suresh, collector extraordinaire and my erstwhile record guide to the Chor Bazaar (Thieves Market). Easy to find the record salers here, not just the well-spelled signage, but by the dangling discs.Here's a few more finds from Chor and from a dealer in the arcade in Fort. The top two are really
- [An Indian Ocean of Sound](https://arcmusic.org/blog/an-indian-ocean-of-sound/): Yesterday I walked to the Indian Ocean. Then, visited journalist and author Naresh Fernandes. Naresh has written the incredible Taj Mahal Foxtrot, a history of early jazz in India. And who says it doesn't mean anything to blog? Naresh saw the photos of my record purchases I posted and realized I had a Jetliners LP
- [Flying Monkey Motorcycle Gang](https://arcmusic.org/blog/2841/): Street image of Hanuman, the ever-faithful servant, occasional deity, and leader of that flying monkey motorcycle gang that set much of Ceylon on fire. Street image of my last meal and first authentic street samosa in 42 years. It was incredible, and I think I'll have both of them... Now there are mysteries that go
- [Backtrackin’](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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, head of the Institute. He remembers maybe in an edition of 500 in
- [How I Got to Where I Am Today](https://arcmusic.org/blog/how-i-got-to-where-i-am-today/): OK. Everything was set for my trip to India except for the leg from Delhi to Agra to Varanasi. This would involve trains. Now trains cannot be booked direct by internet via the US, unless you have an Indian Tel #. There is a work around, but it didn’t work. The travel agent who
- [Pilgrims' Progress](https://arcmusic.org/blog/pilgrims-progress/): I’m going the tourist route here, so music people relax please. On the road to Jaisalmer, on the edge of the Rajasthan desert, from the moving car, the camera performed like a champ. Here’s a group of religious pilgrims along the side of the highway, part of a line that went on for miles. Proof
- [Path 2 Nirvana](https://arcmusic.org/blog/path-2-nirvana/): Backtracking: Last frantic day in Delhi was spent frantically searching the rumored record shop of the elusive Mr. Shaw. First you go to the cotton market sign in Chowdni Chowk, and into the cotton market, where there is no cotton, only piles of bricks and aggregate. Walk past Vishnu resting on the cosmic ocean…
- [Beatles + Elvis + India](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 of Indian Studies [AIIS], and led by ethnomusicologist Shubha Chaudhuri. Mostly it’s been
- [Paaning the Music](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paaning-the-music/): Last night of the IASA Conference here in Delhi, and a farewell dinner @ the Sangeet Natak Akademi. Began with: Ended with: Above qawwali group Meraj Ahmed Nizami & Party and below the after dinner 'paan' stand - the paanwala loads a betel leaf with have-it-your-ways, like rose water, nut, cardamon, tobacco, anise, lime paste, etc...
- [Magic Mitts of India](https://arcmusic.org/blog/magic-mitts-of-india/): The IASA Confab is winding down and one thing about the presenters of papers from small archives in India is - they all sing. So I'm asking that in the future, when an American presents at one of these shindigs, they MUST sing a song. Now if you use powerpoint, two songs and a little
- [Spare Change for Indian Insects](https://arcmusic.org/blog/spare-change-for-indian-insects/): In my fervid quest for audio's best, I spied this gem - a Beatles 78. India kept making 78s into the early 1970's and there are a lot of Sir Cliff Richard's and Ricky Nelson's to be had. Not so many Beatles still around. But, you know, that they know, just what this is, and
- [MY Bed of Roses INDIA](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 esquina, none here. This first batch, photo-on-bed-forgive-the-quality, is a mix, but all Indian
- [70 Years From NOW!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/70-years-from-now/): VS Yesterday Sandra Coutinho from Globo News did an interview here with Beco and B. about Brazilian Music Day. One thing we showed them was a copy of Saludos Amigos, an album of songs from the Disney film of 1942. This 'album' (three single discs in one wrapper) contains the Ary Barroso song
- [Beatles; Beetles](https://arcmusic.org/blog/beatles-beetles/): Recently ARC moved our 124 Beatles parody and novelty records to a new location, and then noticed that we were only skimming the surface of a vast insect pond. Witness the treasures discovered by an ARSC member, the venerable, mobile, Insect Circus Museum at the National Theatre in London.
- [Make Something Great](https://arcmusic.org/blog/make-something-great/): Our pal, Eilon Paz, is 'so close' to getting his book funded on Kickstarter 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 go, only a few grand needed to finish. A WORTHY PROJECT, so please
- [Brazil + Beco + You!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/brazil-beco-you/): Well Brazilian Music Day (Sept 7, 2012) is just about a month away and right now there is a Brazilian Summerfest going on in NYC, no doubt just to whet your appetite, and guess what? Our own Beco Dranoff is hosting a show, giving you a preview, blowing you over with great music via Alt
- [Running Low on CDs - Donations Needed](https://arcmusic.org/blog/running-low-on-cds-donations-needed/): By the time the 4th of July rolled around the ARChive had cataloged over 8,000 CDs since the begining of the year. This landmark has never been reached before in the annals of the ARChive. It helped that we received so many CDs from Universal Music and huge collections from several private donors. It also
- [Musica Joyaria!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/musica-joyaria/): Change is good. Right? Well a blog name change is long overdue, so as of NOW, we are, Musica Joyaria! This is inspired by a trip across 207th St in uppest New York City, where there's a row of Joyeria's (Jewelry stores), and well, it sounds to me like a place to have fun. Another
- [Bossa Big Beatles Beat](https://arcmusic.org/blog/rio-bossa-big-beat/): Hey, over at our Brazilian Day blog I've been posting a slew of recording by US playing THEIR music, how about the other way around? Here's a sought after rarity called Os Sambeatles, recently unearthed here at the ARC, as we re-shelved some 500 or so Beatles and Beatles related recordings . This LP is
- [Summer Fun d'ARC + computer needs](https://arcmusic.org/blog/summer-fun-darc-computer-needs/): Weds night began the summer season for me as I sauntered (walkwise) / sautéed (heatwise) down to Rockefeller park for my first outdoor concert of the season , the Philip Glass Ensemble. Here’s the review; ist piece, 1985-ish, fab; 2d, drab, 1968?; Kundon piece, eh; Truman score piece verynice, paving the way for a thousand
- [FINAL DAYS + FATHER's DAY at the ARC sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/final-days-fathers-day-at-the-arc-sale/): Final Days - not quite the apocalypse, the reaping or the rapture, BUT, it means that it will be a bleak six months till our next sale! Here's one nice LP, like so many others, still for sale. This is by Jeremy & the Satyrs, a psychedelic rock outfit featuring flutist Jeremy Steig (later a jazzbo
- [Bossa 4 Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/bossa-4-sale/): 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 can Join the ARC (on PAYPAL or by calling us) and attend our
- [Touch A Star](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 professionals, music librarians, archivists and enthusiasts) concerning the nature and origin of paid
- [Mom's Sly Dwarves 4 Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/moms-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 Gemm) only available at the sale beginning Sat June 9, and running through
- [In the Indie Eighties...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 your kinda people – from Kent Ohio, from the Rain Parade and the
- [ARC's cool SUMMER hot Record + CD SALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arcs-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, One Ten Records, paper, 1981. This is the first edition, second printing, OP,
- [Blue Post](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 now, here’s a sampling of recent cataloged additions to the collection, starting with
- [Cuban Treats In NY](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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, have a chance to hear the real deal, some real Cuban music! Sintesis
- [Opening Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 about the Dodgers, just that the recent owners had bad family values, and
- [Are We Not Mad Men?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 for how well it captures the early Sixties in New York City: the
- [Los Tigres del Norte](https://arcmusic.org/blog/2472/): 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 city for drug trafficking and violence, has banned them from appearing. The reason
- [Revolt Into Style](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 Nelson, a Glasgow record label, the headline over an endless number of music
- [FASHION + MUSIC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 clothing, style, mode, fashion and fabrication. These students in Fashion and Textile Studies:
- [FUG YOU](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 times) and two of our albums. The reading centered on his obscenity arrest
- [Spiders from Kenya](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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. According to wikirumor the Spider history is: “The former RCA Corporation introduced a
- [Still Time to Donate to the ARC!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 the Keith Richards' Blues Collection, continue to scan our 25,000 music books and
- [Classical CDs + LPs at ARC sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 20,000 items for sale. New items added daily. Hundreds of CDs are priced
- [Even more vintage vinyl @ ARC Holiday Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 items added daily. Hundreds of CDs are priced at $1 to $5 each.
- [New Pile of Vinyl Arrives!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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! Over 20,000 items for sale. New items added daily. Hundreds of CDs are
- [ARC Sale Begins Tomorrow, Sat Dec 8](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-sale-begins-tomorrow-sat-dec-8/): Well the sale officially begins tomorrow, Sat Dec 8. Happy to say ALL of the LPs shown on the last blog, below, sold at our members only party on Thursday night. There are still PLENTY of great things and bargains to be had, like... And here's a shot of Maria setting up a wall of
- [Some nice LPs @ the ARC Holiday Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 today I was almost as busy picking up 700 choice LPs from producer/jazzman
- [ARC HOLIDAY RECORD + CD SALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 pop + rock donations from record companies and collectors, NOT used, returns or
- [Book Digitization @ ARC](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 books reflects this diversity. As someone who must navigate through the catalog records
- [Gil @ NYPL](https://arcmusic.org/blog/gil-nypl/): Friday evening I attended an event focusing on one of my favorite Brazilian artists, Gilberto Gil. This casual conversation was part of the excellent “Live from the NYPL” series at the New York Public Library, curated and hosted by Paul Holdengräber. We were treated to glimpses into the creative process, the room sprinkled with song
- [Record Hunting in Brazil](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 and filmmaker based in NYC + Sao Paulo who is heading up our
- [Me + Katy Perry](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 Life”? They threw a 1985 clip up on the big screen, and everyone
- [Allo Allo Brasil...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 and Sound. While info on this institution that began in 1965 is almost
- [I started the car + the clock said 9;11...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/i-started-the-car-the-clock-said-911/): 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 made sense somehow. Earlier in the day I had found one of the
- [windy + naked tape](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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!). Here’s a local Tribeca restaurant that made bondage seem, well, safe. Later, out
- [Goodnight Irene...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/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 Crossed Beyond Perfect Em-I Smith Gene Jean Rain to the face 40+ I
- [Two From Colombia: Satan's Sandwich + the Great Joe Arroyo](https://arcmusic.org/blog/two-from-colombia-satans-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 Super Perro del Caribe... and while in salsa mode Colombiana, let's remember the
- [Caramoor + Sardines](https://arcmusic.org/blog/caramoor-sardines/): It’s amazing to me that more people in the city do not know about the great house, great gardens and great concerts at Caramoor in upstate New York. Caramoor has had a remarkable history of presenting the arts, the legacy of the Rosen family, who’s Grand Dame, Lucie, was the unlikely champion of Léon
- [Back to normal, with a sidetrip to Abruzzo…](https://arcmusic.org/blog/back-to-normal-with-a-sidetrip-to-abruzzo/): Well our summer sale is over and it was both fun and successful. We have been overwhelmed and now we will start getting back to normal, supre-normal even, with a wide range of new projects and programs. Like scanning all our books. More about that soon. But first we need to play catch-up on some
- [ARC Sizzling Summer Record + CD Sale continues](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-sizzling-summer-record-cd-sale-continues/): The ARC Sizzling Summer Record and CD Sale continues through the weekend, everyday, Weds - Sunday, 11am - 6pm. So get on down and support the library, Here are some of the things still available, or recently sold, to give you an idea of what we have to offer. BTW : website down for a
- [Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sizzlin-summer-record-cd-sale/): Summer’s here big time in NYC = hot + humid + B-B-Q ready. That’s why its a Sizzlin’ Summer Record + CD Sale here @ ARC, June 18 – 26. Everyday, 11-6. Remember most CDs at our sale are cheaper than downloading one song! This year specials include more Jazz + Blues LPs than usual •
- [What's Going On](https://arcmusic.org/blog/whats-going-on/): After being a 'no show' for a while - lost in creating Muslim World Music Day this April - the ARCblog is back, talkin' 'bout what's going on around here, and What’s Going On – the Super Deluxe Edition. Let's tip our hat to those evil corporate record companies that we say we hate, but
- [Carmel Colored Archives + Presidents](https://arcmusic.org/blog/carmel-colored-archives-presidents/): You never know what you’ll find when you’ve got a free day and no plans at all. That’s the way I like to see other countries, other cities. You can have all that nature stuff, no woodland creature ever pleased me as much as an eccentric shopkeeper. So along a well traveled road on President’s
- [Candy kisses, raspberries, banana-nana-babouvism](https://arcmusic.org/blog/candy-kisses-raspberries-banana-nana-babouvism/): Well, it’s a traditional view of pair bonding, but at least the title, Girl Meets Boy, gives the majority gender top billing. Happy Valentines from your institutional love machine, ARC. No kisses for the latest show up at the Museum of the City of New York where I saw, Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing:
- [What is This?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-is-this/): I HATE it when people send me 'cute' videos. But ARCpal Be Bop passed this along, and so now I must inflict you with it. It's like when an intern said, "Oh Prince, my grandfather likes him..." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSHeKfZG7c&feature=player_embedded] It's not easy being passé.
- [This is NOT the original Soundtrack](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-is-not-the-original-soundtrack/): In the early 80s I spent a lot of time in Jamaica, mostly in Kingston, twice on the north shore. No matter where you were someone would point out that that villa over there was Goldeneye, home of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels. As for the Bond music, I was more into
- [2010 Year-end Roundup!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/2010-year-end-roundup/): ARChive of Contemporary Music 2010 Year-end Roundup! - An overview of last year’s projects and activities it's official: the oughts are over.... Uh, did you notice ARC’s subtle new sign outside on White Street? Yes, we now have the look of a classy taxi stand in Rio thanks to artist Steve Powers who thought our
- [Sale Continues](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sale-continues/): The sale is still going strong, but bad weather and the bad economy, are not our friends. But YOU can befriend us anytime by coming down and shopping at our Holiday Record + CD Sale! NOW through Dec 19, everyday 11-6pm. Just arrived - new for this year - Live at the Barbican Theatre 2006
- [Holiday Record + CD Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/holiday-record-cd-sale-3/): It's hot, no, it's cold, yes it's the ARC Holiday Record & CD sale! Saturday, Dec 11 - Sunday, Dec 19 Everyday 11 am. to 6 pm Admission is free! New items daily. Over 20,000 items for sale Join the ARC and other ARC members for our fab COCKTAIL PARTY, Thursday, Dec 9. Not only
- [Jerry Bock](https://arcmusic.org/blog/jerry-bock/): ARC friend and long time supporter Jerry Bock died. (Jerrold Lewis Bock, 11/ 23/1928 – 11/3/2010) Back in 1999 Jerry donated his personal collection of over 9,000 Broadway and original cast albums. Needless to say there were a great many odds and ends concerning his best-known work, Fiddler on the Roof. Like… Ever the gentleman,
- [Tyche, made redundant, now blogging @ the Times](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tyche-the-designer/): At the bottom of it's online page, under the 'blogs' banner, the New York Times offers six squares of teases and photos to click your interest. Today, for maybe twenty minutes, these two images were next to each other. I'm just back from the IASA confab in Philly, and will report soon, and sadly, to
- [Boo-La La!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/boo-la-la/): Ah, the past. It’s all coming back to me now. Spirits in the air, then airmail brought this very nice memory from the UK. This large poster was one of six placed around London in 1983 when I launched Volume, (736 page discography on punk and new wave music). I was working out of the
- [“the Frank Sinatra of Jamaica”](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-frank-sinatra-of-jamaica/): You know for over 25 years now I have been reading and jotting down all the wrong things I’ve discovered in the review and indexes and odd-numbered pages of music writings. When I read that another favorite singer Gregory Isaacs had died, the Times obit carried one of those ‘it’s a stretch’ references, necessary throughout
- ["silence is a riddim' too..."](https://arcmusic.org/blog/silence-is-a-riddim-too/): With a mixed cultural heritage (German/British), mixed-up cultural focus (noise/reggae) and a mixmastered public persona (art school/wild child), Ari Up brought a disjointed beauty to her vocals that remain haunting. I had seen her perform with the Slits @ Tier3 in 1980 (?), the foot-off-the-ground stage adding to the intimacy surrounding a band that never
- [Foreign Affairs](https://arcmusic.org/blog/foreign-affairs/): A fresh post (the overseas kind) has brought the latest issue of the Japanese edition of WaxPoetics and a reprint of a story they saw on one of our posts (the blog kind). I added some images to Dan Neely's original story that you can see here if your Japanese is a bit rusty. Regardless,
- [Size (speed, amplitude) matters](https://arcmusic.org/blog/size-speed-amplitude-matters/): How to permanently preserve audio materials is a major concern of archives around the world. Us included. After all, isn’t that why we’re here? But ARC does not migrate, i.e; make a copy of an audio object in another medium, ideally more stable, in order to preserve it. Increasingly archives are abandoning this route, as
- [No Columbus, no Cha Cha Cha!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/no-columbus-no-cha-cha-cha/): We think you should take the long weekend off and find some time to dance! In honor of this new commitment, may we show you a few of our favorite Cha Cha Cha LP covers (from our collection of over 300 here @ the ARChive)? Click to enlarge. After all, had Mr. C. actually made
- [Ties that Bind](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ties-that-bind/): Staying in NYC for the weekend for this and that, for both of them, saw and heard some very nice performances by Khaira (or Haira) Arby and Laurie Anderson. On Saturday Khaira , 'The Nightingale of the North," aka, “The Aretha Franklin of Mali“ was playing a houseparty on the now nightlife-friendly Bowery. Her North
- [Turn Around with Confidence  (when the internet can’t dance)](https://arcmusic.org/blog/turn-around-with-confidence-when-the-internet-cant-help/): Like you, I look for records all the time. But there are over two million here @ ARC, so it’s difficult to know when what you’ve found is what’s needed. Not everything in the library is cataloged, and my computer is not always with me. I’ve found that by just seeing the cover, I can
- [Las Loss - The Sweet Beat in Bronze](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sweet-beat-in-bronze/): It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas will close on October 18, 2010. In the 50s Liberace was on our TV, the candelabra was on the Steinway, and my family took delight in the fact that his brother was named, “George.” (Then again there was
- [vacance, puces et...we're back!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/vacance-puces-et-were-back/): To celebrate the new year, the end of summer, strikes in France or as the kids say, “whatever,” I took the day off and made a trek way uptown to the Whitney Museum. Prime reason was to see the Christian Marclay exhibition and then walk back downtown to see some friends. Well Christian’s show was
- [Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas](https://arcmusic.org/blog/brazilian-guitar-fuzz-bananas/): As you may know ARC is building a Brasilian/Brazilian Collection. Now if YOU are building a Brasilian/Brazilian Collection, I think the next record you should get is Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas, Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967 - 1976. (Tropicalia In Furs, USA, WPFC TIF 102, 2010). This was put together by Joel Stones, our pal over
- [But You Need An Electron Microscope...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/but-you-need-an-electron-microscope/): There are some great things to see in Ohio. Having eschewed a junket to see Cleveland’s Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame when it first opened (knee-jerk reaction when I heard that they used funds from the Ohio school system. Nice summary here ) I finally took the plunge. It’s only an hour from the ancestral homestead
- [trickle-down donations](https://arcmusic.org/blog/trickle-down-donations/): Just back from Ohio, ARC picked up portions of two recent donations that have been, and will be, given piecemeal, over the past and future years. And what meals they are! The first was the first donation of approx. 1,200 LPs, part of a larger collection over 15,000 recordings that were lovingly collected by Eric
- [Polish Music](https://arcmusic.org/blog/polish-music/): As I'm heading back to Poland (Ohio) see me Mum, a flurry of old friends have surfaced. Turns out it's about the same time as a reunion of my elder brother's high school class. You may think that Poland Seminary High School is only famous for an assassinated president (McKinley) or the advertising genius who
- [This Tuesday...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/this-tuesday/): Last week my camera broke while us folks from the ARC were at a wonderful concert hosted by Trinity Real Estate, Great Performances and City Winery. Here’s the blurred proof in this shot of Naomi Shelton performing with her Gospel Queens. The outdoor space is swell, the food and drink were reasonable, the music inspirational
- [Tour d'Arc](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tour-darc/): A nice lil' film by the good folks @ Goldmine Magazine and filmmaker Michael Cumella who have been documenting great collections - and of course, ARC's included. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Vq2emBV7M]
- [SATISFIED MINDS...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/satisfied-minds/): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2qXFYBCmDA] Here a lil' film + a thanks from an ARC supporter who bought one of our many turntables we had up for grabs at our Summer Record and CD Sale. Play on, AR-XA
- [HOW HOT IS IT?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/how-hot-is-it/): "It's too hot for words Why bother with conversation Don't let's talk or even walk If you want to make love, okay" Never argue with Billie Holiday. So skip the last line until later today and come on down to the ARC's final day of our Summer Record + CD Sale. It's hot, it's the
- [Record + CD Sale continues...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/record-cd-sale-continues/): Well the party and first weekend are behind us, so only EIGHT MORE DAYS left to buy tons of LPs, CDs, cassettes, books, DVDs, Laserdiscs, and vintage clothes and housewares @ The ARChive of Contemporary Music's Summer Record and CD Sale! Still plenty of great stuff still available. Here's a shot of DJ Soloflex checking
- [ARC SUMMER RECORD + CD SALE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-summer-record-cd-sale/): It's hot, it's sticky, it's another ARC Summer Record & CD sale! Saturday, JUNE 12 - Sunday, JUNE 20 Everyday 11 am. to 6 pm BONUS DAY Monday June 21 - because it's the equinox and Make Music Day in NY Admission is free! New items daily. Over 20,000 items for sale Join the ARC
- [Ladies ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/ladies/): As we get ready for our Summer Record + CD Sale a LOT of very nice folks have donated a LOT of very nice recordings. From a-way upstate came a musty but great pile from the barn of James Dybas. Of note are the eleven Olga Guillot LPs in pristine condition. Grammy winning Olga was
- [Walkin’ 9-5](https://arcmusic.org/blog/walkin-9-5/): Yup, that’s how I spent my last tree huggin' beach lovin' day in San Fran, touring Muir Woods, Chimney Rock, Point Reyes (et fried oysters), Inverness (et Bar-B-Que’d oysters) and the Drake Bay Lighthouse – all north of the Golden Gate. Muir is Redwoods a go-go, high and mighty, while the lighthouse ‘may be’ the
- [Minuet of Mayhem](https://arcmusic.org/blog/1073/): My ‘Minute of Mayhem’ honoring punk impresario Malcolm McLaren (who I was not a fan of, but, geeze, he did do something) is the 45 rpm 12” Booji Boy version of “(I cån’t gèt mé nö) Satisfaction” by Devo (BOY 1, 1977). Malcolm was buried today, and the family suggested a fitting alternative to a
- [What Happened in 2009?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/what-happened-in-2009/): As we send out deeds of gifts (if you sent materials), thank you's (for services or monetary donations), and plan, as best we can, for what we should be doing in 2010, we have POSTED our "2009 Year End Roundup" on the website. In a nutshell, we have begun our partnership with Columbia University with
- [Friends, Encounters + Wished I Met](https://arcmusic.org/blog/friends-encounters-wished-i-met/): Easing into the new year, slowly. An old friend, Richard Fleming, aka DJ Richard Nixon, has worked his obsessions (music, hiking, the Caribbean, birding, photography) into a wonderful new book and photographic gallery show. I first met Rich in Cartegena, Colombia in the early 90s at a music festival, and he has kept in touch,
- [It's All Over Now...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/its-all-over-now/): Dear ARC people - As 2009 draws to an end it's not too late to make a tax-deductible donation to the ARC. Really, who else has done what we've done? - without a bit of help from the government, but from great folks like you! People who believe that the only way to preserve our
- [Quick UpDate on Sale + ARC News](https://arcmusic.org/blog/quick-update-on-sale-arc-news/): ARC Sale is doing swell. We are pleased that the economic downturn has not affected the turntable, and there's still plenty of hot vinyl for a cold winter's day... So come on down! We're still at 54 White St and here from now until Sunday, Dec 20, everyday, 11am - 6pm. Some classy doings recently,
- [300 LPs make a great stocking stuffer!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/300-lps-make-a-great-stocking-stuffer/): The ARChive Holiday Record + CD Sale is a success so far with plenty of folks shoppin' n' boppin.' Still plenty of tasty vinyl and CDs left. 300 LPs make a great stocking stuffer! So come on down and tell your friends. Join the fun. Support the ARC. Everyday, 11-6, from now until Sunday Dec
- [Sale Almost Here!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sale-almost-here/)
- [Greil Marcus in Lipstick Traces "Live"](https://arcmusic.org/blog/greil-marcus-in-lipstick-traces-live/): Please join your friends at the ARChive as they present their first event up at Columbia University - Greil Marcus in Lipstick Traces: Live Thursday, November 19, 6 pm Free and open to the public Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building (SIPA), 420 West 118th Street In Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th
- [Alternative China in New York](https://arcmusic.org/blog/alternative-china-in-new-york/): For MORE than just this week Columbia’s Arts Initiative, with minimal help from ARC, brings the latest Beijing music scene to your very doorstep. Organized by the Chinese record label Maybe Mars and the rock club D-22, it’s THE CHINESE UNDERGROUND INVASION TOUR, featuring Carsick Cars, PK-14, White and Xiao He. Anti-Cantopop, this group of
- [Another Great Donation -wanna help catalog?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/another-great-donation-2/): Today, me and the boys picked up a generous donation of over 6000 LPs from Jerry Rappaport. Now Jerry has the life, a former record exec. he runs a swell hotel with his wife in Grenada, La Sagesse, and they just planted some mangostein trees - he'll let you know how they're doing in about
- [We Built This City On...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/stone-soul-picnic/): It is a little known fact that the ancient Nabataeans were early adaptors of new sound recording technologies. They began with cylinder discs (called columns) but found them awkward. Later, around 70 BC, they sliced the cylinders into wafer thin segments, well thin for the time, and began recording on the flat side. Thwarted by
- [Board Member Ellie Greenwich Dies](https://arcmusic.org/blog/board-member-ellie-greenwich-dies/): A founding member of the ARChive's Board of Advisors died today. With sadness we report the death of songwriter Ellie Greenwich. Pretty much a recluse for many years now, her great music lives on through classic songs like "And Then He Kissed Me," "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Chapel of Love," "River Deep, Mountain High" and
- [Oh No, we gotta listen to ALL of them? ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/oh-no-we-gotta-listen-to-all-of-them/): Freddie, who does the weeding @ ARC, was comparing our three copies of the LP "Combo" by Henry Mancini and His Orchestra ( RCA Victor Records, LPM-2258 , 1961). We sell third copies, keep two of everything. Well why not hava listen he sez to himself he sez. Lo, it turns out two copies
- [Brazil or Brasil](https://arcmusic.org/blog/brazil-or-brasil/): ARC is busy building a comprehensive Brazilian collection here at the Library. To our shame there is currently no major institution in the States actively building a comprehensive collection of this great music. Our chief advisor in all this has been Béco Dranoff. I have known Béco as a DJ and producer (Bebel Gilberto, Red
- [Some RIPs](https://arcmusic.org/blog/some-rips/): Well, the Summer Sale is over and was a great success. Thanks to all who braved the rain and helped us out by carting off our wretched excess. We’ve neglected the blog for a while, so here’s some recent things that caught our eye/ear. And it’s more than the weather that has made me a
- [Silly Summer Record + CD Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/silly-summer-record-cd-sale/): Join your pals @ ARC for our Summer Record + CD Sale JUNE 13 - 21 !!! And NOW, with Virgin closing, ARC is the largest record store in New York! (at least for the next week). So come on down and support ARC. Admission is free! New items daily. Over 20,000 items for sale
- [Our Times has come...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/our-times-has-come/): Today ARC was featured in the NY Times, in the NY/Regional section, with a nice story by David Gonzales. There were two electronic versions, and these featured cover art and sound files - you can go to here 2 hear. I was asked to dig through the ARChive for some unusual things I liked, and
- [ARC Partners with Columbia University](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-partners-with-columbia-university/): It's taken a while, but here's the text of the official press release from Columbia University. Yes, were changing the face (facade) of academic study! Columbia Forges Partnership with ARChive of Contemporary Music Collection of be-bop, bluegrass, blues, country, jazz, rap, reggae, rock, zydeco and other forms to be made available for research and education
- [Waters of March](https://arcmusic.org/blog/waters-of-march/): As March drips away, if you’re like me, you’ve been playing various versions of Jobim’s Águas de Março (Waters of March) all month. We’ve got about 40 cover versions @ the ARC. A moving recent version is by BossaCucaNova, (Bossa Cuca Nova Ao Vivo. Ziriguiboom, Brasil, ZIR 32, 2009) on the new CD + DVD
- [Freddy's Ready - Summer Sale Dates Announced](https://arcmusic.org/blog/freddys-ready-summer-sale-dates-announced/): Join your pals @ ARC for our annual Summer Record + CD Sale. Yes its true, mainstream rags are ga-ga for vinyl, those johnny-come-latelies trying to explain what we all know - you can't love a CD! So Fred put on his fez and got to work rooting through the 350,000 singles to pull third
- [Dave Clark - Can't Pay, Won't Pay](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dave-clark-cant-pay-wont-pay/): We know the world has lost its moral compass when Gandhi chotskis hit the auction block. Further proof is when former rockstars ask for a favor, on a quick turnaround, and than stiff you. No we won't go into ALL the folks who don't pay their bills, knowing that ARC is too small to ever
- [Strategien Gegen Architekturen](https://arcmusic.org/blog/strategien-gegen-architekturen/): Recently the ARSC list posted info on the problems with the increasing number of unstable modern concrete structures, and how safety concerns were rumored (not true) to have led to the relocation, and unavailability, of the great pop music collection at Bowling Green State University. But an archive in Cologne did collapse. The heading for
- [Louis Louie - We Gotta Go Now...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/louis-louie-we-gotta-go-now/): Louie or Louis, depending on which LP you're looking at, or Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni if you check with the county clerk, died on Valentines. He was 84. He was a two-footer, using two bass drums, this big bang making the descriptive 'drum explosion' more than a marketing ploy. He married Pearly Bailey,
- [Save the Economy](https://arcmusic.org/blog/save-the-economy/): I was cataloging some 60s folk recordings the other day and ran across something I had never seen before; spelling mistakes, or at least odd archaic forms in the titles of two LPs. Two, in one day. That there are mainstream products, scrutinized by a host of professionals, all who failed to see what was
- [ARC year-end Roundup 2008…](https://arcmusic.org/blog/arc-year-end-roundup-2008/): Below are details on all the things ARC has done in 2008 and all the folks who helped us through the year. By the way there’s still time to make a donation. You can now go to our website and donate online, http://www.arcmusic.org We realize times are tough and people are a bit worried. Not
- [We gave him the boot, now send him your shoes!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/we-gave-him-the-boot-now-send-him-your-shoes/): My Fellow Americans... I think everyone should send an old pair of shoes to Bush to let him know what we think of him - with the wish that they be donated to the poor - signed Muntadhar al-Zeidi. Wrap in newspaper. Add a label. post... The image of 100,000 shoes piled outside the White
- [the SALE Continues...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-sale-continues/): Come on down and help us pay the rent here at the ARChive and pick up some great bargains @ bargain prices - CDs, books, singles, LPS - all for a good cause !
- [Holiday Record + CD Sale](https://arcmusic.org/blog/holiday-record-cd-sale/): We hope you can all vist the ARC and drop by for our Holiday Record + CD Sale THIS YEAR we feature 92.6% new stock (sold off everything left over last year to Lebanon!) So there will be : tons of JAZZ (so many large collections came in this year) - our regular overstock of
- [I Can Haz Lolz?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/i-can-haz-lolz/): From the ARChive's "Animals In Pants" section: I am one of those people who is endlessly amused by the Stuff On My Cat / Stuff On My Mutt / I Can Has Cheezburger / I Has A Hot Dog / etc sites. I also love hoaxes. So, you might imagine how thrilled I was when
- [Miriam Makeba](https://arcmusic.org/blog/miriam-makeba/): It was sad to learn today that Miraim Makeba died. ARC keeps running bios on many artists, so here is our last entry we did on Ms. Makbe, from 1999. We'll update again soon and send along. Miriam Makeba South Africa nee : Zenzile. Zenzi, Mazi, Mama Africa, Empress of African Music, Empress of African
- [More Capitol Fun](https://arcmusic.org/blog/more-capitol-fun/): Well, If you're like me you spent last Tuesday listening to the great Eddie Simpson singing "Pray and Vote" ("Listen people...ain't gonna wear these shoes no longer, ain't gonna stay in this house no longer, ain't gonna carry these blues no longer, ain't pay these dues no longer") and culling the ARC for other, mildly
- [Capitol Value!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/capitol-value/)
- [Songs About Obama](https://arcmusic.org/blog/songs-about-obama/): So, 'bout a month and a half ago someone points me to the Svarten blog, a site run from Uppsala, Sweden, that in one post provides what they describe as "the most comprehensive playlist on the internet with songs for Barack Obama." It's staggering because it's got lots of great songs about Obama from around
- [Happy 105th Birthday "Whistling Girl" ](https://arcmusic.org/blog/happy-105th-birthday-whistling-girl/): Today, the stars aligned while I was alphabetizing the "J" section of the ARChive's collection of 78 rpm records - a small collection here of about 8,000. Tucked in between the Harry James and the James Johnson was a runty nine-inch record on Zon-O-Phone. I pulled it out to take a closer look. The cut:
- [The NY Black Sabbath Covers Project](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-ny-black-sabbath-covers-project/): One day as I was developing the New York Music Index and Archive (the project I mentioned in last week's "Metallica" post where we're cataloging and making freely available information about all aspects of the music industry in New York State), I happened to come across the MySpace pages of two different New York bands
- [The New Metallica](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-new-metallica/): So, it's almost here. Death Magnetic. The new Metallica record. And part of it's been leaked onto YouTube. I don't know about you, but I'm LOVING most of what I heard--it's like the Metallica of old in a lot of ways. (Thanks Rick Rubin!) What's Lars's take on the leak, you ask? "If this thing
- [The Whole World In His Hands](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-whole-world-in-his-hands/): Watching the Dems wonderful halftime show in the stadium last night there was a little aside that was fascinating. The starting point was the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington DC. Margaret Warner, a PBS commentator, is married to John R. Reilly, former Chairman of the Federal Trade
- [Tha Syncopaytah!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/tha-syncopaytah/): On Monday I went to see Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks play the finest in early jazz, and as I was describing it to Jon yesterday I was reminded that one day, while working on this crazy little thing we like to call the "New York Music Index and Archive" (or NYMIA for short), he
- [Summertime + the music stories are adequate](https://arcmusic.org/blog/summertime-the-music-stories-are-adequate/): • We recently found four Elvis bracelets at a flea market. While the packaging looked right, the bracelets themselves seemed a little iffy. What did these rocks have to do with Elvis? The date is 1956. So maybe "Jailhouse Rocks?" Our pal the internet turned up pics of the backing card and a reason for
- [Paddy Canny](https://arcmusic.org/blog/paddy-canny/): [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBONRwNY77c] Paddy Canny 1919-2008 Because his playing was so identified with the "east Clare" style, Canny's passing is an important moment in Irish traditional music. He was born in 1919 into a musical family (his father was a fiddle player) and had music all around him from a young age. In 1947, he became one
- [Nigerian Musician Sonny Okosuns Dies](https://arcmusic.org/blog/nigerian-musician-sonny-okosuns-dies/): Nigerian composer, singer and activist Sonny Okosuns died May 24 in Washington DC of Cancer. Not well known in the States, Sonny’s great voice (the only African voice) may have been noticed on Sun City, the anti-apartheid album from 1985 or on the soundtrack of Jonathan Demme's Something Wild. I had the privilege of doing
- [Reflecting on the Sale...](https://arcmusic.org/blog/reflecting-on-the-sale/): The sale's over. Next sale Begins Saturday, Dec 13. Just thought we'd toss out a few images before we get back to cataloging and caring for the world's largest popular music collection. What can you do with those antique round sound thingies? Hey, they're shinny and work really well as reflectors on the streets on
- [](https://arcmusic.org/blog/522/): One nice thing about the ARC sale is the new friends we meet who come in to shop. Our latest pal'o'pals is Joel who runs one of the nicest little record shops left in Manhattan, Tropicalia In Furs. Joel shopped at the ARC sale and we traded a bit. What we got is listed below.
- [We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-badges/): Unable to push through a “Cross Dressing” or edible “Trans-fat” merit badge last fall the Los Angeles Boy Scouts (50,000 strong) have approved the "Respect Copyrights" patch, sponsored by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America). Antenna up about exactly what sponsorship means, especially as scouts are encouraged to mount MPAA software Parent File Scan
- [All our Singles are Worthless Now?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/all-our-singles-are-worthless-now/): As you may know the ARC was the reciepient of one of the best solid rock collections in the USA when Jeep Holland gave us his record collection. Jeep was also the mastermind behind A2 (squared) records our of Ann Arbor (A squared), as both he and I (B-squared) went to the UofM there. Today
- [Summer Sale Update!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/summer-sale-update/): Great party last night! ARC members were out in force to take advantage of our food, drink and low, low prices! It was an enjoyable night indeed and a great kickoff to our big annual Summer Sale (details about which can be had by following this link). We still have lots of great, great things.
- [Dan Donates!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dan-donates/): A good friend of ARC, Dan Zanes, has done the impossible; donated ALL, not some, no ALL of his LPs to the library. Sure he threw in a nice pile of CDs (841), but ALL’s a lot, or at least 1,954 discs, and that’s a lot. Not only ALL, but ALL in great condition, and
- [The Latest Sect](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-latest-sect/): This just in : Today, 5/22/2008, the N Y Times posts a story on Acrassicauda, the (only?) Iraqi Heavy Metal band, who just happen to be named after a species of black scorpion. There's a new documentary about them and their love of insects... Wanna watch? or watch another video? As a kid, in Ohio,
- [Summer Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/summer-sale/): the ARChive of Contemporary Music FRIENDLY SUMMER record + cd sale 2008 WHY? To help support the ARChive, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit music library with over 2 million sound recordings - America's largest and BEST popular music collection. WHERE Our ground floor office at 54 White Street in scenic downtown New York. We're 3 short blocks
- [Ton o' Tomes](https://arcmusic.org/blog/493/): Today we honor David Hinckley, of the New York Daily News. David has, over the years, contributed mightily to ARC. Unlike MOST critics, David neither sells nor hoards the swag and promos the recording industry sends his way. He reviews and comments on what he likes, promotes what he can, keeps what he loves the
- [Musi Cali](https://arcmusic.org/blog/musi-cali/): Here are some nice music images from California for all our dedicated disc bloganatii... The ORIGINAL music makin' Madonna, namesake for the Madonna Inn, US Highway 1, coastal CA. A modern madonna from the conjunto band, Jose Luis Ruelas y Sus Rivales del Norte, entertains at lunch at the Capitol Flea Market in San Jose.
- [United Airlines Lacks Musical Sensitivity](https://arcmusic.org/blog/united-airlines-lacks-musical-sensitivity/): As you know, we live in the least developed country of the so-called developed nations. I write this from the San Francisco airport. I fly domestically, maybe, twice a year. I fly internationally 4 or 5 times a year. I have NEVER had a flight delayed in Europe or Asia, and I have never once,
- [Rock Around The Blooper](https://arcmusic.org/blog/rock-around-the-blooper/): Meanwhile, back in the jungle… Freddie's really been kicking ass, sorting through mountains of 45s for weeks now. Every once in a while he'll unearth a comedy single which is my meat! When this beauty bobbed to the surface we had to spin it, like forthwith, no tomorrow-style: A white label deejay copy, Jubilee 45-5258,
- [Back From The Dungeon](https://arcmusic.org/blog/back-from-the-dungeon/): The reason I have not blogged more often is that I have been down in the cellar—known here at the ARChive as The Dungeon—sorting through some of the old seven-inch 45 RPM records (from here on just called 45s). The ARC is the proud owner of about 100,000 45s. Maybe more. Maybe a LOT more.
- [We Knew That](https://arcmusic.org/blog/we-knew-that/): Sarah Lyall, in The New York Times, 3/4/08, reported: "A plot by the Hells Angels, ... in 1969, to kill Mr. Jagger nearly 40 years ago failed when the would-be assassins, traveling by boat, encountered a storm and were thrown overboard, according to a new BBC radio series. In one episode of the series, 'The
- [Rubber Seoul](https://arcmusic.org/blog/rubber-seoul/): It was a proud and teary moment when we here at the ARC heard the strains of the Star-Spangled Banner played in Pyongyang, North Korea, last evening by a local band, the New York Philharmonic. It took me back to the early 80s, when a young Kim Jung Il visited the ARC and donated some
- [Smell of meat, tango](https://arcmusic.org/blog/smell-of-meat-tango/): Recently, at Jazz Standard, (one of the best rooms for jazz in New York) I heard the Eternal Tango Orchestra. A plus is that the music from the enthusiastically carnivorous nation of Argentina was performed under the rib-infested Blue Smoke, a pretty good Bar-B-Q hang. Based in NY, ETO has been around since 2003, preserving
- [Help me! Heeeeellllllllp meeeeeee!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/help-me-heeeeellllllllp-meeeeeee/): Yesterday, I opened up the gatefold cover of this John Coltrane Ballads album … and I found a crime scene! The death of an innocent fly, probably a jazz lover. You can almost hear the sickening "FWAPP" as the cover is slammed shut. How can a Trane fan be so insensitive? Grisly, isn't it? Oh,
- [Are They So Very Different Today?](https://arcmusic.org/blog/are-they-so-very-different-today/): Hipsters, I mean. No, Columbia wasn't the hippest label in the 1950s, but the cover of their Columbia House Party LP did nothing to hurt them. Covered with hipsters hanging around with portable pets, drinking martinis, smoking who knows what and carrying on, it eerily echoes the kinds of things that I see contemporary hipsters
- [Dance Fever](https://arcmusic.org/blog/dance-fever/): File this as Part Two in an examination of the wonderful world of K-Tel as an instrument of dance education. The kids loved Dan's previous Pop and Lock post featuring Breakdance (K-Tel NU3360) which helped spread the good word about the hip hop revolution way back when. Today we present Disco Fire (K-Tel TU2590) another
- [the NICE](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-nice/): One of the nicest things about the ARC is the nice people who pop up over the Holidays, the nicest time of the year. So Here's to jolly, saintly, James Doran, who gave us the nicest gift of all to round out the season, 308 jazz books! Jim is a long-time ARC supporter, who's passion
- [Big Thanks To Everyone!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/santas-tired/): I am proud to announce that from beginning to end, our Sneaky Santa Holiday sale was a raging success. It started with the smooth ballads, boogie and blues stylings of Susquehanna Industrial Tool and Die Co. (Homepage, Myspace) at the Members party: ...continued through an AMAZING Saturday and ended a week later on a cold,
- [Sneaky Santa Holiday Sale!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/sneaky-santa-holiday-sale/): Do you like music? How about the holidays? If you answered "yes" to both, then you're in luck! It time again for the ARChive of Contemporary Music's big Holiday Record & CD sale! It all gets going on Saturday, December 8th and we'll keep it going everyday, from 11-6, until Sunday, December 16th. We have
- [The Irish Session of the Future!](https://arcmusic.org/blog/the-irish-session-of-the-future/): We have lots of Irish music here at the ARChive (the entire Green Linnet catalog, for example), but I don't think we've got anything like this. Here is a video of someone playing a very convincing set of jigs on a game for the Nintendo DS called "Daigasso! Band Brothers." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEk-gj0douk] I'm not sure how
- [Record Hound of Barcelona](https://arcmusic.org/blog/record-hound-of-barcelona/): As you all know that Spanish visionary, A. Gaudi, loved his music. Some insists he was a serious trance + techno fan, sneaking off to rave the Balerics between concrete pours. But I’m convinced it was the fandango that fueled his modernist visions. Regardless, images of records, LPs mostly, began to shade his architectural landscape.
- [Doing The Good Day](https://arcmusic.org/blog/doing-the-good-day/): B. came back from Europe yesterday with all sorts of exciting stories and a stack of great records. One record that caught my eye was this 45 with an instructional picture sleeve about how to do a dance called the "Casatschok": As you might imagine by the name, the dance and music has a kind
- [Graffiti Artists](https://arcmusic.org/blog/grafitti-artists/): This is from Barcelona, where I'm not exactly sure they are referencing the band, but, hey, maybe... So lets see some other graffiti from bands around the world! We would love to publish your photos on our webthing, or, just see if there are any more out there! B. = Barcelona

## Pages

- [Home](https://arcmusic.org/): This is the home page!
- [Links - folks we like and use for research + fun](https://arcmusic.org/services/links/): This is a highly personal list of links. Sites we enjoy and use. It is divided into categories and you can also click on the category name to go directly there: Archives + libraries are professional organizations within the entertainment industry and library/archive community; independent catalogs are non-institutional places offering good discographies, occasionally embarrassingly commercial;
- [Services](https://arcmusic.org/services/): Beyond preservation ARC offers a variety of research services to the entertainment industry and the general public. Research. Simple informational research requests are free for everyone, while we charge for detailed research. Consulting. ARC brings expertise and care to any research, factchecking or find project involving film, publishing or recordings. Become a Research Member. ARC
- [Board of Trustees](https://arcmusic.org/about/who-we-are/board-of-trustees/): This is ARC's working Board of Trustees 2026. Board will be updated in July. Trustees are active planners and executors of ARC policy, requiring an annual monetary donation and attendance at four meetings per year. We welcome applicants to join our Board at any time. Peter Wright -- Chair Peter has spent his entire career
- [Who we are](https://arcmusic.org/about/who-we-are/): B. George is the Co-Founder and Director of the ARChive of Contemporary Music. The initial donation of 47,000 discs that began ARC came from his personal collection. Mr. George came to New York City in 1974 as a visual arts student at the Whitney Museum Studio Program. From 1975 to 1979, he co-directed performance artist
- [Almost Beatles](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/wjlevay-2/): Oh those Mersey mop-tops - so young, so talented, such peppy songs. More cash cows than misspelled Coleoptera, no wonder every record company and wannabe took their early work, their early look and worked it. Some good music below, but these covers are here because, mostly, they're beautifully dumb. A big thanks to donor Eric
- [Small Heads](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/wjlevay/): We've been digitizing tens-of-thousands of 78s with our partners at the Internet Archive and started to notice a few early vanity labels showing up, in the days before picture sleeves. One approach to letting you know exactly who you're listening to was to picture the floating head of the performer. More recently we've been cataloging
- [Press Room](https://arcmusic.org/about/press-room/): Please contact us for a current press kit. Just tell us what you need. Give us a call : (212) 964-2296 We no longer maintain a fax, but we're email-able : info@arcmusic.org You're on our website now : www.arcmusic.org Our mission statement : To collect, preserve and provide information on the popular music of
- [ARC's New Home](https://arcmusic.org/arcs-new-home/): Here's a first look at ARC new home in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Should be moving in two months and set upand ready to open to the public in about a year. Okay, maybe two. Not easy moving three million sound recordings and over four million pieces of memorabilia and files. It's an amazing space in a
- [Special Collections](https://arcmusic.org/catalogs/special-collections/): Special collections are focused groups of related materials, donated or funded by an individual(s) or institution. A named collection usually involves ongoing financial support, and/or a focused effort to grow the collection by contribution of recordings or helping to recruiting others to donate relevant materials. All major donations electronically link the donor to the recordings
- [Pop music pulp paperbacks](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/pop-music-pulp/): Not only do we collect the highest forms of musical prowess mankind is capable of, in all formats, but also the really important stuff! Like this load of pulp paperbacks featuring not quite books about musicians or critical analysis, but those offering musical themes, rumors, non-autobios authored by musicians or merely the basis for a
- [2025 Year End Roundup](https://arcmusic.org/2025-year-end-roundup/): As we’re a music related archive, this year we’re beginning with an almost complete list of materials donated in 2025. See some other ARC news at the bottom of the page. So a big thanks to all the wonderful donors who endured those post-partum pangs as they mailed, dropped off or helped us load up
- [what we're buying](https://arcmusic.org/16123-2/): [pdf-embedder url="https://arcmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/ARC-just-purchased.pdf" title="ARC just purchased"]
- [Donate materials](https://arcmusic.org/support/donate-materials/): The ARC has become one of the greatest collections of popular music largely through the generosity of collectors, fans, friends and music lovers who trust us to care for the music they have spent a lifetime collecting. Growth also comes from the regular donation of releases from all segments of the entertainment industry; record companies,
- [Our Pals](https://arcmusic.org/our-pals/)
- [A look at the Proposed ARC new storage and public space buildings](https://arcmusic.org/support/record-sale/hut/)
- [Board of Advisors](https://arcmusic.org/about/who-we-are/board-of-advisors/): This board is made up of leaders in the entertainment industry who generously support the mission of the ARC. John “Jellybean” Benitez Top producer, label owner and disc jockey who brought Madonna to the attention of the world. Youssou N’Dour One of the world’s best known musicians from Senegal, who is helping to develop the
- [Adopt-a-record](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/adopt/): Just think of it -- your name forever linked to “Dark Side of the Moon,” “London Calling” or “Race with the Devil: Gene Vincent’s Life in the Fast Lane.” Pick a favorite LP, single or book and we’ll attach your name to it, and its metadata, forever. We’ll even send you adoption papers! Hey, it
- [Quincy Jones releases @ ARC as of 1.20.2024](https://arcmusic.org/quincy-jones-releases/): As Quincy Jones - 12” LPs and singles ­­­­Quincy Jones. Back On The Block (Qwest, 26020-1, 12",33,LP,1989) M- Quincy Jones and his Big Band. Big Band Bossa Nova (Mercury, USA, MG 20751, 12", 33, LP, n.d.). n.n.. MONO - NBC copy has stickers on cover. both copies VG. Fave song “Soul Bossa Nova”. Billy Eckstine
- [Flexi Discs](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/flexi-discs/): The gem of our flexi collection is the entire set of the seven Beatles 1963-1969 UK fan club only Christmas flexi-discs with picture covers and six inserts. A bonus is the rare 4" x 8.5" ad for "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics" book, which was inserted in some copies of the 1969 flexi. Here's a sample
- [Keith's blues](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/blues/): Here are a few of the covers from the more than 21,000 discs in the Keith Richards' Blues Collection, launched when Mr. Richards joined our Board of Advisors in 1991. The gem of the collection the Robert Johnson 78, "Me and The Devil Blues"/"Little Queen of Spades" (Vocalion, 04108, 78rpm, 10", 1937). Johnson (1911–1938) was
- [Clients + accomplishments](https://arcmusic.org/about/press-room/film-credits/): Here is a list of clients and Research Members over the years. Plus details on major research projects and film work. 3M Corp. Advertising Age Adweek AfroPop Radio Show Alive From Off Center All Music Guide Allure Magazine Robert Altman AMC Amnesty International Laurie Anderson ARSC Art Against AIDS Artforum Artists Space ASCAP Atlantic Records
- [45 adaptors](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/45-centers-inserts/): Here are some 45 adaptors, aka; adapters, centering devices, centers, inserts, single posts, spiders and things you place inside the large hole of a 45 rpm seven-inch disc to play it on a standard turntable having a small post originally designed for playing LPs. whew! Here's a few singles that come with centering devices, more
- [About the ARC](https://arcmusic.org/about-the-arc/): [pdf-embedder url="https://arcmusic.org/our-story/" title="About ARC Story"]
- [Appraisals](https://arcmusic.org/services/appraisals/): ARC staff can offer professional appraisal services for music collections of all sizes and mediums, from all eras and cultures. We can work with both catalogued or unorganized materials, creating an overview of your holdings and a fair market appraisal for insurance purposes, estate planning, donation or the IRS. Appraisals usually involve a visit to
- [Our Story](https://arcmusic.org/our-story/)
- [Contact](https://arcmusic.org/about/contact/): Address : 135 Old Post Road, Staatsburg, NY, 12580 Our old address was 54 White Street, New York City, in Tribeca. ARC is only open for visits by appointment. We are here cataloging, sorting and listening to music, 10am - 6pm, Monday through Friday. Staatsburg is reachable by car, Amtrak to Rhinebeck and the Hudson
- [ARC Calendar](https://arcmusic.org/about/calendar/)
- [Through Her Eyes](https://arcmusic.org/through-her-eyes/)
- [Our Next Sale](https://arcmusic.org/support/record-sale/): Sad but TRUE as the ARC relocates there will not be a Record + CD Sale in 2022 Thanks to all who have donated, shopped and partied in the past With luck maybe an event in the Fall @ the new HQ in upstate NY Stay Tuned! If we can get the permits for
- [Through Her Eyes - The Women Who Photographed Music](https://arcmusic.org/through-her-eyes-the-women-who-photographed-music/)
- [Space helmets](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/space/): ARC has hundreds of outer space related recordings here, where we make a great many physical and electronic 'sorts' based on themes -- like this one, a bit goofy. There are Mars records, moon records, comedy space records. You get the picture. Unlike other sites, all these recordings are owned by ARC - part of
- [Join + ways to make a monetary donation](https://arcmusic.org/support/monetary-donation/): There are a great many ways you can help the ARC preserve the history of popular music. Join the ARC - be a Friend The list indicates the various levels of annual charitable donations you can make to become a Friend of the ARChive. $50 contributor $100 donor $250 sponsor $500 patron $1000 benefactor $2500
- [ARChive history - an illustrated timeline](https://arcmusic.org/about/archive-history/): June 1985 • The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is launched by Robert George (B.George), the current director, and David Wheeler (1957–1997), a record collector and author with a masters degree in Library Science from Columbia University. The physical collection begins with 47,000 sound recordings collected by Mr. George accumulated through his work as a DJ,
- [Use our space](https://arcmusic.org/services/use-our-space/): The ARC has space available for events and exhibitions from January – April and from July – October. All other times the space is being used to hold our record + CD sales. Our gallery has two white walls, 20 ft high x 28 ft. long, running the length of an even longer 25 ft.
- [Interns + volunteers](https://arcmusic.org/support/volunteer/): We couldn't survive without interns and volunteers! Many kind folks offer their time, skills and energy to help us in a variety of tasks. About twenty different people help out every year, mostly students. We're always on the lookout for people with special skills and good ideas. Here are the things we'll be working on
- [ARC Dance Party 2018](https://arcmusic.org/arc-dance-party-2018/): ARC hosted their first Benefit Dance Party in quite a few year on Dec 10, 2018. It was a more casual affair than usual, priced to let a whole new generation discover the library. After all we've been around for 34 years. Our great lineup of DJs included Fred Schneider (B-52s), Craig Kallman (CEO of
- [Industry Board](https://arcmusic.org/about/who-we-are/industry-board/): NEW! This is ARC's Board made up of leaders in the entertainment + IT industries Industry Board members are ARC supporters requiring an annual monetary donation and active participation in moving the organization forward. This Board is headed by Craig Kallman, CEO of Atlantic Records, who is also on the ARC 's Board of Directors.
- [Players' Association](https://arcmusic.org/about/who-we-are/players-association/): The Players’ Association is an exclusive club, a party, a group of entertainment industry people, musicians and movers and shakers dedicated to supporting the ARC. We seek Players interested in evolving into more active supporters - sponsoring collections, joining other Boards and helping to keep the ARC America’s greatest record library. Spearheading this initiative is:
- [Dance Poster](https://arcmusic.org/dance-poster/)
- [Ideas](https://arcmusic.org/news/music-weeks-ideas/): Ways to Contribute to Scandinavian Music Week • visit the greater Islamic World • drop by Brazil • here's India
- [Recent Activities @ ARC - Sept 2018](https://arcmusic.org/recent-activities-arc-sept-2018/): • You can listen to 88,392 of our seventy-eights https://archive.org/details/georgeblood for free. ARC has now collect 300,000+ discs. We’ve had more than 7 million listens so far. • You can now borrow 3,000 of our music books online. Almost all checked out all of the time! • We have now digitized 400,000+ of our CDs in Hong Kong. 50,000 more
- [About the ARChive](https://arcmusic.org/about/): The ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is a not-for-profit archive, music library and research center located in New York City since 1985. ARC contains more than three million sound recordings. That's 90 + million songs. We preserve copies of each version of every recording, in all known formats, and have electronically catalogued more than 400,000
- [ARC Holiday Record + CD Sale](https://arcmusic.org/16arc-sizzlin-summer-record-cd-sale/): Holiday Record + CD Sale: December 8 -21, 2018 ARChive of Contemporary Music • 54 White Street •TribecaThe sale will be open every day 11am-6pm • Free admission • New recordings added daily! This is our largest sale ever! Most exciting ever! Yea, we say that every year - and it's true! New items will
- [Activist Discs](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/activist-discs/): This gallery is part of the 800+ folk, bluegrass and political recordings collected and curated by Henry Finkelstein. What really caught our attention were the political, activist and protest recordings illustrated here. One favorite is the "Don't Mourn" LP features songs written by Joe Hill (Joel Emmanuel Hägglund) and the title references a letter by
- [Bellydance](https://arcmusic.org/bellydance/)
- [UK Printed 78 Sleeves](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/uk-printed-78-sleeves/): ARC recently processed a trove of 78rpm discs with heavy printed cardboard sleeves from the UK, part of our work with partners @ the Internet Archive. While we’re not experts on 78s, we have handled 100’s of thousands and we’ve not seen the like. Most 78 sleeves are either plain paper or printed with the
- [Bluegrass](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/bluegrass/)
- [Bluegrass, Old Timey + String Band Music Collection - recordings](https://arcmusic.org/catalogs/special-collections/bluegrass-old-timey-string-band-music-collection-recordings/): • Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys. Fly Birdie Fly (Rounder; USA, SS-24 / P 19797, 12", 33, LP, 1988). 1939 1941 • Eddie Adcock and Don Reno. The Sensational Twin Banjos Of Eddie Adcock And Don Reno (Rebel Recording Co.; USA, SLP 1482, 12", 33.3, LP, N.D.). • Tom Akstens. Original & Traditional
- [Recordings](https://arcmusic.org/catalogs/recordings/): This database represents the first stage of listing all of the the holdings at ARC -- more than 270,000 from our collection of two million plus recordings. Obviously this part of the new website is a Beta version, so bear with us. Then again, a lot of libraries have 650 unique Beatles recordings, but not
- [Scanning + loans](https://arcmusic.org/services/scanning/): Book scanning The ARC has partnered with the Internet Archive and maintains their Scribe overhead book scanner, a safe archival tool designed to minimize stress on a book’s binding. Books and manuscripts are gentle cradled on a V-shaped bed, and shot two pages at a time by two matching high-res cameras. The Scribe can digitize
- [Support the ARChive](https://arcmusic.org/support/): There are a great many ways you can help the ARC preserve the history of popular music. Please consider joining, donating or using one of our services. Join the ARC and become a Friend. This is the easiest way to help. Your monetary donation goes towards day-to-day expenses and activities. Annual memberships start at $50
- [Music Weeks](https://arcmusic.org/news/music-weeks/): ARC launched our annual exploration of the music of other cultures in 2011 with Muslim World Music Day. The followup in 2012 was Brazilian Music Day. The wealth of material turned 'Days' into 'Weeks' with 2013's India Music Week. These online and live events offered videos, histories, seminars, concerts, lectures, sound files, sheet music, broadcasts,
- [LA punk flyers](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/la-punk-flyers/): Fred Patterson (Senior Archivist) has a history, a great deal of it in LA. Here are a few of his small posters and handbills from the scene, circa the late 1970s. Fred says: Back then, practically the only way one could advertise an independently promoted show was by drawing up a poster and circulating it
- [Country & Western songbooks](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/country-western-songbooks/): In late 2013 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 is now catalogued in our database and integrated into our ever-growing country
- [Music Tour to Cuba with ARC!](https://arcmusic.org/news/tour-cuba-with-the-arc/): As part of Cuba Music Week and the 18th edition of Cubadiscos, and with partners Rockmedia and SER Consultants, the ARC will offer its first music tour to Cuba, May 17-24th, 2016! Cubadiscos is the island largest musical event and Cuba Music Week is an exploration of the culture and music of this incredible island
- [Books](https://arcmusic.org/catalogs/books/): This is our online database of the catalogued music related publications at ARC. To date it is primarily books, catalogs and songbooks -- more than 9,500 titles. We have also indicated which books have already been scanned in conjunction with the Internet Archive in San Francisco. The entire collection to be entered includes books, catalogs
- [Cuba Music Week May 14-22, 2016](https://arcmusic.org/news/cuba-music-week-blog/): relevant blog posts here
- [Asian Indian albums](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/asian-indian-albums/): Here is a selection of covers from important and graphically interesting Asian Indian albums in the ARC collection. This gallery was originally created for our India Music Week and details on these releases can be found in our database of recordings on the catalog pages.
- [World-ly singles](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/world-ly-singles/): A few nice singles from around the world, or Western takes of genres from other cultures. Most are 7" forty-fives, but a few are 10" singles.
- [i-HoPin’](https://arcmusic.org/i-hopin/): The House of Prayer (THE original i-HoP) has always been about living large - a help and self-help positive force since the twenties. The Church was founded by Sweet Daddy Grace (Bishop Charles Manuel Grace, born Marcelino Manoel da Graca in Cape Verde) in the early 1920s in New Bedford, Mass. Sweet Daddy was raised
- [catalogs](https://arcmusic.org/catalogs/): This page provides an overview and links to the initial posting of databases and discographies here at the ARC - the metadata on recordings and books. We've also posted the "A" section of the genres catalog and the "A" and "B" of the instruments catalog. These databases will take a while to perfect. In addition
- [Instruments](https://arcmusic.org/catalogs/instruments/): ARC’s Musical Instrument Catalog is an online version of our database defining more than 3,776 instruments common to popular music performance worldwide. We are slowly adding instruments as we edit the data, and in early 2015 added 209 "B"s to the 142 from the "A" list... Image on the left is a rabeca -- a
- [Tribeca Neighborhood Eats](https://arcmusic.org/about/tribeca/): This Guide was written primarily to orient the many, hungry interns and volunteers who donate their time and energy to help build the ARC. White Street, where we are, has gone from a wholesale textile area and drugs paradise in the 1970s to one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the world. Here’s a good
- [Guest posts](https://arcmusic.org/news/guest-posts/): Coming soon We've asked a circle of friends, from around the world, to write a music related feature. The goal is to populate this category with interesting, substantial posts from writers and musicians, a new one every month. Longtime ARC supporters who we've asked to lend a hand include; author Greil Marcus, longtime NY Rocker editor
- [Research Services - Use the Archive](https://arcmusic.org/services/using-the-archive/): Ever wonder how to spell Tucumcari, Tohatchapee or Tonopah? Need to locate a copy of the Ethel Merman Disco Album? Looking for lost cover art or a master tape to complete that re-issue? And who is that famous songwriter at the piano in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window? The answers to these and many other questions
- [galleries](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/): Galleries are related groupings of visual artifacts preserved at the ARC. Usually they are record covers. Some are scans of books, sheet music, photographs, posters, films or music related graphics. Sometimes they are not ours or here at the ARC, but lent for a project. We'll let you know. We do ask that anyone who
- [ARC press - New York Times](https://arcmusic.org/about/press-room/ny-times/)
- [ARC press - New Yorker](https://arcmusic.org/about/press-room/arc-press-new-yorker/)
- [ARC press - Newsweek](https://arcmusic.org/about/press-room/arc-press-newsweek/)
- [David Byrne says](https://arcmusic.org/about/byrne/): The Three Most-Asked Questions Regarding the ARChive Answered For You What is ARC? I PICTURE A LIBRARY-LIKE SITUATION, WHERE THE STAFF, INSTEAD OF BEING QUIET, THEY MAKE A LOT OF NOISE -- DANCING IN THE AISLES. Why is this institution not supported by the government? Well, it probably will be some day -- our public
- [aliens](https://arcmusic.org/about/aliens/): Why the ARChive? There is a wonderful short story by Emmanuel Boundzeki Dongala called "Jazz and Palm Wine." In it, the earth is invaded from Outer Space and the advanced ships land in Zaire. Aliens conquer the world. Spacemen explore the various cultures and societies on this planet and decide, quite rightly, that the only things
- [ARC graphics](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/arc-graphics/): Here's a pile of ARC images + graphics over the years for the press and interested parties to use. Please credit properly and let us know if you need anything else...
- [Scandinavian Music Week](https://arcmusic.org/news/music-weeks/scandinavian-music-week/): • visit the greater Islamic World • drop by Brazil • here's India
- [Genres](https://arcmusic.org/catalogs/genres/): ARC’s Music Genre Catalog is an online version of our database defining more than 3,150 distinct styles/genres of pop music worldwide. A wide variety of dance forms that have created a unique musical accompaniment that evolved into a genre/style are also included, such as samba, waltz, twist, etc... This authority file helps us characterize, without
- [Cha Cha Cha](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/cha-cha-cha/): Latin music has spawned a great many dances and dance crazes, producing some of the hottest music and delightful cover art here at the ARC. Here are a few in our collection from the Cha Cha craze that swept the world in the 1950s. Cha Cha is one of the genres we hope to incorporate
- [Mailing List](https://arcmusic.org/support/mailing-list/): Here's a form for you to join our mailing list. We won't pester you much and we do not market your information. These links will tell you more about donating materials, joining the ARC, and our next sale. You can always call or send us an email. [contact-form][contact-field label='Name' type='name' required='1'/][contact-field label='Email' type='email' required='1'/][contact-field label='Band
- [Sun LPs](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/the-first-12-sun-lps/): A nice group of recordings here at the ARC, the first twelve LPs released by the legendary Sun Records of Memphis, TN.
- [Bellydance](https://arcmusic.org/galleries/bellydance/): For most Americans any post-war knowledge of Middle Eastern music was gleaned from images and sounds associated with belly dancing and the exotic implications of the harem. Record labels pandered to these fantasies, producing some pretty good, inauthentic music and to a record collector, hilariously desirable cover art. So be warned, some of the images

## Quotes

- [Holdings have grown](https://arcmusic.org/quotes/holdings-have-grown/): Since 1985 our holdings have grown to more than 3 million records.
- [Molly](https://arcmusic.org/quotes/molly/): We want ARC to be like Molly Bloom -- say 'yes, yes' to everything
- [Collects popular music](https://arcmusic.org/quotes/collects-popular-music/): We collect the popular music of all cultures throughout the world.
- [Not-for-profit](https://arcmusic.org/quotes/not-for-profit/): We're a not-for-profit music library and research center in TriBeCa.
- [Actively collects](https://arcmusic.org/quotes/actively-collects/): We actively collect books, magazines, videos, films, press kits...
- [Largest collection](https://arcmusic.org/quotes/largest-collection/): We have the largest collection of popular music in America.
- [Beatles](https://arcmusic.org/quotes/beatles/): Where else can you find a licorice Beatles record?
- [Donate NOW](https://arcmusic.org/quotes/donate/): Donate NOW + support the world's largest popular music archive!

## Tags

- [fusion](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fusion/)
- [India](https://arcmusic.org/tag/india/)
- [jazz](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jazz/)
- [Lou Reed](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lou-reed/)
- [Velvet Underground](https://arcmusic.org/tag/velvet-underground/)
- [rock](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rock/)
- [Ravi Shankar](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ravi-shankar/)
- [sitar](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sitar/)
- [pop music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pop-music/)
- [world music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/world-music/)
- [latin](https://arcmusic.org/tag/latin/)
- [popular studies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/popular-studies/)
- [musicology](https://arcmusic.org/tag/musicology/)
- [ethno musicology](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ethno-musicology/)
- [ethnomusicology](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ethnomusicology/)
- [anthropology](https://arcmusic.org/tag/anthropology/)
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- [caribbean coast](https://arcmusic.org/tag/caribbean-coast/)
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- [costeno](https://arcmusic.org/tag/costeno/)
- [colombian music scene](https://arcmusic.org/tag/colombian-music-scene/)
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- [travel](https://arcmusic.org/tag/travel/)
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- [mobile DJs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mobile-djs/)
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- [mixers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mixers/)
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- [sound systems](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sound-systems/)
- [vinyl](https://arcmusic.org/tag/vinyl/)
- [tube amplifiers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tube-amplifiers/)
- [vacume tubes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/vacume-tubes/)
- [amps](https://arcmusic.org/tag/amps/)
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- [plaques](https://arcmusic.org/tag/plaques/)
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- [south african music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/south-african-music/)
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- [therapy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/therapy/)
- [mbaqanga beats](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mbaqanga-beats/)
- [african dance records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/african-dance-records/)
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- [seven-inch](https://arcmusic.org/tag/seven-inch/)
- [forty-fives](https://arcmusic.org/tag/forty-fives/)
- [Supine View](https://arcmusic.org/tag/supine-view/)
- [Ice Cream Truck Music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ice-cream-truck-music/)
- [neely](https://arcmusic.org/tag/neely/)
- [Donations](https://arcmusic.org/tag/donations/)
- [Buddha Box](https://arcmusic.org/tag/buddha-box/)
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- [Trivia](https://arcmusic.org/tag/trivia/)
- [Metal](https://arcmusic.org/tag/metal/)
- [Mento](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mento/)
- [Punk](https://arcmusic.org/tag/punk/)
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- [contest](https://arcmusic.org/tag/contest/)
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- [fashion](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fashion/)
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- [culture](https://arcmusic.org/tag/culture/)
- [outer space](https://arcmusic.org/tag/outer-space/)
- [run off groove](https://arcmusic.org/tag/run-off-groove/)
- [voyager](https://arcmusic.org/tag/voyager/)
- [children](https://arcmusic.org/tag/children/)
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- [breakdance](https://arcmusic.org/tag/breakdance/)
- [film noir](https://arcmusic.org/tag/film-noir/)
- [45s](https://arcmusic.org/tag/45s/)
- [baseball](https://arcmusic.org/tag/baseball/)
- [flexidisc](https://arcmusic.org/tag/flexidisc/)
- [West Memphis Three](https://arcmusic.org/tag/west-memphis-three/)
- [WM3](https://arcmusic.org/tag/wm3/)
- [art](https://arcmusic.org/tag/art/)
- [Barcelona](https://arcmusic.org/tag/barcelona/)
- [devo](https://arcmusic.org/tag/devo/)
- [grafitti](https://arcmusic.org/tag/grafitti/)
- [graphics](https://arcmusic.org/tag/graphics/)
- [Spain](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spain/)
- [tagging](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tagging/)
- [architecture](https://arcmusic.org/tag/architecture/)
- [europe](https://arcmusic.org/tag/europe/)
- [gaudi](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gaudi/)
- [Gaudi Spain Barcelona Catalan recordings moderist archi](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gaudi-spain-barcelona-catalan-recordings-moderist-archi/)
- [mosaic](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mosaic/)
- [recordings](https://arcmusic.org/tag/recordings/)
- [ireland](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ireland/)
- [education](https://arcmusic.org/tag/education/)
- [scientific study](https://arcmusic.org/tag/scientific-study/)
- [the onion](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-onion/)
- [christmas](https://arcmusic.org/tag/christmas/)
- [discographies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/discographies/)
- [seasons](https://arcmusic.org/tag/seasons/)
- [women](https://arcmusic.org/tag/women/)
- [accordion](https://arcmusic.org/tag/accordion/)
- [Argentina](https://arcmusic.org/tag/argentina/)
- [bandoneón](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bandoneon/)
- [folk](https://arcmusic.org/tag/folk/)
- [milonga](https://arcmusic.org/tag/milonga/)
- [tano](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tano/)
- [kumina](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kumina/)
- [Beatles](https://arcmusic.org/tag/beatles/)
- [clapton](https://arcmusic.org/tag/clapton/)
- [guitars](https://arcmusic.org/tag/guitars/)
- [Korea](https://arcmusic.org/tag/korea/)
- [Seoul](https://arcmusic.org/tag/seoul/)
- [bell biv devoe](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bell-biv-devoe/)
- [subway](https://arcmusic.org/tag/subway/)
- [British](https://arcmusic.org/tag/british/)
- [England](https://arcmusic.org/tag/england/)
- [paperbacks](https://arcmusic.org/tag/paperbacks/)
- [pulp](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pulp/)
- [rock and roll](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rock-and-roll/)
- [rolling stones](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rolling-stones/)
- [UK](https://arcmusic.org/tag/uk/)
- [Phreddie](https://arcmusic.org/tag/phreddie/)
- [45 adapters](https://arcmusic.org/tag/45-adapters/)
- [California](https://arcmusic.org/tag/california/)
- [catalina](https://arcmusic.org/tag/catalina/)
- [hate](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hate/)
- [musical pottery](https://arcmusic.org/tag/musical-pottery/)
- [pottery](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pottery/)
- [United airlines](https://arcmusic.org/tag/united-airlines/)
- [record stores](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-stores/)
- [tejano](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tejano/)
- [tex-mex](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tex-mex/)
- [pure pop](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pure-pop/)
- [1940s](https://arcmusic.org/tag/1940s/)
- [booklet](https://arcmusic.org/tag/booklet/)
- [guitar](https://arcmusic.org/tag/guitar/)
- [mexican](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mexican/)
- [mexico](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mexico/)
- [Acrassicauda](https://arcmusic.org/tag/acrassicauda/)
- [Adam Ant](https://arcmusic.org/tag/adam-ant/)
- [antennae](https://arcmusic.org/tag/antennae/)
- [Blowfly](https://arcmusic.org/tag/blowfly/)
- [Celi Bee](https://arcmusic.org/tag/celi-bee/)
- [Flea](https://arcmusic.org/tag/flea/)
- [Halo of Flies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/halo-of-flies/)
- [Honey & the Bees](https://arcmusic.org/tag/honey-the-bees/)
- [Insect Surfers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/insect-surfers/)
- [insects](https://arcmusic.org/tag/insects/)
- [Iron Butterfly](https://arcmusic.org/tag/iron-butterfly/)
- [J.W. Grasshopper & Butterfly](https://arcmusic.org/tag/j-w-grasshopper-butterfly/)
- [Lord Flea](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lord-flea/)
- [Lord Fly](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lord-fly/)
- [Neil Young](https://arcmusic.org/tag/neil-young/)
- [New York Times](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-york-times/)
- [Praying Mantis](https://arcmusic.org/tag/praying-mantis/)
- [record collecting](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-collecting/)
- [Scorpion](https://arcmusic.org/tag/scorpion/)
- [Spider John Koerner](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spider-john-koerner/)
- [Spider Webb](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spider-webb/)
- [spiders](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spiders/)
- [Steel Caterpillar](https://arcmusic.org/tag/steel-caterpillar/)
- [Tarantula](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tarantula/)
- [The Bee Gees](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-bee-gees/)
- [The Buggs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-buggs/)
- [The Bugs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-bugs/)
- [The Butterflys](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-butterflys/)
- [The Fire Flies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-fire-flies/)
- [The Fleas](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-fleas/)
- [The Honey Bees](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-honey-bees/)
- [The Insect Trust](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-insect-trust/)
- [The Spiders](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-spiders/)
- [the Tarantulas](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-tarantulas/)
- [the Termites](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-termites/)
- [WASP](https://arcmusic.org/tag/wasp/)
- [books](https://arcmusic.org/tag/books/)
- [popular music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/popular-music/)
- [childrens](https://arcmusic.org/tag/childrens/)
- [country](https://arcmusic.org/tag/country/)
- [dan Zanes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dan-zanes/)
- [Esther Phillips](https://arcmusic.org/tag/esther-phillips/)
- [soul](https://arcmusic.org/tag/soul/)
- [STANLEY HOLLOWAY](https://arcmusic.org/tag/stanley-holloway/)
- [Studio One](https://arcmusic.org/tag/studio-one/)
- [A-squared](https://arcmusic.org/tag/a-squared/)
- [ACE Records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ace-records/)
- [Ann Arbor](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ann-arbor/)
- [Frost](https://arcmusic.org/tag/frost/)
- [Iggy Pop](https://arcmusic.org/tag/iggy-pop/)
- [MC5](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mc5/)
- [michigan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/michigan/)
- [Thyme](https://arcmusic.org/tag/thyme/)
- [badges](https://arcmusic.org/tag/badges/)
- [boy scouts](https://arcmusic.org/tag/boy-scouts/)
- [Dolly Parton](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dolly-parton/)
- [reflectors](https://arcmusic.org/tag/reflectors/)
- [skirts](https://arcmusic.org/tag/skirts/)
- [tropical](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tropical/)
- [activist](https://arcmusic.org/tag/activist/)
- [Africa](https://arcmusic.org/tag/africa/)
- [Nigeria](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nigeria/)
- [Sonny okoson](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sonny-okoson/)
- [irish](https://arcmusic.org/tag/irish/)
- [A Rod](https://arcmusic.org/tag/a-rod/)
- [Bee Gees](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bee-gees/)
- [Cream](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cream/)
- [dancing video](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dancing-video/)
- [Elvis](https://arcmusic.org/tag/elvis/)
- [EMI](https://arcmusic.org/tag/emi/)
- [food](https://arcmusic.org/tag/food/)
- [Grammies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/grammies/)
- [Grammy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/grammy/)
- [Madonna](https://arcmusic.org/tag/madonna/)
- [Melvins](https://arcmusic.org/tag/melvins/)
- [NYMIA](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nymia/)
- [wherethehellismatt.com](https://arcmusic.org/tag/wherethehellismattcom/)
- [gospel](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gospel/)
- [mahalia Jackson](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mahalia-jackson/)
- [March on Washington](https://arcmusic.org/tag/march-on-washington/)
- [Martin Luther King Jr](https://arcmusic.org/tag/martin-luther-king-jr/)
- [pbs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pbs/)
- [singer female](https://arcmusic.org/tag/singer-female/)
- [single](https://arcmusic.org/tag/single/)
- [spiritual](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spiritual/)
- [Black Sabbath](https://arcmusic.org/tag/black-sabbath/)
- [78s](https://arcmusic.org/tag/78s/)
- [Barack Obama](https://arcmusic.org/tag/barack-obama/)
- [Hope](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hope/)
- [Obama](https://arcmusic.org/tag/obama/)
- [Patriotism](https://arcmusic.org/tag/patriotism/)
- [political songs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/political-songs/)
- [Politics](https://arcmusic.org/tag/politics/)
- [Progress](https://arcmusic.org/tag/progress/)
- [Black](https://arcmusic.org/tag/black/)
- [election](https://arcmusic.org/tag/election/)
- [Fela](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fela/)
- [President](https://arcmusic.org/tag/president/)
- [comedy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/comedy/)
- [polital satire](https://arcmusic.org/tag/polital-satire/)
- [white house](https://arcmusic.org/tag/white-house/)
- [belafonte](https://arcmusic.org/tag/belafonte/)
- [diva](https://arcmusic.org/tag/diva/)
- [gumboot](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gumboot/)
- [makeba](https://arcmusic.org/tag/makeba/)
- [south africa](https://arcmusic.org/tag/south-africa/)
- [vocalist](https://arcmusic.org/tag/vocalist/)
- [hoax](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hoax/)
- [Horses](https://arcmusic.org/tag/horses/)
- [LOL](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lol/)
- [LOLS](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lols/)
- [LOLZ](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lolz/)
- [mass media](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mass-media/)
- [media](https://arcmusic.org/tag/media/)
- [SOMC](https://arcmusic.org/tag/somc/)
- [SOMM](https://arcmusic.org/tag/somm/)
- [Xmas](https://arcmusic.org/tag/xmas/)
- [sale](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sale/)
- [Iraq](https://arcmusic.org/tag/iraq/)
- [murderer](https://arcmusic.org/tag/murderer/)
- [shoes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/shoes/)
- [big band](https://arcmusic.org/tag/big-band/)
- [drummer](https://arcmusic.org/tag/drummer/)
- [drummers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/drummers/)
- [drums](https://arcmusic.org/tag/drums/)
- [interracial](https://arcmusic.org/tag/interracial/)
- [Einstürzende Neubauten](https://arcmusic.org/tag/einsturzende-neubauten/)
- [German music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/german-music/)
- [industrial](https://arcmusic.org/tag/industrial/)
- [Britpop](https://arcmusic.org/tag/britpop/)
- [Dave Clark](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dave-clark/)
- [Brasil](https://arcmusic.org/tag/brasil-jobim-spring/)
- [Brazil](https://arcmusic.org/tag/brazil/)
- [Jobim](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jobim/)
- [score](https://arcmusic.org/tag/score/)
- [spring](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spring/)
- [Virgin closing](https://arcmusic.org/tag/virgin-closing/)
- [celebrity](https://arcmusic.org/tag/celebrity/)
- [death](https://arcmusic.org/tag/death/)
- [graveyard](https://arcmusic.org/tag/graveyard/)
- [michael jackson](https://arcmusic.org/tag/michael-jackson/)
- [signed](https://arcmusic.org/tag/signed/)
- [Television](https://arcmusic.org/tag/television/)
- [film](https://arcmusic.org/tag/film/)
- [MoMa](https://arcmusic.org/tag/moma/)
- [easy listening](https://arcmusic.org/tag/easy-listening/)
- [mistakes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mistakes/)
- [Board Member](https://arcmusic.org/tag/board-member/)
- [female](https://arcmusic.org/tag/female/)
- [obituary](https://arcmusic.org/tag/obituary/)
- [songwriter](https://arcmusic.org/tag/songwriter/)
- [Amman](https://arcmusic.org/tag/amman/)
- [ancient](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ancient/)
- [collections](https://arcmusic.org/tag/collections/)
- [Islam](https://arcmusic.org/tag/islam/)
- [Jordan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jordan/)
- [Middle East](https://arcmusic.org/tag/middle-east/)
- [Muslim](https://arcmusic.org/tag/muslim/)
- [Petra](https://arcmusic.org/tag/petra/)
- [traditional music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/traditional-music/)
- [albums](https://arcmusic.org/tag/albums/)
- [crate diggers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/crate-diggers/)
- [donation](https://arcmusic.org/tag/donation/)
- [Fleshtones](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fleshtones/)
- [LPs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lps/)
- [Communist](https://arcmusic.org/tag/communist/)
- [photography](https://arcmusic.org/tag/photography/)
- [performance](https://arcmusic.org/tag/performance/)
- [situationists letterists](https://arcmusic.org/tag/situationists-letterists/)
- [Antlers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/antlers/)
- [cabaret](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cabaret/)
- [christmas sale](https://arcmusic.org/tag/christmas-sale/)
- [David Hyde Pierce](https://arcmusic.org/tag/david-hyde-pierce/)
- [Feinsteins](https://arcmusic.org/tag/feinsteins/)
- [Giraffes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/giraffes/)
- [Liv Ullmann](https://arcmusic.org/tag/liv-ullmann/)
- [record slae](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-slae/)
- [Romanian Buck](https://arcmusic.org/tag/romanian-buck/)
- [Roumanian Buck](https://arcmusic.org/tag/roumanian-buck/)
- [shopping](https://arcmusic.org/tag/shopping/)
- [donate](https://arcmusic.org/tag/donate/)
- [support](https://arcmusic.org/tag/support/)
- [tax deductible contribution](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tax-deductible-contribution/)
- [Brooklyn](https://arcmusic.org/tag/brooklyn/)
- [cajun](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cajun/)
- [canada](https://arcmusic.org/tag/canada/)
- [David Greeley](https://arcmusic.org/tag/david-greeley/)
- [fiddle](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fiddle/)
- [Joel Savoy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/joel-savoy/)
- [Kate McGarrigle](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kate-mcgarrigle/)
- [Louisiana](https://arcmusic.org/tag/louisiana/)
- [New Orleans](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-orleans/)
- [Columbia University](https://arcmusic.org/tag/columbia-university/)
- [deaths](https://arcmusic.org/tag/deaths/)
- [obituaries](https://arcmusic.org/tag/obituaries/)
- [cleveland](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cleveland/)
- [earth day](https://arcmusic.org/tag/earth-day/)
- [eno](https://arcmusic.org/tag/eno/)
- [indi music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/indi-music/)
- [Ohio](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ohio/)
- [Arhoolie](https://arcmusic.org/tag/arhoolie/)
- [food](https://arcmusic.org/tag/food-2/)
- [Gracenote](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gracenote/)
- [Internet archive](https://arcmusic.org/tag/internet-archive/)
- [murals](https://arcmusic.org/tag/murals/)
- [murals](https://arcmusic.org/tag/murals-2/)
- [ocean](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ocean/)
- [redwoods](https://arcmusic.org/tag/redwoods/)
- [redwoods](https://arcmusic.org/tag/redwoods-2/)
- [San Francisco](https://arcmusic.org/tag/san-francisco/)
- [sax](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sax/)
- [saxaphone](https://arcmusic.org/tag/saxaphone/)
- [singles 45](https://arcmusic.org/tag/singles-45/)
- [autograph](https://arcmusic.org/tag/autograph/)
- [cuba](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cuba/)
- [turntable](https://arcmusic.org/tag/turntable/)
- [British Invasion](https://arcmusic.org/tag/british-invasion/)
- [Bar-B-Q](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bar-b-q/)
- [Cleveland](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cleveland-2/)
- [Poland](https://arcmusic.org/tag/poland/)
- [Rock and Roll Hall of Fame](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/)
- [3-D](https://arcmusic.org/tag/3-d/)
- [drugs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/drugs/)
- [experimental](https://arcmusic.org/tag/experimental/)
- [James gang](https://arcmusic.org/tag/james-gang/)
- [Psychedelic](https://arcmusic.org/tag/psychedelic/)
- [Tropicalia](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tropicalia/)
- [underground](https://arcmusic.org/tag/underground/)
- [Canada](https://arcmusic.org/tag/canada-2/)
- [Christian Markley](https://arcmusic.org/tag/christian-markley/)
- [George Harrison](https://arcmusic.org/tag/george-harrison/)
- [library](https://arcmusic.org/tag/library/)
- [record player](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-player/)
- [teen dance](https://arcmusic.org/tag/teen-dance/)
- [Whitney Museum](https://arcmusic.org/tag/whitney-museum/)
- [B. George](https://arcmusic.org/tag/b-george/)
- [clothing](https://arcmusic.org/tag/clothing/)
- [lady Gaga](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lady-gaga/)
- [Las Vegas](https://arcmusic.org/tag/las-vegas/)
- [Liberace](https://arcmusic.org/tag/liberace/)
- [mom](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mom/)
- [Montserrat](https://arcmusic.org/tag/montserrat/)
- [museum](https://arcmusic.org/tag/museum/)
- [Nevada](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nevada/)
- [piano](https://arcmusic.org/tag/piano/)
- [soca](https://arcmusic.org/tag/soca/)
- [TV](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tv/)
- [calypso](https://arcmusic.org/tag/calypso/)
- [Elvis Presley](https://arcmusic.org/tag/elvis-presley/)
- [hippy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hippy/)
- [Lady KKK](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lady-kkk/)
- [nun](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nun/)
- [People's Victory Orchestra](https://arcmusic.org/tag/peoples-victory-orchestra/)
- [religion](https://arcmusic.org/tag/religion/)
- [Sir Lancelot](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sir-lancelot/)
- [sister](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sister/)
- [Trinidad](https://arcmusic.org/tag/trinidad/)
- [Franco](https://arcmusic.org/tag/franco/)
- [Khaira Arby](https://arcmusic.org/tag/khaira-arby/)
- [Laurie Anderson](https://arcmusic.org/tag/laurie-anderson/)
- [Mali](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mali/)
- [New York City](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-york-city/)
- [OK Jazz](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ok-jazz/)
- [Timbuktu](https://arcmusic.org/tag/timbuktu/)
- [bongos](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bongos/)
- [cha cha cha](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cha-cha-cha/)
- [Columbus Day](https://arcmusic.org/tag/columbus-day/)
- [dance craze](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dance-craze/)
- [Latin](https://arcmusic.org/tag/latin-2/)
- [Spanish](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spanish/)
- [dub plate](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dub-plate/)
- [Library of Congress](https://arcmusic.org/tag/library-of-congress/)
- [preservation](https://arcmusic.org/tag/preservation/)
- [Womex](https://arcmusic.org/tag/womex/)
- [Japan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/japan/)
- [sewing](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sewing/)
- [stereo system](https://arcmusic.org/tag/stereo-system/)
- [teen](https://arcmusic.org/tag/teen/)
- [Wax Poetics](https://arcmusic.org/tag/waxpoetics/)
- [Ari Up](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ari-up/)
- [New Age Steppers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-age-steppers/)
- [No New York](https://arcmusic.org/tag/no-new-york/)
- [Slits](https://arcmusic.org/tag/slits/)
- [The Pop Group](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-pop-group/)
- [Tier 3](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tier-3/)
- [fake](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fake/)
- [Frank Sinatra](https://arcmusic.org/tag/frank-sinatra/)
- [Gregory Isaacs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gregory-isaacs/)
- [impostors](https://arcmusic.org/tag/impostors/)
- [Sinatra](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sinatra/)
- [BBC](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bbc/)
- [Bob Girl Goes Calypso](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bob-girl-goes-calypso/)
- [Genesis P Orridge](https://arcmusic.org/tag/genesis-p-orridge/)
- [Goofers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/goofers/)
- [Halloween](https://arcmusic.org/tag/halloween/)
- [john peel](https://arcmusic.org/tag/john-peel/)
- [London](https://arcmusic.org/tag/london/)
- [pumpkin](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pumpkin/)
- [Screaming jay Hawkins](https://arcmusic.org/tag/screaming-jay-hawkins/)
- [Siouxsie Sue](https://arcmusic.org/tag/siouxsie-sue/)
- [SPK](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spk/)
- [Virgin Prunes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/virgin-prunes/)
- [Young Marble Giants](https://arcmusic.org/tag/young-marble-giants/)
- [blogging](https://arcmusic.org/tag/blogging/)
- [chance](https://arcmusic.org/tag/chance/)
- [coincidence](https://arcmusic.org/tag/coincidence/)
- [author](https://arcmusic.org/tag/author/)
- [Broadway](https://arcmusic.org/tag/broadway/)
- [emmy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/emmy/)
- [Fiddler on the roof](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fiddler-on-the-roof/)
- [jerry bock](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jerry-bock/)
- [Jewish](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jewish/)
- [musical](https://arcmusic.org/tag/musical/)
- [New York](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-york/)
- [Pulitzer Prize](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pulitzer-prize/)
- [theater](https://arcmusic.org/tag/theater/)
- [Bonnie's Grill](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bonnies-grill/)
- [Bubble lounge](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bubble-lounge/)
- [cartoon](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cartoon/)
- [champagne](https://arcmusic.org/tag/champagne/)
- [join](https://arcmusic.org/tag/join/)
- [membership](https://arcmusic.org/tag/membership/)
- [CDs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cds/)
- [David Byrne](https://arcmusic.org/tag/david-byrne/)
- [library not-for-profit](https://arcmusic.org/tag/library-not-for-profit/)
- [Luaka Bop](https://arcmusic.org/tag/luaka-bop/)
- [Os Mutantes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/os-mutantes/)
- [Board of Advisors](https://arcmusic.org/tag/board-of-advisors/)
- [David Bowie](https://arcmusic.org/tag/david-bowie/)
- [Ellie Greenwich](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ellie-greenwich/)
- [Fred Schneider](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fred-schneider/)
- [Jellybean Benitez](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jellybean-benitez/)
- [Jerry Leiber](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jerry-leiber/)
- [Jerry Wexler](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jerry-wexler/)
- [Jonathan Demme](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jonathan-demme/)
- [Keith Richards](https://arcmusic.org/tag/keith-richards/)
- [Martin Scorsese](https://arcmusic.org/tag/martin-scorsese/)
- [Mike Stoller](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mike-stoller/)
- [Muslim World Music Day](https://arcmusic.org/tag/muslim-world-music-day/)
- [Nile Rodgers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nile-rodgers/)
- [Paul Simon](https://arcmusic.org/tag/paul-simon/)
- [perry como. pat boone](https://arcmusic.org/tag/perry-como-pat-boone/)
- [pulp fiction](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pulp-fiction/)
- [pulp paperbacks](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pulp-paperbacks/)
- [roundup](https://arcmusic.org/tag/roundup/)
- [Steve Jones](https://arcmusic.org/tag/steve-jones/)
- [Todd Rundgren](https://arcmusic.org/tag/todd-rundgren/)
- [Youssou N'Dour](https://arcmusic.org/tag/youssou-ndour/)
- [composer](https://arcmusic.org/tag/composer/)
- [Desmond Dekker](https://arcmusic.org/tag/desmond-dekker/)
- [Ian Fleming](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ian-fleming/)
- [James Bond](https://arcmusic.org/tag/james-bond/)
- [John Barry](https://arcmusic.org/tag/john-barry/)
- [movies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/movies/)
- [secret Agent](https://arcmusic.org/tag/secret-agent/)
- [soundtrack](https://arcmusic.org/tag/soundtrack/)
- [spys](https://arcmusic.org/tag/spys/)
- [cute kids](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cute-kids/)
- [french](https://arcmusic.org/tag/french/)
- [technology](https://arcmusic.org/tag/technology-2/)
- [auction](https://arcmusic.org/tag/auction/)
- [blues](https://arcmusic.org/tag/blues/)
- [bootleg](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bootleg/)
- [Goldmine](https://arcmusic.org/tag/goldmine/)
- [hokum](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hokum/)
- [jug band](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jug-band/)
- [Vee-Jay](https://arcmusic.org/tag/vee-jay/)
- [Apoll](https://arcmusic.org/tag/apoll/)
- [blackface](https://arcmusic.org/tag/blackface/)
- [Bo Diddley](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bo-diddley/)
- [Celia Cruz](https://arcmusic.org/tag/celia-cruz/)
- [creative commons](https://arcmusic.org/tag/creative-commons/)
- [Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fondation-cartier-pour-lart-contemporain/)
- [François-Nöel Babeuf](https://arcmusic.org/tag/francois-noel-babeuf/)
- [gallery show](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gallery-show/)
- [Harlem](https://arcmusic.org/tag/harlem/)
- [La Sonora Matancera](https://arcmusic.org/tag/la-sonora-matancera/)
- [minstrel](https://arcmusic.org/tag/minstrel/)
- [minstrelsy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/minstrelsy/)
- [One Man Band](https://arcmusic.org/tag/one-man-band/)
- [paris](https://arcmusic.org/tag/paris/)
- [Revolution](https://arcmusic.org/tag/revolution/)
- [Rock ’n’ Roll 39-59](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rock-n-roll-39-59/)
- [Shiffman](https://arcmusic.org/tag/shiffman/)
- [Shirley Ellis](https://arcmusic.org/tag/shirley-ellis/)
- [Sisters Caribbean Cuisine](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sisters-caribbean-cuisine/)
- [smithsonian](https://arcmusic.org/tag/smithsonian/)
- [Tito Puente](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tito-puente/)
- [Valentines Day](https://arcmusic.org/tag/valentines-day/)
- [1970s](https://arcmusic.org/tag/1970s/)
- [Detroit](https://arcmusic.org/tag/detroit/)
- [MArvin Gaye](https://arcmusic.org/tag/marvin-gaye/)
- [Motown](https://arcmusic.org/tag/motown/)
- [record companies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-companies/)
- [reissues](https://arcmusic.org/tag/reissues/)
- [Tamala](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tamala/)
- [UMe](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ume/)
- [Hawaiian shirts](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hawaiian-shirts/)
- [Summer](https://arcmusic.org/tag/summer/)
- [cheap records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cheap-records/)
- [classical music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/classical-music/)
- [Grandmaster flash](https://arcmusic.org/tag/grandmaster-flash/)
- [Joseph Albers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/joseph-albers/)
- [Liquid Liquid](https://arcmusic.org/tag/liquid-liquid/)
- [Abruzzo](https://arcmusic.org/tag/abruzzo/)
- [Death Mantra for Lazarus](https://arcmusic.org/tag/death-mantra-for-lazarus/)
- [Il Santo Niente](https://arcmusic.org/tag/il-santo-niente/)
- [italian rockabilly](https://arcmusic.org/tag/italian-rockabilly/)
- [Italy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/italy/)
- [Pescara](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pescara/)
- [The Fiftyniners](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-fiftyniners/)
- [Budweiser](https://arcmusic.org/tag/budweiser/)
- [Caramoor](https://arcmusic.org/tag/caramoor/)
- [Casa Galicia](https://arcmusic.org/tag/casa-galicia/)
- [Christian McBride Big Band](https://arcmusic.org/tag/christian-mcbride-big-band/)
- [City Winery](https://arcmusic.org/tag/city-winery/)
- [discography](https://arcmusic.org/tag/discography/)
- [Fred Hersch](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fred-hersch/)
- [John Scofield](https://arcmusic.org/tag/john-scofield/)
- [Juan Carlos Formell](https://arcmusic.org/tag/juan-carlos-formell/)
- [kamalengoni](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kamalengoni/)
- [Katonah](https://arcmusic.org/tag/katonah/)
- [Léon Theremin](https://arcmusic.org/tag/leon-theremin/)
- [Lucy Rosen](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lucy-rosen/)
- [n’goni](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ngoni/)
- [Oumou Sangaré](https://arcmusic.org/tag/oumou-sangare/)
- [outdoor concert](https://arcmusic.org/tag/outdoor-concert/)
- [Wassoulou](https://arcmusic.org/tag/wassoulou/)
- [West Africa](https://arcmusic.org/tag/west-africa/)
- [Westchester](https://arcmusic.org/tag/westchester/)
- [Carib](https://arcmusic.org/tag/carib/)
- [Caribbean](https://arcmusic.org/tag/caribbean/)
- [Colombia](https://arcmusic.org/tag/colombia/)
- [CONGRESS](https://arcmusic.org/tag/congress/)
- [DeMOCRAT](https://arcmusic.org/tag/democrat/)
- [Discos Fuentes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/discos-fuentes/)
- [Emanuel Cleaver](https://arcmusic.org/tag/emanuel-cleaver/)
- [hot dogs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hot-dogs/)
- [Joe Arroyo](https://arcmusic.org/tag/joe-arroyo/)
- [Missouri](https://arcmusic.org/tag/missouri/)
- [perro](https://arcmusic.org/tag/perro/)
- [Satan's Sandwhich](https://arcmusic.org/tag/satans-sandwhich/)
- [street food](https://arcmusic.org/tag/street-food/)
- [CBS](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cbs/)
- [hurricane Irene](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hurricane-irene/)
- [TV News](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tv-news/)
- [8 track](https://arcmusic.org/tag/8-track/)
- [audio tape](https://arcmusic.org/tag/audio-tape/)
- [bondage](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bondage/)
- [eight track](https://arcmusic.org/tag/eight-track/)
- [John Lenon](https://arcmusic.org/tag/john-lenon/)
- [naked](https://arcmusic.org/tag/naked/)
- [nude](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nude/)
- [storms](https://arcmusic.org/tag/storms/)
- [truck staop music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/truck-staop-music/)
- [truckers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/truckers/)
- [Two Virgins](https://arcmusic.org/tag/two-virgins/)
- [Yoko Ono](https://arcmusic.org/tag/yoko-ono/)
- [9/11](https://arcmusic.org/tag/911/)
- [break in](https://arcmusic.org/tag/break-in/)
- [burglar](https://arcmusic.org/tag/burglar/)
- [do-it-yourself](https://arcmusic.org/tag/do-it-yourself/)
- [ground zero](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ground-zero/)
- [homeland security](https://arcmusic.org/tag/homeland-security/)
- [novelty record](https://arcmusic.org/tag/novelty-record/)
- [safety](https://arcmusic.org/tag/safety/)
- [tribeca](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tribeca/)
- [twin towers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/twin-towers/)
- [World Trade Center](https://arcmusic.org/tag/world-trade-center/)
- [WTC](https://arcmusic.org/tag/wtc/)
- [Brazikian World Music Day](https://arcmusic.org/tag/brazikian-world-music-day/)
- [CArmen Miranda](https://arcmusic.org/tag/carmen-miranda/)
- [katy perry](https://arcmusic.org/tag/katy-perry/)
- [MIS](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mis/)
- [museum of Image and Sound](https://arcmusic.org/tag/museum-of-image-and-sound/)
- [record shopping](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-shopping/)
- [rio](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rio/)
- [Rio de Janero](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rio-de-janero/)
- [Sao Paulo](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sao-paulo/)
- [batteria](https://arcmusic.org/tag/batteria/)
- [carioca](https://arcmusic.org/tag/carioca/)
- [carnival](https://arcmusic.org/tag/carnival/)
- [Escola de samba](https://arcmusic.org/tag/escola-de-samba/)
- [percussion](https://arcmusic.org/tag/percussion/)
- [Queen](https://arcmusic.org/tag/queen/)
- [Rio de Janeiro](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rio-de-janeiro/)
- [Rock in rio](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rock-in-rio/)
- [Salgueiro](https://arcmusic.org/tag/salgueiro/)
- [samba](https://arcmusic.org/tag/samba/)
- [Tijuca](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tijuca/)
- [Alt. Latino](https://arcmusic.org/tag/alt-latino/)
- [Beco Dranoff](https://arcmusic.org/tag/beco-dranoff/)
- [Brazilian World Music Day](https://arcmusic.org/tag/brazilian-world-music-day/)
- [Instituto Cultural Cravo Albin](https://arcmusic.org/tag/instituto-cultural-cravo-albin/)
- [Museu da Imagem e do Som](https://arcmusic.org/tag/museu-da-imagem-e-do-som/)
- [NPR](https://arcmusic.org/tag/npr/)
- [Brazilian Discography](https://arcmusic.org/tag/brazilian-discography/)
- [gilberto Gil](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gilberto-gil/)
- [live events in New York](https://arcmusic.org/tag/live-events-in-new-york/)
- [Live from the NYPL](https://arcmusic.org/tag/live-from-the-nypl/)
- [New York Public Library](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-york-public-library/)
- [NYPL](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nypl/)
- [Brazilian books Brasil](https://arcmusic.org/tag/brazilian-books-brasil/)
- [Google](https://arcmusic.org/tag/google/)
- [interns](https://arcmusic.org/tag/interns/)
- [King Jammy's](https://arcmusic.org/tag/king-jammys/)
- [Record as artwork](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-as-artwork/)
- [reggae](https://arcmusic.org/tag/reggae-2/)
- [scanning project](https://arcmusic.org/tag/scanning-project/)
- [scribe machine](https://arcmusic.org/tag/scribe-machine/)
- [Scribe scanner](https://arcmusic.org/tag/scribe-scanner/)
- [Holiday Sale](https://arcmusic.org/tag/holiday-sale/)
- [Winter sale](https://arcmusic.org/tag/winter-sale/)
- [fela Kuti](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fela-kuti/)
- [Ginger Baker](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ginger-baker/)
- [Laura Logic](https://arcmusic.org/tag/laura-logic/)
- [Raincoats](https://arcmusic.org/tag/raincoats/)
- [Sam Cooke](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sam-cooke/)
- [Soft Machine](https://arcmusic.org/tag/soft-machine/)
- [3 stooges](https://arcmusic.org/tag/3-stooges/)
- [CD](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cd/)
- [housewares](https://arcmusic.org/tag/housewares/)
- [three stooges](https://arcmusic.org/tag/three-stooges/)
- [vintage](https://arcmusic.org/tag/vintage/)
- [volunteers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/volunteers/)
- [revolting cocks](https://arcmusic.org/tag/revolting-cocks/)
- [manchester](https://arcmusic.org/tag/manchester/)
- [morrissey](https://arcmusic.org/tag/morrissey/)
- [Muddy Waters](https://arcmusic.org/tag/muddy-waters/)
- [Reggae greats](https://arcmusic.org/tag/reggae-greats/)
- [Smiths](https://arcmusic.org/tag/smiths/)
- [steel pulse](https://arcmusic.org/tag/steel-pulse/)
- [Deutsche Grammophon](https://arcmusic.org/tag/deutsche-grammophon/)
- [Happy New Year](https://arcmusic.org/tag/happy-new-year/)
- [Merry Christmas](https://arcmusic.org/tag/merry-christmas/)
- [send a donation](https://arcmusic.org/tag/send-a-donation/)
- [cassettes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cassettes/)
- [Kenya](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kenya/)
- [Beer cans on the moon](https://arcmusic.org/tag/beer-cans-on-the-moon/)
- [Boo-Hooray](https://arcmusic.org/tag/boo-hooray/)
- [East Village](https://arcmusic.org/tag/east-village/)
- [Ed Sanders](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ed-sanders/)
- [Fugs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fugs/)
- [The Fugs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-fugs/)
- [1960s](https://arcmusic.org/tag/1960s/)
- [Bardot](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bardot/)
- [Bob Dylan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bob-dylan/)
- [coutour](https://arcmusic.org/tag/coutour/)
- [designer](https://arcmusic.org/tag/designer/)
- [Fashion Institute of Technology](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fashion-institute-of-technology/)
- [FIT](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fit/)
- [Francois Hardy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/francois-hardy/)
- [hippies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hippies/)
- [mods](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mods/)
- [museum show](https://arcmusic.org/tag/museum-show/)
- [rockers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rockers/)
- [sixties](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sixties/)
- [Textile Studies](https://arcmusic.org/tag/textile-studies/)
- [Youthquake](https://arcmusic.org/tag/youthquake/)
- [Bazaar](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bazaar/)
- [Chelsea](https://arcmusic.org/tag/chelsea/)
- [George Melly](https://arcmusic.org/tag/george-melly/)
- [Kings Road](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kings-road/)
- [Mary Quant](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mary-quant/)
- [Plunket-Green](https://arcmusic.org/tag/plunket-green/)
- [Revolt into style](https://arcmusic.org/tag/revolt-into-style/)
- [Teddy Boys](https://arcmusic.org/tag/teddy-boys/)
- [ballad](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ballad/)
- [border music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/border-music/)
- [censorship](https://arcmusic.org/tag/censorship/)
- [Chihuahua](https://arcmusic.org/tag/chihuahua/)
- [Corrido](https://arcmusic.org/tag/corrido/)
- [Juarez](https://arcmusic.org/tag/juarez/)
- [Los Tigres del Norte](https://arcmusic.org/tag/los-tigres-del-norte/)
- [mexican-American](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mexican-american/)
- [narco corrido](https://arcmusic.org/tag/narco-corrido/)
- [1950s](https://arcmusic.org/tag/1950s/)
- [dee jay](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dee-jay/)
- [DJ](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dj/)
- [Eric Records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/eric-records/)
- [expert](https://arcmusic.org/tag/expert/)
- [expertise](https://arcmusic.org/tag/expertise/)
- [Freddie Patterson](https://arcmusic.org/tag/freddie-patterson/)
- [Lionsgate](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lionsgate/)
- [Mad Men](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mad-men/)
- [Peter Max-like](https://arcmusic.org/tag/peter-max-like/)
- [RCA](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rca/)
- [record changer](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-changer/)
- [record players](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-players/)
- [Viva Las Vegas](https://arcmusic.org/tag/viva-las-vegas/)
- [Chavez Ravine](https://arcmusic.org/tag/chavez-ravine/)
- [dodgers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dodgers/)
- [Everardo y su flota](https://arcmusic.org/tag/everardo-y-su-flota/)
- [Fernandomania](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fernandomania/)
- [Frenando](https://arcmusic.org/tag/frenando/)
- [La](https://arcmusic.org/tag/la/)
- [Los angeles](https://arcmusic.org/tag/los-angeles/)
- [Mexican-americans](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mexican-americans/)
- [National League](https://arcmusic.org/tag/national-league/)
- [opening day](https://arcmusic.org/tag/opening-day/)
- [pitchers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pitchers/)
- [the national pastime](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-national-pastime/)
- [Valenzuela](https://arcmusic.org/tag/valenzuela/)
- [Carlos Alfonso](https://arcmusic.org/tag/carlos-alfonso/)
- [Desi Arnaz](https://arcmusic.org/tag/desi-arnaz/)
- [Havana](https://arcmusic.org/tag/havana/)
- [Hillary](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hillary/)
- [Miguelito Valdés](https://arcmusic.org/tag/miguelito-valdes/)
- [Museo Nacional de la Musica](https://arcmusic.org/tag/museo-nacional-de-la-musica/)
- [Ricky Ricardo](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ricky-ricardo/)
- [Sintesis](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sintesis/)
- [SOB](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sob/)
- [Youruba](https://arcmusic.org/tag/youruba/)
- [12"](https://arcmusic.org/tag/12/)
- [Bongo Joe](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bongo-joe/)
- [Cliff Jackson](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cliff-jackson/)
- [Fats Waller](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fats-waller/)
- [seventy-eights](https://arcmusic.org/tag/seventy-eights/)
- [Snooks Eaglin](https://arcmusic.org/tag/snooks-eaglin/)
- [Sonny Boy Williamson](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sonny-boy-williamson/)
- [Wyonie Harris](https://arcmusic.org/tag/wyonie-harris/)
- [daily news](https://arcmusic.org/tag/daily-news/)
- [music books](https://arcmusic.org/tag/music-books/)
- [1980s](https://arcmusic.org/tag/1980s/)
- [alternative](https://arcmusic.org/tag/alternative/)
- [Boston music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/boston-music/)
- [Dream Syndicate](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dream-syndicate/)
- [eighties](https://arcmusic.org/tag/eighties/)
- [Human Switchboard](https://arcmusic.org/tag/human-switchboard/)
- [Kent](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kent/)
- [Konk](https://arcmusic.org/tag/konk/)
- [New Wave](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-wave/)
- [Opal](https://arcmusic.org/tag/opal/)
- [Rain PArade](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rain-parade/)
- [Tall Dwarfs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/tall-dwarfs/)
- [The Hardy Boys](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-hardy-boys/)
- [The Turbines](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-turbines/)
- [Dwarves](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dwarves/)
- [Sly Stone](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sly-stone/)
- [Summer sale](https://arcmusic.org/tag/summer-sale/)
- [White Street](https://arcmusic.org/tag/white-street/)
- [ARSC](https://arcmusic.org/tag/arsc/)
- [Between the bricks](https://arcmusic.org/tag/between-the-bricks/)
- [celebrities](https://arcmusic.org/tag/celebrities/)
- [hype](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hype/)
- [Lois Weiss](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lois-weiss/)
- [music business](https://arcmusic.org/tag/music-business/)
- [NY Post](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ny-post/)
- [PR](https://arcmusic.org/tag/pr/)
- [rock and Roll](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rock-and-roll-2/)
- [Rolling Stones](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rolling-stones-2/)
- [Bossa Nova](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bossa-nova/)
- [Hudson Clearwater](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hudson-clearwater/)
- [Father's Day](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fathers-day/)
- [Jeremy Steig](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jeremy-steig/)
- [Satyrs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/satyrs/)
- [Celebrate brooklyn](https://arcmusic.org/tag/celebrate-brooklyn/)
- [concerts](https://arcmusic.org/tag/concerts/)
- [event NYC](https://arcmusic.org/tag/event-nyc/)
- [free music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/free-music/)
- [Lincoln Center out of doors](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lincoln-center-out-of-doors/)
- [new computers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-computers/)
- [New York in the summer](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-york-in-the-summer/)
- [NYC Summer music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nyc-summer-music/)
- [outdoor fun](https://arcmusic.org/tag/outdoor-fun/)
- [Prospect Park Bandshell](https://arcmusic.org/tag/prospect-park-bandshell/)
- [summer vintage skirts](https://arcmusic.org/tag/summer-vintage-skirts/)
- [Swedish midsummer](https://arcmusic.org/tag/swedish-midsummer/)
- [collectibles](https://arcmusic.org/tag/collectibles/)
- [Manfredo Fest Trio](https://arcmusic.org/tag/manfredo-fest-trio/)
- [mop tops](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mop-tops/)
- [Os Sambeatles](https://arcmusic.org/tag/os-sambeatles/)
- [rare records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rare-records/)
- [Michele O'Bama](https://arcmusic.org/tag/michele-obama/)
- [Musica Joyaria](https://arcmusic.org/tag/musica-joyaria/)
- [Scary Spice](https://arcmusic.org/tag/scary-spice/)
- [book](https://arcmusic.org/tag/book/)
- [Insect Circus Museum](https://arcmusic.org/tag/insect-circus-museum/)
- [novelty records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/novelty-records/)
- [parody](https://arcmusic.org/tag/parody/)
- [Aquarela do Brasil](https://arcmusic.org/tag/aquarela-do-brasil/)
- [cable TV](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cable-tv/)
- [Decca Records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/decca-records/)
- [O Globo](https://arcmusic.org/tag/o-globo/)
- [shellac](https://arcmusic.org/tag/shellac/)
- [blue note](https://arcmusic.org/tag/blue-note/)
- [Delhi](https://arcmusic.org/tag/delhi/)
- [filmi](https://arcmusic.org/tag/filmi/)
- [Indian film music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/indian-film-music/)
- [nude covers](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nude-covers/)
- [raga rock](https://arcmusic.org/tag/raga-rock/)
- [sitar music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sitar-music/)
- [Indian films](https://arcmusic.org/tag/indian-films/)
- [Janwar](https://arcmusic.org/tag/janwar/)
- [musicals](https://arcmusic.org/tag/musicals/)
- [bowed fiddle](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bowed-fiddle/)
- [Chanan Khan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/chanan-khan/)
- [kamayacha](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kamayacha/)
- [khartaal](https://arcmusic.org/tag/khartaal/)
- [Khete Khan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/khete-khan/)
- [Manganiars](https://arcmusic.org/tag/manganiars/)
- [Muslims](https://arcmusic.org/tag/muslims/)
- [Rajasthani Musicians](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rajasthani-musicians/)
- [Ustad Mahmud Mirza](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ustad-mahmud-mirza/)
- [paan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/paan/)
- [qawwali](https://arcmusic.org/tag/qawwali/)
- [religious music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/religious-music/)
- [Sangeet Natak Akademi.](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sangeet-natak-akademi/)
- [sufi](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sufi/)
- [Nirvana](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nirvana/)
- [record shoping](https://arcmusic.org/tag/record-shoping/)
- [Shaw record shop](https://arcmusic.org/tag/shaw-record-shop/)
- [boli](https://arcmusic.org/tag/boli/)
- [desert](https://arcmusic.org/tag/desert/)
- [Harijans](https://arcmusic.org/tag/harijans/)
- [Naga. Rajasthan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/naga-rajasthan/)
- [Agra](https://arcmusic.org/tag/agra/)
- [Asia](https://arcmusic.org/tag/asia/)
- [Denmark](https://arcmusic.org/tag/denmark/)
- [Ganges](https://arcmusic.org/tag/ganges/)
- [problems](https://arcmusic.org/tag/problems/)
- [soundsystem](https://arcmusic.org/tag/soundsystem/)
- [Taj Mahal](https://arcmusic.org/tag/taj-mahal/)
- [trains](https://arcmusic.org/tag/trains/)
- [Varanassi](https://arcmusic.org/tag/varanassi/)
- [weddings](https://arcmusic.org/tag/weddings/)
- [Arna Jharna Desert Museum](https://arcmusic.org/tag/arna-jharna-desert-museum/)
- [Jodhpur.](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jodhpur/)
- [Kothari](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kothari/)
- [Langa](https://arcmusic.org/tag/langa/)
- [Manganiar](https://arcmusic.org/tag/manganiar/)
- [musicians](https://arcmusic.org/tag/musicians/)
- [musicologists](https://arcmusic.org/tag/musicologists/)
- [Rajasthan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rajasthan/)
- [Rupayan Sansthan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rupayan-sansthan/)
- [The Rajasthan Institute of Folklore](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-rajasthan-institute-of-folklore/)
- [overstuffed chairs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/overstuffed-chairs/)
- [flutes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/flutes/)
- [god](https://arcmusic.org/tag/god/)
- [Hanuman](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hanuman/)
- [monkey](https://arcmusic.org/tag/monkey/)
- [motorcycle](https://arcmusic.org/tag/motorcycle/)
- [samosa](https://arcmusic.org/tag/samosa/)
- [street culture](https://arcmusic.org/tag/street-culture/)
- [Biddu](https://arcmusic.org/tag/biddu/)
- [Bombay](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bombay/)
- [Carl Douglas](https://arcmusic.org/tag/carl-douglas/)
- [collectors](https://arcmusic.org/tag/collectors/)
- [Indian Ocean](https://arcmusic.org/tag/indian-ocean/)
- [Jetliners](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jetliners/)
- [Mumbai](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mumbai/)
- [Naresh](https://arcmusic.org/tag/naresh/)
- [Sound of Music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sound-of-music/)
- [Abba](https://arcmusic.org/tag/abba/)
- [Days](https://arcmusic.org/tag/days/)
- [Indian](https://arcmusic.org/tag/indian/)
- [Scandinavia](https://arcmusic.org/tag/scandinavia/)
- [car horns](https://arcmusic.org/tag/car-horns/)
- [dbs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/dbs/)
- [noise](https://arcmusic.org/tag/noise/)
- [taxi](https://arcmusic.org/tag/taxi/)
- [Taxi Driver](https://arcmusic.org/tag/taxi-driver/)
- [Angel](https://arcmusic.org/tag/angel/)
- [records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/records/)
- [sleeve](https://arcmusic.org/tag/sleeve/)
- [crabby](https://arcmusic.org/tag/crabby/)
- [craps](https://arcmusic.org/tag/craps/)
- [hate United Airlines](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hate-united-airlines/)
- [Hurricane Sandy](https://arcmusic.org/tag/hurricane-sandy/)
- [10" discs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/10-discs/)
- [cardboard record player](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cardboard-record-player/)
- [DIY](https://arcmusic.org/tag/diy/)
- [gramophone](https://arcmusic.org/tag/gramophone/)
- [player](https://arcmusic.org/tag/player/)
- [Benares](https://arcmusic.org/tag/benares/)
- [durga puja](https://arcmusic.org/tag/durga-puja/)
- [festival](https://arcmusic.org/tag/festival/)
- [festival of lights](https://arcmusic.org/tag/festival-of-lights/)
- [varanasi](https://arcmusic.org/tag/varanasi/)
- [Alex Chilton](https://arcmusic.org/tag/alex-chilton/)
- [bargains](https://arcmusic.org/tag/bargains/)
- [Clash](https://arcmusic.org/tag/clash/)
- [live events](https://arcmusic.org/tag/live-events/)
- [richard hell](https://arcmusic.org/tag/richard-hell/)
- [the embarrassment](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-embarrassment/)
- [Boston](https://arcmusic.org/tag/boston/)
- [compilations](https://arcmusic.org/tag/compilations/)
- [no New York](https://arcmusic.org/tag/no-new-york-2/)
- [regional music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/regional-music/)
- [derick and the Dominoes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/derick-and-the-dominoes/)
- [Donovan](https://arcmusic.org/tag/donovan/)
- [kraftwerk](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kraftwerk/)
- [girl bands](https://arcmusic.org/tag/girl-bands/)
- [lora logic](https://arcmusic.org/tag/lora-logic/)
- [punk singles](https://arcmusic.org/tag/punk-singles/)
- [rough trade](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rough-trade/)
- [Barbara Mason](https://arcmusic.org/tag/barbara-mason/)
- [Jamie records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jamie-records/)
- [Jamie/Guyden](https://arcmusic.org/tag/jamieguyden/)
- [John Ellison](https://arcmusic.org/tag/john-ellison/)
- [Kenny Gamble](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kenny-gamble/)
- [Kenny Hamber](https://arcmusic.org/tag/kenny-hamber/)
- [Philadelphia](https://arcmusic.org/tag/philadelphia/)
- [The Soul Brothers Six](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-soul-brothers-six/)
- [Trammps](https://arcmusic.org/tag/trammps/)
- [Volcanoes](https://arcmusic.org/tag/volcanoes/)
- [Volcanos](https://arcmusic.org/tag/volcanos/)
- [Winfield Parker](https://arcmusic.org/tag/winfield-parker/)
- [comedy records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/comedy-records/)
- [punk books](https://arcmusic.org/tag/punk-books/)
- [Xmas records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/xmas-records/)
- [collection](https://arcmusic.org/tag/collection/)
- [talcum powder](https://arcmusic.org/tag/talcum-powder/)
- [nordic](https://arcmusic.org/tag/nordic/)
- [Blue Lotus Festival](https://arcmusic.org/tag/blue-lotus-festival/)
- [camels](https://arcmusic.org/tag/camels/)
- [De Kulture](https://arcmusic.org/tag/de-kulture/)
- [live music](https://arcmusic.org/tag/live-music/)
- [blizzard](https://arcmusic.org/tag/blizzard/)
- [los beatles](https://arcmusic.org/tag/los-beatles/)
- [Recess Galllerty](https://arcmusic.org/tag/recess-galllerty/)
- [Rutherford Chang](https://arcmusic.org/tag/rutherford-chang/)
- [soho](https://arcmusic.org/tag/soho/)
- [white album](https://arcmusic.org/tag/white-album/)
- [cupid](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cupid/)
- [Feb 14](https://arcmusic.org/tag/feb-14/)
- [love songs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/love-songs/)
- [songs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/songs/)
- [book. rebuses](https://arcmusic.org/tag/book-rebuses/)
- [Cleveland bands](https://arcmusic.org/tag/cleveland-bands/)
- [fake logo](https://arcmusic.org/tag/fake-logo/)
- [Italian](https://arcmusic.org/tag/italian/)
- [Mainstrean Records](https://arcmusic.org/tag/mainstrean-records/)
- [new logo](https://arcmusic.org/tag/new-logo/)
- [psychadelic](https://arcmusic.org/tag/psychadelic/)
- [The Tiffany Shade](https://arcmusic.org/tag/the-tiffany-shade/)
- [childrens songs](https://arcmusic.org/tag/childrens-songs/)

## Picture tag

- [Photo Booth](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/photo-booth/)
- [arc fee](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/arc-fee/)
- [archive](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/archive-2/)
- [couple](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/couple/)
- [new york](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/new-york-2/)
- [9 14](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/9-14/)
- [clara-julia peru rowan](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/clara-julia-peru-rowan/)
- [dean mellis](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/dean-mellis/)
- [gustavo](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/gustavo/)
- [jeannie hopper](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/jeannie-hopper/)
- [kerry dorf](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/kerry-dorf/)
- [murray weinstock](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/murray-weinstock/)
- [peter fish](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/peter-fish/)
- [pulp paperback](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/pulp-paperback/)
- [music books](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/music-books/)
- [pulp fiction](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/pulp-fiction/)
- [cheese](https://arcmusic.org/ngg_tag/cheese/)

## Link Library Categories

- [Web + blogs](https://arcmusic.org/?link_library_category=web-blogs)
- [Independent catalogs + discographies](https://arcmusic.org/?link_library_category=independent-catalogs-discographies)
- [Friends + family](https://arcmusic.org/?link_library_category=friends-family)
- [Trading partners](https://arcmusic.org/?link_library_category=trading-partners): Folks we trade links with. This is new, so please contact us if you would like to trade.