The Modern Vinyl Podcast

The Modern Vinyl Podcast is back for a new episode in which we talk with all four members of indie rock outfit, The Box Tiger. If you've never given the band a try, seek out the full length album, Set Fire, along with their brand new song, "Fire Walk With Me." Both very worthy of your time. And stick around for Red Carpet Questions, in which I attempt to ask the dumbest questions in the history of the human race. Timeline 1:38, Beginning of talk with The Box Tiger 5:55, Someone attempts to make a frozen pizza during the podcast 6:34, The band's beginning 12:00, The band's newest song 23:37, The trek between Toronto and Portland 33:11, The upcoming tour 35:38, We talk Erie, Pennsylvania 38:07, Lathe cuts and the band 45:17, The amount of females on festival bills 51:11, Red Carpet Questions 1:00:00, How to crack an egg (don't ask) 1:13:00, The Box Tiger — Fire Walk With Me Music The Box Tiger Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul Want to sponsor the podcast? If you'd like to sponsor the podcast, you can contact us at advertising@modern-vinyl.com. It's very affordable and you get numerous mentions throughout the podcast.

In this episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast, we talked to Matt Pfefferkorn, of Mellow Matt's Music and More, an indie record store, about Record Store Day and how the event is as a small store. Alan Miller, MV writer joins us, as both guests are part of our Random Pull podcasts. We also have music from InTheClouds and Community Records. Timeline 0:00, Owel — Every Good Boy Does Fine 6:00, Beginning of chat with Matt Pfefferkorn and Alan Miller 7:35, The ordering process 10:00, The economic strain of RSD 12:00, Becoming RSD recognized 16:40, Major label releases and their place in RSD 19:40, RSD pricing 24:20, Is it a general benefit to Matt's store? 28:14, Caddywhompus — Entitled 33:10, Matt's record store and its origin 37:00, Music we've been listening to 42:44, I mispronounce Ex-Machina (star Oscar Isaac corrects me here) 49:00, The upcoming Bob Dylan series from our Random Pull crew 54:20, All People — Doubt Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul Want to sponsor the podcast? If you'd like to sponsor the podcast, you can contact us at advertising@modern-vinyl.com. It's very affordable and you get numerous mentions throughout the podcast.

The Modern Vinyl Podcast is back for EPISODE 50! We talk about Death Cab For Cutie's new record, Kintsugi, in our newest roundtable, while also doing a round of Quickfire and 6 Degrees of Mark Hoppus. It's a jam packed episode. Music this time around comes from Saint November. Go and pick something up (that Signals. song yo) over at their webstore. Timeline 5:55, "I almost cried. It was bad" 8:56, Nathan Detroit — The Way Down 12:15, Side A: Quickfire Brandon Flowers 13:20, Our first ever episode of "Sick Joke" Grimes/Bleachers Twenty One Pilots All Get Out 25:30, Signals. — Sleep Talk 29:50, Side B: Death Cab For Cutie — Kintsugi (Roundtable) 34:47, Breaking Down the Lyrics 48:12, The focus on technology 54:58, Favorite Tracks 1:00:00, Our "Haunters" 1:02:09, Our first ever episode of "In The End It Doesn't Even Matter" 1:04:00, The physical version of Kintsugi 1:09:05, Greenhorn — My Own Way 1:11:50, 6 Degrees of Mark Hoppus (Ben Gibbard Edition) Music Saint November Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul Want to sponsor the podcast? If you'd like to sponsor the podcast, you can contact us at advertising@modern-vinyl.com. It's very affordable and you get numerous mentions throughout the podcast.

Note: My end sounds like junk during the Chris Brown interview. It was simply an oversight in the recording process. It was fixed for the next episode. My apologies.  For the newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast I spoke with Chris Brown of Bull Moose, the northeastern record store chain. In the 70+ minute conversation we attempted to cover many of the issues record collectors bring up about Record Store Day, including major label activity, how many releases is "too many" and who dictates the prices on those items. We also play music from a Jetsam-Flotsam outfit, Living Room, off their recent full length album, Moonchaser. You can pick it up, here. Timeline 3:35, Living Room — Casual Science 7:10, Start of our chat with Chris Brown 14:20, The feedback process with RSD releases 21:44, Do they get in-store hate? 30:00, The "Too Many Releases" conundrum 35:45, Repressings that we don't need 43:10, Who dictates pricing and quantity 47:12, Some notable early releases Chris got his hands on 59:44, What Chris is personally looking out for 1:08:00, 1st Quarter Releases at Indie Stores Music Jetsam-Flotsam Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul Want to sponsor the podcast? If you'd like to sponsor the podcast, you can contact us at advertising@modern-vinyl.com. It's very affordable and you get numerous mentions throughout the podcast.

Subscribe on iTunes The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast is our second installment of the Revisiting Kanye series, as this time we talk Late Registration. We discuss the subject material in his sophomore release, along with favorite tracks and we update our overall album rankings. We also play some music from Driftwood Records and Fleeting Youth Records, while firing up episodes of "Subway Troubles" and "Back To The Shack." Also, the James Cassar sound board lives. Enjoy the 90 minute super ep. Timeline 5:25, A little bit of catch-up 12:30, Fifty Shades of Grey 16:16, I complete my tribute mini-episodes to U2 Talkin' U2 To Me 25:19, Bread Club — If Your Song Title Is "If Your Song Title Has the World 'Beach' In It, I'm Not Listening To It?,?" I'm Not Listening To It 27:47, Side A: Revisiting Kanye — Late Registration MTV Documentary 38:00, Kanye finding his audience, being pulled in different directions 42:30, A front-loaded album? 49:14, Favorite tracks 59:51, Favorite tracks from Twitter readers 1:00:47, Any skips? 1:04:37, Kanye's continuing relationship with Jay Z 1:06:39, An update on our Kanye rankings 1:13:00, Van Dale — Speak Yellow 1:16:00, Side B — Recommendations 1:25:14, Skull Kid — Avengers Song Music Driftwood Records & Fleeting Youth Records Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul Want to sponsor the podcast? If you'd like to sponsor the podcast, you can contact us at advertising@modern-vinyl.com. It's very affordable and you get numerous mentions throughout the podcast.

Subscribe on iTunes We've got one more NYC-based episode to share with everyone. This time, we were out for some food and decided, what the hell, we're talking about music anyways, let's just record something. We talk about, of course, blink-182 and Brand New, our experience watching Jeff Rosenstock in Manhattan and bands that hit the major label wall. Warning, we're eating during this thing (at a couple different spots, hence the title), and just recording it off a phone. So it won't be perfect sound quality. Coming soon, we have the second entry of our Revisiting Kanye series this weekend. We'll also be talking the new Kendrick Lamar album. After that we'll be recording a third Mixtape episode. Timeline 3:00, Episode begins 3:30, Talk about the early days of our vinyl and first purchases 7:15, First experiences with Fight Off Your Demons 8:56, Who could cover Blink and Brand New albums 15:06, Our Jeff Rosenstock experience 20:20, Our second food stop 24:00, Bands that hit the major label wall 33:00, Changing label landscape Note: Taking Back Sunday’s last album with Warner was actually the self-titled. Still think that live record was a throwaway. 37:30, 1st day streaming Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul Want to sponsor an episode? Our sponsorships are affordable to both big and small entities, whether you’re a record label, vinyl retailer or just interested in vinyl records and what we have to say. You can contact us at advertising@modern-vinyl.com for more information. You receive a couple mentions, including a full pitch at the beginning of the episode.

Subscribe on iTunes Photo by Meghin Moore Finally, we can unveil our Live At Union Hall episode and as I say in the intro, we couldn't be more thrilled with how it came out. Thanks to everyone who attended and to those who couldn't make it, we held our second annual Record Store Day Award Show (technically, the first award show was for Black Friday, last November). We hit on the "Biggest Plant Jammer" and "Most Likely To End Up In The Dollar Bin," while eventually getting to more positive areas with "Worthy Of A Flip" and "RSD Fresh." We then finish up the episode with a round of Pick Your Poison. A big thanks to The Native Sound, Singles Club, Mondo, Broken Circles Records and our guests, Zack Zarrillo and Thomas Nassiff. Also, thanks to Washed Up Emo for recorded an awesome second half of the show. You can hear their episode, here. We'll have one more NYC podcast for you, recorded in some interesting settings. Stick around for that. Note: As with most live podcasts, the sound quality is going to take a slight hit. It's still very listenable (and I hope entertaining). Also, we talk about the 6x7" upcoming box-set from Fall Out Boy a bunch. It was not on the official RSD list, but retailers like Bull Moose are saying it still will be available on that date. Timeline 4:00, Beginning of episode/Live theme song 5:20, We give away some items/hype up labels who helped us 10:15, Side A: Record Store Day Award Show 10:40, Biggest Plant Jammer Note: I'm really bummed I didn't know the Metallica release was 10,000 copies large.  13:00, Most Likely To End Up In The Dollar Bin 22:00, Worthy of A Flip 24:00, Hottest Item on RSD 26:52, Note on Elvis release: From what I've heard it's actually only going to be available at Third Man in the 10", 78 RPM version. The 45 will be available in mass. 29:30, RSD Fresh 31:44, The Don Giovanni Records Tribute Award 35:00, Guilty Pleasure 37:00, Top 3 Grabs 37:54, Note: The Run The Jewels release is actually not a picture disc, as initially reported. 41:44, Side B: Pick Your Poison Vinyl Trend Edition 7" Box Sets vs. Picture Discs 48:00, Music Recommendations 53:55, Some more giveaways Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul Want to sponsor an episode? Our sponsorships are affordable to both big and small entities, whether you’re a record label, vinyl retailer or just interested in vinyl records and what we have to say. You can contact us at advertising@modern-vinyl.com for more information. You receive a couple mentions, including a full pitch at the beginning of the episode.

Subscribe on iTunes Welcome back to The Modern Vinyl Podcast! We've been on a little hiatus as we've traveled to NYC and recorded a few episodes, so they'll finally start to come out. This episode has us talking with Brent Lakes, who runs Broken Circles Records. They just recently put out albums from the likes of Bandit, Ivadell and Triathlon, while you'll actually hear a couple songs from the label throughout the episode. It was our first interview where we could all be present with the individual and I think it went quite well. Coming Soon: Our Live At Union Hall episode is next up, while hopefully we'll have another NYC-based surprise for you. Current Sponsor Timeline 4:00, Triathlon — Swells 7:20, Start of our chat with Brent 9:00, His hometown of Cinci 11:00, The move to NYC 17:37, His beginnings in the business 22:00, Beginning Broken Circles 25:46, Moving toward original music 34:00, Checking out Broken Circles' bands 42:53, Brent's vinyl collection 55:11, Brent talks about repressing How To Start A Fire 59:35, How to improve the vinyl community 1:04:00, Bandit — Pushing Music Broken Circles Records Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul / @brokencircles / @meghin_

On this episode, MV writer Alan Miller, Lee Matthew of the band Sleeper Agent and Matt Pfefforkorn of Mellow Matt's Music and More discuss Bob Dylan's 1989 album Oh Mercy, as well as the New Basement Tapes project and documentary.

Buy your tickets to our live show now! Subscribe on iTunes We haven't really posted just a general news episode in a while, so we decided to talk about the upcoming albums from Death Cab and Nate Ruess, along with the pressing of The Hotelier's first record and the large amount of soundtracks coming out on vinyl. We also dig into a little Ex FM, easily the saddest feature we do here on the MV Podcast. Note: That ticket link above.....please use it! We seem to have a nice crowd coming, but not many are going with the pre-sale route. Please do so just so we have a better idea of who's showing up. Also, RSVP over on Facebook. We're currently running contests every week here at MV and that's the only way you can win. Current Sponsor Timeline 5:30, Corporate Hearts — Long Division 9:25, "Here Comes The Boom" 10:17, Side A: News Roundup 10:39, Death Cab's upcoming album 21:00, Nate Ruess' new solo track/upcoming album 29:00, The Hotelier's first record and vinyl pressing 36:34, A wrap-up of recent, great music videos 44:55, #SpringOfSoundtracks 49:37, Mumblr — Got It 52:00, Side B: Ex FM 1:10:10, Corporate Hearts — Maybe We Can Just Drive Music Wreck It Records / Corporate Hearts / Fleeting Youth Records Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul  

Buy your tickets to our live show now! Subscribe on iTunes The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast features a talk with John Nolan, of Taking Back Sunday and Straylight Run. Currently, he has a Pledge Music campaign running for the recording of his next solo album. Collective Confusion is handling the vinyl aspect of this campaign. We also answer some reader mail (me and James that is) and talk about some other random musical news. Current Sponsor Timeline 00:49, Corporate Hearts — Hex 5:31, The MV Mailbox 16:00, Start of our chat with John Nolan 16:40, The Happiness Is deluxe edition 18:30, We talk John's upcoming solo album 21:45, John talks about being robbed at gunpoint 28:34, The choice to go with Pledge Music 33:29, Writing "Here Comes The Wolf" 37:30, The Bob Dylan Vinyl Collection 44:00, How John is introducing music to his son 51:02, What we've been listening to lately 52:50, Chris tries to finally "get" Drake 58:50, Corporate Hearts — Waves Of Panic Music Wreck It Records / Corporate Hearts Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul

Buy your tickets to our live show now! Subscribe on iTunes The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast focuses on Hyperview, the brand new album from Title Fight. Certainly split on this one and the new influences the band has been working in. We also play a round of Pick Your Poison, in which we debate two Metro Station songs, both of which are pretty offensive in different ways. Current Sponsor Timeline 1:11 — 4:25, Mike Valdes & The Noise — Differences 10:05, Recent pick-ups 18:33, Side A: Title Fight – Hyperview Rountable 25:00, We have the "emo" fight 27:50, The "Hypernight" 35:30, Our skips and the band's competing styles 43:00, James defends the record 50:50, Side B: Pick Your Poison (Metro Station) She Likes Girls vs. Japanese Girl 55:30, The sketch I was referencing They actually spoof Japanese culture, not Chinese, but it's still incredibly relevant for those who attempt to co-opt a culture and insult it in the process.  58:30, A Disney Channel refresher 1:00:00, Recommendations Music Mike Valdes & The Noise/Anti- Records Where To Find Us @getcerebral /@chrislantinen /@notmichaelpaul

Buy your tickets to our live show now! Subscribe on iTunes On this episode, MV writer Alan Miller, Lee Matthew of the band Sleeper Agent and Matt Pfefforkorn of Mellow Matt's Music and More discuss Lou Reed, John Cale, and the music of The Velvet Underground. Though the main topic is The Velvet Underground's 1970 album Loaded, the conversation veers into many other directions like picture discs, Discogs prices and one of the best deleted scenes from the '90s film High Fidelity.

Buy your tickets to our live show now! Subscribe on iTunes So excited about this one. We were able to interview Justin Ishmael, creative director of Mondo, for about an hour, with topics ranging from his childhood and entry into pop culture, to some future Mondo releases. We get some exclusive details on both The Last of Us and Alien, while he highlights their upcoming Cannibal Holocaust event. We also just geek out a bunch. Sponsor The Native Sound The NYC-based record label recently announced a new spring split 7” series, which features Unconditional Arms, Threading, Former Ghosts, Funeral Advantage, Planning for Burial and Mother Room. The first 7” — featuring Unconditional Arms and Threading — will be released on Feb. 24 and is available both individually and in that subscription. Each entry of the sub has 200 copies on black vinyl and 100 copies on a different color of wax. Twitter Facebook Timeline 2:54, Threading — Ember 7:00, Chat with Justin begins/His beginnings with comics, film and music 17:40, Differences between music and art fanbases 23:24, The process behind those first releases 25:25, Mondo's sound quality process 29:40, Economic consideration vs. Artistic intent 34:40, Common criticisms 42:55, What changes with Death Waltz and Spencer coming aboard 48:01, The Cannibal Holocaust pressing and event 50:50, Mondo Rumors Inception/Twin Peaks/The Last of Us 56:20, Craziest vinyl ideas they've ever had Note: The board game vinyl packaging I was referencing is actually called "Cities of Darkscorch." End, One More Rumor, Alien Music The Native Sound Where To Find Us @chrislantinen /@mondonews

Buy your tickets to our live show now! The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast features the first appearance of MV Writer, Zach Behm. We talk about this year's edition of the Oscars, along with our "Top 10" lists of 2014 and what's coming out this February. We also get to discuss the one movie we both really, really want to see (together if possibly): Fifty Shades of Grey. Current Sponsor Timeline 7:30, Beginning of episode 8:00, Whiplash 13:45, Birdman 17:48, Birdman cover art 19:13, Nightcrawler 24:00, Special performances the Academy hit on and missed on 29:50, Oscar Predictions 35:30, Top 10 of 2014 37:46, February films 42:00, Zach hates on Will Smith HARD 43:05, 50 Shades of Grey Music Mike Valdes & The Noise Where To Find Us @chrislantinen / @Aqua_Boogie91