Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
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Mornings With Phono Select: Turn Up The Hits
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
Mornings With Phono Select: Morbid Opera’s Collection
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
Mornings With Phono Select: 12 Hits From Hell
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
The Joy And Order Of Peter Hook And The Light
Peter Hook And The Light came to Ace of Spades on Monday night and treated diehard fans to two and half hours of the Substance compilations from New Order and Joy Division. To open the show up was El Ten Eleven, a Los Angeles based duo that relied only on drums, basses, and heavy looping. … Continue reading
A Wax Idol Happy Ending
Wax Idols will bring their brand of dark-tinged guitar pop to the Red Museum on June 1. The four-piece from Oakland has been around since 2010 and have released a handful of albums and EPs, establishing a sound that harkens to Siouxsie & The Banshees and early Cure. With a new album, Happy Ending (Etruscan … Continue reading
Mornings With Phono Select: Mad Parade
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
Peter Hook And His Legacy
Bassist Peter Hook helped found two of the biggest bands in the post-punk world: Joy Division and New Order. In fact, one could argue that these groups created the genre in the late 1970s. Hailing from Manchester, UK, Joy Division came into existence with a sound and image that was daunting but thought-provoking. They gave … Continue reading
Mornings With Phono Select: IV3SCR
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
Beer and Punk and Luchadores, Oh my!
In October 2017, the craft beer and music festival Punk in Drublic came through town and was well received by the Warped Tour generation. With the same model, the Sabroso Festival stopped at Papa Murphy’s Park to showcase punk rock from the early nineties with craft beer on April 8th. Sound good for a second … Continue reading
A Low Class Love Song To The Polyorchids
The Polyorchids is a Sacramento based group that has been around for three years and are ready to deliver new material. Embracing indie and power pop influences, they are set to release their first full-length, self-titled debut along with a couple of record release shows to top off their release. Their last folk-punk EP, Popgun, … Continue reading
Mornings With Phono Select: Eden Revisited
Down at its new location on Fruitridge Blvd, Phono Select Records is a fixture for all your vinyl hunting inquiries. With their inventory ranging from indie, hardcore, reggae, punk and every genre you can think of, owner Dal Basi always seems to have something in the racks that will pique your curiosity. Once a week, … Continue reading
Life Is Good with Flogging Molly.
“St. Patrick’s Day was three days ago but when Flogging Molly comes to town, every day is fucking St. Patrick’s Day,” said lead singer/guitarist Dave King during the band’s show at the Ace of Spades last Wednesday. Over the past twenty years, Flogging Molly has toured relentlessly, recorded albums and even founded their own music … Continue reading