So back in December we had the chance to catch up with the guys from Pelican during a show at Harpers Ferry in the great Allston Rock City. Laurent was able to set us up with the vinyl lover in the band, Larry Herweg, who shares responsibilities within the rhythm section with his brother Bryan on bass. It was a pain finding a good place to sit and turn the camera on, so we decided, in the middle of December, to go outside the venue and have Davey hold the camera. Davey, being the charming asshole you will come to meet in the Black Cobra interview, didn’t turn the mic on. So after trying to transcribe it for the last few months, I figured I’d give you the skinny on what these guys have been up to.

If you hadn’t learned, the guys made the switch from Hydra Head over to Southern Lord, to share space with the likes of Boris, Earth, Weedeater, and Black Cobra. Since the move, they have had 2 releases, Ephemeral and What We All Come To Need, which is now after being released on CD is finally going to see the light of wax, one of which being an exclusive to the Southern Lord Vinyl Subscription Series for 2010. This release will be limited to 550, and include 3 songs that were not released earlier in October. After hearing Ephemeral, it sounds like a much darker step into their former material, like a mature Mammoth, if you will.

The guys take a lot of pride in the packaging and design that comes with the territory of releasing their work on vinyl. It was a great pleasure to meet the guys and watch the concert after, where they killed it. Hanging with Rafa next door playing buck hunter was most certainly a great close to the year for me. The guys in Black Cobra slay, and if you haven’t had the chance to hear the new record, Chronomega, you are doing yourself a disservice. This two piece, formerly of Boston and now from L.A. have been around for a while now, with this being their fourth release, and what I would say is the perfect release to follow up Feather and Stone.

Again, we apologize greatly to Larry for what I feel like was a complete waste of his insight on upcoming news. and a poor first interview on my part.

IN GOOD NEWS THOUGH we did remember to turn on the microphone for our second interview of the night with Black Cobra. The following is Episode Eight of our Second season.

Season Two Episode Eight w/Black Cobra from Vinyl Vlog on Vimeo.

12/31 Hit and our two active contests have ended. As the video below shows we randomly picked two winners!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats are in order to Scott Cleveland of Alabama who won Lucero’s new 1372 Overton LP & a Movers and Shakers/Cold Beat 7inch!

Further big ups! to Joseph Beaulieu who won a My Heart To Joy Test Press!

Vinyl Vlog – Contest Winners Announched for Lucero/Movers and My Heart To joy from Vinyl Vlog on Vimeo.

Fellow Vinyl Vloggers,

This is Matt, I am new here. Get acquainted with me, I might be here a while.  Welcome to the first of many posts that we intend to help you stay informed on Vinyl Vlog happenings, maybe on a weekly basis? The kinks have yet to be worked out, so we will keep you posted. What does this mean for Vinyl Vlog, you ask? We are going to be providing you with a plethora of information regarding your favorite bands and labels, new releases, re-releases, second pressings, interviews, live footage, and maybe even some photos.

I recently had the chance to sit down and film the newest episode with my cohort Joshua.  We posted a new interview with Vinnie from LTJ and P+P, so be sure to check that out. This is a new interview we did with Vinnnie about a year or so after our first convo.

In other news, last week I had the chance to sit down with Larry from Pelican and Rafa from Black Cobra.  We will be posting a TEXT version of the Pelican interview and a normal Vinyl Vlog episode with Black Cobra. The Black Cobra interview was done by my buddy Dave, who you may see from time to time. A lot of exciting things going on in the world of Southern Lord, Pelican, and Black Cobra, and we have all the info ready for your viewing pleasure. WE MAY ALSO HAVE A BIG CONTEST COMING UP INVOLVING BOTH OF THESE BANDS SO STAY TUNED.

“Wait a second, did he just say Southern Lord, Pelican, and Black Cobra all in the same sentence? Am I on the Vinyl Vlog site right now? Did I take too much acid last night?”

Yes, yes, and maybe?  We are going to be broadening our scope of music here as well.  Joshua and I got together for the love of music and wax. We grew up listening to all the same bands and buying the same records. At the same time, we have a love for a variety of different styles of music as our old age grows upon us. We are looking for new viewers, new bands, and more content.  Upcoming segments may include labels Bridge 9, some more Southern Lord, Magic Bullet, Polyvinyl, Suicide Squeeze, and more of your favorite bands we already cover. I think Henry Rollins is coming to Boston soon? Does he like vinyl? Let’s find out!
 
Well, thanks for having me here, I hope you enjoy the latest video posted, and I hope you enjoy the bright future of things to come here at VV.  There are plenty of things to get excited about. I hope you enjoy the new direction we will be going in, as always, stay tuned for new contests, new interviews, new reviews, be well.

- Matt

PS. To enter our most recent contest to win a MY HEART TO JOY test press referenced in our new episode click here:
Test Press Contest!

Special thanks goes out to Asbestos Records for pressing this beauty!

Howdy Doody!

Two weeks ago Less Than Jake stopped in Boston for a show and let me tell you, in 1998 I saw them for the first time with All, Snuff, Discount and they were amazing. 10 years later I just saw them again and sure enough…still simply amazing! Do yourself a favor and check them out while they are on tour!

Now we will be releasing a new Vinyl Vlog episode soon with the interview but to tide you over we have 5 vids I took.

Hello fellow nerds,

This morning I finally finished uploading the new Vinyl Vlog episode. This episode features Kyle from The Cottage Records aka Imadethismistake/Vinyl Downloads and Ryan The Terrible from I AM ALWAYS BROKE.

Now this episode doesn’t feature that much of ACTUAL record talk but come on…is that really want people want?

I think not.

People would much rather watch a video with a crazy dude attacking a door bell right?

Vinyl Vlog Season Two Episode Five w/Kyle and Ryan The Terrible!! from Vinyl Vlog on Vimeo.

BTW Please leave comments if you know…you have any!

- Joshua

Well guys i’m back from another Fest and this year’s was as special as always. Amazing times with National Underground crew and my boys from Cinciannti, New York and Boston.

Save The Vinyl was pretty succesfull. We handed out about 200 mailers for FREE to fest attendees due to the help from National Underground/Limited Pressing. Special shout out to all the bands that donated tracks for our COMP cd. We have already been contacted by TWO people who got the GOLDEN CDs included in the mailers. More on that later….

REMEMBER you can download the comp for free here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/sltupc

I’m going to close this post with PICTURE TIME:

VIDEO VERSION:

Vinyl Vlog Season Two Episode Four w/Save The Vinyl from Vinyl Vlog on Vimeo.

TEXT VERSION:


Hello everyone out there in Internet Land!

So we’ve been hinting around about SAVE THE VINYL for some time now and it’s finally time to let the cat out of the bag (or the record out of it’s sleeve you could say).

A couple months ago I had this idea to give something back to the vinyl community at this years FEST 8 in Gainesville, FL. The idea was to provide record mailers to people who purchased records from any one of the number of Bands, Labels or Distros present. This would hopefully help SAVE YOUR VINYL from getting wrecked during the 100′s of different shows you’ll attend throughout the weekend.

Now record mailers do cost money and a couple ideas were thrown around to cover the primary cost. After some debate and discussion with a couple people, Nick from limitedpressing.com stepped up and decided to help sponsor this little event. It is thanks to Nick that SAVE THE VINYL is happening! Please take a few moments and check out his site and what he is attempting to do over there at LP!

After getting the mailers secured another idea was given some thought. Help out some of the bands/labels who have supported Vinyl Vlog over the last year. I elected to start a COMP CD full of bands from across the US and Canada. After speaking with our new buddies in Limited Pressing and old buddies at National Underground, Anchorless Records & Vinyl Collective, we got a handful of awesome bands who were on board. Next we contacted friends and local favorites to fill out the roster you see below.

Now we do agree with you, COMP CDs have died over the past couple of years with the advent of the internet and myspace profiles. So in addition to the COMP CD, we decided to continue what we do best. GIVE AWAY FREE RECORDS!

Almost all of the bands on SAVE THE VINYL have donated records, cds, t shirts and stickers to be given away. We will have 200 record mailers containing 200 comps. Of these 200, 5 are GOLDEN CDs! If you get one of these special CDs you will win a PRIZE PACKAGE! Now ALL CDs do look the same but differ in track listing. The GOLDEN CDs will have SPOKEN WORD tracks instead of a real song. These tracks will have instructions saying that you’ve won a prize package and to email vinylvlog@gmail.com or call a special number. To find out if you won simply LISTEN TO THE CD!

Ok, we do understand that since this CD has multiple UNRELEASED songs from some pretty awesome bands (Smoke or Fire and O Pioneers to name a few) some people NOT attending the FEST may want to hear it so…we have hosted it for free here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/sltupc

Now I hope this goes without saying but IF you enjoy any of the bands on this COMP please support them and their labels. It would really mean a lot to US and to THEM.

For FEST attendees to pick up a mailer/CD just stop by the National Underground booth at sign in on Friday and ask for one!!!!

Well, that’s it. If you have any questions please feel free to Email @ vinylvlog@gmail.com or send us a message via twitter: @vinylvlog.

We really appreciate all of the bands who became part of this little adventure.

See you at the FEST!

- Joshua

Hey everyone,

The new Vinyl Vlog episode is OUT NOW! This one contains more hints about SAVE THE VINYL and a cool short interview with Chris from Propagandhi. The interview is from AGES ago(aka March 2009) when Ken went to Harvest of Hope. For some reason I can’t get the aspect ratio of the video to display correctly…or well maybe it is displaying correctly and I just don’t realize it.

Hope you enjoy:

Vinyl Vlog Season Two Episode Three w/Chris from Propagandhi + Save The Vinyl Alert #2 from Vinyl Vlog on Vimeo.

Vinyl Vlog Episodes 1 and 2 from Season TWO!

 

Vinyl Vlog Season Two Episode Two w/The Riot Before from Vinyl Vlog on Vimeo.

Vinyl Vlog Season 2 Episode 1 w/Ringers & Carry The Torch Giveaways! from Vinyl Vlog on Vimeo.