Amoeba Music Berkeley gets OK for in-store pot shop: The Telegraph Ave branch in hippie haven Berkeley was the first of Amoeba’s three California stores. Business has been slow as of late, and Amoeba’s weed-friendly ownership group has been trying to prop up profits with medical marijuana for some time now. The San Francisco location hosts a company called Green Evaluations on-site that goes as far as featuring a photo of Amoeba founder Marc Weinstein on its homepage, but the Berkeley decision, allowing Amoeba to operate in the medical marijuana and record businesses simultaneously, is unprecedented.
The world’s best record shops #038: Casarão do Vinil, São Paulo: Officially opened to the public in 2014, it’s a place where one can get lost in records for the entire day, even week, as each room in the house has a mix of Brazilian music and jazz/rock/soul from all over the world. Each section of the house is divided by price therefore you can sit in a room that only has records for $30BRL, $50BRL and so on. Downstairs, there is a batch of about 20 boxes of 7”s which often has great records below market value and they frequently run sales where if you buy a certain amount of records, you also get to take home another record for free.
Radiohead unveil ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ special edition as vinyl starts shipping: Radiohead have unveiled the special edition of ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ in an unboxing video, as the record has started shipping. The band released their Mercury-nominated ninth album back on 8 May 2016, but only now has the delivery of the deluxe, expanded edition begun. As well as the original album, ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ now comes on two heavyweight 12″ vinyl records, two CDs including two extra tracks, a length of master tape from the actual recording sessions 32 pages of Stanley Donwood artwork and much more.
Faith No More May Release Vinyl-Only Single “Cone of Shame” on Record Store Day 2016: There is some evidence that Faith No More will release “Cone of Shame” on November 25th, because according to this Amazon listing, the single is set for a Vinyl-Only release November 25th – which also happens to be Record Store Day. The record will be released through Ipecac Records. We are just going to have to keep our eyes open to see what other hints Faith No More will be dropping for the release.
