Bexhill, UK | Popular Bexhill record shop closes down: Music’s Not Dead, in Devonshire Road, became a central hub for up-and-coming musicians and brought numerous gigs to the town. The shop held a wake event on Sunday (September 16) where scores of musicians came to play live music and show their support. Del Querns, owner, said: “We opened seven years ago with the idea of providing a record shop for the town and putting on live music in the shop and venues around Bexhill. “We ended up putting on more than 70 gigs with acts from all over the world. “We’ve had to close for several reasons. Footfall, like in every high street, is down and the abuse by big companies of the tax system make running an independent shop very hard when the margins are so tight.” Stewart Drew, director and chief executive officer (CEO) of the De La Warr Pavilion, said: “Music’s Not Dead has become known as a significant destination for music over the last decade and has been punching well above its weight for some time now.
Fired Before Her Show Devoted to Police Shootings of African Americans, CSU Long Beach Museum Director Vows to Fight Her ‘Shocking’ Dismissal. Was Kimberli Meyer’s firing connected to lauren woods’s anti-racist artwork? …A monument to African Americans killed by police officers, the work consists of 25 record players on pedestals arranged in a grid, each poised to play audio drawn from police records, court proceedings, and footage captured by bystanders—or sometimes nothing at all, if there were no recordings available. The 25 men and women memorialized include Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, and Eric Garner, but woods envisions “American Monument” as an ongoing project that would grow with future iterations. The university, however, appears to have had concerns about the nature of the work.
Myanmar | U Maung Maung’s blast from the past: To some people, these maybe nothing more than trash, some useless pieces of equipment from a forgotten past, but to others these are rare gems that brought back some bittersweet memories from not so long ago, when strife of all kinds – from World War I, World War II, up to the cold war era — dominated the world. Yangon is about to get a rare treat reminiscing those foregone era of the angst-ridden, rock n’ rollin flower children generation and their famous slogan “Make Love Not War”, with a showcase of different kinds of turntables and vinyl records players, which defined the music scene for the good part of the 20th century. From September 20 to 22, researcher U Maung Maung will be showcasing his lifetime collection: turntables, record changers and discs, vinyl music records, sharing with today’s millenials and digital children about those turbulent times and computers and today’s digital gadgets were just figments of imagination.
Rage Against The Machine are reissuing their entire back catalogue on vinyl: …The pioneering four-piece – who are currently inactive having last played together in 2011 – have taken the bold step of ordering the reissues, which span from their 1992 self-titled debut to their 2003 live album ‘Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium’…Back in July, Morello reflected on Rage’s 2000 split in an interview – while also offering an explanation for why the band decided not to record a new album upon reuniting in 2007. “I’ll put myself first and foremost. It was a lack of emotional maturity in being able to deal with each other as people,” Morello said about the 2000 split. “We had political vision and the shows never suffered, but we just couldn’t agree on stuff and that unearthed feelings that made it hard to make records.”
Phish Announces ‘Billy Breathes’ Vinyl Release: Following a limited-edition, 7,500-copy Record Store Day release, Phish will release their 1996 album, Billy Breathes, on vinyl on Friday, October 26th. The 2-LP vinyl set of the band’s sixth studio full-length album is pressed on 2-180g audiophile LPs. Billy Breathes was recorded and mixed in 1996 at Bearsville Studios by John Siket and Steve Lillywhite, and was produced by Phish and Lillywhite. Billy Breathes was originally mastered by Bob Ludwig and released by Elektra on CD and cassette on October 15, 1996. In the fall of 2017, Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering cut the lacquers from the digital audio tape flat master for the vinyl edition. Billy Breathes features 13 tracks, including Phish’s highest-charting single, “Free” (the tune peaked at #11 of the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and was certified Gold in 1999).
