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All Enchanting Audio Artifacts Considered
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Welcome to The Choice Bin, where only thee most "choice" long-play records traded in over our magnificent buy counter in Hollyweird are considered and discussed as art and a most...
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Beaucoup Bins of Beautiful Boom
Whazzup?! Tons of great records coming over our buying counter lately, much of it landing in "The Choice Bin," and circumnavigating my world. There's so much going on I don't where to start. Let's...
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More Journeys Off the Beaten Track
Peter Michael Hamel Hamel Vertigo 6641 055, 1972 2-Lp set on German Vertigo circa 1972 brings us a spiritual journey of minimalism and creative spark, alone in the studio…tape running and overdubbing,...
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The Choice Bin's Choice-y-er Buy Counter Scores of 2011
As the year 2011 flies to a close, I've gathered some of my favorite scores from the past year together to reflect upon how much great stuff gets traded in at our used buying counter. All this art came...
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Private Pressings Go Public
Anyone who wants to can make an LP record! Yes, anybody, and it’s always been like that. Why can’t the world hear your creativity? Break out of those bedroom studios and living rooms and lounges and...
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This Moment's Glory With ECM Records
ECM Records has always been one of my favorite labels, peerlessly rich in variety and deeply honest with it's mission and intent of quality. I remember my first ECM LP was an unplayed white-label promo...
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A King's Ransom From Queens
Virtuous vinyl votaries rejoice! Amoeba Music has just acquired a very choice collection of records from the Queens, NY area to resell in our Hollywood store and on Amoeba.com, a collection that is...
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Divine Discs of the Electronic Continuum
I am a searcher, never quite satisfied with music and sounds that already exist. There are many like myself out there. I am consistently persuing electronics-based records like these herein that...
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Amoeba 8-track Love from Tom Schnabel
"....Yet Another Reason Why Amoeba Rules." Our pal Tom Schnabel, NPR and KCRW-FM icon and music wizard, posted a cool remembrance of his day with 8 track cartridges. Remember those? They were...
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What We're Doing With What They've Done: Amoeba's "Vinyl Vaults"
If you don't already know, we here at Amoeba are very much underway with our monumental archiving project for our website Amoeba.com, simply called the "Vinyl Vaults". It's a really spectacular...
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Rare Steve Lacy LP Shows Up In Hollywood
Steve Lacy has always been one of my favorite horn players since I first hear him in the mid 70’s. He delivers a liquid, speech-like sound with his soprano saxophone which he plays exclusively....
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A Fantastic New Pressing of a Miles Davis Masterstroke
Miles Dewey Davis may have been many things, but he was certainly a forward-thinking artist with an eye out for what was happening at any given time in the musical landscape, and an urge to not repeat...
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Remembering Paco de Lucia
Today, the world lost a giant of music, as Maestro Paco de Lucia passed away, at 66 years young, from a heart attack at a resort in Mexico. “Paco lived as he wished and died playing with his children...
View ArticleCustom Record Store and Label Sleeves From Over The World
Promoting one's logo and style has always been a concern if not a priority of any creative business, especially the music business. To have your record store or record label's graphic sensibility out...
View ArticleArt for Art Garfunkel's Sake
Ever since I first heard, "Dangling Conversation" and "Old Friends", I've loved Art Garfunkel's confident, husky-angel approach to harmony singing, and earnest, determined songsmith in his lead work...
View ArticleArt for Garfunkel's Sake
Ever since I first heard, "Dangling Conversation" and "Old Friends", I've loved Art Garfunkel's confident, husky-angel approach to harmony singing, and earnest, determined songsmith in his lead work...
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Composer Carl Stone's Personal Record Collection For Sale at Amoeba Hollywood
Amoeba Hollywood has purchased one of the finest record collections that I have ever set eyes upon in my record store days (and that's about 13,870 days)!! Here we have obscure gems aplenty, many I've...
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Essential Records: The Tony Williams Lifetime, "Emergency!"
They say music can be life-changing. I’ll buy that. Probably the most important and profound post-Beatles record in my Jazz life, or even my musical, personal and business life (you’ll see), was...
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New, FREE Poetry eBook From The Legendary Martin Perlich
...or, 'How The Amoeba Buy Counter Made Martin Perlich And Me Life-Changing Friends'. Here at The Choice Bin, I've been a fan of Martin Perlich's ever since I discovered him on the radio in the early...
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New, FREE Poetry eBook From Martin Perlich
...or, How The Amoeba Buy Counter Made Martin Perlich And Me Life-Changing Friends. Here at The Choice Bin, I've been a fan of Martin Perlich's ever since I discovered him on the radio in the early...
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