FIrst day in LA!
Busy day today! Finishing up tomorrow then headed to LA!
We are on the west coast! Portland is the first city on the list, and we are so glad to be here! Follow the blog/twitter for more! http://benmeadors.com/vinyl @newfaceofvinyl
The New Face of Vinyl is headed off to it’s final journey: Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. We will be happy to leave this snowy, cold, and blistery Cleveland winter behind.
Follow us on twitter (http://twitter.com/newfaceofviny), and our website (http://BenMeadors.com/vinyl) for updates and videos along the way.
Thanks to everyone for your support. California here we come.
Owen & Ben
WE ARE STILL IN NEED OF INDIVIDUALS FROM PORTLAND. If you are between the ages of 15 and 25 and collect, listen to, or buy vinyl records, we may be interested in featuring your story within our book The New Face of Vinyl: Youth’s Digital Devolution.
Fill out the survey at http://www.benmeadors.com/vinyl/the-new-face-of-vinyl-survey/
Find more info about The New Face of Vinyl at our homepage: http://BenMeadors.com/vinyl
Last Call: Looking for people 15-25 for our book The New Face of Vinyl
We are specifically looking for record collectors and vinyl enthusiasts between the ages of 15-25 for our book The New Face of Vinyl: Youth’s Digital Devolution. If you are located in Portland, San Francisco, or Los Angeles and are interested in being in the book, fill out a survey at our website: http://www.benmeadors.com/vinyl/the-new-face-of-vinyl-survey/
For more information about the project visit our home page at http://benmeadors.com/vinyl or our former kickstarter funding site: http://kck.st/newfaceofvinyl
You can also follow us on Twitter (@newfaceofvinyl) Facebook (http://www.Facebook.com/newfaceofvinyl) YouTube (http://www.YouTube.com/thenewfaceofvinyl) and of course this Tumblr.
Shoot me an e-mail if you have any questions: vinyl@benmeadors.com
Thanks for all of your support guys!
-Owen
We are looking for young people aged 15-25 from Portland, San Francisco or L.A. to feature in our book about vinyl. Fill out the survey here if you are interested: http://www.benmeadors.com/vinyl/the-new-face-of-vinyl-survey/
You can find more info about the project at http://BenMeadors.com/vinyl
We are looking for young people aged 15-25 from Portland, San Francisco or L.A. to feature in our book about vinyl. Fill out the survey here if you are interested: http://www.benmeadors.com/vinyl/the-new-face-of-vinyl-survey/
You can find more info about the project at http://BenMeadors.com/vinyl
New Face of Vinyl Heads to Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles in March; Oh, and a Long Needed Update As Well
Let me begin by apologizing for the lack of updatesâafter returning from NYC and Chicago, Ben and I found ourselves in a pile of work that we are still trying to catch up on.
Nevertheless, the trips out to the big apple and the windy city were a huge success. We took in a lot of material and we are both eager to visit the west coast and wrap up the traveling. Soon enough we can actually start to write this thing!
Ben and I met some great people in both cities—in and out of record shops. As someone who has spent the majority of his life in Cleveland, I can already notice the stark contrasts in vinyl culture between all three cities and that makes me even more excited to report our findings for the final book.
While not giving away too much (we need to save the details for the book), here are some sneak peeks at the places we visited:
Halcyon the Shop located in Brooklyn boasts an interior that you wonât find at any other record store in the countryâitâs like stepping into a Zen garden. When not functioning as a night club of sorts, the record store is filled with people from all over the world looking for dance, electronic and house music.
Making our way out to the East Village near NoHo, we stopped into Good Records on 5th street to chat with John, the owner. A music lover and a Scotch aficionado, he had an interesting take on youthâs new found interest in the format. The small basement type store featured intoxicating antique wood floors that moaned with pleasure as you move from rack to rack flipping through almost exclusively used and out of print pressings.
Fast-forward about 800 miles and now we are in Chicago; more specifically the neat and tidy Ukrainian Village to have a look around Permanent Records. Lance, the owner, was away at his L.A. location (which Ben and I will be stopping at while we are in L.A.) getting things set up. Lance has been a great help in spreading the word about the project.
While the trips proved to be slightly exhausting and quite a lot of work (the bitter cold weather didn’t help), the support weâve received has been overwhelming, and everyoneâs enthusiasm will make sharing this book even more rewarding than we originally anticipated.
OK, now that NYC and Chicago are out of the way we get to enjoy some warmer weather. Portland is our next stop on March 5th; we will spend about three days there until heading down to San Francisco, and then finally Los Angeles.
While we donât have a final list of stores for the west coast, Iâm working on it and will release the locations when they are set in stone. We are still seeking individuals in these cities aged 15-25 who would be interested in having their photographs taken and featured in the book. If you or someone you know would be interested, fill out our survey at the project homepage (http://BenMeadors.com/vinyl) and provide as much information as you can. If you have any questions, comments, or overall complaints, write me via e-mail: vinyl@benmeadors.com
Thank you to everyone in Chicago and New York City who were so accommodating to usâwe couldnât have done it without you.
California here we come!
-Owen (and Ben)
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