Here we go again, Buddies! On this latest rendition of Surface Noise, I'm joined by David Bianco (Safe & Sound Texas Audio Excursion), Jason Roxas, and Arnaldo (Fidelios_Frequency) plus a new voice to the dais (but an old friend of mine) Tavis from Vinyl Talk with Tavis to discuss the unfortunate news of Tina Turner's passing - our memories and remembrances of the Queen of Rock - and then dig into the recent news of Rhino launching their own "premium" selection of audiophile-grade vinyl offe...
May 29, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 43
Memorial Day Weekend Special Presentation!!! You wanted the best? You got the....us, Buddies! In an exclusive chat only found on Vinyl Community Podcasts, I have enlisted some of the biggest and best KISS fans I know in the Vinyl Community to educate, inform, and inspire me to better understand KISS fandom. As part of the current "final tour", I recently purchased tickets to my first KISS concert in a few months, and so it felt like the right time to understand the multi-faceted parts of being a...
May 26, 2023•52 min•Ep. 42
Welcome in, Buddies! This 'sode of Vinyl Community Podcasts is a fun conversation I shared recently with Matt Dunn from the YouTube Channel Prime Analog Records and his daughter Bennett to discuss record collecting + music consumption in a "new school vs. old school" kind of way. Like most dads, Matt instilled his love of music early in Bennett's formative years, and we talk about why he felt it was important to share a diverse offering of musical styles + artists with her. Whereas Matt and myse...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 40
Welcome in fellow Jazz Bums! Join us as we discuss the history and recordings of the legendary Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village, NYC. We are joined by Notes & Tones (Mike) who has personally been a long-time patron of the Vanguard. For more information on the Jazz Bums: https://www.youtube.com/@JazzBums For more information on Notes and Tones (Mike): https://www.youtube.com/@notes-tones Interested in learning note about jazz? Check out the Jazz Bums’ Discord here: https://discord.com/in...
May 22, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 41
Thanks for dropping in again, Buddies! Concert Buddie here with another terrific 'sode of Vinyl Community Podcasts! I'm joined for this conversation with a fellow record collector in the Vinyl Community: Scott Wilson, host of the YouTube Channel "The Pressing Matters". Scott has done a great job of creating videos on a myriad of topics, most centered around his pursuit of great sounding records (simple enough, right?). This conversation will walk through Scott's origins with YouTube, and provide...
May 17, 2023•52 min•Ep. 38
Ever wake up hungover, Buddies? This episode of Surface Noise is kind of like that. Guest host Louie Golden is joined by regulars Arnaldo (Fidelios_Frequency), Jose Moreno Rahn, and Jason Roxas to answer a simple question: do record collectors feel any guilt by not listen to their growing collections on a regular basis? The answers may surprise you. Later, with 75% of the dais comprised of musicians, the topic of musician shaming (tastes, other musicians skill levels, etc) is brought up. Special...
May 15, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 39
The Vinyl Community Guncles (Robert, Richard, Craig, and Mike) have returned to the airwaves of Vinyl Community Podcasts! This episode finds them sharing their preferred listening methods of listening to music (and why). Are some albums ones listened to once, only to sit on a shelf? Multiple listens in the same session? Dedicated listening rooms to only focus on listening to the music? What about people that buy records and don't open them purely to collect them? Or the patented collectors who b...
May 10, 2023•27 min•Ep. 37
Vinyl Community! I am The Record Spinner and I am so excited to unveil the third episode of a series I will be host exclusively here on Vinyl Community Podcasts called "Current Rotations." This series will be all about the records I have recently been spinning on my turntable. On this episode, I will be discussing my favorite releases from this year's Record Store Day. For More on The Record Spinner (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/@TheRecordSpinner For More on Vinyl Community Podcasts: https:...
May 08, 2023•28 min•Ep. 36
Welcome aboard! Host David Bianco from Safe & Sound Texas Audio Excursion brings a splendid conversation to the airwaves of Vinyl Community Podcasts speaking with Patricia Gallo-Stenman, author of the award-winning book "Diary of a Beatlemaniac". Pattie was a teenager when The Beatles swept in the British Invasion into America in 1964. Her immersion into all things Beatles and her desire to capture it all in her personal diary has now been opened for our reading (and listening) pleasure. We'...
May 03, 2023•50 min•Ep. 35
....and we're BAAAAACK! Aloha, Buddies! We've got another terrific edition of Surface Noise ready to share with you here on Vinyl Community Podcasts! We are joined by Arnaldo (fidelios_frequency), Music Talk with John, David (Safe & Sound Texas Audio Excursion), and world traveler and jet lagged record collector Jason Roxas to recap our collective RSD experiences (even for those that couldn't stand in the lines themselves), and then hear about some of Jason's experiences at Den Bosch, which ...
May 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 34
Welcome back to another episode of Vinyl Community Podcasts! This spin on the dance floor sees our friend Nadine c/o Souldisco return to our airwaves to share a splendid conversation with Jared "Jay B" Boyd on the recent boxset reissue effort from Vinyl Me, Please titled: "Truth Is Where It's At -- A Gospel Truth Collection". The Gospel Truth Label (aka Stax Records Gospel Label), was an imprint of the famous Stax Records label from Memphis, Tennessee. The Gospel Truth series debut in 1972 and p...
Apr 26, 2023•39 min•Ep. 33
Whoa Buddies! Concert Buddie here. Are you in for a treat today here on another 'sode of Vinyl Community Podcasts! Our guest today is known to many in the VC at large: Norman Maslov. Better known as Mazzy (remember, Mazzy Loves You), he's been a fixture in the community for many years, helping share many tales from a life learned and lived in music. From growing up in San Francisco during the late 60's - seeing the rise of some of the most famous bands in the world: The Grateful Dead, Jefferson ...
Apr 24, 2023•54 min•Ep. 32
The Jazz Bums (Chris, Mike, and Felipe) return to the airwaves of Vinyl Community Podcasts for a deep dive into the Miles Davis reissues from Mobile Fidelity. Finally back in a steady(ish) state of availability, popular opinion suggests these reissues are the best sounding versions from Miles' catalog available in print today (including the venerable Joe Harley of Blue Note). What say The Jazz Bums? Click ahead to find out! The Jazz Bums can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@JazzBums Video...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 31
Greetings, Buddies! Our latest edition of "Surface Noise" has myself and our panelists (more info below) discussing bands or artists that surprisingly (or not) have never put out a greatest hits compilation (and maybe some that should). We then kick around strategies of record show glory in honor of Jason's upcoming trip to Den Bosch. Mayhem ensues. Get a sweet, sweet taste, by clicking ahead! For more information on our guests: Arnaldo (fidelios_frequency): https://www.youtube.com/@fidelios_fre...
Apr 17, 2023•58 min•Ep. 30
Hola, Buddies! So glad you can join us for another Vinyl Community Podcasts chat with a wonderful guest: TONE Scott. You may be familiar with some of TONE's videos as a music collector on YouTube, but his lifelong passion has been cultivated while spending virtually his entire professional career working in the music industry. We touch on his YouTube experience, thoughts on the "Vinyl Community", a walk through the origins of his professional career, as well as discuss some of his latest project...
Apr 12, 2023•59 min•Ep. 29
In this episode of Vinyl Community Podcasts, Rob from Northern Revolutions chats with fellow Canadian Glen Kellaway (Glen Kellaway From the Basement on YouTube) about the INSANE pricing on vinyl in Canada these days. The genesis of this discussion is the well publicized 30% price increase by the major Canadian record labels. Rob and Glen elaborate on the myriad of other factors that make record collecting in Canada much more expensive than in the US including the additional costs we incur from E...
Apr 10, 2023•42 min•Ep. 28
All aboard! On this latest episode of Vinyl Community Podcasts, David Bianco from Safe & Sound Texas Audio Excursion will carefully outline some important tenets of the current state of the vinyl pressing industry. As the need for more vinyl continues to grow, there is a pressing (pun intentional) desire for more capacity to produce higher volumes of new records. With several new players joining this vinyl arms race from the manufacturing side, how will these new pressing plants fare from a ...
Apr 05, 2023•22 min•Ep. 27
Aloha Buddies! Thanks for joining us again here on Vinyl Community Podcasts! This episode features a conversation with Jason Roxas, Jose Moreno Rahn, and Arnaldo (Fidelios Frequency) where we discussed a number of trending topics in record collecting inside the vinyl community: the recent Bob Marley reissue campaign from Tuff Gong and their (alleged) Jamaican pressing plant, the deluxe 50th Anniversary box set of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" - complete with the 1974 Wembley Empire Pool p...
Apr 03, 2023•59 min•Ep. 26
Vinyl Community! I am The Record Spinner and I am so excited to unveil the second episode of a series I will be host exclusively here on Vinyl Community Podcasts called "Current Rotations." This series will be all about the records I have recently been spinning on my turntable. On this episode, I will be discussing classic live albums, all girl groups, KISS bootlegs and much more! For more info on The Record Spinner: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRecordSpinner For more info on Vinyl Community Podc...
Mar 29, 2023•21 min•Ep. 25
Hey Vinyl Community! In this installment of Vinyl Community Podcasts, Rob from Northern Revolutions is joined by Concert Buddie to have a deeper discussion about some of their vinyl gambles experienced throughout their record collecting journeys. Vinyl gambles could be those purchases we almost made but didn't for one reason or another and now maybe those decisions don't sit so well. Or maybe the gambles were chances you took that paid off in a positive way. The gamble discussion then digresses ...
Mar 27, 2023•48 min•Ep. 24
Oh, hello again listeners! For this particular Audio Excursion, host David Bianco shares his own personal journey with vinyl: what initially drew him to the medium, what his early collecting journey looked like, and what has kept him holding onto truly a lifetime of music on black wax all these years. David also shares why he left the radio industry early in his professional career, and where his interest in Hi-Fi gear began. We trust you'll find it's a conversation ripe with insights and reflec...
Mar 22, 2023•47 min•Ep. 23
Vinyl Community! I am The Record Spinner and I am so excited to unveil the premiere episode of a series I will be hosting exclusively here on Vinyl Community Podcasts called "Current Rotations." This series will be all about the records I have recently been spinning on my turntable. On this episode, I will be discussing albums by Third Man Artists, some vintage/new punk, a solo offering from the OG KISS Spaceman Ace Frehley and much more! For more info on The Record Spinner (on YouTube): https:/...
Mar 20, 2023•30 min•Ep. 22
Buddies! Thanks for coming by again! This video is a continuation of my series on Vinyl Community Podcasts called "Mind of the Record Collector". This episode features The Record Spinner (Dylan) and an awesome conversation we shared touching on a lot of things: his experience(s) on YouTube, as a member of the YMOTVC (more on that later), collecting records during the current "vinyl resurgence", and working in a local record store (how cool is that??). Dylan is a fountain of music knowledge and p...
Mar 15, 2023•58 min•Ep. 21
On this episode of Vinyl Community Podcasts, The Waxed returns to share a conversation with Notes and Tones (Mike) and two Jazz Bums (Mike and Felipe) to discuss the recent release by Craft Recordings of "COOKIN' WITH JAWS AND THE QUEEN: THE LEGENDARY PRESTIGE COOKBOOK ALBUMS". This recently released 4LP set brings together the albums “Cookbook, Vol. 1,” “Cookbook, Vol. 2,” “Cookbook, Vol. 3,” & “Smokin’”, which he recorded with organist Shirley Scott. How does our guests feel this release t...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 20
Hey there Buddies! For this 'sode drop we share a livestream talking about Vinyl "Regrets" (or "Ragrets"....if you know, you know) from our respective collecting journeys: records we should have bought, trends we should have avoided, and more! We had the great fortune to be joined for this conversation by Rob at Northern Revolutions, Steve aka Harmless Rebel, and the International Sex Symbol of the Vinyl Community, the incomparable Vinyl Richie, to discuss this particular topic and a little dose...
Mar 09, 2023•53 min•Ep. 19
Second verse...same as the first! Back by popular demand on Vinyl Community Podcasts, Souldisco (aka Nadine) returns to share her follow up conversation with Andreas Kohl, a longtime music industry professional (for background on Andreas, please feel free to revisit the previous conversation from the link below). For this episode, a handful of crowd-sourced topics were discussed, including: Do picture discs really sound worse than standard vinyl, and why? How to define what an "audiophile" means...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 18
Here we go again, Buddies! My latest conversation on the Vinyl Community Podcasts feed is a great chat with Arnaldo over at the Fidelios_Frequency YouTube Channel. If you didn't know, Arnaldo works in the music industry, and we cover that and how that aligns with his record collecting journey. More so, we talk about working with passion - working in an industry, a specific job, or a specific cause you are passionate about - a topic we can both relate to. We wrap things up with the coveted #light...
Mar 01, 2023•59 min•Ep. 17
Hope we didn't keep you waiting! Welcome again to the Safe and Sound Texas Audio Excursion! On this episode, David Bianco reflects back on a life spent listening to and collecting vinyl, and on the past year - his first on YouTube as a member of the greater Vinyl Community. What a time to have started his channel! From MoFi-Gate, to unwelcomed quality control matters, to continued explosive growth in the hobby, there's never been a better time to collect the vinyl format and to engage with other...
Feb 27, 2023•35 min•Ep. 16
Welcome again to the Safe and Sound Texas Audio Excursion here on Vinyl Community Podcasts! This episode is a memorable conversation host David Bianco shared with G.I. Sanders - owner and operator of NTX Vinyl. G.I. has developed a unique and distinct business model of selling vinyl across multiple locations in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex (Texas) area. A dedicated collector himself, G.I. has worked tirelessly not only operating his vinyl locations, but in branding NTX Vinyl by leveraging soc...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 15
Waddup, Buddies! The Record Store Day list is here! What you are about to listen to is a lighthearted, fun conversation I had with some folks in the Vinyl Community sharing our thoughts on the recently dropped Record Store Day (RSD) list of offerings for 2023. The annual holiday for record lovers and indie stores alike is coming soon on Saturday, April 2023, and there are some tasty, tasty treats waiting at the local shops this year. In this 'sode you'll hear from our friends over at Vinyl Recko...
Feb 20, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 14
