Here are more vintage records from our Megamall crates, hand-picked with love and ready for your turntables. We’ve got everything from standards to smooth jazz to weird electronic music, so drop by soon, and tag us in what you find! David Sanborn – Backstreet A 1982 record featuring everything you’ve come to expect from smooth […]
Not only do we have an assortment of titles at fair prices here on our website, but we also have a collection of great LPs at our brick-and-mortar shop in SM Megamall. Today, we picked out some of our favorite vintage records from our crates. Ranging from pop rock and psych to post-punk and jazz, […]
Mother’s Day means something different depending on who you’re talking to. Collectively, it’s a special day held once a year, meant to celebrate motherhood and its positive influence around the world.
This year was another superb one for music. Amazing albums and EPs were released left and right, making it difficult, at times, to keep focus on certain standouts. One had to dig past comfort zones to find gems, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t masterpieces from well-known places either.
It’s that time of the year again. Depending on how you look at it, you’re excited, stressed, or plain apathetic. Thankfully, we can, to an extent, choose to celebrate the holidays in our own special ways.
For many, music plays an integral role during the season. To make record collecting and gift-giving this month easier, we’ve come up with special one-off vinyl bundles available starting on their respective release days, five days leading up to Christmas.
There’s nothing wrong with pop music. The genre, just like everything else, can be subjectively either good or bad, depending on how you listen to it. For the people complaining about pop not having substance, they’re not looking in the right places. There are numerous examples of the genre breaking boundaries, sometimes subtly, sometimes more direct, all while sticking to conventions. That’s not an easy thing to do.
Folk music has been around for a long time. Since time immemorial, songs have been part of certain rituals and oral tradition. Come the 20th century, a revival, sometimes referred to as a roots revival, took place, with artists such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell popularizing the genre and taking it to new levels. This includes more socially and politically aware themes and modernization of old anthems.
In our previous Spindle Jam, we featured the darkness that is post-punk music. For this season, we’re tackling the usually more upbeat new wave and synth-pop. The reason for having these two genres together is because they’re close siblings. Particularly in the latter part of new wave’s peak years, a fusion of the two wasn’t uncommon.
Soul is music that speaks to the core. One of the things that makes it special is how its beauty, often, isn’t felt on the surface. One has to listen for subtleties to understand it fully. Combining elements of gospel, jazz, and R&B, the music is a celebration of African-American identity. Under its umbrella is a diverse range of subgenres, from the popular Detroit style to the more accessible Philadelphia soul.
Life is harsh. Everyday, a lover dies, prices increase, a dog runs away, and still, there’s no solution to that age-old existential dilemma. It’s time we drowned ourselves in the blues.
“Expired film is fun because it’s always a surprise,” says Ren Valera, our special Film Folk feature. Here she talks about the particular pleasure (and accompanying adventure) of shooting expired film. Published in time for the Expired Film Day event today, March 18, at Shutterspace Katipunan, this is to celebrate the allure of expired films with a peek into a film stash of someone who’s getting a whole lot into it! Read more
Sometime around the late 70s, certain bands became disillusioned with the commercialized route punk rock was heading in. From there, post-punk was born. Inspired by the energy and statement of their older sibling, they retained those aspects while becoming more open to experimentation. From weird production techniques to cues from philosophy and literature, a new breed sought to create a movement free from notions of what music should be. Read more
Music industry girl bosses Nina Simone, Björk, M.I.A., Lady Gaga and Alicia Keys have proven to the world that women are just as able to succeed at whatever they put their minds to as their male counterparts. Embodying exemplary excellence and strength, these ladies totally rock at what they do, continue to challenge the society’s stereotypes of women and call to attention all the injustice towards women that have been present for as long we can remember. Read more
Falling in love simply cannot be limited to people, objects, or experiences. Our love for them may even go beyond what many believe is normal. Call it an obsession. In our 2nd issue of CRATE, we have gathered a few of the most interesting talents in the Metro to find out what they’ve been engrossed by, hopefully letting each of us know that we are not alone and need not be afraid to indulge in them. Read more
This month is all about partnership. Going beyond the romantic theme taking place on February 14, one and one coming together can extend to the friendly kind, the familial kind, and, more importantly for us, the musical kind. For this season’s Spindle Jam, we feature some noteworthy collaborations between musicians. Read more
For our next Spindle Jam, we feature the beautiful chaos that is rock music. Read more
Much like today’s generation of vintage lovers, three of our featured collectors Richard Webb, Lyra Tan, and Ardiana Comia gravitate toward all things classic and rare, and keep up with the hunt of nostalgia through vinyl records. As younger collectors, however, their love for record collecting emerged from several factors: their predecessors, their mere fondness for music, and/or the desire to own something tangible from the past. Having gone beyond simply listening to and picking out records of old, they’ve branched out to newer artists, developing a very diverse selection of genres. Don’t underestimate today’s new breed of vinyl record collectors. You’d be surprised by their preferences, ways of thinking, and record habits. Read more
2017 was a year for discovery, for return of veterans, for expansion of tastes, and second/nth chances to artists you thought would lose their touch. What a great year! Read more
Welcome to the Spindle Jam, a biweekly column featuring some of our vinyl essentials for the season. Read more
Music is a language that unites everyone, so it makes sense one of its purest representations—vinyl—should be accessible. People are so often daunted with the seemingly complex setup process involved, they end up not pursuing records altogether. Getting the right equipment doesn’t have to be complicated. We’ll show you. Read more