Category: Reviews
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon’s Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to arbitrarily choose an actor and then connect them to another actor via a film that both actors have appeared in together, repeating this process to try and find the shortest path that ultimately leads to prolific…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Tribute to Artists Lost In 2020
Van Halen – Eruption / You Really Got Me Eddie Van Halen Died Oct 6, 2020 Years of jumping around on stage took a toll on Eddie. He had hip-replacement surgery in 1999. He also had cancer in his throat and tongue, which caused him to lose part of his tongue. That cancer claimed his…
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Closing Time Virtual Concert Series presents Egg Drop Soup
Egg Drop Soup is a three piece, all female punk band based in Los Angeles, California. Although they aren’t originally from LA their music has the potential to take the Los Angeles music scene by storm with it’s burning intensity. Together their voices amplify resistance towards the patriarchy, giving that classic girl power spice to…
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Closing Time – Virtual Concert Series presents Rachel Oto
Interview by Holland Deschuymere Photographs & Video by Kelly Segré The first thing I thought when listening to Oto’s music was “Damn, this girl is fierce!” Upon her arrival I was met with someone who is kind hearted and perhaps a little timid at first, but once she started playing her whole demeanor changed, giving…
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History of Blatant Sexism in the Music Industry
Women are not only widely underrepresented in the music industry, but also widely disregarded in terms of their worth, meaning if they want to get things done they must take matters into their own hands. Female singers and musicians are exploited constantly because of the way society not only sexualizes women as a whole, but…
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Separating the Art from the Artist
I’m sure there’s a few artists that pop into your head right away when thinking about separating the art from the artist. Many of us struggle with the fact that our favorite songs were made by people who did some terrible things, or acted in a controversial way. When confronting yourself and others on this…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – History of Coachella
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – History of Coachella 1999 – Two Days, October 9th & 10th 1999, Tickets were $50 per day Headliners – Beck, Rage Against The Machine, Tool Our Pick: Rage Against the Machine, Killing In The Name Fun Fact: The festival’s origins trace back to a 1993 concert that Pearl…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Music Used In Iconic Film Scenes
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Music Used in Iconic Film Scenes 1. Sweet Emotion (Aerosmith, 1975) – Dazed & Confused, (1993) This movie was directed by Richard Linklater. Sweet Emotion was used in the intro scene as the 1970 Pontiac GTO pulls in slow motion on the last day of school in…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Women Who Can “Really” Sing
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Women Who Can Sing (Really) 1. Karen Dalton – Little Bit of Rain, First Track (1969) Although Dalton didn’t write her own songs, Fred Neil actually writing this one, she did do her own adaptions of them. Dalton quickly became entrenched in the Greenwich Village folk musical scene…
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Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Our Favorite One Hit Wonders
Follow playlist at… Vinyl Junkies Making Mixtapes – Our Favorite One Hit Wonders 1. Mickey – Toni basil, Word of Mouth (1981) The original lyric in the chorus was Kitty instead of Mickey and recorded by a group called Racey. While it’s a one hit wonder for Basil, the songwriters have other hits with…
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