In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second full length album, is a legendary album online, particularly on 4chan’s /mu/ board. Although the album was already successful in its own right, it was elevated to new heights when memes caused its album art to be practically inescapable. It […]
HI I’m back from my holiday break! Here’s one more video before we go into 2024. You amazing viewers made so many wonderful things happen, so I put it all in a highlight reel: the first-annual Vinyl Monday YEAR IN REVIEW(s)! Happy new year, and thank you all for your […]
Sometimes it takes a while for a band to find their audience. Maybe their sound isn’t quite refined. Perhaps their debut doesn’t quite connect. Could be their hometown crowd aren’t receptive. For Violent Femmes, right out the gate their debut was a perfect encapsulation of who they were: snaking basslines, […]
Soft, silly music is meaningful-magical. Welcome to a special episode of Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I chat about albums in my collection that I love. My thoughts on Neutral Milk Hotel’s monolithic In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, released 25 years ago this week. Subscribe for […]
Prices of vinyl records have skyrocketed over the past few years, but you can still get some essential vinyl albums under $20 USD. I take a look at five of them you can snap up today from Amazon for less than $20. No, I didn’t get these copies there — […]
The Elephant 6 Recording Co. Documentary is out now, and if you’re a fan of indie rock, this is essential viewing! In this video, I’m pulling albums by five bands from the Elephant 6 Collective and members of their “extended family” — ones that tangentially were related to the label […]
Don’t get any big ideas… Welcome to part 1 of Mod Month! I’m Abby, and Vinyl Monday is my weekly series where I chat about classic albums in my collection that I love. But for the whole month of May, I’m covering modern classics! My thoughts on Radiohead’s In Rainbows […]
Today I’m scouring my vinyl record collection for the weirdest band names I can find and sharing them with you. In this video, I pull my top 10 weird band names and dig into a little about each. I’ll share why it’s weird, funny, or silly, and highlight a few […]
If I’d only thought of something charming to say. Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I chat about classic albums in my collection that I love. My thoughts on Death Cab For Cutie’s Transatlanticism, released 20 years ago this week. Subscribe for more […]
https://alfo-media-shop.fourthwall.com/ https://www.twitch.tv/alfomedia https://www.patreon.com/AlfoMedia https://twitter.com/renshawhs https://www.instagram.com/renshawhs/ — The concept of the one-hit wonder is one of my favorite things in music. How can somebody be so successful…just once? No more, no less. This is sorta like that, but a little bit more impressive (depending on how you look at it, idk). […]
