Archive for March, 2009
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Submitted by All Movie Replicas Blog
Release date: Friday August 7, 2009
Genre: Action
Director: Stephen Sommers
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Screenplay: Stuart Beattie, Skip Woods
Producer(s): Bob Ducsay, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Stephen Sommers
Cast: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Byung Hun Lee, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Saïd Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid
Official Site: gijoemovie.com
Rating: This Film Has [...]
Fighting Movie Posters
Submitted by All Movie Replicas Blog
Release date: Friday April 24, 2009
Genre: Action
Director: Dito Montiel
Studio: Universal Pictures/Rogue Pictures
Screenplay: Robert Munich, Dito Montiel
Producer(s): Kevin Misher
Cast: Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, Luis Guzman, Brian White
Official Site: fightingmovie.net
Rating: PG-13 for intense fight sequences, some sexuality and brief strong language
Available film art: Fighting movie posters
Synopsis
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) has [...]
Year One Movie Posters
Submitted by All Movie Replicas Blog
Release date: Friday June 19, 2009
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harold Ramis
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Screenplay: Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg
Producer(s): Clayton Townsend, Harold Ramis, Judd Apatow
Cast: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, Hank Azaria
Official Site: yearone-movie.com
Rating: R for some sexual content and language
Available film art: Year One movie posters
Synopsis
Written and directed [...]
Public Enemies Movie Posters
Submitted by All Movie Replicas Blog
Release date: Wednesday July 1, 2009
Genre: Action
Director: Michael Mann
Studio: Universal Pictures
Screenplay: Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman, Michael Mann
Producer(s): Kevin Misher, Michael Mann
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Channing Tatum, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Leelee Sobieski, David Wenham, Giovanni Ribisi, Rory Cochrane, Marion Cotillard
Official Site: publicenemies.net
Rating: R for gangster violence and some language
Available [...]
Vinyl vs. CD
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
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Classic Rock Videos
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Three Dog Night - Never Been To Spain
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Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Week Ending 03/28/2009
1. 45 - The Beatles “Love Me Do” / “P.S. I Love You” Parlophone UK Demonstration w/ Top Pop! sleeve - $6,667.59 - Start: $7.00 - Bids: 39
2. 45 - The Mark IV “Take This Love / “If You Can’t Tell Me Something Good” Brite Lite - $4,150.00 [...]
Music News & Notes
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Nickelback were the big winners at Canada’s Juno Awards, taking home three trophies including “Group of the Year” and “Album of the Year” for Dark Horse. Toronto’s Kardinal Offishall won the ceremony’s two rap awards and the Stills — who already have three albums under their belt — won the [...]
Wow! The Record Store Day Releases keep coming…
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
This is from the official Record Store Day site (http://www.recordstoreday.com) Everyone help support the artists who release their music via this historical music medium!
Here is a complete list of all of the amazing music that some of your favorite artists have created specifically to celebrate Record Store Day! Like all [...]
This Date In Music History- March 29
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Birthdays:
Chad Allan, Guess Who (1943)
Evangelos Papathanassiou- Vangelis (Chariots of Fire 1943)
Terry Jacks- singer, songwriter, (1974 UK & US #1 single “Seasons In The Sun”) (1946)
Bobby Kimball- vocals, Toto (1947)
Patty Donahue- Waitresses (1956)
Perry Farrell- Jane’s Addiction (1959)
M.C. Hammer (1963)
John Popper - Blues Traveler (1967)
They Are Missed:
Pearl Bailey was born 1918.
Mantovani (orchestra [...]
Classic Rock Videos
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
THREE DOG NIGHT (Live) - Liar
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Rarities now common target at vinyl show
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
As vinyl records resurge, rarities become focus of today’s show in Toronto
GREG QUILL
ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST
Record shows used to be gathering places for boomers buying back their past and geeky collectors looking for a priceless score.
But these days, says Akim Boldireff, co-promoter of the Toronto Downtown Record Show, one of Ontario’s biggest [...]
Vinyl In The UK
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Found a couple of great articles about the 45 rpm record and record collecting from the UK and thought I would share them.
Seven inch single’s struggle to stay alive as it celebrates its 60th anniversary
Mar 29 2009 by Tim Lewis, Wales On Sunday
As the seven inch single celebrates its [...]
Classic Rock Videos
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Joy To The World THREE DOG NIGHT
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Digital downloads kill music on discs
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CDs head the way of the eight-track while recording companies miss out on revenue
By Gillian Shaw, Vancouver
SunMarch 27, 2009
Music CD sales have dropped by half from their peak a decade ago, but unlike the decline of vinyl records and 8-track tapes, the current shift is bringing with it a wholesale [...]
10 Cool Albums That Feature Gibson Guitars On Their Covers
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
By Russell Hall
Given that Gibson guitars are themselves works of art, it’s hardly surprising that various Gibson instruments have been featured prominently on countless album covers. Below are 10 such albums, each of which should be part of any Gibson fans record collection.
Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow (1975)
The starkly elegant [...]
Don’t write off the record shops yet
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
I found this feature from the UK interesing:
EVEN in these distressed economic times, few business models would appear more shot to bits than the independent record store.
While many people download music for free on the internet, those willing to pay are switching to online stores like Amazon with their massive [...]
A Conrad Ghost
Submitted by Bookride Blog
We did a post a while back on books that are known as ghosts - a ghost is usually a work announced as a forthcoming book which never actually gets published. Sometimes this is because the book was never written because the author lost interest, got sidetracked or blocked, died or because [...]
Philip Larkin, The Less Deceived 1955
Submitted by Bookride Blog
Philip Larkin. THE LESS DECEIVED. (Hessle, East Yorkshire: Marvell Press) 1955.
Current Selling Prices
$500-$1100 /£350-£750
MODERN FIRST EDITIONS / POETRY
One of the great Brit poets, probably the finest since Auden. His early works are much collected and can reach 4 figure prices. He is outpaced in fame and value by Heaney and even [...]
Up
Submitted by All Movie Replicas Blog
Up arrive in theaters, May 29th. Check out the new behind the scene trailer.
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Classic Rock Videos
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Three Dog Night - One Is The Loneliest Number
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Michael Fremer Feature
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
I am very proud to continue our new feature (look for this every Friday), music reviews that are written by the senior contributing editor of Stereophile magazine- Michael Fremer. It has been a pleasure to speak with Michael and learn more about audio sound and equipment. In fact, his new [...]
Vinyl records back in vogue in N. America
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
It may surprise some. But vinyl record sales doubled last year compared with 2007.
The tracking company Nielson found that the number of long-play vinyl records sold in North America rose to 1.88 million in 2008, compared with 990,000 the year before.
While vinyl records represent a fraction of total music sales, [...]
You spin me right round
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Bob Stanley explains why he would happily spend £100 on a song he hates - just to get it on the most beautful, tactile format: the 45rpm vinyl single
Bob Stanley The Guardian, Friday 27 March 2009
The 45rpm single, the hard, black centrepiece of the teenage revolution, turns 60 next [...]
This Date In Music History- March 27
Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog
Birthdays:
Tony Banks- Genesis (1951)
Record executive Mo Ostin was born in New York in 1927. The artist-friendly legend ran Reprise with Frank Sinatra, signed Jimi Hendrix, and helped lure R.E.M. to Warner Bros.
Fergie- R&B singer (1975)
Andrew Farriss- keyboards, INXS (1959)
Walter Stocker- Air Supply (1953)
Staind bassist Johnny April (1965)
Mariah Carey (1970)
They Are [...]