Spring 2011 Record Store Round Up
Don’t forget that April 16 is Record Store Day!
Text and images by Lauren Arute.
When you enter Tequila Sunrise, chances are you’ll find owner Anthony Vogdes with his dog, Penny.
Vodges says you’ll also find organization and good, courteous service at the vinyl- only shop. He will even mail customers their records after making an in-store purchase if they don’t feel like lugging them around with them.
The genres in Tequila Sunrise can be narrowed down to psychedelic rock, dance, and international music.
“Lots of these genres overlap,” Vodges points out.
Vodges explains that the name has nothing to do with the cocktail. Rather, he had a friend who worked with paint and Vodges had a fascination with the paint names. Tequila Sunrise is the name of a color from nearby Benjamin Moore Paints. Read more…
Spring 2011 JUMP Magazine Preview!
The inaugural issue of JUMP: The Philly Music Project is at the printer now and will be on the streets starting March 11.
If you can’t find a copy, shoot us an email. We’ll get you a stack.
What’s in the mag? Colin Kerrigan profiles our cover boys, Sun Airway (left). G.W. Miller III learns about the evolution of Freeway, who has the back cover (below).
“You have to go through everything you go through in order to be a man,” says Freeway, the former Roc-A-Fella artist who now rolls indie-style. “I had to go through what I had to go through to know what I know now.”
Among the people covered inside the mag are indie chanteuse Kate Foust, jazz pianist Orrin Evans, DJ Cosmo Baker, Lupe Fiasco, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roots, dance machine JJ Tiziou and many, many others.
Included in the issue are stories from our content partners at Rhyme Street, two.one.five magazine and punk zine Modern Bropar.
Stay tuned for details about the launch parties, contests and other ways for you to get involved with our project.
As always, let us know what you think.
Can You Experience Philly Music? We Did, For 31 Straight Days. We Dare You To Try It.
AS A PREVIEW for our March launch, we collaborated on a story with the Philadelphia Daily News.
For 31 straight days, we experienced a music-related event in the city. Think you can do something similar? Email us. We’ll run your story and images.
Here’s the story that ran in the Daily News:
I WASN’T SURE it was possible to have a different musical experience in the city every day for an entire month.
I thought I’d wind up at the same handful of places night after night, listening to generic rock ‘n’ roll. Or worse, I thought that there would be days when the city was quiet – when no live shows were happening, no deejays were spinning and no music lovers were partying.
I was wrong. Way wrong.
Over 31 consecutive days, starting on New Year’s Day, I listened to Brazilian beats, smooth jazz, guttural hardcore, gospel, freestyle rapping, reggae, house music, bossa nova, lo-fi punk, classical, R&B and so much more.
I went to an illegal warehouse party, watched the Philadelphia Orchestra play at Martin Luther King High School, danced to country music at a gay bar and listened as a new band rehearsed in the studio in preparation for its very first live performance.
Did You See That?
If you were at a show or musical event, and you snapped a picture of some crazy stuff going down, send it to us. We might put it in the mag. And we’ll definitely get it online.
We’re also looking for cool shots of local bands and musicians – on stage, in the studio, at their home, eating at the diner, whatever. Action pics, reaction shots, portraits, abstract, whatever … send them our way. We’ll give you full credit and list your contact info, if you want.
Help us show off the music scene!
What is JUMP? Read the Media Kit.
We are set to launch our print edition in March, and publish four times per year. Learn more about who we are and what we do by clicking on the image at right.
If you want to get involved – as a writer, photographer, videographer, copy editor, fact-checker, whatever – drop us a line at jumpphilly@gmail.com.
We are a total volunteer organization, just a group of folks who love Philly and appreciate the music scene.
If you are interested in advertising in the magazine, we definitely want to hear from you. Contact George Miller at journalismgeorge@gmail.com.
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