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Friday, September 22nd in Uncategorized, LP, Record Want Lists, Trading | 8 comments
This is the spot to post your want lists. If you can fill any of the requests posted shoot an e-mail to the person and work out a fair trade. Cousins Vinyl will not be held responsible for any cheaters or liars.
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Thursday, July 31st
Working and busy like crazy. Lots new records, lots coming up, and lots up right now. I was thinking about scanning in these old articles I have from about 30 old Ann Arbor Sun newspapers I just bought. There’s all kinds of cool stuff in there, from John Sinclair interviews, to old album and show […]
Saturday, July 26th
up for auction right now…I love this song…more on it later…Detroit label Big Hit…. Highway Blues:
Thursday, July 24th
I called up Encore today. I talked to the owner about referring him some business on an appraisal I was working on. I introduced myself as saying, “Hi, this is Geoff from Cousins Vinyl…” His response was, “Oh yeah, I know you, you’re out on Eckles Road in the middle of nowhere, right?” I thought this […]
Friday, July 18th
Best known for the smash track 96 Tears, ? and The Mysterians’ LP, 96 Tears, is more than just the hit song. This is straight up classic 60s Detroit garage, complete with 15 year old Mexican organ sensation Freddie Rodriguez. Freddie’s organ strokes may have been best known for the hook in 96 Tears, but he also tore […]
Tuesday, July 15th
The psych LPs are ending today. Tomorrow the older jazz LPs end. After that, there’s a nice batch of jazz fusion still on the board. Better hurry! Coming up is a super sweet 70s funk collection, and a northern soul 45 collection. On a side note, check out these great 45 turntable adapters from 45 Central. These guys are customers of ours and […]
Friday, July 11th
by Cousin Geoff I’m rolling out a new feature here on Cousins Vinyl. It’s called “Guess That Sample”. It’s really a shame that sampling is pretty much outlawed now in hip-hop; it’s killing the genre. Sampling is what the art is based on - not only is it a tribute to the funk and jazz that came before […]
Wednesday, July 2nd
By Max Conroy Living in Ann Arbor, it’s strange to have to purchase a European import that compiles a bunch of records recorded here, but I’m glad it’s available at all. The name of the label, A-Square, is a nickname for the city of Ann Arbor. It was created by Jeep Holland, a compulsive music and comic collector, DJ, […]
Monday, June 30th
Been busy buying record collections. I’ll be bringing in a few thousand records to the shop in the next few days. So we’re swamped, but a lot of good stuff will be listed soon. What else is happening? Max interviewed Scott Morgan last week, like three hours worth of stuff. He was excited and I can’t wait […]
Tuesday, June 24th
Just bought a great collection (400 or so) of mid to late 60s to early 70s rock, mostly psych. Stuff like Music Machine, Fat Mattress, Revolution, Funkadelic’s self titled, complete Beatles including Introducing, the Rolling Stones first press England’s Newest Hitmakers, ? and The Mysterians, Sunday Funnies, early Beach Boys, A Time Is Near, early […]
Friday, June 20th
By Max Conroy There are several definitions of the word scrummage. It is synonymous to a rugby play called a ’scrum’, but also means ‘a general row or confused fight or struggle’. A scrum can also, according to the Brits, mean ‘a place or situation of confusion and racket; hubbub’, which seems like the closest definition to the […]
Wednesday, June 18th
By Cousin Justin One of the most exciting things about selling records has been selling obscure music to the people originally involved. Recently we sold this 45 to original The Novelty drummer Chip Pace. When he brought this fact up to me I asked if he could tell me what he remembers from the sessions and he gave […]
Tuesday, June 17th
By Max Conroy The enigmatic and visionary electronic ‘band’ The Silver Apples will perform tomorrow night at Scrummage University. I don’t know anything about the venue and was handed a flyer for the show, which is a photocopy of a primitive pen and ink drawing, by a group of teenagers that I befriended at the Jandek performance […]
Saturday, June 14th
by Cousin Geoff Justin just launched a killer batch of old school rap, including a ton of rare local stuff. But the record that caught my eye was Disco D, A Night At The Booty Bar EP. Disco D, real name Dave Shayman, grew up in Ann Arbor, like me, and attended Pioneer High School. A lot of […]
Friday, June 13th
by Cousin Geoff I picked up the latest issue of Waxpoetics today, came home and read it pretty much cover to cover, so I was in a different sort of frame of mind tonight. Reading that makes you want to reach a little further. Suddenly, the common stuff doesn’t sound appealing at all. Not really even […]
Friday, June 13th
By Max Conroy On Wednesday night, Donita Sparks and her band the Stellar Moments performed at the Magic Stick. They were great. Unfortunately, there had to have been less than fifty people there, even thought it was a featured event in most Detroit entertainment papers. It’s a bummer, but those are the breaks; hopefully the turnout […]
Tuesday, June 10th
By Max Conroy The Raconteurs played Saturday night at the Fillmore Detroit with the Atlanta-based garage punk revivalists the Black Lips. All 2900 seats were accounted for, but the place didn’t seem overly packed at all. This would probably have been a concert that I wouldn’t have thought twice about, seeing the ad in the paper or […]
Monday, June 9th
By Cousin Geoff Aaron Timlin, executive director of CAID, is planning a 192 hour dance-in to protest the unnecessary force Detroit Police used to break up a recent after-hours funk dance party. John Sinclair would be proud. A dance protest seems like no big deal, except that the Detroit Police told them that they needed a permit to dance, and this […]
Monday, June 9th
By Max Conroy It’s finally summer here in Michigan, the sweat pouring down my back as I type this in a coffee shop, is proof. The air is thick, it’s hot as hell and there are tons of music-related events going on in the area; I’ll try and keep all of you hipped to what should be […]
Friday, June 6th
One of our customers, diditrepel, bought the Marcus Joseph, Things I Meant To Say album and sent us a review. We both thought it was great, so we thought we’d publish it on the front page of the blog. If anyone else would like to have a review published, please see our contact page. Thanks again […]
Wednesday, June 4th
by Cousin Geoff New Orleans funk star Eddie Bo says: “Hook it baby! Now sling it! Ha! Good God! Whooo-weeee!” This 1969 funk hit on the tiny Scram record label is one of the only ones by local legend Eddie Bo to crack the national charts. I’m guessing that when Eddie barked out these orders live, people […]
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