Loved our exhibition at the Cultivate Gallery on Vyner Street? Check out the Art on Record exhibition currently on show. 

Best Art Vinyl favourites Animal Collective have revealed that their new studio album will be titled Centipede Hz.

The Baltimore electro-psychedelic band will release the album, which is the 10th LP of their career, in September via Domino Records.

The band made the announcement via a video on their official website, which revealed the record’s title, a September release and a number of song titles. Songs set to feature on Centipede Hz include ‘Moonjock’, ‘Today’s Supernatural’, ‘Rosie Oh’, ‘Applesauce’, ‘Wide Eyed’, ‘Father Time’, ‘New Town Burnout’, ‘Monkey Riches’, ‘Mercury Man’, ‘Pulleys’ and ‘Amanita’. 

Animal Collective will precede the release of their new album with a two-track single next month. The tracks, which are titled ‘Gotham’ and ‘Honeycomb’, will be released on June 26 via digital download and on 7” vinyl. Centipede Hz is the band’s first full-length studio album since their 2009 effort Merriweather Post Pavillion and follows the release in 2010 of the band’s “visual album” ODDSAC.

Keep your eyes peeled for cover artwork updates, we can’t wait to see what Animal Collective have in store for 2012!

 

College kids in Pasadena, California perform incredible stunts with old vinyl records!

A group of college students in Pasadena, Calif., have found a new use for old vinyl records: As the basis for incredible stunts.

Recently, the guys came across about 400 vinyl records and, looking for kicks, decided to put the albums on a nearby turntable — but not in the conventional manner. Instead, they tossed the records out of second story windows onto the record player or kicked them martial arts-style on to the turntable, according to Jason Richardson.

“We were just hanging out with this big box of records we got at a garage sale and decided to see if we could toss them onto the turntable,” Richardson told The Huffington Post. “Soon as we realized we could make it, we started filming.”

Richardson and his pals Reef Coleman, Tony Jien, Mike Jackson and Mike Wofford spent about 18 hours tossing, throwing, and kicking the vinyl albums - most of which were for gospel acts - in order to get enough clips for a YouTube clip they hope will attain viral infamy.

In the process, they learned a lot more than they expected, especially Coleman, who hopes to become a maths teacher.

“Tossing the records onto the turntable required probability more than geometry,” he explained. “We broke a lot at first. We also learned that if you toss one high enough into the air, it will sink into the grass.”

Will the guys attempt to reproduce their incredible feats? Probably not.

“We were burned out from doing it all day,” Richardson confessed.

Coleman concurred.

“My girlfriend was gone for the weekend and I was bored,” he laughed. “That’s what started this.”

The wonderful bar and music venue The Lexington on Pentonville Road is holding a Rock’n’Roll Jumble Sale, today from 1pm - 5pm, selling a collection of vintage clothes, records, DVDs, jewellery, bric-a-brac, furniture, books, strange things and more. 

It’s free entry so if you’re stuck for something to do today, then head on down and stay for a whiskey or two! There’s also a great gig on from 8pm… it’d be foolish not to!

Designer Michael Hansen has reimagined the vinyl medium by printing special vinyl that’s covered in patterns. When the printed record spins, an LED strobe fires, creating a hypnotic effect that sits somewhere between a phenakistoscope and a clothes dryer.

Longtime vintage champion and vinyl aficionado Wayne Hemingway shares his “passion for black plastic.” 

After finding more than 8,000 records and some vintage beat tapes in an abandoned storage unit, the owner of UHF Records reportedly uncovered the personal record collection of late hip-hop producer and icon J. Dilla … and has put the vinyl up for sale.

Read the full article here.