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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast is 6 minutes long, was recorded straight onto lathe — in conjunction with Audio Geography and Urban Outfitters — and is kinda crazy. We play the theme live on the physical Side A, while doing a host "meet and greet" and some 6 Degrees of Mark Hoppus on Side B.

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast has us live from SXSW! We, along with special guest Mo Shafeek (Mondo), talk the next 10 years of vinyl, tackling subjects like the listening experience (and levitating turntables), RSD and "Vinyl Town."

The podcast stage was sponsored by TuneIn.

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast is our roundtable discussion on Vagabon's new album, Infinite Worlds. We also introduce a couple new games, including "Emo Album or Teen Drama" and "Label Trades."

Timeline

8:04, Emo Album or Teen Drama

10:35, Side A: Vagabon Roundtable/Opening Thoughts

13:40, Building an identity

21:28, Favorite Tracks

31:10, Skips

40:00, “Alive and A Well”

44:46, Final thoughts

48:25, Side B: Label Trades

 

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast features our chat with Jon Gibson, co-owner of iam8bit. Releasing soundtracks from video games, movies and now, TV shows, you'll know them from releases of the "Uncharted," "No Man's Sky," "Journey" and "Swiss Army Man" music.

Timeline

3:33, Vinyl origin story

12:00, The video game composer

19:35, The iam8bit discography

28:50, The long pre-orders

35:15, Sound quality

41:20, Re-recording the “Zelda” score

46:02, Individual Releases

48:29, Quickfire

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast has us giving a "2nd Chance Spin" to the Fall Out Boy full length, "Folie à Deux." On Side B, we discuss who would make for good Super Bowl halftime artists.

 

Timeline

3:48, Hot Follow

5:54, 2nd Chance Spin

Fall Out Boy

7:06, Reviews/Intro

16:17, Momentum/Theme

22:22, “I Don’t Care”

27:47, “The (Shipped) Gold Standard”

39:04, The Back Half

49:17, Cutting this album down

53:30, Rank ‘Em — Fall Out Boy

56:18, Side B: Dream Super Bowl Artists

1:05:44, Recommendations

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast features our roundtable discussion of the new record from Sinai Vessel, Brokenlegged. On Side B, we discuss our 2017 Music Resolutions.

Timeline

3:18, Hot Follow

9:10, Rank ‘Em

12:58, Side A: Sinai Vessel Roundtable

30:10, The religious connection

34:46, Suburban music in Trump’s world

41:38, Hearing breakup songs

55:20, Side B: 2017 Music Resolutions

1:10:20, Recommendations

Music

Music this episode is from Sinai Vessel's full length album, Brokenlegged. Grab the vinyl over at Tiny Engines.

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast is our live episode from Pinwheel Records in Chicago. Here, we count down our top 10 music movies of all time (narratives, not musicals or documentaries). A big thanks to Pinwheel Records for hosting us.

 Timeline

8:08, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

9:11, I’m Not There

11:40, School of Rock

13:47, That Thing You Do!

15:40, Frank

21:30, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

26:48, Straight Outta Compton

33:13, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

38:41, Inside Llewyn Davis

44:40, Sing Street

50:21, This Is Spinal Tap

55:50, Purple Rain

1:04:10, Once

1:09:58, A Hard Day’s Night

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast is our conversation with Mohammed Taher, founder and label head over at Brave Wave. They recently reissued the soundtrack to Street Fighter II on vinyl, while they're now preparing a big Ninja Gaiden reissue. We talk about the less heralded, yet more ambitious side of their label (composer originals), how one becomes a big video game music fan, along with the label's relationship with Keiji Yamagishi (Tecmo Bowl, Ninja Gaiden, Captain Tsubasa).

Timeline

2:15, Beginning of conversation with Mohammed

Connecting with Keiji Yamagishi/Origins of Label

11:10, The World 1-2 blog and more

14:35, “In Flux”

19:49, Dealing with game media

26:35, Appreciating game music

35:50, Stepping into vinyl, “Street Fighter II”

46:42, Organizing a huge video game soundtrack

57:05, “Ninja Gaiden” and Legal Hurdles

1:08:22, Quickfire

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast is all about Childish Gambino's new record, "Awaken, My Love!". We talk the funk comparisons (or funk rip off), fatherhood and its effect on structure, and some of our favorite songs.

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The newest episode of The Modern Vinyl Podcast talks therapy, discusses how we're compiling year-end lists, and answers what we believe was overrated/underrated for 2016. Aka, it's a feelings episode.

 

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