Frigid Records at Magic City Motor Scooters – acnatta/Flickr
The independent music store scene gained a new entrant officially last weekend. Frigid Records set up their first physical location inside of Magic City Motor Scooters last week. Owners Ryan and Erin James plan to be there on Saturdays from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. to sell new and used vinyl and CDs. They also plan to take the store to local music events.
According to their entry on Bhamwiki, they plan to eventually open their own storefront.
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Tagged AL, alabama, birmingham, CDs, Frigid Records, information, Magic City Motoro Scooters, music, opening, Records
If you hadn’t heard yet, one of the best bands in Birmingham, Vulture Whale, has dropped their new CD today. They’ve been great friends to this site, going so far as to perform at our first ever Terminal Concert last summer, something that we will forever be thankful for. We hope that you’ll show them and local label Skybucket Records some love in the coming days by checking out the effort.
Tomorrow we’ll turn on the link to purchase this piece online, but we thought we’d take an opportunity to encourage you to take a trip to one of our local record stores so you could show them some love. So don’t forget that you can pick up the new effort, Vulture Whale, at local record stores like Renaissance Records and Charlemagne Record Exchange, both in Five Points South. If you need some more convincing, you can either download the track Sugar at their website, play the video for the song in our sidebar as the “video of the week” returns to Timetable or press the play button below and check out another track from the release, Tote it to Cleveland, AL.
[audio:http://bhamterminal.com/audio/07totetocleveland.mp3]Enjoy!
BTW: Their CD release party is scheduled for Valentine’s Day (2.14.2009), starting at 9 p.m. Check it out!
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Tagged alabama, birmingham, Five Points South, free download, new album, Records, Skybucket, Tote it to Cleveland, track, vulture whale
I was talking with our friend Ken Webb of Urban Fabric last night and he’s got a lot going on right now! Starting this weekend, Urban Fabric with Ken Webb will be on the air on Live 100.5 FM Saturday Nights from 10:30 p.m. – 1:30 a.m. Some of you may remember Ken’s old show The Underground X-Press hosted with DJ Beethoven (he was DJ Beethoven) that aired on WRAX (The X) in 1996 & 1997.
Ken shared with us that “this time around the format will be a broader range of sounds all based on dance music from around the world. Indie, House, Electro, Dubstep, Fidget etc.”
If you’re wondering what he’s been doing since, this should tell you; his remix of the Chemical Brothers – Galvanize (Urban Fabric’s Don’t Hold Back Remix) was among the top 5 most popular last week on Hype Machine.
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Tagged alabama, birmingham, DJ, Ken Webb, Live 100.5, new, new radio show, radio, remix, Urban Fabric, wrax
One of the coolest things to do around Christmas here in Birmingham is to visit the Arlington House on Cotton Avenue on the Birmingham’s West Side. The house is a Greek Revival style Antebellum era mansion currently owned and operated by the City of Birmingham. The house and its beautiful grounds were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Each year the Arlington house hosts a Christmas tour day where you and your family can tour the house and enjoy free hors d’oeuvres and hot cider in the tea room while watching old school Christmas entertainment and music. This year the entertainment was a trio of harmonica players. These guys played some great traditional pop standards and Christmas songs as a myriad of guests looked on. NOTE: Check out the rest of the images in The Gallery to see for yourself.
After that you can self tour the grounds and there are a few local historians ready to give you details about the rich history of the house and of the Elyton area.
Arlington has a gift shop and also accepts donations all of which go towards the upkeep of the property as well as hosting free events like this one (that are open to the public).
If you can’t make it this year, be sure to put in on your calendar for next year. It’s well worth it to see some of Birmingham’s history preserved here.
Photos: Josh Self/Flickr
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Tagged 2008, Arlington, birmingham, Christmas, gallery, historic, photography
So while we’d like to be giving away tickets to this weekend’s 2nd anniversary show at The Bottletree, we can’t. But we can give away five (5) pairs of tickets to next weekend’s The Duke Spirit show at The Bottletree instead!
For those not familiar with the UK-based band, they’ve opened for REM and are currently on tour with the Eagles of Metal Death – but they’ll be headling on the 28th (Black Friday) with Eulogies and The Black Fortys opening for them at the popular music venue.
Special thanks to the folks at Shangri La Music for helping us out with this giveway. For a chance to win, use our trusty contest entry form below and then wait until Monday at 3 p.m., when we’ll pick the winners.
BTW, in case you are not able to win one of the pairs here, we’re not the only ones with free tickets to the show…
Good luck!
Photo: courtesy of Shangri La Music
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Tagged birmingham, duke spirit, entry form, giveaway, shangri la music, The Bottletree, ticket
So, I was lucky enough to meet an adolescent obsession of mine this past week: Chris Ward IV, better known as mc chris. Known for his high-pitched voice and recurring characters on Space Ghost, The Brak Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021, he made a rare appearance in the Heart of Dixie on his headlining tour.
A surprisingly quiet guy, but who can blame him after a friend of mine commented that “maybe he’s just tired of words after using 75,000 of them in every song”? We talked about his recent stint on the Warped Tour and his upcoming projects with Williams Street Productions (the folks responsible for bringing you some of your favorite programming on Cartoon Network). One of which is a feature film and another a cartoon series dedicated solely to mc chris imagery and the misadventures of his character.
All this goes to say that the NYU screenwriting grad and cartoon animator has now officially crossed over into a world where he has legions of hyperloyal fans and one of the best TV networks essentially under his thumb.
Check out his music, blog and updates on his insanely productive schedule on his website.
Sad to say, my plans include telling you good folks bye-bye. This is your last “Got plans?” column from yours truly. And it’s not going to be a very good one – in the next 30 minutes I’ve got to finish hemming my son’s costume, go buy a fruit tray for his classroom Halloween party and figure out how to make tissue-paper ghosts, my craft contribution to the party. Yep, my time management skills are out of control. Something had to go so this will be short and sweet.
If you missed the October 2nd preview and inaugural episode of APT’s new live music show We Have Signal, you’re in luck. Tonight (10.16) is the first episode to feature never before seen recordings of bands who have played Bottletree.
The show airs two 30 minute segments back to back and so tonight’s first band up will be Chicago melodic princes Pelican at 10 p.m. (which I highly recommend; I could listen to these guys and their seemingly endless number of guitars for hours) and later at 10:30, The Weakerthans (for fans of Ted Leo, Propagandhi and Jets to Brazil).
There are some things the APT crew want you guys to know (after the jump): Continue reading
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Tagged AL, aptv, birmingham, Bottletree, broadcast, j. and matt whitson, live music, music, October schedule, pelican, public television, we have signal, weakerthans
Hi guys! This is Whitney making a valiant post-cold effort to bring news of good music.
Wednesday night, I checked out the Cordero/13ghosts show at Bottletree. May I say one thing? ADORABLE! I’ve never really been a fan of much Spanish-centric music, but singer/songwriter Ani Cordero and her band of indie veterans (from Calexico and Rock*A*Teens) endeared me. Check them out on their website and pick up their new album, De Donde Eres.
As for 13ghosts, they never disappoint and I’m a big fan. They’re signed to Skybucket Records, so I expect nothing less with all the stuff Travis Morgan has got going on lately. Be sure to check out the nterview I did with Brad Armstrong of 13ghosts back in August.
Here’s a few shots courtesy of George Atkinson:
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So, what’s on the agenda music-wise this weekend?
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Tagged AL, alabama, birmingham, information, music, review, suggestions, venues
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