I Love Vinyl

Check out our very own The Twilite Tone and I Love Vinyl: On the B-Side as featured in this great video tribute to the borough of Brooklyn by Francesco Paciocco .

More amazing pictures from LP48 at the Brooklyn Museum to share. Two sets from our great photographer, Seher Sikandar . And one from longtime I Love Vinyl extended family member (he may have been the very first photographer to shoot our party back in 2009) Clay Williams aka Utraclay!

This is a picture of the cover of what is considered to be the very first "LP" (long playing) record, as they came to be known, introduced in June of 1948. To celebrate the 65th anniversary of the format, the Brooklyn Museum , in conjunction with I Love Vinyl, is throwing a massive all-vinyl dance party on Thursday June 20 from 7-10pm in the Glass Pavilion. We call it LP48. Sound Liberation Front will provide their incredible "Tower Of Sound" custom-built high-fidelity sound system. The event is all-ages, and FREE (suggested donation). Get there early if you want to get in. As the flyer says, there will also be a Mini Record Fair, with vendors curated by I Love Vinyl, including Turntable Lab , Brooklyn Bowl 's Collect-I-Bowl , and Natasha Diggs ( Mobile Mondays ) representing Brooklyn Flea . Promotional support generously provided by our friends and vinyl community leaders old and new,  Wax Poetics , Dust & Grooves , Vnylst , and Vinylfy .

Another beautiful set of photos, from our last party at the Gallery at LPR, courtesy of our six-sensed photographer Seher Sikandar . It was so dark in the party that she couldn't see anything through the camera. But she pulled it off swimmingly, as you can see. Brings new meaning to shot in the dark...

New episode of I Love Vinyl Radio with special guest Bill Johnson aka DJ Brainchild of Okayplayer is up! Listen above and follow along in words and pictures below. Subjects discussed, and fancy professional radio techniques employed, include dead air, barely audible commentary, Prince obsessions, drugs, hip-house, scientists, and Liberace and Elvis impersonators. You can always listen to all the latest and past episodes on our Radio page, or on Mixcloud . Music we played: Pete Rock & Grand Agent, This Is What They Meant (Instrumental) Sarah Vaughn, Fool On The Hill TY, Let's Start Fertile Ground, Another Day (Povo Jazz Rework) Floating Points, Danger The Brides of Funkenstein, War Ship Touchante Flora Purim, Carry On The Heshoo Beshoo Group, Wait And See Sun Palace, Rude Movements Faith, Freedom Kindred The Family Soul, Rhythm Of Life (King Britt Remix) Isaac Hayes & Dionne Warwick, You Can't Hide Love Charles Earland, Letha Theo...

This Saturday marks four years since the very first I Love Vinyl party at the Gallery at LPR back in 2009, so we are throwing ourselves a Birthday Party, and you are all invited! To make things more festive, we have invited a few talented friends to join us. Natasha Diggs of Mobile Mondays will be joining us on the decks. And Dee Phunk of Rare Form/Donuts Are Forever  joins us as special guest Master of Ceremonies. Four years is a long time in club land these days, so we feel very lucky to still be here. That wouldn't be possible without you, so, THANK YOU! We look forward to showing you our appreciation the best way we know how... See you Saturday!

Another beautiful set of photos of beautiful people by our beautiful photographer, Seher . This was her first time shooting at the 70 N. 6th Street location, and it was a challenge, since the air conditioning wasn't working, and the place was like a sauna! (Sorry about that, by the way. The ac is 100% fixed and ready to go for this Saturday) But Seher and the crowd were great and we had a great sweaty time. Looking forward to another great one this Saturday, with a little less sweat (just the right amount).

Another beautiful set of photos, from our last party, courtesy of our amazing photographer Seher Sikandar .

Another great set of photos from the Gallery at LPR in November. As usual, props to our amazing photographer Seher Sikandar for making all these ugly people look so pretty : )

Awesome photos from the last party at the Gallery at LPR on 9/22/12. Big thanks to our amazing photographer Seher Sikandar !

Here's a snippet of the beautiful track "Lost My Love" from the unreleased Kenny Cox LP "Clap Clap (The Joyful Noise)", which will be the first release on our own DJ Amir's exciting new label, 180 Proof, which will be releasing and reissuing the entire Strata catalog, heard and unheard! To hear the whole thing, check out Gilles Peterson's show from last Saturday. He plays it around 59 minutes into the show. And keep an eye on the 180 Proof SoundCloud page for further snippets and sneak peaks ahead of the first releases, dropping this Winter!

Here's the mix and the Visual Playlist (pictures of almost all the records we played) from the last party at Littlefield. Next Brooklyn party is there on June 16. You can always find more mixes on our MIXES page, and more slideshows on our Flickr .

Part of the 'East Village After Dark' series for the New York Times' Local East Village blog [ eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/]

We are giddy with excitement about this fantastic (and fantastically funny) short video that the gifted and talented Captain Blyth has created for us, just in time to celebrate our 3rd anniversary . We think it's just perfect. Hope you think so too : )

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I Love Vinyl's DJ Amir spins opposite his better half, DJ Reborn, at this monthly sonic love-in, 2nd Thursdays at Sutra in NYC.