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 .

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 .

Just updated the mixes page to include the most recent parties. Every party since October 2012 is now up for your listening (and free downloading) pleasure. Enjoy!

Due to the unfortunate closing of our beloved brooklyn home, Southpaw, we will be floating around for the next few months before we settle down at one spot. Come check us out next month at Littlefield (just three little blocks from Southpaw), and the following month at Cameo in Williamsburg (both great venues), and let us know where you like best!

Been holding these back because of some technical issues getting the recordings of the live mixes up for you to stream. We like to put them up together so you can listen and flip through the covers at the same time. Working on it. In the meantime, you can flip to the mix in your head. Also included a visual top 10 to play of 2012 list from Scribe. And here's OP!'s top 10 from 2012: 1. Marilyn - Floating Points (Eglo) 2. Rolling In The Deep (Jamie XX Shuffle) - Adele (XL Recordings) 3. Far Nearer - Jamie XX (Numbers) 4. Dancing - Omar & Zeb Bias (Tru Thoughts) 5. Special (ATJAZZ Remix)  - Maddslinky feat. Omar (Tru Thoughts) 6. Bloodfire vs. LTD - Daz-I-Kue (Bloodfire) 7. Who Is He (TSS TSS Remix) - Bill Withers (GAMM) 8. Gardens Of Eden ft. Zonke - Black Coffee (GoGo Music) 9. Pharaohs - SBTRKT (Young Turks) 10. Tell Me (George Fitzgerald Remix) - Amel Larrieux (White Label)

This Saturday kicks off a series of free daytime events featuring the I Love Vinyl Dream Team djs at Brooklyn Beats, a collaboration between Brooklyn Bodega, the hosts of the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, and legendary hip-hop record shop and label Fat Beats, which consists of a bar and record store at the the new Dekalb Market.

Photos courtesy of Clay Williams

We were very pleasantly surprised and honored to win the first ever Bodega Award for Best Event Series from Brooklyn Bodega, and the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival! Southpaw also won for Best Brooklyn Venue!