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Written by Parisa  In honor of spooky season, we bring you a double header Vinyl Vault featuring the grandmaster of all things horror...Vincent Price! Listen along as we learn about the spellbinding history of witchcraft in the 1969 LP 'An Adventure In Demonology', and cook up some devilish delights from the 1977 'Vincent Price International Cooking Course'. And as an added treat, we’re also diggin' into a rare bluegrass record from the mysterious Upper Hamilton Grave Diggers' Undertaking Bluegrass. Readers beware...MUwhAHhahHA!
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Written by Parisa  The Vinyl Vault series is back! In this very special edition of the blog, we’ll be presenting the ULTIMATE SMACKDOWN of bootleg budget Beatles bands! We’ll be ranking and reviewing the wonderful, whimsical, obscure and bizzaro world of ‘60s bargain-bin record labels and their “soundalike” bands to determine which group is the MOST MEDIOCRE of them all!! Will The Buggs make you ‘Do the Beetle’? Or perhaps the Beatle Buddies will have you singing the ‘Beatle Beat’? Join your host Parisa as she shares so much (too much?) about these charmingly off putting records and discovers fun factoids about budget label bands along the way. There'll be unexpected twists, turns and you just may stumble across a few genuinely good songs along the way. It’ll be the best of times, and the blurst of times.
 While the late '90s electronica boom saw artists breaking modern rock radio, experimental duo Funkstörung "thumbed their noses at convention and elevated the groundbreaking achievements of predecessors like John Cage and Christian Marclay." For the sixteenth installment of the Vinyl Vault series, we spoke with Kurt B. Reighley (aka DJ El Toro) on Funkstörung's experimental dance remixes and unconventional record packaging.
 '80s Cleveland hardcore band The Guns never got their due respect until a recent compilation release on Smog Veil Records. This discography, however, serves a purpose beyond a mere document of preservation. "It's a definitive record of what laid the groundwork for what became the Clevo hardcore, punk and metal scenes that showed me how I could take control of my own life." In this Vinyl Vault, A. Iwasa talks The Guns, Cleveland's hardcore scene and more.
 For Red Spade Records founder Robyn Raymond, vinyl is all about the community. "I love how vinyl crisscrosses the world so effortlessly, and brings a whole bunch of people together [that] I wouldn't have had the occasion to meet otherwise." Through her lathe cutting work and co-hosting the Women in Vinyl podcast, Robyn's mission has been to engage with the community to create a more inclusive space for women and non-binary record lovers. For this entry in the Vinyl Vault, we talked with Robyn about the her lathe work and a favorite record in her collection from a fellow Canadian, City in Colour.
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