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Print ArticleRadio-Active Records' Black Friday Shopping Picks
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| Photo by Monica McGivern |
Black Friday is very nearly upon us, and the venerable Fort Lauderdale music emporium -- now in a convenient, beautiful new location at 845 N. Federal Highway -- is hosting an event. There will be music courtesy of Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers and Humbert, and there will be a wealth of special releases. (We hear Sweat Records has something going on too.) County Grind tracked down Radio-Active's Mikey Ramirez and Richard Vergez to get the dish on their recommended platters for this holiday.
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RIP, Prince's Lotusflow3r (03/29/09 - 10/27/11)
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| Lotusflow3r, we hardly knew ye. |
Two years and seven months after its physical release, available exclusively at Target stores, the backstock of piles and piles of unsold copies is finally exiting the music department, according to Kelvin Mitchell, who works at the store in Miami's Tropicaire Shopping Center.
Earlier today, Mitchell (who also plays bass for area darkwave outfit Möthersky) posted a photo of the boxes of unsold copies of Lotusflow3r set to make their journey out of Target stores as part of the store's quarterly inventory scan. "It's been a long-running joke with all of the employees here," he says. "There would always be new release inventory to send back, but the Prince album was always a mainstay. Today we scanned it, and finally it told us to send them all back."
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Radio-Active Records' Grand Opening Bash: Little Beard, Luma Junger, and Möthersky
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The daylong, blowout bash with food, live music, and some cold chillin' on Saturday, November 5, will be a righteous introduction to the new space. (It'll also be a test run for the hordes that'll be out for Record Store Day's Black Friday releases on November 25.)
Musical entertainment for the day comes courtesy of Miami's Little Beard and a couple of Death to the Sun III stars, Luma Junger and Möthersky. The latter act includes Radio-Active's own Richard Vergez, who designed the snazzy logo at the right.
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Radio-Active Records Hosting Girls Show (Sorta) on Friday
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Although the concert, which will feature material from the San Francisco band's heralded Father, Son, Holy Ghost, technically takes place 900 miles away at Grimey's in Nashville, a special Girls Across America event hosted by many of the finest independent record retailers will pipe Girls into anywhere that has an internet connection. A complete listing of the participating stores is here.
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Radio-Active Records Stars in Kim Drake's "Modest Man" Clip
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| Meta as it gets. |
Miami singer/songwriter Kim Drake uses the vinyl section in the back of the store (that conveniently stocks her CD) as her heart's playground in the video for "Modest Man," the first single from Surrealist's Dream. Filmed by Fernando Perdomo, the bright colors within match the sunny song along the Jenny Lewis route. Things get violent when it comes to a copy of Pet Sounds, though.
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Radio-Active Records Launches Fashionable T-Shirt Line
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| One way to have a twisted Christmas. |
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Retail Fantasy About Kanye West (and Trent Reznor)
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| This album cover is not a 10.0. |
The setup:
No shocker that Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was a top-seller at Radio-Active Records (so was Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine reissue). In addition to Rolling Stone, Spin, and Pitchfork all proclaiming that this album is, like, awesome, the album is actually, like, awesome.
Was Ramirez impressed? Read on.
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Killing Joke Reminds Us That Reunions Don't All Suck
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| Re-formed and pissed as hell. |
The Setup:
Absolute Dissent, Killing Joke's 13th album, finally welcomes the long-awaited return of the original lineup from their formative years of 1979 to 1982. Regrouped after the momentous blow of the death of longtime bassist Paul Raven, Absolute Dissent captures the early postpunk fever combined with the melodic grandeur of their mid-'80s gothic/new wave tenure. Drummer Paul Ferguson, away for more than 26 years, has shown no signs of slowing down as his machine-like precision perfectly complements the dubby low-end of bassist Youth Glover. Guitarist Geordie Walker and lead singer/keyboardist Jaz Coleman have been the Jagger/Richards of this band's output and the only two members to survive every incarnation of the band.
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Glass Vaults Hold Treasures for Radio-Active Records' Patrons
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"This New Zealand duo releases their debut EP of grandoise ambient/orchestral bliss that would make Biosphere & Sigur Ros proud," says Mikey Ramirez, Radio-Active Records' operations manager. "Synths and strings sweep in and out of the tracks while the melodic vocals and drum machines simply add another layer of sound rather than dominating the songs in reverb. Glass is the first release off of the Jukboxr label. The lush soundscapes dominate this 12-inch, pressed on beautiful two-toned vinyl and limited to 500 copies."
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