April 21st is Record Store Day and despite the rants found on this Record Store Day article, Black Gold will participate by offering a selection of exclusives from some of our favorite bands and labels. More details and specials to follow. Stay Tuned.
Our 3rd Annual GOLD DIG is coming up! We will be set up on Sunday, May 6th at 10:00 am sharp. Expect thousands of LPs and 12″s all at $1.00 each. From soul to funk, rock, jazz, soundtracks, classical, blues, reggae, disco, dance, reggae, punk, metal, and more – all at $1.00 each. We’ll be stocking the store with fresh regularly priced items as well and serving iced coffee outside!
This Monday, April 2nd Join us at Black Gold at 7pm for a great reading with two radical writers.
Mickey Hess, Associate Professor of English at Rider University, will read from his new book The Novelist & the Rapper, a collection of hip-hop themed stories and essays, many of which pair a Nobel laureate with a rap star, like De La Soul and William Faulkner, or Isaac Bashevis Singer and Digital Underground.
Al Burian is the author of the long-running personal zine Burn Collector. His work
has garnered praise from such legitimate institutions as the Utne Reader and
McSweeneys Best Nonrequired Reading. Beginning in the mid-nineties, Burian
has distributed his work through the tight-knit network of the DIY punk music/art
scene. He has published 16 issues of the zine, two anthologies, and a book of
comics. He has been doing reading/speaking performances since the year 2000.
Burn Collector #16 (April 2012) is sub-titled “Music and Mania,” and examines
the intersection between creativity and losing your marbles. Street musicians,
arena rock, classical vs. computers, Little Richard vs. Elvis, and a wide variety
of other topics are discussed as Burian contends that “the modern musician is
essentially a maniac, living on a delusional dream, whose basic project– putting
forth a unique voice into the general din and calamity of the oversaturated
information age– has so little chance of success as to make it an act of ultimate,
incredible optimism.” The zine contains comics, essays, reviews, and interviews
with musician Tim Remis and radical mental health activist Sascha DuBrul.
Born 1971 in New Hampshire (state motto: “live free or die”); grew up in North
Carolina (state motto: “to be and not to seem”); was an iconoclastic character
at an early age. In his early twenties he began touring incessantly with bands,
simultaneously producing small-run photocopied pamphlets (“zines”). He has
published two collections of his zine output, Burn Collector (2000) and Natural
Disaster (2007), as well as a book of comics, Things Are Meaning Less (2003).
He lives in Berlin.
http://www.alburian.com/
http://www.mickeyhess.com/
NYC Punk and Hardcore LP and 45 collection came in. A nice collection of these along with some other regional and non-regional punk/hardcore/thrash LPs and 7″s are getting priced now. We’ve never seen a few of these in all our travels. Come grab them while they last.
NY Magazine voted us Best Record Shop NYC for 2012. An incredible honor!
Here’s a an article on the 2012 format battle Vinyl Vs. MP3. Share your thoughts!
