Saturday FREE SHOW Lake Inferior w/ It Is Rain In My Face

Lake Inferior

It Is Rain In My Face

download a FREE EP by It Is Rain In My Face at vrprsnts.com or just click here

Now Hiring: Vinyl Records Wants You!

Interested in working for Vinyl Records?

Vinyl Records will be hiring for new staff members starting in January.

Keep on the lookout for an application with further details available here beginning January 1, 2010.  Positions we are looking for include (but are not necessarily limited to):

Audio production
Web designer
A&R
Vinyl Records Presents Coordinator
Promotions Coordinator
Photographer
Graphic Designer/Visual Artist
Social Networks and Online Marketing Coordinator

for more information, contact vinylrecordsunc@gmail.com

FREE DOWNLOAD: It Is Rain In My Face EP

Download VR PRSNTS’ latest release, a five song, tumbleweed cowboy infused EP from our good friend It is Rain in My Face here

Its really good, and we wouldn’t lie to you.

IRIMF plays TONIGHT with Real Estate at Local 506. Show starts at 9:30.

VR PRSNTS: It Is Rain In My Face w/ REAL ESTATE Dec 2nd @ Local 506

Download his newest batch of echo-chambered breezy jams at vrprsnts.com beginning TOMORROW (Dec 1)

Its really good.

Lake Inferior Album Release at Local 506 recap

Thanks so much to everyone who made the trek to Local 506 Thursday! Among the night’s three INCREDIBLE bands, the extraterrestrial Acroentertainment crew, the silly string, the balloons, and your soon-to-be cherished copy of Lake Inferior’s newest record “Pegasaur,” we hope you all had as fantastic an evening as we did!

Check out some great photos from the show, featuring all the bands here

Also, peep a Lake Inferior / Vinyl Records interview via Diversions’ video podcast here

For those of you who couldn’t make it out, PEGASAUR is now available for purchase at your favorite triangle area record stores!

Chape Hill – CD ALLEY
Durham – BULL CITY RECORDS & OFFBEAT MUSIC
Raleigh – SCHOOL KIDS RECORDS

ORDER THE ALBUM ONLINE AT http://lakeinferior.bigcartel.com/product/pegasaur-10-to-ship-11-12-09/

Limited copies of the record are still available, so get yours while you can!

If you haven’t done so, grab a FREE DOWNLOAD of the first single “Gepeddo” here: http://www.mediafire.com/?1ijymqoy2qg

Again, LAKE INFERIOR and VINYL RECORDS UNC would like to thank all of you for making last night such an incredible evening. Without you all, we’d be lost in space!

The Eurythmics cover is coming soon!

Soulless Dogs at Jack Sprat–Sat, Nov. 14th

The Soulless Dogs, VR Presents November band, will be playing Saturday at Jack Sprat! Doors open at 9, so come check them out, and head on over to vrprsnts.com for more information and free songs of theirs to listen to and download!

Lake Inferior Album Release Tomorrow! At Local 506 w/ The Honored Guests and Gift Horse

FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE TO LOCAL 506!

Call 919.495.2312 between 8 and 10pm tomorrow (Thursday) and we’ll arrange to ahve you picked up at one of three locations:

1) ATM machines by Davis Library, UNC

2) Caribou Coffee

3) Weaver St Market

Remember, there’s no rain in outer space or inside Local 506!  Show starts with Athens-based Gift Horse at 9pm, followed by The Honored Guests at 10pm.

FREE ALBUM WITH PAID ADMISSION!

Video: My Boy Rascal 9.25.09 at Jack Sprat

For those of you that missed MBR’s 9.25.09 show at Jack Sprat, you missed out on a great performance.  The show featured a handful of new tunes, which are being given the final tweaks in Vinyl Records’ recording studio right now, plus a great Kings of Leon cover, as sung by MBR contributer Colin Iwanski.  All video shot and edited by Tiffany Dixon.

Lake Inferior // Pegasaur 10″ // 11.12.09

click the image above to pre-order Lake Inferior Pegasaur 10” w/ digital download (Street Date: Nov 12, 2009) pre-order here Lake Inferior’s latest release takes listeners aboard the SS Pegasaur for a celestial and psychoactive journey through the nether-regions of outer space.Pegasaur finds the band delving into swells of electric guitars and washed-out synthesizers, filled with burbling poly-rhythmic delight. The record is equal parts swirling dance atmospheres (“Addressing Parents”) and 8-bit Star Fox soundtrack (“Gepeddo”). Limited to 420 copies worldwide, Lake Inferior’s Pegasaur is set to take off in T-minus 11.12.09 seconds. For a promotional copy of the album, please contact vinylrecordsunc@gmail.com Preview “Gepeddo” and “Addressing Parents” at lakeinferior.com Booking / Press / Management Vinyl Records UNC c / o Tripp Gobble vinylrecordsunc@gmail.com

Lexicon @ The Library Oct 10, 9pm

From www.vrprsnts.com:

Lexicon “Undeniable” music video here

South Raleigh born and raised, UNC-Chapel Hill-based rapper Lexiconmeshes southern-fried beats with boastful and overtly sexual lyrics to create over-the-top songs that are as much confessions of carnal frustration and fantasy as they are aggressive, egotistical declarations of his own virtuosity.

Over the course of the past year he has become one of the most, if not simply the most, controversial musicians on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.  With song titles as blatantly suggestive as “F*** Yo Mans” and “Butterscotch,” the controversy surrounding UNC’s most prolific and versatile hip-hop act is certainly warranted. However, Lexicon claims that the content of his songs does not stray from the now-seemingly innocuous R&B and Rock & Roll hits of the 1950s. When defending his explicit works it’s simple: Lex references Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley, proclaiming, “They talked about sex—why can’t I?”

And why can’t he? In the present day, college rappers are unfairly pigeonholed into insincere social consciousness and pseudo-intellectualism, and the artist who doesn’t fit the mold is automatically labeled a “wannabe mainstreamer.” Lexicon vehemently challenges this bias, and his success has been striking.

Having already headlined at Chapel Hill’s renownedLocal 506 (a feat virtually unheard of for a UNC rapper), as well performing Main Stage at UNC’s Fall Fest (an annual event attended by thousands of undergraduates), Lex has built a strong following both inside and outside the University community.

Considering his ever-increasing momentum and popularity, Vinyl Records would like to give you a chance to revisit some of Lexicon’s best work from the past year in VR Presents: “Lexicon: The Classics”. The four songs compiled here first appeared on Lexicon’s mixtapes, Edna, and I Am NC, but have been reworked in a way that truly shows the artist coming into his own: each is tighter and far sexier than it’s original. This man wants your attention, and he more than deserves it.

So download Lexicon: The Classics, here, and check out his next show at 9pm Saturday, October 10th at The Library, featuring South Park affiliateBang Bang Tang. The show is free for ages 21+.

For more Lexicon, be sure to check out his myspace, and be on the lookout for his new album Nwachukwu due out on itunes in the next few weeks.