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WHAT HAPPENS AFTER PETE TOWNSHEND SMASHES HIS GUITAR AT A 1968 WHO CONCERT 10/21/2015
It was the summer of 1968 and Vance Rabius walked into the Jenkins Music Store in downtown Kansas City to purchase tickets for an upcoming Quicksilver Messenger Service concert. While standing in line, he watched an employee put up a poster advertising a new show: The Who at the Municipal Auditorium on Thursday, August 22nd.
WHAT RECORDS ARE WE LOOKING TO BUY? 07/21/2014
Records have been around for a long time now and it’s still a big, wide world of records out there, so that is a tough question. There is no definitive, black-and-white, one-size-fits-all answer because the vinyl market is so varied and changes constantly. There are TONS of records out there that we would love to buy, but there are plenty more that we are not interested in. That's just the way it is.
A SURVIVAL TALE: SILVER LAKE'S ROCKAWAY RECORDS 09/05/2012
Pop & Hiss contributor Randy Lewis has a story in today's Business section on Silver Lake's Rockaway Records, chronicling how the indie shop has survived the CD downtown, as well as the arrival of Amoeba Records. Below is an excerpt.