Origami Vinyl to Host Record Club, Beginning Tonight at El Prado in Echo Park!!!

Hello Friends!

Starting tonight and continuing every Tuesday hereafter, Origami Vinyl will host Record Club at El Prado in Echo Park. Record Club started as an intimate gathering of friends at their humble abodes in Echo Park and Silverlake, where each person invited (generally around 8) would bring 2 songs to play for everyone. The night would conclude with the host making a mix of all the songs played and handing them out to the participants. We all found it to be such a rewarding experience of new music and social interaction that we wanted to bring it out into the public. The new format is a bit different but just as rewarding and is as follows:

- Each Tuesday, we invite 8 people to sign up to participate in Record Club...It's first come, first serve so get there early!!
- Record Club begins at 9pm roughly and ends around 1am.
- Each person will have a full side of their record played. A side or B side is fine...your choice!
- We like to tweet each contribution and hopefully get a little insight into why people brought each particular record.
- Each participant is rewarded a free beer on us for taking part.

If you would like to participate in future record clubs, please come tonight and we will put you on our list, or visit us at the shop.

Here are the details for Record Club

Origami Vinyl hosts Record Club
Every Tuesday night at 9pm to 1am
@ El Prado 1805 W. Sunset Blvd in Echo Park across the street from Origami Vinyl

Hope to see you tonight!

Say Hi In-Store Performance Wed at 7pm

Heeeeeeeeeyyyyyy People! It's time again for another great in-store presented to you by Origami Vinyl.

This Wednesday, May 13th @ 7pm we bring you Say Hi playing songs from their latest 'Oohs & Aahs' out now on Barsuk.

We will also have Tecates on hand for the parched of mouth.

Alela Diane & her guitar

Alela Diane paid us a visit on Saturday to sing us a set and debut her new pixie cut! Well, it was more the former than the latter but both made a really good impression.


She walked in with her guitar and her dad, and proceeded to fill our small space with music as equally charming as her face. Nothing about Alela Diane seems the least bit unnatural and her voice was so rich and smooth... like a satisfying cup o' joe for my ears. And that'd probably be a nice afternoon decaf - more soothing midday warmth than morning caffeine rush.




Needless to say, she totally made our day and we've got her newly released album, To Be Still, in stock now. Check out Alela's MySpace for a little taste and come see us for your own copy of the freshly brewed afternoon delight!

Alela Diane In-Store Performance Today @ 4PM!!!

Don't forget to come by Origami Vinyl today for a free in-store performance from Rough Trade recording artist Alela Diane!!!

We will have some Tecates if you are thirsty.

New Adds & Restocks 5/8/09

Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Karate - In the Fishtank 12
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
Iron And Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Mogwai - The Batcat EP
Antony & The Johnsons - Another World
Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
The Kills – Midnight Boom
The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust
The Warlocks – Heavy Deavy Skull Lover
Cass McCombs – Dropping The Writ
Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains The Same
Hayden – Skyscraper National Park
My Morning Jacket – Chocolate
My Morning Jacket – Z
Swell – Whenever You’re Ready
The Starvations – Get Well Soon
V/A – Dynamite With A Laserbeam: Queen As Heard Through The Meatgrinder Of ThreeOneG
Denison Witmer – Carry The Weight
Jaga Jazzist – Animal Chin EP
Lilys – Selected
K.U.K.L. – The Eye
Talkdemonic – Eyes At Half Mast
Eli “Paperboy” Reed – Roll With You
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Bringing It All Back Home – Again

New Adds and Restocks 5/7/09

Minutemen - The Politics of Time
Bad Brains - I Against I
The Stooges - S/T
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - King & Queen
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
The Sonics - Introducing The Sonics
The Fallen Angels - Who Do You Love 7"
Iggy & The Stooges - Search And Destroy 7"
Minutemen - Paranoid Time 7"
Friendly Fires - S/T
Fucked Up - No Epiphany 7"
Camera Obscura - French Navy 7"
The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
The Veils - Sun Gangs
Ratatat – Classics
Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08
Scritti Politti – Early
Shearwater - Palo Santo
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
The National – Boxer
The National – Alligator
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now
The Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
Weave! - S/T
Voxtrot - S/T
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
Lavendar Diamond - Imagine Our Love
It Hugs Back - Inside Your Guitar
Holy Fuck – LP
Micachu – Jewellery
Cat Power - You Are Free
Elvis Perkins in Dearland - S/T
The Cave Singers - Invitations Songs
Alela Diane - To Be Still
Brightblack Morning Light - S/T
Belle and Sebastian - The BBC Sessions
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Talking Heads – 77
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
Misfits - Walk Among Us
John Coltrane - Giant Steps 45 RPM 2xLP Set
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
The Black Keys - Magic Potion
Prince - Purple Rain
Eva Cassidy – Songbird
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Tom Petty – Wildflowers
Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions The Very Best of
Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Built to Spill - You in Reverse
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
The Parlor Mob - And You Were A Crow
Bee Gees – Odessa
The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly 7"
The Black Keys - Strange Times 7"
Dub Trio - Not Alone (Feat. Mike Patton) 7"
Jeremy Jay – Airwalker 7”
Women – Women
Beat Happening – Jamboree
Beat Happening – Dreamy
Beat Happening – You Turn Me On
Mirah – You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This
Antony & The Johnsons – I Am A Bird
Bobb Trimble – Iron Curtain Innocence
Zero Boys – History Of
Christian Fennesz – June
Stephen O’Malley – Keep An Eye Out
Neptune – Gong Lake
Young Widows – Old Wounds

Alela Diane In-Store Performance This Saturday, May 9th @ 4pm

We are extremely excited to welcome Alela Diane to Origami Vinyl this Saturday, May 9th at 4PM for an intimate acoustic performance in celebration of her new album, "To Be Still" out now on Rough Trade.

To hear more check out Alela's MySpace page.

We'll probably have some Tecates to celebrate with as well!

New Adds and Restocks 5/6/09

Hey Y'all! Here are our new adds and restocks for today

Mahikari - S/T
Wooden Shjips – Dos
Son Cubano NYC - Cuban Roots NYC
Radio City - Class of '77
Crocodiles - Summer of Hate
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Can - Tago Mago
Ween - Pure Guava
Kraftwerk - Electric Café
Weezer - Blue Album
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions
The Specials - Ghost Town
Jesu – Lifeline
Palace Music - Viva Last Blues
Big Star - #1 Record
Ape School - S/T
Thee Oh Sees – Help
Thunderheist - S/T
Pink Mountain - S/T
Wavves – Wavves (2009)
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
Funkadelic - Free Your Mind
Flipper - Album Generic Flipper
Dog Faced Hermans - Mental Blocks For All Ages
V/A - Last Kind Words (Mississippi Records)
Animals and Men - Never Bought Never Sold
Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
Fleet Foxes – S/T
Guided by Voices - Isolations Drills
Guided by Voices - Surgical Focus 7"
Guided by Voices - Chasing Heather Crazy 7"
Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse
Nirvana – Bleach
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Dntel - Dumb Luck
The Postal Service - Give Up
Dwarves - Blood Guts & Pussy
No Age - Eraser 7"
No Age – Nouns
No Age - Teen Creeps 7"
Iron And Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
Iron And Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
Murder City Devils - In Name and Blood
Murder City Devils - S/T
The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks
Wolf Parade - Apologies to Queen Mary
Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
CSS - S/T
Handsome Furs - Plague Park
Low - Drums and Guns
Foals – Antidotes
Obits - I Blame You
Obits - One Cross Apiece 7"
The Dutchess and the Duke - She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Nirvana - Sliver 7"

See B.S.

Did you catch Origami Vinyl on CBS 2 News tonight? We made our appearance at 6pm this evening... as the "6:15 Spotlight", to be more precise. In case you missed it, here's a totally shameless bootleg version from my point & shoot... until CBS starts allowing embedding from their site, it'll hafta do.



Oh Johnny Mountain, you slay me.

New Releases out today!!!

Check the board for our new releases this week. Actually it was such a huge week for new music, we couldn't fit it all on the board! Here are the ones that aren't on there.

- Sara Watkins "S/T"
- Fleet Foxes "Mykonos" 7"
- Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. "Lord of the Underground"
- Double Dagger "More"
- Jon Mueller "Physical Changes"
- Julie Doiron / Calm Down - Split 7"
- Nomo "Invisible Cities"

And on to the New Release board...

In other "NEWS", Origami Vinyl will be featured on the CBS 6 O'Clock News tonight. Apparently they are doing a whole segment on us and vinyl. CRAZY! Make sure to TiVo it!

There they are across the street from our shop!

New Releases for 5/05/09

Remember people, we put out all our new releases at midnight. We're staying open later for you to get the goodies you want.

Tonight we are putting out new releases from
- St. Vincent - Actor
- Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
- Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free
- Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
- Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa
- Double Dagger - More
- Tara Jane O'Neil - A Ways Away
- Peaches - I Feel Cream
- Jon Mueller - Physical Changes
- Mastodon - Crack The Skye
- Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
- Alasdair Roberts - Spoils
- Sunburned Hand Of Man - Fire Escape
- Magik Markers - Balf Quarry
- Julie Doiron/Calm Down - Split 7"
- Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returns
- Nomo - Invisible Cities

Come and get it!

New Adds and Restock in today 5/03/09

Across Tundras – Dark Songs Of The Prairie
Adele – 19
Alex Chilton – Like Flies On Sherbert
Amnesty – Free Your Mind
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
Angels Of Light – We Are Him
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker 12” Single
Arabian Prince – Innovative Life: The Anthology 1984-1989
Architecture In Helsinki – Places Like This
Beat Happening – Black Candy
Buck 65 – Situation
Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf
Chris Bell – I Am The Cosmos
Daft Punk – Discovery
Daft Punk – Homework
Dam Funk - Let's Take Off (Far Away)
Dan Deacon/Adventure – Split 12”
Daniel Lanois – Shine
Department Of Eagles – In Ear Park
Dungen – Tio Bitar
Einsturzende Neubauten – Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Einsturzende Neubauten – Halber Mensch
Einsturzende Neubauten – Haus Der Luege
Fucked Up – Hidden World
High Places – High Places
Hot Chip – Shake A Fist 12” Single
Hot Chip – The Warning
Isis + Aereogramme – In The Fishtank 14
Islands – Return To The Sea
James Brown – Get On The Goodfoot
Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Sahara Swing
Killing Joke – Killing Joke
King Khan & His Shrines – Three Hairs And You’re Mine
Koushik – Nothing’s The Same 7”
Kraftwerk – The Man-Machine
Madlib – Beat Kondukta Vol. 5
Madlib – Beat Kondukta Vol. 6
Mayer Hawthorne & The County – Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out
Michael Jackson – Thriller (25th Anniversary Edition)
Mr. Chop – Lightworlds
Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Blank Generation
Serge Gainsbourg – Initials B.B.
Stark Reality – 1969
The Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
The Electric Prunes – Release Of An Oath
The Electric Prunes – Underground
The Heliocentrics – Out There
The Jam – This Is The Modern World
The L.A. Carnival – Would Like To Pose A Question
Various Artist – The Funky 16 Corners

The Parson Red Heads In-Store Today at 3PM

Come join us at 3pm to celebrate The Parson Red Heads new 7" Orangufang. The band will be performing an all acoustic set!

New Adds and Restocks in today 5/01/09

Flipper - Gone Fishin'
Nimrod Workman - I Want to Go Where Things Are Beautiful
Royal Trux - S/T
Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone
Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky
Tortoise - It's All Around You
Weirdos - Weird World: 1977 – 1981
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
J. Spaceman / Sun City Girls - Mister Lonely
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From the Ash
Bill Fay Group - Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Helena Espnall & Masaki Batoh - S/T
Azita - How Will You?
Archers of Loaf - White Trash Heroes
The Faint – Fascination
The Appleseed Cast - Mare Vitalis
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Friends Forever – Killball
The Bitter Tears - Jam Tarts in the Jakehouse
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Strange Form of Life
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ask Forgiveness
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Arise Therefore
Brother JT3 - Jelly Roll Gospel
Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
Deer Tick - War Elephant
Children of the Sixth Root Race - Songs From the Source
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Baby Dee - Safe Inside The Day
Peter, Bjorn and John - Lving Thing
The Ramones - Live, January 7, 1978 at the Palladium, NYC (Part 1) Picturedisk
Fever Ray - S/T
Lee Ranaldo - Countless Centuries Fled Into the Distance Like So Many Storms
Loose Fur - S/T
Isis - The Red Sea
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Low - Songs for a Dead Pilot
Low - Secret Name
Of Montreal - Jon Brion Remix EP
Yoko Ono - Ono With The Flaming Lips, Ono With the Polyphonic Spree
Osorezan – Mimidokodesuka
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - S/T
Matt & Kim – Grand
Of Montreal - Jimmy 7" Picture disk and DVD
Somoeone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin / Puzzle - Split 7"
Elisa Ambrogio & Axolotl - Yankee Psychic Hygine 7"
Archers of Loaf - Mutes in the Steeple 7"
The Mighty Underdogs - Droppin' Science Fiction
Monotonix - Body Language
Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic
Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife
David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dusk
Al Green - Lay It Down
Ghost - Snuff Box Immanence
The Iceburn Collective - Power of the Lion
Howling Hex - Earth Junk
Neil Hamburger - America's Funnymean
Abunai! - Two Brothers
Acetate Zero - Somehow About Perfection
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Mirror Man
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe As Milk
13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
Big Star – Third
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Get Ready For Love 7”
The Damned – New Rose 7” (Record Store Day Release)
Flipper – Album Generic Flipper
Grizzly Bear – Knife 7”
Neu! – Neu!
New Order – Temptation 7” (Record Store Day Release)
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Friction 7”
Iggy Pop – Sister Midnight
Public Enemy – Rebirth Of A Nation
Rocket From The Crypt – Paint As a Fragrance
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music – Roxy Music
Royal Trux – Hand Of Glory LP
RTX – RaTX
Russian Circles – Station
The Specials – Ghost Town
Sun Ra – Angels And Demons At Play
Sun Ra – Atlantis
Sun Ra – My Brother The Wind
Sun Ra – Other Planes Of There
Sun Ra – We Travel The Spaceways
Sun Ra – When Sun Comes Out
SUNN O))) – Oracle
TV On The Radio – Dear Science
Vetiver – Vetiver

New Adds and Restock in today 4/30/09

Hey Friends, We got a ton of rad stuff from Dischord and Secretly Canadian today, plus some other random things for good measure! cheggit!

Title Tracks – Every Little Bit
Q and Not U – 3 Songs
Q and Not U – No Kill No Beep
Fugazi – Repeater
Rites of Spring – S/T
Edie Sedgwick – Sinister
One Last Wish – 1986
Fath/Void – Split
Minor Threat – Out of Step
Minor Threat – First 2 7”s
Dag Nasty – Can I Say
Embrace – (14 Songs)
Dag Nasty – Wig Out at Denko’s
Fugazi – 7 Songs
Fugazi – Red Medicine
Bad Brains – Live
Extra Golden – Thank You Very Quickly
Frodus – Conglomerate International
Bad Brains – ROIR Sessions
Nation of Ulysses – 13 Point Program to Destroy America
Rites of Spring – All Through A Life 7”
V/A – 4 old 7”s (Dischord)
V/A – Flex Your Head
The Evens – S/T
El Guapo – Fake French
Fugazi – Furniture
Fugazi – Instrument
Fugazi – Steady of Diet of Nothing
Jawbox – Tongues
Nation of Ulysses – Plays Pretty for Baby
Weird War – If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Bite ‘Em
Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
Castanets – City of Refuge
The Welcome Wagon – Welcome to the…
Fol Chen – Part 1: Jon Shade, Your Fortunes Made
Atlas Sound – Atlas Shrugged 7”
Mum – Nightly Cares 7”
Mum – They Made Frogs Choke ‘Til They Exploded 7”
Pink Mountaintops – S/T
Black Mountain – S/T
Swan Lake – Beast Moans
Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Julie Doiron – I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
Mirah – (A)spera
Chain and the Gang – Down with Liberty…Up With Chains!
Songs: Ohia – Axxess & Ace
Richard Swift – Dressed Up For The Let Down
Richard Swift – Richard Swift as Onassis
Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean
Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
BLK JKS – Mystery EP
Antony & The Johnsons – Epilepsy is Dancing 7”
Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans
School of Seven Bells – Face to Face on High Places
Casiotone for the Painfully Along – Vs. Children
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever
Balmorhea - All is Wild, All is Silent
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened 7"
Archers of Loaf - Vitus Tinnitus
Archers of Loaf - Vs The Greatest of All Time
The Horrors / Suicide / Nic Void - Split 10"
Lydia Lunch / Suicide - Split 10"
Asobi Seksu - Strawberries 7"
Antietam - Opus Mixtum
G.G. Allin - Freaks, Faggots, Drunks & Junkies
Beck / Jay Reatard - Gamma Ray 7"
Beck - Gamma Ray 7"
Liars - Leopard on my Right 7"
Air Conditioning - Dead Rails
Doug Martsch / John Michael - Split 7"
The Raveonettes - Blush 7"
Au Revoir Simone - Summer Lines 7"
Scout Niblett - It's Time My Beloved 7"
The Acorn/ Ohbijou - Split EP
Suarasama - Fajar Di Atas Atwan