New Adds (Nadds?) for Oct.22nd

Never fear, blog-o-sphere! Origami is here to make sure the latest turntable gear reaches your ear. He- uh...THIS is what's new to our store:

Andrew Bird- Bowl of Fire- The Swimming Hour double LP

Dark Meat- Truce Opium

Excepter- Black Beach

Exene Cervenka- Somewhere Gone

Graham Nash- Songs for Beginners

Islands- Vapours

Imaad Wasif- The Voidist

Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard- One Fast Move Or I'm Gone soundtrack

Jay-Z- The Blueprint 3

Rain Machine- s/t

Tickley Feather- Hors D’oeuvres

Come get the latest jams at Origami.

New Adds & Restocks for 10/21

Hey Y'all. Got a lot of fine records hitting the shelves today. check 'er out...

Alasdair Roberts - The Wyrd Meme
Bachelorette - Do The Circuit 7"
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Stay 7"
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master And Everyone
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney – Superwolf
Boredoms - Super Roots 10
Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
CocoRosie - The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Echo And The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Espers – III
Eternal Tapestry - Palace Of The Night Skies (Limited to 730/numbered)
Floating Action - S/T
Floating Action / Dr. Dog - Split 7”
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Gary War - Horribles Parade
GNOD - S/T
Heavy Winged - Alive in my Mouth (Limited to 647 copies/Numbered)
Jason Urick - Husbands
Joy Division - Still (Limited Edition)
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
MIJ aka Jim Holmberg - Yodeling Astrologer
Moon Duo - Killing Time EP
Mountains - Etching
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
OOIOO - Armonico Hewa
Pisces - A Lovely Sight
Pontiak - Sea Voids
Roy Orbison - The All-Time Greatest Hits
Slaraffenland - We're On Your Side
Slint – Spiderland
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Thank You - Pathetic Magic 12" EP
The Growlers – Are You In Or Out?
The Journal Of Popular Noise Vol. 1 – Issues 10-12: Climax Golden Twins / Pwrfl Power / Linda & Ron’s Dad
The Journal Of Popular Noise Vol. 1 – Issues 13-15: Andrew WK / Walker & Cantrell / Felt Letters (Letterpress & Zine edidtions)
The Journal Of Popular Noise Vol. 1 – Issues 4-6: Teflon Don / Copy / Pontius Pilots
The Journal Of Popular Noise Vol. 1 – Issues 7-9: Past Lives / Bora Yoon + Ben Frost / Na + Junko
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
Tool – Undertow
Will Oldham aka Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Arise Therefore

New Releases Out at Midnight Tonight! plus new adds and restocks...

Check Out all the goodies out tonight at midnight tonight!

Atlas Sound "Logos" (Comes with Free Poster)


Sufjan Stevens "The BQE" (Limited Edition includes 32 page photo booklet, Road Trip liner notes by Sufjan, Original Super Teenage Hooper Heroes Comic Book, FLAC download of entire album)


Leonard Cohen "Live at the Isle of Wight 1970"


The Black Heart Procession "Six" (Delixe Edition includes Vinyl Etching)


White Denim "Fits" (Double Vinyl package includes bonus LP of their album "Exposion + Download of album"


El Perro Del Mar "Love is not Pop" (Includes MP3 download of album + bonus remix)


The Nerves "Live!" (Limited Edition of 500 Pink Vinyl)
Richard Youngs "Under Stellar Stream" (Includes free download of album)
Majuere "Time Span"(Includes free download of album)
Akron/Family "River" b/w "Morning on Michigan Avenue (Thinking of Old Friends)" 7"
Old Lights "Every Night Begins The Same" (handmade jacket limited to 100)
Lissy Trullie "Self-Taught Learner" (Includes free download of album)

+ Check out these new adds and restocks!
Atlas Sound "Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel"
Bipolar Bear/Talbot Tagora Split 10"
Deerhunter "Cyrptograms"
El Perro Del Mar "From The Valley To The Stars"
El Perro Del Mar "How Did We Forget?" 7”
Expo 70/Rahdunes - Split 12"
Flexions "Leisure Time"
Nerve City "I Fucked Death" 10"
Pink Noise "Graffiti Youth"
Red Maids "Andalucia"
Spectrum "War Sucks"
The Stone Roses "Fools Gold" 7”
The Stone Roses "One Love" 7”
The Stone Roses "She Bangs The Drum" 7”
Vashti Bunyan "Just Another Diamond Day"
Vashti Bunyan "Lookaftering"
White Shit "White Shi'ite" 10"

WOOPS!!!!

It looks like we had some problems with the audio in our stream of the Builders & The Butchers show today. Sorry we didn't catch that sooner BUT we did record the whole thing and it was AWESOME!! So check back with us in a few to see the video complete with audio!

The Builders and the Butchers In-Store Performance in the Origami Loft, Tomorrow at 3pm!

Portland, Oregon's The Builders and The Butchers will be gracing the Origami Loft at 3pm Sunday. The band, currently on tour with Brand New, and playing the Palladium tonight and tomorrow night, will be doing a special intimate stripped-down set. PLUS You will be able to watch from home if you can't make it. Just go to here at 3pm.

If you want to get a taste of their freakish ways, check this out:

the builders and the butchers: in california from The Builders & The Butchers on Vimeo.

Dirty Projectors Tickets for Halloween Now On Sale at Origami + Today's New Adds & Restocks

Origami Vinyl now has tickets to the Dirty Projector's Halloween Show at Jensen's Rec Center in Echo Park! Tickets are $20 + a $2 per ticket service charge. These guys are going quick! Sean, Neil and Sam all have this album in their top 10 albums of the year, which means you'll probably see us there!

We also got some great new restocks and adds today, check 'em out below.

Abe Vigoda – Reviver
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Beat Happening - Black Candy
Beat Happening – Jamboree
Beat Happening - You Turn Me On
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Foreign Born - Person To Person
HEALTH - GET COLOR
HEALTH - HEALTH//DISCO
HEALTH - S/T
Lightning Dust - Infinite Dust
Mum – Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy
Nesey Gallons - Eyes & Eyes & Eyes Ago
Nurses - Apple's Acre
The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Songs From Lonely Avenue
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals

Want Kurt Vile tickets??

Starting today if you purchase Kurt Vile's new album "Childish Prodigy" from Origami Vinyl you will receive a guest spot +1 for his show on October 23rd at Spaceland.

This is what it looks like...

and this is what it sounds like...AWESOMENESS!!

New Adds & Restock for 10/14

A Tribe Called Quest - Hits, Rarities & Remixes
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
A Tribe Called Quest - The Anthology
A.A. Bondy - American Hearts
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Bipolar Bear - Harlem Pripyat (Limited to 500)
Black Flag - My War
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk
Charlie Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Chocolate Watch Band - No Way Out
Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Dodos – Visiter
Dungen – 4
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Easy Star All-Stars – Radiodread
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
Foot Village/60 Watt Kid - Split 7"
Gossip - Music For Men
Johnny Cash - 16 Biggest Hits
Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Love - Forever Changes
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next
Monsters of Folk - S/T
Outkast – Aquemini
Outkast – ATLiens
Outkast – Stankonia
Rodrigo y Gabriela - S/T
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Spirit - Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus
SUNN O))) - Domkirke: Live In Bergen Cathedral
Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary
Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (Pink)
The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
The Black Keys - Chulahoma (The Songs Of Junior Kimbrough)
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
The Clash - London Calling
The Incredible String Band - The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
The Sonics - Introducing The Sonics
The Stone Roses - S/T
The Stooges - S/T
The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
The Strokes - Is This It?
The Strokes - Room On Fire
The Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines
Tool – Lateralus
Townes Van Zandt - Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Tx
V/A - Conquer The World: The Lost Soul Of Philadelphia International Records
V/A – We’re Gonna Change The World: The 60‘s Chicago Garage Sound of Quill Productions
Wax Tailor - In The Mood For Life
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Wolf Parade - Apologies To Queen Mary
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Wolf Parade - Shine A Light
Yim Yames - Tribute To...
Young Prisms - S/T (Limited to 500)

It's a very, merry unbirthday to YOU!

Re-Air: John Carpenter LIVE in the Origami Loft

For those who missed it here is a "re-air" of John Carpenters set at Origami. Why you may ask? Because it was hella awesome!!

Origami Boys, Sean and Neil, DJing Tonight at N I T E C L U B @ Verdugo Bar

Come kick it with us at the Verdugo Bar in Glassell Park (y'know that small little spot between Echo Park and Eagle Rock) where Sean and I are gonna trainwreck the shit out of it tonight. We will be rocking the spot from 11pm on. Verdugo is also famous for having one of the best beer selections in town. And we love beer! Sound like a good night to you? It does to us!

N I T E C L U B is a bi-weekly night our friends John and Steve Harrington throw. You should check out these kids art too.

Here's the deets:
N I T E C L U B @ Verdugo Bar
9pm - 2am (Sean and Neil @ 11pm)
3408 Verdugo Rd.
LA, Ca 90065
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Road Report 2: NYC mayhem

I just wanted to give this little post a big movie title:) Greetings again from New York! Last week we (the Parson Red Heads) left cozy Echo Park for our first east coast tour. After playing New Jersey with Roadside Graves and getting our first taste of NYC, the tour continued with more shows and exploration in the big city.

After Googie's lounge on Monday we took the train to Central Park and walked about, visiting the ever-powerful, emotionally evocative John Lennon "Imagine" tribute. It was tasteful, you know? We dug it. That evening we made our way to Park Slope and found Union Hall, where we were treated so well! What an accommodating venue- a cozy fireplace and bookcases, great food and drinks, and an excellent music hall. We opened for the kindest bands in Brooklyn- Hymns and Ladybug Transistor- which were both a pleasure to watch performing to the home crowd. After the show we hung out with a man named Jessie, whose dad was in The Raspberries. Neat! And Adrian Grenier, the star of Entourage, bought our cds. He was a nice guy. After the show was another subway ride (we all like the subway!) back to Harlem, to our friend Jeremy's apartment. And, instead of going straight to bed and fighting jet lag, we put on Starship Troopers. Oh, baby!

Well! Today it's more exploration! We're going to record stores today, and getting some of those famous New York bagels. We're playing a special 7pm set tonight at Arlene's Grocery, and tomorrow at Northern Kingdom with Brittain Ashford. Come get a glass of wine and enjoy the mellow, harmony-laden folkery! And if you're feeling adventuresome come to Philadelphia on Friday- we're playing with east coast greats: The Roadside Graves and Cotton Jones, at the M Room. See you there, yeah?

ps- pictures will be posted on this blog when I get to a super-computer, or when I find someone to help me with that. I'm no techno-ace! But we have some good ones, and movies too!

JUST CONFIRMED: The Antlers in-store performance @ 7pm on Thursday, October 29th

That's right!!! The Antlers from Brooklyn are coming to Origami for a special stripped-down set @ 7pm Thursday, October 29th!!

Big thanks to Jess Phelps @ The Orchard and Paul @ Frenchkiss for making this all happen.

Check out The Antlers on MySpace

I AM that man!!!

Yes, it's true. I am making a special transmission from a galaxy far, far away, known as... New York City! Harlem, to be exact. And this galaxy rules!

As I previously mentioned, I play in a rock and roll outfit called The Parson Red Heads. You can peep that ice here (myspace.com/redheads). We are on our first east coast tour and I am here to keep any Red Heads Heads and/or Origamites updated on our adventures.

We've been playing shows with our good friends The Roadside Graves, an excellent band from these parts. We played their hometown's local indie bookstore, The Raconteur- what a great, relaxing evening! Many familiar faces as well as friendly new ones, all chilling out with a beer and enjoying the (mostly) acoustic show. The performance was followed by a party down the street at Graves drummer Colin's place. Rowdy singalongs on the upright piano, fiddle, guitars, etc. were so much fun (thanks, Jeremy!). We drank, sang, and made merriment until late into the night, and...ended up watching Teen Wolf. The perfect night-cap!

We've played a couple shows in New York now, one at Lit Lounge and last night at Googie's. Both have been excellent! Our folky local friend Linda Draper played the show with us last night- she is so talented and kind! Our set was another mellow one, which is common if you're performing as a three piece acoustic/electric act:) We just had wine glasses on a little stool by the microphones, played our harmony-driven songs for a few friends, and had a lovely time. After us a few more people showed up (looking a bit like the cast of Rent), and Grace McClean took the stage. You'll have to look her up- I'm not sure I have the words to describe such a...unique performer!

The next couple days will be spent in Brooklyn and the surrounding area. Tonight we get to play Union Hall with Hymns and Ladybug Transistor! We are looking forward to it. Before the show we're going to go explore with our city-savvy friends. Record shops, vegan diners, central parks, and the spirit of New York!

Love,

Sam,, Brette, Evan

Ps- I took lots of pictures! And they're on their way. I also have video of Roadside Graves playing in the bookstore! I'm going to try and post that in the next couple days, when I bring the necessary cables up to the apartment we're staying in. Wow! People shouting really hard at each other! Harlem is intense! Oh that reminds me: once in awhile people totally peg us for west coasters:)

Have you seen this man?

We are asking for any information on the whereabouts of this man......because we miss him.

Send all photos & newspaper clippings to

sean or neil @origamiorigami.com

TONIGHT: Sole & The Skyrider Band present "Plastique"

A reminder:

Tonight we will be having a listening party for the amazing new album from Sole & The Skyrider Band entitled Plastique.

Here's the cover. You'll probably want to snatch this up for that alone.The listening starts at 7pm and pizza & beer will be provided + a special giveaway!

See you here!