This Weekend is Gonna Be Fun!!!

Friends and Fam!

Origami Vinyl is very excited to host two rad events this weekend and we hope that most of you can come out to check one or maybe both of them out!

Tomorrow marks the first annual "Echo Park Holiday Shop Hop" and Origami Vinyl is getting involved in a big way! First off, the Echo Park Holiday Parade kicks off at Noon, rain or shine! Then Origami will put on an Origami folding workshop outside our doors to teach kids how to fold cool things like frogs, cobras, boxes, and cranes. Then around 3pm, newly signed to Sub Pop, local faves Avi Buffalo will kick off a set in our loft! At about 7pm, the lovely Angela Correa aka Correatown will perform. In addition to our festivities you will also find a comedy show and Charles Dickens reading at 826LA, The Damselles doing doo wop holiday caroling up and down the strip, a Santa visit at the Out of the Closet, Craft Fair at the Echo, and all sorts of other rad stuff. You can check the Echo Park Holiday Shop Hop Facebook Page for more info about participating shops and their events. This is a great opportunity to bring the family out, do some holiday shopping, get some deals, and support local business!

On Sunday, local but nationally coveted music blog, Aquarium Drunkard will host their "Decade in Review" party at Origami Vinyl from 7pm - ???. For the past couple of months, Aquarium Drunkard has been highlighting all their favorite albums of the 2000's on their site and will celebrate the decade here at the shop! Performances from The Henry Clay People, Evan Way of Parson Red Heads, and Dirt Dress will all be happening in the loft. Free beer will be flowing. Origami has also stocked their shelves with as much of AD's faves as possible so that you can get in on the action!!

Both events are free! We hope to see you here! And thanks to everyone for all of your support. Flyers for both events are below.

xo
Neil, Sam, and Sean

New Adds & Restocks 12/10/09

Some tasty new treats for all of you. Plus we have a couple copies of the smashing Mississippi Records release of blues legend Fred Mc Dowell. And more! Come say hey.

Atlas Sound - Logos
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Fred McDowell - S/T
Glasser- Apply
Mi Ami- Cut Men 12"












Trans Am - What Day Is It Tonight? (Live 93-08)

Holly Miranda in the Origami Loft December 17th!

Mark your calendars this is going to be a good one.

Origami New Adds & Restocks - Bringin' In Some Classics!

We got hooked up with a lot of the good ole stuff today! Check 'er out!

New Adds:
Arthur Lee - Love Jumped Through My Window 7"
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child is Father to the Man
Bob Dylan - Self Portrait
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Chicago Blues Festival 1964
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
Echo & The Bunnymen – Flowers
Firehose - "if'n"
Hapshash And The Coloured Coat - Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids
Lucky Luke - Travelling For A Living (Mexican Summer, Limited to 500)
Minutemen - Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat
Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires
Otis Redding - In Person At The Whisky A Go Go
Otis Redding - Live in Europe
Otis Redding - The Dock Of The Bay
Otis Rush - Mourning in the Morning
Pearl Harbor – Something About the Chaparrals (Mexican Summer, Limtited to 500)
Shuggie Otis - In Session (Limited to 300)
Skip James - Devil Got My Woman
Steve Moore – Fever Dream (Mexican Summer, Limited to 500)
The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola

Restocks:
Bettye Lavette - Do Your Duty
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Gram Parsons - Another Side Of This Life
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Iggy & The Stooges - Search And Destroy 7"
Johnny Cash - Original Sun Singles '55-'58
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate
MC5 - Back In The USA
MC5 - High Time
Nico - All Tomorrow's Parties (Limited to 200)
Otis Redding - Dictionary Of Soul
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - King & Queen
Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Tha Doggfather
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense And Peppermints
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies

New Releases for tonight!

It's all here! Everything on your so-and-so's wishlist...and you don't have to wait!!!

Come down at midnight and grab some sweet shi...

Alog/Astral Club – Split Series #20

Circulatory System – Signal Morning

Dinosaur Jr – Pieces 7”

Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land 7”
Girl Talk – Night Ripper
Little Girls – Concepts

Múm – Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know

Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy (Deluxe 2XLP)

Timbaland - Shock Value II

The Entrance Band Live in the Loft...Live Stream!

The Entrance Band Live in the Origami Loft Tonight @ 7PM!!!

Ear drums will be blown, some records will fall off the wall due to Paz's bass vibrations, and sonic bliss will be shared amongst thee faithful who shake off the rain. This may be the biggest and loudest show we've had yet and we are pumped! If for some reason you can't come be here with us, please watch our live webcast right here. We will post the video a few minutes before the band plays.

Oh and did we mention, Free Colt 45 too?

Radio Moscow live in the Origami Loft

Goodies Galore + Local Natives ticket deal

We are very happy to become acquainted with How To Fight Records! They have two releases to their name and they are both fantastic.

Meho Plaza's "Made of Gold" is a wild, angular head rush driven by raging bass guitar and washes of crash cymbals in the chorus, all beneath the wail of "Made of Goooold!!"

Voices Voices pressed their song "Tidal," which by comparison is more orchestrated- droney and entrancing, like a crystal cave where black magic is practiced.

Enticed? Check out these rad How To Fight Records releases, and be on the lookout for the next installation of HTFR's Animal Battles Series, Volume 2, featuring drum and shout noisemakers Foot Village.

And this just in: Local Natives 7inches! Four bucks a pop, and with it you get a free ticket to their show @ The Echo on December 22nd. Now that's what I call a best buy!

New Adds & Restocks 12/04/09

We just got a fresh batch of some homegrown tunes along with more of your favorites!

We've got our eyes on these sweet babies below so get down here asap before we take 'em for ourselves:

Eccentric Soul V/A - Light: On The South Side

Eccentric Soul V/A - Twinight's Lunar

and there just might be something for you in here:
(a)pendics.shuffle - Group Trivia 12"
(a)pendics.shuffle - Mass Reduction 12"
(a)pendics.shuffle/Bulgar Brothers - Split 10"
Abe Vigoda - Animal Ghosts 7"
Atlas Sound - Atlas Shrugged 7"
Beat Happening – Jamboree
Beat Happening - You Turn Me On
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Carola Pisaturo - Delle Palme 12"
Cascabel Gentz - Dirty Lips EP
Cascabel Gentz - The Pressure of it All 12"
Castanets/Dirty Projectors - Unusual Animals Vol 2 Split 10"
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened 7”
Dilo vs Gurtz - Tundra 12"
Eight Frozen Modules - Deleated Chemistry
Eight Frozen Modules - Thought Process Disorder: (Delusional Malfunction)
Explosions In The Sky - Those Who Tell The …
Furry Things - Hide 7" (Super our of print/Warehouse find!!!)
Hawkeye - Presents El Disco Acido 3 12”
Joseph Spence - Bahaman Guitarist
K.J. Gibbs - Never Taint You In My Eyes 12"
Kit Clayton - I Left My Heart in San Francisco 12"
Lightning Dust - Infinite Dust
Meat Beat Manifesto - RUOK?
Minutemen - Double Nickels OnTheDime
Minutemen - Paranoid Time
Morrissey - Years of Refusal
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place 7”
Ryan Adams – 29
Sebastian Russell - Sexus 12" (w/ (a)pendics.shuffle remix)
Slayer - World Painted Blood LP
Stephen Malkmus, - Face The Truth
Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
The Black Hollies - Softly Towards the Light

Circus Time

This Friday, December 4th at 7pm we will be hosting the opening of "JORDAN AND ANNIE JOIN THE CIRCUS", an exhibition of new collaborative artwork by Annie Madison and Jordan Tyson. Ferocious illustrations and daredevil patterns walk the flying trapeze, while jumbo silkscreens and psychic watercolors get shot from a cannon during this month long show.

The Shortstop Tonight. Let's Take it BACK!

OK, I have lived in Echo Park for about 9 years. I use to frequent the Shortstop about every other day back when they allowed dancing, before they got busted for not having a permit, before they acquired a permit and reopened the dancefloor. The place was fucking amazing then. Lot's of cool art kids, punks, and dub heads. The jukebox always had cool tunes playing if there weren't DJs and the hot bartenders would always poor me a stiff Jim and Coke. Not to mention I am a huge Greg Dulli (Afghan Wigs/Twilight Singers/The Gutter Twins) fan and he is one of the owners. Once the dancefloor got shut down, we started to frequent the bar less and less. We found ourselves hitting the Gold Room for free tacos and a shot with all the old Latinos, which was kinda sketchy at times- I'm pretty sure few white kids dared venture in back then. But it proved to be a great escape from the "scene" of places like the newly opened Little Joy. Once the Shorty got it's dancefloor reopened we started to go back. But it just wasn't the same. It had this bridge and tunnel feel to it. No disrespect to the owners, but it just seemed to take on this USC college crowd thing. All of a sudden lines were forming outside and a 45 minute wait became the standard (In the beginning of the line stuff, the bouncers were cool and would let all us old locals skip it and go in. But after awhile they were catching so much shit from it, they had to stop). Nowadays, I spend most of my time at El Prado. For me it has the right vibe and good beer selection (my liver just can't handle the hard stuff anymore), plus it is mellow and suits my preference to having conversations and hearing good records over the blaring Michael Jackson and bad 80's music (I do still take part in pre-Dodger game pitchers of PBR at Shorty though). In this time I have maintained a close working relationship with Shortstop co-owner Dave Neupert (La Cita, Footsies, El Tres Inn). Origami currently curates their rad 3 room suites at El Tres in Los Feliz. Dave had become a fan of our Record Club night at El Prado and wanted to find a way to have us do a DJ night at one of his bars. Since Shortstop is so close to the store and we'd prefer to support our hood, we felt it fit what we wanted to do best. But to be honest I'm a little nervous. I'm nervous that people aren't going to be into what we play. I'm nervous that since we don;t really play a whole lot of 80's, Michael Jackson, and hits, we are gonna get booed out of there.

So, this is our chance to get back a night at Shortstop to where it was. Because in reality it is the best bar/dancefloor in Echo Park. And peeps that live here would love to love it again. We are gonna rock a bunch of new stuff, rare stuff, unheard stuff, and classic stuff. It's gonna be fun stuff, some you can dance to, some to nod your head to. This is our night, guys and we need your help to make it cool. We are going to do this thing on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month starting in January. Tonight is our test run! Let's kill it!

We call this thing, Paper Crème! Kicking off @ 10pm and goin til 2am. Free. 21 and over.
DJs are Neil, Sam, and Sean

xox
Origami

New Adds & Restocks 12/2/09

Dig it!

Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
Common - Finding Forever
Daniel Johnston - Yip Jump Music
Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane Quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison & Elvin Jones - Ballads
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Lissy – Self-Taught Learner
Lucero - 1372 Overton Park
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades (180g Reissue)
Motorhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
Serge Gainsbourg - Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited
The Bad Plus - For All I Care
The Entrance Band - The Entrance Band
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Monterey
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At Berkeley
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
The Who - Who's Next
Thin Lizzy - Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia 77
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
V/A - Def Jam 25: DJ Bring that Back Volumes 1 and 2
Wale - Attention Deficit
Willie Nelson - Songbird
Willie Nelson - Last of the Breed
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
Woody Guthrie – Woody’s Roots
Woody Guthrie – Woody the Agitator
Woody Guthrie - Woody's Greatest Hits
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

Avi Buffalo & Correatown to join our holiday festivities

**Just confirmed Avi Buffalo & Correatown will be joining us on December 12th as part of the 1st annual Echo Park Holiday Shop Hop.

This is a day where Echo Park businesses come together and do unique events for everyone. The Echo Park holiday parade kicks off at noon on Sunset Blvd and Origami will have an Origami Folding table in front of the store teaching kids the japanese art of folding paper.

We have two free in-store performances:
Avi Buffalo will perform at 3pm

and later we have Correatown at 7pm.
Echo Park Time Travel Mart, Masa, The Clinic of Echo Park, Stories, El Prado, The Echo, Jensen's Rec Center, Classico Tattoo, Allston Yacht Club, Out of the Closet and others are all doing some cool things that day, so be sure to check it out. For more details, check out the Echo Park Shop Hop Facebook Page

Origami Vinyl is Giving Away a Pair of Tickets to Brian Wilson at the Walt Disney Concert Hall!

That's right! Walt Disney Concert Hall and the LA Phil have hooked us up with a pair of tickets to give away for this Sunday's show with Brian Wilson, Dave Alvin, The Living Sisters (Inara George, Becky Stark, and Eleni Mandell) and Harper Simon! We will be giving the pair of tickets away via our Twitter account on Wednesday, December 2nd sometime between 2pm and 5pm so stay tuned!

If you don't win tickets you can purchase them here

Ticket Prices:
Front Orch $42.00
Orchestra $38.00
Orch East $36.00
Orch West $36.00
Terrace $32.00
Terrace East $30.00
Terrace West $30.00
Orch View $28.00
Balcony $30.00
Terrace View $28.00