Twenty-Ten is Upon Us!!! And So Are These New HOT Adds!!!

New Adds:
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice

Beirut - Gulag Orkestar

Lindstrom – Where You Go I Go Too

Mariachi El Bronx - S/T

Ofege - Try And Love


Restocks:
Abner Jay – True Story Of Abner Jay
Einsturzende Neubauten – Alles Wieder Offen
Fred McDowell – S/T
Ganglians – S/T
Greg Dulli - Dangerous Highway: A Tribute to the Songs of Eddie Hinton Vol 1. 7"
Kurt Vile – Constant Hitmaker
Real Estate – S/T
Suicide/Horrors Split 10”
V/A – Dirty French Psychedelics
V/A - Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 5xLP Box Set
Why? – Alopecia
Why? - Eskimo Snow

Sic!!!! Sic Alps to play Origami Vinyl on Sunday, January 3rd + Kill Shaman goodies!!!

Get the hell outta here 2009, we are ready for 2010 and we are kicking it off in a big way!!!

SIC ALPS!!!! In-store performance THIS SUNDAY at 7PM!!! FREE!!! This is gonna SLAY!


Then to top it all off, our buddy Julian, head honcho at Kill Shaman records just brought us the new loot:

Bipolar Bear - Manbase 7"


Bipolar Bear/Hiroshima Rocks Around - Split LP


Flight - S/T 10"


Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin "Reverse Shark Attack"



P.S. Origami will be closed on New Years Eve and New Years Day. See ya on the flip!

Santa just came in and dropped off a couple more records!

Just at the last minute we got these babies in...

New Adds
Boys Noize – Power
V/A - Miami Sound: Rare Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967-1974 (Soul Jazz)

New Restocks
Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind EP
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol 7)
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The Growlers – Are You In or Out?
V/A - Afro Baby: The Evolution of the Afro-Sound in Nigeria 1970-1979 (Soundway)
V/A - Ghana Soundz: Afro-Beat, Funk and Fusion in 70's Ghana Vol.2 (Soundway)
V/A - Jamaica Funk: Original Jamaican Funk and Soul 45s (Soul Jazz)
V/A - Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound of the Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-79 (Soundway)
V/A - Nigeria Special Part 1: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds, & Nigerian Blues 1970-6 (Soundway)

We will be open 'til 6pm tonight, so come in and get that last minute shopping in!

Have a great Christmas!!!

Our last restock before the holiday hits us!

I know it's not a big restock but you just might discover a last minute gift idea amongst these here walls.

Hopefully some of these will shake the gift cobwebs loose.

New Adds
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (Reissue)
Neil Young - After the Goldrush (Reissue)
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (Reissue)
Kraftwerk - Tour de France (Reissue)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Reissue)
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine (Reissue)
White Stripes – Elephant (Import)
The Street & Babe Shadow - S/T

New Restocks
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing
Fugazi - 7 Songs
Fugazi - Instrument Soundtrack
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

HAPPY HOLIDAYS everyone!

Love, Origami Vinyl

Some Newbies for Last Minute Shopping...

We just got an ace shipment of records and such, that may help with your last minute shopping needs! These just in...

Vestax - Handytrax Portable Turntable

Nirvana - Live at Reading 2xLP

Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly (180gram Reissue)

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life (180gram Reissue)

Iggy Pop - The Idiot (180gram Reissue)

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (180gram Reissue)

Television - Marquee Moon (180gram Reissue)

Elliott Smith - XO (180gram Reissue)

Big Star - #1 Record (180gram Reissue)

Big Star - Radio City (180gram Reissue)

Big Star - 3rd (180gram Reissue)

Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos (180gram Reissue)

AND, Just a reminder we have Gift Certificates in any increment...so if you can't find something, get em one these...

Origami Holiday Hours + new 2010 Hours

Hey Folks,
Just wanted to fill ya in on hours for the coming couple of weeks!

December 21st - Noon 'til 10pm
December 22nd - Noon 'til 9pm
December 23rd - Noon 'til 10pm
December 24th - Noon 'til 6pm
December 25th - CLOSED
December 26th - Noon 'til Midnight
December 27th - Noon 'til 9pm
December 28th - Noon 'til 10pm
December 29th - Noon 'til 9pm
December 30th - Noon 'til 10pm
December 31st - CLOSED
January 1st - CLOSED

Starting January 2nd and moving forward our 2010 hours will be:
Sundays - Noon 'til 8pm
Monday - Thursday - Noon 'til 9pm
Friday and Saturday - Noon 'til Midnight

The Monolators want you!!!

Come to Origami tomorrow (Saturday, December 19th) and enjoy some holiday cheer while The Monolators perform their Christmas Spectacular...including the seasonal favorite "Santa Claus vs. Dave Matthews".

It might be something like this ---->

Show begins at 7pm and is FREE to the public.

New Adds & Restocks 12/17/09

Cheggit, men and women! We've stuffed our crates fulla...STUFF!!!

New Adds
Best Coast - When I'm With You 7" (Ltd to 500, Black Iris)
Campfires – Stormy Late Fall 7” (Ltd to 500, Mexican Summer)
Cold Cave - Death Comes Close 12"
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Holly Miranda - Forest Green Oh Forest Green 7"
Nite Jewel- Suburbia 7" (Ltd to 500)
Nite Jewel- Want You Back 12" (Ltd to 500)
The Amazing - Code II (Ltd to 500, Mexican Summer)
The Horrors - Whole New Way 7"
Vampire Weekend - Cousins 7"
Woodsman – Collages (Ltd to 500, Mexican Summer)

Restocks
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Discovery – LP
Girls – Album
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Little Joy - S/T
Mission Of Burma - Innermost 7"
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies – Doolittle
Ratatat - Classics
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
St. Vincent - Actor
St. Vincent - Marry Me
The Cave Singers - Invitations Songs
The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
The National – Alligator
The National – Boxer
The XX – XX
Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse EP


STUFF yourself!

Holly Miranda In-Store at Origami Vinyl Tonight!

XL Recordings artist Holly Miranda will be gracing our loft tonight at 7pm for a special solo show to celebrate her debut 7" release. Her highly anticipated debut full length comes out February 23rd, 2010. This is her only LA show after getting off tours with The Antlers and The XX. Be sure to check it out!!! If you can;t make it in person, be sure to check back on our blog around 7pm to stream the live webcast.

Lilofee 7" Record Release Party Tonight!

Come join us in celebrating our first ever vinyl release, Lilofee's "Runaway"/"In Flight" 7"!!

The party kicks off @ Origami Vinyl at 7pm. We will have free beer and pizza while they last. Then we head over to the Echo at 9pm to see War Tapes, Twilight Sleep, Lilofee, and Acid Girls perform. The show is free if you are over 21 and is $7 if you are under 21.

We will have the 7"s for sale at the shop and at the echo for $5. Get 'em early! There were only 500 made and they have already sold out in San Francisco.

Origami Vinyl's Best of 2009 Lists

Sean, Sam and Myself all got together and picked some of our faves of the year and thought we would share. We broke it down into 4 categories: Favorite Albums, Favorite 7"s, Favorite Reissues, and Favorite Local Releases. Please leave a comment at the bottom and share your lists and thoughts with us as well.

Favorite Albums of 2009
Sean:
1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca (Domino)
2. Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free (Dead Oceans)
3. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
4. Mew – No More Stories (Columbia)
5. Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy (Matador)
6. HEALTH – Get Color (Lovepump United)
7. Pissed Jeans – King Of Jeans (Subpop)
8. Obits – I Blame You (Subpop)
9. Broadcast & The Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (Warp)
10. Clues - S/T (Constellation)

Neil:
1. Fever Ray - S/T (Mute)
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (Domino)
3. Mew - No More Stories... (Columbia)
4. Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Dead Oceans)
5. Timber Timbre - S/T (Arts & Crafts)
6. Dan Deacon - Bromst (Carpark)
7. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
8. Kissing Cousins - Pillar of Salt (Velvet Blue)
9. Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
10. Obits - I Blame You (Subpop)

Sam:
1. J.Tillman - Year in the Kingdom (Western Vinyl)
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T (Slumberland)
3. The Mother Hips - Pacific Dust (Camera)
4. Dawes - Northern Hills (ATO)
5. I Was A King - S/T (The Control Group)
6. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)

Favorite Reissues of 2009
Sean:
1. Graham Nash – Songs For Beginners (Rhino)
2. Big Star – Radio City (Ardent/Stax)
3. Sunny Day Real Estate – LP2 (Subpop)
4. Jawbox – For Your Own Special Sweetheart (DeSoto)
5. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Matador)
6. Wilco - Summerteeth (Nonesuch)
7. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (Warner Brothers)
8. The Nerves – One Way Ticket (Alive!)
9. Fred McDowell – S/T (Mississippi)
10. De Kift – S/T 7” (Mississippi)

Neil:
1. Neil Young - Official Release Series Discs 1-4 Box Set (S/T, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Harvest) (Reprise)
2. Abner Jay - The True Story of Abner Jay (Mississippi)
3. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (Subpop)
4. Fred McDowell - S/T (Mississippi)
5. The Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines (Subpop)
6. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (DeSoto)
7. The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (Warner Brothers)
8. Nirvana - Bleach (Subpop)
9. The Jesus Lizard - Down (Touch and Go)
10. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (Light in the Attic)

Sam:
1. Big Star - #1 Record (Ardent/Stax)
2. Big Star - Radio City (Ardent/Stax)
3. Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me (Audika)
4. Sunny Day Real Estate - LP2 (Subpop)
5. Wilco - AM (Nonesuch)

Favorite 7"s of 2009
Sean:
1. Big Star – Feels (Ardent)
2. Three Mile Pilot – Planets (Temporary Residence)
3. Salem – Frost/Legend (Audraglint)
4. Obits – I Can’t Lose (Subpop)
5. I Was A King – Norman Bleik (The Control Group)
6. Lilofee – Runaway/In Flight (Origami Vinyl/Future Sounds)
7. Ganglians – Blood On The Sand (Captured Tracks)
8. Anglos – Cleopatra (Great Minds)
9. Can’t/Arthur Russell – Split (Terrible)
10. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Zodiac Girls (Suicide Squeeze)

Neil:
1. Salem - Frost/Legend (Audraglint)
2. Lilofee - Runaway/In Flight (Origami Vinyl/Future Sounds)
3. The Big Pink - Velvet (4AD)
4. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others/While you Wait for the Others feat. Michael McDonald (Warp)
5. Health - Die Slow (Lovepump United)
6. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For (Subpop)
7. Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I) (Art Fag)
8. The Sonik Youth / Beck - Pay No Mind / Green Light (Matador)
9 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction (Slumberland)
10 - Ganglians - Blood on the Sand (Captured Tracks)

Sam:
1. Big Star - Feels (Ardent)
2. Can't/Arthur Russell - Split (Terrible)
3. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For (Subpop)
4. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others/While you Wait for the Others feat. Michael McDonald (Warp)

Favorite Local Releases of 2009
Sean:
1. Kissing Cousins – Pillar Of Salt (Velvet Blue)
2. 60 Watt Kid – We Come From The Bright Side (Absolutely Kosher)
3. Glasser – Apply EP (True Panther)
4. Alexandra Hope – Invisible Sunday (Manimal)
5. Jail Weddings – Inconvenient Dreams (White Noise)
6. Fools Gold – S/T (I Am Sound)
7. The Parson Redheads – Orangufang 7” (Jaxart)
8. Frankel – Anonymity Is The New Fame (Autumn Tone)
9. Olentangy John – See Seven Stars 7” (Trailer Fire)
10. John Carpenter – Seasons 7” (Mexican Summer)

Neil:
1. Kissing Cousins - Pillar of Salt (Velvet Blue)
2. The Entrance Band - S/T (Ecstatic Peace)
3. HEALTH - Get Color (Lovepump United)
4. The Growlers - S/T (Everloving)
5. Fool's Gold - S/T (I Am Sound)
6. Glasser - Apply EP (True Panther)
7. Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse EP (Manimal)
8. Frankel - Anonymity is the New Fame (Autumn Tone)
9. Alexandra Hope - Invisible Sunday (Manimal)
10. Virginia Reed - She is the Horse (How To Be A Microwave)

Sam:
1. Dawes - Northern Hills (ATO)
2. Princeton - Cocoon of Love (Kanine)
3. Avi Buffalo - What's In It For (Subpop)

New Adds & Restocks for 12/14

Hey folks. Here's another grip of stuff just in time for the holidays.

We are most excited for all the Eccentric Soul comps that we got in, but Neon Indian & the Eddie Hinton tribute 7"s are right up there as well. Maybe you will find something on here too.

New Adds:
Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel b/w Surprise Hotel (M.A.T.H.E.S.Remix) (UK only 7” / Origami is the only store in the US to have this)
Yacht - Psychic City 7" (Limited Edition Picture Disk)
Predator - 7" EP
Spencey Dude & The Doodles - Flirting 7"
Greg Dulli - Dangerous Highway: A Tribute to the Songs of Eddie Hinton Vol 1. 7"
Drive By Truckers - Dangerous Highway: A Tribute to the Songs of Eddie Hinton Vol 2. 7"
13th Chime - The Lost Album
The Fleshies - Brown Flag
V/A - Back to Peru: The Most Complete Compilation of Peruvian Underground 1964/1974 Vol. 2
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
V/A - Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968 - 81 5xLP Box Set
Magik Markers/Sic Alps - Split 12"
Former Ghosts – Fleurs
Talk Normal – Sugarland
V/A - Dont Stop: Recording Tap 3LP (Numero 019)
V/A - Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli (Numero018)
V/A - Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul (Numero016)
The Final Solution - Brotherman Soundtrack (Numero022)
V/A - Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up (Numero006)
V/A - Good God!: A Gospel Funk Hymnal (Numero010)
V/A - Soul Messages from Dimona (Numero021)
Niela Miller - Songs of Leaving
V/A - Eccentric Soul 023: The Young Disciples
V/A - Wayfaring Strangers: Lonesome Heroes (Numero028)

New Restocks:
Thee Oh Sees – Help
The Fresh & Onlys - Debut LP
Abner Jay - True Story Of Abner Jay (Mississippi)
V/A - Fight On, Your Time Ain't Long (Mississippi)
V/A - Last Kind Words (Mississippi)
V/A - Mata La Pena (Mississippi)
Cave - Hunt Like Devil EP/Jamz EP
V/A - Eccentric Soul 009: The Big Mack Label
V/A - Eccentric Soul 017: The Outskirts Of Deep City
V/A - Eccentric Soul 015: The Prix Label
V/A - Eccentric Soul 027: Smart's Palace
Pisces - A Lovely Sight
V/A - Eccentric Soul 001: The Capsoul Label

The Cigarette Bums In-Store Performance Tonight

Tonight we welcome The Cigarette Bums in our loft for a special in-store performance at 8pm to celebrate their brand new 7" "Jailbird" b/w "Careless Love". "Ranging from delta blues, jazz, funk, to garage rock, The Cigarette Bums play an ecclectic mix of sounds that are sure to get you moving. The band can be found at many local dives and venues playing a set or just jamming with random street musicians. Originating in silverlake with singer songwriter eamon michael mcginness, steven slaughter and drummer jimmy c., the Bums paint on a soundscape with the depth of pollock and the texture of a Van Gogh." - A. Nony Mous

Tonight is the night...not just like any other night

Tonight we’re tagging up with our friends at Aquarium Drunkard to celebrate their decade in review. While they won't won’t finish on the blog until December 31st, we've got the master list of AD’s favorites and are stocking as many of them in vinyl as possible. This is a good time to ask Santa for that turntable you’ve been pining for.

The party is free and so is the booze (thanks Colt 45!), so come down and hang out with us as our friends The Henry Clay People, Dirt Dress and Evan Way perform in the loft. There may be Santa suits involved.

See you here

Correatown Live in the Origami Loft!!!