Kerry and Christine have blogs too

We're sure that AQ mailorder customers who've been with us for more than a year or two, must have fond memories of our former mailorder staffers Kerry and Christine. Apparently K&C's current jobs elsewhere allow them a lot of free time, 'cause Kerry emailed - in response to our blog - to say "OMG! I started a blog too!" which you can find at http://momforwards.blogspot.com. She also teamed up with Christine to start yet another blog, http://radduderadkidradlady.blogspot.com. The URLs for both should give you a fairly accurate idea as to the respective contents of these blogs. Neither have much to do with music (well, the radduderadkidradlady blog does sometimes, sorta) but should provide some, uh, amusement nonetheless, so we thought we should pass these links along! Check 'em out.

Heads up, heavy vinyl junkies

Thought you might want to know we got in stock today, these two lp releases:
Harvey Milk "Courtesy And Good Will Toward Men" (Chunklet / Reproductive Records) 2lp $30.00
SUNNO))) "Domkirke (Live In Bergen Cathedral 031807)" (Southern Lord) 2lp $17.98
Both of 'em on many, many grams of precious vinyl, housed in fairly substantial, handsome packaging. And limited too, of course. We'll be reviewing these on list #302 next week, if we don't run out.
But if you're reading this, and you want a copy of either or both, just hop on down to the store or email us to grab you one for mailorder.

White Hills instore! also, Krautrock videofest...

If you didn't already read about it on our email list, we'd like to remind locals to come down to Aquarius tomorrow, Wednesday Sept. 24th, to see AQ fave spacerockers White Hills play an instore show here, 6pm.

Also, they'll be performing at a Klaus To The Edge projekted krautrock video extravaganza at the Knockout, Monday the 29th... here's the flyer:

Neon gone

You know the blue neon sign hanging in our window, that says "Aquarius Records"? Well it's not there anymore. Sadly, it bit the dust sometime after we closed on Friday. When Andee came to work on Saturday morning, he found that the wires holding it up had snapped or something, and it had crashed to the floor, smashing into a million tiny bits. R.I.P. neon sign, we'll miss you.

Thankfully, though, this happened in the middle of the night, and not during they day when the store was full of people!

So, anyone know where we can get a deal on getting a new neon sign made?

Death Magnetic, distilled

As you may be aware, there's a new Metallica album out. We just 'reviewed' it on list #301. We mentioned that it's hard to be objective about that band, after everything they've put their original fans through over the years. But parts of it were definitely pretty cool, harking back to the Metallica of old. We have proof of that for those of you who might have doubts about the new album.

It's a 98% percent instrumental edit of Death Magnetic "that distills the album into one decent 14 minute song". Check this "Death Magnedit" out here.

And there's also this, a 33rpm rip of the 45rpm vinyl version of "Ride The Lightning"!

Thanks to AQ pal Jace for directing our attention to these.

New Arrivals list #301

Might as well make a habit of mentioning that another edition of our New Arrivals list has been uploaded to our website. You'll find #301 right here. Of course, you probably also got our New Arrivals #301 email telling you the same thing, especially since how else did you know we had a blog? 'Cause we only just publicly announced its existence in the intro to #301.

Records Of The Week:
Ishikawa Akira & Count Buffalo "Uganda" (Tiliqua) cd $28.00 

Mind blowing reissue of this '70 Japanese psychedelic artifact. Intense African drumming meets jazz meets acid rock proto metal prog.
Darsombra "Eternal Jewel" (Public Guilt) cd $12.98 

Second disc of brooding kraut flecked, spaced out blackened ambience, definitely for fans of Expo '70 and other dark droners...
Woven Hand "Ten Stones" (Sounds Familyre) cd $14.98 

Latest disc of apocalyptic bluegrass gothic folk from David Eugene Edwards, formerly of 16 Horsepower. The heaviest WH yet!

Return of the KFJC Penny Pitch! This Saturday at AQ!!

We're excited to play host to this fundraising event for one of our favorite community-supported radio stations, KFJC (98.7 fm). It's this weekend, Saturday afternoon, September 20th from 1 o'clock to 6 o'clock pm here at Aquarius Records (that's 1055 Valencia St. in San Francisco, but you know that).

We had a lot of fun with the KFJC folks when they did this here last year, looking forward to it again! Glad to help them out with this kickoff to their fundraising season.

There'll be a bunch of KFJC DJs here, broadcasting live from a tent set up on our sidewalk. Maybe a guest AQ DJ too. And snacks. Please come on by and check it out, it'll be fun. Or at least tune in, if you can't come out - KFJC can be heard over the internet, via the links on this page of their website.

Here's the schedule for the live KFJC DJs:
1pm Morris Minor
2pm Cadillac Margarita
3pm Belladonna
4pm Maybelline
5pm Capt. Jack