Today’s RNRHS comes from indie rock music biz legend, Lori Blumenthal. Yes, Lori, I’m going to call you a legend and you can’t get out of it, even though you no longer work in music. Sorry. When I got my first music business job at Twin/Tone Records, Lori worked at I.R.S. Records and was one of the women that I really looked up to because she was so incredibly well-respected by everybody. I mean, everybody. Lori also happened to be really good friends with a guy named Steve…
Category: News, Rock 'n' Roll High School Tags: 80s music, author, banks forest, blondie, Bring Me Back, cheap trick, Chick Lit, high school, I.R.S. Records, karen balcom, lori blumenthal, music, R.E.M., the ramones, women's fiction
Today’s RNRHS is from Billy Maupin (another of my former fellow co-workers from Mammoth Records) and mentions two things I hadn’t thought about in a long time–Poindexter Records and cassingles. Ah, the cassingle, such a perfect nugget of musical enjoyment–like Jolly Ranchers for your ears. And Poindexter…well, one of the best record stores ever. It is missed by many, like countless others all over the country. Nothing beats a Saturday afternoon spent puttering about in a record store. Does that sound like something an old person says? Like,…
Category: News, Rock 'n' Roll High School Tags: 80s music, author, banks forest, billy maupin, Bring Me Back, cassingle, Chick Lit, karen balcom, music, novel, REM, rush, U2, yep roc