Goldmine

Record Store Recon: Music Millennium record store in Portland, Oregon, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (almost a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win a punk 7-inch 45 rpm record! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more abou...

Saxophonist Emilio Castillo of the Oakland, California, R&B-based horn group Tower of Power talks about the release of the 2-CD/3-LP (plus DVD!) set 50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater - Oakland, CA - June 2018. Castillo also talks about particular details of staple Tower of Power (TOP) songs and popular classic rock songs that have the TOP horns as an important part of the sound — an...

The Alarm have recently released their album WAR (RAW in reverse), led by vocalist Mike Peters. Peters' lyrics are extremely on topic as he explores the anger and chaos of the last five years, from Brexit to the Capitol riots, the use of social media as a propaganda tool (as the song “Protect and Survive” sounds the alarm of “280 ways to start a war!”), all the way through the continuing pandemic....

1-2-3-4 Go! Records of Oakland, California, gets reviewed for its stock, staff, website, social media presence and selection (a perfect score!) by veteran anonymous reviewer Dr. Disc on an episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Plus, listen to the episode and receive a hint on how to win signed vinyl from a well-known Northwest rock band! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more about your ad c...

We all have them: pop songs we love and pop songs we loathe. There are songs that we love from the moment we hear them — and we know exactly why. And then there are certain songs — while being bestselling songs, well-crafted and well-performed — can still hit a certain nerve that can have us leaving the room on first note. It's nothing personal, it all depends on the individual. On this episode, t...

Goldmine is honored to have as a podcast guest, Michael Cartellone, the former drummer for the Damn Yankees and current drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd. Cartellone is also a fantastic fine artist — a painter — and has teamed up with Goldmine and the charity Cancer Support Community to auction off a professional reproduction of his painting of Ronnie Van Zant, the late vocalist of Lynyrd Skynyrd, who di...

Goldmine Podcast's Record Store Recon talks with anonymous reporter Dr. Disc about his "virtual" visit to Obsession Records in Anchorage, Alaska. Listen to this podcast episode and find out more about this unique record store that serves the community of Anchorage well. As always, pick up clues during the episode and you can win a prize! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about you...

Goldmine Podcast's Record Store Recon talks with anonymous reporter Dr. Disc about his "virtual" visit to Waterloo Records in Austin, TX. Listen to this podcast episode and find out more about this spacious record store, rated the best in the magical music city of Austin, and the store's top-notch website. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

Do you love Hawkwind and wish to expand your knowledge of the band? Or perhaps you are a newbie and want to begin your journey into Hawkwind's Space Rock galaxy? Maybe you are a Motörhead fan who wants to learn about bassist "Lemmy" Kilmister's Hawkwind roots (after all, the name Motörhead is from a Hawkwind song). Either way, Dave Thompson's The Encyclopaedia Hawkwindia is the perfect book to enl...

Foreigner bassist Jeff Pilson (ex-Dokken) is a guest on the Goldmine Podcast to detail a current fundraiser for the band's crew and their families hit hard financially by the pandemic. Foreigner is selling limited-edition memorabilia and merchandise at their web site Foreigneronline,com. There will also be an auction of a personally autographed guitar from Pilson himself. Foreigner is primarily a...

Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French comes on the Goldmine Podcast to discuss the group's Stay Hungry album getting the audiophile treatment over 35 years later. with Mobile Fidelity records. And, being the holiday season, A Twisted Christmas is discussed, too, with all the trimmings. Part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Holiday season 2020! Goldmine can't think of a better way to get into the Christmas spirit than discussing Christmas records. Longtime Goldmine writer Tim Neely wrote a great piece in the January print edition — on newsstands now at select Barnes and Noble, Books A Million and indie record stores —where he talks about building a Christmas album collection in a cost-effective way. On the podc...

Listen to a full review of Tom Lounges' Record Bin in Hobart, Indiana on this episode of Goldmine Podcast's Record Store Recon. The Record Bin has a man cave aesthetic with music playing from its own internet radio show. And, if you listen to this podcast episode (and get a clue), you can enter a contest to win a gift package from Tom Lounges' Record Bin! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Le...

Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz calls in from his residence in Montana to talk about Record Store Day Black Friday, this year’s RSD drops (in August, September and October) and how record stores have coped during the pandemic. Take a listen to the episode, record collectors, it will only increase your enthusiasm for this year's RSD Black Friday. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts Lea...

The Cars' bassist/vocalist Benjamin Orr is the topic of this podcast episode as his biographer Joe Milliken is our guest. Milliken published the biography Let's Go! about Orr's life growing up in Ohio and his integral involvement in the mega-popular rock group The Cars. Any Cars fan (or fan of that era) will want to listen to this one! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your...

Brandon Bogajewicz, the owner of the vinyl record subscription service Vinyl Moon (vinylmoon.co), explains how he curates each vinyl record compilation to make Vinyl Moon the most unique monthly vinyl membership around. The show is a part of The Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Goldmine Podcast's Record Store Recon discusses anonymous reporter Dr. Disc's visit to Scratched Vinyl in Barrington, Illinois. The visit was during Record Store Day's second Record Drop day and the good doctor plans on going back to Scratched Vinyl for the third RSD Drop on October 24, 2020. Listen to this podcast episode and find out more about this clean, well lit place for records and other mu...

Singer-songwriter Bruce Sudano comes on the Goldmine Podcast to talk about his latest Spirals EP and his past songwriting credits such as "Bad Girls," a huge hit for his wife, the late Donna Summer. On this episode, we'll sample music from the Sudano's newest EP as well as an acoustic rendition of "Bad Girls" (the way the song was originally written). We will also talk about his affiliation with T...

William Shatner of Star Trek fame (Captain Kirk) talks about his latest album, The Blues, a tribute to the blues, melding Shatner's thespian talent with legendary musical accompaniment. Musical guests like Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, Pat Travers, Albert Lee, Steve Cropper, members of Canned Heat, James Burton of Elvis Presley fame, all dazzle while Shatner moans and groans along with...

On what marks John Lennon's 80th birthday, Beatles author John M. Borack and Goldmine editor Patrick Prince got together on a podcast episode to discuss many of the things that made Lennon such a special human being, from the great Beatle’s general philosophies on life to the nuances in his music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rock photographer Mark Weiss comes on the Goldmine Podcast to talk about his new hardcover book, The Decade That Rocked (Insight Editions).The Decade That Rocked is a beautifully designed, 378-page, full-color coffee table book which chronicles Weiss’ skyrocketing career in the 1980s — taking iconic photos of the decade's biggest rock stars like Ozzy Osbourne and Jon Bon Jovi. Weiss' will also tal...

Singer-songwriter and former Joan Jett & the Blackhearts guitarist Ricky Byrd chats about his solo album, Sobering Times. Byrd is also a recovery coach and drug/alcohol counselor, who visits schools, rehab facilities, and detention and detox centers to perform, talk, and lead recovery music groups. He elaborates on his personal mission to help others struggling with addiction to keep on the road o...

Visit Lafayette, Indiana's Black Wax Records in this episode of Goldmine's Record Store Recon. Anonymous record store reviewer Dr. Disc reports to editor Patrick Prince about what makes this college town record shop, near Purdue University, so special. Once again, there is an autographed vinyl giveaway if you listen to the entire episode and get the details. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts....

Music historian Harvey Kubernik comes on the Goldmine Podcast to dig deep into his latest book Docs That Rock, Music That Matters. Kubernik grew up in Los Angeles in the 1960s and absorbed all the show business that surrounded him, as the world of film and television began to mesh with the music industry. Music variety shows such as Shindig! and Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and films such as Gi...

Fifty years ago on September 18, 1970, the world lost one of the most beloved musicians of all time, Jimi Hendrix. As a tribute to the late rock guitarist, jazz bassist Brian Bromberg reissues his instrumental homage called Bromberg Plays Hendrix, which energetically covers Hendrix songs in a new way. Bromberg comes on the Goldmine Podcast to talk about the album Bromberg Plays Hendrix and inform...