Dave Thompson has authored Vinyl Record Collecting For Dummies (Wiley), a comprehensive 338-page guide to the record collecting hobby. A lot covered in Vinyl Record Collecting For Dummies to even make the seasoned collector interested. The discussion will center on different nuances of collecting and how the hobby might evolve. It's a worthwhile po…

Coney Hatch's Record Store Day 2024 vinyl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesتوسط Goldmine Magazine

Guitarist Billy Morrison (Billy Idol, The Cult, Royal Machines, Camp Freddy, Circus Diablo) talks about his new solo album, The Morrison Project, and all its features (Ozzy et al) and extras (Rock Star Weekend giveaway and more) on this episode of The Goldmine Podcast. The Morrison Project songs are sampled and detailed with Morrison and his guests…

On this episode of the Goldmine Podcast, founders of the auction house AnalogR and longtime Beatles collector Tom Fontaine talk about their massive Beatles Experience auction kicking off at the beginning of March. It's a must listen for any Beatles fan and music collector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

On this episode of the Goldmine Podcast, editor Patrick Prince, staff contributor Alan Brostoff and Dennis Lyxzen (Refused/Fake Names) engage in a conversation about music and record collecting — sharing experiences, tastes and preferences. Topics discussed are the importance of not limiting oneself when it comes to listening to music, the thrill o…

This year's RSD Black Friday was more fun than usual. Why? Let the Record Store Recon edition of the Goldmine Podcast explain, as editor Patrick Prince and Recon writer Dr. Disc tell you about their record finds and record store experiences on the biggest retail day of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Tonight, we’ll be talking a set of films that almost form a genre of their own. These films were often, though not always, “respected” by critics and the general public at large, but all bore that dark, almost despairing claustrophobia and realistic feel of what I and others were living every day out on the streets locally, far from the dayglo nons…

Take a break on your vacation in Virginia Beach, VA, and visit Vinyl Daze. Record Store Recon discuss Goldmine's visit to the Daze. The record store gets close to a perfect score — find out why. Listen in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesتوسط Goldmine Magazine

Archibald Alec Leach was born in Bristol, England at the turn of the century, January 18, 1904 to a tailor and a seamstress. A theatrical tour of NYC led him to emigrate at the ripe old age of 16, where he became a vaudeville song and dance man on the same circuit as the likes of the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello and Ted Healy and his Stooges.…

Select album cover art for Lynyrd Skynyrd by the artist Ioannis — included in a Goldmine Collector's Edition for the Fall 2023 issue — is covered in this episode of the Goldmine podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesتوسط Goldmine Magazine

The French crime film is different from those of other countries for several reasons. While some, certainly Jean Dellanoy's Soleil Des Voyeux (aka Action Man) draw elements from the German Krimi and the George Nader Jerry Cotton films and even the serial (particularly those of Feuillade, whose Fantomas and Les Vampires remain surprisingly gripping …

Roy Harold Scherer Jr. was born smack dab in the middle of both the Roaring 20’s and the country in Illinois, Thanksgiving of 1925. Of all the gay and bisexual actors and actresses we’ve covered, Hudson was easily the most elusive and convincing in his career long presentation as a very straight screen idol and leading man. While known to many in H…

Hugh John Mungo Grant was born at the start of September, 1960, Live at Hammersmith, London to a Highlander turned carpet salesman and a music and multilingual language teacher. A 1st XV division rugby player with a background in English literature who turned down an offer for a PhD in art history at London University, he instead took up drama at O…

Amy Fleisher Madden is a guest on the Goldmine Podcast to talk about her book Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006). Growing up during the rise of the emo scene in Miami, Florida, Madden started her own 'zine, Fiddler Jones, and eventually her own record company, Fiddler Records. Over the yaars she amassed many photographs and built …

Liege Lord certainly made their mark on the heavy metal genre. The band's brand of power metal combined the influences of early Iron Maiden and Judas Priest with the grit of '80s thrash metal. The nucleus of this sound was the songwriting of bassist Matt Vinci, who recently passed away on September 9, 2023. Matt would bring lyrics and bass lines to…

Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. was born in November of 1925 in Wales to an hard drinking coal miner cum absentee father and a pub barmaid. Growing up in a rough steel mill town under the roof of his older sister and her husband, he left school to work in the mines after his sister’s husband (like both parents before him) fell ill, due to the unregulate…

Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born in the Bronx's Castle Hill, in July 1969 to an Army guy turned computer tech and housewife turned gym teacher. Her decision to take up dance led to a major falling out with her mother, leaving the aspiring terpsichore living at her dance studio for months thereafter. Kicking off her career as an In Living Color Fly Girl…

Sandra Annette Bullock was born on July 26, 1964, in our nations capitol, Washington, D.C. to a German opera singer (and daughter of a rocket scientist!) and an Alabama career military man who, perhaps surprisingly, was also a voice coach. A military brat, she spent her youth in Nuremberg, Vienna and Salzburg, before returning to attend school in V…

A Record Store Recon discussion about Goldmine's Spring visit to the Record Farm in Logansport, IN during Joey Ramone Tribute night with live punk artists The Queers, The Putz, Don't Wannas and BR from Sloppy Seconds. We have podcast guests/friends from the Punk Til I Die podcast talk about their experience from that night as well. Fun, fun, fun, w…

Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone was born in the heyday of Mussolini, Rome 1934 to an engineer turned railway worker who may or may not have been descended from a Viscount and a piano teacher/local actress who he never married, hence leaving Loren and her mother in poverty. Finalizing in local beauty contests under the assumed name Sofia La…

Born to the trade right here in Manhattan, April of 1932, Tony Perkins was the son of theatrical actor Osgood (most notably appearing alongside Boris Karloff, George Raft and Paul Muni in Scarface the very same year.) Raised almost entirely by his mother and a French nanny, he self-avowedly "became abnormally attached to" his mother, developing "an…

Rival Sons are one of the best guitar rock bands out there today, giving a contemporary flavor to the best elements of a listener's favorite classic rock. In fact, editor Patrick Prince leads the podcast by stating exactly this point. Guitarist Scott Holiday is the guest on the podcast to talk about the band's latest album, Darkfighter, its theme o…

dCommunity gives an in-depth example of the change coming in services rendered via memorabilia auctions and the community that drives it. If you are a music collector or auctioneer, the future is now — learn how things will work in the Web3 world we will inevitably live in. Guests on this episode, dCommunity co-owner Sean Larkin and President Peter…

Longtime Goldmine contributor Dave Thompson comes on the Goldmine podcast to talk about his latest book, An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock. It's an interesting conversation on how ancient child ballads have been a huge influence on artists ranging from Led Zeppelin to Simon & Garfunkel. Learn more about your ad choice…

Born in Newark, NJ in September of 1940, Brian DePalma went from physics student to student filmmaker in the heady height of the hippie era, with his early experimental films introducing none other than the much feted Robert DeNiro to the world at large. Following a surprising run of perversely Hitchcockian works like Sisters, Obsession, Dressed to…

With the new album Constellation, singer-songwriter Kelly Deco delivers electric retro rock — the futuristic sound of ELO, David Bowie meets the theatric flavor of Meat Loaf and Rocky Horror Picture Show. Join us on the Goldmine podcast for a talk with Deco and his producer, the legendary Val Garay (Neil Diamond, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, et al…

Santa Monica, Thanksgiving of 1958, Jamie Lee Curtis was born to screen idols Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Left to be raised by a single mother as a toddler, Curtis dropped out after a single semester at law school to take on the wild world of thespianism as a television bit player in notable episodes of The Shaun Cassidy/Parker Stevenson Hardy Boy…

Denny Somach is an American businessman who is a recognized rock historian, author, radio personality and producer. He is also the owner of DSP Classic Rock Archives, which includes one of the largest collections of rock album cover art. He has worked with The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Rush, AC/DC and many others. Now he has decided to sell may of …

Born in NYC way back in 1938 to a garment district worker, Richard Benjamin met his wife to this very day, fellow actress Paula Prentiss, and would appear with her in several theatrical, filmic and televised roles (starting with late 60s sitcom He & She, oft referenced as a template for the iconic Mary Tyler Moore show.) This short lived but critic…

Listen in on how Loud Pizza Records scores with an inviting appeal, brilliant marketing strategy and perfect location. The Record Store Recon edition of the Goldmine Podcast visits Loud Pizza, a record store in Chicago, IL, with editor Patrick Prince and roving (somewhat anonymous) reporter Dr. Disc. Also, special guest Liverpool Neil of the podcas…

John Adam Belushi was born in Chicago, 1949...and like so many bright lights of the counterculture, left us at a disturbingly young age, only 33 years later at the dawn of March, 1982. A candle burning at both ends, this somersaulting, volatile, pratfall prone comedian stole the spotlight wherever he went, in both personal and onscreen life, from C…

Born in 1962 in Disneyworld territory, Orlando, Florida, Wesley Trent Snipes grew up on the mean streets of the Bronx, before shuttling back to Florida as a teen and then doing college out in California. After some awkward beginnings as a drug dealer in Miami Vice and the heavy in a Michael Jackson video (and losing out on a pair of high profile op…

Australian singer-songwriter Joe Matera comes on the Goldmine Podcast to talk about his latest release, The Lone Runner, a soothing tapestry of upbeat instrumentals. It is somewhat of a departure from Matera's guitar-driven albums of previous years. Goldmine columnist Warren Kurtz (Fabulous Flip Sides) joins in the conversation to give his opinion …

Caryn Elaine Johnson, was born in Manhattan in 1955. A Trekkie since childhood, she would eventually go on to a recurring (if oft uncredited) role on the successor series to that very show... Working an unusual, character based standup in the vein of Carol Burnett or Tracy Ullman, it was none other than Steven Spielberg who pulled her from handling…

On this Record Store Recon edition of the Goldmine Podcast, Editor Patrick Prince and anonymous Recon reporter Dr. Disc look at their Record Store Day 2023 experience. Was it positive? How were all the stores that they had visited? Did they get everything they wanted? And so on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

As Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon album turns 50 years old, Goldmine Editor Patrick Prince and columnist Dave Thompson talk about how the 50th anniversary box set is beautifully packaged and has such a powerful sonic quality. Also discussed: the roots of The Dark Side of the Moon — what Pink Floyd songs led up to the 'Dark Side' vibe — and …

Edward Regan Murphy was born in Broooklyn's dicey Bushwick district, 1961, to a transit cop and ill fated aspiring comedian. Raised by a single mother (after a lengthy stint with foster parents!) and idolizing the similarly minded 70's standup star turned film lead Richard Pryor, he rose to fame as a four year veteran of Saturday Night Live, becomi…

Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset came into this world in the latter days of WWII, in the Fall of 1944 to a Scotch GP and French lawyer cum housewife who biked her way into an airlift out of Occupied France and her new life in the rather rural climes of Surrey. A short modeling career led to roles in such disparate films (in quality as well as type…

Goldmine's Record Store Recon visits the Comeback Vinyl record store in Alpharetta, Georgia (30 mins. out of Atlanta). Anonymous reporter Dr. Disc calls it the cleanest record store he has ever visited (among other great qualities)! We also discusse a 'virtual' trip to Vinyl Dinosaur in New Jersey, as well as a cool giveaway! There's more, too! Rec…

The Top 20 Deep Purple songs of the '70s, ranked by author Martin Popoff. Let the debate continue! This podcast episode breaches off from an article Popoff did on GoldmineMag.com called "Top 20 Deep Purple songs from the '70s, ranked." In fact, you can read the article HERE before you listen to the podcast. Will "Smoke On the Water" come in at No. …

Born Francis Albert Sinatra in lovely downtown Hoboken, NJ, Frank so idolized 1930s swing singer and the man they coined the term "crooner" over, Bing Crosby, that he decided not only to emulate his hero, but to effectively BECOME him in the eyes of the American public. And for all intents and purposes, he succeeded. Possessed of a lighter, more ly…

Manhattan’s own George Segal Jr. was an interesting actor, moving deftly between solid and quite serious dramatic roles to a career in far broader, if generally still intelligent comedies in the 70s. One of the first "ethnic" actors of prominence to leave his name unchanged, he specialized in easily frustrated, angrily gesticulating types, lashing …

Clint Eastwood, Jr. was born into wealth in San Francisco, complete with in-ground pool and country club membership. Despite being drafted into the Korean war, never saw a lick of combat, serving as lifeguard at Fort Ord for his entire stint in the military, all very much belieing his later "tough guy" image. Lambasted as a terrible actor by Hollyw…

Record Store Recon reviews the new location of The Corner Record Shop of Grandville, Michigan — a record store known for its promotion of local musical talent. Plus, win this episode's giveaway from co-host Dr. Disc! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesتوسط Goldmine Magazine

Born at the dawn of the talkies in 1930, Richard St John Francis Harris was born to a “flour merchant” in Ireland, where he intended to become a rugby pro. With best laid plans derailed by a bout with disease, he decided to pursue a career in acting, only to find himself rejected as "too old" at the whopping age of 25. Nonetheless, he perservered f…

Goldmine editor Patrick Prince and scribe Dave Thompson take a time travel dive into The Rolling Stones' 1967 — from Between the Buttons to the myth of an English Summer — on the latest episode of the Goldmine Podcast. Look for Dave Thompson's full story on the Stones' trip through 1967 in the nest issue of Goldmine Magazine (Apr-May 2023), availab…

Harvard Literature major turned Biological Anthropology BA and medical school student turned author Michael Crichton penned no less than 26 novels...of which at least 9 were made into feature films. Turning screenwriter, he quickly shifted chairs to direction, delivering several memorable films (and scripting and producing even more.) With interest…

Tonight, we’re talking to a modern day doom metal giant. Originally working in a very different band and genre, Christian Hector and Daniel Droste ventured off into the rarified world of funeral doom…and transformed it into something all their own. With a focus on late 19th century whaling and nautical literature, particularly those tomes of a dark…

In this episode of the Goldmine Podcast, Goldmine editor Pat Prince and longtime writer Dave Thompson pick Jeff Beck's Top 5 songs. Not an easy task. Beck always had brilliant guitar work on anything he recorded and there have been plenty of collaborations (sometimes live) worthy of pointing out. In the end, there were the obvious choices and a few…