Vinyl Freak Book Launch

Press Release

JOHN CORBETT VINYL FREAK BOOK LAUNCH
WITH LIVE MUSIC FROM DISTENDED ORGAN (LAFMS MEMBERS)

JULY 12, 2017 | 6-9 PM

Join us Wednesday, July 12 at The Box for the launch of Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium (Duke U. Press, 2017). John Corbett reads from his new book, with live music by Distended Organ (members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society). Copies of Vinyl Freak will be available for purchase at the event. 

From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl Freak, music writer, curator, and collector John Corbett burrows deep inside the record fiend’s mind, documenting and reflecting on his decades-long love affair with vinyl. Discussing more than 200 rare and out-of-print LPs, Vinyl Freak is composed in part of Corbett's long-running DownBeat magazine column of the same name, which was devoted to records that had not appeared on CD. In other essays where he combines memoir and criticism, Corbett considers the current vinyl boom, explains why vinyl is his preferred medium, profiles collector subcultures, and recounts his adventures assembling the Alton Abraham Sun Ra Archive, an event so all-consuming that he claims it cured his record-collecting addiction. Perfect for vinyl newbies and veteran crate diggers alike, Vinyl Freak plumbs the motivations that drive Corbett and collectors everywhere.

Join the Facebook event and read Peter Margasak's piece on Vinyl Freak in the Chicago Reader.