Performer Magazine

VINYL OF THE MONTH: Raibard
By Benjamin Ricci on September 7, 2022
Raibard Dark Realm of the Daylight Boston, MA (Self-Released) Sometimes music comes into your life when you’re not even expecting it. Recently, I was helping...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Ages and Ages
By Benjamin Ricci on April 29, 2019
Ages and Ages Me You They We (Partisan Records) It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of the Portland-based indie rock collective known as Ages...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: The Damnation of Adam Blessing [Re-Issues]
By Benjamin Ricci on July 10, 2018
VINYL OF THE MONTH: The Damnation of Adam Blessing S/T and The Second Damnation (Exit Stencil/Universal Music) When Exit Stencil Recordings told us they had restored...
VINYL OF THE MONTH : Videogram – “Test Subject 011”
By Benjamin Ricci on April 25, 2018
VINYL OF THE MONTH Videogram Test Subject 011 (7-inch) (SelectaVision Records) The SelectaVision debut by Videogram (aka Sweden’s Magnus Sellergren) is an open love letter...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Creepshow OST
By Benjamin Ricci on December 14, 2017
Creepshow is one of the more successful horror anthologies of the ’80s, due in no small part to its legendary creative duo of Stephen King...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Walk The Line Soundtrack (Re-Issue)
By Benjamin Ricci on October 25, 2017
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Walk The Line- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Craft Recordings) When the original Walk The Line soundtrack was released on CD back in the mid-2000s,...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Evil Dead II Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
By Benjamin Ricci on September 7, 2017
VINYL OF THE MONTH Evil Dead 2 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Waxwork Records) Waxwork Records has made a name for themselves in two separate, yet...
[VINYL OF THE MONTH] CHEECH – ‘Old Friends’ EP
By Benjamin Ricci on July 6, 2017
VINYL OF THE MONTH CHEECH – Old Friends EP Boston, MA WTF Records OLD FRIENDS EP (2017) by CHEECH Hardcore is alive and well and living in...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Eureka California ‘Wigwam’ 7-Inch
By Benjamin Ricci on May 3, 2017
Performer Magazine selects the new 7″ single “Wigwam” by Eureka California as its pick for VINYL OF THE MONTH, May 2017. Read our review and give...
[VINYL OF THE MONTH] Mad Denizen – ‘Starved’
By Benjamin Ricci on April 5, 2017
Mad Denizen’s debut full-length, Starved, is Performer’s pick for vinyl of the month. The Oakland band’s new LP is out soon on Broken Ear Records. Discovering the debut LP...