the wax museum vinyl project
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I will be bringing some stock from the shop and some selections from my old collections. Please bring your own vinyl to trade. If your into vinyl I hope you can make it out. Systemaddict will be spinning and there will be drink specials. |
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Thanks to everyone who came out to the show and to all the crew who helped out. Keep your screens peeled for the next one. |
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Downtown El Paso Mural of a Legend
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Tribute to the legacy of Crosno Barrio mural honors legendary radio personality Ramón Rentería / El Paso Times EL PASO — El Paso icons never really die. They are resurrected on walls across the city. The resurrection of legendary El Paso radio personality Steve Crosno is taking shape on the side of La Nave Grocery at Fourth and Campbell streets in South El Paso. Muralist Jesus “Cimi” Alvarado, 31, his friend Osvaldo Velez and volunteers have been working on the tribute mural on weekends and expect to finish it by mid-February. “We want to create another arts movement in the Segundo Barrio,” Alvarado said. “This is educational for our community. You go to the library and schools, and they’re not educating our people about our own culture and artists.” Crosno is credited with opening the doors of El Paso mainstream radio to countless Visual Cue Necessity is the mother of invention, que no? With everybody losing their jobs, retirement plans, benefits, and life of leisure, who can afford ample amounts of art supplies… ‘Body as site’, touché Without any surprise the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts does it again. The University of Texas at El Paso’s… Hispanic and African-American musicians, including various local bands, Mex-Tex entertainers Little Joe Hernandez, Sunny and the Sunliners, and rock ‘n’ roll legend James Brown. Crosno died Aug. 5, 2006. He already had emphysema and was diagnosed with cancer. The mural also pays tribute to barrio tenement dwellers and El Paso vocalist Sunny Powell and the Night Dreamers, a 1960s cover band. Crosno produced Powell’s recording of Redding Crotter’s “Mr. Pitiful” in 1965. Powell continues to perform. “We blended the ’60s with the ’70s, ’80s and the modern era” in the mural images, Velez said. Velez, 31, a custodian at Guillen Middle School, listened to Crosno on the radio as a teenager while hanging out with his friends in the Segundo Advertisement Barrio. He still applauds Crosno for playing music on the radio and on the “Studio 14″ dance show on television while also helping the community and various El Paso bands. “Steve Crosno is a legend. He invented the El Paso sound, played a discotheque and gave an opportunity to artists of color,” Velez said. “He helped La Raza a lot and broke many barriers.” Velez and Alvarado grew up in South El Paso. They plan to do more public art projects in the future. El Paso music historian George Reynoso, owner of All That Music, provided an image of Crosno for the muralist. Reynoso is convinced the Crosno mystique still appeals to Mexican-Americans and Chicanos across El Paso who grew up listening to his music. “Crosno represented unabashedly just common folk,” Reynoso said. “He just pandered to that crowd because he felt close to them.” Crosno is credited with coining the term “El Paso-style oldies,” usually referring to slow dance tunes and sometimes bilingual songs that continue to be popular among oldies radio fans. “I have no connection to this honest grass-roots tribute. This is coming out of the heart of the barrio,” Reynoso said. “It speaks to the legacy of Crosno.” Ramón Rentería may be reached at rrenteria@elpasotimes.com; 546-6146. |
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newspaper tree article
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Waxing Lyrical Posted on April 3, 2009 When the Wax Museum closed its doors, the music didn’t stop. Zeque Penya talks about the whereabouts of his record collection. The Wax Museum record shop, which boasted vinyl of a wide range of decades and genres, is no longer with us in the physical realm. However, it has yet to, in the old English sense, give up the ghost. The ghost, or soul, of this operation is Zeque Penya, who still continues to sell online at the store website and an Ebay page. For anyone who is unfamiliar with the record shop, a MySpace investigation will reveal boldly designed fliers that chronicle The Wax Museum’s history. A record collector since high school, Penya opened the store’s initial location on Stanton in April 2006, which he described as “more of a stand with 500 records there.” When the lease ran out in May 2007, they moved the stand to the Montana location, where it stood until Penya closed the doors in May 2008. The store touted records including Hot Chip, Neil Young, Velvet Underground, Daniel Johnston, and Super Furry Animals, a range aimed at those with more discriminating musical tastes. “It was definitely a specialty shop; I wasn’t covering all bases. Someone who wants a Top 40 record, they could go to FYE. I wasn’t really aiming for that crowd,” he said. The selection has trended more exploratory since taking on its online format, featuring selections from jazz flautist Bobbi Humphrey, 1950s country crooners The Wilburn Brothers, and 1960s soul outfit Booker T. & the M.G.'s. The Wax Museum now has an expanded clientele, including customers in Norway and only one online purchaser from El Paso. While he is able to continue selling records while he pursues film and graphic design, he still values the personal nature of visiting a record store as a part of musical enrichment. “There’s something about record culture; you have to be able to flip through. It’s like a library or museum. You can learn from the experience,” he said. The store proved itself successful, making a profit and featuring and increasingly wide selection. But the budgetary issues that plagued Penya were not about money, but about time. Without the record shop to tend, he has been able to create a midway point. His enthusiasm for the record-flipping process led him to launch the record sales he hosts at the Percolator, meant to converge bands, artists, and designers to create a sensory experience. He said that hosting local artists and musicians brings out those who may have not otherwise visited his stand alone record shop, continuing the musical education that he valued during The Wax Museum’s duration. “A group of teenagers came up, and none had a record player, but they bought records. That never would have happened at the store,” he said. The next record sale will be on April 17 at The Percolator. |
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We currently don't have any vinyl for order.
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