Heavy Leather Record Club

05/24/2023

All I see is that poor record on the damn rug.

04/24/2023

Stacey's haul from Saturday's trip to !

04/10/2023

01/27/2023

Always heavy. Always leather.

01/16/2023

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View hlrc666’s Linktree. Listen to their music on YouTube, Spotify here.

11/15/2022

Blue Arrow Records, photo via Facebook I know of very few vinyl obsessives who’ve never availed themselves of the global online music database at discogs.com. A crowdsourced and fact-checked project of 17 years standing so far, its every entry is a deep trove of information, including every known ...

11/08/2022

  When rock and roll came along the companies designing and manufacturing record players had to catch up to the teenage dream. Pop music needed pop art delivery systems that reflected a generation’s infatuation with color and style. The drab old wooden players of our parents just wouldn’t do. W...

10/08/2022

Artist and comic legend Robert Crumb owns 8,000 78 rpm records from the 1920s and ‘30s. Crumb has been collecting 78s since he was sixteen.

10/06/2022

Check out the brand new episode from the gang and this week's Jam of the Week... 7Horse's Hippies on Acid!

This week! New releases, new arrivals, news, rants, raves, and more! All things vinyl right here! Please support the Compañeros Radio Network Patreon, if you can! Check out the other Compañeros Radio Network shows: * Movie Melt * Songs on Trial * Get Soft with Dr Snuggles * Heavy Leather Horror Sh...

09/21/2022

Muhammad Ali spinning records on his very own car turntable.   Though I’d be the first person to admit that drivers don’t need anything else to distract them from the road (I’m looking at you EVERYONE) I’ll also be the first person to endorse bringing back the trend of installing record pla...

09/04/2022

A Technics SL 1900 turntable set in a hand made oak coffin.

08/29/2022

GG Allin would have turned 66 today. Check out Cherrybomb's retrospective on his musical career before the s**t started flying.

Before GG Allin transformed himself into a spectacle of human decay and madness, he managed to put out a record with his band The Jabbers. During this time, Allin was still called Kevin, had a wife, and a straight job. The Jabbers jammed with Wayne Kramer of the MC5 and Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Bo

08/23/2022

Cherrybomb talked about this demo from Madonna and the Breakfast Club on a recent show and played the single "S**t on the Ground/Safe Neighborhood for the Heavy Leather crew. Now, here's her article about the cassette demo, which sold at a 2009 auction for $6400.

Madonna just wants to be punk. Doesn’t everybody? In 1979 Madonna was dating musician Dan Gilroy of the Breakfast Club. The pair were living in a converted synagogue in Queens, New York, poor but happy pursuing their respective careers which at the time for Madonna was her quest to be a dancer. Th...

08/15/2022

  Known as the “first talking stamps” in 1972, these tiny vinyl postage stamps from Bhutan were totally playable and when the needle was put on the record stamp you heard Bhutan’s national anthem and a capsule history of the nation. Talking stamps were thin plastic embossed records with remov...

08/15/2022

GRIM REAPER singer Steve Grimmett has died at the age of 62. Steve's passing was confirmed by his brother Mark Grimmett, who wrote on social media: "I don't really know where to start so I guess I will just come right out with it. It is with great sadness and a very heavy heart that I have to tell y...

08/12/2022

Björk record shopping in 1994.

08/09/2022

I don't think it's gonna work

TikTok users are poring over Metallica's past, with some now calling for the metal superstars to be 'cancelled' based on alleged past behaviours

08/09/2022

The heaviest thing happening in Salem on Halloween weekend. Salem is the biggest Halloween destination in the world. Cap is limited. Don’t miss this.
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY AT NOON.

08/06/2022