MONDAY MARCH 26th @ 8pm
free in-store performance
Siphoned from flying graveyards and fed through giant funnels of navigatory spirits to the haunted outskirts of behavior and all of its rickety platforms, an intuitive, much weirder America is on the rise. One formed from necessity and adaptation. One that won't give up their guns or their souls to the agencies trained to occupy them. Those who can communicate outside of language and direct energy on the inside are the only valid resistance to the creeping tumors of controlled humanity.

MMOB speed now solidified Into a seven piece cosmic psyche force. Like a reverse Dark Side of the New Age sound, on-the Totem series Master Musicians of Bukkake performer ritualistic electric excursions Into the outer and inner reach. Relying more on the electric power of Psyched guitars, analog synth chants, and exotic heavy percussion. Totem one modify "With The Delusions of a West Coast Death cult. Outer spaced Gamelan, dusty fuzz rock from celestial deserts, the meditation of a Deranged Krishna Gathering, And The Blurry acoustic guitar Majesty of the Cascade Mountains all Reveal Themselves here in epic form Totem On One. Every sound and note Played put to tape by a group with a singular purpose purging.

They'll be fresh off a performance at the 1st Annual LA Psych Fest and performing a free show in our store for your listening pleasure!


Better late than never! Our friend Jason Solomon recorded this video at the OFF! 4x7" boxset release party at Vacation Vinyl way back when on December 14, 2010.





SATURDAY, MARCH 24th @ 7PM
MUKNAL & ZOLOA
cassette release
free in-store performancesNew cassettes out from these two Crepusculo Negro / Rhinocervs related projects will celebrate with live rituals by both bands this evening. Previous Black Twilight Circle events at the shop have been incredibly memorable and this will be one to check out for sure.
SPLIT CRANIUM - S/T LP


Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse? How about play fast, die old and leave the next round of stiffs wondering what the shit their crusty old grandpop was up to back in the economically vibrant 20-teens when liquid gold flowed down from Finland’s Kemi River and crisp American sawbucks grew on trees? If Split Cranium had a manifesto—which they don’t—they might at least consider endorsing that one, whatever it was, before giving us all the finger and getting on with it.

“It” being a highly satisfying blitzkrieg of Finnish/Amero punk perpetrated by Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord), Jukka Kröger, Samae Koskinen (Steel Mammoth) and Aaron Turner (Mamiffer/ex-ISIS), a token American brought in to soften potential US resistance to the Finns’ brash mastery of almost every style of rock worth mastering. Of course, it’s no coincidence that Mr. Turner is also not exactly a fucking slouch in the vocal department, lending his patented monastic chants and feral roars to the band’s stomp n’ burn riffola and death-defying d-beats.

Available Saturday, March 10th at 11am in the limited to 100 Vacation-exclusive CLEAR vinyl, as well as SIMPLE GREEN and BLACK wax. All copies from Vacation come with a poster and screenprinted patches for CIRCLE, SPLIT CRANIUM and HYDRA HEAD RECORDS.

"Noctiluca" LP release in-store
FRIDAY, MARCH 9th @ 8PM



Dunes will be performing at Vacation Vinyl to celebrate the release of their new LP "Noctiluca" on Post Present Medium (PPM)



KCRW took a trip to 3 local record stores: Wombleton, Permanent and Vacation to interview their proprietors about vinyl and the record store scene in LA.



VICE.TV interviews Pete Majors (with a cameo appearance by Mark Thompson) about the shop and some of its records.

Click either title to link to its respective video.


VACATION SPONSORED EVENTS


free in-store performance
FRIDAY, MARCH 2nd @ 7PM




"California's LOW PLACES deliver a slew of fast powerviolence influenced hardcore with a metallic twist that gives nods to the early Earache bands. Kinda like Neanderthal/No Comment jamming with early Entombed."




"CREATURES' blend of unrelentless force and raw power produces a barbaric sound unlike any other."
GILEAD MEDIA MUSIC FESTIVAL
APRIL 28TH & 29TH, 2012 in OSHKOSH, WI


On April 28th and 29th, 2012, Gilead Media will bring together fans from across the nation for a celebration of the label's bands and history. Many familiar names from Gilead Media's recent past will be appearing alongside a select group of non-label bands, all personally selected to join the celebration by label founder, Adam Bartlett.

There will also be appearances and exhibits by visual artists Bryan Proteau (Natvres Mortes - http://clovenhoov.tumblr.com) and Reuben Sawyer (Rainbath Visual - http://rainbathv.tumblr.com)
Tickets are on sale now, and are limited to 250 per day. A weekend pass is available for $40.00 with the option to purchase individual day passes for $23.00 per day. Tickets can be purchased at www.gileadmedia.net/fest.
IDES OF GEMINI
free in-store record release performance
MONDAY, FEB 20th @ 8PM


Ides Of Gemini will be playing a free show at Vacation Vinyl in Los Angeles on Monday, February 20th, to celebrate the release of our split 12-inch with Vermapyre via Magic Bullet Records.

"Sera Timms’ voice is a national treasure. It’s a reverb-soaked choir of 4AD ghosts floating over scratchy guitars. Burzum scoring a spaghetti western. This stuff gives me chills."
—Cosmo Lee of Decibel magazine on IDES OF GEMINI

IDES OF GEMINI is a collusion of musical forces precipitated by the haunting and
inimitable vocal prowess of singer/bassist Sera Timms, also of Los Angeles dark-psych
alchemists BLACK MATH HORSEMAN. The compositions are the long-simmering
mental fallout of veteran music and film journalist J. Bennett (guitar/backing vocals),
who has spent most of the last 14 years writing for such publications as Decibel,
Terrorizer, Revolver, Alternative Press and Thrasher. The third and final corner of the
triangle is Kelly Johnston, whose martial drumming techniques and soaring backing
vocals literally brought IDES OF GEMINI to life as a performing entity.

Last year, Timms and Bennett recorded and self-released IDES OF GEMINI’s four-song
EP, The Disruption Writ, which was anointed “My Favorite Demo of 2010” by the highly
influential music blog Invisible Oranges. Lyrically, the songs detailed the terrifying
permanence of dismemberment in all its unsettling forms: psychological, emotional
and physical. Musically, though? Someone on the Internet called it “dream doom.”
Nobody likes to be pigeonholed, but IDES OF GEMINI will gladly take up temporary
residence in that particular nook for the sake of shorthand. Which is to say that “dream
doom” will do the trick for now. And now is nothing if not fleeting. Mostly because
IDES OF GEMINI are about to unveil their full-length debut, Constantinople, via Neurot
Recordings, the label owned & operated by members of the legendary NEUROSIS.

SOLDIER'S DISEASE & TESCO USA present a VALENTINE'S DAY show like no other.

CUT HANDS (William Bennett of Whitehouse) / BASECK / HIVE MIND
with before & between set DJing by Tesco Jane and Pete Majors.

Advance handmade tickets available at VACATION VINYL for $10 or $12 at the venue day of show.

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