HELLAS MOUNDS + THE COMA RECOVERY Mon Jan 4th

FREE IN-STORE
Monday Jan 4th @ Vacation:

HELLAS MOUNDS

The name Hellas Mounds comes from the discovery of mountains near the Hellas basin on planet Mars. In keeping with otherworldly discoveries, HM has developed a sonic palette as unpredictable as it is focused. Space is the place for this pack of consummate musicians, but their sound is rooted deep in the Earth's core, creating psychedelic and ambient soundscapes that compliment their chunky, rhythmic and larger-than-life riffs. Even when their jams stretch to almost twenty minutes, songwriting takes the stage, as not one second is lost in self indulgence. Each piece tells the story that you've been waiting all of your life to hear.

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COMA RECOVERY

This is the best write up I could find - this band is mysterious!

Defining itself with origins in Albuquerque, New Mexico, The Coma Recovery (formerly known as Persona Projector) has been releasing its atmospheric hybrid of progressive rock upon the southwest and across the United States, slaughtering the livestock, burning the buildings, salting the earth, and enslaving the children of villages along the way for close to three years - leaving no eye open to weep for the dead. The Coma Recovery is bolstered by passionate musicians with a consensual desire to create inspirational music and demand its progress.

Free In-Store
Monday Jan 4th
7pm

Also:

the Colt 45

Free for those 21 and older

Hellas Mounds
Coma Recovery
Ear/Splitters
Saw Her Ghost Records




Upcoming Free In-Stores:
Friday Jan 22nd 7pm
Fight Amp

Mark McGuire + Joshua Blatchley Free In-Store Thur Dec 17th

Mark McGuire

Mark McGuire, who you may know as one-third of Cleveland noise trio Emeralds, has more than 20 releases under his belt, but none quite like his offering for VDSQ. Of his song "Front Porch Breeze," McGuire says, "It started out as a ten-minute track..I had just come in from outside when I recorded it and I remember my hands being too cold from the wind to play at first. If I had waited a few minutes to start this would probably be a much longer piece."

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Joshua Blatchley

Joshua Blatchley fronts the band Mountian Home and his release on VDSQ is his first solo instrumental guitar album. Stereogum praised his music as being "wandering, openly structured, classically tuned atmospherics."

Thursday Dec 17th

7pm

Mark McGuire

Joshua Blatchley

Vin Du Select Qualitite

CULT of HORNS Friday Dec 18th 6-9pm

CULT of the HORNS
Friday Dec 18th
6-9pm

CULT of the HORNS
featuring DJ sets by:
Daniel Dismal
Steven Strong
Organ Donor
w/ special guest DJ
Pete Majors

Also on the ones and twos:
the Colt 45

Free for those 21 and older


Future In-Stores:
Thursday Dec 17th 7pm

Mark McGuire + Joshua Blatchley

Sat Dec 19th 5pm

Boyd Rice 'NO' Book Signing

Monday Jan 4th 7pm
Hellas Mounds and Coma Recovery

Friday Jan 22nd 7pm
Fight Amp

Black Cobra Ticket Giveaway @ Vacation

Club my war 0)))))
Presents
Monday 12.21.09
Southern lord recording artists
BLACK COBRA 12AM
WITH
It's Casual 11pm
Groamville 10pm
Harassor 9pm
Chingalera 8pm

Dj between sets:
The one and only DIRTY LOUNGE!!!
Doors open 7pm
21+ to enter
$10 advance
$12 @ door

Viper Room
8852 West Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069-2108
(310) 652-7869

Ticket Giveaway at
CULT of the HORNS
Friday Dec 18th
6 - 9pm @ VACATION

Future In-Stores:
Monday Jan 4th 7pm
Hellas Mounds and Coma Recovery
Friday Jan 22nd 7pm
Fight Amp

IT'S CASUAL LIVE @ VACATION 11/27/09

UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US pre-party Thurs Dec 10th

Thursday Dec 10th
Vacation Vinyl presents an in-store DJ set by Pete Majors
and Cult of the Horn's DJ Steve Strong
celebrating the release of
the Black Metal Documentary:

UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY:

Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell

Until The Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture.

To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood, movement. The result is a poignant, moving story that's as much about the idea that reality is composed of whatever the most people believe, regardless of what's actually true, as it is about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky.

FEATURING: Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell, Varg "Count Grishnackh" Vikernes, Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg, Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad, Olve "Abbath" Eikemo, Harald "Demonaz" Nævdal, Bjarne Melgaard, Harmony Korine...

FEATURING MUSIC FROM: Darkthrone, Mayhem, Burzum, Ulver, Thorns, Gorgoroth, Enslaved, Boards of Canada, Black Dice, Sunn 0))), Múm, Lesser

UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US TRAILER
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US

Also on the ones and twos:


Free Colt 45 for 21+

And FRIDAY DEC 11th!


ZAZA
Friday Dec 11th 7pm



AND MORE!
Catch Vacation's
Pete Majors DJ Set at:
The VERDUGO BAR
Monday Dec 14th 10am - 2am
HYDRAHEAD Records Give Aways!

Decibel Magazine Photo Shoot

IT'S CASUAL Free In-Store Friday the 27th @ 7pm

CULT of the HORNS Presents:
THIS Black Friday the 27th
7pm
Free In-Store
with
IT'S CASUAL


Like most Angelenos, Eddie Solis is pissed about the traffic on the 101. Unlike most Angelenos, Eddie Solis writes songs about being pissed about the traffic on the 101.
Solis' band, an impossibly loud punk/hardcore duo called It's Casual, addresses transit issues with an urgency hitherto unmatched in the realm of urban planning. Imagine Henry Rollins at a City Council Transportation Committee meeting, all neck veins and municipal outrage, and you get the picture.
Onstage, Solis' eyes bulge amid a shock of curly hair, his throat emitting the collective war cry of a million frustrated commuters: "Los Angeles! There's too many people! I want them to go away!"...

From The LA WEEKLY read the rest here

IT'S CASUAL

Also, BLACK FRIDAY NIGHT:
Cult of the Horns 6pm-9pm




and


Free Colt 45 for 21+

Vacation GIFT COINS are now in stock

Now in stock at
Vacation Vinyl
GIFT COINS

Vacation Gift Coins are now available for all of your gift giving needs .
Reminiscent of drink tokens these (made in the USA) wooden coins are sold in $25 denominations.
Get in to it.

The Gift Coin

IMAAD WASIF Free In-store Friday Nov 20th 7pm

TOMORROW NIGHT
Friday Nov 20th
7pm
Free In-Store
with
IMAAD WASIF


In another life, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Imaad Wasif might have been a poet or a priest. He draws inspiration from beyond the veil, seeking connections and cosmic patters in the hopes of expressing the simplest but most profound message to his listeners: We are not alone. The urgency of that communication, and his need to convey it, give both his delicate guitar ballads and his fervent rock songs a ferocity and focus that resonates with every note.

IMAAD WASIF

Tee Pee Records

and


Free Colt 45 for 21+


Future In-Stores @ Vacation:

IT'S CASUAL and CULT of the HORNS
Black Friday Nov 27th 6-9pm
ZAZA Fri Dec 11th 7pm

XENO and OAKLANDER Free IN-STORE THIS Sat Nov 14th!

THIS Saturday the 14th
5pm
Free IN-Store
with
XENO
and
OAKLANDER

Xeno and Oaklander are based in Brooklyn, NY. They began writing music in 2004. Miss Liz Wendelbo is French / Norwegian and Sean McBride is from Maryland. They record their songs live in their studio and play analogue synthesizers and instruments exclusively.

XENO and OAKLANDER

and


Free Colt 45 for 21+

XENO and OAKLANDER

RED SPAROWES Free In-Store Nov 13th 7pm!

FRIDAY the 13th
7pm
Free IN-Store
with
RED SPAROWES
APHORISMS out now on Sargent House records


Red Sparowes is a Los Angeles post-rock band comprising current and former members of Isis, Halifax Pier, Angel Hair and Pleasure Forever. Their sound is characteristic of soundscape-influenced experimental rock, with an otherwise uncommon extensive use of a pedal steel guitar.





and


Free Colt 45 for 21+
THIS FRIDAY Night at Vacation

RED SPAROWES
SARGENT HOUSE

SHRINEBUILDER Meet & Greet @ VACATION!

TOMORROW NIGHT!
Tuesday Nov 10th at 8pm
Free Meet & Greet
with
SHRINEBUILDER
Debut album out on Neurot Recordings

"Highly anticipated" doesn't even come close to
describing this project.

Scott "Wino" Weinrich of Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, and The Hidden Hand on guitar
Al Cisneros of Om and Sleep on bass
Dale Crover of Melvins and Altamont on drums
Scott Kelly of Neurosis on guitar.
And all four of them on vocals.

Meet & Greet with


SHRINEBUILDER
WIN a pair of tickets to see the very first
Shrinebuilder show!
Shrinebuilder at the Viper Room Wed Nov 11th
performing 2 sets 11pm and 1am.

Also,
Win a pair of tickets to see Fu Manchu at the Troubadour w/It's Casual & Chingalera on Wed. the 11th!


and


Free Colt 45 for 21+
TOMORROW Night at Vacation

OM
Neurosis
Melvins
Saint Vitus
Fu Manchu
It's Casual
Chingalera


RED SPAROWES Fri Nov 13th 7:30pm
XENO and OAKLANDER Sat Nov 14th 5pm
IMAAD WASIF Fri Nov 20th 7pm

TYVEK Free In-Store Fri Nov 6th 7pm @ Vacation

TYVEK
Free In-Store
Friday Nov 6th @ 7pm

Detroit's finest group! Like the future but better!
Combining an uncanny channeling of The Urinals and early Mekons, Tyvek drops jaws to floors with solid acorns of repetitive punk/pop numbers that become oaks almost instantaneously.

TYVEK