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Le Feelings: Vinyl Only Funk and Soul Show
Digital music makes sharing this Hawaiian funk-soul-jazz obsession of mine with people around the world. For those of you lucky enough to be in Honolulu this weekend, I'm ditching digital and spinning vinyl only.
Interview: Checo Tohomaso Still Sounds Fresh
"Back then all those bands was positive: Kool & The Gang, Commodores, Earth Wind & Fire. It was all uplifting, it was all high energy. Everybody go crazy when their songs comes on. It still sounds fresh..."
Keeping Aloha Alive: Checo Tohomaso
One of the greatest things in the world is seeing another human being smile. People expressing their happiness; just thinking about it makes me feel good. They are in love with life—or at the least, that very moment in life. This simple expression sends waves of positive energy to everyone in sight, because to smile is to evoke mankind's most lovable trait. Checo Tohomaso loves to smile. He loves God, living a healthy lifestyle, music, his friends and family. But most of all, he loves aloha. Meeting Checo for the First Time I realized this with a moment of clarity...
5 Thoughts on Record Collecting in Hawaii
I got to thinking again, but this time about what makes digging in Hawaii special. Following conversations with local collectors, here are my thoughts about record collecting in Hawaii.
Insider Look: The 2013 FLH Music & Book Sale
Events Record Shops / Crate Digging
The biggest used music and book sale in Honolulu is here, presented by the Friends of the Library of Hawaii. It isn't the popular McKinley sale, but "Friends, Books, Music: THE SALE", as FLH dubs it. The event takes place at their Kakaako warehouse this weekend, January 19-21, 2013. Doors open at 9:00am. The FLH Kaka'ako Warehouse In this huge warehouse, FLH stores thousands of books, CDs, and records. And every year they open it up to the public for their annual sale—after hauling and sorting and pricing everything, of course. I spent the past two afternoons helping Dennis Chun,...