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iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and more

Hi friends,

I’m excited to let you all know that all Invertebrata Records releases are now available as digital Music Appsdownloads from a wide range of outlets including iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Google Play, Deezer, etc.. While we love buying vinyl (and 10″ vinyl in particular), we also know that not everyone else does so we wanted to make sure that whatever your preferred method of listening is, you won’t be left out. Naturally, you can still buy vinyl or digital downloads from this website or our Bandcamp page and that’s not going to change.

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Knagglig Rock!

I’ve been pretty bad about posting lately. There is news round these parts that I’ll be sharing soon but for today, I wanted to share a recent, most excellent discovery of mine.

It’s no secret that I think that 10″ vinyl is the finest format for releasing music but once you’ve got a passel of 10″ records, it can be a little frustrating to find a good way to store them. It’s not hard to find a record crate that your 12″ vinyl fits snuggly and safely in but those precious 10″ records just tend to slide around and look so uncomfortable in such a large crate. I’ve been looking around for a solution and it seems that 10″ vinyl crates are as rare as hen’s teeth. You can imagine my surprise and pleasure then when I discovered a new item at my local IKEA called the Knagglig (of course).

KnaggligThe Knagglig is just the right size and shape to house roughly 80 10″ vinyl records. It’s assembled quickly (took me 20 minutes) using 12 wood screws. Thoughtfully, the screws are all countersunk so you don’t have to worry about them scratching a wood floor or damaging a record. It seems reasonably strong after putting it together but if you’re at all worried or you move your records a lot, you could easily reinforce the construction with some wood glue. It comes in natural, unpainted (but smoothly sanded) wood so you could stain it or paint it however you like and best of all, it’s $10.

The only thing I don’t like about the construction, which you can see in this picture, is that brackets that are screwed together are on the inside of Knagglig Interiorthe crate rather than on the outside as on a traditional record crate. This means that the last 10″ of the bunch is only supported along it’s right and left sides. I may put some kind of backing behind my records to provide support across the entire back  as it seems that over time, this could prove to be a bad thing.

That complaint aside, I think these crates are a Knagglig with records in itfantastic solution to the problem of 10″ vinyl storage. They even have handles built into them that makes moving your records a little easier. For $10 they’re kind of a no-brainer.

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Vamplifier @ Quenchers

Vamplifier

Hey friends. Things have been pretty quiet around these parts lately but I wanted to take a second to let you know that Vamplifier is playing this Sunday at Quenchers with Radiant Devices, Soft Ledges and Br. The show is at 9:00pm. Come out and support local music.

More details below:

https://www.facebook.com/events/126743904421442/

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Square Roots!

Invertebrata Records is pleased to announce that both Photo-Curio and Vamplifier will be playing at this year’s Square Roots Festival in Chicago the weekend of July 8th-10th!

Photo-Curio Band Photo

Vamplifier Band Photo

You can catch Vamplifier on Saturday at 4:15pm on the North Stage. Photo-Curio will be playing at 6:00pm on Sunday in Szold Hall. We’re excited that both bands are getting this great opportunity and hope to see you there. Also, if you haven’t already bought their EPs, you can do so in our shop, at our Bandcamp page or in person at the Square Roots Festival.