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OUR STORY:
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For over 16 years the VGR has been driven by the ideal to educate, challenge, and inspire via music! The Village Green become a staple of the Muncie community and East Central Indiana and is now moving down to the home of Soul - Montgomery, Alabama! During this interim period as the store is working to get the next location locked do
wn and built-out the store is conducting its subscription program as well as all sales online. Please visit VillageGreenRecords.com
The record store has a surplus of music choices, growing more eclectic every day. The store may be small yet it provides a large array of music. If you would like to make a special order (CD, VINYL, DVD) contact the store via Facebook, Instagram, or email at [email protected]
Village Green Records holds instore/outdoor events seasonally and when the weather permits. If you would like for your band to perform at the shop please send us a message or send an email to [email protected]
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Join Our Patreon Subscription program
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Due to the Covid-19 Lockdown, the VGR created a subscription program to continue sharing new music with our clientele. Each month our Patreon members are given bundles of curated picks in the patron’s requested format - CD, Tape, or Vinyl. Join to grow your musical knowledge and record collection with records shipped state o your door.
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Past (National/International) Performers have been:
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Caddywhompus, Charlene Kaye, Timbre, The Sun + The Soil, Wye Oak, Nurses, Horse Feathers, Jookabox, Evangelicals, Anni Rossi, Cities Aviv, Building Better Bombs (P.O.S.), U***d Sailor, Brazil, Bit Mummy, Milagres, Bizzart, Odawas, Dave Fischoff, Canterbury Effect, In the Face of War, Birth Screams, Rodeo Ruby Love, Murder by Death, Liz Janes, Drew Danburry, Arrah and the Ferns, Half-Handed Cloud, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Audrey Ryan, Jeff the Brotherhood, Glue, husband&wife, Charlie Slick, William Sides Atari Party, Metavari, Burnt Ones, Apache Dropout, Laura Stevenson, State Champion, Seedy Seeds, Mason Proper, Good Luck, We Are Hex, Selfish Whales, American History, Rock Plaza Central, Oldine, Tamagawa, Middlemen, Jive Ocean, Valleys, Circuit Des Yeux, and many more!
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Past Local (Indiana) Performers have been:
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Rodeo Ruby Love, Everything, Now!, , Owlsburg, Support the TROOPZ, Shapes & Sizes, Josh Condon, Shipwreck Karpathos, Osteofercious, Cities of Noise, Scales, Small Wonders, Joel Levi, Cowboy Angels, Picked Clean, CleanXSlate, Acid Devils, Parasitic Twins, Swan, Facts of Life, Barf Blood, Still, Whoa Bro Awesome, This Story, Either/Or, Merc Versus, Chad Serhal, Works Cited, She Does is Magic, Holy Ghost Canyon, Bonesetters, Bobby Vomit, Dr. Butcher MD, Tianamen Squared, The Sorely Trying Days, Bleed Stone, Sky Thing, P.O.N.S., Man Called Relik, Valdez Horses, Saababanks, Pretender Contender, We**am Teenz, The Wolve's Pursuit, Delta Gold, Brother Juniper, Wooden Boxes, Prayer breakfast, Everthus the Deadbeats, Thunders, Wax Fang, Bears of Blue River, Eat the Rich, St. Vlasco, Hot Air Balloon, Hot Fighter, Beta Male, + MANY MORE
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IF YOU ARE A BAND:
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Send us a LINK or a CD of your band for us to play in the store and consider for a performance.
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WE'RE IN THE NEWS!!!
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Yours Truly:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2015/02/travis-harvey-ffm
COVIDelica and the VGR:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2020/09/news-village-businesses-feel-financial-strain-from-covid-19
Record Store Day 2020:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2020/09/village-green-records-celebrates-postponed-record-store-day
Dance Charity Event:
ballstatedaily.com/article/2015/09/vgr-hosts-save-the-dance
Sir Deja Doog Album Release Show:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2015/10/vgr-album-release-show
Hip Hop Coat Drive:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2013/01/hip-hop-showcase-coat-drive-to-benefit-boys-and-girls-club
FREE Show 2017:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2017/08/village-green-records-to-host-free-concert
Back to School Bash 2018:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2018/09/village-green-records-hosts-its-back-to-school-show
VINYL Sales Living on:
http://www.bsudailynews.com/local-business-profits-as-muncie-ball-state-students-catch-vinyl-record-fevor-1.2272098
GREAT ARTICLE ABOUT THE VGR
http://www.bsudailynews.com/features/big-impact-of-local-record-stores-1.2225992
National Record Store Day 2011 (Follow-up):
http://www.bsudailynews.com/features/rain-moves-national-record-store-day-indoors-1.2545120
Local Music and the VGR:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2014/03/village-green-records
A Younger Generation of Vinyl:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2014/02/how-you-spin-it
National Record Store Day 2011:
http://www.bsudailynews.com/features/national-record-store-day-gets-local-play-at-village-green-records-1.2542373
VGR presents local bands in Forgetabboutit show:
http://www.bsudailynews.com/features/vgr-presents-local-bands-in-the-forgetaboutit-show-1.2350841
Indie Rock Bands Converge at VGR:
http://www.bsudailynews.com/features/indie-rock-bands-converge-on-vgr-saturday-1.2367646
Back To School Show 2011 at the VGR:
https://www.ballstatedaily.com/article/2013/09/vgr-back-to-school-bash-showcases-9-bands
Back To School Show 2011 Aftermath at the VGR:
http://www.bsudailynews.com/back-to-music-1.2624978 #.TnjYt09UEl4
Back To School Show 2011 VIDEO:
http://www.bsudailynews.com/video-back-2-school-show-1.2624941 #.TnjZrU9UEl4
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Get Your Cut On: Algier Story:
http://www.bsudailynews.com/features/get-your-cut-on-barber-returns-to-the-village-1.2321557
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CURIOUS ABOUT VINYL?:
Looking into a Turntable? Here is a Video giving you some pointers: (*I wouldn't recommend the soap and water cleaning style though*)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQDsNY7j4Tg
---- VINYL >to> CD:
RIPPING VINYL TO COMPUTER as MP3, WAV or FLAC? USE THIS TUTORIAL; *V*G*R* RECOMMENDED:
http://sworntofun.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=160
---- NEED ANY WORK ON YOUR TURNTABLE? IF YOU ARE BROKEN GO HERE:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Turntable-Shoppe/138291246191925
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THIS IS WHAT THE *V*G*R* IS LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW!
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http://www.ilike.com/user/Village_Green_Records
Visit the VGR Spotify account for curated playlists!
