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Social Science Recordings

About Me


Social Science Recordings
is a boutique record label in downtown Los Angeles. Run by musicians and music lovers, it is dedicated to lyrically-engaging, pop-inflected music by gifted singer/songwriters and indie rock bands. Each day, the SoSci staff gather in an unmarked building and assisted by copious amounts of coffee, music and computers, we toil to bring extraordinary music to the world.
REMIX Obi Best and/or Vincent minor HERE
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Vincent Minor's 'Born in the Wrong Era' ep now available as Digipack from Social Science Recordings or as digital download from iTunes .
Obi Best's 'Capades' is available digitally fromiTunes . Download & write a review if the spirit moves you!
Or get the physical cd from Social Science or grab a copy at an Obi Best show for a mere $10!
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Obi Best Video Featured on KCRW
Official Obi Best Video, It's Because of People Like You
Obi Best 'Green and White Stripes' Video!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/12/2006
Band Website: http://www.socialsciencerecs.com
Influences: Leonard Cohen / The Knife / Arcade Fire / Cat Power / Rufus Wainwright / The Bird and the Bee / Elliott Smith / AIR / Neutral Milk Hotel / Le Tigre / Jeff Buckley / Regina Spektor / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Silversun Pickups / LCD Soundsystem / Aqualung / Badly Drawn Boy / Wilco / Belle & Sebastian / Bright Eyes / Dresden Dolls / Blonde Redhead / Cold War Kids / The Decemberists / Feist / Joanna Newsom/ Keane / Of Montreal / Peter Bjorn & John / Sondre Lerche / Hot Chip / Nirvana / The Rapture / Chet Baker / Benji Hughes
Sounds Like: genuine gold leaf!
Record Label: Social Science
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CD Release Party Pics are up!

Hey guys!Thanks again for coming out Saturday night for the Vincent Minor CD release party! Here are a few pics from that night. Enjoy. If you have any pictures from that night, please send them our w...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:43:00 GMT

It’s B/C of People LIke You - Watch the video!

For those of you that missed it a couple weeks ago at Spaceland, Singingfool.com will be running the video exclusive for "It's Because Of People Like You"! It will run as a rotating main feature on th...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:38:00 GMT

Win Something Already! Obi Best's Top 5 Giveaway

You have two weeks to win.This is interesting to us: DNA, ancestry, offspring. We smell like our dads, obsess like our moms, grow hair like our uncles. The traits all somehow link up and trace back...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:06:00 GMT

Something very exciting is about to happen next week...

Keep Obi Best in mind and search the Itunes store after tuesday...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:42:00 GMT

Obi Best on SPIN.COM and KCRW

Mister William Goodman was digging and wrote about Obi Best on spin.com. Check it!http://spin.com/articles/catch-buzz-obi-bestAnd also played on KCRW last wednesday: http://legacy.kcrw.com/pl/NowPlayD...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:03:00 GMT

Free Obi Best Download on Tripwire!

We're giving away a mp3 of "nothing can come between us", the first track off Obi Best's debut album "Capades" that's coming out August 25th...http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2008/8/5/download-obi -bes...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:26:00 GMT

Obi Best played on Indie 103.1!

Hooray!http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.vie w&friendID=96691230&blogID=420925209
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:02:00 GMT

Michael Mangia Impromptu Loft Performance

"Michael at Orphan Headquarters"
Posted by on Mon, 26 May 2008 15:38:00 GMT

ORPHAN UPDATES!

 Stay updated! Subscribe to The Orphan Review!HERE'S WHAT'S NEW AT ORPHAN RECORDS:You guys know what MIDEM is? It's this music trade show that according to wikipedia, "bring[s] together musicians, bus...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:49:00 GMT

560 CONCERT SERIES

Orphan Records will be curating/hosting a monthly concert series in the fall. Concerts will be held on Thursday evenings in the Orphan Loft and feature solo performances by local and national up-and-c...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:23:00 GMT