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This Sunday join us at @soulsidevinyl for Special Blends! I’ll be spinnin my first vinyl set ever alongside a lineup of powerhouse women DJ’s! It’s also time again for another Steep & Spin, so stop by my table and grab you some tea while you’re hangin out! #soulsidevinyl #localrecordshop #sandiegotea #sdartist
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This Sunday!! #specialblends #djpancakez #playingthejams #earcandy #comethru 🎶🎶🎶
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We’re keeping the energy alive with three nights of music, creativity, and good vibes! 🎧 MON 10/12 | DJ NIGHT | 3:30–7:30 PM Four DJs stepping up to the decks! Featuring @sal_talarimda, @djgioramon, @saraswati_sounds, and @1atc. Come through and catch some fresh sounds! 🎤 WED 10/14 | TEASTAYBLUE’S SOUL SIDE MIC NIGHT | 6–9 PM Calling all musicians, singers, poets, and performers! TeaStayBlue hosts our weekly open mic. The stage is yours! 🇯🇲 THU 10/15 | LAFS REGGAE NIGHT | 4–8 PM Selektress Lafs brings the island vibes with Lady Lafs, Rude Dogg, and Cirilo! Nothing but good music and positive energy. Whether you’re spinning, performing, or just enjoying the sounds, there’s a place for you here. 📍3535 Adams Ave | Normal Heights Culture. Community. Consciousness. #SoulSideVinyl #NormalHeights #SanDiegoMusic 🌙 THU 10/15 | SESSIONS BY THE BAY POP-UP | 6–9:30 PM We’re taking Soul Side Vinyl on the road for our first pop-up with Sessions By The Bay! DJ Beatnick provides the soundtrack while we bring the vinyl and good vibes. Catch us at 700 Bay Marina Drive! 🎪 FRI 10/16 | EPIC MUSIC FESTIVAL TAKEOVER | 5–8 PM Epic Music Festival takes over the shop! Come experience some of Southern California’s finest DJs as we link up for an evening of music, connection, and culture. DJ lineup coming soon! 🎧 SAT 10/17 | BFF DJs TAKEOVER | 2–6 PM The BFF DJs are back behind the decks! This crew has been holding it down for San Diego’s music community, and we’re excited to welcome them back for another afternoon of great selections. Come dig through the bins, discover new sounds, and connect with the people keeping our music scene moving. 📍Soul Side Vinyl | 3535 Adams Ave Thursday’s pop-up is at Sessions By The Bay. We’re closing out the weekend with art, tea, incredible DJs, and an opportunity to learn the craft! 🍵 SUN 10/18 | STEEP & SPIN W/ ROSE THORN | 10 AM–4 PM Our resident tea, art, and music connoisseur Sylise from Rose Thorn Tea House & Art returns with delicious handcrafted teas! Come sip, shop, and support local creatives. 🎧 SUN 10/18 | SPECIAL BLENDS | 10 AM–6 PM Optic brings Special Blends to Soul Side Vinyl, celebrating some of San Die
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This week at Soul Side Vinyl 🎶 We’re loading up the shop with three nights of music, community, and creativity. 🎤 WED 10/7 — Teastayblue’s Soul Side Mic Night 6–9PM Open mic for musicians, singers, poets, performers, and anyone ready to get on stage and express themselves. 🎧 THURS 10/8 — DJ Night 4–8PM Four hours of DJs rotating through the decks: @sal_talarimda • @6arate • Astrosop • Anwar 🌀 FRI 10/9 — Tunnel Night 6–10PM @maxximilian.v takes over with sounds by @sal_talarimda, @samthe.master_, @100deep_ and @maxximilian.v — plus local vendors in the building. Come through, dig for records, catch a set, meet somebody new and support the people making things happen in San Diego. 📍 Soul Side Vinyl | 3535 Adams Ave Culture. Community. Consciousness. #SoulSideVinyl #SanDiegoEvents #NormalHeights #AdamsAvenue Big weekend ahead. Two days, three events, and a whole lot of community. 🔊 🎶 SAT 10/10 — SOUND LOUNGE 5–8:30PM at Braveheart Barbershop Presented by Pamilya Sessions — an organic live jam where musicians and singers rotate in real time and create together. 🪩 SAT 10/10 — SOUL VIBE 9PM–Close at AC Lounge Soul Side Vinyl x @westcoastswoopnation DJs @frommarrss, @maxximilian.v & @junior_s_23 keeping the room moving all night. 🎟️ $5 presale / $10 door 🇵🇭 SUN 10/11 — KAPWA PRESENTS: KICK BACK, FAHM 11AM–6PM at Soul Side Vinyl Celebrating Filipino-American History Month with @kapwakanship — live performances, food + drink vendors, art, community and more. Different spaces. Different sounds. Same mission: bringing people together through music, art and culture. 📍 Soul Side Vinyl | 3535 Adams Ave
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Here's a little something something from our headliner for this Saturday's SOUL VIBE PARTY at @aclounge Mr.@junior_s_23 ‼️
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#throwback promo by #stormko #sandiegohiphop
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Excuse the finger…Old guy on the socials. Today is Sweet Chuck’s Vinyl Day Party! Saturday plans = handled. 🎶 We’re running it back at Soul Side Vinyl with a full day of selectors, records, good people, and neighborhood energy. @djsweetchuck has put it down for the San Diego music scene for decades. Let’s have some fun for him and show him how much we appreciate his contributions to the hip hop scene. From bringing in some of the biggest names in hip hop to SD to holding 3535 Adams Ave with Soul Shack, he left a legacy that SSV is building on and we will always be grateful. 🙏🏽🩸🙏🏽 He has been crazy gracious to me, a rookie business owner, mentoring me…sharing his network…helping me get on my feet with the record store. Thank you and we will always support you, Chuck! Fair winds and Following Seas! SAT 9/26 | 2–8PM 📍 Soul Side Vinyl 3535 Adams Ave • Normal Heights On deck: J-Blow • Bigg Hipp • Philly Phil • Jay Hutch • Al Garth • Existence76 • Sweet Chuck • Betty Bangs • Jaba Mada • Hobo Come dig, hang, catch a set, and spend the afternoon with us while we celebrate Sweet Chuck. Culture. Community. Consciousness. #SoulSideVinyl #NormalHeights #SanDiegoDJs #VinylCulture SAT 9/26 | 2–8PM 📍 Soul Side Vinyl 3535 Adams Ave • Normal Heights On the decks: J-Blow • Bigg Hipp • Philly Phil • Jay Hutch • Al Garth • Existence76 • Sweet Chuck • Betty Bangs • Jaba Mada • Hobo Come through, dig for records, catch a few sets, hang with the community, and spend the day with us. No big production. Just good music, good people, and the kind of day we built Soul Side for. CORTEX with special guest Adrian Younge Opening DJ sets by Ohmega Watts & Rareform 📅 October 22 📍 The Magnolia — El Cajon If you know Troupeau Bleu, you already know. If you don’t, this is the perfect time to dig into one of those groups whose fingerprints can be heard all over hip-hop and sample culture. This one is for the jazz heads, beat heads, producers, DJs, diggers, and anyone who loves finding the source material. Stay Tuned! We will be giving away 2 pairs of tickets to the show during a listening event soon!
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Stay Grindin’. Yoooooo…WHAT A WAY TO START THE WEEKEND. 🔥 Much love to @danieldegreemusic + @moralitymike for kicking things off right with SOUL IS VALUABLE at Soul Side Vinyl. Thank you to everyone that blessed our stage last night. @thehigherroad_ @lucia_doz those vocals gave me chills! 🙏🏽 Thank you to everybody who pulled up and supported. Weekend just getting started… NEXT UP ➡️ EGG RECORDS TONIGHT! 🥚💿 ****Man that @divinajasso has that heat! 🎙️🔥 She’s on heavy rotation at the shop. If you haven’t heard, better get there.*** Thank you 🙏🏽 again @danieldegreemusic and @moralitymike NEXT UP: EGG RECORDS TAKES OVER SOUL SIDE VINYL. 🥚🔥 Tonight we welcome Egg Records for an in-store performance by @headworm.mp3 , plus vinyl DJ sets from Mr. Bug, Faust & Ian Curtis. 📍 Soul Side Vinyl 3535 Adams Ave 🗓 TONIGHT — Saturday, Sept. 5 ⏰ 5–8PM 🎟 FREE Come dig, catch some live music, hear some records and support the people keeping independent music moving. See y’all tonight. SUNDAY MORNING = STEEP & SPIN ☕️💿 Slow it down, grab some tea, dig through the bins and let the DJs provide the soundtrack. @theartist.theherbs Rose Thorns Tea House & Art × Soul Side Vinyl brings STEEP & SPIN every 1st & 3rd Sunday. 🗓 Sunday, Sept. 6 ⏰ 10AM–4PM 📍 Soul Side Vinyl — 3535 Adams Ave Good tea. Good music. Live DJs. Records. Community. Then stick around because Sunday isn’t done yet… HEAR ME OUT. 🎶💿 Hosted by Optic No algorithms. No playlists telling you what to like. Just people putting each other onto records they love. Bring one of your favorite records, throw it on, and tell us why we need to hear it. 🗓 Sunday, Sept. 6 ⏰ 3–6PM 📍 Soul Side Vinyl Come talk music, discover something you didn’t know you needed, and share something that means something to you. A music sharing night. Simple as that. AND THEN WE CLOSE THE WEEKEND OUT PROPER. 🍎🔥 Sunday night, CRIMEAPPLE hits Soda Bar with Odessa Kane, Banish Habitual, Mantis, Nemy, Hauntology + DJ Syko. Hosted by @teastayblue 🗓 Sunday, Sept. 6 📍 Soda Bar — 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Presented by KeepingItUnderground.com @keepingitunderg with Soul Side Vinyl in the building. From Soul Is
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SOUL SIDE VINYL IS HERE. 📍 For our first Adams Avenue Street Fair, we’re bringing one of my favorite MCs of all time and an iconic producer to Normal Heights: the legendary MASTA ACE, alongside MARCO POLO. Our first in-store performance was the legendary DJ Qbert. Now, in that same first year, we get to welcome another hip-hop icon to the Soul Side stage (on the intersection of Wilson and Adams). Having two of my personal favorites rock with us this early has been a blessing—and we hope the community has enjoyed these moments as much as we’ve enjoyed putting them together. This one hits different for me. Disposable Arts is one of my favorite albums and I can run it’front to back. I’ve talked about it during Soul Side Selects and put it on the table at our Hear Me Out event. That joint stayed in heavy rotation for months after its release and still gets plenty of burn. Now we get to hear the man behind it live on Adams Avenue. No disrespect to anybody who has touched the Street Fair stages before—but this is by far the most legendary act —MASTA ACE AND MARCO POLP— in the history of the Adams Avenue Street Fair since 1992. 🤫 And if I can get more traction on booking for more of these stages, I’ll chase down ‘92 as well! SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 🎤 9–10 PM — MASTA ACE & MARCO POLO DJ LINEUP 12–2 PM — Saso 2–4 PM — Mane One 4–6 PM — Hek 6–8 PM — Blue 8–9 PM — Who & Syko 🔥 B-Boy/B-Girl Battle hosted by Zero — 12–4 PM 🎨 Street-art galleries in front of and inside Soul Side Vinyl 🎟️ Prize raffles going down throughout the day Presented by Soul Side Vinyl and Tortilla Crew. This is the jump-off. More artists. More culture. More heavyweight shows moving into next year. We’re building something on Adams Avenue, and we’re just getting started. Pull up early. Stay late. Bring the whole crew. Culture. Community. Consciousness. #MastaAce #MarcoPolo #DisposableArts #AdamsAvenueStreetFair #SoulSideVinyl That David Axelrod sample though🔥 Sick a$$ duo. Masta Ace and Marco Polo.
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✨POP UP ALERT ✨ Steep & Spin is back THIS Sunday alongside HEAR ME OUT at @soulsidevinyl Last month we had a blast at HEAR ME OUT, folks talked music, shared memories,we learned about different genres, it was a time! @optic_194 really put on a great event! Come out this Sunday to experience it again & have you some tea! #localtea #sdrecordshops #localsandiegobusiness
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CLASSIC. LEGENDARY. FULFILLING. Hearing Qbert & Shortkut talk about how fulfilling this night was meant everything because THAT was the point. This wasn’t just another show. This was for the CULTURE & COMMUNITY. DJs. Breaking. Art. Music. OGs next to the next generation. Different scenes sharing one room. Music & dance are more than entertainment—they’re an escape, a connection, and a huge part of our lives. We want to keep bridging gaps between genres, generations & communities. Huge THANK YOU to @djqbert & @shortkut for blessing the stage and giving SD your energy. @kendothedj & @alyssadashbeth , thank you for ALWAYS supporting SSV. SAMIA! We threw curveball after curveball at you and you never blinked—you dug in and WENT YARD. ⚾️ THANK YOU! Thank you @queenbeessd and every artist, DJ, dancer, breaker, vendor & creative who made this night what it was. To the ENTIRE SSV TEAM—people saw one night. They didn’t see the MONTHS of planning, DMs, changes, loading, problem solving & preparation. This doesn’t happen without you. Massive love to @hkaudio_official & @reloopdj for POWERING the event, and every #FriendsOfTheCulture business, artist & individual who donated and supported us. 🙏🏽 🎥 Video: Ronek @got.no.control — thank you for capturing the night! And SD…KEEP COMING OUTSIDE. There are a million reasons not to pull up, but even more reasons TO. Culture doesn’t survive on likes. It survives when people walk through the door. Support the promoters. Venues. Small businesses. MCs. DJs. Dancers. Artists. Event coordinators. Support EVERYONE putting on for this town. We can’t bridge gaps or introduce this culture to new people without showing up for each other. SSV didn’t invent anything. We put our spin on what Hip-Hop has always done. If this inspires somebody else to throw a show—DO IT. Make it bigger. Make it better. Make it different. Give somebody else a platform. Because it’s not about me or SSV. It’s about creating spaces where SD’s dope creatives can BE SEEN & BE HEARD. Culture. Community. Consciousness. NEXT UP… 🍎 CRIMEAPPLE @ SODA BAR?! 🎤 MASTA ACE @ ADAMS AVE STREET FAIR! 👀 AND MORE… KEEP COMING OUTSIDE.
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HOLY WOW!! @soulsidevinyl put on one of the dopest shows last night! It wasn't a music thing,it wasn't a dance thing,it wasn't a fashion thing...it was a culture thing! @rexspeakeasy and the @soulsidevinyl family had the vibes on high! @djqbert @shortkut @kendothedj @romali_habitat2 @junebug_zuproc @djsyko619 and all the other DJs put on a clinic! Huge shout out to @zero.sleepz and @optic_194 for bringing all the dancers which just added a whole other vibe to the event! And one last thank you to the folks at @queenbeessd !!!
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