Preview & pre-order our debut album Wood Street, out May 15!

Scratched Vinyl is a band. We can say that much objectively. Probably a rock band? Or indie rock, if you value that distinction. We're definitely independent. We like to rock.

Our debut album, Wood Street, is out May 15, 2026.

There are eight of us. Two lead singers, guitars, keys, trumpets, flute, occasional ukulele, periodic hand claps, and vocal harmonies aplenty.

Scratched Vinyl is a band of Ithaca doers. Erik runs the Physics Bus. Lesley and Andy run Porchfest. Russ is an IC music prof who occasionally dons tights for community theater purposes (and maybe other purposes, but those are none of our business). When Chris isn't running the band with his usual megalomaniacal fervor (don't tell him we said that), he's a teacher at Fall Creek Elementary. Christine sings in the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers and teaches Spanish and ESL at TC3. Curtis plays the drums, with us and with others, and sometimes just alone in a field somewhere; drummers are inscrutable like that. When not out in a field somewhere, he's a lab tech at Cornell's vet school. And Louie? Louie's a man of mystery. We hear things. We hear he's operating on the fringes, radicalizing the youth and infiltrating local governments. Keep an eye on that guy, they tell us. He's a rascal.

Scratched Vinyl plays a mix of original songs and covers. The covers range from songs by The Beatles, The Who and Led Zeppelin to The Killers, Rihanna and Adele. The originals are all by us, with everyone contributing to the songwriting. There's a song on the album about espionage. There's a song about how New Year's resolutions are bullshit. There's a song about municipal permitting woes. There's even a song called "This Is A Song" that is about itself. Can you expect that level of service from other bands? We think not.

Scratched Vinyl is:

Russell Posegate - keyboards, backing vocals, trumpet
Curtis Kretz - drums
Erik Herman - lead vocals
Lesley Greene - trumpet, flute, backing vocals
Christine Evans - lead vocals
Louie Dickinson - guitar
Chris Bell - guitar, backing vocals, trumpet
Andy Adelewitz - bass, backing vocals

Watch our NPR Tiny Desk Contest performance: