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 | From Chad Bowar, your About Music Editor The popularity of vinyl is increasing, but unfortunately independently owned record stores that sell vinyl are becoming extinct. Every year record labels unveil special vinyl releases to help support those record stores on Record Store Day, which is April 21. Here are some of those releases. | |
Record Store Day
Oh, they do still exist, with cool names like B-Side Records, Be-Bop Record Shop, Weird Harold's Records and The Main Street Jukebox. And every year on the third Saturday in April, those and hundreds of other independent record stores "simultaneously link and act as one with the purpose of celebrating the culture and unique place that they occupy both in their local communities and nationally" with an event called Record Store Day.
| Full List Of Record Store Day Releases
Record Store Day looms on April 21. It is the biggest retail trade day in the indie world, an event at which the kind of people who once haunted record stores constantly can put in an annual appearance, and spend their guilt away.
| Record Store Day Sings The Blues
While a lot of cool music has been released under the aegis of Record Store Day, there has traditionally been little of interest to the hardcore blues fan...until now! Circle April 21, 2012 on your calendar kiddies, 'cause that Saturday is going to see the vinyl reissue of a brace of classic blues albums.
| Record Store Day, By The Numbers
Ever since the first one in 2008, Record Store Day has grown from a single day annual event to a year round celebration/promotion of the world's locally owned, independent record stores. RSD has grown rapidly by focusing attention on the institution that was once the center of the musical universe for artists and their fans.
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