To many participants and onlookers, Record Store Day is a really big deal. On one day every year, thousands of music fans across the country have a perfect excuse to glut themselves on vinyl, buy limited edition releases, and generally revel in the sights, sounds, smells, and feelings of going to a record store again.
And to Michael Kurtz, one of Record Store Day’s founders, that celebration is the main point. ““I came out of a time when rock ‘n’ roll was a lot of fun,” Kurtz recalls. “A lot of parties…a lot of blowing shit up, and Record Store Day was just an excuse to throw a party again.”
It is also, like most events that draw real music enthusiasts, a unique promotional opportunity for bands. [click to continue…]
Introducing the Pocket Hipster (yes, the Pocket Hipster) for your iphone.
Today’s Morning Tabs feature blowback against Steve Stoute’s open letter to NARAS, some strange choices by Record Store Day and Indaba, a celebration of Fitz and the Tantrums, and an even stranger app developed by We Are Hunted and the Echo Nest. [click to continue…]
We know that Record Store Day is technically tomorrow. But we’re going to be busy tomorrow (buying records, if you must know), so to get you in the spirit one day early, we’ve picked out our favorite statements and observations about this day of days.
A mix of satire, analysis, sadness and hope, I Need That Record has been screened at half a dozen film festivals since its 2008 premiere. In it, the film’s director, Brendan Toller, asks everybody from Glenn Branca to Thurston Moore to Legs McNeil to Noam Chomsky for a prognosis, and their answers are the perfect complement to Record Store Day’s message. [click to continue…]
The following post was written by Kate Findlay-Shirras.
