Record Store Day
This Saturday, April 17, 2010, Record Store Day will be continue. Hundreds of stores in the USA and across the world will bring people together to celebrate. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries internationally make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and so on.
Record Store Day is an annual celebration of art and music focused on bringing people and artists together and supporting independently owned and managed record stores. Record Store Day was founded by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of unique culture that surrounds independently owned records stores across the USA and around the world.
Quotes from artists:
Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion)
“I got my start by going around to record stores like Moby Disc and Middle Earth and giving them The Bad Religion 7” to sell on consignment. I’d go back every couple of weeks to see if they needed any more and while I was at it I’d always check out the zines, flyers and new punk releases. These places were more than stores, they were gathering places and hubs of information. They were the heart of the LA Hardcore scene and it would never have existed without them.”
Ben Harper
“Independent record stores are much more than the name suggests. They are an international community and platform where music has an outlet and an opportunity to grow over the long term, in a way that sincerely connects with community and culture. They are also a magnificent mob of highly opinionated musical bandits which I am proud to call my pals! Bill, keep that indian ring shining for me. Matt, I’LL meet you in the morning for breakfast. John, we’ll always have paris. Rhino…..straight outta Claremont!”
P.O.S
“The record store is where me and my friends cut our teeth growing up. I love getting lost trying to master every section, walking with a stack of possible purchases and weighing all my choices at the end of it. Nothing will ever replace that for me.“
BT
A long time ago, people that made music meant it, people that bought it cared and celebrated the listening to it as an activity unto itself. They read the liner notes like a sacred text and conversed for hours on the intricacies of a band, a sound, a producer, a label, the artwork, a movement. Oh yes, in a store, face to face. Uphold that tradition. Honor our stores that still exist that cater to people making music that still care, and fans that do too.
For more information and participating independent record stores go here:
www.recordstoreday.com
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