It's Record Store Day! (here's where to see & get stuff)

by Andrew Frisicano

“I just converted my NY state tax return into tickets to Stars, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, Jonsi, and Plants & Animals #boom” –wonderboymusic

Saturday is Record Store Day (and depending on your tax return, that’s extra good or extra bad timing). There’s quite a bit going on in NYC, and elsewhere too. Around the country there are envy-wothy shows – Miami has No Age; Amoeba in San Francisco gets Jonsi, Yeasayer (DJ) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (signing); L.A. gets Lou Barlow + The Missingmen, Dum Dum Girls and Male Bonding (as well as Smashing Pumpkins); Yo La Tengo plays Claremont, California; and, awesomely, Alice in Chains perform in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Oh, the picture above? “Chunklet’s affectionate contribution to Record Store Day.” But we were saying…

NYC has plenty of in-stores. There’s shows from the Drums and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart at Other Music (updated schedule below). And Cymbals Eat Guitars, Black Wine, The Budos Band and DJ Andrew WK at Generation Records (updated schedule below). And Duck Down artists at Fat Beats. And Mystery of the Two at Permanent Records.

Other NYC in-stores include Kenny White, ZO2, Jason Derulo, The New Boyz, Harry Spero & His Fabulous Friends at J&R; and R&B and hip-hop at Basement Mix Records in East New York (Brooklyn – map) from “D-Woods Formerly Of Danity Kane/Young Money” and others, with a slew of DJs all day.

Not too far outside of NYC, Freelance Whales, Peter Bradley Adams and Care Bears on Fire start at noon at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ (map).

Did we miss any? Record Store Day’s site also has a list which includes in-stores all over the country. A full list of participating NY stores is here. That’s the list where you’ll find every location you can buy collectible vinyl that bands and labels are producing just for this young holiday.

RSD-exclusive discs include Crystal Castles, Fela and lots of the music in between (Pavement and Ted Leo being two). Fucked Up will have a whole series of variable artwork 7″s dedicated to different record stores (including NYC’s Generation). Others are: Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs doing Dark Side of the Moon on seafoam green vinyl; Hold Steady’s Heaven is Whenever (early) on hand-screenprinted vinyl; and Peter Gabriel swapping cover songs with Stephin Merritt and Bon Iver on separate split 7″s. All (or most) of the Record Store Day exclusives are listed here.

Each store will have slightly different items though, and each will run out of the good stuff at slightly varying rates, so it’s a gamble. Vintage Vinyl has a big list of what they’ll be selling. Sound Fix, who won’t have entertainment, also made a list of records. That list, the Other Music & Generation Records schedules with I Need That Record!, a doc on the decline of record stores (aka why they needs their own holiday), which is streaming on Pitchfork TV this week, and more, below…

FROM SOUNDFIX

RECORD STORE DAY
Saturday, April 17, 10:30–whenever!
You all know about Record Store Day by now–the one day of the year when music freaks are expected to go a little crazy. And there’ll be plenty to go crazy over this year. Here’s just a taste of what we got for ya.

The Flaming Lips (w/Henry Rollins and Peaches): Dark Side of the Moon LP
Yep, a song-for-song remake of the Pink Floyd classic with the ultra-odd teaming of the Flaming Lips, Henry Rollins and Peaches.

Pavement: Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement– Alternate, Fan-Selected Sequence LP
The recent Pavement best-of has been given a different track listing and new artwork.
Totally unnecessary and totally essential.

The Mountain Goats: The Life of the World to Come DVD
Filmmaker Rian Johnson captures John Darnielle playing his most recent record in one continuous shot.
Also includes a 45-minute Q & A with both.

The Hold Steady: Heaven Is Whenever LP
Here’s your chance to get a unique, RSD hand-screen-printed version of the new Hold Steady album two weeks before its official release date!

The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs vinyl box set
Finally! One of the greatest albums ever made is now on wax.

TV on the Radio: Dear Science LP
Out of print since 2008, the LP has been reissued with a bonus track remixed by Hot Chip.

Roky Erikson with Okkervil River: True Love Cast Out All Evil LP
The legendary psych-rocker pairs up with Will Sheff’s crew for an amazing new full-length.

v/a: Fragments from a Work in Progress LP
Previously unreleased tracks from Ariel Pink, Blonde Redhead, the Big Pink and Gang Gang Dance.

Soft Machine: Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971 LP
Very limited vinyl pressing of a legendary live show in Norway!

Fuck Buttons: Olympians 12″ w/download
Includes remixes by J. Spaceman (Spiritualized/Spacemen 3) and Alan Vega (Suicide).

Wilco: Kicking Television 4LP box set
Never before released on vinyl, this live Wilco set has been lovingly put to wax on four discs.

Monsters of Folk: s/t LP
Previously available only on Amazon–until now.

MGMT 12″ blue vinyl
Features the 12-minute “Siberian Breaks”

Nada Surf: If I Had Hi-Fi CD
New CD of covers from our favorite local band!

Long-out-of-print vinyl reissues:
Sonic Youth: Confusion Is Sex
Sonic Youth: EVOL
Velvet Underground: Live 1969 Vol. 1
Velvet Underground: Live 1969 Vol. 2
Deerhoof: Apple O
R.E.M.: Chronic Town EP
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Mastodon: Blood Mountain (deluxe version)
Modest Mouse: Moon & Antarctica
Arthur Russell: Calling Out of Context

We got 7 inches galore. Some of the highlights:
Neil Young, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cocorosie, Soundgarden, Menomena/Helio Sequence, Antlers/White Rabbits, Thermals/Cribs, Of Montreal, Passion Pit, Gogol Bordello, Fucked Up, Built to Spill, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tegan & Sara, The Doors, Against Me, Superchunk and lots more.

Alas, we were not able to get as many copies as we’d hoped, so don’t wait! Please note that we are opening extra early on this special day: 10:30am

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Generation Records schedule
2:00 pm: Cymbals Eat Guitars
2:30 pm: Obits (DJ)
3:10 pm: Black Wine
3:40 pm: Andrew WK (DJ)
4:10 pm: Budos Band
5:00 pm – on. : DJs
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Other Music schedule
DJ SETS
1-2pm: Dan Hougland of Excepter
2-3pm: Sal P of Liquid Liquid
3-4pm: Nice Nice
4-5pm: A Hundred In The Hands
5-6pm: Avey Tare of Animal Collective
6-7pm: Scott of The National
LIVE PERFORMANCE
9-9:40- The Drums
9:40-10:20- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart