The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. 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 across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Franscisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
Record Store Day is currently managed by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Scott Register, and Carrie Colliton. Folks wanting to contact Record Store Day are encouraged to email us at information@recordstoreday.com
NOTE:
A Record Store Day participating store is defined as a physical retailer whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. (In other words, we’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores—not online retailers or corporate behemoths).
Shinedown had a great In-Store acoustic performance and CD signing here in NYC at J&R earlier this afternoon, so I showed up and made an appearance and helped the street team do their thing. The guys in the band are super nice, and they're definitely a band that appreciates all that they have. Their live performance (I saw them at Irving Plaza about a month ago) is spectacular as well.
I've been listening to the new Silversun Pickups album Swoon a ton lately. Their first single from their last album, "Lazy Eye" got a fair amount of popularity, but the song never really did much for me, so I never really bothered to listen much more. Thanks to the amazing Amazon MP3 daily deals, I was able to download Swoon sight-unseen for $3.99, which I came to realize as an absolute steal. Reminds me of older Smashing Pumpkins. Check it out.
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