It's Your Music. If you want to know what is happening culturally?— RUN, don't walk to your local, real RECORD STORE, absorb the heart and soul and the vibe of a community. The music scene of any town will revolve around the RECORD STORE as the center of the universe.
Go find your treasures!
Music at the brick-and-mortar:
Independent record stores during the 20th century were like a community meeting place for kids who looked beyond the Top 40 charts and were open to hearing something other than what the big record companies told you should like. Independent stores were the only places where the history of music can be found along with the next great music; not just a few titles from a select few.
Music fans were able to visit all kinds of record stores, big and small, chain, used and otherwise, and always feel at home in them.
Why has the Records Stores disappeared and what is happening?
They are losing out to the no face, no character, download and streaming connections with the computer world.
Keep the music cultural alive:
Like many musicians and music fans of a certain age, Chuck D has no trouble remembering the first record he bought with his own money.
The unsung hero was the inside store Music Guru, who helped us find the old and the new and shared those golden moments of discovery that only the record store can give. "They didn't just sell records, they sold opinions." They created a whole new environment.
In an age of digital downloads, THE LIST at Record Store Day - The Documentary; why fans still love and need to love vinyl records.
Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1000 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. There are Record Store Day participating stores on every continent except Antarctica.
This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store—the staff, the customers, and the artists—to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. 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 Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
While there’s only one Record Store Day a year, the organization works throughout the year to create contests, special releases and promotions in order to spotlight these special stores on the other 364 days of the year. These include the Adapter Prize—which honors releases chosen as “The Best” by store staff and customers and Back To Black Friday which gives record stores exclusive releases as part of the attempt to redirect the focus of the biggest shopping day of the year to the desirable, special things to be found at Local Stores.
Record Store Day – Saturday April 19th – falls on Easter weekend. And should avid rekkid collectors find themselves in London for this momentously musical occasion, they'll be in for a treat!
London's indie record store mecca of Soho will see a range of festivities to celebrate Record Store Day with free outdoor performances, along with retailers hosting in-store activities throughout the day and more. Area record stores will open at 8 o'clock in the morning with DJs, music quizzes and parties throughout the day along with an open air market along Berwick Street with plenty of foodie treats and shops without direct musical connections joining in on the fun with discounts and special offers.
Most of the festivities will take place in and around Berwick Street, a destination for vinyl record collectors since the 1980’s and home to central London’s largest concentration of independently owned record shops. Check it out:
Question: Why would someone plow a cornfield and put in a baseball field? Why would someone open a record store at the tail end of a recession and in a dying market?
"Really, it’s border line insane.”– Rich Wagner could be the Kevin Costner of independent record store owners.
Record Store Day-- a good place to immerse yourself!
It's A Music Culture– C2 IT!
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