Crib Notes

In an ad for Chicago’s long-standing record shopping institution, Reckless Records, that appeared in last week’s issue of the Chicago Reader, veteran musician / producer / philosopher and Touch & Go Records icon Steve Albini (Shellac, Big Black, Rapeman) weighed-in with a heartfelt essay on Record Store Day.

In his essay, titled Tomatillos, “pop” & Neil Young,  Albini likens honest-to-goodness record stores to farmers’ markets, and explains just what it is that makes them so much cooler and culturally relevant than the Best Buys and Barnes & Nobles that dot the landscape.

Click below to read the essay as it appeared in the Reader.

(Photo by Chad Radford)

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Over the weekend Thrill Jockey announced that the label’s contribution to this year’s National Record Store Day (April 18) is a deluxe, handmade compilation LP titled Records Toreism. The LP is limited to 900 copies and features a drawing by Posttypography on one side. The flipside features a photo silk-screen by Crosshair. Both images portray record stores of the future, one shows the fruitful vision of what happens if you support these long-standing community institutions. The other portrays what will happen if you don’t.

Click below to view the track list and the rest of the cover art and more info regarding contributors.

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