Tampa Calling

This Saturday marks the second annual Record Store Day, a national salute to the more than 700 indie music stores located across the country and the positive impact they make on their communities. In honor of the event, several Bay area stores are offerings specials and carrying limited edition, exclusive Record Store Day releases.

Daddy Kool gives 10 percent off all new albums and 20 percent off all used inventory, and hosts some yet-to-be-announced activities.

Other area stores, like Sound Exchange, Mojo Books & Music and Vinyl Fever, have stocked up on an array of exclusive Record Store Day releases available only at indie stores. Amid the offerings are an array of split 7”-ers, including a double 7” of live tracks from Atlanta and Edinburgh by Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams, and a split 7” featuring covers of songs from Warner Bros.’ back catalog – Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs performing Madonna’s “Borderline,” and The Black Keys doing Captain Beefheart’s “Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles.” Guided By Voices re-releases its Hold On Hope LP with three bonus tracks, My Morning Jacket offers a limited run CD and double 10″ vinyl release recorded live in Louisville at Ear X-tacy record store, and Wilco makes its forthcoming concert DVD, Ashes of American Flags, available solely to indie stores and on its website on Record Store Day. Other exclusive RSD vinyl releases come from Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Mastodon, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Jane’s Addiction, The Stooges, Modest Mouse, Slayer, The Decemberists and Black Kids, among many others. Read the rest of this entry »

Just got the latest news release from our music store friends at Vinyl Fever, who apparently talked Tampa Tribune music critic Curtis Ross into recommending some of his favorite records for them to procure for Record Store Day, a celebration of the more than 700 indie music stores located across the nation and their positive impact on their individual communities. Vinyl Fever has not yet revealed Ross’ record selections, but  they’ve revealed a list of artists who are showing support early with special 7″ releases for the day, among them, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello, Sonic Youth, Decemberists, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen as well as 10″ers from Radiohead and regular LPs by My Morning Jacket, Guided By Voices, Pavement, Silversun Pickups, Green Day, Neil Young, Misfits, Hank Williams III, Mastodon, Talking Heads and others. The second annual Record Store Day event takes place at stores across the country on Saturday, April 18.