RECORD STORE DAY FESTIVITIES ABOUND FOR VINYL LOVERS WORLDWIDE

April 20, 2013 is Record Store Day, where music & vinyl fans from around the globe celebrate at over 700 independent record store locations.

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Tomorrow is a glorious day for music lovers around the world, and particularly for those that love vinyl - Record Store Day!

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 over 700 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. 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.

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.

For listings of participating stores, exclusive releases and all things National Record Day 2013, got to the official website HERE!

One extremely cool event is being held by RSD Ambassador and vinyl officienado Jack White, who has something extra special in store for patrons of his Third Man Records in Nashville, TN this Saturday: the opportunity to record your own vinyl via a vintage vinyl recording booth.

We shit you not…Jack White’s got his hands on a Voice-O-Graph recording booth from 1947 and he’s going to let fans record up to two minutes of themselves performing on to 6-inch discs.

Brendan Benson of White project the Raconteurs showed it off in the video below:

Artist Quotes on Record Store Day, independent record stores and vinyl:

“I think it’s high time the mentors, big brothers, big sisters, parents, Guardians, and neighborhood ne’er do wells, start taking younger people that look up to them to a real record store and show them what an important part of life music really is. I trust no one who hasn’t time for music. What a shame to leave a child, or worse, a generation orphaned from one of life’s great beauties. And to the record stores, artists, labels, dj’s, and journalists; we’re all in this together. Show respect for the tangible music that you’ve dedicated your careers and lives to, and help it from becoming nothing more than disposable digital data.”

- Jack White

“As a band, our love of records and actual CDs has never waned. There’s something spiritual about holding an album in your hands, and reading through the lyrics while you are losing yourself in the music. I will pass my collection of records down to my kids and grand kids someday so that they can experience the magic that just CAN’T be downloaded. Record Store Day is our turn to show our appreciation for the people that allow us to live our dreams through music. There is nothing more powerful than possessing a piece of art that your favorite band has worked so hard to push into the world. Lets keep these stores alive…see you on Record Store Day!”

- Lzzy Hale

“It’s sad to see some of the developments in society, where everyday, more and more things conform toward a bland, non-diverse medium or “standard” if you will - The big, monetarily strong chainstores and companies are slowly burying the smaller, diverse (read: cool) indie ones!! No matter if it’s clothes, music or otherwise - this steady decline of uniqueness, diversity and “individual expression” is truly scary!!

In all honesty, how cool is it to have to go into a 100.000 Square ft, flourescent lighted warehouse, where none of the “meek, perfect skin, fuckwhat’s - type employees” know the first thing about any music outside of what’s on billboard’s top ten - only to find that the brand new Slayer album you so desire to own, is found on the “cd-pick-o-the-week” rack, right in between the spankingly fresh releases of Ms Aguilera and Dance Mania no.987…!?!?…Honestly…

Support your local indie and underground stores! Seriously!! For the good of all!!”

- Tomas Haake (Meshuggah)

More artists quotes: http://www.recordstoreday.com/Quotes?type=Artist