Record Store Day
Happy Record Store Day. It's a nation wide celebation you can celebrate locally. Indy CD & Vinyl will be giving away free goodies all day and Luna Music has a full schedule for the day.
http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home
AT LUNA:
SATURDAY, APRIL 19 @ 10:00AM - ???? / LUNA music MIDTOWN/BROAD RIPPLE (52nd & College) It is the first annual RECORD STORE DAY! In honor of E's brainchild, LUNA music is proud to take part in what is already becoming a bit of an international event. On the 19th, hundreds of independently owned music stores across the globe will simultaneously link and act as one, with the purpose of celebrating the unique culture of independent record stores. We here at the LUNA are setting up a superb day of events--these are just some of the happenings that will be taking place at our Midtown location:
+++LIVE performances and DJ sets schedule: +NOON - 2:00 pm DJ Greg L. kicks things off and out!
+2:00 - 3:00 pm Grampall Jookabox drops his science!
+3:00 - 4:00 pm Jessica C. takes over on the (cd) Wheels Of Steel--get ready for some AC/DC!
+4:00 - 5:00 pm MARMOSET! Jorma and Co. stage a superb one-off with Casey from Margot in-tow! Yowsah!
+5:00 - 6:00 pm mr. lunatron will be spinning everything from an unreleased Kyle Field/Justin Martin collab to "Remember Me" and the fine folks from PEEL MAGAZINE will be signing copies of their new book, 'PEEL: The Art of the Sticker.'
+6:00 - 7:00 pm Everthus the Deadbeats will be rounding out our fantastic day, with their brand of SwirlPsychefolkpop!
+++DON'T FORGET--ALL THE DAY: +Our Annual Sidewalk Sale (with loads of cheep CDs, vinyl, and other goodies).
+The grill will be going most of the afternoon, with plenty of Veggie burgers.
+John Clark will be doing illustrations behind the bands, as they play.
+Grab bags (with samplers, surprises, and treats--all for you, all FREE).
+Reconnect with musically minded individuals in our local community (good times, indeed...)
+And check out the love some of our favorite Independent artists are hooking us up with; LUNA will have exclusive, SUPER LIMITED, just-for-record-store-day-because-we-value-the-guys-who-helped-break-us, music for sale on the 19th! Check it: Steven Malkmus (10" single with all new music--only 1000 copies), Vampire Weekend (7" single with two new tracks--just 500 copies), an Arthur Russell covers 12" (with Jens Lekman doing "A Little Lost"), Josh Ritter (a new CD EP of fresh goodness)...and this list, just like our participants, keeps growing...stay tuned.
The music industry is dying. Record Store Day will eventually be geared to old farts like me who still buy hard copies of music. Statistics bear me out. The age of the average music store patron is creeping higher and higher.
And let's face it. CDs and cassettes were never a satisfactory experience. Sitting down and listening to an LP was a special occasion. The album art was wonderful. The liner notes were detailed. The lyrics accompanied each album. The LP became a part of you. I still have LPs from my youth memorized in every detail. I suppose kids think that finding out about every pimple on their favorite band via the Internet is great. But just like books, you can't curl up on the couch with your computer. (Oh, you may be able to do it with your laptop now. Give it a couple of decades, and you'll find that you're sitting, not curling.)
Of course, critics still argue to this day that the sound quality of LPs is superior to digital. It was a real shame when the public library discarded all of its classical and jazz LPs. The audiophiles preferred them to the CDs. Unfortunately, they were eventually relegated to a part of the library that no one used. As a result, the circulation figures dropped sufficiently to justify their demise.
Nina Mehta : RE: Record Store Day More..
The music industry and the newspaper industry are having similar struggles. Traditional formats are struggling.
I do agree with you, the hard copy has a wonderful coziness to it. But technology is changing and digital mediums make consumption much easier. I'm not the first to say this, but it's going to take different kinds of marketing and product packaging to keep the industry profitable.
Now, I can't say Steve Aoki (DJ Kid Millionaire) is my favorite person in the world. But as far as "Pillowface and his Airplane Chronicle" goes, his newest mix cd, I'm impressed with the packaging. It came with a monster huge double sided pillowcase designed by Paul Frank and he had a contest running on imeem for some signed swag, the pillowcase and a Paul Frank bicycle.
And of course, Radiohead, Beck, Nine Inch Nails and significantly many more are trying new (fun) ways to keep their piggy bank full and music junkies happy.
Now of course, every artist can't sell their album with a free water buffalo, but creativity usually scores lots of points with the fans.
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