Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores like Tower Records closed.
Jeff Maimon, of Chicago, checks out some vinyl at Tracks In Wax record shop, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Phoenix. Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day amid a surge of interest in vinyl and the day after the release of Taylor Swift 's latest album. – Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S.
The first Record Store Day was on April 19, 2008, and cities around the U.S. later declared the celebration an official holiday, including New York City, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Jamal Alnasr, owner of Village Revival Records in New York’s Greenwich Village, called Record Store Day “one of my biggest money growers of the year. People even camp outside the night before.”Record Store Day is typically marked by special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products and events featuring artists and labels. Metallica spent hours on the first Record Store Day meeting fans at Rasputin Music in the San Francisco Bay area.
Rock band Pearl Jam will release 15,000 copies of a “Dark Matter” LP, with a ghostly black and yellow cover. Icelandic-American traditional pop singer Laufey will offer up 4,200 copies of “A Night at the Symphony,” a live album recorded in Reykjavík with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Jeff Maimon, 38, who was in the store on a visit from Chicago, said Record Store Day “was always a very special day. It's all about the excitement of standing outside and waiting in line to see what kind of specials you can get.”
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