Record Store Day Saturday, April 20 - Whitehorse, Robyn Hitchcock, Michelle McAdorey, Public Enemy, R.E.M.!

Tomorrow is Record Store Day, a day to celebrate stores where you can buy music, talk to other people that like music, listen to music, buy some music - you know. In Canada go here to find your partipating stores, in the U.S. or other countries go here, where you can also find more videos and extra info on RSD extravaganzas. In Winnipeg, you can go to:

Argy's Collectables

Into The Music

Music Trader

Planet of Sound

War On Music Workers Cooperative

Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store

This year there are some Canadian artists getting RSD love treatments:

Michelle McAdorey - Leave The Main Road / Line Across My Heart 7" Vinyl


Whitehorse - Devils Got A Gun (live)/ Lipstick (unreleased track) 7" Vinyl (not the live version below - go get the 7"!)


Buck 65 - Wicked and Weird from Talkin‘ Honkey Blues Double LP


Gordon Lightfoot's Sit Down Stranger, LP
Handsome Ned - In Spite Of The Danger 7" Vinyl
Serena Ryder - Harmony LP
Daniel Lanois - Acadie LP
Billy Talent's Stand Up And Run/ Sudden Movements 7“
OLP - Curve LP
Austra + GINA X - Mayan Drums


Of course, there's even more joy for music collectors out there this year, RSD keeps getting bigger and better. Here are some items I am drooling about:

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice
The Thermals - Desperate Ground Demos 7" Vinyl
David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight) 7" Vinyl
Soundgarden - King Animal Demos Vinyl
R.E.M. - Live In Greensboro CD EP
Public Enemy - Planet Earth: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Greatest Rap Hits LP
Phoenix - Entertainment 7"
Mercury Rev - Deserted Songs LP
JD MCPHERSON - Fire Bug 7"
Built To Spill - Live LP
Big Star - Nothing Can Hurt Me Vinyl
Brendan Benson - Diamond / Good To Me (Demo Version) 7"
THE THREE O‘CLOCK - Live At The Old Waldorf Feb. 1982 LP

Record Store Day 2012

Well, another year has come and gone and I'm sad to say I did not get to my favourite record stores today. I did, however, play my almost-two-year-old some of his Fisher Price imitation vinyl. Record Store Day seems to get bigger every time, it seems like every artist wants to get in the action, which is cool. According to Rolling Stone magaine, record sales went up 36% lst year. Would you believe the vinyl version of The Beatles - Abbey Road sold 41,000 copies last year? How about Fleet foxes selling 29,700, or Radiohead selling 20,800?

Iggy Pop - Reminiscence from Record Store Day on Vimeo.

Joey Ramone - Rock 'N Roll Is The Answer from Record Store Day on Vimeo.