A week from Saturday is Record Store Day across the country. I’m excited because my favorite record store is preparing a pretty good day show. To get an idea of what us Atlanta people have in store check out the little poster I put together above. What is Record Store Day? It’s the one day a year that everyone comes together to celebrate what’s left of record stores across the land. Personally, I love to celebrate record stores every day, but there will be a slew of exclusive releases this year. For example, Beach House will be releasing a 12″ of Zebra with some new versions of songs.
No matter what city you’re in, make sure you stop by a record store day to see what new releases there are and to catch some good bands. You’ll find me at Criminal Records enjoying some great bands.
Visit: Record Store Day Webpage
There’s this really cool project going on from some cool people I know. Tom Williams (from Radio Exile), a writer, Sarah Mulligan, a photographer, Rahawa Haile, a filmmaker, and Chris Miller are going on a roadtrip to find out where the music industry is in 2010 and where it’s going. Like the writers, I really believe 2010 is a landmark year in music just by all the epic albums coming out this year and the ones that have already been released. They’re comparing it to Chuck Klosterman’s writing, so that can’t be a bad thing at all. Either way, these group of people are embarking on a seriously cool music journey across the United States, and I support it.
They’re raising funds for the roadtrip and the first print of the books over at Kickstarter. If you don’t know what Kickstarter is, you should probably visit it first to get familiar. There’s always some really cool projects going on over there. Their journey will take them through New York City, Richmond, Chapel Hill, Athens (GA), New Orleans, Austin, Monterrey (Mexico), and Nashville and up to South By Southwest in Austin. Hopefully I’ll run into them in Austin. Check out the Kickstarter page below and their Tumblr where they’re documenting the roadtrip.
Kickstarter: Sound Through Sight
Tumblr: Sound Through Sight
