Get ready for Record Store Day this Saturday, April 18th. Started in 2007 to promote independent record stores, it has grown into a celebration of independent music and the hearty souls that support it.

Across the country and around the world Independent Record Stores will be hosting special in-store performances. You’ll likely find me at the flagship Newbury Comics in Boston for the Low Anthem and Sarah Borges. Other quick picks are:

• Bottle Rockets @ Euclid Records (St. Louis, MO)
• Mark Olson & Gary Louris (of the Jayhawks) @ Waterloo Records (Austin, TX)
• Del McCoury, Charlie Louvin, Black Joe Lewis, Avett Brothers @ Grimey’s (Nashville, TN)

Stores will also be featuring tons of exclusive and limited edition merchandise, including:

• Wilco – Ashes Of The American Flags DVD
• Bruce Springsteen – 7″ “What Love Can Do”/”A Night With the Jersey Devil
• Derek Trucks – Already Live EP five previously unreleased live tracks from the 2008 tour
• Flaming Lips/Black Keys – split 7″ “Borderline”/”Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles”
• Gaslight Anthem – Live from Park Ave 10″ – 6 tracks
• Jenny Lewis/Elvis Costello – 7″ “Carpet Baggers”/”Go Away”
• Pavement – “Live in Germany 1988″ LP unreleased show from 1988
• Tift Merritt – Buckingham Solo CD recorded live at a church
• Tom Waits “Live from the Glitterdome” – 7″ live tracks from Atlanta & Edinburgh

About the author:  Mild-mannered corporate executive by day, excitable Twangville denizen by night.

by Mayer Danzig in News, Videos