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Mike Huguenor on June 9, 2021
A staple of the modern music industry, Record Store Day returns to the Bay this year with a raft of options for any self-respecting music lover. There’s rarities from Miles Davis and Richard Hell, a 1,000-copy yellow pressing the Lemonheads’ debut Hate Your Friends, and a complete reprinting of the early works…
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For more than 10 years now, Record Store Day, the annual celebration of locally owned brick-and-mortar music shops, has stoked the passions of music lovers all over the country. Every year, artists release new and previously unheard music, along with bootlegs and reissues—often in collectable formats, including vinyl and cassette. The regional…
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Mike Huguenor on April 19, 2018
For more than 10 years now, Record Store Day, the annual celebration of locally owned, brick-and-mortar music shops, has stoked the passions of music lovers all over the country. Every year, artists release new and previously unheard music, along with bootlegs and reissues—often in collectable formats, including vinyl and cassette.
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Nick Veronin on April 13, 2016
Jeff Evans, owner of On the Corner Music, estimates that he has somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 records boxed up and ready to be tossed out on the pavement outside his Campbell storefront, weather permitting. The vinyl merchant isn’t giving up on his enterprise. On the contrary, he’s planning to cash in—50…
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Jay Edgar on April 15, 2015
On April 18, the music industry rises once again to show support for the greatest of all recording formats: vinyl. Many Silicon Valley small businesses—your local record stores—will be participating:
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Who knew Record Store Day would make it to is fifth anniversary? When it made its debut in 2007, it was a fairly revolutionary concept: ask famous musicians to support honest-to-god, brick-and-mortar independent record stores by giving them exclusive releases to sell.
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