Record Store Day

A stack of Record Store Day Black Friday goodies that already includes Judas Priest, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan just got piled a lot higher.

For Record Store Day, many artists will often package previously released songs with some new photos on the sleeve and/or colored vinyl and call it a "new" product. Not Bruce Springsteen, who announced today that he is releasing 'American Beauty,' an EP with four new songs, on April 26.

National Record Store Day was this past Saturday, April 16th. I had a great time shopping for vinyl LPs and 45s, and came away with some awesome albums. I started early on Friday and shopped with my buddy John at Abilene's own 'The Record Guys' on South Leggett. Found some mint LPs at just 2 bucks each. Check his store if you want to get back into spinning your music in analog. He's got vintag

This Saturday is my favorite 'holiday' of the year. It's National Record Store Day, a day to celebrate the independent record stores across the nation, and to celebrate the vinyl record itself. The vinyl record had just about been declared dead ten years ago. But then something unusual began happening. In Europe, young people started getting into vinyl. We're talking about kids in their teens