Get The Record Store Official App. Plus Special Releases For Tomorrow

  Record Store Day has released a official app for iPhone and Android to get directly to the website for online purchases.  The app also uses GPS to find stores closest to you participating in Record Store Day.

  The app also includes contests, videos, new music streams and up to date info about new releases.

  So go download the app here on the Record Store Day website.

  Here is a short list of some of releases for tomorrows Record Store Day 2012:

• The Bronx/ Mariachi El Bronx -Split EP 12"
• Garbage: 'Blood For Poppies/ Battle In Me' 7"
• Arcade Fire: 'Sprawl II' 12" [Merge]
• Artic Monkeys: 'R U Mine?' 7" [Domino]
• Deerhoof: Destroyer's Rubies 2xLP [Merge]
• Morrissey: 'Suedehead'
• Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds- Songs From The Great White North 12"
• The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and the Heady Fwends 2xLP [Warner Bros.]
• Florence + the Machine: 'Shake It Out' b/w 'Shake It Out [The Weekend Remix]' 7' [Republic]
• Mastodon/ The Flaming Lips: 'A Spoonful Weighs A Ton' split 7" Mastodon/ Feist: 'A Commotion/ Black Tongue' 7"  [Warner Bros.]
• The Pharcyde:  Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde: The Singles Collection box set [Delicious Vinyl]
• Pussy Galore: Feel Good About Your Body 7" EP [Shove]
• Unrest: Perfect Teeth 7" box set [Teen Beat]
• Gorillaz: DoYaThing 10"
• Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK 7"picture disc
• The White Stripes: 'Hand Springs'/ 'Red Death at 6:14' 7" [Third Man]
• Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions 3 CD & DVD
• Wilco: The Whole Love Box Set

 There is tons more, Tell us what your picking up tomorrow and from what record store in the comments below:

Mastodon/Feist Cover Art For Record Store Day 7" Revealed

  Mastodon and Feist have something special for 'Record Store Day' April 21st.  "Feistodon" will be a split 7" with Mastodon covering the Feist song 'A Commotion' and Feist covering Mastodon's 'Black Tongue'.

  In a interview with Sweden's Metalshrine, Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor explained the idea.  "We did [the BBC television show 'Later... With Jools Holland'], and right after we got off stage, we went backstage and we were in the hallway with [Feist], and she was talking to [Mastodon vocalist/guitarist] Brent Hinds].  They were involved in a conversation and were just like, 'Yeah, let's do that! We should do it for Record Store Day!'  Something out of left field and something we'd like to be involved with more of."

  "It's fun for us.  I mean, most times we end up doing covers of bands that are already sort of heavy or that is already in that vein, like the Melvins, Thin Lizzy, Metallica, you know what I mean?  What are you gonna do to those songs to make them your own? It's kinda difficult and especially with stuff like Metallica or the Melvins where we're so kinda familiar and in love with the versions that Metallica and the Melvins and Thin Lizzy have created, you wanna make it sound like theirs because that's what you're so used to hearing.  You don't really wanna mess with it.  With Feist, it's something that we could really play with and do something different with."  Said Dailor.

 

Iggy Pop Named Record Store Day Ambassador 2012

  Iggy Pop has been named ambassador for Record Store Day 2012.  The annual event is used to publicize and drive business to independent record stores.  This years Record Store Day takes place on April 21st.  It is marked with special shows and one day sales events.

  Iggy Pops statement on his new position on the Record Store Day website:

 "A person should have a personality.   You won't get one dicking around on the computer.  It helps to go somewhere where there are other persons.  Persons who are interested in something you are.  That's how a record store or any shop that's got some life to it should work.  It's not about selling shit."

  I got my name, my musical education and my personality all from working at a record store during the tender years.  In the 50's and 60's the teen kids used to gather after school at these places to listen free to the latest singles and see if they liked the beat.  You could buy the disc you liked for 79 cents and if you were lucky meet a chick.  Clerks in these places became managers, (like Brian Epstein), label heads (Jack Holzman) and faces on album covers (like me).

  Personally I feel best in a store that, while staying small and socially relaxed, still keeps a complete variety of music types and non musical recordings on offer.  All of this is cool and has a much bigger future than most people realize today.

  As Record Store Day Ambassador for 2012 I feel like a representative from some exotic jungle full of life and death and sex and anger, called upon to wear a leopard skin and translate joy to the world of the dead."  

  So on April 21st. make sure you go to your favorite record store and pick something up, browse around, talk to the guy behind the counter, because he is a hell of a lot more interesting than clicking that button on your itunes account.  Hopefully you enjoy it and go back, because there aren't a lot of them around anymore, and we sure the fuck will miss them when it's too late.

                       -In 2012 'Occupy' A Music Venue And A Record Store-
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