happy record store day!

Happy Record Store Day everyone!!!
Like the past year, there's a huge catalog of records available... but unfortunately, I feel the selection is quite weak this year, there's barely a handful of records that I am really interested in getting. Nevertheless, here's the list:

Bat for Lashes: Strangelove 7" (UK)

Cursive: Burst and Bloom EP

Guided By Voices: Jon The Croc 7" (UK)

Guided By Voices: 3 Single Pack (UK)

Hey Mercedes: Hey Mercedes Ep

The Horrible Crowes: Live at Fingerprints

Mastodon/Feist: Commotion/Black Tongue

Sigur Ros: Hvarf-Heim

Tallest Man On Earth: King of Spain

Zomby: Where Were U In 92?

Now go out and support your local music stores!

happy record store day

Happy Record Store Day everyone!!! Here are some of my top picks this year:

GlassJaw: Worship And Tribute
This is the one record I am looking forward to the most—available for the first time on vinly, it has been 10 years in the making—so fucking stoked for this!

Daft Punk: Tron Soundtrack
Coolest packaging/picture disc ever!!!

Hüsker Dü/Green Day 7"
It’s fucking Hüsker Dü... need I say more?
Featuring "Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely" from Candy Apple Grey and Green Day’s cover of it.

Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues/Grown Ocean 12"
Two tracks off of the band’s upcoming record, Helplessness Blues, out on May 3rd, only get it if you really can’t wait for the release of the full-length!

Nirvana: Hormoaning EP
First time this EP will be released in North America.

OFF!: Live at Generation Records 7"
I really can't get enough of this band, this 7-inch features 4 tracks recorded at Generation Records.

Deerhunter: Memory Boy 7"
"Memory Boy" single with a previously unreleased track "Nosebleed"—I have yet to hear a bad Deerhunter b-side.

Villagers/Charlotte Gainsbourg 7"
Side A is "Set the Tigers Free" from Villagers’ gorgeous record Becoming a Jackal, while Side B is a song written by Conor J. O’Brien and performed by Charlotte Gainsbourg... should be good!

If you live in Toronto, all of the above titles are available at Criminal Records—Please go support your local music stores!

song of the moment

The Record Store Day exclusive new song, "Fool's Day", by Blur has been made available as a free download! Get the song over at the band's website!

i sense a spy up in the chimney

The Tallest Man On Earth—April 17, 2010 @ Criminal Records, Record Store Day 2010





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happy record store day!

What are you looking forward to purchase on Record Store Day? Below is a list of some things I might be getting, but most likely not all as I will be broke!

Against Me!: I Was A Teenage Anarchist 7"
The Album Leaf: There Is a Wind 12"

Beach House: Zebra 12"

Coconut Records: Bored To Death Theme Song/Nighttiming 7"

Fucked Up: Daytrotter 7"

Let's Wrestle/Love Language 7"

Menomena/Helio Sequence 7"

Plants & Animals: La La Land
Pavement: Quarantine The Past [RSD Edition]

Sick of It All: Sick of It All
The Soft Pack 7” Boxset
Soundgarden: Hunted Down 7"
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Streetcore
Sonic Youth: Confusion Is Sex
Surfer Blood/Holiday Shores 7"

Tegan & Sara: AOL Sessions 7"
The Thermals/The Cribs 7"

Velvet Underground: Live 1969 Vol 1 and Vol 2

This is what's available in Canada (as far as I know)... there are like a hundred other releases I want from the US and especially the UK RSD list.

happy record store day eve!

Record Store Day is less than 24 hrs away! The year is shaping out to be pretty huge with tones of wicked exclusives. I am extremely jealous of the folks in the UK as Parlophone will be releasing a series of limited 7-inches by 12 artists including The Beatles, Jónsi, Babyshambles, Bat For Lashes... and Blur’s first new single since 2003 “Fool’s Day”!!!!!!!!!


I guess North America isn’t getting a bad deal either with Sub Pop releasing Beach House and The Album Leaf 12-inches—both with 2 new tracks; as well as reissue of Soundgarden’s Hunted Down 7”. Go here for a full list of Sub Pop's RSD releases and check out the Sub Pop Record Store Day Playlist here.