Bruce Springsteen is among those artists releasing a special vinyl disc for Record Store Day
Multiple locations
Saturday, April 21
www.recordstoreday.com
There’s nothing quite like spinning that black circle, letting one side play, then getting up to turn it over and hearing the other side. Eight-track tapes and cassettes ran their course, with CDs to follow. But we’re not sure vinyl singles, EPs, and LPs will ever go away; what’s more fun than looking through aisles and aisles of records at indie music stores? You can get your fill on April 21 at the annual Record Store Day, where hundreds of exclusive vinyl discs will be available at stores across the country. In New York, participating shops include Big City Records, In Living Stereo, Good Records NYC, Rockit Scientist Records, Other Music, Fat Beats, Generation Records, rebel rebel, Academy LPs, Record Runner, turntable lab, Bleecker Street Records, Gimme Gimme Records, Rock and Soul Records, Deadly Dragon Sound, Village Music World, Kim’s Video & Music, J&R Music World, Black Star Music, Cake Shop, and Disc-O-Rama. Among the myriad new and old bands releasing special discs for the day are Abba, Afrika Bambaataa/MC5, Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Aretha Franklin/Otis Redding, Battles, Bill Evans, Brendan Benson, Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Guy, Captain Beefheart, Carolina Chocolate Drops/Run DMC, Chocolate Watch Band, Coldplay, Common, Cursive, David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie Death, Deerhoof / of Montreal, Devo, Disturbed, Eddie Vedder, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, and Esperanza Spalding — and that’s only some of the groups from the first part of the alphabet. Many of the records are limited editions that are not available at every store, so good luck finding that one disc you’re after.