Record Store Day - it exists and it is happening this SaturdayBelieve it or not, record stores still function in this digital day and age. On top of that, this Saturday is Record Store Day, or "Time to Give a Shit About Record Stores." While record stores are a debatable topic, a day that celebrates music in an orderly fashion is okay by me, even if it competes with one of the year's biggest outdoor music festivals. Steve Jansen just gave us five reasons to get your ass out to a record store on
The unique CD artwork for Phoenix: We Love It
Just in case you weren't already enticed into participating in tomorrow's Record Store Day after reading Steve Jansen's and Michael Lopez's scribblings on the nationwide event (which celebrates the independent spirit of mom-and-pop music emporiums), we've got one more reason for you.
And it's kinda teh awesome.
Kimber Lanning and the kids down at Stinkweeds Record Exchange (12 W. Camelback Road, 602-248-9461) are putting out a special compilatio
You can apply this graph to a myriad of possibilities in today's economy, but let's stick to music sales for nowThe Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit took place this past Sunday through Tuesday in Washington, D.C. and the news coming out of everything was music sales in 2008. Specifically, that of 115,000 albums released last year, only 110 sold more than 250,000 copies. This should not come as a surprise, but that number is incredibly dismal -- and it solidifies that artists will
