Record Store Day

press release: We’ve decided that the best of all possible moves is to change the date of Record Store Day this year to Saturday, June 20.

We think this gives stores around the world the best chance to have a profitable, successful Record Store Day, while taking into consideration the recommendations of doctors, scientists, the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and the need to be good citizens of both local and worldwide communities.

We’re working with all of our partners and our stores to make this change as smooth as possible for everyone who participates in Record Store Day: customers, record stores, artists, labels and more.  Record Store Day is everywhere and we want to hold our party when everyone can gather around safely to celebrate life, art, music and the culture of the indie record store. 

The official list of limited edition RSD items is RIGHT HERE. The following is 2019 information on local store happenings:

B-Side: B-Side will be opening at 9 am. As always, will have many limited edition RSD LPs on offer, plus everything else in the shop will be discounted 10%. Every purchaser will receive another 10% off coupon for future use. Free goodie bags while they last. Four bands scheduled to perform in nearby Peace Park from noon 'til 2:30. Order of bands undetermined: Treatment, Norris Court, Supper Club, The Racing Pulses.

MadCity Music:  Record Store Day 2019 is Saturday, April 13! Here’s everything happening in and around the store that day:

•Before we open, there will be a chance to win concert tickets to upcoming shows while waiting in line!

•Opening at 8am, stocked full of exclusive RSD releases! Also, 1,500+ new used LPs out for sale and being restocked all day! Free gift bags full of cool stuff, while supplies last!

•Your chance to enter to win fantastic prizes of new vinyl & CDs, concert tickets, and gift packs from great local businesses such as: Underground Butcher, Stalzy’s Deli, BarleyPop, High Noon Saloon, Barrymore Theater, Blue Ox Music Festival, Majestic Theater, and others!

And… our pals down the block at Barley Pop will be celebrating RSD with us! They’ll be opening early at 9am, offering a chance to win prizes like a turntable and vinyl, & offering deals on drinks with special “RSD coupons” you can pick up at MadCity that day!

Reminder about the RSD titles: They are made in limited quantity and are allocated to all participating stores. Due to this limited availability, and at the request of RSD administrators, we do not take pre-orders or hold items.

Strictly Discs: Our doors open at 7AM!

Record Store Day is a day crammed full of records, so naturally we've got a full schedule of entertainment for your listening and imbibing enjoyment as you browse all of the many new arrivals. Our DJ lineup this year will take you on a journey through sound, with lively sets of dance, funk, jazz and psych rock all morning and afternoon, bookended by two of our favorite chillers to start and end things on a more relaxing note.

7 - 9AM - Julian Lynch, solo musician and Real Estate guitarist: mellow morning moods

9-11:30AM - DJ Nate Zukas, Great Dane brewer: disco and house

11:30-2PM - Michael Bell, local record collector: soul, jazz and funk

2-4PM - Dan Donahue and Page Campbell, local musicians: psych-pop and krautrock

4-6PM - Erik Kramer, Anthropocene Recordings: mellow evening moods

In addition to the spread of Record Store Day exclusives, we will also be celebrating with a very special selection of 1,200+ fresh used records. The record gods have smiled on us with some exciting finds over the past year, and we will be culling from these recent collections for a batch of records going out on Saturday the 13th at 3PM. More details about this round of LPs will go out in the final email before RSD.

It's true, on Record Store Day there's typically a line outside the shop all morning, just as there is at hundreds of other local shops across the country (and the world). But walk through this line, and you'll find ardent music fans of every stripe: young, old, male, female, seasoned pro and beginners. The line has come to symbolize the size, passion and staying power of both the physical music audience and the locally-oriented music community. Amidst the RSD crowds, we've seen musicians discussing upcoming gigs and tours, knowledgeable jazz heads giving high schoolers tips on the essentials, people meeting up for the first time “in real life” or for the first time in a decade, parents buying their kids their first new LPs, or better yet, a huge stack of 99 centers.

With all of the hubbub about “The Line” each year at Record Store Day, we thought it would be nice to remind everyone that your RSD experience doesn't just boil down to how early you line up. Each year, we've gotten better and better at targeting the items that are the most in-demand, so that we have as many copies as possible to go around, and also ensuring that we have the broadest selection of everything that's available. In short, we want to make sure that whether youre busting down the door at 7 am, or rolling in by the end of the day, you're still looking at quite the spread. In some degree, this day is about our regular customers, for whom just about every day is Record Store Day, and we want you to know you are welcome to stop through any time. Enjoy the digs, the beers, the sounds of the local DJs, and just hang out!

Sugar Shack: Celebrate independent local record stores with WORT 89.9FM! Open early at 9 am, with WORT DJs:

9:00 Cooper Talbot of Her Infinite Variety.

10:30  Helena White from On the Horizon.

12:00 Catwoman from Girls To the Front.

1:30 Paul Novak from On the Horizon.

3:00 Mr S and Bootsy from Not Too Shabby.

 4:30 Gregg Willard from Fiction Jones.