Record Store Day 2023 features fresh vinyl from Taylor Swift, Rolling Stones, more: How to buy. Vinyl fans, rejoice. Record Store Day returns April 22 with dozens of exclusive new releases as well as reissues from artists in an array of genres, from Paul McCartney to Pearl Jam, RZA to Wilco, Miles Davis to the Grateful Dead. A full list of 2023 releases is here. Since 2009, musicians with a deep-seated love of vinyl have teamed up to remind digital-age music fans that some of the more revelatory audio moments happen on hot wax. “Over the years I’ve fallen in love many times and many of my greatest loves have been discovered in record stores,” says singer Amanda Shires, who along with star musician husband Jason Isbell are this year’s Record Store Day ambassadors. “I fell in love with Leonard Cohen at Ralph’s Records in Lubbock, Texas. I found Big Star at Offbeat in Jackson, Mississippi,” Shires says in a release. “Record stores are environments where you can be yourself, like what you like and love what you love.”
Milford, DE | Shock Vinyl opens in Milford: Former photojournalist follows his dream. It’s a common thing that when someone retires, they end up busier than ever. For Marc Clery, he didn’t stay retired, but went back to work again, opening Shock Vinyl in downtown Milford. Clery was a photojournalist for 45 years, working for publications such as the Miami Herald and the News Journal. But what Clery, a music lover who once played drums and amassed his own record collection, really wanted to do was have his own record shop. He started looking into making his dream a reality by researching sites in Dover and Milford in July 2022. He hit upon a suite in the newly renovated Shops of Penney Square on Walnut Street. The building was purchased by EasySpeak owners Zack and Marissa King in 2021 and has been rehabbed as a restaurant and retail complex. “It’s got a really great, retro feel,” Clery said.
Larchmont, NY | 2 passions, 1 roof: Orthodontist runs record shop in same building as his practice. A Larchmont orthodontist is living out both of his passions while contributing to charity. Dr. Garrett Weston can be found catering to his patients in his Larchmont office on a regular weekday, but he’s also the owner of Underground Vinyl, a record store. “My dad was a vinyl collector and an audiophile and was always really into good sounding music, and I just grew up around that as well. And always wanted to work in a record store when I was a kid and never got the job,” he says. Now both of his passions coexist under one roof. “If you had told me in high school or college someday, you’re going to have a building where you’re the orthodontist upstairs and you’re going to have a record store downstairs, I would have been psyched to hear that, but I would have never thought that back then,” he says. All of the profits made at the record store are donated to charity. The store also hosts events to give local musicians a platform to play.
Oshawa, ON | Vinyl sales spin in the right direction for local store owner: André Lessard is seeing something he hasn’t seen in awhile: younger kids coming in with their parents to buy their first record player – some as young as 10 years old. Weekends have been especially busy this year for the owner of Another Spin Records, while weekdays has provided more “me-time” for customers. “It’s been really good so far, I mean knock on wood that we’ve had a really good year this year,” he said. The store, located at 25 Bond St. E., opened just over a year ago. “Last year was fantastic for our first year, but this year it’s been fantastic for the beginning of the year,” said Lessard. He was worried about what the start of this year would look like for the shop, but hasn’t had a problem so far. “I thought people were gonna budget themselves on their vinyl, but it hasn’t, we haven’t seen that yet,” he said.
‘Music as a Physical Experience’: See How Artist Christian Marclay Fuses Sound With Image in His Conceptual Collages: As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. “I was experimenting with records, melting them in my kitchen stove, and I think the fumes got to me,” the artist Christian Marclay said in an interview with Art21, with a hint of a wry smile on his face. “Then I had this dream that I ate a record.” That dream led to the 1992 work Fast Music, a stop-motion animated film that sees the artist taking large bites out of a vinyl LP. That sort of madcap energy and conceptual approach to art making is essential to Marclay’s practice, which focuses on sound in all of its forms. In the exclusive interview filmed as part of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series, Marclay expands on his approach to sound, which grew out of spending time at clubs as a young man. “I enjoyed music as a physical experience,” he said, remembering the thumping bass “would just take over your body.”
Poison frontman Bret Michaels finally sees his “Salute to Poison” album released on vinyl: Around the turn of the century, Poison frontman and one of the most iconic figures of the ‘80s glam metal explosion, Bret Michaels, found himself struck with a serious case of nostalgia. On the heels of Poison’s first Greatest Hits compilation as well as a superb MTV Unplugged release, Michaels decided to revisit and reimagine some of Poison’s biggest songs with a little help from his friends. The result was Show Me Your Hits – A Salute To Poison, which was released in 2001 and embraced by the Poison fanbase that still lovingly supported the band even in the face of cataclysmic changes in the music world since the band’s heyday. Now, that album is getting a full-on makeover for a deluxe reissue. In addition to the new artwork that brings back the ‘80s glam metal vibe, the audio has been remastered and several of the tracks given all new mixes for the smash hits “Nothin’ But A Good Time,” “Fallen Angel,” and “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”
Van Halen ‘Right Here, Right Now’ to make vinyl debut: Van Halen’s first live album – 1993’s double-platinum ‘Live: Right Here, Right Now’ – will make its vinyl debut on Record Store Day as a limited edition 4-LP set. Van Halen’s first live album – 1993’s double-platinum Live: Right Here, Right Now – will make its vinyl debut on Record Store Day as a limited edition 4-LP set. Recorded in May 1992 as the band was wrapping up their massive world tour in the support of their classic, triple-platinum album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the collection finds singer Sammy Hagar, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony firing on all cylinders and delivering over two hours of Van Halen’s signature hits. Live: Right Here, Right Now will be limited to 7,500 copies on 180-gram translucent red vinyl and available exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 22 for $99.98. The vinyl collection has all 24 songs from the original CD release, plus three additional live recordings.
