Record Store Day 2011 is only 8 days away, yay! Counting down the final moments, Crooked Beat has a couple in-store events next week. In addition, TVD’s What’s in Store brings you a preview of the freebie’s you may be able to walk out of Crooked Beat with on the big day.
The first 75 paying customers through the door get a RSD2011 goodie bag full of posters, CD’s, 7 inches and more. 5 lucky folks may even find a $20 gift certificate to Crooked Beat inside. AND!!!! The first 75 paying customers also get a free Crooked Beat Tote bag to carry their purchases home in. These cotton totes hold 12 LPs and make the perfect addition to any hipster tote collection.
Crooked Beat just replenished their t-shirts. For only $10, you can add this wearable must-have to your music repertoire. If you’re not one of the first lucky to grab a blue or red tote, you can purchase one for $10.
Next Tuesday April 12, Crooked Beat hosts an in-store show with Bellflur and Tereu Tereu starting at 7pm. It’s free and all ages.
Next Wednesday, April 13 Crooked Beat again hosts a local showcase of musicians including Joe Pollock, Spoon Boy and Mobius Strip.
Red Onion Records will have a new website soon, so check www.redonionrecordsandbooks.com often for the grand unveiling.
Don’t forget to sign up for the Red Onion newsletter, which will keep you in the know. If you’ve missed this week’s blast, read below:
Next Saturday is Record Store Day. we are getting updates everyday on what/quantities of we will be receiving. there are some great looking releases this year, but unfortunately a lot of things are super limited.
We will be sending out a more detailed list next week. Next week we’ll be getting the new Panda Bear, Feelies, Vivian Girls, German Measles, Young Widows, and more!
Our latest Mississippi Records shipment arrived and there are some great new things from that label. DC’s own Chalk Circle gets a retrospective LP filled with great stories/pics of the 80’s punk rock scene.
The next chapter in Ian Nagoski’s international 78s story is told in Brass Pins & Match Heads. Ishilan N’Tenere is a collection of recent field recordings from Senegal and Mali. Along with some almost OOP re-stocks and other goodies.
Other new-ish releases in recently are:
Apache Dropout: Self-Titled (Practitioners of lysergic Americana)
Bare Wires: Seeking Love
Astrobrite: Crush (noisepop/low-fi masterpieces from Scott Cortez)
Beach House: self-titled (back in stock!)
The Babies: self-titled (Woods + Vivian Girls = great summertime fun)
All Tiny Creatures: Harbors
Carbonas: self-titled
Casual Victim Pile II
Dreamdate: Melody Walk
Dirty Beaches: self-titled
Chris Forsyth: Paranoid Cat
Hunx and His Punx: Too Young to Be in Love
Thee Oh Sees: Singles Vol. 1 & 2
Lenguas Largas: self-titled
Roc Marciano: Marcberg
The Mummies: Play Their Own Records! (back in print)
J Mascis: Several Shades of Why
Lecherous Gaze: self-titled
Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
Red Sparowes: Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Sun 2LP
Red Sparowes: At the Boundless Dawn 2LP
Suns of Guns: On the Border of Snakeland
Teengenerate: Smash Hits!
True Widow: As High as the Highest Heavens…
Useless Eaters: Cheap Talk – The Singles
Under the Covers Vol. 2 – A Tribute to Paul Collins, Peter Case, and Jack Lee
The World’s Lousy With Ideas Volume 8 (sic alps, tyvek, blank dogs,vivian girls, pink reason…)
Minks: By the Hedge
Blank Dogs: Land and Fixed
Spectre Folk: The Blackest Medicine, Vol. II
Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra Vol. 1 (sublime frequencies)
Bill Callahan: Apocalypse
Davila 666: Tan Bajo
Tyvek: Nothing Fits
Obits: Moody, Standard and Poor
Big Star: #1 Record
Big Star: Radio City
The Litter: $100 Fine
The Litter: Distortions
Flamin’ Groovies: Flamingo
Real Kids: self-titled
Xingu: El Combo Xingu
Zito Righi e Seu Conjunto: Alucinolandia
Leny Andrade: En Mexico
Eduardo Araujo: A Onda e Boogaloo (these last four are really, really good)
On the used record front, we’ve been stocking the shelves with…
Some Folkways, some Latin, some Punk/New Wave, Country, Blues, Jazz, all the good stuff.
We should be buying A LOT of records and books over the next few days, so the shelves will be well stocked this weekend and next for Record Store Day.
