Tagged: recordstoreday2009

This past April, MOKB and The Laundromatinee teamed up with our great friends at LUNA Music to film as much of the happenings on RSD 2009 as we could. We photographed it all , but we just now pieced together all the footage. A great big thanks to all involved. It was a really fun day. " [Going to the record store] is like going to Grandma's house, it's awesome ." - MOKB friend, Adam G. [...]

I picked up this and a whole lot of amazing 7"'s yesterday at Record Store Day. Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down covering Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind by The Lovin' Spoonful is from her split 7 with The Thermals. This sock puppet video for it was directed by Clyde Petersen and Forrest Baum. Previous: Thao Nguyen & The Get [...]

• Thao Nguyen - Beat (Health, Life, and Fire)

Today is Record Store Day , an international day for celebrating independent record stores and for celebrating the humble vinyl record. Yesterday , the four founders of The Pirate Bay , a site that facilitates the sharing of music and other types of files, were sentenced to a year in prison as well as a fine of a few million euro for allowing their site to aid the illegal downloading of music and films. Recent years have seen the decline of music sales at record shops all over the world, and independent record stores have felt this [...]

• Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)/Labelled with Love

A quick video I put together to raise awareness of Record Store Day, an occasion that celebrates the few independent music shops still going through a day of high-profile in-store appearances and one-off releases. Find your nearest participating store and get down there on 18 April to show your support of a dwindling trade.

Is "Psychopathy Red" the best Slayer song of the post-Seasons in the Abyss era? I s'pose that's open to Jaeger-fueled debate - I'm still kinda partial to "Disciple" myself - but any way you cut it, it certainly does rule, and serves, to my mind at least, as example number 8 gazillion why Slayer are [...]