Video: Celebrate Record Store Day today
Record Store Day, an annual celebration of independently-owned brick-and-mortar purveyors of music, is today.
Wayne Coyne, frontman of Oklahoma City-based psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips, sang the praises of these disappearing outlets in an interview with The Oklahoman’s Entertainment Editor Gene Triplett.
“I think the record stores that have survived this far will probably go on like this forever,” he told Gene. “That said, I think it’s done by people who really love having a little store, people who really care about the music that’s in there. They’re not making the kind of money record stores did back in the ’70s or early ’80s.”
The Lips are planning a special vinyl release today for Record Store Day. The Lips’ label, Warner Bros. is releasing today “Heady Nuggs,” a boxed set of vinyl versions of the first five albums the Lips recorded for the label (if you don’t count 1997′s four-disc set “Zaireeka”).
The albums being released include “Hit to Death in the Future Head” (1992), “Transmissions From the Satellite Heart” (1993), “Clouds Taste Metallic” (1995), “The Soft Bulletin” (1999), and the Grammy Award-winning “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” (2002).
The limited-edition “Heady Nuggs” boxed sets will be available in 140-gram black vinyl in stores and a special edition pressed in five different colors will be available exclusively on the band’s website.
Coyne also chatted with Gene about the other special releases the band is planning as part of their scheme to release a song a month in 2011. Not surprisingly, the Lips are going about it rather bizarre ways; click here to read Gene’s intriguing story.
Among the local businesses celebrating Record Store Day are both Guestroom Records locations, which also are planning live music by various Oklahoma bands. The Oklahoma City store, 3701 N Western, will have Pretty Black Chains, Student Film, Purple Church and others performing from 1 to 5 p.m. today.
The party will move to the Norman branch of Guestroom Records, where Broncho, The Workweek, The Nghiems and more will play starting at 6 p.m. today at Guestroom Records, 125 E Main. For more information, call 701-5974 or go to www.guestroom-records.com.
In this NewsOK video, Guestroom owner Justin Sowers talks about Record Store Day and about the popularity of vinyl.
-BAM
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