Why Record Store Day Is Great …

And why it sucks (a shopping guide)

"...Talk to the owners of any of Austin’s participating records stores and you’ll hear a chorus: “Record Store Day..."

April 21, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin’s Record Store Day Picks

Local releases and where to get 'em

"...and fetishists mark their calendars annually for this coming Saturday – April 18 – anticipating the eighth iteration of..."

April 15, 2015 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Tito’s Handmade Vodka Is Releasing Two Albums on Record Store Day

Celebrate Record Store Day with Tito’s Vodka and rare records

"...Tito’s Vodka is celebrating Record Store Day with the release of two limited-edition (that’s..."

April 9, 2019 Events Post by Kirby Collier

It's Record Store Day!

Come celebrate your local record stores

"...It's that time of year again, music lovers! Record Store Day is an international day celebrating the culture..."

April 18, 2014 Events Post by Josette Chen

Playback: Record Store Day

Why Record Store Day matters

"...Spotify. But when I'm at home, I listen to records...."

April 18, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Record Store Day

Record Store Day – inclusive, not exclusive

"...Records aren't cool because they're rare, but rather because they're..."

April 19, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Earth Day, Record Store Day, and More Recommended Events

Go green in a number of ways this week

"...Thursday 18, Springdale Station..."

April 19, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Record Store Day Unearths a Roky Erickson Rarity

Reanimating one of the great Austin tributes

"...produced in 1990, is being reissued this year on Record Store Day. A limited vinyl pressing will include all..."

April 21, 2017 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Record Store Day Redux

"...With all the hullabaloo surrounding Record Store Day on Saturday, OTR overlooked a few of..."

April 18, 2008 Music Post by Austin Powell

Record Store Day, Formula 1, Dyke March, and More Event Recommendations

Your weekend is spoken for

"...Thursday 17-Saturday 19, the Ballroom..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Record Store Day

April 20, 2013. 10 photos.

"...Vinyl devotees line up to celebrate independently owned record shops like Waterloo Records on the seventh annual Record..."

April 22, 2013 Photo Gallery

Playback: Record Store Crawl

The day after Record Store Day breaks the bank

"...for music can be measured by the multitude of record stores within our city limits. Eleven currently exist, each..."

April 24, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Playback – Austin Record Convention: The Greatest Record Store on Earth

ARC of the covenant, good Reputations, and Blind Sight

"...America's outer burgs, I get my cultural bearings in record shops. Last weekend, while kickstarting my summer of love..."

May 5, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Austin Record Stores Hang On, Together

Online and curbside pivots support an altered Record Store Day for Austin vinyl emporiums this Saturday.

"...Gabe Vaughn, co-owner of North Loop's Breakaway Records, remains hurt by an impassioned email from a would-be..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Playback: Austin Record Convention's United Nations

Forget Record Store Day, the Austin Record Convention remains the biggest vinyl swap in the USA

"...dealers, and phonographic fetishists. The USA's largest sale of recorded music, featuring hundreds of vendors stocked with over a..."

June 17, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Off the Record

Freddie's Place unplugs, crate digging for Record Store Day, the second coming of Arc Angels, and sitting stage left at Austin City Limits

"...The Day the Music Died..."

April 17, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Where do you want it?

"...public accountant, Chris Yost, examine some of Cactus' financial records obtained through an open-records request. Consistent with previous Chronicle..."

April 16, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Local songwriter Johnny Goudie takes the stand while Trailer Space Records preps for Record Store Day

"...Antonetti ultimately slipped into a coma and died 18 days later at Brackenridge Hospital. She was 38...."

April 15, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Hayes Carll searches for Ooga Kabooga Juice, Alejandro Escovedo finds a friend in Houston, and introducing the lineup for the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival

"...of Austin." The task force meets on the second Monday of every month from 6 to 8pm, in the..."

April 18, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Vinyl Saved My Life Tonight: Record Stores Deliver in a Crisis

Local media emporiums maintain online shipping during C-19 lockdown

"...When local schools shut down suddenly on Friday, March 13, my wife swiftly descended on H.E.B. –..."

March 24, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Asylum Street Spankers' last laugh

"...legal dispute with Spankers manager John Riedie over Spanks-a-Lot Records – most of the other usual suspects will be..."

April 22, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Sounding off on the ripple effect from City Council's changes to the Austin City Code regarding live music at restaurants, while Vega makes some noise with Crystal Castles

"...My Bloody Valentine at the Austin Music Hall on Tuesday amounted to a deafening, 80-minute reverie of shimmering guitar..."

April 24, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy wages on, Willie and the Doggfather get Half Baked in Amsterdam, and Pinetop Perkins gets his mojo working

"...Works Limited following the songwriter's death on New Year's Day 1997. On March 31, six years after the Chronicle..."

April 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record - 33 RPM

Freddie's Place pulls the plug on live music, My Bloody Valentine and the Arc Angels deal with the past, and gearing up for Record Store Day

"...In this week’s Off the Record podcast, Freddie’s Place pulls the plug on live music,..."

April 17, 2009 Music Post by Austin Powell

Lunar Vacation, Nané Day, and More Crucial Concerts for the Week

Grab the earplugs and hit the clubs

"...Thursday 10, Sagebrush..."

April 11, 2025 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Off the Record

SXSW music news and carryings-on

"...the band's 7-inch singles, available on the second annual Record Store Day (April 18). As for the upcoming reissues..."

March 20, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

On the 12th Day of Christmas

"...It was a day so big, the music industry gave it a name:..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Day Trips

Good Records in Dallas is what happens when music lovers take over the record store

"...Good Records in Dallas is what happens when music lovers take..."

July 1, 2005 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Austin Record Stores Move the Needle on In-Person Shopping

You may now commence thumbing through the stacks again (provided you follow the new safety rules)

"...Before last Saturday, I hadn't set foot in a record store in..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Touring Austin's Latin Record Stores

Discotecas outnumber Anglo record shops

"...statistic that may shock you. There are more Latino record stores in Austin (discotecas) than Anglo record shops...."

Aug. 18, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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