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Bombones

Bombones was born in Seville, (Spain), in early 2000s, where due to the love of the music that characterize both Juano and Goyo (working in a record store), they decided to join with Francis and Eduardo "Pollito" (former bass player) to play unusual power-pop covers, like Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush or Redd Kross.

Campbell Arcade, Melbourne

The arcade is located underground off of Flinders Street and features a selection of indie merchandise, ranging from fashion and jewellery shops and a record stores.

Easy Street Records

Easy Street Records is an independent record store located in Seattle, Washington.

Rasputin Music

Rasputin Music is the largest independent chain of record stores in the extended San Francisco Bay Area, California named after 19th century Russian religious figure Grigori Rasputin.

Rotterdam techno

Cities (such as Nagoya, the so-called techno capital of Japan due to its clubs and record stores) feature clubs where this kind of techno is played.


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A Day Without Me

After DJ Carter Alan of WBCN in Boston heard "A Day Without Me" in a record store, he became a U2 fan and included the song in his playlist.

Aquarius Records

Aquarius Records (Jamaica), a Jamaican record store and record label operated by Herman Chin Loy

Arkansas gubernatorial election, 2006

Rod Bryan (Independent) - Bass player for the band Ho-Hum and former owner of "Anthropop" an independent record store.

Community Memory

The record store and its bulletin board brought together drummers seeking fusion guitarists, bagel aficionados looking for sources, and the first poets of the medium, notably one who went by the nom de plume of Benway - the first net personality.

Danny and the Champions of the World

Danny George Wilson recorded ‘Tougher Than The Rest’ for a Limited Edition Bruce Springsteen tribute 7” EP for Record Store Day 2011, alongside fellow contributors The Magic Numbers, Willie Nile and Billy Franks.

Dick Hugg

He was the first white disc jockey to broadcast (on station KRKD) from the front window of John Dolphin's popular all-night record store, Dolphin's of Hollywood, at the corner of Central and Vernon Avenues.

DJ Patife

He had contact with the drum and bass scene through friend DJ Marky while working in a record store.

Eme 15

The band's earliest appearances to promote their debut album and television series, Miss XV were at autograph signings and showcases at MIXUP record store locations and radio venues throughout Mexico beginning in the spring of 2012.

Floating Coffin

It was released for Record Store Day 2013, with all proceeds going towards Healthy San Francisco.

Floyd Soileau

After graduating from Ville Platte High in 1956, he opened a small record store, Floyd's Record Shop and discovered that although people were still interested in them, Cajun French records were no longer being produced.

Folkjokeopus

The album title was borrowed to provide the name of a Minneapolis record store, Oar Folkjokeopus.

Greensleeves Records

The company was founded by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick and started as a small record store in West Ealing, London, in November 1975 and is based in Britain.

Greg Shaw

Bomp! Records was a LA record store for a couple of years, as well as one of the first independent distributors in the U.S.

Have a Cigar

The first was used as b-side for the Learn to fly CD single, while the second one, featuring Brian May on lead guitar, first appeared on the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack, and later as an Amazon.com bonus track on their 2009 Greatest Hits album and in the 2011 limited-edition vinyl only release Medium Rare, released for Record Store Day.

Hi Records

Hi Records was a Memphis soul and rockabilly label started in 1957 by singer Ray Harris, record store owner Joe Cuoghi, Bill Cantrell and Quinton Claunch (formerly producers for Sun Records), and three silent partners, including Cuoghi's lawyer, Nick Pesce.

Honeychurch

Both Honeychurch albums were released with the help of independent record store Siren Records in Doylestown, PA.

Jon Crosby

Crosby was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Humboldt and Sonoma counties in Northern California, raised by a single mother from an upper-class family who owned a record store in Fortuna, California.

Jon Zazula

Jon Zazula, also known as Jonny Z or Jon "the well is dry" Zazula is the owner of New Jersey's legendary Rock'n Roll Heaven record store and founder of record label Megaforce Records.

Mandy Van Deven

Van Deven was able to attend Georgia State University with the financial assistance of the HOPE Scholarship while also working full-time at an indie record store in Little Five Points and the university’s Women’s Studies Institute.

Mark Farina

Shortly after Mark befriended Derrick Carter in 1988 at a record store in Chicago, he developed an interest in House music.

Meat Whiplash

"Meat Whiplash" was also the name of a mid-80s independent record store in Plymouth, Devon, run by Jeff Barrett, who later worked as a press officer for Creation Records and then founded Heavenly Records.

Norfolk 6/20/05

Norfolk is a live album by Iron & Wine released on April 18, 2009, Record Store Day.

Oblivion Records

The company was formed based on a casual conversation between Long Island, New York record store owner, musician, and blues scholar Tom Pomposello, and college student and amateur recording engineer Fred Seibert, when Pomposello was musing about the best way to record and release his music.

One for the Man Over There

The album was only released at a small Magherafelt record store and a Belfast HMV, which the band performed at to promote the album, however the album is extremely rare and is hard to find the physical copy and an online download.

Quin Ivy

There, he established a record store and began writing songs with producer Rick Hall of FAME Recording Studios.

Sadistic Intent

Sadistic Intent is linked to the record label and record store Dark Realm Records in Downey, California, since the owners of the store, Bay Cortez and Rick Cortez, are both Sadistic Intent members.

Shields: B-sides

Alongside the five original tracks, the release includes remixes from Lindstrøm (a track that originally featured on the Record Store Day Release 'Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear'), Liars and Nicolas Jaar.

Stray Heart

The video starts with a man (Alex Knox) looking for records at a record store and buying some Green Day vinyl including ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!, but as he gives the records to his girlfriend (Leven Rambin), she sees a hole in his chest where his heart should be, and she slams the door on him.

Support Your Local Record Store

Support Your Local Record Store is a 7" vinyl by post-hardcore band Silverstein, released on April 16, exclusively for Record Store Day. It serves as a 7" vinyl release for the first single off the band's fifth studio album Rescue - "The Artist", and features 3 hardcore punk cover songs as b-sides.

Talitha MacKenzie

Following her time at Connecticut College, MacKenzie worked at the Manhattan record store World Tone Music, where she immersed herself in the "exotic modes and unusual rhythms" of folk dance from around the world.

Terror Twilight

The original cover art for Terror Twilight lists the final track, "Carrot Rope," as "...And Carrot Rope." This alternate song title was revived for the 2010 Record Store Day version of Quarantine the Past, even though the song was the fifth track on side one.

The Microphones

Elvrum began experimenting with some recording equipment in the back of the record store, eventually drawing the attention of the store's owner, Bret Lunsford.

Tim Cohen

Martin and Cohen later formed Black Fiction, a collective of San Francisco musicians centered around the record store that Cohen worked for at the time, Amoeba Music.

Too Much Joy

In 1990, the members of Too Much Joy were taken aback to learn that hip-hop group 2 Live Crew had been arrested on obscenity charges in Florida, and that a record store owner had been arrested for selling their music.