Taylor Swift Record Store Day exclusive 7-inches. As in, single digits. There are 1,400 stores in the United States participating in Record Store Day, and the orders far exceeded demand. Thus, every store in the country is only receiving a few copies of the release. The good news: You ...
There are over 50 tiny specialty shops scattered through 7-chome, on side streets and in apartment and office buildings. Some of them carry bootlegs, and a lot of them specialize in one genre, like R&B or reggae. Here are a few to start with: Vinyl Japan #1 -- imports and used -...
which, when we were there, included a rare Runaways Live in Japan LP, the original Blade Runner soundtrack, and a personal favorite, Give 'Em Enough Rope, the second studio album by the Clash. No matter when you go, you'll definitely encounter...
The independently owned Diskunion chain has record stores scattered throughout Japan. Their largest is spread over eight floors in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, and is a beacon for anyone looking for new and second-hand Japanese indie, rock, prog, Latin and punk. Collectors on the hunt for meta...
new studio album, coming Fall 2009, as well as a live favorite. The new track is called "A Promise To Keep". The other track, "Downpour," was recorded live in Boston last year. Brandi created this piece especially for Record Store Day to show her support for local indie record stores...
It is difficult now, after three long decades of deadening deflation, to imagine how truly wild the 1980s' bubble was in Japan, and how speculation upended its strait-laced culture. Kazukuni Yamazaki, an 87-year-old investor and a former Nomura Securities employee, remembers there used to ...
By 1985, independent and chainrecordretail stores were adding sections fornewage, and major labels began showing interest in the genre, both through acquisition of some existingnew-age labels such as Paul Winter's Living Music and through signing of so-called "new-age" artists such asJapaneseel...
Japanese fascination with American music stems from record companies having spent many years promoting in Japan rock bands from the U.S. that never achieved stardom there. Several factors including a decline in the number of independent record stores in the U.S. have created a more competitive ...
Part two of theTVD Record Store Club’slook at the new and reissued releases presently in stores for February 2022. Part one ishere. NEW RELEASE PICKS: Joy Guidry,Radical Acceptance(Whited Sepulchre)The vinyl for this release (180 gram lavender) isn’t likely to arrive until June, but wai...
Boasting a truly global outlook—with record stores everywhere from Iceland and India to the coolest cities in Europe, the US, UK, plus the mecca for crate diggers that is Japan—and showcasing the best places to buy house, indie, jazz, rock, hip-hop, afrobeat, and everything in between...