Easy Street Records will celebrate Record Store Day April 16
Thu, 04/14/2016
As a neighborhood that proudly hosts one of the best actual record stores in the nation, in Easy Street Records the annual celebration of record stores, Record Store Day (RSD) on Saturday, April 16, is an event worth noting.
Easy Street is celebrating the vinyl release of their RSD event last year, "The Sonics Live At Easy Street." This LP will be available at all stores participating in Record Store Day, but Easy Street is the only place selling the Easy Street Special Edition, a limited edition of 500, which will include the following:
* Custom-screened, hand-numbered outer sleeve
* Copy of signed set list
* Ticket for the event
* Download card good for two free bonus songs from the concert not included on the album
* Detailed liner notes by Easy Street president Matt Vaughan
The Sonics’ Record Store Day in-store last year was one of the biggest and most awesome events we’ve ever put on, featuring guests such as Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready, Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden), the Screaming Trees’ Mark Pickerel and Van Conner, Emily Nokes (Tacocat), Chris Ballew (Presidents Of The United States Of America, Caspar Babypants), Matt Lukin (Mudhoney), and many others. The album was mixed by legendary NW producer Jack Ending.
The event was a benefit to fund the construction of KEXP’s New Home at the Seattle Center, and yesterday, KEXP released video of the performance here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFolqS24Y6U
This year the store will celebrate the big day with the following:
Greg Vandy Book Signing & Q&A - 3pm-6pm
Greg Vandy is host of KEXP's "The Roadhouse" and the man behind the online magazine American Standard Time, which focuses on American roots music. Vandy's latest project is a book titled 26 Songs In 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs & The Planned Promised Land In The Pacific Northwest, which tells the story of how Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days - including classics like "Roll On Columbia" and "Pastures of Plenty" - when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administration to promote the benefits of cheap hydroelectric power, irrigation, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Vandy takes readers inside the unusual partnership between one of America's great folk artists and the federal government, and shows how the first American folk revival of the 1930's was a response to hard times. Vandy will participate in a live Q&A with our own Andy Nelson starting at 3pm on Record Store Day, followed by book signing until 6pm.
Acapulco Lips Record Release In-Store - 7pm
Acapulco Lips' self-titled debut album (out 4/15) is also the debut of their West Seattle-based label, Killroom Records who say the local trio is "bound together by a studied adoration towards the loud, reckless, rebellious sonic traditions of psych, garage, soul, and surf rock...from transporting guitar jangles, assertively revved up percussion, boogie-friendly bass breakdowns, topped with disarmingly charming coos and aahs.”
The store opens at 7am offering hundreds of exclusive, limited titles in all shapes, colors & sizes, the majority of which will only be available on Saturday, April 16th, Record Store Day.