Pink Vinyl - Ten Bands One Cause

Last year during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, RED Distribution, retail stores, artist and label partners raised nearly $30,000 for Gilda’s Club NYC by contributing proceeds from selling pink vinyl select artists.

 Additionally Hard Candy and Spotify worked together to provide a Ten Bands One Cause playlist that featured music from these artist and $1 for every subscriber to the playlist went to Gilda’s Club NYC. 

In 2015, a new crop of artists and labels are coming to the table to grow this campaign way passed what we did last year. Run The Jewels, Sturgill Simpson, Joey Bada$$, Al Green (the first pressing of The Belle Album in 30 years), Between The Buried & Me, Chet Faker, Pierce The Veil, Primus, Clutch (a brand new album specifically for this campaign) and Ingrid Michaelson combine for nearly 20 million album sales in the US, around 8 million Facebook followers, 2, million Twitter followers and more.

This contribution (along with others) allowed for Gilda’s Club to provide hundreds of free workshops, lectures and more to their members in 2014 Gilda’s Club was floored by our contribution. Customers found out about Gilda’s Club for the first time and posted on social media their awesome pink vinyl.

They will release their pink vinyl titles on September 29th 2015. These releases will be limited to a one time pressing.  

Everyday Music will carry these titles for the cause!  The downtown PDX store will play the album selections all throughout the day and we'll have CUPCAKES! PINK CUPCAKES while they last, so make sure you stop in early on the 29th!   Plus, you know that Run The Jewels will fly out the door.

WILCO SCHMILCO!

An indie-store exclusive is comin' your way on the newly designated "Vinyl Tuesdays" --

It's WILCO's Star Wars with the pretty kitty on the cover.  It is scheduled for October 13 and will be colored vinyl w/digital download.

 Only 3,000 of these pressed so mark your calendar.

Also out Oct 13 : Wax Idols' American Tragic  on electric blue vinyl.

Vinyl indie exclusives~

Our pal BEN FOLDS has an exclusive out on 9/11/15.  So There will come out on a 2-lp set on opaque white colored vinyl with digital download card.

BEIRUT! has a new one everybody is talking about, and it sounds brilliant.  You can get the exclusive blue/green vinyl on Sept. 11 of the new album called No No No.  It's limited to 2,500 copies, so make sure you some in asap!  And don't forget....NEW RELEASES now come out on Fridays.  for the most part. 

Also ... Out on Sept. 18 is Skylar Spence's Prom King on gold vinyl.

Exclusives on vinyl~comin' your way

Upcoming exclusives out on August 28 from our pals at ADA Distribution:

Motörhead! That's right, I know where the umlaut key is.  Metal Gods release Bad Magic on 180-gram colored vinyl w/cd AND digital download...that's THREE versions for one low price of $20.  Pressing only 2,000 of these, so first come first serve.

Defeater Abandoned  Indie exclusive on Coke-bottle clear vinyl (whatever that is!) includes download card.  Only 500 made!

Tamaryn Cranekiss limited-edition vinyl, only 300 pressed, includes 24-page booklet.

New Releases are changing to TGI FRIDAYS!!!

In case you haven't heard...starting next week Street Date for new releases will now be FRIDAYS!  Just like the movies.  It's a huge change and adjustment for us...new releases have been on Tuesdays for as long as any of us can remember. SO!  There are a couple of stragglers on July 6 next week, and the rest will come out on July 10 and then Fridays from then on.  Record Store Day, which coordinates our big day in April as well as the Black Friday indie-exclusive releases, are toying with the idea of releasing their titles on Tuesdays still...giving record stores a little edge on the internet.  ANYWAY....adjust your shopping days!


http://pitchfork.com/news/59914-record-industry-will-adopt-friday-as-global-release-day-beginning-july-10/

Upcoming Indie Exclusives: For Your Listening Pleasure

Upcoming Indie-store only exclusives...limited-edition and all that...

Heartless Bastards Restless Ones will have a limited number on clear vinyl (w/download card) coming out June 16.  (Not sure why the album image says "Gates Of Dawn"--but that's what they gave me...?)

Also due: punk rockers Refused have a new one due June 30 called "Freedom" and we'll have a limited amount of that on clear vinyl...also comes with a download card.

Upcoming Indie Exclusives--like Record Store Day without the lines

So indie labels release special indie-only, limited-edition stuff year round FYI! No lines, no hassle...just pop in on release day and it's likely you'll score.

May 12 brings special white vinyl from The Tallest Man On Earth's Dark Bird Is Home
 as well as

Surfer Blood 1000 Palms in blue/white swirly vinyl.  Swirly!  Watch it go 'round and 'round on your turntable for endless fun.

Blanck Mass Dumb Flesh 2xlp clear vinyl - limited edition.

Comin' Up May 19: my man, my hero PAUL WELLER's Saturns Pattern cd/dvd package, or 180gr red vinyl w/download code.

 Also May 19: Hot Chip Why Make Sense? deluxe 2LP
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Multi-Love on pink vinyl

Record Store Day fun!

First off, thanks to ALL the swell bands that showed up on Record Store Day to DJ and perform and to all the great customers who came to shop, eat, and hang out!  It made for a fun day at the ol' record store, which is what it's all about Charlie Brown.
Here's some photos from the goings-on at the downtown PDX store.  THANKS to photographer Alex Edmunds.  MORE photos on our Facebook page. 

 Hooded Hags DJ-ing.

Thomas Lauderdale of the beloved Pink Martini.

The Shivas !

Legendary Dandy Warhols.

Laura Veirs (& Tucker Martine) do the DJ thang.

Edna Vazquez (center) poses with the Von Trapp kids!

Record Store Day is a-comin!

We'll have all (okay, most) of those special RSD releases for ya!  We know, it's gotten a little out of control, but it's still a great day to get out and find some cool releases, chat with your fellow vinyl aficionados, have some coffee and maybe check out some local heroes playing DJ or...just playing! 

The downtown store has some great musicians stopping thru, including Thomas Lauderdale, the Von Trapps, The Dandy Warhols, Laura Veirs & Tucker Martine, Summer Cannibals & more.  Stay tuned for details.

Here's the list of stuff you can hunt for on APRIL 18!  recordstoreday.com has all the details.

#rsd15

http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

Indie Exclusives! Not just for Record Store Day.

Comin' up: Indie Exclusives from The Mountain Goats and Toro Y Moi. 

"Beat the Champ" from The Mountain Goats will be available in a limited-edition 3LP gold, green and red colored vinyl + digital download for arounnd $30. Street Date April 7.

Toro Y Moi will have a limited-edition blue & white starburst vinyl the same day. 

IN-STORE performance: THEESatisfaction!

Just announced: THEESatisfaction will be opening for the great SLEATER-KINNEY on their current tour!   

You can catch them February 24 (release day for their new album!) at the Seattle Everyday Music @ 6 p.m. for an in-store performance.

THEESatisfaction’s EarthEE is the follow up to awE naturalE, the alternative R&B group’s critically acclaimed debut. EarthEE was recorded in Seattle and Brooklyn, and features guest appearances from Shabazz Palaces, Meshell Ndegeocello, Porter Ray and Taylor Brown. EarthEE was produced by THEESatisfaction and Erik Blood at Protect and Exalt Studios: A Black Space and mastered by Adam Straney at BreakPoint Mastering in Seattle.

Neko Case Tickets & LP bundle!

The downtown PDX Everyday Music has a deal for you!
 The Neko Case show at Revolution Hall in Portland on April 18 is sold out.  But if you want this swell RED VINYL reissue of Fox Confessor Brings The Flood AND a ticket to the show...then stop by the Burnside store (1313 W Burnside) in Portland!  ***NOTE: These are sold as a BUNDLE ONLY!  the ticket and the vinyl, for $73.  You get the ticket to the show now, and the vinyl on April 18--the day of the show aka RECORD STORE DAY 2015! Whoo hoo.

These might not last thru the weekend..we only got a limited number, so get yer butt down to the store.  While supplies last!

Here are some things to look forward to in 2015!

Usually January is deadsville in terms of new releases, but January 2015 has some goodies for you.

Jan. 13 is PANDA BEAR's Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper on Domino Records on cd & vinyl.  Get to the stores early for  INDIE EXCLUSIVE versions: a 2cd or a 3LP configurations that include the four track ep.  The deluxe version on vinyl also includes a digital download card and 3 printed inner LP sleeves in a deluxe outer wrapped package.  Check out the video on Stereogum for a preview.

January 20 seems a save-the-date kind of release day!  Belle & Sebastian are back with Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance , released on cd, lp and a special 4-LP box set with a poster and extended mixes and bonus tracks.

January 20 also brings the release of beloved Sleater-Kinney!  "No Cities To Love"  comes out from Sub Pop and there is a deluxe vinyl version too, on 180gr shite vinyl with etching on the B-Side of a bonus 12", a double sided poster to go in your room above your bed, 2 custom dust sleeves, a digital download coupon and a cardboard slipcase.  You don't get any of that shit on Spotify.

Hanni El Khatib has a release on January 20 also, and if you're not familiar, now's the time to try somthing new in the new year. He'll be features in a KEXP session in February and is on tour with Dr. Dog!  Dr. Dog has a live album out Jan. 13.

Happy New Year!