Everyone’s been hearing the news about the sad state of affairs in the music industry.  Well, your local “mom & pop” indie store is tired of all that prattle and invite one and all to come by their neighborhood store on Saturday, April 19th to see that they’re doing fine, thank you very much.

Taking a cue from Free Comic Book Day, hundreds of independent record stores across the country and even across the globe have started Record Store Day, celebrating, well…themselves.  There’s a lot of amazing events and sales going on that you should check out.  Here’s some of what you can find happening here in our fair city:

Circle Sky Records – Chamblee

• On sale – all regular priced used CDs ($6 or higher) are $3 off regular price!
• In store appearance by The Vinyl Strangers @ 4pm

Criminal Records – Little 5 Points

TWO stages of artist performances!!

Outdoor stage

• 1pm – The Bridges
• 2pm – Ocha La Rocha
• 3pm – Bobby & The Soft Spots
• 4pm – Suitcases
• 5pm – Judi Chicago
• 6pm – The Coathangers
• 7pm – Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause
• 8pm – Noot D’Noot

Indoor stage

• 2:30pm – Trances Arc
• 3:30pm – Andy Hull from Manchester Orchestra
• 4:30pm – Club Awesome
• 5:30pm – Dead Confederate
• 6:30pm – Single Malt Solution
• 7:30pm – Hope for agoldensummer
• 8:30pm – Janelle Monae

DBS Sounds – College Park & DBS Sounds II – Forest Park

• On sale – $1 off any CD purchase.
• Appearances by Algebra, One Chance and Jason Champion (call store at 770-997-5776 for confirmed schedule)

Decatur CD – Decatur

• FREE beer!  And performances by:
• 4pm – Swing Set
• 5pm – Warm In The Wake
• 6pm – Blake Guthrie & Friends
• 7pm – Richard Parsons / Pistolero
• 8pm – Sweet Tooth Simpleton

North Georgia CD – Norcross

• 9am to Noon – Old School Jam
• 11am to 12:30pm – Meet & Greet with JC
• 1pm to 3pm – DJ “spin off” hosted by DJ Jelly
• 5pm – performance by One Chance

And here’s some other participating Record Store Day stores that are worth visiting as well:

Earwax Records – Castleberry Hill (Reopening soon)
Ella Guru – Toco Hills
Fantasyland – Buckhead
Jumpstreet Records – College Park
Schoolkids Records - Athens
Super Sounds – Greenbriar & Decatur
Wax-N-Facts - Little 5 Points
Wuxtry - Decatur & Athens