With over 400 special releases planned, this year’s will easily be the biggest Record Store Day to date. We can’t imagine such a huge array of vinyl will leave anyone short of ideas, but you might just be overwhelmed by…
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Record Store Day | Taking The Pledge: Why Independent Record Shops Are Best
More than a year after making a pledge to only buy his music from independent record shops, FFS contributor Rory Dollard tells us he’s never looked back. Free-range eggs instead of the battery hen stuff, please. I’ll take some properly…
Record Store Day | Music’s Not Dead, Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea: home of the iconic art deco De La Warr Pavilion, a magnificent century-old seafront colonnade, quaint beach huts, and a huge retirement community. Not the most obvious place to open up a new record store. But that is exactly…
Record Store Day | The Drift Record Shop, Totnes, Devon
Rupert Morrison runs the Drift Record Shop in Totnes – a Devon town in between Plymouth and Exeter. We caught up with him about returning to his hometown after living in London, his plans for Record Store Day and how…
Record Store Day | FFS writers on their favourite shops
Most every music fan has one of their own, but as we each get ready to head out and join the queues tomorrow, FFS writers profile a handful of our favourite shops. Spillers Records, Cardiff If you’re looking for authenticity…
News | Smoke Fairies reveal album details and Record Store Day EP
The Smoke Fairies have revealed further details of their second album Blood Speaks, which will be released on May 21. The album, which is the follow-up to the outstanding Through Low Light And Trees, will be preceded by a special…
Listen | Cate Le Bon and Gruff Rhys to release split 7″ for Record Store Day
News continues to come thick and fast as Record Store Day approaches on April 21st. There’s word that the Flaming Lips have used, er, actual blood from Ke$ha and others in the packaging for their release The Flaming Lips and…