Put your records on…

Dallas has a couple of decent record stores.  Among those, however, Good Records on Greenville Ave. stands heads and shoulders above the others in just about every way. Good Records amazing selection, featuring Indie, Import & Local music of all genres is merely one aspect of why it’s such a great find.  If you are into Vinyl, they offer both hard-to-find items and the new releases, from Wilco, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, White Stripes & Hymns to go along with local faves Polyphonic Spree, Bosque Brown and The Backsliders.  Perhaps you’re into seeing bands in an intimate, loose in-store setting?  Perhaps you enjoy free beer and eats whilst enjoying said in-store gig? Then again, Good Records is well beyond “good” for your needs.

Coming up, Saturday April 19th is Record Store Day.  Good Records will be throwing down what might be the best party of any trading post celebrating this hallowed occasion.  Not only will there be free beer, food, goody bags, t-shirts and other schwag but the line-up of talent is enough to make parts of me tingle.  Doug Burr, The Theater Fire and Bridges & Blinking Lights are all on before 2pm.  The Fine Line has even more details with a full line-up.

If you don’t live in DFW, find out where the nearest record store is to you and go to it!  Go to the in-store gigs and support the bands, go to the store and buy the new releases that not only come out on Vinyl, but these days, generally include a free code to digitially download the cd also (like this new Texas release)