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Pre-Thanksgiving RECORD STORE DAY Pop-Up

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🎶 Get ready for Record Store Day 2024! 🎶 RSVP on Facebook for reminders & updates. 

Join us for a Pre-Thanksgiving Record Store Pop-Up at Wandering Griffin Brewery & Restaurant in Beavercreek, OH! On November 24th from 12 – 3 PM, experience the best vinyl treasures from Skeleton Dust Records, Resignation Records, and an exclusive raffle prize from Toxic Beauty Records! 🍂

Here’s how it works: 1️⃣ Purchase a delicious craft beer 🍺 2️⃣ Grab a vinyl 🎶 3️⃣ Get automatically entered to WIN the ultimate record lover’s prize!

Make it a memorable Sunday with music, good company, and unbeatable vinyl finds—perfect to kick off the Thanksgiving and Black Friday season. 🎉 Don’t miss out, Dayton audiophiles 🎧

📍 Tag a friend who can’t resist a good record haul and bring them along! Follow for updates and more surprises!

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Dayton Music Scene Celebrates Record Store Day

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Dayton MostMetro.com is a proud media sponsor for Record Store Day!

If you haven’t been keeping up with music trends in the past few years, I have some news for you: vinyl records are making a comeback. Surprising, right? I have even more news for you, then: there is an entire day devoted to vinyls and the stores that sell them. Hopefully you’re getting excited now. This Saturday, April 21st, is the fifth-annual Record Store Day, and it is a chance for Dayton’s music stores and scene to step forward and shine. (check out our calendar for complete Record Store Day schedule)

Record Store Day celebrates exactly what is in its name. The thing that is unfortunately starting to fade away with the advent of digital music. On this day, multiple artists and bands release exclusive vinyl albums and singles to independent record stores around the country (and world!), with the stores putting on live shows, various festivals, and anything else they can think of in celebration of actual physical music.

Omega Music (down in the Oregon District) and Toxic Beauty Records (out in Yellow Springs) are both getting in on the festivities. Both stores will be carrying the aforementioned exclusive Record Store Day releases, while featuring music and giveaways all day. Omega Music will have a full slew of local bands performing, including Buffalo Killers, Me & Mountains, and The Rebel Set. Toxic Beauty will be holding a performance by local band Wheels around 2PM, along with a ticket giveaway for Primus, and many other exclusives. Both Record Gallery and Feathers will also be featuring live local music.

Record stores aren’t the only ones getting into the celebrations. Other venues will be offering discounts when you bring in a receipt from any of the four stores mentioned above. Both Thai9 and Blind Bobs will be offering 50% select appetizers, while 5th Street Deli will be offering 20% off all food. Basho Apparel will be offering 10% off products with the receipts as well.

Ghettoblaster Magazine is hosting a screening of the movie Empire Records over at The Neon at 10PM, with all proceeds going toward the funding of this year’s Dayton Music Fest. Tickets for this screening will be running $6 on Record Store Day, and only $4 with a receipt from Omega, Toxic Beauty, Record Gallery, or Feathers.

Fans of music, the local scene, or just Dayton in general would be doing themselves a disservice by not checking out the festivities going on this Saturday. It’s a great chance to hit the town, listen to some local music, and start rebuilding that vinyl collection you got rid of back in the 80s. It’s going to be a great time, so don’t miss out!

Record Store Day in the Miami Valley

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On Saturday, April 16th, independent record stores around the world will celebrate Record Store Day 2011.  This is the third year for the celebration of having a physical place to buy music and the culture surrounding that place.  The Miami Valley is lucky to have two stores participating in Record Store Day: Omega Music on 5th Street in the Oregon District and Toxic Beauty Records & Music Gallery in Yellow Springs.

The action gets started at Toxic Beauty at 9am with plenty of limited edition Record Store Day releases for sale.  The store will offer live beginning at 2pm with Yellow Springs bands Wheels and Mercury Mouth.  The store will also be offering an exclusive ticket giveaway for a show at the LC in Columbus that will be announced tomorrow via the store’s Facebook page.

Omega Music opens at 11am, and live music will start at 2pm beginning with a performance by Kelley Deal and the Buffalo Killers who will also be joined by Guided by Voices’ Mitch Mitchell.  The Motel Beds, Astro Fang, Rad Company, Yakuza Heart Attack and DJ Philly Phil will perform throughout the evening.  There will also a listening party for Sing For Your Meat, the Guided by Voices tribute album coming out on Record Store Day from No More Fake Labels.

We invite you to share your favorite Record Store Day comments, purchases, and performances in the comments section.

Local Stores Looking to Sell Local Music

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Image Credit: Flickr user MiND iN R4VE

Sometimes you just don’t have that extra cash to get a copy of a band’s latest album at their show.  Two area record stores just announced that they’ll be making sure that local musicians have a place to sell their CDs.

Omega Music is offering consignment for local releases at their new location on 5th Street in the Oregon District (in the old Gem City Records building).  Over in Kettering, GameSwap (Woodlane Plaza on the corner of Dorthy Lane and Woodman) is also offering consignment to local musicians and local filmmakers.  These two stores will join Toxic Beauty Records in Yellow Springs and Ohio Coffee Company in stocking local music.

Stop into any of these fine, local stores to learn more about their local music selection and stocking policies.