If you were not aware of it, tomorrow (April 18th, 2009) is National Record Store Day; a day to celebrate the greatness of the physical record store. With the proliferation of digital media becoming more and more standard a coalition of “Brick and Mortar” stores came together to help people remember that going into your local record store is something that should not be taken for granted. Loads of things are going on around town in participation of this national event and there will be a ton of record store day exclusive releases from an overwhelming amount of great artists. So, be sure to get down to some of this stuff and celebrate your local record store.

Grimeys
The Avett Brothers · Stardeath & White Dwarfs · Michigan City Vandals · DeRobert & The Half-Truths · Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears · Charlie Louvin · Del McCoury · Royal Bangs · The Ettes · MuteMath

The Basement
Screening the new Wilco DVD, Ashes of American Flags

The Groove
Cotton Jones · Dave Cloud and the Gospel of Power · The Hotpipes · Shoot The Mountain · Red, White, Blue · The Coolin System (members of Space Capone) · The Tits

Third Man Records – 623 7th Avenue South (Jack White’s new digs)
Doors open at noon and the first 7″ from Jack White’s new band The Dead Weather will be available, along with a bunch of random other misc items that they happen to have lying around. First come, first serve.

Halcyon Bike Shop
I’m told there’s a BBQ going down at Nashville’s best bike shop starting around 5.

There may be more than I’ve overlooked but this should be a substanial start to planning your celebration of the goodness that is the record store.

There’s been a deluge of various news recently.. here’s the rundown:

Paper Route will be releasing their new album Absence on April 28th. You can watch a mini-documentary about the album here and/or preview the album on their Myspace. The band will be playing Exit/In on May 2nd in celebration of the release.

If you were not aware of it, Nashville’s own Janet Timmons was on a panel of bloggers at this years SXSW alongside the likes of Coolfer, Brooklyn Vegan, Aquarium Drunkard and several other quality folk. The point here? The entire talk is now available for playback right here and it’s worth a listen to hear the different bloggers and their take on the impact of blogs.

Turbo Fruits recorded a bunch of stuff with Jeremy Ferguson of Battle Tapes and the first taste of that release will be in the form a 7″ via Fat Possum Records. You can preview the two songs on their Myspace or wait until May 29th to see them at The End with The Tits. Speaking of which…

The full-length release from The Tits, Jesus Says Relax, will be available as of May 7th. They’ll be playing at The Basement with Howlies to celebrate the occasion. You can get the details on the album here and, as usual, preview the new songs here.

Roman Candle and The Deep Vibration are going out on tour. The two will be playing Nashville on May 1st at the Dirty Eye Warehouse (it’s in Germantown) in support of their respective releases. Deep Vibration has Veracruz to introduce you to and Roman Candle has a new EP and an album, Oh Tall Tree In The Ear, hitting stores on May 12th.

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The Ascent of Everest will be playing this weekend (Sunday, April 19th) at The End with Crippled Black Phoenix as part of their Rise Up and Fight tour and you can be damn well assured that the music will be ‘Epic’ to say the very least.

The whole “post rock” genre is not an easy realm to exist in. There are lots of folks that do it but few that do it without being completely boring after one twelve minute escapade. So with some trepidation I dove into the new split from Ascent of Everest / We All Inherit The Moon and it sounds like AoE have figured out how to keep things interesting. Their two tracks on the EP are sweeping, crescendo laden, string filled journeys that actually don’t spend too much time teasing the listener of what’s to come; they get right into it.

The new split will be available at the show or you can go grab your digital version starting now.