Record Store Day

Radio-Active Records 12-Hour Record Store Day 2013 Report, Fort Lauderdale

By C. Townsend Rizzo Mon., Apr. 22 2013 at 8:03 AM
Categories: Record Store Day
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Ian Witlen
We saw you. We saw you standing outside Radio-Active Records, as early as 2 a.m. on Saturday, April 20, 2013. We saw you panic a little when we walked into the store from the back door before it was time to open the front and sift through the records to see what our beloved Radio-Active Records received for the big day. Don't worry. We didn't take anything, just a little research. We saw you sweating your way through a ton of records to find the ones on your list and definitely caught you posting your finds to Instagram. We saw you come and go.

But New Times stayed. We powered through from hour one to hour 12 to help you fill in the blanks. Things got a little weird, a little hot, and a little wet. Here is our Radio-Active Records Record Store Day hour-by-hour rundown.

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- PHOTOS: Record Store Day at Radio-Active Records
- Top 10 Block x Blog Fashion Statments
- Block x Blog - Revolution Live, Green Room, America's Backyard, Fort Lauderdale - April 20
- PHOTOS: The People of Block x Blog
- PHOTOS: The Bands of Block x Blog
- FastForward: Seven Strokes of Genius Black Locust Society Brought to America's Backyard for Block x Blog
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Blood Oath Slumber Party Makes Your Walkman Cool Again

By Anthony Hernandez Thu., Apr. 18 2013 at 8:00 AM
Categories: ¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.?, A Compelling Visual, Album Release, Patriot Acts, Record Store Day
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New music label, Blood Oath Slumber Party, is mainly all about kicking ass and taking names, but in, they say, a very non-aggressive, unselfish manner. They take South Florida bands to places they've only heard of in high school geography, like New England. 

Label founders Chris Dougnac and Virginia de las Pozas specialize in giving music legs by first encasing it in hard plastic, and then whipping up fancy artwork. 

Originally from Miami, the Bostonian transplants wish to musically bridge the gap between Massachusetts and Florida. This bridge they will forge with cassette tapes.  Within the coming month, B.O.S.P. will distribute the music of local bands Cry Guy, Seductress, Ice Cream, Animal Tropical, the Gun Hoes and This Heart Electric all over Boston, Philadelphia, and South Florida. 

The duo is scheduling their Miami and Fort Lauderdale release dates to coincide with Record Store Day, this April 20. They'll be representing their label at the annual RSD event Sweatstock in Miami. What follows is poetry. 

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Top Five South Florida Events for Record Store Day 2013

By Falyn Freyman Thu., Apr. 18 2013 at 7:34 AM
Categories: Record Store Day
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Ian Witlen
This Saturday, take a break from 4/20 toking, and head out to revel in another of life's simplest pleasures: music.

In lieu of Record Store Day 2013, a handful of dedicated local record shops are prepared to show you just how passionate they really are about their trade. What follows are our top five Record Store Day events going down this weekend. 

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Five Things a Record Can Do That an MP3 Cannot

By C. Townsend Rizzo Tue., Apr. 16 2013 at 11:05 AM
Categories: Record Store Day

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Monica McGivern
Should any instance occur in which your musical taste assists in getting you laid, chances are very slim that an MP3 collection would be the responsible format.

MP3s make a vacant effort to fill moments of silence with careless noise. The day has come where Pandora picks the soundtracks to our lives based on algorithms formulated by choosing just one song (choose wisely!). These are the days of Spotify playlist, filled with the intangible and elusive MP3s.

Lucky for us, we also live in a time of revival, where a proud movement of music snobs have been able to quite literally turn the tables. It is in this age where the limitless and shameless demand for nostalgia and irony has moved beyond a mass of cultural critique, and brought with it the return of the record.
If ever you second guessed the time and effort involved in building your record collection, here are five things to reassure you that you've invested wisely.

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- SLIDESHOW: Record Store Day 2012 at Radio-Active Records
- Suede Dudes on Record Store Day: "CDs Just Aren't Cool," But Vinyl Is "the Total Package"
- Five Things We're Most Looking Forward to at Radio-Active Records' 2013 Record Store Day
- Jacuzzi Boys Audio Tour of Record Collection Favorites for Record Store Day 2013


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Suede Dudes on Record Store Day: "CDs Just Aren't Cool," But Vinyl Is "the Total Package"

By C. Townsend Rizzo Tue., Apr. 16 2013 at 7:07 AM
Categories: Record Store Day

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In real life, the Suede Dudes are some cool cucumbers. But on stage, they bring the sludgiest, surfiest, fuzziest psych, and a weird, dark energy, strong enough to lure any sweet-faced pigeon-toed teen or delightfully stoned sonic junkie.

They're backing up Radio-Active Records on Record Store Day, playing their after-party stage at the massive blowout festival Block x Blog. Taste-makers Subculture and 3J Hospitality plan to batter South Florida's eardrums on 4/20 by packing Revolution Live, Green Room, and America's Backyard with 30 popular local acts and DFA's Holy Ghost!

The Dudes' front men Bryan Adams (yes, that's his real name) and Raphael Alvarez - also known for his solo noise project Chrome Dick - spoke with us recently about why Henry Rollins is their first-pick teammate should the zombie apocalypse go down tomorrow. Here's what happens when two Suede Dudes get to talking.

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- Five Things a Record Can Do That An MP3 Cannot
- SLIDESHOW: Record Store Day 2012 at Radio-Active Records
- Five Things We're Most Looking Forward to at Radio-Active Records' 2013 Record Store Day
- Jacuzzi Boys Audio Tour of Record Collection Favorites for Record Store Day 2013

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Millionyoung on Making a "Pop Record With Substance," Willennium, and the Miami Heat

By Falyn Freyman Wed., Mar. 27 2013 at 10:41 AM
Categories: Record Store Day
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Ian Witlen
On Saturday, April 20, Fort Lauderdale's indie beacon of light, Radio-Active Records, will celebrate Record Store Day 2013 with an action-packed, 13-hour event chock-full of free stuff, live music, and delectable and rare musical items. Just streets away, at the massive Revolution Live complex, Block x Blog will be making Fort Lauderdale indie-music history with an epic lineup spanning three stages. 

Among those performing this year at both events is Coral Springs native Mike Diaz, the musical mastermind behind chilled-out electronic indie outfit Millionyoung. With the recent release of Variable, the sophomore follow-up to 2011's Replicants LP, and a full U.S. tour just under way, Diaz gave us a moment to talk about what he's been up to and divulge some of his record-collection gems.

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- Five Things We're Most Looking Forward to at Radio-Active Records' 2013 Record Store Day
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Five Things We're Most Looking Forward to at Radio-Active Records' 2013 Record Store Day

By Falyn Freyman Thu., Mar. 7 2013 at 10:30 AM
Categories: Free Music, Local Music, Record Store Day
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Ian Witlen
It seems like the majority of holidays these days exist for the sole purpose of playing on Americans' addiction to buying pointless things and feeding the hungrier-than-ever corporate beast. But not Record Store Day.

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- PHOTOS: Record Store Day 2012 at Radio-Active Records

Each year on 4/20, appropriately aligned with another of our more noble national holidays (duh, Marijuana Appreciation Day), record stores, record labels, musicians, and music lovers join together to honor, celebrate, and support a gasping animal -- your good ol' local record shop.

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Mecca Normal Offered Artistic Oddity at Radio-Active Records

By David Von Bader Mon., Nov. 12 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Q&A, Record Store Day

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Jean Smith
If you happened to wander into the vinyl wonderland that is Radio-Active Records last Friday night, you would have been confronted with a scene not too far removed from your average Harmony Korine flick. Ok, maybe it wasn't that uncomfortable, but to the uninitiated, an intimate performance by Vancouver's Mecca Normal had the capacity to produce, well awkward feelings.

But a real-deal independent record store's modus operandi -- perhaps ranking even higher on the list of priorities than the hawking of vinyl -- is to harbor and enrich a community's love of artistic oddities and then provide a place to drink coffee and argue about "how fucking punk-rock it was for Ceremony to go from super-hyped hardcore band to kind of cool rock band."

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Radio-Active Records' Live Mix from Record Store Day 2012

By Liz Tracy Fri., Apr. 27 2012 at 3:52 PM
Categories: Record Store Day
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Ian Witlen

As you know, we gleefully reveled in the noises, smells, and tastes of Record Store Day at Radio-Active Records. However, a multitude of Gram Parsons records weren't the only musical things we came home with that day psyched to listen to later. Loaded up on the web a few days after the big event was this live mix created by DJs Mike Ramirez of Radio-Active Records and Richard Vergez of the duo Mothersky.

There's nothing not to enjoy about Ramirez' dance-friendly side A and Vergez' experimetnal rock, goth, surf side B, all hand-picked off of vinyl selections. Download it for $5 right here. But first, a listen. After the jump, get ready to shake that booty and then take it down a level for the Gothic two-step.


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Radio-Active Records Rocked Record Store Day in 2012

By Liz Tracy Mon., Apr. 23 2012 at 11:03 AM
Categories: Over the Weekend, Record Store Day
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Ian Witlen

Can we say that Record Store Day is the best thing that happened to music since the Beatles? Sure, this is a big, awkward claim, but we're going to haphazardly make it anyway. There is nothing that brings people together like RSD to revel in the sounds and feel of good music and the crazy fun culture that surrounds it. 

We spent the day at Radio-Active Records, probably the best thing that's happened to Broward County since man arrived at these swampy lands. People came out early in swarms picking up special RSD releases and just regular old vinyl. The events started early in the morning while bands rocked through the afternoon into the night and over to Laser Wolf. 
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Band in Heaven, Beach Day, Carousel, Laser Wolf, Lil Dagger, Loud Valley, Radio Active Records, Record Store Day, Suede Dudes
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