Complete Preview of Record Store Day in the Twin Cities
This Saturday, April 17th is Record Store Day. There’s all kinds of awesome in store performances and great deals on music at every record store in town. I’m super pissed I’m going to be fixing my house on Saturday so I’m going to miss out the festivities. If anybody participates, let me know. For those of you that aren’t in the Twin Cities, go to RecordStoreDay.com to see what’s going on in your hood. 
Hymie’s
3318 East Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Hymie’s is a beautiful treasure chest of records currently located in south Minneapolis but very soon moving to a new location in downtown Minneapolis. They are clearing house for their move so expect good deals including 25cent LPs and 10cent 45s and 78s.
They’ve cleared out enough space to have performances going on all day. Here’s the line-up:
11:00 Buffalo Moon
12:15 Adam Marshall of the Humbugs
1:30 Stepped Reckonner
3:00 Martin Devaney
4:00 The Twin Cities Ukulele Orchestra
5:15 Fort Road Five
6:15 Jezebel Jones and her Wicked Ways
Electric Fetus
2000 4th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Whoa, looks like the Fetus is doing it up. The first 200 people to show up and spend $15 or more get a ticket for an exclusive Solid Gold/Idle Hands show that night at Nick & Eddie’s in Loring Park. Dr. Dog will be doing in store performance at 1 and Paul Cebar at 430. Also, they’ll be giving out “goodie bags” with CDs and are offering hourly drawing for prize packs of 7” singles and other “cool shit”.
Fifth Element
2411 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55405
The Fifth Element, Minneapolis’s hip hop home, will also be doing it up this Saturday with in store performances by Eyedea, Dessa, A.R.M, Prof & Rahzwell, Longshot, DJ Snuggles, Mike Dreams, I.B.E, Ernest Rhodes, and Yakub and DJ Sets by Paper Tiger, Jimmy 2 Times, King Otto, DJ Anton, Nikoless, Espada, and Noam The Drummer. There will be special offers on all Rhymesayers and Soundset artists and ticket giveaways for Soundset 2010!
Tree House
2557 South Lyndale Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55405
Treehouse Records, an uptown favorite will be opening up early to offer nearly 200 different Record Store Day exclusive releases. They’ve geared up and added a whole new stock to the store and bulked up the $1 bin. They are promising all kinds of “surprises” for those that celebrate record store day with them.
165 13th Avenue NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Newcomers to NE Minneapolis, Shuga Records will be having Low-Gain, Tim Kaiser, FoodTeam and Exuviae doing in stores and will be offering 50% off all media, 30% off our online inventory and 20% off electronics.
Dusty Pixels
2443 Hennepin Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN, 55405
Will Markwardt from The Absent Arch and Bri Chapin took over the old CD Warehouse in Uptown to add another new privately owned record store to the area, Dusty Pixels. They’ll be offering 20% off all inventory in the store, Free scratched CD cleaning all day, exclusive CDs and a selection of FREE VINYL!
Eclipse Records
1922 University Avenue West
St Paul, MN 55104
As of right now Eclipse is promising vague discounts and DJ sets by local musicians. I’m supposed to get a full write up tomorrow. UPDATE: No full write up, lot’s of finger pointing. The Red Daughters are playing.
Know Name
6009 Portland Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55417
1309 Southeast 4th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Know Name will be having 20% off on all music. Plus, a sidewalk sale too! Whoo!
I don’t know what’s going on at these two, I’ll give them a call tomorrow and see what’s up.
Road Runner
4304 Nicollet Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55409
Extreme Noise
407 West Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408-2910
