Record Store Day is a music lover’s Major Religious Holiday. In St. Louis, we worship at the churches of Apop, Vintage, and Euclid, this year on the 20th of April. Schlafly, PBR, New Belgium, and Urban Chestnut will lead us beside hop-infused waters. Live, street-side performances by our favorite local bands will restore our souls. Once again, IWTAS brings you the highlights…

  

Vintage Vinyl

VV is St. Louis’ musical house on a hill, and Jim Utz is its master. This RSD, Vintage brings us a Goliath of a Saturday, including DJ sets by STL scenesters and featuring showcases for Tower Groove Records at 11am and FarFetched Records at 3pm, buttressed by performances from Bruiser Queen and the Incurables – and oh yeah – Josh freaking Ritter (solo acoustic) in between said showcases. Schlafly and Monster Energy along with Heavy Riff Brewing provide the beverages; you bring your money and spend it on wax.

Schedule:

10:30am – The Chainsaw Gentleman
11am – Tower Groove Records Showcase w/ Kisser, Beth Bombara, and Accelerando
12pm – Bruiser Queen
1pm – Josh Ritter
2pm – The Incurables
3pm – FarFetched Records Showcase w/ Mathias & The Pirates, Scripts N Screwz, Thelonious Kryptonite, Adult Fur, and CaveOfSwords
4pm – Brothers Lazaroff
5pm – Black Spade
5:30pm – Beat Street feat. Da Fly D-Ex, G-Wiz, DJ Alejan, DJ Needles, and DJ B-Money

Euclid Records

Euclid’s using RSD 2013 to celebrate its last year at 601 E. Lockwood before moving to a different street in Webster, 19 N. Gore. And celebrate they will, with a crazy good, 3-day live performance schedule. Highlights include all of Friday night, starting with a happy hour Troubadour Dali set (5pm), then an early Bo and the Locomotive performance (noon on Saturday) followed by a one-two Sleepy Kitty (6pm) and Bottle Rockets (7pm) punch. Euclid will wind down its RSD live performances with a loooud Sunday evening featuring Yowie at 5pm. Oh and PBR’s the brand gettin’ you drunk there this weekend.

Schedule:

Friday, April 19th
5pm – Troubadour Dali
6pm – The Vanilla Beans
7pm – Black James
8pm – Adult Fur

Saturday, April 20th
11am – The Jungle Fire
12pm – Bo and The Locomotive
1pm – Fumer
2pm – née
3pm – Cotton Mather
4pm – The Love Experts
5pm – The Jans Project
6pm – Sleepy Kitty
7pm – The Bottle Rockets

Sunday, April 21st
12pm – The Deciders
1pm – Superhero Killer
2pm – CaveofswordS
3pm – Dibiase
4pm – Karate Bikini
5pm – Yowie

Apop Records

Cherokee darling Apop Records is advertising their RSD celebration as “RAW, wild, and completely unstoppable”. Will it live up to its name? Last year, it was a party in the street for real though – brick throwing (not sure about that choice), dancing, merrymaking, and a bunch of orange construction fencing to keep the bands somewhat in the right place (a challenge indeed). The backyard was this weird, wonderful oasis of beer and grass and extended, beer-lubricated conversations with friends and strangers. Apop’s live performance line-up is noisy and raucous and ambient and *different*. Check out The Brainstems especially, and might we suggest attending the 7:30 Black James set as the sun goes down. Show up for the experience, stay for the New Belgium, PBR, Schlafly, and [new sponsor!] Urban Chestnut.

Schedule:

12pm – Wax Fruit
12:40pm – NRML PPL
1:20pm – Broken Prayer
2:00pm – Bad Dates
2:40pm – Grand Inquisitor
3:20pm – Redemer
4pm – Trauma Harness
4:40pm – Brainstems
5:20pm – Union Electric
6pm – Ou Où
6:40pm – Lumpy and the Dumpers
7:20pm – Black James
8:00pm – Shaved Women

BUT WAIT…
THERE’S MORE….

Wondering what to do *after* gallivanting about the Metro area all day? Thirsty for more music and camaraderie? IWTAS has two great options for post-RSD daytime activities:

First up, Off Broadway is hosting a show (and an outdoor, ‘local booths selling local wares’ thing) for Extension Chord Records, a new St. Louis label that’s debuting itself with the release of two 7″ singles (streaming below) and the promotion of three more local 7″s (these are on Rankoutsider, though). Over half a dozen bands – The Union Electric, Beth Bombara, Town Cars, my new favorite 3 of 5, The May Day Orchestra, Tenement Ruth, Red Squad, Jeremy Joyce, AND The Chainsaw Gentlemen – will entertain you for 5 bucks.

Let us know forget, however, that The Heavy Anchor bar and venue is turning 2 years old, and they’re celebrating with a metal/doom/hardcore/generally awesome/totally free show on Saturday. WILL THERE BE NO END TO THE FUN WE CAN HAVE THIS WEEKEND?!!! The line-up for Heavy Anchor’s bee-day show includes Jack Buck, Fister, Everything Went Black, and The Lion’s Daughter. Basically, if loud and wild and dark is your bag, this a stacked show and you shouldn’t miss it.

If you’re still reading this, I thank and applaud you. My eyes are tired now. We’ll see y’all Saturday.