Record Store Day 2012

Today was RSD 2012 but I had to work which was a major bummer as both Withered Hand and Gordon Ballboy were playing at Avalanche.

Totally sold these days on Yppah.

Yppah is a described as an "electronic/rock project" aka Joe Corrales Jr. who is signed to my favourite label Ninja Tune.

You can just about get hold of any Ninja Tune compilation and find a wide range of stuff you'll probably never have heard of but love.

It's how I got on to Roots Manuva and The Cinematic Orchestra several years ago. In fact the best thing both have done was a collaborative track called "All Things To All Men". Check it out.

This week I went in to HMV ("your only dedicate dspecialist music store") in Stirling to get the VCMG album only to have the sales assistant look at me as if I was speaking in tongues.

He went to check their computer to discover they hadn't ordered any in.

That's why we need independent music stores.