Brick and Mortar Love Indie Record Stores are Not Just a Place to Buy a CD (MVD)
Last Shop Standing The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Inde- pendent Record Shop (Convexe)
Record Store Day
has become a huge world-wide April Holiday, and with good reason. It is a day of celebrating the wonders of all things vinyl. The warm, analog sound. The magic of needle against groove. The sheer fun of visiting a local record shop. All of the things that the suits tried to steal from us when they force fed CDs on us back in the ‘80s and stopped making records. But then came the rallying cry, “We want vinyl!” And now, stacks of wax are more popular than anytime in the past 30 years! Two videos are now available that, as a pair,
give a marvelous insight into “vinyl love,” from both the British and American points of view. Brick and Mortar Love is the story of ear X-
tacy Records in Louisville, Kentucky, the leg- endary indie record store, and their challenges to keep the doors open during the massive changes in the music industry. It’s an amazing journey, filled with scary moments when it look as though their doors would close forever, only to be saved by the cus- tomers, the very people who love the store so much. A great documentary film. Inspired by the book of the same name by Graham Jones, Last Shop Standing digs deep
into the history of indie record stores in Eng- land. It’s a brilliant study of why, after a huge rise in popularity during the ‘60s and 70’s, so many thousands of record shops in Britain disappeared without a trace. During the in- flux of CDs during the ‘80’s when record com- panies made the collective decision to give vinyl the bum’s rush. Between that and illegal downloading of the ‘90’s, the shops became a dying breed. Like one of the shop owners says here, kids today are coming up believing music should be free, and just down- loading what they want for free. We meet a
family who has had a successful store called Hudson’s for over 100 years,
only to see it close in 2012. Musician Richard Hawley is quoted on the
DVD case saying, “You are never going to discover Captain Beefheart or the 13th Floor Elevators or Vel- vet Underground in your local supermarket - ever.” Of course, he isn’t necessarily talking about the grocery stores, but the big chains like Best Buy, Dozens of staff, fans and musicians ex-
pound upon their love of vinyl records, and in “Act III,” we see a bright new hope for the indie record stores with kids and teens (and 56 year olds) demanding more high grade vinyl albums. The hour-long documentary is loaded with
over 74 minutes of bonus footage and ex- tended interviews
-Michael Buffalo Smith
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