Record Store Day At Southbound Records 13 April 2019

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What is Record Store Day?  On Saturday, April 13th, Southbound Records, along with hundreds of independently owned music stores across the world will simultaneously unite with one purpose; celebrating our unique culture and the special place which record stores occupy both in their local communities and the world.

Jeffrey Stothers, co-owner,  says “ Southbound Records embraces Record Store Day as a chance to get people into shops and buy locally, it the best day of the year for us and we love it – so much fun!”

Southbound will be packed to the rafters with crate diggers, music lovers, vinyl buffs and people just out enjoying the atmosphere!

This year Southbound has 95bFM broadcasting live from 8-11am, followed by bFM Dj’s instore all afternoon.

As part of creating a “great place to hang”, we like to offer our customers some free good old fashioned home baking and great coffee to with it. Discounts all day, free music related gifts, and without a doubt, the best Record Store Day exclusive releases from around the world.

Southbound Records

There’s a scene in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High demonstrating the appeal and signification of the Record Store. In a typical 80’s mall record store, a self-styled Romeo imparts his wisdom to a lesser teen being: “When it comes to making-out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.”

In this contemporary era of digital technology where ‘consuming’ music doesn’t require leaving your home, record stores have garnered talk of extinction.  Now though, the talk is of renaissance, partly due to the renewed interest in the vinyl format – those big beautiful black circles lovingly encased in art works (yes, art works.)

To get philosophical and sub-textual, record stores are a return to physicality and presence: you move around, touch things, talk to people and get empirical. It’s a site of cultural dispersion: you interact, know things, and feel good about yourself.

Southbound Records is one of these places — some say it’s the best.  Boasting New Zealand’s largest range of new vinyl, sourced locally and elsewhere, it’s a specialist genre store, split into many varied worlds of music: Americana, Country, Folk, Soul, Disco, Jazz, Reggae, Dub, Hip Hop, Electronica, Afro Beat, Avant-Classical. Care is taken in obtaining quality pressings, with an impressive selection of “audiophile” labels. There’s rare and interesting second-hand items, and the necessary accoutrements of cleaners, brushes, slip mats, record crates, inner and outer sleeves.

The staff, decades deep in the record industry, are infused with all sorts of arcane knowledge and communicate a love and respect for music in all its myriad forms.

Kerry Buchanan

 

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