Record Store Day returns for its tenth iteration on Saturday, April 22. This year the Reader is spotlighting a half dozen underappreciated neighborhood shops that don’t do much if anything for the occasion, but as usual we’ve also collected these listings about the places that do.
Your menu for this year’s Record Store Day
If a shop doesn’t appear here, that’s because as far as we know it isn’t doing anything out of the ordinary for Record Store Day.
Bric-a-Brac Records Free coffee from Halfwit Roasters and free doughnuts from Doughnut Vault, plus live performances throughout the day from Staring Problem, Roman Polanski’s Baby, Bev Rage & the Drinks, and more. Bric-a-Brac is also teaming up with next-door neighbors Lost Lake, who will open at noon and host live DJs all day; the bar is also introducing a new cocktail, the Bric-a-Braquiri. 8 AM-9 PM, 3156 W. Diversey, 773-654-3915, facebook.com/bricabracrecords.
Groovin’ High Hundreds of RSD exclusives on sale. 7 AM-8 PM, 1047 W. Belmont, 773-476-6846.
Numero Group Pop-Up Shop The archival label brings its pop-up shop back to Comfort Station, with every existing Numero release (including discounted albeit slightly damaged items) as well as dealers selling their own stock. 10 AM-5 PM, Comfort Station, 2579 N. Milwaukee, numerogroup.wordpress.com.
Reckless Records on Milwaukee Plenty of RSD exclusives and free gifts, as well as live music all day from the likes of the Smoking Popes, Ohmme, TALsounds, and Carpenters cover band Carpentersville. 10 AM-10 PM, 1379 N. Milwaukee, 773-235-3727, reckless.com.
