Cassette Store Day Is Now A Thing, Actually Has Some Great Releases
In what is news to me at least, Cassette Store Day is now an official day and the first one will be held September 7th, 2013. Some pretty big bands -- Animal Collective, Flaming Lips, Xiu Xiu, Deerhunter, and Guided By Voices to name a few -- will be releasing exclusive material on shiny new cassettes. You can view the full list of releases at the end of the post.We have seen the vinyl medium really pick up since the early 2000s with Record Store Day and a lot more bands releasing new material on vinyl. But, could the same happen for cassettes? It seems that most people already have tape decks in their cars or laying around their garage so there won't really be an expensive hoop to jump through like there is for listening to vinyl. On the the other hand, cassettes seem to have a pretty short lifespan: the thin magnetic tape deteriorates relatively quickly and could lead to breakage; the tape gets unwound and tangled; the tape gets jammed in your tape deck and ruined, etc. Lots of things can go wrong with cassettes.
I guess only time will tell. But, I think the fact that cassette stores don't even really exist is kind of a setback for the potential success of Cassette Store Day. But who knows, in such a changing time we live in why not give the cassette a chance? ¡Viva la mixtapes!The new holiday will be celebrated in specific participating venues, a la Record Store Day, and you can find that list at the Cassette Store Day website.Cassette Store Day 2013 releases:
- Fucked Up – Hidden World (SEXBEAT)
- Los Campesinos! - A Good Night for a Fistfight Live Album (Kissability)
- The Proper Ornaments – Demos (Suplex Cassettes)
- Fair Ohs – Jams Volume 2 (Suplex Cassettes)
- Lets Wrestle – Demo's (Suplex Cassettes)
- At the Drive-In – Acrobatic Tenement (Transgressive)
- At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command (Transgressive)
- Pulled Apart by Horses – Pulled Apart by Horses (Transgressive)
- Pulled Apart by Horses – Tough Love (Transgressive)
- The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Bella Union)
- Suicidal Tendencies – Debut (Burger)
- Twink – Think Pink (Burger)
- Molly Nilsson – The Travels (Night People)
- The Pastels – TBA (Domino)
- Deerhunter - Monomania (4AD)
- Hard Skin – On the Balls (Wichita)
- Hard Skin – Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (Wichita)
- V/A – Faux Discx Compilation (Faux Discx)
- Haim – Forever EP (Polydor)
- Efterklang – Tripper (Blood & Biscuits)
- Mum – Smilewound (Blood & Biscuits)
- Dolphinz – Pagan Dating (Tye Die Tapes)
- Fear of Men – Early Fragments (Kanine)
- The Blow – The Blow (Kanine)
- V/A - Bleed In Gold - The First Three Years if Art Is Hard (Art Is Hard)
- Teen Suicide – Waste Yrself (Birdtapes)
- V/A – Heart Throb Compilation (Heart Throb)
- Animal Collective – Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)
- His Clancyness – Covering Up (Fat Cat)
- JJ Doom – Keys to the Kuffs Butter Edition (Lex)
- Younghusband – Silver Sisters (Sonic Cathedral)
- Guided by Voices – English Little League (Fire / Bad Paintings)
- Refrigerator – Live at the American Legion Hall (Shrimper)
- Xiu Xiu – Women as Lovers (Bad Paintings)
- Rolo Tomassi – Astrea (DPLR)
- Volcano Choir – Repave (Jagjaguwar)
- V/A – Compilation (Hate Hate Hate)
- Potty Mouth – The Spins (Marshall Teller)
- TBA – TBA (Where to Now?)
- The Casket Girls – The Casket Girls (Graveface)
- Peter Broderick – Float (Erased Tapes)
- Bright Light Bright Light – Make Me Believe in Hope (Self Raising Records)
- Playlounge / YRRS / Birdskulls – Sick of Hits Vol. 1 (Reeks of Effort)
- Sur – Dog Daze EP (Mirror Universe)
- Spakkiano – Spakkiano (Mirror Universe)
- Lame Drivers – Live & Rare (Mirror Universe)
- Laraaji – Cosmic Tape Experiments 1979 – 1987 (All Saints)