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Weekly Round-Up: Friday 19th April (Record Store Day Special)

Friday 19th April, 2013 12:49PM

As many of you will be aware already, tomorrow is Record Store Day, a worldwide annual celebration of the good old record store. It is a great excuse to get along and support your local(s) with many putting on special instore events and stocking exclusive RSD vinyl releases. As with the past few years we've put together a list of stores in the main centres and what they're up to, see below for that and here's a quick round-up of the week that was...

Japandroid's got the week off to a good start, announcing three New Zealand dates in September; Wellington experimentalists The All Seeing Hand and Seth Frightening announced nationwide tour dates; Black Sabbath released the first single from their eagerly awaited new album 13 which sees them play two Auckland shows this weekend; SJD was announced to have won the annual Taite Music Prize for his new album Elastic Wasteland and the Gordons were honoured with the new 'Independent New Zealand Music Classic Album' award; and Flying Nun announced the reissue of albums from The Clean and Bird Nest Roys.

Caught live we have Hello Sailor performing their hit track 'Gutter Black' in honour of founding member Dave McArtney who passed away this week. The clip is from a Campbell Live special about the final of Outrageous Fortunes....

RECORD STORE DAY 2013 in NEW ZEALAND:

Here is a list of stores around the country and what they're up to for Record Store Day - keep an eye out for special local vinyl releases from Beastwars, Shihad, Waves, The Bats and Snapper.

Real Groovy Records - Queen Street, Auckland
Live music from Beastwars, Waves (not to be confused with US band Wavves), guest DJs + heaps of new vinyl and exclusive RSD releases.

Southbound Records - Mt Eden Road, Auckland
Live performance from Delaney Davidson, free coffee and exclusive Record Store Day vinyl.

Conch Records - Ponsonby Road, Auckland
George FM instore live to air, Julien Dyne live producer set and exclusive Record Store Day releases.

Rhythm Records - Three Lamps, Auckland
Exclusive Record Store Day releases and an instore performance from Emily Edrosa (Street Chant).

Slow Boat Records - Cuba Street, Wellington
Live music instore from David Kilgour and US bluesman Watermelon Slim + exclusive Record Store Day vinyl.

Rough Peel Music - Vivian Street, Wellington
Live music from Rio Hemopo, Agitator, New Brides and Reuben Bradley Trio + guest DJS. Exclusive releases such as a Beastwars and The Eastern split 7" + record store day releases.

Evil Genius Records - Adelaide Road, Wellington
Live music from Mysterious Tapewolf, Digg and Cookie Brooklyn and the Crumbsand + special vinyl releases.

Vinyl Countdown - Devon Street, New Plymouth
Live music, one-off releases and giveaways

Penny Lane - Columbo Street, Christchurch
Exclusive record store day releases.

Too Tone Records - North Road, Dunedin
Not officially taking part but get along anyway!

Record Store Day always inspires some interesting collaborations and this year is no different - earlier this week Mark Lanegan and Moby released an amazing video for a collaborative track being released as 7" and this stunning video also came out this week - it is for film-score-superstar Clint Mansell's (Black Swan, Moon, Requiem for a Deam) remix of 'Fragile' by UK band The Fauns being released on 12" pink vinyl....