Record Store Day…What an excellent idea!  It’s not only really just become a thing.  It’s really just become a great thing!  Record Store Day 2015 is this Saturday, April 18.  As a guy who worked at Second Coming Records (the one between Harvard Square & Central Square in Cambridge, MA as opposed to the one in the West Village; both are closed) as well as the also now defunct Rainbow Books and Records in Honolulu… I can testify that some of life’s best conversations and encounters – not to mention acquisitions – happen at independent retailers of wax.  I had a very enjoyable chat with one of the guys who invented Record Store Day, Michael Kurtz, who gives a sense of the history and takes a look at a few of the titles that’ll be unleashed.  A word from this year’s ambassador Dave Grohl too…

Steve Diggle gives insight into the new record (and gives a nod to The Ramones) while British proto-punk band The Buzzcocks tear it up at Webster Hall on Saturday.

Glen Rock NJ based punk rock band Titus Andronicus were invited by The Buzzcocks to open Saturday’s show at Webster Hall and they didn’t waste the opportunity.