Wax On: Record Store Day Keeps Hipsters Indoors, Pale
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Los Angeles had a hot flash this weekend as summer temperatures sent most Angelenos scrambling toward the Pacific. But a few hundred audiophiles kept it inland Saturday for the second annual Record Store Day, a global fist bump to independent record shops.
On the eastern bookend of the Sunset Strip, iconic sound warehouse Amoeba Music honored the event with giveaways, markdowns and customized commemorative t-shirts. Kiss axeman Ace Frehley even dropped by, sans makeup, to dispassionately brave the autograph-and-a-handshake routine for a long line of diehard fans that wound through several aisles of world music CDs. (By the way, check out Frehley's "official" site for a laugh. Web guru, that Ace.)
Some snaps from the air-conditioned wax warehouse, set to the sound of Frehley's twangy fretwork on "She":
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Record Store Day drops annually on the third Saturday in April. To SoCal dwellers, that's Coachella weekend. (Whoops.) To the rest of you: Wax on.
