Celebrate Record Store Day at Found Sound in Ferndale

Found Sound in Ferndale will celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday, April 20, with extended hours, free live music and special releases.

The shop will be open from 10 a.m. to midnight to participate for the first time in the international event that began in 2008 and now is celebrated the third Saturday each April, according to the Record Store Day website.

The following bands will perform Saturday during the event at Found Sound.

• Passalacqua
• Fawn
• Pink Lightning
• Lord Scrummage
• Dahler-Malis Duo

"With the big box stores, a lot of people don't realize there are still independent record shops," Found Sound manager Ray Hayosh said. "It's a place where you can find stuff you didn't know existed. You can talk about music. It's a gathering place; it's not just a retail space where you go to buy stuff."

Rock musician and Detroit native Jack White, the ambassador of this year's Record Store Day, echoed that sentiment in his official statement:

Years ago someone told me that 1,200 high school kids were given a survey. A question was posed to them: Have you ever been to a stand-alone record shop? The number of kids that answered "yes" was... zero. 
 
Zero? How could that be possible? Then I got realistic and thought to myself, "Can you blame them?" How can record shops (or any shop for that matter) compete with Netflix, TiVo, video games that take months to complete, cable, texting, the Internet, etc. etc? Getting out of your chair at home to experience something in the real world has started to become a rare occurrence, and to a lot of people, an unnecessary one.

... Let's wake each other up.
 
The world hasn't stopped moving. Out there, people are still talking to each other face-to-face, exchanging ideas and turning each other on. Art houses are showing films, people are drinking coffee and telling tall tales, women and men are confusing each other and record stores are selling discs full of soul that you haven’t felt yet.

Besides being a catalyst for community engagement, Record Store Day also will be the biggest overall sales day of the year for many participating shops, according DownBeat.com.

"It's a holiday for record store fans," Found Sound manager Hayosh said. "It's like a second Christmas."