This is a holiday devoted to encouraging music fans to leave their bubble of predictable downloads and entering a world where the skip button doesn't exist. To browse through the shelves upon shelves of lovingly pressed vinyl, immaculately illustrated covers, essential liner notes, and magically enlivened grooves. Record stores have been threatening to disappear for years, but they've survived through the gauntlet of CD's and evil Pandora. In the past few years, records have even begun to regain some of their old popularity.

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's full thoughts on Record Store Day in the Music & Culture section.

RECORD STORE DAY, Saturday, April 19, locally includes Disc Connection, Hi-Voltage Records, House of Records, Phantom City records, Rocket Records, Rainy Day Records, recordstoreday.com