Join us for our 11th Annual HORIZON MUSIC YARD SALE THIS Saturday April 18.

How about that same Saturday is also the 2nd annual National Record Store Day? It’s all lining up and Horizon is the place to be. We hope to see you right here at starting at 8am on Saturday when we roll out the sprawling mob infested bargain blast sale-a-thon known now as our annual Music Yard Sale. Plus this year to do our part again for Record Store Day we have ridiculous amounts of truly cool free stuff I mean FREE — brand new CDs, LPs, and 45s for you just for stopping by and buying anything we will load you up with gifts — you may choose 2 items. For example, simply buy a cheapo yard sale cd for $3 and take 2 freebies with it! Of course you can and will want to spend more but we just want to say thanks.


As part of Record Store Day we will have somevery very cool, limited edition specials like a Iron & Wine Live CD, a KILLA Soul-Funk Compilation LP from Light In The Attic, a 45 from Blitzen Trapper, and goodies from Tom Waits, Wilco, Sonic Youth, Pavement, and much more. Many of these are limited editions and subject to while supplies last. AND we have a couple of Horizon Exclusive surprises up our sleeve.

Dig on the live concerts running all afternoon also free:
JAYWALKERS 1:30pm Niel Brooks, Kebin Ahrens, Jeff Rice
AFROMOTIVE 3:00pm Insanely funky Afro soul-jazz party jams.
CULTURE PROPHET 4:00pm DJ set — beats, soul, Jazz and electro junk deluxe.

The cafe will have Festival food specials all day — lots of Po Boys and grill out goodies and who knows what. The bottom line is thanks for sticking with us through all these crazy times. We hope to show you how grateful we are.

Plus Store Wide Sale action, tons of freebies, giveaways, exclusive vinyl and stuff, more bands to be announced shortly…whoo-eee!

Record Store quotes from some of the great artists and great people we know…

Charlie Louvin
“I’d like to thank all the indie stores from Florida to California and all points in between for being so welcoming in 2007. I played Park Ave CDs, Waterloo, Shake It, Horizon, Amoeba (LA & SF), Criminal Records, Shangri-La, Grimey’s, Vintage Vinyl, Ear X Tacy, Twist & Shout,Record Exchange, and a few more I can’t recall. Thanks for your help with my Grammy-nominated Charlie Louvin album and Live At Shake It Records CD. Look for my new CD in late 2008.”

Thomas Hudson
I urge all of you to support you local record store. Ages ago when Horizon was in across from some , I would go in and have an actual knowledgeable person turn me on to good music. The key to killing corporate blandness is to stop buying music from “Worst Buy” and start supporting the businesses that hire people that love music. Support your local record store, or bland corporate music will kill everything we love.

Nathan Followill (Kings of Leon)
“Record stores are great because it’s good to physically get your hands on the music instead of downloading. It’s always better to get the artwork too.”

Neko Case
“I love the smell of them. I love that people actually care for and know about the music they are selling.”

James McMurtry
“Indie record stores were what we had to start with, and they’re all we’ve got left.”

Robyn Hitchcock
Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin, who comprise the Venus 3, my American band, all heard my songs for the first time in the record stores where they worked. It’s probable they also first heard each other’s music like that, too. I have fond memories of hanging out in US record shops, particularly the Used Record Shoppe in the Sunset district of San Francisco. Shops like Let It Be in Minneapolis, Bill’s in Dallas, Tower on 4th & Broadway, Easy Street in Seattle, Criminal in Atlanta, Amoeba in LA and many others gave us a platform to perform live on tour (like at Horizon Records) and unfailingly stocked our records (Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, my solo work, The Soft Boys and now me & the Venus 3) where the larger chains found us unprofitable. Now technology and economics are leading away from physical product, and from the sale of records in record stores. Hopefully some will survive as boutique oases where music lovers can browse and meet not just the music but each other. You can’t get everything through the post…Best wishes.

Shelby Lynne
“You can’t roll a joint on an iPod – buy vinyl!”

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