Ryan Van Velzer

The Republic | azcentral.com

Get ready to dig through crates of pressed vinyl — some old, some new — because Saturday, April 19, is Record Store Day.

Across the Valley, independent record stores will be celebrating the eighth annual Record Store Day with giveaways, discounts, shows, food trucks and more. For such local stores as Revolver Records and Stinkweeds, it's the biggest day of the year.

Visit the Valley's local independent record shops for a chance to score Record Store Day exclusive releases, limited regional releases and first-day releases, including vinyl from the Animals, Cage the Elephant, Built to Spill, Green Day, David Bowie, Dave Mathews Band, Fleetwood Mac, the Flaming Lips, the Glitch Mob, the Grateful Dead and hundreds more. The list goes on and on.

Record Store Day started back in 2007 when a collective of record-store owners and employees came together to spread the word about the culture that brought you the movies "High Fidelity," "Empire Records" and decades' worth of music. Today, nearly a thousand independent record stores participate in the celebration.

Here's what's going on in metro Phoenix on Saturday:

Stinkweeds

Stinkweeds hopefully won't be joining Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the rest of the 27 club as it celebrates its 27th birthday on Record Store Day. The store will open early, at 9 a.m., with a variety of food, music, giveaways and exclusive release, including a reissue of JFA's first record, "Blatant Localism," and Father Figures' "UFO EP."

The first 100 people in the doors get a goodie bag. Food trucks start at noon.

Live music starts at 10 a.m. with Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra DJ set, Father Figures and Freaks of Nature.

Details:9 a.m. 12 W. Camelback Road, Phoenix. 602-248-9461, stinkweeds.com.

Revolver Records

Revolver Records is offering 20 percent off everything used and 10 percent off new at both its Tempe and Phoenix locations, excluding Record Store Day exclusives. If you're serious, though, you'll want to roll into the Phoenix location early. The Record Store Day releases hit the shelves at 8 a.m. Whatever is left will move over to the Tempe location when it opens at 11 a.m.

Also, check out the "Recorded at a Record Store" 7-inch vinyl, a Revolver exclusive featuring Playboy Manbaby, Petty Things and Cherie Cherie.

Live music starts at5 p.m. with Girl Boner, Cherie Cherie, Button Struggler, Sister Lip, the Rebel Set, Larkspurs

Details:918 N. Second St., Phoenix. 602-795-4980. 3306 S. McClintock Drive, Tempe. 602-776-0373, revolveraz.com.

The Record Room

This Scottsdale shop, which opens at 9 a.m., is hyping its Record Store Day vinyl by posting pictures of their latest shipments on Facebook. All used vinyl, books, CDs and DVDs are 20 percent off. After browsing, step out on the back patio and trade up your old vinyl in a record swap featuring three Valley dealers.

Live music starts at 4:30 p.m. with Battered Suitcases, Father's Day, Shovel, Girl Boner, Hypocrites and more.

Details: 4211 N. Scottsdale Road. 602-460-0040.

Double Nickles Collective (Eastside Records)

This collection of 13 business and private sellers, which is home to records, stereo equipment, comics and vintage clothes, will have discounts on all the Eastside Records products. How much of a discount? That depends on what you spin on the wheel of discounts featuring 10 and 20 percent off as well as other "bizarre discounts." Eastside also has built a miniature-golf hole, where a hole in one wins you a free Record Store Day release. However, rumor has it that's going to be next to impossible.

Live music starts at 6 or 7 p.m. next door at the 51 West Venue. Destruction Unit will headline its record release. CCR Headcleaner and Body of Light also will perform.

Details: 45 W. Southern Ave., Tempe. 480-829-3741.

Zia Records

The Valley's largest independent record-store chain is going all out. Expect 400 Record Store Day vinyl exclusives from the likes of Nirvana, Green Day, Fun, One Direction, Joy Division, the Cure and Dinosaur Jr. Additionally, each of the four locations will have discounts on CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

Zia will release its eighth local compilation featuring 40 bands from Phoenix, Tucson and Las Vegas, which comes with an exclusive Record Store Day T-shirt and a limited-edition pint glass. All proceeds from the compilation will go to the Arizona Animal Welfare League and the Nevada Humane Society.

There's more. Zia has teamed up with Arizona historian John P. Dixon to launch a series of limited-edition 45s. The project, known as the Audio Recorders Archive Project, will release its first vinyl featuring Waylon Jennings and Sanford Clark on Record Store Day.

Each location will be celebrating in its own way with food trucks, balloons, stickers, temporary tattoos and performances.

3201 S. Mill Ave., Tempe. 480-829-1967, ziarecords.com.

The Chedda food truck will be on-site from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bands start at 3 p.m. and include Dav!d & Clara, Tobie Milford, LB & the Brothers Cosmos and the Hard Rock Cafe's Phoenix battle of the bands winner.

1850 W. Camelback Road, Phoenix. 602-241-0313.

The Emerson Fry Bread truck is on-site from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Hardrock Cafe will offer free food samples from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bands start at 2 p.m. and include Ree Boado, Radiodriveby, American Longspurs.

2510 W. Thunderbird Road, Phoenix. 602-866-7867.

The Arizona Animal Welfare League will be holding a pet adoption from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Starting at 3 p.m., the store will host internationally renowned metal bands Kataklysm and Aborted.

1940 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler. 480-857-4942.

Sandra Dee's food truck is on-site from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the Hungry Monk food truck will show up from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Bands start at 4 p.m. with Erik Tyler, Serene Dominic & the Gemseekers and No Longer Together.