The second announcement for Cassette Store Day 2013 includes Bon Iver’s Volcano Choir, Animal Collective, Guided by Voices, JJ Doom and Mum – the list of this year’s official releases is below.

In addition to its London launch (which features live performances and dj sets instore), there will also be similar events run in record stores in Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo; as well as recently confirmed events in Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, France, Italy, Spain and Germany.

“Music sounds great on cassette I have a big collection of original albums on cassette from artists like Dylan , The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, MC5 & Suicide. I also have great compilation tapes I made to play on Primal Scream tours. Cassette is a cool medium to listen to music on. Warm and fat. Good bottom end. Yeah! X” – Bobby Gillespie 2013

No longer the inadequate, younger sibling of Vinyl and CD, the humble Cassette has been making a resurgence of late. Proving that cassette tapes are not just for those of us who remember buying Nirvana’s Nevermind with birthday money, or making lovingly compiled mixtapes for the object of our teenage affections. International Cassette Store Day 2013 is a celebration of a physical product that is accessible, fun, cheap and still going strong in the turbulent current musical climate.

This event sees limited releases from it’s organisers – SEXBEAT (Fucked Up), Kissability (Los Campesinos!) and Suplex Cassettes (Fair Ohs, Proper Ornaments); as well as classic albums reissued in this fun format by Transgressive (At The Drive-In, Pulled Apart By Horses), Bella Union (The Flaming Lips), Domino (The Pastels), 4AD (Deerhunter), Wichita Recordings (Hard Skin), Burger Records and many more.  Other labels involved spreading the Cassette love with limited releases are Night School, Jade Tree, Mirror Universe, Reeks of Effort, Art is Hard, Faux Discx, Tye Die Tapes and more to be confirmed.

Fucked Up – Hidden World (SEXBEAT)
Los Campesinos! – A Good Night For a Fist Fight Live Album (Kissability)
The Proper Ornaments – Demos (Suplex Cassettes)
Fair Ohs – Jams Volume 2 (Suplex Cassettes)
Lets Wrestle – Demo’s (Suplex)
At The Drive-In – Acrobatic Tenement (Transgressive)
At The Drive-In – Relationship Of Command (Transgressive)
Pulled Apart By Horses – Pulled Apart By Horses (Transgressive)
Pulled Apart By Horses – Tough Love (Transgressive)
The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Bella Union)
Suicidal Tendencies – Debut (Burger)
Twink – Think Pink (Burger)
Molly Nilsson – The Travels (Night People)
The Pastels – TBA (Domino)
Hard Skin – On The Balls (Wichita)
Hard Skin – Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (Wichita)
V/A – Faux Discx Compilation (Faux Discx)
Haim – Forever EP (Polydor)
Efterklang – Tripper (Blood & Biscuits)
Mum – Smilewound (Blood & Biscuits)
Dolphinz – Pagan Dating (Tye Die Tapes)
Fear of Men – Early Fragments (Kanine)
The Blow – The Blow (Kanine)
Teen Suicide – Waste Yrself (Birdtapes)
V/A – Heart Throb Compilation (Heart Throb)
Animal Collective – Sung Tongs (Fat Cat)
His Clancyness – Covering Up (Fat Cat)
JJ Doom – Keys To The Kuffs Butter Edition (Lex)
Younghusband – Silver Sisters (Sonic Cathedral)
Guided By Voices – English Little League (Fire / Bad Paintings)
Refrigerator – Live At The American Legion Hall (Shrimper)
Xiu Xiu – Women As Lovers (Bad Paintings)
Rolo Tomassi – Astrea (DPLR)
Volcano Choir – Reprave (Secretly Candian)
V/A – Compilation (Hate Hate Hate)
Potty Mouth – The Spins (Marshall Teller)
TBA – TBA (Where To Now?)
The Casket Girls – S/T (Graveface)
Peter Broderick – Float (Erased Tapes)
Bright Light Bright Light – Make Me believe In Hope (Self Raising Records)
Playlounge / YRRS / Birdskulls – Sick of Hits Vol. 1 (Reeks of Effort)
Sur – Dog Daze EP (Mirror Universe)
Spakkiano – Spakkiano (Mirror Universe)
Lame Drivers – Live & Rare (Mirror Universe)
Laraaji – Cosmic Tape Experiments 1979 – 1987 (All Saints)

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