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Rob Miller and Nan Warshaw are a couple of punk rock drummers who started Bloodshot Records... released 170 albums by artists such as Neko Case, Ryan Adams, Alejandro Escovedo and the Waco Brothers. ...pushing a style of grassroots music once dubbed “insurgent country,” but which now can be more aptly categorized as a straight-no-chaser combination of rock, blues, soul, folk and country... Miller: I suppose one of the reasons we stuck around is that we had no intention of being an ongoing concern... If we had set it all up in a conference room instead of a bar like we...

...when the second annual Record Store Day arrives Saturday, artists and labels will be out in force: More than 1,000 stores worldwide... will offer in-store events or performances by dozens of artists... ...A resurgence in interest in vinyl records (with sales climbing 89 percent last year to 1.8 million) has helped these independent operators stay in business... "The reality is we were over-retailed," says Michael Kurtz, president of Record Store Day and the marketing company Music Monitor Network. "We had about four times as many stores as the market could bear... But there are new ones still coming, and it's...