The first Vinyl Road Rage was Turntabling’s shameless grab for publicity, vinyl records, and the 411 on cool independent record stores between Chicago and San Antonio, Texas. Along the way I hit shops in Springfield, Illinois, St. Louis, Springfield Missouri, Dallas, Austin, OKC, and finally San Antonio itself.

This year we have an equally ambitious itinerary from Chicago to New York City, which includes a lot of side journeys along the way including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Here is a partial list of indie record shops I’ll be hitting and blogging about along the way.

I’m posting this for several reasons–one of the big missed opportunities of the last trip was the chance to meet up with other vinyl junkies en route after the day’s blogging is done and be social. This time, we’re not letting that happen. If you live along the route and would like to recommend a good hangout for live music, good food and drink or other record shops, please consider this an open invitiation to get the conversation started.

Our route includes (but is not limited to) stops at the following:

Michiana Used Music & Media 4609 Grape Road  Mishawaka, IN 46545-8257( 574) 247-1188