Our friends at CiTR and Mint Records will be releasing a very special album on vinyl on Record Store Day, April 16th! It’s called CiTR Pop Alliance Compilation, Vol. 2 and here’s the info and a complete tracklist:

We hear a lot about Brooklyn, Montreal and San Francisco, but think Vancouver’s music community is the best around. The CiTR/Mint Pop Alliance Compilation is just that – a snapshot of our rainy city on a Friday night in 2011. It features 11 prominent local bands including: No Kids, Kellarissa (P:ano, The Choir Practice), Fine Mist, Slam Dunk, Apollo Ghosts and many more. Only 300 copies have been pressed on 180g vinyl and hand-numbered with care. The songs, labour, mastering and artwork were donated and proceeds from the record will benefit CiTR 101.9fm, the campus radio station where Mint Records began. Tiny trimmings from CiTR’s Duncan McHugh’s beard were mixed into the molten vinyl during the manufacturing process (Not really. But you get the picture, this record was made possible by several people with a lot of love).

1. Apollo Ghosts – Validation!
2. My Friend Wallis – Hiding
3. Slam Dunk – Slow Dance
4. Role Mach – Montana
5. Kellarissa – Flatlands
6. Fine Mist (featring Nick Krgovich) – I Could Shout
7. No Kids – He’ll Have To Go
8. fanshaw – Diana
9. Watermelon – How I Came
10. Shane Turner – Age 25-29 Hairline
11. Spring Break – Stephanie Mayer’s 115th Dream

They were nice enough to share a couple of tracks with us that we’re uploading to our Soundcloud and that you can listen to. Check out Slow Dance by Slam Dunk below and stay tuned for another track as well as some thoughts on the cover artwork, directly from the artist, in the coming days. Oh, and you can learn all about the album HERE.

Slow Dance by Slam Dunk by VancouverIsAwesome