NEWS 2021/03/06
Vans has teamed up with Record Store Day to release Songs for You Vols. 1 & 2, to spotlight and support Black-owned record stores, featuring 6lack, Black Thought, Cautious Clay, Common, Duckwrth, Lupe Fiasco, Roberta Flack, Otis Redding, and many more. The limited-edition vinyl will be available to purchase on Record Store Day 2021, June 12. Proceeds will go to Black-owned record stores across the USA. Amongst the 19 tracks across the two albums is six-time Grammy Award-winning Roberta Flack and her uplifting rendition of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”, celebrating the song’s 50th anniversary. Flack says: “Black-owned record stores have historically served as places where our community has gathered to learn, listen and celebrate. They have been places of political activism, where we...