For vinyl enthusiasts, Record Store Day might as well be Christmas. Sure, there's no jolly fat man in velvet slinging gifts, but there will be exclusive records of all shapes, sizes and varieties. So set those alarms, wake up at the crack of dawn, and get ready to spend money you don't have at one of D.C.'s handful of music peddlers. Record Store Day is coming.

To get an idea of what to expect tomorrow, head over to the Vinyl District or Record Store Day's official Web site. Otherwise, we've got the rundown of D.C. record stores after the jump.

Red Onion Records and Books:

Red Onion will open at noon this Saturday.

"I've also got some people who might be playing outside. Possibly Olivia Mancini and a band called Family Portrait," Josh Harkavy, owner of Red Onion, said Thursday.

Despite getting "shorted" on some fan favorites, such at The Hold Steady or the Sex Pistols, Harkavy says he still has a ton of merchandise from Matador, Sub Pop, and XL, among other labels.

Red Onion has limited numbers of RODRIGUEZ "Inner City Blues" b/w "I'm Gonna Live Til I Die" 7", PETER GABRIEL/BON IVER "Come Talk to Me" and "Flume" Split 7", AGAINST ME! "I Was a Teenage Anarchist" 7", TED LEO "The Oldest House" and "North Coast" 7", NEIL YOUNG "Heart of Gold" 7", SURFER BLOOD/HOLIDAY SHORES "Take It Easy" (live) and "Your Motion Says" Split 7", BUILT TO SPILL "Water Sleepers" and "Linus & Lucy" (live) 7", FUCKED UP "Daytrotter Sessions" 7", CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "Heaven Can Wait" and "IRM" 7", JOHN LENNON 7" box set, FELA KUTI Live 10", BEASTIE BOYS 12", PHOENIX "Fences" 12", BEACH HOUSE Zebra 12", JIMI HENDRIX Live @ Clark University 12", THE FLAMING LIPS Dark Side of the Moon cover, THE RAMONES Mania 12" set, JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALEROS Global A Go-Go and Streetcore 12"s, REM Chronic Town 12", SONIC YOUTH 12"s (Confusion is Sex, EVOL, and Hits are for Squares), MGMT Siberian Breaks 12", TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science re-release, and MODEST MOUSE The Moon and Antarctica re-release.

Red Onion will also have tiny, tiny supplies of SUPERCHUNK "Misfits and Mistakes" autographed 7" (2 available), OF MONTREAL 7" (2 available) JAPANDROIDS Posting Nothing in white vinyl (3 available), and ROKY ERICSSON/OKKERVIL RIVER True Love Cast Out All Evil advance LP (4 available).

Crooked Beat:

Crooked Beat will open at 11 a.m. this Saturday. For a detailed rundown of their plan for Record Store Day, check out their website.

The first 75 customers in the store will get grab bags filled with CDs, stickers, buttons, vintage 7"s, posters, key chains, and other goodies. Plus, five extra-lucky customers out of the 75 will find $20 gift certificates in their bags.

Crooked Beat will sell THE ROLLING STONES "Plundered My Soul" and "All Down the Line" 7", MUSE "Exogenesis: Symphony (parts 1-3)"/"Uprising" (live)/"Resistance" (live) 7", PETER GABRIEL/STEPHEN MARRITT "The Book of Love" b/w "Not One of Us" spilt 7", QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Feel Good Hit of the Summer 10", BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Wrecking Ball" (live) b/w "Ghost of Tom Joad" (live) 10", ARTHUR RUSSELL Calling Out of Context double 12" set, PAVEMENT Quarantine the Past 12", BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Eating Us LP, MAGNETIC FIELDS 69 Love Songs box set, and NADA SURF If I Has a Hi-Fi CD. But, eBay vultures, be warned: Crooked Beat is enforcing a "one copy per title per customer" rule for Record Store Day.

(Among other products, Crooked Beat will also have the FLAMING LIPS, SONIC YOUTH, JOE STRUMMER AND THE MESCALEROS, JIMI HENDRIX, PETER GABRIEL/BON IVER, MGMT, OF MONTREAL, and RAMONES listed throughout this post.)

Smash! Records:

Smash! will open at 11 a.m. As of Friday afternoon, Smash! had not gotten its merchandise for Record Store Day.

"We're supposed to get them some time today," Daisy Lacy, co-owner of the store, said Friday. "[The record companies are] waiting until the last minute, I guess to keep people in the dark. You know, build the excitement."

(Lacy expects the store's orders to arrive sometime this evening.)

This Saturday also marks Smash! Records's three year anniversary in its Adams Morgan location. To celebrate, Lucy plans to offer refreshments for all customers.

Surprisingly, Smash! has never dove into the insanity behind Record Store Day before this year—in the past, the store didn't order any of the exclusive products sold on Record Store Day.

"We actually didn't order any of the special stuff before," Lucy said. "If the whole idea [behind Record Store Day] is to keep record stores alive and it brings more people in the door, then it's probably all right."

Melody Records:

Melody Records will open at 10 a.m. Heather Horne, an indie buyer who has worked at the store for more than six years, thinks that this year's Record Store Day is going to be huge.

"This year seems a lot bigger," Horne said Thursday. "There's a lot more releases because the record companies are getting behind it more. They can actually make money, so they're actually going to support it."

Horne also suggests that customers arrive early to grab the Melody's exclusive Record Store Day stock.

"There are limited numbers of everything ... I would definitely say it's modest," Horne said Thursday.

Melody Records will sell THE DOORS "People are Strange" and "The Crystal Ship" 7", THEM CROOKED CULTURES "Mind Eraser" and "Hwy 1" (live) 10", BLACK KEYS "Tighten Up" and "Howlin' for You" 10", TOM WAITS Mule Variations 12", MONSTERS OF FOLK self-titled 12", NEKO CASE Middle Cyclone 12", JOSH RITTER So Runs the World Away LP, JEFF BECK Emotion & Commotion 12", ANI DIFRANCO Live @ Bull Moose CD, and MOUNTAIN GOATS Life of the World to Come DVD.

(Among other products, Melody Records will also have the SPRINGSTEEN, MODEST MOUSE, SONIC YOUTH, ROLLING STONES, and AGAINST ME! listed throughout this post.)

Som Records:

Som Records will open at noon. Owner Neil Beckton promises a 10% sale on all used records throughout the day, as well as an in-store performance by Lightfoot at 7 p.m.

On Saturday, Som will have GODSMACK "Crying like a Bitch" b/w "Whiskey Hangover" 7", YEAH YEAH YEAHS "Skeletons" 7", GOGOL BORDELLO "We Comin Rougher" and "Trans Continental Hustle" 7", COHEED AND CAMBRIA "Guns of Summer" b/w "Pearl of the Stars" 7" , DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS "Your Woman is a Living Thing" and "Just Maybe" 7", ELVIS COSTELLO Live at Hollywood High 7" EP, JOHN FAHEY The Yellow Princess 12", and JOY DIVISION 12" box set.

(Among other products, Som Records will also have the PHOENIX, NEIL YOUNG, SPRINGSTEEN, ROLLING STONES, RODRIGUEZ, JIMI HENDRIX, and BLACK KEYS listed throughout this post.)

Parties and Concerts:

• Starting at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Olivia Mancini, Paul Michel, Tone, and New Rock Church of Fire will perform at St. Stephen's Church to raise money for the much-loved Fort Reno summer concert series. Tickets are $10 for all ages, but anybody who presents a receipt from a D.C. area record store—dated April 17, of course—only has to pay $5. (Presented by The Vinyl District and Fort Reno.)
• Kicks! and The Vinyl District will host the official post-Record Store Day party at the Black Cat from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. The event will feature DJs Sara and Kim—veterans of Kicks! monthly dance parties—as well as John Davis of Title Tracks.

Tomorrow is Record Store Day. Get pumped. Here's a good idea of what the local stores will be carrying:

PAVEMENT: LIVE IN GERMANY LP SONIC YOUTH/JAY REATARD SPLIT 7 SONIC YOUTH/BECK SPLIT 7" ARTHUR RUSSELL: LOVE IS OVERTAKING ME 2LP CAMERA OBSCURA: FRENCH NAVY 7" ELVIS PERKINS: LORRAINE, LOOKOUT 7" BLACK KIDS: WIZARD OF AHHS 10" BOB DYLAN: DREAMING FROM YOU 7" BRANDI CARLILE: DOWNPOUR 7" BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: WHAT LOVE CAN DO 7" DEPECHE MODE: WRONG 7" JANES ADDICTION: MOUNTAIN SONG 7" JENNY LEWIS & ELVIS COSTELLO 7" JESUS LIZARD: INCH 7" SINGLE BOX SET LEONARD COHEN 7" MC5: 7" MY MORNING JACKET: LIVE 10" NEW ORDER: TEMPTATION 7" SLAYER: PSYCHOPATHY RED 7" SUBLIME: SUPERSTAR PUNANI 7" SMITHS 7" STOOGES 7" VARIOUS ARTISTS: THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES WILCO: ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGS DVD WHISKEYTOWN 7" YEAH YEAH YEAHS: IT'S BLITZ LP GUIDED BY VOICE: HOLD ON HOPE 10" BEN HARPER: SHIMMER & SHINE 10"

The Vinyl District has been partnering with the Industry on this one. We're just riding shotgun. Here's a breakdown of what some of the local stores are doing (we will be adding to this list throughout the day):

Crooked Beat:

They will be opening at noon on Saturday. "We'll have them behind the counter, all on display on the walls. I'm unpacking the Jesus Lizard. It's unbelievable. Eight seven-inches," says owner Bill Daly earlier this week. He adds that he has 25 Flaming Lips/Black Lips seven-inches.

Crooked Beat will also have the Sonic Youth/Beck split seven-inch, the Pavement Live LP, and Arthur Russell's Love is Overtaking Me LP. Etc!

For the first 75 customers, the store will also be giving away goodie bags filled with tons of indie label samplers (Merge, etc.), stickers, posters, buttons, etc. In three of these bags, the store has placed $25 gift certificates.

"We're getting calls, several a day now," Daly says. People are mostly calling about the Sonic Youth-Jay Reatard split, the Smiths, the Stooges and MC5 reissue singles.

"It's kind of nuts. Last year was our busiest day of the year—there was only about nine releases. And this year, it's over 60," Daly says. "Ryko said they were sending stuff I don't know about. Grizzly Bear seven-inches are being included."

Daly says to expect a huge early crowd. "We are getting phone calls from people who are saying they will be lining up at 8 o'clock in the morning," he says. "Last year there was 50 people in line as soon as we opened. Everyone was pretty well behaved....I'm just telling people you got to wait in line."

Red Onion Records and Books:

The store is opening at noon. Owner Josh Harkavy says they will be having a 10-percent-off sale on everything except the Record Store Day releases. He says he's got a bunch if not the bulk of the special vinyl releases including the Matador stuff and the amazing compilation This LP Crashes Hard Drives which features tracks from Sublime Frequencies, Numero, Honest Jons, etc.

"I'm hoping it's not too crazy," Harkavy says. "I'm glad there's all this interest in Record Stores."

Som Records:

The 14th Street shop has one thing the other stores do not: Benjy Ferree. The singer-songwriter will be playing at the shop at 7 p.m. We interviewed him recently and admired his latest album. So except a few Washington City Paper employees in attendance!

The store will also be doing a 10-percent-off sale all day long. They'll have the Domino and Thrill Jockey compilations. K Records has sent them some stuff as well. Also among the stacks will be Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life on 180 gram.

Melody Records:

The store will be opening at 10 a.m. They will have the Wilco DVD. They will have a bunch of vinyl giveaways (samplers) and some limited-edition seven-inches such as Green Day and Jane's Addiction reissues.

"It's great to showcase the independent stores," says indie buyer Heather Horne. "We're obviously doing something right if we beat out Circuit City. It's going to keep getting bigger....We've gotten tons of calls. Everyone is excited."

Horne says people have already started coming in to the store thinking it's already Record Store Day. "We had a group of four or five teenagers come in earlier (today)," she says. "They were like 'What do you have for Record Store Day?' We showed them what we have but obviously we can't give away anything until tomorrow."