Here at Muso's Guide, we got pretty stuck in to the build up for Record Store Day 2013. In between vainly attempting to reduce our list of desired records from this year's releases down to a reasonable number, we got chattering away to record companies around the country about their involvement with the big day in the attempt to find out what life is like on the other side of the till. In addition to being a significant day for record stores wanting to increase their local profile and to please their many fans, Record Store Day is a highpoint of the year for the many record companies who take part in the event.

Ahead of Long Division festival 2013 Muso's Guide will be catching up with some of the acts from the this year's bill. First up is the wonderful Jeffrey Lewis who was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to talk to MG's Hayley Scott about his upcoming tour, new album and collaboration with Peter Stampfel, his thoughts on that pesky anti-folk tag and The Fall...

In their avowed quest to bring the cream of the crop to Bisley for the first ever Hipsville the shadowy figures behind the enterprise have pulled out all the stops and signed up The Shook-Ups.

Carl Combover from the band was tracked down and forced to answer the following questions:-

Garage Punk is alive & well and emanating from Vienna in the guise of the man known as Wild Evel, who would be a lesser figure without his stalwart Trashbones (who, it turns out, emanate from Graz).

In the run-up to Hipsville Murphy Morphine, fuzz-guitarist in the band, put that geographical faux pas aside and took time off from looking for empty crypts to perform in to answer a few questions we had the brassneck to put to the band:-