Charli xcx is visiting Fingerprints Music in Long Beach on Friday for two 30-minute Q&A sessions with ticketed fans for the release of her seventh studio album, \u201cMusic, Fashion, Film,\u201d which dropped overnight.<\/p>\n
Rand Foster, owner of the record store on Atlantic Avenue, said they decided to schedule two sessions \u2014 one at 4 p.m. and another at 5 p.m. \u2014 in anticipation of public demand. Entry was tied strictly to preorders of an indie-exclusive \u201cYorkshire Smoke\u201d vinyl pressing, capped at two copies per address. By Friday afternoon, a couple dozen eager fans were already lined up along the sidewalk waiting for the 4 p.m. start.<\/p>\n
Rather than a traditional meet-and-greet, the event will revolve around a 30-minute conversation moderated by a Fingerprints staff member and using prompts collected and selected from ticketed guests in advance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s very excitedly prepping as we talk to one of her heroes,\u201d Foster said of the staff moderator.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fingerprints, a 5,000-square-foot record store that has operated in Long Beach since 1992, has a history of hosting high-profile in-store events, including past appearances by Charli xcx as well as acts such as Foo Fighters, The 1975 and Iron & Wine.<\/p>\n
Other release-week celebrations have included a massive fan meet-and-greets with Kehlani and Cardi B, which drew crowds wrapping around city blocks.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s event with Charli xcx comes less than 24 hours after the British singer-songwriter dropped her latest album and is one of her stops in the greater Los Angeles area as she promotes the record\u2019s release. She is set to launch a tour in September, with stops planned into October.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that she could be out and doing events that make a lot of money and she instead comes here for this is really awesome,\u201d Foster said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Foster compared the day\u2019s preparations to the stages of grief. \u201cThere\u2019s excitement, there\u2019s disbelief, there\u2019s \u2018oh shit,\u2019 and then there\u2019s relief.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked what stage he\u2019s in, Foster laughed. \u201cI\u2019m in the \u2018oh shit\u2019 stage right now, because we\u2019re getting close.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charli xcx is visiting Fingerprints Music in Long Beach on Friday for two 30-minute Q&A sessions with ticketed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[76541,164703,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-411295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-charli-xcx","tag-fingerprints-music","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}