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Vancouver record store-turned-distro-and-label Scratch Records celebrates its 20th year of existing this year. Man, 1987... can you imagine a record store without any Pavement albums because Pavement albums did not exist yet?!!

Scratch's label arm has put out records by quite a few fine bands during that time, and to celebrate the two-decade milestone, several of them will perform at a series of shows going on in Vancouver this weekend and next.

Destroyer, Black Mountain, and Pink Mountaintops are among the parties' performers, who include not only artists with releases on the label but acts featuring current Scratch employees.

The first party is tomorrow, November 3, at Richard's on Richards, headlined by Black Mountain. The lineups for all three are right after the jump.

Go Scratch, it's your birthday:

11-03 Richard's on Richards: Black Mountain, Climax Golden Twins, Mexican Power Authority
11-09 Pat's Pub: Thor, Tranzmitors, French Paddleboat, Vancougar, Weathered Pines
11-10 Richard's on Richards: Destroyer, Pink Mountaintops, Vote Robot, Riff Randells, Dustin Cole, Racan Souiedan