Entries tagged with: Record Stores

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Sound Fix leaves Bedford Sunday, having a weekend sale

Beirut @ Sound Fix (more by Kelly Bruce) It's been a memorable five years on Bedford Avenue, hasn't it? Raise your hand if you were there on our opening night when the Mountain Goats performed. Now we're getting ready to...

Posted on August 14, 2009 4:45 PM

Sound Fix Records is moving to Berry and N. 11th St

DOWNLOAD: Sound Fix Podcast #1 - April 10, 2009 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sound Fix Podcast #2 - May 13, 2009 (MP3) Five years ago, Sound Fix opened its doors with the aim of creating a new kind of record store, one...

Posted on June 15, 2009 2:15 PM

Park Slope's Record & Tape Center evicted, closing!

Record & Tape Center (Tishon) It's nearly the day the music died in Park Slope. The Record and Tape Center, a dusty, cramped record store that has occupied the same spot on Fifth Avenue, near Ninth Street, for the past...

Posted on May 20, 2009 3:29 PM

ALL Virgin Megastores to close by June

With CD sales sliding, "I tried my hardest to come up with a new model, and we were making a lot of headway with it before the holidays," said Virgin Entertainment Group North America CEO Simon Wright. Virgin outlasted HMV...

Posted on March 16, 2009 8:19 AM

Record Store Day 2009: lots of bands releasing exclusive vinyl, a Bouncing Souls in-store & more...

by Andrew Frisicano Record Store Day - a nationwide event created to support independently owned record stores - will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2009. A list of participating NYC stores is available online at the Record Store Day...

Posted on March 10, 2009 1:48 AM

Sound Fix Records hopes to still have live performnances

"Marissa Nadler played the last live concert in Sound Fix Lounge on Saturday -- or did she? Owner James Bradley vowed to keep putting on shows, despite losing his liquor license last month. "It is my fervent hope and desire...

Posted on March 3, 2009 11:01 AM

Etherea is closed, but Brion still hoping for new record store

Etherea is was an independent retail record store operating since 1995. We are located at 66 Avenue A, between 4th and 5th Streets.Etherea as we know it is now closed. Etherea employee Brion still plans on reopening the store (with...

Posted on March 2, 2009 12:55 AM

Virgin Megstore Union Square (and San Francisco), RIP

Circuit City / Virgin (pic via Racked) "And then there were three. The Virgin Megastore music chain will close its Union Square location in New York City at the end of May and its Market Street store in San Francisco...

Posted on March 1, 2009 10:10 PM

Etherea Records saved, not closing after all

Like many NYC record stores before it, Etherea was unfortunately set to close for good at the end of February. According to their website, they still are. In a February 19th message entitled "LAST CHANCE!!", they write:This will be...

Posted on February 23, 2009 11:19 AM

Mondo Kim's & Etherea Records, RIP

the new Kim's on 1st Ave (via Vanishing New York) Etherea on Avenue A (via Stupefaction) "Pretty soon, Other Music is going to be the only record store left in Manhattan. Blog Stupefaction reports that Etherea Records will shut down...

Posted on January 30, 2009 12:40 PM

The Times Square Virgin Megastore is closing, AC Newman playing Union Square, Record Store Day is coming

"We knew the iconic Virgin Megastore was on its way out, but now we've got a date for the goodbye party. The store closes this coming April; not long after, a Forever 21 will open in its space. Some fun...

Posted on January 13, 2009 7:55 PM

a map of all (open & closed) Manhattan RECORD STORES

Some 3,100 record stores around the country have closed since 2003, according to the Almighty Institute of Music Retail, a market research firm. And that's not just the big boxes like the 89 Tower Records outlets that closed at the...

Posted on April 18, 2008 10:26 AM

"The Indies - Burnout Behind The Counter"

Paul McCartney @ Amoeba Records, LA - June 27, 2007 (CRED) (info) The past few years have been bittersweet for music retail in Los Angeles. The opening of Amoeba Records in 2001 gave the city one of the stronger music...

Posted on July 3, 2007 10:04 AM

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