Record Stores
Wayne Coyne visiting Permanent Records on in-store tour, selling early Flaming Lips recordings with chocolate skulls
The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne will be embarking on a Midwest “record store tour” this weekend, armed with 12″ vinyl repressings of their 1984 self-titled EP, 7″ versions of the outfit’s second cassette demo (recorded in 1983), …
WFMU Record Fair is back this month with vintage vinyl, screenings and live performances
The Best Show may be ending for good after 13 years, but WFMU’s record show, after being cancelled in 2012 due to Sandy, is alive again. The 2013 WFMU Record Fair takes place at NYC’s Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West 18th Street) from Friday November 22 through Sunday November 24…
new record store Vinyl Fantasy opened in Bushwick
Rough Trade NYC, the new Academy Records Annex and Captured Tracks shop in Greenpoint aren’t the only new record stores Brooklyn’s getting this fall…
Academy Records Annex's new location opens this weekend
Academy Records was one of the 50 vendors at last weekend’s Brooklyn Flea Record Fair at Smorgasburg. While that was happening, a few blocks away Academy Records Annex was packing up the last few boxes from its N…
hopefully NY Whole Foods start selling records too
Whole Foods in Venice, CA (via their twitter)
While the number of brick-and-mortar record stores are dwindling, vinyl sales are increasing and LPs are popping up in strange places: like Whole Foods…
Governors Ball day 1 in pics: rain, mud, Dinosaur Jr, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Local Natives & more
note: these pictures were posted for about a minute yesterday, but due to a website malfunction, they disappeared. so here they are…
Thanks to the storm that hit us on Friday (6/7), day 1 of Governors Ball got off to a pretty messy start…
Rough Trade NYC still happening, Amazon offices coming to Williamsburg?
Williamsburg is now fully established as a choice place to live and play and even to work. Vallywag reports: According to a source, Amazon may have settled on a location for the mammoth office space the company began seeking in February: the Williamsburg waterfront…
Brooklyn Flea Record Fair returns to Smorgasburg this weekend
Discerning vinyl lovers with disposable income left after taxes and Record Store Day will be pleased to learn that the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair is back this Saturday (5/4) at Smorgasburg in Williamsburg…
Bleecker Bob's, RIP (though new EV location soon?)
We knew it was coming, but iconic NYC record store Bleecker Bob’s closed its doors for good this weekend after 46 years in business. The official last day was Saturday (4/13) but the store stayed open till 5 AM, selling records till dawn…
HMV stores in trouble
“Music and DVD retailer HMV said it was calling in the administrators after a last-ditch attempt to secure funding failed, bringing the curtain down on one of Britain’s best-known high street retail stores…
