The last Sam the Record Man is closing.
At one time, there were Sam the Record Man locations across the country. But in 2001, the chain filed for bankruptcy and all the stores closed by 2007. Except one. There was one
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: The history of the record store
Before we begin, I am very aware that there are many people who have never, ever set foot in a record store. They came of age musically after the internet changed everything about
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An appreciation of the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville–but not in the way you might think
If you’ve ever done the stroll along Broadway in Nashville, you must have walked past the famous Ernest Tubb Record Shop, country music’s most important record store. Founded in 1947 and located to
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Would you like your home to smell like a record store? There’s a candle for that.
There are pretty weird scented candles out there. The Motorhead candle smells like a Lemmy-infused room. Gwyneth’s ladybits candle. The Rock’s proposed testicle burner. And so on. Now comes a candle that supposedly
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What was it like to go music shopping at HMV in 1985? This.
Record stores were glorious places 30 years ago. While most of the space was dedicated to vinyl, it was under serious pressure from pre-recorded cassettes, sales of which exploded after the introduction of
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RIP Moondance, Canada’s oldest independent record store
(Photo credit: Jeannie Taylor at KawarthaNow.com) In the early 70s, Montreal native Mike Taveroff was living in Vancouver when he decided that he wanted to be closer to his native Montreal. After getting
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Toronto Now Has a Heavy Metal Record Store. AWESOME.
Looking for some last-minute Christmas gifts for the metal fan on your list? Are you a metal fan looking to spend some of that Christmas money at Boxing Day sales? Then you might
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What It Was Like Running a Soviet-Era Record Store?
FACT has a fun story on Alex Alekperov, the one-time proprietor of a record store in Baku, Azerbaijan, back in the days when it was a Soviet republic. What was that like? When
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Random Music News for Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Windows 1.0 was introduced on this day in 1983. It wasn’t very good. And now, some music news. You can now buy Trent Reznor-style boots. And you can now get an Iron Maiden
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The Weirdest Vinyl Story of the Month: The White Noise Record Label
White noise: n. 1. Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds. 2. Physics. random noise with a
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Sub Pop Opens a Record Store at the SEA-TAC Airport
The first taste visitors get of a new city (or new country, for that matter) is what they see, hear and feel when they get off the plane. Whenever, I land in Singapore
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