SXSW Day 2: The Beginning of the New Vinyl Era at Austin’s @EndOfAnEar
With Austin being such a hip town, it has become ground zero for the vinyl renaissance, with plenty of vinyl record shops in several different …
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SXSW Day 1:Searching for the Blues at Antone’s Records @AntonesRecords
Young Clifford Antone had left his hometown of Port Arthur, Texas in 1968 to attend the University of Texas at Austin, but his college career …
SXSW 2014 Day 1: Shopping Around Austin’s North Loop Neighborhood @MonkeyWrenchATX @BreakawayAustin @epochcoffee
Going the I-10 route through Houston as I did meant that I didn’t get into Austin until 4 in the morning on Monday, so it …
A Little Something Extra at Baton Rouge’s Lagniappe Records @LagniappeRecsBR
Recent years have not been kind to the retail music situation in Baton Rouge, so I was thrilled to learn of a new vinyl record …
Jackson’s Morning Bell Records (@MorningBellJxn) Moves Into New Larger Digs, Adds Coffee and Food
Since the sad demise of Mississippi’s venerable Be-Bop Records chain several years ago, the sole survivor as far as vinyl and indie rock has been …
Current Music and Oldies Vinyl at Greenville, South Carolina’s BJ Music
Times have been tough for record stores, but here and there, across America are some stores that are survivors. Randy Coleman, the owner of BJ …
Shopping for Records and Clothes Around Atlanta #A3C2013
Because I didn’t think I’d get to otherwise, I spent the better part of Thursday during the day going around to some of my favorite …
Vinyl, Coffee and More in Cincinnati’s Northside Neighborhood @shakeitrecords @SidewinderCoffee
Despite the morning rain, which was heavy enough to cause flooding in some areas, I headed out to the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati to visit …
Feeling The Heat Of Vinyl at Miami’s @sweatrecords
In the middle of Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood is the city’s newest record shop, Sweat Records, next to the popular Churchill’s Pub rock venue. Sweat …
Oxford’s End of All Music (@endofallmusic) Records: A Vinyl Paradise
Oxford, Mississippi has had several record stores over the years, but more recently it has suffered through a “dark ages” where there was no place …