Pasadena, CA | Artist Dave Muller opens record store inside Pasadena gallery: A solo exhibition spanning two decades of music-obsessed work arrives at ArtCenter’s Williamson Gallery in March, with vinyl for sale. Afunctioning record store will open inside ArtCenter College of Design’s Williamson Gallery on March 14, anchoring a solo exhibition of more than two decades of work by Los Angeles-based artist Dave Muller. The exhibition, “Dave Muller: Proto Typical,” presents watercolors, drawings, temporary murals and installations rooted in Muller’s lifelong fascination with music—album covers, vinyl records, cassettes, bootlegs, set lists, price tags and instruments, all rendered by hand. A centerpiece is Record Pavilion 2.0, a fully operational record store stocked with vinyl from Muller’s personal collection that visitors can browse and purchase throughout the show’s run, which extends through August 8, according to a press release from ArtCenter.
Dallas, TX | Jambaloo’s Women in Music Night Focuses on Record Stores: Jambaloo, the North Texas music festival that showcases local bands on stages across the region, isn’t just live music. Thursday night, independent record store owners talked about being a woman in the music business at Spinster Records. To the average music fan, Jambaloo might seem like any other festival, with a multi-day showcase of North Texas’s best music. But, it’s a lot more than a week of free concerts, and last night’s “On The Record: Women Behind DFW’s Most Influential Indie Record Stores” symposium held at Spinster Records in Bishop Arts was proof. Four record store gurus gathered for a wide-ranging conversation that included the importance of building a music community that extends beyond streaming and social media.
Memphis, TN | New record store set to open in Memphis mall: What goes around comes around, as a new record and music shop is set to drop the needle in Memphis’ Wolfchase Galleria mall this year. Joe’s Records, which has operated out of St. Louis since 2004, plans to begin work on a Wolfchase space in March, with a tentative opening date in May. The store carries genres from rock and rap to punk, country soul, dance and metal, in vinyl and CD formats, plus T-shirts, posters and more online and in-store. “We like Memphis big time as a market,” owner Joe Smith said. “There’s several really good record stores down there that are awesome, but per capita Memphis, I was surprised there is not more independent record stores, and we think there is a real opportunity, especially on the east side of Memphis…”
St. Louis, MO | Legendary punk band Story of the Year releases album in person at Vintage Vinyl: St. Louis natives and legendary punk band Story of the Year signed copies of their newly-released album, A.R.S.O.N. and memorabilia at Vintage Vinyl. Thirteen-year-old Izzy Terry poses with her copy of the newly-released A.R.S.O.N. album after it was signed by all the members of the legendary punk band, Story of the Year, background, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, at Vintage Vinyl record store in University City. The native St. Louis band, left to right, drummer Josh Wills, guitarist Ryan Phillips, bass player Adam Russell and vocalist Dan Marsala first became popular in the early 2000s.
A Japanese Hi-Fi Brand Just Made Its Popular Audiophile Turntable Even Cooler: The special-edition turntable is marketed towards modern vinyl enthusiasts. Teac is probably best known for its high-fidelity audio equipment—such as high-end DACs, amplifiers, CD players and cassette tape decks—that are aimed at pretty serious audiophiles. But the renowned Japanese hi-fi manufacturer is well regarded for its high-end turntables, too. It currently sells several different models, most of which range between $240 and $2,200. The TN-400BTX is one of the brand’s popular midrange turntables. It sells for $629. Released in 2024, it’s a manual, belt-drive turntable made of high-end materials and components. It features a high‑inertia aluminum die‑cast platter, an S‑Shaped static‑balanced tonearm, and comes pre‑installed with Audio‑Technica AT95E cartridge (which sells for $109 by itself).
Calgary, CA | On record: VinylCentric Gallery offers weird and wonderful history of the record player in Canadian homes. When Ken Murphy was growing up in Montreal, his family would buy records and hold dance parties in their house. It was in the 1960s, and Murphy’s parents would host a combination bridge and dance night. The latter was based around the hulking phonograph in the living room. As in many Canadian homes in the day, the record player was a central part of the decor in the Murphy household. They would dance to folk, country, big band and Calypso records. …It’s a stunning display, full of posters, vinyl records, ephemera and other artifacts that trace the history of the phonograph in Canadian homes starting with the first long-playing records in 1948. That era more or less came to an end in the late 1970s, when equipping homes with large consoles fell out of fashion in favour of buying stereos in components.
Weezer Announces Vinyl Box Set with Every Color Album: A colorful 6xLP set that’s full of cute surprises. If there’s one piece of iconography Weezer is known for, it’s not the flying W, and it’s definitely not the picture of that dude from Lost—it’s four nerdy-lookin’ guys standing in front of a solid color. From their classic self-titled debut (AKA The Blue Album) to later editions like The Black Album and The Teal Album, the gang just cannot stop themselves from lining up Usual Suspects-style. Now, for the first time, Weezer is compiling all six of their color albums into one vinyl boxset dubbed Coloring Book. The 6xLP set features The Blue Album, The Green Album, The Red Album, The White Album, The Black Album, and The Teal Album. What’s more is that each respective record comes in appropriately colored vinyl, and the whole package also serves as an honest-to-god coloring book.
Robert Plant, Saving Grace to Release Vinyl EP on Record Store Day: …Saving Grace is what Plant calls “a song book of the lost and found.” Its genesis was during lockdown, when Plant’s customary wandering was all but forbidden. It was in the English countryside that he connected closely to this diverse group of musicians—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown—who had a shared lean towards his corners of evocative song. Produced by Plant and the band and recorded over six years in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, Saving Grace features songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Low.
Never-Before-Released Freddie King 1975 Live Album Feeling Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Jazz Pulsation Concerts. Deluxe package includes appreciations from his daughter, Wanda King, as well as ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, plus liner notes by author Cary Baker. Slated for release by Elemental Music exclusively for Record Store Day on April 18, 2026, ‘Feeling Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Jazz Pulsation Concerts’ is a limited-edition 3-LP set capturing blues guitar giant Freddie King live before more than 50,000 fans at France’s Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival in October 1975—the final full year of his life. Previously unreleased and sourced from original ORTF (Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française) recordings, the newly restored 180-gram vinyl set documents an essential blues artist whose ferocious guitar tone, commanding singing, and genre-bridging vision helped reshape modern blues and rock.
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