Tallahassee, FL | Take a road trip to these top vinyl record stores: With summer and vacations in full swing, a road trip and stop at a vinyl records store could be worth the trip. Vinyl records are making a comeback, so much so that record collectors are digging through crates in search of the holy grail (a highly desired and/or rare record), as well as hits and good music that simply soothes the soul. Luckily for Tallahasseeans, there are plenty of record stores in the area, ranging in size and collection, if you’re willing to make the drive. Some are a day trip, others significantly longer. Here are a few…
Barcelona, SP | Yoyaku announces new record shop in Barcelona: Paris-based distributor, label network and record shop Yoyaku has unveiled a new Barcelona location. The store, located near Ciutadella Park in the Bridge 48 complex, will open on June 15th during OFFWEEK FESTIVAL. To celebrate, Yoyaku will host an in-store session available via raffle for those attending Yoyaku OFF Barcelona. The location arrives as the latest expansion from Yoyaku. Last month, the company acquired the assets of Berlin vinyl pressing plant OBJECTS Manufacturing. It also launched Kurtezy, a Berlin-based physical distribution and logistics platform operating within the factory.
Brandon, MT | Sunrise Records Coming Soon to Brandon’s Shoppers Mall, Now Hiring: Music lovers in Brandon will soon have a new place to dig through vinyl bins and discover pop‑culture favourites. Sunrise Records, Canada’s largest independent record store chain, is preparing to open a new location at Shoppers Mall, bringing its long‑standing passion for physical media to the community. …As the Brandon store prepares to open, Sunrise Records is actively hiring. The company has posted job opportunities for the upcoming location, including leadership and in‑store roles, signaling that opening preparations are underway. Those interested in joining the team are encouraged to apply online through Workopolis by searching Sunrise Records Brandon, MB. Or visit sunriserecords.com for company info and career links.
Brighton, UK | Hollywood star Jeff Goldblum visits Brighton record store: Hollywood A-lister Jeff Goldblum charmed and thrilled more than 500 fans when he dropped in at Resident Music in Brighton to launch his new album. Fans queued for up to 90 minutes on Friday to get a picture with him and collect a copy of his classic jazz album Night Blooms, on which he sings and plays piano. They’d paid £16 or £34 for a copy of the album on CD or vinyl and to meet the star of Jurassic Park and The Fly, and demand for tickets was so high an extra session was hastily arranged. The queue to get into the store snaked the length of Kensington Gardens but those in line were given a treat when the star came out on to the balcony to wave to passers-by.
Salt Lake City, UT | As a rave venue and record store, ETA45MINS centered the queer and neurodivergent dance music community. Tucked away in Salt Lake City’s Ballpark neighborhood, at 1120 S. Richards Street, the dance record store 45 World Records was demolished in April. In its final years, the old space had evolved from a temporary living situation into a venue for the dance music collective known as ETA45MINS, then into a personal studio and, ultimately, a community-focused record shop. The owner, Kai Barrera, contended that when he entered the existing Salt Lake City dance music scene in 2023, it was homogenous, necessitating the creation of ETA45MINS to introduce harder, faster dance music. “I just wanted to hear music that I was interested in at the time, which was a lot harder stuff,” Barrera recalled. “I just decided I would start DJing so that I could play that stuff.”
Adria, IT | Vinyl, coffee and galleries: the places redefining how we listen to music: The analog scene is coming back to life, and these are the places to browse records, have coffee and experience art. …Good old vinyl records have been part of this wave of new-old ideas for some time now, although any serious record digger will tell you that they never went out of fashion in the first place. Still, in the broader cultural perception, vinyl always returns in cycles: for a while it quietly smolders on the margins, and then it once again becomes part of the mainstream. It seems to me that it is currently going through another such moment. Or maybe it is because in Zagreb, where I live, I like going to The Wax Social, an occasional music gathering at Klet Gallery that brings together vinyl lovers through listening sessions and record shopping, dance nights and pleasant conversations at the bar.
New York, NY | The Vinyl Word is a club for albums where strangers become friends: Making friends as an adult is hard, especially in a city of eight million strangers. But one man in New York found a surprisingly simple solution: a flier, a phone number, a record player and a book club. When you hear book club, you probably picture a quiet living room, a bottle of wine and a heated debate about character development. What you probably don’t picture is a packed music venue, strangers dancing together on a Tuesday night and an album playing front to back on vinyl. Walk into Arlene’s Grocery on a Tuesday night and you’ll get a small but promising glimpse of a generation. People are laughing, singing and dancing. An hour earlier, most of them had never even met.
Forget vinyl, reel-to-reel tapes are the last word in sound quality—and they’re making a comeback: We’ve had the vinyl revival, now comes the reel renaissance. By this point in the evolution of audio tech, vinyl was supposed to be old hat, cassettes long ago forgotten about and wired headphones consigned to the dustbin of history. But times as they are, not only are all three enjoying a resurgence, there’s also another old technology enjoying an unexpected revival: reel-to-reel tapes (R2R for short). Once the standard by which all bands recorded, it was usurped from the early 1980s onwards for the greater control offered by digital recording methods. And so for 40 years or so, the format sat gathering dust, much like the studio tape machines themselves. But now it’s back, and not just in recording studios but at home for personal use.
Owensboro, KY | DCPL hosts third vinyl record show: Shoppers were already lined up before the doors even opened at the Daviess County Public Library (DCPL) on Saturday morning for the library’s third annual vinyl record show. “It’s going great,” said Jarrod McCarty, DCPL’s community engagement manager. “Turnout so far has been pretty solid, a lot of people coming in the door early.” Event coordinator Josh Hardesty, co-owner of Owensboro’s Displace Pages, a local book and record store, said that the crowd was already steady early Saturday morning. “And everyone is buying different stuff,” he said. “So, it’s kind of cool. Some people are buying metal. Some people are buying pop. Some people are buying rap. It’s all over the place.”
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