Biloxi, MS | Behind the Business: Marley’s Music. In this week’s Behind the Business, we’re in Biloxi where music is medicine. Located in the heart of downtown Biloxi, Marley’s Music has created an oasis for music lovers of all genres— to not only buy nostalgic records, but also sell them. Inside the business, located on Ohr Street, you’re greeted with many objects most consider a thing of the past. “I’ve been collecting records since I was about 10 or 11, and it was something that I was interested in, it was something I knew about,” said owner Marley Roberts. Now in his adult years, Roberts has built that collection into a business— buying, selling, and trading vinyl records and CDs of all genres. “I have people that come into the shop and they’re like, ‘Oh it must be great sitting around listening to music all day.’ But I don’t get to really sit around listening to music because I’m checking records…
Indianapolis, IN | Record Store Day 2025 is next month. Here’s what record stores in Indy are participating: Record Store Day, the day where music lovers and vinyl record collectors line up outside their favorite record store for exclusive pressings of their favorite albums, has been announced for 2025. Here’s everything you need to know if you’re planning to shop RSD 2025 in Indy. What is Record Store Day? Record Store Day (RSD) was started to celebrate the culture of independent record stores, not owned by corporations. By partnering with musicians to release exclusive pressings of records, it encourages record lovers to show up to support their favorite local record stores instead of shopping at big box stores. Record Store Day is celebrated at independently-owned brick-and-mortar record stores around the world.
Dallas, TX | Charley Crockett performs at Good Records, dedicates show to Chris Penn: The shop’s co-founder suffered paralysis after injuring his spine in a recent fall. Texas troubadour Charley Crockett played a bittersweet homecoming set Saturday at Good Records, dedicating his new songs to the shop’s co-founder and manager Chris Penn. Penn — who’s been organizing in-store appearances like this one for 25 years — fell March 17 while working at Good Records, injuring his spine and causing paralysis from the neck down. “Chris, I feel like I owe you some kickbacks for how hard you been promoting me for the last couple of years,” Crockett said in a social media clip filmed at the store. “I want you to know how loved you are …This whole community loves you.” On Thursday, friends launched a GoFundMe page to assist Penn, his wife and children.
Attleboro, MA | Downtown Attleboro store looks to be a hit with throwback to turntable: There’s a new record store in downtown Attleboro. Yes, you read that correctly. And this is 2025, not 1975. Attleboro native Dennis Wagle opened Curmudgeon Records at the corner of North Main and Park streets in October, just recently dropping a part-time job to devote all his efforts to the store and his passion. Wagle, 39, has long been a collector of vinyl, something he said he inherited from his mother, an antiques dealer with a love of music. “I guess I inherited the gene for hoarding,” he said. Wagle loved it when his mom would put a record on the turntable. “I remember staring at it and being mesmerized by it,” he said. “You have this piece of vinyl with grooves in it and you put a needle on it and somehow that makes music.” Last year, Wagle took a look at his life and determined that he needed a change. Why not try something that he knew and loved?
Sydney, AU | Vintage Record Store Opens in Japanese Spirit: On 22nd February 2025 vintage record store Tengu Records opened its doors to Enmore Road. On 22nd February 2025 vintage record store Tengu Records opened its doors to Enmore Road. Billy Hagiwara, a second-year software engineer at the University of Sydney has been collecting and selling Japanese wax online for six years before opening the shop. His dad Dave, co-owner of the store, wrote for music magazine Rolling Stone in the mid-80’s, and is also an avid record collector. Billy remembers childhood trips to Japan where his dad would take him record-hunting. The business of owning a record store seemed like a no-brainer: “I don’t know, I just grew up around that sort of thing,” Billy smiled. For Billy, magic and freedom lie in music and crate-digging. “Music has been a central factor of my life, really,” says Billy.
Tranent, UK | Meet the owners of Seabass Vinyl—Scotland’s only vinyl pressing plant: Partners Dominique and Dave Harvey have turned Seabass Vinyl into not only Scotland’s first and only pressing plant but also the first in the UK to be recognised as carbon-neutral. Tom Hirst speaks to them about it all. There’s something a little poetic about the UK’s most sustainable vinyl pressing plant living in a wind-battered corner of East Lothian, watched over by sheep and surrounded by rusting industrial units. Yet, inside the walls of Seabass Vinyl, revolution is in motion—powered by solar panels, steam, and sheer passion. Seabass Vinyl isn’t just Scotland’s only vinyl pressing plant. As of last month, it’s also the first in the UK to be officially certified carbon neutral, a feat that co-founders Dominique and Dave Harvey have achieved in under two years since pressing their very first record.
Philadelphia, PA | Announcing Homegrown Originals Volume 3: XPN’s all-Philly vinyl returns for Record Store Day. Drop the needle on the Philadelphia music community. In what’s becoming an annual WXPN tradition, we’re ecstatic to announce Homegrown Originals Vol. 3, our all-Philly vinyl compilation for Record Store Day. This year, the comp includes some of Philly’s biggest artists and some of its most exciting new faces, recorded for The Key Studio Sessions, the Free At Noon concert series, XPoNential Music Festival, and World Cafe. The album showcases pop and folk (Zinadelphia, Eliza Hardy Jones), indie rock and punk (Mannequin Pussy, Carly Cosgrove), rootsy rock and roll (Dr. Dog, Florry, Owen Stewart), and hip-hop and soul (Cadre Noir, Ron & The Hip Tones, Khalil Amaru). It’s a snapshot of a vibrant music community as only XPN can present it, and we’re excited to for you to hear it.
Say buh-bye to warped vinyl with Pro-Ject’s Flatten It: If a vinyl record’s first nemesis is dust – against which we use a record cleaning machine—then its second must be warping. Sometimes those warped records are used, but sometimes they are new. And if returning a warped record is a logistical pain, Pro-Ject wants to pull on your coat about its latest product: the Flatten It; a device that, according to the Austrian manufacturer, will gently and slowly return a warped record to its former pancake-like glory. The Flatten It runs its “precise temperature control” inside a solid metal case that’s made in Europe. From the press release: “Flatten it gently and safely restores records to their original shape using precision-heated aluminium plates with accurate temperature control. This ensures even heating across the record’s surface, helping to reverse warping without risk of damage.
Storrs, CT | The pull of the needle: Why I’m obsessed with vinyl records. This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Conn chapter. When I picked up my first vinyl record, I wasn’t seeking nostalgia or a particularly “vintage” experience; it was more about curiosity — curiosity about what made these large, circular discs different from the digital music I was used to. I never expected that my simple curiosity would evolve into a full-blown obsession. The more I explored vinyl, the more I discovered a unique listening experience that digital music couldn’t quite replicate. It became not just about the sound, but the process — the physical act of playing a record, the nature of flipping it over, and the deeper connection to music that I obtained.
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