Austin, TX | New record store Sunshine Vinyl to offer space for music lovers in East Austin: A new record store is opening in East Austin, offering new and used vinyl in genres such as hip hop, indie, contemporary pop, jazz, Japanese imports and more. Sunshine Vinyl is locally owned by Luca Kisielius, who identifies as queer. The shop will host events ranging from acoustic sets, DJ sets, spoken word and charity events. Kisielius said Sunshine Vinyl plans to host a day dedicated to raising money for HIV awareness in memory of the man whose record collection was donated to the store. The record store’s grand opening party took place June 15. The event included beer from Zilker Brewing, pizza from Slice Society Pizza and a live performance from local musician The Foxtones.
Memphis, TN | The End of All Art: Oxford record store owner expands to books with pop-ups, planned retail location in Memphis. The End of All Music owner David Swider hopes to replicate the vinyl shop’s success with a new venture featuring his other passion — books. Having cemented its spot among the nation’s finest record stores with two locations in Oxford and Jackson, Swider and his wife, Annelise Danielson, are launching a new and used art books store in Memphis, Tennessee, called The End of All Art. …The End of All Art will offer a wide selection books at a variety of price levels. More than half of their titles are priced under $20 while also offering rare and signed books in a higher price range. Coffee will be sold by Oxford-based Exploradora Coffee and cocktails will be offered by Wonderbird Spirits, located in Taylor. Work by a couple of Southern photographers will be shown during the event as well.
Silver Spring, MD | Saying goodbye to downtown Silver Spring’s Record Exchange: For this fan, the store offered much more than music. …As a single 20-something in a new city where I didn’t know anyone, I felt at home going to the record store. Though I was still trying to find my place in the county, the slightly musky copies of the Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel and Elton John albums felt familiar, and I loved being surrounded by strangers who were as nerdy about music as I was. Hunt and her co-owner, Brian France, would always make the time to chat about whatever album I bought, and would offer recommendations. When I bought my dad a Jason Isbell album for his birthday in hopes of turning him on to the Americana rocker’s music that I loved, Hunt helped me pick out a good vinyl cleaning kit to go with it. My dad recalled how much he’d spun that record before we went to the Jason Isbell concert in Philadelphia this year.
Exeter, UK | Exeter teacher to open record shop with bar and café: Sam Tame is about to open a record shop, bar and café in Exeter city centre after 10 years working as a music teacher. An Exeter music teacher is making a “massive” career change to bring a unique new business to the city centre, where customers can browse records, listen to live music and enjoy a drink. Sam Tame has worked as a music teacher for around 10 years, including at Exeter College and Isca Academy, but has now decided to share his love for music in a completely different way. He is gearing up to open a coffee shop, record store and bar on Paris Street later this summer. The venue will be known as 12 Bar & Social and is thought to be the first of its kind in Exeter. Sam says the idea was sparked five years ago when he was at a listening event where drinks were being served but he put it “on the backburner.”
Toronto, CA | Toronto club Standard Time opens in-house record store: Standard Time, a two-year-old venue in Toronto, has opened a record shop within its warehouse unit. Called The Shop, it officially opens on Saturday, June 15th. In addition to vinyl, other items like books, music ephemera, art pieces and merch will also be available. Open Thursday through Sunday, The Shop is designed to be mobile—its hand-built record cart can be wheeled to different areas of Standard Time’s 3,000 square-foot space. The building has a long history of housing record shops, the team told Resident Advisor. …The Shop is Standard Time’s latest expansion after opening an in-house restaurant that spotlights rotating chefs-in-residence. Over the past six months, the venue has also installed a new custom-built sound system.
Manchester, UK | Stunning Oasis mural appears on Manchester record shop that inspired hit song: “It’s a privilege to paint this mural of the Gallagher brothers in the surroundings of their formative years” A stunning mural of the Oasis brothers has appeared in south Manchester to coincide with Liam Gallagher’s weekend of shows celebrating the 30th anniversary of the band’s debut album. …The album also features the track Shakermaker, which made a nod to the Sifters record shop in Burnage where the Gallagher’s used to visit as teenagers. In the song, Liam sings: “Mister Sifter sold me songs when I was just sixteen, now he stops at traffic lights but only when they’re green.” …The shop, on Fog Lane, has now become an even bigger reference point for Oasis fans as a black-and-white mural of Liam and Noel has appeared on the side of its wall. Replicating work from photographer Michael Spencer Jones, the artwork was created by Manchester-based street artist Pic.One.Art.
Kansas City, MO | New Kansas City bar is made for ‘hi-fi nerds,’ and fans of good wine and/or music: For 65 years, the building at 709. W. 17th St. was the domain of Lawrence Brooks. The squat structure, somewhere around 1,000 square feet, had once been a carriage house. Mr. Brooks, as he is affectionately known in his West Side neighborhood, opened a mechanic shop there in 1957. In 2021, entering the 10th decade of his life, Mr. Brooks sold his shop. He still lives around the corner, over on Jefferson Street, but the old tires and oil-stained carpet have all been dispatched to the dumpster. The building has been gutted and concrete breeze blocks installed on its street-facing exterior. Beyond those blocks lies XO, a new hi-fi listening bar and restaurant that was set to open Friday. “The emphasis is on natural wine, cocktails, Japanese-inspired small plates, and listening to records in an environment where there’s a real focus on music and sound,” said Mitchell Foster…
‘Saltburn’ soundtrack set for vinyl release full of cloudy bathwater: The limited edition release is inspired by a notorious bathtub scene from the film. The Saltburn soundtrack is getting a vinyl release that is filled with ‘bath water’, in reference to a notorious scene in the film. Saltburn starred Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, a middle-class interloper who poses as a scholarship student from a working-class background in order to strike up a friendship with Jacob Elordi’s wealthy aristocrat Felix Catton at Oxford University. Oliver is eventually invited by Felix to spend the summer at his family home, called Saltburn – a large mansion in the British countryside. The two characters strike up a complicated relationship, and one memorable scene finds Oliver, having overseen Jacob pleasuring himself in the bath, lapping the remaining drops of bathwater in the tub before it swirls down the plughole. And now, Bad World are releasing the film’s soundtrack on limited edition translucent vinyl which has been filled with what is being billed as ‘bath water’, in tribute to the scene.
The Lion King Soundtrack To Release On Zoetrope Vinyl: The release is a celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the iconic film, Disney is releasing The Lion King’s soundtrack for the first time on zoetrope vinyl. Thanks to the moving images on the vinyl, fans will experience beloved songs including “Circle of Life,” “I Just Can’t Wait to be King,” “Hakuna Matata,” “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” and more in a new, nostalgic way. The vinyl is set for release on July 26th, and is available for pre-order now. The zoetrope vinyl technology is a modern adaptation of one of the earliest forms of animation, creating the illusion of movement. The idea is that when a sequence of images move in a circular motion, the vinyl will display a fluid, progressive animation. For example, Disney has already released a Frozen zoetrope vinyl that displays moments from the film, including Elsa’s iconic “Let It Go” transformation, as the record spins.
