Tag: record store

As I walk into Yellow Racket Records at 2311 E. Main Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Destroyer is playing over the loudspeakers. Ben VanderHart, the founder and creative director of the store, is sitting at a table in the Listening Room, a space situated in the next room over from the main store area, where listening […]

The world may be getting more and more digital (NFTs — more like no fucking thanks), but record stores are beloved Luddite-havens where music culture thrives. Mainstream stores pivoted out of the brick and mortar locales over the years, or closed altogether like Sam Goody, but not independent shops. Their dedicated owners understood their importance […]