by Rick Coste | Feb 10, 2022 | Record Stores
As I watched the official trailer for the documentary Dusty Groove – The Sound of Transition from Petunia Productions, I thought to myself, “this is what it’s all about”. There’s a line in the trailer that says, “Records are physical things that circulate...
by Rick Coste | Feb 10, 2022 | Record Stores
“They had videos, and they had the ‘sonic’.” Those are the words spoken by Mad Max to the kids waiting for the return of Captain Walker in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. What exactly was the “sonic”? It was a record. There is no electricity in Mad Max’s...
by Rick Coste | Feb 10, 2022 | Record Stores
On the day Eddie Van Halen died, a used copy of Diver Down appeared on the wall behind the counter of &Vinyl Records. If you looked closely, you would see two signatures. There could be no mistaking one signature. The long swoop from the last letter, which...
by Rick Coste | Feb 10, 2022 | Record Stores
“Well you can call me Dr. Music. Music is my name…” Eric Bloom sang those lines forty-three years ago on the album Mirrors by Blue Öyster Cult. If you go to Fairhope, Alabama, and drive north on S. Section St., just past Greer’s Market and look to the right, you’ll...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2021 | Record Stores
Springfield, Missouri’s downtown at night might give the feeling you’ve stepped into a time machine and traveled back a few decades. When you walk down E. Walnut Street toward S. Roberson Ave. you’ll see the light from Hotel Vandivort’s lobby spill out onto the...
by Rick Coste | Dec 17, 2021 | Record Stores
Just a few blocks away from the Mississippi River and minutes from Lake Pontchartrain sits a little record store on Magazine Street that’s making a splash of its own. The thing is, NOLA Mix Records isn’t only a record store – it’s also an indie label that will...
