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An inside view of Left Bank's new community hub, Space One

The club in Georgia's capital has expanded to house a community hub

Tbilisi, Georgia's Left Bank club has opened a new community hub, Space One, in place of its original dancefloor. The venue will still operate as...

Dig Vinyl West Kirkby

The new record store will see Dig expand its relationship with Future Yard, a 350-capacity venue and artist development hub

Dig Vinyl has announced the opening of a second shop, which will be located in West Kirkby, on the Wirral, a peninsula across the River...

Songtradr Bandcamp

“Bandcamp is not a platform or a portal, it is a painstakingly hand-crafted community”

Bandcamp United has issued a statement following the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr by Epic Games, which was announced last week. The union, which represents...

New record shop, Haunted Dancehall, opens in Manchester

It's named after a 1994 album by Sabres Of Paradise

Manchester has a new record store. Haunted Dancehall has recently opened in the city on Pollard Street East. It takes its name from a 1994...

Idle Hands

Donations are needed to secure a new site, with Brexit and Covid-19 having a severe impact on business

Bristol record store Idle Hands has announced it will shut at its current Stokes Croft address, with a crowdfunder launched to alleviate the costs of...

New record store, Disk Frisk, to open in Bristol this month

The shop will open its doors on 14th May

Bristol is getting a new shop devoted to second-hand records. Disk Frisk will open its doors on 14th May at 4 Sommerville Road, just off...

New 12-part series celebrates UK independent record stores

From Lion Vibes in London to Glasgow's Some Great Rewards

A new 12-part series celebrating independent record stores in the UK has launched online, with the trailer now available to view. Spearheaded by Record Store...

After 32 years the shop, bar, and events space on Slater Street will not reopen due to disagreements with the landlord 

Treasured Liverpool record store 3b Records is to close at its current location, bringing its 32-year legacy on Slater Street to an end.

According to...

'Behind The Counter' coincides with this year's two Record Store Day drops

A new series, rolling out over the next month, will take a close look at some of the UK's finest independent record shops.

'Behind The...

It will chronicle the city's "brilliantly eccentric and engaging emporiums"

A new book celebrates the rich diversity of London's record shops.

Written by music journalist Garth Cartwright, and featuring shots from photographer Quintina Valero...

The crisis has hit both physical and digital sales, as well as streaming numbers

Album sales have hit a 60-year low in the US amid the ongoing music industry fallout from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Sales are down on...

Shops have been forced to go online only as a result of the UK's lockdown measures

With the UK having effectively being placed on lockdown last week amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a number of 'non-essential' businesses were forced to close...

They need £12,500 to make the dream a reality

The team behind London-based dubplate cutting service 1-800-Dubplate have launched a crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter to help fund a new "specialist ‘underground dance music’ record...

The shop, simply known as The Store, is situated in the venue's cafe

Brooklyn hi-fi bar Public Records has opened an in-house record shop.

Known simply as The Store, the shop is based in the cafe area of...

A new 'yearly storage clean-up' will begin in the coming months... 

Beatport has announced it will remove all tracks released before 2019 that have never sold. 

The first of a new 'yearly storage clean-up procedure' for...

The stores, all based in the US, have taken aim at Sony, Universal and Warner

40 independent record shops in the US have joined up to co-sign an open letter against major label tactics that have seen them neglect physical...

Demand for vinyl is everywhere... 

Two new record stores are opening in Brooklyn thanks to the Mexican Summer label, which is also based in the New York borough. 

The owners...

One website's mission to catalogue every single record shop...

The United States leads the world with 1482 brick and mortar record shops. VinylHub reporting that the US has more record shops than the UK...