If your idea of “discovering” new music is sitting back with a soy-milk Frappawhatever and browsing Pitchfork, then maybe you need 2 Bridges… but first…
Last Days of Discs: Parting Shots of Other Music and Rebel Rebel
Was it the day the music died? It sure seemed like it when two of Manhattan’s last record shops, Other Music and Rebel Rebel, closed…
Earwax’s Owner Says Rough Trade Is Welcome to Ride His Coattails
When Rough Trade opened in Williamsburg last month, we wondered how the neighborhood’s smaller record shops felt about the British invasion. Earwax Records, for one,…
No Joke, The Newsstand at Metropolitan Now Sells Pickle Chips, Zines, and Vinyl
These days, the customers of the newsstand in the Metropolitan stop aren’t waiting in line to buy the Post, Times, or those stale House of…