Record Stores - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:56:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Record Stores - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Your Guide to 11 Record Stores in the DC Area https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/11/01/your-guide-to-record-stores-in-the-dc-area/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-guide-to-record-stores-in-the-dc-area https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/11/01/your-guide-to-record-stores-in-the-dc-area/#respond Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:28:29 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1659566 If you grew up in DC during the 1980s, you remember when record stores were popular and plentiful. You couldn’t walk a block in Georgetown or Dupont Circle without hitting at least one new- or used-­vinyl shop. Even in the wake of streaming services, you’d be mistaken if you thought record stores had gone the […]

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DC’s Most Adventurous Record Store Just Opened in Chevy Chase https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/02/15/dcs-most-adventurous-record-store-just-opened-in-chevy-chase/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dcs-most-adventurous-record-store-just-opened-in-chevy-chase Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:06:16 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1624288 The Chevy Chase Arcade is a pretty space with a long history, but it’s not exactly known as a hub of hip shopping. Back in the 1930s, you could patronize a plumber, a barber shop, and a pharmacy, and that’s been the general small-town vibe ever since. It is not, to say the least, a […]

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A Look Inside One of the Country’s Biggest Vinyl Record Plants https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/02/07/look-inside-furnace-recording-pressing-one-of-the-countrys-biggest-vinyl-record-plants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=look-inside-furnace-recording-pressing-one-of-the-countrys-biggest-vinyl-record-plants Thu, 07 Feb 2019 15:25:55 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=609563 From the outside, Furnace Record Pressing looks like any other nondescript Alexandria warehouse. But once you get past the glass front doors, a whole music-geek world unfolds before you: thousands of freshly pressed records in all sorts of enticing colors. This 50,000-square-foot facility can right now crank out 11,000 records a day. Some hold tunes […]

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These Record-Store-Day Destinations Look as Good as They Sound https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/04/20/record-store-day-instagram-photos-around-washington-dc-vinyl/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=record-store-day-instagram-photos-around-washington-dc-vinyl Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:05:51 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=353045 We found the best crate-digging shots around Washington to foster your vinyl affection, in honor of Record Store Day. home A post shared by Miranda Kadis (@mirandakadis) on Mar 31, 2018 at 1:15pm PDT To play or to decorate? Both. Getting the shot . . . #202filmcollective #walkwithlocals #igdc #bronica #washingtondc #mediumformatfilm #120film #120 #filmisnotdead #filmphotography […]

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