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Music Man We sit down with the music-obsessed owner of Horizon Records to dish on his collection. Gene Berger leans back in his chair behind a worn wooden desk, stacks of LPs littering the floor around him. The cramped space passes for his “corporate office” at Horizon Records, the music shop he moved to Stone Avenue in 2003.…

by Andrew Gilstrap The 50 Best Record Stores In America is an essay series where we attempt to find the best record store in every state. These aren’t necessarily the record stores with the best prices or the deepest selection; you can use Yelp for that. Each record store featured has a story that goes…

Written and Produced by Audrey Gore “There’s nothing as Glamorous to me as a record store.” – Paul McCartney With easy access to free online music, you may have wondered why someone would pay $20 for a second-hand copy of an old vinyl that can only be played on a costly, involved turntable. We can all agree…

by Hannah Hays Jack White’s Third Man Records may be the South’s most recognizable record store, but smaller vinyl Valhallas can be found all across the region. To name our five favorites, we asked the help of Reed Watson, a co-manager of Florence, Alabama-based record label Single Lock and drummer for Belle Adair, who spent a…

by Donna Isbell Walker, photo by Mykal McEldowney. Record stores and the vinyl albums on their shelves may feel like a relic of 1975. In 2015, when it seems everyone carries around a cell phone or tablet stuffed with hundreds of their favorite songs, the era of 33-rpm LPs that require a turntable and an…

by Diane Daniel, photos by Selina Kok This city of 62,000 halfway between Charlotte and Atlanta took a huge hit when its bustling textile manufacturing industry moved overseas in the 1960s. A decade later, then-Mayor Max Heller, a Holocaust refugee from Austria, set about infusing downtown with a European flavor, encouraging foot traffic, shops, and…

by Tanja Laden, photo by Melanie Griffin. Halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte, in the heart of the Deep South, there’s an unassuming but charming town filled with good, old-fashioned Southern hospitality. Greenville, South Carolina is home to some of the best restaurants, parks, and festivals in the area and is attracting more visitors every year.…

by Jordana Megonigal What do you get when you take a college dropout, add 30 years in a rapidly changing industry and continually declining market, and mix well with local artists, businesses and a little bit of vinyl?

by Mike Foley, photos by George Gardner. Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 As corporate headquarters go, the stuffy room at the back of Horizon Records is more utilitarian than showplace. Vertical rows of vinyl record albums line the floor and cover most of the available carpet, forcing visitors to snake through the accumulation like rats in…