The Collector: Music Man – June 2022Music 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 […]
VINYL ME PLEASE MAGAZINE JUNE 6th 2018: Horizon Records Is The Best Record Store In South Carolinaby 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 […]
TRAVELING STORYTELLERS APR 20 2018: Stories Matter Season II Episode I: Horizon RecordsWritten 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 […]
UPSTATE BUSINESS JOURNAL Dec. 18, 2015: Sounds Familiarby Vincent Harris, photos by Josh Weeks. Gene Berger’s musical passions have helped keep Horizon Records alive through economic downturns and a digital revolution When Gene Berger opened Horizon Records in 1975, setting up shop at 347 S. […]
SOUTHERN LIVING Apr 18, 2015: The 5 Best Record Stores in the Southby 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, […]
THE GREENVILLE NEWS APRIL 10, 2015: Record Store Day heralds renaissance of vinyl albumsby 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 […]
THE BOSTON GLOBE Mar 17, 2013: 3 days in Greenville, S.C.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 […]
HUFFINGTON POST AUGUST 3, 2011: 10 Reasons To Visit Greenville, South Carolinaby 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 […]
BLACK BOX MAGAZINE, April 2010: On The Recordby 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? […]
THE GREENVILLE NEWS Nov. 18, 2005: 30 years haven’t dimmed Gene Berger’s passion for musicby 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 […]
UPSTATE BUSINESS/THE GREENVILLE NEWS Dec. 24, 1995: An Independent Streakby Jim DuPlessis, photos by Owen Riley, Jr. Horizon Records: 20 Years Of Music. Gene Berger didn’t think twice back when he agreed in 1981 to carry a single in his Greenville record store by an unsigned band from Athens, GA called R.E.M. […]
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