Music
The tiny record shop keeping a neighbourhood in tune
Twelve square metres, two thousand records and a community that refuses to let it close.
· 6 min read
Crates of second-hand vinyl in a shop the size of a bedroom.
The shop is barely wider than a hallway. Records line every wall and spill into crates on the floor. On a Saturday afternoon, there might be twelve people inside, and somehow everyone fits.
The owner has run it for nineteen years. She knows what most of her regulars like before they do. When rents rose last spring, those regulars organised a listening party that raised enough to cover six months.
More than a shop
Ask people why they come and few mention vinyl. They talk about conversations at the counter, the noticeboard full of gig flyers and the feeling of being known by name.
Shops like this are the quiet infrastructure of a neighbourhood. They keep it in tune.
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Record Shops, Community, Vinyl
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Juno Park
Explores records, listening rituals and the people shaping what we hear next.
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