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Record Store Day 2025: Masked But Not Anonymous
Mike Mettler  |  Nov 28, 2025

AP editor Mike Mettler, still recovering from a nasty cold, masked up to venture out for Record Store Day today on November 28, 2025. Read on to see what he found (and obtained) while out and about on his masked but not anonymous RSD 2025 ventures. . .

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Record Store Report: Tunnel Records, San Francisco’s Shining Star of an Indie Store (Times Three)
Mark Smotroff  |  Mar 07, 2025

It is always refreshing to share a truly good story about a person with a vision achieving bonafide success in the music business — especially when it comes to selling records. Surfing the wave of the resurgent interest in all things vintage vinyl, San Francisco’s Tunnel Records. Read Mark Smotroff’s interview with shop founder Ben Wintroub to see just how he’s made not one but three great Tunnel Records SF locales thrive. . .

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Record Store Report: Visiting Third Man Records in Nashville
Julie Mullins  |  Jul 16, 2024

You have to hand it to Jack White. The multi-talented, multi-hyphenate producer/vocalist/guitarist has successfully created a personal brand of stylistic flair alongside his own multifaceted music and musical tastes — and he’s also known as the force behind Third Man Records, which he co-founded with Ben Blackwell and Ben Swank in 2001. Read on to see everything our Julie Mullins came across during her recent onsite visit to the Third Man Records record store locale in Nashville. . .

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Sneak Preview: AnalogPlanet’s Forthcoming Favorite Record Stores Series Will Commence With Our Site Visit to Atlantic Sounds in Daytona Beach, Florida
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 19, 2022

Yesterday, I visited one of my favorite record stores in the country — namely, Atlantic Sounds in Daytona Beach, Florida — and I sat down with owner Mike Toole for a two-hour conversation about his lifelong passion for listening to and selling music on vinyl, the long and storied history of the shop itself, and why Atlantic Sounds has endured and continues to see growth to this very day, ever since it first opened in the exact same location 40 years ago on October 15, 1982. Read on to get a sneak preview of the full story to come, and also find out how you can have your own favorite record store featured here on AnalogPlanet. . .

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