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February 14, 2014 Andy Cush

The space that houses Sounds, the last remaining record store on St. Mark’s Place, is going on the market today. It’s sad that the shop will soon be gone, and that a strip that was once an embarrassment of music riches no longer has a single store to its name, but let’s be honest: Sounds, […]

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August 12, 2013 Andy Cush

Here’s The Birdman, a 10-minute documentary on the proprietor of Rainbow Music, a shop stocked with LPs, CDs, cassettes and VHS tapes at the corner of First Avenue and St. Mark’s Place. If you’ve spent any time in the East Village you’ve likely walked by; whether you’ve been inside or not largely depends on your patience for Hoarders levels […]

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