The Last (Seven) Days of Orpheus?
Overheard yesterday at Orpheus Records in Arlington: the store might be closing within the next week. They have yet to hear from the landlord about an extension and they need time to pack up thousands of LPs and CDs (not to mention furniture and stereo gear).
Got some great deals yesterday on Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, Pentangle and Julian Priester LPs.
Sale aside, this place has been around 31 years–that's longer than either 9:30 Club or Dischord or most D.C. rock institutions. I'll be real sad to see Rick go. Drop by while you still have the chance.
1:38 pm
I noticed that in your record stores links and many of your articles related to independent record stores in the area you fail to mention other independent record stores in the area such as Smash Records, Red Onion Records & Books and Som Records.
http://www.smashrecords.com
http://redonionrecordsandbooks.com
http://www.somrecordsdc.com/
1:55 pm
Thanks for the reminder here--I've added all three of them to our blogroll, along with another place we've shamefully neglected there (but which we've much-covered), DJ Hut.
1:40 pm
Spoke to the folks over at Orpheus yesterday...this coming weekend is the last weekend. Boxing commences Monday...
1:35 pm
Actually made it to Orpheus this weekend and well, it won't be the last weekend at all. Their landlord's playing games and not setting an exact date for them to be out...so they could easily be open well into April...