Today we passed on the news that Orpheus Records has officially closed for real. We just got off the phone with Owner Rick Carlisle. Apparently, Carlisle decided to close up shop on Saturday afternoon.
"I'm closed," Carlisle says. "Saturday was my last day. I didn't actually decide until two o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday. I [...]

Orpheus Records has officially closed for real. The store had been going out of business for over a year. The store had been on life support due to some serious limbo with whatever tenant was set to fill its Clarendon space. We applauded the store's going-out-of-business sale. And chronicled its various going-out-of-business bargains and sad [...]