After ten years on Agricola Street, Obsolete Records was booted from its ramshackle storefront last fall in the most anticlimactic way possible. “Someone was parking out back, and drove into some support beam,” says Obsolete owner Ian Fraser. “And the building’s owner decided to just tear it all down.” The news wasn’t a total surprise: […]
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Best Record Store
Gold Winner Taz Records, Halifax Silver Winner Taz Records, Dartmouth Bronze Winner Obsolete Records Jimmy Donnelly, manager and co-owner of Taz, has a simple answer to the record store’s success: “My standard answer is I give all credit to my lovely staff, who I am so proud of.” At that, a collective groan from said […]
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Best Record Store
Gold Winner Taz Records, Halifax Silver Winner Taz Records, Dartmouth Bronze Winner Obsolete Records “You can’t come into a record store and leave unhappy,” says Taz Records co-owner Jimmy Donnelly. “You walk in, and you’re in awe.” Donnelly thinks it’s a quality record, book and comics shops share—something about the magnetism of a media collection—not […]
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Best Record Store
Gold Winner Taz Records, Halifax Silver Winner Taz Records, Dartmouth Bronze Winner Obsolete Records “We’re all music fiends,” James Donnelly, owner/manager at Taz Records, offers as an explanation of why the shop moves so much wax readers have voted it the city’s best. “Our selection is notable, but what’s perhaps more important is our staff. […]
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Best Record Store
Gold Winner Taz Records, Halifax Silver Winner Obsolete Records Bronze Winner Taz Records, Dartmouth It’s a hopping time to be in the vinyl business, and you’re snapping it up in droves all over town, chiefly at Taz’s airy store on Grafton. “The big thing that sets Taz apart is the selection. We have a vast […]
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Best Record Store
Gold Winner Taz Records, Halifax Silver Winner Obsolete Records Bronze Winner Black Buffalo Records At 32 years old, Taz Records has been Halifax’s premiere spot for the best vinyl, live pop-up shows and the most informed music-loving staff out there. “Really, Taz is so awesome because of how awesome Halifax is,” says co-owner Jimmy Donnelly. […]
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OMG it’s RSD
This Saturday, April 18 will be the eighth annual Record Store Day. Whether you’re an old school purist or a vinyl virgin, you know that Halifax record stores have got some cheap tricks up their sleeves. Black Buffalo Records (5567 Cornwallis Street) will start the festivities at 9am with live music all day. Local DJs […]
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Best Record Store
Gold Winner Taz Records, Halifax Silver Winner Obsolete Records Bronze Winner Select Sounds Records You gotta hear this one. It’s a reissue of last year’s classic Taz Records’ album entitled Best Record Store in Halifax. The group really broke through after leaving behind their Sackville and Market Streets label and joining up with Grafton Street. […]
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Best Record Store
Gold Winner Taz Records, Halifax Silver Winner Obsolete Records Bronze Winner CD Heaven Taz’s new location on Grafton Street hasn’t lost any of the charm of the old space—granted it’s just around the corner, but still, it goes to show that a record store is only as good as its stock and its staff. If […]
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Saturday is Record Store Day
April 20, AKA 4/20, is just around the corner—you know what that means…Record Store Day! It’s the one day each year when record-store-owners, musicians and record fanatics alike band together (so-to-speak) to celebrate their passion for great music new and old. Occurring on the third Saturday of April each year, the event has been an […]
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Best Record Store
Gold Winner Taz Records, Halifax Silver Winner HMV, Spring Garden Road Bronze Winner Obsolete Records There’s a special thrill you get walking into a really good record store—the feeling that you could stumble across something great at any moment. It’s even better when the workers have the High Fidelity-level passion that fuels Taz Records. “We […]
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Take the Shop Talk Guided Tour: The north end
The meat of the issue We love it when something old is unearthed for us to experience for the first time. One year ago, Frédéric Tandy opened Charcuterie Ratinaud (2082 Gottingen Street, 446-8222), bringing home the European practice of curing meats and making pâtés and sausages. “It’s something that people have been doing for hundreds […]