Old City's 48 Record Bar and Vinylcon! are signs that vinyl is alive and well in these times of online streaming.
Old City's 48 Record Bar and Vinylcon! are signs that vinyl is alive and well in these times of online streaming.
The listening bar concept has been making its way around the world. It arrived in Philly in 2022 with the Listening Room, a speakeasy-like back room space at Stephen Starr’s restaurant, LMNO on the border between Kensington and Fishtown. WXPN-FM brands itself as vinyl at heart. There’s a club in Center City called Vinyl that doesn’t even play vinyl — it books cover bands. Philadelphia Record Exchange in Fishtown,Bars like Fountain Porter and Solar Myth keep turntables spinning behind the bar, and vinyl is the focus with DJ nights at the International and the Trestle Inn, where Women’s History Month is being celebrated with a lineup of all female DJs, many drawn from the Vinyl Tap 2015 collective.
“This is a major metropolitan city, so there have to be purveyors of good taste and champions crusading for good music that people haven’t heard,” Porter said. The idea was to convert the upstairs storage room “into a listening room not unlike you would find in Japan but with our own take on it, that combines the legacy of cocktail culture that Sassafras represents with a really amazing sound system and well curated music. It would be unlike any other space in the city.”
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