New Orleans Record Shops

New Birth Brass Band, D-Boy
Rebirth Brass Band, Hot Venom
Hot 8 Brass Band, Rock With the Hot 8
Lil' Rascals Brass Band, Buck It Like a Horse
Stooges Brass Band, It's About Time
Treme Brass Band, Gimme My Money Back
Leroy Jones, Mo' Cream from the Crop
Bob French, Livin' the Legacy

Honestly, forget the vegetarian thing while you're here and you'll be a whole lot happier. Eat po boys and crawfish ($$$ as fuck this season, DAMN YOU KATRINA) and Hubig's pies and boudin.

Thanks to Katrina, LMF is the only game in town for record shopping. Magic Bus is gone (pre-K tho), Rocks Off is gone, I have no idea about Peaches. Jim Russell Records (near Juan's on Magazine) is overpriced and run by a megalomaniacal goon. Even fucking Virgin is closed and Tower only open 3 days a week. Thank god for the Internet.

So... LMF it is. And Juan's, along with Vietnamese places (ethnic dining's pretty much my mainstay anyway, so cool).

Thanks!

headed to NO today. any tips for record shopping? i'm looking mostly for soul 45s.

Jim Russell Records, 1837 Magazine St. might have some but see Adam's warning about the store above. I forget whether Louisiana Music Factory carries 45s, but you should go there anyway.

You might want to e-mail Dan Phillips who has an awesome r'n'b/soul 45s blog and lived in New Orleans and now lives nearby--

http://homeofthegroove.blogspot.com/

jim russell has dropped their prices (a little bit)--the woman that runs the place now sits there with record guide in hand so it's hard to slip a gem past her, but business sucks and she knows she's gotta be a little nice.

there is a newish store on bayou rd called domino sound that is all vinyl with some cassettes. they are closed on mon and tues i think but they are worth a trip.

LMF has 45s. they def know what they are selling and charge accordingly but i have made good finds in there when i put in the time.

domino is the place around the corner from broadview, right? i've been there a couple times when they've had Hot 8 play out front, i like it.

thanks for all the tips! i only made it to domino, but found lots of great stuff.

is domino sound still open?

Floyd's closing after 56 years in business.
http://www.offbeat.com/2012/12/01/floyds-record-shop-closes/

I saw that. I never made it out there to Ville Platte, Louisiana. At least there will still be an online presence.

Used to love Magic Bus. Too bad it's gone. Was cool when it was actually on the bus by the market but much easier to deal with when they moved.

went to Louisiana Music Factory in August, it was cool

didn't make it over to Euclid Records but if it's as good as the St. Louis one (same owners) it would be worth a visit

euclid's all right but crazy fucking expensive. which i guess is the nature of independent record store these days but still.

magic bus was the best. used to spend entire lunch hours in there, discussing like terry riley or magma or whatever. smelled good too in that record store way.

yeah the St. Louis Euclid is expensive for rock and jazz. some other genres you can find deals.

yeah that's true, i did pull most of the patrice rushen discography out of the 3 for 5 bins

Was at Louisiana Music Factory in September. Two staff members were going at each other — yelling and dropping F-bombs — over a DVD or CD one of them had failed to return to the other in a timely fashion. I thought they were going to come to blows.

I need to order some New orleans soul stuff and bayou zydeco online from them