CHANGES in BELLINGHAM

 NEWS alert:  The Everyday Music Bellingham is changing hands!  I have sold the store and the inventory. Running a store from Portland was no longer manageable for me since my partner in life and the business, Scott Kuzma, passed away in April.  The new owner is Cory Blackwood of Bellingham and I hope for continuing success as a record store in that sweet spot downtown.  Cory will surely put his own stamp on the business in time, including a name change: Ritual Records.  I’m pleased to find someone I can pass the torch to as the Everyday Music empire downsizes.  

An experienced retail manager, Cory has a love of music and appreciates the thrill of finding an original pressing or opening a new record with excitement and care and lowering the needle for the first time (the Ritual!).  I know he will serve Bellingham well. You can still redeem your EM Gift Certificates at Ritual Records for now -  or anytime at the Everyday Music in Portland.  The Times They Are A-Changin’ but change can be exciting.  I’m glad the store is in good hands as I move forward with my life without my smarter half.  Life-changing events are hard but sometimes cannot be avoided.  And for Ritual Records it is just the beginning! So starting August 1 stop by and welcome the new owner and BUY A RECORD!  Thanks for all the good years…Andrea, Jonathan  - you are missed - Rian and all the staff through the years – I appreciate everything you did up there and I will miss having a presence in NW Washington.  

 

Sarah Hefte

Everyday Music

SANDY BLVD LOCATION IN PORTLAND TO CLOSE MAY

SANDY BLVD LOCATION IN PORTLAND TO CLOSE MAY 7

 The building that Everyday Music on Sandy Blvd occupies is slated for demolition May 15~ 

Everyday Music at 1931 NE Sandy Blvd. will no longer be accepting used product to buy effective immediately.  You can still bring your CDs/DVDs & vinyl to the Burnside store downtown.  Please remember we ARE NOT A DUMP. We no longer buy "any and all" items brought in.  We will assess your collection as best we can in a time frame that may not be same day or while you wait - depending on store conditions - staffing and backlog of buys.  And we will make an offer dependent on supply & demand and condition, as always.

• If you have a huge collection (100+ items)  please phone the downtown store first at 503-274-0961.

• Yes, The Sandy store WILL PARTICIPATE in 2022 (April 23) Record Store Day however, with that new product already on order.

More details to come! 

 

 

 

 

It's the Supply Chain, People!

Just a friendly note to SHOP EARLY for the holidays~ yes the supply chain issue is real and has been a problem for for a long while now - especially with vinyl. You may have read the upsurge in demand for vinyl (and turntables as well) and the music industry -and in turn Everyday Music -we simply cannot keep up with demand.  Besides the general pandemic-related supply issues - backlogs at the docks, transportation problems and worker shortages - the manufacturing of vinyl in particular is so backed up we never know when titles can or will be restocked.  Plus the demand for vinyl has caused big box stores to gobble up massive quantities of titles that us little guys can't afford to buy in quantities that Target or Walmart can.  And then we get left with the dreaded "backordered" button.

 So hear me now:

IF YOU SEE A TITLE YOU WANT FOR YOURSELF OR FOR A GIFT IN STOCK - BUY IT. There are just no guarantees when we will have Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" back in stock.  We've been waiting months already.  If you expect to find something specific in December...just be aware there is no guarantee you'll find it.

That said, we do have LOTS of great albums in right now on vinyl so come on in and browse!  From new releases to great box sets to indie discoveries and reissues of your old favorites.  The Stones, Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac (they have other great albums besides Rumours), Amyl & The Sniffers, Taylor Swift, Metallica, Arlo Parks, The Fugees, MF Doom to name a tiny few.  If you're looking for something specific give one of the stores a call and we'll gladly check stock.

We remain open downtown Portland, eastside on Sandy Blvd and up in Bellingham!  11-6 Daily except Thanksgiving!  And don't forget the GREAT Limited-edition titles coming out Black Friday like Sam Cooke, Leonard Cohen, Motorhead, Carole King, RZA, Kali Uchis, Weird Al, Jason Isbell, Oneohtrix Point Never & more! See recordstoreday.com for details.

Get Ready For Record Store Day releases!

 Here is our plan for Saturday July 17 special release event: Records Store Day Drop #2! 

 

·      Fill out your wish list - printable list at www.recordstoreday.com  – rank your most desirable albums – and we will collect your list (starting at the front of the line and filling them in order) and do our best to fill the first 10 most-desired on your list that we have in stock.  To prevent a single customer from hoarding--say all the copies of the John Prine title--we are only allowing ONE copy per RSD title per person on Saturday.

·      On your list you can pick & rank MORE than 10 titles, so if the first three things you want, for example, are already sold out, we can go down your list and fill up to 10 items total.

·      PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE LIMITED EDITIONS.  We don’t get everything we ordered, we don’t order everything, and we often don’t get the quantities we ordered. 

We cannot set aside product for you by phone for RSD product until after RSD. 

·      Please be patient…we still have a reduced staff !  and THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 

Record Store Day 2021 Drop #1 June 12!!

 Here is our plan for Saturday's special release event: Records Store Day Drop!

·      Fill out your wish list (make sure you put your NAME on it) while in line (or preferably the night before – printable list at www.recordstoreday.com)  – ranked – and we will collect it (starting at the front of the line and filling them in order) and do our best to fill the first 10 most-desired on your list that we have in stock.  To prevent a single customer from hoarding, say all the copies of the Prince title, we are only allowing ONE copy per RSD title on Saturday.

 

·      On you list you can pick & rank MORE than 10 titles, so if the first three things you want, for example, are already sold out, we can go down your list and fill up to 10 items total.

 

·      PLEASE REMEMBER THESE ARE LIMITED EDITIONS.  We don’t get everything we ordered, we don’t order everything, and we often don’t get the quantities we ordered. 

 

·      Please be patient…we still have a reduced staff !  and THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 

 

 

SEATTLE STORE CLOSING BY JUNE

It's true: Everyday Music has closed its Seattle store in the Capitol Hill area. The store, which opened in 2003 when Everyday Music purchased the Cellophane Square stores from Djangos.com, had been moved four times, expanded and contracted, seen a number of great employees come and go and, hopefully, gave many customers much happiness and comfort. 

To say that this past year has been challenging would be stating the obvious, and while it contributed to the decision to close, it was really just a decision I made to scale back my workload and responsibilities. I purchased the Washington stores shortly after I was diagnosed and treated for Stage 4 cancer and while twenty years later it appears I have beaten back the cancer, the affects the treatment left behind have taken a toll on my overall health, and now in my sixties and forty-five years in record retail it’s time to cut back. To put it in perspective, when I purchased the company van in 2002, it had 60,000 miles on the odometer and today it has pushed past 185,000 miles — over 90% of those traveled on Interstate 5 between Portland and Bellingham.

The Bellingham store and the two Portland stores will remain open, but we have already consolidated the Downtown Portland store and our NE Portland store building is for sale, and so that too will be forced to close sometime in the future; tough times for record stores. 

So, that’s the news. I want to thank all of our customers; past, present and future. It’s been well worth it serving the Seattle area. And who knows what the future will be. Perhaps the compact disc will make a resurgence and I’ll have to re-open so I can sell the millions (yes, millions) of used CDs we’ve amassed. That would certainly put me into a grave.

Thanks, again.

Scott Kuzma
Owner, Everyday Music
skuzma@everydaymusic.com

 

Black Friday - November 27! Special releases.

Record Store Day has coordinated special limited-edition vinyl releases for Black Friday!  We plan to be open 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.  The BURNSIDE store will stay open a til 8 p.m. on Friday and on Small Business Saturday.

  These are indeed limited or early release dates (meaning participating stores will have them before anyone else). 

  We have to comply and keep store capacity at allowed occupancy...but it has not been an issue so far since the latest restrictions.  PLEASE WEAR A MASK and keep your distance from others.

 

Here are just a few of the releases.  See www.recordstoreday.com for details and the full list.

For the first time ever, SAP--the second studio EP by Alice in Chains--will be released as on vinyl as a stand-alone EP.

Adorable lil' first ever 7" single for the Vince Guaraldi classic "Christmas Time Is Here" from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Includes an alternate take of "Christmas Time Is Here" never before available on vinyl. Pressed on green vinyl.

Album of covers from the late, great Sharon Jones

PINK vinyl of Kid Cudi/Kanye West album Kids See Ghosts

3-LP set of Prine's Asylum albums Bruised Orange, Storm Windows and Pink Cadillac

Alternate takes from Elliott Smith's self-titled album!

Translucent purple vinyl release of remixes from The Weeknd's #1 album After Hours