This past Saturday, June 25, 2016, the doors of Other Music closed for good.
Other Music was a record store that lived for two decades on East 4th Street and Lafayette in Manhattan, just a stone’s throw away from the New York University campus on Washington Square. It’s at Other that, as a young college freshman excited yet terrified of everything all the time, I felt safe. I found comfort. And most of all, I found incredible music.
After bombing a presentation in my science class a few years ago and wanting to hide my face into my lap for hours, I walked a few minutes over to Other to get my mind away from the embarrassment. I ended up leaving with a bunch of new records under my arm, and the knowledge that this place would always be here, just down the street.
Something Vicious 