Personal Favorite: Depends on the time of day. of Records: Gordon pegs the total at approximately 800, though he acknowledges that “it always grows” and the albums “have a way of multiplying without you even noticing.” “Right now there’s this album a lot of our main clientele’s been liking by this guy Chris Crofton, called Hello It’s Me, so that’s been a more frequently played album right now.”ĭo They Take Requests? “We’re always open to requests,” he encourages, before cautioning, “We just generally don’t have the capacity or amount of records to fulfill them.”Īs co-owner Jared Gordon says, his five-year-old, West Village bar “came about not simply as it relates to vinyl, but as it relates to the experience as a whole.” The goal was to seduce patrons away from their digital screens and “turn that on its ear.” The bar’s stately wood-and-leather interior and classic cocktail menu marry aptly with a record collection that lingers on jazz long players but detours readily into bossa nova and even first-generation hip-hop and ethereal new wave. Most-Played: “Whoever’s bartending gets to feel what they’re playing,” he says. Personal Favorite:: BadBadNotGood’s entry in the LateNightTales series, which he says “is a true Gold Star classic, and I don’t think it’s ever gonna get taken off the shelf.”
We don’t want our customers to come in twice in a row and have the same record playing.” “It grows and shrinks.” He does his best to swap out what’s been overplayed, adding, “When you have that small number, I try to rotate it all the time. of Records: “Around 150 to 200 at any given time,” says Van Horn. Although Josh Van Horn notes, “I didn’t think necessarily, ‘I’m opening a record bar.’”
But it’s the Van Horns’ handpicked vinyl discs-skewing decidedly toward indie rock/singer-songwriter mellowness-that evoke the feeling that you’re lounging in a good friend’s den. Gold Star quickly gained favor among locals as a uniquely warming (Josh’s green thumb is evident in the plant life within its walls) rat-race respite, offering both rotating craft drafts and bottles to go. Husband-and-wife duo Joshua and Maria Van Horn opened this oasis in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood in July of 2015. It’s an intuitive return to something that feels like the days of the pre-algorithm-picked Spotify playlist.Īs a window into this growing movement, we descended on New York, where several establishments are dropping the needle on everything from jazz and funk to indie rock and reggae. Music and drinking are symbiotic, not only in the sentiments of song but how they coexist in our outgoing life. And now, taking cues from the record bars of Tokyo, American bars are ushering this one step further by making in-house, curated collections of vinyl records crucial to the identity of their venues. We drink at live shows we shove dollar bills into jukeboxes to help kick up a night out at the pub we raise our pint glasses and sing along to some ancient standard with a rousing hook.
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