When one (record store) door closes, another one opens; A Damn Shame Records is coming to Mill No. 5 in Lowell, just months after the building’s prior music shop shuttered.
The new business shared news of its July 13 debut on social media late last week. A Damn Shame Records will be located on the fourth floor of Mill No. 5, a hub for shopping and cultural events that also houses an independent movie theater, a yoga studio, and a 200-person music venue called The Overlook.
Nestled among the building’s variety of kitchen, apothecary, and clothing vendors, the store will step up as a successor of sorts of Vinyl Destination, which shuttered in February. The former record shop, owned by father and son duo Dave and Dan Perry, opened in 2013 and marked the first proper retail venture inside Mill No. 5. Vinyl Destination stocked an abundance of genres and new and old albums, although A Damn Shame Records has yet to reveal if the shop will specialize in any one style or format.
Check out the opening announcement below.