Record Culture

17/10/2026

Thanks to everyone for coming down to our "pop up" (at our own shop) today - it was absolutely mega. Lovely to see people haven't gone and forgotten about us and it was great to catch up with so many familiar faces. Stick around for more things. In the meantime of course recordculture.com is your friend ✊🏻

16/10/2026

Final reminder that we're "popping up" tomorrow in the place that's still technically ours.

11am - 4pm, both new and used records. All the most recent new releases will be there of course. See you down there ✊🏻

15/10/2026

Let's pack a few bits!

13/10/2026

So, it's a little over a month since we closed the permanent space and among the chaos of moving what is proving to be an insane amount of stock for what was such a small place, we're getting dates in the diary for future things.

Here's a rundown of all the key diary dates we have so far for you:

🗓️ Solo pop-up back at 11 Market Street for the day - this Saturday, 17th October - 11am - 4pm

🗓️ New Music Club - The Hop Vault, Monday 2nd November (first Monday of every month) - 6pm - 9pm

🗓️ Kidderminster Record Fair - Sunday, 8th November - 11am - 4pm

🗓️ Bringing our pop-up shop to Dockworks' new Dock Market - Saturday, 12th December

🗓️ Albums of the Year: The Live Countdown - at Claptrap the venue - Thursday, 17th December

🗓️ Back at Dockworks for Stourbridge Record & Music Fair new winter record fair! Sunday, 24th January

🗓️ Stourbridge Record Fair - Saturday, 13th March

13/10/2026

Feels like an age since I sold a record to someone in person so I'm very much looking forward to some over the counter record selling, you know like what it used to be.

Plenty of new stock to be had, both new and used. I can't say if this is definitely the last thing at the old shop but I think it probably will be ✊🏻

08/10/2026

One month today this one! If all goes according to plan we're going to have a big old pitch at this with new and used stock 🙌

Feels mad that this is just one month away today! But that it is 🙌

11am-4pm at Kidderminster Town Hall , traders from all over the place with records, CDs and more!

Excellent onsite cafe and bar available and plenty of space to take a load off and chat through your haul!

Pitches are nearly all gone but we do have capacity to squeeze a couple more in for the right traders.

08/10/2026

Let's pack a few orders from today in some sort of immersive ASMR stylee. Never mind all the glitzy "this is how cool it is working a record shop" vids, this is the nitty gritty, the coal face. Making friends with cardboard and sticky tape and papercuts, fixing jammed label machines and hunting for lost pens. Some nice spoils in this batch though - off to good homes I'm sure ✌🏻✊🏻

06/10/2026

📣 Good news! We will be back at, erm, our own shop on Saturday 17th October for the day. While we continue to work on future dates for 'pop-up' events for 2026 and 2027, it makes sense for us to use our existing real estate while we still have the lease for a bit.

We're going to have a big old selection of both new and used vinyl and CDs. 11am - 4pm.

See you there. You know where it is 👍

06/10/2026

Thanks for coming down to the first New Music Club last night – it was a blast!

For those who heard good things and would like to dig a little deeper, here's what was played.

𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔢 𝔟𝔲𝔶 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔰𝔢 𝔞𝔱 𝔯𝔢𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔠𝔲𝔩𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢.𝔠𝔬𝔪 👀

ℕ𝕖𝕨 ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕤 (𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕨𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕖𝕕 𝕒 𝕗𝕦𝕝𝕝 𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝔸/𝔹)

The Tubs - 'Hard Life': Jangly indie from one of our favourites with plenty of throw-back references like The Jam being tossed around

Wishy - 'Nature's Pill': Nostalgic heartbreak indie-rock with notes of shoegaze and occasional pop-punk

Ghost Dubs - 'Oblique': May have gotten lost in the room last night given its low-key minimalist dub-techno nature, but those who picked up on this really loved it - me included

Leon Bridges - 'Happiness Anytime': Another no-miss soul-funk gem from Leon

Gurriers - 'Nobody's Coming To Save You': On the coattails of Fontaines? Unintentionally perhaps but a very well-received album in its own right

Beabadoobee - 'Pylon': Hazy bedroom indie-rock from the still surprisingly unknown among our ranks Beabadoobee

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - 'Alien Metal': An entirely new direction into old skool dance for the prolific former psych-heads

Gilla Band - 'Pugnello': Abrasive and hard-working end of the night stuff from Gilla Band.

ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕊𝕠𝕠𝕟 (𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕖𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝟟𝕡𝕞-𝟠𝕡𝕞)

@ (At) - "Autosmile" - Waxahatchee-Kevin Morby collab style vibes. Debut album is out on 4AD on Oct 16th

Arborist - "Looking 4 Love" - Belfast songwriter with shades of BC Camplight, Leonard Cohen, Fleet Foxes, John Cale. New album is out on Oct 16th

Dummy - "Full Spectrum Dominance" - Textural shoegazey indie on the LA band's new album 'do you love the color of the sky?', out on Oct 16th

Fontaines D.C. - "Tongue" - The final taster of the brand-new Fontaines album, out on Oct 16th

Michael Nau - "New Slack" - Psychy-folk songwriter in the vein of Kevin Morby, Andy Sahauf, Damien Jurado – new album due Oct 23rd

Gans – "MY GOD IS A STRANGER" - The lead single off the upcoming second album from Stourbridge's own Gans – we've a bit of a wait on that – due February

Warhaus - "The Baby" - From the new solo album from former Balthazar frontman, this is one of my favourite tracks of 2026. Album due January.

Moses Boyd - "Criticise" - Slightly less jazzy from previous outings, this is from the upcoming (Oct 30th) album from Moses

Queens of the Stone Age - "Where The Goth Girls At?" - Not much intro needed here – the new track from the upcoming new QOTSA album 'Perfecth', due end of the month

Can't seem to post it here but there is a Spotify playlist with all of these in now - If you search for the profile recordculture you should find it there

04/10/2026

🔉 A reminder that we're at the Hop Vault on Monday, between 6 and 9, playing choice cuts from various new releases and good things to come and generally having a natter and a catch-up.

Will also have a couple of boxes of latest releases and latest back in stock records on hand. Being a new music event this is new vinyl only, no second hand for this one 👍

Join us on Monday 5th October for the very first New Music Club at The Hop Vault

Between 6pm – 9pm we’ll be spinning tracks from the freshest albums across a casual, laid-back few hours.

A mostly-vinyl affair, it’s a great chance to catch-up, socialise and - with a bit of luck - discover one or two new records to love.

We’ll have a couple boxes of records on hand and can take pre-orders on the night too, though I don’t want to start sounding like this is a money-grab!

The Hop Vault will of course have gallons of the good stuff for you to sample, as well as coffee, zero beers and soft drinks for those who apparently think drinking on a Monday might be weird?!
You won’t be turned away if you’re not there at 6 - turn up and tune-in whenever you like 🎧