By Wax Trax Staff 2025 is officially over. To celebrate making it to the next quarter-century (all our cigarettes and beer haven’t killed us yet), some staff compiled their list of the year’s best music and music experiences. Read their picks below for their takes on 2025’s best album, single, reissued vinyl, album art, show,... Continue Reading →

By Jess Peterson Got some records for Christmas, but nothing to play them on? Maybe a bit of green from granny and grandpa? Has your post-holiday indulgence restriction not kicked in yet? Want some playful hi-fi equipment for yourself because you’re pushing an age you’re uncomfortable with and all everyone gave you this Christmas was... Continue Reading →

By Duane Davis, Supreme Arbiter of Taste As is usual, 2025 has been a busy year for music makers. Luminate, the entertainment industry’s official counter of Everything All the Time, estimates that well over 100,000 new tracks are uploaded to streaming services every single day. That’s not a scene, that’s a flood. A biblical one.... Continue Reading →

Some holiday staples recommended by our staff for your stockings By Wax Trax staff There’s only one thing that can salvage our souls under the layers of Christmas consumerism this time of year, and it’s our deep love for a quality holiday tune. So whether you’re looking for a soundtrack for your yuletide eves, or... Continue Reading →

Intro and outro by Duane Davis [Editor’s note: GWAR stopped by the shop a few weeks ago to reign terror (and murder) on our employees…check out the video to see the horror with your own eyes.] When I took these photos of GWAR at the Gothic Theater in 1991, I was not a fan of... Continue Reading →

By Wax Trax Staff While most folks spend this week thinking about hellish airport timelines, the most low-effort and high reward Thanksgiving dish to bring, or if their problematic cousin will show up drunk, we’ve been busy unboxing and pricing RSD Black Friday releases at three (3!) locations. It’s the first time we’ve done RSD... Continue Reading →

By Ethan Goddard Every generation has slang words and phrases that are specific to the time period they were raised in. But Gen Z slang is algorithmically supercharged thanks to the rapid life cycle of internet culture. I’m a Gen Z’er myself and it’s hard even for me to keep up with the new phrases... Continue Reading →

By Wax Trax staff We just dropped some info about our RSD Black Friday festivities. For the first time, considering we opened our new Northside location last month, we're hosting it at THREE (3) locations. There's always some good stuff on the list worth lining up for. Here's what our staff is hoping to grab... Continue Reading →

By Duane Davis There was punk, and it was a gesture, a door kicked open, a single gunshot in the hallway of the early 70s—and then there was the echoing silence that followed. That silence, humming, buzzing, full of nervous aftershocks, was post-punk. Punk was a cartoon explosion; post-punk was the way your ears kept... Continue Reading →

By Daisy Spinelli Haunting a small space near our popular Christmas vinyl section lives our cobwebbed Halloween records. While we don’t have as many folks clamoring for a haunted house sound effects album as we might for a Michael Buble record at Christmas time, there’s value in going beyond the section to find the real... Continue Reading →