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10/16/2015 at 12:00 p.m.

Colin Hanks on the Once-Debauched Tower Records Employees in His Doc All Things Must Pass

Tower fell, and Hanks made a movie about it.

By Stephen Thomas Erlewine

10/6/2015 at 8:30 a.m.

How Tower Records Forever Changed Downtown NYC, Via Colin Hanks’s All Things Must Pass

Colin Hanks's Tower Records documentary finally approaches.

By Jillian Mapes

6/11/2015 at 2:35 p.m.

Japan Just Got Its Own Super Mario Café

There are Piranha Plants in sodas and a Question Block tiramisu.

By Clint Rainey

3/30/2011 at 2:00 p.m.

The Old Tower Records Space on Broadway Is Becoming an ‘MLB Fan Cave’

Introducing the MLB Fan Cave.

By Will Leitch

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11/16/2009 at 3:15 p.m.

Fairway Tramples Tipster’s Hopes of Noho Store

Are Fairway's execs considering the former Tower Records space?

By Daniel Maurer

10/20/2006 at 1:37 p.m.

Life Without Tower?

Tower Records — founded in 1960 in L.A. and a fixture on the corner of Lafayette Street and East Fourth since 1984 — announced last week that it had been purchased out of bankruptcy by a liquidator and would soon be closing all its stores. Jada Yuan and Sara Cardace asked New York music people for their memories. "Keith Richards used to live upstairs, directly above Tower Records, so he was always outside there late at night walking his dog. I knew people who would run into him late at night. There'd be nobody around, and you'd see this guy with his dog and you'd go, 'Isn't that Keith?' And you'd walk up and talk to him, and you wouldn't be able to understand a word he was saying. It was very strange. The store itself, I'm not sure it's going to be missed. It's not like CBGB. It wasn't a cultural phenomenon. It was a store. They sold things." — Kurt Loder