Hyde Park JuiceLand Location to Shut, With Exploded Information Relocating: Eclectic vinyl emporium will transfer to JuiceLand’s Guadalupe store – Music

    Hyde Park JuiceLand Location to Shut, With Exploded Information Relocating: Eclectic vinyl emporium will transfer to JuiceLand’s Guadalupe store – Music

    Hyde Park JuiceLand Location to Shut, With Exploded Information Relocating: Eclectic vinyl emporium will transfer to JuiceLand’s Guadalupe store – Music

    JuiceLand’s Hyde Park location at forty fifth and Duval (Photograph by John Anderson)

    At first of Could, eclectic vinyl emporium Exploded Information can be relocating from its present house at JuiceLand’s Hyde Park location.

    Alongside report retailer supervisor Andrew Brown’s announcement of the transfer, JuiceLand workers confirmed to the Chronicle that the smoothie store at forty fifth and Duval may also be closing. The shop has additionally positioned an indication on the counter studying, “This store is closing on the finish of April!” with a reduction code for close by JuiceLand retailers. Employees on the Duval location attributed the shutter to a “substantial hike” in hire costs and stated they’ve all been given the choice to transition to some other JuiceLand of their selecting.

    One worker stated the get together that has now stepped in to occupy the area is “a high-end gelato store.” When the corporate was reached for remark by way of e-mail, a JuiceLand rep wrote: “The transfer for exploded information is everlasting, however the Juiceland location is in a stage of transformation. Extra particulars to come back quickly.”

    Not a freestanding store, however as an alternative a free-floating annex with contractual ties to JuiceLand, Exploded Information is transitioning to the juice store’s twenty ninth and Guadalupe location. Exploded Information has existed as a bastion for native crate diggers since its founding 9 years in the past by Brown. One among Austin’s signature digital music figures via his work co-producing occasions with Exploded Drawing and internet hosting KUTX’s Soundfounder, Brown stated he realized of the transfer a few weeks in the past, when he was taken apart by JuiceLand administration.

    “It was a bit little bit of a shock, but it surely’s additionally one thing that had been increase over time. … And so far as haggling with landlords and stuff, that is not likely what I do,” Brown stated. “It is at all times been sort of an odd, enormous area as a result of there is a large kitchen within the again, which implies loads of sq. footage that no one actually used. Nearly as good a match for us because it was, it grew to become clear throughout COVID that the owner was going to need to elevate the hire contemplating the scale – and that was sort of this darkish cloud over the previous few years.”

    Exploded Information first moved into the forty fifth and Duval JuiceLand at a time when the chain solely had two different places in Austin. Brown, a smoothie maker at certainly one of them, got here into the gig when founder Matt Shook texted him asking for artistic concepts to fill the area. There was loads of room to fill – for the primary two years of Exploded Information, vinyl and tropical drinks shared the area with milkshakes and sundaes from Candy Ritual. (The ice cream store moved to Airport Boulevard in 2016 earlier than closing final 12 months.)

    “It is positively sort of a bummer,” Brown stated. “The Hyde Park area was actually cool, but it surely was additionally tucked away in a extra residential neighborhood. In comparison with loads of conditions with individuals getting priced out of stuff, this one’s understanding rather well. I’m feeling actually optimistic about what Exploded Information can do within the large open.”

    Brown stated the brand new location has extra potential for in-store performances, because the Duval location hosted reveals from acts reminiscent of Damaged Keys and Clear Soul Forces. He additionally famous the community-building promised by a captive viewers of school college students nearer to the UT-Austin campus and the Ballroom. He’s not nervous about any competitors with close by Antone’s Document Store, both.

    “I feel that we serve completely different crowds. Antone’s is thought for his or her basic collection of blues, rock, and outdated Austin music, whereas we prioritize newer stuff and digital music and sort of a bizarre assortment of issues.”