The parent company of Tower Records, the pioneering record merchant that invented the music megastore and became one of the nation's largest music and video retailers, has filed for bankruptcy, the ...

The post Tower Records Is Back… as an Online Music Store appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Tower Records, the iconic music store chain that closed its doors nearly 14 years ago, is back. On ...

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The historic sign for Tower Records has resurfaced lit up in business offices along Broadway. Whether it stays this way is an open question.

“Growing up in Sacramento, Tower was a point of civic pride,” explained director Colin Hanks, at the world premier of his documentary, All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records. Hanks ...

Russ Solomon, the maverick entrepreneur who created an empire when he founded the music mega-chain Tower Records in 1960, died Sunday at the age of 92 Russ Solomon, the maverick entrepreneur who ...

NEW YORK (WPIX) – Tower Records, a once ubiquitous music retailer, reopened in New York City on Friday under a new name. Tower Labs, as its called, is the first “new Tower Records location” to open in ...

Colin Hanks (Tom's son) started working on a Tower Records documentary film in 2008, and he's now he's getting close to finishing it. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as ...

A record store the size of a supermarket may not seem like a revolution in the age of the Virgin Megastore. But in 1968, the huge Tower Records on the corner of San Francisco’s Columbus and Bay was ...

Tower Records long boasted of being “the largest record store in the known world,” a boast that few of the old retail chain’s regulars would have debated. The slogan was characteristic of Tower’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The music industry has lost one of its legends -- famous not for making music, but for selling it. Russell Solomon, who founded Tower Records, died Sunday night at the age of 92.

Tower Records filed a Chapter 11 petition in federal bankruptcy court yesterday (Aug. 20). The owners want the court to facilitate a prompt sale of their business "as a going concern" so that a buyer… ...