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Crooked Beat Records
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2318 18th St. NW; 202-483-2328.
Open Mondays 2 to 9, Tuesday-Thursday noon to 9:30, Friday-Saturday noon to 10, Sundays noon to 7.
Owners: Bill and Helen Daly.
A North Carolina transplant in 2004, Crooked Beat focuses on "hard-to-find independent and import labels existing outside the radar of the mainstream," Bill Daly says.
LPs outsold CDs at the shop in 2007, Daly says, so Crooked Beat is cutting back on new CDs from major labels and enhancing its vinyl collection.
In-house charts highlight top sellers. For example, two top sellers in March were Stephen Malkmus and Vampire Weekend. The shop's all-time biggest seller is by the Evens, a D.C. band featuring Ian MacKaye of Fugazi.
Notable: Holds in-store CD and LP release events. Call for details.
Quote:"I have to show the kids how to use a record player, but I'd have to ask them a lot about computers," Daly says.
Smash Records
2314 18th St. NW; 202-387-6274.
Open Monday-Thursday noon to 9,
Fridays noon to 1 0, Saturdays 11 to 10, Sundays noon to 7.
Owners: Daisy Lacy and Matt Moffett.
