Do you love music and NYC? Well, what if we said you could spend a night in arguably New York’s coolest borough, Brooklyn, where you’d have unlimited access to music and a HiFi system, whilst enjoying a personalised minibar? Oh and did we mention it was FREE?!
Well. Airbnb, the popular accomodation booking service is giving two music lovers an opportunity of a lifetime by registering iconic Brooklyn record store Rough Trade on the company’s website as a room you can legitimately spend the night in.
Partnering with Sonos, two very, very lucky people will get the opportunity to spend the night in the ‘Sonos Listening Room’ and will be showered in music treats such as a selection of out-of-print music zines, a personally customised playlist made by the employees of Rough Trade, and are even allowed encouraged to invite their mates to come down and party in the store (although they have to leave by 2am).
While it’s great to see the ways in which record stores are adapting to a 21st Century market, keeping them financially in the green – we’d love to see this kind of creativity coming out of Aussie record stores too.
Melbourne based store Polyester Records have taken the first steps with their in store live performances, but perhaps we’re still a few years away before we are able to give music lovers an experience like this.
