easy street records

Easy Street Records on Lower Queen Anne is located in a former Safeway (built in the telltale first-generation “supermarket” architecture) that had been Seattle’s first Tower Records, and later the long-mourned Tower Books (perhaps the only chain that knew how to market grownup book-reading as something actually enjoyable). As Easy Street, it hosted innumerable in-store signings and performances and Free Record Days.

It lost its lease. It closes Jan. 18, after 12 years. UnChaste Bank will take over the space. Damn.

Easy Street’s West Seattle flagship will continue.