Buying, Selling & Trading Since 1968!
VISIT THE SHOP!
We are located North of Asheville, NC at Stone Ridge Business Park in Woodfin.
101 Stone Ridge Blvd, 28804. Next to Siam Thai restaurant.
HOURS OF OPERATION:
SUN: 12:00 - 6:00 PM
MON: CLOSED
TUES - SAT: 11:00 - 6:00 PM
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CLICK HERE to vote for us in the Mountain Xpress’s 2025 Best Of WNC!
Our categories are:
Best Record/CD Store!
Regional - Best Retail Store: Weaverville/Woodfin!
Voting open now through midnight on Tues. April 30th!
Don’t have time for a big local poll? Leave us a Google Review!
ABOUT US:
A family-owned second-generation vinyl legacy handed down from father to son! The first Earth River was based in Rochester, New York in the back of a headshop in 1968 and run by OG Owner Franklin Markowitz. Throughout the 70s & 80s the shop (and Franklin’s huge vinyl collection) moved out west and based operations in Newport Beach, California. Franklin’s family grew & Earth River Records expanded to multiple shop locations in Coos Bay, Eugene & Corvalis, Oregon. In the 90s & 2000s the shop was passed to Franklin’s son Morgan and moved to Seattle, Washington. Earth River Records finally landed in Asheville, North Carolina in 2021. Coast to coast, we've got the most! Can't make it to the shop? Check us out on Ebay and Discogs. Our collection includes over 20,000 vinyl records. We carry audio equipment, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, hundreds of vintage posters, signed memorabilia & more!
Don’t see what you want in the shop? Ask if we can order it through our supplier! Free shipping to the shop!
We are always buying, selling and trading so bring your collections to us! We make house calls!
If you are planning to be in town when we are closed, call us & we can set up an appointment.
Podcast Interview with Owner Morgan:
“Asheville is very much a music town—not just for musicians, but also for fans, as evidenced by the six record stores dotting the city. As we approach the annual Record Store Day, April 20, we talk with Mark Capon of Harvest Records, Jesse McSwain of Static-Age Records and Morgan Markowitz of Earth River Records.
We talk about the evolution of their shops—for instance, Static-Age is now also a bar/restaurant and live music venue—the risky and speculative nature of the vinyl record business and the unique approaches each is taking to carving a sustainable life in music.”
Thank You!
We want to express our deep gratitude to each and every one of you. Western North Carolina and Asheville took another unprecedented hit this year. Those of us lucky enough to have made it through depend on our immediate community to survive here. And we have survived! We are still here because of YOU! (And sheer luck! The roof almost blew off our building. But it didn't!)
The wonderful folks at Siam Thai fed the Woodfin community (and us) delicious food for free when our neighborhood was hungry. Mercy Chefs set up a kitchen two doors down. Travelling linemen, firefighters and responders came in looking for music and movies. Countless friends and customers reached out, checked in and helped each other.
We weren't sure if the shop would make it in the wake of so much destruction and grief. But you kept our doors open! When the power came back on without internet service, suddenly all of this physical media had relevance again. People still needed to hear music, watch a comforting movie or play an old videogame. The whole town was transported back to pre-internet days.
We made it through the last few months! We had to postpone our 3rd anniversary party, but we will say thank you properly with a big get-together soon! We are humbled and proud to be North Asheville's community record store.
The Earth River family wishes you and yours all the best this year.
See you soon!
