Peaches Records - Record Shop in New Orleans

Magazine Street. Fifty years of Shirani Rea, and where Cash Money grew up.

Shop

Peaches Records

Address

4318 Magazine Street

Town

New Orleans, United States

Established

1975

Formats

Vinyl, CDs, 7"

Crates

Hip-hop, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, Pop

In the shop

In-store gigs

Opening hours

Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00

Shirani Rea opened Peaches in 1975 because she had fallen for the musicians of her adopted city and wanted to be useful to them, and she has been in the shop nearly every day of the fifty years since. It spent almost thirty of those on Gentilly Boulevard, where it became an incubator - record release parties, concerts, fundraisers - and where it mattered enormously to New Orleans hip-hop in the nineties: Rea employed local artists and helped bring on the Cash Money team before their national distribution deal in 1998. Since 2016 it has been on Magazine Street next to Ms Mae's