Press & Recognition

We have been fortunate to have our work noticed by the Boston music community and the local press. Here is a running record of the recognition GOOD TASTE Records has received, with links to the original coverage so you can read it for yourself.

The Boston Globe Best of the Best, Record Stores (2026)

GOOD TASTE Records was named to The Boston Globe's Best of the Best list for record stores in 2026, one of six shops chosen by Globe newsroom staff and correspondents. You can read the feature at The Boston Globe's Best of the Best 2026: Boston record stores.

The Boston Globe Best of the Best, Record Stores (2025)

GOOD TASTE Records was also named to The Boston Globe's Best of the Best list for record stores in 2025, our first year on the list. You can read the feature at The Boston Globe's Best of the Best 2025: Boston record stores.

The Boston Globe, North End Opening Feature (2022)

Before the doors opened on Thacher Street, The Boston Globe profiled GOOD TASTE Records and the husband-and-wife team behind it, set against the national surge in vinyl. You can read it at The Boston Globe: Good Taste Records gears up for its North End opening.

Featured in Boston's record store guides

GOOD TASTE Records is a regular pick in the city's roundups of the best places to buy vinyl:

• Boston.com: voted onto the reader-chosen guide to Greater Boston's independent record stores, within a year of opening.
• Time Out Boston: featured in the guide to the best record stores in Boston.
• BU Today: named among the best Boston-area record stores for Record Store Day.
• BOStoday: highlighted in a roundup of record stores around Boston.
• do617: included in the rundown of Boston's best record stores.
• WERS 88.9 FM: spotlighted by Emerson College radio for Record Store Day.

More local coverage

• The Daily Free Press: on the shop's arrival in the North End and its focus on community and sustainability (2022).
• Boston University News Service: on the Friends of the North End Library speaker series and the shop's collaboration with the branch (2022).
• NorthEnd.page: welcoming the shop to Thacher Street (2022).
• CBS Boston: listed among Massachusetts shops taking part in Record Store Day (2024).

Recognition like this means a great deal to a small shop, and it belongs to the customers and the community who keep the North End full of music lovers. If you have not been in yet, come say hello in the North End. Thank you for the support.