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After finding record stores to be welcoming environments throughout his life, Jon Rogers is launching one of his own.
Rogers, who founded the Indiana rock band Everything, Now! in 2003, started buying CDs as a pre-teen living in Georgia—where record store clerks were friendly and knowledgeable, he said.
“By the time I was in my late 20s, I spent most of my free time hanging out at record stores, either shopping or trying to sell my band’s music or playing in record stores on the road,” Rogers said. “It always felt like home, wherever it is.”
By July 1, Rogers plans to have his shop, Take Care Records, open at 6215 Allisonville Road in the Windermere Center retail strip that’s also home to Some Guys Pizza Pasta Grill.
Rogers has plenty of experience behind a record store’s cash register. He worked at Luna Music for six years and at Square Cat Vinyl for three.
Take Care Records will occupy about 900 square feet in a space previously filled by the Coffee Brake Co. Rogers said used records will dominate his inventory at first, with the potential for new stock in the future. Take Care also will carry used cassettes, books and movies.
“I’m selling a lot of my personal collection of around 4,000 records,” he said. “Working at record stores, you can imagine my collection has become pretty out of control through the years.”
Visitors to Take Care will encounter music geared toward record-collector culture, Rogers said. Genres will include experimental, indie rock, jazz and electronic.
“In those various subcultures, we’ll try to include a lot of different styles and different flavors for people,” he said.
Everything, Now! has been described as a “space gospel rock ’n’ roll band.” Rogers and his bandmates emerged from a Muncie music community that included Everthus the Deadbeats, Arrah & the Ferns and future Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s vocalist-songwriter Richard Edwards.
Following an extended hiatus, the members of Everything, Now! reconvened to make the 2024 album “Hideout Mountain.”
Rogers’ resume includes a stint as executive director of Musical Family Tree, a nonprofit that promotes and preserves Indiana music. In that role, he helped to found the Chreece hip-hop festival with rapper and MFT board member Oreo Jones.
When asked about the roster of independent record stores operating in the city, Rogers said he believes there’s room for Take Care (a business name partially inspired by the name of a Big Star song released in 1978).
Beyond Luna, 5202 N. College Ave., and Square Cat, 1054 Virginia Ave., music fans shop at Indy CD & Vinyl, 806 Broad Ripple Ave.; Karma Records, 21 N. Post Road and 3802 N. High School Road; and at Irvington Vinyl & Books, 202 S. Audubon Road.
In 2023, musician Tim Brickley and his brother, Patrick Brickley, opened boutique record shop Different Beat inside Hit City Recording, 707 E. 54th St.
“The vinyl culture has expanded in the last decade to where you can buy records at Cracker Barrel and Walmart,” Rogers said. “Part of my approach is going to be to get in more of the underground, sought-after and rare stuff. There’s always room for more record stores. I think most record collectors like to see a variety of record shops.”
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Congratulations, Jon!
Great to have a new wreckastow in town.
One minor note: pretty sure David Rheins, Tim Brickley’s longtime songwriting partner (and former Associate Publisher of SPIN magazine), is part of the Different Beat consortium, as well.