Vinyl, Sake, Snacks: NYC’s Tokyo Listening Room

From a rapper’s grandiose penthouse delight to the sleaziest dive bars spinning vinyl, PAPER is providing you with a first-hand look into the Big Apple’s most hype-worthy music experiences in Seriously, What Are You Doing?— straight from the music editor’s mouth. Are you or somebody you’re keen on feeling stressed within the metropolis that by no means sleeps? Here’s what you have to be doing (severely!).

Neon, sake, vinyl and mates — appears like the right night proper? RIGHT? Well in that case, might we invite you to Tokyo Listening Room, a brand new idea from the parents that introduced you Tokyo Record Bar, the place you possibly can take heed to DJs, nosh on delectable delights and get a bit buzzed on sake, all from the comfy consolation of a small restaurant in Greenwich Village the place bubbly date spot Air’s Champagne Parlor was situated. On the evening PAPER stopped by, we had been stunned by how flavorful the menu was (any person ate manner an excessive amount of seaweed salt and chili powder flavored popcorn, however that’s actually not what this text is about) and likewise the combination being spun that was very Nine Inch Nails meets ‘90s hip hop. Look, it aint at all times simple for a lady who likes music to get to listen to mentioned music at an affordable hour whereas additionally digging right into a rattling good menu, however Tokyo Listening Room appears hell-bent on making that attainable, and for that, I’m grateful.

“The listening room got here after seven years of Tokyo Record Bar being open and us eager to broaden into extra DJ-based programming,” Ariel Arce, proprietor and companion tells us. Their Tokyo Record Bar location, which is downstairs in a little bit of a basement beneath the file bar, felt “restricted” due to its “prefix set menu and vinyl jukebox,” and the brand new upstairs addition makes it attainable to order “ à la cart type” making it a chiller, decide your personal journey choice.