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🌞🕐 We’re hosting an advanced listening party for AFI’s newest, “Silver Bleeds The Black Sun...” next Thursday🌞🕐— we’ll b...
09/15/2025

🌞🕐 We’re hosting an advanced listening party for AFI’s newest, “Silver Bleeds The Black Sun...” next Thursday🌞🕐— we’ll be giving away some exclusive matchboxes, and those that pre-order the album will be entered to win a SIGNED test pressing of the record.

Listen first! Get some stuff!

🪁Excited to announce will be stopping by Wax Trax for a lunchtime in-store set & signing next Tuesday, Sep 23!🪁 Free an...
09/15/2025

🪁Excited to announce will be stopping by Wax Trax for a lunchtime in-store set & signing next Tuesday, Sep 23!🪁
Free and open to all — hear an intimate set & meet and greet them before their Mission Ballroom show with .

…The Doom Patrol drops the needle: Robotman’s clanking like a busted jukebox while Tyler Childers sings about Eatin’ Big...
09/14/2025

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The Doom Patrol drops the needle: Robotman’s clanking like a busted jukebox while Tyler Childers sings about Eatin’ Big Time, voice rough as gravel washed in bourbon. Crazy Jane snorts, says it’s about sin and grease and dying slow with a smile, thirty-two personalities tapping greasy spoons in her head. Negative Man hums along, the band in his chest sputtering sparks like a Pentecostal revival held inside a jet engine. Flex Mentallo flexes his biceps and somehow the pedal steel bends lower, weirder, cosmic—like the Grand Ole Opry collapsing into a black hole of heartache and cornbread. Even Danny the Street pipes up in neon Morse code: this here’s the sound of Appalachian apocalypse served with gravy. It’s country, sure, but country gone feral, a hymn for mutants chewing deep-fried existential dread, sweet tea harmonies chasing doom through the Kentucky holler night.
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JUST IN — 🍇💙We’ve got *limited* SIGNED Japanese Breakfast vinyl in-store at our cap hill shop!🍇💙 Thanks Michelle for si...
09/12/2025

JUST IN — 🍇💙We’ve got *limited* SIGNED Japanese Breakfast vinyl in-store at our cap hill shop!🍇💙 Thanks Michelle for signing some stock for us before your Mission Ballroom show last week 💙

In-store only for now, no holds, first come first serve!

🍒We’ll be holding a Nation of Language “Dance Called Memory” advanced listening party next Wednesday at 5pm!🍒 Not only c...
09/11/2025

🍒We’ll be holding a Nation of Language “Dance Called Memory” advanced listening party next Wednesday at 5pm!🍒 Not only can you hear and buy the album early, you’ll get a chance at some giveaway goodies. We’re excited for this one, come on by.

Risks and rewards - Wasted Energy #90 - https://mailchi.mp/waxtraxrecords.com/risk-and-reward-of-mans-best-friendIn thi...
09/11/2025

Risks and rewards - Wasted Energy #90 - https://mailchi.mp/waxtraxrecords.com/risk-and-reward-of-mans-best-friend

In this week's newsletter, we share a staff review on the risks and rewards in "Man's Best Friend," events like our Second(hand) Friday TOMORROW at Wax Trax Broadway Bazaar, our mini-shop at Sloan's Lake this Saturday, and a (newly announced) Nation of Language listening party next Wednesday, and new releases from Twenty One Pilots, Between The Buried and Me, Mom Jeans, and more.

HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO WAITED IN LINE AND CAME TO THE AT OUR STORE TODAY! From the bottom of our hearts, it m...
09/07/2025

HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO WAITED IN LINE AND CAME TO THE AT OUR STORE TODAY! From the bottom of our hearts, it means the world that you guys came and spent your Sunday with all of us at Wax Trax! ❤️🖤

For those of us that weren’t able to attend, no need to worry! Breach will be available THIS FRIDAY! Make sure to stop in and grab yourself a copy. 😉
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TOMORROW (Sunday) is our Twenty One Pilots “Breach” Listening Party! Here’s your sneak peek of some party favors.Wristba...
09/06/2025

TOMORROW (Sunday) is our Twenty One Pilots “Breach” Listening Party! Here’s your sneak peek of some party favors.

Wristbands & posters: FREE for all event attendees, while supplies last!

Velvet Breach Vinyl Sleeves: FREE W/ EVENT PREORDER PURCHASE (you’ll get it with in-store preorder pick-ups of “Breach” starting 9/12)

*LIMITED* picture discs: They are 29.98 each. We’ll let people order these starting at noon. Although we ordered 100 of each, we got allocated to receive only 20/25 copies of each. Sales will be first come, first serve.



See everyone at noon on Sunday!

Bruce Loose, singer and co-founder of San Francisco band Flipper, has died. Flipper’s slow, abrasive sound shaped the We...
09/06/2025

Bruce Loose, singer and co-founder of San Francisco band Flipper, has died. Flipper’s slow, abrasive sound shaped the West Coast underground and influenced bands from the Melvins to Nirvana. Loose shared vocals with Will Shatter until Shatter’s death in 1987, after which Loose carried the band through multiple reformations.

Flipper played the Eagle’s Lodge in Thornton in the 1980s, a set remembered for chaos more than musicianship. In 2012, Loose brought the band to Wax Trax Records and the Lion’s Lair in Denver, older but still confrontational.

‼️🎸TICKET GIVEAWAY🎸‼️ Santa Cruz surf-rock band Trestles is headed to Black Buzzard on 9/12, and we’re giving a pair of ...
09/05/2025

‼️🎸TICKET GIVEAWAY🎸‼️ Santa Cruz surf-rock band Trestles is headed to Black Buzzard on 9/12, and we’re giving a pair of tickets to the show! To enter:

1. Like this post
2. Tag a friend in the comments
3. Share this post on your story

MORE TAGS = MORE ENTRIES

Winner picked Sep 10, good luck!!

(MUST BE 18+ TO ENTER)

Masterpieces of production - Wasted Energy #89 - https://mailchi.mp/waxtraxrecords.com/masterpieces-of-productionIn thi...
09/04/2025

Masterpieces of production - Wasted Energy #89 - https://mailchi.mp/waxtraxrecords.com/masterpieces-of-production

In this week's newsletter, one of our staff members writes a love letter to production with some specific examples, we share events like our First Friday mini shop at The Empourium TOMORROW, the Stanley Marketplace record show on SATURDAY, and our Twenty One Pilots listening party on SUNDAY, and new releases from Big Thief, MF DOOM, Fleshwater, and more.

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638 E 13th Avenue
Denver, CO
80203

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 7pm
Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 10am - 9pm
Saturday 10am - 9pm
Sunday 11am - 7pm

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+13038317246

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Wax Trax is a brick & mortar record store that has been in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood for over 41 years. Founded in 1975 by Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, it was sold to Dave Stidman and Duane Davis (pictured at right) in 1978, and Jim and Dannie moved to Chicago to launch the Wax Trax! Record Label. Look for the “!” to tell the two apart.

Since then, Wax Trax has specialized in bringing the best in independent music to Colorado. In the 70s that meant being one of the only stores in Denver importing Punk and New Wave from England. In the 80s and 90s that search for the latest and greatest expanded, eventually establishing one of the widest selections in the city and one of the centers of the local music scene.

“Wax Trax distinguished itself as the center of the universe for a new kind of fan, obsessed with whatever was new and fashion-forward, and the people they hired fit the niche and met that public with a famous attitude,” -- Westword (Nov. 2018)