REPTILIAN RECORDS

About me:

Howdy punker!

Reptilian's first location in Fell's Point opened its doors in 1989. Chris X opened the store using the collection he had built whilst working out of Annapolis's comic book store, Twilight Zone. He slept naked on a mattress in the back room for the first few years. At this point Reptilian sold both underground records and comic books.

Once the store was on its feet, the Reptilian Records releases began. Starting with singles and working towards albums, X released a plethora of fucked-up bands on the Reptilian label. Many of these releases are still available for your grubby mitts if you're looking for them.

The store got stranger and more fucked up throughout the '90s. Switching over from comic books to VHS rentals of bizarre and upsetting material hard to find elsewhere.

Around 2000 Fell's Point fell off the map. This was about the same time that people decided en masse that digital music was more important than the physical product and the store went into decline. Reptilian went broke, no one was coming in the store and release sales were petering out. Pissed off and jaded by the state of affairs, Reptilian closed its Fell's Point location in 2005. All the amazing stock was boxed up and put into storage. The Reptile slumbered, these were dark days.

The beast, however, could not die. In 2006 the new/current location was born. A crack house next door to the Ottobar was gutted, painted black and green, and opened as the Reptilian store front. In 2007 the current webstore was born.

Reptilian Records is very alive and evolving, struggling and fighting to bring noise to the ears that yearn for it! Fiercely independent since 1989!
Reptilian Records is rockin' at our new headquarters next to the Ottobar here in lovely Baltimore.
Our new address is 2545 N. Howard St., Baltimore MD 21218



Not only the best underground rock and punk store, but also a truly independent record label, with an eclectic gathering of bands like the Dwarves, Buzzov*en, Easy Action, Pageninetynine (Pg.99), Negative Approach, Triac, Cutthroats 9, Flowers in the Attic, Thrall, Mastodon, Hatebeak, Supersuckers.... just look to the left for a list, or better yet, click the link below!



Supernova Live @ Reptilian 1996!

400 Blows Live @ Reptilian 2007!



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