The newest venture from Brooklyn-based independent record label, Mexican Summer, is Brooklyn Record Exchange, a record store opening in Bushwick on Sunday, March 30. With music veterans from Mexican Summer along with Mike Hunchback and Ben Steidel of Co-op 87 Records (a record shop housed in Mexican Summer’s Greenpoint headquarters) at the helm, this new store promises to supply the Brooklyn community with a wide array of vinyls. Later this spring, a second Brooklyn Record Exchange store will open in Greenpoint, closer to Mexican Summer’s office space and recording studio.

The Bushwick location opening this week is in the same complex as Elsewhere, a beloved Bushwick music venue, so the sonic theme of the building will remain strong. “When we learned Elsewhere had a space open in their building that just made perfect sense to me, [since] it was already a building where people and music were going to be around,” said Ben Steidel, co-owner of Co-op 87 Records. “Even if [people] are coming to the club at midnight they’re going to see the record store and maybe want to come the next day.”

Steidel and his collaborators started planning Brooklyn Record Exchange two years ago, and zeroed in on Bushwick in particular because “there’s a lot of younger artists and musicians living in this neighborhood.”