NRM - Dixie

NRM Dixie was part of the National Record Mart chain. National Record Mart was the oldest record store chain in the country until it went belly up in early 2002. It's relevance to the Louisville punk scene was that it served as a haven for many south end punks and metal heads for many years. It's passing was noted on the Noise Pollution website with this mention:

"And finally, after over fifteen years of over-charging its customers and under-paying its employees, NRM Music on Dixie Highway closed its doors at the end of January. Although ol' store #46 itself was still making money, the entire chain went under after several years of mismanagement by corporate boneheads. Usually the passing of a chain store such as NRM doesn't mean much, but out in this end of town NRM was pretty much all we had in the way of record stores. NRM on Dixie employed many South End rockers over the years including folks from Noise Pollution, Red Sun, The Revenants, Snoit, The Fuse, Sen, Incursion502, Gordon's Iguana, Apollo Strain and Crown of Thorns. NRM also served as a meeting place, think tank, drop off spot, flyer distribution center, etc. for much of the South End punk/metal community."