AFI Docs always has a good selection of music docs. Here’s what to check out this year.

Good morning, Washington. We hope not too many of you were making your way into the city from Montgomery County this morning, as two separate water main breaks forced road closures in Takoma Park and kids to get the day off from school in Germantown. We’ll admit it — we’re pretty envious of the students at Fox Chapel Elementary School, who get to spend the day doing whatever they please while we had to show…

For once, we could afford to buy a CD at Tower Records. Unfortunately, the pickings were slim and the occasion sad. In October the national record store chain succumbed to the pressure of its online competitors, selling the assets from its 85 stores to a liquidation firm and marking the end of a generation of music buyers who preferred to curiously browse through unknown bands at the advice of knowledgeable, if surly clerks. Since then,…

Whoooooosh! What’s that giant sucking sound? Oh yeah – it’s the sweet reverberation of another record store totally biting it and going out of business in this era of iTunes. In this case, we’ve got Tower Records bowing out of the business, a fact that, though it feels inevitable, saddens us all the same. According to an AP article that ran in the Post,On Friday, after a 29-hour auction, most of the bankrupt music retailer’s…