Well-known San Marcos vinyl shop Sundance Record Lagoon has a new owner and with it, a new name.

Kevin Kotara took over ownership of the business in early August. Sundance Record Lagoon is now Sundance Records.

Looking back

The vinyl shop's original owner Bobby Barnard, who died in 2020, first opened the store in 1977 as Sundance Records & Tapes and sold records, tapes, CDs, posters and more. After several relocations around downtown San Marcos, the store closed in 2012.

A former employee of Barnard's, Tomas Escalante, reopened the store with help from Barnard's wife, Nancy Barnard, in 2021. Kotara, who worked at the original Sundance in the nineties, has now taken over the business.