Diabolical Records, on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. The Record Store on Edison Street is celebrating its 10th anniversary.Adam Tye and Alana Boscan, the husband-and-wife owners of Diabolical, started their record shop in a shipping container at, a now-defunct seasonal pop-up festival that used old shipping containers to create small retail stores.
“That’s always been the biggest part of it — there’s a bunch of cool music out there, and somebody isn’t going to play it for you, so I’ll play it for you,” he said. “It’s still my favorite thing to do.”“I was, like, ‘Oh, there’s this really cool band called Mammatus,’ so I played it, and he said, ‘This is great, I’ll take it,’” Tye said. “And he was talking to his grandson, saying, ‘This is why I come to record stores. This is way better than the algorithms on Spotify.
The record store continued to grow through the 2010s. When the Graywhale store near the University of Utah closed in 2019 — replaced by a coffee shop that’s now a bar — that was a “big thing,” Hanson said, because more students came over.To the right of the store’s checkout area, there’s a section only for local releases — and it’s updated frequently.
Tye estimated they held around 1,000 shows in the first seven years of business. They put a halt to the shows when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit in 2020.