It started, as many entrepreneurial triumphs seem to, with some offhand calculations scribbled on a bar napkin. Nabil Ayers and his friend Jason Hughes wanted to open a record store. It was 1997, and the two Easy Street Records employees never suspected that their serviette scrawls would eventually blossom into a pillar of the city’s indie music ecosystem.
Ayers details the creation, success, and legacy of said community pillar, Sonic Boom Records, in his recently released memoir, My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family. The book covers everything from Ayers’s childhood in New York City and Salt Lake City, and
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