{"id":782139,"date":"2026-07-05T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782139\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:51:09","slug":"steves-music-store-to-fall-silent-with-closing-of-final-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782139\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve&#8217;s Music Store to fall silent with closing of final location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve\u2019s Music Store, a longtime staple of Montreal\u2019s music scene, is closing its last location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter decades of laughter, late-night conversations and the hum of instruments being tried for the very first time, Steve\u2019s Music Store will be closing its doors,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/stevesmusic.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOoob6sXkCImaAPeMSTaMEyhZLBPLduKLLKYtKy7xkfwwSsczrG6D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a statement posted to the store\u2019s website says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1965 by Steve Kirman, the Montreal business expanded over the decades, opening locations in Toronto and Ottawa, as well as the West Island and South Shore.<\/p>\n<p>Kirman died in 2012, leaving his son Michael to run the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, financial difficulties forced Steve\u2019s to shutter all its locations except for its main store on Ste-Catherine St. E.<\/p>\n<p>A tough economy and competition from online retailers proved bruising for the business, Michael Kirman <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/opinion\/columnists\/brownstein-legendary-steves-music-store-is-at-financial-crossroads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told The Gazette in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n<p>The store hasn\u2019t announced a closing date, but said more details will follow in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the storefront will close, the memories won\u2019t,\u201d the statement from Michael Kirman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe music you created, the moments you shared and the energy you brought into this space will stay with us forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With files from The Gazette\u2019s Bill Brownstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve\u2019s Music Store, a longtime staple of Montreal\u2019s music scene, is closing its last location. \u201cAfter decades of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-782139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}