Category: Record Stores
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Seattle’s Vinyl Goldmine: 8 Record Stores That Hit Different
You hit the jackpot. Seattle is the motherlode of vinyl + coffee. Record rooms on every hill, espresso on every corner, and staff who actually listen to what they sell. This place gets it. Your only enemy is rain. Plan for it. Bring a real tote, sleeves, and a hood. You’ll be ducking in and…
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San Francisco Record Stores: 7 Essential Shops You Can Do in a Day
San Francisco is a city of small, opinionated record rooms. Haight Street and the blocks around it keep the bins moving—tourists hunting classics, locals trading in clean copies, and clerks who still care what’s on the platter. You can walk a few blocks and go from psych reissues and classic rock to deep jazz, Brazilian/Latin,…
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Berkeley’s Vinyl Goldmine: The Record Store Crawl You Didn’t Know You Needed
Berkeley is a campus town with a record habit. Telegraph Ave and the blocks around UC keep the bins moving—students trading in stacks, lifers hunting first presses, and shops that still care about what’s on the turntable. Big anchors sit next to smaller, opinionated rooms, so you can walk a few blocks and go from…
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DC Record Stores: The Only 7 Stops You Need This Weekend
DC’s record scene is built on movement—go-go 12”s born at backyard parties, Dischord-era hardcore stacked tight on black-and-white spines, and jazz that still breathes up and down U Street. In the bins you’ll spot the city’s mix: embassy-fed world sections, DJ-forward dance cuts, and carefully curated racks you can hop between by Metro. If you’re…
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Digging for Soul: Record Stores in New Orleans
New Orleans is built different. The city doesn’t do “ordinary.” Not its food, not its people, and definitely not its record stores. This is where jazz was born and rhythm learned how to move. You’ll walk into a shop and find blues next to bounce, gospel next to garage rock, and someone behind the counter…
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Your Day in Vinyl: Exploring the Best Record Stores in Philadelphia
Philly’s vinyl culture strikes a balance between scrappy and curated. It’s a city where you’ll find seasoned diggers in South Street basements, indie shops in Rittenhouse, and niche, genre-specific stores in neighborhoods that bleed music history. The scene thrives on passion, not polish. You’ll see deep back-room bins of “$1 finds,” dusty crates next to…
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Record Stores Los Angeles – Where to Dig (Map + Prices)
Los Angeles might be a top 3 city in the country to buy records. It’s a bit of a different experience – big, messy, and full of music. Every neighborhood has its own thing going on—Silver Lake has the cool indie shops, Highland Park’s got the deep crates and niche spots, and Hollywood has the…
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Our Perfect Day Record Shopping in Portland
This is it. The capital of vinyl. Portland isn’t just another city with a few good record shops—it’s the place where vintage is the hype, where analog never went out of style, and where every block seems to hum with a turntable spinning somewhere inside. It’s a city built for crate diggers: coffee in hand,…
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Nashville Record Stores – Shopping in the Music Hub of the U.S.
Alright, you’re in Nashville and looking for vinyl. Good news: Music City isn’t just honky-tonks—it’s a very diggable record town with tight clusters, friendly shops, and a few “only in Nashville” quirks. East Nashville is the heartbeat: Grimey’s is the big indie anchor (in a converted church on E. Trinity), with deep new/used and regular…
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Chicago Record Stores – A Community-First Guide to a Sneaky Top 5 Vinyl City
Think layers, not sprawl. Chicago lets you run mini-crawls—Reckless to Shuga, Dusty to 606—without burning a day in transit. Legacy shops keep the history alive; younger spots push the edges. The result is overlap in the best way: dance cuts, classic blues, left-field jazz, indie and import oddities all under one roof. Prices are fair,…