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Our online store is just a small sample of the massive new and used stock available at our brick-and-mortar locations in Bakersfield and Los Angeles! BAKERSFIELD: 1304 19th St Bakersfield, CA 93301 (661) 633-0111. Mon - Fri: 11AM - 6PM Saturday: 11AM - 5PM Sunday: 12PM - 5PM. IG: @goingunderground. LOS ANGELES: 356 1/2 E. 2nd Street Los Angeles ...
I'm heading to LA for the first time in September, and I'd love to check out some of the emerging/underground music scene while I'm out there. Ideally, I'm into rap, jazz and experimental club* music, but I can be swayed by other genres where there's a thriving local scene.
- Amoeba Music
- Poo-Bah Record Shop
- The Record Parlour
- Freakbeat Records
- Record Surplus
- Gimme Gimme Records
- Rockaway Records
- Cosmic Vinyl
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Amoeba Music has three different locations throughout the state of California. The company was initially started in Berkeley in 1990 and later opened a San Francisco outlet before its first Hollywood location opened in 2001. In April 2021, the store moved to its current home on the Sunset Strip in the middle of the Entertainment District. Although ...
Poo-bah Record Shop, the oldest shop on this list, opened in Pasadena, California in 1971. For the first few decades of its operation, the store sold music under genres such as funk, jazz, and soul music. In recent years, it’s become the leading Los Angeles store for fans of underground hip-hop and experimental music. Poo-bah sells different record...
Located in “the Heart of Hollywood,” The Record Parlour is a shop overflowing with all kinds of audio gear and gadgets. In addition to music discs, this company prides itself on selling new and restored equipment, including rare jukeboxes, vintage turntables, antique radios, restored consoles, guitar amps, and speakers from various brands. As far a...
Although Freakbeat Records is located a little out of the center of Hollywood, it’s still a staple record store for Los Angeles citizens and tourists alike. This shop is in Sherman Oaks, a San Fernando Valley suburb. The website for Freakbeat Records claims that “we may not have everything you want, but we always have something you need.” That bold...
With over 100,000 vinyl records and CDs, Record Surplus is one of the largest independent record stores in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1985 and has been selling music discs, along with cassette tapes and DVDs, to Hollywood denizens ever since. The store is known for carrying special vintage vinyl and rare first pressings of some of the most popu...
Gimme Gimme Records has a slightly different origin story than the rest of the shops on this list. The owners originally opened a store of the same name in 1994 in the East Village of New York City — all the way across the US of A! During that time, they prided themselves on selling vinyl even though CDs were more popular. The brand transferred to ...
Located in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, Rockaway Records has a very different approach to selling than most of the other stores on this list. The store was founded in 1979 and sold vinyl and CDs to customers in a typical fashion for many decades. Rockaway Records focuses specifically on selling rock’n’roll-themed items. The store’s ...
Cosmic Vinyl stands out on this list because it’s far more than just a place to buy records and audio equipment. It opened in 2016 as a typical vinyl shop on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles after the owner spent over a decade collecting and selling records. In October 2020, the owner decided to make the store a joint record shop and vegan cafe. Now...
Dec 4, 2023 · In an age of ubiquitous streaming-on-demand, these 46 record stores around Los Angeles and Southern California offer a welcome counterweight to the antiseptic anonymity of the cloud: rows...
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