THE MAP
Every vinyl destination inside the greater Los Angeles footprint. Zoom in to see individual venues.
THE 90 RECORD SHOPS
Los Angeles rewards the drive.
There is no single record street in Los Angeles. The scene is a 60-mile grid of specialist shops connected by freeways — Hollywood to Highland Park, Culver City to Long Beach, Eagle Rock to the Valley — and the reward for driving it is one of the deepest crates on earth. Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard is the anchor: a warehouse-scale new-and-used floor that runs live in-stores most weeks and still moves more vinyl per day than most cities do per month.
The last five years added a second layer on top of the shops: a listening-bar wave that runs from Johnny's on York Boulevard to LP Vinyl Bar in Hollywood, HiFi Kitchen in Historic Filipinotown and Kissaten Corazon in Lincoln Heights. Northeast LA is where they cluster — a corridor of Highland Park, Eagle Rock and Cypress Park shops (Mount Analog, Permanent Records Roadhouse, Gimme Gimme, Cosmic Vinyl, Record Safari) that will fill a full weekend by itself.
THE FIVE ROOMS
The flagship — 6200 Hollywood Blvd. Warehouse floor of new + used, jazz + hip-hop annexes with staff picks, and an in-store stage that still books daily.
The Figueroa Street beacon for experimental, ambient, minimal and outsider records — plus the taste-making listening room upstairs.
Shop, bar and stage under one roof on Cypress Ave. Punk, garage, hardcore and country lifers behind the counter; weekend gigs in the back.
4628 York Blvd. Small footprint, ferocious rock, soul and jazz picks — the shop most NELA diggers cite as their first Friday stop.
3222 Los Feliz Blvd. Coachella's pop-up shop found a permanent room — deep classic rock, private-press oddities, staff who dig for a living.