THE MAP
Every vinyl destination inside the greater Melbourne footprint. Zoom in to see individual venues.
THE 111 RECORD SHOPS
Why Melbourne matters.
Melbourne carries more record shops per capita than any city in the southern hemisphere, and it wears that fact quietly. The scene is not clustered around a single strip; it's spread through Fitzroy, Collingwood, Brunswick, Northcote, Richmond and the CBD like a long conversation held across a decade. You could arrive on a Friday, buy records until Sunday night, and still miss a full third of what's worth seeing.
The city's edge is depth. Punk and hardcore live at Poison City. Australian jazz, spiritual and library sits in the crates at Round & Round. Rocksteady covers the reggae, dub and boogie end. Plug Seven keeps the soul, funk and rare 45s honest. Basement Discs is the century-old bookshop model of a record store — a curated wall of new releases and a listening booth run by staff who have been doing this since CDs were still an argument.
THE FIVE ROOMS
Australian jazz, spiritual, library. The counter that gets first dibs on every serious estate that moves through town.
Reggae, dub, boogie, disco 12"s. Deep bins, staff picks that punch above the shop's small footprint.
Soul, funk and rare 45s. If a Melbourne DJ says they "found it in a shop", it was probably here.
The institution. In-store gigs since 1994, a listening booth, and staff whose recommendations still travel by word-of-mouth.
Second-hand rock and pop done properly — VG+ minimum, priced honestly, restocked weekly.