THE MAP
Every vinyl destination inside the greater San Francisco footprint. Zoom in to see individual venues.
San Francisco keeps the Bay's essential crate.
Amoeba on Haight is still one of the biggest and best record stores on earth. Rooky Ricardo's, Grooves, Vinyl Dreams, Stranded and Explorist International fill in around the Mission and Haight — a small map with unusually deep catalogue depth.
The dig is heavy on jazz, funk, soul, punk, and a Bay Area indie/hip-hop catalogue that presses locally and trades worldwide. The Independent, Rickshaw Stop and Bottom of the Hill handle the nightlife.
THE FIVE ROOMS
1855 Haight St. Warehouse-scale new-and-used — jazz, hip-hop, soul, punk, everything. The world benchmark.
The 45s counter — soul, doo-wop, R&B, funk. Dick Vivian's shop is a Bay Area rite of passage.
The former Aquarius space — curated punk, indie, experimental. Bay Area taste in a small room.
House, techno, disco, dubstep — DJ Primo's counter, the current dance-music room in SF.
Curated new-and-used — jazz, world, ambient, leftfield. The tastemaker's Mission counter.