Mount Analog
Highland Park is the closest thing LA has to a record-store neighbourhood.
LA's sprawl works in vinyl's favour: every neighbourhood has its own scene. Highland Park has slowly become the spiritual centre.
Why Mount Analog
Mount Analog curates like a label — ambient, experimental, spiritual jazz, library, leftfield reissues. It's the kind of shop where you discover three artists you'll be listening to for a year.
What to dig for
Light in the Attic and Numero reissues, fresh ambient pressings, Japanese jazz, Brazilian and African reissues, plus zines and books the rest of the city doesn't carry.
After Mount Analog
Permanent Records Roadhouse a few blocks south. Then Atwater Village (Wombleton, Atomic) and Echo Park. West LA: Amoeba's Hollywood store, plus Record Surplus and Rockaway in Silver Lake.
Also worth your afternoon
- · Permanent Records Roadhouse
- · Wombleton Records
- · Amoeba Music Hollywood
- · Rockaway Records
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