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Amoeba Music - Record Shop in Los Angeles

The Hollywood branch of the world's largest independent record store.

Shop
Amoeba Music
Address
6200 Hollywood Boulevard
Town
Los Angeles, United States
Established
2001
Formats
Vinyl, CDs, DVDs, Cassette
Crates
Rock, Soul, Jazz, Hip-hop, Electronic, Funk, Latin, World, Soundtracks
In the shop
Buys collections, In-store gigs
Opening hours
Mo-Th 11:00-20:00; Fr-Su 11:00-21:00

Amoeba started on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley in 1990, founded by Marc Weinstein, Dave Prinz and Mike Boyder, all of them ex-Rasputin Records. The Hollywood shop opened in November 2001 and took up an entire block of Sunset Boulevard; it moved to Hollywood Boulevard in 2021. It is routinely called the largest independent record store in the world, and the scale is the point - the used racks run deep enough that people plan trips around them, and the in-store performances have pulled in names far too big for the room.