Going Underground - Record Shop in Los Angeles

Little Tokyo. Punk, metal and goth, plus its own label.

Shop

Going Underground

Address

356 East 2nd Street

Town

Los Angeles, United States

Established

2001

Formats

Vinyl, Cassette

Crates

Punk, Metal, Rock, Indie

Going Underground opened in 2001, originally on Melrose, and Adam Schwartz has run the Los Angeles shop since the start; it now sits in Little Tokyo with a second storefront up in Bakersfield. The taste is unambiguously punk, with metal and goth bins alongside, and a lot of rare and limited pressings for a room that size. It runs a label too, putting out records by Seudo Youth, Human Mess and G*U*N*, which is the difference between a shop that stocks a scene and one that is part of it.