Best LA Record Stores

This guide lists the record stores in Los Angeles worth digging through, for vinyl collectors, DJs and anyone who wants a record of their trip. Shops cover Hollywood, Melrose, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Little Tokyo and Sherman Oaks in the Valley. Amoeba Music on Hollywood Boulevard is LA's music department store, with new and used vinyl, CDs and films in every genre. As the Record Turns hides down a narrow Hollywood walkway, where owner Kevin Donan knows rare rock and soul inside out. Headline Records has kept punk going on Melrose with records, zines and shirts. Supervinyl's black-brick listening room stocks rare Japanese pressings and high-end turntables, while Freakbeat Records in Sherman Oaks is about half CDs.

At Amoeba, budget at least an hour and check the clearance bins.