It’s a late March evening in Hollywood, and Amoeba Music co-owner Jim Henderson is taking a much-needed break from preparing for the store’s April 1 reopening at its new location on the corner of ...
Vinyl has never truly gone away. Even as streaming reshaped how we listen to music, records have remained a constant—offering the ritual of sliding an album out of its sleeve, dropping the needle, and ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The co-owners of Amoeba Music ...
The 2000 John Cusack movie "High Fidelity" solidified the idea of the independent record store: Staffed by snobby music nerds, where like-minded (mostly male) clientele sifted quietly through curated ...
Perhaps you saw the hand-written full-page ads, with their high-school-math-class caliber doodlings, in the L.A. Weekly last winter. They looked low budget yet were anything but: “The Biggest and Best ...
Even L.A.’s most famous record store is struggling to survive the pandemic. Amoeba Music has lost nearly all its revenue while closed, 400 workers have been furloughed, and owner Marc Weinstein is ...