22 stores · curated ORBIS register
Amsterdam's Concerto spreads new and used records across five canal houses, with jazz rooms and listening booths. The business began in 1955, giving those connected premises a long history in the city's record trade. Leeds's Crash Records stocks vinyl across genres from The Headrow, where it has traded since 1985. In Greenville, Horizon Records buys collections and sells new and used vinyl, with CDs also part of its stock.
Utrechtsestraat 52-60, Amsterdam Centrum
Spread across several canal-side buildings on Utrechtsestraat, Concerto is Amsterdam's largest independent record store. New and second-hand vinyl and CDs span every genre. It opened in 1955 and now occupies five connected premises.
Best for Vinyl records, CDs, independent music
The Headrow, city centre
Trading on The Headrow since 1985, Crash Records has outlasted several waves of high-street record-shop closures by staying close to Leeds' live-music scene. It stocks vinyl across genres and has drawn artist-curated recommendation lists from musicians including Elton John.
Best for Independent vinyl and new releases
Downtown
Historic record shop on Broadway since 1947, specialising in country, bluegrass, and gospel music.
Best for Country, bluegrass, and gospel music
Greenville, SC
Founded in 1975 and still led by founder Gene, Horizon is a rare surviving independent record store now marking fifty years. It carries new and used vinyl and CDs across jazz, bluegrass, hip-hop, classical, reggae, and more, and buys collections.
Best for Fifty-year heritage vinyl and personal curation
258 E 13th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon
Open on East 13th Avenue since 1971, this shop carries new and used vinyl, cassettes, CDs, and Blu-rays across every genre. Staff recommendations, replacement turntable needles, and gig posters round out the stock.
Best for New and used vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and turntable needles
Altstadt
A central independent record store for new and used vinyl across indie, jazz, electronic and other genres. Established 1977.
Best for New and used vinyl spanning indie, jazz, and electronic, sold since 1977
City Centre
Independent secondhand record shop at 51 Oswald Street, Glasgow, established 1984. Sells used vinyl, CDs and DVDs organized alphabetically by genre, plus mail-order sales online.
Best for Secondhand vinyl across genres
Missing Records has operated in Glasgow since 1984, currently trading from 51 Oswald Street in the city centre. It is an independent secondhand shop dealing in used vinyl, CDs and DVDs across genres, with stock organized alphabetically to aid browsing, including limited-edition box sets and collectible pressings. According to long-time customers, the business has gone through several changes in scale over the decades, at one point operating as many as four or five outlets, before consolidating back down to its current single Glasgow shop.
Eastside
Independent Portland record store opened March 15, 1969 by Don and Laureen McLeod with Dan and Patty Lissy on the city's east side. Manager since 1984 Terry Currier bought it from the McLeod estate in 1996; it is now the oldest, largest record shop in the Pacific Northwest.
Best for New vinyl, used records and turntables
Music Millennium opened on March 15, 1969, founded by Don and Laureen McLeod together with Dan and Patty Lissy on Portland's east side. The store grew alongside the city's independent music scene for decades; at its peak the McLeods also ran a second, northwest Portland location and a dedicated classical annex next door called Classical Millennium, which opened in 1977. Terry Currier joined as an employee and became the store's manager in 1984. When founder Don McLeod died in 1996, Currier bought the business from his estate, becoming owner. Currier is also credited with coining "Keep Portland Weird," a phrase that spread beyond the shop to become a civic rallying slogan for the city. Under his stewardship Music Millennium held on as other independent record stores across the country closed, building a reputation as the oldest continuously operating record store in the Pacific Northwest. It stocks new and used vinyl, CDs, and other physical formats, and has long hosted in-store performances by touring and local musicians. In February 2026, with Currier having recently turned 70, the store's ownership publicly began searching for a successor to take over the business rather than sell to developers, having turned down such offers repeatedly over the years. The store's east-side building remains its anchor location.
Kanazawa
An independent used and imported record store with LPs, singles, CDs and DVDs. Founded in 1983 and described as carrying about 100,000 titles.
Best for LPs, singles, CDs and DVDs
Missoula / United States
A 25,000-square-foot Missoula institution since 1982, packed with records, gifts, apparel, candles and oddities across three locations. The flagship on Blaine Street sells in person and online, with a separate vinyl site for new releases.
Best for Gifts, Music, Records
London / Notting Hill
Talbot Road's independent record shop — vinyl, in-store gigs, and the ground zero of British indie music since 1976.
Best for Vinyl records, in-store gigs, indie music institution.
Jongno-gu, Seoul
Seoul Record has sold CDs, vinyl LPs, DVDs and Blu-rays since 1976, spanning K-pop, classical, jazz, trot and film soundtracks. The shop is located on Jongno in Jongno-gu, Seoul.
Best for Vinyl and cd records since 1976
Cuba Street
Slow Boat Records is one of Wellington’s longest-running independent record shops, founded in 1985. The Cuba Street store carries new and used vinyl and CDs across a broad range of genres and remains a practical stop for browsing local as well as international music.
Best for Long-running independent record store established in 1985
Kokusai-dori area
A longstanding independent Naha record store carrying Okinawan music and wider genres. Established 1949.
Best for Okinawan music and wider genres at this Naha record store, est. 1949
Ottawa / Canada
The Turning Point has bought, sold and traded used music and film in Ottawa since 1983, dealing in vinyl records, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and VHS. It operates from its Cooper Street shop, open seven days a week for collectors and browsers.
Best for Used vinyl, records, CDs, movies, music
United Kingdom / Online
Official online store of Trojan Records, the British ska/rocksteady/reggae label founded in 1968 by Duke Reid, Lee Gopthal and Chris Blackwell; sells label vinyl and CD reissues plus Trojan-branded clothing and merchandise.
Best for Reggae and ska clothing, records and official label merchandise
Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968 by Duke Reid, Lee Gopthal and Chris Blackwell, built initially on licensing recordings from Jamaican producers before establishing itself as the UK's leading outlet for ska and, later, reggae. It signed and released artists including John Holt, Jimmy Cliff, Bob and Marcia, The Pioneers and Lee 'Scratch' Perry, and scored regular UK chart hits between 1968 and 1972. The label went into serious debt and collapsed commercially by 1975, when it was bought by Marcel Rodd, owner of the budget label Saga Records; ownership has since passed through Sanctuary and Universal and currently sits with BMG. Trojanrecords.com operates as the label's official online store, selling new vinyl and CD reissues from the catalogue, pre-orders of upcoming releases, and Trojan-branded clothing built around 1960s British youth-culture styling and the label's 'helmet' logo, alongside general merchandise.
Marcus Garvey Drive, Kingston
Tuff Gong Shop exclusive merch and apparel from the Bob Marley Official Store. The museum is situated on the site of the legendary musician’s home, which he purchased in 1975.
Best for Record shops
Manchester / United Kingdom
Trading on Oldham Street since 1988, Vinyl Exchange is the north-west's largest buyer and seller of rare and second-hand records, CDs and DVDs. Its direct online storefront runs deep with graded stock across everything from krautrock and Detroit techno to reggae 45s and promo-only pressings.
Best for Record-shop, vinyl, second-hand-records, CDs, rare-records
5 Elm Row, Edinburgh
Underground record shop since 1986 — vinyl specialists in punk, indie, post-punk, and rare imports. A Leith Walk institution for music heads.
Best for Vinyl specialists in punk, indie, post-punk, and rare imports
North Lamar
Open since 1982, Waterloo Records keeps a deep catalogue of vinyl, CDs and cassettes with the local shelf given real weight, plus in-store performances and a bar for beer, wine and coffee. Austin Chronicle readers have voted it the city's best record store many times over, including in 1990 according to the paper's award archive.
Best for Vinyl, CDs, cassettes and in-store performances
Terézváros
A long-running independent record shop specializing in Hungarian alternative music alongside international vinyl and CDs. Established 1989.
Best for Hungarian alternative music alongside international vinyl and CDs since 1989
Little Five Points
Open in Little Five Points since 1976, Wax n Facts is an Atlanta record store. The independent shop carries deep catalogs of new and used vinyl for dedicated diggers.
Best for Used and rare vinyl, deep-catalog record digging
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