Arts & Entertainment 10 SF Record Stores To Check Out On Record Store Day San Francisco is lucky to be a city where there are still some great record shops left that are preserving the time-honored traditions of flipping through bins and casually discovering artists whose work you can actually touch and put on a turntable.
Arts & Entertainment Rooky Ricardo's Stays Put In New Digs Across Haight, And Owner Rants About Know-It-All Hipsters Beloved vintage record shop Rooky Ricardo's in the Lower Haight had to shut down and temporarily relocate last year, moving from its home of 28 years at 448 Haight Street to a smaller
Arts & Entertainment Ray Anderson, Avid Record Collector and Purveyor at Market Street's Grooves, Reportedly Dies at 77 The owner of 23-year-old record shop Grooves at Market and Octavia, Ray Anderson, has reportedly passed away. The news was reported by local friend Meggan Scavio via Twitter, and we await confirmation of
SF News Dope! Amoeba Music In Berkeley Can Now Sell Pot Amoeba Music's jazz section at their Berkeley location has a new focus: jazz cigarettes. The location has received its license to sell medical marijuana as a city-sanctioned dispensary, which it plans to place
Arts & Entertainment Beloved Mission Record Store Aquarius Records To Close And Reopen Under New Name, Management It's kinda sorta the end of the line for Aquarius Records, the independent Valencia Street shop that's been in continuous operation in various locales since at least 1970 as they say on their
Arts & Entertainment The 13 Best Record Stores In SF & Oakland Hey guys remember Tower Records? And Discolandia? And Force of Habit? And Medium Rare Records? Yeah, me too. Music is now, on the bright side, easier to find and listen to than it
Arts & Entertainment As Lost Weekend Moves Out On Valencia, Partner 1-2-3-4 Go! Records Finds New Home Next Door Lost Weekend Video has played host to inventory from Oakland's 1-2-3-4 Go! Records since last year when the two announced a partnership. However, things changed when the DVD palace decided to shack up
Arts & Entertainment Rasputin Music Closes Powell Street Store Sad but fairly unsurprising news today: One of the city's last big holdouts, record-store wise, has given up the ghost, and that is Rasputin's Union Square store. The deceptively large, five-story location at
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records' Hitting theaters this weekend is a new documentary directed by Colin Hanks (son of Tom, star of CBS's Life in Pieces) titled All Things Must Pass, all about the phenomenal success and rapid
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Record Stores In The Bay Area Vinyl is back. Hell, even cassettes are cool again, so if you're looking to stock up on analog delights, we have the 9 best places to find them. Some of these stores are
Arts & Entertainment 'GQ' Profiles Lower Haight Record Store Icon Dick Vivian If you haven't been to Rooky Ricardo's Records (448 Haight Street), that's a shame. It is one of the retail gems of the city, and an expertly curated flea market of mid-century music
Arts & Entertainment The Mission's Force Of Habit Record Shop Closed, Getting Replaced By Restaurant [Updated] Another small, independent record shop bites the dust. Force of Habit, the little punk shop at 3565 20th Street (at Lexington) appears to be on its way to closing as SFist finds that
Arts & Entertainment Aquarius Records, Your Superior Indie Record Store What better way to celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday than by visiting Aquarius Records. Why? Because Spin readers ranked the Valencia Street vinyl treasure chest as the 7th best indie record store
Arts & Entertainment Record Store Day on Saturday Saturday is the annual Record Store Day, wherein music geeks will unite while scoring some sweet deals on vinyl and watching in-store live acts at over 700 participating venues internationally. Both Amoeba locations
