AMOEBA PRESS
Check out this archive of articles about Amoeba Music!
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    October 5, 2009
    The Insider: Los Angeles
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    May 29, 2009
    Playboy's A-List: America's Coolest Stores
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    April 17, 2009
    America's 15 Best Indie Record Stores
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    February 10, 2009
    Let Music Take You To the Record Store
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    October 12, 2008
    Comic by Mimi Pond for The Times
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    April 24, 2008
    The Best of Rock 2008: Best Record Stores
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    March 1, 2008
    The 64 Greatest Things about LA
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    February 16, 2008
    Amoeba Records Names Sierra Club's Angeles Chapter As A Charity of Choice for 2007!
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    December 1, 2007
    Buy, Sell, Trade. Amoeba Remains The Relevant Record Store
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    October 1, 2007
    Metal Meccas: Los Angeles' Amoeba Music
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    February 5, 2007
    Eschewing MP3s for a Modern Music Bazaar
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    January 25, 2007
    In the Classical Aisle
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    February 17, 2005
    Amoeba Music's Simple Formula
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    July 27, 2003
    Indie Record Stores Surviving: Finding Unique Ways to Lure, Keep Customers.
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    July 20, 2003
    From A Store With 300,000 Titles, A Big Lessson
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    May 16, 2002
    At Indie Music Shop, A Guide Via MP3's
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    January 10, 2002
    The Roving Eye: You Mean Max Kaminsky In On CD?
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    November 1, 2001
    Amoeba Music
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    February 19, 1998
    The World’s Greatest Record Store?
Playboy.com
May 29, 2009
Playboy's A-List: America's Coolest Stores
By Jeff Ruby

Conventional wisdom says that men don't like to shop. But the truth of the matter is: Our time is valuable. We don't want to hit three or four different places for a pair of shoes or spend an entire afternoon looking for new clothes. When it comes to stores, it's more about the quality of the merchandise you find than the time spent looking for it.

We scoured the country for America's 20 coolest stores and found the places worth both your time and money, whether you're looking for a rare guitar, a replacement for that comic book your Mom threw away all those years ago or a hat worthy of Sinatra himself. Even if you're trying to find an unusual item like a handmade hammock or a koa-wood ukulele, we've got the store for that, too. With a list like this, you might even start to like shopping. (Don't worry, we won't tell anyone.)

In this era of MP3s and iTunes, record stores like Amoeba are a dying breed. But this massive store in an old Haight-Ashbury bowling alley continues to charm everyone who walks in the door—and cause first-timers momentary paralysis at the overwhelming breadth of the place. It's got new and used discs of all genres from around the world, plus the kind of obscure out-of-print stuff that makes even the most hardened music geek squeal with pleasure—most of which you can listen to before buying.



 















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