Amoeba Music is moving this year, but record shoppers won’t have to schlep very far. The owners of the venerable mini-chain announced Wednesday that Amoeba’s massive Hollywood outpost, America’s largest independent record store, has a new home just blocks away from its current site on Sunset Boulevard. “We have been blown away by the massive outpouring of support from our customers and the L.A. community throughout our search for a new home and are excited for the next chapter in the Amoeba story,” wrote Jim Henderson, co-owner of Amoeba Music, in a statement. As the streaming era set in, the store diversified its wares but remained the key place to crate-dig for LPs and unload CD collections. In a part of Hollywood that’s rapidly up-scaling to towers with high-end hotels and streaming media companies, Amoeba’s survival is a statement that the neighborhood still has room for analog.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 06, 2020 00:00 UTC