Description
Amoeba Music has its roots in the Bay Area, with the California mini-chain’s first location opening in Berkeley in 1990, and the second arriving in San Francisco in 1997. The third Amoeba, which opened smack dab in the middle of Hollywood late in 2001, might be its most well-known location, and it’s arguably the most famous record store in the world. Why? Size matters, but so does quality: At 43,000 square feet, it could be the size of every shop we’ve covered in Counter Intelligence so far, combined – but each section, from the electronic nook to the jazz corner to the experimental-music hinterland and everywhere in between, is tended to and expertly stocked. You could go in every week and emerge with a horde of vinyl from just one minuscule, hyper-specialized section of the store, as many regulars do, or you could spend hours wandering the aisles and grabbing at random, simply admiring the diversity of recorded music that exists in the world.
