NYC LP Stores (New York City)*

Rebel Rebel in the West Village is a nice store. The prices are reasonable for a NYC shop and the owner, David, is truly a good guy.

 

You want to hook up with the G train (which only serves Brooklyn and Queens) take the G to Greenpoint Ave and walk north along Manhattan Ave. It will be on your right.

The best way to get to the G:

If you are coming from lower Manhattan - take the A or the C Downtown/Brooklyn and get off at Hoyt-Schemerhorn. Cross the tracks to the G and take that towards Queens and get off at Greenpoint.

If you are coming from midtown or above, the best way is probably to take the 7, E or M to Court Square and transfer to the G and then head towards Brooklyn on the G and get off at Greenpoint.

For the most accurate directions go to hopstop.com and type in where you are coming from and where you are going and it will tell you the best subway route. Hope this helps.

 

Gimme Gimme used to be the best, but they closed down and moved to L.A.

 

Thanks Clive!

 

I think there is a record store right across the street from The Strand bookstore...

 

You are probably thinking of Second Hand Rose. Not my fave.

 

Sound Fix in Brooklyn is closing. Really liked that store.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/03/sound_fix_is_cl.html

 

Looks like Bleeker Bob's will close at the end of May.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/03/bleeker_bobs_st.html

 

I was there yesterday and indeed they have good stuff/good prices! Thanks for the tip!

 

looks interesting:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/gimme-gimme-records-los-angeles-2

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am living in Indonesia, and swinging by Gimme Gimme NYC was one of the things keeping me going…. hell.

 

Any luck finding Dara Puspita records?

 

change is now...

Bleecker Street Records is moving around the corner to 188 West 4th Street, Manhattan:
http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/08/bleecker-street-records.html

Academy Records is moving from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to Greenpoint, Brooklyn:
http://greenpointers.com/2013/07/18/academy-record-annex-comes-to-oak-st-in-greenpoint/

Earwax Records moved from Bedford Avenue to North 9th Street in Williamsburg:
www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/07/earwax_records.html

A new store, Captured Tracks, is opening in Greenpoint:
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articl...-captured-tracks-is-opening-a-retail-store-qa

 

I guess Greenpoint is the new Willyburg.

The new location for Bleecker St. records is on the same block where Discorama origianlly was

 

I have e-mailed several NYC stores regarding new releases and am awaiting their replies.
In the meantime, I am out of touch with which stores carry new rock'n'roll releases; LP's and/or CD's these days.
Can someone please give me a summary of my best chances purchasing these in-store?
Thanks in advance

 

http://clockworkrecordsny.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ClockworkRecordsNy

New store in lower NY (Westchester County); it opened in June 2013.

 

http://www.roughtrade.com/pages/nyc

 

Academy is a great store, both the Village and Brooklyn locations. Now that they have moved to Greenpoint, its a little less convienent, but maybe I'll make a trip to Academy and to Record Grouch soon.

 

If you're brave, don't forget "The Thing", near Record Grouch!

 

Why brave?

 

Have you been there? It's a low-ceilinged basement with about a million beat-up LPs arranged in several floor to ceiling aisles with the records in no order whatsoever. I'm sure you could find some things to buy in there, but it would take weeks to get through the whole thing.

P.S. Watch your head when going down the stairs.

 

Anyone here know where one can source Music on Vinyl releases in New York (other than J&R)?