If your record shop celebrates its 30th anniversary and is based across the street from Amsterdam’s iconic music venue Paradiso, then it’s clear where to throw the anniversary party! That’s what some of Record Palace owner Jan van Dorsten’s friends thought too. They planned the event at Paradiso before telling him and worked on getting […]
With a Discogs office based in Amsterdam, how could we not have a Discogs Guide to Amsterdam Record Shops? Whether you’re into Techno, World Music, Funk, Soul, Rock, Classical Music or Dutch ‘Smartlappen’, and whether you like your record shops spacious and stylish, more cosy or rough around the edges: with over 30 record shops […]
The Discogs community is and has always been a collaborative effort, and we take pride in supporting our sellers. Last year, Discogs took Crate Diggers events around the world and as a result, we are launching a new series via the Crate Diggers brand that has a simple mission: Highlight record stores and our music collecting community worldwide. After […]
Crate Diggers is all about supporting the record collecting community around the world. In the Crate Diggers Spotlight series we highlight record shops and their (local) initiatives to celebrate music and the record culture. This time, we want to put a-Musik and their monthly late night shopping event “Spätkauf” in the limelight. a-Musik record shop is […]
We were in Calgary, AB, Canada at the beginning of May 2018 to attend the Calgary Music Collectors Show. This was our second time in the great city of Calgary, and we love attending the CMCS, as the local record collector community is very warm and welcoming. As usual, when we attend a record fair, […]
The Discogs community is and has always been a collaborative effort, and we take pride in supporting our sellers. Last year, Discogs took Crate Diggers events around the world and as a result, we are launching a new series via the Crate Diggers brand that has a simple mission: Highlight record stores and our music collecting community worldwide. For […]
For the past couple years, Discogs has been proudly supporting San Diego, California’s Vinyl Junkies Record Swap, which takes place bi-monthly at legendary local venue The Casbah. In April 2017 and 2018, we’ve made it out to attend the event ourselves. We always make an attempt to visit as many local shops as we can […]
The Discogs community is and has always been a collaborative effort, and we take pride in supporting our sellers. Last year, Discogs took Crate Diggers events around the world and as a result, we are launching a new series via the Crate Diggers brand that has a simple mission: Highlight record stores and our music collecting community worldwide. For […]
Last week we were in Athens, Greece for the first time, to attend the Vinyl Is Back Record Fair. As if the astonishing Acropolis rising up in the middle of the city, the mouth-watering food and the 20 degrees Celsius temperature in March weren’t enough, the city of Athens stole our hearts for another reason; […]
Congratulations to Electric Fetus on their 50th anniversary! It takes a lot of effort and passion to reach such landmark. Last year, we interviewed Stephanie Covart Meyerring, owner of this iconic record store. Long live Electric Fetus! The music scene of Minneapolis has long been a thing of legend, thanks in no small part down […]
