Plan your next record store crawl.
A free companion for people who dig. Find the shops, plan the route, and keep a list of what you're hunting for.
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Own or work at a record store? Claim your shop.
It's free. Find your shop, send a quick claim, earn a ★ Founding Store badge and get a counter sign for your crawlers. See what stores get.
Vinyl Tourism
Pick a city, follow a hand-picked crawl, and track your progress as you dig. 484 destinations across 290 cities, from Atlanta to Seattle to London, with deep coverage of the UK, Ireland, Brazil and South Korea. Chain cities into one of 163 road trips, pick a hotel for each night, and search for coffee, a meal, or a bar along the way.
Explore destinationsNew here? Read the vinyl tourism guide, learn how to plan a record store crawl, browse the record store directory, or find a listening bar or vinyl cafe. Our home area is Metro Atlanta: see the featured crawls and Georgia road trips.
- WoodstockFounders Crawl
- Chattanooga4 stops
- Atlanta L5P & Decatur Crawl5 stops
- Atlanta Buckhead to Little Five Points4 stops
- New York4 stops
- Los Angeles Genre Deep-Dive4 stops
- San Francisco4 stops
- Chicago4 stops
- Nashville4 stops
- Austin4 stops
- Portland Rainy Day Crawl3 stops
- London3 stops
- Berlin3 stops
- São Paulo5 stops
- Rio de Janeiro6 stops
- SeoulEuljiro
- Denver Budget Bargain Run3 stops
- Merida3 stops
- Seattle4 stops
- Portland Mississippi-to-Division Run5 stops
- Denver Punk & Underground Run5 stops
- Philadelphia4 stops
- Boston4 stops
- Washington4 stops
- Los Angeles Hollywood to the Eastside4 stops
- Phoenix4 stops
- Detroit4 stops
- +64 more in the app
Kissa · (kee-sah)
Kissa: the art of listening
In Japan, a kissa (short for kissaten, a coffee house) is a small room where people go to drink coffee and hear records. In a jazz kissa or listening kissa, the owner picks the records, a serious hi-fi system fills the room, and the point is to sit quietly and listen. The tradition took off in the decades after the war, when imported records and good audio gear were expensive and a coffee bought you an afternoon with them.
The record is the host. Everyone else is a guest.
Variations of the idea now run around the world, from Tokyo's tiny jazz rooms to Brooklyn hi-fi bars and Seoul's LP bars, where you write a request on a slip of paper and the owner finds it in the wall of records.
How the Vinyl Vine carries it
- The Last StopMany crawls end with a Last Stop Suggestion: after a day of digging, one nearby room to sit down with a drink while a record plays. It is the kissa idea at the end of the route.
- Venue badgesListening bars, vinyl cafes and record-shop bars carry their own badge in the directory, with an also sells vinyl tag when you can take a record home. Over 90 are listed.
- Listening-bar crawlsWhole routes built around the sound system, from Shibuya and Kyoto to Brooklyn, São Paulo and Seoul, plus road trips that chain them together.
Browse record stores by place
Looking for record stores in a particular city? Every state and country has its own page with shop hours, addresses, crawl routes and road trips.
Everything for a day in the bins
One place for the part before you walk in, and the part after you leave with a stack.
A directory built by diggers
2,500+ record stores in 1,100+ cities, from Atlanta to São Paulo to Seoul, Edinburgh and Dublin. Each listing has hours, what the shop is known for, and an insider tip.
A crawl planner that checks the clock
Pick your stops, set a budget, and see which shops will be closed by the time you get there. Add coffee, meals, bars, and hotels along the route, then follow it one stop at a time.
A want list that knows your pressing
Note the exact variant you're after. Finding a different pressing won't close the item out, so your most wanted copy stays on the list.
Challenges built with the community
Official challenges like the Vinyl Vine Scavenger Hunt, plus a place to suggest and vote on the next ones. When you finally land a grail, the app makes a moment of it.
A global movement for people who love vinyl
The Vinyl Vine is built for vinyl lovers and anyone who cares about their local vinyl community. We believe record stores are more than shops. They're where discovery happens, conversations start, friendships form, and culture stays alive.
That's why we're organizing record store crawls all over the world, helping people bring their communities together to visit 3 to 5 local record stores in one day. Each crawl is a fun, low-stress plan: you and your crew follow a simple route, browse together, share recommendations, and help keep neighborhood businesses busy and thriving.
This isn't just an idea we post. We're here to help you host. The Vinyl Vine gives you the structure and tools to get started fast, then encourages you to share your route and highlights so other cities can join in and repeat the magic. The more communities that host, the bigger the movement becomes.
Local businesses matter. Community matters. Vinyl culture matters.
Support and promote the Vine, organize your crawl, and help us keep record stores rocking, together.
Know a shop we're missing?
Every record store worth the trip started as someone's tip. Add the ones you know, with hours and what to look for, and help the next digger find them.
Add a store in the appOwn or work at a record store?
Claim your shop for free, earn a ★ Founding Store badge, and get a scannable sign for your counter. Record stores come first here.
★ Meet the Founding Stores
Special thanks to the stores who kicked things off!
Our first international Founding Store: Saltcoats Record Centre on Scotland's Ayrshire coast. See the Saltcoats stop or the Glasgow to Ayrshire road trip.
Things We Love
Collecting vinyl is better together. These are the communities, gear, and places we point every collector to.
Help us grow the movement
Every record store crawl starts with one person saying "let's go." Here's how you can pass it on.
- FollowFollow us below so you see new cities, crawls, and community finds first.
- HostPick a route, grab your crew, and visit 3 to 5 shops in one day.
- SharePost your haul, your route, and your favorite shop. Send the app to a friend who digs.
- TagTag @the.vinyl.vine and use #TheVinylVine so we can feature your crawl and other cities can join in.