Vinyl Solution reminds me of the record shops where I used to waste time (mine and the management’s) as a kid. It’s in a nondescript suburban shopping precinct but inside there’s enough eye-popping goodness to keep you occupied for hours. Vinyl Solution is comprehensively stocked and really well organised. No flicking through random crates here. […]

Chris from Northside and Tim from Wax Museum have put together a genius little map of all the Melbourne record shops stocking secondhand records. Rumour has it that a new version will be released in late 2010. Until then, work your way through this one. It’s free and available where secondhand records are sold or […]

Northside specialises in a lovingly curated selection of what an ethnomusicologist might call “the music of the African diaspora”. We call it a crate-digging paradise. It’s located in the heart of Fitzroy, but you won’t find hipster jams and nu-disco here. While Northside’s focus is very much on soul, Latin, reggae, jazz, hip hop, Afrobeat, […]