Real record stores, not a scraped list.

Atlanta's record store scene centers on Little Five Points and East Atlanta, longtime independent shops that have anchored those neighborhoods through multiple waves of vinyl's ups and downs.

Baltimore's record stores cluster in Charles Village, Fells Point, and Hampden, independent shops with deep punk, soul, and jazz specialties.

Boston's record stores run from Beacon Hill research-library-style shops to Allston's long-running used-vinyl standbys, serving a college-town crate-digging crowd.

Dallas's record stores cluster around the Bishop Arts District and downtown, small, independently run shops built more on relationships with regular diggers than foot traffic.

Denver's record store scene is dense for its size, anchored by long-running shops on South Broadway alongside newer boutique stores across the city.

Detroit's record stores sit close to the city's outsized musical legacy, from Motown to techno, including Jack White's Third Man Records pressing plant and storefront.

Houston's scene spans specialty Latin-music dealers, buy-sell-trade shops, and neighborhood stores that have quietly operated for decades without much national attention.

Los Angeles has the deepest bench in this directory, a sprawl of Hollywood and Melrose storefronts alongside neighborhood shops from Palms to West Adams, anchored by Amoeba as the city's best-known destination.

Miami's shops lean toward Latin, dance, and DJ-culture vinyl, small storefronts in Wynwood and Little Haiti built for crate-diggers over casual browsers.

Minneapolis's scene is anchored by Electric Fetus, a longtime local institution, alongside smaller South Minneapolis shops built around buy-trade counters.

New York's record shops run from Greenwich Village institutions that have outlasted three formats of decline to newer Brooklyn crate-digging spots built for a generation that never bought a CD.

Philadelphia's stores are spread across Fishtown, Fairmount, and Germantown, a mix of genre specialists and general used-vinyl shops with real depth in their bins.

Phoenix's shops are scattered from Central Avenue to the East Valley, small operations built on buy-sell-trade counters and regulars who know the owners by name.

San Diego's record stores are a small but committed group, appointment-only collector shops alongside walk-in stores built for regular diggers.

San Francisco has the second-deepest bench in this directory, a dense cluster of Haight Street shops plus scattered neighborhood stores from the Mission to the Richmond, with Amoeba as its most famous address.

Tampa's record stores are concentrated in Seminole Heights, a short strip of independent shops serving the city's small but dedicated vinyl scene.

Washington DC's record stores are concentrated along U Street and in Northeast, several with roots in the city's go-go and punk scenes.