Friday, August 17, 2012

Indie records stores in NZ

How many independent record stores are left in New Zealand? The folk at Amplifier.co.nz threw this question out on Twitter earlier this week, and pulled together this list. Any additions or corrections, please let me know in the comments.

"With the decline in physical music sales in NZ over the past few years and events like the Christchurch earthquake there seems to have been a lot of stores closing. 

Please note we've excluded stores that only sell second hand titles and also souvinier or book stores that have a tiny selection of music. The stores listed are either solely music retailers or at least have a large selection of new music. Also we can't say if we're 100% accurate so if you know of any others that we've left out then please leave a comment and we'll add them to the list.

And we've also left out online retailers like... us."

Auckland
Rhythm Compact Discs (Ponsonby)
Southbound Records (Mt Eden)
Alien (New Lynn)
Conch Records (Ponsonby)
Real Groovy (Akl City)
Marbecks (Brown's Bay)
Musiquarium (Mt Eden)
Rockin Records (Epsom, shares space w Abbeys Antiques)

Northland
Musicor (Whangarei)
Noise Company (Dargaville)

Central Nth Island
Tracs (Tauranga)
My Music (Taupo)
Vinyl Countdown (New Plymouth)
Raw Music (Whanganui)
Zinc Records (Taradale)
Hi Fi Gallery (Napier) Vinyl Only
Electric City Music (Napier)

Wellington
Rough Peel Music (Wtg Central)
Slow Boat Records (Wtg Central)
Parsons (Wtg Central)
Evil Genius (Berhampore)
Lo-Cost Records (Petone)
Wonderland (Wainuiamata)
Vinyl Heaven (Masterton)

Nelson
Everyman Records

Christchurch
Galaxy Records
Penny Lane * 2

Dunedin
Portil
Too Tone Records
Disk Den

Invercargill
Play It Again (closed?)
Rock N Rolla






And for a contrast: From the Telegraph "Where are London's best independent record shops still selling vinyl?"

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