Music retailers Music retailers Amoeba Music is an independent music store in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Hollywood, California. It opened on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley in 1990. The stores are unusually large given their independent status. The San Francisco store, which opened in 1998 in the Haight-Ashbury district, is especially notable for its size. Built in a 24,000 square foot (2,200 m²) bowling alley, the store regularly stocks upwards of 100,000 CDs, vinyl records, and audio cassettes, both new and used. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amoeba Music"
Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest specialty retailer in the world, chiefly through the operations of its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores based in the United States. Additionally, in some markets, the company operates the smaller Bookstar and B. Dalton Booksellers chains, with the latter's branches chiefly located in shopping malls. The company is known for large, upscale retail outlets, many of which contain a cafe serving Starbucks coffee, and for competitive discounting of bestsellers. Most stores also sell magazines, newspapers, DVDs, graphic novels, and music. Video games and related items were sold in the company's GameStop retail outlets until October 2004, when the division was spun-off into an independent company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barnes & Noble"
Borders Group (sometimes written BORDERS) ( ) is an international bookseller based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Borders is a Fortune 500 company, and is (as of 2005) the second-largest bookstore chain in the United States (after Barnes & Noble), selling a wide variety of books, CDs, DVDs, periodicals, as well as gifts and stationery. Borders recently bought a majority stake in Paperchase Products Limited, a leading gifts and stationery retailer in the United Kingdom, and showcases their products in their stores. In 2004, Borders reached an agreement with Starbucks subsidiary Seattle's Best Coffee, and is converting all their in-store cafes to the new brand. Some Borders' in-store cafes in Australia have Gloria Jeans branded coffee houses in place of Starbucks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Borders Group"
The Electric Fetus is a record store with locations in Minneapolis, Duluth and St. Cloud in Minnesota. It was created in June, 1968, by current owner Keith Covart with partners Dan Foley, Ron Korsh and Roger Emalie. Minnesota Public Radio said of the Electric Fetus that it is "widely regarded as the pre-eminent indie record store in Minnesota." ...more on Wikipedia about "Electric Fetus"
Besides the main subject of this article, FNAC can also stand for fine needle aspiration cytology, a technique used in medical diagnosis. ...more on Wikipedia about "FNAC"
Fopp is a chain of music, film and book shops in the UK. Originally started as a one-man stall in Glasgow in 1981, there are now 24 branches throughout the country, making it the fourth largest music specialist retailer in the UK in terms of store numbers (after HMV, Virgin Megastore and Music Zone). The name "Fopp" is from the title of a song by the Ohio Players. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fopp (retailer)"
His Master's Voice, usually abbreviated to HMV, is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record company. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up gramophone. ...more on Wikipedia about "HMV" Fast www.shortopedia.com
The House of Guitars is a store selling guitars, percussion and related items in Rochester, New York. Billed as the "Largest Guitar Store in the World" it is in fact smaller than many other similar stores. However it has a prodigious collection of new, used and vintage guitars packed into a few thousand square feet of retail space. Guitars are housed in cases two levels deep with more displayed well above head height on the tops of the cases. Some seem to be for show purposes only, or to add to the atmosphere. Back rooms and a maze of twisty passages serve as retail space for percussion, amplification, PA's etc, with a large area at the rear, accessible from a rear parking lot, selling CD's and other audio at rock-bottom prices. This area is famously disorganized and may require much digging to unearth the music desired, often turning up unexpected gems. ...more on Wikipedia about "House of Guitars"
Music Millennium is an independent record store located in Portland, Oregon. Its founding in 1969 has led it to claim it is the oldest continually-existing record store in the Pacific Northwest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music Millennium"
Music Zone is a music shop in the United Kingdom. There are over 100 branches of the company, which was formed in Levenshulme in 1984. It has gained a reputation for being one of the cheapest music stores on the High Street, often matching the low prices of CDs that can be found in supermarkets. It is also known for selling DVDs, Video casettes and Books. ...more on Wikipedia about "Music Zone"
Napster, Inc. (formerly Roxio, Inc.) is an online music provider offering a variety of purchase and subscription models. As of 2005, they are apparently the second most popular music subscription service (behind Real Networks Rhapsody). Their a la carte sales have also been modest compared to their most significant competitor ( Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store). ...more on Wikipedia about "Napster (pay service)"
Play.com is a British-run website that was founded in 1998 to sell CDs online. ...more on Wikipedia about "Play.com"
Reveal Records is an independent music retailer in Derby, England. It won Music Week's "Best Independent Music Retailer 2005". They recently set up a record label called Reveal Records Label. ...more on Wikipedia about "Reveal Records"
Sam the Record Man is a Canadian record store chain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sam the Record Man"
Tower Records is a retail music chain based in West Sacramento, California. Tower was founded in 1960 by Russ Solomon in Sacramento, California. The store was named after his father's drugstore (which shared a building with the Tower Theater, hence the name), where he first started selling records. Seven years later, Tower Records expanded to San Francisco, opening a store in what was originally existed as a grocery store at Bay and Columbus streets. The chain eventually expanded internationally and now includes stores in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Republic of Ireland, Israel, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. The store also established Tower Records stores in Japan, but those stores split off from main chain and are now independent. Arguably the most famous Tower Records outlet is the one located on the north side of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. In addition to CDs and cassette tapes (few carry vinyl LPs anymore), stores also sell DVDs, PSP movies, video games, accessories, toys and electronic gadgets like mp3 players, while a few Tower Records stores sell books as well, such as the stores in Brea, California and Sacramento. All these product lines and more are also available at Tower.com, which got its start in 1995 as one of the first music retailers to set up shop on the Internet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tower Records"
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