Amoeba Music

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Amoeba Music on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood

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Inside of Amoeba Music in San Francisco

Amoeba Music is an independent music chain with stores in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Founded by former employees of nearby Rasputin Records, 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 1997 in the Haight-Ashbury district, is especially notable for its size. Occupying a 24,000 square foot (2,200 m²) former bowling alley, the store regularly stocks upwards of 100,000 CDs, vinyl records, and audio cassettes, both new and used.

The Southern California location was added on November 17, 2001 when the store opened a new branch on Sunset Boulevard (at Cahuenga Boulevard) in Hollywood. (See article.) At the time of its opening, the store planned to stock as many as 250,000 titles, which would place the store among the largest independent music stores in the world. According to Los Angeles Times writer Michael Hiltzik, the location "instantly became a Hollywood landmark." [1]

The stores also trade in movies, though secondarily to their music business. Each location has a smaller collection of movies on DVD, VHS, Laserdisc and Blu-ray Disc. In addition, each store maintains a selection of music-related posters and artwork for purchase, as well as Amoeba-branded merchandise. The Hollywood location has the entire 2nd floor dedicated to DVD and Blu-ray Disc. In addition, Amoeba Music frequently holds free shows during store hours with locally and nationally known artists from a wide variety of genres.

The stores in San Francisco and Hollywood also have a modest selection of new and used video-games for current generation systems (such as the Xbox 360, Wii and the PlayStation 3).

This store is a playable venue in the music game, Guitar Hero World Tour. Paul McCartney recorded his EP Amoeba's Secret at an unannounced live performance at the Hollywood location on 27 June 2007.

Website

1. There is free shipping in the U.S. in the link.[2] Its shows six bars each one has more details, for example the music, all the music available, on the homepage located, on the top left corner of the screen there is a box titled quote, "Music We Like" in the box there is a collection of different music, and movies put together by amoeba staff. Also located on the home screen contains information about upcoming contest, events, interviews, movies,TV, music, etc. Another box that is located in the home screen is the "New Releases" which allows you to filter new releases through different genera.AT the bottom of the homepage there is another bar which links, you to information about their amoeblog, buy and trade, news, contacts , and gift certificates.

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  Hollywood store, mural off Sunset Boulevard

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  Berkeley store

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  San Francisco store

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  San Francisco store, inside

External links

• Official homepage of Amoeba Music
• "S.F. Music Landmark Headed to Sunset - Brief Article". (November 13, 2000.) Christopher Keough. Los Angeles Business Journal. Retrieved 2005-11-28.
• "Golden State: Record Chain Bets on the Past, Future". (November 17, 2005.) Michael Hiltzik. Los Angeles Times (and accompanying Golden State Blog.).
• "Amoeba Music's Simple Formula". (February 17, 2005). BusinessWeek.