Is Lisbon Europe's best Vinyl City?
A year ago Time Out Lisboa’s editors published a guide to Lisbon’s Vinyl scene: 13 Stores to buy vinyl records in Lisbon. Its the best guide to Lisbon I have seen so far.
I used the occasion – and my daily bike rides around town) to update my map of Lisbon’s Record Shops. What a pleasant surprise to see that most of the shops have managed to get through the pandemic 🙂
Enjoy and see you at Tings/
Lisbon has shops as far as the eye can see and our itinerary is extensive, from rock to electronics, including world and indie music. If you opt for other suggestions, that's fine. In fact, a visit to any of these stores is always a reason to get lost among records
UP-DATED 20 JAN 2023
Lisbon is heaven for Vinyl Lovers
One of my bonuses running a hotel are all the record shops we have here in Lisbon – some of them are among the best in Europe 🙂
A few years ago you would call people like me a nerd. Today things have changed.
Lisbon’s best Record Shop Carbono is only 15 min walk from Tings. Heaven for music lovers
The trends we have seen from the consumer market where crafted beers, chocolate, coffee, olive oils, herbs and spices etc. slowly but surely are taking over the mass-produced industrialized goods have spread to other industries.
Music is one of them.
As the music has become easier and more accessible on online services like Spotify, Youtube, Soundcloud etc. a growing number of music lovers returns to the old formats. Today you don’t have to be a nerd to shop vinyl.
For a music lover like me living in Lisbon is absolutely paradise.
Three minutes down the hill from Tings Lisbon I have Florian Tonello’s (from France) Ladidadi an super hang out for Wine & Vinyl hangout.
Another 3 minutes further down I can sip a cup of coffee while browsing through the vinyl boxes at Books & Records Megastore on Largo Intendente.
3 minutes in the opposite direction – on Graca Road – Cassandra & Antoine from Paris opened Bom, Bom, Bom – a new venue for soul, house, disco, hip hop and wine (natural, off course). Continue downhill for 2 more minutes and you’ll time travel for hours in Groovie Records.
On a restless rainy day one of the best ways to kill time is spending a few hours surrounded by all kinds of music formats in Carbono’s vaults.
Although I have visited the shop countless times I still love looking at their collection of funny copies and interpretations of all my favorite artists’s albums that cover the shops walls.
So to all music lovers out there – with the sun, the beaches, the wine and seafood – how can you NOT visit Lisbon?
Thomas
Tings' Guide to Lisbon's best record shops
MAP: Lisbon for Vinyl Lovers