Listening Bars / Austria
Listening Bars & Vinyl Cafes in Austria
7 rooms across 2 cities — combo shops where buying and listening share a space.
Salzburg
- Heavy Rotation Musicstore & Bar
Rock/metal record shop and bar in one, open since November 2002 -- 4,000+ CDs and hundreds of LPs plus shirts, with a full pub attached from 6pm and special-order/import service for hard-to-find pressings.
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Vienna
- Apartment Acht
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus record shop, vintage-fashion and café platform with new vinyl arriving every Friday, fashion drops on Wednesdays, and a regular events series.
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- Beats & Beans
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus restaurant and record shop in a restored wood-panelled dining room, pairing Viennese food with a 2,000-3,000-strong secondhand jazz, soul, funk and hip-hop collection for browsing and buying.
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- das LOKal
Quiet Neubau coffee-and-books nook off the tourist trail that also sells secondhand vinyl; reviewers describe a music-curator staffer helping pick out classical and pop LPs.
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- Needle Vinyl Bar
Mariahilf cocktail bar built around vinyl-only listening -- bartenders freestyle drinks while curated records play all night in a room shaped for sound; the neighborhood-driven second location after the original 1010 branch.
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- Shh Listening Bar
Vienna's first listening bar (opened June 2025) in Wieden -- a Japanese jazz-kissa-style room built around a custom sound system and wall of records, run by Jörg Markowitsch and Stefan Skorepa.
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- Wiener LP Café
Rochusmarkt-area cafe and vinyl shop where a curated new and secondhand record selection is browsed over coffee from Kaffeefabrik or craft beer from Alefried.
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