Listening Bars / Sweden
Listening Bars & Vinyl Cafes in Sweden
10 rooms across 5 cities — combo shops where buying and listening share a space.
Gothenburg
- Dirty Records
Cosy café, bar and secondhand record shop rolled into one on Andra Långgatan — vegetarian food and craft beer alongside browsable used vinyl and the occasional in-store acoustic set.
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Lund
- HepCat Store
Lund lifestyle store selling new vinyl -- including pressings on its own HepTown Records label -- alongside denim, boots and Americana clothing; Record Store Day participant, with a dedicated in-store music floor (HepTown Records) on the building's first floor.
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Malmo
- Folköl & DunkaDunka
Combined craft folk-beer bar and used-record shop opened in 2022 by Joakim Almgren and Per Hillbur, inspired by a 'beer and vinyl' concept the founder discovered in the Netherlands.
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Stockholm
- An Ideal for Living
Record shop and vintage-design store on Södermalm with around ten thousand vinyl titles including a basement stock, strong on 60s-70s classics, punk, new wave, indie and synth. Buys, sells and trades vinyl, CDs and cassettes.
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- Hökarängens Antikvariat och Skivbörs
Secondhand bookshop and record exchange in Hökarängen (Farsta) with a broad stock of books, vinyl records, CDs, magazines and posters focused on the humanities; also buys vinyl and book collections.
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- Larry's Corner
Södermalm shop dealing in vinyl LPs and singles, CDs, DVDs and LaserDiscs with a focus on the obscure, run by a former librarian. Doubles as a community hub with an art room, book releases, readings and small concerts.
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- Mickes Serier, CD & Vinyl
Hornstull comics-and-records shop since 1996, with roughly 40,000 titles across vinyl, LP and CD, restocked weekly. Buys and sells used records.
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- Push My Buttons
Södermalm vintage-and-records boutique specialising in punk rock, garage and rock'n'roll vinyl.
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- The Rocking Chair
Hägerstensåsen music/furniture shop selling hand-picked secondhand vinyl (mostly '70s-'80s rock and pop), guitars, amps, and vintage hi-fi, plus a guitar/instrument repair workshop.
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Vasteras
- Musikshopen
Instrument shop in central Västerås since 1974 (moved to this Stora Gatan location in 2016) that also stocks thousands of used vinyl LPs — mainly rock, hard rock, blues, pop and jazz — alongside guitars, drums, cymbals and studio gear.
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