Listening Bars & Vinyl Cafes in Texas

Open 5pm–12am today

Downtown Arlington record shop with in-store listening stations, paired with an adjacent 21+ craft-cocktail bar, stage, and sound/lighting rig. Relaunched in a larger combined space Feb 2025 with karaoke and local bands.

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Retail space and box office inside Antone's Nightclub downtown, selling Antone's merchandise plus a curated blues, funk, and soul vinyl selection.

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Open 11am–7pm today

North Loop used-vinyl shop launched June 2008, expanded next door in 2017; also sells turntables, receivers, and speakers.

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Open 4pm–12am today

Record shop built into the Drinks Lounge bar on East Cesar Chavez, stocking new and used indie, punk, hip-hop, and rap vinyl that customers browse while getting a drink.

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A Japanese kissa-inspired listening bar in the basement of Hotel Magdalena, built with Breakaway Records around roughly 1,200 vinyl LPs played on a Klipsch hi-fi system, full albums only, no requests.

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Record counter tucked inside a JuiceLand smoothie shop near UT Austin, curated by DJ Andrew Brown with a focus on electronic, hip-hop, and beat-music labels.

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Brothers-run South Austin shop pairing new and used vinyl with vintage stereo equipment, mid-century furniture, guitars, and to-go coffee.

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An East Austin neighborhood bar built around a collection of more than 400 vinyl records, with weekend vinyl DJ sets, live performances, and an outdoor patio.

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Open 11am–8pm today

North Austin shop opened April 2021 by former sound engineer Mike Nicolai and wife Nancy, selling new and used vinyl, 45s, cassettes, CDs, and books.

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Open 4pm–11pm today

An outdoor natural-wine garden and listening bar on South Congress with a custom hi-fi sound system and local vinyl selectors curating the music alongside small-production wines and agave cocktails.

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A queer- and trans-owned record shop inside Pershing East Coffee & Lounge in East Austin, focused on contemporary music by queer artists and artists of color, plus custom turntables and local art.

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Austin's largest and most established record store, in business since 1982; relocated a few blocks north on N Lamar in August 2025.

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Open 11am–8pm today

Cedar Park collectibles store inside Lakeline Mall selling vinyl LPs, 45s, and 78s alongside comics, sports cards, statues, and other pop-culture memorabilia.

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Open 11am–8pm today

Cedar Park shop pairing used and new vinyl, CDs, and cassettes with a book selection heavy on horror and dark romance titles; opened in December 2025 by owner Thomas West.

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Open 11am–6pm today

Downtown vintage shop carrying vinyl alongside vintage clothing, accessories, and mid-century home decor.

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Open 10am–8pm today

Texas used-media chain location that stocks collectible vinyl alongside secondhand books, CDs, and DVDs.

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Open 11am–6:30pm today

Combo record/surf/vintage shop — walls of vinyl alongside surfboards, surf magazines, and vintage apparel.

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Japanese-kissa-inspired listening bar opened 2024 by DJ El Dusty; all-vinyl sets and craft cocktails downtown.

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Multi-level antique store on Antique Row, established 1999, with an actively-restocked vinyl-records section.

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Knox-Henderson discotheque, cocktail club, and hi-fi listening lounge. A vinyl-forward cocktail listening room by day that opens into a disco/house dance party at 10pm on a 4-point Fulcrum sound system.

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Open 11am–7pm today

East Dallas sister location of Lucky Dog Books, selling recycled books alongside used vinyl LPs, 45s, 78s, cassettes and 8-tracks.

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Open 11am–7pm today

North Oak Cliff neighborhood bookstore that also stocks used vinyl LPs, 45s, 78s and cassettes alongside recycled books and movies.

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Deep Ellum craft-beer bar and vinyl shop, stocking roughly 2,000 records curated by Good Records alongside 20+ beers on tap and a full bar. Nightly DJ rotations and a covered back patio.

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Underground hi-fi listening bar in a former downtown bank vault, built with 9-foot OJAS speakers, Neve preamps, and McIntosh amps. Curated vinyl spans Japanese jazz, Brazilian records, and Ornette Coleman, alongside hi-balls and soft-serve.

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Open 8am–8pm today

Far North Dallas coffee shop and vinyl record store with a self-serve cereal bar, affordable espresso drinks, board games, and crate-digging bins.

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Downtown vintage-and-curiosities boutique that has become a social-media favorite for its vinyl record bins alongside vintage furniture, art and clothing.

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Open 11am–6pm today

Vintage clothing and vinyl shop inside Hotel Kitsmiller on Fredericksburg's Main Street, buying, selling and trading a broad genre mix of used and collectible records alongside vintage western wear.

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Montrose record bar and restaurant modeled on Tokyo's record-bar culture, spinning hip-hop, jazz, rap and funk vinyl on an Audio-Technica turntable alongside chef-driven small plates and craft cocktails.

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Lobby lounge and dedicated Listening Room at Hotel Saint Augustine in Montrose, built around a refurbished Otari MX5050 reel-to-reel and a record player. Weekly "Drop the Needle" vinyl nights curated by local tastemakers, open to non-guests.

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Open 4pm–11pm today

Craft-cocktail vinyl listening lounge on the mezzanine of downtown food hall The Finn, inspired by Tokyo's jazz-kissa culture. Turntables and angled speakers built for warmth, rotating record selectors and DJ sets.

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Open 8pm–2am today

Downtown listening bar lounge behind a record-store facade: 3,600 sq ft of vinyl racks, vintage speakers and gold records, with song- and album-inspired cocktails and rotating resident DJs.

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Laredo branch of the 2nd & Charles used-media chain (a Books-A-Million company), trading in used vinyl, books, movies, and games. Already listed elsewhere in this directory (e.g. Lubbock) as an in-scope chain.

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Used-media store (a Books-A-Million brand) that buys and sells vinyl alongside books, CDs, games, and movies.

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Open 10am–6pm today

A large antique mall, established 1985, whose dealer booths include a substantial vinyl-records section.

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Locally owned south Lubbock shop selling new and used vinyl alongside used books, DVDs, and board and video games.

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A coffee shop built around a vinyl-listening concept, opened in 2025 with listening stations and specialty coffee.

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Odessa vintage/antique shop stocking vinyl records and vintage electronics alongside other vintage goods.

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South Side location of the CD Exchange chain, trading used and new vinyl, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and games; the chain traces to a single store opened in December 1993. Surfaced via OSM shop=music.

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West Side / IH-10 location of the CD Exchange chain, trading used and new vinyl, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and games. Surfaced via OSM shop=music tag; verified against Yelp and the chain's own site.

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Open Closed today

Locally owned media shop inside the Wonderland of the Americas mall trading new and used vinyl, cassettes, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and collectibles across all genres; an official Record Store Day participant.

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Open 11am–7pm today

Multi-vendor North Side shop where independent sellers each run a booth of vinyl, antiques, vintage memorabilia and jewelry under one roof.

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Open 12pm–7pm today

Buy/sell/trade shop near the St. Mary's Strip mixing vintage guitars and gear with a deep vinyl bin of punk, metal, new wave and underground rock, plus toys, comics and oddities. Celebrated its 14th anniversary in January 2026.

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Hi-fi listening room from Danny Delgado (Hi-Tones, Faust Tavern) with 3,000+ vinyl records on the wall, Technics turntables built into the bar, and bespoke cocktails in a kissaten-style Government Hill space.

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Fort Bend County wine bar and record store hybrid in Sugar Land Town Square: DJs spin vinyl at the door while the shop sells new, vintage and discounted records.

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Texas used-media chain location that stocks collectible vinyl alongside secondhand books, CDs, and DVDs.

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Multi-vendor antique shop with a large vinyl records section on the second floor, alongside general vintage and antique goods.

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