Listening Bars / London
Listening Bars & Vinyl Cafes in London, United Kingdom
21 spots where buying and listening happen in the same room.
- All My Friends
Hackney Wick record shop, café and bar from the team behind former club The Cause. Ground-floor record shop stocks new and used vinyl across electronic, disco, rare groove and world music, with nightly DJ sets.
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- The Book and Record Bar
West Norwood combo shop and licensed bar (opened 2013) selling second-hand vinyl and books across psych, rock, punk, soul and reggae, with live music and DJ nights.
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- Dash The Henge Store
Genre-fluid record and book store in Camberwell that opened October 2022 in the former premises of Rat Records; hosts weekly live music, record/book launches and film nights.
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- Excavate Music
Record shop (trading as Excavate Music / Crescendo Records) operating inside Crescendo Music Academy on George Lane in South Woodford, selling new and secondhand vinyl and CDs across genres alongside the shop's guitars, keyboards and instrument stock.
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- HENGE Brixton
Record bar in Brixton Village's Market Row, sister venue to Dash The Henge Store in Camberwell, selling vinyl alongside drinks with nightly DJ sets and live performances.
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- Home Deptford
Cafe, bar, event space and record shop on Deptford High Street from the founder of Cigarette Records and The Big Market London, focused on community, music and creative collaboration.
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- Idle Moments
Columbia Road record shop from the team behind Brilliant Corners, focused on Japanese music, with natural wine and hi-fi on the side. Hosts VDS (Vinyl Delivery Service), a specialist in secondhand Japanese pressings shipped from Tokyo.
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- KINDRED
Farringdon community space founded by Jojo & Scarlet combining a curated record shop, independent bookshop and radio station, hosting music showcases and book launches.
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- Kissa Wa
Japanese kissaten-style cafe near Highbury & Islington built around vinyl and a proper sound system -- records spin throughout the space, treating sound as central as the menu of matcha, udon and Basque cheesecake.
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- Kristina Records
Hackney record shop, café and events space on Well Street, buying and selling vinyl.
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- Level Crossing Records
East Sheen record-and-coffee shop established 2018, stocking jazz, hip-hop, reggae, rock, dub, dance, electronic, pop, indie and soul alongside specialty coffee.
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- Next Door Records (Stoke Newington)
Stoke Newington record shop, venue, cafe and bar (opened May 2024) spanning jazz, house, techno and reggae vinyl, with regular DJ and live events.
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- Next Door Records
Vinyl shop, wine bar and cafe alongside Bush Hall in Shepherd's Bush, opened 2020 after a Kickstarter campaign; hosts DJ sets, live performances and book launches.
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- One Eighty One
Islington record shop, bottle shop, cafe and bar founded by DJ Rod Gilmore (The Doctor's Orders), funded via community Kickstarter. Shifts from daytime record shop/cafe to evening bar with a hand-picked record selection across genres.
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- Planet Wax
New Cross record shop with an on-site bar and dubplate studio, a few minutes from New Cross and New Cross Gate stations; rated highly by Google reviewers.
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- Raven Records
Heavy metal specialist record shop on Camden Road combining a vinyl/CD selection with a metal-themed coffee bar and alcohol-free drinks; founded by Ben Dean and Chloe Marlow in late 2023.
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- Rough Trade East
Rough Trade's flagship UK record store in the Old Truman Brewery off Brick Lane — a 5,000 sq ft space with a huge vinyl selection, books, a bar and photobooth, hosting live in-store events seven days a week.
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- ROVR Soho
Soho flagship of ROVR, a music discovery platform and online radio station established 2025. Coffee shop upstairs, curated record shop downstairs reached via a metal fire escape.
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- Rye Wax
Independent record shop, bar, restaurant and event space in the basement of the Bussey Building/CLF Art Cafe complex in Peckham, focused on underrepresented and marginalised music communities.
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- Union Music Store
Sutton sister branch of Lewes' Union Music Store, run by musicians Danny George Wilson and Del Day, based inside The Sound Lounge coffee shop and live venue; new and pre-loved vinyl plus Record Store Day releases and in-store performances.
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- Vinyl Deptford
Part record shop, part vegan cafe, part gallery and event space on Tanner's Hill in Deptford, buying and selling second-hand vinyl across a wide range of genres.
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