Chris Willman Music WriterThe music lovers of Los Angeles no longer need to pray for their mecca to return. Amoeba Music’s Hollywood branch is reopening April 1, and hoping to make fools of everyone who would maintain that physical media is dead.
It’s in a new location on Hollywood Blvd., just east of its world-famous intersection with Vine. And it’s in a smaller space — but not so much smaller that anyone should hit the panic button, because the owners assure us the vast majority of the stock made the slight move to the northeast, though you might have to search the bins-under-the-bins a bit more than you did in the ArcLight-adjacent years.Marc Weinstein, one of the co-owners since the original location opened in Berkeley in 1990, got on.
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