Record stores in Edmonton

Record shops reward the patient digger. Edmonton, AB has 17 mapped right now. That's 17 record shops mapped around Edmonton. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Edmonton (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Long & McQuade and Sunrise Records, plus Classic Replay. If a record shop's missing from Edmonton's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Edmonton record lineup

17 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Edmonton

2 of the 17 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

3 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Edmonton record crawl

Making a day of it in Edmonton? Work this order: Long & McQuade on 10528 Mayfield Rd NW, Sunrise Records on 8330 82 Avenue NW, Classic Replay, Sunrise Records, Record Collectors Paradise, Sunrise Records, Atreus XO on 4433 118 Avenue NW, and Curmudgeon Music & Posters on 10039 Whyte Avenue NW. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 9 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Edmonton

A few things worth knowing before you work through Edmonton's record stores:

• Ask about the return policy at Long & McQuade. Most used vinyl is sold as-is. Know the policy before the stylus hits a skip at home.
• Buy the weird stuff at Sunrise Records. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Check the dead wax. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
• Learn the grading. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Edmonton — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Edmonton can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 17 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 17 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.