Record stores in New Orleans

Record shops reward the patient digger. New Orleans, LA has 8 mapped right now. That's 8 record shops mapped around New Orleans. 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 New Orleans (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Peaches Records and Jazzology Records GHB Foundation, plus Sisters in Christ. If a record shop's missing from New Orleans's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The New Orleans record lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in New Orleans

2 of the 8 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 New Orleans record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Peaches Records on 4318 Magazine Street, Jazzology Records GHB Foundation on 61 French Market Place, Sisters in Christ, Music Factory, NOLA Mix Records, Louisiana Music Factory on 421 Frenchmen Street, Domino Sound Record Shack on 2557 Bayou Road, and Bonvillain’s Music on 1416 Lafayette Street. That's 8 stops on the New Orleans record crawl.

Record digging tips for New Orleans

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

• Check for box sets at Peaches Records. Box sets get broken up or sold whole; either way the per-record price is often excellent.
• Genre-hop at Jazzology Records GHB Foundation. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Check Discogs before big purchases. A quick price check on your phone keeps everyone honest — you and the shop.
• Ask the staff what's new. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around New Orleans — 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 New Orleans can take a while to appear. The 8 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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 8 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.