Record stores in Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, ON has 16 record stores on the map. That's 16 record shops mapped around Niagara Falls. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Niagara Falls (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Jackson Music and Tone Doctor's, plus Ryson's United Studios. If a record shop's missing from Niagara Falls's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Niagara Falls record lineup

16 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Niagara Falls

None of the 16 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

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

The Niagara Falls record crawl

Making a day of it in Niagara Falls? Work this order: Jackson Music, Tone Doctor's, Ryson's United Studios, Niagara Records, Mindbomb Records, Rock Universe, Sunrise Records, and Black Dots. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 8 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Niagara Falls

Digging in Niagara Falls? A few habits pay off:

• Visit on restock days at Jackson Music. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.
• Learn your labels at Tone Doctor's. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Hit the new-arrivals bin first. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
• Check the turntable section. Many record shops sell used decks and cartridges. A serviced vintage turntable beats a cheap new one.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Niagara Falls — 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 Niagara Falls can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 16 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 16 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.