Is This a Farewell to the Beloved Amoeba Music?

Photo Credits: (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)

Since the opening in 2001, Amoeba Music in Hollywood was known mostly known as a place for live music and one of the largest record stores in the greater Los Angeles Area that actually thrived at a time record shops were an endangered species.

A few weeks ago it was brought to attention that the famous store was going to be closed for good and turn into a luxury skyscraper.

This report by LAist brought fans and music lovers in total distress. The article said that Amoeba Records voluntarily decided to sell the property and that Councilman Mitch O’Farrell’s is going to try to work with the store to identify another location the would allow the mot rain in Hollywood.

After this article was released many news outlets and Amoeba Records themselves clarified the reports made by the LAist. Amoeba Records saw the reaction of the the public and decided to post a note to their music lovers on their twitter that would try and clarify peoples worries, concerns and questions. 

by McKenna Marchant