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The best places in Adelaide to buy records

For music lovers, nothing much beats digging out a classic old record or finding a brilliant new one and hearing it play on a decent turntable. These are our favourite records stores around Adelaide. Happy vinyl hunting.

Swipe right for Part Time Records’ Singles Club

Place your trust in the tastes of music industry veteran Emma Coyle and Wolf & Cub founding member Joel Byrne, as they send out split records of some of Adelaide’s most exciting new musicians.

Introducing three-day all-local picnic party Utopian State

Here’s to Now founder Jordan Jeavons has teamed up with Endless Grooves and Papershell Farm for a three-day, all-ages, family-friendly musical picnic party in Willunga.

Spark entrepreneurs literally break world records

This year the world's largest projection on a moving screen was achieved by an entrepreneur who developed his business in Adelaide. 

‘They should expect a little bit of truth’

Aboriginal man Elijah Bravington is leading eye-opening Indigenous-informed tours of the city for the Nature Festival, and says patrons should be ready to see their city in a more honest light.

Couch 44 tunes in to Adelaide youth culture

Airing Thursday nights, community TV talk show Couch 44 platforms an emerging generation of young Adelaideans making our city an interesting place to live.

Adelaide’s Golden Record

If CityMag had a rocket, these are the sounds we'd launch into space, as selected by 10 aural authorities on all things Adelaide.

There goes the neighbourhood

An 18-storey retirement-living apartment set for construction on Gunson Street will force out a creative warehouse full of artists, photographers and fashion designers. We speak to current and former residents of the city laneway about what is lost when young people are moved on.