The Tracks & Tales Guide Venues

From Paris to Tokyo, New York to São Paulo, Tracks & Tales venue listings chart the world’s listening culture one room at a time. Each listing highlights a single listening bar, vinyl café or sound-focused space where music is given the attention it deserves. Written close to the source and updated as scenes evolve, they document the venues where the art of listening is still alive.

Maru Hi-Fi, Newcastle — The Quiet Door on Union Street

Maru Hi-Fi, Newcastle — The Quiet Door on Union Street

Maru Hi-Fi is a jazz kissa-inspired listening bar in Newcastle West, NSW, with a 10,000-record collection, Tannoy Wes...
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Hi-Fi Disco Bar Chaos — Maruyamacho's Permission to Dance

Hi-Fi Disco Bar Chaos — Maruyamacho's Permission to Dance

Maruyamacho climbs. Walk west out of Shibuya and the ground lifts you through a district that has spent decades in th...
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Stylus Soundlounge — Charlotte, North Carolina

Stylus Soundlounge — Charlotte, North Carolina

Stylus Soundlounge in Charlotte, NC — a disco-noir listening room at The Pass built around a collector's vintage anal...
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Bonsai HiFi — Cali, Colombia

Bonsai HiFi — Cali, Colombia

Bonsai HiFi is a small bar de escucha on Calle 2 in Cali, Colombia — vinyl, deep house and melodic techno in the worl...
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Baroke Mumbai — One Floor Above a Road That Lost Its Cinemas

Baroke Mumbai — One Floor Above a Road That Lost Its Cinemas

Baroke in Grant Road is Mumbai's first vinyl-only listening bar — over 200 records, Klipsch La Scala II speakers, and...
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Dill Pickle Club: Vinyl, Reel-to-Reel, and Tasmania's First Listening Bar

Dill Pickle Club: Vinyl, Reel-to-Reel, and Tasmania's First Listening Bar

Tooker Alley was a short lane off Dearborn Street in Chicago's Near North Side, and for most of the 1920s the loudest...
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