The record store is closing earlier than planned.
Last year, Los Angeles’ Amoeba Music announced its plans to relocate to a new place in Hollywood. The owners hoped to keep the Sunset Boulevard store open until Autumn this year, but the financial hit caused by the coronavirus lockdown has become unsustainable. Planned farewell events at the store this summer have now been canceled, with the shop now on opening its new space when possible.
‘The plan was to close the Sunset location in the fall and then move to the new site as soon as possible while moving operations to its new space. That now will not be the case, with the Sunset store having served its last customer and housed its final performance’, said a press release.
Amoeba is also located in San Francisco and Berkeley. Earlier this month, it set up a GoFundMe page to aid its expenses for rent, bills, and health insurance for some of its employees during the pandemic. You can donate here.
