Left of the Dial Records \u2014 508 N Tustin St, Orange; 1.0 miles from campus<\/p>\n
Open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday<\/p>\n
Named after a<\/a> song<\/a> by The Replaceme<\/a>nts,<\/a> Left <\/a>of the Dial Records has be<\/a>en keeping rock <\/a>alive via vinyl since 2021, orig<\/a>inally opening in Santa Ana in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n Inhabiting a larger stor<\/a>efront, Left of the Dial has no <\/a>lack of inventory. After the loss of a friend and regular in 2020, the shop inherited 10,000 used records to add to its collectio<\/a>n and maintains an extensive col<\/a>lection ranging in price from $3 to $50, including a selection of local artists.<\/p>\n The store offers a little bit of everything \u2014 including vintage band tees \u2014 but focuses mainly on a few genres.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cClassic rock and jazz are my main two,\u201d said the store\u2019s owner, Bil<\/a>l Michelle. \u201cI\u2019m not your stop f<\/a>or modern music or hip hop, but I know \u201870s, \u201880s rock very, very well. So it was eas<\/a>y for me to build a store around<\/a> that.\u201d<\/p>\n An especially unique aspect of the shop goes beyond the records and into the equipment used to listen to them. The walls of Left of the Dial are lined with high-quality speakers and tur<\/a>ntables, many of them vintage as<\/a> well.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI love the gear more than the records,\u201d said Michelle. \u201cTo be able to put out \u201870s gear with a warranty that no one else does, that\u2019s kind of my niche.\u201d<\/p>\n Over the years, one of the <\/a>most special things for Michelle<\/a> has been the community created by sharing a love for music.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI have people that come in semi-daily. It\u2019s just fun to dev<\/a>elop a relationship with these p<\/a>eople that otherwise I would never have gotten to know,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very easy to project <\/a>the joy that I\u2019ve had with recor<\/a>ds and gear.\u201d<\/p>\n This will be the last Record Store Day that Left of the Dial celebrates \u2014 Michelle is closing the shop once the building\u2019s lease is up in December, possibly earlier. After a great nine <\/a>years and amid many changes in t<\/a>he industry, he decided it\u2019s time to move on.<\/p>\n Those celebrating Record Store Day have been working to bring their customers the best of what innovations in physical music have to offer, from exclusive releases to limited-edition re<\/a>-presses. Meanwhile, used record<\/a> stores like Mr. C\u2019s hold a sense of rediscovery, offering hidden gems and older classics pulled from personal collections. It\u2019s this range that ensures Orange\u2019s record stores truly have something for every kind of listener.\u00a0<\/p>\n For a generation born into all the options for music listening, choosing to listen to physical vinyls can be meaningful, nostalgic or just plain fun. No matter the day, purchasing from <\/a>a local record store allows list<\/a>eners to engage with what Record Store Day stands for: community, character and, above all, a lasting love of music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Left of the Dial Records \u2014 508 N Tustin St, Orange; 1.0 miles from campus Open 11 a.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-273685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}