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“So, we have here the Bedhead album Beheaded. This band was incredibly formative for us as a band kind of coming up. And I think the thing that we really connected to... was the minimalism that they employed.”Watch this moment
Your favorite
band’s favorite
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994 episodes of Amoeba’s What’s In My Bag?, 2007 to present — every picker and every record, indexed.
Since 2007, Amoeba has handed guests a bag, let them loose in the store, and filmed them talking through whatever they carried out. Musicians, mostly; also filmmakers, comedians, athletes and writers. The format hasn’t changed.
This site is an index of the series: 960 pickers, 10,114 picks, every record cross-referenced with everyone who chose it. The footage itself stays on Amoeba’s YouTube channel.
The records
Every album, cross-referenced.
The complete catalogue of every record anyone has ever pulled out of the bag. Each sleeve links back to the picker who reached for it — and to everyone else who reached for the same record.
Browse 5100+ records →The pickers
Find the person, see the bag.
Musicians, filmmakers, athletes, comedians, novelists and DJs — 960 of them, each given one bag and forty minutes to talk about the records they pulled off the shelves.
Browse 960 pickers →
The canon
The records they reach for first.
No editorial, no algorithm. Just a ranked count of which sleeves show up most often when the cameras roll. The shape of the canon is steep — one record well clear of the field, then a long tail the room agrees on but doesn't fight for.
See the full canon →Latest episode
Episode #946
Death Cab For Cutie
Ben Gibbard & Nick Harmer
Ben Gibbard and Nick Harmer of Death Cab For Cutie go record shopping at Amoeba Hollywood in this "What's In My Bag?" episode. They discuss early influences from Bedhead and Built to Spill, Bill Callahan's earnest songwriting, two iconic soundtracks that embody the Pacific Northwest, and the juxtapo…
From their bag
About the store
The world's largest independent record store.
Amoeba Music opened in 1990 in a converted bowling alley on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Three former Rasputin Music employees wanted a store that took every format seriously: new, used, vinyl, CD, cassette, the bargain bin and the rare-records glass case, all in one room.
The What's In My Bag? series began at the Hollywood store in 2007 and has run ever since. 994 episodes. This is the archive.
6200 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
The largest of the three. Where most What's In My Bag? episodes were filmed.
2455 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley
The original. A converted bowling alley two blocks from campus.
1855 Haight St, San Francisco
Built inside an old bowling alley on Haight Street, west of Ashbury.