Aquarius Records (store)

For other uses, see Aquarius Records (disambiguation).
Aquarius Records storefront for Milk set.

Aquarius Records was an independent record store in San Francisco, California, established in 1970. Aquarius was known for carrying an obscure selection of psychedelia, metal, and world music, and had an extensive mail order catalog. The store's selection was relatively small and was chosen and annotated by the staff of music aficionados. They claimed to have coined the modern alias dronology for the drone music genre.[1] It is the subject of the documentary "It Came From Aquarius Records" that premiered as part of the 2022 San Francisco Documentary Festival.[2]

  1. ^ In this catalog page (Archive.org copy of 2002) they claim: "Here at Aquarius, we've coined such neologisms as "dronology" and "fuckery", simply because we hope that such words offer enough connotation even without a lot of context."
  2. ^ Pehling, Dave (June 2, 2022). "Documentary celebrates, laments beloved SF indie shop Aquarius Records". CBS News. CBS San Francisco.