Ocean Island Victoria Guide

Now let’s rewind to 1970. Mom’s away for the weekend, and you and your dad are toking up in the garage, rocking out to the best rock n roll ever on Dad’s old record player. When your dad got a white-collar job, stopped smoking pot and sold his record collection, it ended up at The [...]

These guys buy, sell and repair guitars, banjos, mandolins, violins and folk instruments. They stock accessories, strings and bows, music, books and videos. They have music lessons and individual instruction for guitar, fiddle, bluegrass banjo, mandolin, pennywhistle and Irish flute. What more could a musician ask for?

Lyle’s Place has been *the* place to buy music in Victoria for over 30 years. They have low prices for used CDs, over 1,200 different posters and they also promise to buy your used CDs and DVDs for the best prices in town! Note: they have T-shirts with the shop’s cool logo on them, sweet.

  A local favourite. Seriously, they have everything. It’s hard to fathom how they could fit pretty much whatever you’d like to listen to from almost every genre (well, except modern pop, modern rock and Top-40, naturally), into such a nicely-sized shop. Not too small, not too big. Their selection is pretty evenly split between [...]