Reposted from the Pasadena Weekly
By Lizeth Calderon, Pasadena Weekly Staff Writer, Jun 4, 2026
Altadena Musicians, a nonprofit organization that helps individuals affected by natural disasters replace lost instruments, has opened the Altadena Record Shop, giving fire survivors who lost record collections an opportunity to rebuild them for free.
The record shop, located inside the Altadena Music Center, officially launched with an open house on May 30 and will offer monthly shopping sessions beginning Saturday, June 27.
“We don’t have the ability to replace everybody’s entire record collection … but at least we can give people a little bit of joy and let them have the experience of shopping without the price tag on top of it,” Brandon Jay, founder of Altadena Musicians, said.