Best Of Houston® 2024: Best Record Store

Best Record Store: Cactus Music

If you have lots of concerts on your calendar, you probably also have lots of visits to Cactus Music on your calendar, too. That’s because the venerable Houston record store, which is a multiple Best Of honoree in its category, brings lots of local and touring acts to its in-store stage ahead of larger shows later the same day. For instance, within the last year we’ve been able to joke around with piano man Ben Folds and hear songstress Molly Tuttle deliver a stirring mini-set ahead of their respective concert venue shows. No meet and greet fee, just Cactus opening its doors to the musicians we love and the fans who wish to meet them.

Cactus Music does all the other things right, too, of course, offering a wide array of music in the various formats we’ve experienced over the years. There are books and fashion statements and anything else a record aficionado needs to curate an impressive collection. And at the heart of it all are people who know and love music, who share that knowledge and love on their solid social media platforms and, best of all, in person, right there in the building, with or without celebrity musicians alongside them.

2110 Portsmouth
713-526-9272
cactusmusictx.com