Rasputin Music

Rasputin Music is the largest independent chain of record stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Rasputin Music operates five locations: the flagship store in Berkeley, Campbell, Pleasant Hill, Modesto and Fresno.

Ken Sarachan is considered a controversial figure in Berkeley because of the apparent neglect of several properties he owns on Telegraph Avenue.

[7] Sarachan eventually sold the property to the development company West Builders, and a student dorm building was completed in 2020.

[11] Scoop Dreams, which is now closed, was located at the former security counter in the front of Rasputin Music, about ten yards from CREAM.

[12] Rasputin Music acquired the leases of four former Tower Records locations: Concord (where the Pleasant Hill store was relocated), Mountain View, Fresno, and Stockton.

[13] The Mountain View store at San Antonio Road and El Camino Real was closed at the end of 2011.

The Stockton store located at 6623 Pacific Ave in Lincoln Center South which opened in the former Tower Records building on April 28, 2007, closed on May 6, 2016, and was officially evicted on May 10, 2016.