Update: Note that we'll be closed this coming Monday (Aug 2) for the holiday.

First, some store news: Classical is now GONE. All of it. We were going to offer 50 percent off remaining stock for one week and we did it for five, which I think is more than fair. Even at that only about 30 percent of it sold, which says a lot about the remaining inventory. Those upset about this deletion, I feel your pain, but there simply was no other solution. The reason we do no longer carry classical is that none of the staff listens to the genre which makes buying it and pricing it very difficult and a zero sum game. We recommend Second Vinyl (10 Wellesley Street) or Amoroso (4 St. Patrick) for your Classical fix.

We have now moved Jazz into Classical's old home. This may be temporary--we're thinking of some other solutions as that space is not quite big enough for Jazz. Until another solution comes up, it'll be under the window.

New sections are coming as soon as I get a chance to wrangle them together. We're thinking Soul/R&B, Ambient/Experimental/Electronic, and maybe Metal. If you have suggestions for what you'd like added, by all means mention them and we'll see if we can accommodate.

Some new vinyl arrived yesterday (both new and used), including a bunch of jazz (Coltrane, Blakey, Gordon, Moncur III, Pepper). Here's a list of what I can remember:

Tool - 2LP ltd ed. picture disc
Panda Bear 7"
Husker Du - Metal Circus
Beck - Guerro
Eminem - Recovery
Tina Brooks - True Blue
The National - High Violet, s/t, and Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
Joy Division - Closer
Svarte Greiner - Penpals Forever (Digitalis; in on CD as well; vinyl is ltd to 450 copies and is already sold out from the label)
Soundway's two 3LP sets: The World Ends Part A and Part B
Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974 (2LP on Sublime Frequencies)

A bunch of you have asked about the new Mississippi Records releases I mentioned a few posts previous. They're on order but have not arrived. Those who have emailed about them will get a heads-up when we've got them in-hand. MR are somewhat notorious for announcing titles early, so we may have these very soon or not for a while--it's impossible for me to say. However, I can say with certainty that there's no doubt we'll get them as soon as they're available. Of course, I'll announce their arrival here on the site as well. We have a different (faster, cheaper) source for MR titles than anyone else in the city so should have them first and a couple bucks cheaper than everyone else, just like we do with all other MR vinyls.

We also received a heap of nice used LPs of some contemporary artists (Cat Power, Paul Weller, Tom Petty, and a few others).

Someone brought in a bunch of Emerson, Lake and Palmer Japanese CDs as well as a complete set of those UK Rolling Stones CDs with the miniature album art repros.

Lastly, we also got stock on the Roll the Dice album on CD (it's out of print on vinyl), as well as stock of the latest CDs by The Gaslight Anthem, National, Great Big Sea, Stars, Nirvana, Dum Dum Girls, Discovery, Black Keys, Tom Petty, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, Jonsi, Sting, Sun Burned Hand of the Man, Jimmy Webb, New Pornographers, Melissa Etheridge, KD Lang, and a few others I can't recall off the top of my head.

A bunch of DVDs in in the last few days. TV stuff, recent Hollywood releases, a bunch of film noir, etc. etc.

A couple hundred new used vinyl pieces have hit the floor since Friday, including three milk crates today alone. They completely run the gamut for genre (blues, jazz, folk, calypso, rock, pop). I'm not gonna list them all but here's some. A great many of them are less common editions (colored vinyl, promos, picture discs, 10"s, 12"s, and imports from Japan, Belgium, UK, US), and compilations from labels like Sympathy for the Record Industry, SST, Amphetamine Reptile, Metal Blade:

Hendrix (3 diff imports including Italy and Brazil)
Jeff Beck
Babe Ruth
Prince (1999 import 12")
Breeders
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Jane's Addiction (Been Caught Stealing 12" import box set)
New Order (import 12")
Sisters of Mercy
Catherine Wheel (double clear vinyl)
REM (promos, pic discs, colored vinyl)
Husker Du, Jesus Lizard (on compilations)
Iggy Pop
Bowie
Allman Bros.
Atomic Rooster
Caravan
Lou Reed
Eagles (colored vinyl)
Marilyn Manson (Pic Disc)
Nirvana 12"
Offspring
Soundgarden 12"
Soul Asylum (colored vinyl)
Multiple CTI releases
Sturm Group
The Gits
Crass
Charlie Byrd
Aretha Franklin
Freddie Hubbard
Motley Crue
The Necros (split LP)

and dozens and dozens more.

The majority of these are in fantastic shape so will probably move fast.

Due to a lack of space in New Arrivals, some titles have been put in other places so please ask.

Lastly, I've coded the site so that when you click on a category you'll now get a full listing of blog entries under that category.

As mentioned in my last post, a bunch of new used vinyl will hit the floor shortly as we had multiple customers promising to bring in lots of titles over the coming days. Indeed, some came in today and has been priced and put out. Among them were multiple

Rolling Stones
Grateful Dead
John Mayall
Beatles
Allman Brothers
The Band
Miles Davis
Cream
Hendrix
Clapton

There were also some nice near-mint 5- and 6-LP box sets: Clapton, Allman Brothers, Dylan, and a Muddy Waters on Chess, all with their booklets and wax in great shape.

In addition, there are some nice new vinyl pieces which came in last week that I forgot to post about:

Joy Division
Doris Duke
Mono
Hendrix

and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head.

The Soft Machine 2LP that came out ltd to 500 on Record Store Day has now come out domestically so we've lowered the price of the ones we have on hand. Just 23.99 for the German import.

And... an update on the Classical section. I had initially said it would be gone by last Friday but the combination of heatwave and soccer made it a slow week so we're keeping it a bit longer, still at 50% off. However, it'll probably be gone very soon (less than a week, I'd guess).

We haven't completely decided what we're going to do with the space made available by the classical, but we'll probably be putting together the long-requested R&B/Soul and Ambient sections. We're also open to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), so please send any you have along.

I haven't been feeling particularly well lately so there's not been much action here on the site. Apologies for that.

Some quick store news:

The Daptone vinyl has been selling extremely well. I think we're down to one copy left of each item so if you were planning on picking some up, now's the time. Not sure I'll be able to swing this price again (though of course, I'll try!). I still haven't received CDs of this stuff (it's coming from a different supplier), but hopefully real soon.

Same goes for the Digitalis stuff. I think there's at most one copy left of anything that's not already sold out. I absolutely will not be putting the next batch out at that low of a price. Snatch 'em up!

Root Strata has finally confirmed that they've shipped us our order... unfortunately, it's not complete so will be missing a few items I was quite looking forward to. Arggh. However, there will be some Grouper in there.

In the next I'm not sure, we'll have some CD copies of what is probably my favorite country album of the past quarter century: The Star Room Boys - Why Do Lonely Men and Women Want to Break Each Others' Hearts? I play it all the time and every time I do, people want to buy it. Unfortunately, it's not once come into the store used and bringing in new copies has been unbelievably difficult. Assuming my source comes through, we should have 10 copies on hand to sell before spring arrives. I'll of course announce it here when I find out more.

I took a scoot through the used stock today and we've got a bunch of great stuff in at the moment. I didn't write anything down, but here's a few things off the top of my pounding head:

CDs

- The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3, 1972 - 1975 (10 discs)
- The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 3, 1963 (5 discs)
- Terry Reid - Super Lungs - Complete Studio Recordings 66 - 69, and Silver White Light
- Robert Wyatt - Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Pizzicato 5 (two diff CDs)
- Tindersticks - Donkeys
- Beck - Stereopathetic Soul Manure
- Celexico - three diff CDs
- Health - s/t
- Wild Thing - Songs of Chip Taylor
- George Jones - Don't Stop the Music (my fave Jones compilation)
- Alan Lomax's Southern Journey 6 - Delta Country Blues


Some great Japanese CD imports:

- Massive Attack - Blue Lines and Protection
- New York Dolls - s/t
- a heap of jazz, including: Charlie Parker, Milford Graves, Barry Guy, Dave Holland, Enrico Rava, Terje Rypdal, Alan Skidmore, Elton Dean, Globe Unity Orchestra, Baden-Baden Free Jazz Orchestra

Vinyl

There was also a bunch of new used vinyl but my head's starting to hurt again so I'm-a gonna step away from the computer. The biggie that jumps to mind is the Ltd Edition version of Radiohead's In Rainbows. It's 2 CDs, a 12" booklet of photos, and two 45 RPM 12" records in a slip case. Far as I can recall this was only available through the Radiohead website as a pre-order item so it's outta print.

Someone hipper than you came in with a heap of good "alternative" vinyl today. I didn't write down the titles but off the top of my head I remember:

Fleet Foxes
Jackie Mittoo
Black Dice
Atmosphere
The Books
Bjork (on DMM vinyl)
Miami
Cub
Ulrich Schnauss
Thievery Corp
K+D
Black Keys
Looper
Gris Gris
Chet Baker
Excepter (on red vinyl)
The Gay
Chad VanGaalen
Beirut

That's probably about half to a third of what he surrendered. Some sold today. The rest will sell soon. No, really.