Backbeat Books and Music Posts
One of the best things about living in Canada is our freedom. Not everyone’s so lucky and their reading materials can be censored or outright banned. Come and check out…
It’s already March! We’ve got a handful of featured March releases here for you people to sample and pick a favourite. Certainly have to dig into these some more but…
– UPDATE – April 2, 2015 – Well it has been a few weeks and there are only a handful more items added, we’ve reached the limit I guess. This…
If you’re brave enough to brave the cold, you’ll be rewarded with a fresh selection of secondhand books! We just priced these and got them on the shelves last night.…
Seems like it’s re-issue week around here. Certainly DJ Shadow’s album “Endtroducing…” has to be the pick of this week as it is likely on most peoples must listen /…
Hey folks. So the new stuff on vinyl this week isn’t so new, but some long awaited re-issues. Still waiting for a couple more Nick Cave re-issues but they should…
Did you see Fifty Shades of Grey this past weekend? We’ve got the paperback trilogy boxed set in our secondhand fiction section priced at just $14.95. New, it retailed for…
Are you as excited as I am for this year’s round of CBC Canada Reads 2015 books? We’re just over a month out from when the winner will be announced!…
Hey there folks. Some great new releases hitting the shop this week, including an amazing album from Viet Cong. It’s been out for a few weeks but has been so…
In this case, seeing red is a good thing…take a look for the red-stickered new books on our shelves and you’ll save 70%! See that gorgeous Huckleberry cookbook right there?…
Here we are already into February of 2015! I personally love this time of year for music, usually there are more interesting and diverse album releases and I am loving…
Hello good people. We are wrapping up the week here with a post about pretty much everything at Backbeat. First though just a quick note to let you know we…
What better day than Family Literacy Day to showcase this huge assortment of I Can Read books that arrived at the shop! We’ve brought in a whole bunch of fresh…
Finally a few new releases to feature for 2015. A really decent trio of albums to kick off the new year of music, looks like Sleater-Kinney is leading all the…
Here are our recent new book arrivals. It’s the perfect kind of day for sneaking a book under a blanket and not coming out until it’s done – the hard…
Hey good people, I’m going to be a little chatty today, we’ve got lots to mention on the music side of Backbeat. There’s used vinyl, new vinyl and turntable news,…
We just got in this super shipment for our younger readers. Whether your kids are into mysteries, fantasy, humour or uplifting stories, we’ve got something for them to enjoy! –…
We’re closed today and tomorrow for our winter hours but, in the meantime, here are the books that arrived in our shipment this week: – “The Back of the Turtle”…
Now that the new year is here, we’re switching to our winter hours. Starting this weekend, our store hours will be as follows: Sundays: Closed Mondays: Closed Tuesdays: 10 am…
Welcome to 2015! We’ve all now looked back on the year that was 2014 for music and books and now let’s start looking forward to what is on the horizon.…
Dan recently compiled his top albums of 2014, so I’m flat-out copying him and doing a list of my Top Ten Books of 2014. It was the year in which…
