Today’s featured book is Thinkerox: A Brain in a Box. Written in a Dr. Seuss-like rhyming style, this book warns about what can happen when people spend more time interacting…
Tag: music
Hey good people, it’s a good week for music with some excellent releases we are featuring today. I’ve given them all a listen to but Patrick Watson’s latest is one…
We can finally kick back and focus on some new release vinyl that has come in this week. Hey how about a live Eels triple LP?! Yes Please! Someone come…
A few great titles to feature this week. It has happened before that an EP has made it to my top albums of the year before, and I think it…
Here is the obligatory Record Store Day “Money Shot”. We once again have had a good fill of titles that we ordered but quantities are certainly limited but there are…
Hello good people. A nice load of new vinyl to dig into today so we are getting right at it, no time for chit chat. Finally got in…
Here it is folks, all the details on our Record Store Day and 2nd “Re-Birthday” weekend sale. April 18-19-20, 2015. First we want to thank you so much for an…
Backbeat Books & Music would like to congratulate Kim Thuy for winning the CBC Canada Reads 2015 competition with her barrier-breaking book Ru! We’d also like to give a big…
As an independent bookseller, we’re really excited that we can now unveil a unique upcoming event that we’re participating in…Authors for Indies! We’ve been working hard behind the scenes on this one and now…
Hello out there. Lots of new releases we are featuring this week so we are going to get to them right away. If you are looking for info on recent…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
