Tag: music

November 27, 2022 / Books

It’s Sunday which means it’s time for A Nice Pair: book and music pairings that go together like…Mr. and Mrs. Claus! Looking for gift ideas for the music lovers in…

November 25, 2022 / Music

It’s Friday! It’s Black Friday! We’ve got 25% off all new and used books and 15% off all new and used records until Sunday. More importantly we’ve got a load…

November 24, 2022 / Books
November 20, 2022 / Books

Sunday means it’s the time of the week when we merge the two sides of our shop and offer you related book and music pairings. Today’s A Nice Pair features…

November 13, 2022 / Books

It’s Sunday which means it’s time for A Nice Pair – book and albums we recommend pairing together for a perfect listening/reading session. This week, we’re featuring the book Looking…

November 12, 2022 / Music
November 6, 2022 / Books

This week’s A Nice Pair (book and vinyl pairings) is an ode to the DJ. We recommend pairing the book The Record Players: The Story of Dance Music Told by…

November 4, 2022 / Music

It’s Friday! Alice In Chains – Dirt (30th Anniversary) is now in stock. We’ve got both the indie exclusive yellow vinyl and the standard black vinyl. Speaking of anniversary editions,…

October 28, 2022 / Music
October 23, 2022 / Books

Everyone knows that rock stars have the craziest lives and Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead by Neil Strauss is full of huge names and the jaw-dropping stories come straight…

October 21, 2022 / Music

Happy Arctic Monkeys new album release day! “The Car” is their highly anticipated seventh studio album and we’ve got the indie exclusive coloured vinyl in stock along with the standard…

October 16, 2022 / Books

This week’s A Nice Pair is for all of you plant lovers. We recommend listening to Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia with Michael Pollan’s book This Is Your Mind on…

October 9, 2022 / Books
October 7, 2022 / Music

It’s Friday! It’s a long weekend and we’ve got a load of fresh releases to feature today. New albums from Broken Bells, The Cult, Lamb of God and Yeah Yeah…

September 30, 2022 / Music
September 25, 2022 / Books

For this week’s A Nice Pair (book and music pairings), we recommend the book Nobody Ever Asked Me About the Girls: Women, Music & Fame by celebrated music journalist Lisa…

September 22, 2022 / Books

After a busy summer season, we’re replenishing the shelves with hundreds of new and used books. Here’s a small sampling of some of the Backbeat Bargain Books we’re putting out…

September 16, 2022 / Music
September 11, 2022 / Books

For this week’s A Nice Pair (book and vinyl pairings), we’re featuring a circular recommendation. We recommend pairing Bowie’s Bookshelf: The Hundred Books That Changed David’s Bowie’s Life by John…

September 9, 2022 / Music

It’s Friday! We’ve got a few recent new heavy hitting releases to feature this week including the latest from Ozzy. Let’s get right into it. Gewgawly I & Thou –…

August 26, 2022 / Music
August 19, 2022 / Music

It’s Friday! We’ve got a bunch of recent new releases to feature from the past couple of weeks so we’re going to jump right into them. Lots of you like…

August 14, 2022 / Books

When you think of summer music, reggae is where it’s at. So for this week’s A Nice Pair we’ve chosen the legendary Bob Marley. We recommend pairing his album Natty…

August 7, 2022 / Music

This Sunday we’re putting a little twist on our weekly A Nice Pair series. We usually pair book and record recommendations but this week we just brought in a fun…

August 5, 2022 / Music

It’s Friday! It’s also a bit of a Bowie day here. Some more vinyl reissues this time from Bowie’s 90s catalogue have been released. Recently included as part of the…