Tag: Perth

January 19, 2025 / Books

It’s that time of week when we pair a book with a related record for your visual and auditory pleasure! Today we’re recommending A Memory Within a Song: Music That…

January 17, 2025 / Music
January 16, 2025 / Books

Is one of your goals for 2025 to read more? There are lots of strategies for easing back into reading if it’s a habit you’ve shelved for a while. One…

January 15, 2025 / Music
January 12, 2025 / Books

It’s Sunday and it’s time for our weekly book and music pairing! Today it’s all about Alice Cooper and we’re pairing the memoir Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! with the album…

January 10, 2025 / Music

For years, Childish Gambino’s Atavista hid in plain sight. When he released an unfinished version of the record on March 15, 2020, it spent just 12 hours on his website…

January 5, 2025 / Books

It’s Sunday and for today’s book and vinyl pairing, we’re recommending the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens alongside the Jojo Rabbit Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Caging Skies by Christine…

December 29, 2024 / Books

Before we delve into this week’s Nice Pair, just a reminder that we are:– OPEN today from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm.– We will then be CLOSED from Monday, December…

December 22, 2024 / Books

It’s Sunday, it’s the holidays and today it’s time for a Christmas edition of A Nice Pair! But before we kick things off, we want to remind you that we’re…

December 18, 2024 / Bags

We just want to give you a heads up for our upcoming hours for the holiday. Wed December 18 – Sat December 21 – 11am-5pmSun December 22 – 11am-4pmMon December…

November 28, 2024 / Music
November 27, 2024 / Books
October 17, 2024 / Books
October 13, 2024 / Books

It’s Sunday and it’s a long weekend…a.k.a. the perfect combination for another vinyl and book pairing, right? This week, we’re featuring the latest offerings from Nick Cave: his book Faith,…

October 6, 2024 / Books

It’s Sunday and we’re switching things up a little today for today’s Nice Pair – we’re pairing the Backbeat Recommended Read, Salmon Run by Jeff McIntyre with…any music that makes…

October 4, 2024 / Music

It’s Friday! Boy oh boy do we have a load of new releases to dig into today. We’ve got the latest releases from The Smile, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Leon…

September 29, 2024 / Books

It’s the last Sunday in September so let’s settle in with A Nice Pair – book and vinyl pairings that go together like squirrels and foraging for nuts. This week,…

September 20, 2024 / Music
September 18, 2024 / Music

Check out the NEW Audio Technica LP70x turntables! We just got them in last week and are very impressed with this fantastic new turntable. Not only does it sound great,…

September 11, 2024 / Bags

Hey! What you doing Saturday evening? Perth is having a night market and Backbeat will be open until 9pm. Perth Tourism describes it as “an enchanting evening waiting for you…

September 3, 2024 / Music

Looking for a fresh pair of powered speakers? Check out the sale on our remaining stock of Kanto speakers. Drop by for more details on these models or check out…

August 29, 2024 / Stationery

We’ve restocked some music-related favourites as well as added some new designs to our greeting card wall…these latest ones are again from Smitten Kitten. We love a good sense of…

August 25, 2024 / Books

Today’s book and vinyl pairing is the same-named Saxophone Colossus – one, a biography of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy; the other, Rollins’ album. The book is a deep dive…

August 8, 2024 / Music

Jack White’s new surprise album “NO NAME” has arrived! We only have a few of the indie shop exclusive blue vinyl edition in stock so it’s first come first served.…

August 7, 2024 / Books

We’ve brought cookbooks back to Backbeat! We currently have a small curated selection that we just added to our used book section. What’s your go-to cookbook?