It’s the middle of the week and we’ve got some new book titles in for you to enjoy: – “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls” by David Sedaris A guy walks…
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For all of you Divergent and Tobias (aka: Four) fans out there – and we know there are lots of you – the day you’ve been waiting for is finally…
Big vinyl shipment came in yesterday. Mostly restocks but a few sweet new releases and re-issues to talk about. A few we have been waiting patiently for, they are here…
A nice collection of new books just arrived at the shop in time for the weekend. Whether you’re heading to the cottage or lounging at home in the hammock, let…
In the summer 2014 issue of Ottawa Magazine they have done a feature on Perth and some of the fine local businesses in town. They featured Backbeat as part of…
We’re stocking the shop for summertime fun and just brought in another great big load of secondhand books. As usual, there’s lots of variety in this batch, but there is…
We just wanted to highlight a couple of local books that have recently come to our shop. Both are great choices for gift-giving, for tourists or for proud Perth residents.…
There have been several big releases the past month that we have mentioned and have in stock, including The Black Keys, Jack White, Coldplay and the Led Zeppelin re-issues but…
If you haven’t been in a while, there is a huge load of recent vintage that has been going out lately. In addition to what you see in the pic,…
File under “Face melting rock and roll”. Local group Fools Like You now have their CD available at Backbeat Books and Music. We love supporting local musicians so the entire…
Some new books arrived today, ready for reading outside in the sunshine! Most of these are mainly for our younger and teen customers: – “Cold Antler Farm: A Memoir of…
We wouldn’t leave out our graphic novel fans! In fact, the lot is so huge, we needed a whole other post just for this genre. We’re always adding to our…
As promised, there is another huge lot of great secondhand books now at the shop! There is a really good amount of very recent releases – many titles from 2013…
I just got back from one of my favourite excursions…secondhand book shopping! This is just load one of two (or maybe three) coming into the shop this week. There is…
This year the Stewart Park Festival will be held July 18-20, 2014. It is a free festival for the whole family with three days of music in Stewart Park, part…
We now have the Rock-Ola 496 (1988) jukebox setup up and loaded with 45s at the shop. Since it is an 80s vintage we decided to put mostly 80s music…
A few new releases to talk about and a bunch of new additions to our regular inventory. We are getting tight on space for vinyl right now, but are making…
We’ve got a load to get through today thanks to a late shipment yesterday full of goodies and an early delivery today with some great releases. Hard to pick just…
A pretty sweet delivery came in today. Not only did we get some new vinyl including an amazing 7″ single from SFH called “Mayor on Crack”, hmmm, wonder who that’s…
Just a little delivery again today – this one contains lots of opportunity for colouring! Starting off the pack is: – “Maisy’s Placemat Doodle Book” by Lucy Collins Color, doodle,…
Time for some new release vinyl. It’s been coming in the past few weeks. Now that the weather has seemingly turned the corner music is just sounding that much better!…
Hello good people! It’s been a while since we posted about music, well really since we talked non stop about Record Store Day. Well that has passed, it was amazing…
Just a tiny shipment of new titles today – the rest of the box contained re-stocks of favourite titles. New books to the shop span rubber bands, invention, peculiar children,…
We love it when kids of all ages walk through the door at Backbeat. We aim to keep our children’s books affordable to encourage kids to pick up a book…
