Hey Backbeaters! We’ve got a bunch of new vinyl releases to feature this week. The latest albums from Afghan Whigs, Brother Ali, Mac DeMarco and The Mountain Goats are now…
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In just a little over a week on April 22 it will be Record Store Day! It is always our busiest day of the year here at Backbeat and a…
Although we weren’t closed for that long we’ve got a load of fresh vinyl to catch you up on. Most years start pretty slowly for new music releases but so…
Backbeat will be closed for some much-needed mid-winter R&R from Monday, January 30th to Thursday, February 9th. We’ll be back to our usual seven days a week schedule and happy…
The best thing about secondhand shopping is the potential for discovering treasures. On that note, our latest special addition (or is that edition?) to our rare books section is this…
Yesterday we gave you the Backbeat Book Lovers Gift Guide – today, we’re back with the Backbeat Vinyl Lovers Gift Guide. Vinyl fans often tend to spend their hard-earned cash…
Looking for the perfect way to personalize your gifts? We just brought in these super cool stamp sets by Yellow Owl Workshop. Okay, we got a little excited and opened…
Next Thursday November 17th, come hang out with us at Backbeat in the dark. We’ll be open until 7:00pm that evening. The first five customers after 5:00pm will receive a…
We wait and we wait with so much anticipation and then the list comes out and we all go… meh. There is certainly a wide variety on the list, but…
It’s a soggy Friday but we’ve got a few recent releases that might just get you through a grey weekend. It’s a diverse mix of albums we are featuring this…
When you shop for books, do you usually have something in mind or do you prefer to browse and see which books call out to you? When a customer is…
We’re all about encouraging reading, so we’ve made room for some sale racks. While we already think we have pretty great prices on our used books, you can find even…
It’s my kind of Friday with more Cure reissues and the latest Local Natives now here. We’ve been waiting since Local Natives announced the new album “Sunlit Youth” for it…
We said the new releases would start rolling in frequently and this week we’ve got some great releases that you have been waiting for. The new July Talk and Wilco…
When you own a shop that sells secondhand books, you come across a lot of treasures and fun things that the previous owners left inside them. We’ve come across old…
Hey Backbeaters! Just a reminder that we are closed tomorrow June 12th, just in case you didn’t see our last post. Sorry for any inconvenience but don’t worry we’ll keep…
Happy long weekend peeps! Another week has zipped by and again this week we have several new releases to feature. All the details are coming right up. We have recently…
It’s Friday which usually means some new releases hit the shop. This week we have three releases we are featuring. We’ve been waiting for the new Coathangers album since it…
Hey good people! Yup, sure feels like the 90s here today as we have reissues from Nirvana and Sonic Youth, plus a new album from The Cult. M. Ward’s latest…
That crazy time of year has started again. That’s right the official Record Store Day exclusive release list came out yesterday. You can check it out online here: http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases Or…
The snow out there today is beautiful and all, but it’s just so…white. What today needs is some colour! Good thing we just got more Staedtler pencil crayons in stock.…
Its been a while since we talked about new music in 2016. With the renos behind us, it’s time to look at some of the releases that have come out…
Hey good people, since we finished the renovations here we have way more space for vinyl in the shop. Here’s a quick peek at some of the used/vintage vinyl that…