It’s Sunday and we’re back with A Nice Pair where we match up related books and vinyl. Today we’re pairing the book Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and…
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It’s Sunday so it’s time for A Nice Pair – our weekly book and vinyl series. Today we’re pairing up The Kingdom of Zydeco book by Michael Tisserand with the…
It’s Sunday and we’re back with A Nice Pair – our weekly book and record mash-up. Today we’re pairing the book Children of the Blues: 49 Musicians Shaping a New…
It’s Sunday and we’re back with A Nice Pair – our weekly book and record series. Today we’re pairing the book Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann…
It’s Sunday and we’re back with A Nice Pair – our weekly series where we match up related records and books. Today we’re pairing the book I Am Brian Wilson:…
Still waiting for a copy of Yesteryear and want a trendy tradwife fiction fix in the meantime? We have a used paperback copy of Everyone Is Lying to You by…
It’s Sunday so you know what that means…it’s time for our weekly book and vinyl series, A Nice Pair! Today we’re pairing the book Foreground Music: A Life in Fifteen…
It’s that time of the week again! Our Nice Pair this week is the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Macguire…
It’s Sunday and you know what that means…it’s time for A Nice Pair! Today we’re pairing the memoir Dark Days by D. Randall Blythe with the Lamb of God album…
It’s Sunday and it’s time for A Nice Pair – our weekly vinyl and book series. Today we’re pairing the book Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family…
It’s Sunday which means we’re back with our weekly book and vinyl series, A Nice Pair. Today we’re featuring the book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by…
It’s Sunday which means we’re back with A Nice Pair, our weekly book and vinyl series. As we celebrate Pride here in Perth, we figured David Bowie would be a…
It’s Sunday which means it’s time once again for A Nice Pair – our series where we pair up books and vinyl. Today we’re featuring the biography George Michael: The…
It’s Sunday and we’re back with A Nice Pair: our series of book and vinyl pairings. Today we’re featuring the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S.…
Guess what? Backbeat turns 15 years old today! Back in ’95, these two kids never could have predicted that years later, they’d move to a super cool small town and…
It’s Sunday and we’re back with A Nice Pair – our weekly book and vinyl series. Today we’re pairing Lucinda Williams’ memoir Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You…
It’s Sunday and we’re back with A Nice Pair – our series of book and vinyl pairings. Up today is the book The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides and the…
A big thank you to everyone who came out yesterday and bought books on Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! The winner of our prize draw is…Lilli S.! Lilli won our tote…
Last week we celebrated the record side of Backbeat with Record Store Day and today we’re celebrating the book side with Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! While you’re out enjoying our…
This Saturday, April 25th is Canadian Independent Bookstore Day! To celebrate, we’ll be doing a prize draw for a Backbeat tote filled with a selection of Backbeat Recommended Reads. Prize…
It’s the day after the day that was Record Store Day 2026! To all of our customers who came out yesterday, we want to say a huge thank you! To…
It’s Sunday which means it’s time for A Nice Pair – our weekly series where we match up music-based books and records. Today we’re pairing the book Not Dead &…
Just a heads up that it’s a holiday weekend so our hours are adjusted. Our hours this weekend will be: Friday: Closed Saturday: 11am-5pm Sunday: Closed We are always closed…
It’s Sunday which means it’s time for A Nice Pair – our weekly book and vinyl series. Today we’re pairing the book Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin with Darkness on…

