Tag: studio album

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 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…

July 21, 2024 / Books

For today’s music and book pairing, we recommend grabbing your Docs, tying your favourite plaid around your waist and reading the book Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of…

June 23, 2024 / Books

This week we continue to celebrate Pride Month by pairing the latest book we’ve brought in about today’s star, Me and Mr. Jones: My Life with David Bowie and The…

June 22, 2024 / Music

It’s the weekend! We’ve got a few new and recent re-issues to feature today including from Sade, Spiritualized and Monsters of Folk. Let’s dig in. Spiritualized – Songs in A&EThe…

June 16, 2024 / Books

Before we delve into today’s book and music pairing, we’d like to wish a Happy Father’s Day to those celebrating! If your celebrations involve books or vinyl – or even…

June 9, 2024 / Books

Today, we’re continuing our celebration of Pride Month and pairing Tegan and Sara’s latest album, Crybaby, with their graphic novel, Tegan & Sara: Junior High. The book is a blend…

June 2, 2024 / Books

We loved seeing the Pride Parade yesterday in Perth and in celebration of Pride Month, today we’re kicking it off with A Nice Pair featuring Billie Eilish. We recommend pairing…

May 10, 2024 / Music

It’s Friday! We’ve got another week with some solid fresh releases hitting the new release wall. The latest from The Beaches and Chick Corea w/Bela Fleck are out now! Plus,…

April 5, 2024 / Music

It’s Friday! We’ve got a few highly anticipated new releases to feature today. The latest albums from The Black Keys, Khruangbin and Vampire Weekend are out! Let’s dig in. Khruangbin…

March 30, 2024 / Music

It’s Saturday! We’ve got a few great new vinyl releases to feature this week so we’re going to get right into them. If you’re looking for more info on these…

February 16, 2024 / Music

It’s Friday! It wouldn’t be the weekend without some new releases to hit the shelves here at Backbeat. This week we’ve got the latest releases from Grandaddy, Blackberry Smoke, Earl…

January 27, 2024 / Music

It’s the weekend! We’ve got a few new releases to feature so we’re going to jump right into them. Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore (Indie Exclusive)Baltimore-based 4-piece…

January 19, 2024 / Music

It’s Friday! We’ve got a bunch of recent new releases to feature today, including the new Green Day album “Saviors”. The other new releases are all part of Rhino Record’s…

December 17, 2023 / Books

It’s time for another book and music pairing and today we’re matching The Tragically Hip’s album Fully Completely with the book The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and…

November 5, 2023 / Books

Today’s Nice Pair features Canadian twins Tegan & Sara. We’re pairing their latest collabs with each other: their graphic memoir Tegan & Sara: Junior High with their album Crybaby. While…

October 27, 2023 / Music

It’s Friday!We’ve got lots of new and recent new releases to feature today since we skipped posting about releases last week.We know we’ll be getting asked about Taylor Swift‘s 1989…

October 13, 2023 / Music

It’s Friday! Holy moly we’ve got a lot of fresh releases to feature today. A few more of the Rocktober limited edition releases have rolled in, Grateful Dead, Yes, Fleetwood…

October 8, 2023 / Books

It’s been a little bit since we’ve done A Nice Pair, but we’re back today pairing the late Sinead O’Connor’s memoir Rememberings with her second studio album I Do Not…

September 8, 2023 / Music

It’s Friday! We’ve got another week with some solid fresh releases hitting the new release wall. The latest from The Glorious Sons, Half Moon Run and Tyler Childers and The…

August 11, 2023 / Music

It’s Friday! We’ve got the latest from Bonnie Prince Billy and some sweet Lush reissues finally! You can dig into some of the details on these releases below. If you…

July 16, 2023 / Books

Today’s book and music pairing is the autobiography Let Love Rule and the album Mama Said by Lenny Kravitz. Let Love Rule is a memoir by Lenny Kravitz that covers…

June 16, 2023 / Music

It’s Friday! The latest Queens of the Stone Age album “In Times New Roman…” is out today!This one comes in a few different colour variations plus nice shiny black vinyl.We…

June 2, 2023 / Music

It’s Foo Fighters Friday! It’s been a little while since we’ve talked about new releases but today we have got a stack of fresh releases to feature so we’re going…

April 16, 2023 / Books

For this week’s A Nice Pair, we’re recommending the book Acid For the Children by Flea and Blood Sugar Sex Magik by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Most musician memoirs…