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February 23, 2025
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Staff Pick: Various Artists - Barnyard Beehive

Numero’s latest compilation “Barnyard Beehive” hit the shelves on Valentine’s Day.

Staff Pick: Various Artists - Barnyard Beehive
November 10, 2024
staff picks
mike pitts
Staff Pick: Tsunami - Loud Is As

FFO: 90’s indie rock and knowing far too much about the Teen Beat label

Staff Pick: Tsunami - Loud Is As
October 27, 2024
staff picks
mike pitts
Staff Pick: Bratmobile - Pottymouth + Ladies, ...

The long awaited reissues for Bratmobile’s catalog are finally here!

Staff Pick: Bratmobile - Pottymouth + Ladies, Women and Girls + Girls Get Busy LP Reissues
October 20, 2024
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mike pitts
Staff Pick: Blood Incantation - Absolute ...

The latest from Blood Incantation has peaked some interest around these parts!

Staff Pick: Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
October 13, 2024
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mike pitts
Staff Pick: Dummy - Free Energy

"We all can’t get enough of Dummy’s Free Energy here at ol Sonic Boom! "

Staff Pick: Dummy - Free Energy
Greg Brown
December 22, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Cole

Greg Brown
December 22, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Cole

It’s year-end-list season! Cole lists his top-ten records of 2019.

Tagged: lizzo, Black Belt Eagle Scout, mdou moctar, cochemea, brittany howard

Greg Brown
December 19, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Mike S.

Greg Brown
December 19, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Mike S.

It’s year-end-list season! Here’s a list of the records of the year for Mike S.

Tagged: pile, fluung, better oblivion community center, faye webster

Greg Brown
December 17, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Nate

Greg Brown
December 17, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Nate

It’s year-end-list season! We’re happy to present Nate’s top-ten records of the year in no particular order.

Tagged: thom yorke, ada lea, charly bliss, rem, stef

Greg Brown
December 16, 2019
charts recap

Charts Recap: December 9th - 15th, 2019

Greg Brown
December 16, 2019
charts recap
Charts Recap: December 9th - 15th, 2019

Weekly top-seller: Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas

Tagged: vince guaraldi, beck

Greg Brown
December 15, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Julia

Greg Brown
December 15, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Julia

It’s year-end-list season! Julia runs down her 10 favorite albums of 2019.

Tagged: jay som, hand habits, brittany howard, purple mountains

Greg Brown
December 14, 2019
new releases

New Releases for December 14th, 2019

Greg Brown
December 14, 2019
new releases
New Releases for December 14th, 2019

New releases are here! We’ve got the Bjork remix collab record, the re-emergence of Duster, locals Navvi have a new EP, and a bunch more. See our list.

Tagged: navvi, duster, bjork

Greg Brown
December 12, 2019
best of 2019

Best of 2019 Round-Up

Greg Brown
December 12, 2019
best of 2019
Best of 2019 Round-Up

We love this time of year for all the year-end lists we get to read. Here is our definitive list of lists!

Greg Brown
December 10, 2019
best of 2019

Best of 2019: Danielle

Greg Brown
December 10, 2019
best of 2019
Best of 2019: Danielle

It’s year-end-list season! Danielle’s 2019 list has some excellent recommendations for the adventurous listener.

Tagged: ka baird, kali malone, 75 dollar bill, finders keepers

Greg Brown
December 9, 2019
charts recap

Charts Recap: December 2nd - 8th, 2019

Greg Brown
December 9, 2019
charts recap
Charts Recap: December 2nd - 8th, 2019

Weekly top-seller: Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas

Tagged: vince guaraldi, sharon jones, dj shadow

Greg Brown
December 7, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Kay

Greg Brown
December 7, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Kay

It’s year-end-list season! Our local-buyer Kay contributes both a new and reissue highlight list.

Tagged: purple mountains, fluung, outer spaces, team dresch, great grandpa, rupa, rain parade

Greg Brown
December 6, 2019
new releases

New Releases for December 6th, 2019

Greg Brown
December 6, 2019
new releases
New Releases for December 6th, 2019

Our first New Music Friday of December is here. We’ve got a rad/rare Space Funk collection from Soul Jazz Records, a reissue of a wonderful Johann Johannsson score for Fordlandia, the new Beck record arrived late earlier this week, and of course a ton of other new stuff. List included.

Tagged: beck, soul jazz, johann johannsson

Greg Brown
December 3, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Matt

Greg Brown
December 3, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Matt

It’s year-end-list season! Store manager Matt emerged from the office to deliver his list of favorite records of the 2019.

Tagged: fka twigs, purple mountains, floating points, black midi, freddie gibbs

Greg Brown
December 2, 2019
charts recap

Charts Recap: November 25th - December 1st, 2019

Greg Brown
December 2, 2019
charts recap
Charts Recap: November 25th - December 1st, 2019

Weekly top-seller: Pearl Jam - MTV Unplugged

Tagged: rsd, black friday, pearl jam, lizzo, emmet otter

Greg Brown
November 30, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Jefferson

Greg Brown
November 30, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Jefferson

It’s year-end-list season! Check in on Jefferson’s list for a choice selection of fringe sounds from across the spectrum.

Tagged: swans, coil, kankyo ongaku, the comet is coming, soul jazz

Greg Brown
November 28, 2019
new releases

RSD Black Friday 2019 List!

Greg Brown
November 28, 2019
new releases
RSD Black Friday 2019 List!

Every RSD exclusive we’ll have on the shelves when we open Friday morning.

Tagged: rsd, record store day, Seattle, 2019, black friday

Greg Brown
November 27, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Jake

Greg Brown
November 27, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Jake

It’s year-end-list season! Jake, our guy behind the used vinyl desk, gives us his eccentric yearly top-ten plus a few.

Tagged: lana del rey, nick cave, great grandpa, purple mountains, ana roxanne, steve hiett, faye webster

Greg Brown
November 25, 2019
charts recap

Charts Recap: November 18th - 24th, 2019

Greg Brown
November 25, 2019
charts recap
Charts Recap: November 18th - 24th, 2019

Weekly top-seller: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen


Tagged: nick cave, queens of the stone age, arthur russell

Greg Brown
November 22, 2019
new releases

New Releases for November 22nd, 2019

Greg Brown
November 22, 2019
new releases
New Releases for November 22nd, 2019

New music is here! We’ve got a fresh LP from Danny Brown, a posthumous set from Leonard Cohen, a new collaboration from Mount Eerie and Julie Doiron, and a bunch of other good stuff. Full list contained.

Tagged: danny brown, leonard cohen, mount eerie

Greg Brown
November 21, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Mike P.

Greg Brown
November 21, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Mike P.

It’s year-end-list season! Shop owner Mike gives us a well rounded list of his twenty top favorites of 2019.

Tagged: chemical brothers, blood incantation, john coltrane, devil master, sharon van etten, sleepover club

Greg Brown
November 19, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists

Best of 2019: Greg

Greg Brown
November 19, 2019
best of 2019, staff lists
Best of 2019: Greg

It’s year-end-list season! Greg gives us thirteen favorites for twenty-nineteen plus some thoughts on the decade in music.

Tagged: purple mountains, bill orcutt, sun kil moon, milk music, wilco, natural information society

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