Get those tents and camping chairs ready for your overnight stay outside of the shop because everyone’s favorite day of the year is here - Record Store Day is back April 18th, 2026.
The list of titles we’ll have can be found HERE.
Join us Thursday March 26th for a first listen to Courtney Barnett's new album 𝙲𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝙷𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚝! Plus purchase the album before anyone else + get your hands on some neat freebies! 🎧 See you there!
Join us as Cat Clyde takes our stage for an intimate in-store experience + stick around after the set to get your new copy of Mud Blood Bone signed!
Waddle on down to Sonic Boom in all your postprandial somnolence glory and join us for another Record Store Day Black Friday. The list of titles we’ll have can be found HERE.
Wednesday, April 9th we celebrate the release of Dean Johnson’s 7”, Blue Moon b/w Lake Charles, with Sonic Boom Records in Seattle
Get your copy of the 7” early + signed! (ahead of the April 11th street date) and hear a short set from Dean Johnson himself.
Nada Surf set at 6 PM
Signing at 6:30
Join us for an early listen of Jessica Pratt’s new record Here in the Pitch a day before release day. We’ll be giving away a special signed test pressing as well.
Finally rescheduled!* To celebrate the release of the new Wimps album City Lights (out 10/13) we’re having the band play our infamous fold down stage for an all ages record release show!
Record Sore Day Black Friday is back! Complete list of titles coming soon.
To celebrate the release of the new Wimps album City Lights (out 10/13) we’re having the band play our infamous fold down stage for an all ages record release show!
Come hear Mitski’s new album “The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We” two days before it’s Friday 9/15 release date! There will be souvenirs!
We're pleased to have Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz & Sad13) join us at the shop for a reading from her latest book of poetry "Cry Perfume". FREE + ALL AGES!
Stay tuned for more info & other readers being announced soon!
SURPRISE! It’s our first live band in store in 3 years!!! Join us at 7 PM on Thursday 2/23 for a FREE + ALL AGES set by Coral Grief!
We’ll be celebrating their forthcoming release Daydrops officially available on 2/24 but you can snag your own copy of the tape early at the in store!
It's your favorite day of the year!
Stay tuned for lists of releases, hijinks and donuts.
Join us for an in store performance by Tomo Nakayama. Tomo will be performing songs from his new album, Melonday. Free and all ages!
Join us on Thursday, February 20 at 7:00 for Man Alive listening party. The new King Krule record arrives February 21, but you can pick up a copy a day early while attending our sneak peek event.
Dennis Callaci (Shrimper Records/guitarist of Refrigerator) has a new book “100 Cassettes” out this month on Pelekinesis with a forward by Jonathan Lethem & a new record on Shrimper “The Dead of The Day” (CD/cassette/digital). Simon Joyner’s latest record, “Pocket Moon” (CD/LP) was out in November & after touring the east coast and Europe behind it, these are his first west coast dates. Callaci & Joyner have recorded two record together, and besides playing solo acoustic sets & Callaci reading from his book, they will play a few songs together.
The duo are only playing at record stores, bookstores, galleries and house shows, with each stop the only stop in each specific city.
LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES!?
Sundaeting is a pansexual speed-dating event paired with a free musical performance. Ten lucky applicants will be offered slots in the event to mix and mingle with other local cuties on the day before Valentine's Day 2020, accompanied by DJ sessions from DJ Candy Cowgirl and live jams by Sundae Crush. Even if you’re not stopping in to meet cuties formally, join us for a free show after to get into the Valentine’s mood. :~)
Join us on January 26th for a free in store performance by Wolf Parade. We will be celebrating the release of the new LP, Thin Mind, which come out January 24th on Sub Pop.
Free
All Ages
5:00
Great Grandpa will be performing songs off their new record, Four of Arrows, on October 29th. Come see them perform, grab a record, and buy a ticket to their headline show in November (with no additional fees!)
FREE and ALL AGES!
Sonic Boom is thrilled to host Black Belt Eagle Scout for a special in store performance. Of course the event is all ages and FREE.
Black Belt Eagle Scout will be performing the following evening, October 24th, at the Tractor Tavern
Join us for the vinyl release of Painwaves from Chris King & The Gutterballs!
Join is for a Big Thief, Two Hands album listening party.
We will have exclusive Big Thief prints, FREE while supplies last.
More importantly, you can pick up the record 3 days early.
Two Hands is out October 11 on 4AD
Join us September 19 at 7:30 for an in store performance by Service Animal celebrating the release of their new album, All The Wrong Defenses.
The debut full length album by Everett’s Sleepover Club! W(PH)OOPSIE! delivers 16 rage-fueled, hard-hitting, gut-wrenching punk rock songs that the Pacific Northwest has long been known for. Recorded in Seattle at Pierced Ears Recording Co, W(PH)OOPSIE! takes the themes from Sleepover Club’s previous release, My Other Dad Is Your Ride, and expands them into 'broader sonic horizons'."
Check out the band at a free, all ages performance here at the shop!
“Heads may know Select Level mastermind Andy Sells best as the limber drummer for soulful fusion explorers Afrocop or as the bassist for noisy prog-rockers Nosretep... or maybe even for his stint in electronic brainiacs FCS North, who existed from 1997 to 2007. This talented Seattle multi-instrumentalist has established that he can get weird and far out in various situations. Select Level finds Sells veering off on a tangent into the realm of sleek music geared for dancing and romancing.” Photography by Jasmine Kara | Words by Dave Segal.
