After ten years on Agricola Street, Obsolete Records was booted from its ramshackle storefront last fall in the most anticlimactic way possible. “Someone was parking out back, and drove into some support beam,” says Obsolete owner Ian Fraser. “And the building’s owner decided to just tear it all down.” The news wasn’t a total surprise: […]
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Saturday is Record Store Day
April 20, AKA 4/20, is just around the corner—you know what that means…Record Store Day! It’s the one day each year when record-store-owners, musicians and record fanatics alike band together (so-to-speak) to celebrate their passion for great music new and old. Occurring on the third Saturday of April each year, the event has been an […]
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Tongan Death Grip LP Now Available
The end of the postal strike in Canada (for now) heralds the arrival of bills (bad) the “Stephen King Rules” t-shirt that I ordered online like six weeks ago (good!) and Tongan Death Grip’s LP Chula Vista (yeah better!) which you may have read about here. What I’ve heard is really good, lemme tell ya, […]
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You Can Now Buy Bad Vibrations’ 7″
see evil After some delays, everyone’s favorite punks Bad Vibrations now have their excellent 7″ Under Pressure ready for your grubby little paws. It will be available during their show tonight with The Friendly Dimension, The Ether and Mean Mug waydowntown at Club 1668. $5, come after 10pm, and bring your pocket money for the […]
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Record sale at the Bus Stop Theatre!
December 16th to 23rd! Old and new records that would probably make either great gifts or gag gifts. You decide.