Raise your hand if you love Gillian Welch and want two free tickets to see her at the Flynn October 26th! One… two…. th- Ok. Put your hands down. We’ll do this a better way. If you want said ticket for said artist appearing at said venue on said date, head over to Pure Pop’s facebook page and Tell us your favorite Gillian song in the comments for this post. If we like your response and are feeling generous, we’ll add your name to the terrorist watch list our random drawing.
Next Tuesday, June 28 between 4pm and 7pm we’ll be spinning Gillian Welch’s new album “The Harrow & The Harvest” - it’s been almost 8 years since her last outing, 2003′s Grammy winning Soul Journey. To celebrate her return we’ll have the new album onsale for $11.99 – and in case you don’t have her others they’ll all be on sale for cheapsies – we’re talking $7.49 (see. i told you, cheapsies.) Oh did we also meantion we’ll be giving away posters? No? What about the give away for 1 *signed* poster? Yep. That too. See you Tuesday!
ps. Also, all folk, country, americana, bluegrass will be on sale at the
following discount:
50% used cds
25% new cds/used lps
10% new lps
Once again we’ve got some dandy giveaways to give away…
Grab a copy of Dawes “Nothing is Wrong”
and you’ll get a free copy of their “Suitcase EP”
With Arctic Monkeys “Suck It and See” CD $11.99 LP $ 18.97
you’ll get a nifty, numbered, letterpress poster
With Depeche Mode “Remixes 2: ’81-’11″ 3-CD $29.96
you shall receive an indie store exclusive 12″ vinyl
And with Bob Marley’s “Live Forever” CD $16.99 (his LAST recorded concert in 1980)
score a three pack of Marley pins
and a free puppy!!! tonight only!
(child and ice cream not included) …but we’ve got oodles of the other stuff come and see!!
So you’ve all probably downloaded it by now – but i’m sure like us you’re wondering “Hey! When can i get my hands on a physical copy!?” Well… on April 4th, we’re gonna have both Vinyl and CD copies available. And if you pre-order now, you can save a few bucks. That’s pretty cool.
Here’s what the Telegraph had to say about the Album, which has received pretty much positive reviews across the board:
As the title somehow suggests, The King of Limbs has a percussive undertow, constructed on nervous, skittery rhythms that draw on North African and jazz sources, chopped and skewed by computer-era cut and paste sensibilities. For all their movement and agitation, the rhythm tracks are tip toe light, Phil Selway’s microbeats laterally tied to Colin Greenwood’s strolling, silvery, spacious basslines, the bottom end vibrating with sub sonic shudders. On top, Thom Yorke’s vocals float with sweet tunefulness.
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or Pre-order: $7.99
or Pre-order: $12.99
All this month at Pure Pop we have great prices on a whole slew of independent up and coming artists – you may have heard of a bunch of these guys, some of them you might need to check out. On top of that, we’re offering an all expenses paid trip to NYC! Click here for more details.
We love a good challenge, we know you do too (you wonder why we’re always moving the sections around…to keep you on your toes.) Well, here’s another one for you, intrepid pure pop fans – guess the top 10 selling albums for 2010 here at Pure Pop Records in proper order, and win a 15$ gift certificate. It’s that simple. We’re even gonna make it easier for you and give you a pool of 30 potential artist/albums to choose from. Submit your numbered titled list on The facebook to be entered into the competition.
Choose your top 10 from the following 30
(these are in alphabetical order.)
Arcade Fire – Suburbs
Avett Brothers – I & Love & You
Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
Beach House – Teen Dream
Black Keys – Brothers
Broken Bells – Self Titled
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Deerhunter – Halycon Digest
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Go Go Bordello – Trans-continental Hustle
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
Jimi Hendrix – Valleys of Neptune
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – I learned the Hard Way
Ray Lamonagne – God Willin’ and the Creek don’t rise
LCD SoundSystem – This is Happening
MGMT – Congratulations
Anais Mitchell – Hades Town
Mumford & Sons – Sigh no More
The National – High Violet
New Pornographers – Together
Joanna Newsom – Have one on me
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals – Self Titled
Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
The Roots – How i got over
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Up from Below
She & Him – Vol. 2
Spoon – Transference
Vampire Weekend – Contra
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
xx – Self Titled
…to submit your year end lists, mixes and thoughts.
It’s that time of year again everyone, and again we’re looking to our fellow pure pop fans to let us know what you were listening to this year. Submit your lists to us through our contact form, there will also be a way to upload your mixtapes if you’re a DJ, or have compiled some sort of mix – we havn’t worked it out yet, but it’ll likely be through the excellent soundcloud.com.
Submissions will be accepted til Christmas when our favorite submission will win a 20$ gift certificate. So if you wanna win put some time into those lists, descriptions, opinions, essays… We know you’re opinionated, here’s your soapbox.
Here’s just a taste of one of our favorite albums this year, we expect it’ll be showing up on alot of lists.
So if you haven’t heard, the Record Store Day folks have encouraged the record labels to provide some special limited releases on Black Friday. Here is a rough list of what will be released. Almost all these items are very limited & we start selling them at 10 am on Friday. We will also have a bunch sales that will only be active for Friday thru Sunday.
33% off all used cds/tapes
20 % off all used lps
15 % off all regular priced cds
10% off all regular priced lps & gift certificates
Hope to see you down here this weekend pos-turkey hangover.
Michael
Our good friend and Pure Pop compatriot Herb has left the building – and though he is gone, the emotional trauma he inflicted his memory lives on, namely in the music he played instore – and a faint mildewy odor that still lingers on around the bathroom. Below is a list of songs that that have that watery smack of herb we’ve all come to love, albeit in that way you love a retarded child.
Richard Harris – McArthur Park
This is a great example of herb’s ability to look past schmaltzy production staight to the emotional sentiment of a song. Where a lesser music appreciator would only see an obscure reference to mid 20th century poet W. H. Auden’s musings on a long life irrevocably lived – Herb looked deeper stating “Dude, it’s not about a cake. It’s about a girl. Who left his cake out in the rain.”
Sparks – Equator
Herb loved his joke bands. If you wore a hitler mustache and used puns in your album titles Herb’s probably commented on your youtube videos.
Husker Du – Eight Miles High
Any time we’ve ever done lists here on Pure Pop Online herb will inevitably sneak in a Husker Du song. Don’t ask me why. I think he had his first kiss while listening to Zen Arcade, when he was 25.
Guided By Voices – My Valuable Hunting Knife
Herb may be alot of things, but one thing he is not not is a Rob Pollard apologist… Give it a second.
Prefab Sprout – When Love Breaks down
As i said previously, herb has an uncanny knack for seeing right through the trappings of a particular period or genre and right to it’s frosted tip’ed, tear stained, incredibly self indulgently over-emotional core. And his introduction of Prefab Sprout to my life finally allowed me to listen to something other than Kate Bush, for about a week.
Pulp – Common People
Herb: “See lecherous, bitter misanthropes CAN make great music!”
Daft Punk – One More Time
There’s this dance that herb does – it’s sort of like the Carlton Banks but whiter. Sorta like this:
New Order – The Perfect Kiss
Though i may never forgive herb for making me listen to ol’ Berny’s side project Bad Lieutenant, i can never thank him enough to for finally opening my eyes back in the mid aughts to this band. These guys changed my perspective on what “Electronic” and “Punk” and “Dance” meant and much like Herb, introduced me to a whole world of excellent and under appreciated artists.
Thanks buddy, you’ll be missed.
So we’ve diversified our portfolio. Pure Pop now carries a small selection of books; some novels, some comics and a few non-fiction gems. If you’re interested in ordering anything through the store, we’ll happily do that for you. The best part? Special ordering a book at Pure Pop will get you 20% off the retail price. We’re sort of feeling it out as far as selection goes. Feel free to stop by and berate us for our pitiful selection, or commend us for a job well done. (Preferably the latter.)
Some of my favorites among the titles we’re offering include Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Charles Burns’ Black Hole and Irvine Welsh’s The Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs.
…but there’s plenty more. Come on down and check it out.
