We’ve got music of course, and when you buy some we want to give you extra thing. HOOOORAY!

with your purchase of TV on the Radio’s Nine Types of Light CD $11.49 Deluxe CD $17.49 LP $15.97

You’ll be the proud owner of a MASSIVE ( and shiny) TVOTR poster.

Get yr copy of Those Darlins Screws Get Loose CD $13.97 LP $19.97

and get an equally massive and HANDSIGNED Those Darlins poster.

And when you grab the new Low C‘mon CD $11.49   LP $15.97

You’ll receive a bonus disc of 5 acoustic tracks.

And last but not least with Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s Rome CD $13.99

and you’ll leave Pure Pop with a brand spankin’ new poster (of a more manageable size).

Who says nothing’s free anymore?! We beg to differ.

Fleet Foxes comes out tomorrow.

We will open at Midnight.

The folks at Sub Pop have given us some good stuff to give away.

About 20 limited edition silk-screened posters.  These will given out with purchase, first come, first serve.

Have 4 12″ singles.  2 album tracks but something cool to own.  We will give out 2 tonight at midnight & 2 tomorrow.   We will use some random draw to determine who wins the singles.

The better prize is a limited edition white vinyl edition of Helplessness Blues.  We will having a drawing at 5pm tomorrow.  Anybody purchasing the cd or lp before then will be entered to win.  For an added incentive, anybody who comes down tonight between midnight-130am will have their name entered twice.

Hope to see you down here tonight.  We will open at 1130pm with purchases of new releases starting at midnight.

CD sale price for first day is $10.99($11.99 after that). LP price for first day will be $16.49($18.97 after that).

Need to convince your friends to stop down tonight.  It will be 10% off everything else in the store during the midnight opening.

Explosions In The Sky – Take Care, Take Care
Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, the band’s fifth ‘proper’ album (and first since 2007′s All Of A Sudden…) makes a mockery of claims that the band are mere peddlers of music that has been done better before, either by others or themselves. Suggestions that the band basically deal in the same sonic material served up by, say, Mogwai or Godspeed You! Black Emperor are both lazy and misleading. Sure, there are elements that connect these (and many more) groups, relationships that can be usefully mapped out, but they all have their own distinctive voices. “Voice” is the right word to use here because it is largely the absence of voice (i.e., of “songs” or “lyrics”) that prompts the comparisons in the first place. But to say that one instrumental rock-informed group drawn to lengthy mood pieces is the equivalent of another is like saying that one jazz group is like another, or that composers of classical music are somehow all the same. Read the full review on Tiny Mix Tapes

Emmylou Harris – Hard Bargain
Because Hard Bargain contains enough uptempo material for contrast, the album’s ballads don’t blur together as they have on some of Harris’s recent records, which makes it easier to appreciate them on their own merits. “Lonely Girl” is a stunning mood piece, while “Dear Kate” pays homage to the late Kate McGarrigle, Harris’s longtime friend and collaborator. Though she’s always been known first and foremost as a song interpreter, Harris’s songwriting here is especially sharp. The gently rollicking “Home Sweet Home” boasts an unconventional melody that heightens the song’s overall sense of displacement, while the ballad “My Name is Emmett Till” finds Harris singing from the point of view of the young African American boy killed for violating the unspoken laws of the Jim Crow-era South. It’s the empathy in Harris’s writing and her intuitive, sensitive phrasing that keep the song from becoming maudlin or cloying. Read the full review on Slant

Prefuse 73 – The Only She Sounds
The Only She Chapters sounds inebriated. Each snare hit has a tail of diminishing echoes, and each ping of a sample is followed by a ripple of overtones. The diversity of rhythms is on par, but each one is unfurled at a snail’s pace. Melodies peak around the usual backdrop pastiche, but they are swaying amidst the drowsily nodding tempos. “The Only Valentine’s Day Failure” sounds like a King Tubby 45 at 33 RPMs. The eddying vocal samples of “The Only Serenidad” must have been created with the audio equivalent of a slowly rotating Paint ’n’ Swirl. During “The Only Trial of 9000 Suns”, the late Trish Keenan (R.I.P.) sounds less like the aloof retro-pop princess she was than that confusing final conversation you had leaving the bar with the pretty girl in the tangerine dress. Read the full review on Dusted

Prefuse 73

My Morning Jacket Evil Urges picture LP

My Morning Jacket  Z picture LP

Paul Simon  So Beautiful or So What LP

Robbie Roberts How to Become Clairvoyant LP

Dengue Fever  Cannibal Courtship LP

Duff McKagen  Loaded LP

Matt Costa  Songs we Sing LP

Fistful of Mercy 7″

Freelance Whales/Foals split 7″

A Day to Remember 7″

Red Fang (colored LP)

The Kills 10″

Rhymesayers label comp picture LP

Deerhoof Friend Opportunity  Dlx LP

Ubiquity 12″ #1

Ubiquity 12″ #3

Rancid  Let the Dominoes Fall Dlx LP Box

Tribute to Guided by Voices CD

Crowded House Live CD & LP

Lindstrom Remix/Bear in Heaven 12″

Akron/Family 2LP

Syd Barrett Introduction LP

Off! 7″

Vanguard Lost Psychedelic LP

Beth Ditto LP

Beach Boys mono EP

Adele 10″

Bruce Springsteen 10″

Decemberists Live CD

Jimi Hendrix Fire 7″

Parlophone 7′ Box Set

AC/DC 7″

Ozzy Osbourne 7″

Jimi Hendrix tribute cd single

Peter Tosh (7′Jamaican colors)

In this Moment cd single

Michael Jackson 7″

Raphael Saadiq 7″

Roy Orbison 7″

Cults 7″

Manchester Orchestra 7″

All right.  I think that is it.  Small forest of cardboard in our back room.

Twilight Sad Demos Cassette

Wavves /Trash Talk split 7″

Superchunk/Coliseum split 7′

Skysaw 7″

Ryan Adams double 7″

Civil Wars  Dance Me 7″

Pinback 7″

Tres Mts LP

Ate some food.  Ready to go thru boxes.

Matt & Kim 7″

Deerhunter 7″

New Pornographers 7″

David’s Town (various) Lp

Esben & the Witch -Ep

Arthur Russell World of Echo (Lp reissue)

Anberlin-Cities Lp

Kode 9 & Scapeape 12″

Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Oz (Lp reissue)

Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman (Lp reissue)

John Hammond So Many Roads (Lp reissue)

Nickel Creek  This Side Lp

Dom 10″

Nickel Creek self titled Lp

Nickel Creek  Why Should the Fire Die Lp

Bob Dylan Live Brandeis Lp

Pearl Jam  Vs Lp reissue

Pearl Jam Vitalogy Lp reissue

Foo Fighters  Medium Rare Lp

Sonic Youth Whores Moaning Lp

Rolling Stones -Brown Sugar 7″

Queen -Keep Yourself Alive 7″

New York Dolls 7″

Toadies 7″

Duran Duran 7″

Nathaniel Rateliff 7″

Derek & The Dominos 7″

Tron/Daft Punk Picture 10″

New York Dolls – Dancing backward in high heels Lp

Lady Gaga Picture 12”

Hollywood Undead Picture Lp

Nirvana Hormoaning Lp

James Blake S/T Lp

Peter,Bjorn & John 7″

Steve Earle 7″

Flogging Molly 7″

Fela Kuti 7″

Dennis Coffey 7″

Rise Against 7″

Laura Marling Dharohar Project & Mumford & Sons 10″

My Morning Jacket -It Still Moves Picture Lp

Dio – Killing the Dragon Picture Lp

Ray Lamontagne – Live Ep

Between the Buried and Me Lp

Kill Rockstars Live 1991 Comp. Lp

Growlers  7″

ARP 12″

Black Angels 10″

Black Angels 12″

Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ramones-Havana Affair(red 7″)

Antony & the Johnsons (clear 10″)

Tres Mts. cd

DBs 7″

Twin Sister/Luyas 7″

Yeasayer 7″

Joan Jett-I Love RocknRoll(clear lp)

Devotchka -How it Ends lp

Damien Jurado live lp

ST Ives comp lp

Record Store Day is upon us – we’ve been getting emails galore from all of you asking if we’ll have copies the many various RSD exclusives. The long short of it is yes, we’ll probably have what you’re looking for, but we’ll probably only have a few copies and they’ll go fast. In order to give everyone a fair shot, we’re going to institute a raffle for those who get here when we open at 10AM.

If you are here at 10AM, when we open our doors tomorrow, you’ll draw a number out of a hat, and in that order have a go at 1 copy of 2 different record store day titles. So sayeth the record store owner, and so be-ith, it. See you all at 10AM!

Opened some more boxes.

Freddy King-Wash Out(7″ reissue)

Red Crayola-Hurricane Fighter Plane (sonic boom remix) 7″

13th Floor Elevators  -Wait for my Love (green 7″)

Yardbirds -Goodnight Sweet Jospephine (7″reissue)

Mayall/Clapton-Lonely Years(7″reissue)

Velvet Underground-Foggy Notion(7″reissue)

Bad Brains-Pay to Cum(7″reissue)

Pink Floyd-London 66/67 (LP)

Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger-La Carotte Bleue (LP)

Neko Case T-Shirts

Panda Bear-Tomboy (LP/T-shirt combo)

Mike Gordon -Moss Remixes

My Chemical Romance – Na Na Na (picture 7″)

Jenny & Johnny/Parsons&Harris -Love Hurts (blue 7″)

Green Day/Husker Du-Don’t Want to Know if You are Lonely (orange 7′)

R.E.M. triple 7″

Regina Spektor-Four From Far (light blue 7″)

Mastodon/ZZ Top-Just got Paid (yellow 7″)

Young the Giant 7″

The Republic Tigers 7″

Rival Schools 7″

Rush -Caravan 7″

Death Cab for Cutie 7″

Joy Formidable 7″

Doors -Riders on the Storm 7″ reissue

Busdriver 7″

Vivian Girls 7″

Villagers/Charlotte Gainsbourg 7″

Xiu Xiu/Deerhoof 7″

Justin Townes Earle 7″

Silverstein 7″

Built to Spill -Ripple ( picture 7″)

Phish-Two Soundchecks (7″)

Wild Flag 7″

Lower Dens 7″

Blitzen Trapper 7″

More to come, in a couple of hours.

Here we go.

These are some of the items that have arrived at the store & will be available as soon as 10am Saturday.

Omar Rodriguez Lopez- Telesterion (CD & LP)

Jill Sobule & John Doe- A Day At The Pass (CD)

Javelin (7″)

Javelin- Canyon Candy (10″)

Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma Outtakes (LP)

Nada Surf- The Moon Is Calling (7″)

Discordance Axis- The Inalienable Dreamless (LP)

Bibio/Clark (Split 12″)

Neurosis- Sovereign (LP)

Urge Overkill (7″)

Liturgy/Oval (Split LP)

Os Mutantes- Best Of (LP Reissue)

Daedelus- Tailor-Made (12″)

Midlake-Am I Going Insane (12″)

Bad Brains- God Of Love (LP)

Mastadon- Live At The Aragon (LP)

Tom Petty- You’re Gonna Get It (LP Reissue, blue vinyl)

Tom Petty- Tom Petty (LP Reissue, white vinyl)

Fleetwood Mac- Rumors (LP Reissue)

Clapton Unplugged (LP Reissue)

Glassjaw- Worship And Tribute (Picture LP)

Machine Head- Black Procession (Live 10″)

Of Montreal- The Past Is A Grotesque Animal (12″)

Circa Survive- Apendage EP (LP and CD)

Hank III- Damn Right, Rebel Proud (Colored LP)

Hank III- Strait to Hell (Colored LP)

Hank III- Lovesick, Broke And Driftin’ (Colored LP)

Television- Live At The Waldorf ’78 (White LP)

Grateful Dead- Grateful Dead (Mono LP Reissue)

Transit- Promise Nothing (7″)

Franz Ferdinand- Covers EP (LP)

Mike Gordon- Inside In (LP Reissue)

Rough Guide- Desert Blues (LP)

Rough Guide- African Guitar Legends (LP)

William Fitzimmions- Golden Shadow (LP)

Rekords Rekords (10″)

Superchunk- Here’s Where The Strings Come In (LP and CD)

Mighty Clouds (LP)

Mates Of State- Team Boo (LP)

Broom- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (LP)

Architecture In Helsinki- Places Like This (LP Reissue, pink vinyl)

The Submarines- Lovenotes, Letterbombs (LP)

Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American (DLX 3 LPs)

Deftones- Covers (LP)

Flaming Lips (LP Boxset, 5 LPs)

Brett Dennen- b  side to the d side (7″)

Owen- O, Evelyn (7″)

Polvo- Celebrate The New Dark Age (Signed LP)

Grinderman- Evil (LP)

Grinderman- Palaces Of Montezuma (12″)

Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues (12″)

Caribou- Swims Remixes (LP)

Ubiquity 12″ #2 (LP)

Piebald (3 Vinyl Box Set)

Ubiquity Compilation (CD)

Bloodshot- 15th Anniversary Concert (CD)

The Republic Tigers- No Lands Man (CD)

Stay tuned, more to come!!!

We got T-shirts folks, lots of different ones. Including this rad Pure Pop Records t-shirt modeled above by some nameless, mindless fashionista. Come down, check em out. It’ll be shirt weather in oh… 5 months.