It’s Record Store Day this weekend – and Shipley band The Delvaux are using the occasion to launch their album Blunderkammer at the Record Cafe in Bradford. Here’s what we played on our latest edition of Bradford Beat – including a couple by The Delvaux: The Delvaux – When Ownership Shifts Public Service Broadcasting – […]
I didn’t go to my local independent record shop today. I did go last week and the week before that. It was great – full of new releases on a variety of formats and friendly knowledgable staff who were happy to while away an hour chatting to a strange little man about dubstep,death metal,obscure rockabilly […]
If you’re at a loose end today, why not buy some vinyl from an independent record shop to support Record Store Day? Talking of which, you could win the vinyl compilation album The Hare and The Bull which is being release by Bradford record label to mark the event. It features tracks by The Sentimentalists, […]
This Saturday is Record Store Day.  Each year when I preview this event in my BCB show I notice the list of special, very limited, releases grow and grow.  Apparently this year there are 500 such releases.  Now, I love Record Store Day, and what it does for independent record shops.  However, I think there […]
Tonight’s was a special show dedicated to releases that are coming on on Saturday 21st April, the annual Record Store Day event.  The official UK Record Store Day 2012 website has a full list of releases coming out on the day. During the show I spoke to Adam of Jumbo Records in Leeds.  Jumbo have […]
This Saturday, 17th April, is Record Store Day, the day on which we celebrate the independent record shop and acknowledge its importance to music. This year there are dozens of special limited edition releases coming out to mark the day (many limited to just 1000 or even as few as 100 copies). For a full […]
New songs from a rich variety of artists – including GNfN favourites & others new to the show. 1. The Handsome Family: Octopus from their new ‘bugs & beasties’ themed album Wilderness. Then, from Leeds………. 2. Fossil Collective: How Was I To Know, lovely track from debut album Tell Where I Lie 3. Jonny Walker: Song for Bernie – from […]
This Saturday Jumbo Records in Leeds celebrate their 40th anniversary. An awful lot has changed in the music industry over the past 40 years. But one thing that hasn’t changed, is that Jumbo have remained brilliant.  If you heard The BCB Sessions with Laura Rawlings on Wednesday, you will have heard her talking to […]
This Week’s Too Much Too Young is packed full of great music. We started with Yo Mama by Peggy Sue, who have just released their debut album and are sounding sweet. Before playing new and classic tracks from the likes of She and Him, Flight of the Conchords, The Anniversary and Two Door Cinema Club.
Hype about this year’s Record Store Day (sorry, Record Shop Day as Phil Cope keeps reminding me) is building. The only thing I’ve actually heard so far that’s coming out on 19th April is a new tune by Spiritualized from a compilation LP of music incorporating sounds from Voyager space probes: Also in this week’s […]