January has arrived again.

This means Rhino’s annual Start Your Ear Off Right Vinyl titles

Special editions and special colors for some of your favorite classic rock titles.

This year includes titles from

Devo
Bad Company
Stevie Nicks
Van Morrison
Deep Purple
Replacements
Uncle Tupelo
Ramones
MC5
Warren Zevon
Twin Peaks soundtrack

Free 2020 Rhino Calendar with purchase

Get 2+ titles from this program, get 15% off both

There was so much good new music this year, this was a hard list to make. Longtime favorites of mine like Beck, Deerhunter, Chaka Kahn, Neil Young  and Panda Bear all released albums this year and even they didn’t make my list. So let’s dig into my top 10 albums of 2019!
– Matt Carroll

10. Gus Dapperton Where Polly People Go To Read
– Super-catchy pop music. Definitely pretending to be vaporwave, but give the kid a break.

9. Hanna Diamond Reflections
– PC Music’s crown jewel finally releases her debut a few years too late maybe, but it’s still a great album. Hannah’s music is vapid in the best way possible.

8. Girlpool What Chaos Is Imaginary
– Just a good, quiet album. Post-ASMR?

7. Cass McCombs Tip Of The Sphere
– Cass is a peerless songwriter. He’s been quietly releasing amazing albums for several years now and he’s never really got the recognition that he deserves. This album is a good introduction if you’re new to his world.

6. Kim Gordon No Home Record
– Headline: Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth) made a record with trap beats on it. Sold!

5. Solange When I Get Home
– Everyone slept on this album, give it a spin you rubes!

4. (Sandy) Alex G House Of Sugar
– A really solid indie rock album with unexpected IDM flourishes (!) and a few other surprises.

3. Chris Cohen Chris Cohen
– This is the best Yo La Tengo album in years.

2. Boogie Everythings For Sale
– No, not A Boogie wit da Hoodie. Just Boogie, and yes he’s on Eminem’s label (cringe). This is still my favorite hip hop album of the year.

1. Brittany Howard Jaime
– This is the album I was always hoping she would make.  She really expanded on her usual palette of sounds with Alabama Shakes. A fantastic solo debut.

 

I would also like to shout-out my favorite vinyl reissues of 2019:

1. Patrice Rushen Remind Me (The Classic Elektra Recordings 1978-1984)
2. The Cardigans catalog
3. Prefab Sprout catalog
4. Janet Jackson catalog
5. Warp Records WXAXRXP30

 

Well damn, what a year for heavy, disgusting music! If you’re like me then you like your music to sound like it just crawled out of the sewer, much like a C.H.U.D. ready to destroy humanity as we know it. There were so many gore drenched releases this year that making a top 10 was a complex task. However, without further ado I present to you my favorite albums of 2019, better get a vomit bag  – Mikey

10. Witch Vomit Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave  review

09. Nightfell A Sanity Deranged  review

08. Mortiferum Disgorged From Psychotic Depths  review

07. Profane Order Slave Morality  review

06. Cerebral Rot Odious Descent Into Decay  review

05. Mylingar Doda Sjalar  review

04. Blood Incantation Hidden History Of The Human Race  review 

03. Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance  review 

02. Fetid Steeping Corporeal Mess  review 

01. Pissgrave Posthumous Humiliation  review

We have a limited amount of copies of the RSD/Black Friday title, Pearl Jam “MTV Unplugged”.    Stop & get the copy that you couldn’t get on Black Friday weekend.

$26.97, in-store purchase only thru this weekend(December 20-22)

Other RSD/Black Friday titles that have come back in stock

Arcade Fire, $12.97
Louis Armstrong  Live in 1956, $28.97
Lewis Capaldi  Hold Me While, $11.97
Jerry Garcia, GarciaLive vol 1, $80.97, down to probably our last copy
Hold Steady, Four on Ten, $17.97
JB’s, More Mess, $30.97
Nick Lowe/Wilco, $11.97
Dave Matthews Band, $124.97
New Pornographers, Stand-Up, $8.97
Charlie Parker, Magnificent, $30.97
Regrettes, Holiday-ish,$6.97
Paul Westerberg, Stereo/Mono $33.97
Wrens, Silver, $30.97

Perfect for that last minute gift.

Get a coupon to use at Pure Pop in January with any purchase over $40 from now til Christmas.

How it works?

When your total purchase at Pure Pop is over $40 get a coupon for 15%* of your purchase that you can use in January 2020.

Example $50 purchase, would get you a $7.50 coupon.

Note-this would apply to Gift Certificates, both purchased in-store or online.

*Maximum $15 coupon per person*

 

Super M The First Mini-Album debuted as the top selling cd in America yesterday.  You can get a copy here of the new K-Pop cd at Pure Pop for the special first week price of $11.99.

Review of video of Jopping here

So we will be celebrating our 40th anniversary at the start of next year.  As a promotion, we will be highlighting each year we have been open for a limited time, starting with 1980.

Check out the special year by year section (new & used/cd &vinyl) that has been carved out just as you enter the store.  All new cd/vinyl in the 1980 section will be 15% off regular price.

For fun & possible inspiration, listed below are some employee favorites from albums released in 1980.  Please submit your own top list in the comment section below or on the matching facebook post.  We give out a $15 gift certificate to 2 random people who post their favorites.

Mike C

1.Roky Erickson and the Aliens(self-titled)
2.Talking Heads Remain In Light
3.X Los Angeles
4.XTC Black Sea
5.Pretenders(self-titled)
6.Dire Straits Making Movies
7.Devo  Freedom of Choice
8.Pete Townshend  Empty Glass
9.Bob Marley  Uprising
10.Soft Boys  Underwater Moonlight

Mike B

1.John Foxx Metamatic
2.K. Leimer Closed Systems Potential
3.Various Artists Wanna Buy a Bridge?
4.John Hassell / Brian Eno Fourth World Vol. 1 – Possible Musics
5.B.G. Gilbert / G. Lewis 3R4
6.Curlew Curlew
7.Talking Heads Remain in Light
8.Cabaret Voltaire Voice of America
9.Captain Beefheart Doc at the Radar Station
10.Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth

Mikey

1.Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
2.The Cramps Songs the Lord Taught Us
3.Ramones End of the Century
4.Motörhead Ace of Spades
5.Angel Witch Angel Witch
6.Judas Priest British Steel
7.X Los Angeles
8.Black Friday Jealous Again
9.Circle Jerks Group Sex
10.Iron Maiden Iron Maiden

Sophie

1.Talking Heads Remain in Light
2.Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac Live
3.Billy Joel Glass Houses
4.Bruce Springsteen The River
5.Hall & Oats Voices

Matt

1.Steely Dan Gaucho
2.Joy Division Closer
3.Prince Dirty Mind
4.Soft Boys Underwater Moonlight
5.The B-52’s Wild Planet
6.Talking Heads Remain in Light
7.Feelies Crazy Rhythms
8.Dire Straits Making Movies
9.Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth
10.Devo Freedom of Choice

 

 

Special vinyl releases on Tuesdays in January

Get a free 2019 calendar with purchase of any of the following.

1/08/19

Television-Adventure-red vinyl
Alice Cooper-Greatest Hits-silver vinyl
Aretha Franklin-Aretha’s Gold-gold vinyl
Monkees-Greatest Hits-orange vinyl

1/15/19

Jimmy Rogers All-Stars-Blues Blues Blues
ZZ Top-El Loco-pink vinyl
Gram Parsons-GP-with 7″ single
Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young-So Far-white vinyl
ZZ Top-Tejas-purple vinyl

1/22/10

Joni Mitchell-Blue-blue vinyl
Little Village-Little Village-blue vinyl
Grateful Dead-Skeletons From the Closet-white vinyl
Warren Zevon-Warren Zevon

1/29/19

Buffalo Springfield-Buffalo Springfield-mono
Buffalo Springfield-Buffalo Springfield Again-mono
Lupe Fiasco-Lasers-red vinyl
Ramones-Road to Ruin-blue vinyl

contact us about pre-ordering or reserving a copy of any of these titles

 

 

Sale priced items

• Mgmt Little Dark Age cd $12.49 vinyl $32.38
• The Wombats Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life  cd $12.49 vinyl $21.58
• Soundtrack Fifty Shades Freed cd $13.49
• Franz Ferdinand Always Ascending cd $12.49 vinyl $22.48
• Palm Rock Island cd $12.49 vinyl $14.38
• Wild Child Expectations cd $12.49 vinyl $23.38
• Wade Bowen Solid Ground cd $11.99
• Brian Fallon Sleepwalkers cd $13.49 vinyl $21.68
• Ezra Furman Transangelic Exodus cd $16.49 vinyl $27.88
• Joan As Police Woman Damned Devotion cd $16.49 vinyl $27.88
• Melody Gardot Live In Europe cd $18.49 vinyl $44.98
• Good Tiger We Will All Be Gone cd $12.49 vinyl $25.18
• Harms Way Posthuman cd $12.49 vinyl $25.18
• Insane Warrior(RJD2) cd $12.99
• Black Panther Music from & inspired from film cd $14.99

 

Other titles:

Rock/Pop

• Twin Peaks Sweet ’17 Singles vinyl
• Mark D
• Soft Moon cd/vinyl
• Robert Plant live DVD
• Chris Hillman compilation cd
• Dashboard Confessional cd/vinyl
• Ramones reissue vinyl (3 titles)
• Offspring reissue vinyl
• Shovels & Rope compilation vinyl
• Insects VS Robots vinyl
• Fu Manchu vinyl
• Screeching Weasel reissue vinyl

Jazz/Blues

• Nina Simone compilation cd/vinyl
• Dr John reissue vinyl
• Jamie Saft cd

Hip-Hop/Soul

• Insane Warrior(RJD2) vinyl

Folk/Country/Bluegrass

• Brigid Mae Power vinyl

Soundtracks

• Jonny Greenwood Phantom Thread cd
• Danny Elfman DC Justice League vinyl
• Johann Johannsson The Mercy vinyl
• Jed Kurzel Babadook vinyl

Experimental/Electronic

• Gogo Penguin cd/vinyl

Reggae/World

• Natalia Lafourcade cd
• Bobby Digital vinyl reissue
• Lloyd Parks vinyl reissue