James Yorkston box set now to be available in shops !!!

  This morning I noticed I’d missed an email with presales for October 8th. One item however was highlighted as released October 1st. I was surprised to see it was the Domino label only release of the James Yorkston box set for his latest album. Clearly it hadn’t sold all 1,000 copies and shops were […]

Biffy Clyro – Opposite of support your local record shop ?

Biffy Clyro are Avalanche’s third biggest selling band of all time after Belle & Sebastian and Mogwai. Sometime in the future Avalanche will cease to be a record shop as customers currently know it. It isn’t simply the loss of new release sales but the loss of people coming into the shop and then buying […]

New Rob St. John remix album

Exciting news about the Rob St. John album. And yes I’ll have a word about looking after those who have already bought the album. In case you missed it, ‘Weald’ has been remixed by a bunch of friends and collaborators, in parts doomy, dancey and weird. The remixes are available to stream here and as […]

Polaris Music Prize 2012 @ Avalanche

With 10 days to go before this year’s winner is announced we now have the mystery 7″s to give away with each purchase from the shortlisted nominees. Each single features two of the artists but as they are all sealed with identical sleeves even we don’t know what you will be getting. Fucked Up were […]

Last Online Record Shop Standing

  The new documentary DVD released in support of independent record shops came out this week. Many will argue about the validity of the rebirth of independent record shops but that is a different blog. The music industry has never let the truth get in the way of publicity. The point is that no matter […]

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