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We  reopen on Thursday 27th at 11am.

A slight change to now include the excellent Neu! Reekie! single         x       1. Frightened Rabbit – State Hospital 2. Withered Hand – Inbetweens 3. There Will Be Fireworks – Because, Because 4. Jesus Baby / Kevin Williamson – The Caterpillar Tango / In A Darkened Room   5. Rachel […]

With 5 days of sales to go here is the top 30 1.   The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know 2.   Meursault – Something for The Weakened 3.   Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas 4.   Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah Don’t Bend Ascend 5.   Admiral Fallow – Tree […]

A lot of people have suggested the shop could be used more as a venue given its size and the lack of small venues in Edinburgh. I’m not sure whether that will work long term but while we are closed it seems like a good idea. I always intended to ask this year’s best selling […]

A side effect of the blog becoming more and more popular was that it suddenly seemed to face far more attacks (of a cyber nature) that the blog wasn’t really geared up for. We also managed to exceed our bandwidth but that was sorted very quickly thanks to United Hosting. Anyway thanks also to Steve […]

To celebrate the short film released this weekend highlighting the Grassmarket as the arts hub of Edinburgh with independent traders to match, Avalanche has at great personal expense secured a visit from Santa’s ponies to the Grassmarket. With Edinburgh’s premier children’s gift shop Helios Fountain next door we find that between ourselves and our other […]

Thursday 6th December @ Avalanche 19.00 until 21.00 ***TMPRLT*** www.tmprlt.co.uk MUSIC BY MONTRELL MCSWAIN www.montrell-mswain.tumblr.com

I’ve been asked several times why I don’t ask the bands/labels to provide something “extra” if featured in our end of year charts as others do and the answer is quite simple. It seems a little unfair to reward those who have bought a release already by giving those who haven’t an incentive to do […]

Hello! Cancel The Astronauts here with a quick reminder/the stunning news that our much delayed album launch party is happening onFriday 30th November in Edinburgh, at The Electric Circus. You should come along. It’ll be ace. We’ll have sets from the brilliant Letters and the fabulousShooting Stansfield, the mighty Kid Canaveral will be DJing, we’ll do some songs, Matt will do some dancing, and […]