Time to get a wee bit o' the green ready for your St. Paddy's Day celebrations! During the month of March we're giving out FREE LIMITED EDITION Easy Street shamrock stickers with any purchase, in-store or online, while supplies last! Your friends will be green with envy when they see 'em!

OK Go Ditches EMI Over Video Policy

OK Go has left EMI by mutual agreement after feuding with the label over their no-embedding policy for music videos. The band launched to stardom after their video for "Here It Goes Again" became a viral smash. Naturally, they wanted to spread their new clip around with the same methods - an embeddable YouTube video. However, EMI implemented a "no embedding" policy, since the label only gets paid if the viewer watches the clip...Continue

Winter is baaaack! Warm up with our latest vinyl picks for your lonely needle! 

Pavement LP (Low Price) Reissues

The budget LP returns! If you're OK with no-frills, medium-weight vinyl with a price averaging about $10 per record, you will be happy as hell to pick up these new Pavement LP reissues. Buy all five for the same price as two of them fancy-pants, "limited," "200-gram," "audiophile" vinyl jobbers. Now available: Slanted and Enchanted, Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee,...Continue

Here's a new batch of free downloads from this week's new releases - plus a bonus preview of new MGMT. Enjoy!

The Besnard Lakes - "Albatross" - from The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night (Jagjaguwar)

jj - "Let Go" - from jj no.3 (Secretly Canadian)

Titus Andronicus - "A More Perfect Union" - from The Monitor (XL) 

MGMT - "Flash Delirium" - from Congratulations - out 4/13 (Sony)

The local media was out in force last night as crews from KOMO, KING, KIRO and Q13 FOX all converged on our West Seattle store to cover our Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune Listening Party! Thanks to all for coming out - we had a great time, and hope you did too. KIRO will be airing their footage tonight at 6pm; here's a nice clip from Q13.