Don’t forget this Thursday we have the midnight release of Ethel Cain’s latest album, downtown!

Here are you new Friday release records this week!

– ETHEL CAIN with her sophomore album “Willoghby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You” – and we should have the indie exclusive copies with the extra insert! We are holding a MIDNIGHT release for this late Thursday night at our downtown store!
– THE BLACK KEYS are here with their thirteenth studio album “NO RAIN, NO FLOWER” and we’ll have copies on exclusive red!
– BABYMETAL – are a Japanese “Kawaii metal” band? And this is their fifth studio album “Metal Forth”!
– MACHINE GUN KELLY actually just goes by MGK now and it’s HIS turn to do a country album I guess, called “Lost Americana”! And out Friday!
– Oh yes it’s time for a reissue of LIL WAYNE’s 2005 album “THA CARTER 2”
– CHARLEY CROCKETT is back with his 14th studio album and second this year, “Dollar A Day”!

This week Pepperoni picked Texas Sun

“Both Khruangbin (three-piece psychedelic rock group) and Leon Bridges (modern R&B soul singer) are two artists that I have been contemplating picking a pick for… why not knock them both out with their 2020 collaborative effort – “Texas Sun?” I do believe this is a good summertime pick as well. A total of four songs clocking in a little over twenty minutes, featuring these great musicians doing what they do best for the perfect combo. Pair this up with the sequel, “Texas Moon” and you basically have yourself a perfect album.”

We have another loud show happening this Saturday downtown

Recently this record came in. It looked pretty weird and the cover was pretty beat up so we threw it on the roof.

Boy have we been busy lately. We just picked up a bunch of record shelving and fixtures last week and have been busy getting all that situated at our mall store. It’s looking so good! More pics of that at the bottom here.

Next week we’ll be having a Ethel Cain midnight listening party at our downtown store, so be watching out for that.

Here are all the hot new vinyls coming out this Friday:

– New Orleans hip hop duo $UICIDEBOY$ with their 5th studio album “Thy Kingdom Come” on exclusive maroon vinyl. Everyone at the mall always asks if we have them.
– BILLY STRINGS and BRYAN SUTTON have a live album, “Live At The Legion” out on red, white and blue split viny.
– Country artist SHABOOZEY who played the fair last year is out with a deluxe edition of his last album “Where I’ve Been” – double black LP.
– a couple of Blue Note Tone Poet jazz re-issues: The Horace Silver Quintet “The Tokyo Blues” and Jackie McLean “Jacknife”.

This week Pepperoni picked In Rainbows

“Good morning Peppy fan’s! I am back with another pick this week. An album cover you have all seen – Radiohead’s 2007 “In Rainbows” probably takes the cake for being their most iconic album cover. This very colorful album art looked so great on our new 2007 ipod nano screens back when this was released, I am pretty sure it was the default album shown in all ipod advertisements. Is it the best Radiohead album? Some people might think so. Contains hit songs “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” and “Nude.”

This Thursday downtown we have a kinda death metal, kinda hardcore show going on.

And then this Friday we got some Big new vinyl releases coming out!

-MAC MILLER – “I Love Life, Thank You” is getting pressed to vinyl for the first time, the 2011 mixtape that was originally released to celebrate 1 million Twitter followers (boy those were the days)
-The new album from WET LEG, “Moisturizer” hits shelves including the indie Clear variant
YOU’RE A GOOD SPORT, CHARLIE BROWN adds even more unreleased Vince Guaraldi jazz tracks to the Charlie Brown pile in the form of 45rpm Zoetrope vinyl! It looks good, sounds good, great!
-We got the much anticipated debut of GIGI PEREZ, self produced album “At The Beach, In Every Life”
-And a reissue of BILLY JOEL “Glass Houses”

This week Pepperoni chose the Black Album

“Today I picked METALLICA s/t, also known as the Black Album (I assume because it’s very dark and hard to read). This album from 1991 contains so many hits. Like everyone else learning how to play guitar, they learned how to play Enter Sandman and put it on this record! The producer of this album was Bob Rock who also produced Motley Crue’s “Dr Feelgood”. I can just imagine them having such a great time together, inserting “Sad But True” and “Nothing Else Matters” into their daily conversations and giggling about it. This was the first Metallica album to include bass guitar and also orchestral instruments, perhaps forshadowing their magnum opus S&M2.”

Did you know our downtown arcade has existed for 5 years now???

We’ve been releasing a whole heap of new products lately. Here is our newest shirt design. It’s so good we didn’t even put our logo on it!

But if logos are what ya need, then we have it real big on these new slipmats!

And we put a bunch of logos on these! All of these items can be purchased at our Online Store

Anyway, here are this Friday’s hot new vinyls!

– MILEY CYRUS with her ninth studio album “Something Beautiful”! We will have copies on black vinyl.
– KENDRICK LAMAR has a 10th anniversary edition of his 2014 album “To Pimp A Butterfly” on double vinyl – poster included.
– MT. JOY with their fourth studio album “Hope We Have Fun” on clear vinyl!
– THE PET SHOP BOYS “Discography” is being released on vinyl, which is the band’s single collection.
– Rare psychedelic record THE SACRED MUSHROOM (self-titled) originally released in 1969 is getting a re-issue!

This week Pepperoni picked Marty Robbins

“Hold on right one second there partner! My pick this week is for cowboys and REAL cowboys only. You might be comin’ in ter my store ter ask if we have Marty Robbins “Gunfighter Ballads” originally released in 1959 because ye heard it on some sorta video game you were playin “fallout” or somethin. Maybe ye askin bout this here cause yer granpappy used to listen to it on ol 78. That’s fine. but only come in lookin’ fer this record on vinyl if you spit in a REAL spitoon like me, Pepperoni! Meow!”

Have you played our newest pinball MOTORDOME yet at our downtown arcade??? Check out all the strategy on our official Motordome forum

Wow, what a great weekend last weekend was with so much going on all at once downtown. The first Saturday Farmer’s Market, the Old Capital Art Fair, and Pridefest. We had great weather and an amazing time.

Meanwhile at the mall, Granpa has his garden planted and is all ready for summer!

So now for this week, here are you hot Friday Titles!

– STEREOLAB have their first new album in over ten years. “Instant Holograms on Metal Film.” We know we are getting copies on black, our fingers are crossed that we will receive some indie exclusives on clear.
– EXODUS “Bonded By Blood” is getting re-issued on color vinyl, this iconic 1985 metal album that influenced the world of metal.
– JOE JONAS (one of the Jonas Brothers) has a new solo album “Music For People Who Believe In Love” out on white vinyl.\
– GREEN DAY with the deluxe edition of their newest album that came out last year, “Saviors” out on double pink vinyl!
– MANNEQUIN P*SSY with a re-issue of their 2016 album “Romantic” on color vinyl.

This week Pepperoni picked Daft Punk

“You know, aside from the TRON soundtrack, I have yet to pick an actual DAFT PUNK album as my pick of the week! That has got to change! So here we have their second album “Discovery” from 2001! It’s okay to dance at home in your living room in your underwear to this. It’s electronic, it’s disco, it’s pop, it’s French. It’s also music for robots. Enjoy!”

This Friday is this show, and wouldn’t ya know it, it’s not just all hardcore, there’s some interesting sounding darkwave in there and maybe some other surprises too!

And in case that’s not enough for ya, here’s another happening on Tuesday!