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A Taylor Swift Signed This CD

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Boy do we have a busy and exciting week. We’re currently running a drawing for people to put in their names to win some pretty rare Taylor things such as a signed Folklore CD and a rare 12″ single, plus a cardboard standup. The winner will be announced Friday at 7.

Also this week we’ve announced a new game for our arcade, a submarine adventure called Battle Shark! It’s pretty rare to find these to play. It’s got cool lights and force feedback controls, pretty hi tech for 1989.

Here are this Friday’s hot new vinyl!

– CHAPPELL ROAN “The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess” DELUXE EDITION, on peach colored vinyl! We took many pre-orders for these – if you are one of those pre-orders look out for a text or phone call from us when your copy is ready!
– BRIGHT EYES “Five Dice, All Threes” Is this a new Bright Eyes album? It’s a new Bright Eyes album!
– Another PHISH re-issue! This time it’s their 1994 album “Hoist” on fancy color vinyl. The Phish re-issues from a couple of weeks ago were also delayed and we are hoping they show up this weekend.
– POWER TRIP and their 2017 album “Nightmare Logic” on red and black splatter vinyl.
– THE DANDY WARHOLS “Come Down” re-issue of the band’s 1997 album on bright yellow vinyl.

This week Pepperoni picked Alice In Chains

“Everyone knows the 90’s are back. Grunge is back. Jnco jeans are back. Alice In Chains is back. And this… is their 1994 EP, “Jar Of Flies”. Seven songs, and is it true this is the first ever EP to top the Billboard charts? This one’s got mostly acoustic guitar and the guy is singing in his whiny grungy voice. You got your faded jeans on at home, maybe your oversized flannel or band t-shirt on, and your hair is getting long and it’s parted down the middle and hanging a little over your eyes and you are looking up like this as your hair is hanging down and you are listening to Alice in Chains in your bedroom.”

This Friday we are hosting a show with hardcore band Strange Joy from Colorado and local hardcore bands Innervision, Worldview and Discern. Oh right Discern is not hardcore, just has all the same people in it from all the other bands.

The String Cheese Accident

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Here’s your latest update on us fumbling celebrity musician guests. Last weekend Kyle Hollingsworth of the String Cheese Incident visited our store with his family. Unfortunately he was playing in the arcade without paying so was ushered out by our founding owner without knowing who he was. So this time we don’t even have an employee to blame. At least he posted this cool photo of our brat elephant, thanks Kyle! If you want to visit us again, we’ll try our best to not suck.

This Friday’s new vinyl drop!
– New mixtape from DENZEL CURRY – “King Of The Mischievous South, Vol. 2” on regular black and exclusive violet vinyl.
– The fifth album from American country artist LUKE COMBS, “Fathers & Sons” on exclusive white vinyl.
– The 18th studio album from Australian rock group NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS called “Wild God” there were a bunch of different color options for this one and we got like one of each.
– Re-issue of punk band DEAD MOON’s 2004 album “Dead Ahead” (on black vinyl)
– Re-issue of 2018 studio album from tour-cancelling Jack Black silly band TENACIOUS D, “Post-Apocalypto”
– 30th anniversary of recently re-united duo of brothers that don’t like each other OASIS album “Definitely Maybe” on double pink splattery vinyl and the whole works

Tonight, we have a show that’s kinda mixed genre with a little black metal and emo sprinkled in but still basically another loud kung fu pit thing featuring Sign Language from Cincinnati, Broken Vow from New England, Rejoice from Ohio, Montclaire from CT, and local support Subversion

Thursday night we have another show which changes things up, a mostly solo artist show featuring indie folk americana artists Doby Watson and Teri Quinn along with local artists Ricki Marvel, Jess Knight of Looming, and folk punk band Yardwaste.

This week Pepperoni has picked Fearless

“It’s been a minute – join me once again as we continue our journey down Taylor Swift’s discography through my pick’s of the week (we are nearing completing all of her albums, don’t worry). This week’s pick is Taylor’s 2008 album “Fearless” – more specifically the “Platinum Edition” of the album that was originally released on CD and DVD with the 6 additional bonus tracks that came out in 2009. Now we all know that Taylor’s version of this album came out in 2021 and it was the first of her re-release “Taylor’s Version” series. Taylor’s version first and foremost of course, but this one is for all of the completists out there that need that Platinum Edition on vinyl. It’s even still got the link to her myspace page on the back cover. Did you know Taylor was just 18 years old when this album was released?”

It Was A Record Store Day

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Record Store Day has come and gone. We had our biggest day yet. It was the most titles we’ve ever stocked and a huge line despite the cold, and the most records we’ve sold in a single day. The earliest campers got in line around 5pm Friday night. We opened at 8am and had a line at the store until sometime after 11am. We need a bigger store.

Here’s our staff photo we took the night before as we got ready for the event. These shirts were available to the first 100 people to make it in Saturday morning.

But not only was it Record Store Day, it was also the weekend of a new Taylor Swift release! This time her album came out with 4 variants available to Indie record store. The normal white cover, and then 3 variants each with a different bonus track. That Taylor is getting pretty crafty! We have helped a lot of confused parents and grandparents with figuring which one they were supposed to get! We also received the special postcards that we handed out to first few people coming in for the variants.

We’ve been very busy processing online orders and trying to get back to normal business all week and perhaps by Friday we’ll finally be there.

Diving in to those FRIDAY RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS which just happens to be TOMORROW’s releases:
– ST. VINCENT has a brand new album “All Born Screaming” – we should have copies on plain black and also exclusive red vinyl.
– IRON & WINE have a brand new album “Light Verse” available on black and also nifty clear with blue swirl vinyl.
– THE BEST OF THE WAILERS: this was a UK RSD release I believe but available here starting tomorrow, on pink vinyl.
– PET SHOP BOYS with their 15th studio album “Nonetheless” available on grey vinyl.
– LAUFEY “Bewitched: Goddess Edition” (it’s goddess edition because the vinyl is blue and it comes with a board game) (I just learned how to pronounce this artist’s name and I’m really proud of myself)
– DEF LEPPARD with the 40th anniversary of “Pyromania” there is a single LP half-speed mastering version of this and also a double-LP version with demos and live tracks.
– GLORIA COLEMAN QUARTET “Soul Sisters” (being re-issued on black vinyl as part of the Verve by-request series).

This week Pepperoni has picked MCR’s Black Parade

“What’s up nerds. I hope everyone had a good Record Store Day this weekend. I’m back in the office today pickin’ my next pick… what’s this? A picture disc? I did not mean to order the picture disc version of this record but it is what showed up in the mail so I guess we’re gonna go with it. (How do you feel about picture discs Pepperoni fan’s, yay or nay)? Anyways, this is “The Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance and some of you out there will freak out about it because it is ALL you listened to in high school in the 2000’s or 2010’s or something. You owned it on CD then, come out to Dumb Records so you can own it on picture disc now.”