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Soundscapes will be closing permanently on September 30th, 2021.

Open every day between Spetember 22nd-30th

We'd like to thank all of our loyal customers over the years, you have made it all worthwhile! The last 20 years have seen a golden age in access to the world's recorded music history both in physical media and online. We were happy to be a part of sharing our knowledge of some of that great music with you. We hope you enjoyed most of what we sold & recommended to you over the years and hope you will continue to seek out the music that matters.

In the meantime we'll be selling our remaining inventory, including thousands of play copies, many of which are rare and/or out-of-print, never to be seen again. Over the next few weeks the discounts will increase and the price of play copies will decrease. Here are the details:

New CDs, LPs, DVDs, Blu-ray, Books 60% off 15% off

Rare & out-of-print new CDs 60% off 50% off

Rare/Premium/Out-of-print play copies $4.99 $14.99

Other play copies $2.99 $8.99

Magazine back issues $1 $2/each or 10 for $5 $15

Adjusted Hours & Ticket Refunds

We will be resuming our closing sale beginning Friday, June 11. Our hours will be as follows:

Wednesday-Saturday 12pm-7pm
Sunday 11am-6pm

Open every day between September 22nd-30th

We will no longer be providing ticket refunds for tickets purchased from the shop, however, you will be able to obtain refunds directly from the promoters of the shows. Please refer to the top of your ticket to determine the promoter. Here is the contact info for the promoters:

Collective Concerts/Horseshoe Tavern Presents/Lee's Palace Presents: shows@collectiveconcerts.com
Embrace Presents: info@embracepresents.com
MRG Concerts: ticketing@themrggroup.com
Live Nation: infotoronto@livenation.com
Venus Fest: venusfesttoronto@gmail.com

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your understanding.

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May142010

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Together

The recent May 4th release date of new albums by two of Canada's most celebrated indie music superpowers—Broken Social Scene and The New Pornographers—was a readymade compare-and-contrast fest for music-reviewer types like us: messy Torontonians and their kitchen-sink rock vs. perfectionist Vancouverites and their oblique gumball pop. And while there's certainly not much of a real rivalry to speak of (Kevin Drew and Carl Newman looked pretty comfy together singing backups for Feist on Letterman a couple years back), it does say something nice about the state of Canadian music that this pairing got as much press in the New York Times and The Guardian as it did in Now and Eye.

As its title would suggest, this fifth effort by the Pornos is a more unified one than the mid-tempo sugar crash of their last effort, Challengers. But Together isn't exactly the full-on funfest some fans are craving, either. Principal songwriters Newman and Destroyer's Dan Bejar have seemingly used the groundwork set by Challengers to establish a new parameter for the band's sound. And, to be fair, given how well it works for Destroyer (not to mention Newman's solo work and his underrated past band, Zumpano), why not?

The extra guitar guts of "Your Hands (Together)", Bejar's kookily hooky "Silver Jenny Dollar", and the marvelously brassy chorus of the Neko Case-sung "Crash Years" are ample proof of the enduring appeal of the group. True, their records don't quite leap from the stereo in the same way that their first three did, but there's really no reason for tears. The New Pornographers remain an exceptional pop band who just slowed things down a touch. It's still a damn fun party.

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