Are you ready for Record Store Day 2024? This year RSD is on Saturday, April 20, and the list of exclusive releases is one of the longest yet, nearly 400 separate titles. We’ll be open at 7 am in Boulder and at 6 am (the earliest allowable time) in Petaluma. Please note that Record Store […]
Welcome to the latest Paradise Found Records blog. One of my favorite rock films is Almost Famous, the 2000 movie from director Cameron Crowe that recounts his days as a teenager writing for Rolling Stone in the seventies. There are no shortage of great lines, but my favorite is when Penny Lane, the “band-aid” played […]
2023 was another great year for music and for Paradise Found Records and Tapes. In April we celebrated our second anniversary at our Pearl Street location and in September we opened a new store in Petaluma, less than an hour north of San Francisco. A huge thanks to all of our customers in Colorado, California […]
At this point in the evolution of popular music, most seventies rock bands have been relegated to the dustbin of history. There may be no shortage of acts selling concert tickets to boomers, and most people over sixty-five can engage in a healthy “Beatles or Stones” debate, but few artists from the decade still resonate […]
Ever wonder which albums sell the most at Paradise Found Records? If you’re looking for what’s popular right now, the Boulder Weekly regularly publishes that week’s biggest sellers. Looking back a few months, special events like Record Store Day skew the numbers toward rare releases from Taylor Swift and the Grateful Dead. But some albums […]
As anyone who’s thrown a listening party can tell you, there are few things more fun than blowing someone’s mind with some obscure, lesser-known musical gem. In that spirit, here are ten albums guaranteed to enrich your ears.
Here are my twenty favorite albums of 2022 in alphabetical order …
Does Steely Dan’s Gaucho deserve to be included among their best work or is it emblematic of what made them overrated and spurred a backlash against their sound?
This month’s musical offerings include the “2018 Remix” of Pink Floyd’s Animals, originally released in 1977. Why, you may ask, is the 2018 Remix being released in 2022?
The Summer ’22 edition of the Paradise Found Records blog. Here are a few of my favorite releases from the past few months …