New shop open now at 45 West St in Pittsboro. Mon-Thurs 11-5, Sun 12-4 😎

I’m ecstatic to announce my new double LP, Autechre Guitar, is now available for preorder from Bill Orcutt’s Palilalia Records. Ten songs by the English electronic music duo, Autechre, transcribed and arranged for solo acoustic guitar. 🙏 🟩 shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

NC and those visiting NC: add these numbers to your phones and use them. Ice verification via local, respected, deeply rooted organizers is still a number one ask here. Are you a journalist? You can still text or call in what you see. Community first, always. Document and call it in immediately.

OJO Obrero (ojonc.org) is now available. This website features information about confirmed ICE operations in our state to help parents and workers get to school and work safely. OJO Obrero only features sightings that we can confirm involve federal agents, rather than crowdsourced reports

This will be 3 months in a row where I've seen Verity Den play live. This will also be the first time EVER I've seen Verity Den play in sunlight.

Sunday at 3 behind the shop: Verity Den and Joe Westerlund

y'all, so many of the best records of 2025 are dropping in october! verity den's "wet glass" came out on friday. it's brain melting. see y'all next sunday, 2 nov, 3pm, at @alldayrecords.bsky.social for the release show with joe westerlund! verityden.bandcamp.com/album/wet-gl...

and mark your calendars, verity den and joe westerlund - neither of whom are on this platform - are doing a release show on sunday, 2 november, at 3pm at @alldayrecords.bsky.social (which is on here!)

Tomorrow’s flea market is postponed to Nov. 9 and we’re moving the music inside!

“Against all odds—COVID shutdowns, FCC regulations, and the long decline of FM radio—college radio is thriving again” emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

We like to think of cassette players as the next step forward from iPhones. Instead of “apps” in your phone, which can perform limited tasks, with cassette decks, you can load “tapes”, and these have a much more sophisticated, often life-changing, depth of functionality.

These are in stock now, probably our final shipment from Europe until the tariff mess ends

Got a promo email for upcoming "Rocktober" releases that includes this AI slop image featuring bands like ZZ THF and Dream Thenzer

Verity Den announce new album (via Amish Records), share video for lead eponymous track, 'wet glass'. Full details.... sun-13.com/2025/09/03/v...

As with previous albums, this release draws on a deep catalog of fiddle and banjo standards from throughout the Appalachian South, sieving old sounds through playful new input and a generative community sensibility.

Basic Channel & related titles incoming

Every monday we get a deposit from our credit card processor. That didn’t happen today, and our credit card guy says it’s a Federal Reserve problem, that he has customers with multiple payment processors who didn’t get their deposits. Seems bad!

New arrivals

Son of legendary Fairuz and composer Assi Rahbani, he was also a playwright, pianist and political provocateur.

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

New arrivals: Wet Leg, Sun Ra, US Maple

Orange County will provide essential services and support for residents affected by flooding at a temporary Recovery Assistance Center (RAC), located at the Drakeford Library Complex.

@liledit.bsky.social: "Furniture bows to the stereo, not the other way around. Speakers angle into the room like sentinels. . . . Equipment isn’t hidden. It sits where you can see it, dance in front of it, live with it." insheepsclothinghifi.com/high-fidelit...

Has there been a legal case yet to set legal precedent about whether companies are responsible for when their LLMs hallucinate dangerous lies yet? I would 100% sue if I were these guys

New Smithsonian mag article about NYC field recording artist Tony Schwartz, who released a series of LPs on Folkways from 1953-1962 www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Coming soon: All Day Records II (Pittsboro location)

Deerhoof are leaving Spotify over CEO Daniel Ek's investment in an AI military startup: "We don’t want our music killing people. We don’t want our success being tied to AI battle tech."

Flea market happening now until 6pm!

Flea Market on Sunday June 1 from 2-6PM behind the shop!

Flea Market on Sunday June 1 from 2-6PM behind the shop!

wrote about the AF problem

Laurie Spiegel playing Bell Labs Alles Synthesizer, 1977.

Private Cathedral at 5pm today!

We caught “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted” tonight and it is absolutely fantastic. Especially if you’ve seen Sinners recently but even if you haven’t. m.imdb.com/title/tt3083...

We're doing this again on Sunday, June 1 from 2-6PM with more vendors and more records!

Without industrial musician Boyd Rice & three of his pals the writings of dangerous Neo-Nazi James Mason would have remained obscure, but thanks in part to their help, his work has become a 21st Century bible for terrorists fixated on murder. Analysis on tQ today. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Take down your music from Soundcloud

A fabulous documentary on Lebanese composer Elias Rahbani is streaming on Al Jazeera. Rahbani was one of Lebanon’s most prolific composers, fusing traditional Arab music with Western popular genres. Make some tea and enjoy a pleasant Sunday afternoon.

BIG $1 sale Sunday April 13 we'll be set up flea market style in the back parking lot - 1000s of records marked down to $1 - 1000s of $1 classical LPs - a variety of additional vendors - DJs - refreshments - it will be a beautiful day!

OK serious question, who can I talk to about tariffs and how de minimis exemptions work?

📣National P.O. Soapbox Day, Sat 5/3 Host a #HandsOffUSPS teach-in & take action to #SaveThePostOffice 💌 WE provide Toolkit & Teach-In Materials (coming this week!) 💌 YOU arrange location or online platform to host your own community teach-in. Stay tuned! More info SOON. usps-teach-in.carrd.co

DIY can never die if you don't mind having people over in your living room or backyard occasionally. there's something to the hang that the majors and miltech backed festivals will never get, despite their A&R reps claiming to have their finger on the pulse of it. keep hangin.

The USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.

As a Tool hater I don’t even know which side of this to enjoy more Tool called out as shitheads:👍 Tool fans fucked over: 👍

Now playing: Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4, still sounding nothing like an album recorded in 1981

Who wants to join me at the Tesla dealership in Raleigh on Friday?

Fly Around Amazing appalachian festival! Lansing NC August 1-2 with Joan Shelley Myriam Gendron Powers/Rollin Elkhorn Magic Tuber Stringband & more! Tickets on sale March 6! @flyaround.bsky.social @byroncoley.bsky.social

Doechii LP incoming, next week I think

Awesome to see Chappell Roan speaking out about health care! We have a ton of thoughts about this. Our research found that musicians have lacked health insurance at about 3 times the rate of the general population.