Mailorder bunny here signing in to let you know that Monorail Music is open today from 11-7, as per... WE ARE OPEN WE HAVE TASKS TO DO hope you all had a lovely xmas x

Holiday hours!

*cough cough* This is what i'm gonna do on xmas day.. tune in, drop OUT to Electric Wizard Dopethrone* 2LP Red Vinyl repress, in-stock now for all your yuletide escapist needs if you wanna buy and collect in store monorailmusic.com/product/dope... *not really but it's funny

order within the next 15 minutes via Royal Mail 24hr shipping for guaranteed Christmas delivery!

Bill Cummings at @godisinthetvzine.bsky.social writes about the Open Letter we release today, challenging the catastrophic cuts BBC Radio Scotland are making to late-night radio. Please share. godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/12/17/n... @findlaynapier.bsky.social @monorailmusic.bsky.social

National Park - Solo Demos, from John Hogarty (The Pastels) and pals. Utterly sublime songwriting from one of Glasgow's finest. So good. Lovely transparent green cassette, professionally copied, with full colour, printed, folding J Card. monorailmusic.com/product/solo...

Delighted to have Grant McPhee's Caledonia Screaming back in stock - the almost untold story of Scottish punk, featuring interviews from over 200 Scottish punk musicians and London contemporaries. Will fit in a stocking if you try hard enough. Standard paperbacks: monorailmusic.com/product/cale...

We're hard at work in mailorder today getting all of your weekend orders in the post...it's not too late if you're still shopping for some gifts. Our last shipping days for guaranteed UK Christmas delivery are: Tracked 48hr - Thursday 18th December Tracked 24hrs - Friday 19th December

In today's edition of Dep trying to remember the name of an artist... "What's the band made up of folks from Lewsberg? The Gingersnaps?" The Hobknobs.

Bert at the BBC! A comprehensive collection of Jansch’s appearances at the BBC, featuring over eight hours of rare and unreleased recordings... an epic and enduring trail, 45 years in the making. Both CD and LP boxsets available to pre-order: monorailmusic.com/product/bert...

Life In A Scotch Record Shop: Restock of essential Ivor Cutler just in, including those amazing wee stocking fillers on Arc monorailmusic.com/shop/?_sf_s=...

I feel like The Space Lady's Greatest Hits is that record that if you go home with someone and they've got it, they're a keeper. Kinda like what John Waters says about books. Anyway: The Space Lady - Greatest Hits White Vinyl repress Coming 2026 monorailmusic.com/product/grea... MK

Utterly transported today listening to this deep, spiritual jazz cut Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy African Skies Slightly cheaper reissue than the £400 original, coming January 2026: monorailmusic.com/product/afri...

A reminder that we sell gift vouchers (with free shipping!) if you're still looking to treat the record lover in your life this Christmas... please note, these can be spent in our physical Glasgow shop only: monorailmusic.com/product/mono...

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Totally ace to see The Cords stellar debut album in Monorail Music's 20 for 2025 year end list! Looks like they still have a few signed copies with a bonus sticker! monorailmusic.com/product/the-... @skepwax.bsky.social @monorailmusic.bsky.social

New record from THE HEADS, including a Dinked Edition tearing it up! The Heads yourprettyfaceisgoingtohell Dinked 2LP is: Trans green / trans blue colour 2LP 2 x 12”x12” prints of the two “covers” Sheet of stickers THE HEADS Coaster LTD 500 monorailmusic.com/product/your...

Monorail's Twenty for Twenty Five Part ONE is here. OUT OF SEASON... but which Season? Our first 10 albums of the year: monorailmusic.com/monorail-twe...

Just Announced.. PROSTITUTE Attempted Martyr *Official Version* Dinked Lebanese sunburst vinyl Alt gatefold sleeve (Arabic Edition) with gold foil 8 pg A5 PROSTITUTE manifesto No'd + Ltd monorailmusic.com/product/atte... @dinkededition

Truly delighted to be one of the chosen record shops stocking this brand new MEMORIALS 7". Signed, numbered and hand stamped. Two new songs! We love it. Cut Glass Hammer / Reasonably Invisible: monorailmusic.com/product/cut-glass-hammer-reasonably-invisible

Monorail turns 23 years old today. Thanks to all our customers here in Glasgow and across the world - we're honoured to still be your record store of choice. Love and gratitude from Stephen, Dep, MK, Russell, Lauren, Emily, Mark, Laura and Lizzie.

Our Pastelism 1, 2, 3 tote is on Monorail's Christmas list. It's in red so could almost serve as a superior modern day stocking which you could fill up with other stuff from the list. Thanks! monorailmusic.com/shop/?_sft_l... @monorailmusic.bsky.social

You won't mind if we leak an entry for one our albums of the year 2025? We like to include one heavy / metal one every year and this one is just... wow... HELL Submersus monorailmusic.com/product/subm... One for the DOOM / Sunn O))) / lurchin' funeral metal heads MK

Back in stock, one of the books of the year: BUDGIE The Absence - Memoirs Of A Banshee Drummer SIGNED edition here: monorailmusic.com/product/the-...

This show is going to be a cracker! U.S. indie / punk groups SOUP ACTIVISTS / CLASS in town with @dancerband.bsky.social and THE BURGERS TOMORROW NOV 26th brill line up get tickets here: tickets-scotland.com//events.html...

This is the other LP that I can't stop thinking about... FRANCE DESTINO SCIFOSI (Standard In-Fi) Wow... 1 for the Water Damage / Tony Conrad / Faust heads, part of a scene of French musicians making mind-erasing dronecstasy. Drums, bass and hurdy bloody gurdy monorailmusic.com/product/dest... MK

Lauren and I grooving to the greatest Pop record of the 21st Century right now... CARLY RAE JEPSEN E*MO*TION 10th Anniversary Reissue incoming: monorailmusic.com/product/emot... Gonna follow this post with another record that's floating my boat that's completely different. Stay tuned MK

3 xmas cards left, so now is your chance! ❄️

First time repressing of A Los Campesinos! Christmas on green vinyl and CD. Our copies come with an exclusive personalised Christmas card made out especially to you (or yr loved one, leave us a note) - monorailmusic.com/product/a-lo... Card artwork by Rob Taylor of the group!

extremely limited restock of this beauty... monorailmusic.com/product/the-...

Top tip... WED 26TH AT MONO! Soup Activists make jangled up and hook-laden group from the mind of Martin Meyer (Lumpy & The Dumpers) reconstituting the 80s indie scene. Plus Class, The Burgers and Dancer. A great night out. tickets here: www.citizenticket.com/events/mono/...

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Pretty wild that we're getting an archive release from Huggy Bear in 2026. Copies (with a tape) from @monorailmusic.bsky.social

Thanks to @thepastels.bsky.social for reminding me what a great album this is. And @monorailmusic.bsky.social have got a vinyl edition coming too... monorailmusic.com/product/unde...

Here's a surprise... Basic Strategies For Going Out is a double whammy of Peel sessions recorded by Huggy Bear in 1992/93. Monorail/Rough Trade exclusive black vinyl with cassette tape. Ferocious, essential work: monorailmusic.com/product/basi...

Steve Mason The Romance Of Unknowing Signed LTD DBL Colour 2LP Beta Band's mucker takes us on a journey through Northern Soul, Punk, Folk, Hip-Hop, Soul and Post-Punk, spanning tracks from 1965 to 2005 - a celebration of Dunfermline club The Kronk. Read more: monorailmusic.com/product/stev...

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The good people of @monorailmusic.bsky.social in Glasgow now have Zine Things Happen in stock in their beautiful shop... If that's something you'd like to know. They've even made it a Staff Pick, which is jolly nice of them. monorailmusic.com/product/zine...

So great to hear Hairband on @gidcoe.bsky.social last night. They're probably my favourite Glasgow band of the last decade. Their debut album is finally coming out on vinyl. I wrote about them for @monorailmusic.bsky.social here... monorailmusic.com/product/unde... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP9I...

Todays postie delivery from the mighty @monorailmusic.bsky.social

Psst... Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History Of Gary Young and Pavement. A journey through the musical life of Gary Young, the subject of the SXSW-winning documentary Louder Than You Think. CD, black or pink vinyl: monorailmusic.com/product/loud... #LaurenAndDepsBigPick

Talk Talk's 1988 classic Spirt Of Eden, cut at half-speed for the first time at Metropolis Studios. Beyond excited about this. Black vinyl with obi strip: monorailmusic.com/product/spir...

We’re very proud to have been chosen as the main retail partner for 3 stellar Edwyn Collins reissues, Hellbent On Compromise, I’m Not Following You and Doctor Syntax. There's also an Edwyn designed Postcard poster and plenty OJ. read and browse: mailchi.mp/monorailmusi... @thepastels.bsky.social

new zine alert! From the mind behind These Things Happen: The Sarah Records Story, comes Zine Things Happen. 40-page, full-colour fanzine, feat brand new interviews/features with/about musicians such as Beth Arzy, Swansea Sound, Blueboy, Silkworm and more. Here: monorailmusic.com/product/zine...

Here's Our Dog Of The Day. Leia is a post punk pop princess. Photo by @astrowolf81.bsky.social

Our album of the month is Hydroplane's magical A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim. We will have a few copies of our screenprinted cover edition back in next week. These won't last long, so best order now if you want one... monorailmusic.com/product/a-pl...

I picked this up from Brenda's shop but YOU can buy one from the brilliant @monorailmusic.bsky.social & read a personal, passionate account of one woman's love for The Pastels (and more). My favourite Pastels song is "Speedway Star," by the way. monorailmusic.com/product/here...

*Monorail Exclusive Screenprinted sleeve and Riso insert* Hydroplane A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim First new music from OG Australian dreamers in decades. LTD 50 copies One of the most beautiful records we've heard this year. monorailmusic.com/product/a-pl...

Something really special coming up later.. a gorgeous Album Of The Month from a band who're returning from a decades-long jaunt in the relative wilderness..

Fantastic music, and fantastic writing about music. Check out the latest offering from The Glasgow School series @monorailmusic.bsky.social