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Staff Pick: Tsunami - Loud Is As

FFO: 90’s indie rock and knowing far too much about the Teen Beat label

Staff Pick: Tsunami - Loud Is As
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Staff Pick: Bratmobile - Pottymouth + Ladies, ...

The long awaited reissues for Bratmobile’s catalog are finally here!

Staff Pick: Bratmobile - Pottymouth + Ladies, Women and Girls + Girls Get Busy LP Reissues
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Staff Pick: Blood Incantation - Absolute ...

The latest from Blood Incantation has peaked some interest around these parts!

Staff Pick: Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
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Staff Pick: Dummy - Free Energy

"We all can’t get enough of Dummy’s Free Energy here at ol Sonic Boom! "

Staff Pick: Dummy - Free Energy
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Staff Pick: Susumu Yakota - Acid Mt. Fuji

Remastered and given a deluxe 3 LP treatment, this record will carry you to another place, another time.

Staff Pick: Susumu Yakota - Acid Mt. Fuji

The cassette crusade continues! The Boom's Top 10 tapes of 2017

The cassette crusade continues! The Boom's Top 10 tapes of 2017

2017 saw yet another uptick in cassette sales according to the number crunching folks at Nielsen Music.  Via The Hollywood Reporter.  Last year, cassette album sales rose by 35 percent to 174,000 copies sold. In 2016, there were 129,000 sold.

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Tokyo Days & Tokyo Nights: From Protest Folk to J-Boogie

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Tokyo Days & Tokyo Nights: From Protest Folk to J-Boogie

One of the last great unmined veins of popular music of the postwar era runs through the Japanese underground of the 60s and 70s, all the up to the crest of the late 80s New Wave. This year and next sees a series of compilations unearthing gems from these largely overlooked movements and scenes.

We Gave Our Website a Make-Over!

Hello everybody! Sorry for our extended technical difficulties, we lost an old server and decided to overhaul our website in the meantime. 

You might notice we no longer have a comprehensive web-store. Unfortunately this won't be back anytime soon. You can still mail-order from us anytime you'd like, just get in touch and we can send you out a PayPal invoice for your order. E-mail: weborders@sonicboomrecords.com or phone: 206 297 2666. We're also happy to check stock for you on the phone any time.

Look around the new site, we should have a lot more lists, goodies for sale, and reviews coming soon!

Our new design comes from Dustin Travis White, if you'd like to investigate his work check here: http://dustintraviswhite.com/

Best Selling Albums of 2017: All Formats!

Announcing our best selling albums of the year 2017!

All formats! Rankings reflect combined sales of vinyl, CD, and cassette for all the new-releases of this calendar year. Lets count down the top 20.

20. Mac Demarco 'This Old Dog' (Captured Tracks)

19. Ryan Adams 'Prisoner' (Pax Americana / Blue-Note)

18. Arcade Fire 'Everything Now' (Sonovox)

17. Beck 'Colors' (Capitol)

16. Chastity Belt 'I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone' (Hardly Art)

15. Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile 'Lotta Sea Lice' (Matador)

14. Thundercat 'Drunk' (Brainfeeder)

13. Sufjan Stevens 'Planetarium' (4AD)

12. Queens Of The Stone Age 'Villains' (Matador)

11. Gorillaz 'Humanz' (Parlophone)

10. Spoon 'Hot Thoughts' (Matador)

9. LCD Soundsystem 'American Dream' (DFA / Columbia)

8. XX 'I See You' (Young Turks)

7. Father John Misty 'Pure Comedy' (Sub Pop)

6. The National 'Sleep Well Beast' (4AD)

5. Run The Jewels '3' (self-released)

4. Fleet Foxes 'Crack-Up' (Nonesuch)

3. Kendrick Lamar 'Damn' (Top Dawg / Interscope)

2. Slowdive 'self-titled' (Dead Oceans)

1. The War On Drugs 'A Deeper Understanding' (Atlantic)