Welcome to Sonic Sherpa
Sonic Sherpa is an Australian record store that’s been brightening the Brisbane suburb of Stones Corner since 2015 (although the team has over a decade’s shared music retail experience from owning/running Skinnys in the Brisbane CBD back in the day).
We have a large and eclectic range of new and pre-loved vinyl on hand, as well as stocking turntables, CDs, books, DVDs and music-related t-shirts and paraphernalia. Sonic Sherpa also curates ranges for the region’s larger music festivals such as Splendour In The Grass, Falls Festival (Byron Bay), CMC Rocks, Gympie Muster, Tamworth Country Music Festival and many more such gatherings.
New Arrivals
Tool – Fear Inoculum
Fear Inoculum is the Grammy award winning masterpiece from US alt-metal titans Tool, now available now as a 3 disc 180 gram set with new artwork in a triple gatefold jacket and bonus poster.
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ODESZA – The Last Goodbye
Beloved US electronic duo ODESZA are releasing their new album The Last Goodbye and one indie exclusive 2-LP opaque mint vinyl copy contains the Golden Ticket!
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Ball Park Music – Weirder & Weirder
Brisbane indie rock icons Ball Park Music deliver their 7th studio album in the funtastic Weirder & Weirder, first pressing on limited edition blue vinyl!
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Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive
Entering Heaven Alive is the fifth studio solo album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather.
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Spacey Jane – Here Comes Everybody
Much-loved Perth ARIA-winners Spacey Jane return with their second album ‘Here Comes Everybody’, a treatise on the myriad challenges facing young people in this day and age!
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Alex The Astronaut – How To Grow A Sunflower Underwater
Singer, songwriter and storyteller Alex The Astronaut’s second album How to Grow A Sunflower Underwater is an intimate exploration of post-traumatic growth.
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Quivers – Out Of Time
Back in 2020 excellent Melbourne-via-Hobart indie rockers Quivers covered R.E.M.s ‘Out Of Time’ album in its entirety, and it’s now back on limited edition translucent green vinyl!
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Laura Veirs – Found Light
Beloved US singer-songwriter Laura Veirs’ 12th studio LP is a liberating collection of inquisitive and surprisingly assured snapshots of healing and personal growth.
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Calexico – El Mirador
Calexico return in 2022 with their luminous 10th studio album, El Mirador; a hopeful, kaleidoscopic beacon of rock, bluesy ruminations and Latin American sounds.
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Died Pretty – Free Dirt 2022 Reissue
First time in over 30 years this absolute all-time classic of all time has been available on vinyl: the debut full-length recording from 1986 by one of Australia’s finest bands ever, Died Pretty
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Slipknot – The End, So Far
Due: 30 Sept
US metal titans Slipknow promise that with their seventh album ‘The End, So Far’ they are back, and nothing will be the same again. First pressing on super limited indie exclusive neon yellow vinyl!
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Return Of The Dream Canteen
Due: 14 Oct
RHCP’s second Rick Rubin-produced album of 2022 finds them still at their absolute peak, riding the crest of an undeniable creative wave. First pressing on indie exclusive 2-LP purple wax!
Kendrick Lamar – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
Due: 26 Aug
The most anticipated album of the decade arrives with features from the likes of Baby Keem, Sampha, Kodak Black, Summer Walker, Ghostface Killah and more!
TISM – Collected Versus: The Collected TISM Singles
Due: 19 Aug
Finally! All of TISM’s Top Forty HITS plus the other 23 songs released as A Sides collected in the one place on 2-LP lucky dip coloured vinyl!
Something For Kate – Elsewhere For Eight Minutes 25th Anniversary
Due:26 Aug
To mark the 25th Anniversary of Something for Kate’s debut album, Elsewhere for 8 Minutes, the band is celebrating with new vinyl reissue!
Black Midi – Hellfire
Due: 15 July
UK experimental rockers black midi’s new album Hellfire is their most thematically cohesive and intentional album yet, first pressing on limited edition indie exclusive red vinyl!
King Stingray – King Stingray
Due: 11 Nov
King Stingray’s self-titled debut album is a revelation. An awakening. But at the same time, it’s everything the world has come to love from this five-piece Yolnu surf rock combo,
Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
Due: 21 Oct
Indie rockers Dry Cleaning have crafted an ambitious new work that marks them out as one of the most intelligent and exciting acts to come out of the UK.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum
Due: 23 Sep
King Gizz’s 20th album is a sprawling 16 tracks of gonzoid prog jams, dizzying pop nuggets, rubber-legged hip-hop odysseys and passages of pure thrash-metal abandon, on highly limited lucky dip colour vinyl!
Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure
Due: 26 Aug
PRE PLEASURE sees Julia Jacklin as her most authentic self, delivering the most intimate, raw and devastating ten songs of her career to date. First pressing on limited edition white vinyl.
Dear Seattle – Someday
Due: 2 Sep
Northern Coast outfit Dear Seattle explors the roots and tensions behind unhealthy thought patterns and anxious tendencies, first pressing on indie exclusive translucent aqua vinyl!
Dune Rats – Real Rare Whale
Due: 29 July
Can Brisbane scuzz rockers Dune Rats make it three national #1 albums in a row with their new effort Real Rare Whale? Grab a copy and help the cause!
Halfway – On The Ghostline, With Hands Of Lightning
Due: 26 August
On the Ghostline, With Hands of Lightning is the new album by acclaimed Australian band Halfway, pre-order to receive autographed 2-LP copy plus bonus band t-shirt!
Coming Soon
The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field
Due: 16 Sep
The songs on rising Kiwi indie rockers The Beths’ new album are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships and more importantly, their aftermaths.
Stella Donnelly – Flood
Due: 26 Aug
On her second album Aussie singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly finds herself discovering who she is as an artist among the flock, and how abundant one individual can be.
Wilco – Cruel Country
Due: May 27
Wilco’s new 2-LP opus Cruel Country is the band’s exploration of the genre they’ve often been defined by but, until now, never fully embraced.
Built To Spill – When The Wind Forgets Your Name
Due: Sep 9
When The Wind Forgets Your Name continues expanding the universe of US indie rock legends Built To Spill in new and exciting ways.
Craig Finn – A Legacy Of Rentals
Due: 20 May
The singer of the Hold Steady, Craig Finn is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist combining literary influences like Jack Kerouac and John Berryman with the musical influences of Bruce Springsteen and Paul Westerberg.
Local Releases
Andrew Tuttle – Fleeting Adventure
A deepening sense of life, love, health, loss, and luck shaped the outlines of Brisbane ambient-folk artist Andrew Tuttle’s fifth, and most collaborative album to date.
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Screamfeeder – Five Rooms
Brisbane rock legends Screamfeeder have just released their eighth studio album Five Rooms, a collection incredibly as strong as anything they’ve pulled together in their storied 30-year career!
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Mallrat – Butterfly Blue
On her debut album Butterfly Blue, Brisbane artist Mallrat’s prized pop song writing embodies the spirit of its titular creature, first pressing on limited edition baby blue vinyl!
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Hatchie – Giving The World Away
Giving the World Away is Brisbane pop icon Hatchie’s most thunderous, sprawling work yet, first pressing on limited edition clear coke bottle vinyl!
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Bugs – Cooties
Following the success of their sophomore record Self Help, rising Brisbane guitar-pop trio Bugs return bigger and better with their latest offering Cooties! Indie exclusive pink vinyl autographed by band!
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Sonic Masala Festival returning in 2022!
Our fave day in the annual Brisbane music calendar the wonderful Sonic Masala Festival which returns this year to The Triffid on Saturday 13 August, and as always we’re presenting and the main stage is known as the Sonic Sherpa stage!
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Robert Forster ‘Inferno’ interview – Sonic Sherpa Exclusive!
In 2019 the great Robert Forster released his excellent seventh album Inferno, and here’s a lengthy chat he had with Belly (at the time for street press publication The Music) which has never before been public in its entirety!
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Belly’s podcast Rewind With Steve Bell does Echolalia!
The latest season of Belly’s chart-topping podcast Rewind With Steve Bell is up online now, heading back 20 years to explore the birth of Something For Kate’s much-loved third album Echolalia!
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Record Store Day 2020 Revamped Again!
Save the date Saturday 20 June, Record Store Day Australia is back and so is our infamous car park gig!
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PREMIERE: Dollar Bar release film clip for new single ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’
Most wonderful Brisbane indie rock outfit Dollar Bar have been weaving their catchy magic for the best part of 20 years now, and they’re just releasing their brand new album Pyrrhic Victory! It’s their fourth and apparently final album – the follow-up to their wonderful Hot Ones (2015) – and is another typically scratchy collection … Read More
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RSD Black Friday Approaching – 27 Nov!
Summing up the weirdness of 2020 entirely, on Friday 27 November the Record Store Day – Black Friday instalment is the fourth RSD bash for the year!
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Instore Gigs Coming Up
Mick Medew & Ursula instore!!!
SAT 20 AUGUST @ 2.30PM
Wonderful local team Mick Medew (of The Screaming Tribesmen fame) and his partner Ursula are celebrating their beautiful new album ‘Love Is Calling’ with a free, all ages set!
Semantics To Rock Sonic Sherpa
SATURDAY 27 AUGUST @ 2.30PM
Burgeoning Brisbane punk outfit Semantics recently released their debut album, Paint Me Blue, and to celebrate are hitting Sonic Sherpa for a free, all ages instore!
Adam Gibson & The Aerial Maps to play Sonic Sherpa!
SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER @ 2.30PM
Celebrated Sydney spoken-word songsmith Adam Gibson is hitting Sonic Sherpa with his crack band The Aerial Maps to play a set covering his entire career!
