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.

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sonic_sherpa

Indie record store in Stones Corner, Brisbane. Specialising in music'n'stuff.

CATCH O’ THE DAY! We were deprived by COVID of a

CATCH O’ THE DAY!
We were deprived by COVID of an instore by wonderful Melbourne-based alt-country outfit @tracymcneilandthegoodlife whilst they were touring on the back of their killer 2020 fourth album ‘You Be The Lightning’ (out through @cookingvinylaustralia), stupid pandemic. Luckily we’d already been lucky enough to have Tracy & co play the shop - plus had the album yo get us through - check out why excellent Aussie Americana site @posttowire offered that, “Across four albums, Tracy McNeil has woven a wistful strain of Americana that conjures up US West Coast country-rock and Australian East Coast sun-kissed FM pop. You Be The Lightning is her most realised and well executed iteration of that blend to date… further proof of her standing as a world class songwriter.”!
#catchotheday #tracymcneilandthegoodlife #youbethelightning #cookingvinylaustralia #ozaltcountry #classicpopvibes #sogood #comebacksoon #sonicsherpa

ACP’S DEBUT ALBUM! Thanks heaps to Joel from awe

ACP’S DEBUT ALBUM!
Thanks heaps to Joel from awesome local lo-fi folk trio @acountrypractice for bringing in copies of their long-awaited debut album ‘I Will Leave This Town While There’s Still Light’! It’s a super-limited hand-numbered CD run and comes in beautiful packaging - we’ve got some of the awesome artwork in pole position behind the counter in the shop - with an extra disc of remixes titled ‘Recorded, stored, absorbed ignored’, so much to love! Oz site @troublejuice called it “as warped and imaginative as it is bizarrely captivating” and our community radio overlords @4zzzradio stated that it “embraces memories of sun-beaten little regional towns and evokes, in a fulsome way, the biggest country burg of all, Brisbane/Meanjin”, supporting our awesome scene doesn’t come much more local!
#acountrypractice #iwillleavethistownwhiletheresstilllight #lofifolk #meanjinaltcountry #brisbanedebutalbum #limirededition #physicalmedia #recordedstoredabsorbedignored #remixdisc #thanksjoel #sonicsherpa

CATCH O’ THE DAY! Holy guacamole it does not see

CATCH O’ THE DAY!
Holy guacamole it does not seem even vaguely 20 years since US indie rock pioneers Superchunk released their wonderful eighth album ‘Here’s To Shutting Up’ (on their own @mergerecords label), but anniversary reissues don’t lie! It’s been out of print on wax for the longest time and is a wonderful record - a more mature effort in the vein of its predecessor ‘Come Pick Me Up’ (1999) - and you get a bonus CD of acoustic demos, and trust me anything Superchunk do acoustic is well worth the price of admission! So good!
#catchotheday #superchunk #herestoshuttingup #mergerecords #albumeight #20thanniversaryreissue #backonwax #indierocklegends #sonicsherpa

NEW GBV! Irrepressible cosmic hit machine @instagb

NEW GBV!
Irrepressible cosmic hit machine @instagbv have slowed down their output to a couple of albums a year so it’s a red letter day when you get a new one, such as today with the arrival of their 34th LP ‘It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them!’! They’re still pumping out impeccable aural guitar goodness after all these years, and while I’m yet to hear this bad boy Pop Matters called it “a stunning, large-hearted collection of power-pop and off-the-wall oddities laced with beautiful strings and horns throughout”, so get excited people! They’re back! Again!
#newgbv #guidedbyvoices #itsnotthemitcantbeitisthem #album34 #indierocklegends #bobforpresident #sonicsherpa

ALL THE WAY WITH SPJ! It’s more than three years

ALL THE WAY WITH SPJ!
It’s more than three years now since the world lost wonderful Kiwi-born Oz rock guitar legend Spencer P. Jones, but new book ‘Execution Days’ by Patrick Emery will go a long way to filling that Spencer-shaped hole in my heart. He was hardly a household name but was a hero to those (like me) who adored his work in The Johnnys, Beasts Of Bourbon and the Paul Kelly Band (to name but a few), as well as his huge and awesome solo catalogue, plus he lived life on the edge so there’s bound to be some amazing tales of rock’n’roll adventure snd debauchery! Highlights of a dangerous life indeed!
#newbook #spencerpjones #executiondays #patrickemery #ozrocklegend #thejohnnys #beastsofbourbon #solo #highlightsofadangerouslife #ripspj #sonicsherpa

NEW AREN’T! Thanks heaps to John from wonderful

NEW AREN’T!
Thanks heaps to John from wonderful local label @4000records for bringing in copies of the debut EP ‘Creatures Of Habit’ by new project @arentarentarent (the vehicle of Fionn Richards from the much-missed Requin)! The EP features a host of local luminaries helping out and as well as the digital release comes on a limited edition short run of 30 tapes featuring an exclusive b-side of three pieces of poetry written and read by Fionn! It’s not officially out until Thursday but you can grab a tape now, be the first on your block to indulge in Aren’t!
#newep #arent #creaturesofhabit #4000records #fionnrichards #brisbaneindie #shorttaperun #exclusivepoetry #thinklocal #thanksjohn #sonicsherpa

F’N’ WOO!! Awesome local punks @flangipanis ar

F’N’ WOO!!
Awesome local punks @flangipanis are on fire (metaphorically not literally) and have dragged a huge crowd to help us celebrate our sixth birthday by hammering a parade of tunes from their awesome new album ‘Fuckin’ Woo!’! Never change Brisbane!
#instore #happybirthdaytous #flangipanis #fuckinwoo #brisbanepunk #sogood #sonicsherpa

CATCH O’ THE DAY! Oh man I’ve been a sucker fo

CATCH O’ THE DAY!
Oh man I’ve been a sucker for NYC groove legends @endlessboogie ever since my mate Dan dragged me to see them in a tiny club in Texas during SxSW back in ‘09, seen them here a few times since and they never fail to blow my tiny mind! On first listen their new fifth album ‘Admonitions’ is typically awesome - who else today can stretch seven songs over 2-LPs? - as Brooklyn Vegan recently offered, “May they never stop chooglin'”!
#catchotheday #endlessboogie #admonitions #noquarter #doublealbum #topdollar #choogleon #sonicsherpa

I WANT MY DVD! Added a massive swag of (predominan

I WANT MY DVD!
Added a massive swag of (predominantly) music DVDs to our collection, media isn’t outdated until we say it is…
#musicdvds #plentyof #visionquest #checkem #sonicsherpa

BIRTHDAY WAX! Even as we celebrate our sixth birth

BIRTHDAY WAX!
Even as we celebrate our sixth birthday we’re still throwing new wax out in the floor, and there’s some crackers (new and old) in today’s batch! Come down and wish us happy birthday!
#sixthbirthdayweekend #newvinyl #endlessboogie #thechills #thecelibaterifles #frenzalrhomb #coldchisel #rem #u2 #idles #funkadelic #macdemarco #comeondown #sonicsherpa

CATCH O’ THE DAY! San Fran garage rockers @sonn

CATCH O’ THE DAY!
San Fran garage rockers @sonnyandthesunsets have been churning out wistful garage-pop for well over a decade now, their new eighth LP ‘New Day With New Possibilities’ (out locally through the wonderful @lostlonesome) harks back to the hazy country stylings of their acclaimed 2012 detour ‘Longtime Companion’. It’s a languid and lyrically dealing with the effects of isolation - something many of us can no doubt relate to after recent times - with Bandcamp’s review offering that, “New Day is clever and very sweet and more than a little bit country. Here is Smith at arguably his most understated as a songwriter, yet he maintains an emotional directness that permeates every phrase, then lingers lightly afterwards. It has no use for cynicism. It’s disarming and a little unexpected. The best things in life often are”.
#catchotheday #sonnyandthesunsets #newdaywithnewpossibilities #lostandlonesomerecordingco #bayareagarage #sanfranindiepop #countrydiversion #beautifullyreflective #sonicsherpa

FLANGIPANIS TOMORROW! It’s a double celebration

FLANGIPANIS TOMORROW!
It’s a double celebration tomorrow as we raise a can for our sixth birthday while rad Brissie punks @flangipanis mark the release of their epic new album ‘Fuckin’ Woo!’ and it’s all culminating in one messy but fun showdown kicking off at 3pm! It’s free and all ages and Brisbane music will be the winner, catch you tomorrow in the mean streets of the 4120!
#instore #tomorrow #saturday27november #3pm #flangipanis #fuckinwoo #brisbanepunk #sonicsherpa #sixthbirthday #free #allages #byo #brisbanerules #ourstonescorner #seeyainthe4120

CATCH O’ THE DAY! Landed some copies of the rece

CATCH O’ THE DAY!
Landed some copies of the recent Music On Vinyl reissue of the 1990 sixth album ‘Gold Afternoon Fix’ by Oz rock staples @thechurch_band! I remember the lead single ‘Metropolis’ was omnipresent on radio back in the day, and this vinyl repress is a numbered run of 2000 on marbled gold and black vinyl, grab this slice of Aussie history today!
#catchotheday #thechurch #goldafternoonfix #albumsix #1990 #limitededition #numbered #2000only #goldandblackmarbledvinyl #ozrockicons #sonicsherpa

BLACK FRIDAY RSD SALE! We’ve received some of ou

BLACK FRIDAY RSD SALE!
We’ve received some of our orders for tomorrow’s Black Friday RSD, but as we’ve come to expect in COVID times we’re still waiting on plenty, but to make it worth your while - as part of our 6th birthday celebrations - we’re knocking 10% off all the other RSD2021 titles from the two drops earlier this year! There’s plenty of cool stuff still lurking in those crates (The Cure, The Doors, The Clash, AC/DC, Pearl Jam, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips, Elton John, U2, RATM, Mastodon etc etc), the more you buy the more you save!
#sonicsherpasixthbirthday #blackfridayrsd #rsd2021 #rsdsale #10percentoff #grababargain #partytime #sonicsherpa

HOME IS WHERE THE HARP IS! Sorry about that, but g

HOME IS WHERE THE HARP IS!
Sorry about that, but genuinely stoked to have the bulk of the Joanna Newsom back cat in the crates, it’s a uniquely wonderful body of work and one that often doesn’t get its due props. I’ve interviewed Joanna and seen her play a couple of times (here and abroad) and she’s a wonderful talent who pens beautiful songs and delivers them in her unique, singular style, a master of melding romance, heartache and power into her gorgeous artistic vision. Check it!
#homeiswheretheharpis #joannanewsom #newvinyl #themilkeyedmender #ys #divers #psychfolk #sogood #sonicsherpa

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR! We’re oh so close to having

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR!
We’re oh so close to having the full set of albums by much-loved (and much-missed) US indie rock evangelists Silver Jews, only missing ‘The Natural Bridge’ (which we sold recently dammit), plus the ‘Early Times’ compilation too if you’re gonna be a pedant. It’s an amazing body of work to dive into, get amongst it today!
#silverjews #newvinyl #starlitewalker #americanwater #brightflight #tanglewoodnumbers #lookoutmountainlookoutsea #classicindierock #missyoudb #sonicsherpa

CATCH O’ THE DAY! On their eponymous ninth album

CATCH O’ THE DAY!
On their eponymous ninth album Kentucky alt-rockers @mymorningjacket have embraced their inner jam band and taken their always intoxicating blend of cosmic Americana and expansive Southern rock into new and oft-fascinating terrain. Online tastemakers The Line Of Best Fit recently opined that, “‘My Morning Jacket’ – their first album in six years - finds a supremely engaging, often blissfully beautiful halfway point between the glossy eccentricities of more recent MMJ albums and those old slow-burn yet highly combustible 'jam band' dynamics” and we have copies on limited edition clear vinyl, watchya waiting for?
#catchotheday #mymorningjacket #selftitled #atorecords #pias #kentuckyrock #cosmicamericana #jamband #limitededition #clearvinyl #sonicsherpa

WE’RE TURNING SIX! Is the skull too much? To be

WE’RE TURNING SIX!
Is the skull too much? To be honest these days I’m more perturbed about the blowing out birthday candles thing, spitting on a cake before handing it out seems a bit before time. Anyway, next weekend we’re celebrating six years of slinging wax in the 4120, kicking off with Black Friday RSD and then on Saturday partying with awesome local punks @flangipanis bringing the love from 3pm! There will be sales and probably beer and reminiscing about great memories and friendships forged, you know the drill. Come wish us happy birthday next weekend, no candles!
#sonicsherpa #sixthbirthday #blackfridayrsd #flangipanis #sales #beer #farfetchedfurphys #goodtimesguaranteed #partypartyparty #ourstonescorner #seeyainthe4120

CATCH O’ THE DAY! It’s wonderful to have some

NEW OLD THE BOSS! They’re one of the greatest li

NOW SPINNING! Really digging the new second album

NOW SPINNING!
Really digging the new second album ‘Misericorde’ by rad Melbourne indie rockers @tinylittlehousesband, out now through @ivyleaguerecords! We were lucky enough to have the band’s frontman Caleb play an amazing instore when TLH released their stellar 2018 debut ‘Idiot Proverbs’ and the follow-up takes TLH’s distinctive sound into new scuzzy terrains, with @themusiccomau calling it “a melancholy masterpiece of ‘90s pop rock nostalgia”! Plus we have copies on limited edition translucent blue vinyl, so much to love!
#nowspinning #tinylittlehouses #misericorde #ivyleaguerecords #melbourneindierock #limitededition #translucentbluevinyl #sogood #sonicsherpa

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