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

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

CATCH O’ THE DAY! Oz garage rock legends The New

CATCH O’ THE DAY!
Oz garage rock legends The New Christ’s lived in the shadow of the great Radio Birdman since they formed over 40 years ago - both bands sharing propulsive and charismatic frontman Rob Younger as they do - but this was unfair then and unfair now as they’ve well and truly compiled a (far larger) body of work on par with their better-known forebears. Their most recent album ‘Incantations’ (2014) is no exception, an ear-rattling collection of well-crafted, turbo-charged Aussie guitar rock, once which caused UK site Louder Than War to gush, “Against the odds of the passing years and indifferent popular culture, The New Christs have hit new heights on Incantations. An essential, profoundly ambitious album which confidently claims its place in the illustrious pantheon of Australian underground rock ‘n’ roll classics”. Check it!
#catchotheday #thenewchrists #incantations #impedance #ozrockclassic #ozgaragerock #robyounger #legend #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

ALL ABOARD! Now I’m not usually one for Xmas alb

ALL ABOARD!
Now I’m not usually one for Xmas albums but I’ve had ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’ for a while now and the incredible 2-LP collection of eclectic seasonal celebrations merely proves that Aussie poet laureate @paulkelly can do no wrong! He’s gathered a frankly ridiculous ensemble of guests and collaborators - we’re talking Vika & Linda, Marlon Williams, Emma Donovan, Kasey Chambers, Dan Kelly, Kate Miller-Heidke and many more fine musical names - to craft a timeless suite of songs that is bound to soundtrack Aussie Xmases for generations to come! This will make an incredible gift - there’s even a new version of ‘How To Make Gravy’ - and every copy (vinyl or CD) comes with a CD slick signed by the great man himself (PK not Santa), do yourself the proverbial favour!
#paulkelly #paulkellyschristmastrain #aussiexmas #castoflegends #ozrockicon #newgravy #merryxmas #sonicsherpa

CATCH O’ THE DAY! Yew, dirty rock’n’roll cl

CATCH O’ THE DAY!
Yew, dirty rock’n’roll classic from the final months of the last millennium back on wax! The legendary @supersuckers (aka The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World, self-proclaimed) had been going through a bit of a rough trot, having jumped from their long-time home at Sub Pop (they’d moved from Texas to Seattle on the toss of a coin just before the grunge tidal wave made it briefly the coolest music city on the planet) to sign with major label Interscope, only to have that label restructure and drop them before their fifth album could be released. As a result they had to record the bulk of ‘Evil Powers Of Rock ‘N’ Roll’ again and release on small indie Koch Records, which is why there’s such a scabrous edge to cuts like the title track, ‘Fisticuffs’, ‘I Want The Drugs’ and ‘My Kickass Life’, while the ultra-catchy ‘Stuff N’ Nonsense’ remains one of my fave ‘Suckers songs and there’s heaps more great rock cuts like ‘Cool Manchu’, ‘Goin’ Back To Tucson’ and ‘Santa Rita High’. Massively underrated band this one and this album is one of their finest - The Guardian reckoned that "all of its songs sound like they're being played on the back of a speeding Harley Davidson on its way to ramraid the neighbourhood drugstore”, high praise indeed - and it’s back on wax and this version on ultra-trippy LAKE OF FIRE ghostly red and clear vinyl!
#catchotheday #supersuckers #evilpowersofrocknroll #kochrecorfs #difficultfifth #90sclassic #gimmedirtyrock #stuffnnonsense #sonicsherpa

NEW FUTURE HAUNTS! Rising Brisbane rockers @future

NEW FUTURE HAUNTS!
Rising Brisbane rockers @futurehaunts have a new EP ‘I Can’t Change The Way You Change’ out now on wax through local label @littlelunchrecords, and thanks heaps to Dan (from both the band and the label) for bringing in copies ahead of their launch this Saturday night at @thezoo.bne! They’ve been building their reputation a while now and recent singles have been routinely awesome, with @theaureview saying that the EP “features ripping guitars, tender melodies, driving percussion and warm harmonies. The songwriting is adroit, artfully paired with changeups in tempo throughout. Future Haunts have put down some fine alt-indie rock on ‘I Can’t Change The Way You Change’”! Give it a crack at the title!
#futurehaunts #icantchangethewayyouchange #littlelunchrecords #brisbanegarage #eplaunch #thezoo #saturday20november #thinklocal #thanksdan #sonicsherpa

NOW SPINNING! Stoked to land some copies of the ki

NOW SPINNING!
Stoked to land some copies of the killer new album ‘Modern Condition’ by rad Melbourne post-punks @_modcon_, courtesy their wonderful label @poisoncity and on pristine white wax no less! It carries on from where their awesome 2018 debut ‘Modern Convenience’ left off whilst exploring some fascinating new sonic terrain, NME recently giving it a fawning 4-star review which finished by saying, “Antagonising the corrupt powers that be, MOD CON deliver their message through the medium of supple, melodic rock, landing their parts in the right place at the right time. ‘Modern Condition’ is a record made by a band that’s locked in and know exactly what they want to say”. Hope the borders open soon because these new songs sound like they’ll be bangers live!
#nowspinning #modcon #moderncondition #poisoncityrecords #melbournepostpunk #sogood #limitededition #whitevinyl #getamongstit #sonicsherpa

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