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
Coldplay – Music Of The Spheres
UK rockers Coldplay have just released their much-anticipated new album, Music Of The Spheres!
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The Killers – Pressure Machine
Much-loved US rockers The Killers return with their anticipated seventh studio album, Pressure Machine!
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The Morris Springfield Project – Jack Chrome And The Darkness Waltz
This is Russell Morris and Rick Springfield like you’ve never heard them before in a compelling song cycle about life and death. Vinyl copies autographed by Russell Morris!
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Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power
Halsey’s fourth studio album ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’ is a concept album about the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth.
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Ben Salter – Twenty-One Words For Loss
Legendary Queensland singer-songwriter Ben Salter has just released his sixth solo album Twenty-One Words For Loss, recorded during his residency at MONA.
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Vika & Linda – The Wait
The long wait is over for Vika & Linda fans, with the beloved duo having just dropped of their eagerly awaited new album The Wait (their first album of original songs in 19 years).
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Hard-Ons – I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken
Due: 14 Oct
Tim Rogers has joined trail-blazing Sydney punks the Hard-Ons as lead singer, and they’ve already released their first album! First pressing on limited edition indie exclusive clear vinyl!
Modest Mouse – The Golden Casket
The long-awaited seventh album from indie rock pioneers Modest Mouse hovers in the liminal space between raw punk power and experimental studio science.
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World Series – What’s Growing
Wurld Series are an indie rock band from Christchurch, NZ, known locally for their skewed pop sensibility and lo-fi production aesthetic, and ‘What’s Growing’ is their wonderful second LP.
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Nirvana – Nevermind 30th Anniversary Reissue
Due: 12 Nov
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s seminal 1991 release, Nevermind has been newly remastered from the original analog tapes, with bonus 7″ single!
Something For Kate – Echolalia 20th Anniversary
Due: Nov 5
20 years ago this year, acclaimed Melbourne indie rock trio Something for Kate released their 3rd album, Echolalia, and now it’s being reissued on limited edition clear vinyl!
Radiohead – KID A MNESIA
Due: 5 Nov
A multiple format triple-album release marking the 21st anniversary of Kid A and Amnesiac, first pressing on limited edition indie exclusive red vinyl!
T.I.S.M. – The White Albun
TISM’s final ever album ‘The White Albun’ on vinyl for the first time ever, 2-LPs of rock, electronica, psychedelia and even some easy listening smooth jazz (ok… maybe not that last one)
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Courtney Barnett – Things Take Time, Take Time
Due: 12 Nov
Courtney Barnett’s new album is an exquisite look at her private world, and consequently her most beautiful and intimate record to date, on limited edition indie exclusive blue vinyl!
Coming Soon
MOD CON – Modern Condition
DUE: 22 Oct
The second long player from Melbourne trio MOD CON bottles wiry post-punk industrialism and hyper-focused world wariness with the tongue-in-cheek incendiary lyricism.
Parquet Courts – Sympathy For Life
Due: 22 Oct
Sympathy For Life finds Parquet Courts at both their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory,
The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Due: 29 Oct
The new album by US rockers The War On Drugs Is an uncommon rock album about one of our most common but daunting processes – resilience in the face of despair.
Billy Bragg – The Million Things That Never Happened
Due: 8 Oct
UK singer-songwriter extraordinaire Billy Bragg’s tenth album is a a heartfelt paean to human resilience, featuring 12 soulful country rock gems.
BadBadNotGood – Talk Memory
Due: 8 Oct
New album from Canadian ensemble BadBadNotGood goes back to their roots and pays homage to the musicians, composers and influences that first informed their work.
Local Releases
Nice Biscuit – Create Simulate.Passing Over
Local psych warriors Nice Biscuit have just combined their two awesome 2021 EPs ‘Create Simulate’ and ‘Passing Over’ onto one wonderful vinyl pressing!
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DZ Deathrays – Positive Rising Part 2
Brisbane’s favourite thrash-party hoons DZ Deathrays deliver the highly anticipated follow up to Positive Rising: Part 1, on limited edition purple vinyl!
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The Jungle Giants – Love Signs
Beloved Brisbane indie rockers The Jungle Giants reveal their highly anticipated fourth studio album Love Signs, available in four neon vinyl colours!.
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hotmagnets – Omega Chemicals
New project hotmagnets by Brisbane stalwart Simon Graydon (Sekiden, Undead Apes) moves away from guitars into the electronic realms with beguilingly excellent results.
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Ben Ely – The Golden Path
Founding Regurgitator bassist Ben Ely’s third full-length solo album burns light through gloom in taking flight to ‘The Golden Path’.
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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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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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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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Michelle Padovan explains her favourite new sub-genre, “Story Shouting”
Michelle Padovan is a former station manager at 4ZZZ and marketing manager for QMusic – currently co-owner of Brisbane indie label Coolin’ By Sound – and explains to us the advent of the possible new genre, Story Shouting.
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Tangled Shoelaces to play Sonic Sherpa! NEW DATE!
’80s Brisbane wunderkinds Tangled Shoelaces are back with a new album-length compilation and playing their first gig in almost 40 years in Sonic Sherpa!
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Sacred Shrines to play Sonic Sherpa!
Awesome local psych outfit Sacred Shrines are playing a free, all ages set in the shop from 3pm on Saturday 30 October in celebration of their epic second album ‘Enter The Woods’!
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Tired Lion to play Sonic Sherpa! NEW DATE SOON!
Brisbane-via-WA rockers Tired Lion are hitting Sonic Sherpa from 3pm on Sunday 3 October for a free, all ages set to celebrate the vinyl re-release of their back catalogue!
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