Michael Kucyk of the always excellent Noise In My Head recently returned from some deep excavations in Japan.  The insights he shares into some of the lesser-explored digging spots of Tokyo and Osaka will have you on the next plane. There really is no place like Japan for digging. With stores tightly clustered in most […]

Chris from Northside and Tim from Wax Museum have put together a genius little map of all the Melbourne record shops stocking secondhand records. Rumour has it that a new version will be released in late 2010. Until then, work your way through this one. It’s free and available where secondhand records are sold or […]

Emptysleeve is marking International Record Store Day with an obituary to another sadly departed player in Australia’s independent music retail landscape – Adelaide’s B-Sharp Records. B-Sharp closed in early 2010 after almost 22 years of supplying Adelaide with a top shelf selection of jazz, funk, soul, reggae, hip hop, house, world, disco, ambient and techno. […]