Visited City Country City – a beautiful secondhand record shop in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo in December 2009. Lovingly curated selection of jazz, rock, soul, psych, disco and folk. If that’s not enough, it’s named after a WAR song and you can buy beer and food to sustain you as you browse. The very friendly proprietor invited […]

Hear Now – one of Melbourne’s few remaining independent vinyl retailers – closed its doors in August 2009. A sad occurence for a number of reasons, not least because Hear Now was somewhere you could actually buy new vinyl. These places are becoming rarer – especially in Australia – and it’s sad to see a […]