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Soundscapes will be closing permanently on September 30th, 2021.

Open every day between Spetember 22nd-30th

We'd like to thank all of our loyal customers over the years, you have made it all worthwhile! The last 20 years have seen a golden age in access to the world's recorded music history both in physical media and online. We were happy to be a part of sharing our knowledge of some of that great music with you. We hope you enjoyed most of what we sold & recommended to you over the years and hope you will continue to seek out the music that matters.

In the meantime we'll be selling our remaining inventory, including thousands of play copies, many of which are rare and/or out-of-print, never to be seen again. Over the next few weeks the discounts will increase and the price of play copies will decrease. Here are the details:

New CDs, LPs, DVDs, Blu-ray, Books 60% off 15% off

Rare & out-of-print new CDs 60% off 50% off

Rare/Premium/Out-of-print play copies $4.99 $14.99

Other play copies $2.99 $8.99

Magazine back issues $1 $2/each or 10 for $5 $15

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We will be resuming our closing sale beginning Friday, June 11. Our hours will be as follows:

Wednesday-Saturday 12pm-7pm
Sunday 11am-6pm

Open every day between September 22nd-30th

We will no longer be providing ticket refunds for tickets purchased from the shop, however, you will be able to obtain refunds directly from the promoters of the shows. Please refer to the top of your ticket to determine the promoter. Here is the contact info for the promoters:

Collective Concerts/Horseshoe Tavern Presents/Lee's Palace Presents: shows@collectiveconcerts.com
Embrace Presents: info@embracepresents.com
MRG Concerts: ticketing@themrggroup.com
Live Nation: infotoronto@livenation.com
Venus Fest: venusfesttoronto@gmail.com

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your understanding.

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Friday
Jul312009

EMITT RHODES - The Emitt Rhodes Recordings 1969-1973

An early contender for Reissue Of The Year, this is a monumental release, one that made me flip when I found out that Hip-O Select was putting out all of Emitt Rhodes' 4 solo LPs. Along with Paul McCartney and Todd Rundgren, Rhodes possessed a near superhuman ability to write pure opiate classic pop melodies, sang with a golden voice, and had a vision that could only be realized by handling production duties and playing all of the instruments on his albums (with the exception of his debut The American Dream). Just 20 years old when he went out on his own after splitting his previous band the Merry-Go-Round, Rhodes should have had a long and successful career on the pop charts but was stymied by a foolhardy contract with ABC-Dunhill (6 albums, 3 years!) and the standard publishing relinquishment story. The would-be star left the industry in disgust and never recorded another album.  Whether you are already familiar with Rhodes' music or not, you need this in your collection. He certainly deserves the royalties (finally) and much wider renown.

Reader Comments (2)

So great this is finally out. That first album still blows my mind and I have Mr. Andy Swan to thank for turning me onto it ten years back.

I actually called and talked to him on the phone this past spring (moment of boldness) and he suggested in the short conversation he might tour in 2010 and get up to Canada....fingers crossed!

August 26, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJon Bartlett

This is so awesome, I can't get enough.

September 2, 2009 | Unregistered Commentermamet

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