Thank You!

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

Adjusted Hours & Ticket Refunds

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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Thursday
Jul082010

VA - Bo Diddley Is A Songwriter

A reference to the album Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger, this collection is a cracking tribute to the man who brought a cooler style and exoticism to black rock’n’roll as compared to the volcanic Little Richard and the country-influenced riffage of Chuck Berry. Bo Diddley’s patented clave-derived groove (he actually tried to copyright that beat!), augmented by the ever-faithful Jerome on shakers, became one of the primordial ingredients of rock and continues to influence new generations of musicians. Since the Originator, as he is also known, was not a songwriter in the traditional sense of selling songs for a living, this is more of a covers collection, which is just fine considering the talent that’s been assembled by the always-reliable folks at Ace as part of their ongoing series spotlighting the great songwriters of the rock era. 

Buddy Holly was the first key figure to pay homage to the man born Ellas Otha Bates, and sings “Bo Diddley” here, but check his famous “Not Fade Away” (not included), which also showed such a strong influence that the song became a rare cover of another white artist by the Rolling Stones. Casual fans of the sophisticated Zombies may not know they did a raucous take on “Roadrunner”. Similarly, others will swoon over The Everly Brothers' Byrds-y cover of the soda-fountain classic “Love is Strange”. Let us not forget that The Pretty Things named themselves after one of the late master’s songs, and that tune turns up here. You might have already heard Captain Beefheart’s “Diddy Wah Diddy” and the New York Dolls' lascivious ode to a rock’n’roll nurse in “Pills”, but add in The Downliners Sect, Ian & Sylvia, Los Lobos, and The Animals and you’re beginning to get an idea of the sheer magnitude of Bo Diddley’s influence. This is a virtual history of rock music all in one snappy package. Doot doola doot-doo, doot-doo!

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