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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Aug172010

HANOI JANES - Year Of Panic

At this point in music history, toying with stereotypes of Germans playing music that doesn’t sound, well, playful does come with a slight twinge of guilt and deserves a bit of a groan. But really, besides maybe Can’s “Turtles Have Short Legs,” how many songs can you name from Germany that send you into fits of teenage home-alone dancing like a giddy Molly Ringwald in her younger days? Or, for that matter, like Jane Fonda (nicknamesake of the band at hand) doing aerobics in one of her era-defining workout videos? Not too many, really, which is just part of what makes Hanoi Janes’ debut such a pleasure to listen (and jump around) to. 

After the pathetically early death of Jay Reatard this past New Year, fans were left wondering who would inherit the monumental task of continuing what he started, but along comes Sachsen's Oliver Scharf to pick up the Reatarded torch and show the Yanks how to have fun again, with the Janes' sunshininess filtered through home-recorded DIY fidelity and enough stop-starts and syncopation (as on “Good Bone”) to keep spirits up and the body moving for a whopping 31 minutes (and that’s 15 tracks too, like the way it used to be!). It’s the small sonic details, like the occasional frantically-strummed nylon-string guitar instead of an electric, frame-tapping as an alternative to keeping time with a hi-hat, and an aggressively frenetic approach to tempo and rhythm that further suggest that Stephen Pope and Billy Hayes would have been better off working for Sgt. Scharf instead.

Don’t make their mistake—choose Hanoi Janes!

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