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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Wednesday
Oct212009

CANCELLED: Robert Randolph, The Rakes

Both the Robert Randolph & The Family Band concert scheduled for the Mod Club on Tue. Nov 17 and The Rakes' Mon. Nov 9 Mod Club concert have been cancelled. Refunds for ticketholders to either show are now available at point of purchase.

Wednesday
Oct212009

NEW TICKETS: Great Lake Swimmers, Flower Travellin' Band, more

Tickets just arrived:
Great Lake Swimmers @ Trinity-St. Paul's Centre Sat. Feb 6 $22.50
Flower Travellin' Band @ Revival Sun. Nov 29 $17.25
Band Of Skulls @ El Mocambo Fri. Nov 13 $15.00
Fanfarlo @ El Mocambo Tue. Dec 15 $12.50
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah Halloween Dance Party @ Garrison Sat. Oct 31 $7.00

Tuesday
Oct202009

NEW TICKETS: Do Make Say Think (two nights), Elvez + Los Straitjackets, Little Dragon, Radio Slave, more

Tickets just arrived:
Do Make Say Think @ Harbourfront Centre (Enwave Theatre) Sat. Dec 12 $16.00
Do Make Say Think @ Harbourfront Centre (Enwave Theatre) Sun. Dec 13 $16.00
Elvez + Los Straitjackets @ Lee's Palace Tue. Dec 8 $18.50
Little Dragon @ Wrongbar Wed. Nov 18 $13.50
Radio Slave @ Mod Club Fri. Oct 30 $16.50
M.A.N.D.Y. @ Social Thu. Nov 19 $15.00
Claude Von Stroke @ Mod Club Fri. Dec 18 $15.00
Kim Fai @ Mod Club Fri. Nov 20 $10.00

Monday
Oct192009

MAKE SOME NOISE: FREE Toronto Public Library concerts + music workshops

As winter approaches, we'll be once again teaming up with the Toronto Public Library to sponsor the TPL's Make Some Noise/Take Some Noise series, promoting its one-of-a-kind local and independent Canadian music collection with a series of concerts and workshops (including a workshop conducted by Soundscapes staffer Colin Medley!).

Here's what the series has to offer this year, as also listed on the Library's own Upcoming Events page (all events are FREE and all-ages, and unlike last year's series, do not require tickets for entry):

CONCERTS:

-Grand Analog live @ College/Shaw branch, Thu. Nov 5 at 8pm

-Bruce Peninsula + Timber Timbre live @ North York Central branch, Sat. Nov 7 at 8pm

-Katie Stelmanis live @ Bloor/Gladstone branch, Fri. Nov 20 at 8pm

WORKSHOPS:

-Art Of DJing workshop with Grand Analog @ College/Shaw branch, Tue. Nov 10 at 7pm

-Documenting The Local Music Scene workshop with Colin Medley @ Kennedy/Eglinton branch, Tue. Nov 24 at 7pm

-Getting Into The Scene workshop with Steve Jordan (founder/executive director of the Polaris Music Prize) @ Northern District branch, Tue. Dec 1 at 7pm

Monday
Oct192009

NEW TICKETS: Matt Mays (two nights), White Cowbell Oklahoma, more

Tickets just arrived:
Matt Mays @ Horseshoe Fri. Nov 28 $20.00
Matt Mays @ Horseshoe Sat. Nov 29 $20.00
White Cowbell Oklahoma @ Lee's Palace Fri. Dec 18 $15.00
Swollen Members @ Lee's Palace Wed. Dec 2 $22.00
Less Than Jake @ Phoenix Sun. Nov 22 $23.50

Monday
Oct192009

CANCELLED: Beast

The Beast concert originally scheduled to take place at The Opera House on Sat. Oct 17 has been cancelled. A replacement date in early 2010 is to be announced; refunds are now available at point of purchase.

Monday
Oct192009

IN-STORES: Shotgun Jimmie, The Henrys

Following relatively soon after last week's Two Hours Traffic in-store (we admittedly went through a bit of a quiet spell performances-wise this past July through September) are our shop's next two in-store sets: we'll be hosting Sackville's slackly rocking Shotgun Jimmie on Wed. Oct 28 at 7pm; and Toronto's own classily oddball instrumentalists The Henrys on Sun. Nov 8 at 5pm. 

Thursday
Oct152009

NEW TICKETS: Devendra Banhart, Mew, Vazoween, Mod Club Halloween, more

Tickets just arrived:
Devendra Banhart @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre Fri. Nov 27 $29.50
Mew @ Mod Club Sun. Dec 6 $20.50
Vazoween @ Lee's Palace Fri. Oct 30 $10.00
Mod Club Halloween @ Mod Club Sat. Oct 31 $15.00
X-Avant Festival Pass @ Music Gallery & Polish Combatants Hall Wed.-Sun. Oct 21-25
Winds Of Plague @ Phoenix Tue. Dec 1 $22.00

Thursday
Oct152009

CANCELLED: Choir Of Young Believers

The Choir Of Young Believers concert originally scheduled to take place at the Horseshoe on Sun. Oct 25 has been cancelled. Refunds are now available at point of purchase.

Thursday
Oct152009

NEW TICKETS: Trampoline Hall

Tickets just arrived:
Trampoline Hall @ Garrison Mon. Oct 19 $5.00