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Well, then – a big old pile of vinyl has descended upon us from the skies - VU, Curtis Mayfield, Depeche Mode, Devo, Fairports, Bob Marley, The Band, Alice Cooper, Burning Spear, Fred Neil, Dr John, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, New Order, John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix, The Jam, John Coltrane, JAMC< Green Day, Gram Parsons, Monks, RHCP, Tony Joe White, Tool, Traffic, Violent Femmes, Pretty Purdie, Pixies, T Rex… so much great stuff!

We also have – exclusive to SB – Luke Buda‘s “The C-Sides” EP, the last remaining LP copies of the Phoenix Foundation‘s magnificent “Buffalo”, the new album (ahem!) by former Cinematic singer-songwriter Jeremy Taylor, entitled “Stay In The Air”, plus a range of Slow Boat tees in all sizes and lots of colours, plus Slow Boat tote bags – all special, all unique – like you…

Wishing you all a wonderful, happy and safe Christmas and New Year – Slow Boat will be closed only on Xmas and New Year’s days – the rest of the time, we’ll be here for you.

Chin chin – cheers – thanks for being our kinda people…!!!

xxx The Slow Boat Crew xxx

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Howdy, everyone – December again – seems to roll round a little quicker every year, don’t it?

Without putting too fine a point on it, we are going all out this year to bring you, our valued customers, the widest possible range of awesome goodies to make your Christmas sound just swell – let us commence…

We now have in stock The Rolling Stones “Some Girls” reissue LP, Pete Townshend’s “Quadrophenia” demos 10″, a Soundgarden live 10″, and, (for the brave), Metallica/ Lou Reed “Lulu” 2LP all instore now. We have the big kahuna Beach Boys “SMiLE” set (2 LP’s, 2 7″ singles, 5 x CD’s of demos and outtakes in a 3D display box – phew! – still waiting on the double vinyl (ditto the new Kate Bush and Bjork albums…)AND we have just done a WHOPPING vinyl order from the US, which should be here in a week or so – watch this space…

We have a whole brand spankin’ new batch of Slow Boat tee shirts, in the ‘classic’ black, brown and green, and now also in my new fave – a very tasty navy blue. So – show you care – give someone you love/ like (a lot) a Slow Boat tee this Xmas!!! And for the “hard to buy for”, we have a wide array of stylish Slow Boat gift voucher – gingham, stripes. That sort of thing. And don’t forget we are also able to send stuff out anywhere in this big old world.

You can also browse our online listings (via GEMM - http://www.gemm.com/search.pl?for_seller=slowboat&currency=US&field=ARTIST+OR+TITLE&wild=&Go%21.x=9&Go%21.y=10)

And – we’re working up to our “best of the year” lists, in what has been a pretty terrific year for new albums and reissues both – again, stay tuned…

(nb we will be open pretty much throughout the ‘Festive’ season – excepting Xmas and New Year’s days)

Eat, drink – be merry. Turn the music up. Go on – you’ve earned it.

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…of his latest effort “Bad As Me” is here  on LP at last!

The old growler’s first new studio album in 7 years, and universally acclaimed best in goodness knows how long is now instore on magnificent 180gm vinyl with a a 16 page lyrics-and-photos book – hey nonny nonny, what ho?!

Limited stocks, first in best dressed etc.

Be seein’ ya…

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Howdy, peeps – have just had word from EMI that we have gotten first crack at the spectacular looking 2CD plus book in box version of the long, long awaited Beach Boys “Smile Sessions” album instore tomorrow, at a special Slow Boat price!!!

Vinyl will follow later next week, plus for the utterly rabid there is the big kahuna, 5 CD plus 2LP plus 7″ box set – please drop us a line if you would like to pre-order either of these!

The Brian Wilson version a few years ago was pretty terrific, and from what we’ve heard of these recordings, finally completed after more than 40 years, this is going to trump even that – wonderful music to heal the soul…

See you in the morning!!!

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Howdy, campers!!! Well, the Rugby World Cup has been a wonderful tournament, and we have been visited by people from all over the globe – folks from Argentina, France, Ireland, Wales – hell, even the English and Australians, and, at one point, gigantic Springboks lock Danie Roussow (a terribly nice chap!) And what has been impressive is just how knowledgeable the visitors are about the game, and, indeed, about New Zealand and all it has to offer – terrific. It has been an absolute pleasure to host you all. Now all that remains is the small matter of a World Cup final against France - the very best of luck to the All Blacks – you have been magnificent, just one more big effort to get you over the line. And especially to Slow Boat‘s favourite All Black Ma’a Nonu…

And it’s almost Christmas again, would you believe?! And suddenly it seems there is a whole rash of excellent new music upon us – not least of which is the terrific new Wilco album, “The Whole Love” – seriously, one of the finest of their long and distinguished career; the latest album from Canadian songstress Feist, “Metals”, which seemed a little underwhelming initially, but that we are now finding pretty compelling – dark, mysterious – excellent; the new remasters of Pink Floyd‘s catalogue, in particular “Dark Side Of The Moon” which is on a super high quality 180gm LP and sounds absolutely incredible; plus new vinyl from The Beatles, Beastie Boys, Traffic, Bjork, The Afghan Whigs (the classic “Gentlemen”, reissued at last!); plus new releases from Coldplay, Ryan Adams, the peculiar pairing of Black Seed Mike Fabulous with Lawrence Arabia as Fabulous Arabia (think awkward indie, but extremely funky plastic soul-disco?), Ryan Adams’ best effort in a while, and Laura Marling‘s superb “A Creature I Don’t Know” – plenty to be going on with, then.

We also have a whole shedload of brand new cult and indie film DVD’s from the good people at Aro Video, which we are selling at just $19.50 each – bargain!

STOP PRESS!!! New 7″ single releases on the Economy Records imprint from The Yoots and Shogun orchestra  - very nice. And they sound amazing!!!

Drop us a line! Pay us a visit! We’d love to see or hear from you!

Over & out,

Team Slow Boat

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Crikey, Spring well under way already, and loathe as I am to even invoke it, Christmas is now actually not that far away!

Fortunately, there has been a whole rash of spectacular new releases recently flooding our shelves, which you may wish to consider as gifts for your music-mad friends and whanau. Some of our favourites have been;

-Wilco “The Whole Love” – terrific new long player from one of our favourite US bands – a little wazzy, but some great stuff once you plunge into it – vinyl should be here soon!

-Nirvana “Nevermind” – hard to believe it it twenty years since Cobain and co basically ended the concept of ‘alternative rock’, but it is, so the best way to deal with the inevitability of the aging process, and the passing of youth might just be to plunge into the deluxe reissue, featuring all manner of outtakes and demos. We even have the 4LP vinyl version (which is cheaper than you might imagine), and glorious, just glorious.

-Pink Floyd Reissues – finally, the body of work of one of the UK’s most enduring bands has been given the heavy duty remastered reissue treatment. You can buy the albums individually, or as a comprehensive 14 disc box set, and there is also heavyweight collectable vinyl of the classic “Dark Side Of The Moon”

-new albums from beloved old-timers JD Souther, John Hiatt and Nick Lowe, plus new sets from local faves Whiramako Black, Jess Chambers and The Drab Doo Riffs (also on 10″ vinyl!)

So, come pay us a visit, or drop us a line – you owe it to yourself…

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…played a terrific (packed) instore here at the ‘Boat on Saturday afternoon, stuck around to sign albums, and then played a killer full band show to a full house at the Bathhouse on Saturday night. What a champ!

Our thanks again to Liam, EJ and Universal Music NZ for all their assistance – and thanks to you all for coming down for the instore! More good news – we will be keeping the “Fomo” LP’s and double CD’s at a special price for a little longer. We also have a very limited number of double LP reissues of Liam’s debut LP “I’ll Be Lightning” – and when I say ‘very limited’…

In other exciting news, we have received a MASSIVE shipment of new US reissue vinyl – tonnes of great stuff, from the classics – Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Cream, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, to the wild, weird and wonderful – Captain Beefheart, Misfits, Naughty By Nature, Alice Coltrane, and the soulful – Bill Withers, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder - literally something for everybody. I suggest you come have a nosey…

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Howdy, everyone!

Hope everyone is doing well as we plow on through the chilly months, we’ve had plenty to be getting on with, what with the instore from Steve Kilbey (The Church) and Ricky Maymi (BJM) - great turnout, and thoroughly enjoyable performance – we still have very limited copies of their new LP, “The Wilderness Years By David Neil”, on CD and very limited red vinyl.

We have also just received copies of blues-infused local rockers The Nudge‘s debut album, “Big Nudge Pie”. And for just $30 you can have a copy of the album AND a ticket to their release show at the San Francisco Bath House this Friday night – but I’d get in quickly, this deal it limited to the first 50 copies…

Also fair flying out the door are the latest efforts from The Horrors, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Steve Earle, Liam Finn, Gillian Welch, Cut Off Your Hands, KORT (featuring Kurt Wagner of Lambchop), thePixie Williams collection, Head Like A Hole, The Yoots, ummm The Feelers…

We are also awaiting delivery of a huge vinyl shipment, that will see us stacked to the brim with quality, classic, new and reissue titles – will announce its arrival imminently.

And working on something very exciting at present – will let you all know as soon as it is finalized…

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Slow Boat is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting an acoustic instore performance from Steve Kilbey (The Church) and his wingman Ricky Maymi (Brian Jonestown Massacre), Friday week, the 29th of July at around 6pm, ahead of their full band performance that night at Bar Bodega. Our first international instore performance! Woo hoo!!!

More details as they come to hand…

And – have updated our Rugby Watch vis a vis the weekend’s international matches – here: http://slowboatrecords.co.nz/?page_id=76

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Well, over the half way mark in a year that has seen some fabulous music released already; a fantastic return to form from PJ Harvey with her impeccable “Let England Shake”, sophomore efforts from ‘Boat faves Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes; superb new efforts from Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Robbie Robertson; fine local releases from the likes of Ruban Neilson’s post Mint Chicks group Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Liam Finn‘s curiously lovely “Fomo”, Beastwars monster metal stomp, and Grand Rapids‘ nouveau pop classicism; as well as a whole Boatload of glorious reissues from the likes of Suede (magnificent job, 2CD’s plus DVD!), and rejigged versions of Paul McCartney‘s long out of print first two wholly solo albums (superb!), and, latterly The Horrors magnificent goth/ baggy/ shoegaze- influenced “Skying” (don’t worry, it’s much better than that sounds…!)

See? Already a great year for music, and only half way through!

Couple of other things – Brother Simon Sweetman gave yours truly the chance to take over Blog On The Tracks last week for a bit of a gush over The Blue Nile - read it and weep here.

We have a new Slow Boat Inquisition with the marvellous David Kilgour here.

And we also have copies of new album “Silverfox” by local songwriter/ musician Alan Galbraith, as heard on Jim Mora‘s National Radio afternoon show.

And – stop press, etc – we are also expecting vinyl copies (at last!) of ‘Boat pal Connan Mockasin‘s epic debut album, now rechristened “Forever Dolphin Love” – give us a shout if you want us to hold you a copy.

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