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, [...]
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 [...]
…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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
…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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
