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Barrence Whitfield & The Savages

A little later than planned, but here's a video of Barrence Whitfield & The Savages playing our first ever in-store captured by Agency Southend Not only is it pretty amazing that Barrence and his Savages played here, them being one of my favourite bands and all, but the guitarist Peter Greenberg and the bass player Phil Lenker were both in seminal Boston punk band The Lyres!  They both seemed a little confused that somebody from Essex, who's never set foot in Boston, firstly knew their first band so well and was a little awestruck to meet them.  I made Peter...

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in store, playlists, South, Southend, Spotify, Twitter -

In-Store Playlists

Everyday we put together a playlist on Spotify which we then post on Twitter, so you know what we're listening to when you're here browsing. We posted links here to most of them before, but because that takes forever to do here's our Spotify profile, where you can find them all, alongside some older playlists - Afrika Bambaataa's Roxy Top 100, el Guincho's album inspirations, some Motown non-hits etc  So, if you're keen, here it is - South on Spotify

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Barrence Whitfield & The Savages In-Store

On Thursday 15th May (our two month anniversary fact fans), Barrence Whitfield & The Savages drop by to christen our shop with our first ever in-store performance.   They'll be playing a short set from 5.30pm, before heading over to the Railway for a gig that evening.  Make sure you arrive early, as we're a small shop and can only fit in so many people! If you're not familiar with Barrence and his Savages, sit back and let me fill you in with a potted history: Barrence Whitfield is a full-throttle soul screamer in the spirit of Little Richard, Wilson...

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NME, South, Top of The Shops -

NME

If you didn't have your magnifying glass to hand as you rushed to your local newsagents to purchase this week's New Musical Express you may have missed that we were featured as Top Of The Shops.  Which, as pointed out by Dean, leaves me in the enviable position of having been featured as club of the week and shop of the week in the same magazine (with a 10 year gap between them).  Once my debut album comes out I'll be gunning for that worst artwork of the week award to complete the set.

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Amphetamine Ballads, Castle Face, Do To The Beast, Domino, Drop, LP, South, Southend, Sub Pop, The Afghan Whigs, The Amazing Snakheads, Thee Oh Sees, Vinyl, With Light And With Love, Woods, Woodsist -

New releases this week

Four great new albums out this week, all with lovely artwork. Thee Oh Sees new one, Drop, which was preceded by this trippy video, premiered on Stereogum last week Woods return with their new LP With Light And With Love which continues their form of the last few records.  Last time I saw them play (at the ever expensive Cargo in London) they'd added more muscle to their Kraut-folk, which translates well on this album. The legendary Afghan Whigs are also back, with their first album in 16 years Do To The Beast.  And they're back on Sub Pop to top...

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