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11/12/2026

GIVEAWAY!!!!!
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Winner picked Tuesday 11/17

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11/12/2026

Join us Wednesday, November 18th at 6pm for an early listening experience to celebrate the Grand Theft Auto lV soundtrack!! RSVP is free but required and you can find the link in our bio.

This is gonna be fun and literally a decade in the making!

11/12/2026

U2 Listening Party!

Saturday, November 14th, 2026
5pm

We'll be celebrating the new album from U2 with giveaways, raffle prizes, and an exclusive vinyl variant. Feel free to RSVP (https://partiful.com/e/WlDzbHUsWLEvofAJTmbA?c=6oEn6AlF) or just come as you are!

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11/10/2026

A Conversation with Dylan Slocum of Spanish Love Songs

Spanish Love Songs embarked on its North American leg of their Co$t of Living tour this past Wednesday, November 4th in DC. People are raving, and for good reason. They are of course playing some tracks from their new album, Future Nausea (which as some of you may remember, I reviewed last week), but also lined the setlist with plenty of old favorites (mine included). And, lucky me! I got to spend some time before their NYC show at TV Eye chatting with frontman, Dylan Slocum, who is downright lovely.

For those of you unfamiliar, Spanish Love Songs has been labelled emo / punk from the get-go. And while they’ve stuck to the general theme, they don’t let that label define them. When asked about the jump between their earlier works, schmaltz in particular, and their new record, Slocum describes it as an incremental journey rather than some drastic change-up.

“The through line is still there, but we dressed it up with some different clothes.”

To read the rest of our interview, you can check it out here (https://substack.com/home/post/p-224211863) :)

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11/06/2026

The wonderful Rebounder🏀 brothers popped by the shop to talk their record picks, favorite karaoke songs, and what it means to show perspective. Check our their new album, “Downtown People”, out everywhere today!

11/05/2026

We Are Doing The Substack Thing!

We started a substack (https://fortherecordbk.substack.com) ! Early album reviews, concert reviews, weekly picks and artists to watch. We're hoping to grow it out! Please subscribe and give our latest article a read :)

Haven’t you heard? The world is ending! And Spanish Love Songs’s fourth full-length album, Future Nausea, is here to walk us through all the nitty gritty details of our impending demise.

Read more (https://fortherecordbk.substack.com/p/future-nausea-spanish-love-songs)

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11/04/2026

We’re just a few weeks away from RSD Black Friday!! Limited releases, live albums, hot reissues, picture discs and zootropes galore!! So many more than in the picture. What are you looking to buy?

We’ll have DJs playing all day keeping the good vibes going. Tap in!!

And it just happens to be our ACTUAL 5 year anniversary🥰 more on that later!

11/02/2026

wakelee shops at For The Record! Let’s see What’s In Their Bag?

Wakelee released their sophomore album, “Under Construction Forever”, on October 9th under Wax Bodega and it’s been an amazing album to spin so far this fall. This is an emotional album created by some incredible musicians with a dedication to their craft. Check them out!

10/30/2026

Our new release spotlight of the week: Samuel Burton and his new album, “Fairweather Friend”.

Sam Burton has always made music full of the hope of possibility and unbound potential that also channels the tension of accepting loss while still grieving it. Now, Burton is at his most confident and self assured—he’s at ease in his depth. Fairweather Friend is the Palestinian-American musician’s third solo record since moving to Los Angeles from his home state of Utah in 2016. In the decade since his move, almost everything changed for the artist, and his songwriting acted as a guide through the changes, mirroring transformation, sometimes even before it had happened, in a kind of unconscious foreshadowing. Fairweather Friend expands with the artist: minimal, stark production and live, raw performances that feel familiar to Bob Dylan’s New Morning, with acoustic guitar interplay and occasional flickers that recall John Renbourn and Bert Jansch.
Burton was living a nomadic lifestyle during the period in which the record was made.