Holiday & Black Friday Gift Guide
Between a full slate of new and recent releases and Black Friday exclusives, Paradise Found Records has something for every member of your family this holiday season. We will open... Read More
Bart's Record Shop is now Paradise Found Records & Music.
Steely Dan's Gaucho -- Treasure or Trash?
Some questions are as old as humanity: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? If a tree falls in... Read More
Fall Music Preview/17 New LPs to Get Excited About
Welcome to the latest Paradise Found Records blog. Summertime might have come and gone, but the good news is that there are a large number of exciting new and archival... Read More
Summer Music Roundup
Welcome to the latest Paradise Found Records blog. This month we're reviewing our favorite music from the past few months. Bo Burnham -- Inside "Pandemic Art" as a genre did... Read More
Ten Best Rock Debuts of the '80s
Welcome to the latest edition of the Paradise Found Records Blog. Hope you're having a great summer and that you got all the vinyl you wanted at our June and... Read More
Record Store Day Drop #2 is July 17th at Paradise Found Records!
Happy June! Here's hoping you had success find everything on your wish list at 2021's first Record Store Day Drop. The second drop will happen on Saturday, July 17 and... Read More
Get Ready for Record Store Day Drop #1 on June 12th at Paradise Found Records!
We’re getting ready for the first of 2021's two Record Store Day drops on Saturday, June 12; the second drop is happening on Saturday, July 17.
Is there a Record Store Day this year?
As an independent record store we're proud to be a participating Record Store Day (RSD) shop. However, once again Covid has forced a change to Record Store Day. This year... Read More
Ten Best Rock Debuts of the '70s
A couple of months back I shared my ten favorite rock debuts of the sixties. This month I take a look at the best debuts from the seventies, listed in... Read More
We Have a Large Selection of Rock Books!
What's almost as enjoyable as listening to music? Reading about it! At Paradise Found, we have a large selection of new and used music books. Here are a few of... Read More
Paradise Found is Open with Music to Cure Your Quarantine Blues!
Pandemic or not, one thing is for sure: music's therapeutic value is important now more than ever. And Paradise Found is here to keep your music needs satiated. While we all await the return of live concerts, there is no shortage of great new releases from 2020.
Ten Best Rock Debuts of the '60s
This month I'm spotlighting the greatest rock debut albums of the sixties. With a few exceptions, I've chosen the premier efforts from musicians largely unknown before their first release. Each LP was highly influential, consistently strong and not dominated by one or two hits.
2021 Music Preview
As of this writing, with the lockdown still in full force and vaccine distribution in its early stages, let's take our optimism any way we can get it. Which is to say that there's a lot of great music on tap for 2021, and confidence is high that there will be ticket sales in 2021 for future live shows that come off without a hitch. Also, Record Store Day 2021 is already confirmed for June 12, so it's never too early to mark your calendar for that Saturday!
Top 25 Records of 2020
I can't recall a year in which there was such an amazing amount of quality music released. Picking ten favorites was challenging and would've omitted many that I enjoyed. To help make sure you didn't miss anything--and unless you're currently homeschooling your kids, you probably have plenty of bandwidth to explore new music--here are my favorite LPs of 2020.
Talking Heads '20: How To Buy
Quiz time: what band that was hugely successful in the seventies and eighties has turned down mega-dollars to reunite since? Here's a clue: the band members haven't always gotten along well with each other. Another clue: the lead singer has toured regularly since the band's break-up and his set lists continue to include some of the band's biggest hits. If you guessed Led Zeppelin, you're right, but all of the above also applies to the Talking Heads, who came out of the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 and parlayed a regular spot at New York's famed CBGB's into New Wave fame.
Neil Young's Buried Treasures, Part 2
One of my favorite albums of 2020 so far was actually recorded in 1974: Neil Young's Homegrown, which features seven previously-unreleased tracks and musical accompaniment from Emmylou Harris, Levon Helm, and Robbie Robertson. In October of 2018, I some of Neil's buried treasures. In honor of Homegrown, here are four more great, often overlooked albums from Young.
New Albums from Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Others Coming
The live music scene might have ground to a halt, but there is still a lot of exciting new music coming out in the next few months. Here are the upcoming releases we're most excited about in order of release date; let us know if you'd like us to hold a copy for you!
March Music Odds and Ends
Welcome to March! My blog this month is a compendium of three-dot-style news, reviews, and thoughts: 2020's edition of Record Store Day--Bart's busiest day of the year and a big... Read More
Will's Holiday Music Mix 2019
If you know Will, you know that "holiday" does not always rhyme with "happy". He's been doing these mixes for over two decades, as a holiday gift for close friends,... Read More
Top Ten Albums of 2019
2019 was another great year for music lovers. Vinyl is expected to outsell CDs for the first time in decades, proving there's still a market for the old-school appreciation of analog, even in an era where streaming dominates how consumers listen.