We've been pretty bad about updating this thing with new releases. You should check out our Facebook page since it has more frequent updates. But anyway, here are some of the latest things that have come in:


more New Releases to 11/23/10:

Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit - CD -
Beach Fossils - Face It - 7inch - new single from ex-Charlottean
Blank Dogs - Land and Fixed - CD - new album on Captured Tracks
Blank Dogs - Land and Fixed - LP - new album on Captured Tracks
Brilliant Colors / Girls Names - split - 7inch -
Death In June - Peaceful Snow - 10inch - 2x10"
Dodsferd - Death Set - LP -
Jandek - Chair Beside A Window - LP - reissue
Justine & The Victorian Punks - Beautiful Dreamer - LP - '70s disco punk 12"
NOFX / Spits - split - 7inch -
No Age + Brian Roettinger - Artist Music Journals - 10inch - 10" + art book
Old Man Markley - For Better For Worse - 7inch -
Protex - Strange Obsessions - LP -
Royal Baths - Litanies - CD -
Royal Baths - Litanies - LP -
Sun Araw - Beach Head - LP - back in print
Swingin' Utters - Taking the Long Way - 7inch -
Tobacco - La Uti - LP - new EP
VA- - Harder, Fatter, & Louder - CD - new Fat Wreck Chords comp
VA- - Harder, Fatter, & Louder - LP - new Fat Wreck Chords comp
VA- - Peruvian Funk - LP - rare '70s funk from Peru
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze - CD - new EP

New Releases to 11/23/10:

AC4 - S/T - LP - folks from the Refused
Artificial Peace - Complete Session November 1981 - CD - killer DC hardcore - pre-Marginal Man
Artificial Peace - Complete Session November 1981 - LP - killer DC hardcore - pre-Marginal Man
Avett Brothers - Emotionalism - LP - finally out on 2xLP with download code!
BLack Ryder - Buy The Ticket - LP -
Bachelorette - Isolation Loops - LP -
Bachelorette - The End of Things - LP -
Big Pink - Tapes - CD -
Bruce Springsteen - Promise - CD -
Bruce Springsteen - Promise - LP -
CIA - God, Guns, Guts & more - LP -
Coathangers - Hard Candy - 7inch -
Cult - Love - LP - reissue
Daily Life - Necessary & Pathetic - LP -
Dark Castle - Spirited Migration - LP - now out on vinyl
Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace - LP - reissue
Fall - Wonderful & Frightening World of... - LP - reissue
Faun Fables - Light of a Vaster Dark - CD -
Faun Fables - Light of a Vaster Dark - LP -
Four Tet - Pause - LP - reissue
Four Tet - Rounds - LP - reissue
Frodus - Soundlab 1 - 7inch - new record!
Fücked Up/Serena Maneesh - Spliy 12" - LP -
GRB - Maqueta - LP - spanish '80s hardcore
Gauntlet Hair - Out...Don't - 7inch -
Girls - Broken Dreams Club - CD - new EP
Girls - Broken Dreams Club - LP - new EP
Government Issue - Complete Boycott Stabb - LP - reissue with tons of extra songs. I'm GI
Hawks/Grashopper Lies Heavy - split tape - LP -
Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy - CD -
Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy - LP -
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Rambling Ego - CD -
Knaves Grave - I Don't Wanna Be Yer AARP - 7inch -
La Sera - Never Come Around - 7inch - Vivian Girls folks
Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis - CD - killer metal - finally a new album
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms - LP -
Low - Christmas - LP - first time ever on vinyl
Man Or Astroman? - Is It.... - LP - reissue
Matt + Kim - Sidewalks - LP -
Mewithoutyou - A--->B Life - LP - back in print
Mewithoutyou - Catch Us For The Foxes - LP - back in print
Mike Patton - Mondo Cane - LP -
My Chemical Romance - Danger Days - CD -
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn - LP - reissue
My Morning Jacket - Tennessee Fire - LP - reissue
National - High Violet (Expanded Edition) - CD - 2xCD version with tons of extra songs
National - Terrible Love - 7inch -
No Joy - Ghost Blonde - LP -
Orange Juice - Coals to Newcastle - CD - 6CD+1 DVD anthology box set
Personal & the Pizzas - I Want You - 7inch -
Phobia - Unrelenting - CD -
Regina Spektor - Live In London - CD - CD + DVD
Reptile House - s/t - 7inch - reissue of their 1985 7". Features Dan Higgs (pre-Lungfish) on vocals and London May on drums.
STNNNG - The Smoke of My Will - LP -
Screeching Weasel - Television City Dream - LP - reissue with extra tracks
Shipping News - One Less Heartless To Fear - CD - new album
Shipping News - One Less Heartless To Fear - LP - new album
Soft Pack - Gagdad - 7inch -
Sons of Ishmael - Hayseed Hardcore - LP -
Stalin - Sakhalim Smile - LP -
Stereolab - Not Music - CD -
Stereolab - Not Music - LP -
Stimulators - Loud Fast Rules - LP -
Swell Season - Irglova - CD -
Tamaryn - Waves - LP -
Ted Lucas - S/t - LP -
VA- - From the Land of Ice & Snow - CD - 2xCD tribute to Led Zeppelin with: M. WARD (SHE & HIM), CHRIS WALLA (DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE), REBECCA GATES (SPINANES), LAURA VEIRS, CHRIS FUNK, JOHN MOEN (THE DECEMBERISTS), PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT, LAURA GIBSON, LOCH LOMOND.
VA- - We Were So Turned On: Tribute to David Bowie - CD - 2xCD tribute with: DURAN DURAN & ex-SLITS VIV ALBERTINE coming aboard, as well as contributions from WARPAINT, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, RAINBOW ARABIA, CHAIRLIFT, VIVIAN GIRLS, PAPERCRANES, CARLA BRUNI (the French First Lady!) & MEGAPUSS (DEVENDRA BANHART)
Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse - CD - reissue of first EP
Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse - LP - reissue of first EP
White Lung - It's The Evil - LP - Rob creams his jeans over this


New Releases to 11/09/10:

Alastair Galbraith - Mass - LP -
Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures - CD -
Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures - LP -
Atheist - Jupiter - CD -
Band Name - Breakfast - LP - comes with download, patch, and bonus cassette
Blue Water White Death - S/T - CD - Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu and Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater
Blue Water White Death - S/T - LP - Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu and Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater
Carter Family - Bring Back My Blue-eyed Boy To Me - LP -
Cee-Lo Green - Lady Killer - CD -
Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium - CD - CD on sale for $6.99
Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium - LP - CD on sale for $6.99
City Center - Zen Kids - 7inch -
Cloud Nothings - Leave You Forever - 7inch -
Cloud Nothings - Turning On - LP -
Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles - 7inch - new EP
Danzig - Deth Red Saboath - LP -
David Bazan - Wish My Kids Were Here - 7inch - another annual Christmas single from Mr. Bazan - limited
Diplo - Chasing The Dragon - CD - back in stock - Diplo mixes '60s and '70s psych, garage, and soul $8.99
Dylan Ettinger - New Age Outlaws - LP - mastered fresh for vinyl and bedazzled with new layers of robot noir synth lines, back alley cyber sax, and insomniac drum machine heartbeats
Ensemble Economique - Physical - LP - on Not Not Fun - limited to 470
Excepter - Late - LP - new album of analog keyboard beaty weirdness
Fall - Wonderful & Frightening World of the Fall - CD - 4xCD box set with tons of bonus tracks
Feeliong of Love - OK Judge Revival - LP -
Flips - I Just Don’t Know Where I Stand - 7inch -
Gary War - Police Water - CD -
Gary War - Police Water - LP -
Gary Wilson - Electric Endicott - CD -
Gary Wilson - Electric Endicott - LP -
Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner - LP -
Good Ones - Kigali Y' Izahabu - CD - Rwandan guitar folk
Good Ones - Kigali Y' Izahabu - LP - Rwandan guitar folk
Gregory & the Hawk - Leche - CD - vinyl out in December
Hisato Higuchi - Henzai - LP -
Hudson Bell - Out of the Clouds - LP -
Interpol - Antics - LP - reissue - now only $9.99
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights - LP - reissue - now only $9.99
Kurt Vile - In My Time - 7inch -
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow - CD -
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow - LP -
Lil B - Rain In England - LP -
Lucky Five - La Resistance - CD - local Charlotte band
Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun - CD - new and perhaps final album?
Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun - LP - new and perhaps final album?
Mecca Normal - Malachi - 7inch -
Modest Mouse - Sad Sappy Sucker - LP - reissued - back in print!!!!
Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself - LP - reissue - back in print!!!
Nightlands - Forget the Mantra - LP -
Octopus Project - Hexadecagon - CD - new album
Octopus Project - Hexadecagon - LP - new album
Parting Gifts - Strychnine Dandelions - CD - Greg Cartwright (The Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Reigning Sound) and Coco Hames (the Ettes, Coco Motion)
Parting Gifts - Strychnine Dandelions - LP - Greg Cartwright (The Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Reigning Sound) and Coco Hames (the Ettes, Coco Motion)
Paul Cary - Ghost of a Man - LP - PAUL CARY formerly of THE HORRORS
Salome - Terminal - CD -
Screeching Weasel - Television City Dream - CD - remastered and reissued with bonus tracks
Slough Feg - Animal Spirits - CD -
Smoke Or Fire - Speakeasy - CD -
Smoke Or Fire - Speakeasy - LP -
Soft Circle - Shore Obsessed - CD -
Soft Circle - Shore Obsessed - LP -
Sonic Youth - Evol - LP -
Sonic Youth - Hits Are For Squares - LP - record store day release available again. hmmm?
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz - LP - 2xLP now out - only $18.99
Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai - Wild & Foolish Heart - LP -
Syl Johnson - Complete Mythology - LP - 6LP + 4CD + 52 page book in one giant box
Tallest Man On Earth - Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird - CD - brand new EP
Tallest Man On Earth - Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird - LP - brand new EP
Terror - Keepers of the Faith - LP -
Twin Shadow - Forget - CD - finally back in stock
Tyvek - Nothing Fits - CD - new album
Tyvek - Nothing Fits - LP - new album
Velvet Underground - Live Vol. 1 - LP - record store day release available again. hmmm?
Velvet Underground - Live Vol. 2 - LP - record store day release available again. hmmm?
Weekend - Sports - CD -
Weekend - Sports - LP -
Why Be Something That You're Not - Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985  - Book
Wooden Wand - Death Seat - LP -

New Releases to 10/26/10:

Adicts - Smart Alex - LP -
Adicts - Sound of Music - LP -
American Nightmare - Demo - 7inch - back in stock
Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures - CD -
Angelo Spencer - L'Argent - 7inch -
Avey Tare - Down There - CD - dude from Animal Collective - vinyl not here yet :(
Black Angels - Phosphene Dream - LP -
Breathe Owl Breathe - Magic Central - LP -
British Sea Power - Zeus - LP - really cheap 7 song EP
Bryan Ferry - Olympia - CD -
Burning Love - Songs For Burning Lovers - LP -
Call Me Lightning - When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free - LP -
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night - LP -
Coliseum - Goddamnage - LP - reissue with the Goddamnage EP, split with Doomriders, and a live set all on one LP
Comic Wow - Library Music Catlaog Series - LP -
Converge - No Heroes - LP - repressed
Converge - You Fail Me - LP - repressed
Cough - Ritual Abuse - CD -
Culo - Military Trend - 7inch -
Diamond Rings - Special Affections - CD -
Earth - Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction - CD - contains the Extra Capsular and Sunn Amps & Smasshed Guitars albums remastered on one disc. Vinyl late november
Fake Problems - Soulless - 7inch -
Fergus & Geronimo - Never Satisfied - 7inch -
Flying Lotus - 1983 - LP -
Fucked Up - Police - 7inch - back in stock
Ghostland Observatory - Codename Rondo - CD -
Hauschka - Landscapes - LP -
Joan Of Arc - Meaningful Work - 7inch -
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow - CD -
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow - LP -
Monster Magnet - Mastermind - CD -
Monster Magnet - Mastermind - LP -
Nomos - Notes From the Achem - LP -
None More Black - Icons - CD -
None More Black - Icons - LP -
Orb w/ David Gilmour - Metallic Spheres - LP -
Pepper Rabbit - Beauregard - CD -
Pepper Rabbit - Beauregard - LP -
Pissed Jeans - Sam Kinison Woman - 7inch - pee-pee yellow vinyl
Pop. 1280 - The Grid - LP -
Protex - Strange Obsessions - LP -
Real Estate - Out of Tune - 7inch -
Serena Maneesh - D.I.W.S.W.T.T.D. - LP -
Shitty/Awesome - Hang Up - 7inch -
Small Black - New Chain - CD -
Small Black - New Chain - LP -
Sun Airway - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier - CD -
Sun Airway - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier - LP -
Systems Officer - Underslept - LP - bassist from Pinback/3 Mile Pilot solo album with 3 bonus songs not on cd
T. Rex - Slider - CD - reissue - vinyl coming late November
Telekinesis - Parallel Seismic Conspiracies - CD -
Timmy's Organism - Rise of the Green Gorilla - CD -
Timmy's Organism - Rise of the Green Gorilla - LP -
Touche Amore - To the Beat of a Dead Horse - LP - back in stock
Viktor Sjoberg - Breakfast in America - LP - features Jens Lekman - limited to 200 copies
War on Drugs - The Future Weather - LP -
Warpaint - The Fool - CD -
Warpaint - The Fool - LP -
William Ryan Fritch - Library Music Catlaog Series - LP -
Withered - Dualitas - CD -
Withered - Dualitas - LP -  

Hey, to celebrate the new releases of Sufjan Stevens "The Age of Adz" CD ($11.99) and Antony & The Johnsons "Swanlights" CD ($11.99) & LP ($14.99) we have put the following releases on sale:

Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise, Michigan, Enjoy Your Rabbit, and Avalanche
Antony & the Johnsons - S/T, The Crying Light, I Am A Bird Now

are all on sale for $8.99 on CD!!!

The new Antony & the Johnsons is also available in a super deluxe hardcover book of his art with the cd.

The updates have been a little infrequent lately, but you can keep up to date with all of our new stock, both new and used, by checking our Facebook page. It's easier to update and you get instant satisfaction. We've had some changes lately since Rob had to go and get a career, but we're still trudging along. Come by and say hello.

Anyway, now to the more important stuff...the return of the 33 1/3 sale!

This weekend marks the return of the now 3rd annual 33 1/3 sale. Originally started on my 33 1/3 birthday (4 months after my real birthday), but no one really seemed to understand the relation and kept wishing me happy birthday all day. So now it has become more than that and an annual sale to show you my love. We need to clear things out and you need cheap records, what a great trade! Tell all of your friends because this is short notice and if you snooze that's too bad. We don't do many sales anyway, but we appreciate your business and want to show you with this awesome sale. This year we decided to make the sale even better by making it Saturday and Sunday.



EVERYTHING IN THE STORE IS 20% OFF!
- LPs, CDs, DVDs, 7"s, 10"s, books, stickers, patches, everything! Saturday & Sunday ONLY!

IN ADDITION ALL USED LPs, CDs, & DVDs ARE BUY 2 GET 1 FREE! - This is combined with the 20% off, which basically amounts to buy one get one free (or a combined 47% off of all used if you want to get exact). Hopefully that makes sense. It's a lot easier for us to ring it up that way.





Canadian Rifle will also be playing the store Saturday night to further the festivities. No local as of right now.

Thanks,
Scott

The Magic Kids from Memphis are doing a tour of stores in the south for their new album "Memphis" which comes out August 24th. They will be playing at Lunchbox on Friday, August 27th at 6 PM. This is a little earlier than our normal in-stores and they will be they only band but it will tons of fun. This is their only North Carolina date!

The new National album "High Violet" comes out May 11th. Available on CD or 2xLP, and for a limited time we have the deluxe versions which is a foil embossed cover for the CD with a bonus poster and numbered colored vinyl for the LP.

In case you haven't heard or read about this, this Saturday we'll be taking part in the third annual Record Store Day, which is actually being held across the globe. For some info on what it's all about -- although you can pretty much assume what its motivations are -- check out www.recordstoreday.com

WE WILL BE OPENING AT 10 A.M. SATURDAY

Last year was awesome and I guess people felt left out because there are tons of releases coming out that day that are limited. Now, what does this mean for you? Well, over the past week we've been receiving tons of freebie goodies to give away in honor of Record Store Day. If you stop by on Saturday, we'll have a bag full of free stuff for you. It's first-come, first-serve, so if we're out of them by the time you get here, we're sorry. So try to make it earlier rather than later. These includes free LPs, 7"s, CDs, posters, a couple Devo hats, stickers, etc.

ALSO there are Record Store Day EXCLUSIVES for sale only at participating indie stores. These are almost all very limited in nature, and in many case we did NOT get that many or as many as we ordered, so be ready. There were way more labels participating this year so there are bound to be some things I didn't even know about as well. We're trying our best to get everything though, but sometimes things slip through the cracks and with this many releases we had to budget ourselves a bit as well. There are also a bunch of UK ONLY releases. Those are listed here. but we WILL NOT have the UK releases. A lot of people keeping asking since there are some nice ones, but those are for UK stores only.

The releases include:

F*CKED UP • DAYTROTTER SESSION 7” (with limited LUNCHBOX RECORDS COVER!!!)
HOT WATER MUSIC "Live in Chicago" --7"

Soft Machine - Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971 2xLP

ALSO, we will be having a drawing for a $50 gift certificate to be drawn on Saturday night.

AND IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THIS...we're going to bring out as many posters (and trust us, we have billions of them) & whatever else we can find to give to you. It helps us, it helps you, it helps the world. Ok, maybe not the whole world. But we hope you'll enjoy what you can have.

The only requirement to get all this stuff is to stop by and buy something -- or, at the very least, look around and see if there's anything you want. I'm sure other stores will have more strings attached to get some of these free items, but we'd rather you have them then not, you know? We appreciate the year-round business that everyone in this community (and beyond) has brought us, year after year. Stop by on this new holiday and get a little somethin' back.

AND most importantly, we are having a Record Store Day Sale. Or you can call it our 4.5 year anniversary sale since we didn't even have a 4th Anniversary sale. Anyhow, here's the deal:

EVERYTHING IN THE STORE IS 15% OFF! - LPs, CDs, DVDs, 7"s, 10"s, books, stickers, patches, everything! Saturday only! *Due to the limited nature of Record Store Day releases, however, those are not included in the sale.

ALL USED CDS & DVDS ARE BUY 1 GET 1 FREE! - This is combined with the 15% off.

FREE LUNCHBOX RECORDS CANVAS TOTEBAG WITH $50 PURCHASE - we had these made just for this and figured people might use this more than a shirt. We don't have pictures of these yet because they won't even be here until Friday, but they are cool. We ran out of our slipmats pretty quick last year, so if you want one, get here early. We'll also have new t-shirts in stock and stickers back in stock. It's been a while since we've had either and we have a new design and they are on nicer, softer shirts this time.

LIVE MUSIC BY (times are general targets):

GRIDS 8:30

YARDWORK 7:30

BRAIN FLANNEL 6:30

ANDY THE DOOR BUM - 5:30

BRENT BAGWELL & GUESTS - 4:45

HAWKS - 4:00 PM

and hopefully some vegan baked goods for you....

See you Saturday!!

Now for my rant...(reprinted from last year for your convenience)

You're probably wondering what RECORD STORE DAY is anyway? I was at first too. But it's basically a revamped customer appreciation day where hopefully you the customer appreciates us as well and the fact that you live in or near a town that still has independent record stores. I personally don't like buy things online, but lots of people do. But it's great to know that you can go to a store and browse and stumble on things you never would have thought of or heard of otherwise. You don't get too much of that online. We also do everything in our capabilities to sell you records as cheap as we can. This means buying direct whenever possible and searching for deals and unfortunately not bringing some stuff in because big labels like to give chain stores better deals than the little guy. Our prices for most things we stock are typically $2-$5 cheaper than the big store across town. We don't do sales often because we prefer to make it cheap all of the time. We stock tons of LPs and 7"s because we love the format and when I opened this store the other stores we're still busy trying to kill the format. I believe in independent music and labels and try to stock as much as I can which means a lot of lesser known indie, punk and metal titles. I'm not against major labels, but 99% of what they release is manufactured garbage, although they were all once viable indie labels.

I've been going to record stores since as long as I can remember, buying my first 7" in 1984 and getting into punk a couple years later. It wasn't until I moved to Atlanta that I had good stores that stocked underground releases and I've been addicted ever since. If I didn't love record stores I wouldn't own one. I'd go get a job that made a lot more money. People come in here a lot and tell me they love the store and it's great, and lots of out of town folks and bands do too. I really have no reference point on that anymore since I'm here seven days a week. There's only 2 other stores that sell vinyl in town, one is oldies oriented and the other banned me for life when I stopped working there and opened my own store. So I never get to go to any other stores and just try to make mine the one I would want to go to. I'm nowhere near that point yet and am working to improve it all of the time. I value people's suggestions and take them seriously, probably a little too seriously. But if you don't tell me what you want I can't read minds. The point of this being that I think the store is pretty good, and there are tons of folks that don't have a decent record store anywhere near them. So hopefully you'll support us. I realize the store isn't for everybody though.

We will continue to sell you lots of records we and you think are cool, and we will continue to have shows in the store as long as I can and bring awesome out of town bands to Charlotte. We are very thankful of those of you that have supported us for the last 4.5 years. And if you've never been here before, please come visit us.

-Scott