Top 10 New Zealand Album Bestsellers 2017!!

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Irene Hundleby

Top 10 New Zealand Bestsellers 2017!!

With NZ Silver Scrolls, NZ Hall of Fame and NZ Music Awards season in full flight, Dave and I put together a list of our best selling New Zealand albums to date so far this year...

Of note, Aldous Harding, Nadia Reid and Lorde have all performed on Jools Holland Live this year!! Pretty awesome. All in all a great bunch of sounds being made in our isles! Big congrats to local musicians THE CLEAN being inducted into the NZ Hall of Fame!

Posted in Bestsellers 2017, New Zealand

RELICS ANNUAL RECORD STORE DAY SALE 2015

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Irene Hundleby

RELICS ANNUAL RECORD STORE DAY SALE 2015

SAT 18th APRIL

WE CELEBRATE 'ALL THINGS MUSIC'

IN STORE 9am to 5pm

RECORD STORE DAY was created as a day to celebrate the culture of independent record stores, but without all you people that are so passionate about music, record stores would cease to exist... so really Record Store Day is about all of you!

As a little give back... to say a BIG THANK YOU

ALL VINYL, CDs and DVDs are discounted 15% IN STORE on RSD

and YES that includes ALL RSD special releases that have made it in !

We have ordered over 90 different releases, but when it comes down to it, a lot of stars have to align for everything to arrive in to the store on time! AND for us to receive the items we have requested - these items are coveted all over the world - so everything comes down to our luck of the draw!

In Dunedin, New Zealand we are one of the first independent stores in the world to celebrate Record Store Day, but some of our vinyl orders also have to travel a super long way. This means we hope like hell that everything makes it to the store on time...

So...

The GOOD NEWS is that we do have our NEW ZEALAND Record Store Day releases and a few others!

The NOT SO GOOD NEWS is that due to a major shipping catastrophe, the majority of our RSD releases have not made it to NZ in time for Record Store Day - this is not just a Dunedin problem, but a nationwide one - no record stores in NZ will have their US goods on time :(

However we do know what we are receiving, so we will be taking orders tomorrow for those items...

Super sorry, we know heaps of you were excited about the possiblity of taking home international releases - but out of our hands - of course we're celebrating anyway... and as usual definitely celebrating our NZ MUSIC!

Our ANNUAL SALE is so ON ~ THANK YOU for being such loyal music lovers !!

All VINYL, CDs and DVDs in our store are on sale on SAT 18 APRIL !

RECORD STORE DAY RELEASES that have arrived!

SHAYNE CARTER & PETER JEFFERIES - Randolph's Going Home 7"

DELANEY DAVIDSON - Diamond Dozen LP

HAWKWIND - Quark, Strangeness & Charm (clear vinyl) 2LP

HAWKWIND - Live Seventy Nine (yellow vinyl) 2LP

HAWKLORDS - 25 Years On (purple vinyl) 2LP

HAPPY MONDAYS - Live at Brixton Academy 2012 (orange vinyl) 2LP

KILLING JOKE - Live at Hammersmith Apollo Part 1 2LP

KILLING JOKE - Live at Hammersmith Apollo Part 2 2LP

JOHNNY WINTER - It's My Life Baby LP

WU TANG CLAN - Protect Ya Neck (Yellow/Black) 12"

JURASSIC 5 - QUALITY CONTROL THE WOOD BOX 4LP

LARRY'S REBELS - A STUDY IN COLOUR LP

BITCH / CLEVES LP

SHIHAD - KILLJOY 20th Anniversary Remaster LP

MINT CHICKS - FUCK THE GOLDEN YOUTH LP

RED BULL SOUND SELECT VINYL GIVEAWAY

Added BONUS!

Everyone that purchases vinyl on Saturday will receive a FREE copy of this 12" EP featuring Black City Lights, Kamand¡, Team Dynamite and Esther Stephens and The Means!! - while stocks last!

Once we have run out of physical copies in store - we have 100 copies still available to RELICS customers...

They will be shipped from Red Bull directly to you - all you have to do is put your name down on the list in store when you purchase any vinyl record.

Choice. Stoked to be hanging with ya!

Posted in Dunedin, New Zealand, record store day 2015, relics, RSD

EVENTS IN THE MIX... Relics RSD 2015

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Irene Hundleby

EVENTS IN THE MIX...

RELICS RECORD STORE DAY

Saturday 18 April ~ 2015

RECORD STORE DAY is quite simply - a day of celebration! The third Saturday of April, independently owned record stores from all over the world celebrate the culture of vinyl, sharing music and the love of music. After all, all those that start independent record stores are in it because they love it.

If you ask Dave, he has spent most of his life thinking everyday is record store day... and it took him a while to come round to the idea of celebrating record store culture on a specific day - but as we nearly lost independent record stores for a time there, we both know - and maybe you agree - that record store culture is actually something worth celebrating!

Last year we had such a great time with all our awesome customers, and the release of Dunedin's Independent Records EP... (if you haven't seen the footage you can check it out here) ... and we decided that we would definitely be celebrating again this year!!

On RSD, many artists - international and local - choose to release albums, items of special interest and re-release albums out of print. Some people aren't so in to this. Quite frankly, we just look forward to more good music!! This year the list is quite something.

Tons of vinyl goodies have been ordered in - most are pretty limited editions!

However, we won't know exactly what we have been lucky enough to get until the day before!

RSD releases will be available ONLY IN STORE - so come in and have some fun! - At the close of business on Sat 18 April, we will list items still in stock on our website.

To be fair to everyone - first in first served - sorry no holds ...

More info will be posted here as it comes to hand ...

Or on our RELICS MUSIC DUNEDIN facebook page

Doors will open at 9am sharp.

Choice one.

BRODSKY QUARTET

Presented by Chamber Music New Zealand

"Threads of sound were being perfectly woven like gossamer through a lattice work. The humanity and serenity of this work shone." - Brodsky Quartet review from Waikato Times.

FEATURED ARTISTS:
Daniel Rowland (violin)
Ian Belton (violin)
Paul Cassidy (viola)
Jacqueline Thomas (cello)

NZ TOUR is currently underway... upcoming show dates & times HERE:

PALMERSTON NORTH Tuesday 24 March ~ Spiers Centre: Free talk 6:45pm; Show 7:30pm

WELLINGTON Thursday 26 March ~ Michael Fowler Centre: Free talk 6:30pm; Show 7:30pm

NELSON Friday 27 March ~ Old St. John's 7:30pm

CHRISTCHURCH Saturday 28 March ~ Charles Luney Auditorium 7:30pm

DUNEDIN Monday 30 March ~ Glenroy Auditorium 7:30pm

INVERCARGILL Tuesday 31 March ~ Civic Theatre 7:30pm

AUCKLAND Wednesday 1 April ~ Auckland Town Hall: Free talk 6:45; Show 7:30pm

Check out more info & tickets here:

Chamber Music New Zealand - Brodsky Quartet NZ Tour

Brodsky Quartet website

Chamber Music New Zealand Facebook page

We'll be at the DUNEDIN & INVERCARGILL concerts - see you there!!

Posted in Brodsky Quartet, Chamber Music New Zealand, Dunedin, New Zealand, record store, record store day, record store day 2015, relics, RSD

LOVE NZ RECORD STORE HISTORY? Check this...

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Irene Hundleby

LOVE NZ RECORD STORE HISTORY? Check this...

If you love your NZ history, and you especially love history that involves record stores... here is an article for you... even has a wee mention of Dave's old Auckland record store 'Corner Records'...

Comprehensive, great pics and a walk down memory lane if you ever trawled through crates in the AK...

TRAWLING THROUGH THE CRATES - LOST RECORD STORES OF INNER AUCKLAND - Article by Simon Grigg

To add to that great article, here's our Dave James back in the day in Corner Records c.1996.

This photo was taken in the Lorne Street location... first shop was in the basement on Queen Street & Victoria Street, where Whitcoulls is currently located.

That KISS pinball machine definitely added to the pinball obsessions of many in town!! (one of my fave's)

Posted in Auckland, AudioCulture, Corner Records, Dave James, New Zealand, record stores

TOP 10 CD ALBUMS ~ 2014

Posted on January 02, 2015 by Irene Hundleby

Here were our TOP 10 CD ALBUMS for 2014!!

Two of our top selling CDs were albums launched at Relics in 2014... thanks HEAPS for hanging out with them and us, and for showing these fab Dunedin / NZ musicians how much you love them !!

As with vinyl, we special ordered in a BIG number of CDs for RELICS customers, and it seems by the numbers of orders we took, that this is a service our customers particularly enjoy!! We will do our best to help you find more spectacular music wonders throughout 2015!

Again, it is really just AMAZING how many NZ musicians make our top selling 10 CD albums! Perhaps this has a little to do with us being an indie store, but aside from that, an incredible number of GREAT NZ albums were released this year over many different genres...

Here we go...

IR 77 - Various Artists: Independent Records Sampler CD

JACK WHITE - Lazaretto CD

ANTHONY RITCHIE - Stations, Symphony No. 4 CD

SHOSTAKOVICH - Borodin Quartet, String Quartets 1-13 4CD

ROBERT SCOTT - The Green House CD

DAVID KILGOUR & THE HEAVY EIGHTS - End Times Undone CD

TINY RUINS - Brightly Painted One CD

TAMI NEILSON - Dynamite CD

JAKOB - Sines CD

THE EASTERN - The Territory CD

Following close behind...

THE WAR ON DRUGS - Lost In The Dream CD

RODRIGUEZ - Cold Fact CD

See also: TOP 10 VINYL ALBUMS ~ 2014

Posted in Anthony Ritchie, Flying Nun, Independent Records NZ, IR, New Zealand, NZ music, Record Store Day, Top 10 CD Albums 2014

TOP 10 VINYL ALBUMS ~ 2014

Posted on January 01, 2015 by Irene Hundleby

So these were our best selling vinyl albums at RELICS for 2014... several record store day releases made the top 10!

But most interesting to us is how AWESOME YOUR SUPPORT for NZ music and NZ musicians has been... which shows by the numbers of NZ vinyl that went out our doors and on to your players !!

Also very revealing to us is the wonderfully eclectic taste our customers have!! Good on you!! We made a staggering number of special custom orders for vinyl this year! Our hi-tech vinyl record cleaning service was also super popular... ok without further ado ...