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Record Store Day is back! Aug 29th/Sept 26th/Oct 24th

Record Store Day is back! Tres Gatos is excited to be a part of this global event celebrating local record shops worldwide by featuring hundreds of rare, collectible and hard to find special vinyl releases.

This year’s celebration will be divided into three Drop Dates: August 28th, September 26th and October 24th.
On each Drop Date, Tres Gatos will be holding a socially distanced sidewalk sale out on our patios from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Additionally from 5 p.m - 11 p.m. we will be offering curbside pickup, as well as 30 minute shopping appointments in our store for two people at a time.

Tres Gatos Book/Record Store is OPEN 7 days a week!

"The Tres Gatos Book and Record Shop is officially open for curbside contactless pickup, delivery and mailing Monday to Sunday, 12 to 8pm. Special orders are available upon request. Just email store@tresgatosjp.com or call 617 477 9209.

For a catalog of our new and used vinyl inventory, which we will be updating weekly, go here:

https://www.discogs.com/user/TresGatosJP/collection 

For a catalog of our books, which will also be updated weekly, go here:

https://tresgatosjp.libib.com/

Shop local! If we don't have something you're looking for, visit other neighborhood shops like @deepthoughtsjp, @lightofdayrecords and @papercutsjp! 

Neil Gaiman Talks About His New Book, Trigger Warning

Neil Gaiman is a literary legend, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbury medal. His books are frightening, visceral, grim and beautiful. And because of his marriage to iconoclastic Boston musician Amanda Palmer, he's around the Hub alot. He talked with NPR about his new book, Trigger Warning, last week.

Album of the Week: Death Cab for Cutie Kintsugi

Indie rock legends Death Cab for Cutie are back, minus(for the most part) Chris Walla, with a new album, Kintsugi. The production is lush, the hooks are pure power pop, and the heartfelt earnest lyrics are as ripped from the pages of an affected English major as ever. "No Room in Frame" is classic Death Cab at it's best; "El Dorado" is arena indie pop of the highest order. The band has matured, and they haven't softened at all. Ben Gibbard's sweeping romanticism and quiet desperation is in tact, and thank goodness. The vinyl, CD and cassette tape(!) is on sale at the record shop at Tres Gatos. You can read Rolling Stone's review here.

Album of the Week: Mountain Goats "Beat the Champ"

Leave it to the Mountain Goats, hyper-literate, genre-defying and utterly iconoclastic, to make a concept album about old-timey wrestling. It's clearly a passion project of leader John Darnielle, and he emotes, squaks and growls his way through a unique and strange album telling stories of lonely fighters on the road, blurry local TV broadcasts, and high school gyms and murky back-rooms of a disappeared America. The album can be very soft and tender, and also loud and full of horns and guitars. It is truly something special. You can read Pitchfork's thoughts here.

Record Store Day Special Releases

Record Store Day is fast approaching. It's April 18th this year. Here at Gatos, we're opening at 10am, with special releases/rare and limited vinyl, cd's and cassettes all over the store, essential for any collector. This is THE record sales event of the year for numbered/limited release vinyl, indie-first previews, reissues of long out of print wax, and everything in between. Every year, this event grows exponentially, and this year is sure to be no different. You can look and see the list HERE, and if you have questions or inquiries, stop into the Gatos record shop.