Something Else Records
207a Wellington St. K7K2Y6 Kingston, ON, Canada

LP crates back in stock!

A big welcome to the newest member of our team! Our daughter Brook arrived Saturday August 29th around noon and everyone is happy, healthy and home. Looking forward to seeing everyone when we return to the shop!

This Saturday (August 29) is the first of three Record Store Day Drops! RSD, as we know it; a social day with live music, hanging out in our local shops, etc. is replaced for now with a three month roll out of the official 2020 list of releases. RSD Canada says the focus of these RSD Drop dates is on bringing revenue to the stores, as well as to the artists, labels, distribution and every other business behind the scenes making record stores work. As always, we wouldn’t be here without your amazing support! ~ Come check out the selection of titles we received! ~ Open 10-5! See you then!

Now open 7 days a week

Here are some updates about our hours and operations; Starting this Sunday we are open Sundays! 12-4. And Tuesday through Saturday, 11-5. Closed Mondays. Next week will be the last week we offer free local delivery, so if you’re interested in having us drop records off at your doorstep one last time (or maybe for the first time), get your order placed on the website by the end of Sunday! Thanks for the amazing ongoing support Kingston!

Local artist @bbliesen.art is auctioning off a framed original charcoal drawing of Bob Marley with all proceeds going to Black Luck Collective! This beautiful piece is currently hanging in the shop if you’d like to come see it in person.

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 2nd, in solidarity with the music industry black out against systemic racism and police brutality, our business will not be operating. Our store front will be closed, we will not be processing web orders, responding to email or using social media. . 15% of all web sales from Wed-Sun of this week will be donated to @campaignzero . For more info on Black Out Tuesday; https://www.google.ca//show-must-be-paused-george-floyd-de... . Join the Kingston Solidarity Vigil, June 2nd 4:30pm, Skeleton Park https://m.facebook.com/events/257321368687529?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%223%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=3&ref=page_internal

Happy Sunday everyone! This week we’ll be ‘open for business’ starting Tuesday! While we are excited to start seeing your faces again, we are also aware that record shopping is very hands on, and sanitizing records is not a practical endeavour. Our initial protocols will be wiping down all other common surfaces in the shop often, offering gloves if you’d like them to browse, grabbing what you want for you (if you have something in mind), and limiting in store shoppers to thre...e people at a time. . We see this as a trial week; we want to see what works and plan to keep shifting things over the coming weeks. Our priority is still what’s safest for you, our amazing community and our (growing) family . So for this week we will be in the shop Tuesday through Saturday from 11am-3pm. These hours will serve as extended curbside pick up for those of you who still prefer to shop online, but the door is open to those of you who are ready to come back in the shop. For this week we are still offering free local delivery. As always, we offer shipping to our out of town supporters. . We’re excited to show you all the work we’ve done on the shop! Looking forward to seeing you! @ Something Else Records See more

@khonkaklub pins, patches and socks now available on our website! Check out these pairings!

The past couple months, we’ve been focused on family, building and operating our webstore, and ensuring that we can continue to bring in an array of new release vinyl. As we prepare to re-open our physical store, we’ll be giving some long overdue time and energy into getting more vintage vinyl out for sale! Stay tuned for an ‘Incoming Used’ section on our website As for this week’s hours, we’ll be at the store for order pick-ups on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 11-3. For people who need to make purchases in person, we will be allowing people in one at a time to use tap. But we strongly encourage and ask everyone to continue using our website to make purchases and curbside pick-up orders, for the time being. Thanks and take care

We have decided to take this week to finish up some projects we are working on in the shop, and figure out what things will look like in the coming weeks. So for this week, we will continue with Thursday and Saturday curbside pick-ups from 11-3, as well as weekly local delivery and out of town shipping. Next week will likely look like extended curbside pick-up hours, continued local delivery and shipping, and potentially drop-in hours or by appointment in store shopping. Let ...us know what you would like to see! What are your plans for record shopping in the coming weeks? Are you happy to keep ordering online and picking up or having items delivered, or would you prefer to come into the shop again? Your feedback will help us to figure out this first stage of reopening. Let us know your thoughts! And thanks for sticking with us through all this :) @ Something Else Records See more

We continue to offer the same services. Order online anytime, contact us to special order anytime. Curbside pick up Thursdays & Saturdays 11-3. Free local delivery. Thanks again to all of our customers, you folks are really making a difference with your support. We hope you’re enjoying the Something Else web-shop!

We’ve been doing some light renovations, giving the store a new look and layout. Here’s just a sneak peak! Those of you who recognize the space in the pic, notice a change? Really looking forward to safely reopening and seeing you all again!