IMPORTANT NEWS - Pure Groove is now closed! Thanks to everyone that came down to the crazy last day in the shop, and especially to Jeremy Warmsley for playing a beautiful set! We're still open for mail order although during May we will only be having limited new stock. The new shop and website open on June 2nd.

LAST EVER INSTORE AT PURE GROOVE ARCHWAY:May 16th - JAY REATARD - single launch - 6.30pm - . SHOP WILL BE OPEN FROM 5pm ON THE NIGHT.

Come get involved: - myspacefacebook group - youtube - music blog

7" Singles

Octopus Project
Wet Gold
Too Pure
Stanley Brinks
Stanley Brinks
Ciao Ketchup Recordings
The Kabeedies
Lovers Ought To
Cherryade
Institubes Express (David Rubato / Jean Nippon)
Institubes Express 999 (Pure Groove Exclusive)
Institubes
Joe Dangerous
My Allergies & Me
Mannequin Republic

Albums

Cocosuma
We'll Drive Home Backwards
3RD SIDE RECORDS
Various
Across The Pennines Vol 5
Across The Pennines
Blood Red Shoes
Box Of Secrets - SIGNED COPIES (r/d 14 April)
Mercury
Troubles
Wolf
Troubles
Example
What We Almost Made - Mixtape Vol 2
The Beats

Alt & Indie

Bobmo / Jean Nippon
Blue Vinyl Arcade Mode Seven
Arcade Mode
The Work
Don't You Know (Inc Nightmoves Mix) - Sale 50p
Powerblytt
Leeds On The Bone
Compilation Two - Only A Fiver!
Wrath
Crystal Castles
Crystal Castles - Vinyl Album £9
Last Gang
Hot Chip
One Pure Thought - Remixes 12"
EMI

Dance & Electro

Lillica Libertine
Ultra 10
Meal Deal
Tiedye
Nothing Else Matters - £5
Italians Do It Better
Invisible Conga People
Weird Pains- £5
Italians Do It Better
Cut Copy
Lights & Music (Boys Noize Remix)
Modular
Buy Now
Bodycrash
Mode

Magazines

Butterscotch Zine - New Lower Price!
The first issue of a brand new independent zine and as the name suggests it's filled with treats. An interview with the Soho Dolls, Lightspeed Champion, hip hop experimentalism in London’s trendy 'Life' bar as well as bold fashion shoots and illustrations.
Bad Idea - Issue 5
The latest issue from those wonderful folk at Bad Idea. Bringing you the latest scrawls from the talented young minds. Superb stories and excellent illustration to boot. Keep it up Bad Idea.
The Wire - Issue 290
The 290th issue features Gudrun Gut - From Malaria!, Mania D and Neubauten to Ocean Club radio and Monika Enterprise, this 'dilettante' has genially hosted Berlin's new music scene for 30 years. Plus the latest in their series of free compilation CDs.
Plus One Lung-Issue No.2
The second issue of Plus One Lung has been long awaited, and here it is!!! Features include pieces on Liars and Jandek amongst others, and also features a CD with music from Nik Void, Shimmy Rivers, The Stabs, Braille, Lady Woodsman and Cantor Dust
Amelia's Magazine - Issue 8
Beautiful as ever, the ultimate publication comes with amazing pieces on Jack Penate, Operator Please, Bugs! and more, all inside the most gorgeous thing you can possibly imagine.

Merchandise

Stag And Dagger (AITBF Shoreditch All Dayer)
Diplo, Operator Please, Hot Chip, Bang Gang and tons more across loads of venues in Shoreditch on May 15th 2008, Camden Crawl-style. Another amazing party from the Beetroot boys. One pass for all the venues.
Young And Lost Club Shirts
Lovely t-shirts from the ace record label, available in medium or small size only. Only a handful of each so best bust a groove to grab one.
Lost in Paris Record Bag
Puregroove's latest imprint have now got some limited edition record bags to carry around their superb releases in. Or just fill them full of jam and put them on your head.
Institubes Express 999 - Super Limited Tee!
Limited to 100 only!!! Exclusive to pure groove!!! Sizes American Apparel... Girls L / Guys: S/M/L. Please state your size in the comments box!

Upcoming Releases

Bromheads Jacket
Speaker Box
The grand return of Bromheads Jacket, a band that quietly sold 20,000 copies of their debut album. Their hair has got longer and they picked up a Hammond along the way, but there’s no mistaking the short-sharp-punk antics that embody Bromheads.
  Marquis Cha Cha
7" Single
£4.00 - BUY
Darlings of the Splitscreen
Hiroshima / Turn Around
Great new single from the hotly tipped Darlings, with a 80s nu-romo lekky pop groove. Lovely stuff that's already had the cool kids drooling on themselves as they thrust Myspace messages to book them for their nights.
  Razor Stiletto
7" Single
£4.00 - BUY
Rhythm Method
Renegade Silence
Second single on the magnificent 50 Bones label, this is a sublime sleaze-funk pop record from former Death From Above 1979 man Sebastian Grainger. Gonna sell out just as fast as the first one!
  50 Bones
7" Single
£5.00 - BUY
Heartsrevolution
CYOA! Remix 12
Brodinski, Lazaro Casanova, CFCF, Lauren Flax and Dan Oh line up to remix the bonkers American act while our fave local illustrator, the genius that is Kate Moross does the art. What more do you really need? Not cheap but this is a collectors piece work.
  IHeartComix
Vinyl 12"
£18.00 - BUY
Jay Reatard
See/Saw / Screaming Hand - SIGNED
The crazed pair wielding triangle guitars and the biggest perms since Whitesnake left the building are playing our shop on May 19th - will be INSANE. We saw em several times at South By Southwest and it was amazing!
  Matador Records
7" Single
£4.00 - BUY
Electrocute
On The Beat
The debut release on the soon to be huge Germs Of Youth label. Inspired by palm trees and sunshine, the new single mixes 60s bubblegum pop, electro and beach party fun in the tradition of the B-52s and the Go-Gos.
  Germs Of Youth
CD Single
£4.00 - BUY
Noah And The Whale
Shape of My Heart - Gatefold Disc One
Another utterly delightful record from the band that will be playing a library for us on Thursday! This is such a fine record - beautifully subtle but with lashings of Beirut-esque brass. A band that will certainly become a national treasure very soon.
  Young And Lost Club
7" Single
£4.00 - BUY
Noah And The Whale
Shape of My Heart - Disc Two
Another utterly delightful record from the band that will be playing a library for us on Thursday! This is such a fine record - beautifully subtle but with lashings of Beirut-esque brass. A band that will certainly become a national treasure very soon.
  Young And Lost Club
7" Single
£4.00 - BUY
Hush The Many (Heed The Few)
Revolve - SIGNED
Beautifully building string-led songwriting that'll appeal to fans of the kind of North American bands that usually do this sound so much better than us. Usually, but not always, as this shows. Signed by the band for you.
  Alcopop
7" Single
£4.00 - BUY
A Place To Bury Strangers
Debut 12
Second release on Tapedeck's Meal Deal imprint - a change of direction now with one of our fave new acts - APTBS take Mary Chain style feedback and run with it, bringing in tougher riddims from frenetic synths and drum machines.
  Meal Deal
Vinyl 12"
£6.00 - BUY

Single of the Week

Institubes Express (David Rubato / Jean Nippon) - Institubes Express 999 (Pure Groove Exclusive)

Institubes Express (David Rubato / Jean Nippon)
Institubes Express 999 (Pure Groove Exclusive)

Yup, you read it right. A unique seven inch you'll only get here. Featuring the production talent of the geniuses David Rubato and Jean Nippon, this comes with more deranged cut-up mayhem than is probably healthy. Electronic collages of sound!

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Album of the Week

Troubles - Wolf

Troubles
Wolf

Ex- Hope Of The States members crash together like waves on the shore. Last Night of The Proms meets slow-motion WW2 film music with a Mexican twist. SUPER LIMITED EXCLUSIVE TO PURE GROOVE. Features free poster.

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Upcoming

Bromheads Jacket - Speaker Box

Bromheads Jacket
Speaker Box

Marquis Cha Cha
28/07/2008

The grand return of Bromheads Jacket, a band that quietly sold 20,000 copies of their debut album. Their hair has got longer and they picked up a Hammond along the way, but there’s no mistaking the short-sharp-punk antics that embody Bromheads.

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News

New shop!

New shop!

Leaving Archway...

Yes, it's true. As you might have read in the paper, we are moving to Farringdon in the next few months... More to come soon on this exciting venture.