They had one of our favorite releases last year in Arrows, toured incessantly in 2011 including outings with Death Cab For Cutie, The Joy Formidable, Two Door Cinema Club, and Minus the Bear, and are set to hit the road again supporting Portugal. The Man this coming Spring.
But that’s not what brings Washington state’s The Lonely Forest to TVD for a full week this week.
Tuesday, 1/31 marks the release of the band’s Arrows on vinyl and we’ve invited the band to hang out with us this week in celebration of what we tend to call in these parts a “crowning achievement.”
We’ll be talking records all week with the guys in The Lonely Forest, we’ll have a chance for one of you to get your hands on a copy of Arrows on vinyl, and we’ll debut an exclusive performance right here at TVD. First however, the band tips us to their favorite neighborhood indie record store.
The Lonely Forest: The TVD Week, begins – right now.
“The Business right here in Anacortes, WA has always been my favorite record store. I hung out there every day after (or during) school from age 11 on. Bret Lunsford of Beat Happening owned it for all of my childhood and teen years.
He was usually my guide to picking out new music from the vast used bins. I mean, it was the ’90s so people traded in a lot more music than they do now it seems. Currently, the shop is owned by a good friend, Nick Rennis, who has mostly turned it into a vinyl-only store. I make 80% of my music purchases there still.”
—Tony Ruland, Guitarist
“I’ve had many good and bad experiences at Seattle record stores. The good ones always involve an excited employee geeking out with me on XTC and most recently, Ween records.
I’ve also had a couple of clerks give me dirty looks for what I was buying which is always a bummer. I’d say The Business, our hometown record store in Anacortes, has always been the nicest and most informed place for me to discover new music.”
—John Van Deusen, Lead Singer/Guitarist
