Vine St Vinyl

Vine St Vinyl Vinyl Records + CDs, New and Secondhand, 29 Vine Street, Whangārei (inside Kiwicakes), 9.30-4 weekdays, 10-1.30 Saturday

More new vinyl in...
11/09/2026

More new vinyl in...

New vinyl, including two classic ambient albums from Cluster, TV on the Radio's momentous debut, the influential trip ho...
07/09/2026

New vinyl, including two classic ambient albums from Cluster, TV on the Radio's momentous debut, the influential trip hop jazz album Six Degrees by New Zealand keyboardist Mark De Clive-Lowe recently reissued on vinyl, plus The Jon Spenser Blues Explosion

More new vinyl hitting the bins. Happy to put aside, just let me know
03/09/2026

More new vinyl hitting the bins. Happy to put aside, just let me know

Stocking up the bins with lots of new vinyl! Some I've been waiting for a while to get back in stock. Includes latest r...
02/09/2026

Stocking up the bins with lots of new vinyl!
Some I've been waiting for a while to get back in stock.
Includes latest release from Dinosaur Jr and Lee 'Scratch' Perry's final album.

New album by Fontaines DC, 'Dopamine Chamber' out 16th October. Message or comment to pre-order. Produced by James Ford,...
20/08/2026

New album by Fontaines DC, 'Dopamine Chamber' out 16th October. Message or comment to pre-order.

Produced by James Ford, Dopamine Chamber is the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic.

Dopamine Chamber arrives like a constellation behind undulating sighs of smog: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril—and what our pursuit of it reveals about us. Across the album, Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – move between gratification and dread until the two meld together, reflecting the overwhelm of artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and political violence all riding the same algorithms as memes, jokes and celebrity culture. “The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” says Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”

Where Romance held its tension in balance, this record tips it. “I think Romance was maybe 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling,” says Chatten, who spent time among the faded grandeur of Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration. “This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted — the mask is wearing the face a little more.” He resisted any pull towards easy optimism: “I felt it would be more powerful to leave the hope out and reflect the ugliness honestly. This one needed to feel more like a catastrophic warning.”

Cameron Winter's live solo shows in NZ were apparently something. For those who missed them, this is probably the next b...
20/08/2026

Cameron Winter's live solo shows in NZ were apparently something. For those who missed them, this is probably the next best thing, a new album of Winter live at Carnegie Hall. On CD and double LP vinyl. Let me know if you're keen on a copy. Release date 9th October.

New records... including for the first time at Vine St Vinyl, Greta Van Fleet and and Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot'
19/08/2026

New records... including for the first time at Vine St Vinyl, Greta Van Fleet and and Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot'

Selection of quality secondhand vinyl in stock... Message or comment for prices. Happy to post out. Vine St Vinyl, 29 Vi...
14/08/2026

Selection of quality secondhand vinyl in stock... Message or comment for prices. Happy to post out.

Vine St Vinyl, 29 Vine St, Whangarei
phone: 021 2030 140

Some new vinyl in today...
14/08/2026

Some new vinyl in today...

Phoebe Bridger's 'Lost Weekend' out today. Free poster with vinyl or CD purchase (limited number available
13/08/2026

Phoebe Bridger's 'Lost Weekend' out today. Free poster with vinyl or CD purchase (limited number available

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