Record Store Day 2013 Stock List
Here's our UPDATED selection of exclusive, limited edition Record Store Day releases! Available from 8am on Saturday 20th April Available online from Saturday 27th April…
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Record Store Day 2013
We're teaming up with Clubhouse Records - a wonderful label dedicated to UK Americana - for a day of live music and great RSD special releases. Plus, we're having the best after-party around!…
GUEST BLOG: Annabelle Chvostek in-store review
What do you do on Saturday afternoons? Me, I often go to Union Music Store in Lewes and listen to the musicians who are playing an in-store. Today, ahead of a sold out evening show in the town, Annabelle Chvostek pitched up on the shop’s tiny stage, accompanied by Jeremie Jones on acoustic bass and Tony Spina on percussion and treated us to a thirty minute taster of her new album, RISE.annebelle-chvostek-rise…
Mumford & Sons come to Lewes
So, unless you have spent the past 24 hours asleep, you probably already know... Mumford & Sons are coming to little old Lewes…
Gift ideas!
We've got loads of excellent gift ideas in-store; here's just a small selection, with prices to fit every pocket, from little extras to dream presents!…
Union's 2nd Birthday
Two years ago Stevie and I had a ridiculous idea: open a folk and country music shop... Amazingly, and against all odds (let alone common sense) we're still here, forging a growing foot-hold in the roots music scene in the UK and north America. …
Hatful Of Rain OFFICIAL music video
We're extremely happy to announce we've just released a video to accompany Hatful Of Rain's title track from their forthcoming Union Music Store album, Way Up On The Hill.…
Record Store Day 2012
Special Record Store Releases Get here early if you want any of these titles - we open at 8am…
Hatful Of Rain sign to our record label!
We are very happy to announce a new signing to our record label…
Roots on the (local) radio
We have all seen them, foppish hair, waistcoats, tight jeans, pointed vintage leather shoes and merely a hand woven scarf to beat off the winter blues. They reside in packs, boys and girls and (occasional skateboard or fixie aside) are bipeds. Yes, the hipsters are as common a sight at gigs these days as was the greasy-haired, leather jacketed Motorhead fan at gigs of old. Yet, inexplicably like an uber cool Austin suburb these trendy youngsters have been drawn towards the roots world to have their ears pleasured and if I am honest I am not exactly sure why. Ok, the phenomenal success of Mumford and Sons has all the pull of a granddad-shirted Pied Piper leading the congregation up into the folk hills and they have been beating the indie folk drum at every festival it can for a couple of years now. Bleary eyed in sheer wonderment these teenage tousled tribes have been seen bouncing up and down at festivals in their thousands to songs about fishing and northern towns sung by fey temptresses in vintage cotton. …