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Celebrating 40+ years of Vinyl Records, CDs and Tapes in Vancouver!
NEW RELEASES & STAFF PICKS
BEST OF 2025
So many fantastic releases this year, always a challenge to keep it to ten each. But as is tradition, here are our picks. DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION >
BEST OF 2024
Thank you for another year of sharing music and movies and culture on our beloved Commercial Drive. Here is our annual best of the year picks. It's always a challenge to keep it to just ten each... BEST OF 2024 - PDF
BEST OF 2023
Thank you for another year of sharing music and movies and culture on our beloved Commercial Drive. Here is our annual best of the year picks. It's always a challenge to keep it to just ten each... BEST OF 2023 - PDF
Oxford American – Music Issue 2023
So now that it is December, we are pleased to tell all you music fans that the annual Oxford American magazine music issue has once again arrived, and is for sale at Highlife. We have told you before about the admirable mission of this amazing cultural project, but just let it be said that it remains probably the only chance [...]
Faraj Suleiman – Live at the 2018 Montreux Jazz Festival – Solo piano
As the improvised African American based music, known by many as Jazz, enters its second century, its influences and impact can now be found and heard in virtually every community in the world. This specific, amazing record (CD) has been made by a young (29 year old) Palestinian composer/pianist named Faraj Suleiman. Mr. Suleiman currently lives in Paris where he [...]
BEST OF 2022
Dear Highlifers~ Happy holidays and congratulations to Argentina. We continue to think about Ukraine, women in Iran, and problems in our part of the world. Sad to hear of the passing of the great Terry Hall. Hope to see you in the shop to chat about all, and how we can make things better, even in small, individual ways. [...]
NEWS & EVENTS
Year End Reflections from Bill Hood – 2024
So it is the time of year for reflections on the recent past. At Highlife Records this means choosing your favourite album releases of the last 12 months. For me this is always a complicated process. I of course have found a number of newly discovered sides that make my life more interesting and tuneful. The problem for me is [...]
Chris Wong Book Event
Friday June 7th at 7pm we are excited to present author Chris Wong and his special new book Journeys to the Bandstand: Thirty Jazz Lives in Vancouver. At the event, Chris will talk about the book, read excerpts from it, and answer questions in a live interview with Highlife jazz specialist Bill Hood. A few tracks that Chris wrote about [...]
Benefit Sets In-Store for Turkey & Syria
Join us after work for the next three Fridays to gather and donate to local Turkish friends who have organized a GoFundMe. From the campaign: “We are residents of British Columbia from Turkey concerned about the massive crisis unfolding in our country of origin. We aim to raise funds to support local organizations mobilizing to address the immediate needs of the [...]
4 Videos/Films – Dec 2020
Recently caught our eyes and ears:
DAWN PEMBERTON LIVE AT HIGHLIFE
What a great time with Dawn, DJ Su Comandante, Here and Now Productions, and Crew Studios. Thank you for your support SoundOn.