E-Mail This Article to a Friend Find that tune Where to buy discs by emerging local artists BY DEIRDRE FULTON

UP-AND-COMING RELEASES can be hard to find, especially if you’re looking for music from emerging artists who don’t have the backing of a major label or who haven’t gotten radio or TV exposure. But some Boston stores make it a little easier by buying from independent labels or local acts. Newbury Comics has an "established commitment to it," says chief operating officer Duncan Brown. Likewise, the newer Re:generation Records is trying to build a name for itself as a store "actually run by the people that buy the stuff," according to co-owner Sue Jeivin. Several stores have consignment programs that put the onus on the artists to get the word out about their recording. "We try to tell the local people, ‘Tell your friends that your CD’s here,’" Jeivin says. Virgin Megastores also has a consignment program, and its criteria are fairly loose: "If it’s well-made music — it doesn’t have to be Top 40 material — if it’s well-produced and it sounds good, we’ll bring it in," says Dennis Armstrong, chief buyer at Boston’s Virgin Megastore location.

Here are some New England stores that sell, to varying degrees, records by local bands on the rise.

Newbury Comics

www.newbury.com

• 332 Newbury Street, Boston

(617) 236-4930

• Government Center

1 Washington Mall, Boston

(617) 248-9992

• Harvard Square

39 JFK Street, Cambridge

(617) 491-0337

• 220 Maine Mall Road

South Portland, Maine

(207) 874-6788

• Providence Place Mall

74 Providence Place, Providence

(401) 383-0044

• 777 South Willow Plaza

Manchester, New Hampshire

(603) 624-2842

Re:generation Records

155 Harvard Avenue, Allston

(617) 782-1313

Virgin Megastores

360 Newbury Street, Boston

(617) 896-0950

CD Spins

www.cdspins.com

• 668 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain

(617) 325-7400

• 324 Newbury Street, Boston

(617) 267-5955

• 58 Winter Street, Boston

(617) 357-0525

• Davis Square

235 Elm Street, Somerville

(617) 666-8080

In Your Ear

www.iye.com

• 957 Comm Ave, Boston

(617) 787-9755

• 286 Thayer Street

Providence, Rhode Island

(401) 861-1515

Twisted Village Records

www.twistedvillage.com

12 B Eliot Street, Cambridge

(617) 354-6898