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Bolero!

Greetings Mother Earth

Spiritual Pajamas

The long‑awaited sophomore release and first full‑length LP from San Francisco’s hybrid psychedelic Latin blues rock explorers, Bolero! has risen—an unapologetically primal expression of human music.The album unfolds as a guided journey through the spiritual and mortal realms, bridging past, present, and future through dynamic, richly layered compositions. Drawing inspiration from the San Francisco Sound of the late ’60s and ’70s while reframing it through a contemporary lens, the record moves fluidly between groove, ritual, and reflection.The journey opens with “Greetings,” an acknowledgment and welcome to our planet spoken in fourteen languages by friends and family of the band, layered over a deep, funky instrumental jam that ignites the album’s momentum.A drum hit snaps into motion the next track, “Espíritu,” beginning in a hypnotic trance with ghostly vocals inviting listeners to commune and dance with the spirits. The piece steadily builds into a powerful groove, featuring percussion breaks and soaring guitar and organ harmonies. Wind chimes drift in as a deep, tribal rhythm emerges, leading seamlessly into the final track of Side A, “Bathala.” Inspired by the ancient Tagalog deity said to have created the universe, the song erupts like a volcanic war cry—thunderous, cathartic, and elemental.Side B opens with “U.A.V.” a bluesy, fuzz‑drenched anti‑war anthem featuring vivid, incisive lyrics delivered in a dark, Morrison‑esque baritone over a crushing, Sabbath‑inspired musical assault. As the smoke clears, “Simply Livin” rolls in like the ignition of a classic car. Rooted in California sweet soul, the track pairs everyday imagery with soothing vocal...

Harry Pussy

You'll Never Play This Town Again

Palilalia

***Limited double-LP version of the 2008 CD originally issued on Load, compiling the best live and studio recordings by the final iteration of this group."60 second bursts of chaotic rock 'n' roll that barbarize whole histories of freakout style, from free jazz through classic hardcore, boogie, blues, Black Flag, Germs, most explicitly through Beefheart, but all hyper-condensed into ultra-kranky riffs that Orcutt plays at hallucinatory speed, compressing Zoot Horn Rollo style avant confusion into lighting runs and metallic two note knock-outs. Hoyos's style is so primitive that it's wildly avantgarde, with an instinctive feel for time that confounds the most advanced improvisatory strategies with the most hysterical. And her vocals are post-Yoko in the truest sense, not directly informed by her but sharing the same spontaneous energy and a-musical appeal, sometimes breaking from songs completely to expand on barely articulated vocal rants and fever pitched bouts of screaming. The whole group existed in a zone that was constantly beyond technique. The arc of their career was perfect, the mission truly accomplished, and all that's left is this amazing series of recordings, a body of work that has had a disproportionate effect on the minds, if rarely the actual sound of the underground."—David Keenan , The Wire, December 2008

These Bastards

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Alimentary Music

***A crazy tripped-out-thrash hymn worshipping at the altar of the West Bay Koalition. Imagine a mix between Zappa, Kalmaex, And The Riff Merchants, Spazz, The Feederz, with a touch of Captain Beefheart, executed across 16 tracks of high-speed punk thrash. One of the craziest concept HC punk LPs to come out of the West Bay, listening to this will make you want to fight in your local Jack-in-the-Box parking lot. Features ex-members of THREE WHEEL MOTION, VENKMAN, AGENTS OF SATAN, SLOBBER, MORBID LIFE SOCIETY, VVM, CONQUEST FOR DEATH and gazillion other West Bay / Bay Area projects, fronted by the legendary LEECH of Slobber. Recorded by the high priest of all things West Bay, BART THURBER at House of Faith Studios. Drink the fucking Kool-Aid! 625330. Limited to 250, all on green vinyl. Co-release with Alimentary Music, Coxinha and Mighty Morphine Power Violence.

Bobbie

Lessons

Orindal

Lessons is the new record from bobbie. This is their first release with Orindal Records. bobbie lives in Western Massachusetts, where they alchemize dream pop ethereality, twinkly ambient abstraction and intimate vocal clarity into their unmistakable sound. Distorted Omnichord autoharp looping, layers of drone-y synthesizers and low, reverberating guitar crack open into a wide sonic landscape. bobbie architects this atmosphere then introduces rhythm (often just Omnichord pre-set drum beats but also live drums from Lessons engineer, Felix Walworth) and then adds the lyrical presence. The songs are deeply layered and spatial but with a clear vocal throughline. There is harmony and dimensionality to this assemblage. bobbie evokes the ambient qualities of Enya, Brian Eno and Cocteau Twins as well as the pop-y poetic vibes of Dear Nora and Frankie Cosmos. Influences range widely from artists such as Laraaji, Beach House, Arthur Russell, Bill Callahan, Beverly-Glenn Copeland, Alice Coltrane, Astrud Gilberto, to projects like Plantasia and to recurring dreams + visions. When they wake up in the morning, bobbie often records themself dictating and attempting to make meaning of the previous night’s dream. Much of their album’s imagery comes from this practice.

Silverman, Harlan

Music For Stillness

Mississippi

***In a world filled with noise and chaos, Harlan’s music offers a restoration to peace. Music for Stillness unfolds slowly, inviting rest and quiet presence. The bansuri flute leads the sound, its vocal-like quality weaving melody atop cello and ambient textures. Influenced by Indian classical music, Japanese environmental music, and Western ambient music, the album leaves space for the listener to choose how deeply to engage. The music offers a single question: What might peace sound like?

K8A

Woradj Alle

Domino Sound

***“Woradj Alle-Impressions of Ethiopia for solo violin and electronics”, is the first solo album by New York based Kaethe Hostetter. After calling Ethiopia home for eleven years, K8A has put together a beautiful seven song album. No words, no drums, no back up musicians, nothing but K8A with violin and pedals creating a calming and warm audio experience to be added to the Ethiopian canon of music. Comes in a tip-on Stoughton sleeve with insert.

Lungfish

Artificial Horizon

Dischord

***REISSUED ON SILVER METALLIC OPAQUE VINYL!!! The fifth full length album from Baltimore's armaggedonally inclined avant-emo artisans darkly yearns out eleven songs of out-from-the-skin crawling bent rock. Hearts set to flame, souls burnt into ash.

Fulker, Tina

Collected Works

Zaius Tapes

"The artist Tina Fulker (1954-1992) would be a bit of a mystery to most folks, myself included. A poet hailing from the UK, she is the author of 4 books of poems (Gash!, Skylight, Scrapbook, Jukebox) that are highly coveted amongst collectors of rare ephemera. Her recorded works seems to have come from those pages & this album collects the 8 tracks from her cassette release, 'Tender Hooks' (1986) + the five included on a V/A tape, 'Real Time 6' from 1983. With assistance from John Ramo (guitar) & Zenon Slawinski (electronics), Fuller's cadence both flickers & haunts around the the sparse, brilliantly executed arrangements. Zaius Tapes mastermind, Johan Klepp, says that he'd been listening to his copy of 'Tender Hooks' almost exclusively over the 2025 holidays & decided it needed a vinyl legacy, thus combining 'Tender Hooks' with the 'Real Time 6' recordings for this 'Collected Works' lp. Spoken word, lo-fi, minimal synth, glits of Suicide come to mind within these pieces, as does the early works of Anne Clark. Done in a paste-on edition jacket w/a pressing of 200, this is certainly release no one saw coming. Leave it to Zaius Tapes to make available something else we didn't know, but now need."—Anne Shirley, Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia

Neurosis

An Undying Love For A Burning World

Neurot Recordings

Evolution can be ugly and beautiful, painful and euphoric. An Undying Love For A Burning World is the first new release from Neurosis in a decade, and a potent statement of intent and rebirth - one that marks the first new steps of resolve and resilience. An Undying Love For A Burning World is an epic album of colossal hypnotism - beautiful, fearsome and utterly compelling in a way that only Neurosis can be. Aaron Turner (Sumac, Isis) joins the band on vocals and guitar, a name whose legacy is intertwined with the band’s own and a true kindred spirit. Neurosis have never been afraid of change, and here they embrace endless regeneration, surrendering to the emotional exorcism through heaviness and distortion that their music incites. Just as the universe tends towards balance, Neurosis’ cacophony of noise, rhythm and dissonance always resolves towards moments of beauty. The addition of Turner's powerful vocals and wildly creative and unhinged approach to guitar proves to be a vital force as Neurosis find themselves again at the mercy of evolution and expression. The album was recorded by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Sumac, and Great Falls) at Studio Litho in Seattle during three weekends this winter, and mixed in three days just six weeks before release at Evan's Antisleep Audio in Oakland. Neurosis will play their first show in seven years on the traditional lands of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana as part of Fire in the Mountains festival by special invitation of Firekeeper...

Fulci

Risorsero Dalla Tomba E Fu… L’Apocalisse!

20 Buck Spin

***ON ONE-SIDED NEON ORANGE VINYL!!! Coming on the heels of the band’s most successful LP, 2024’s *Duck Face Killings*, FULCI return with a special 12” maxi single serving as the soundtrack to the short film *Risorsero dalla Tomba e Fu… L’Apocalisse!* (“They Rose From the Tomb and It Was… The Apocalypse!”). Created in collaboration with director Domenico Montixi, the 30-minute film merges paranormal horror with Spaghetti Western atmosphere, drawing direct inspiration from Lucio Fulci’s *City of the Living Dead* and *Four of the Apocalypse*. The film is set to begin its international festival run soon, with a trailer premiering at FULCICON 2 in Milan. The maxi single features a suite of new FULCI compositions that drift between eerie, cinematic soundscapes evoking the Lovecraftian aura of Fulci’s films, and the band’s signature Gore-Giallo Death Metal. It also includes a special cover of Fabio Frizzi’s “Apoteosi Del Mistero” from *City of the Living Dead*. *Risorsero dalla Tomba e Fu… L’Apocalisse!* further expands the band’s cinematic universe where extreme music and cult horror collide, serving as a uniquely atmospheric release bridging *Duck Face Killings*, the band’s relentless touring schedule, and the eventual resurrection of their fifth full-length album.

Astatke, Mulatu

Ethio Jazz

Heavenly Sweetness

***This album, Ethio Jazz, by MULATU ASTATKE is a jewel of the modern Ethiopian music and a mythical album. An album incredibly groovy recorded between 1969 in 1972. A record of Ethio groove in which we find some US soul, the jazz, the Latin accents and especially the oriental rhythms. A real jewel of the Ethiopian modern instrumental music, which illustrates perfectly the symbiosis of the strong rhythms and the quality arrangements with the Ethiopian subtle and deep melodies. A best for all the music lovers of ‘70s sound! In the Ethiopian musical landscape, Mulatu Astatke is a unique musician, a composer, an arranger. His real contribution lives in its action for the instrumental music, in a country where the orchestral traditions did not exist. For more than 30 years, he is the  door flag of the Ethiopian music. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl and packaged in heavy cardboard jackets.

Cherry, Don & Latif Khan

Music / Sangam

Heavenly Sweetness

***First time reissue of this forgotten album of DON CHERRY. This album was recorded in 1978 in Paris and released only in France in 1981. That was the first meeting between Don Cherry and Indian percussionist LATIF KHAN and the result is an incredible mixture of jazz and Indian music. This unsung album is only known by hardcore fans of Don Cherry who considered it as one of his best efforts.

Eshete, Alemayehu

Alemayehu Eshete - Ethiopian Modern Music Vol. 2

Heavenly Sweetness

***Alèmayèhu Eshèté is no less than one of the great voices of the heyday of modern Ethiopian music, the swinging sixties which, in this country, went on until the fall of the Emperor Haile Sellassie 1 in 1974. On a par with Tlahoun Gèssèssè, Bzunèsh Bèqèlè or Mahmoud Ahmed, Alèmayèhu is a star at the top level of the constellation that once lit up the wild nights in the capital.

Gessesse, Tilahun

Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol. 4

Heavenly Sweetness

***Although he is still completely unknown to Western audiences, for Ethiopians, Tlahoun Gèssèssè is THE VOICE. The first-ever pan-Ethiopian star, he has embodied such nonstop unanimity since the end of the 1950s that is a role-model and a point of reference.

Mekuria, Getatchew

Getatchew Mekuria And His Saxophone

Heavenly Sweetness

***“Getatchew Mekurya is probably the most revered veteran of Ethiopian saxophone. A real giant, both physically and musically. Not only is he at the very top level of Ethiopian saxophonists, but he is the ‘inventor’ of an extremely distinctive musical ‘style.’”

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Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits

Heavenly Sweetness

***Seminal compilation of instrumental tracks, originally released in Ethiopia in 1972. Features tracks from Tèsfa-Maryam Kidané, Bahta Gèbrè-Heywèt and Mulatu Astatké including the hit "Yégélé Tezeta" 2016 release.

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More Ethiopian Soul & Groove (Vol. 3)

Heavenly Sweetness

***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! A few years ago the world discovered a unique sound coming from the distant Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba. The emotional blow was only matched by the brightness of this original and magnificent discovery. The Ethiopiques series directed by Francis Falcetto and edited by Buda Musique provides a comprehensive landscape of this subtle musical universe where local and western cultures do magnify each other. This new Ethiopian Urban Modern Music release follows the first Soul & Groove installment and keeps revealing some essential parts of the modern Ethiopian puzzle. An unequaled soul funk signature until today.

Jaguar 777

Jaguar 777

Eleventh Hour Recording Company

***Jaguar 777, the seductive and primal music and performance act formed by artists Kacie Marie and Emmett O’Connor (Archie and the Bunkers), is thrilled to release their highly anticipated first full-length album. Described as a dangerous duo fueled by lust-ridden croons and primitive rhythms on the fringes of gloomy nightlife, Jaguar 777 crafts sex-soaked soundtracks that blend leather-and-velvet edge with raw intensity. This 21st-century Bonnie & Clyde will move you, shake you, and haunt your dreams. Jaguar 777 fuses raw rock 'n' roll roots with psychedelic harmonies, brought to life through primitive mono 45s and sultry cinematic visuals. Renowned RnR overlord King Khan has praised their sound as “Suicide meets Link Wray with Jayne Mansfield singin’!” Limited edition of 300 copies.

Station Model Violence

Station Model Violence

Static Shock

***"There is a scene in the BBC Krautrock documentary that made a great impression on me. Iggy Pop sits spread eagle in some beachside location drilling holes in coconuts and ruminating on the sound of Neu. The clash of the visual spectacle and the subject matter infected my dreams. At one point he describes Neu as 'pastoral psychedelicism'. I thought of that moment when Buz first played me the demo for the song which would become 'Heat', when first he asked me to play music with him. I heard it, smelled the fresh coconut juice and the sour sweat on Iggy's leathery hide. I knew that we would do it right. I moved to Sydney at the end of 2022. It was toward the end of two years of Melbourne lockdown that started in the immediate wake of the Total Control tour of Japan at the end of 2019 and was the longest time in 20 years that I had not travelled overseas or played music. After moving to Sydney I had an overwhelming need to start a new band and sing again. Total Control and Straightjacket Nation would be difficult to gather any momentum with my living interstate, and also I wanted to settle here and start something new and try and obliterate some of the stasis that entered my veins from the lockdown. Low Life asked me to play a solo show with Iceage at the opera house, but I had no ambitions for solo performance and had...

Ile De Garde

Rage Blossom

Born Bad

***Ile de Garde isn't just a clever pun paying homage to the blessed German mystic and jack-of-all-trades, Hildegarde Von Bingen It's the name chosen by three women freshly signed to Born Bad / Carpaccio Cathédrale, who came bearing gifts: six synth-wave tracks based on a drum/keyboard/spoken word line-up. It won't be for everyone, and that's just as well. More of a narrator than a singer, Klara Coudrais performs the lyrics, embodies characters, and puts on a show, in French and in English. Controlled and clinical anger, putting facts in order, whether it's settling scores with some violent bloke or scrutinize a couple on the path to a breakup—Sylvia Plath meets Diamanda Galás, heckling the audience gently. It sometimes flirts with singing, with reinforcement coming up as backing vocals. Neither John nor Karen Carpenter, Cécile Aurégan layers synths to produce dense, enveloping soundscapes. It's a full starter-main-dessert, but the trio has a strong stomach. Morgane Poulain peacefully taps away at her drums. Track after track, no-frills post-post punk for your ears, with a few surprises. Ile de Garde takes the floor, body-wise. Rage Blossom is a beginning, and you have to be there.

Omari, Abdou El

Lost Tape 1980

Born Bad

***LP version. Abdou El Omari was born in 1945 in Tafraout, south of Agadir—a village suspended between the pink granite peaks of the Anti-Atlas and the waves of the Atlantic. A landscape already musical in itself. He grew up in the dry mountain light, surrounded by the rhythms of nature and Berber's culture. Very little is known about the man—a veil of mystery still surrounds his life, only deepening the fascination. In the 1970s, as Morocco was transforming, Abdou El Omari shaped a sound of his own—a visionary blend of spiritual jazz, psychedelic funk, Moroccan traditions, and early electronic experimentation. Today, his work is resurfacing, rediscovered by a new generation of listeners in search of lost horizons. This record stands among its rarest and most precious fragments. At twenty-two, he founded his first group, Les Fugitifs, which gained him local fame. Soon after, he released records and cassettes on labels such as Cléopâtre, Hassania, Boussiphone, Hilali, and his own, Al Awtar, while performing on RTM (national radio and television). He also composed for artists like Naima Samih, Laila Ghofran, and Aicha El Waad. In 1976, through the label Gam, he released his only vinyl album, Nuits d'été—a record that would become cult decades later, reissued in 2017 by Radio Martiko. In the 1980s, his music grew quieter, more secret. He tried to recover his old tapes from the studios he had recorded in, but gradually withdrew from the scene and returned to hairdressing. A pioneer of musical fusion, he opened...

Ohkami No Jikan

Black Tape II

Black Editions / La Musica Records

***Black Tape II is only the second widely available release by Ohkami No Jikan (The Time of the Wolf), one of the more esoteric groups of the 1990s Tokyo underground. Recorded in 1992, it illuminates a largely undocumented facet of Nanjo Asahito's psychedelic cosmology, distinct from his better-known work with High Rise, Musica Transonic, and Toho Sara. Aside from a handful of limited, handmade cassettes and CD-Rs on his La Musica label, there's only been one Ohkami No Jikan album, Mort Nuit, that made it beyond the collector inner circle. One of Nanjo's longest-running, most mysterious outfits, Ohkami No Jikan's conceptualization—as a psych outfit "that explores 'stasis' and 'motion,' both actively and philosophically"—hints at the intensity of the music here. There's a pellucid beauty to much of Black Tape II, with the simplest, most erotically charged chord changes descending from the heavens, Nanjo moaning consumptively as the songs slip by in an acid daze. The 1992 line-up here, with Asai Fumiyo on bass and Nagao Kouji on drums, was one of many variations of Ohkami No Jikan; simultaneously languorous and heavy, at times pushed into the red with arcing blasts of feedback, the group feels cosmically aligned with Nanjo's purity of vision. Housed in a custom die-cut, "Uni-Pak" style gatefold with metallic ink, spot finishes and matching La Musica inner sleeve.

Orcutt, Bill

Music In Continuous Motion

Palilalia

Music in Continuous Motion, Bill Orcutt’s latest entry into his 21st-century repertoire of quartet guitar music, pointedly steps away from the cut-and-paste constructivism of Music for Four Guitars into a sonic stratum that's yearningly melodic, resolutely human, and built for performance. Conceived for a 2026 NYC concert, Music in Continuous Motion shares the concision of its predecessor—but rather than the discrete, mechanistic precision of Music for Four Guitars, the tracks on Music in Continuous Motion unify—each song weaving four gleaming threads into the warp and weft of an evolving, complex texture that employs simple, repeating motifs to build new melodies from counterpoint itself. It accomplishes this in the most efficient manner possible: most of these 12 tracks hover around two-and-a- half minutes, each iterating first the substrate, then the melody and its variations, then slamming shut like a clockwork music box.Based on previous recorded evidence, Orcutt is fond of boundary conditions for his studio guitar records. Much of the time, his launchpad is obvious (The Four Louies, How to Rescue Things); with others, it’s intentionally obscured. When recruiting me to write about each release, he might send me a clue (“This is a bridge pickup record more than a neck pickup record,” Orcutt helpfully offered for Music for Four Guitars). Although any given dispatch is a potential red herring, up until now, each has implied an Oulipian conceit (however obtuse) that at least somewhat determines the outcome. Thus, I was a bit surprised by his statement on Music in Continuous...

Shop Talk

Shop Talk

One Track Mind

***Following an EP and several singles, Brooklyn-based punk band Shop Talk delivers a full-length album. The band's self-titled LP was recorded in Nashville with Stiff Little Fingers tech / Sleeveens bassist James Mechan behind the boards. The LP is the product of an immersive five-day session at Mechan's residential studio, and it harnesses the power of Shop Talk's live show with minimal overdubs. It's a snapshot of this hardworking New York group on the heels of their summer tour, and half-delirious in the Tennessee heat. These songs have the emotional intensity of a fever dream—partly because Mechan and the band were running moderate-grade fevers during tracking. Listen well, but don't get too close. Recommended for fans of: X, The Adverts, Nick Cave, The Pretenders, The Damned, etc.

Gunner

Reality Soldier

Iron Lung

***From the ashes of SEMTEX 87 come GUNNER, a negative hardcore unit who treat their existence as a series of maneuvers with an unknown end goal. “An exercise in discipline and power.” Hardcore, dissonance and physicality underlines every move. Nothing without purpose. Where it will end is anyone’s guess though. The world is uncertain and filled with pain. Society cracks the psyche. Life has little quality.Similar to Semtex 87, whose impetus was informed by the movements of a deranged man rampaging around town in a stolen tank on a revenge kick, Gunner too finds abstract inspiration from a Perth local, an inwardly tortured man with a penchant for vice and suicidal ideation, that one of the band members regularly encountered at his night job. “There is a sense of being forced to apprehend the world with the tools one has been given, and sometimes those instruments are blunt and fractured to begin with. What separates us is much less than what we might imagine it to be, and what separates us from Society is much greater than we can tolerate comfortably. Necessarily, I think it is in that gap of psychosocial discomfiture that we make what we make.”500 copies on black 70gr vinyl housed in a 12pt reverse board glued pocket sleeve with A4 insert included. Recorded by Cameron Murphy. Mixed and mastered by Will Killingsworth. Art by Dave Gunner. A co-release by Helta Skelta (Oz) and Iron Lung (US).FFO: Semtex 87, Chain Reaction, Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers, Mecht Mensch, Vile...

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The Gaiety Records Story: Vol. 1

Return To Analog

***Some of the hottest garage and rock and psych to be released in Canada during the mid-‘60s! Eleven sizzling tracks from rare singles recorded for Gaiety Records, the indie label formed by Don Grashey and Lloyd Palmer, and active from 1961-1969. Formed by Don Grashey and Lloyd Palmer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Gaiety Records was an outlet for many relatively obscure but excellent Canadian garage and rock bands during its existence. They released their own singles as well as sub-licensing material to other labels, such as RCA (49th Parallel), Columbia (Jarvis Street Revue and Souls of Inspyration), Decca, Epic, Musicor, and others. Features the Checkerlads, White Knights, Tomorrow's Keepsake, Lexington Avenue, NRG, Solid Reputation, and the Plague, including their face melter, ‘Face of Time’ and the essential psych classic ‘High Flyin’ Bird’.

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The Gaiety Records Story: Vol. 2

Return To Analog

***A second collection of rare singles from the Gaiety Records label, featuring the cream of the mid-sixties crop of Canadian garage, punk, and psychedelic music! Highlights include more terrific songs from the Plague and Lexington Avenue, bands whose members would be better known when they created the Jarvis Street Revue. Twelve tough tracks by the Checkerlads, White Knights, Tomorrow's Keepsake, NRG, and Solid Reputation. The Gaiety roster was rich in talent (the 49th Parallel, Jarvis Street Review, and Souls of Inspyration, not to mention the Checkerlads, White Knights, Dewline, Tomorrow's Keepsake, NRG, Merriday Park, and Portland Street South) — but it was not rich in resources, which is why these singles are as relatively unknown as they are even today.

Black Sun Ensemble

Whirlpool Ocean

San Jacinto

***First time on vinyl for these incendiary hard psych rock tracks, which made their only other appearance in Australia in 1999 on CD as part of the “Sky Pilot” compilation released by Camera Obscura Records.With each passing year since his death, the intense and inspiring musical legacy of Jesus Acedo is in danger of slipping into darkness. That’s where we at Lion Productions come in — together with Rich Hopkins and San Jacinto Records — to do our utmost to keep the Lambent Flame burning, so to speak. All of the music on “Whirlpool Ocean” originates from the troubled and bizarre sessions for the album Acedo made under the name Black Sun Legion — and then destroyed, when his struggles with schizophrenia overwhelmed him. Fortunately, Hopkins had the masters, or this LP would not exist today, and some of Acedo’s most brilliant music would be lost. Happily, not the case. We have this album and other recordings of Acedo's through which to remember and admire his genius.

Dimension

Fight Another Day

Iron Lung

***DIMENSION is back with a lean, mean hardcore machine of raw simplicity. ‘Fight Another Day’ deals with the internal and external battles against the destructive forces of contemporary life in the United States. And with that message, they carry the torch of fast 80s USHC, meaning short songs with hooks that get the job done without overstaying their welcome. The hope for the record is to leave the listener with a desire to fight through the bullshit rather than falling into despair. Following the 2023 demo, DIMENSION took their time with writing this EP and tried to trim the fat as much as possible without overworking the songs, wanting it to sound as “live” and natural as possible. No overdubs, no frills, just hardcore.350 copies on black 75gr vinyl housed in a 12pt reverse board glued pocket sleeve with insert included. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Will Killingsworth. Art by Mark McCoy.FFO: Negative Approach, Poison Idea, COC.(STREET DATE - 3/13/2026)

Cryptid Spawn

Black Phosphorous Dungeon

Iron Lung

***CRYPTID SPAWN’S initial offering to the black metal canon is a polarizing but influential mini album comprised of primitive, atmospheric, and evil sounds. ‘Black Phosphorous Dungeon’ punishes the ear-to-brain pipeline with slow, bludgeoning riffs, minimalist drumming, and distorted, bestial vocals. The lyrics point to the bleak moments lived in this modern era of genocide and warfare such as Palestinians, Rohingya, Uyghur, Sudanese and this list goes on etc. Though some may find its production muddy and vocals alienating, they have created a divisive but revered experience for dedicated underground metal fans by blending raw black metal with death/doom, hardcore punk and ambient textures. ‘Black Phosphorous Dungeon’ stands out for its unique, ritualistic atmosphere and deep-tuned, fuzzed guitars that create a crushing, immersive feel.500 on black 140gr vinyl housed in a 24pt jacket with lyrics insert included. Recorded and mixed at Dungeon 416 by Cryptic Spawn themselves. Mastered at Dead Air Studios by Will Killingsworth. Art by Sarcofagore.FFO: Beherit, Blasphemy, Doldrey, Innumerable Forms, Mortiferum, Sarcofago, Hellhammer, Effigy.

Grupo Jejeje

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Discos Rolas

***Deep in Cyber Aztlán, Grupo Jejeje emerged in 2014 out of a shared fascination with the darker sonic undercurrents within cumbia. Mexican-American producer Turbo Sonidero, alongside Persian-British producer Arrabalero are Grupo Jejeje aka Los Místicos de la Kumbia digging deep into the cumbia universe in search of esoteric sounds from short-lived labels, synth-driven melodies from Puebla, and loop- and sample-based kumbias editadas from San Luis Potosi.Grupo Jejeje’s music filters these sounds through their own unique immigrant experiences. While Turbo Sonidero grew up as a Mexican-American in San José’s Latino East Side in the shadow of technophilic Silicon Valley, Arrabalero came of age in London surrounded by classical and popular Persian music. In Cyber Aztlán, a reimagination of the mythical Aztec ancestral land, Grupo Jejeje soundtracks cosmic encounters between Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Meso-American cultures. After years of sharing song sketches and collaborating online, Turbo Sonidero and Arrabalero met in person in Oaxaca and Tepotzlán to work on and finalize their music together in 2018.In July 2018, Grupo Jejeje and Discos Rolas traveled to Mexico City and met with legendary artist Jamie Ruelas. Beginning in the early 1980s, Ruelas revolutionized flyer art and logos for the Mexico’s largest and most important sound systems—Polymarchs, La Changa among others. His hand-drawn imagery of space travel, sexy cyborgs, and massive sound systems defines the visual aesthetic of Mexico’s sound system culture. It is an honor to collaborate with Jaime Ruelas on the album artwork of our first release. 2019 release.

Grupo Kual?

Amor Regresa Ya

Discos Rolas

***Kual Group? Dinastia Pedraza 7" vinyl record of their mega-hit "Amor Regresa Ya" and their cover of "Kañita de Azucar" by Afrosound. Cover art by Jaime Ruelas. 2020 release.

Grupo Kual?

Konexiones

Discos Rolas

***Grupo Kual?'s Konexiones features collaborations with Lila Downs, Akil Amar, Aurelio Pedraza y Su Acordeón Sabanero, Toromata, Sexta Core, Sonido Gallo Negro, Sonido La Changa, Mike Rodriguez y el Combo Loco, Grupo Que Nota, and Digital Charanga. 2022 release.

Grupo Sonador

El Paso Del Gigante

Discos Rolas

***Discos Rolas presents Puebla's Grupo Soñador for the first time on vinyl. Founded in 1998 by brothers Beto and Richie Tlahuetl in Cholula, Puebla, the group released one self-titled album as Noche Latina before renaming themselves. Grupo Soñador is renowned for pioneering cumbia in Puebla with their keyboard and synth-heavy regional take on cumbia sonidera (cumbia sound system). Grupo Soñador pushes the sound of cumbia sonidera, a style created by DJs in Mexico City who dramatically slowed down records from Colombia, Peru, and elsewhere in South America and dubbed them with personalized greetings (shout-outs). Cumbia from Puebla tends to draw more from cumbia styles from Ecuador and Peru—more keyboards and synths, less accordion—than Colombia, which the best reference for Mexico City.Grupo Soñador gained regional, national, and international recognition with their second album Camino al Cielo (2000) featuring their first sonidero hits “Cumbia de la Cerveza,” “Camino al Cielo” and “La Cumbia de las Botellas.” In 2001 Grupo Soñador's El Paso del Gigante exploded into the sonidero universe, propelling them on their tour in the United States where they played to sold-out crowds of thousands. They continue to compose, perform, and tour and the band now includes Beto's two daughters. 2021 release.

Super Combo Los Deyvi's

El Pirópo / Sueños De Mi Guitarra

Discos Rolas

***From Puebla, Mexico, Super Combo Los Deyvi's perform "El Pirópo," and "Sueños de mi Guitarra," two reverb-heavy, guitar-driven cumbias with synthy flutes, keyboard, and echo-y bass. Pressed on limited yellow vinyl. 2024 release.

Turbo Sonidero

Lowrider Kumbias

Discos Rolas

***Dedicated to ESSJ and all the East Sides/Varrios in California and the barrios cumbiamberos in San Luis Potosí, Mexico City, and Puebla. Also, to my primo Chuche Salgado from LCG. Thank you to my parents Esther Zepeda Dominguez and Ramon Zepeda for all their sacrifices. S/O to El Rancho Verde and Las Casitas Apartments.Hua Hsu writes in the New Yorker, “Lowrider culture dates to the nineteen-forties, when young Mexican Americans in Los Angeles began lowering their cars to cruise in style. Starting in the sixties and seventies, the sound for these slow, styled-out crawls through the city was the oldie, whether it was the blissful harmonies of soul music or doo-wop. "Lowrider Kumbias” is the San Jose producer Turbo Sonidero’s contemporary tribute to the music he heard while growing up. Just as his forebears tinkered with the hydraulics of their classic American cars, he retrofits classics like Gene Chandler’s “Duke of Earl” or Brenton Wood’s “Baby You Got It” with modern parts, in this case electro-Cumbia riddims. His work is cross-generational take on pride, what it means to have soul, and what it means to bounce." 2022 release.

Newman, Todd And The Leatherwoods

To Win You Back / Downside Of An Eightball

Reverb Jr

***Unearthed original copies of the debut single from the Great Plains power pop group Todd Newman and The Leatherwoods. Recorded in Lawrence, Kansas in 1988 and released in 1989, the two tracks on this single serve as a blissful snapshot of the region’s sound during the “Alternative Rock” era. A-side "To Win You Back” is pure power pop balladry, while the flip, “Downside Of An Eightball”, is a dark comedown acoustic number. Bandmates Todd Newman and Tim O’Reagan eventually relocated to the Twin Cities to continue with their musical pursuits. Newman played in a number of local bands including playing bass for Grant Hart, while Tim O’Reagan scored a long lasting gig as the drummer for the Jayhawks. For fans of Paul Westerberg, Chris Bell and acoustic Roky Erickson.

Twisted Teens

Blame The Clown

Chain Smoking Records

***The follow up to their much acclaimed Self Titled album, New Orleans' Twisted Teens are back with 12 more songs.“Compared to the debut, Blame the Clown feels more focused in how it balances its influences…It plays like a natural next step, showing confidence built through constant movement.”Pressed on light blue vinyl. Received an 8.2 rating from Pitchfork..

Twisted Teens

s/t

Chain Smoking Records

***"New Orleans-based punk band Twisted Teens shirk genre conventions on their chaotic, energetic, and wildly creative new record, diving into surprising thematic territory and securing them as one of the most original bands in the contemporary DIY punk scene"—Dana Yewbank

Nasty Facts

Drive My Car

Left For Dead

***The original 1981 Drive My Car single remastered and pressed on 12-inch vinyl. NYC power pop action. All include a printed reproduction of the original Drive My Car poster by Ric Gallagher (the artist who did the original 45 cover illustration).