***"An unissued 1985 studio recording of a WILD-ASS cover of the filthy-lyric 1981 country novelty by Showdown, plus an unissued 1987 rehearsal room blasting raver original. Comes with a 4-page 6.7” x 6.7” booklet tribute to singer/lyricist MICHAEL CHANDLER Chandler, who passed away on April 23 2018. the MUSIC? ripping, absolutely ripping ROCK and ROLL music. and, i must say, RODEO SONG is simply the most JOYOUS, most goddamned FUN fucking song of 2019."
7" $13.25
01/24/2020
***Crypt continues its delve into the BOSS-TOWN LOW-DOWN with this shit-hot 39 minute BLASTIN’ MUTHA (don’t ya know!) of LYRES at their most ferocious and in top rip-roaring fidelity thanks to a reel to reel tape discov- ered in August 2017 in the vaults at ERIK LINDGREN's stu-dio! Erik set one line direct into the board and one mic suspended above the audience and the result is a BEAST of a set! JEFF CONOLLY (natch!) on organ and vocal and tambourine, DMZ cats PETER GREENBERG (guit) and MIKE LEWIS (bass), plus ex-REAL KID HOWIE FERFUSON on drums. Gatefold sleeve with unseen photos plus liner notes by Peter Greenberg, Mike Lewis and longtime Boss-town fanatic/scribe BILL TUPPER. The MUSIC? ripping, absolutely ripping ROCK and ROLL music.
LP $22.50
11/22/2019
***14 cuts from their first recording studio sessions of Sept 2-4 1994. Originally the band recorded 23 songs but in October 1994 BEN fired the drummer and decided to re-mix everything. Dec 1994: Ben erases the drum track and re-drums it himself. Ben decides to jettison most of the songs and suggests 10 cuts for the debut so we decide on a 10” (See: Crypt-060 10”—COUNTRY TEASERS Pastoral / s/t, also reissued.) And here they are at last: the 13 tracks cut at Toe Rag that didn’t make it onto the Pastoral 10”, PLUS the original version of “Black Cloud Wandering." In a sumptuous gatefold containing ancient pre-interWeb communication forms (letters, faxes, etc). It would have made a damned great debut album in 1994. It IS a damned great album in 2019 (and forever!).
LP $22.50
10/11/2019
***At last a repress of the COUNTRY TEASERS[ 10-song 10-inch debut album that Crypt released in March 1995. From their first recording studio sessions of Sept 2-4 1994 at Toe Rag, London.
10" $20.25
10/04/2019
***A rather deluxe reissue of this classic (as considered now) second LP by Edinburgh/London combo COUNTRY TEASERS, featuring tons of info on just how this LP came to be, plus the rather fucked-up story of a wee label flailing against the corrupt/inept accounting by Atlantic Records. Gatefold sleeve plus printed inner sleeve. And, most importantly: a READABLE sized BAND NAME upon a sticker attached to the shrink-wrap! Yes, my friends; A new 14-cut album from London´s finest, no doubt to cost Crypt more "garage/punk cred" within the ranks of those "hip". Well, believe me, I just spent 24 hours going thru a stack of over 200 demos from half-assed newly "hep" "garage" and "punk" bands and the Teasers cut a bold swath through alla these nouveau Caesars or D Dogs attempters, never mind alla these pissant surf/lo-fi/"trash" punkers with absolutely no fucking SUBSTANCE or originality. I will admit that the Teasers AIN´T yer "typical" Crypt "sound"; Hell, they almost fit in and could even appeal to "garage" hating "indie rock" types. SOME NOTES ON THE TUNES YE SHALL BE TREATED TO: Anyway, the alb kicks off with a noisey instrumental "intro", "THE WIDE-OPEN BEAVER OF NASHVILLE". Next up: the ALMOST "radio-friendly" "BLACK CHANGE" kicks in. Track 3 is an ode to the subtleties & innocent pleasures of "PANTY SHOTS". "IT IS MY DUTY": a charming, skipping treatise on the overly facistic feminism of now. Rather than apologize for any whining from the PC do-gooders, the next tune, a poignant...
LP $23.75
09/27/2019
CD $13.50
01/07/2017
***"Oh yass! More unissued stuff, way more pix and stories of Boston's finest Rock & Roll band. Essential? We'd leave this decision up to you, but definitely a must for ye Real Kids fans out there!" Twenty-four previously unreleased Real Kids cuts—kicks off with ten crude rehearsals from April/May 1976, of which six were never re-recorded in a studio setting, plus fourteen live cuts from 1976-1977 chosen as best from a stack of 31 cuts. 21 originals and 3 cover songs all housed in a double gatefold LP, plus innersleeve crammed with photos, zine clippings and liner notes. CD version includes a 20-page booklet.
CD $23.75
12/14/2018
2XLP $38.95
12/14/2018
***"Oh yass! More unissued stuff, way more pix and stories of Boston's finest Rock & Roll band. Essential? We'd leave this decision up to you, but definitely a must for ye Real Kids fans out there!" Twenty-four previously unissued REAL KIDS cuts—23 live from 1977-1978 chosen as the best from a stack of 44 songs, plus one crude rehearsal from April/May 1976. 19 originals and 5 cover songs in double gatefold jackets with innersleeve crammed with photos, zine clippings and liner notes. CD version includes a 24-page booklet.
CD $23.75
12/14/2018
2XLP $38.95
12/14/2018
***“A three day engagement at Boston’s Rat club (Jan. 20, 21, 22) kicked off the release of THE REAL KIDS premier LP for Red Star Records. The club was packed to capacity despite the two-odd feet of snow and ice which had closed several of the city’s main thoroughfares during the week. Sunday, Red Star and The Real Kids celebrated the official release of RS-2 with friends, fans and members of the press with a party at a local bowling lane, with beer and pizza to boot. Everyone was a real kid (for the afternoon at least) as boots got traded in for bowling shoes and rock & rollers hit the pins to the tune of piped-in recordings of the Kids’ favorite records, past and present, including their own slice of vinyl history, of course. The highlight of the weekend came that evening with a live broadcast on WCOZ-FM, one of New England’s top FM stations. Featured on the live show were several tracks from the new LP, entitled simply, THE REAL KIDS.”—Miriam Linna (1978). And THIS here is that night. Imagine that the Real Kids have somehow drunkenly stumbled from the bowling alley over to the Rat. Then imagine that a hammered band could pull off a set like this. Yes. The Real Kids were just THAT DAMN HOT. Packaged in gatefold jackets with double-sided printed insert.
LP $22.85
05/11/2018
***Eight previously unissued proto-punk godheaded rippers from the pre-REAL KIDS combo THE KIDS recorded on Nov 10 1974—plus four previously unissued Real Kids demos from Spring 1977, recorded by DJ OEDIPUS at WTBS radio station with 1 mic suspended above the band! CD includes ten bonus blasts recorded at the Rat, January 22, 1978. CD packaged with a 204-page booklet, LP packaged in gatefold jackets with 32-page 12”x12” booklet.—both crammed with tonsa liner notes, NEVER SEEN photos, flyers, press-clippings, info, etc on John Felice’s days with The Modern Lovers, his combos The Children’s Rock & Roll Band, The Kids, and the Real Kids! There was a young Boston lad named John Felice who took it upon himself to say “F.U.” to the current dull-ass folkie/prog/Top 40 crap and blast forth with HIS OWN fucking vision/riproar and, most important, POP SONGWRITING MASTERY of Groovies/ /Kinks/ Stones/ Stooges/ VU/ Dolls-influenced rip-roar. In 1970 at age 15 John Felice formed the Modern Lovers with next door neighbor Jonathan Richman. At age 16 John Felice formed his own band, which Jonathan Richman named The Children’s R&R Band because Felice was in 10th grade and drummer Paul Murphy was in 9th grade and lead singer Ricky Carmel was in 6th grade. A band consisting of teenagers covering the unissued Velvets’ “Foggy Notion” was certainly an oddity in the age of Zep/singer-songwriter folkie pap. Felice departed the Modern Lovers in January 1973 to concentrate on The Children’s R&R Band, who soon became The Kids, then...
LP $30.45
05/11/2018
***Eight previously unissued proto-punk godheaded rippers from the pre-REAL KIDS combo THE KIDS recorded on Nov 10 1974—plus four previously unissued Real Kids demos from Spring 1977, recorded by DJ OEDIPUS at WTBS radio station with 1 mic suspended above the band! CD includes ten bonus blasts recorded at the Rat, January 22, 1978. CD packaged with a 204-page booklet, LP packaged in gatefold jackets with 32-page 12”x12” booklet.—both crammed with tonsa liner notes, NEVER SEEN photos, flyers, press-clippings, info, etc on John Felice’s days with The Modern Lovers, his combos The Children’s Rock & Roll Band, The Kids, and the Real Kids! There was a young Boston lad named John Felice who took it upon himself to say “F.U.” to the current dull-ass folkie/prog/Top 40 crap and blast forth with HIS OWN fucking vision/riproar and, most important, POP SONGWRITING MASTERY of Groovies/ /Kinks/ Stones/ Stooges/ VU/ Dolls-influenced rip-roar. In 1970 at age 15 John Felice formed the Modern Lovers with next door neighbor Jonathan Richman. At age 16 John Felice formed his own band, which Jonathan Richman named The Children’s R&R Band because Felice was in 10th grade and drummer Paul Murphy was in 9th grade and lead singer Ricky Carmel was in 6th grade. A band consisting of teenagers covering the unissued Velvets’ “Foggy Notion” was certainly an oddity in the age of Zep/singer-songwriter folkie pap. Felice departed the Modern Lovers in January 1973 to concentrate on The Children’s R&R Band, who soon became The Kids, then...
CD $26.95
05/11/2018
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
7" $5.60
01/07/2017
***A fucking GREAT twisted MASTER-PIECE of rippin' garage rock... When the Beguiled fuck around with something like surf they create eerie slow-mo evilry instead of "cute" shit. They co-opt a lotta Stooges riffery BUT RATHER than going for a "heavy" "Detroit, man" attack, they pummel said "riffery" thru a ton of REVERB, surfing the Stooges thru a massive swamp of molasses. ORIGINAL. Fucking goddamn classic!! 14 cuts!
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
***A souped-up and remastered re-package of the DEVIL DOGS' two out-of-print mini LPs—1990's Bigger Beef Bonanza and 1991's We Three Kings. Includes a bonus track from the Dog Meat 7-inch for grins. Eighteen songs in all.
LP $17.25
01/07/2017
***A powerful repress of the 1989 debut album from New York City's legendary DEVIL DOGS. Nine ripping originals along with covers of tunes by DMZ, Ronettes, Dictators, Ramones, and Beach Boys, plus three tunes written especially for the band in 1988 by BILLY CHILDISH.
LP $17.25
01/07/2017
***A fat-wax reissue of the 1993 classic from hell-raising garage rock champions the DEVIL DOGS. Ten wailing tracks including covers of Gary Glitter's "Shakey Sue," The Victims' "Dance With You Baby," The Rolling Stones' "It's Not Easy," and Gene Pitney's "Backstage." Pressed on 180-gram vinyl. SHOPWORN COPIES.
LP $17.25
01/07/2017
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
7" $5.60
01/07/2017
LP $18.95
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
***The debut proper full-length album from New York rock'n'roll exploders the LITTLE KILLERS, and the first new band to be signed by Crypt in five years. A body-smashing blast of tuff-rocking R&R madness in the vein of the New York Dolls, Saints, and Real Kids.
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
LP $17.25
01/07/2017
LP $17.25
01/07/2017
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
LP $14.75
01/07/2017
CD $11.25
01/07/2017
***Columbus nee Boston scorch-hammers bring a massive-nasty collection of tracks recorded between 1989 and 1994. Oddities, rarities and vintage spew from some of the meanest garage bombers to have ever broken a guitar. Includes a bunch of tracks from the Alpo sessions, a plodding rip through a 13th Floor Elevators standard, some pysch nonsense, A Mad Mike & the Mechanics cover, a lost Don't Like You demo, a live radio broadcast in Boston on WMBR, '92, and a beer-soaked, shit-load more. Eighteen tracks, all hail the wail.
LP $17.25
01/06/2017
CD $11.25
01/06/2017
***BACK IN PRINT ON 180-GRAM VINYL!!! The second album from Detroit legends the GORIES originally released in 1990. Recorded at Easley Studios in Memphis, this is the band at their raw-assed best—eleven originals along with covers of John Lee Hooker, Mose Allision, Bill & Will, and Suicide.
LP $18.95
01/06/2017
***A vinyl reissue of the third and final album from legendary Detroit garage trio the GORIES. Originally released in May, 1982, the album is a scorcher of primitive, blues-drenched, rock-n-soul. Fourteen tracks including covers of John Lee Hooker's "I Got Eyes For You," Bo Diddley's "Crawdad" and "Hey Bo Diddley," the Jesters of Newport's "Stormy," Earl Palmer's "Trick Bag," and more. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
LP $18.95
01/06/2017
