New Releases

Potential Threat

What's So Great Britain (Singles, Live and Demos)

PNV

***Collection of singles and demos from this mega crucial UK hardcore outfit. With their 1982 debut EP, it would be easy to peg the group as a standard issue Riot City/No Future style punk outfit, and truthfully, "Vice Squad meets Discharge" isn't too far off base. However, whereas so many UK groups of that era folded after a single or two, Potential Threat continued into the mid-80's--UK hardcore's nascent "crust" era--and were able to keep up with the ferocity of emerging group's such as Sacrilege, Concrete Sox, Heresy and the like. Few groups were able to bridge generations of punk like that while maintaining a sonic ferocity and politically militant stance, and if only for that 80's punk devotees might give them respect. Thankfully, in addition to great principles, the group also left behind an array of top notch recordings, as evidenced by this collection, presented lovingly for the first time on vinyl.

Industry

s/t

La Vida Es Un Mus

"Since their formation in the latter half of 2023, Berlin’s Industry have quickly emerged into the foreground as one of the more exciting groups of the European DIY punk scene. Having released their 2024 debut LP, touring and playing festivals all over the continent, they are now back with a follow up record that’s every bit as bruising and bleak as the first.Much has been made of how ‘on point’ Industry sound - a mid-paced cocktail of heavy toms and churning riffs recalling ‘No Sanctuary’ era Amebix or classic Killing Joke. But Industry use these sounds as a springboard rather than a template, utilising the form for genuine expression where others are tempted by retro cosplay. Their sound is pared back, pulsing, relentless but danceable. But it’s the words that result in a listen that’s engaging from start to finish, an album that’s both expressive and polemic. Just as people often describe Discharge’s lyrics as Haiku, Industry uses the band’s repetitive grooves as a wide-open canvas on which their exasperated observations are given space to land with precision. The litany of criticisms are familiar to us all - violence exacted on the poor and vulnerable by those in power, the ongoing industrialised slaughter of humans and animals, the disastrous consequences of colonialism, the list goes on… The world in 2025 is fucked, and even though they say they ‘can’t even look’, this band has got their eyes wide open."—Louis Harding

May, Paul

Shot From Both Sides - Photos of UK Punk Gigs 1981-86

Sealed

"Want to know who won a scuffle between Stoke-On-Trent punks Asylum and 80s pop stars Dexy’s Midnight Runners? What to do when your band has to play after The Seats Of Piss, and the microphone has been down the front and back of Hendrix Deadboy’s nether regions most of the set? Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye’s brushes with skinheads on the first Black Flag UK tour? Just a few of the numerous and unique reflections revealed in SHOT FROM BOTH SIDES, the first book from Paul May, and Sealed Records.SHOT FROM BOTH SIDES is based around the live gig photography of Paul May, a punk from Grays, Essex, in the UK. In the 80s, Paul took hundreds of photos of punks, and punk bands, documented the gigs he saw, ran a tape label, and did the cult punk fanzine Final Curtain. Ordered chronologically, SHOT FROM BOTH SIDES sets the tone for each year from 1981 to 1986 with a recap of important historic and political events, notable records, tapes, and fanzines that were released. Each section of photos culminates with personal memoirs from a diverse mixture of figures and band members giving context to the photos, gigs, the era, and spilling forth some great stories that you won’t likely get elsewhere, and features a selection of relevant ephemera and additional photos, from unseen Nick Blinko sketches to flyers, ticket stubs, and set lists of bands large and small.What emanated out of Paul’s zine in the 80s was a limitless amount...

Gangloff / Schenker / Sheppard

Universal Light

Vhf

Debut by a new string trio of Pelt and Elkhorn veterans with the wild card contributions of Kaily Schenker, creating a new variant of supremely pleasing acoustic-psychedelic-drone-Americana etc. “Lullaby>Summer Field” is an aptly named gentle rise, with Sheppard’s fingerpicked 12 string snaking through waves of elongated fiddle and cello. “Triode>Freedom” follows a darker minor-key ostinato with Gangloff’s keening melody over the top. “Freedom>Universal Blues” starts as a dirge and builds to a transition into the traditional “The Squirrel is a Pretty Thing,” with Kaily Schenker’s droning harmonium and vocal delivering a riveting, epic version of what’s usually cast as a short “kids”/folk-tale song (e.g. Peggy Seeger’s version). Originally this album was released by the band in an instantly sold-out edition of 100 for sale at their shows. This updated version includes a new insert by Kaily, a new cut by John Golden and a thick pressing from Smashed in Chicago.

Gardner, Drew

Wave Field

Vhf

If you’ve been following the wanderings of prolific psychedelic magicians Elkhorn, you might be surprised that Elkhorn guitarist Drew Gardner’s solo LP Wave Field is the most out and out “rock” record on VHF in many years. Working here in a small group with excellent players Tom Malach (guitar), Andy Cush (bass), and Ryan Jewel (drums), Gardner cuts loose on a set of propulsive and swinging material that allows him to greatly expand his sound into unexpected areas. “Rhizoid” starts with a sneaky groove riding the nimble bass and drums of Cush and Jewel before a leap into the ripping Sonic Youth/NEU! hybrid of “Space Ray.” “Shadow Casting Grass” brings things back down to end the side with some Elkhorn-adjacent gentle guitar weave backed again by the sly rhythm section. “Wave Field” kicks off side 2 with an extended buzzy guitar raga with Cush’s melodic and fat bass providing jammy counterpoint. The epic “Mayan Bees” closes the LP with an extended workout on another extremely fine drum and bass ostinato, a hypnotic minor key riff that slow builds over 10+ minutes.

Callaci, Dennis And L. Eugene Methe

The Last Chance Lottery

Shrimper

L. Eugene Methe is an Omaha based singer-songwriter and musician with a discography spanning over twenty years. His last two lyrical based albums were released on Grapefruit Records. As a studio musician he has contributed violin and piano on a diverse group of albums by Simon Joyner, Refrigerator, Mountain Goats, the Renderers, Naturaliste, Expensive People and many more.Dennis Callaci from the band Refrigerator has released collaborative records with John Davis, Heimito Kunst, Simon Joyner and others as well as a myriad of solo LPs over the last 35 years. He runs the Shrimper record label. His fourth book is out in 2025 on Bamboo Dart Press.The Last Chance Lottery is a collaborative record featuring the music of Methe and the vocals/lyrics of Callaci. Cinematic and outre in tone, the record does not forsake melody or tunesmithery, but strips much of it bare to paint it with surprising found sounds, abstraction and a balance between what these two fellas do best. The album was mastered by Al Jones as Marginal Frequency to further tightrope those two worlds. Features cover art and liner notes by Callaci.

Unidad Ideologica

Choque Asimetrico

La Vida Es Un Mus

***Choque Asimetrico by Bogotá’s UNIDAD IDEOLÓGICA hits you like a wrecking ball to the face. In the four years since their first album Unidad Ideologica has become even more intense and relentless. The pummeling drums, apocalyptic bass, the explosive guitar riffs and, vocals howling like a rabid dog will make your head burst like a melon. Like a mutated child of Bastard and early Poison Idea their sound is heavy and massive without losing the rawness needed to make hardcore punk really bite.

A.O.A. / Oi Polloi

Unlimited Genocide - Split

Sealed

***Nearly 40 years ago A.O.A. and OI POLLOI joined forces to condemn what they saw as an Unlimited Genocide. Fast forward to 2025 and nothing has changed for the better, with everybody witnessing a genocide unfolding in front of our eyes daily, while humanity hits rocks bottom. So Sealed Record decided it was ripe time to bring back this classic slice of Scottish punks and skins protest music.Originally released on the ever impressive Children of the Revolution Records Unlimited Genocide features the hardest side of the Oi Polloi vast catalogue. Full of rage and anger, tensely tuneful with earnest anarcho conviction. With A.O.A. On the flip side delivering seven tracks of full in your face hardcore punk, carrying the torch of the Discharge influenced thrash of the era.The record has a strong 80’s production value and touches on green and environmental issues, apartheid, nuclear power, religion, vegetarianism and much more. It’s raw, direct and a great snapshot of an era that is often mimicked but never bettered.This reissue has been remastered and includes a printed inner sleeve as well as a slightly altered artwork.

Bundle Of Hiss

Audio Design Sessions: 1987-1988

Bang

***Between 1987 and 1988, when Seattle was still a circuit of small clubs, four-track tapes and bands sharing drummers, Jack Endino went in to record one of the most solid—and most unfairly invisible—outfits of that scene: Bundle Of Hiss. Those sessions fell into limbo, stored in the basement of Dan Peters (who would soon go on to Mudhoney ) and for years they were a kind of pre-grunge legend: everyone knew they existed, but there was no record, until Loveless Records from NYC released it on CD. This Bang! Records LP is, finally, that record. It gathers the core of those 1987-1988 recordings done by Endino: the moment when the band is tighter, darker and closer to what the press would later call the "Seattle sound": minor-key melodies, thick fuzz, vocals on the edge, and that mix of hard rock, punk and Sabbath-like heaviness fans would later hear in Mudhoney, TAD or early Soundgarden. Bang! Records is releasing this album on vinyl for the first time, just as it should have come out in the late '80s: a basement document turned into a collectible artifact. For those who want real grunge, not the domesticated version. Here is Bundle of Hiss exactly as Jack Endino captured them in 1987-1988.

Tozibabe

1984 - 1986 Collection

PNV

***Complete collection of all recordings spanning '84-'86 from this all cult, anarcho-hardcore outfit out of Ljubljana, Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia). For only existing for a few years, this band of three women was surprisingly prolific, contributing to the legendary Hard-Core Ljubjana Compilation as well as their own classic Dezuje EP. A prime example of the dark, furious hardcore sound typified by Eastern Euro punks of the 80's, this collection is a loving tribute the the group's efforts. Features a heap of liner notes, clippings and photos to compliment the stellar musical onslaught.

Modernettes

Gone... But Not Forgiven

Projectile Platters

***Reissue of this scarce 1981 LP from one of Canada's greatest exports. While not so much a proper full length as an aftershock from the group's landmark Teen City EP, originally released on Quintessence in 1980, this collection of demos and live tracks shows the promise of what could have been. Expect a fine serving of tuneful, 60's inspired power pop updated with a dose of punk rock energy deserving of the group's legacy. Includes a hefty serving of pics and liner notes exclusive to this release.

Coscradh

Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld

20 Buck Spin

Like a black wind rising off peatlands long left to silence, Ireland’s Coscradh unearth their second album Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld, wrenching up the bog-roads of the dead through dread sorcery. An invocation of deep-rooted heritage and ancient mysticism the album resurrects the six-thousand-year-old oaken pathways raised by warring tribes under the cold eye of the druid, toward the realm beyond life, and conjuring these vanished labors with the memory of violence itself. Channeling the druid as both astronomer and war-seer, Coscradh invokes Mars as the god whose red light demands sacrifice, revealing Gaelic warriors hollowing themselves into vessels and letting the fury of Goac enter and devour them for battle. Guitars flare and burn like meteors knifing the horizon, letting loose riffs rusted with ancestral power. The blistering percussive onslaught crashes like hooves on dead earth as the band’s savage ferocity erupts like a war-cry cast into the heavens, crowned in ruinous splendor. Coscradh fully inhabits this domain between worlds, breathing into their work the fury and spiritual force of a people who carved truths into land, sky and grave. A communion of druidic science and blood, ritual aggression and linguistic resurrection, Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld compels a celestial reckoning where fate itself is flung upon the altar. Like gods that ride the firmament, Coscradh’s cold cruel radiance falls upon all who hear it. The record is a cosmic execution, binding together the bygone causeways, war gods, stone idols and star-born forces that the druids...

Merzbow

Circular Reference

No Holiday

Masami Akita continues his work as the world's premiere extreme dynamicist on Circular Reference, his latest full-length and first for No Holiday. It's a torrent of synthesized tones colliding against punishing layers of feedback and midrange noise. But there are also snatches of lurching rhythms to be found, as well as moments of relative uneasy calm. More than anything, it's distinctly Merzbow.Released on 2xLP and CD formats, the latest from this titan of noise is sure to please longtime listeners and new disciples. We recommend playing this one especially loud.

Merzbow

Red Magnesia Pink

No Holiday

First released by Extreme in the massive, infamous Merzbox, Red Magnesia Pink is extracted and recontextualized as a standalone release for the first time. Recorded in 1995, Red Magnesia Pink sees Merzbow in peak form. A psychedelic whirlwind of synthetic transmissions; harsh, wet, screeching sounds that could only be produced by Masami Akita. Featuring two previously unreleased bonus tracks from the same era.

Nocturnal Emissions

Cathedral

No Holiday

Nocturnal Emissions' releases throughout the 1980s are eclectic, adventurous and intermittently raw. 1991's "Cathedral" is something else entirely—ritualistic, expansive, awe-inducing. It is at turns warm, ominous and ethereal. We could come up with adjectives all day, but it really must be heard to be believed. Originally released by Italy's Musica Maxima Magnetica, Cathedral finally gets its due on vinyl with a deluxe 2xLP edition featuring a large booklet with many of Nigel Ayers' visuals from the same era.

Nocturnal Emissions

Invocation of the Beast Gods

No Holiday

If Cathedral is one of Nigel Ayers' most celestially minded records, then Invocation of the Beast Gods is among his most ritualistic. We start at full throttle with suffocating tension before giving way to an uneasy release. "Tranquil" this is not, but Ayers' delicate touch allows him to explore the full breadth of the album title's implications — here you will find moments of whimsy, contemplation, and full-bore reckoning. No Holiday is pleased to offer Invocation of the Beast Gods alongside our reissue of Cathedral from earlier this year as a single LP on clear-and-black marbled vinyl.

Total

Sky Blue Void

No Holiday

Matthew Bower's Total released Sky Blue Void in 1994 through Freek, recorded the same year as previous NOHL reissue Skullflower's Last Shot at Heaven. Sky Blue Void is the zoner of zoners, as heavenly and crushing as the rapturous cover art suggests. Release yourself to the void.

Pine, Isabel

Fables

Kranky

This is the first widely distributed release for Isabel Pine after a series of self released EPs and singles on Bandcamp. She studied classical music on viola from the age of 3 through into college, where she was on a path to be a performer in a large ensemble, but eventually left after feeling frustrated and limited in a world that did not provide much of an outlet for individual creativity. But the doors of perception really opened when she moved to British Columbia and was exposed to the raw beauty of the wilderness there.She began recording at home using a basic audio setup along with a cello, viola, violin and double bass, and spent time making field recordings of natural sounds in BC. Her next idea was to actually move into nature to record, curious as to “how it would sound if I recorded outside entirely, with the natural reverb and sounds of the environment in the recording from the very beginning. The rustling of the leaves or a raven’s beating wings were as integral to the music as whatever I played.”Fables is a mix of pieces that were recorded in the fall of 2024, in a small, remote cabin and outside, primarily using stringed instruments. The result is a series of stunning vignettes, meditations patiently unfurling like gentle waves, slowly advancing and retreating.

Local H

reFISTED

Brutal Panda

***In a bold move to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Local H are proud to release reFISTED, a complete re-recording of their 1995 classic, Ham Fisted. This isn't just a reissue; it's a defiant do-over. Founder / frontman Scott Lucas describes the new album as a "fistfight with myself at 24 years old" and decided to take on the challenging process of revisiting and reimagining songs written three decades ago. The band treated the original recording like a demo, while reFISTED sees them sometimes radically reworking and rearranging tracks, and other times aiming to produce even meaner, heavier versions of the originals. reFISTED was recorded and mixed with Greg Norman (Russian Circles, Neurosis, Kim Deal, Andrew Bird) at Steve Albini’s legendary studio, Electrical Audio, a conscious decision by Lucas to recast the record as an early '90s Touch & Go release.To bring new life to these songs, Lucas brought in a host of collaborators representing the band's entire history and a fresh wave of talent. reFISTED features guest appearances from past bandmates and musicians Lucas has worked with in other projects, including Eric Oblander (Five Horse Johnson, Clutch) and Max Crawford (Poi Dog Pondering). The album also introduces "new blood" like Deanna Belos of Sincere Engineer and the members of Tuff Sudz, ensuring the record feels both nostalgic and vital. reFISTED is a testament to Local H’s enduring power and a fresh take on the raw energy that launched them into rock n’ roll history.Pressed on oriole...

Mod Lang

Borrowed Time

Just Add Water

***"The Motor City’s fabbest new foursome has finally squeezed a year and a half of late-night drives, in-person blow-outs, busted A/Cs, and grass roots-fueled rock ‘n’ roll onto a new slab of wax that will really turn your head. After dominating the Midwest circuit with nothing but word-of-mouth, a couple of demos, and harmonies bright enough to make mods and rockers make peace, Mod Lang delivers a debut LP that proves they weren’t another hype band that some old geezer told you about.Tracked mostly live and bounced down to reel-to-reel, Borrowed Time is a direct and concise attempt at a pure pop album. Across the ten tracks, you’ll hear messages about hopeless romanticism, disillusionment of everyday life, urban alienation, and rock ‘n’ roll mythology. Simple, direct, and unpretentious. Better than TV. Starting with the opener 'What I Can’t Have,' the true heart of the record, guitarists-vocalists Antonio Keka and Alex Belfie’s Beatles vs Stones melodies set the tone for the remaining 30 minutes. The beat-driven 'Cocamoda' reportedly emerged from a gibberish jam that tells a comical tale about a loved one getting put into jail while showing off the impressive rhythmic force of bassist Ava East and drummer Ben Taber. 'These Words' is proof Keka and Belfie got the brains and ragged charm for writing clear, infectious melodies that’ll make you feel alright. Both 'Big House' and 'Borrowed Time' come on hard with a level of breathless energy that borders on frenzy — investing pop for a rawer, looser, and...

Belgrado

El Encuentro

La Vida Es Un Mus

"At long last a chance to wander behind the sky. In the chaos of the momentary and the infinity of the image, the room hums among the countless reverberations of voice and body in which, for the most part, we remain unseen. Belgrado, a ring of keys chiming through an empty prison hallway liberating every iron door as it approaches in countless careful celebrations of its passage. El Encuentro, meaning “The Meeting” or “The Encounter” pulses in cool kindness and high energy reverie, probing the same moment from a thousand angles as if Alain Resnais photographed their own private hallucinations and burnt them into song. That moment, THE moment is so elegantly woven into lyrical silk on El Encuentro as an exploration of dreams and reality, deep personal reflection, and acceptance of the end. It is the search, and the crossroads of the ethereal science of the imaginary. It sounds like being led into the back room of a tiny club in an imaginary city lost in time - intimidating whirring machinery drawing you in as if to lure you into wrecking on the rocks in a spume of Last Year at Hacienda-bad, dizzy on Righeira punch, and burnt by the Balearic sun.15 years after their debut, Belgrado continue their journey of musical development from the immediacy and directness of their guitar driven post punk sounds all those years ago into an ever evolving musical project which has spanned four LPs ranging from minimal wave and dub influences all the...

Cemetery Reign

Confined To Time

Carbonized

***Confined to Time, the debut full-length from Cemetery Reign, features eight Death Metal / Punk emanations brought forth from the mind of David McMaster, known from the ranks of such celebrated underground acts as Street Tombs and Superstition. With Confined to Time, McMaster thematically opens the gateway for a soundtrack to the catastrophic apocalyptic devastation happening above, beneath, and beyond the funeral grounds of Earth, developed from a multitude of riff-charged songs with haunting, reverberating guitars, and obliterating rhythmic assaults of drum and bass ruthlessness that have been entombed until now. Confined to Time was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Augustine Ortiz (Street Tombs, Dysphotic) at The Decibel Foundry and The Kitchen Sink in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cover Artwork by Grady Gordon (Predatory Light, Reversed, Sutekh Hexen).

Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean

Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On

Redscroll

***Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean is a blackened / death / doom metal band based out of Western Massachusetts. The band continues to work and tour tirelessly, having recently toured Europe with Conan, toured domestically with Dragged into Sunlight and Mizmor and playing Maryland Death Fest earlier in the year. The band has upcoming dates with Come to Grief and more to be announced.“This release was written as two pieces (an A & B Side) rather than individual shorter tracks and as such they run together as long form and really sit in the riffs to explore passages more than on our past material.“—Chained...Features album art from the inimitable Aaron Turner of Sumac / Isis / Hydra Head Records. Mastered by Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets in Rhode Island.

V/a

Future Left Behind

Second Street Records

***"DC hardcore, wot is it? A sound as diverse as the scene it represents, DCHC is more a state of being than a brand name. This compilation serves as a survey of DCHC today, many different outlooks, experiences and approaches but a common thread of devotion to the underground, which is no mistake as this record was literally recorded underground, beneath the floor of a certain record store in the NW quadrant of the district, the same block where members of half the bands work and interact on a daily basis.The first release from Second Street Records, this compilation features DC cornerstones like Brain Tourniquet and Grand Scheme, as well as newer additions like Reason Why and Sluggo. Each band embodies a different aspect of our scene, all flowing together into a non-stop DC diy concentrate."

Personal System

Transcoastal Night Drive

Constellation Tatsu

The album opens at dusk with an imagined final stop before departure, a roadside gas station just as daylight fades. This introductory scene, conceived as “Last Gas Station Before the Horizon,” places the listener amid passing cars, distant seagulls, and the low hum of anticipation. The idea is to frame the record as part of a radio program, potentially guided by a radio announcer’s voice drifting in and out of the soundscape.From there, the journey moves fully into night. Tracks progress like signals picked up along the drive, calm, reflective, and gently nostalgic, until the album’s closing moment. “Peaceful Blue” represents arrival at the final destination at dawn, when the sky shifts into a deep blue and the listener waits quietly for the sun to rise and a new day to begin.

Tygra

Magic Summer

Constellation Tatsu

The debut album from TYGRA (one half of Ecovillage), Magic Summer, is a spectacular journey that captures the essence of a sun-drenched season. Breaking free of any single genre, TYGRA blends ambient haze, trip hop grooves, soulful rhythms, and vaporwave textures into a vivid, uplifting experience.

微風ゾーン Bifuu_Zone

The West

Constellation Tatsu

Bifuu_ZONE—translated roughly as “a zone of gentle breeze”—is a concept developed from Tsudio Studio’s personal vocabulary rather than any strict linguistic equivalent. While liminal spaces are often associated with unease, Bifuu_ZONE reframes them as places of quiet comfort, restoration, and slow transformation. The project centers on impermanence, erosion, and the subtle ways time reshapes even the most solid structures. The West takes its title literally, drawing inspiration from buildings and environments located west of Osaka. Each track is composed with a specific architectural space in mind, allowing tone, texture, and resonance to emerge from imagined structures rather than narrative progression. The result is a site-responsive ambient work that listens closely to stillness, weathering, and spatial openness. Saxophonist mori_de_kurasu appears on three tracks, introducing breath and human fragility into the album’s restrained sonic palette.

Buzz Kull

Deep Hate

Heartworm Press

***Since 2012, Buzz Kull has emerged as a defining force in the international underground, merging the emotional gravity of darkwave with the precision of industrial dance. His new work here bridges pop structure and shadowed intensity, evoking the spirit of Black Celebration era Depeche Mode and the body rhythms of Front 242, reimagined through a modern lens and tours in direct support of Cold Cave, Boy Harsher and Molchat Doma. Deep Hate is a four-song statement of intent: relentless, cinematic, and charged with nocturnal electricity. These tracks mark Buzz Kull’s most focused and ferocious work to date,a document of emotional clarity and mechanical pulse that embodies Heartworm Press’s devotion to beauty, severity, and the ecstatic void.The CD version of Deep Hate contains the four songs from the 12" plus four remixes by PIG, Kontravoid, Cold Cave and Spike Hellis. 12-inch pressed on half black half white vinyl.

V/a

Riotous Assembly

PNV

***For the first time since 1982 this legendary UK punk compilation is back on vinyl! All legends have a beginning, and this is the glorious start of the Riot City label, the first release which kicked off one of the greatest runs of punk releases of all time. Packed out with legends who would go on to define both the Riot City sound as well as the broader "UK82" genre, here you get early tracks from Vice Squad, Chaos UK, Expelled, Abrasive Wheels, and several others, some owing their only vinyl appearance to this compilation. A stunning snapshot of the creativity and political outrage boiling in Bristol's UK youth cult at the time, as well as a testament to the networking and vision of one of punk's greatest labels.

Group Rhoda

Phase 5

Dark Entries

Group Rhoda returns to Dark Entries with Phase 5, a new LP of synthesizer-driven art-pop. An integral member of the West Coast electronic music scene, Mara Barenbaum has been writing, performing, and plunging into oneiric depths as Group Rhoda since 2009. Barenbaum’s songcraft is at once stylistically diffuse and laser-focused, a synesthetic approach that allows her to effortlessly glide between genres and soundworlds while centering her singular poetics. On Phase 5, her fifth LP as Group Rhoda, we find Barenbaum waxing nondualistic. Lines between fairytale and fact, between nature and art, between subject and object all dissolve under contemplation. The songs on Phase 5 are perpetually in-between states, deftly shifting form at the blink of an eye. With sleight of hand, “Field Tone” transmutes from brooding John Carpenter-esque electro into vocoder-driven space disco. “Dragon Pine” darts from cosmic dub to cybernetic dancehall and back again. The uptempo darkwave-leaning number “Aeolian Crossing” dissolves into the void, like sand falling through one’s fingers, like a retreating wave. The cover artwork for Phase 5 is by Shawn Reed, and features purple lilies and light refracted through water. All songs on this album were mastered by Ruud Lekx. The digital version of Phase 5 will be released via Katabatik, a label and sound system that Barenbaum has had close ties to for the past decade.

Earth Tongue

Dungeon Vision

In The Red

Ushering in a new era, Berlin based, New Zealand heavy psych duo Earth Tongue lower the castle gates on their third album Dungeon Vision, a trove of fuzz-drenched anthems produced by garage rock luminary Ty Segall in Los Angeles. Guitarist Gussie Larkin and drummer Ezra Simons spent the Berlin winter of 2025 refining the album’s twelve tracks in their self-described “windowless cave” rehearsal space, crafting a record that channels both isolation and the duo’s live intensity. With the songs finally taking shape and a studio deadline looming, they flew to Los Angeles to turn their hard-won ideas into the real thing. Once there, the band and Ty captured lightning in a bottle, recording and mixing Dungeon Vision in just ten days at Altamira Sound. Tracked live to tape, Dungeon Vision pulses with human energy, fuzz guitars, bone-battering drums, and hauntingly tuneful vocals. Ty Segall’s influence is all over the record with Ty choosing the best takes based on feel rather than technical perfection. The “king of fuzzy guitar tones” pushed the duo to find new sonic textures while championing their raw chemistry. “Ty’s been a big driving force,” says Ezra. “We supported him in New Zealand back in 2023, and he’s backed us ever since even bringing us on tour through Europe and the UK in 2024.” Since their emergence in 2016, Earth Tongue’s world-building, visuals, and relentless touring have earned them global attention and a cult-like following. Their 2024 album Great Haunting, also released on In The Red Records,...

Range Rats

s/t

Mississippi

***Fred and Toody Cole's (of Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, The Rats, etc etc) country band record from 1986! Amazing lo fi country tunes - most with a full band and a couple accompanied by their drum machine Rollie. Awesome songs!

Famous Actors From Out Of Town

FA3574

Electric Cowbell / Richmond Relics

***Electric Cowbell Records announces the launch of Richmond Relics, a new archival imprint dedicated to preserving the city’s musical history. Its inaugural release is a newly remastered reissue of FA3574, the sole album from Richmond, Virginia’s legendary supergroup Famous Actors From Out of Town. Originally self-released in 1986 as a limited-edition, cassette-only title, FA3574 was recorded at Floodzone, a repurposed tobacco warehouse studio in Richmond.The album features ten original instrumental tracks that capture the group’s kinetic chemistry and their off-kilter blend of late-’70s/early-’80s art rock, jazz, noise, and improvisation. Nearly forty years later, the recordings remain strikingly vibrant. Now fully remastered for vinyl.Formed in Richmond, Virginia in the mid-1980s, Famous Actors From Out of Town created ambitiously composed instrumental music rooted in the city’s fertile underground scene. Built around the uncommon power of two drummers working intricately in tandem, the quartet blended jazz, rock, improvisation, and experimental music into a sound that was both cerebral and physical.Though the band played infrequently, their live appearances became legendary local events, drawing multigenerational audiences of punks, metalheads, jazz fans, students, and artists alike. The group featured composer and keyboardist Marty McCavitt, percussionists Johnny Hott and Pippin Barnett, and multi-instrumentalist Paul Watson on trumpet, guitar, and bass. All four were veterans of Richmond’s jazz, rock, and new-music communities, with deep connections to bands such as the Ululating Mummies, Orthotonics, Gongs Violence, House of Freaks, Idio Savant, the Tom and Marty Band, and the Snakehandlers. Their creative pedigree extended well beyond the city, with members...

Disfigure / Ritual Clearing

Ritual Clearing / Disfigure - Split

Redscroll

***Disfigure is a black metal band out of New Haven, CT infusing aspects of war metal with elements of d-beat hardcore/crust punk.Ritual Clearing is a band spread around CT/MA with previous (sold out) releases on the black metal label Eternal Death.FOR FANS OF: Beherit, Bolt Thrower, Blasphemy, Tragedy, Spectral Wound, Horna, Sargeist

Orchestra Gold

Baye Ass N’Diaye

Orchestra Gold

This song is an hommage to Mariam's respected guru in the Baye Fall tradition, Baye Ass N’DIAYE. Mariam encourages us to value our direct, mystical experience of the divine over legalism and dogma.

Orchestra Gold

Djama Ko

Orchestra Gold

A song reminding us to just be ourselves. One poignant lyric states “Some clothes just look better on some people than others”. It’s about not getting caught up in comparison, and leaning into what makes us uniquely special.

Franklin’s Mint

Depression Era Ultra High Frequency

Sunburned Records

***The latest excellent album from this group effort led by PHIL FRANKLIN (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN, SECRET CHIEFS 3, CAROLINER). "Often a reconfigured vision of Sunburned, this newest finds Phillip with the Mass crew, including Adam Langellotti, Gary War, John Moloney, Sarah Gibbons, Rob Thomas, Shannon Ketch, Kyrssi Battalene and Angus Leslie, on one side of the LP, turning his gnarled missives into dented classics. The other side of the LP finds Franklin back in Australia, where he’s made a new home for a number of years. A whole new host of locals back him up, giving the record a distinct divide that’s still tied by Franklin’s tough-knuckled missives."—Raven Sings The Blues

Animal Piss, It's Everywhere

Self Titled / Grace - The First Two Albums

Sunburned Records

***Both APIE out of print vinyl LPs collected on one CD. Gem piled upon gem of woozy, VU-tinged cosmic American music delivered by Western Massachusetts' finest players. The band explores such collectively road-tested themes as mortality, partying, doomed celebrity, and wasted-days-turned-regrettable-nights with equal parts stardusted mania and genuine pathos. Features members of Sunburned Hand of the Man, Weeping Bong Band, SQRM, Hoax, Pigeons, Rhyton, Wet Tuna, et al.

Night Of The Vampire

The Enchanting Winds of the Dreamweaving Masquerade

Profound Lore

Night Of The Vampire is the shadow of the witching hour, never seeing the light of day. It will expand your mind into the depths of psychedelic solitude and the haunting chambers of darkness within.If you so dare, mastermind Astral Shadow will be your guide through the untamed worlds of Black Metal and Darkwave. But beware, for if you choose to travel this path you may lose yourself and forever go mad.

Julian Never

Everyday Is Purgation

Mt. St. Mtn.

***Julian Elorduy has been making music since he was fifteen, moving from the noise-soaked chaos of Mayyors to the jangling indie-pop of Fine Steps and, later, the more solitary reflections of Pious Fiction as Julian Never. His new album, Everyday is Purgation awakens on the other side of a Dark Night of the Soul drawing on the writings of mystic, St. John of the Cross—stripping away comforting narratives in order to see what remains with a clearer, more ascetic eye. It’s Julian at his most exposed, shaped equally by the underground that raised him and the melodic pop that continues to haunt him."Julian Never’s jangle, all-chiming balladry power pop poetry is one of our favourite revelations in the past few months. [...]Full of heart and heat, Julian Never’s vocal is equipped with a turn of phrase reminding us a little of Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing but not afraid to bear his heart, allowing the vocal range to arch upwards into a delightful upper register."—Monorail Music