New Releases

Crippling Alcoholism

Camgirl

Flenser

Pleasure, shame, and survival often arrive tangled together, indistinguishable in the moment. Camgirl, from Crippling Alcoholism, takes that entanglement as its starting point. Rather than separating desire from damage, the record allows them to coexist, tracing a path through obsession, performance, and persistence without offering clean resolution.Camgirl is the 2025 breakthrough album from Boston’s Crippling Alcoholism, a record that frames pop immediacy against obsession, endurance, and collapse. Built from ear-wormy hooks and abrasive noise rock textures, the album smuggles grotesque and confrontational subject matter into songs that remain deliberately melodic. Pleasure and revulsion blend throughout, with choruses that linger even as the lyrics refuse comfort.Released on September 12, 2025, Camgirl follows a loose narrative centered on a sex worker moving through cycles of exploitation and survival, treating intimacy as spectacle and visibility as threat. Songs flicker between desire and despair, confession and performance, flooded with artificial light. Despite its subject matter, the record resists nihilism. Its closing moments arrive quietly triumphant, not through escape or redemption, but through persistence itself.Originally released on vinyl by Portrayal of Guilt Records, the first pressing of Camgirl sold out quickly. The Flenser reissue makes the album widely available for the first time, reaffirming it as a defining statement from a band operating at the intersection of pop form, noise, and lived experience.

Glass Cage, The

Where Did The Sunshine Go?

Supreme Echo

In the summer of 1968, five BC teenagers recorded an exciting six-song demo of West Coast garage psych. Cut to an acetate then lost to time for 50+ years. Until now. Restoration & remastering by Peter Conheim, deluxe 8-page booklet with story, photos and posters. Cover art by Bob Masse Studios. 400 groovy random colors, 100 black. “A remarkable discovery. The Glass Cage show impressive creativity and versatility as they transition between hard-hitting, organ-driven Northwest R&B slammers and dreamy, harmony-based psychedelic numbers.” – Mike Stax, Ugly Things “I LOVE the Glass Cage!”—Grant Lawrence, CBC Radio “Newly unearthed garage rock classic ... terrific California-style psychedelia”—Craig “Rockin’ Prof” Morrison, Ethnomusicologist “A garage rock gem”—John Dwyer, Osees “Definitely worth checking out … a worthwhile listen”—Henry Rollins, KCRW

Dog Faced Hermans

Everyday Timebomb

Megaphone

***Explosive. Urgent. Wildly inventive. Everyday Timebomb captures Dog Faced Hermans at their most fearless—fusing punk intensity, free jazz chaos and political fire into a sound that defies genre and time. Long out of print and increasingly difficult to find, this lost classic is finally back on vinyl for a new generation to discover. Formed in the vibrant European post-punk scene of the late '80s, Dog Faced Hermans stood apart for their raw energy, charismatic vocals and an instrumentation that inspired artists from The Ex to Godspeed You! Black Emperor . Their fearless spirit and DIY ethos turned noise into art and protest into rhythm. This limited reissue stays true to the original analog sound while the fresh remastering gives the original tracks new depth and punch. Each copy includes carefully reproduced artwork and archival notes celebrating the band's unforgettable legacy. For fans of Chumbawamba, Rip Rig + Panic, Fugazi, and anyone who believes that music should sound like liberation itself. Everyday Timebomb is more than a record. It's a reminder of how revolutionary sound can be. LP limited to 500 copies; Cut at Schnittstelle Mastering and pressed at Optimal in Germany.

Lubricated Goat

Paddock Of Love

Sorcerer Records

***Originally released on the Black Eye label in 1988, Paddock Of Love was the Sydney band's second LP and the first to really feature a more stable line-up, which included Guy Maddison (future Mudhoney bassist), Nick Barker (future pop star!), Peter Hartley and, of course, the man who drove the engine, Stu Spasm (Art Gray Noizz Quintet). Around the time of its release, the band were invited to play on Andrew Denton's nationally-televised TV show on the ABC, Blah Blah Blah, and played the opening barnstormer, "In The Raw," fully nude, causing an uproar in the tabloids. It was a fun time to be alive, and shot the band into the national consciousness of confected outrage for a few weeks. What's more important is this recording, which is a glorious collection of scungey 'n' grungey rock 'n' roll degeneracy in the finest sense of such words. It is filled with killer tracks like "Funeral On A Spit", "Gargoyles" and "Cannibal's Lament", sounding focused, purposeful and like a real BAND. Paddock Of Love has been out of circulation for 30+ years, and in this edition, Sorcerer also include a huge fold-out poster with a reproduction of the cover on one side, and lyrics and new liner notes from Stu on the other side, as well as outraged articles from the time, press clippings, etc. The cover shown here is the Censored Version (spot the difference!), so that it can stay on the internet and not get taken down, though the real...

Chris D / Poison Fang Society

Courtroom Wedding

In The Red

Courtroom Wedding, the feral new album by singer-songwriter-punk rock legend Chris D.’s new unit Poison Fang Society, succeeds In the Red Records’ release of two expansive albums by the bandleader’s Divine Horsemen, Hot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix (2021) and Bitter End to a Sweet Night (2022).The taut, economical eight-song set grew out of several songs penned in the immediate wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown and originally envisioned as material for a third Divine Horsemen record. But logistical problems involving the band’s co-lead singer Julie Christensen’s ability to record in Los Angeles led to the formulation of a new solo configuration rooted in the past.Poison Fang Society guitarist Larry Schemel, most recently of Death Valley Girls, and Tucson-bred drummer Johnny Ray are both veterans of the eight-piece lineup heard on the Flesh Eaters’ 1999 album Ashes of Time. They are joined by bassist-keyboardist-guitarist Sharif Dumani, who also engineered the collection and co-produced with Chris D.The songs Chris brought to the studio reflect a shift in style: “I was really trying to write some more traditional kinds of songs, but not make them sound really anonymous. On the last couple of albums, the Divine Horsemen albums, there was a lot more cut-up stuff. I still did some cut-up in the lyrics with this record, but not as much. The lyrics to ‘Cellars to Weep’ were very influenced by songs like Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ or ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ even though song doesn’t sound like that. I wanted to...

Acid Twilight

Trippo Nova

Not Not Fun

The 4th full-length by Argentine séance centrist Acid Twilight arrives after a 3-year lull spent musing on visions of mystic orders, silk roads, and altered states. Trippo Nova fuses these fascinations into an hour-long journey to the end of the night, crafted with keys, bells, guitar, metronomes, shakers, synths, and smoke. It’s music of vaulted halls and the long-shadowed outskirts of camp, unspooling like ceremonial fragments of older, longer, nameless melodies – their origins unknown, but their ritual unbroken.

Coral Club

Follow The Mirage

Not Not Fun

The latest by Alexander Sirenko’s omnidirectional Coral Club alias traces his bedroom 4th world architectures onto more iridescent terrain. Follow The Mirage weaves between states of bliss and illusion, tranquility and transience, reveling in its own unraveling. Synths and synthetic percussion congeal and dissolve and ebb and flow in sideways tidal surges of waves, wind, clouds, and crystals. Silver currents crest into dizzying mallet latticework. Tribalist marches fray into woozy cosmic undertow. If motion is color, a mirage is a rainbow – to be savored, favored, and followed.

Musica Transonic + Mainliner

Solid Static

Black Editions / La Musica Records

***Electrifying heavy sessions recorded in 1997 featuring the classic Mainliner + Musica Transonic lineup of Nanjo Asahito (High Rise), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mother) and Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins) driving into new divergently fried terrain(s). Here, Nanjo and co. are on a quest to find new directions, and while the sessions were for an abandoned Mainliner album, a good portion of Solid Static hews more closely to the moment-to-moment deconstructions of Musica Transonic. The propulsive ten-minute opening title track is a lost gem in the canon of Japanese psychedelia and rock and roll—beginning with one of Mainliner's bludgeoning motor-psycho riffs, it veers off into auratic space, Kawabata's snake-charming guitar weaving around Nanjo's buzz-fire bass and Yoshida's multi-limbed drumming. Musica Transonic's improvised and jazz-informed take on psychedelic rock is writ across the distended rhythms and arcing bass and guitar lines that scrawl across "Prosecutor" and "Topsy Turvy," or the slurry of distorted tone that rolls through "Rot Way." Available for the first time on LP or any physical form aside from a clutch of CDR's sold at a few live dates in the late '90s. Housed in a custom die-cut, "Uni-Pak" style gatefold with metallic ink, spot finishes and matching La Musica inner sleeve.

Jailed

Rebirth EP

Olde Fade / Carnalismo

***From the ashes of Healer come the brutal analog stylez from West Bay underground entity known as JAILED. Recorded by the legendary Bart Thurber at House Of Faith to 1" 16 track analog tape, Jailed drop 9 songs in 3 minutes of sample laden, blasting groove oriented, malt liquor induced brutal West Bay hardcore in the timeless tradition, free of all current bullshit. "Rebirth" is already a future West Bay classic. First pressing of 600 copies on back vinyl.

Capps, Garrett T.

I Still Love San Antone

Nudie Records

***A follow-up to 2025's cult-hit Life is Strange, Texas troubadour Garrett T. Capps captures an astonishingly concise cultural history of the Alamo City’s contemporary outsiders and oddities. A Tex Mex country music joyride through a funhouse mirror, I Still Love San Antone rollicks and rails, croons and crows, bottling the (210) both lyrically and sonically. Capps’ charismatically honest lyrics and live-honed rock instincts guide the hyper-niche journey through Central Texas lore.

El Truento, Christoph

Dubs from the Neighborhood

Nudie Records

***Dubs From The Neighbourhood—from New Zealand super producer Christoph El Truentro—takes us on a musical journey inspired by road trips through small towns, sunshine, secluded beaches and lush green landscapes. This is deep dub in the most classic of forms; taking cues from those that have come before while adding flourishes of a sonic palette completely new. While the idyllic scenery invoked on the cover is typically associated with a carefree joy, the album adds details and textures that nod to the inevitable flipside of grief and loss that are experienced alongside life's journeys. Named one of the 10 Best Albums of the Year by Rolling Stone Australia.

Teddy And The Rough Riders

The Congress of Teddy and the Rough Riders

Nudie Records

***Experience the debut album from Nashville’s Teddy & The Rough Riders reissued on vinyl for the first time. Originally released in 2019, “The Congress of Teddy & The Rough Riders” is a full throttle, loose limbed blend of vintage honky-tonk and garage psych.“The band captures a melancholy wind that tousles the hair of the standard country crowd – ably picking at traditional tropes and applying requisite studio shine, while fitting in with the sunburst strums and pedal-steel melters of Mapache, James Matthew VII, and Tobacco City. The record’s bootlegger stomp and backporch ramble let it sink in and simmer without falling fate to any stereotypes that might befall a band with less inclusive tastes.”

Wild Shoats, The

Live from Jerry Run Summer Theater

Nudie Records

***Live at Jerry Run Summer Theater was recorded live in a single evening by Hunter Davidsohn, a wizard of vintage recording methods, capturing The Wild Shoats’ unique branch of old-time that harkens back through decades of traditional Appalachian mountain music while keeping its roots planted firmly in the present. Rich with fresh clear vocals and fiddle melodies that lilt and flicker from mournful to buoyant, the collection of songs recorded at Jerry Run Summer Theater are at once out of time and a bright-line microcosm of the current moment in mountain music.

Edge

S/t

Riding Easy

It's 1970 and this beast of an LP nails the moment psychedelic '60s haze faded into early bad ass hard rock. Edge take it other places as well, brief progressive flashes, medieval folk pop, even… ambitious and concise on every track. No excess baggage, killer arrangements shot through with ripping guitar, moody organ and hooks to spare. The Edge LP always pulled premium collector $$ and your ears will tell you why!Edge was formed by members from two L.A. bands that both had psychedelic pop LPs issued on the obscure Flick-Disc label in 1968, a 'hip' subsidiary of MGM. Richard Barcellona and John Keith from the American Revolution and David Novogroski from the Boston Tea Party along with Gallen Murphy make up the guitar/organ/bass/drums quartet lineup. Richard Barcellona is also responsible for the amazing lead guitar on the Seeds 1972 single "Shuckin'' and Jivin'", so this LP is Seeds related, always a notable detail when talking L.A. rock history.Cue it up and hold on to your seat, you're in for quite a ride during the next 28 minutes of your life!

Faucheuse

Comme Un Poignard

Black Water

***"We live in a world where the real and the fake are increasingly blurred. One where we are constantly under surveillance. Our lives scraped, commoditised, monetised. Every element feels like it has been specifically constructed to isolate and atomise, to ferment insecurity and to sow self-doubt. Comme Un Poignard (Like A Dagger) conjures this very unease, a life that feels as if it is bound in chains yet spinning out of control at the same time. Hailing from Bordeaux, and featuring both current and ex-members of Bombardement, Faucheuse (Reaper) are back with their second full-length and follow-up to 2024’s, Rêve Électrique (Electric Dream). As the title track erupts through the squalling feedback, the band’s trademarks are firmly in evidence—fiercely galloping d-beat riven through with a boisterous rock’n’roll swagger and brimming with buccaneering solos that strut that hazy line where blues and NWOBHM intertwine. It is though, perhaps, the vocals that remain at the very heart of their sound. Cleanly sung and robustly melodic, they call with equal vigour on both a punk urgency and a rich sense of pop drama. It is a frantically breathless yet tautly crafted ride as they sweep from the scuzzy melodicism of 'Pacte de Feu' (Fire Pact) to the frantically careering 'Météore' (Meteor). Before, Faucheuse throw an unexpected sidestep and bow out with the mournfully cascading organs and hauntingly reflective vocals of 'Etincelle' (Spark)."—Scott (Foundation Vinyl)

Cysts, The

Turn It Up Or Throw It Away / S.I.S.T.S.

Gilgongo

***Portland circa late 2000’s: The Cysts churn out a couple of scathing 7”s and cassettes, manage to tour the west coast twice through a series of living rooms, storage units and the occasional venue and successfully controlled the chaos long enough to record a proper LP, but as happens all too often in punk, it ended up not making it to the press in that moment. Highly RIYL: Born Against or Hail Mary, and featuring members from other Portland staples such as Lithics and Alarmist (and a slew of solo noise discographies), ‘Turn It Up Or Throw It Away / S.I.S.T.S’ is indeed short, fast & loud, as put by Matt Korvette (Yellow Green Red), “An art-damaged, but also just damage-damaged, hardcore band rescued from the sands of time”. Edition of 100 copies, housed in foldover screen-printed covers. Co-released with Vile Bile.

De()T

Welcome To The Idiot Factory

Sorry State

***Sorry State presents Welcome to the Idiot Factory, the new 4-song EP from Raleigh punk lifers DE()T. While its members come from Raleigh’s fertile hardcore scene, DE()T’s ability to pummel is only part of their toolkit, with these four songs exploring the wider range of feelings that crop up when you’re on the wrong side of your 30s and life is still dealing you the same bullshit it did in your 20s. Vocalist Colin Swanson-White’s disaffected drawl evokes the post-human cool of Gary Numan or “Homosapien”-era Pete Shelley when he sings about life as a cog in the machine, but he can also let out a blood-curdling scream when things come to a head and powerhouse drummer Cameron Craig lays into his Vistalites. DE()T’s deft ensemble playing—honed over years of blowing touring bands off the stage here in Raleigh—further elevates these songs, whose inventive arrangements ride waves of loud/quite/loud as bassist Jeffrey Bechtel drags anchor across the bottom end and synthesist Matt Stone bleats out hooky melodies on top. These four anthems sound like no other band, yet still deliver a mighty dose of punk’s authentic, gut-punching impact.

Laughing Corpse

Beyond Recognition

Sorry State

***Sorry State presents Beyond Recognition, the debut 6-song 7” EP from Washington, DC’s Laughing Corpse. Laughing Corpse emerges from the same DC hardcore scene that has brought us so many great bands over the past few years, with members serving / having served time in Brain Tourniquet, Kombat, Corvo, Daunting Nightmare, Genocide Pact, and many more. While Laughing Corpse’s blistering execution hints at the members’ experience, the sound here is darker and uglier than you might expect, mired in the reckless, Void-influenced end of 80s hardcore. You can expect dramatic rhythmic shifts, desperate vocals, and guitars that frequently careen off-script into wild, noisy leads. Laughing Corpse drummer Connor Donegan is a transplant from Sorry State’s home base of Raleigh, North Carolina, and his roots show through with several nods to our city’s tradition of uniquely damaged hardcore, particularly the early eras of Corrosion of Conformity and Double Negative. You don’t need the backstory to appreciate this, though… just hit play at max volume and let Laughing Corpse level you.

Psico Galera

Memorie Di Occhi Grigi

Sorry State

***Memorie Di Occhi Grigi, the new 12" from Italian provocateurs PSICO GALERA, is an 8-track onslaught of dissonant experimentation, unhinged and unpredictable guitar solos, pounding drums, and raw, uncompromising energy, with vocals alternating between distorted shouts and pitched effects reminiscent of early G.I.S.M., slicing through chaotic riffs to create a nihilistic, intense, and sick experience.Influenced by RKL’s Rock’n’Roll Nightmare era, the metallic and robotic edges of early Voivod, and the unstoppable force of Stinky Rats, late Negazione, and late Upset Noise, the record fuses Italian and US hardcore punk from the ’80s and ’90s with obscure Japanese influences such as Bitousha, Masturbation and Hog-Gish.The lyrics explore claustrophobic worlds of unstable minds, institutional violence, and social abandonment, oscillating between fractured self-reflection, guilt, frustration, and calculated revenge. Each track depicts raw, often unsettling scenarios, building a narrative that is intensely personal, universally disturbing, and brutally compelling.Dark, abrasive, and uncompromising, Memorie Di Occhi Grigi is a direct, fearless sonic manifesto.Psico Galera's vision is unfiltered, urgent, and clear-eyed, portraying a world where the annihilation of the individual looms relentlessly and oppressively.

Sassenberger, Bill

Wanderlust and Welcome Mats "The Broccoli Chronicles"

Toxic Shock

***“Social media gets a bad rap these days but that’s what gives Bill Sassenberger a new energy while grieving his wife’s death. His house echoes with loss and loneliness until he decides to turn it into an online boarding house. Suddenly he’s hosting a colorful parade of temporary guests, sometimes rowdy, occasionally disgusting, and always diverting. Gradually Bill revives his passion for music, traveling to see bands he’s known and loved. At home, he reconnects with old friends on social media and finds someone from his past. A love story takes shape when Sara reappears, then a rejected husband who arrives on the scene with handcuffs and kidnapping plans. Sara brings companionship and happiness. As their new life flourishes, Bill’s dream of writing a book comes into being and he becomes an author, embarking on a long odyssey of book tours that results in success and overseas fame.This sequel to Toxic Shock, Assassin of Mediocrity will delight anyone who’s ever thought life ends after sixty. Wanderlust and Welcome Mats proves that not only does it go on, it can be happily reinvented.”—Janet Brown, Travel AuthorThis 158 page profusely illustrated full-color book covers the life of a punk rock innkeeper, and book tour diary as he becomes a “successful” author.Cover artwork by Brian Walsby. Design and layout by Welly Artcore. Back cover artwork by Vince Ransid.

V/a

Tokyo Flashback

Black Editions

***BACK IN PRINT!!! Received an 8.3 Best New Reissue rating from Pitchfork. Black Editions present the first ever vinyl edition of Tokyo Flashback, the legendary 1991 compilation that defined the Tokyo psychedelic movement and first brought it to the outside world. Tokyo Flashback is one of the most iconic compilations in the history of underground music. Originally released by Japan's P.S.F. Records, Tokyo Flashback defined the breathtakingly unique and previously obscured musical movement that had been developing in Japan since the late 1970s. The compilation features some of the earliest released recordings by KEIJI HAINO, HIGH RISE, MASAKI BATOH's GHOST, WHITE HEAVEN, FUSHITSUSHA , KOUSOKUYA, and MARBLE SHEEP. It captures the excitement and energy of a Tokyo awash in Technicolor and deep blacks; the music echoing krautrock, psychedelic freak-outs, garage, and no wave. At the same time it reveals astonishing, totally idiosyncratic expansions of rock music. In time, Tokyo Flashback expanded to a synonymous nine volume series that, over the following two decades, unveiled Japan's ever evolving soundscapes to the rest of the world. Tokyo Flashback is a defining statement of late 20th century Japanese psychedelic music and an essential primer to the world of P.S.F. All tracks are exclusive, this edition features the first time translation of the original liner notes. Black Editions' deluxe edition is entirely re-mastered and marks the first release of Tokyo Flashback outside of Japan and it's first ever vinyl issue. Also features VERZERK. Newly created artwork and design expanding on the original by ROB...

Four Eyes, The

Earth 2025 EP

Sacramento

***The Four Eyes are a long-standing Sacramento "budget rock" band, recognized for their endurance in the local scene alongside bands like The Bananas, NAR and The Trouble Makers. Their recordings, particularly on Secret Center Records, are noted for a comically lo-fi sound, sometimes described as "listening with a pillow over your head.”The Four Eyes are fronted by diamond-in-the-rough-crooner Joel Goulet and backed by the fact-based and austere rhythm section of drummer Jay Baker and bass-machine player Dave Ninja. Although originating from the coastal college town of Santa Cruz, they are mantel barriers of what some call “the Sacramento sound.”Now for the real question: What is Earth 2025 you might ask? Well, Earth 2025 is a turn based, text based internet video game created in 1996. The game brings together tens thousands of players in an interactive gaming environment that's addictive, entertaining, and engaging. You'll get the opportunity to take command of a fledgling country and manage its economy, military, diplomacy and more as you try to make yourself the most powerful in the world. (Just make sure to avoid the dreaded CA$HER $LASHER!!!).Earth 2025 (the record) is a first ever joint release by two stalwart Sacramento record labels Secret Center Records and Sacramento Records. Side A was recorded in Northern California by Joel Goulet (of the Four Eyes) and originally appears on The Four Eyes release Five Songs about Videogames and one about something else. The B-side was recorded live at Charles Albright Fest by Jeffrey Melendez in 2024. All...

V/a

Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record and Gramophone Collecting on the Sub-Continent VOL 2

Sublime Frequencies

***This double LP of instrumental Hindustani, Carnatic and folk 78rpm shellac records from India comes with a full color 12-page insert of gramophone record ephemera, shops, labels, manufacturing details and graphics. The LPs feature over 25 artists recorded between 1904 and 1959 playing a panoply of instruments: jalatarang, dilruba, sarod, clarionet, pakhawaj, violin, been, kazoo, shehnai, tabla, sarangi, sitar, vina and more. Artists include Imdad Khan (the first sitarist ever recorded), Ahmedjan Thirkhawa, Bundu Khan, Amir Hussain, Allauddin Khan (who taught Ravi Shankar), and others both forgotten and revered. The Indian classical instrumental tradition is one of incredible proficiency and expressiveness using instruments and techniques created over generations that seem to perfectly and uniquely compliment Indian culture, landscape and tradition. Sympathetic strings resonate inside sitars and sarangis to manifest shimmering reverberant spiritual spaces; horns, reeds and flutes extend the range, volume and melodic inventiveness of the voice; a mind-boggling array of elaborately turned percussion instruments allow for rhythms as complex or as simple as the flowing Ganges River. Classical music in India was perhaps at its height during the 78rpm period as the raj era was ending and the world was globalizing. 2LP gatefold with 12-page full color booklet insert. Produced by Robert Millis (Climax Golden Twins/Victrola Favorites) and features never reissued recordings and is the long-anticipated follow up to the Indian Talking Machine book/CD (Sublime Frequencies 099), which was also produced by Millis from his collection of 78rpm records and ephemera.

Knock Knock

Night School / Night Shift

Sacramento

***Knock Knock is a celebrated Sacramento indie-pop/rock band known for their infectious, sunny 1970s-AM-radio-inspired sound, often described as a mix of folky acoustic rhythms, sharp surf-rock guitars (think Pixies), and danceable beats. Active for over twenty years, the group became a staple of the local Sacramento scene, often releasing new material every few years between weddings, child births, and divorces. Knock Knock is lead by “cool youth pastor” turned NPR donor Allen Maxwell (Vocals / Bass). Compromising this man’s vision are the married guitar duo Mike Cinciripino (Lead Guitar) and Heather Conway (Vocals / Rhythm Guitar). Every band needs a at least one actual musician. Knock Knock does better than one and provides two: Christine Shelly (Drums) and Dylan Barnes (Keys). Knock Knock's music is often marked by upbeat melodies that contrast with deeper, sometimes existential themes in their lyrics, described as "apocalyptic musings" that deal with personal, emotional crises. Night School / Night Shift is Knock Knock’s 4th long play record and is released by Sacramento Records. Recorded by Pat Hill’s (Bastards of Young; Earthtone Studios) and Ted Angel (Mr. T Experience). All tracks were mastered by the late and great Patrick Haight.

Agnew, Rikk

All by Myself

Munster

***Rikk Agnew's All by Myself is one of those records that feels like a secret you're lucky to stumble upon—a raw, weird, totally personal snapshot of a restless artist at a pivotal moment. Originally released in 1982 on Frontier Records, the album stands apart from most of what was coming out of Southern California at the time, even though it was born right in the middle of the exploding hardcore punk scene. By 1982, Rikk Agnew was already a big deal underground. As the guitarist for Adolescents, he helped shape the sound of Orange County hardcore with sharp riffs, surf-inflected melodies, and a sense of urgency that became hugely influential. He also played in bands like D.I. and later Christian Death, moving fluidly between hardcore punk, post-punk, and darker, more experimental territory. Agnew wasn't just a fast, aggressive guitarist —he was a songwriter with range, curiosity, and a strong DIY instinct. All by Myself lives up to its title in the most literal way. Agnew recorded the album largely on his own, playing all the instruments and handling vocals himself. Instead of delivering another straight-up hardcore record, he went inward. The result is a lo-fi, home-recorded collection of songs that blend punk energy with new wave, post-punk, psychedelic touches, and even moments of pop sensitivity. It's rough around the edges, but that's exactly the point—the album feels intimate, unfiltered, and honest. In the early '80s, Southern California punk was loud, fast, and often confrontational. Bands were pushing against the mainstream...

Burned Up Bled Dry

Next Stop... Dead Stop...

Prank

***Debut album from Fayetteville, Arkansas’s BURNED UP BLED DRY. 26 songs in 25 minutes, mixing crushing down tuned Mid-South heaviness and intense power violence blasting with the clarity, hooks and direct edge of 80’s hardcore punk .Devastating music with bleak, to the point lyrics, these are all new songs written and recorded last year after the band found themselves all living back in Arkansas a few years ago and resumed playing live, combined with a few unreleased songs from the 1990's. This planet is a fucking trainwreck......Next stop... Dead Stop...Burned Up Bled Dry formed in 1996, touring constantly and releasing two 7” EPs, one on the legendary Slap-A-Ham label, before going dormant for almost two decades. Next Stop... Dead Stop... was recorded by RAIF BOX at Holy Anvil Studios in Fayetteville, and master by BRAD BOATRIGHT at Audiosiege. LP housed in 24 point board covers from Stoughton. CD includes an 8-page booklet. Cassette with page panel J-Card.

GNP

1985 Demo

Prank

***GROSSEST NATIONAL PRODUCT (GNP) formed in 1982 in Birmingham, Alabama and were one of the state’s first hardcore punk bands, playing garage-y thrash with lyrics inspired by the comedic acidity of the Ramones or Dead Kennedys. Classic 1980’s teenage thrash, the band was a constant, encouraging presence in the Birmingham punk scene for nearly three decades, opening shows for the Meat Puppets, GBH, Life Sentance, Maggot Sandwich, The Accused and many more.A wild cast of hilarious characters, the band rarely left the city limits, even less often the state and left few recordings, but tracked a classic demo tape in 1985 featuring some of their best songs “Reggie’s a Veggie”, “Ready To Ralph”, “Rabid Lassie”. The demo is presented in its entirety, pre-mastered by WILL KILLINGSWORTH at Dead Air studios with vinyl mastering by ANNE-MARIE SUENRAM. Packaged with photos and flyers from the band's first three years, and an additional lyric sheet insert with extensive liner notes and band history from guitarist CHRIS HENDRIX. Pressed on colored vinyl at RTI.

Peltier, Tommy

Echo Park (The 70's Sessions)

Drag City

***Tommy Peltier's Echo Park, compiled of unheard tapes from the early/mid 1970s, brings us into contact with a long-extinct creature—equal parts slinky hipster, universal soldier of the heart and snuggly loverman—he light-rockin’ tinseltown troubadour, the likes of which hasn’t been served around Hollywood since 1979! Tommy’s somewhere in the tuneful tradition of Rupert Holmes, Stephen Bishop, Andrew Gold, David Batteau and of course, Captain Fantastic and the Thin White Duke. His soulful songs and high-pitched vocals (he was once called “Tom Rapp on helium”) are paired with the requisite chopsy, jazz-enriched LA players, entrancing the ear with grooves and performances both tasty and sweet. Mixed and mastered with great zest by Jim O’Rourke (he brought new life to recordings of a similar vintage for Judee Sill’s posthumous Dreams Come True back in 2005), Echo Park is an encompassing trip through a whole other time and place.

Abrams, Joshua

Music For Pulse Meridian Foliation

Drag City

***Joshua Abrams’ piece for two violas, harmonium and electronics – written in dialogue with Lisa Alvarado’s 2023 REDCAT exhibition – sonically considers her matrix of geographic, geologic and personal histories. On its own, the LP ensures that the exhibit’s expansive ambiance persists, via Alvarado’s graphics and the music’s mesmerizing stream of subtle sonics and polarities, spiraling in and out of change and recurrence on multiple planes.

Rump State

Psychic Sidekick

12xu

***Mark Morgan (formerly of Sightings and Silk Purse) and Gaute Granli first met in Brooklyn at The Glove in 2017 while Granli was on tour from his home country of Norway. The following year, Morgan embarked on a solo European tour and he and Granli did three shows together in Norway. Ultimately finding each other reasonably tolerable and able to agree to disagree on punk versus prog, they soon thereafter toured together in the fall of 2019 in Europe for 50 days with each playing solo. As the tour progressed, both found themselves influencing and being influenced by the other and by the end, they decided they should do a band together (easier to book one act rather than a package deal). Plans were made to reconvene in 2020 to record and possibly tour but then Covid threw a wrench into the works.A couple of years later, Rump State finally started playing and recording together in 2021 at Entropy Studio in Redford, Michigan (notably the childhood home of Ted Nugent who purportedly refers to it as "Tedford"). Outside of agreeing that there should be a strong focus on duo vocals and that Morgan would play guitar and Granli electronics, not much else was discussed in advance of first playing together. From these sessions, their first LP "Retaliation Aesthetics" was cobbled together and eventually released on the Parisian No Lagos label in March 2023. Since then, Rump State has toured the USA once and Europe multiple times.'Psychic Sidekick', Rump State's second...

Nils, The

Now (1983 Demo)

Artifix

***The Nils are a Montreal punk rock band formed in 1978 by Alex Soria. The Nils first gained local notoriety upon the 1983 release of a five-song demo entitled Now. Their self-titled debut album was released to critical acclaim in 1987, and earned praise from Rolling Stone and contemporary punk rock bands, including Hüsker Dü. The Nils disbanded and reformed on various occasions in the 1990s and early 2000s, until the death of Alex Soria in 2004. In 2010 Carlos Soria reformed the band, and in 2015 The Nils released Shadows and Ghosts, their first album of new material in over 25 years. The Nils Now on Artifix Records is the very first time the band’s complete self-released 1983 demo cassette is being released on vinyl. With a sound reminiscent of Hüsker Dü, and the inspiration to bands like the Libido Boyz, The Nils proved at their beginning that they were a band with raw energy that blends hard-driving melodic rock with punk. Tim Yohannan of Maximum Rocknroll highlighted its heavy guitar orientation and hook-filled, Wipers-esque style, marking it as a significant, early change of pace for the era. All five songs from the 1983 demo are on this 7”EP. Pressed on black vinyl and housed in cardstock covers with art by 1980s punk artist Brian Walsby and lyric insert. Edition of 500 copies.

Clark, Anne

Our Darkness

Dark Entries

Doubting all the time. Fearing all the time. Our Darkness descends upon Dark Entries with a reissue of Anne Clark’s epochal proto-house masterpiece from 1984. As a young poet, Clark found herself drawn to London’s emerging punk scene. She became acquainted with Psychic TV affiliate David Harrow, with whom she would collaborate on 1983’s Changing Places and 1984’s Joined Up Writing. “Our Darkness,” off the latter album, was released as a single on Ink Records that same year, and became an underground club hit. It’s a singular piece of music: Clark’s lyrics, delivered with equal parts muscular confidence and unease, speak of urban alienation and heartbreak, while Harrow’s production pummels the listener with hydraulic beats and gloom-laced arpeggios. The song’s spirit would prove influential on both the early Chicago house and Detroit techno scenes, where mechanistic funk and existential despair could catalyse dancefloor mayhem. This reissue offers three versions of “Our Darkness”: the original 12” remix, the Razormaid mix, and a previously unreleased dub version uncovered by David Harrow. Also included is the extended mix of “Sleeper in Metropolis,” another dancefloor hit of Clark’s, as well as the elegiac “Poem for a Nuclear Romance.” The record includes an insert with liner notes and lyrics. “Our Darkness” channels timeless longing and contemporary dismay, a classic overdue for a little light shed upon it.

Hedonist

Scapulimancy

Carbonized

***"Scapulimancy", the first Full-Length album from Hedonist, now available on Cassette! Witness Death take it’s bearing on the facade of life with one of the best underground Metal offerings from 2025. Recording and Mixing by Cody Baresich (Altered Dead, Bodyrot) at Circle A Studios. Drum Tracking by Derek Mattin at Silverside Sound. Pre-Mastering by Julian Marrs and Marrs Audio. Mastering by Brad Boatright (Deviated Instinct, Necrot, Skaven) at Audiosiege. Album Artwork by Adam Kindred (Archagathus, Contagium, Noroth).

Hedonist

Sepulchral Lacerations

Carbonized

***The first official North American CD pressing of Hedonist’s 2021 Debut Demo, "Sepulchral Lacerations"! Experience the ancient stench of war with their merciless campaign of Death Metal / Crust Destruction. Recording, Mixing and Mastering by Cody Baresich (Altered Dead, Bodyrot) at Circle A Studios. Album Artwork by Adam Kindred (Archagathus, Contagium, Noroth). Shrink-wrapped Jewel Case CD comes with 8 Page Booklet.

Pine, The

Days Slipping By

Going Underground

***Days Slipping By is the third album from Bakersfield’s The Pine and marks the point where the band reaches their fully realized form. With the introduction of their permanent drummer, the band settled into a core lineup, allowing for a greater sense of focus and cohesion, resulting in what became their defining work. While their previous album pushed outward and explored new lanes, this record pulled everything into place and refined the sound while carrying the same fast, loud, and melodic intensity. It’s heartbroken, lost, a document of what it’s like to look at the world through new eyes when everything changes and you’re left all alone, and a defining entry in the California emo canon. Back in print for the first time since its original release in 2003. White vinyl pressing.

So Real

s/t

Going Underground

***The debut EP from Bakersfield’s So Real is a five-track burst of emotive, indie rock that feels like it was pulled straight from a well-worn time capsule. It channels the late-’90s moment when bands like Broken Hearts Are Blue and The Get Up Kids shook everything up—when vulnerability met driving rhythms and changed the sound of underground rock for good. Call it Midwest Emo, call it heart-on-sleeve indie—either way, So Real carry that spirit proudly out of Bakersfield (and honestly, is that really a surprise?).These songs balance catharsis and movement: shimmering guitars, earnest vocals, and rhythms that make you want to sway, shout along, or finally step forward and ask that person to dance—even if you’re terrified to. It’s music for anyone who’s ever felt stuck between going out and staying home, between wanting connection and retreating into their room.

Gomez, Jeff

Sammy

J-Card Press

***In the nineties, Sammy checked all the indie‐rock boxes. The duo—East Village singer/guitarist Jesse Hartman and L.A. lead guitarist Luke Wood— released a lo‐fi debut on Smells Like records, the label run by Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley. They moved up to major‐label Geffen for their second LP, Tales of Great Neck Glory. And then it was over. Sammy left behind two LPs, an EP, and a legion of fans wondering what happened. Hartman went on to a well‐received solo career; Wood became a heavy hitter behind the scenes. Thirty years later, the pair are looking back on lives well lived and their wildest dreams realized. F. Scott Fitzgerald—whose best‐known novel incidentally takes place in Great Neck—once wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” The story of Sammy proves him wrong. 5x8 224 page paperback book. Includes 22 B&W photos. "The story of so many bands who didn’t quite break through, but came close enough to taste it. Jeff Gomez’s history of Sammy is well-researched, admirable, and clearly an act of love.”—Howard Fishman, author of To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

Heads, The

YOURPRETTYPLACEISGOINGTOHELL

Rooster

The album was recorded over three days whilst the Heads were rehearsing for a couple of live dates with their friends, and peers, Mudhoney. The guitars, drums and bass were laid down live in Bristol, over-dubs added and then mixed/produced by John McBain in Portland. Initially planned as two single albums, (Volumes 1+2) it soon made sense that they should be put together as a double LP. Named in a nod to the Stooges' Raw Power classic 'Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell', it describes the trajectory we're all on. The Heads are renowned for their brutalist take on psychedelic rock, this new album shows how much they have absorbed from their years of existence, their peers and the world around them. Not much change though, they haven't mellowed out. The pummel is there, the spaced out sike zones are there, there’s wigged out guitar solos that will peel the paint off the walls, there’s even pop songs if you look/listen hard enough. John McBain has done a grand job in fine tuning the noise and sonic assault. It's hard to draw a direct “for fans of “ list, because ultimately this album is for fans of the Heads. However, you can trace the DNA of this album back to the Stooges, Hawkwind, 13th Floor Elevators, Can, Mudhoney, Monster Magnet, Loop, Spacemen 3, MC5 etc. all squeezed through the Head's heavy sonic blender. A band that only ever existed on the fringes, "if you're not on the edge, you're...

Disciple BC

The Homecoming

Creepy Crawl

Creepy Crawl kicks off the 2026 in a suitable way…unleashing the new LP by Disciple BC.Titled The Homecoming, this really is music for the world as it is today. Continuing the blood soaked saga, The Homecoming documents the bands return to the uk, with 9 tracks of the finest horror crust punk, each one telling tales of crime, punishment, revenge and retribution. Is this the end, or a new dawn?Featuring members of Sore Throat, Doom & Agnosy and featuring the enigmatic and mysterious Rev Schneider on vocals and faith healing.Disciple BC. has been described as “Jello Biafra fronting Motorhead” & like “Dave Vanian singing with Bathory playing Anti Cimex songs”.Coming at you wrapped in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, splatter vinyl and a hand screened 12” print done inhouse here at Creepy Crawl and limited to 300 copies.

Disassociation, The

Losing Is A Luxury

Shrimper

The Disassociation is a collective made up of all five members of Refrigerator, Amy Maloof of the band Falcon Eddy, author/bassist Jonathan Lethem and artist/musician Sam Sousa. Their first record is comprised of material written and shared over the last five years and recorded over one long seventy three hour weekend. It is called Losing Is A Luxury.Some songs feature one member, some all eight, as the mood turns from stoic Tammy Wynette to Shambolic ESP Godz/MIJ Yodeling Astrologer before circling back to NZ circa 1985. This is no side project, no "eclectic and organic album", it is a fucking electric shut down. The band is a true collective with members bouncing from instruments, vocals and songwriting duties.The seed of the project was a song that Maloof recorded for Lethem and Sousa's weekly radio show on KSPC. Lethem, who has written lyrics for Lee Ranaldo, Walter Salas-Humara and a myriad of others, does the same here, but also plays and sings, while his radio co-host sings a gruff Lee Hazlewood/Ann Margret duet with Maloof. Refrigerator offers both knee play balladry and some bright cherry shoulda been AM pop leanings on the record as members back up or step out with the collective of The Disassociation.The band is doing three shows on the west coast and two shows on the east coast as well as multiple pop up shop variants of satellite versions of the band that will feature two to seven members, across the states throughout the spring and summer....