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Witch Egg Sessions by Dwyer, John

Dwyer, John

Witch Egg Sessions
Rock Is Hell

One of three new improv albums from John Dwyer and an cast of crack LA-based musicans from the Osees universe. Recorded, mixed and edited at Stu-Stu-Studio by Dwyer. Features John Dwyer (synths, tapes, effects), Nick Murray (drums, percussion) and Brad Caulkins (tenor and alto saxophones, Selmer electric saxophone). Pressed on clear vinyl with black and white swirls.

2XLP $35.75

04/18/2025 657628451297 

RIP 123 


Gong Splat Sessions by Dwyer, John

Dwyer, John

Gong Splat Sessions
Rock Is Hell

One of three new improv albums from John Dwyer and an cast of crack LA-based musicans from the Osees universe. Recorded, Edited and mixed at Stu-Stu-Studio by JPD. Features John Dwyer (guitar, synths, pan flute, cuica, hand percussion, space drum and effects), Ryan Sawyer (drums), Greg Coates (upright bass), Andres Renteria (conga, bongo, hand percussion) and Wilder Zoby (synth and mellotron). Pressed on clear yellow vinyl.

2XLP $35.75

04/18/2025 657628451280 

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Bent Arcana / Moon Drenched Session by Dwyer, John

Dwyer, John

Bent Arcana / Moon Drenched Session
Rock Is Hell

One of three new improv albums from John Dwyer and an cast of crack LA-based musicans from the Osees universe. Bent Arcana / Moon Drenched Session was recorded live and mixed by Dwyer at Stu-Stu-Studio, December 2019. Features John Dwyer (guitar, synthesizers, hand percussion, tape loops, cuica, and vocals), Ryan Sawyer (drums, hand percussion, vocals), Peter Kerlin (stand up and electric basses), Thomas Dolas (synths, clavinet, mellotron, electric piano), Kyp Malone (modular synthesizer), Brad Caulkins (tenor saxophone, Selmer Mark VI Varitone saxophone), Marcos Rodriguez (guitar), Laena "Geronimo" Myers-Ionita (violin), Andres Renteria (conga, bongo, hand percussion), and Joce Soubiran (tenor saxophone). LP plus one-sided LP pressed on clear magenta vinyl.

2XLP $35.75

04/18/2025 657628451273 

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The band is John Dwyer (synths, vocals), Heather Lockie (viola), Thomas Dolas (synths), Andres Renteria (hand percussion), Brad Caulkins (tenor saxophone), Kyp Malone (synths) and Archie Carey (bassoon). The singers are YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO), Albert Wolski (EXEK), Gracie Jackson (GracieHorse), Ciriza (Artist Extraordinaire), Kyp Malone (Bent Arcana, TV On The Radio, Rain Machine etc.), Brigid Dawson (Thee Oh Sees, The Mothers Network), AZITA (Scissor Girls, Bride of NONO, AZITA) For fans of Steve Roach, Eno, Syrinx, Howard Shore, Current 93, Terry Riley, Tangerine Dream and a proper sage scrub. “An experiment in symphonic improvisation paired with synthesizer-scapes. Strings, reeds, synths and hand percussion all blend sweetly into an odd landscape indeed. The final touch was to bring aboard some singers I have loved over the years. I’m so pleased they were all willing to participate and I’m very tickled by the plane we navigate. Once YoshimiO agreed to be on board I knew we were going to be OK. Recorded and mixed at my home studio (Stu-Stu-Studio in Los Angeles) and remotely, this one was a slow burn to see the light of day. And here it is in its final crystal form. Celebrating the spaces between ritual, habit and ceremony. And all the parallels between. The line is blurred. This is occult adjacent strain of sound. At home in daily ritual, contemplation and meditation.” —John Dwyer

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10/13/2023 795154141715 

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Posh Swat, an all-percussion improvisation album with John Dwyer (OSEES, Damaged Bug, OCS, etc), Ryan Sawyer and Andres Renteria. “Sand in your hair and bugs in your teeth. Hand on your knife, knife in your sheath. Grimy bass burps thru a fried stack. And the crack of the snare is a mighty pink smack. Bells, whistles conga and vibes. This is a drug record. One thousand times. For fans of Niagra, Black Pus, Container, Bruce Ditmas and all things beat driven and drum craven.” —John Dwyer

LP $17.50

02/17/2023 795154136414 

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***SPECIAL JOHN DWYER PRESSING NOW AVAILABLE ON NEW VINYL COLORS!!! “Transmission incoming...alien sound waves have been bouncing off the side of our ship. We’ve managed to capture some of them on plastic. They seem to appear suddenly out of the vacuum. Projected by planets. Beamed through stars. Reflected off debris. Hanging in space like dust motes. Witch Egg is an improvised set of songs by John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Greg Coates and Tom Dolas. Another fired expedition out in the wilds. Recorded and mixed at Stu-Stu-Studio by John Dwyer. This one is a burner designed optimally for your eco-pod sound system. When you’ve left the world behind, you will need a soundtack while you lay in dream stasis.”—John Dwyer  Received a 7.5 from Pitchfork (1/25/21)

LP $20.25

03/04/2022  

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***NOW AVAILABLE ON LP!!! What’s this? Today’s holiday gift? One final transmission from the core of the planet! Cresting slabs of concrete and powdered bone, rich soil—improvisation freak flag flitters atop a gutted highrise: Gong Splat. Featuring Ryan Sawyer on drums, Greg Coates on upright bass, Wilder Zoby on synth and mellotron, Andres Renteria on conga, bongos and hand percussion, and John Dwyer on guitar, synths, pan flute, cuíca, hand percussion, space drum and effects.  This one is spitting fat and neon night-light city drives, white in the corner of the pilot’s mouth. Furry, fuzzy and frenetic, motorik and full of blood-rich ticks…maggots unite! There’s a show tonight! Welcome back humans.

LP $19.75

12/24/2021 733102720919 

 


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12/17/2021 733102720926 

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01/13/2023  

CF 144 X 


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12/24/2021 733102720919 

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12/17/2021 733102720926 

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The same crew as the boundary pulsing improvisation record Bent Arcana has made a trajectory shift and picked up Ben Boye along the path. The aptly-named Moon-Drenched is the second installment from these sessions and keeps a heavy-lidded late night perspective on things as it eases from the somewhat familiar liminal twilight of skittering hues of black-blue and snaking street groove, to fizzing off into the ether in pursuit of lunar prism beams heretofore unseen. The more rhythmically dialed bits here have a lysergic halo of strangeness to them, and the wispy bits between are spun of iridescent gossamer. It sounds like a frizzled message from a future just filthy with guitar hoots echoing off of neon-splattered high rises, oil-slicked waterways and skittering digital beasts. For Castle Face’s money this is the strangest slice of this last bunch of John Dwyer and his crew’s improvisations.

LP $19.75

09/10/2021 733102718398 

 


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10/01/2021 733102718404 

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01/13/2023  

CF 137 X 


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09/10/2021 733102718398 

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05/28/2021 733102718404 

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***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Walk the dog. Exercise. Make art.’The mind is happy when the body is.’ Things I can potentially fill my days with if I am stuck at home for months on end…Then, one day, I hear a frenetic, free drummer playing in his garage a few blocks from me. And I think ‘interesting’. I stand outside his garage staring at the wall, like a fool, for a minute, then decide to leave a note on the car parked there. This is how I ended up meeting and working with Ted Byrnes. He wasn’t creeped out, and he ended up sending me a pile of truly spontaneous drums recordings from the carport to work with. I decided to have every musician come in one at at time and just take a wild pass at their track over the drums. None of these people had ever met or played together. I was the connecting thread. I scratched the surface initially with electric bass, saxophone, guitars, cuica, synthesizers, flute and effects, but soon realized I would need heavy hitters to make this place habitable. “Greg Coates, upright bass expressionist extraordinaire, hacked through the dense weeds, vines and frayed cabling. He lays the map out and makes breathing room. Space to swing a cat. Tom Dolas (keys), my often foil, came in and began tip-toeing through the rubble and refuse. Dotting the layout with flecks of light, flights of fancy and potential tangential trajectories. Then the finisher, Brad Caulkins on horns. As...

LP $19.75

04/02/2021 767870664113 

 


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04/16/2021 767870664120 

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04/02/2021 767870664113 

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03/19/2021 767870664120 

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Third and final pressing on new limited green vinyl!!! “Transmission incoming...alien sound waves have been bouncing off the side of our ship. We’ve managed to capture some of them on plastic. They seem to appear suddenly out of the vacuum. Projected by planets. Beamed through stars. Reflected off debris. Hanging in space like dust motes.  “Witch Egg is an improvised set of songs by John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Greg Coates and Tom Dolas. Another fired expedition out in the wilds. Recorded and mixed at Stu-Stu-Studio by John Dwyer. This one is a burner designed optimally for your eco-pod sound system. When you’ve left the world behind, you will need a soundtack while you lay in dream stasis.” —John Dwyer

LP $20.25

10/01/2021 767870664717 

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“This is the first interstellar transmission from five days of electrified and improvised sessions recorded at Stu-Stu-Studio, edited down to forty minutes for your earballs. Bent Arcana is the inceptive chapter in what I hope to be several releases showcasing these types of off-the-cuff musical compositions. So you can try your fry on and turn off. This one is very much on the ECM / ’70s hard fusion / prog-kraut tip. It is a many pronged weapon, swung by the spontaneous sentinel.”—John Dwyer. Received a 7.1 rating from Pitchfork.

LP $19.75

09/11/2020 767870662782 

 


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09/11/2020 767870662799 

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08/21/2020 767870662782 

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Vinegar Mirror by Dwyer, John

Dwyer, John

Vinegar Mirror
Castle Face

Presented for the public’s perusal, a coffee table collection of film photos from 2009-2013 by Oh Sees frontman, Castle Face co-conspirator, and all around restless artistic presence John Dwyer. Dwyer seemed to always be pulling out a camera around then and these flicks function as a technicolor joyride through his universe in San Francisco and beyond, with his jackal’s smirk from behind the lens all but palpable in these pages. Tour snaps, blackmail fodder, candid camaraderie, and the ringing echo of maniacal laughter await one within. Originally printed in a limited quantity by San Francisco clothing shop and live music incubator Vacation, Castle Face has dusted it off for a wider release for those that never got the chance.

BK $31.00

03/27/2020 9780578633190 

CF 124 


Exploded Globes: An Annotated Collection of Posters 1999-2016 by Dwyer, John

Dwyer, John

Exploded Globes: An Annotated Collection of Posters 1999-2016
Castle Face

For the very first Castle Face book — a selection from the dusty vaults of John Dwyer’s prodigious poster output! Bold, brash, lovingly imperfect prints embellished with some stories of the nights in question as told by the man himself…don’t miss out on this or your coffee table will never forgive you. From the introduction: “In this book, in no particular order, are the handbills, fliers and posters I’ve made since 1999 or so to present. The style doesn’t vary all that much…similar content…but I think I’ve gotten slowly better over all these years…I’m still a bit too impatient of a person to make “perfect” prints…but I think part of that is my style: a mess sometimes. Nothing wrong with that. I’m really not a huge fan of the typical rock poster. It can be a tedious format to look at, especially after years of playing shows and a million posters, so I try to make something from a bit of a different place. Thanks, and I hope you enjoy, maybe you were at one of these shows? Maybe you thought, who made this shit poster? It was me.” —John Dwyer

BK $40.00

06/02/2017 9781532333217 

CF 056 


Live In San Francisco by OCS

OCS

Live In San Francisco
Rock Is Hell

A mesmerizing live set by OCS—JOHN DWYER and BRIGID DAWSON with a 7-piece backing band featuring PAUL QUATTRONE, TIM HELLMAN, TOM DOLAS, HEIDI MAUREEN ALEXANDER, and a string section comprised of HEATHER LOCKIE, EMILY ELKIN and ERIC CLARK. Recorded by ERIC BAUER at the Chapel in SF, December 17, 2017.

2XLP $29.00

11/02/2018 647603402215 

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Last summer, John Dwyer came back from an Oh Sees tour talking about a fantastic band he’d played with in Detroit called Mountains and Rainbows. What followed him home was a double-LP’s worth of shopworn weirdness and a delightfully loose attitude that must have something to do with the ecstasy of a Midwestern summer. These backyard freaks jam into the twilight, led by a vocal quaver belted to the cheap seats, a groove and a grin and a heaping spoonful of “damn, aren’t you glad we came out tonight?” Vibrant and confusing like the insane-o cover artwork that appears to be constructed of many layers of fluorescent duct tape.  Careening from the mellow chugger vibe on “How You Spend Your Time” to the tightly wound twitch of “Dying To Meet You,” Mountains and Rainbows stretch their legs deep into the strange, with a dark oddness lurking in the corners of tunes like weirdo highlight “With Beefheart.” Particles is a great addition to a little journey of one’s own, perhaps, and just in time for the sunlit afternoons to come.

CD $12.00

05/20/2016 814867021371 

 


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05/20/2016 814867021296 

 


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05/20/2016 814867021296 

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***A reissue of the debut album from JOHN DWYER under the OCS moniker. Original released in 2003 as a double CD. This is the first time it has seen a vinyl treatment! Lovingly remastered at Golden! Cut by CARL SAFF. 

3XLP $57.25

06/24/2022  

NC 50 


Cold Hot Plumbs by Damaged Bug

Damaged Bug

Cold Hot Plumbs
Castle Face

***BACK IN PRINT!!! John Dwyer has a surprise… While everyone eagerly anticipates the next Oh Sees record, he’s been working tirelessly in his synth laboratory, hand-crafting a followup to last year’s neon-noir Damaged Bug debut—one that shakes up the snow globe considerably.  If Hubba Bubba was a brush with a robotic exoskeleton on deep-space patrol, Cold Hot Plumbs visits the alien world that sent it into the cosmos. Lush, textural and psychedelic, the songs breathe with a otherworldly sadness and heart. Barbed, sophisticated arrangements flower in every direction. The vintage-perfect sound palette would be window dressing if not for the songs themselves: fresh, vital, and above all catchier than the flu. Cold Hot Plumbs is a strange, beautiful, and oddly infectious addition to Dwyer’s oeuvre, and not one to be missed.

LP $19.75

06/09/2015 819162018545 

 


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06/09/2015 819162018552 

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***BACK IN STOCK!!! JOHN DWYER and his OH SEES reissue the Sucks Blood album on his own Castle Face imprint. Produced by KELLEY STOLTZ using all green energy (no joke), the album serves as a half-way point between the band’s Cool Death of the Island Raiders album and their most recent material.

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11/08/2019 819162015315 

 


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***Received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork. Emerging from the distant light is the new double-LP from John Dwyer’s Thee Oh Sees—the first studio recordings to capture the muscular rhythm section of twin drummers Ryan Moutinho and Dan Rincon with ringer bassist Tim Hellman cracking spines.  The groove and bludgeon one has come to expect from the band’s live shows is captured seamlessly here—they go from zero to head-splitter, and on the rare occasions they do let up on the gas a bit, you’re treated to some locked-in hypnotizers, too. The guitar sounds more colossal and ethereal at the same time, riding roughshod over the vacuum-sealed rhythm section, spiraling skywards, and diving into the emerald depths so quick your guts tingle. Synths, strings and smoke-soaked things crawl behind the scenes to make an extra far-out party platter, served on 45 RPM plates for most excellent listening quality.  With amazing visuals (including a side-D etching by airbrush-van-art maestro Robert Beatty) and packed in vape-proof goatskin, it’s a beast and, come August 12th, it can be yours should you so choose. Limited color edition on emerald green vinyl!

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08/12/2016 814867021821 

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01/13/2023  

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Singles Collection 3 by Oh Sees, Thee

Oh Sees, Thee

Singles Collection 3
Castle Face

***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork. It's no secret that JOHN DWYER and THEE OH SEES put out a ton of stuff. Not just full-lengths—of which there are many—but singles, split releases, compilations and even books. The dude cooks in many kitchens, but the sauce is always tasty. Castle Face is proud to continue their tradition of occasionally corralling these rarer gems onto the convenient LP format. For even the most insane Oh Sees collectors, the inclusion of an unreleased, mutated live version of “Block of Ice” makes this a must-have. To sweeten the deal, the tunes have been gussied up ever-so-slightly to knock you nightly, and the incredible tritone artwork by SHALO P is printed on blinding silver-foil jackets. The CD version of Singles Collection Volume Three adds a bonus live jam that just wouldn’t fit on vinyl—a particularly bloodthirsty medley of “Destroyed Fortress” and “No Spell” recorded at Death By Audio.

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Encased in a brown paper wrapping like a forgotten bit of smut from behind the beaded curtain, this unassuming disc is a time-capsule back to John Dwyer’s early SF days, janglingly fingerpicked wisps of melody and electronics baking in the all-too anemic sunshine of San Francisco’s elusive summer. Like a seashell to the ear, one can hear within it Baker Beach bike ride excursions, holding court and gently harassing passers-by on a Haight street stoop, and midnight rambles with friends from out of town, daring the sun to come up. Somewhere chronologically between the folky whisper of Songs About Death And Dying and the recently reissued Cool Death Of Island Raiders, this one’s been vexing to find for way too long and Castle Face has decided to give it “the treatment”. May it awaken the gentle glow of possibility dappled with the dancing shadow of danger that it stirs around this castle.

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06/21/2019 647603405322 

 


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***BACK IN STOCK!!!  THE COACHWHIPS (JOHN DWYER of OH SEES, JOHN HARLOW, MARY ANN MCNAMARA) Night Train remastered (in pure mono) and reissued on vinyl for the first time. Twnety-one tracks comprised of demos and outtakes from all four Coachwhips albums, along with some choice 7-inch cuts. "Listen to the tweaks on the title track and 'Tired of Wasting My Time,' and know that the engine driving the cacophony is one of genius."—MaximumRocknRoll. Edition of 500 copies.

LP $19.75

09/20/2019  

GIRLS 18 


Recorded at home in the fall of 2013 with a variety of synthesizers, drum machines and assorted handmade electronics, Damaged Bug is Oh Sees mastermind John Dwyer’s latest bit of cracked pop alchemy.  The project is the cure to the ailment of too much guitar for too long. Fizzing and sputtering like a glowing, temperamental cockpit control panel, Dwyer bunkered deep in a blinking laboratory, penning songs about the long arc of our travels across space and time. Propulsive beats and synthetic veneers coat laser-guided melodies reflecting off shiny metal surfaces while instrumental interludes pop in and out like breaks in the asteroid belt.  A far-out side of our main man—nocturnal, hard-wired, and chrome-plated. Hubba Bubba features original artwork by Deirdre White.

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Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In by Oh Sees, Thee

Oh Sees, Thee

Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In
Castle Face

***Somewhere beyond nostalgia, beyond the garage, somewhere beyond the fireside song and supposed goo-rock, you will find the latest incarnation of THEE OH SEES, now a quartet composed of JOHN DWYER (OCS, COACHWHIPS, PINK & BROWN), BRIGID DAWSON, PETEY DAMMIT! and MIKE SHOUN. The prolific Dwyer contends again for best album of his career with his signature AM radio howl coupled with the catchiest of driving tunes, Dawson's gorgeous harmonies, heightened fidelity, thick spring-reverbed bombast, mighty drums, and an undeniable pull.

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***REISSUED!!! The beloved Dog Poison full-length record by THEE OH SEES, and boy, is this one a monster. More layered and textural than the previous Oh Sees releases while keeping all the typical JOHN DWYER punch, oomph and weirdness. Ten fantastic songs originally released by Captured Tracks in 2009.  "If it were approached from a different angle, a song like album opener "The River Rushes (To Screw MD Over)" might not have sounded out of place on Dog Poison's predecessor. But by switching to an acoustic guitar and letting the flute player channel Ian Anderson, Thee Oh Sees give their sound a new wrinkle. Indeed, with Dwyer copping a few vocal moves from Mark E. Smith, "River" ends up sounding a little like the Fall covering the Kinks. There's another, purer, Kinks-like turn on Dog Poison, with the loping high-pitched tra-la-las of "The Sun Goes All Around" sounding like something left on the cutting room floor from Village Green Preservation Society. Elsewhere on the album, the group emulates the cavernous, smoky gait of Deerhunter ("Head of State"), shambles in a folkier fashion ("Fake Song"), spaces out a bit ("Dead Energy"), and mostly just lets it all hang out over the course of this LP's 24 minutes."—Pitchfork

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10/11/2019 767870658211 

 


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Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In by Oh Sees, Thee

Oh Sees, Thee

Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In
In The Red

***BACK IN STOCK ON VINYL!!!  Thee Oh Sees (OCS) began as songwriter / singer / guitarist John Dwyer's outlet for the experimental instrumentals he was producing in his home studio. Dwyer, who hails from Providence, RI, has been active on the San Francisco indie scene since the late '90s, working with The Coachwhips, Hospitals, Pink & Brown, Yikes, Dig That Body Up It's Alive, and Swords & Sandals, among others. He formed OCS (which is an acronym for Orinoka Crash Suite, Orange County Sound, or whatever Dwyer decided on any given day) to release a string of soundscapes and moody pieces that were decidedly lower key than his previous projects. In time, OCS morphed into an actual band, working under a flurry of names (most notably the Oh Sees or the Ohsees) and eventually settling on Thee Oh Sees. Sounding a bit like The Mamas & The Papas run through a seriously bent garage blender, this line-up features Dwyer on guitar and vocals, Brigid Dawson on vocals and tambourine, Petey Dammit on bass, and Mike Shoun on drums. The band signed with the German Tomlab label and released The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In in 2008. This record marked the first recorded appearance of the newly harder rocking version of the band and was immediately met with an enthusiastic response by fans and rock scribes. It went out of print after its initial pressing sold out quickly, and In The Red is pleased to announce the...

LP $20.25

01/19/2010 759718518719 

ITR 187 


Hands On The Controls by Coachwhips

Coachwhips

Hands On The Controls
Castle Face

***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork.Castle Face Records is proud to announce the re-release of Hands on the Controls by the late, great sweat-’n’-fun factory Coachwhips. For those unfamiliar, pull up a chair—helmed by John Dwyer (currently of Thee Oh Sees) from 2001-2005, they were fast, nasty, unintelligible, brutally and primally basic. A telephone through a guitar amp, half a drum kit, a shitty Casio organ, and primal speed-trash riffs never sounded so good.  Hands on the Controls was their first studio album and criminally never came out on vinyl—until now. Dwyer has kindly opened the crypt and added six never-before-released tracks to sweeten the deal, and the label remastered the tracks for maximum bludgeon, cleaned up the artwork and even added some period photos from his own personal collection. Early ditties like “That Bitch Is Gonna End Up Dead,” “N.Y.C. L.O.V.E.,” and my girlfriend’s personal favorite, “Look Into My Eyes When I Come,” will leap off of your turntable, do all of your drugs, and almost certainly get you in trouble. (STREET DATE - 9/03/2013)

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09/03/2013  

 


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***AVAILABLE AGAIN AT A NEW LOWER PRICE!!! These busted beach-pop songs spark recollections of doo wop's otherworldly despair, the kitchen sink savoir fair of the Raincoats and the positive possibilities exuded by Jonathan Richman. THE SUNSETS have featured a revolving door lineup that has included KELLEY STOLTZ and JOHN DWYER, but now features players from CITAY, FRESH & ONLYS and SKYGREEN LEOPARDS in its ranks. Limited quantity available. Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork.

LP $12.25

11/17/2009  

SAB 039 


An Odd Entrances by Oh Sees, Thee

Oh Sees, Thee

An Odd Entrances
Castle Face

***BACK IN STOCK!!! From the same misty mountaintop tape spool as August’s A Weird Exits, Thee Oh Sees bring the companion album An Odd Entrances. Delving more towards the contemplative than the face-skinning aspects of its predecessor, this sister album is a cosmic exercise en plein aire with John Dwyer and company double-drum shuffling, lounging with cellos, following a flute around the groove, and spooling a few Grimm-dark lullabies along the way. Lurking in the grass are a snake or two, like the celestial facing instrumental buzz of “Unwrap The Fiend Pt. 1.”… But for the most part this is a relatively hushed affair, a morning rather than evening listen. The band plans on donating half their profits from the first pressing to Elizabeth House, a local charity in Pasadena that specifically helps homeless women with children get back on their feet.

LP $19.75

11/25/2016 814867022699 

 


CD $12.00

11/18/2016 814867022736 

CF 085 CD 


LP COLOR $19.75

01/13/2023  

CF 085 X 


MP3 $6.99

11/25/2016 814867022699 

CF 085 LP 


FLAC $7.99

11/18/2016 814867022736 

 


Memory Of A Cut Off Head by OCS

OCS

Memory Of A Cut Off Head
Castle Face

It is easy to forget (especially amidst the ringing of ears and aching of muscles after a typical Oh Sees show) that initially, OCS was a rather hushed affair. After the minimalistic brutality of Coachwhips, the band was the diametric opposite corner of John Dwyer’s musical world, quiet to the point of whispered in the wind, buffeted by the airy whirr of singing saw, soft and strange. Those early records especially had a rather contraband hush about them, as if the party had gone on all night and continued into the morning and everyone’s raspy from talking too much and agrees to whisper and pantomime as they watch the sun come up over the hills.  Since then of course, things got gradually louder, faster, crazier...the band evolved into the Oh Sees everyone knows. For the 20th Oh Sees release, 100th Castle Face title, and 20th year doing it, Dwyer re-examines the quieter roots of it all in particularly baroque and homesteadly fashion. Memory Of A Cut Off Head was co-written with longtime collaborator and vocal counterpoint Brigid Dawson, recorded in total in Dwyer’s own Stu Stu Studio, and it’s lush, sumptuous in texture, but satisfyingly retains the gentle grace of the early stuff. There’s beautifully executed strings throughout, courtesy of Heather Lockie’s fine arrangements, horn arrangements courtesy of Mikal Cronin, and they even brought back the old saw—Patrick Mullins, that is—on saw and electronics. A return and a refinement of old forms, a few solemn meditations on life lived...

CD $12.00

11/27/2017 814867025331 

CF 100 CD 


2XLP $28.00

12/15/2017 814867025362 

 


MP3 $9.90

12/15/2017 814867025362 

CF 100 


FLAC $11.99

11/17/2017 814867025331 

CF 100 


***A new album from SONNY SMITH, performed without THE SUNSETS, but with guests NEKO CASE, EDITH FROST, MARK EITZEL, RICO BELL, JOLIE HOLLAND, ANDY CABIC, JOHN DWYER, and others. “The songs on One Act Plays started out as real one act plays written for the theater. But in writing them I began to make them songs at some point. I can’t remember when this mysterious shift happened. However, ultimately the plays as songs were performed on stage in a play called The Dangerous Stranger, so somehow it came full circle. The Dangerous Stranger was supposed to be about reality being the dangerous intruder of fantasy, and fantasy being a dangerous intruder to reality. I can't remember if the play was successful at conveying this idea at all. That was the kinda stuff on my mind at the time I guess. I had a few influences at the time I was writing them. One was Terry Allen's Juarez, a concept record with recurring characters. Also I was really into Sam Shepard at the same time so I was reading a lot of his stuff. A few of the songs, like 'Eddie and Rita' even have some stage directions lifted directly from one of his plays. The song 'Following Father' took a bunch of facts from my dad's cousin, a Texan who always had some get rich quick scheme that never lasted. I was trying to make some kind of Tennessee Williams like thing apparently. Epic! Large! Family! Redemption! Well, anyway, most...

LP $14.75

05/08/2012  

SEC 7 011 


***ON ELECTRIC BLUE VINYL!!!“Memo PST was formed in 2022 by longtime associates Orville Neeley and Chris Shaw. “The band released a self recorded cassette demo and played a handful of shows in California before setting up shop at Discount Mirrors (the neighborhood studio owned by John Dwyer and Eric Bauer) to lay down an LP. “Recorded the first five days in May of 2023, the debut album from Memo PST features twelve blasts of raw and primitive Los Angeles punk rock, with Orville Neeley (Bad Sports, OBN IIIs) handling songwriting duties and Chris Shaw (Ex-Cult, Vile Nation) handling vocals and lyrics. “The debut long player from Memo PST is everything fans have come to expect from the two longtime fixtures in underground rock, but also features some of their most memorable songs yet, including ‘I Used To Be A Pretty Boy’ the debut single from the band that sold out in hours via record label In The Red. “The black and white album cover photo (taken behind the iconic rocker shop Worship) and the stark presentation that Memo PST has thus far deployed is a clear statement that this is punk made for punks, and the band has little to no regard for current trends created and championed by those less informed. “Written, recorded, and released in Los Angeles, this is the latest chapter in the LA transplants discography, and only the beginning of what we can expect to hear from the songwriting duo. “Rounding out...

LP $20.25

05/17/2024 657628444619 

ITR 387 LP 


MP3 $9.90

05/17/2024 657628444619 

ITR 387 LP 


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05/17/2024 657628444619 

ITR 387 LP 


Glad Birth Of Love - Limited Edition by Magic Trick

Magic Trick

Glad Birth Of Love - Limited Edition
Empty Cellar

***TIM COHEN (FRESH & ONLYS) return with his fourth full-length album, now under his MAGIC TRICK moniker. Four extended tracks running 43-minutes featuring Magic Trick members NOELLE CAHILL, ALICIA VANDEN HEUVEL, and JAMES KIM, with guest contributions from JOHN DWYER (THEE OH SEES), GRACE COOPER (SANDWITCHES), DIEGO GONZALEZ (GONG, CITAY, JONAS REINHARDT, DRY SPELLS), JOE ROBERTS (BLACK FICTION), AMBER LAMPRECHT (RODRIGUEZ BAND), and STEVE PEACOCK. Limited edition pressing of 100 copies released for Tim’s birthday (July 19), packaged with a limited edition art print by KEVIN EARL TAYLOR.

LP $17.50

07/26/2011  

EMP 013 LTD 


***BACK IN STOCK ON  PURPLE W/PINK HI-MELT VINYL!!! Note new price.  If you've followed the San Francisco underground for the past ten years, you might already be familiar with John Dwyer. Or--tastes depending--you might not know him at all. A friend and devotee of preeminent Providence noise rock act Lightning Bolt, the majority of Dwyer's repertoire falls on the indie spectrum's more visceral wavelengths. He was Pink in Pink and Brown, fronted Coachwhips, and played guitar in the dysfunctional Hospitals. If you're unfamiliar with or in search of a refresher, you can search YouTube for a crash course on any of these bands. Some popular tags are: "garage," "punk," and "sweat."  If you like what you see, do yourself a favor and check out Dwyer's newest band, Thee Oh Sees. "Newest" because they've only been around for six albums--albeit in different incarnations, under several different names (OCS, the Oh Sees, et al.) with several different sounds. Formed in the wake of his more volatile commitments, Thee Oh Sees started as an extension of Dwyer's softer side. Their early recordings were somber and beautiful. Last year, Thee Oh Sees made an unexpected turn, delivering their wildest, weirdest, hardest-rocking record yet with The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In. Now Thee Oh Sees have followed it with an even wilder, more hard-rocking record, Help.  Recorded by Chris Woodhouse (the A-Frames, Mayyors), Help draws straight, dark lines to both the British psychedelic rock of bands like The Creation and the caveman thud...

LP $19.00

04/28/2009 759718517118 

ITR 171 


CD $12.00

04/28/2009 759718517125 

ITR 171 CD 


MP3 $9.90

04/28/2009  

 


***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! Helmed by the acclaimed songwriter, playwright, author and onetime troubadour piano man SONNY SMITH, THE SUNSETS hail from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach district and feature a revolving door lineup that now permanently includes KELLEY STOLTZ, RYAN BROWNE and TAHLIA HARBOUR. Friends and neighbors including JOHN DWYER (OH SEES) and TIM COHEN (FRESH & ONLYS) appeared to contribute to their debut LP, Tomorrow is Alright. Sonny & The Sunsets’ first release on Future Stress Recordings comes in the form of a four-song 7-inch. Three of the songs were recorded at a Headlands Center for the Arts residency in March 2009, and are not featured on the full-length.

7" $5.60

09/20/2011  

FS 003 


MP3 $3.96

04/20/2010 655035000374 

 


Empty Cellar Records and the Earth Girl Helen Brown Center for Planetary Intelligence Band are pleased to announce the summer installment of the E.G.H.B.C.P.F.I.B. 2017 seasonal series, MARS. Featuring Heidi Alexander, Tahlia Harbour, Sonny Smith, James Finch Jr., Jamin Barton, Tim Presley, Ty Segall, John Dwyer, Jack Name, Mikey Young, Dave Sitek, David Cousin, Warren Huegel, Dylan Hadley, Mikal Cronin, Nora Keys, Enrique Tena and Shannon Lay. MARS is concerned with the topic of war. Available from Empty Cellar Records on limited edition 100% post-consumer recycled cassette tape. All proceeds benefit organizations committed to the cessation of violent conflict, the promotion of peace, and the dissolution of the military industrial complex.

MP3 $4.95

08/04/2017 647603398853 

 


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08/04/2017 647603398853 

 


Empty Cellar is pleased to announce the newest Earth Girl Helen Brown release, MERCURY, featuring Heidi Alexander of The Sandwitches as EGHB with The Boogeyman (Emmett Kelly), Sunshine Lady (Sonny Smith), Loro Valiente (Tahlia Harbor), Ziggy Spec (Ty Segall), José Deseo (John Dwyer), L.F.F. (Tim Cohen), Jim Win (James Finch Jr.), the Former Future (Sean Smith), and Jasmine Ivanov (Jamin Barton).  MERCURY is the first in a seasonal series tributing our fellow solar satellites Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Venus, and benefiting organizations committed to popular planetary intelligence, energy management, communicative freedom and love.  All proceeds from the sale of MERCURY benefit, in equal parts, the following organizations in their commitment to the cessation of fossil fuel use, the protection of shared resources, and the preservation of physical health on Earth: 350.org, NDRC, Stand-LA

MP3 $4.99

04/14/2017 655035007601 

EMP036 


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04/14/2017 655035007601 

EMP036 


Metamorphosed by Osees

Osees

Metamorphosed
Rock Is Hell

Third and final pressing on new solid orange vinyl. “It seems that every time you turn around, there’s another Oh Sees [OSEES] slab. Long ago we lost all capacity to be surprised that this sturdy unit keeps putting out records and that they’re really good. You can now add the Metamorphosed 12-inch to you ever deeper sagging row of John Dwyer and Co.’s seemingly no sleep release schedule. The five tracks were taken from the sessions that formed 2019’s Face Stabber album, a seventeen-track / eighty+ minute jammified four-sider. Metamorphosed would have been the perfect third LP to fit in with the other two.”  “John and Matt Jones run the Castle Face label with full autonomy, so it would make sense that Metamorphosed, like The 12” Synth, would have been a CF release. Yet, it’s on the very cool Rock Is Hell Records label, which has put out some great Dwyer related jams in the past. The OCS Live In San Francisco album was not only great musically but all the vinyl and sleeve variants made the collectors break out in a fan sweat they’re probably still recovering from. Being able to do all this yourself, it’s obviously cool to still work with Jochen and Rock Is Hell.  “Metamorphosed isn’t just some barrel scrape for those who can’t get enough. All of the five tracks stand up to anything on Face Stabber. The record’s twenty three+ minute ‘I Got A Lot’ is one of the coolest songs...

LP $20.25

10/01/2021 767870664618 

RIP93 


MP3 $9.90

01/22/2021 767870664618 

RIP93 


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01/22/2021 767870664618 

RIP93 


Los Angeles garage/punk band Endless Bummer follow up their debut EP, Ripper Current, with this full-length featuring 13 sonic slabs of wallop guaranteed to please any self-respecting fan of trash rock. Recorded by Ty Segall at his now defunct Sweat Lodge studio.  “Lance Barresi and Liz Tooley may not be big garage names like Ty Segall or John Dwyer are, but as the founders of Permanent Records they're arguably just as important. They're responsible for putting out rippers by Purling Hiss, Cave, Running, Charles Albright, Obnox, Bitchin Bajas, and many others. Endless Bummer lives up to their noisy legacy. Joined by the Spits' Greg Toumassian, they churn out four songs of sludgy, dark, screaming garage pop.” Pitchfork

LP $16.00

12/16/2014 759718527117 

ITR 271 


MP3 $9.90

12/16/2014 759718527117 

 


FLAC $11.99

12/16/2014 759718527117 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! AVAILABLE ON CLEAR WITH WHITE AND GRAY SWIRL. Received an 8.1 rating from Pitchfork.  What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, speaker-smothering, tongue-wagging John Dwyer careening across your cranium, chased by a wild-eyed wrecking crew that drives every last hook home like it’s a nail in the coffin of what one thought it meant to make 21st century rock ’n’ roll?  Yeah, that sounds about right. But it misses a more important point—how impossible Thee Oh Sees have been been to pin down since Dwyer launched it in the late ’90s as a solo break from such sorely missed underground bands as Pink and Brown and Coachwhips. That restlessness extends to everything from the towering, thirteen-minute title track of 2010’s Warm Smile LP to the mercurial moods of 2008’s The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In. And then there’s the home-brewed symphonies of Castlemania and the high-wire hooks of Carrion Crawler / The Dream, which dropped a second drum set among sunburnt organs, dovetailing guitars and rail-jumping rhythms.  If one prefers a slightly more subtle musical awakening, there’s always Putrifiers II, the latest in a long line of Oh Sees albums that expands the group’s sound well past your friendly neighborhood garage band. So while the space-odyssey nods of “Wax Face” actually sound like they’re meant to melt one’s ears straight off, the record’s full of...

LP $19.75

09/11/2012 759718523515 

ITR 235 


CD $12.00

09/11/2012 759718523522 

ITR 235 CD 


MP3 $8.99

09/18/2012 759718523522 

 


Smote Reverser by Oh Sees

Oh Sees

Smote Reverser
Castle Face

***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.6 rating from Pitchfork. Crack the coffers, Oh Sees have spawned another frothy album of head-destroying psych-epics to grok and rock out to. Notice the fresh dollop of organ and keyboard prowess courtesy of Memory Of A Cut Off Head-alum and noted key-stabber Tom Dolas, while the Paul Quattrone / Dan Rincon drum-corps polyrhythmic pulse continues to astound and pound in equal measure, buttressed by the nimble fingered bottom end of Sir Tim Hellman the Brave and the shred-heaven fret frying of John Dwyer, whilst Lady Brigid Dawson again graces the wax with her harmonic gifts. Aside from the familiar psych-scorch familiar to soggy pit denizens the world over, there’s a fresh heavy-prog vibe that fits like a worn-in jean jacket comfortably among hairpin metal turns and the familiar but no less horns-worthy guitar fireworks Dwyer’s made his calling card. Perhaps the most notable thing about Smote Reverser is the artistic restlessness underpinning its flights of fancy. Dwyer refuses to repeat himself and for someone with such a hectic release schedule, that stretching of aesthetic borders and omnivorous appetite seems all the more superhuman!

CD $12.00

08/17/2018 647603401522 

CF 110 CD 


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08/17/2018 647603401515 

 


MP3 $9.90

08/17/2018 647603401515 

CF 110 


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08/17/2018 647603401522 

CF 110 


***BACK IN STOCK ON NEW PURPLE VINYL!!!  Received a 7.6 rating from Pitchfork.  San Francisco’s incredibly prolific Thee Oh Sees are back with another full-length album of original tracks plus a smattering of covers. While the group’s previous releases on In The Red, Help and Warm Slime, showcase their amped-up, reverb-drenched garage-psych pummel, on Castlemania, John Dwyer and company take a more low-key approach. Dwyer himself describes Castlemania as “summer-y and poppy”; on many of the tracks, electric guitars are jettisoned for acoustic, and the normally echo-laden vocals are a bit clearer. Happy pop melodies, sweet and somber tunes, psychedelic moves galore, cover versions of The Creation and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, and at least one garage stomper all rub elbows on Thee Oh Sees’ “sunshine pop” album. Its release couldn’t be more perfectly suited to the time of the year when the sunny skies return and the flowers start blooming. The vinyl for Castlemania is a three-sided double LP housed in a beautiful gatefold sleeve with a fourth side featuring an etching by William Keihn, who also did the fantastic cover art. Watch for Thee Oh Sees to return later this year with another full-length of pulverizing, heavy stomp. In the meantime, relax and enjoy Castlemania.  “John Dwyer deserves a star on the underground garage-punk walk of fame.” —Stereogum  “This San Francisco garage-punk quartet made for my first real holy-shit moment of this year’s SXSW; I had no idea these guys were so...

CD $12.00

05/10/2011 759718520828 

ITR 208 CD 


2XLP $22.00

05/10/2011 759718520811 

ITR 208 


MP3 $9.90

05/10/2011 759718520828 

 


“Hermetically sealed punk broadcast from a bunker. This guitar is untying a knot of wires; vocals like watching a fight where two men exchange tit-for-tat face blows. Surgical drums; bass grown under glass. The occasional synthesizer like you didn’t know you were thirsty till water crossed your lips. Wound tight, lock-jawed; no rust on these gears. Chilly production crystallizes these post-apocalyptic poems from San Francisco.” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

05/06/2016 814867021289 

 


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05/06/2016 814867021333 

CF 073 CD 


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05/06/2016 814867021289 

CF 073 LP 


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04/22/2016 814867021333 

 


Hounds Of Foggy Notion by Oh Sees, Thee

Oh Sees, Thee

Hounds Of Foggy Notion
Castle Face

***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion / Live Performances Sans Stages And Whatnots With Thee Oh Sees (2008), is a film we made just over a decade ago, and this record is the soundtrack. I loved making it, and I love all that were involved. I’m honestly blissed-out proud to hear over the years that it somehow is loved by so many others, too. “I first met John Dwyer on Flag Day. I was blown away by a trio of roving Coachwhips guerrilla street shows that climaxed at the the scenic vista parking lot high above San Francisco atop Mt. Sutro. Amongst the gathered uninitiated hordes of souvenir sweatshirt selling families, and puzzled elderly global tourist translators, and a white weirdo tuxedo wedding party, was the sonic corruption of the Coachwhips...I’m certain that this exact event was the idea seed for Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion, and that it saved my life a little bit. “When JPD asked me to consider making a video for Thee Oh Sees with the sole stipulation that he didn’t want to do anything fake-y to playback, my head started swimming. What we mutually agreed upon was to essentially reprise Flag Day, and film Thee Oh Sees performing live, but not on stages. “I rented a 15-passenger van, a generator, and the minimal cinematic equipment my trusted cinematographer friend James Wall deemed we needed. Everything sound wise was JPD territory and went through an ancient mixing board that Johnny had housed within a...

LP $19.75

05/24/2019 647603404486 

 


CD $12.00

05/31/2019 647603404493 

CF 108 CD 


MP3 $9.90

05/24/2019 647603404486 

CF 108 


FLAC $11.99

05/24/2019 647603404493 

CF 108 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!! Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork. We all know the type: prolific bands that commit every loose thought, stray idea and 90-second song fragment to tape. Bands that pay no attention to little inconveniences like “release cycles” or “self-editing,” and instead decide that quantity equals quality, creating a discography more labyrinthine, imposing and—ultimately—exhausting than the cast of creatures in a sci-fi novel. Here is why none of that applies to THEE OH SEES. Because each of the dozen-plus albums they’ve released since 2004 possesses a distinct personality and represents a different point along the path of JOHN DWYER’s slow transformation from auteur of woozy, bare-bones four-track psychedelia to goggle-eyed garage rock marauder backed at long last by a band that both shares and stokes his singular vision. Because drop a needle on any record and—to their great credit—it takes several songs before you’re convinced it’s Thee Oh Sees. The seasick hundred-bottles-of-rum shanty “What the Driven Drink,” from 2007’s delirious Sucks Blood exists in a different galaxy than the rollercoastering “Chem-Farmer” from last year’s Carrion Crawler / The Dream; the doomy doo-wop of “Blood on the Deck” hardly seems like the product of the same band that delivered the yelping “Ruby Go Home” in 2009. And the band that made last year’s engrossing Putrifiers II seems like a distant cousin to the one delivering Floating Coffin—arguably the most varied and textured Oh Sees record to date.

LP $19.75

04/16/2013 819162014660 

 


CD $12.00

04/16/2013 819162011379 

CF 018 CD 


LP COLOR $20.25

01/13/2023  

CF 018 X 


MP3 $9.90

04/16/2013 819162014660 

CF 018 


FLAC $11.99

04/16/2013 819162011379 

 


Glad Birth Of Love by Magic Trick

Magic Trick

Glad Birth Of Love
Empty Cellar

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Empty Cellar records is proud to announce the latest full-length album by TIM COHEN (FRESH & ONLYS), The Glad Birth of Love. This is Tim Cohen's fourth album following his 2009 debut, The Two Sides of Tim Cohen (Empty Cellar), and two full-lengths (Laugh Tracks / Tim Cohen's Magic Trick) and one EP (Bad Blood) on New York's Captured Tracks label.  Featuring guest appearances by JOHN DWYER (THEE OH SEES), GRACE COOPER (SANDWITCHES), DIEGO GONZALEZ (GONG, CITAY, JONAS REINHARDT, DRY SPELLS), JOE ROBERTS (BLACK FICTION), AMBER LAMPRECHT (RODRIGUEZ BAND), and STEVE PEACOCK, The Glad Birth of Love is the first Tim Cohen album to not directly bear his name, but the name of his band, MAGIC TRICK. Recorded in a tower at Tim Cohen's home this album marks a departure from his signature radio-ready song craft. The Glad Birth of Love is a 45 minute album composed of four epic long-form compositions saturated with Tim's uncanny pop sensibilities and vivid lyrical imagery. Transitioning seamlessly from sparse acoustic blues, to dense psychedelic bass & oud ragas, to lush layered vocal harmonies this album is a culmination of Tim's work to date. (STREET DATE - 8/23/2011)

LP $16.00

08/23/2011 655035062310 

EMP 013 


CD $9.25

02/28/2012 655035062327 

EMP 013 CD 


MP3 $9.90

08/23/2011 655035062310 

 


Cool Death Of Island Raiders (reissue) by Oh Sees, The

Oh Sees, The

Cool Death Of Island Raiders (reissue)
Castle Face

***BACK IN STOCK!!! The denizens of Castle Face are not afraid to get their shins dirty mucking around in the stacks and they’re well aware of an out-of-press gap of Oh Sees releases right before 2006 when they started the label with Sucks Blood. They’re rectifying that and first among these is The Cool Death of Island Raiders, a particularly dusty gem that merits another look.  Kicking off the record with what should have been the hit of the summer that year but for the hard C in the title, “The Gilded Cunt” seems to clearly preface Oh Sees’ later psych-skewed pop sensibilities. Chirping birds, gently lapping tempos and the nascent harmonization of Bridgid Dawson and John Dwyer detail a definitive highlight of their early quiet period of the band. The tree hangs heavy with Patrick Mullins’ handiwork, manning the musical saw, drums, and an assortment of home made electronics. It seemed a bit radical to be so quiet about it, but the tunes are total ear-worms among the assorted drones, cut-up bits of tape noise, and mellow front porch-vibes, and the whole thing hangs together in a lovely hand-made way, helped in no small part by Dave Sitek’s production (he would later work on Master’s Bedroom as well). “We flew Brigid out a fresh woman and literally sent her home on a plane with a trash bag of her clothes” says Dwyer. Evidently the whole record was accidentally erased at some point right around when the photo on...

LP $19.75

03/29/2019 647603404318 

 


CD $12.00

03/29/2019 647603404325 

CF 107 CD 


MP3 $9.90

03/29/2019 647603404318 

CF 107 


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03/29/2019 647603404325 

CF107 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.4 rating from Pitchfork. The newly shorn Oh Sees waste no time in racing headlong into nightmarish battle with the mighty Orc, clawing even farther up the ghastly peak stormed so satisfyingly by last year’s A Weird Exits. The band is in tour-greased, anvil-on-a-balance beam, gut-pleasingly heavy form, nimbly braining—with equal dashes of abandon and menace—on this fresh batch of bruisers and brooders, hypnotically stirred into to the cauldron of chaos you’ve come to expect. Fresh blood Paul Quattrone joins Dan Rincon to form a phalanx of interlocking double drums, alternately propelling and fleet-footing shifting ground to pinion John Dwyer’s cliff-face guitars to the boogie. Tim Hellman keeps it swinging like a battle-axe to the eyebrows. The tunes veer toward the violence of their live shows, with a few tasty swerves into other lanes: heavy to lush, groovy to stately. Throughout, it remains sinister in its swaggering skulk, manic in its fuzz-fried fugues. They hit all the sweet spots the heads foggily remember, and there’s plenty to sweat over if you just hopped into the sauna. More evil…more complex…more narcotic…more screech… more blare…more whisper…there’s even more Brigid. Less “Thee,” but more of everything else.

CD $12.00

08/25/2017 814867024693 

CF 093 CD 


2XLP $28.00

08/25/2017 814867024709 

 


2XLP COLOR $28.00

01/13/2023  

CF 093 X 


MP3 $9.90

08/25/2017 814867024693 

CF 093 


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08/25/2017 814867024693 

CF 093 


“Recorded at Zebulon in Los Angeles as a warm-up show for a show I had booked in Holland. What was meant to be a jumping point for the ‘first show’ ended up being a real burning set. A slightly more stripped-down version on the ten piece band [Bent Arcana] (for sake of ease) keeps it nice and concise. Nerves sometimes bring out these little lost jewels of which this recording is full of…gotta love improvisation for fleeting moments.  “Recorded super-hot by none other than our sound person Liza Boldyreva. Selections of songs from Bent Arcana and Moon-Drenched—cockpit stoned space jazz here you come. Mixed by John Dwyer and mastered by JJ Golden. This hunky double disk sports a zoetropic screen-printed animation of the Death’s Head moth circling on its D side that works with a strobe light off yer phone...fucking cool. Fucking hot. Dig in and be well. ” —John Dwyer 

2XLP $28.00

09/16/2022 733102725617 

CF 146 


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09/16/2022 733102725617 

CF 146 


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09/16/2022 733102725617 

CF 146 


(Color) Live Zebulon by Bent Arcana

Bent Arcana

(Color) Live Zebulon
Castle Face

***ON LIMITED PURPLE COLOR VINYL!!! “Recorded at Zebulon in Los Angeles as a warm-up show for a show I had booked in Holland. What was meant to be a jumping point for the ‘first show’ ended up being a real burning set. A slightly more stripped-down version on the ten piece band [Bent Arcana] (for sake of ease) keeps it nice and concise. Nerves sometimes bring out these little lost jewels of which this recording is full of…gotta love improvisation for fleeting moments. “Recorded super-hot by none other than our sound person Liza Boldyreva. Selections of songs from Bent Arcana and Moon-Drenched—cockpit stoned space jazz here you come. Mixed by John Dwyer and mastered by JJ Golden. This hunky double disk sports a zoetropic screen-printed animation of the Death’s Head moth circling on its D side that works with a strobe light off yer phone...fucking cool. Fucking hot. Dig in and be well. ” —John Dwyer

2XLP $28.00

09/16/2022  

CF 146 X 


Live In San Francisco by White Fence

White Fence

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

***Everyone with any degree of hearing loss knows that the loose and shaggy beast of a band balancing on the crest of their capabilities is the ideal—the firefly that all records aspire to capture for the listener’s repetitive pleasures. The live record promises better, but still most fall flatter than the painstakingly refined and honed tones of a studio creation. Who better to right this wrong than a bunch of home-friers, 4-track freaks and DIY gear-cookers? The first in a series of live albums from the Castle Face stable presents TIM PRESLEY and company tearing it up over two nights in March 2013 at San Francisco’s Amnesia club, throwing a fork in the light socket with their blistering live set. Captured in all their ragged glory straight to Tascam 388 by engineers CHRIS WOODHOUSE, ERIC BAUER, BOB MARSHALL and JOHN DWYER, these thirteen songs show a different side of the band than their studio output. WHITE FENCE was screaming out of the speakers that night and Castle Face has it safe in a jar for you, undiluted and unsullied. LP includes a download.

LP $19.00

11/05/2013 819162013748 

 


CD $12.00

11/05/2013 819162013755 

CF 028 CD 


MP3 $9.90

11/05/2013 819162013748 

CF 028 


FLAC $11.99

11/05/2013 819162013755 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork. San Francisco psych wunderkind Ty Segall continues a tireless musical assault on ears and minds with his third album, Melted. Segall says it sounds like "cherry cola, Sno-Cones and taffy." Indeed! Over the past two years he's released records more often than most people do laundry, but somehow there is still a heap of anticipation for this new album on Goner packed full of truly psychedelic pop songs with great vocals and exciting arrangements. On the heels of two critically acclaimed solo albums, Segall holed up in a basement studio in late 2009 to begin recording Melted. Friends occasionally dropped by to hang out and help--including Mike Donovan (Sic Alps), John Dwyer (Thee Oh-Sees) and Eric Bauer (Crack W.A.R.). The result is a carefree yet precise balance of acoustic and electric elements. Distorted echo and thunder mix together with enough clean guitar lines and addictive choruses to deliver an album that recalls the '60s without sounding like anything created during that decade. Time melts away, vision melts away, minds melt away. Get Melted!  Ty Segall's short, sharp songs peal out of the garage without raising the doors, sending 1960s rock riffs crashing through splintered, smart-ass lo-fi buzz." --Pitchfork "His second album, Lemons, solidifies his standing as one to watch.... There are few moments when Ty Segall isn't irresistibly catchy." --Nylon "Warped sonics do nothing to diminish the impact of his vigorously nostalgic riff and stomp. Segall thunders...

LP $17.50

06/08/2010 655035006819 

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CD $12.00

05/25/2010 655035006826 

58 GONE CD 


MP3 $9.90

06/08/2010 655035006819 

 


Live In San Francisco by Magnetix

Magnetix

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

“The couple that slays together, stays together: Looch Vibrato and Aggy Sonora, like the moniker of an infamous killing duo, the fucking butchest band from Bordeaux. Looch, with hands like bunches of bananas and songs like flaming arrows. The lovely and tough-as-hell Aggy, crushing the kit. Heavy weird attackers from our sister country. Sludge drips—murder the guitar, usurp the amp, fry the mic, howl like beasts, melt the crowd: Magnetix. We were lucky enough to grab them on one of their rare U.S. shows, recorded in a basement in San Francisco. Here it is in all its gory glory. Let’s go tripping…” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

07/14/2017 814867024006 

 


CD $12.00

07/14/2017 814867023986 

CF 090 CD 


MP3 $7.99

07/14/2017 814867024006 

CF 090 LP 


FLAC $8.99

07/14/2017 814867023986 

 


***BACK IN PRINT ON NEW GREEN WITH ORANGE HI-MELT VINYL!!!The ridiculously prolific Bay Area band Thee Oh Sees are back with another full-length long-player. Warm Slime is guaranteed to please fans of their whacked-out garage / psych / punk jams. Recorded by Sacramento sultan of sound Chris Woodhouse, Warm Slime carries on in the same tradition as the group's previous In The Red release, Help, showcasing their more electrified and rocking side, in comparison to other recent home-recorded releases. The centerpiece is undoubtedly the mind-bending title track, which clocks in at nearly 14 minutes and takes up the entirety of the album's first side. It's a psychedelic epic of "Inna Gadda Da Vida" proportions! John Dwyer's guitar playing is at its quadra-spazzed best here. The results are stunning.  "Thee Oh Sees incorporate the oft-referenced Nuggets stuff in a way that feels reverential. With grinding guitars and bah-bah-bah vocals, but with the punk and new-wave elements also at play, they don't feel trite or plagiarized. This is like meat and potatoes prepared by a master chef--totally familiar but utterly delicious." --Pitchfork

LP $22.00

05/11/2010 759718518610 

ITR 186 


CD $12.00

05/11/2010 759718518627 

ITR 186 CD 


MP3 $9.90

05/11/2010 759718518627 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! BLASTED CANYONS is HEATHER FEDEWA, ADAM FINKEN and MATT JONES. Heather and Matt initially started the band to play an art opening at MoMa which ended with everyone getting kicked out. Matt met Adam handing out mushrooms on the 4th of July and together they convinced a crew of similarly fucked up strangers to light fireworks off the roof. Together, they round robin instruments and crush huge riffs, singalongs, caveman  drums, and gooey synthesisers into thrashy wizard rock for weirdos that dig dorky shit but aren't total dorks about it. Their self titled debut was recorded with MATT HARTMAN (of HENRY’ DRESS and SIC ALPS fame) and ERIC BAUER (who has helmed the boards for Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, and countless other San Francisco ne'er do wells) and carries the ramshackle blessing of being released on JOHN DWYER and BRIAN LEE HUGHES’ Castle Face Records, with original art by Castle Face resident art-slayer WILLIAM KEIHN

LP $19.00

06/28/2011  

 


MP3 $9.90

06/28/2011  

CF 009 


FLAC $11.99

06/28/2011 847108050397 

 


Live In San Francisco by Destruction Unit

Destruction Unit

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

“I believe Destruction Unit to be one of the most important underground bands in America. The live shows vary from dense chaos to dumbstruck pandemonium. The volume is always colossal. The spectacle, dramatic.  “Putting microphones on these Arizona weirdos is similar to trying to get a decent recording of a soccer riot—getting Ryan [Rousseau] to sing into our microphone like shooting a hummingbird with a spitball from across a gorge…but we’ve done it. Polished up and pushing the red, we present this deathless comet captured to tape. Headphones on, lowlights flickering, spliff in hand—you are a warrior on the dawn of a new perilous passage…until you have to flip the LP. Enjoy.” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

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03/17/2015 819162018033 

CF 051 CD 


MP3 $5.99

03/17/2015 819162018026 

CF 051 LP 


FLAC $6.99

03/17/2015 819162018033 

 


Four Satellites Vol. 1 by Earth Girl Helen Brown

Earth Girl Helen Brown

Four Satellites Vol. 1
In The Red

The Earth Girl Helen Brown Center For Planetary Intelligence Band (E.G.H.B.C.F.P.I.B.) is pleased to join forces with In the Red Records and Empty Cellar Records, presenting the first vinyl release of their proto-lanetary series Four Satellites Vol. 1. Double gate-folded LP (three sides + etching), the release is a collection of songs and information from the band’s 2017 consumer recycled cassette series: Spring: Mercury: Fire, Summer: Mars: War, Fall: Saturn: Communication, and Winter: Venus: Love.  The band, related media artists and technicians includes: Heidi Alexander, Jamie Barron, Jamin Barton, Eric Bauer, Aylin Beyce, Emilee Booher, Ryan Browne, Tim Cohen, Grace Cooper, Dave Cousin, Brad Caulkins, Mikal Cronin, Bart Davenport, Brigid Dawson, John Dwyer, Chris Fallon, Lars Finberg, James Finch Jr., Davin Givhan, Dylan Hadley, Dustin Hamman, Kiran Harlow, Wilder Harlow, Graeme Gibson, Tahlia Harbour, Anna Hillburg, Douglas Hilsinger, Warren Huegel, Emmett Kelly, Nora Keys, Shannon Lay, Raven Mahon, Rusty Miller, Charlie Moonheart, Jack Name, Ethan Novikoff, Tim Presley, Ty Segall, Dave Sitek, Sean Smith, Sonny Smith, Kelley Stoltz, Enrique Tena, Alica Vanden Heuvel, Lida Vanden Heuvel and Mikey Young.

CD $12.00

07/27/2018 759718532326 

ITR 323 CD 


2XLP $22.00

07/27/2018 759718532319 

ITR 323 LP 


MP3 $9.90

07/20/2018 759718532326 

ITR 323 


FLAC $11.99

07/20/2018 759718532326 

ITR 323 


Live in San Francisco by Oh Sees, Thee

Oh Sees, Thee

Live in San Francisco
Castle Face

Perched in the belfry of The Chapel we caught thee mighty Oh Sees, alive and in their natural element, with our shutters aflutter and our tapes on a roll. After a short incubation period, the beast has reached full maturity and it is hideous. Over three nights they pummeled, and we’ve culled some great photographs, a wicked recording, and even a little live video action. Castle Face is happy to announce the first double LP in the Live in San Francisco series, presented on two discs, in a handsome double gatefold jacket. Finally you depraved Oh Sees freaks have something to take home with you when you lose your shoes and your girlfriend at the show. Put it on at home and pretend to wait in line for the bathroom and it’s like you’re really there. The thrash, the throb, the mob is all present and pushed to the front. Dual drummers synced in each ear, Tim Hellman rounding out the bottom and Castle Face’s own John Dwyer up front on guitar, lasering young brains off and fomenting the crowd to a froth—it’s a great band, in a great room, with a great crowd and it’s cooked to perfection… Take a little bit of it with you this time.

CD $12.00

07/29/2016 814867021647 

CF 075 CD 


2XLP $28.00

07/01/2016 814867021630 

CF 075 LP 


MP3 $9.90

07/01/2016 814867021630 

CF 075 LP 


FLAC $11.99

07/01/2016 814867021647 

 


Live In San Francisco by Blind Shake

Blind Shake

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

Announcing the long overdue seventh entry in Castle Face’s Live in San Francisco series, starring The Blind Shake. Captured to tape at the same shows as the OBN IIIs’ live record, The Blind Shake were tour-greased and fully torqued over three night at The Chapel in San Francisco way back in 2013. For those unfamiliar: the sheer bodily reaction to seeing these guys is a unique pleasure. They are consistently one of the most fun bands doin’ it to it these days—such a direct channel to your inner teenager it’s more often than not you end up in the pit, awash in baritone guitar and that “let’s wig out” beat.  Whether you’re a noob or a vet, all your bludgeoning favorites are here, one song combing into the next with tasty bites of guitar, and man, they swing that hammer all over this thing. A sterling testament to their claim as the heaviest nice guys around. Their chrome domes shined up real nice for the excellent night-of photographs from main man Brian Pritchard, and as usual John Dwyer, Chris Woodhouse, Eric Bauer and Bob Marshall were manning the decks, keepin’ it crisped for the hi-fis at home.

LP $19.00

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CD $12.00

08/21/2015 819162019245 

 


MP3 $9.90

08/21/2015 819162019238 

CF 061 LP 


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08/21/2015 819162019245 

 


Intercepted Message by Osees

Osees

Intercepted Message
In The Red

“A pop record for tired times. Sugared with bits of shatterproof glass to put more crack in your strap. At long last, verse / chorus. A weathered thesaurus. This is OSEES bookend sound. Early grade garage pop meets proto-synth punk suicide-repellant. Have a whack at the grass or listen while flat on your ass. Heaps of electronic whirling accelerants to gum up your cheapskate broadband. Social media toilet scrapers unite! Allow your 24-hour news cycle eyes to squint at this smiling abattoir doorman. You can find your place here at long last. All are welcome from the get go to the finale…a distant crackling transmission of 80s synth last-dance-of-the-night tune for your lost loves. Suffering from Politic amnesia? Bored of AI-generated pop slop? Then this one is for you, our friends. Wasteland wanderer, stick around. Love y’all. For fans of Teutonic synth punk and Thee Oh Sees (who the fuck are they?)" —John Dwyer

CD $12.00

08/18/2023 759718538021 

ITR 380 CD 


LP $19.00

08/18/2023 759718538014 

ITR 380 LP 


LP COLOR $22.00

08/18/2023 759718538014 

ITR 380 X 


MP3 $9.90

08/18/2023 759718538021 

ITR 380 CD 


FLAC $11.99

08/18/2023 759718538021 

ITR 380 CD 


Soundtrack To An Empty Room by CFM

CFM

Soundtrack To An Empty Room
In The Red

Charles Moothart is releasing his third album under the moniker CFM. It’s called Soundtrack For An Empty Room and keeps it cookin’ off 2016’s Still Life Of Citrus And Slime and 2017’s Dichotomy Desaturated. Moothart is a frequent contributor on many of Ty Segall’s solo ventures but also as a co-conspirator in bands like the blazing jam unit Fuzz, and a fantastic monster of a group called GØGGS, which throws Segall and Moothart in with Chris Shaw of Ex-Cult.Something that’s immediately apparent on this album is that it’s a harder record than its predecessors. The shift isn’t subtle but it is tremendously cool. A lot of the material was written while Moothart was on tour with Segall and working on the GØGGS Pre Strike Sweep album. The first two CFM efforts gave Moothart the experience to work effectively on his own in the studio, the live shows infuse this with the confidence and attitude that comes from a lot of nights playing where there are no second takes. It is an exciting follow up and further proof that Moothart is one of those people with a lot of music in him.“If I may speak completely for myself. It’s musicians like Charles, Ty, Chris Shaw, John Dwyer, Tim Presley and Mikal Cronin who are not only revitalizing Independent Music, but have forced the idea of the monolithic album, endless tour and then a year before another release to be but an antiquated and megaboring option. It’s a blast trying to keep...

LP $16.00

07/19/2019 759718533514 

ITR 335 


CD $12.00

07/05/2019 759718533521 

ITR 335 CD 


MP3 $7.99

07/05/2019 759718533521 

ITR 335 


FLAC $8.99

07/05/2019 759718533521 

ITR 335 


Carrion Crawler / The Dream by Oh Sees, Thee

Oh Sees, Thee

Carrion Crawler / The Dream
In The Red

***Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork.   What’s the first thing you think of when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, melody-maiming John Dwyer careening across your cranium, rounded out by a wild-eyed wrecking crew that drives every last hook home like it’s a nail in the coffin of what you thought it meant to make 21st-century rock ’n’ roll? Yeah, that sounds about right. But it misses a more important point—how impossible Thee Oh Sees have been to pin down since Dwyer launched the project in the late ’90s as a solo break from such sorely missed underground bands as Pink and Brown and Coachwhips. (While Dwyer still records songs on his own, Thee Oh Sees is now a five-piece featuring keyboardist / singer Brigid Dawson, guitarist Petey Dammit, drummer Mike Shoun and multi-instrumentalist / singer Lars Finberg.) That restlessness extends to everything from the towering, thirteen-minute title track of 2010’s Warm Slime LP to the mercurial moods of 2008’s The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In.  Now, Thee Oh Sees chase the home-brewed symphonies of Castlemania with the scrappy, high-wire hooks of Carrion Crawler / The Dream. Originally envisioned as two EPs, it was cut live to tape...

LP $19.00

11/08/2011 759718522211 

ITR 222 


CD $12.00

11/08/2011 759718522228 

ITR 222 CD 


MP3 $9.90

11/08/2011 759718522228 

 


Panther Rotate by Osees

Osees

Panther Rotate
Castle Face

***BACK IN STOCK!!! “In the swirling and undulant warm mud of jettisoned reels of magnetic tape, blurps up the fog of reinvention. Every night I would parley with my pilots and run and rerun the recordings. Right up until the moment sleep slips its veil over eyes and ears and you drift back without a sound. Protean Threat dream haze becomes Panther Rotate in the other dimension. A companion LP of remixes, field recordings, and sonic experiments using all sounds generated by the him and crackle of the desert farm. “A second version of our Protean Threat if you will, but barely conspicuous in its relation. Forward, never straight! Sunrise, sunset. Two lives connected by a cosmic thread, One for your feet and one for your head. For fans of Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, OCS, The Oh Sees, Osees...etc etc etcetcetc…be well.”—John Dwyer

LP $19.75

12/11/2020 767870663857 

 


CD $12.00

12/11/2020 767870663864 

CF 132 CD 


LP COLOR $19.75

01/13/2023  

CF 132 X 


MP3 $9.90

12/11/2020 767870663857 

CF 132 


FLAC $11.99

12/11/2020 767870663864 

CF 132 


(Reissue) Intercepted Message by Osees

Osees

(Reissue) Intercepted Message
Castle Face

NEW CASTLE FACE REISSUE EDITION!!! “A pop record for tired times. Sugared with bits of shatterproof glass to put more crack in your strap. At long last, verse / chorus. A weathered thesaurus. This is OSEES bookend sound. Early grade garage pop meets proto-synth punk suicide-repellant. Have a whack at the grass or listen while flat on your ass. Heaps of electronic whirling accelerants to gum up your cheapskate broadband. Social media toilet scrapers unite! Allow your 24-hour news cycle eyes to squint at this smiling abattoir doorman. You can find your place here at long last. All are welcome from the get go to the finale…a distant crackling transmission of 80s synth last-dance-of-the-night tune for your lost loves. Suffering from Politic amnesia? Bored of AI-generated pop slop? Then this one is for you, our friends. Wasteland wanderer, stick around. Love y’all. For fans of Teutonic synth punk and Thee Oh Sees (who the fuck are they?)" —John Dwyer

LP $22.00

04/19/2024 657628444510 

CF 150 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Introducing Population II—blazing through the stratosphere, boiling up from beneath the sea, hanging in the air like smoke…These elemental tunes drift and fluctuate, at one with the air, over extreme heat. Population II has beamed out of Quebec with a mind-melting debut [À La Ô Terre] of hard psych, freckled with punk sentiment. Both old school and timeless, these young humans rip. They are impressive in their live actions and this album captures this raw energy on wax. Produced by Manu from the great band Chocolat, a very high bar has been set, indeed. Fluid, tough, and over-saturated, this album is bound to please fans of the label and new-comers alike. Reminiscent of Amon Düül, early Pink Floyd, Kollektiv, Laurence Vanay, Les Olivensteins, early Kraftwerk, even a touch of the Kinks. “—John Dwyer

LP $19.00

11/06/2020 767870664588 

 


CD $12.00

11/06/2020 767870664595 

CF 125 CD 


MP3 $8.99

11/06/2020 767870664588 

CF 125 


FLAC $9.90

10/30/2020 767870664595 

CF 125 


Live In San Francisco by Bronze

Bronze

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

“For nine years they have been slowly simmering in a pot. For nine years I have been seeing them usurp every bill they have been on. I’ve never seen a bad Bronze show…they range from smiling and hypnotized dancing crowds to a man getting violated and urinated on at a yuppie bar (everyone still smiling). “Always the entertainers, always drunk with mad skills; with dashes of John Carpenter, Silver Apples, Liquid Liquid, Birthday Party, Harold Grosskopf, Klaus Schultze, Cluster, and Brian Ferry with a field recorder taped to his tux jacket. Ultra bottom heavy dance beats à la Brian Hock (shirt off / shirt on, it’s all good to me), super hand-wringing oscillations home brewed by Miles Friction and the ever-great Robert Spector delivering homilies from beyond the dimensional wall.  “They bought a limousine to tour in (which may be the raddest fucking thing I’ve ever heard of), but it’s been parked in the bat cave under a car cocoon like San Francisco’s best kept secret. These guys should be on tour, eaten alive every night by ravenous fanatics—but alas, they are like a rare treat these days. So, we’ve waited outside the bivouac for the flap to lift, and after many nights and cold rations they appeared and performed the great and fabled Bronze happening for us to trap to tape. A mix of absolute old faves and new gears grinding; a great night indeed, recorded and mixed by the Castle Face crew, adorned with photos of the...

LP $19.00

04/08/2016 814867020879 

 


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03/25/2016 814867020930 

CF 066 CD 


MP3 $6.93

04/08/2016 814867020879 

CF 066 LP 


FLAC $7.99

03/25/2016 814867020930 

 


Live In San Francisco by Fuzz

Fuzz

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

***“BACK IN STOCK!!! Behold—when we introduced this live series, we spoke of lightning in a jar—this here’s a thunderstorm. TY SEGALL’s new stoner thrashers FUZZ not only totally murdered this set at San Francisco leather-daddy hangout The SF Eagle, but it was Ty’s birthday and he blew out his birthday cake candles mid-song, didn’t miss a beat, and that moment is forever etched into this record (we took a photo, too). “The place was insanely packed and they sound like the agile wolf-men they are up close and personal—Ty, mic wailing through a guitar amp and dominating drums like it’s the easiest thing in the world; CHARLIE, guitar set to Hendrix-meets-Hawkwind melter-mode; and ROLAND, keeping his bass firmly lodged in the groove—the jams are thick and wooly, we got some great photos of the night—man, this was one to remember and we’re super excited we captured such a freakishly good performance. As always, captured hot to tape, and mixed and massaged by our crack team of speaker-freakers (CHRIS WOODHOUSE, ERIC BAUER, BOB MARSHALL and JOHN DWYER) and shot to nicely grainy (real) film by BRIAN PRITCHARD.”—Castle Face Records

LP $19.00

11/26/2013 819162014004 

 


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12/10/2013 819162014011 

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11/26/2013 819162014004 

CF 031 


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12/10/2013 819162014011 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Hard to pin down, harder to hold onto; bent circuit board snake charmers unfurl across hexagonal grids. A seemingly familiar sound, but then you realize you have your ear pressed against a reflection.  “Sunwatchers are a distorted prism to so many past greats: reminiscent of Ethiopiques, John Handy Band, Terry Riley, Art Ensemble meets Laddio Bolocko. Forever-swirling saxophone blended belly-to-belly with elastic guitar and tinfoil-thin phin (a Thai instrument not unlike an electrified tenor guitar or sitar); a whirlpool of repetitious interpretations; militaristic marches ascend into meditations. These songs map out great pyramids and deep, buried labyrinths; they are massive, they are leviathans. “The band is comprised of NYC improv heavy hitters—Jim McHugh (guitar, electric phin), Peter Kerlin (bass), Jeff Tobias (alto sax), Cory Bracken (vibes, percussion), Jason Robira (drums)—and sitting in are Dave Harrington (guitar, synth), Ben Greenberg (guitar), Dave Kadden (keyboard), Jonah Rapino (fiddle). Notable previous projects include Dark Meat, Arthur Doyle’s New Quiet Screamers, NYMPH and Chris Forsyth’s Solar Motel Band. Amazing cover painting of Handsome Jimmy Valiant by artist Scott Lenhardt—a strange but somehow sensible match made in heaven. “Dream machinery, just plain far out. Look for traces of this one in your brain jelly afterwards.” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

03/11/2016 814867020916 

 


CD $12.00

03/11/2016 814867020923 

CF 070 CD 


MP3 $6.93

03/11/2016 814867020916 

CF 070 LP 


FLAC $7.99

03/11/2016 814867020923 

 


Live In San Francisco by OBN IIIs

OBN IIIs

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

Castle Face Records presents the latest installment of the Live in San Francisco series, courtesy of OBN III’s (Tic Tac Totally, 12XU, Matador).  “If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, it’s this: Don’t buy drugs from strangers on the street while wasted. A simple yet effective rule. Evidently no one told these reckless Texans, OBN III’s. We’ve captured them at their sweatiest for our Live in San Francisco series at the Chapel, from the kickoff shows of the tour with Thee Oh Sees last fall…. “These dudes are animals, period. This live recording is mixed like a hot pan on the brain, and it captures the raw live energy of a great OBN III’s show. Just about every night from note one, Orville [Bateman Neeley III] is in the crowd touching faces of fans and making OBN virgins uncomfortable. Let them touch your face (ewww).” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

07/22/2014 819162015490 

 


CD $12.00

07/22/2014 819162015506 

CF 039 CD 


MP3 $7.92

07/22/2014 819162015490 

CF 039 LP 


FLAC $8.99

07/22/2014 819162015506 

 


Goodbye, Blue Sky by Mr. Elevator

Mr. Elevator

Goodbye, Blue Sky
Castle Face

“The drum clock is docking and the night tide washes up synthesized environments, woozy and recorded perfectly. In my humble opinion, Mr. Elevator has risen and ascended and risen again, top floor, time and space, he hath bended, and brain cells have been rent and spent, on the wing aloft and buoyant, a perfect rapid eye movement enhancer and neuromancer. “A capsule garden soundtrack, a killer live band, Leslie spinning a yarn through the melodious afternoon. Now its twilight, all is well: the most overweight bass sounds abound, the crystalline organs blanket breaks and backs, the whip crack of the snare is your guide here, its pretty fried and boundless in its approach.  “For fans of Tangerine Dream, Air, Donovan (think the Hurdy Gurdy Man LP), The Troggs, Irmin Schmidt, Egg, Stereolab, and even early Mute records.” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

01/17/2020 767870659485 

 


CD $12.00

01/17/2020 767870659492 

CF 120 CD 


MP3 $8.99

01/17/2020 767870659485 

CF 120 


FLAC $9.90

01/17/2020 767870659492 

CF 120 


Phases & Repetition by La Machine

La Machine

Phases & Repetition
Castle Face

***“The year was 1996 (a guess really), when I had LA MACHINE play in our Olneyville warehouse space. It was the first time I danced in front of other people. (I was later told I was really good). I think maybe it was the first time I can recall where I stood in front of something I would consider modern psychedelic music. Not a rehash of some ghost from the past but something new to me. We had a plethora of hardcore, improv, and noise bands in New England... but this... this was something different. It was churning and it had a haunting floor-scraping ass on it. It had hints of nausea and a cyclic simplicity that to this day I still love and listen to often. Loudly, stoned, driving through the desert, laughing. They played and my friends skated the quarter pipe my flate mate had built...it was my first successful party and I thank La Machine for it. RICK PELLTIER and JOHN LOPER have compiled these tunes for us to release post-mortem, but who knows...maybe they will come back to haunt a warehouse near you...OoOoOoOH. Every song reminds me of when I was younger, stronger, and faster. But now I know enough to realize how lucky I actually was to have this stuff around me. And now you can too. Enjoy.”—John Dwyer (4.30.13). Lovingly remastered from the original cassette with new original art by WILLIAM KEIHN. (STREET DATE - 7/16/2013)

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A Foul Form by Osees

Osees

A Foul Form
Castle Face

“Brain stem cracking scum-punk recorded tersely in the basement of my home. After a notoriously frustrating eon, the knee-jerk song path was aggressive and hooky. This is an homage to the punk bands we grew up on—the weirdos and art freaks that piqued our interests and pointed us on the trail head to here / now. Bad times make for strong music is something I agree with. I would say that is evident by the past few years of output from the underground. Transmissions have been all over the map: scanning…searching...sweeping out in the darkness looking for a foot hold.“[OSEES] A Foul From represents some of our most savage and primal instincts. Fight or flight. And the importance of a sense of humor in the darkest hour. Nothing wrong with keeping it snappy in the meantime. For fans of Rudimentary Peni, Crass, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Screamers, Abwarts, Stooges and all things aggressively tilted towards your face. You can lean back but don’t flinch…it’s a brief foray into the exhausting pogo pit, so stiffen your back and jerk with your knees. Enjoy.” —John Dwyer 

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“A dusty plain, a red sky, sand in your teeth— ‘I don’t feel so great’—a post-apocalyptic hooptie jeep-jammer. ‘Why is everything in ruins? There must be others like us out here somewhere…’ “This fine sizzling grease pit of cyber punk comes to us from psychic veteran Rick Pelletier (of Six Finger Satellite, Landed, La Machine), always bringing an interesting, bent and lurid account of visions to wax for the hungry ear bone. This time around the equipment scavenged is guitar, drums, synth and vocals. The beat goes full lotus climbing out of the goo, like men with sap gloves slapping the hulls of the remaining clubs, keeping the peace during live actions, gorgeous nauseating synthesized harmonies blowing through the ceiling vents, frickle-fried guitar belly slish and vocals delivered over the P.A. at Barter Town (sometimes from the workers in the pit, in unison). “Picture a bucket of molten metal with gobs of scalp sizzling and sinking away—dance music for the infected. Be sure to double up on your dose before driving around on this one so you can wipe the chum smear off your wind screen.” —John Dwyer

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Name Plus Focus by LFZ

LFZ

Name Plus Focus
Castle Face

“A glistening field of sport / Mylar turf sucking up to the feet of the future athlete / No noise from the crowd / Hypo-extinct brain waves peak at nominal levels / Mouths hang as they watch the rehearsed games unfold. “Across megalopolis / Handshakes between men and machine / Ply for future rations /Every man for himself that isn’t under the spell of the government’s mind whip / Signals wash out over haphazardly stacked neighborhoods as they sleep / Investing, convincing, planting memories / Fabrication of emotion. “And even farther still / Past the snicker-snack of the city’s air intake fans /A humming drone passes over the green grey canopy of the last forest / The no man’s land / Scanning for heat traces and human sound / Looking for the resistance with its red pin-prick eye. “In the moments between search and seizure / The rebels eat from the forest floor /They climb trees, they commune with the animals / They live life, they stare out to the ocean, past the shanty skyscrapers/ The last frontier. “Sean Smith soundtracks all these thoughts in my mind’s eye / His synth and guitar layered music is the signal / It is the force field, refracting light / It is the chemtrail drifting down like slow motion party glitter / From the heavens settling like moon flakes on the roofs of the cars / On the debris / On the upturned faces of the rabble. “It is beautiful imagination at its...

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Live At Arci Taun  - aka Live for the Very First Time (In Italy) by Uranium Club

Uranium Club

Live At Arci Taun - aka Live for the Very First Time (In Italy)
Castle Face

“Nothing like a carb-load Italian pre-show feast and table wine to grease the gears of some live action in Fidenza, Italy. A land-locked classico right where you would pinch to hike up the boot. A club packed tight with handsome men and women abused by sonic marauders.  “Have you seen Uranium Club live? No? Drop everything. They are complete-package slayers. Watch-works drummer power, shred-haired bass magic (glasses flying), ripped twin guitar flexing on nerd beach, vocals poured through the skylight into your e-holes and over your thought center, sunglasses all around: fucking hypno-wheel. “Tough, smart, and wiry, midwest exploded all over the globe. Minneapolis, a city known for producing the best, has taken no nap on these young men: the driest tone, the snappiest hooks. They are simply great and this recording captures a particularly good night. They shred ‘til everyone’s dead, including a nine-minute jam, god help us. “Here’s something to make you feel good about the world, to know that we have extended a strong art-handshake to our brothers and sisters in Italy. Vivia l’italia! Ciao, bella.” —John Dwyer

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Hi-tech Boom by POW!

POW!

Hi-tech Boom
Castle Face

Deep in the graveyard of San Francisco, a young hand with black and cracked nails is pushing up through a broken pile of e-slag. Bitter teeth tear through server cables and motherboards, desperate to be free from the ever-deepening sludge of tech waste… the iPhone is the new styrofoam cup. Stepping over them—eyes glazed, feet dragging, blank face aglow in the eerie luminescence of smart phones—is the inspiration for these songs. San Francisco has long attracted newcomers… but now the city faces the most dangerous, the most egregious and blandest of them all—people with lots of money. In the vacuum that is now expanding, there is a ragged, determined sound vibrating out of the dirty underground. This is POW! Deep ’80s synth bass percolates under the circuit-swamp-fried-egg guitar. The drums, a teenage tiger’s heartbeat, underpin vocals delivered like a deadpan face-slap from a kid half your age. The recording is simple and dense, and it has a natural Doppler effect on headphones. It’s perfectly poppy and rough at the same time, and it has a message, so dig in, ear-wise. Heed the warning bells echoing down the streets of San Francisco clogged with the cholesterol of normals. Next they could be knocking at your door… —John Dwyer

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“Twin giant towers of amps grinding out minimal beat bloop, the transient sound molecules smell of burning gear and the floor of the pit—this is organic, electronic music at its finest. Dance? Why not. Freak out? For sure. Brothers from a different mother (Bjorn Copeland and Aaron Warren) à la two-thirds of Black Dice have come together with this fantastic debut [Flaccid Mojo] for us. These are mean beat vipers, spitting and tumescent on the abattoir floor.“I would call it drug music, but I’m not sure what drugs these humans consume. Stem cell and adrenal gland cocktails I’m guessing. Futuristic and primal it is, beats from the Thunder-Dome, fight music for fuckers. I’ve seen them on two separate occasions blow the power for an entire building. Baller move, boys. Produced perfectly by Chris Coady (look him up to be impressed). This record is a burning car in a field and I love it.“For fans of Black Dice, Container, Whitehouse, Negativland, Ralph Records, minimal beats à la Profan, vintage Japanese noise, Severed Heads, windburn and chapped lips.” —John Dwyer 

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The Complete Collection by Kedama

Kedama

The Complete Collection
Castle Face

“Three thick LPs of hot jellied kraut-prog heavies coming at you from 1970s Swiss-German based Kedama: three LPs of ‘live’ in-the-studio and actual live recordings—unbelievably telekinetic drums, keys and guitar. Vision quest soundscapes, a total gem lost to the ages here, y’all. The first LP was reissued by Guerrsen Records a while back, the other two LPs are unreleased on wax as of yet: rarities and live oddities. It’s been a real pleasure to work with these guys, as they were as excited as we were and provided us with a plethora of recordings and photos and press clippings to sort through, to pull together this nice little set.  “It’s raw, like you like it after a few. It’s heavy, so you can nod as you sway along the path. It’s beautiful, so you can reminisce. It’s winding, so your imagination is blindfolded. It’s far-flung space jams so you can fry out. It’s screwed-down genius so you can be inspired. This shit is far out and a real-deal old school fuse lighter and its limited to 1000 copies. Nice, never seen before photos of the gurus, so come and get it nerds! “For fans of Le Orme, Yes, Birth Control, Camel, Edgar Froese, ELP, King Crimson.” —John Dwyer

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Blow-out enthusiasts, make ready to scarf this down without chewing: “How many licks does it take to get to the spider egg in the center of this sugar bomb? “You got the jitters, and dude, there’s blood on your shirt. “I like gore with my goth.  “Hey, you got your pop sensibilities on my explosion!” Strong vocals à la Modern English, back-beat complete and foamy bass bleached onto half-inch tape specially for Castle Face. Seven headstrong tunes to clatter your phonograph needle. I’ve always loved Matt Jones’s (ex-Blasted Canyons) vocal stylings, rich with tenor muscle flexes. Over the top in its endeavors and reaching, always reaching. Primal gas-guzzler drumming, center speaker from Adam Cimino sets the ear up for a beating. And hell, it’s got the old (and I mean old) bass player, Mark Kaiser, from Mayyors; solid-state aggression at its mid-low, knuckle-dragging finest. A slap in the brain done up nicely here on wax. Enjoy. —John Dwyer

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Live In San Francisco by Icky Boyfriends

Icky Boyfriends

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

“You like anchovies? Morning breath? Dried blood? The sun-up residue after a night of hard drugs? Well, you’re gonna love Icky Boyfriends. “I painted houses for a couple years with an old-school San Francisco artist / musician dude who would let me run the boombox while we worked. This was right around the time I became obsessed with Icky Boyfriends. I would play the shit all day and wax about how I much I loved them. He piped up one day and asked what they were called again. ‘Icky Boyfriends,’ I said. ‘Oh yeah, I remember those guys…man, they could clear a room.’ “That’s the Ickys—an acquired taste for people who maybe have eyes that feel natural when trolling the gutter for nutrition. These are stories of strung-out super heroes singing the praises of the old school San Francisco freak scene. Hilarious at times, genius always and as scuzzy as anything you could ever hear. “Live in San Francisco was recorded masterfully by the Castle Face engineers team at the grand SF Eagle. There are many classic favorites here, as well as a couple new jams (I challenge anyone to tell the difference). We’ve kept it primal and simple as the Ickys always have. What a treat, now let’s eat!” —John Dwyer

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Strange Masters by Zig Zags

Zig Zags

Strange Masters
Riding Easy

“The origin of this record is a weird one. In 2019, we had just returned from two long European tours when we decided to take a ‘little break’ from the road. You all know what happened next. That ‘little break’ turned into a couple of years and during that time Dane, our drummer, decided to quit the band and music in general (no hard feelings). Sean [Hoffman] and I had a discussion and thought about ending the band as a whole, but I knew I had to go out on my own terms. I had an ace in the hole, though. Jeff Murray, drummer from LA rippers The Shrine. I had been friends with Jeff and The Shrine’s founder, Josh Landau since our ‘Scavenger’ 7-inch came out, around 2012. We had run into them in Berlin a few months back and I knew they weren’t playing anymore. I called Josh first, ’cause asking a dude if you can take his drummer, is like asking your girlfriend’s dad if you can marry her. And Josh said ‘go for it.’ And Jeff was in. “Honestly if he had said no, that would have been the end. I had written a ton of stuff since our last album but I had shelved most of it. I was trying too hard—basically. Eventually Sean, Jeff and I said, ‘Fuck it, let’s make a ‘Fake Live’ record—like Kiss or Slayer did. John Dwyer from Osees was opening his new studio, Discount Mirrors, and it seemed like...

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Live In San Francisco by Useless Eaters

Useless Eaters

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

Announcing a white-hot entry into Castle Face’s Live in San Francisco series: Useless Eaters, recorded in the basement of vintage clothing store Vacation.  “This show was bananas. When we set up to record a live set, we always hope the band will just murder it and the people will go all crazy. I’d say that crosses over onto the tape and makes the record shine… This was one of those magic moments. All the elements in place for a memorable evening—BYOB, a basement, in the tenderloin of San Francisco, a wicked goddamn band slaying their songs, and a perfect essence in the air. Everyone falling over each other, spilling beer, smiling screaming and sweating. A fucking mess. When everybody leaves and you look at the muddy, hot, trashed, and disgusting room you think, ‘yes, something good happened here tonight.’ “Seth Sutton’s lineup is in peak form here, from touring and being general road-dog bad-asses. His guitar is slanted and choking with intermittent echo—just raw-vibes awesome. Miles Luttrell’s drumming is honed to a point and drunk with hi-hat countdowns. Brendan Hagarty’s bass sounds like it smells bad and is the perfect accompaniment to Seth’s treble-burst guitar, and the at-the-time new edition of Jacob Olsen on keyboard pulls even more of the dystopian spirals from the studio recording out into the live world.” —John Dwyer

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Drop Out Vol. 1 by Herms, The

Herms, The

Drop Out Vol. 1
Castle Face

“No one sounds like The Herms. No one sounds like Matthew Lutz. The Herms are a smudged window into a neighboring dimension to ours, Berkeley. Even though it’s right next door to Oakland and San Francisco, it may as well be a million musical-miles away.  “Back when they were playing around town, it felt to me like not too many in my scene ‘got’ this band. I thought people should have been going crazy for these guys. The local rag gave them accolades (a curse, perhaps?), and even a cursory listen to this collection should clue you in to how great they were. This may be one of the few times that I have to concur with a music writer—this band is amazing. They are sun, heartbreak, pop and fried-static all in one master package, evolving from song to song, and I think they’re fantastic. “The Herms did have a proper release years ago, but on CD only (gasp!) and frankly I’ve always been in love with these earlier, rawer 8-track Tascam demos. They sound like the band did when you were standing in front of them. “I love The Herms and have been waiting a looooong time to do a proper release for them. Sorry it took exhuming their songs from the grave before I was ready. Please listen loudly with the windows open, so maybe that music writer may pass by, hear it and think, ‘Finally! I told you so, you assholes.’” —John Dwyer, July 2013 Street...

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"We are very proud to announce a new full length LP from Oakland’s Once & Future Band—Deleted Scenes. The space-age songsmiths of Once & Future Band have been ting-tinging away on the truly heavy anvil of hominid perspective and emotion again to bring you this singing scape of songs. Annealing for over a year now, until it was cool enough to hold in your ears, nested in the pinnae, the time has finally come. Dew drops pop and hiss as they settle on the gliding guitarmonies. Once & Future Band have outdone themselves this time around, in my opinion. If songs could stop heated exchanges by mere presence, these are the ones, and more needed than ever. As I tuned in to each new transmission, each step closer to this perfect platter, I had to stop and do nothing else, and merely absorb how wonderful this album is. Each tune exists in the company it was born to live with. There are haunting chorale escorts here... long trains of room warmth... the belting of the machine heart... lofty guitar and bass melange... and just beautifully laid to magnetic tape with a sure hand by the throbbing brains that are Once & Future Band. For fans of  Roy Wood, Idle Race, ELO, Roxy Music, Head Hunters, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, The Lord Bowie, The Band, and the soundtrack from every movie that ever pierced your cold, cold heart” —John Dwyer

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“A fog of memories caught in the sun-flakes settling in the forest, a beautiful album indeed... [M]any glittering gems [are] woven into these tunes but one listen is not enough to see them all. Like trying to appreciate the silver strobing of ocean waves, they are different every time you glance at them. Better to watch their reflections on the ceiling and just soak it up. “It seems kind of rare that an album can create and sustain a mood, not to mention such an odd and unique vibe as this. A sing-song tale of a long, surreal journey through canopied pathways, tunnels and spiraling downwards through the earth’s maw…falling, falling, falling and suddenly you wake in your bed. Home-grown in aesthetic, Mirror Woods is a quilt of hues... The colors, albeit gorgeous, are cross-processed, like a polaroid of a cathedral’s most glorious stained glass window: off, slightly sour but just dripping with pop sentiment. This is not an experimental album for young chin-scratchers only, this is a pop record for anyone with a heart; this is a homage to love, to friends and family, to droll existence. Hold up a torch to the dark, make a spark. “Think United States of America meets Vangelis meets July meets Silver Apples in Arthur Russell’s New York apartment (what a family band portrait that would be).” —John Dwyer

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“Nightmare in name only, the inspiration runs white-hot with this one—the wizard’s gaze cast over a distant landscape, bits of ash and motes of incinerated earth float in the air, the smell of ozone and fried metal sting the villager’s noses... “But hope’s bell rings eternal! A flower of beauty is standing up in the sole ray of sun, the clouds are withering away, retreating back to dark cloaks behind crusted-over frost-fractal windows. Darkness cannot usurp the crown, light is king and will eliminate the darkness, chase it out of the unfathomable corners and brush away the webs of evil...remnant factions will always remain but they will be hunted with pure magical riffage. “These are the peaks and valleys of the mighty Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, conceptual in feel and flow, a lovely lilting ride and then, up through the floor boards, a warrior incants into the frothing night a huge band, heavy and tumultuous like a war machine rumbling thru the ash, clearing the way for folks to continue their idyll. Dreamy and lucid keys, strings, drum corps, slippery guitar and buff bass, ripe flutes and breezy vocals. For fans of Embryo, the Mothers, Pink Floyd, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Moody Blues, the Stark Reality, and Placebo. They’re from Austin, Texas, but you’d swear it’s from 1972 Europa-Mothership. Like their vodka, it surpasses expectations and fucking crushes.” —John Dwyer

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***Daft Alliance is proud to announce the first proper release of Curse of the Birthmark’s 18 yr old self titled debut. This album, never “officially” released till now, was Curse of the Birthmark’s first recording that they gave away and sold in CDR format. Everything was homemade - from the recording in the practice space and house bathroom, to duplicating the cdrs and silkscreening the cobblestone tile cover directly onto jewel cases that revealed the band name letters on the insert in the unpainted tiles. The production and layout have been enhanced by Daft Alliance while remaining true to the original sound and vision, and includes a not-so-hidden bonus track- "alibis." Unleashing nine furious, untamed songs — new classics all — in a little under 20 minutes, Curse of the Birthmark is an ear-scorching gift to the listener. Curse of the Birthmark performed nationally in the early-to-mid ‘00s. In 2005 Keyboard player Eric Hunt was replaced by Weasel Walter. Eric Park and Simon Phillips went on to form Fuckwolf who are currently working on material for a new record. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl in a limited edition of 500.   “One of the best grimy alienating secret gems of San Francisco music, Curse of the Birthmark is finally getting a proper release, and on a great label to boot. Fantastic, bombastic and repulsive, live in the mid-aughts — a broken amp, the cheapest keyboard and a kit that only a mother could love have produced one of the...

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Live In San Francisco by Intelligence

Intelligence

Live In San Francisco
Castle Face

“For folks who dig A Frames, Country Teasers, Wire, Gang of Four, pita chips and dad’s boozy breath, may we present The Intelligence, captured live in a truly subterranean underground show space below SF vintage clothier Vacation. “Lars Finberg: a name synonymous with artisanal hand-crafted, locally brewed, and organically-farmed song lasers. Hilarious, fast, tour-tight and ballsy—the band has all these perks in pocket, and all that on borrowed gear! I’ve watched this band go through many variations over the years and in their own right all of them have been marvelous. This particular version of the line up is constructed entirely of road-dogs. These guys don’t fuck around—or maybe they only fuck around, who can tell anymore? They drink, they get bawdy, they shred, and when we asked Lars if the band would be into doing a small show in a basement in the Tenderloin in SF for a live LP, he asked ‘What should we play?’ and I replied ‘nothing but the hits’—and they did exactly that. “The Intelligence and Lars himself are masters at the penning of hits—hit after hit after hit—and with a soft-shoed tippity-tap of crowd work and banter, you can really smell the basement on this one and feel the cobwebs grazing the top of your head as you go deaf in one ear from the eye level PA pointed directly at your soul hole. If you love this band then this is a great live LP of them scorching the hits and talking trash....

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Light Show by Name, Jack

Name, Jack

Light Show
God?

Received a 7.0 rating from Pitchfork. Maybe I can start by saying a little bit about JACK NAME. He is the only guy I know who can crush a joint by his lonesome and then look you right in the eye (and I consider myself an expert) and you would never suspect that he’s not floating right along in the here and now. He is ahead ... the wheels are always turning unaffected by drugs, time or space. I met him first through White Fence, where he stood on a laptop generating noise along with guitar through, what is supposedly, an original homemade Grateful Dead speaker cabinet. How much good energy can one dude generate? Jack Name is a rare entity and a genius story/songsmith and I am envious as hell that GOD? Records is putting this out and not Castleface. Whiffs of young Brian Eno, Gary Numan, Chrome, ELO, Bruce Haack, even Richard O’Brien (a la “Rocky Horror”) and Stefan Wul stain the sleeves of this story, but it’s still wholly original and cooked at home so it’s as honest as it is good for you. The sounds are a dense and ever-shifting beastt—just an absolutely put-you-on-the-floor headphone record. The narrative holds as much significance as the sound; hopefully there will be a lyric sheet so teenagers ripe for a push in the right direction can follow along, pink-eyed, with their index fingers...”—John Dwyer, 2013

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***BACK IN STOCK!!! “It is impossible to deny no one sounds like Eddy Current. I was hooked from riff one and I was lucky enough to do a full tour of Australia with them years ago—good fucking boys, simple as beer and chips, and that satisfying live. But that’s not to say there aren’t odd complexities to their definitive sound. “You can smell Mikey Young’s guitar approach like Sasquatch rustling the bushes, every time you think you see the bend ahead, you go into a tunnel or backtrack for a moment, then back to a nice place you can call home. Rob [Solid]’s bass is pub-fuzz groove. It’s shells-on-the-floor and leaning-against-the wall-with-one-hand-while-you-have-a-piss thinking: maybe you can take that guy? Only one way to find out— oh wait, he’s smiling…nice bloke! Danny [Young]’s drums are a clinic in reservedness: 4-on-the-floor. This guy’s Charlie Watts in the looking glass, every hit a necessity—solid, not flashy, like the lead street tough in a ‘70s flick. He don’t say much, but it counts. And then there is Brendan [Huntley], be-gloved lead mensch in this quartet. Singing with earnest street poet confidence, his message coming in on the weird-wire, hard to describe, best to just listen and see: a pub-punk-priest.  “We are very pleased to have these boys back on the streets. It had been far too long.” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

12/13/2019 767870660108 

 


CD $12.00

12/13/2019 767870660122 

CF126 


LP COLOR $19.00

01/13/2023  

CF 126 X 


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12/13/2019 767870660108 

CF 126 


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12/13/2019 767870660122 

CF126 


Advertise Here by EXEK

EXEK

Advertise Here
Castle Face

“Gliding in on the twin engine discordant tones we’ve come to love from EXEK comes their new transmission Advertise Here. Beats bumping up thru a flapping spring reverb, gilded production choices, stripped bass bubbling in the cauldron. With each pass of the witch’s ladle, words float in the steam over the cacophonous concoction. The coven that croons together slays together, with every layer peeling back on our ear’s tongue we will exclaim ‘wicked’—perhaps their strongest effort yet. “The twin engines reappear now, tardy, guitar and synthesis, rounded edges, worn and ever so slightly fuzzed out—perfection. This LP strives for new lyrical highs in my opinion. Pop at an arm’s length, thru a greasy lens: A conversation. A conversation on drugs. A passing comment that sticks an utterance from the death bed. Reminiscent of Brian Eno, White Fence, PiL, Full Circle, ESG, all things Geoff Barrows, Eroc, Lard Free, and music of free weirdos everywhere. This one is the mossy titled deck of a half submerged shipwreck, a green light in a red room, a lump of clay, the end of the night when you think ‘perhaps I should have left ages ago,’ but it’s too late now…you’re in too deep…might as well have one more dance. “This LP is leaping even further out into the unknown for EXEK. A trip indeed, full of hits with zero diss and lots of hiss on no near miss.” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

02/04/2022 733102721916 

 


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03/18/2022 733102721923 

CF 141 CD 


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01/13/2023  

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02/04/2022 733102721916 

CF 141 


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02/04/2022 733102721923 

CF 141 


Influenced by a life split between Lima, London, and Twentynine Palms, Peru-born M. Caye Castagnetto’s Leap Second is an intriguingly personal and hard to classify debut album.  The album is a thick collage of samples Caye recorded with different artists and musicians, including Beatrice Dillon and the late Aileen Bryant, that spans five years in the making. There is something in Leap Second that tracks the speed of bodies, how they approach and retreat. The ten tracks are speedy and languid, thick ruffles, and dirges. In parts it feels like one’s stumbled upon a forgotten incredible ’70s folk record but that feeling gets broken quickly by clever sleights of hand. Caye’s balladry is angular, time is elastic. Each song is a fresh cape. How dandies really mean it, so masc- that it’s fay, how the only moment is this one and it’s just passed, etcetera.  “While it doesn’t really sound like anything else, there are moments that feel like a Latin-flavored Nico, that’s edging its way towards some of the outings of the Sun City Girls. In my opinion it checks all the boxes, by checking none of them.” —Bjorn Copeland, Black Dice   “A truly interesting conglomeration of loose inspirations and conjurings. A hard to decipher sound all together which makes it worth every moment...a sprinkling of Catherine Ribeiro, Dr. John, Terje Rypdal and Nico. Far-out sun-soaked odysseys and moon-dappled woodland night creepers...” —John Dwyer

LP $19.00

02/19/2021 767870666063 

 


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01/22/2021 767870666070 

CF 136 CD 


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02/19/2021 767870666063 

CF 136 


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01/22/2021 767870666070 

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Bug On Yonkers by Damaged Bug

Damaged Bug

Bug On Yonkers
Castle Face

***BACK IN PRINT ON NEW HALF-AND-HALF BLUE / MAGENTA VINYL!!! “I first heard Michael Yonkers via the Microminature Love reissue (Sub Pop) and was immediately hooked. I started collecting any piece of his legend that I could…some true, some likely not. He had hand-built all of his gear. He had broken his back. He was part of experimental surgery that left him in lifelong pain. “He was a dancer. He was still kicking around making some of the oddest and most contrary-to-contemporary-popular-norms type of music. (A man after my own heart.) And then I heard Goodby Sunball, recorded and released in 1974, the year I was born. I had and have a very deep connection with this set of songs. I wasn’t sure why, but when I finally met Michael, I understood. He was kind and seemingly a pretty regular guy. But he was also a weirdo. A rare bird, waving the true freak music flag, and it didn’t matter what kind of music he made, I loved it all.  “So, this record was recorded as a way to reboot and reconnect with some songs that have heavily inspired me over the years. It was hard to pick from his vast catalog, so I just sort of jumped in, with Tom Dolas, Nick Murray, and Brigid Dawson as my band (along with a bevy of others along the way) and these are the tunes that stuck to the wall. I will forever be grateful to Mr Yonkers for bringing me a...

LP $19.75

08/07/2020 767870661310 

 


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07/24/2020 767870661310 

CF 123 


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07/27/2020 767870661310 

CF 123 


“Very pleased to be working with Prettiest Eyes. I first saw them ages ago at the Satellite and they were cake-takers that night. Now, they are stronger and weirder than ever. I couldn’t believe this new batch of tunes and their bananas-energy live show and, their fans are hard-core heads, just a soup of dance and mouths agog. Brutal, fractured, pogoing beats played by Pachy [Garcia], also the singer, belching out vocal smoke rings in the laser light above the din—they are flat out commands, militaristic in their delivery and yet catchy, like you like em. Marcos, an extro-sensual bassist who climbs inside of your mind-clothes while grinding out aggressively greasy throbs and pulls and Paco, the keyboardist, who at times plays reeling wailing lines that could be mistaken for a number of other instruments…and the hair on this dude! I have a hard time remembering how nice his face is offstage, all you can see is a whip wigging out. They are captivating, they are odd, they make strange and interesting choices. Futuristic and yet drawn from the same sonic sludge that all mankind derives from, they live and breathe early Los Angeles-punk vibes while still innovating at every turn. There is electricity in this sound, they simply rule and what a pleasure to hear Pools doesn’t stray far from what makes them just melt it in person. Recorded perfectly to harness the animal on a nice inanimate slab of plastic you can take home. For fans of Screamers,...

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12/08/2017 814867025706 

 


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12/01/2017 814867025713 

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11/03/2017 814867025713 

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“The first time I heard Dan Melchior I felt betrayed that no one had turned my ear to his strange sounds before then. The LP was called Hello, I’m Dan Melchior and it starts with the line ‘I once did mushrooms with Björk…’ Goddamn, he had me at mushrooms.  “Since then, I’ve been blessed with unearthing several of his masterpieces from LP bins all around the world. Dan has made mighty and copious marks upon the world of wax. Every record is a wade through the primordial poem-brain that is Dan Melchior’s creative force. “What we have here is a fabulous collection of classic Melchior und das Menace. We asked, he let us dig through the archive, and lo and behold: Hunger, a grip of unreleased Melchior gold. It will take less than ten seconds for the high to kick in after the rush of greasy guitars consume you at the get-go of ‘A Wizard Doesn’t Need a Computer.’ And yes, he’s taking the piss.  “I’ve also been lucky enough to do some touring with him and his lovely wife and co-conspirator Letha. They may be the only white cats I know who don’t look weird in dashikis. I wish I was kidding…quite comely. Letha has been duking it out with a heavy illness, and although strong as ever, the bills are piling up and they could always use a hand. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of this record will go to aid them in...

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07/22/2014 819162016046 

 


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06/24/2014 819162016053 

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07/22/2014 819162016046 

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06/24/2014 819162016053 

 


Biased Advice by EXEK

EXEK

Biased Advice
Castle Face

***BACK IN STOCK!!! “A weird trip of a band…the second this was playing I was immediately hooked. I initially dove in because their name was attached to Mikey Young for mastering (I have a rule with Mikey…if he had his hands on it, it’s probably worth a listen). This band exceeds in all my trials. “Esoteric nature, but oddly poppy and ready to prick up any ears out there. Deconstructed, but full of hooks. If I were a lazy man, and I am, I would say its for fans of PiL, but they transcend that pigeon-hole. “Wonderful production lends its self to this unique LP. It seems as if the room expands and contracts throughout songs. Pulling away, then blocking your field of vision entirely. Wasteland funk. Dub from the depths. Punk from the pit. “Even the instrumentation is worth mentioning: saxophone, drums (and cut-up drums), guitar, synthesizer, vocals (poetry) and general fuckery all combine to make this a very interesting and worthwhile escape from the average. And thank the Gods for that right now. Inspired and desired by the active mind. A job well done by EXEK, and there’s new stuff brewing too...  “For fans of BEAK>, Phantom Band, PIL and general Jah Wobbleness, Magazine, short-wave radio, ESG and underground Kraut”.—John Dwyer

LP $19.00

04/02/2021 767870664861 

 


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04/02/2021 767870664878 

CF 128 CD 


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04/02/2021 767870664861 

CF 128 


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03/05/2021 767870664878 

CF128 


Boom Pow Awesome Wow by Traps, The

Traps, The

Boom Pow Awesome Wow
Castle Face

Announcing The Traps’ Boom Pow Awesome Wow: Another grimy bit of gold from the vaults; “home made” music from Providence, RI, to irk your co-workers with. When you hear the word “garage,” does it make you want to leave the room? I can relate. Beaten over the head, we’ve been. The horse that was once merely dead is now paste on the linoleum. Garage songs sell cars. Needless to say, The Traps would be last on the list for ad men’s fancy. Sometimes you see or hear something that is so completely the raw ingredient of what was once great in your life that it stands out…or in this case, hunches over with a thread of saliva from its chin to its knee.  This is The Traps:  • From Providence, Rhode Island, circa 2003-2004 • Very, very heavy • Very, very simple • Recorded in an unwaveringly carefree manner • Three young men: Two very mellow dudes playing guitars thru towers of fried amplification, one very loud dude from Illinois playing what sounds like a bass drum and a 40-inch ride cymbal  Coachwhips played with them, then I came home and tried to rip them off, but I wasn’t man enough to fit these balls in the front seat. Castle Face has collected their six tracks from a CDR-only EP as well as four tracks pulled from a dusty box of cassettes by yours truly. Spit-shined in mastering and with all-new original artwork by Dusty Petersen, Boom...

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02/04/2014 819162014530 

 


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02/04/2014 819162014547 

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“I think of this record as kind of a ‘Tim Presley reads his book on tape,’ the story of life in Los Angeles flowing like the low moisture river that it is. The start is uphill, long and slow, and you ponder when you will be spat out onto the straight away. By the time ‘Clean It Glen’ kicks in, your hands are sweating, and then you are there and it is glassy and wonderfully repetitive, repetitive, repetitive. Lights are flashing, cars are passing. There is synthesized wild life here—blips that are winged, crackles that are slithering through the digital grass. Echo ripples across a chrome topped body of water. You catch a glimpse of yourself in a store-that-sells-something window. “Beats are the staccato lines on the road being eaten by the undercarriage of the vehicle that whips through this world. Guitars are trash and debris; acid. A headphone record at its primal best, far out and geographically odd. Every time I play this someone asks, ‘what the hell is this?’ I say, ‘W-X, dig in. Best to listen to it in its entirety.’ A vast 20-course experience served on twin platters; a carnival; a far cry from White Fence and yet still the scent lingers on the fingers. He told me I would hate this repeatedly and I replied that it is my favorite masterpiece of his (of which there are many). This record looks through to the matrix of Tim’s songsmith genius, don’t forget to blink. “For fans...

CD $12.00

11/06/2015 814867020114 

CF 067 CD 


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11/20/2015 814867020107 

 


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11/20/2015 814867020107 

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11/06/2015 814867020114 

 


Live At St. Helens Technical College 1981 by The Fall

The Fall

Live At St. Helens Technical College 1981
Castle Face

***COLOR VINYL EDITION ON CLEAR VINYL!!! “I’ve had the pleasure of being a [The] Fall fan since I was a teen. I was lucky enough to have some guidance from my local record shop stoner-lords. They turned me on to many of my heroes, but once I heard my first slanted and barky Fall song, I was part of the army for life. The word prolific gets tossed around a lot. It almost seems like a slag-off in the press, as if they wish the artist would produce less so they wouldn’t have to do their self-imposed job of judging releases for the rabble. The Fall is subjected to this lazy word often.Yet I can honestly say that I am so thankful for any nugget of Fall that lands at my feet and in my brain. Live Fall performances are always a pleasure because they seem to take what already made the Fall great and push it even a bit more into the rough and bloody uncharted wasteland that is drug scorched proto-punk and heady political poetry.“So, it is with great pleasure that we introduce this Fall bootleg soundboard recording to you. Recorded during one of the many strong points in the bands vast and mighty history. They really burn bright here and bring every ounce of what you expect from this formidable force.“We have reached out to every surviving member of the band, the sound person, the bootlegger who recorded it and the photographer and received their blessings and...

LP+7" $30.00

04/02/2021 767870664854 

CF 133 


LP COLOR $30.00

01/13/2023  

CF 133 X 


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04/02/2021 767870664854 

CF 133 


Early Years Anthology by Fresh & Onlys

Fresh & Onlys

Early Years Anthology
Castle Face

“These were carefree times. We were young enough to put our bodies to the test every night on the seven-by-seven-mile patch of the Bay. The endless wars seemed less at home. Songs were hanging off the branches heavy, plump and threatening to rot on the vine if they weren’t polished and put to tape. The band was on their third live drummer but the lineup in The Fresh & Onlys’ recording tower was a consistent group of pop soldiers writing, working and whiling away the hours. A beeramid of cheap cans, endless dope smokery and a pretty strong vibe of dudes who would play together into oblivion. 388 rolling, tape spilling over itself, drum kit covered in mufflers, a chest of shitty percussion toys, lots of ideas and multiple secret weapons at their disposal. “Shayde Sartin: the beast from out east, the thud of a heavy slow bomb…the best bass player in the Bay. Unaccredited infinite times on records that were made better by his finely crafted skills. I can pick him out on records instantly.  “Wymond ‘The Count’: you can almost smell his hair on his hooks. If there was a stage monitor in your living room his fence-climber boot would be on it. Wymond always has the riff that made the jets of the song take off. Listen and you’ll see what I mean. “Tim Cohen: the man behind the beard. Some would say the leader. In the game as long as Bette Midler. Cohen writes great...

LP $19.00

09/25/2015 819162019627 

 


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09/11/2015 819162019634 

 


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09/25/2015 819162019627 

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09/11/2015 819162019627 

 


Laddio Bolocko '97-'99 by Laddio Bolocko

Laddio Bolocko

Laddio Bolocko '97-'99
Castle Face

“The following story might be bullshit (drug use and memory enhancements): years ago I was sitting at home staring into the middle distance and the phone on the wall rang (that should denote how long ago this was). On the other end was the booker from The Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, who had never called me before. She was excited about the show they had that night and was calling people to invite them. Apparently the night before a band called Laddio Bolocko had played and were so mesmerizing, so strong that they had offered them the next night, which was open. I was intrigued as no band had ever warranted this invite previously to my knowledge. This was new and exciting territory.“I had my ass and ears handed to me that evening. Scorching, pummeling, deep waters ran over me as I stood, beer in hand, mouth open. My memory may be embellishing but I remember a sax as big as me, drums that were physically hanging on by a thread, and twin electric strings that reeled sinister sprites over my head in outwardly circular patterns. Aggressive, far out fractals burned in my brain. I had never seen anything like this band, and never have again.“That’s why it’s so shocking to wait around all these years for someone to pick up the thread and re-release these three perfect recordings on LP for the first time…and still be waiting. So, I’m happy to announce, Castle Face is here...

3XLP $31.00

05/20/2022 733102724368 

CF 143 


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05/20/2022 733102724368 

CF 143 


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05/20/2022 733102724368 

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Good Bad Pretty by Deep Throats

Deep Throats

Good Bad Pretty
Castle Face

“I was a kid, I took mushrooms to help me ‘ease into things.’ It was a perfect SF night [circa 1999]—warm and dimly lit, shit-and-piss-smelling Clarion Alley. A band took the eye-level built-that-afternoon stage. I had peeked up gender-bent punk’s chicken-leather skirt and into eternity. How old were they? Who were they? How were they so fascinating? “They were blowing my young mind. I remember a show where, for some reason I can’t recall, but probably the cops had shut a party down, they got moved to a friend’s backyard down on 3rd Street. They played in front of a halogen work light on cement and somebody threw a bucket of yellow latex paint into the sky. The show was incredible and unstoppable (until the bikers next door called the cops and broke up the party). I’m not sure how I made it home but the next morning I woke up to strangers sleeping on my living room floor and yellow-paint footsteps covering my joint. I spent the next day gagging on my hands and knees scrubbing paint off the hardwood floor (even the shitty flats in SF have nice floors). Drugs, violence; general snottiness; elastic paranoid guitar; SRO drum kit; coke-bottle specs, sharp bass sounds. “An abstract guitar dance that still I can’t rip off without feeling guilty. Smirking medicated bass player whose heavy glasses slid down his sweating beak. Hot-as-hell and unapproachable drum master Sugar, whose boyfriend at the time I remember as like an extra from Warriors...

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02/26/2016 814867020701 

 


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02/26/2016 814867020701 

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02/26/2016 814867020701 

 


***ON LIMITED KELLY GREEN WITH MAGENTA BLOB COLORED VINYL!!! “This album [SORCS 80] was a self imposed ambitious project for us [OSEES]. Something to kick in the creative flow. The last few years, having been a challenging time in general, felt like a good time for a pivot. The last two albums were so guitar and keyboard centric, I wanted a weird and fun set of parameters for us to work with. I demo’d everything at home on cassette four track (harkening back to simpler times) using drum loops, and just had at it ’til I had a pile of ‘songs.’ “Tom [Dolas] and I chose one sound each using synths and created a range of three octaves of that sample, then loaded them into Roland SPD-SX samplers and learned the transcribed songs using drum sticks. The idea was to change the way we wrote and to have four people along the front of the stage essentially playing percussion. So no guitar, no keys. “As we were recording I kept thinking how the sounds, when paired up, sounded a bit like brass. So, we added a saxophone horn section to round out the horniness of the sound with a bit of reedy bell tones. Thanks to Cansfis Foote and Brad Caulkins on tenor and baritone saxophones. “Sort of a Dexy’s Midnight Runners meets Von LMO meets The Flesh Eaters meets the Screamers kinda punk junk. Poppy and hooky, heavy at times. Sort of vacuous and maybe a bit sci-fi in sound....

CD $12.00

08/09/2024 657628446422 

CF 151 CD 


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08/09/2024 657628446415 

CF 151 


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08/09/2024 657628446439 

CF 151 X 


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08/09/2024 657628446422 

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08/09/2024 657628446422 

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Handle With Care by Love Fiend

Love Fiend

Handle With Care
In The Red

***ON GREEN / YELLOW VINYL!!!“A glorious dirty little gem in Los Angeles finally rears its four heads again. Love Fiend have been slaying sine waves and bashing bongos boldly for a while now in the dusty dens of the unkempt underground. Good news for you, you can get an injection in your own home soon enough, you Fiend! Hooks for days, these young humans are now leaning fast forward into the reverse-future with Handle With Care out soon on OG In The Red Records. Perhaps they can join the upper echelons of Tik Tok barf famous good feelin’ peddlers like some of their label mates or perhaps they can just wear you out on the dance floor. One can dream anyhow. Either way this is gonna get stuck in your ear hole eyes, thank heavens. Deffo some neon drizzled ’80s synth punk highway tunes here. Just the right amount of this and just a bit of that in the roux to make you forget that we are teetering on the edge of………..for 30 minutes or so at least. Whew close one. Really all you need to get on. All hail the medicinal extra strength over these counter pop pills. For fans of Nick Lowe, The Cars, Gary Numan, Blondie, The Nerves. I could go on but why reveal everything in the trailer. Twist! Enjoy.” —John Peter Dwyer

CD $12.00

07/12/2024 657628443421 

ITR 392 CD 


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07/12/2024 657628443414 

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07/12/2024 657628443421 

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***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork. Our lad John P. Dwyer has been lancing eardrums with Thee Oh Sees in an ever-escalating flurry of records for the past six years. Since the release of The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In announced a new loud era (and excepting a few momentary detours into home-baked territory—Dog Poison and Castlemania, for example), Dwyer and company have pummeled a bit harder each time out, cementing their reputation as a live force to be reckoned with and leaving legions sweaty and bruised in the process. Late last year, after years of relentlessly touring the world, the word got out… Dwyer’s moving to Los Angeles (fear not, still California!) and Thee Oh Sees are taking a much-needed hiatus with a shifting of gears ahead and a new album on the way. This is that album.  Drop was recorded in a banana-ripening warehouse (no joke) with hair-farming studio warlock Chris Woodhouse playing drums; it’s also graced with the presence of talented gurus Mikal Cronin, Greer McGettrick and Casafis adding horns and vocals. The result pushes the familiar polarities of the group farther outward than ever before. Opener “Penetrating Eye” might be the heaviest Oh Sees song yet, “Transparent World” and “Put Some Reverb On My Brother” foam with seasick fuzz, and yet the ballads, like the harpsichorded “King’s Nose” and the lush and stately closer “The Lens,” extend their oeuvre into mellotronic, far-out pop with delicacy and grace.  This...

LP $19.75

04/15/2014 819162014783 

 


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04/15/2014 819162014790 

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04/15/2014 819162014783 

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Culled from the same sessions as the mighty Mutilator Defeated At Last, the Fortress 7-inch is a heavy little bit of wax to bite into. The title track is backed by “Man in a Suitcase,” an old live favorite.  Eight-armed, kinetic and racing ahead into distinctly dreamy and proggy territory, these two tracks are cut from nightmare cloth as only John P. Dwyer and Co. can weave, with an emphasis on the tossing and turning. A must-have addendum to Mutilator, and a lovely hors d’oeuvre to whet one’s appetite for another full-length later this year.

7" $9.25

02/12/2016 814867020459 

CF 068 


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02/12/2016 814867020459 

CF 068 


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02/12/2016 814867020459 

 


Every Shade Of Pink And Brown by Pink And Brown

Pink And Brown

Every Shade Of Pink And Brown
Castle Face

***PINK AND BROWN were a noise rock/punk rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1997 when the members moved west from their old home of Providence, RI. The band consisted of two members: PINK (JOHN DYWER of THEE OH SEES, COACHWHIPS, et al.) and BROWN (JEFF ROSENBERG of LAVENDER DIAMOND). Pink played guitar and sang while Brown played drums. The band was influenced by the sounds and styles of bands such as Olneyville Sound System and Lightning Bolt. The band's live shows featured a chaotic and frenetic performance from both members. The San Francisco Bay Guardian described their live sound as “Korean folk drumming gone punk.” Both members would appear onstage in outlandish outfits that corresponded with their colorful pseudonyms. This double-LP set features ever track ever recorded by the band, including the cut “Final Foods,” released on vinyl for the first time. Includes a download and gatefold packaging.

2XLP $28.00

02/05/2013  

 


(Colored) First & Second by Baroness

Baroness

(Colored) First & Second
Hyperrealist

***LIMITED HALF BLACK, HALF WHITE VINYL VERSION!! Baroness’s now-classic formative material finally sees a proper reissue with their first two 12-inches compiled as one deluxe LP. A lot dirtier, punker and more metallic than their current rock-infused, catchy weirdness, First & Second is an important document in the lineage of this excellent band, and all 38 minutes of music have been completely remixed and remastered for a much fuller sound than ever before. Housed in a beautiful gatefold jacket with guitarist / vocalist John Dyer Baizley’s elaborate and intricate artwork (spread through the exterior, interior and printed dust-sleeve), Revolver will have both black and clear colored vinyl in limited quantities.

LP $29.00

01/17/2020 655035042916 

HR 19 X 


Static Tensions by Kylesa

Kylesa

Static Tensions
20 Buck Spin

Savannah, Georgia's Kylesa returns with their fourth full-length, their second as a five-piece with two drummers after 2006's monumental breakthrough Time Will Fuse Its Worth. Three years later, the band fully utilizes the many percussive possibilities that such a lineup provides, immediately apparent on the blistering opening track, "Scapegoat."  Kylesa has also progressed with their songwriting, both in terms of the psychedelia suggested on the previous LP and the sheer brute force and memorable structures for which they've become known over the course of their three albums and several EPs. The occasional blackened death metal feel of "Said and Done" and the piano-laced, Middle-Eastern-tinged "Running Red" highlight this diversity of sound, yet it remains distinctly Kylesa. The percussion-heavy "Unknown Awareness" is perhaps the most emotionally heavy tune the band has ever written.  Static Tensions is Kylesa's most definitive statement and will surely top year-end lists across the board. Featuring artwork by John Dyer Baizley of Baroness, the album's visual aesthetic matches the cerebral nature of the music. With a massive touring schedule planned throughout 2009, Kylesa will be out constantly in full support of their singular, unique vision.  EAST COAST DATES W/ AMEBIX 1/29 * Bowery Ballroom, NYC 1/30 * AS220, Providence, RI 1/31 * Starlite Theater, Phila, PA  JAPAN DATES W/ BIRUSHANAH 2/6 * Huck Finn, Nagoya 2/7 * Earthdom, Tokyo 2/8 * TBA, Tokyo 2/11 * 51, Gifu 2/13 * Graf, Fukuoka 2/14 * Club Squad, Yamaguchi 2/15 * Club Drop, Osaka  US...

LP $16.50

03/17/2009 721616802917 

SPIN 029 


15-tet Oakland by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

15-tet Oakland
Helicopter

***A historic lineup featuring players from all over the Northern California musical underground. SISSY SPACEK’s core members, JOHN WIESE and CORYDON RONNAU, are joined by Mitchell Brown (Gasp, Professor Cantaloupe), George Chen (KIT), Vice Cooler (KIT), Paul Costuros (Death Sentence: Panda!, Total Shutdown), Chris Dixon (DS:P!), Tony Dryer, Jacob Heule (Etteric), Loachfillet (Caroliner), Kanoko Nishi, Gino Robair, Amanda Warner (0th, MNDR), Kim West (DS:P!), and Gerritt Wittmer (Deathroes). Since the inception of the band Sissy Spacek in 1999, the primary focus has been on small tight groups playing small tight music. The first large ensemble was a 13-Tet in Los Angeles (documented on the California Ax 4xCD set released by Helicopter) which was guided by a graphic score. The two sets (and encore) in this documentation are a collective improvisation based on simple instructions recorded at 21 Grand in Oakland, California.

MP3 $9.90

12/14/2010 655035178424 

H OAKLAND 


***A historic lineup featuring players from all over the Northern California musical underground. SISSY SPACEK’s core members, JOHN WIESE and CORYDON RONNAU, are joined by Mitchell Brown (Gasp, Professor Cantaloupe), George Chen (KIT), Vice Cooler (KIT), Paul Costuros (Death Sentence: Panda!, Total Shutdown), Chris Dixon (DS:P!), Tony Dryer, Jacob Heule (Etteric), Loachfillet (Caroliner), Kanoko Nishi, Gino Robair, Amanda Warner (0th, MNDR), Kim West (DS:P!), and Gerritt Wittmer (Deathroes). Since the inception of the band Sissy Spacek in 1999, the primary focus has been on small tight groups playing small tight music. The first large ensemble was a 13-Tet in Los Angeles (documented on the California Ax 4xCD set released by Helicopter) which was guided by a graphic score. The two sets (and encore) in this documentation are a collective improvisation based on simple instructions recorded at 21 Grand in Oakland, California. Limited edition of 300 packaged in full color digipak.

CD $9.25

04/27/2010  

MAR 024 CD 


(Colored) Fables In A Foreign Land by John Doe

John Doe

(Colored) Fables In A Foreign Land
Fat Possum

***Punk rock pioneer with X, songwriter, poet, actor, solo artist, published author... folk musician. With Fables in a Foreign Land, the debut release from The John Doe Folk Trio, his tales are now set in the pre-Industrial era. And though many of the 13 songs were written over the last three years, the sound was born in loose weekly backyard jams on Kevin Smith’s (Willie Nelson and Family) patio. “I guess ‘Fables in a Foreign Land’ is my version of folk music. It started by being sick of musicians that play too much and having to orchestrate or arrange songs. ‘What if it was just less?’ Everyone says less is more, but you have to figure out for yourself what that means. I didn’t do a deep dive into folk music and concern myself with what was ‘traditional,’ it was just an outgrowth of trying to strip the songs down to the basics.” Singles include contributions from outsider country polymath Terry Allen on “Never Coming Back,” Los Lobos’ Louie Perez on “El Romance-O,” and fellow X bandmate Exene Cervenka and Shirley Manson (Garbage) on “Destroying Angels.” Black and gold swirled vinyl. Limited to 300 copies.

LP $25.45

05/20/2022  

FP 1800 


Masterpiece / Old Friends by John The Band

John The Band

Masterpiece / Old Friends
Chunklet

As often happens, I was out snooping for new jams one morning and came across this band called John The Band from Louisville, Kentucky. I thought they sounded like a chooglin' version of Thinkin Fellers maybe. Anyway, I reached out to them and they were into doing a single. So here it is. "Masterpiece" is truth in advertising.

MP3 $1.98

10/11/2019 767870658525 

 


FLAC $2.49

10/11/2019 767870658525 

 


***A collection of both of the records recorded by this beer-drinking British postman in 1978, who got his start hijacking the Buzzcocks' equipment for a drunken rendition of "Louie Louie." Twelve tracks of mucking-around punk including the first-ever vinyl appearance by MARK E. SMITH of THE FALL.

CD $13.00

08/02/2011 652160007233 

OVER 72 CD 


Time To Let You Down by Swami John Reis

Swami John Reis

Time To Let You Down
Swami

Celebrating 55 years in the music business! Swami John Reis is back with his second LP in eight months. Time To Let You Down is a savage blast of junk shoppe punk that kicks you in the ding ding. This eleven track LP is chock full of fist pumpers, head bumpers, stinky dumpers, meaty thumpers and toe stumpers. The tempos are often breakneck and the dense arrangements tumble like bricks into hot cheese. The undeniable sonic girth barges at will into lathered ear tubes allowing these barbaric anthems to echo in hollow domes. Feel the whip crack break skin on the acne scarred backs of our cultural oppressors. The sound is tough. The songs are a bitch. Incite your expectations with the single “Fed To The Dogs” or the title track. Salty leather and wobbly chain link fences can’t contain its rebel intent. These recordings took place Oct. 2024 and features Swami John Reis on guitar and vocals with contributions from Jason Sinclair (Hot Snakes), Joey Guevara (Swami and the Bed Of Nails), Jacob Turnbloom (Mrs. Magician) and Glen Galloway (Truman’s Water). The record was produced by John Reis, engineered and mixed by Ben Moore and mastered by Dave Gardner. Time To Let You Down is pressed on virgin, Egyptian pellets and available in limited, colorful vinyls that have been hand-swirled. You’ll not only clearly hear the difference, you will see it as well.

LP $24.00

03/21/2025 657628451914 

SWA 163 LP 


MP3 $9.90

03/21/2025 657628451914 

SWA 163 LP 


FLAC $11.99

03/21/2025 657628451914 

SWA 163 LP 


***Nearly 20 years after the release of their landmark collaboration Multiplication, and nearly 25 years since their first live partnership, Merzbow and John Wiese reunite for a deep immersion into chaotic, raging electronics. Recorded on stage at Koiwa Bush Bash, Tokyo, Japan, December 2023. Digipak CD presented by Helicopter and Troniks. Art and design by John Wiese.

CD $13.50

08/30/2024 657628449263 

HEL 81008 CD 


MP3 $7.99

08/23/2024 657628449263 

HEL 81008 CD 


FLAC $8.99

08/23/2024 657628449263 

HEL 81008 CD 


Multiple Density by K2 / John Wiese

K2 / John Wiese

Multiple Density
Helicopter

***Kimihide Kusafuka and John Wiese capitalize on their common language of concrète cut-up sounds for their first ever duo album, following many collaborations with Sissy Spacek. In a roaring daytime session, the pair performed two sets, approximately 20 minutes each, of finely detailed fast paced electronics. Recorded November 2023 at Technology Hour Extra Volume 3 at Freaky Show, Shizuoka, Japan. Digipak CD presented by Helicopter and Troniks. Art and design by John Wiese.

CD $13.50

08/30/2024 657628449256 

HEL 81007 


MP3 $6.99

08/23/2024 657628449256 

HEL 81007 


FLAC $7.99

08/23/2024 657628449256 

HEL 81007 


Ride The Wild Night by Swami John Reis

Swami John Reis

Ride The Wild Night
Swami

Swami John Reis celebrates his 100th year in rock ’n’ roll with a brand new band and record! Neither similar nor dissimilar to his previous bands (Hot Snakes, Night Marchers, The Sultans, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, etc) yet immediately familiar (like an old friend asking to borrow some money). The music is an amalgam of ’60s folk punk, ’70s punk, and pre-Vietnam War rock ’n’ roll with only one or two new ideas introduced to the form. The sound is built on stentorian bedrock of savage drumming by J. Sinclair K. of Hot Snakes and the pounding piano of Joe Guevara. Swami John Reis commits audio crime with his throaty basso and then weaponizes the files with electric guitar roar, acoustic strum and bass guitar. Hear his defiant, croak howl in protest in what might be his most autobiographical work yet. Music critics and fans alike have long referred to Reis’s signature voice as “The Velvet Yawn” and never has that description been more apt. Ride The Wild Night was recorded at City Of Refuge (Night Marchers, Black Lips, The Spits) on an 8-track tape machine and mixed by Ben Moore (Hot Snakes, Diamanda Galas) at Singing Serpent. Repressed on black vinyl!!!

LP $22.00

03/04/2022 733102718916 

SWA 152 LP 


MP3 $7.99

03/04/2022 733102718916 

SWA 152 


FLAC $8.99

03/04/2022 733102718916 

SWA 152 


Ride The Wild Night / I Hate My Neighbors In The Yellow House by Swami John Reis

Swami John Reis

Ride The Wild Night / I Hate My Neighbors In The Yellow House
Swami

The debut of the new Swami John Reis band! With Jason K. Sinclair on drums and Joe Guevara on piano. Indulge yourself with these 2 terse gems rife with manic acoustic strummering, piano and synth hammering and booming drums. A little’s a lot! From the upcoming LP “Ride The Wild Night”.

MP3 $1.98

10/09/2020 767870665011 

 


FLAC $2.49

10/09/2020 767870665011 

 


***Unreleased underground Texas hard rock from 1975! First release anywhere, anytime! Heavy grooves with dense, layered guitars and Deep Purple / Black Sabbath style vocals from bassist T.J. SANDERS. HONEST JOHN was a band that meant business at a time when most bands were softening their sound for radio. Not these guys! Honest John did release an extremely rare 7" on the Baron label (BRN45006): slinky track 'Brighter Day' b/w the chunky and hard driving 'Face the Crowd;" but that was all that ever emerged from the sessions until now. It was in fact all the world knew of Honest John, aside from folks blown away by hearing them on tour in Texas playing frat parties, bars, military bases, and sleazy rock clubs in the early 1970s. Honest John's Sailor is a living, breathing tribute to OTTIS COLEMAN, who should have long ago been celebrated as a true Texas guitar great. Features Coleman's stellar guitar and engineered by future Mojave Audio honcho and key figure in 1970 rock in Houston, DUSTY WAKEMAN. Coleman and Wakeman both later joined Houston blues rockers BUZZ BONE, which featured Dan Mitchell and Tom Moore post-Moving Sidewalks. But it has always been the Honest John sessions that they longed to have released. We at Lion Productions are proud to present the album Honest John wanted to release, at long long last. A definitive statement of heaviness. Edition of 500 copies housed in gatefold jackets.

LP $22.75

04/07/2017 778578316013 

LION LP 160 


A panorama of vocals drifting over a densely processed terrain of mud-caked percussion and guitar, Leafcutter John’s new solo album, Resurrection, is a characteristically unique blend of the electronic and the acoustic, the hi-tech, the human and the homemade. Resurrection is the sixth Leafcutter John album and his first solo release since 2006’s The Forest and The Sea CD / LP (Staubgold). In the intervening nine years, John has toured from Vietnam to Venice, appeared live with Beck Hansen and Imogen Heap, and provided the score for Crow, a major theater project by Handspring (creators of War Horse). During this time, John has also maintained his permanent role as the unpredictable, electronic antagonist in Polar Bear, the twice-Mercury-Music-Prize-nominated, genre-defying jazz band. Resurrection begins with the sound of a single bell, in homage to one of John’s major influences, Bernard Parmigiani’s De Natura Sonorum (1976). From there, the album unfolds over five cinematically varied tracks, “like floating above a world in constant flux.” Not content with the usual tools available to the electronic musician, John has created innovative new systems and techniques for both live performance and production. This includes a light-controlled instrument that allows him to manipulate his live sound through gesture, flickering candles, flashing torches and pyrotechnics. For the track “Gulps,” John coded special software to layer huge swathes of sound. Using a recursive system, he created 7.1 billion layers of a recording of the North Sea, one for each human alive on the planet at the time of...

LP $17.50

06/09/2015 600197690918 

PATHWAY 009 


MP3 $9.90

05/26/2015 600197690918 

 


FLAC $11.99

05/26/2015 600197690918 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Death by kowabunga bunga! Swami John Reis and the Blind Shake pay tribute to the classic surf and rock n roll instrumentals of the 1960’s and update the genre for today's more extreme, modern surfer. 13 original, modern surf compositions create this tidal wave of booming tom toms, skronking saxophones and a chaotic surge of guitars. Let this south swell topple you and may you be pinned in its undertow of reverb.   Swami John Reis uses a similar aggro guitar approach as his playing in Hot Snakes and Night Marchers but allows the influences of Omar Khorshid, The Ventures, Link Wray, Randy Holden’s Fender IV and many other forgotten, instro combos rise to the surface for air. Joining Swami is Minneapolis’ The Blind Shake (Goner Records, Castle Face). The Blind Shake is a bombastic, power trio consisting of guitar, baritone guitar and drums and whose sound can be described as “muscular psych punk”. This collaboration generates a symphonic wall of twang and amplifies a cinematic sense of drama and tension with the addition of saxophone, doumbek, piano, riq, vibraphone and piano. To capture the essence of this vibe, some of the initial tracking of this material was recorded under Crystal Pier (San Diego) by Ben Moore who utilized a mobile recording VW van.   Because of the intense rhythmic velocity achieved on many of these tracks, this record can also be recommended to those interested in BMX, roller skateboarding, snowboarding/toboggan, fighting, yoga, car...

LP $13.00

02/03/2015 655035214412 

SWA 144LP 


CD $12.00

02/03/2015 655035214429 

SWA 144CD 


MP3 $9.90

02/03/2015 655035214429 

 


FLAC $11.99

02/03/2015 655035214429 

 


Frustrated Conversation by Dear John

Dear John

Frustrated Conversation
BDR

***A 30th anniversary re-release of the 1981 7-inch from St. Louis power pop group DEAR JOHN. The band only lasted a couple of years, but they managed to release on regionally acclaimed 7-inch on their own A.K.A. records. The single has been a tough find for collectors, BDR found out why when the band’s ROBERT KUHLMANN informed them that he found half of the original pressing in storage during a visit to his mother’s house. These remaining copies (350 total) are packaged in new sleeves (only a small number of sleeves were printed the first time around) featuring notes and other ephemera.

7" $7.25

01/10/2012  

BDR 05 


The death of Mark E. Smith has hit many a music fan hard. And when Honey Radar were challenged to record a Fall song for a single, they turned it in almost overnight! John Peel’s collection of saying “Mark E. Smith” and “The Fall” was from a YouTube clip. Long live The Fall.

MP3 $1.98

02/16/2018 647603400471 

 


FLAC $2.49

02/16/2018 647603400471 

 


Injury Train And I’m Never Getting Off It & Vulnerability by Olivia Neutron-John

Olivia Neutron-John

Injury Train And I’m Never Getting Off It & Vulnerability
Gilgongo

***BACK IN PRINT WITH NEW COVER ART IN HIGH GLOSS JACKETS "RAW, GLITTERING, PSYCHEDELIC... OLIVIA NEUTRON-JOHN, is a NON-BINARY, POST-BRO one person music/dance declaration of war on the accepted and the expected. The Olivia Neutron-John LP won't be seen in any record stores. They won't know where to put it. There isn't any card, section, genre, that can contain it The grooves barely fit on the album even… this is a record unlike any other. In an era when groups are formalistic recitations of previous groups, loathe to show any personality, innovation, or opinion—for fear of jeopardizing a future career in sales or politics—Olivia Neutron-John is a vital bolt from the blue, a radical arrival which signals something outside of noise, punk, disco, pop… Appearing fully formed, without a note or groove out of place, the O N-J record is a total statement; something brand new, a strike against complacency, a challenge thrown at the content-less stagnation of modern indie, garage, and whatever other tiresome genre exercises are being paraded around at the corporate festivals. Combining two cassette only releases by O N-J, (Injury Train and I’m Never Getting Off It & Vulnerability), O N-J's debut vinyl album captures the intensity of the same live performance that's transfixing audiences coast to coast. Olivia Neutron-John is ANNA NASTY (CHAIN & THE GANG, VEGETABLE) on keyboards, voice, saxophone… joined on the LP by MISHA POLESHCHUK (NO BABIES) on saxophone for this chunk of pure Casio crystal."—Ian Svenonius.

LP $14.00

07/14/2017  

 


MP3 $7.99

07/14/2017 647603398648 

 


FLAC $8.99

07/14/2017 647603398648 

 


***A collaboration between electronic duo METALUX and sound levitator JOHN WIESE (BASTARD NOISE, SISSY SPACEK). Seven seamless tracks that mix throbbing rhythmic noise with chopped vocals, oscillation wave forms, and groans. For late nights and early mornings.

MP3 $5.99

04/01/2016 655035183428 

 


FLAC $6.99

04/01/2016 655035183428 

 


***Two sessions, one recorded by mail in 2004, and one recorded at a studio in Shinjuku, 2009, alternating between sharp, cut-up collage, fleeting junk sounds, hard electronics, noise, and vocals. Boxset with many inserts from MASAYA NAKAHARA (formerly VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA).

7+2XMC $25.25

10/02/2012 655035170770 

H 63 


MP3 $5.99

09/17/2012 655035170770 

H 63 


An impressive display of both incredible composition and furious power from experimental masterminds MERZBOW and JOHN WIESE (SISSY SPACEK, BASTARD NOISE, SUNN O))), etc.). Pulling no punches, the duo unleash extreme electronics with no beats, prog, or techno crutches.

MP3 $7.99

03/01/2004 655035508528 

H Multiplication 


Music For William Eggleston's Stranded In Canton by J Spaceman & John Coxon

J Spaceman & John Coxon

Music For William Eggleston's Stranded In Canton
Fat Possum

***In 2015, J Spaceman, John Coxon, and friends performed a new original score for William Eggleston's Stranded in Canton live at a special film screening at the Barbican Gallery in London. The recording sat on a shelf for 10 years, and is finally unveiled through this release. Housed in gatefold jackets with matte varnish and UV spot outer printing. Includes an 8-page booklet. Limited white vinyl edition features alternate artwork. Spaceman and Coxon will perform the work in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Eggleston’s hometown of Memphis, on the invitation of the photographer’s son Winston Eggleston.

LP $35.75

11/01/2024 767981184814 

FP 1848-1 


LP COLOR $40.85

11/01/2024 767981184838 

FP 1848-3 


Ka Baird is a musical enigma of the best kind: multi-instrumentalist and singer, founding member of the influential psych-folk group Spires That in the Sunset Rise, hers is a unique voice that bridges avant-garde traditions, psychedelia, and perhaps sonic psycho-spiritual practices as yet unnamed. John Saint-Pelvyn, known for his idiosyncratic drifting, combines finger picked guitar with subtle feedback tones, voice, and theremin–which he usually plays by thrashing the air with his guitar neck in a manner that has drawn comparisons to Beefheart's approach to clarinet. While holed up in a painter's studio for three days one Massachusetts winter, and with the help of the bubbling drones of Camilla Padgitt-Coles, they created what might be described as a soundscape celebrating the lotus eaters of a coming utopia. Populated by beneficial spirits and strange large eyed animals that peer from a broken woodland, Five Years Inside The Sun was recorded live with no rehearsals; a stream of consciousness, a state of bright paradoxical waking that is more like an augmented dream. Sun-orange vinyl comes packaged in a beautiful panoramic tri-fold cover featuring a lithograph by print artist Jenny Schmid.

LP $16.00

11/07/2017  

LPKA BAFive 


***Insane hars electronics. A 10 year anniversary reissue of the Troniks LP (2006).

CD $12.00

05/13/2016 655035183022 

H 74 CD 


MP3 $5.99

05/03/2016 655035183022 

 


FLAC $6.99

05/03/2016 655035183022 

 


Let It Rust / Caught Up by Metz & Swami John Reis

Metz & Swami John Reis

Let It Rust / Caught Up
Swami

Metz teaming up with Swami John Reis is a collaboration easy to wrap one’s head around.  When Metz found themselves on tour in San Diego with a couple of hours to spare, Reis immediately booked some studio time in the hopes of capturing this union’s glorious noise. The four of them came up with these two songs and now they are friends for life. The sound is reminiscent of an army of seagulls attacking a blind sushi chef inside a burning Benihana of Tokyo.

7" $7.75

04/16/2016 655035215075 

SWA 150 


MP3 $1.98

04/16/2016 655035215075 

 


All On The First Day by Tony Caro And John

Tony Caro And John

All On The First Day
Gaarden

***A reissue of the obscure yet classic psych folk gem All On The First Day by TONY CARO AND JOHN. Originally released in 1972, this album was somehow buried in the “stuff drawer” of time to be recently rediscovered by those inclined to look. The band was featured on the British Love Peace & Poetry LP and had Baltimore group Beach House cover their “Snowdon Song” on their debut album (re-titling it “Lovelier Girl”). Somewhere between the whimsy of The Incredible String Band and the stark beauty of Vashti Bunyan lie Tony Caro and John.

LP $16.35

05/04/2010  

GAARD LP 004 


Gris-Gris (Black Vinyl) by Dr. John

Dr. John

Gris-Gris (Black Vinyl)
Jackpot

***REISSUED ON BLACK VINYL!!! 1968 debut album from the king of the psychedelic bayou—the hypnotic, mystical and powerful sound of the swamp coming to life. As he became DR. JOHN (real name MAC REBENNACK), it was his LA session work with musicians like Sonny & Cher, Canned Heat, and Zappa that allowed him to start conjuring up his visions of guitar psych-pop to walk alongside his authentic New Orleans upbringing. While Gris Gris contains moments that make it a type stamped symbol of its era, it might have well been made in outer space. Recorded in its own psychic and stylistic vacuum, the album borrows as heavily from the New Orleans’ musical culture in which he grew up as it does the looming continuous pulse of war, heavy drugs, and the end of the free love/hippie movement. The album was taken under the wing of a small percentage of the “underground” upon its release in 1968 and did not find a true following for years. Original 1968 mono mix sourced from the original tapes.

LP $31.95

02/14/2025 843563178577 

JPR 051 B 


***REISSUED!!! Fear is the first of John Cale's three studio albums for Island Records, all of which were released in a period of just over a year. During this time Cale was also producing records for other artists, working on albums such as Horses (1975) by Patti Smith, one of the most influential of all proto-punk records. In addition to his lead vocals on Fear, Cale also played keyboards, guitars, viola, violin and bass, and was joined by Fairport Convention's Richard Thompson, Roxy Music's Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera, and other artists who were signed to Island at the time. "Gun" features an unusual two-man guitar solo from Manzanera and Eno, with the latter using a synthesizer to process the former's guitar playing in real-time.

LP $32.25

08/30/2024 8013252900105 

VL 900105 LP 


***This is the album version of the 2023 Netflix special—a wide-ranging conversation between John Mulaney, a kid in the balcony named Henry, and the rest of the sold-out crowd at Boston’s Symphony Hall. John dominates the chat, of course—nobody would want it otherwise—but damn, his cautionary tales might be a little TOO hilarious….and the album concludes with a song from David Byrne's score for the special.

CD $15.50

05/24/2024 781484090922 

DC 909 CD 


2XLP $29.45

05/24/2024 781484090915 

DC 909 


When you're this, this in love by Southworth, John

Southworth, John

When you're this, this in love
Tin Angel

When you're this, this in love is the thirteenth studio album from John Southworth following the release of his previous musical film, novel and podcast Rialto and the critically acclaimed Niagara. With When you're this, this in love he put all his signature sounds together so if somebody was going to ask what record of his they should listen to then this would be a good start because it has all his styles of song done pretty good on it. He mostly sings folk songs sometimes dressed up as lounge ballads, rock nocturnes, classical chansons, time traveling, lucid, jazzy feeling pop songs too. It might irk the base of your taste or the taste of your base. But it's not so contrarian as that. His songs are pleas. Laments. Jean Martin – drums and percussion Justin Orok – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar John Southworth – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards Ben Whiteley – bass with: Kevin Breit – electric guitar on "Wondering what went wrong" Rebecca Hennessy – accordion on "Tiny Tim" and "Vow;" trumpet on "Time to unwind;" peck horn on "Vow" Aline Homzy – violin on "Vow" and "Down in the under" Felicity Williams – vocals on "Angel landing" Jesse Zubot – violin on "Vertigo" and "Heroes of Eros"

LP $28.00

03/08/2024 5052442023234 

TAR 114 


***On Fathom, we hear the sound of the world mirrored back to us. An improvisational collaboration from legendary British multi-instrumentalist John Butcher, Pat Thomas on piano, Dominic Lash on double bass, and Steve Noble on drums, the four artists play generously together. Fathom is an impressive work of avant-garde jazz that’s reminiscent of the non-musical world: squeaky wheels, growing tension, a babbling brook, all winding into lush harmonies. This marks Butcher’s debut for 577 Records.

LP $21.95

02/02/2024 736952026514 

5914 LP 


Magnetic Stencil 3 by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Magnetic Stencil 3
Gilgongo

***Originally co-released by Helicopter and Troniks as CDs, Magnetic Stencil 1-3 is a series of albums produced using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions from a large and diverse group over the course of the three volumes. While elements from the individual artists may ebb and flow throughout the releases, the series once again highlights Wiese’s uncanny abilities as an architect of creative sound. Composed and mixed by John Wiese, Cleveland, Ohio throughout 2020, featuring: Aaron Dilloway, James Fella, Hair Stylistics, Aaron Hemphill, C. Lavender, Charmaine Lee, Lasse Marhaug, Katsura Mouri, C. Spencer Yeh. Magnetic Stencil 2 features Aaron Dilloway, T. Mikawa, Joe Potts, Robert Turman. Magnetic Stencil 3 features Mitchell Brown, James Fella, Nathan Howdeshell, Tim Kinsella, John Collins McCormick, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Howard Stelzer, Dennis Tyfus, Katie Vonderheide, and C. Spencer Yeh.

LP $19.50

08/11/2023  

GGGR 133 


Magnetic Stencil 2 by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Magnetic Stencil 2
Gilgongo

***Originally co-released by Helicopter and Troniks as CDs, Magnetic Stencil 1-3 is a series of albums produced using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions from a large and diverse group over the course of the three volumes. While elements from the individual artists may ebb and flow throughout the releases, the series once again highlights Wiese’s uncanny abilities as an architect of creative sound. Composed and mixed by John Wiese, Cleveland, Ohio throughout 2020, featuring: Aaron Dilloway, James Fella, Hair Stylistics, Aaron Hemphill, C. Lavender, Charmaine Lee, Lasse Marhaug, Katsura Mouri, C. Spencer Yeh. Magnetic Stencil 2 features Aaron Dilloway, T. Mikawa, Joe Potts, Robert Turman. Magnetic Stencil 3 features Mitchell Brown, James Fella, Nathan Howdeshell, Tim Kinsella, John Collins McCormick, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Howard Stelzer, Dennis Tyfus, Katie Vonderheide, and C. Spencer Yeh.

LP $19.50

08/11/2023  

GGGR 132 


Magnetic Stencil 1 by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Magnetic Stencil 1
Gilgongo

***Originally co-released by Helicopter and Troniks as CDs, Magnetic Stencil 1-3 is a series of albums produced using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions from a large and diverse group over the course of the three volumes. While elements from the individual artists may ebb and flow throughout the releases, the series once again highlights Wiese’s uncanny abilities as an architect of creative sound. Composed and mixed by John Wiese, Cleveland, Ohio throughout 2020, featuring: Aaron Dilloway, James Fella, Hair Stylistics, Aaron Hemphill, C. Lavender, Charmaine Lee, Lasse Marhaug, Katsura Mouri, C. Spencer Yeh. Magnetic Stencil 2 features Aaron Dilloway, T. Mikawa, Joe Potts, Robert Turman. Magnetic Stencil 3 features Mitchell Brown, James Fella, Nathan Howdeshell, Tim Kinsella, John Collins McCormick, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Howard Stelzer, Dennis Tyfus, Katie Vonderheide, and C. Spencer Yeh.

LP $19.50

08/11/2023  

GGGR 131 


Proofs and Refutations by Fahey, John

Fahey, John

Proofs and Refutations
Drag City

***Recorded circa 1995/96, mostly in John Fahey’s room at a Salem, Oregon boardinghouse, the performances on Proofs & Refutations prefigure the ornery turn of the page that marked Fahey’s final years, drawing another enigmatic rabbit from his seemingly bottomless musical hat, making delightfully confounding demands upon your listening (and thinking) ear.

LP $21.95

09/08/2023 781484075912 

DC 759 


***Super groups are always risky—the potential for disappointing fans or warring musical styles is high—but when longtime friends and masterful improvisers come together, they usually work. Evident in their first collaboration, simply titled Volume 1, John Dikeman (Saxophone; When The Time Is Right, 577 Records, 2021) joined musicians Pat Thomas (Piano; Shifa Live at Cafe Oto 2019, BleySchool 2019, Shifa Live in Oslo 2020, Educated Guess 2021), John Edwards (Bass; EMPoWered. 577 Records, 2021), and Steve Noble (Drums) for a dynamic collaboration. Volume 2 echoes the wide dynamic range of their first project, combining fast-paced, complex jazz in-the-moment arrangements with elegant solo gems from each musician, highlighting their best work, together and independently.

LP $21.95

04/21/2023 736952026712 

5861 


John Andrews is something of an open secret in a certain corner of the music scene: a versatile musician and animator. A film school drop out whose work hat-tips tradition as much as outsider anti-aesthetics. He’s spent over a decade on the DIY circuit, playing early house shows alongside then up-and-coming peers Weyes Blood and Daniel Bachman. Today he is still out there projecting his sketchy hand-drawn animations during his performances in coffee shops, small galleries and non-traditional venues. Andrews’ painterly approach now introduces the listener to his version of New York City, the place he was bound to end up after years of dwelling in Pennsylvania farm towns and New Hampshire barns. There is handmade vibrancy to the world he’s imagined here: intimate moments seen from the interior, looking outward from hole-in-the-wall restaurants, theaters and the fragments of peace found within the restless and dirty street corners. Love For The Underdog, his aptly titled fourth release with the Woodsist label, was tracked live to tape in various studios and apartments across the Empire State with help from his bandmates in Cut Worms’ touring outfit, Max Clarke, Keven Lareau and Noah Bond. Buoyant melodies are supported by timeless string arrangements, translated from Andrews’ head to page with the help of friend Simon Hanes. The string quartet follows the tradition of Francoise Hardy, Harry Nilsson, Margo Guryan and Belle and Sebastian, giving the whole thing a cinematic ambience with stark shadows of an Edward Hopper painting. The lyrics tie together narratives...

LP $19.00

04/28/2023 795154138036 

WOODSIST105 


MP3 $9.90

04/28/2023 795154138036 

WOODSIST105 


FLAC $11.99

04/28/2023 795154138036 

WOODSIST105 


Barely saved from obscurity by a series of chance events, John Fizer’s only recorded album Treasure Man will finally see the light of day. Forty-five years in the making, while for the last twenty-nine years Fizer has been “living rough” couch surfing, sleeping in play structures, friend’s backyards and more recently his old Volvo station wagon. Fizer is currently residing in a nursing facility in Northern California. Below is the story of how this never before heard album came to Scissor Tail’s attention. “I used to walk my daughter to school and passed the original Peet’s coffee every day. Across the street was Berkeley’s beloved John ‘Treasure Man’ Fizer playing chess, doing crosswords and waiting next to the treasure tree which he had filled with gemstones and various magical trinkets. To this day any child passing by is welcome to choose a treasure. Over many stops with my daughter I got to know John, a fountain of love, intelligence and humor and as quirky and feisty as can be. We became friends. Eventually he showed me a few old cassettes of cassettes of cassettes in poor condition of him performing and asked if I could make them sound better. I agreed to take a listen. Such amazing songs! “So I proceeded to remaster the cassettes while continuing to ask John at least four times over several months if he had the original master studio recordings. The answer was always no. About the time I finally had his cassette sourced recordings...

LP $20.25

01/20/2023 719104892663 

SCTR 059 


MP3 $9.90

01/20/2023 795154138166 

SCTR 059 


FLAC $11.99

01/20/2023 795154138166 

SCTR 059 


Models of Duration by Mccowen, John

Mccowen, John

Models of Duration
Astral Spirits

***The latest from the uncompromising John McCowen is a split release between Dinzu Artefacts and Astral Spirits. Models of Duration follows the same trajectory as McCowen's other amazing solo releases—Solo Contra (International Anthem, 2017), 4 Chairs in 3 Dimensons (Astral Spirits, 2018), Mundanas I - V (Editions Wandelweiser, 2018) but is also a whole world beyond those. McCowen continues to focus on extended possibilities of the clarinet family as well as acoustic phenomena (as with all his previous releases, there is no amplification or electronically generated sounds here) and it all shines through more dramatically than ever on Models of Duration. "Duration I" & "Duration II" bookend the record with similarly sustained and rhythmic drones that prepare us for what is to come & also bring us back into the real world at the end of the record. "Foggd" and "Hoskin" both traverse new levels of intensity that McCowen hasn't hit before. Just when you get settled into any of the four tracks on the album and think you know what's coming next, McCowen subtly shifts tones and sounds enough to surprise, while still maintaining a steady through line. While Models of Duration is technically a solo release, you will notice that Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Master Musicians of Bukkake, Eyvind Kang, Oren Ambarchi, Earth, Anna Von Hausswolff, Six Organs of Admittance, Marissa Nadler, Boris, etc) is credited and also plays a major role on the record. The overall arc of the album is in large part due to Dunn's...

LP $19.85

09/09/2022  

AS 195 / DNZ77 


***Super groups are not a riskless endeavor—but when they’re made up of longtime friends and master improvisers, they tend to work. On their collaboration, simply titled Volume 1, American saxophonist John Dikeman is accompanied by a group of UK-based musicians: pianist Pat Thomas, bassist John Edwards, and drummer Steve Noble. The album’s two tracks are dynamic and surprising, opening with a bombastic 10-minute piece, followed by a minimalist, quieting 30-minute performance.

CD $13.75

12/24/2021 755491220764 

5861 CD 


LP $22.15

12/23/2022 36952026811 

5861 


***EMPoWered documents an improvisational live performance from British musicians John Edwards (Double Bass), N.O. Moore (Guitar), and Eddie Prévost (Drums). The three musicians have comprised a longstanding trio, known for their vigorous riffs and unconventional introspection. But in this performance, their group expanded to include saxophonist Alan Wilkinson, adding a deeply resonant, full-bellied sound to their otherwise discrete and dynamic in-the-moment compositions. Their pace is constantly shifting, reflecting both an instant rapport between the players, and a tight command of their styles. This performance, in particular, calls to Sonny Sharrock’s Ask the Ages recording, and Elvin Jones’s percussive legacy. Moore’s longstanding affinity for electronic manipulation can also be heard in his use of the guitar’s self-oscillating echos, as well as filters and distortion throughout the performance. This is Moore & Prévost’s second release on 577 Records after The Secret Handshake with Danger, Vol. 1 (Olie Brice, Binker Golding, Henry Kaiser, N. O. Moore, Eddie Prévost).

CD $13.75

10/22/2021 755491214404 

 


(Colored) Anytime, Anyplace by Dr. John

Dr. John

(Colored) Anytime, Anyplace
Lilith

***Lilith present a reissue of Dr. John 's Anytime, Anyplace , originally released in 1974. Cutting his teeth on New Orleans session work while still a teen in the 1950s, pianist and singer Dr. John (born Mac Rebennack ) emerged in the late 1960s with Gris-Gris , a blend of snaky rhythms, Crescent City funk, and swampland voodoo flair. Since then, he has remained one of New Orleans's prime musical ambassadors, an artist with his own trademark sound and style. These sessions actually have a feeling not unlike his early-70s work. Most of the titles are self-penned, and there are also a few Professor Longhair covers. If you like vintage Dr. John, this is almost mandatory. Clear vinyl.

LP $25.95

10/08/2021 889397743017 

LR 301C LP 


“John Andrews is picking flowers from each corner of his life and presenting you with an unusual bouquet. His imaginary band ‘The Yawns’ are back! Third time’s a charm. In hockey terms, they call it a ‘hat trick’ and you know who’s always wearing a ratty old hat? John Andrews. Three years in the making and we have Cookbook, the third, and most colorful record from your favorite New Hampshire based craftsman. “Unknowing folks usually assume he lives in New York City or Los Angeles but confer with John for five minutes and if he’s in the right mood he’ll talk your ear off about the granite state and the old, seedy colonial barn where he’s tracked his records with his weird and wonderful friends. “Take a listen to his previous effort, 2017’s Bad Posture. It was the grassroot slacker’s pie in the sky. His head was stuck in the past. He probably excessively listened to ‘Cripple Creek Ferry’ and he most likely wasn’t keeping up with household chores. Time moves on, but just look at him now! All grown up yet likely still feeling those growing pains. After a few more years of traveling we now have Cookbook, fresh out the oven…phew! About nine or ten new tracks, but who’s really counting? “The lyrics are simple and endearing, inspired by mid-century love songs. His inspirations are all across the board. If his subconscious was a bootleg taper, life would be the show. “At any rate, it doesn’t sound like...

LP $17.50

05/14/2021 767870664816 

 


CD $12.00

05/20/2022  

WOODSIST 101 CD 


MP3 $9.90

05/14/2021 767870664816 

WOODSIST 101 


FLAC $11.99

05/14/2021 767870664816 

WOODSIST101 


Shoot Out The Cameras by Sharkey, John III

Sharkey, John III

Shoot Out The Cameras
12xu

***Written and recorded amidst the devastating bushfires which ravaged his adopted hometown Canberra, just before the wave of pandemic broke, Shoot Out The Cameras reveals John Sharkey III to be a master craftsman; honing in on the existential dread of living in a burning world, and the imperative to find beauty in what remains. Perhaps best known as the creative force behind Clockcleaner, Sharkey’s credentials include Cleveland's 9 Shocks Terror and more recently, literate rock explorations as Puerto Rico Flowers and Dark Blue., the latter having released a pair of 12XU full-lengths. It was love (of course) that brought Sharkey from Philly to Melbourne in 2008, where he worked behind the bar at beloved venue, The Tote. Sharkey and his partner Yasmin moved back to Philly for several years; then, amid the darkening landscape of US politics, the couple decided to settle in Canberra, Yasmin’s hometown. At a physical but not psychological remove from the horrifying dysfunction of Trump’s America, Sharkey watched catastrophic bushfires encircle Canberra, raging through the hills of the Southern Tablelands, the city glowing orange, the suburbs suffocating in smoke. This is when the songs of Shoot Out The Cameras took form. As if to echo the craters of “before” and “after” that apocalyptic events leave in our collective consciousness, the songs arranged themselves into a cinematic narrative arc, from the foreboding of disaster (Side A) through its aftermath (Side B). The background horrors of totalitarianism, paranoia and surveillance also stalk the album—he cameras of the title...

LP $17.75

03/12/2021 3521 

12XU 130-1 


***Life, Orange to Pear follows a man and his daughter Cyndi as they deal with life, the occult, Santa Claus, boys, and death. This universe is a strange and rich place, and sometimes it takes booze and a surreal understanding of sex and The Rockford Files to get through life. Mostly though what it takes is a deep and abiding love for the richness of oranges and pears, how their scent can take you over and make everything in the moment all right. 45 pages. "In an age of superficiality, mediocrity, and sound-cliches, John Brantingham is a genuine throwback to when Men of Letters roamed the literary prairies: a scholar, novelist, poet, essayist, scriptwriter, public speaker, reviewer, professor, mentor, and festival organizer.  He is first-rate in everything he turns his mind and hand to.   His poems benefit from the breadth of his life experiences as well as his formal academic training.  His creative and intellectual emanations brim with his enthusiasms, his versatility, and the depths of spirituality and social conscience at the core of his soul.  There is no one of whom I could speak more highly, as a writer and as a person."—Gerald Locklin, poet "John Brantingham’s ability to convey the essence of his characters is unparalleled. The emotional truths on the page resonate deep within the reader. His ear for dialogue, his ability to render just the right details of a scene is an impeccable balance of control and sensitivity. Effortless authenticity. What a joy to read his...

BK $9.25

11/27/2020 9781947240070 

9781947240070 


In 1995, John Davis and Dennis Callaci improvised an album of songs together live to one track. Not an ambient, instrumental meander of a record, but songs complete with them / there lyrics, melodies and hiccups. In the time since that record was recorded Davis went on to record a follow up record with The Folk Implosion and a number of solo records. Callaci continued recording records with Refrigerator as well as solo records. Over three days in July of last year, the two songwriters improvised this record, Arches & Pathways, in the same manner, except that there was an engineer on hand and the thing was recorded in Hi-fi. Songs were recorded, layered, overdubbed, scratched in real time, with the two of them sharing vocal and guitar duties. Additionally, Davis’s drumming adds that left-bank swing to the stands, and the Callaci piano dust is shaken from the ivories. The result is an expansive record that is equal parts pop melody and avant-en-garde living inside one another, not side stepping for a bit of this or that between the dead wax grooves.

LP $24.00

11/27/2020 767870664212 

SHR 202 


MP3 $9.90

11/27/2020 767870664212 

SHR 202 


FLAC $11.99

11/27/2020 767870664212 

SHR 202 


Pure Night Plus by Davis, John

Davis, John

Pure Night Plus
Shrimper

John Davis’s earliest recordings on Shrimper are being reissued in conjunction with Davis’s Inundation label (which issued his instrumental record Gnawing On The Bone last year). This double CD includes his debut cassette (Stars & Songs, 1993), 7-inch EP (R.I.P., D.I.Y., 1993) and LP (Pure Night, 1994), along with a four song EP that was originally tucked into a split single with Sandra Bell, (Instress Vol. 1, 1995) and seven bonus tracks, six of them unreleased. New extensive liner notes by John Davis and Adam Green of The Moldy Peaches explore Davis’s beginnings in The Palace Brothers and the bridge that would lead him to The Folk Implosion. The original recordings have been remastered from the master tapes by engineer and producer Matt Pence. The original artwork by Davis and his sister Theo has been tracked down and lovingly rendered here, merging with unreleased photographs in a six page eco-pack with a sixteen page booklet. These fifty stark and intimate home recordings are out of place and out of time, as unable to date with carbon as those of Moondog, Harry Partch, Annette Peacock and other one person bands of gold. These timeless melodies would go on to influence a generation of songwriters, and are presented here in all of their minimal glory.

2XCD $16.00

09/25/2020 767870663826 

SHR 203 CD 


MP3 $9.90

09/25/2020 767870663826 

SHR 203 


FLAC $11.99

09/25/2020 767870663826 

SHR 203 


***Emmy Award winning comedian JOHN MULANEY aims to recapture the magic of that bygone television era when children sang songs about their feelings with celebrity guests on funky outdoor sets with John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch, a television special that premiered December 24, 2019 on Netflix. Now, Christmas is coming again like never before, with physical LP and CD editions of the soundtrack! This includes a special peelable sticker on the cover of the LP edition, allowing children of all ages to pick at it! Who are John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch and what is this album? Well, John Mulaney is a 6 ft tall comedian with many credits and two awards and he was born on a humid August night in 1982. The Sack Lunch Bunch is a group of children ages 8–13, born after the turn of the 21st century, and they are each unique human beings with way more talent than Mr. Mulaney. With the brilliant musical chameleon and Emmy nominated composer ELI BOLIN, Mulaney and his co-writer MARIKA SAWYER put together some songs and then were joined by guests like DAVID BYRNE, Tony Award winner ANDRE DE SHIELDS, ANNALEIGH ASHFORD, SHEREEN PIMENTEL, and JAKE GYLLENHAAL from the movie Zodiac! The sonic result is this soundtrack album.

LP $31.95

06/19/2020 781484077411 

DC 774 


CD $13.75

06/19/2020 781484077428 

DC 774 CD 


***The work of JOHN COLLINS MCCORMICK straddles sculpture and music by using sound as material to highlight the ability of sound to change scale through visual and sonic rhythms and textures. What is heard is generated by small objects, percussion and electronics—interactions occurring in the realm of art and noise: a McCormick performance may consist of repurposed motors, clutter jostling on exposed speakers or something familiar from your office rolling across floor in an unfamiliar way. Ad For Nails functions as a sort of audio diary, finding these types of sounds woven between field recordings, captured conversation and old-fashioned drum kit. McCormick’s LP offers a peak into his sonic world and how these pieces of it may be heard (including the types of moments in which we instinctively feel there may be nothing to hear at all).

LP $14.50

09/06/2019  

GGGR 098 


Seven Of Wands by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Seven Of Wands
Gilgongo

***Gilgongo Records presents the highly anticipated debut vinyl edition of JOHN WIESE's acclaimed album, Seven of Wands. Uniquely beautiful, immersive, and transportive, it utilizes strategies and techniques of musique concrète and electroacoustic music, while emphasizing the mixing desk as a true instrument. This new 2×LP set contains a full side of previously unreleased material from the archives—making it essential for aficionados and a perfect introduction to Wiese’s solo work. Previously available as an import CD from PAN.

2XLP $25.50

07/05/2019  

GGGR 100 


“Rich, multi-layered vocal studies and shortwave electronics from avant-garde polymath John Duncan (LAFMS, collaborator with Pan Sonic, Chris & Cosey, Jim O’Rourke and countless others), bolstered by synths, drum machines and arrangements by Joachim Nordwall. Highly recommended if you’re into anything from Scott Walker and Pere Ubu to Jay Glass Dubs, Coil and Ilpo Väisänen’s classic Liima Versions.​  Venerable avant-garde composer John Duncan follows his prized cycle of cover versions ‘Bitter Earth’ [2016] with ‘Conventional Wisdom’; a truly beguiling suite of original, stony avant-blooz songs produced in collaboration with iDEAL boss Joachim Nordwall, and marking another high point in both of their respective catalogues. After coming out as a vocalist to memorably striking effect in 2016, Duncan compounds the effect by placing his original lyrics in stark arrangements ranging from shortwave radio-streaked dark ambient settings and Mika Vainio-esque isolationism, to deathly dubs driven by Nordwall’s rugged rhythms in a style that heavily recalls Jay Glass Dubs’ recent ‘Epitaph’ LP. An original and close associate of LAFMS co-founder Tom Recchion, and collaborator with everyone from Chris & Cosey to Asmus Tietchens, Merzbow and Andrew Mckenzie (The Hafler Trio), Duncan is well versed in the art of f*cking with music. Doing so since the ‘70s, it’s only in recent years that more “typical” song structures have crept into his style with most transfixing effect, gathering the attention of many who previously weren’t necessarily exposed to his music. Whether stemming from a perverse pleasure in twisting popular music, or a matter of...

MP3 $9.90

05/24/2019 5060165485369 

iDEAL182 


FLAC $11.99

05/24/2019 5060165485369 

iDEAL182 


Kid Gorgeous At Radio City by Mulaney, John

Mulaney, John

Kid Gorgeous At Radio City
Drag City

***JOHN MULANEY is a comedian. Kid Gorgeous at Radio City is his third stand-up comedy concert film and album. He also made one in 2014 called The Comeback Kid and before that he made one in 2012 called New In Town and before that he made an album in 2008 called The Top Part. He was a writer at Saturday Night Live from 2008–2013 and in 2018 he returned to host the show. In 2016 he and Nick Kroll wrote and starred in Oh Hello on Broadway which was on Broadway. He then went on a stand-up tour called Kid Gorgeous which culminated in seven sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall. He currently stars on Netflix’s animated magical-realist puberty thriller Big Mouth. "This album is called Kid Gorgeous at Radio City. It is the album of the Netflix concert film I did called John Mulaney Kid Gorgeous at Radio City which was the culmination of a 150 date stand-up comedy tour called John Mulaney Kid Gorgeous. It was recorded on February 17, 2018."

LP $24.25

09/28/2018 781484072416 

 


CD $13.75

09/28/2018 781484072423 

DC 724 CD 


Following the release of lo-fi electronic masterpiece I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It and his brilliant follow-up Plaster Falling, Cincinnati-based artist John Bender began assembling his third and last album, Pop Surgery, in late 1982. While all of Bender’s work draws from intimate home recordings—featuring the artist alone with various keyboards, analogue sequencers and tape delays—Pop Surgery remains the one that perhaps best distills his arrant deconstruction of the “pop” concept. These twelve frenetic tracks, meticulously stitched together with dubbed-out vocals and disjointed drum machines, stretch the boundaries of bedroom electronics. Bender would forgo the handmade LP sleeves typical of his Record Sluts imprint. The cover depicts an imposing scrapyard crane, ready to pick up discarded objects with its bright red electromagnet, while the center labels détourn Columbia’s classic ’70s style. “I pressed a single run of 500 copies,” Bender recounts. “The only review I remember railed at the poor production quality. The DIY era had clearly come to an end.” This first-time standalone reissue is recommended for fans of Suicide, TG’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats and early Cabaret Voltaire. Liner notes by John Bender.

LP $20.25

09/14/2018 855985006031 

SV 103 


MP3 $9.90

09/14/2018 855985006031 

SV 103 


FLAC $11.99

09/14/2018 855985006031 

SV 103 


Live In Kyoto 1978 by Renbourn, John

Renbourn, John

Live In Kyoto 1978
Drag City

***An evening in a coffee house in Kyoto forty years ago has lingered fondly in the memories of those who were there. Now, the stellar performance of JOHN RENBOURN that night is available for all to hear on Live in Kyoto 1978. John Renbourn, along with his sometimes partner Bert Jansch (with whom he formed PENTANGLE in the 1960s), has been passed away for these past few years—but the music that he made continues to inspire, alongside the works of fellow travelers like Jansch, Davey Graham, Wizz Jones and John Martyn. Over fifty years ago, Renbourn and these men were at the forefront of the British folk revival as it mingled with the blues boom that was exploding at the same time. Renbourn’s style mixed these traditions with classical, jazz, world and early music techniques, and his picking was second to none. Live in Kyoto 1978 is a remarkable document of Renbourn’s talent spun out over an evening’s-worth of performances, during which his ease of playing left the audience speechless afterwards. The recording was made by the late SATORO FUJII, whose archive of recordings was discovered posthumously and have begun to see release in recent years. Satoro captured the performance with pristine detail, allowing us to hear the fine detail of John’s fretwork and the warmth and delight in the room as he played. Featuring notes from MASAKI BATHOH, who was one of the enchanted listeners in attendance, Live in Kyoto 1978 is a superb performance of John Renbourn at...

LP $20.50

06/22/2018 781484071310 

DC 713 


CD $13.75

06/22/2018 781484071327 

DC 713 CD 


***POWELL ST. JOHN is unquestionably one of the true founders and innovators of the acid rock sound. A listen here will leave no doubt as to why he has earned the title “Sultan Of Psychedelia”. Archival recordings of pure rootsy psychedelia by the obscure but iconic 1960s Austin, Texas musician/songwriter who not only wrote the timeless rock classic 'Bye, Bye Baby,' but also four songs on the legendary first two 13th Floor Elevator albums, Psychedelic Sounds (1966) and Easter Everywhere (1967). Over the years, Powell’s songs have been recorded by such artists as Boz Scaggs, Janis Joplin, Doug Sahm, The 13th Floor Elevators, Mother Earth and ROKY ERICKSON. Boz called Powell a fantastic songwriter, Roky referred to him as a first-rate harmonica player and Tracy said he was “the most significant and profound and the least appreciated artist of the era.” The twelve songs on this, the first ever vinyl album of Powell’s music, are a mesmerizing mix of psychedelia with basic blues influences, soulful harmonica, brilliant electric guitar that fuses trembling vibrato, effects and fuzz, some “Elevators type” jug and even some Spanish influence on at least one song. The lyrics are masterful strokes of acid-inspired, thought-provoking storytelling. The legendary Roky Erickson joins Powell on track nine, 'Right Track Now.' Other artists participating on this album include: JOHN IKE WALTON and RONNIE LEATHERMAN of the 13th Floor Elevators, MARY ANN PRICE from Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, and FROSTY SMITH, drummer for Lee Michaels, Rare Earth and others....

LP $24.50

01/26/2018  

 


The inter-disciplinary maverick John Duncan emerged in 1970s Los Angeles as a confrontational performance artist and, as the decade progressed, aligned himself with the experimental-music collective Los Angeles Free Music Society. His sound art appeared on various self-released cassettes and alongside artists such as Jim Pomeroy and Yoshi Wada on the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art’s influential compilation Sound. Duncan’s debut album, Organic, released in a tiny edition on the artist’s own AQM imprint in 1979 and distributed through LAFMS, collects some of his earliest and most absorbing noise experiments. Recorded live, Organic is composed of two sidelong pieces: “Broken Promise,” a patient, murky dirge featuring Duncan on tape and percussion, plus Michael Le Donne-Bhennet on bassoon; and “Gala,” a kinetic, durational percussion piece featuring Duncan alone. The meditations on texture and unpredictability, realized with unconventional and found sounds, anticipate his later work with shortwave radio. First-time standalone reissue. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies on clear vinyl.

LP $27.00

04/13/2018 855985006697 

etat09 


The kaleidoscopic new album El Pulpo by John Davis (formerly ½ of Folk Implosion) and his new rotating cast of supporting musicians, the Cicadas, is a collection of tracks about the politics of agribusiness in the context of the US empire. The idea for this theme came from the book Stuffed & Starved by Raj Patel, as well as from the album In What Language? by Mike Ladd and Vijay Iyer. The resulting album, executed in close collaboration with co-producer Scott Solter, has both feet in the tradition of political satire. It’s uniquely funny, catchy, and informative at the same time. The album is full of multi-layered rhythm tracks that recall Folk Implosion’s Kids Soundtrack and One Part Lullaby album, albeit in a stranger, more Can-like vein. In keeping with the international scope of the lyrical focus, musical influences and instruments are present from the Middle East, Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. There are scattered lyrics in Spanish and Portuguese, including the album’s title. Previous solo albums like Blue Mountains (1997) and Spare Parts (2013) were based on acoustic guitar and intimate vocals, but The New York Observer recently wrote that El Pulpo’s “infectious melodies are peppered with dense and jarring sci-fi electronics-tweaked textures and layers and manipulated vocals," a sound directly influenced by the 1972 Fassbinder film World on a Wire, which was similarly devoted to dramatizing corporate corruption, though in the then-burgeoning field of virtual reality and digital technology.

CD $13.00

10/20/2017 3760231763477 

ARBOU 048 CD 


***CASSETTE STORE DAY RELEASE 2017!!! Cassette edition of latest by John Davis (formerly half of Folk Implosion), limited to 125 world wide. A collection of tracks about the politics of agribusiness in the context of the US empire, inspired by the book Stuffed & Starved by Raj Patel and the album In What Language? by Mike Ladd and Vijay Iyer. Executed in close collaboration with co-producer Scott Solter in the tradition of political satire, it’s uniquely funny, catchy, and informative at the same time.

MC $7.75

10/14/2017  

SHR 193 


Escaped Language by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Escaped Language
Helicopter

***Recorded during Ina/GRM’s 2016 Présences Électronique Festival in Paris, JOHN WIESE's Escaped Language is a concise and calculated piece which slowly evolved in various settings over a number of years. While 2015’s Deviate From Balance 2xLP was expansive and chronicled performances and work employing many other musicians, here Wiese dissects and reassembles portions of his vocabulary alone. Simultaneously dense and sparse, delicate and abrasive, free and tactical, the resulting recording stands as a substantial document of his approach to sound, twenty-five years into his prolific tenure.

MP3 $4.99

09/20/2017 655035181219 

 


FLAC $5.99

09/20/2017 655035181219 

 


Escaped Language by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Escaped Language
Gilgongo

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Recorded during Ina/GRM’s 2016 Présences Électronique Festival in Paris, JOHN WIESE's Escaped Language is a concise and calculated piece which slowly evolved in various settings over a number of years. While 2015’s Deviate From Balance 2xLP was expansive and chronicled performances and work employing many other musicians, here Wiese dissects and reassembles portions of his vocabulary alone. Simultaneously dense and sparse, delicate and abrasive, free and tactical, the resulting recording stands as a substantial document of his approach to sound, twenty-five years into his prolific tenure.

LP $14.00

09/22/2017  

GGGR 093 


Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-shirt by Frusciante, John

Frusciante, John

Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-shirt
Superior Viaduct

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt is the first solo record by John Frusciante. Between 1990 and 1992 the guitarist made a series of 4-track recordings, which at the time were not intended for commercial release. After leaving the band Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1992, Frusciante was encouraged by friends to release the material that he wrote in his spare time during the Blood Sugar Sex Magik sessions. Originally released on Rick Rubin’s American Recordings label in 1994, Niandra LaDes is a mystifying work of tortured beauty. Frusciante plays various acoustic and electric guitars, experimenting with layers of vocals, piano and reverse tape effects. Channeling the ghosts of Syd Barrett and Skip Spence, his lyrics are at once utterly personal and willfully opaque.  Frusciante’s rapidfire, angular playing shows how key he was in the Chili Peppers’ evolution away from their funk-rock roots. His cover of “Big Takeover” perfectly deconstructs the Bad Brains original with laid-back tempo, twelve-string guitar and a fierce handle on melody.  The album’s second part—thirteen untitled tracks that Frusciante defines as one complete piece, “Usually Just A T-Shirt”—contains several instrumentals featuring his signature guitar style. Sparse phrasing, delicate counterpoint and ethereal textures recall Neu/Harmonia’s Michael Rother or The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly. On the front cover, Frusciante appears in 1920s drag—a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s alter-ego Rrose Sélavy—which comes from Toni Oswald’s film Desert in the Shape. This first-time vinyl release has been carefully remastered and approved by the artist. The double LP...

2XLP $40.00

07/12/2024 855985006826 

SV 076 


The Comeback Kid by Mulaney, John

Mulaney, John

The Comeback Kid
Drag City

***BACK IN STOCK!!! JOHN MULANEY has performed standup comedy on stages around the world, written for such shows as Saturday Night Live and Documentary, Now!, and starred in his very own cancelled sitcom. The Comeback Kid is his third comedy album, drawing from the Netflix special of the same name. John’s also had a Comedy Central special, just finished an acclaimed run on Broadway of his show with Nick Kroll, Oh, Hello on Broadway and he and Nick also just co-hosted the 32nd Annual Film Independent Spirit Awards in January 2017! One time he won an Emmy! If all that isn’t enough, his dog is a viral sensation on Instagram.

LP $24.25

06/16/2017 781484066118 

 


CD $13.75

06/16/2017 781484066125 

DC 661 CD 


John Coltrane transformed the inner architecture of jazz, throughout the mid-1950s and 1960s and long after his premature death at age 40 in 1967. No other American musician could be said to be at the spiritual center of the ‘60s musical universe as Trane influenced Albert Ayler, La Monte Young, Jimi Hendrix and everybody in between. Cosmic Music, originally self-released by Alice Coltrane in 1968 and later issued by Impulse!, features two tracks (“Manifestation” and “Rev. King”) by John Coltrane’s legendary final quintet that were recorded in San Francisco on February 2nd, 1966 and two more (“Lord Help Me To Be” and “The Sun”) from Alice Coltrane’s very first session as a bandleader, recorded six months after her husband’s passing. “Manifestation” opens with the group already in mid-flight: Trane’s fierce tenor leads the way with Pharoah Sanders’ blistering sax and Alice’s powerful chords hearing his call. On “Rev. King,” Trane introduces a lyrical theme and then the composition erupts into fiery incantations, while Jimmy Garrison’s bass throbs alongside the propulsive, gravity-defying drumming of Rashied Ali. Foreshadowing her majestic debut, A Monastic Trio, “Lord Help Me To Be” brings Alice’s celestial piano playing and inspired improvisations to the foreground with Sanders, Garrison and drummer Ben Riley rumbling in tow. “The Sun,” a meditative ballad with subtle urgency, perfectly closes the album’s contemplative circle. As John Coltrane recites on the final track, “May there be peace and love and perfection throughout all creation.”

LP $20.25

05/26/2017 855985006208 

SV 120 


Executive Fade by Lindaman, John

Lindaman, John

Executive Fade
Teenbeat

MP3 $9.90

05/01/2015 792487053937 

TB 539 


FLAC $11.99

05/01/2015 792487053937 

TB 539 


Crowding The Octagon by Lindaman, John

Lindaman, John

Crowding The Octagon
Teenbeat

MP3 $8.91

03/18/2014 792487051933 

TB 519 


FLAC $9.90

03/18/2014 792487051933 

TB 519 


***BACK IN PRINT ON NEW GREEN VINYL!!! Note price change. Throughout years of traveling, John Andrews has documented his life with his home recordings. His first record, Bit By The Fang, found him living in the amish country of Lancaster, PA. On his latest record, Bad Posture, he waves farewell to Pennsylvania and greets the wooded hills of Barrington, NH. These songs were written slowly and quietly throughout the winter, usually late at night next to the wood stove. It was recorded in Andrews’ barn with the doors ajar, welcoming the springtime — inviting the outside noises in. You can hear the crickets chirping and the occasional truck driving by. The songs themselves lend their hand like slow backwoods Beatles demos covered in a thin blanket of tape hiss. Andrews’ band, The Yawns, has been crystallized with staples from the New England freak scene: Rachel Neveu and Lukas Goudreault (MMOSS / Soft Eyes) and Joey Schneider. The album was mixed with headphones at the foot of Emma Critchett’s grave, who lived in the Yawns’ house during the 1800s. The record is an ode to her and all who have lived there. It paints a picture of living in the “freecountry” on the precipice of a rapidly changing political climate.

LP $19.00

03/10/2017 655035048918 

 


MP3 $8.91

03/10/2017 655035048918 

WOODSIST 089 


FLAC $9.90

03/10/2017 655035048918 

WOODSIST 089 


Black Death Dna by Lindaman, John

Lindaman, John

Black Death Dna
Teenbeat

MP3 $7.92

07/04/2013 792487050936 

TB 509 


FLAC $8.99

07/04/2013 792487050936 

TB 509 


Plaster Falling was recorded at the same time as John Bender’s first album, I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It. Released in 1981 on the artist’s own Record Sluts label, copies of Plaster Falling’s initial pressing came hermetically sealed in plaster (and later latex). Thus, listeners had to literally break open the record to find what’s hidden inside. Produced in relative isolation, Plaster Falling is a beacon of brilliance in the nascent minimal-wave sphere. Veering towards skeletal urgency, these recordings set bright analogue melodies against half-whispered vocals and expand Bender’s electronic cryptography thru a series of lone signifiers: “Station,” “Plaster,” “Women,” etc. As Bender explains in the liner notes, “I began to distance myself from the present and describe scenes as if in a movie – seeking concrete, terse, juxtaposed imagery.” This first-time standalone reissue is recommended for fans of Gareth Williams & Mary Currie’s Flaming Tunes, Minimal Man and Grouper. Pressed on translucent blue vinyl in a limited / numbered edition of 1,000 copies.

LP $20.25

12/16/2016 855985006024 

 


MP3 $9.90

12/16/2016 855985006024 

 


FLAC $11.99

12/16/2016 855985006024 

 


Naked City by Zorn, John

Zorn, John

Naked City
1972

BACK IN STOCK - Regularly hailed as one the most important composers of the late 20th century, John Zorn is comfortable at the helm of an ensemble, as improviser on an array of instruments, and as a bold theorist of collaboration. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the New York artist and operator of the esteemed Tzadik label became known for assembling hardcore-inflected jazz ensembles and for devising “game systems,” or intricate musical conditions intended to force players into new territory. Partnering with Nonesuch in mid-1980s, he released The Big Gundown, which radically reimagines Ennio Morricone scores; and Spillane, which fuses improv and Zorn’s “file-card” system. Such titles brought Zorn critical accolades and the reputation of a provocateur, but none of them prepared audiences for the cataclysm of Naked City. Released in 1990 on Nonesuch, Naked City bears a stark cover photograph by Weegee—noted for his unsparing images of New York crime scenes—and features one of the more staggering “rock” lineups ever assembled: Zorn on alto saxophone, guitarist Bill Frisell, bassist Fred Frith, drummer Joey Baron, keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, and vocalist Yamatsuka Eye.  Naked City is a maelstrom of styles, veering recklessly between country, noise, New Orleans R&B, polka, and grindcore, with overtures from detective shows and film noir. In other words, it’s a daring maelstrom of American musical vernacular. It also explodes the rock format’s supposed limitation and retains a wildly intersectional listenership: devotees of punk, free jazz, and harsh noise celebrate Naked City. In short, as one...

LP $20.25

08/26/2016 852545003349 

IF34 


***One of the maestros of Delta blues recorded at his live performances at Hunter College. Split into two volumes on vinyl. Includes liner notes by ROBERT PALMER.

LP $25.45

05/20/2016 767981114811 

FP 11481 


***BACK IN PRINT!!! One of the maestros of Delta blues recorded at his live performances at Hunter College. Split into two volumes on vinyl. Includes liner notes by ROBERT PALMER.

LP $25.45

06/04/2021 767981114712 

FP 11471 


I Don't Remember Now / I Don't Want To Talk About It by Bender, John

Bender, John

I Don't Remember Now / I Don't Want To Talk About It
Superior Viaduct

John Bender recorded voraciously between 1978 and 1980 at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. Not even song titles could slow down his creative pace, as he named all the tracks after their position on the original tapes. “36A2,” for example, was cassette #36 side A, piece #2. To close the DIY aesthetic circle, Bender made sleeves by hand with no two covers alike and pressed the LPs in hyper-limited editions on his own Record Sluts imprint. I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It, Bender’s first album from 1980, is the holy grail of minimal lo-fi electronics. Layers of fractured melodies, distorted synthesizers, hollowed-out rhythms and claustrophobic vocals unfold over the 40 minutes of this lost masterpiece. “It’s A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl,” one of Faust’s greatest songs, is perfectly deconstructed by a distinct punk-meets-experimentalist sensibility.  While I Don’t Remember Now is impossibly rare and the man behind the music remains shrouded in self-imposed mystery, the real surprise is that it has taken 35+ years for listeners to discover Bender’s warm, art-damaged immediacy. This first-time standalone reissue is recommended for fans of Pere Ubu, Brian Eno and Robert Ashley.  Liner notes by John Bender.

LP $20.25

05/20/2016 855985006017 

SV 101 


MP3 $8.99

03/25/2016 855985006017 

 


FLAC $9.90

03/25/2016 855985006017 

 


Forget Everything by Mill, John Stuart

Mill, John Stuart

Forget Everything
Scioto

***First time ever on LP. In 1997, JOHN SCHMERSAL (CARIBOU, VERTICAL SCRATCHERS, ENON, BRAINIAC) found himself without a band. Brainiac had broken up following the tragic death of frontman Tim Taylor, so he recorded a solo album on a 4-track machine at an old Masonic Temple in Kentucky. Released in 1999 on CD by SeeThru Broadcasting under the pseudonym JOHN STUART MILL, the title, Forget Everything was an homage to Brainiac song of the same name. Shortly after its release, Schmersal went on to form Enon, releasing a series of acclaimed records that blend pop melody and electronic art rock. Largely ignored at the time, Forget Everything now stands as the missing link between Brainiac and Enon. Includes a download. (STREET DATE - 2/19/2016)

LP $16.35

02/19/2016 630125756447 

 


***Guitarist and singer-songwriter RYLEY WALKER discovered the 1972 private press LP in a Chicago record store, loved what he heard, and teamed with Tompkins Square to produce the reissue. JOHN HULBURT (1947-2012) was a member of legendary mid-60's Chicago garage rock band THE KNAVES, whose records were recently reissued by Sundazed. Opus III showcases his exceptional talent on the acoustic guitar, proving somewhat of an anomaly in a city not known for its solo guitar recordings during this era. Walker writes in his liner notes, "Solo acoustic guitar music was adopted by several in the Berkeley school and the ever expansive roots fanatics in the South, but here in the middle of the country with harsh winters and the landlocked prison of corn fields, it was almost destiny that the amplifier assault of electric blues and controlled chaos of dance music came from the South Side." Opus III has another notable Chicago connection : It's one of the earliest studio credits for Styx and Ohio Players engineer / producer BARRY MRAZ.. Styx's debut album would also be released in 1972. The reissue of Opus III includes illuminating liner notes by John Hulburt's sister, CYNTHIA FRITZ; The Knaves' GENE LUBIN; and Ryley Walker, as well as vintage photographs.

LP $15.50

09/04/2015  

TSQ 5166 


CD $13.75

09/04/2015  

TSQ 5159 CD 


*** "There are two distinctly different groups of musicians on this record—one band in Los Angeles, another band in San Francisco. They are all one, organic whole THE UGLY JANITORS OF AMERICA. I invented this band in 1983 in North Hollywood, California to perform and record my music. Any and all musicians I have conscripted since then are all part of the same organic, whole band and party of my plan to bring my music—made on nothing but my ideas, shoestring, and some duct tape—to the world. Our music reflects all the joy, madness, passion, sorrow, agony and excitement in life which is often so difficult to directly express. Music is our greates expressive outlet for all the joys and madness and sorrows and passions in life."—John Trubee

LP $14.25

06/23/2015  

TR 6900837 


A Blind Man's Penis And Other Smash Hits by Trubee, John And The Ugly Janitors Of America

Trubee, John And The Ugly Janitors Of America

A Blind Man's Penis And Other Smash Hits
Trubee

***A collection of unreleased and out-of-print tracks and rarities from JOHN TRUBEE AND THE UGLY JANITORS OF AMERICA, including the 1976 classic "A Blind Man's Penis." Nine songs in all recorded between 1976 and 2005.

LP $14.25

06/23/2015  

TR 6900838 


Deviate From Balance by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Deviate From Balance
Gilgongo

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! JOHN WIESE’s long awaited Deviate From Balance is the artist’s first album since 2011’s Seven Of Wands (PAN). Recorded throughout Europe/UK, Australia, and the US, the album includes scored ensemble pieces including over 20 musicians on each, recorded in Melbourne and Portland, as well as audio documentation of installation pieces Wind Changed Direction, a four-channel sound piece presented in the garden of the Getty Center (curated by Liars), and Battery Instruments, an eight-channel piece presented at HSP in New Zealand, now heard for the first time. Also included are various collaborations and recordings from live performances. At over 80 minutes, Deviate From Balance has been packaged as a 2×LP with tip-on gatefold jackets. Musicians appearing include Joseph Hammer, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, C Spencer Yeh, Joe Preston, Smegma and countless more. The material is extremely diverse and services as a comprehensive and detailed document of this prolific individuals work over the past several years. CD housed in tip-on gatefold jackets.   This release coincides with an artist monograph of the same title, published by Hesse Press in Los Angeles, featuring a number of pieces represented on the double-album. John Wiese will be touring in Europe and US February–May 2015.

CD $8.05

06/23/2015  

GGGR 077 CD 


2XLP $25.95

03/03/2015  

GGGR 077 


Deviate From Balance by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Deviate From Balance
Hesse Press

***Very dignified document covering recent work—sound installation, video, collage, photography, typography, and graphic sound scores, with an essay by BRUCE RUSSELL. Russell. 64 pages, full color.

BK $28.95

02/24/2015  

MGWIESEDEVI 


Deviate From Balance by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Deviate From Balance
Helicopter

MP3 $7.99

02/20/2015 655035175416 

H DFB 


FLAC $9.90

02/20/2015 655035175416 

 


“Bit by the Fang is the first solo album from singer / songwriter John Andrews and his imaginary backup band The Yawns. Andrews began recording the album in 2013 while working at a Salvation Army in the Amish country of Lancaster, PA, his home at the time. As the new year rolled around, he followed a demanding schedule of writing, recording and touring with both Quilt (drums) and Woods (keys). It wasn’t until a well-earned break that he found the time and energy to complete the solo record he started months before. He recounts the difficulties involved: ‘Traveling so much caused my whole living scenario in PA to kind of fall apart,’ he tells, lamenting over the comfort only home can provide. As he moved back to his hometown of Yardville, NJ, he set up camp in his grandparents’ empty living room to record and perform everything entirely by himself once again.  “Warm acoustic guitars, honky-tonk piano, lap steel, singing saw and fluttering violins all sing together on this well crafted, yet comfortingly sloppy, psych-country / R&B record. A self-taught piano player, Andrews maneuvers with the precision of a player well beyond his years. Lyrically and stylistically he tackles the subject of death with the lightheartedness of a Saturday morning cartoon in ‘”I’ll Go to Your Funeral (If You Go to Mine).’ It’s hard not to conjure comparisons to Michael Hurley, Daniel Johnston or Kevin Ayers. This album is a great introduction to the grandiose fables of characters at...

LP $17.50

04/14/2015 655035077819 

 


MP3 $9.90

04/14/2015 655035077819 

WOODSIST 078 


FLAC $11.99

04/14/2015 655035077819 

 


***WALTER DANIELS and JOHN SCHOOLEY have been shadowy figures in the rock n’ roll underground for a combined forty years.  Daniels was mixing blues with punk rock as far back as 1992 with Austin, Texas combo JACK O’ FIRE, alongside the Big Boys' Tim Kerr. Schooley’s first release as a one man band was a lo-fi cassette recording released on 45 by Goner Records in 1996.  Both have been mixing blues and roots music with punk rock and noise ever since.  Schooley’s first band THE REVELATORS toured with the now-legendary Oblivians, while Daniels recorded with that same Memphis trio on the Melissa's Garage Revisited LP. Daniels has recorded and performed live with everyone from James Williamson to Eugene Chadbourne, most recently lending his harp to the OBN III’s for their latest album. Schooley toured the U.S. and Europe with the late blues great R.L. Burnside, and has racked up a long discography both as a solo artist and bandleader. Longtime friends who share a similar musical aesthetic and mindset, they have occasionally performed together and appeared on each other’s records.  While it hasn't always a fashionable or popular opinion, both have consistently championed the importance of roots in rock n’ roll. No matter how noisy or abrasive, their styles have always drawn from the deep well of American music, both black and white: country, blues and soul, gospel.  Recorded in a few hours over the course of a couple of relaxed Sunday afternoons, the resulting album Dead Mall Blues...

LP $15.00

10/14/2014  

12XU 067-1 


John Dikeman has been a busy man making a name for himself as an American born saxophonist living abroad in Amsterdam since 2007 (with short stints in NYC, Philadelphia & Cairo, Egypt prior). He is a member of free-wheeling noise/improv group Cactus Truck and also plays in the trio Universal Indians who just did a tour with Joe McPhee! On top of that John has played with William Parker, Hamid Drake, Han Bennink, Andy Moor, Terrie Ex, Roy Campbell, Ab Baars, Wilbert De Joode, Fred Lonberg-Holm among many others! This particular tape “The Double Trio” finds Dikeman back on US soil in 2011 in Chicago, IL leading a group featuring some of Chicago’s top improvisers: Jeb Bishop, Joshua Abrams, Jason Roebke, Mike Reed & Frank Rosaly. This is the kind of recording that invites multiple listens, revealing new layers every time.

MC $0.00

09/16/2014 881314686391 

MF070 


MP3 $5.99

09/16/2014 881314686391 

 


FLAC $6.99

09/16/2014 881314686391 

 


How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life by Fahey, John

Fahey, John

How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life
Drag City

***BACK IN PRINT!!! A collection of fictional but semi-autobiographical stories, this work comes from one of the most influential guitarists in music history. The tales are recalled in a conversational, feverish tone, following the musician in his childhood and young adulthood in post-World War II suburbia, pausing along the way for moments of clarity and introspection. The stories resist categorization—part memoir, part personal essay, part fiction, and part manifesto they simply stand alone, having their own logic, religious dogma, and mythological history.

BK $17.75

03/11/2014 9780965618328 

DC 124 


Although highly respected by his peers and other songwriters, Townes Van Zandt never reached significant fame during his lifetime. The mood and atmosphere of his music, coupled with his sometimes dark and sarcastic nature, was not suitable for the commercial country industry of Nashville. Van Zandt’s songs did, however, reach popularity in his day through other artists; within his circle of outsider singer-songwriters, he was adored, though ultimately depression and alcoholism overshadowed his life. Van Zandt passed away in 1997, and the fact that artists as diverse as Robert Plant, Mudhoney, Norah Jones, Lyle Lovett and Bob Dylan have kept his songs alive and vital is a testament to the influence and impact of his music. Neurot Recordings presents the second installment of their homage to this great artist, following 2012’s Songs of Townes Van Zandt from Saint Vitus / The Obsessed’s Scott “Wino” Weinrich and Neurosis’ Steve Von Till and Scott Kelly. Praise to the great artist and his brokenhearted love songs and gloom-ridden tales now emerges through John Baizley (Baroness), Nate Hall (U.S. Christmas) and Mike Scheidt (YOB, VHÖL), in another beautifully dark tribute: Songs of Townes Van Zandt Vol. II.

CD $13.00

03/04/2014 658457108925 

NR 089 


MP3 $8.91

03/04/2014 658457108925 

 


FLAC $9.90

03/04/2014 658457108925 

 


***JOHN PAUL KEITH, the brilliant singer-songwriter and blistering guitarist who exploded out of a self-imposed musical exile in Memphis with 2009's critically acclaimed Spills and Thrills and 2011's The Man That Time Forgot, returns with Memphis Circa 3AM—his most accomplished and moving collection of songs yet. Less a tribute to the spirit, soul and sound of the city than the living, crackling embodiment of it, Memphis Circa 3AM finds Keith reaching the songwriting depths and musical heights that his previous two releases foreshadowed. Produced by the truly legendary ROLAND JANES—house guitarist for Sun Records in the ‘50s and longtime engineer and producer at Sam Phillips Recording Services—the album is a time-stopping 12-song duet between two deeply kindred artists, as Keith's songs and Janes' direction achieve a sonic balance that is both familiar and original. Cut live to two-inch tape—with Janes providing direction from the booth and not a computer in sight—the album sounds deeply rooted and incredibly fresh at the same time. On each song Keith is backed with a new power and delicacy by the ONE FOUR FIVES. And as his band musically ups the ante, Keith meets it with his fi nest songs to date. There are few songwriters today that can match his ability to invest a simple turn of phrase with so many layers of meaning.

LP $19.95

09/24/2013 895102002829 

 


CD $14.25

09/24/2013 895102002812 

 


Hailing from Northern California, John Davis is a sound artist, composer and filmmaker who has released music on labels such as Root Strata and Digitalis. With Ask the Dust, he offers up a moving suite of compositions employing a plethora of instrumentation: guitar, piano, tape loops, Max / MSP, field recordings and the newest addition to his arsenal, a complex assortment of Blacet synthesizer modules. Davis uses the synth not as the crux of his recordings but as a tool among many in his kit, weaving oscillations and mangled or rhythmic tones through pastoral webs of processed guitar and field recordings. To this end, the richness of his palette cannot be denied, nor can his prowess as a masterful arranger of abstract sound.  Opener “Superpartner” is a jittery array of pure sound that refuses to sit still, developing slowly and accruing detail and a sparring partner in the form of delicately treated acoustic guitar. Perhaps the record’s defining movement, “Synecdoche,” begins with a contemplative, almost romantic piano arrangement, sparse and beautiful—a moving miniature abruptly broken apart and replaced by a bed of layered sine waves and guitar haze that somehow matches the radiance of what preceded it. Striking in its attention to detail and compositional deftness, Ask the Dust is Davis’s most refined set of recordings to date, a deep album that rewards focused and repeated listening.

LP $16.00

10/15/2013 600197510117 

SOD 101 


MP3 $7.99

10/15/2013 600197510117 

 


Spare Parts is the first solo album from singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist John Davis since the release of Blue Mountains in 1997. In contrast to his collaborative work with The Folk Implosion, Davis’s solo work in the ’90s was about as solo as solo gets. He played all the instruments and did all of the cover art for records like Pure Night and Leave Home, as well as for assorted singles and compilation tracks. Having been there and done that, Davis charts a new course with Spare Parts, right down to the cover art, which was done by Boston-area painter and photographer Walter Crump. No less than eight musicians and three engineers lend their talents to the ten tracks and 65+ minutes of this double-LP. (Be warned: the songs are long.) Appearing most frequently are drummer and percussionist Jose Medeles (Breeders, 1939 Ensemble, Portland Ore’s Revival Drum Shop) and cellist and violin player Megan Siebe (Anniversaire, Simon Joyner and The Ghosts). Siebe also appears as a member of a trio of backing vocalists that includes Laura Burhenn (Mynabirds, Bright Eyes, The Postal Service) and Sarah Gleason. Simon Joyner produced the strings and backing vocals, and contributes backing vocals himself to the track “Blood Feud.” Mike Friedman plays lap steel on “You Won’t Cry” and “Southwest,” and Chris Deden plays drums on “Upon a Train.” The record was mixed by Brandon Eggleston (Mountain Goats, Swans, Scout Niblet, tUnE-yArDs, Modest Mouse). Spare Parts mines an acoustic singer-songwriter vein while avoiding a...

CD $13.00

10/29/2013 759718117127 

SHR 171 CD 


2XLP $19.50

11/12/2013 759718117110 

SHR 171 LP 


MP3 $9.90

10/29/2013 759718117127 

 


Greatest Hits Of John Thill Volume II by Thill, John

Thill, John

Greatest Hits Of John Thill Volume II
Shrimper

John Thill has released a number of solo records, as well as albums with his former band Aum Rifle, on Shrimper, Folktale and a plethora of other labels. Some of these have been limited to as few as 50 copies, and a good number of them are long out of print. To rectify this, the two aforementioned labels pooled their resources to cover hospital bills after slicing and shivving each other to bits over the track list for this collection of in-the-red folk fuckitude that runs from red to blue in a flash.  Available on vinyl only, The Greatest Hits of John Thill Volume II comes in a numbered edition of 500 copies.

LP $13.00

06/25/2013  

SHR 166 


***A minimal and mesmerizing piece of real-time tape music exploring stark and brutal elements for absolute immersion. Mirror is simultaneously the extended soundtrack for a new video work by JOHN WIESE and a reissue of the long sold-out Tumbler LP (No Fun Productions 2006), remastered for playback intensity and with all new visuals.

CD $12.00

09/25/2012 655035181424 

H Mirror CD 


MP3 $5.99

09/17/2012 655035181424 

H Mirror 


***“Back in 2008 we unleashed GOLDEN BOY JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN on the world with his first ever full length release, American Trashcan. Before coming back to us with his fifth album he put out LPs on Daggerman, Certified PR, and Goner. As an experiment for this LP, Wes brought MORGAN COY some 4 track recordings of new songs (these appear as Side B), and Morgan rebuilt them into a multi layered cake (Side A).” Edition of 300 copies.

LP $14.00

04/10/2012  

MF 041 


MP3 $0.00

04/10/2012  

 


***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Received an 8.5 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork. While staying true to his sound, JOHN TALABOT has nevertheless shown a constant evolution as a producer since his first release. He has traced a solid musical path that has turned him into one of the big references of European house and has made him also a highly in-demand remixer. This progression now crystallizes in Fin, his first full-length album for Permanent Vacation—a record in which the Barcelona mastermind sets aside danceable immediacy to expand his stylistic palette more than ever. For that purpose, Talabot melts all the elements that have constructed his distinctive sound until now and makes them emerge from a new perspective in which the construction of complex song structures, intricate rhythms and super-positions of ever-evolving melodies and atmospheres pick up the baton of the "a kick-drum and a sampler" philosophy of his initial productions. The result brings us 11 tracks dominated by dark ambiances, gaseous textures and bittersweet moods that, above all, reveal a kind of vivacity that's really hard to find in contemporary electronics. LP includes a bonus CD.

CD $17.25

03/13/2012 673795708927 

PERMVAC 089 CD 


LP+CD $20.15

03/27/2012 673795708910 

PERMVAC 089 


After almost 10 years of performing solo and over 50 releases in every conceivable format, JOHN WIESE (SISSY SPACEK, et al.) finally unleashes his debut full-length. Thirteen songs of harsh yet beautiful soundscapes that explore the realm of piercing cut-n-paste assemblage and harsh noise.

MP3 $7.99

01/01/2005 655035508627 

H Soft Punk 


Boone-Tolliver Recordings by Niles, John Jacob

Niles, John Jacob

Boone-Tolliver Recordings
L.M. Dupli-cation

“Niles was otherworldly and his voice raged with strange incantations.” —Bob Dylan In the 1950s, while audio recording was still an astronomically expensive art, limited to the laboratory-like environment of the professional studio, a few forward-thinking artists began to experiment with the idea of home recording. Sun Ra in Chicago and Les Paul in New York made history away from the studios. And deep in Appalachia, folk singer John Jacob Niles recorded a series of EPs in the place where he was most comfortable singing—his living room. Niles’s decision may have seemed strange to people around him; he was internationally known, had released music on RCA Victor, played Carnegie Hall, toured extensively in the US and been to England. But to Niles, it must have been a natural choice, as his life was a direct product of the things he made—he built his own dulcimers, farmed his land, carved the big doors at his Boot Hill farm. Niles then went one step further, and started his own label, Boone-Tolliver, literally a mom-and-pop affair (his wife Rena was in charge of mail order). The label released two EPs: John Jacob Niles: American Folk Love Songs and Ballads by Niles, before larger folk labels, like Tradition, came calling. While an independent, artist-owned label in the 1950s proved too difficult for Niles to run, by shying away from the studio and surrounding himself by family and friends, he succeeded in producing some of the best recordings of his career. Until now, these recordings...

LP $13.00

04/17/2012 655035043418 

LM 4 


CD $13.00

04/17/2012 655035043425 

LM 4 CD 


MP3 $9.90

04/17/2012 655035043425 

 


+46 17’ 36.39”, -124 4’ 20.13” by Haughm, John

Haughm, John

+46 17’ 36.39”, -124 4’ 20.13”
Anthem

***A solo recording from JOHN HAUGHM of AGALLOCH. Lush melodic and beautifully improvised guitar experiments that are sonically and spiritually aligned with originators of such ambience as Manuel Gottsching, Tangerine Dream or Popul Vuh, and contemporary practitioners such as Burning Star Core, Oneohtrix Point Never or Emeralds. Limited edition pressing of 500 copies on one-sided white vinyl packaged in hand-stamped, numbered sleeves.

7" $7.75

01/31/2012  

07HAUGH4617 


Last Donkey Show by Coleman, John Wesley

Coleman, John Wesley

Last Donkey Show
Goner

The Last Donkey Show is the latest album from everyone’s favorite freaky Texas troubadour John Wesley Coleman. While Coleman’s particular madman swerve still recalls Doug Sahm and Roky Erickson, this collection covers more territory than his earlier work. Does this mean the half-mad misfit has grown up? Not quite—but the songwriting chops are all there, from carney kookiness to fuzz rockers to barstool tearjerkers to dustbowl pop. In his own words: “That’s right. My new album is called The Last Donkey Show. It is a fucking roller-coaster recorded in Oakland, California, at Greg Ashley’s studio The Creamery and also in the country near Lockhardt, Texas, at my good buddy’s childhood home. Aaron Blount is his name. He is a bad-ass songwriter friend of mine. We ate BBQ all day and shot BB guns and had a bonfire. There is a cast of characters on this record... It’s a floodgate of memories. Every song has a crazy story. I will tell them to you some time. The donkey is a symbol of hard work, humor and death. I love it! See you at town near you. Eat Gus’s Fried Chicken!”

LP $13.00

02/21/2012 600385220514 

72 GONE 


CD $12.00

02/21/2012 600385220521 

72 GONE CD 


MP3 $9.90

02/21/2012 600385220521 

 


Seven Of Wands by Wiese, John

Wiese, John

Seven Of Wands
Helicopter

MP3 $8.99

10/10/2011 655035177823 

H WANDS 


DIGITAL REISSUE of JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN’s (GOLDEN BOYS) Steal My Mind LP. These booze soaked anthems will rot away at your brain like an $ 8.00 fifth of store brand swill! Includes great covers of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns And Money" and Lester Bangs' "Life Is Not Worth Living And Suicide Is A Waste Of Time."

MP3 $9.90

10/04/2011 600385217927 

67 GONE 


***Two side-long tracks of dynamically diffused smashing, shattering and crashing sounds, mixed in stereo from JOHN WIESE’s four-channel installation in Los Angeles. Cover photographs by CALI THORNHILL DEWITT. Clear vinyl with insert. Edition of 330.

LP $14.75

08/16/2011  

TD 037 


***The latest from Vancouver-based singer/songwriter and integral contributor to the city's thriving country scene, JOHN GULIAK. Poetic and political observations portrayed through songs that lament the displacement of Canada's rural populations to the inner cities of Vancouver, Winnipeg and Toronto, while celebrating the cultures that persevere. Includes covers of songs by The Stanley Brothers, Giant Sand, Townes Van Zandt, Uncle Tupelo, Willie P. Bennett, Johnny Cash, and others. Features backing from the LOUGAN BROTHERS—CAROLYN MARK, LINDA McRAE, KEITH ROSE, TOLAN McNEIL, FORD PIER, SEAN HARPER, and others.

CD $13.00

09/20/2011 773871006227 

 


7 Stories And 13 Songs by Guliak, John

Guliak, John

7 Stories And 13 Songs
Mint

***The second album from Edmonton, Alberta-based singer/songwriter and "Prairie Folk Scene" pioneer JOHN GULIAK. A reflection of the poetic and political observations Guliak has made while living in various locales across Canada, delivered with a velvet-smooth voice, and accompaniment from the LOUGAN BROTHERS, CAROLYN MARK, FORD PIER, and many others.

CD $13.00

09/20/2011 773871007927 

 


7" $7.25

07/26/2011  

MF006 


CD+BOOK $10.50

07/26/2011 718122435043 

MF005 CD 


MP3 $9.90

07/26/2011 718122435043 

 


Two side-long tracks of dynamically diffused smashing, shattering and crashing sounds, mixed in stereo from Wiese's four-channel Los Angeles installation. Cover photographs by CALI THORNHILL DEWITT. ali Thornhill deWitt.

CD $12.00

12/17/2013  

H 65 


MP3 $4.99

07/11/2011 655035170411 

H GGA 


***There's a million ways to go crazy, which is one reason it's so depressing to hear so many bands that sound alike. Get a little bit outside yourself, folks! Two fellows with no problem getting outside themselves are JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN and TIMMY VULGAR. Wesley's been bashing out demented pop songs buried in fuzz and blather for about a decade—here he provides a track that might remind you of the Buzzcocks pretending to be a drunk Bruce Springsteen trying to play a Nick Lowe song that he hasn't written yet. Guaranteed to be stuck in your hair for a week. Timmy Vulgar began as a punk in Michigan but quickly moved from angry personal attacks to more epic attacks on the entire universe with his bands HUMAN EYE and TIMMY’S ORGANISM. Mind Over Matter follows this musical quest to musically shoot out the musical sun. Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, and a whole bunch of musical lizards like this.

7" $5.75

08/02/2011 655035007076 

70 GONE 


MP3 $1.98

08/02/2011 655035007076 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! A joint electronic throwdown between prolific UK shapeshifter SONIC BOOM and Seattle-based electro-mensch JOHN MASSONI. Recorded over the course of a day while locked in Massoni's basement with an assortment of unusual tapes, gadgets and devices. Four spooky tracks. Limited edition of 1,000 copies.

CD $4.75

09/09/2008  

ORBIT 025 CD 


Slice Through Or / In Glassmetal by Mannion, John

Mannion, John

Slice Through Or / In Glassmetal
Hanson

***Debut LP, three years in the making, by JOHN MANNION of RED LIGHT COLLECTIVE and CATHODE TERRO SECRETION. This extreme electronic composition is an ultra-dynamic mix of modern classical, electronic, noise, and power electronics techniques. Whirling electric box fan, piercing electronics, junk metal clang, screeching violins, harsh and whispered vocals, and haunting vocals by opera singer CAITLIN HAUGHNEY. Silkscreen jacket, lyric sheet. Edition of 500.

LP $20.60

05/24/2011  

HN 240 


MP3 $9.90

05/24/2011  

 


***JOHN OSWALD (PLUNDERPHONICS) returns with two fourteen-minute-plus tracks of sliced and diced audio assemblage. “Highly recommended. Imagine playing ‘name that tune’ at 5 times the speed of your ears’ ability to recognize familiar sounds. This composition, made up entirely of pop music samples, deserves five stars because of its meticulous organization of disparate and familiar sounds into an exciting new composition, one that stands on its own whether or not the listener is familiar with each artist being ‘plundered.’ The piece never descends into disorganized noise, each sound is clearly placed where the composer intended. This is the mailbomb you want to send to pop culture.”—xmw

LP $14.50

11/09/2010 724101956010 

FONY 82 


Bad Lady Goes To Jail by Coleman, John Wesley III

Coleman, John Wesley III

Bad Lady Goes To Jail
Goner

Who is John Wesley Coleman? He describes himself as "garbage collector, golden boy." Those four words might fit him best. Coleman currently makes pizzas in Austin, Texas, lives in weird territory, and is part of an invisible, non-scene made up of his other Austin band Golden Boys, North Carolina's Spider Bags and Memphis' Limes--all groups with their own takes on sprawling, psychedelic, country-tinged rock. The artists he covers, largely street-level commentators of life below the poverty line, are telling; on his last album, Steal My Mind, he did Lester Bangs and Warren Zevon songs; this time, it's Nikki Sudden. Of course, a few years back he released a completely blasted version of George Michael's "Faith" that was seen as a piss-take but actually spoke to Wes' mindset. Coleman has been compared to Lou Reed, Mr. Bangs, Daniel Johnston and even Pavement, who adopted some of the spaciousness of country life after their initial spizzle grotted out. But who wants to hear Pavement now? Owning cars that don't break down makes one complacent, and luckily Coleman hasn't had to deal with that yet. Hanging out at bus stops gives the man with eyes a whole lot of material to work with.  Bad Lady Goes to Jail covers a whole variety of desires, from Coleman's desire for police to stop assaulting him to the desire to dance with his woman, to the less-specific "Something in My Brain Wants Something." To balance the wandering heart, he also offers more mundane observations in...

LP $13.00

10/26/2010 600385204712 

62 GONE 


CD $12.00

10/26/2010 600385204729 

62 GONE 


MP3 $9.90

10/26/2010 600385204729 

 


Not Too Intelligent But Extremely Resourceful by Tsunam, John

Tsunam, John

Not Too Intelligent But Extremely Resourceful
Johntsunam

***The debut solo album from Seattle-based (by way of Oahu) rapper/producer JOHN TSUNAM (of Hawaii's PROLIT super crew). Eight solid tracks that deftly balance cynicism and self-critique with pure wit amd abstract grooves. For fans of Anticon, Atmosphere, Buck 65, Aesop Rock, and Atmosphere.

CD $9.25

11/23/2004 783707998626 

99862 CD 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! The second collaborative album from audio sculptors JOHN DUNCAN and CAL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF. A bold, expressive piece of sound art, confident in its multiplicity of perspectives caught in a constant flux of attraction and repulsion. Performed with shortwave, data streams, uncanny use of the human voice, oscillators, sonar, and wire tapping microphones. The recording comes with a 40 page booklet with an interview between Duncan and Hausswolff about their histories, ideas, and methodologies; furthermore, the packaging is completed by a curiously tactile O-card, which has been embossed with braille and covered with a rubbery coating.

CD $20.15

05/02/2006 801673900822 

23FIVE 008 CD 


In The Shade Of The Sun by Blum, John

Blum, John

In The Shade Of The Sun
Ecstatic Peace

***JOHN BLUM was born in New York City, April 15, 1968 and has been a mainstay of the free-jazz community there for over 15 years. While in Europe in 1992, he recorded with Clarinetist Tony Scott’s Trio which included Antonio Grippi on Alto Sax. Upon returning to New York City, Blum became a member of the Improvisers Collective (1993-1995) and also initiated projects as a soloist and a group leader. By early 1998 he joined together with Antonio Grippi on Saxophone, William Parker on Bass, and Denis Charles on Drums to form The Astrogeny Quartet. A CD of this group was released on Eremite records in 2005. In 2001 Blum recorded a solo piano CD for Drimala Records entitled Naked Mirror, and was also featured on Butch Morris’ Conduction 117 released on JumpArts Records. In 2003, Blum recorded with Sabir Mateen on Tenor Sax in Sunny Murray’s Trio and is featured on Murray’s CD Perles Noires Volume 2 on Eremite Records. He joined the Steve Swell Quintet in 2005 and a CD was released on NotTwo Records of their 2006 NYC Vision Festival performance. In addition to this Trio recorded in 2008, Blum also recorded a solo CD Who Begat Eye to be released on Konnex Records in 2009.

CD $10.50

09/28/2009 837654529041 

E # 5 D 


MP3 $9.90

05/19/2009 655035170121 

NFP49 


Riding a subway train circa '97, Colombian-born John Wolfington inexplicably decided to switch cars at the 14th Street station, to one in which Thurston Moore happened to be sitting, deep into a novel. At the time Wolfington had in his possession a tape containing "Coney Island Freak," a song of his that talks about a trip to the freakshow and references SY in its lyric. Feeling like he had somehow been "urged" to switch cars, he handed the tape to Thurston, who politely accepted it, just like he always does every other day of the week when a complete stranger hands him a tape. Although this encounter had little to do with the recording of this album, it now seems like it was a step along the way.  Summer of '99, and Two Dollar Guitar man Tim Foljahn has a five-song demo in his hand, sent to him by someone he'd never heard of. Still, he was floored by the quality of the songs and the sparseness of the production. Most of the material had been recorded in Wolfington's bathroom, using simple drum machine patterns or brushes on a live drum. Foljahn passed the tape on to Steve Shelley, and the two of them agreed to work with Wolfington on recording his debut. Production, begun at Hoboken's Jolly Roger Recording with Gene Holder and finished at Brooklyn's Rare Book Room with Nicolas Vernhes, took place over the following six months. Shelley and Foljahn play on over half the songs,...

CD $9.50

01/23/2001 787996004327 

 


MP3 $9.90

01/23/2001 787996004327 

slr 043CD 


Shortly after the 2001 release of his eponymous debut, John Wolfington took a break from New York City and made a trip cross-country in his 1982 Buick LeSabre. He stopped in Nashville and Memphis, broke down in Tucumcari, New Mexico, and even dipped down to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico before spending some time setting up a home life in Los Angeles. Heavily influenced by his time on the West Coast and his eventual return to NYC again in 2005, the ten songs on American Dreamsicle reflect Wolfington’s experiences shortly before and during that trip and are sequenced chronologically from 2001 to 2006.  As on Wolfington’s previous full-length, Steve Shelley (of Sonic Youth) and Tim Foljahn (of Two Dollar Guitar) contribute drums and bass to the bulk of this album. Recorded at New York’s Magic Shop with Brian Thorn, American Dream-sicle shimmers with a more direct sound à la Plastic Ono Band and After the Gold Rush-era Neil Young.  The American Dreamsicle double-LP in a gatefold package includes Wolfington’s self-titled debut LP as a bonus platter.

CD $9.50

08/28/2007 787996005423 

 


2XLP $17.50

08/28/2007 787996005515 

SLR 055LP 


MP3 $9.90

08/28/2007 787996005423 

SLR 054CD 


Heart Of Grime by Thill, John

Thill, John

Heart Of Grime
Shrimper

John Thill was born in Riverside, CA: land of heat, drugs, and stately grime. For six years he lived in gritty neighborhoods therein. Heart of Grime is an autopsy of that city and a record about the very ground falling out from under one’s feet, about coming home to a place that no longer makes sense. Thill wrote and recorded the album in a motor home outside his parents’ house in Riverside County after making an unscheduled return to California from the Southeast with his tail between his legs. Informed by a divorce, losing friends to drugs and watching his hometown’s rents rise and people leave, the album oscillates between harsh slabs of distortion and sparkling sound.   Influenced by noise, folk, lo-fi, and, most importantly, pure pop music, Heart of Grime was cut and refined until only the portions deemed enjoyable on the twentieth listen were left. The result is a compact, jagged pop record with all superfluities excised. Both devastating and comic, the album is informed by surreal ideas, paranoid fantasies, and vengeful reprisals. It is a big departure from his previous open-form folk work the band Aum Rifle and the hip hop/world jazz amalgamation of Quem Quaeritis.   Heart of Grime is more to the point and cutting than any of Thill’s previous recordings. This summer he is touring in various stages of undress throughout the US with tropical punks Abe Vigoda and working on material for several other upcoming recordings. He presently lives in...

CD $12.00

11/06/2007 759718115321 

SHR 153 


MP3 $0.00

11/06/2007  

 


***One third of Refrigerator gangs up with one half of the Folk Implosion. Resulting semi-improvisational scree suspends time and space and your sense of disbelief, probably.

LP $8.25

01/08/2001  

SHR 74 


CD $8.25

01/08/2001 759718137422 

SHR 74CD 


MP3 $0.00

01/08/2001  

 


***The taller half of the Folk Implosion embarks on fragile (but fleshy) flights of fantasy and fecund fare, from folk filigree to free verse to...well, you get the idea. contains songs not on "Blue Mountains," for which this is considered a "teaser" EP. Consider yourself teased.

CD $7.75

01/08/2001 759718138528 

shr 85CD 


MP3 $0.00

01/08/2001  

 


Blue Mountains by Davis, John

Davis, John

Blue Mountains
Shrimper

Folk Implosion bookworm makes good on first solo record in two years. Think '60's Elektra singer songwriter. In a good way, of course.

LP $8.25

01/08/2001  

shr 90 


CD $12.00

01/08/2001 759718139020 

shr 90CD 


MP3 $0.00

01/08/2001  

 


***Homemade fragile sunlight shafting into the window when you least suspect it. . .constructed out of in-between lines of forgotten conversations and notebooks lost somewhere along the trip. You found them, though, and preserved them in a little glass case. The spot on your mantle will be a little warmer, thanks to Mr. Davis.--Sweet Portable You 

LP $7.75

01/08/2001  

COMM 37 


CD $11.00

01/08/2001 759718003727 

COMM 37CD 


MP3 $9.90

01/08/2001  

 


Enfants De Paris: Live At Bataclan, Paris, 1972 by Reed, Lou + John Cale & Nico

Reed, Lou + John Cale & Nico

Enfants De Paris: Live At Bataclan, Paris, 1972
Dear Boss

***The Velvet Underground were undoubtedly one of the most important bands on the history of rock music. But their greatest line-up broke up in the late 1960s, and where not to reform for nearly 30 years. However, as early as 1972 the two prime movers teamed up with original chanteuse Nico, for this historic album which was recorded during a live show at the Bataclan club in Paris, on January 29, 1972, and was originally broadcast on French TV. The concert marked the first time since the breakup of The Velvet Underground that Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico were on stage together.

LP $27.25

10/06/2023 637913540196 

JACK 035 LP 


***Robert Turman is an American sound artist best known for his innovative and experimental work in the field of ambient and minimalism. John Wiese is a sound artist and composer known for his unique and innovative approach to sound and his ability to create complex, layered compositions that blur all boundaries.Turman and Wiese’s approach to composition is both experimental and post-improvisational. Building on a particular sound or texture, and using a variety of modifications to the sound, a process of constant experimentation and exploration into new possibilities allows their collaboration to evolve and develop in unexpected ways throughout. Together, they continue to create immersive and otherworldly paths that challenge our perceptions of space, time, and reality.

CD $12.00

06/02/2023  

HEL 42007 CD 


***With their duo debut, DEAN SPUNT (NO AGE) and JOHN WIESE (SISSY SPACEK) invite you to experience the frenzy of percussive space and discreet sound found inside The Echoing Shell. This is the first official collaboration between the two veteran mu-sic-makers, though their connection goes back to 1999. The Echoing Shell is born of Dean and John’s shared understanding, using John’s process common to Sissy Spacek: elaborate sound-collage works using source material originating from punk, hardcore and improvised music. A series of impositions, tape manipulation and edits recompose the material, cracking open the crust of the source, freeing its implied guts to steam forth in gushes of extreme noise. On The Echoing Shell, this is as often noise as it is ex- treme intimacy, seeming at times to be sourced from within Dean’s drumkit, at other times appearing to emanate from the capsules of microphones and the circuits of the signal path itself. One may read these collaged sounds as abstraction, but there is a unique language conveyed in their assembly, forming something like word-shapes and meaning. And intention: the two side-long pieces, comprised of many short sections, form a linear whole, creating alternately ripping and discriminating music—and meaning—in the process.

LP $21.25

05/20/2022 7814484084914 

DC 849 


***"This is our second LP of John Du Cann’s recordings from the '76-‘77 era. This time around John handles all guitar and bass duties while his ATOMIC ROOSTER / DAEMON / BULLET / HARD STUFF cohort, PAUL HAMMOND, is on drums. This album should definitely be seen as a companion to his "The World's Not Big Enough" LP, recorded in 1977, that finally saw the light of day on vinyl on our label in 2021. These tracks are literally the bonus tunes that originally appeared on the long out of of print and rare 1999 CD version of "The World's Not Big Enough". These songs were sourced directly from John Du Cann's personal tapes and acetates. Two of the tunes, "Moody Child" and "I Want To Be Alone" were re-recorded by DU CANN in 1980 when Atomic Rooster reunited for their fantastic self-titled album. The songs were re-titled, "Don't Lose Your Mind" and I Can't Stand It," respectively. ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON VINYL."

LP $26.25

05/06/2022  

JAW 052 


The World's Not Big Enough by Du Cann, John

Du Cann, John

The World's Not Big Enough
Just Add Water

***This album was recorded in 1977 and produced by Status Quo’s Francis Rossi. Shockingly, this album has never been released on vinyl until now. It originally came out on CD in 1992 and is now long out of print and even that goes for good coin. John Du Cann’s stellar career included freakbeat heroes The Attack (“Magic In The Air”), psych/prog legends Andromeda, and the group he’s best known for, Atomic Rooster. Du Cann wrote their their #4 hit single “Devil’s Answer.” A couple of years later he was in Daemon, later renamed Bullet, then Hard Stuff. In 1974 he was even a temporary guitarist for a Thin Lizzy German tour. In 1977, he was signed to the same management company as Status Quo, who paired him with Quo leader, Francis Rossi. The resulting album, “The World’s Not Big Enough” included Rossi on guitar, Andy Bown (The Herd, Judas Jump, Status Quo) on keyboards, Pete Kircher (Honeybus, Status Quo, Liverpool Express) on drums, and John McCoy (Ian Gillian, Tyla Gang, U.K. Subs) on bass. Basically, this is Du Cann backed by Status Quo at their Belt Buckle Boogie peak. A few songs from this album appeared on killer late 70s Punxploitation singles “Throw Him Jail,” “Don’t Be A Dummy” (a UK Top 40 hit!), and “Where’s The Show.” This album has been described as “Quo mixed with the Sex Pistols,” and we can’t disagree with that assessment.

LP $26.35

07/02/2021  

JAW 049 


***NOW AVAILABLE!!! American-born, Japan-based composer John Di Stefano self-released a number of cassettes as part of the 80s DIY underground on his own imprint Oktron Produktions, including Klang's Drift, a collaboration with Joel Graham. Living in San Francisco, Di Stefano had access to multiple University electronic music studios, where he had an impressive array of synthesizers at his fingertips, including both Buchla and Serge modular systems. Combining his knowledge of modular synthesis with a background in percussion, his early releases were a uniquely human approach to electroacoustic music, with flourishes of post punk in the mix. Di Stefano developed an interest in world music, studying Indian music theory and tabla, and after an extended trip to Indonesia in the mid 80s, he was particularly drawn to Javanese gamelan music. Future recordings would forever be indebted to the sounds he heard during those travels. Concentric Circles is proud to present For the Moment, which features tracks from some of Di Stefano's early cassette releases, as well as a number of unheard explorations of Indian polyrhythms from the early 90s. Di Stefano’s prescient and unique work will appeal to fans of Cybe, Joel Graham, UnknownmiX, Zru Vogue, and provides a fascinating view of the 80s US electronic underground.

LP $18.25

07/31/2020 767870664151 

CC003 


MP3 $9.90

07/07/2019 767870664151 

CC003 


FLAC $11.99

07/07/2019 767870664151 

CC003 


A Clerical Error In Shasta County Shouldn’t Have To Ruin A Saturday Night by Saint-Pelvyn, John

Saint-Pelvyn, John

A Clerical Error In Shasta County Shouldn’t Have To Ruin A Saturday Night
Seeland

For years, the only way to hear the music of John Saint-Pelvyn was to search him out in one of Minneapolis’s notorious underground venues, or unearth one of his long out-of-print cassette releases. Finally, this double 10-inch record, a co-release between Seeland and Electro Motive Records, brings his idiosyncratic and very personal music out into the open air. Primarily a guitarist, the root of his playing is akin to traditional stride, but rich with quivering whammy bar wobble and shimmering feedback. He often plays the tailfin strings of his archtop like one would play harmonics, or retunes seamlessly mid-stream to create a shifting temperament across the length of a piece. An affinity for the likes of John Fahey, Loren Mazzacane-Connors and Sandy Bull can be heard, but the comparisons quickly fall away as one takes in his ambidextrous musical sensibility. He will sing otherworldly vocal duets with the theremin, while simultaneously accompanying himself fingerpicking, or will throw modulated feedback tones across otherwise inviting harmonic landscapes based on blues and folk motifs, overshadowing them with clouds of squelch that loom like an approaching post-noise squall, but ultimately swell and punctuate more like the tone clusters of Henry Cowell or the lyrical saxophone of Frank Lowe. Despite Saint-Pelvin’s penchant for playing multiple instruments simultaneously, he is accompanied here by notable guests including Naomi Joy of Mother Of Fire, and Ka Baird of Spires That In The Sunset Rise. At its heart though, A Clerical Error is a solo album. With the death...

2X10" $17.50

06/22/2018 753762053523 

SEELAND 535 


MP3 $5.99

09/22/2017 753762053523 

SEELAND 535 


FLAC $6.99

09/22/2017 753762053523 

SEELAND 535 


***Hard to believe these two screech-zillas have never collaborated before now—the closest they ever got are MIKAWA's button-down liner notes for WIESE's Teenage Hallucination CD—but a full fifteen years after first meeting, the pair bled electronics into one another in Tokyo at Ochiai Soup in 2015, leaving us with immersive and astounding energy. Mixed and mastered by Wiese during a residency at the studio of Ina/GRM in Paris, 2016.

CD $12.25

10/21/2016  

H 78 


MP3 $6.99

11/01/2016 655035510422 

 


FLAC $7.99

11/01/2016 655035510422 

 


I Ain’t Gonna Be Worried No More by Estes, Sleepy John

Estes, Sleepy John

I Ain’t Gonna Be Worried No More
Monk

***A retrospective of twenty-four songs recorded between 1929-1937 in Memphis, Chicago and NYC, when Tennessee native, SLEEPY JOHN ESTES was at the height of his abilities. Despite the fact that Estes wasn't the fastest or most technical blues guitarists out there, his distinct and emotional vocals, and uniquely relaxed style more than compensates for this, making him one of the genre's true geniuses. Estes, in fact, perhaps because he wasn't a guitar virtuoso, usually preferred to play in a group setting, and on these recordings he is often accompanied by great players like “YANK” RACHELL on mandolin or HAMMIE NIXON on harmonica. He is also frequently accompanied by piano and sometimes second guitar. Estes is also well known for his lyrics which talked about places and people he know. I Ain't Gonna Be Worried No More contains all of his best songs, including blues favorites like “The Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair” (covered by Led Zeppelin), “Drop Down Mama,” “Milk Cow Blues” (covered by The Kinks), and “Someday Baby Blues” (covered by Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan).

2XLP $32.65

05/11/2010 8013252453250 

MOK 325 


***Very long awaited collaborative record by two fellows that need no introduction. Mania inducing heavy waves of suffocating bass frequencies with ripping and tearing, hissing and speaker destroying hellstorm. Recorded in Chicago in 2006, cover art by ALEX DECARLI. Pro-pressed covers pressed on black vinyl.

LP $25.35

05/04/2010  

NIHIL 63 


***When The Time Is Right opens with John Dikeman's saxophone and Roy Campbell's unmistakable, unrelenting trumpet, striking the first chord of a full-throttle performance, recorded live at an Amsterdam festival in 2013. From the unforgettable introduction, the quintet’s performance moves confidently between intricately arranged limbos and lush interludes, approaching each turn of their performance confidently and with enthusiastic commitment to the creative process. The five musicians hand off complex melodies and tempos between their eight instruments, building a performance that seems propelled by momentum. After their hour-long improvisation, Campbell told his fellow musicians, “what I liked the most is that from the very beginning, we went directly to the point.” This album, best summarized by Campbell, is also a tribute to his lifelong legacy of musical achievement, encapsulating the forward-thinking contributions he made in the experimental jazz scene throughout his career. And this group, comprised of Raoul van der Weide, Klaus Kugel, Peter Jacquemyn, John Dikeman and the late Roy Campbell, only ever played together once, offering a dynamic and truly singular performance.

CD $13.75

07/23/2021 755491202883 

 


***While the hypothetical range of what the listener might expect from a record of free-improvised guitar playing is understandably gigantic, it’s not very often that what is heard so easily navigates across such a vast terrain. In their most often observed environments (TASHI DORJI's relentlessly frequent solo and collaborative releases, JOHN DIETERICH in the untamable and uniquely enchanting DEERHOOF), both artists regularly redefine both themselves and what “guitar” playing may or may not be. On Midden, there is communication and expression that transcends the notion that two people can simply cross paths and play guitar together. Plenty of people do this, but few intersect so naturally and comfortably in this abstract of a context. While captured in the live setting, Midden is not the result of weeks of touring, fine tuning ideas and patterns. Instead, the LP is merely a document which archives the final of three chance meetings, in which two people engage in a natural dialog that at times is jagged and jarring while at others is mesmerizing and beautiful. Unpredictable yet completely organic, such a language is a joy to hear. (STREET DATE - 9/06/2019)

LP $14.75

09/06/2019  

 


***Gilgongo Records is pleased to announce Continuous Hole, a collaborative album by DREW DANIEL and JOHN WIESE. The fruit of over ten years of home recordings in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Baltimore, Continuous Hole melds improvisation and musique concrète composition into a uniquely sweaty document of labor-intensive rhythm. A finger puzzle of reconciled opposites: lockstep structure and constant flux. Many of the tracks reflect the unique blending of the disparate backgrounds of its creators: on “Abhorred Shears,” “Sleek Disorder” and “Cosmic Joke,” the relentlessly variable source material is relegated to precisely timed gated forms and patterns. Without using any sampling or MIDI sequencing, the rhythmic cuts evoke the tempo/BPM of footwork, juke or gabber, but they are constructed entirely from volcanic, gnarled abstraction, and eschew typical genre elements.  “Progress Bar” goes from frantic cuts to weightless slo-mo freefall and back to frenzy. Moving from mayhem to menace, “Surprise” concludes the album with ominous flutters of a pedal steel guitar and the sound of a dog’s toenails scraping a stone floor. In the final milliseconds of the song, the dog leaps for the listener’s throat. Raw yet precise, it’s a dynamic conclusion to an album of strong contrasts from two American artists discovering common ground in the joy of frenzied cutting.  A prolific recording artist and visual artist with an extensive discography under his own name, and with grindcore stalwarts Sissy Spacek, John Wiese is currently based in Cleveland. One half of the electronic band Matmos and all...

LP $14.75

05/04/2018  

GGR 091 


The Western Suite And Siesta Songs by Amor, Naïm & John Convertino

Amor, Naïm & John Convertino

The Western Suite And Siesta Songs
L.M. Dupli-cation

The Western Suite and Siesta Songs, the first release by newly formed duo Naïm Amor & John Convertino, is the perfect soundtrack to a drive through the desert Southwest. The thin, straight line of the road, unending to the horizon; dark, distant rainclouds hovering far ahead and above; the feel of the heat on the asphalt; and most of all the space... Space and time have come together here to create an environment unequaled elsewhere in elegance and beauty. This duo have created a classic record matching those desert roads and views of Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas. John Convertino recorded the initial tracks in a big room, alone, direct to four track, managing with very simple equipment to capture piano, accordion, and incredible analog drum sounds Those master cassette tapes were mailed to Amor, who added arrangements and his signature guitar style. Each musician needed each other to finish these works—Amor’s brittle electric guitar stabs, lyrical acoustic guitar playing, and cirrus cloud lap steel combine with the hovering space echoes and rattlesnake hiss / thunderous boom of Convertino’s drums to create an epic sequence of themes and variations. These compositions conjure up not only vivid scenes and vistas, but also characters, and moments in lives. The Western Suite And Siesta Songs is a masterpiece of Southwestern music, an album that could be the soundtrack to the best Western film since Once Upon a Time in the West.

LP $16.00

11/04/2016 613505500151 

LM 10 


CD $12.00

11/04/2016 616892423249 

LM 10 CD 


MP3 $9.90

11/04/2016 616892423249 

 


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11/04/2016 616892423249 

 


Collaborative live performance by Dennis Tyfus (Antwerp, Belgium) and John Wiese (Los Angeles). Recorded live on KXLU radio show Psychotechnics in early 2015.

MP3 $5.99

07/01/2015 655035170602 

 


FLAC $6.99

07/01/2015 655035170602 

 


Digital edition contains all the final mixes and edits of the sessions by the British free jazz phenomenon and L.A.’s no-nonsense electronic and tape noise artist. The duo’s real-time, evolving improvisations are intended for maximum volume and have been mastered accordingly. C-Section finds density in scarcity -- deep, glacial muck bubbles emerge beneath Parker's inhuman circular breathing, only to plunge into an incessant clatter of industrial landscape.

MP3 $7.99

05/01/2008 655035508726 

H C-Section 


***Originally released in 1961 on the Cook Laboratories label, Le Jazz Primitif From Trinidad is an extraordinary example of the jazz scene on this West Indies isle. Side A features a group led by RUPERT CLEMENDORE, an amazing drummer, percussionist, and vibes player, covering territory from American Jazz and R&B, to Calypso. Side B, led by bassist JOHN BUDDY WILLIAMS is more straight forward Calypso though it is not without Jazz and R&B influences. An incredible LP showcasing the diversity of the fruitful Trinidadian musical scene of the mid 20th century. Lovingly reissued in a perfect replica of the original Cook jacket.

LP $17.25

12/28/2010 646315008210 

COOK 01082 


***The first release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer PETER HOWELL (he wrote the second version of the Doctor Who theme tune for BBC-TV) and his musical partner JOHN FERDINANDO, makers of legendary albums under the names ITHICA, AGINCOURT, FRIENDS and TOMORROW COME SOMEDAY. This private press record was recorded as a musical backdrop for a stage version of Alice through the Looking Glass by local amateur dramatics group the Ditchling Players. The musical templates are inspired, Lewis Carroll's surreal poetry is as attractive as ever, and the project is colored by other English psychedelic acts of the era such as the Pink Floyd: indeed, it has been compared elsewhere to a pastoral equivalent of Piper At The Gates of Dawn. There are numerous highlights scattered throughout the album, but pride of place must go to ‘Jabberwocky,’ an impressive mélange of treated vocals and backward tapes that is worth the price of admission alone. With its drowsy atmosphere, myriad sound effects and languid organ-based sound, “Alice” certainly invokes the spirit of the psychedelic age, albeit from the perspective of photogenic Middle England rather than hallucinogenic Middle Earth. Rarely can an album or book have ended with a more apposite line: “Life—what is it but a dream?" We are pleased as punch to be able to present the compact disc debut of “Alice”—and with extra material, too!

CD $15.50

07/13/2010 778578101527 

ACLN 1015 CD 


MP3 $4.95

05/19/2009 655035170329 

H56 


***Helicopter is proud to present the first trio album of Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye, Dinosaurs With Horns, LAFMS), Joe Potts (Airway, Extended Organ, LAFMS), and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Strain of Laws). “Listening to this album, I feel that I am having multiple dreams at once. The dreams are fragmented and mixed, flowing through time. Dreams are recalled after we wake up, and we are not exactly aware of them while we sleep. However, when listening to music in this album, it is strange to think that the dreams we are having are like this in fact. This may be music that shows us the other side of consciousness.” (Except from the liner notes by Takuya Sakaguchi)

2XCD $17.75

06/02/2023  

HEL 99092 CD 


CD $11.25

10/02/2020  

HEL 42003 CD 


***BACK IN!!!  A collaboration exclusively using the sounds of tearing paper. Edition of 150 copies.

7" $14.50

05/17/2011  

H 60 


***BACK IN STOCK!!!  The first vinyl release (and third album) from the CHARLES RUMBACK piano trio! You may know Charles from his work with Ryley Walker, Colorlist, and more—this is one of the most beautiful piano trios you'll hear in a long times. Shades of Vince Guaraldi and more.

LP $19.95

06/19/2020  

 


MP3 $7.99

06/19/2020  

MF 201 / AS 097 


FLAC $8.99

04/10/2020 767870661372 

MF 201 / AS 097 


***In a follow-up to their duo debut, 2016’s Oblique No Strategy, T. Mikawa (Incapacitants, Hijokaidan) and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek) document a blazing live performance and rehearsal at the legendary Ochiai Soup, presenting an energetic explosion of free form electronics. Recorded at Ochiai Soup, Tokyo, Japan, December 2023. Digipak CD presented by Helicopter and Troniks. Art and design by John Wiese.

CD $13.50

08/30/2024 657628449270 

HEL 81009 


MP3 $6.99

08/30/2024 657628449270 

HEL 81009 


FLAC $7.99

08/30/2024 657628449270 

HEL 81009 


To call the Reverend John Wilkins a national treasure would not be an overstatement. He is the son of pre-war blues / folk-revival legend Reverend Robert Wilkins and he leads one of the most exciting and uplifting musical acts on the blues and gospel circuit today. His multiracial, multi-generational band blends soul, southern gospel and hill country rhythm, into a sound that has the infectious drive of hill country blues with the emotional heights of a summer tent revival. Following in the footsteps of his famous father Rev. Robert Wilkins, a blues-singer turned preacher who went from the juke joint to the pulpit, the life of Rev. John Wilkins took a similar path. But in 2020 John Wilkins’ life has been closer to a different iconic bible character, Lazarus, as he has miraculously risen after surviving a month-long stay in intensive care battling COVID 19 in a Memphis hospital. As Rev. Wilkins sings on the closing track of Trouble, “I’ve come through the storm and rain, I’ve come through the storm and rain, and I made it!” And there is much to celebrate with this resurrection. Trouble, the aptly named new album, is a confident and joy-filled statement delivering the good-news gospel message unapologetically through music influenced by Ray Charles, Junior Kimbrough, Bill Withers and of course, his father. John Wilkins is one of seven children born in Memphis, TN to Robert Wilkin. The elder Wilkins was a pre-war innovator of the blues before turning to a life of ministry.  ...

LP $17.50

11/20/2020 767870663710 

170 GONE 


CD $12.00

10/16/2020 767870663727 

170 GONE CD 


MP3 $9.90

10/16/2020 767870663727 

170 GONE 


FLAC $11.99

10/16/2020 767870663727 

170 GONE 


***No samples from the film Payday, but probably worth a listen anyhow. Edition of 300.

MP3 $1.98

03/02/2010 655035172224 

H59 


***Open Question Vol. 1—soon to be followed by a second volume—is the first of two albums that rely on warm, collective, and freely improvised music. The band formed organically in 2019 from weekly jam sessions in Harlem; it is comprised of tenor saxophonist Ayumi Ishito, pianist Eric Plaks, bassist Zach Swanson, and drummer Jon Panikkar, and later, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter. Recording an album with only free improvisation was Ishito’s long-time dream, stalled by the pandemic, and realized only this year. Open Question’s music today, while fully improvised, remains firmly rooted in the jazz tradition. This is best heard on “Synchronicity,” the last recorded piece of the session, where each musician’s trajectory diverges even as the piece holds together. On the track, Carter starts out with soprano sax then later switches to tenor toward the middle of the piece, as Carter and Ishito playfully spar with competing tenor melodies.

CD $13.00

01/21/2022 755491217429 

 


Debut DIY single from seminal Deetroit-To-L.A. street-rockers The Dogs. One side a metallic tribute to MC-5 manager and marijuana martyr John Sinclair. The flip, a kiss-off obit to the 1960s. Never in sleeve and never easy to find. "Their beat penetrates, their sound creates, their music liberates! They bring the crowd to their feet everytime, stomping clapping and screaming for more. Encores are a must .... it's a 'dogs' life!"

7" $10.25

06/17/2022  

HAW 047 


John Lennon's Corpse Revisited by Mighty Caesars

Mighty Caesars

John Lennon's Corpse Revisited
Crypt

***Thee Caesars had been broken up but we got em together for a mini-tour of NYC in Nov 88, and they recorded this Crypt-exclusive LP on returning to Chatham. And CHRIST, is it NASTY! 15 absolute rippers.

LP $18.95

01/06/2017 4016022100181 

CR 018 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! 1997 was a big year for the OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL. They were riding high on the release of their debut double album Dusk At Cubist Castle, and touring the world relentlessly. during a visit to the UK in March, dj JOHN PEEL requested the band to visit his studios to record for his radio show. 17 years later, John Peel Session is released, and features a couple never-before-released songs amidst the three tracks. A radio session that has been officially licensed from the BBC, this is continued evidence of a band that is in further need of celebration. Vinyl only release.

LP $16.00

01/21/2014 789397829912 

CHKLP012 


MP3 $2.97

01/21/2014 789397829912 

CHKLP012 


FLAC $3.99

01/21/2014 789397829912 

CHKLP012 


In Concert At St. John by Khan, Ali Akbar

Khan, Ali Akbar

In Concert At St. John
Ammp

***Rag Misra Kirwani, with Zakir Hussain on tabla.

MC $6.75

08/17/1999  

AMMP 866c 


John Touchton aka Severed+Said’s third thaumaturgic synth document for NNF, “Tragic Seeker,” deftly conjures the mood and mythos of the Floridian void lurking behind its “eternal shores and menacing skylines.” Conceived and captured across three extended sessions at Jacksonville studio bunker Long Jump Records, the songs were repeated until they refracted, turning liquid and hypnotic.  Drum machinery and spiral synthetics flicker in webs of midnight heat, dry ice, and isolation, simmering at the perimeter of forbidden portals. The album obliquely mirrors the alluring tropical oblivion artwork by native Florida painter Jason Gvvl – both blend mirage with malevolence, attuned to dreamscapes in decay. This is music of glimpses and vanishings, pitfalls and parallels, desire and undoing. To seek is to sink into depths unknown, under horizons still gleaming with the glow of other suns.

MC $9.75

02/04/2022  

NNF 383 


MP3 $5.94

01/28/2022 733102724887 

NNF 383 


FLAC $6.99

01/28/2022 733102724887 

NNF 383 


Punk Entity by Cold Feet

Cold Feet

Punk Entity
Feel It

***John Waters once said, "The only thing I wanna be is a negative role model for a whole new generation of bored youth." Well, perhaps Baltimore's COLD FEET were the generation that picked up on those sage words, and have crafted their own trashy, hardcore punk anthems on Punk Entity. Following a promising debut 7" EP and several cassette releases, we find Cold Feet at the height of their game with eight completely scorching tracks. Caught somewhere in the crosshairs of the early '80s USHC craze, like the odd New Englander cousin who caught as much X-Claim! as Mutha Records bands—Cold Feet harness the power of Get It Away-era SSD, steal the reckless abandon of the first couple N.O.T.A. 7"s, and indulge the bohemian sense of humor that Adrenalin O.D. rocked. These guys are complete underdogs, the secretly smart idiots that allow their guitar player to be Jim Lahey for a Halloween gig and still completely blow the place apart. Cold Feet are here to show ya that they're one of the most true-to-form hardcore bands of contempo HC punk and hammer the point home with Punk Entity. First pressing of 400 copies packaged with a double-sided two color risograph insert, download code, and hype sticker in reverse board 20pt. jacket.

12" $18.35

06/19/2020 798234076327 

FEEL IT 38 


***JOHN STEINER started BOY ROMEO with drummer PATRICK SHELLEY in 2015. Hoping to turn John's bedroom demos into stadium anthems, John and Patrick workshopped songs for countless hours with multiple bassists. They pooled together their money and made a record with DYLAN WALL (Craft Spells) at Sacramento recording studio The Dock in Fall 2016. The result of that four-day session was the Boy Romeo LP, a lean collection of massive power pop statement songs. Just as Boy Romeo seemed to be on the upswing, everything fell apart. Right before their first tour, and amidst increasing hype, the group dissolved. Without a band and surrounded by a chaotic living situation, John buried himself in home recording. Using a cheap condenser mic and a basic laptop interface, John wrote and recorded a grip of new tracks. He whittled the sessions down into "Shorts," a tight six-song collection made with painstaking attention to sonics. On "Shorts," Boy Romeo takes inspiration from '60's pop and R&B, as well as from a diverse net of songwriters, ranging from Ray Davies to Erykah Badu to Eddie Floyd. Its six songs provide a short journey that feels more expansive than its runtime. Though it runs short of 15 minutes in length, its concept is fully realized.

12" $14.75

08/03/2018  

MTN 20 


Play "a Love Supreme" by Mattson 2

Mattson 2

Play "a Love Supreme"
Spiritual Pajamas

John Coltrane’s 1965 magnum opus A Love Supreme is one of the most revered and influential recordings in the history of jazz, widely regarded as the iconic saxophonist’s masterpiece. It might seem audacious at the very least to undertake a new recording of such a foundational album, but twin brothers Jared and Jonathan Mattson are nothing if not sonic risk-takers.  With their new release Mattson 2 Play “A Love Supreme,” the duo reimagines Coltrane’s avant-garde epic through a 21st-century lens, creating a new interpretation that remains faithful to the questing spirit of the original while pushing the music into bold new territory—which itself is fully in keeping with the composer’s forward-looking vision. The album translates the Coltrane Quartet’s acoustic jazz explorations into a modern language swathed in a haze of analog synths, ecstatic guitars, transcendent grooves and enveloping atmospherics. The duo undertook an intensive study of the original composition, Coltrane’s notes, and every available recording by the Coltrane Quartet as well as later versions by the likes of John McLaughlin, Branford Marsalis and Alice Coltrane. They used that vocabulary to create their own take, which they honed through invaluable live performances before audiences largely unfamiliar with the original. “It was so incredible to see the way that a rock fans connected with the music,” Jonathan recalls. “There was yelling and crying, people getting really stoked and devouring every note we were playing. Seeing people’s minds getting blown by Coltrane’s music, was an inspiration for us.” Those visceral reactions attest...

LP $16.00

08/17/2018 096962271657 

SPIRITUAL 023 LP 


CD $12.00

08/17/2018 096962271664 

SPIRITUAL 023 CD 


MP3 $4.95

08/17/2018 096962271664 

SPIRITUAL 023 


FLAC $5.99

08/17/2018 096962271664 

SPIRITUAL 023 


375 Images Of Angels by Behavior

Behavior

375 Images Of Angels
Iron Lung

***John Cage related this anecdote: “One evening I was walking along Hollywood Boulevard, nothing much to do. I stopped and looked in the window of a stationary shop. A mechanized pen was suspended in space in such a way that, as a mechanized roll of paper passed by it, the pen went through the motions of the same penmanship exercises I had learned as a child in the third grade. Centrally placed in the window was an advertisement explaining the mechanical reasons for the perfection of the operation of the suspended mechanical pen. I was fascinated, for everything was going wrong. The pen was tearing the paper to shreds and splattering ink all over the window and on the advertisement, which, nevertheless, remained legible.” This little musing somehow rhymes with the spirit of BEHAVIOR’s 375 Images of Angels, unique “musical” approach to punk. The very essence of punk is a contemptuous “fuck you” to convention anyway, or at least a troubled groping for new avenues of self creation. There is a simple beauty in deconstruction, in calculated naivety, in messes, in processes and in the plain night air of Los Angeles. …Angels dances like a dog shaking off a swim. ...Angels is as deliberate as it is free. Don’t we all want this dichotomy in our lives? The drive to make our time our own and the permission to chase joy? Includes a download.

LP $17.75

01/22/2016  

LUNGS 074 


Transcendental Youth by Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats

Transcendental Youth
Merge

***JOHN DARNIELLE has written almost 600 songs now, and some of them are very sad, dealing with hard drugs and tragic ends, hurting yourself and others, sicknesses of both body and brain, off-brand alcohols. They are told in beautiful, unnerving, specific detail because he is a very good writer, and also some of them are just true stories about his own life. But many have noted that John Darnielle seems often very happy, and his demeanor on stage is almost exclusively unhaunted, ecstatic. Anyone who reads his Twitter feed knows he takes great delight in his delights: vegan cooking, fat babies, hockey, the beautiful alchemy of Chemex coffee, Anonymous 4, and playing music for people. These are the consolations; and if some of his songs suggest that there are real hells on earth, other songs remind that the heavens are equally close at hand. (Sometimes they are even the same songs.) It is my impression that this is the ecstasy John Darnielle is feeling: that thrill of having survived, escaped for even a second to enjoy those small transcendent delights, and to sing of them. Transcendental Youth is full of songs about people who madly, stupidly, blessedly won’t stop surviving, no matter who gives up on them. I can report that it is a very good album and has many more instruments on it than his early cassette tapes, including Peter Hughes on bass, Jon Wurster on drums, and, for the first time, a full horn section. And all of...

LP $18.25

10/02/2012 673855044613 

MRG 446 


CD $13.75

10/02/2012 673855044620 

MRG 446 CD 


***JOHN “MAD MACKA” MCKEERING the guitarist from ONYAS and COSMIC PSYCHOS strikes out on his own. Guitars sounds are distinctly his. Upcoming appearance at Gonerfest 2012. Australian import.

7" $6.30

07/03/2012  

SH 04 


***"Since John Coltrane and Rashied Ali created 'Interstellar Space' with only sax and percussion, opening through this limited line-up new realms of expression, often raw, hard, yet incredibly direct and open, many have seen the opportunities it offered and followed their example. Playing in a trio format is for many already a tough task, but relinquishing the typical role of the bass as melodic and rhythmic anchor point, offers a total freedom of interaction, but it's like poetry without rhyme, there is no comfort zone to fall back into, no safe haven, no safety net, it's swim or drown. Without technical mastery, creativity and close listening skills, it's hard to create anything meaningful at all."—freejazzblog.org. STEVE and RAVI are indeed true masters of the hive minded sonic attack. Swirling madness and whispered genius. I've seen it live and I can attest, it is incredible. Like the other singles in series 3, there are 300 copies on black vinyl with hand stamped labels housed in a hand stamped j-card sleeve. A one-time pressing.

7" $9.25

06/22/2018  

LUNGS 119 


Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981) by Static

Static

Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
Third Man

***Long before John Brannon of Negative Approach cemented himself as a USHC icon, you would hear rumblings about his pre-NA glam group, STATIC. Only a handful of people were lucky/brave enough to see them live. Scenesters spoke of a tape but never seemed to have one. Their most well-remembered song, Toothpaste and Pills, allegedly featured smashing beer bottles against John’s mom’s basement wall as a percussion instrument. Could this be real? Fast forward to 2020 and a few months into the covid-19 lockdown, Brannon came across a bunch of tapes he dug out of a box in his Mom’s closet—STATIC “DEMOS ‘78”, STATIC “LIVE AT GROSSE POINTE SOUTH H.S.,” STATIC “LIVE AT PLEWA HALL.” Holy shit! The legend is true! And best of all, STATIC rule!  John Brannon grew up in Grosse Pointe Park just a few blocks from the Detroit border. John was always into music, but as soon as he heard T-Rex, The Stooges and Alice Cooper, he was obsessed (and still is). He had to start a band to channel his obsessions. So, John and fellow neighborhood kid, Billy Daniels, started writing songs and jamming in John’s mom’s basement. John sang and played piano. Billy played guitar and sang too. They enlisted the help of a local drummer known simply as “Red”, and STATIC was born.   During the first year that they recorded demos at Mrs. Brannon’s, they bought a bunch of beer and invited all the kids over to drink and go nuts as...

LP $19.25

10/22/2021  

 


***Comprised of JOHN DARNIELLE (MOUNTAIN GOATS) and FRANKLIN BRUNO (NOTHING PAINTED BLUE, THE HUMAN HEARTS) and formed in the Inland Empire during the region’s brief next-Seattle shortlist period, the project began as a potential home for any song John wrote that had a) more than three chords or b) a bridge. New songs for the group only happened when John figured he’d written something that Franklin might find clever or amusing. Reasoning that permanent-bridesmaid status means you never have to actually buy the dress, the duo have approached record-making at a pace that one would call “leisurely” if it wouldn’t make the leisure class look like busybodies. Undercard. Recorded with BRIAN PAULSON (Slint, Beck, US Maple) at the Rubber Room in Carrboro, North Carolina, and with MITCH RACKIN (Excepter, Heavy Hands) at Seaside Lounge in Brooklyn, Undercard is the first EXTRA LENS record to arrive as a full collaboration between songwriters. The recording method, however, persists: John plays guitar, sings, and then gets the hell out of Dodge City, leaving Franklin to provide arrangements as the songs required: here sparing, here ornate; sometimes gentle, sometimes not; once with vibraslap, mostly without. No Export to Canada. (STREET DATE - 10/19/2010)

LP $17.25

11/09/2010 673855040615 

MRG 406 


CD $13.75

10/19/2010 673855040622 

MRG 406 CD 


Dash / Anti-clockwise by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Dash / Anti-clockwise
Helicopter

***Scathing sound by JOHN WIESE and CORYDON RONNAU, joined by LASSE MARHAUG and WILL STRANGELAND of TEARIST and SIVLER DAGGERS, cautiously partitioned into short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore. Ruptured and bleeding out, heavily. Seventeen bonus tracks not on Dash LP. Edition of 200.

CD $12.00

05/05/2015  

H 69 CD 


***Original Sins founder John Terlesky releases his second Drunken Fish solo album. Previous releases on Twisted Village, Siltbreeze, Bar None and AuGoGo; Tyrannasuarus Rex-period Bolan strained thorough Pretty Things and soaked in bongwater, beer and choice microdot. Placid stupor never sounded this...stupefying. From 1997.

CD $12.00

01/08/2001 060267963524 

 


MP3 $9.90

01/08/2001 060267963524 

df 35CD 


Flowers From Home by YAI

YAI

Flowers From Home
Not Not Fun

Storied NY multi-instrumentalists John Thayer and David Lackner join forces as YAI to transmute world-building into new digital frontiers. Flowers From Home, their debut, embraces improvisation and manipulation within a laptop jazz palette of warped percussion, horns, electric bass, electronics, keys and tactile atmospherics. The duo cite fidelity as a central facet of their sound, utilizing rack mount FX and multi-phonic strategies to splinter and smear instruments into altered state harmonics, simultaneously intimate and estranged. Their chemistry slips between softness and shadow, wind-woven but cybernetic, attuned to the moods of futures as yet unrealized.

MC $9.75

02/04/2022  

NNF 380 


MP3 $9.90

01/28/2022 733102724870 

NNF 380 


FLAC $11.99

01/28/2022 733102724870 

NNF 380 


(Limited Edition) In League With Dragons by Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats

(Limited Edition) In League With Dragons
Merge

***The MOUNTAIN GOATS are JOHN DARNIELLE, PETER HUGHES, JON WURSTER and MATT DOUGLAS. They have been making music together as a quartet for several years. Three of them live in North Carolina and one has moved back to Rochester. Their songs often seek out dark lairs within which terrible monsters dwell, but their mission is to retrieve the treasure from the dark lair & persuade the terrible monsters inside to seek out the path of redemption. As Axl Rose once memorably asked, in the song “Terrible Monster”: “What’s so terrible about monsters, anyway?” This is the question the Mountain Goats have been doggedly pursuing since 1991. They will never leave off this quest until every option has been exhausted. Thank you. Limited edition LP version pressed green vinyl with a bonus single, housed on double gatefold jackets. Includes a download

fpo $28.35

04/26/2019 673855067902 

MRG 679 LTD 


In League With Dragons by Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats

In League With Dragons
Merge

***The MOUNTAIN GOATS are JOHN DARNIELLE, PETER HUGHES, JON WURSTER and MATT DOUGLAS. They have been making music together as a quartet for several years. Three of them live in North Carolina and one has moved back to Rochester. Their songs often seek out dark lairs within which terrible monsters dwell, but their mission is to retrieve the treasure from the dark lair & persuade the terrible monsters inside to seek out the path of redemption. As Axl Rose once memorably asked, in the song “Terrible Monster”: “What’s so terrible about monsters, anyway?” This is the question the Mountain Goats have been doggedly pursuing since 1991. They will never leave off this quest until every option has been exhausted. Thank you.

CD $13.75

04/26/2019 673855067926 

MRG 679 CD 


2XLP $30.25

04/26/2019 673855067919 

MRG 679 


(Hardcore Edition) In League With Dragons by Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats

(Hardcore Edition) In League With Dragons
Merge

***The MOUNTAIN GOATS are JOHN DARNIELLE, PETER HUGHES, JON WURSTER and MATT DOUGLAS. They have been making music together as a quartet for several years. Three of them live in North Carolina and one has moved back to Rochester. Their songs often seek out dark lairs within which terrible monsters dwell, but their mission is to retrieve the treasure from the dark lair & persuade the terrible monsters inside to seek out the path of redemption. As Axl Rose once memorably asked, in the song “Terrible Monster”: “What’s so terrible about monsters, anyway?” This is the question the Mountain Goats have been doggedly pursuing since 1991. They will never leave off this quest until every option has been exhausted. Thank you. Hardcore LP version pressed on yellow and green marbled vinyl with a bonus single, housed on double gatefold jackets inside debossed, dragon scale slipcases. Includes a Dragon League membership card and download.

fpo $42.95

04/26/2019 673855067933 

MRG 679 HC 


Last But Not Leased by 1929

1929

Last But Not Leased
Siltbreeze

1929 consists of members John Boothman (ex-Bro JT & Vibrolux, President BSA {Bald Swingers of America}), Brendan Gallagher (ex-Dischord waterboy, Battlefield Earth reenactor {that's "Terl" to you, farb}) and Tyler Harold (CFBI Booking wunderkid, Fred Biletnikoff lookalike). For the past two years 1929 have been leveling blowboxes all over Philadelphia without so much as a "Hello, It's Me" from Philly's own blowbox king, Todd Rundgren. You'd think with that kind of liberation going on the least Todd could do is invite 'em over to try on a pair of Roger Powell's sunglasses (left by mistake), rub one of Kasim's scarves or exchange high fives with Willie Wilcox. Maybe the Runt's savin' all the good times for Utopia acolytes The Champs. Cujusvis hominis est errare. Once they were spied moping around town, giving each other charleyhorses and hertz donuts after the big dis, the CEO at Siltbreeze agreed to give 'em a record deal. Since they're all Vietnam vets, it makes sense. It's just that kind of restaurant. The sonic, slurring, instrumental tonic they have decided to bottle up and pass off as their own is a dab of Hawkwind, a pinch of Dead C., and a sprinkle of any number of desert rock's heaviest comancheros. You could say it's the finest non-vocal release to pass through the turnstiles since the Smashchords' 12-inch. Or if you weren't born then, how about Earth 2? Say whatever you like. So long as it's not Gone III. 1929 have played in support of and...

CD $12.00

04/15/2003 655030110023 

sb 100CD 


MP3 $7.92

04/15/2003 655030110023 

 


FLAC $8.99

04/15/2003 655030110023 

 


Floridian synthesist John Touchton aka Severed+Said returns with his most cinematic suite yet of witching hour electronics, spidery rhythm, and macabre clockwork: End Time Loop. A 10-track panorama of “paradise and devastation,” the music moves between sinkholes of low-end, darkened room drones, and strobing percussion, tracing shadows of swamps and derelict blocks. Inspired by the possibilities of a newly acquired hardware sequencer, and composing on headphones, Touchton atomized and re-assembled each song until an “absolute form” revealed itself. His tunnel focus recording method gives the pieces a hermetic precision, mutating and rippling across grid-mapped webs of smoke, mirror, and mirage. Touchton’s youth in a Pentecostal church informs the album’s conflicted themes, a crossroads of “atrocities and kindness,” reckonings and rapture, vestigial dread born of crosses covered in dust. What lurks is what lasts, looping beneath the surface, as unseen as an ill wind. All End Times have their beginning.

MC $12.00

10/18/2024  

NNF 427 


MP3 $7.99

10/18/2024 657628448280 

NNF 427 


FLAC $8.99

10/18/2024 657628448280 

NNF 427 


After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane by Avery, Teodross

Avery, Teodross

After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane
Tompkins Square

***In the beginning there was John Coltrane. Teodross Avery experienced an epiphany at 13 when he first heard Trane’s “Giant Steps.” He emerged in the mid-1990s with two critically hailed releases for GRP/Impulse! Avery’s long and productive journey has taken him down many musical paths, from gigs with jazz legends and hip hop stars to sessions with NEA Jazz Masters and platinum pop albums. With his Tompkins Square label debut After The Rain: A Night for Coltrane, Avery has found his way back home, reasserting himself as a supremely eloquent exponent of the post-Trane jazz continuum. With Liner Notes by Ben Ratliff.

LP $15.50

05/17/2019 856225005630 

TSQ 5630 


CD $12.75

06/21/2019 856225005623 

TSQ 5623 


The latest long-player by John Touchton’s eerie Everglades industrial enterprise Severed+Said is also his loftiest, equal parts synth-wave séance, abduction hallucination, and paranormal noir. Collaborating with the same recording engineer as 2015’s Occlusions, Jeremiah Johnson, but this time in a more equipped North Florida garage studio, the pair routed an array of synthesizers, drum machines, and guitars through speaker cabinets to achieve an impressively tactile, spacious mix. The 13 tracks of Incorporeality alternate between rhythmic, ravaged, and reflective, psychic and sinister, beyond the swamps and behind the eye. Speaking of his process, Touchton touches on the music’s dimensional aura: “Something omnipresent filters through me, into the sound – I feel a somewhat transcendent state.” Mastered by Alter Echo. Images by JT. Layout by Britt Brown.

MC $7.75

03/09/2018  

NNF 343 


MP3 $5.99

03/09/2018 647603400433 

NNF 343 


FLAC $6.99

03/09/2018 647603400433 

NNF 343 


***The BASTARD NOISE combination of JOHN WIESE and ERIC WOOD captured live at two performances in Japan. You get two sets of incredibly quiet and subtle sound—"Ice Epoch" recorded at Tokuzo in Nagoya, August 26, 2000 and "Hidden Object" recorded at JNR in Tokyo, August 29, 2000. 70-plus minutes in length.

CD $7.00

07/01/2003  

H 18 CD 


***The earliest known recording of John Peel's all-time favorite band. Hidden at the back of MARK E. SMITH's bedroom cupboard for the last twenty-odd years, this was never a high-fidelity recording; even after the tape has been cleaned up, it still sounds like a bootleg made on a first generation cassette recorder. Having said that, it's priceless, awe-inspiring, raw, grinding punk-rock stuff, full of bile and humor in roughly equal amounts. This is vintage Mancunian crap-rapping, live and dangerous. Nothing from this early gig has ever been released elsewhere.

CD $13.75

02/26/2002  

COGVP 114 CD 


Imaginational Anthem VI by V/a

V/a

Imaginational Anthem VI
Tompkins Square

***If American Primitive Guitar begins with John Fahey and the Takoma School, then the actual origins of this sound is found within this collection of fourteen solo guitar performances. Recorded between 1923 to 1930, this set is the "Rosetta Stone" of style and repertoire tapped into deeply by Fahey, Basho & Rose, among many others. SAM MCGEE, RILEY PUCKETT, BAYLESS ROSE, SYLVESTER WEAVER, LEMUEL TURNER, FRANK HUTCHISON and DAVEY MILLER are the rural artists included in this anthology. Each one of these showcases a particular technique and sensitivity sourced from the earlier 19th century parlor guitar tradition. Several of these sides are reissued for their first time including Sylvester Weaver's "Guitar Blues," which is the first solo finger picked guitar solo ever recorded. Stunningly remastered and annotated by CHRISTOPHER KING. LP packaged in gatefold sleeves.

CD $14.00

01/01/2020 894807002851 

TSQ 2851 CD 


LP $15.50

01/01/2020 894807002868 

TSQ 2851 


John Dieterich and Jeremy Barnes began The Coral Casino as an attempt to understand one another. They met one day and the next they were in a blank room with unfamiliar instruments in their hands and zero expectations, each agreeing to do his utmost to ignore the other—to improvise in a rhythmic manner while not listening to what the other was doing. This idiosyncratic process proved to be the unlikely genesis of songs like “Special Questions,” “Sandwild” and “The Frost Pocket.” Their shared love of melody and pop provided the anchor for wild performances and deep, rich textures, laying the groundwork for many more moods: the euphoric “Out and About,” the stirring tribute to the satellite Philae (“Philae Lands on Comet 67p_Churyumov-Gerasimenko”), the first satellite to land on a comet, and so on.Expansive, unafraid of complexity yet wide-eyed with elation, their sound embodies risk that genuinely rewards. While flirtations with danger and darkness occasionally appear, in the end everything becomes a laughing pile on the floor. An optimistic homage to a possible future, The Coral Casino is both childish and sophisticated, seemingly tossed off yet at the same time exhibiting a depth that reveals itself on each subsequent listen; an exploration of friendship and the pure joy of ecstatic communication.Take a trip to The Coral Casino: the perfect destination, where everything is topsy-turvy, no one is in control and yet all are mysteriously spirited to their beds before dawn.

LP $13.00

05/06/2016 655035043913 

LM 9 LP 


CD $9.25

05/06/2016 655035043920 

LM 9 CD 


MP3 $7.99

05/06/2016 655035043920 

 


FLAC $9.90

05/06/2016 655035043920 

 


Perth multi-instrumentalist John William Tanner's suntanned soft rock miniatures as Eleventeen Eston exude a mood of sleek shades and faded footage: the bleached beauty of cerulean coves at golden hour, windsurfers gliding like skybirds on the horizon. It's the sound of smooth jazz at a seafood sky-lounge, sunset glittering on waves while a new wave instructional hang gliding video plays above the bar. Leisure and pleasure, loose and lost, grainy coastal cruises traced in piano, guitar, cocaine bass, and keys, laced with licks and hooks. A revisitation of futures past, enshrined on shredded tape for dusty dashboards.Despite the haze of airbrushed fantasy Tanner cites a muse truer and more beatific than breezy vacation rock: “The optimism and sincerity that exists (or did exist) in popular music, beyond any notion of nostalgia.” At this, Delta Horizon delivers, in ways warped, wondrous, unknown, and unforgettable.

MC $9.75

02/19/2021  

NNF 292 CS 


MP3 $5.99

06/17/2014 655035029245 

NNF 292 CS 


FLAC $6.99

06/17/2014 655035029245 

NNF 292 CS 


Life Like by Dead Bob

Dead Bob

Life Like
Wrong

***Dead Bob is the solo incarnation of John Wright, drummer from long time and apparently legendary but now retired Punk rock band NoMeansNo. Life Like, a NMN cover actually, is the first album John has released on his own. Though primarily written and performed by John he can not take all the credit having engaged the help of several friends to get this thing done including—Byron Slack (Invasives), Kristy Lee Audette (Rong), Ford Pier (DOA, Rheostatics), Selina Martin, and his son Aidan Wright, as well as two old collaborations with his brother Rob in the writer's chair Recorded and Produced by John in the wilds of British Columbia, this album's material spans several decades and there is lots more in the archives. As might be expected the songs roll out cohesively but defy the cookie cutters and pigeon holes hence "Genre" is a tough one to convey but one thing that is not unclear is it is not to be listened to quietly! Play loud and enjoy!

LP $24.00

05/17/2024 617513017809 

DBLP1 2023 


Digital Billboards / Mystery Train by Rocket 808

Rocket 808

Digital Billboards / Mystery Train
12xu

***Since the mid 1990’s guitarist/vocalist JOHN SCHOOLEY has been performing CPR on a succession of raw musics—as of this moment in time, he’s the only person who can claim to have been a member of the Crypt, Goner, Sympathy For The Record Industry and 12XU rosters, which either qualifies him for a plaque or combat pay. While this label presided over projects as idiosyncratic as Schooley’s acoustic collaboration with Walter Daniels (2014’s Dead Mall Blues) or the electric Meet Your Death (2016), neither are sufficient preparation for John’s other one-man project, ROCKET 808. An ingenious mix of 1970's analog drum machines with raw guitar, this is less of a style clash and more akin to a minimalist tour de force. Like Suicide adding Link Wray as a third band member, Rocket 808’s debut single is an incandescent, noirish hint of what’s in store for a full-length album in early 2019.

7" $7.75

09/28/2018  

 


Jack Dice is a new project from John Twells and Walkmaster Flex, now releasing their debut EP for Modern Love. John Twells, amongst very many other things, runs the Type label and has been producing music of various different disciplines and varieties over the last 15 years. Although he’s never released anything on Modern Love before, he’s a long time friend and associate of the label. Walker is the manager of Main Attrakionz and has been DJing with them for the last couple of years as the official ‘Green Ova DJ’. ‘Jack DIce’ is fuelled by an interest in bass, Twells being a car audio nerd and Walker having an obsession with 90s southern rap music. These are their first tracks produced together, who know what might follow...

MP3 $3.96

12/10/2012 5060165480388 

LOVE082 


***The third release from song/recording man JOHN ASKEW and a soundtrack to accompany the graphic novel Blankets by CRAIG THOMPSON. The music quietly threads its way through Thompson's stark images of winter and first love, accentuating the novel's dark yet hopeful coming-of-age narrative. Cinematic, ambient, and inventive instrumental music that tips its hat to Brian Eno's Apollo, earlier Aerial M releases, and Yo La Tengo's Danelectro.

CD $1.95

01/08/2001 751937248224 

FGU 19 D CD 


An on going project of prolific artist JOHN WIESE, SISSY SPACEK has taken many forms: intricate collages of the small, quiet, details that trickle through in between “sound”, drums spliced and severed, 18-piece “noise” orchestras, performances that included nothing but the act of shattering glass as source sound to ones that result in broken basses and bleeding throats, etc. On “Fortune,” Wiese has assembled a trio with CHARLIE MUMMA (drums) and CORYDON RONNAU (vocals): crafting twenty-six songs of grind-core noise (like a Crossed Out playing with malfunctioning gear).

MP3 $1.99

05/24/2011 655035170275 

H Fortune 


69 Plunderphonics 96 by Plunderphonics

Plunderphonics

69 Plunderphonics 96
Seeland

***A masterpiece of collage from Canada's John Oswald, expanded from his infamously banned 1989 CD, and bound in a gorgeous 61-page hardcover book. From the Swinging Sixties to the Numb Nineties, two hyper-dense discs cover the gamut of progressive musical endeavour, where punk meets classical, schmaltz marries metal, jazz divorces rap and electronica kills world.

2XCD $24.00

06/09/2010 753762051529 

seeland 515 


***An on going project of prolific artist JOHN WIESE, SISSY SPACEK has taken many forms: intricate collages of the small, quiet, details that trickle through in between “sound”, drums spliced and severed, 18-piece “noise” orchestras, performances that included nothing but the act of shattering glass as source sound to ones that result in broken basses and bleeding throats, etc. On “Fortune,” Wiese has assembled a trio with CHARLIE MUMMA (drums) and CORYDON RONNAU (vocals): crafting twenty-six songs of grind-core noise (like a Crossed Out playing with malfunctioning gear).

7" $4.90

12/07/2009  

32 


Flamingo Heights by Dexter+Franz

Dexter+Franz

Flamingo Heights
Nudie Records

***Instrumental duo Dexter+Franz are film / TV composer John Dexter Marston and producer / engineer / multi-instrumentalist Mike Franz Novak. With a minivan packed full of analog synths, rhythm boxes, guitars and a tape machine, the duo retreated to a house in California’s high desert during the summer of 2022 to record the songs that would become their debut album, Flamingo Heights. Combining their love for early 1980s ambient, lounge music and Meddle-era Pink Floyd psychedelia, Flamingo Heights is a meditation in minimalism and a soundtrack for long hikes through lush landscapes. Featuring a guest appearance from Neal Francis on the Minimoog. Pressed on calming translucent blue vinyl and packaged with a 10 page full color booklet featuring photos and words from the artists.

LP $28.75

09/22/2023  

NUD 015 


***Maybe you are just like John Darnielle: In the depths of the pandemic end of 2020, the Mountain Goats frontman passed the time trapped at home watching pulpy action movies, finding comfort in familiar tropes and sofabound escapism. But you are not really like John Darnielle, unless the action movies you found comfort in included French thrillers like 2008’s Mesrine, vintage Italian poliziotteschi, or the 1974 Donald Pleasence mad-scientist vehicle The Freakmaker. Or unless watching them brought you back to your formative days as an artist, when watching films fueled and soundtracked your songwriting jags and bare-bones home recordings and in turn inspired your 20th album to be a song cycle about the allure—and futility—of vengeance. But there’s no shame in not being like John Darnielle; few people are. Bleed Out is a cinematic experience unto itself. One song about preparing to exact bloody revenge begat another song about the act of exacting bloody revenge and then more songs about and the causes and the aftermath of being driven to exact bloody revenge, each delivered with the urgency and desperation deserving of their narrators and circumstances.

2XLP $28.50

08/19/2022 673855079912 

MRG 799 


Digging In The Dust: Home Recordings 1976 by Fosson, Mark

Fosson, Mark

Digging In The Dust: Home Recordings 1976
Tompkins Square

***Kentucky native MARK FOSSON recorded one album for John Fahey’s Takoma Records in 1976 which went unreleased until 2006. Mark recently found the home demo for that session. Fosson says: “These 11 tracks are the songs I began writing after acquiring my first 12-String guitar. I recorded them in my living room on a Pioneer RT1050 2-track reel-to-reel with a rented microphone. All are originals except for ‘Back In The Saddle Again,’ which resulted from my other obsession at the time of watching old black & white Gene Autry movies any chance I could...usually at 5:00 AM! I met Mr. Autry many years later and tried to tell him this but the crowd was too loud & his ears were too old & he couldn’t hear a word I was saying. Anyway...thanks Gene. Many of these songs would appear later in slightly altered form on The Lost Takoma Sessions, but these original versions are my personal favorites. I can’t believe the tapes have survived so long and still sound as clean as the day I recorded them.”

LP $15.50

06/26/2012 894807002714 

TSQ 2714 


CD $14.00

06/26/2012 894807002721 

TSQ 27121 CD 


***A reissue of the first “proper” album from JOHN DARNIELLE and his MOUNTAIN GOATS. Originally released by Ajax in 1994, the album is a prime example of the lo-fi revolution of the mid-1990s, with nineteen songs of primitive acoustic guitar freneticism, hooks, and impassioned vocals.

CD $7.95

03/29/2005 791071100620 

3BOS 1006.2 CD 


MP3 $9.90

03/29/2005 791071100620 

 


***Following a period of wonderful laziness by publisher JOHN MARR, Murder Can Be Fun returns with a new issue focusing on death and mayhem in music. Includes a lengthy feature on 1950 Los Angeles country-swing legend SPADE COOLEY, along with stuff on PATSY CLINE, EDDIE COCHRAN, NICK DRAKE, JOE MEEK, THE BAND, FRANK ROSOLINO, LES HARVEY, and others.

MAG $2.00

03/08/2005  

MCBF 19 


Jacksonville, Floridian John Touchton’s second release of ritualistic synthesizer music, Occlusions, is less soundtrack-ish than his last and hugely more sunken. The decision to blast his hardware through a trio of vintage amps before capturing it on the Tascam gives this set of songs a more physical aspect, thick throbs over signal buzz and low corridors of drum machinery. The pieces swerve from mechanical raga (“Black Shine Bright”) to tranced nightrides (“Death By Empire”) to Heathen Earth bass trenches (“Occluded”), but they share a processional heaviness and humid pulse. Six electronic stalker themes from under the shadow of dawn, the glow of gear the only light. Recorded in a warehouse in “the dark corners of Florida” in October, 2014 by Jeremiah Johnson; all instruments by John Touchton. Purple-imprinted silver metallic tapes in doublesided cathode-warp J-cards with images by Phantomphoton; layout and photography by Rebecca Rose.

MC $6.75

05/05/2015  

NNF 311 CS 


MP3 $5.94

05/05/2015 642610484056 

 


FLAC $6.99

05/05/2015 642610484056 

 


Black Spot by DOA

DOA

Black Spot
Sudden Death

***A reissue of DOA’s 1995 Black Spot album featuring JOHN WRIGHT of NOMEANSNO on drums—who stepped in after drummer KEN JENSEN was tragically killed in a house fire. Fourteen tracks of thundering DOA-style punk, ripped with hooks, a pinch of ska, and some absolutely stomping riffs.

10" $0.00

11/20/2014  

 


CD $12.00

02/04/2008 652975007623 

 


MP3 $9.90

02/04/2008 652975007623 

SDR 0076 CD 


Psychedelic Saxophone Of by Nothing, Charlie

Nothing, Charlie

Psychedelic Saxophone Of
Hodolog

***Originally released in the late-’60s / early-’70s by John Fahey on Takoma. “Achieved an infinitesimal degree of infamy in Europe under the category of New Jazz, which, of course, it was not." Limited one-time pressing of 500 copies.

LP $20.25

12/07/2009  

1967 


Sissy Spacek / K2 by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek / K2
Helicopter

An hour of face-melting noise from JOHN WIESE, CHARLIE MUMMA and KIMIHIDE KUSAFUKA.

CD $12.00

11/04/2014  

H 66 CD 


MP3 $6.99

10/31/2014 655035182629 

H 66 


FLAC $7.99

10/31/2014 655035182629 

 


Remote Whale Control by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Remote Whale Control
Helicopter

A digital reissue of the second album from SISSY SPACEK—JOHN WIESE, DANNY McCLAIN, and CORYDON RONNAU. Remote Whale Control places more emphasis on raw performance than studio hallucination, heavy on free drums and guitar. The tracks also provided much of the source material used on the band’s subsequent Scissors.

MP3 $4.95

07/11/2011 655035170374 

H 21 


Take A Look Inside... by Folk Implosion

Folk Implosion

Take A Look Inside...
Communion Label

***14 songs in 22 minutes-- recorded on 4-track in John Davis' apartment on Mondays and Tuesdays in 1994. Charmingly premature new wave/"mod" tribute still turns ears (red) to this day. Timeless.

CD $9.00

01/08/2001 759718003222 

COMM 32CD 


Living With Damp by Lifers

Lifers

Living With Damp
Zoo Music

'Living With Damp' is the first release by John Arthur Webb (Male Bonding) under the Lifers moniker. 'Guns', which features Dee Dee (Dum Dum Girls), charts one man's confusion and embarrassment when he realises that murder is illegal , even though gun ownership isn't. With Webb and Dee Dee both swallowed by claustrophobic downer guitars, the song builds to a thrilling, homicidal end. 'Fear Without A Form' see Webb exploring the studio with looped instrumentation framing what sounds like a stalker's paranoia. 'Humdrum' is the tale of two young lovers who bury their town's joker, and ultimately each other, in snow covered woodlands in the shit hole where they live. The song takes Webb further from his roots in noise and punk groups and is all the better for it, a lush track full of hooks and melodrama not unlike a Cocteau Twins classic. 'Some Rise/Some Fight' closes the set as a lost voice wanders around doom town with scarce comfort from the crescendoes of guitar and synth.

7" $9.75

07/22/2014  

ZM 018 


MP3 $3.96

05/26/2014 655035006802 

ZM 018 


FLAC $4.99

05/26/2014 655035006802 

 


SISSY SPACEK is the long running project of JOHN WIESE and CORYDON RONNAU. On Dasg, their second release for Gilgongo following the Fortune b/w The Eyes Of Men 7", they are joined by Norway's LASSE MARHAUG (JAZKAMER) and WILL STRANGELAND (TEARIST, SILVER DAGGERS). 41 tracks of scathing sound, cautiously partitioned into short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore, redefining "raw punk", and an even more destructive force than the already harsh and damaged tone of recent output. "The same vein" in a sense, but ruptured and bleeding out, heavily.

MP3 $3.99

12/14/2010 655035178226 

H DASH 


*** Back Off Cupids is the solo project of a gentleman named John Reis. Having fronted the highly respected Pitchfork and later the hugely influential Drive Like Jehu, Reis is best known as the front man for Rocket From The Crypt, whose Paint As a Fragrance, Circa Now!, and two volumes of singles collections All Systems Go have helped pay your rent many, many times. Recorded and mixed on and off between 1994 and 1999 between RFTC tours and recording sessions, Back Off Cupids places all his previous musical ideas along with his strongest influences (Neu!, ELO, Gories) in a blender with purée engaged. That's one frothy shake.

CD $12.00

02/22/2000 060267961827 

DF 18cd 


MP3 $9.90

02/22/2000 060267961827 

 


FLAC $11.99

02/22/2000 060267961827 

 


Guilty Of Everything by Armstrong, Joe

Armstrong, Joe

Guilty Of Everything
Sudden Death

***A chronicle of the early Vancouver punk scene as told by JOHN ARMSTRONG, aka BUCK CHERRY of the MODERNETTES. A pell-mell tour of misspent youth hanging around with DOA, ART BERGMANN, and other punk luminaries. Vivid and entertaining.

BK $13.00

12/27/2005 9780921586869 

SDR 0025 


A Peal Of Bells by Aum Rifle

Aum Rifle

A Peal Of Bells
Shrimper

The Aum Rifle as documented here is Alex and Cari Ganowsky and John Thill, along with a loose confederation of collaborators from seaside Seattle and scorched-earth Riverside, California, their hometown. To date they’ve produced a few handmade limited edition CDRs comprised of outdoor major-key folk tunes and environmental soundscapes infiltrated by tape noise, TV broadcasts, and local methamphetamine culture. The music inhabits a dusty, rusted landscape, fetishized in their songs. Other work includes recording camping trips to the Olympic Peninsula and Death Valley National Park. A Peal Of Bells is the product of time divided between the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, moving from slowest “quiet-time” dirges to a pots-and-pans racket, sometimes within the confines of one song. The Aum Rifle and their various collaborators play banjos, accordions, tape loops, trees and hand-crafted musical monstrosities in, around, and outside the trappings of traditional song structure. They’ll be taking their semiacoustic ideologies and rusted metal on the road in July and August 2004 up and down the West Coast and throughout the Midwest.  • Self-released CDRs have garnered top ten status on underground radio stations KFJC and KSPC, and have quickly sold out via mail order • A Los Angeles presence with other upside-out noise makers Amps For Christ and Child Pornography • Radio by AAM, publicity by Wishing Tree • File next to The Sunburned Hand Of The Man and The Godz • Only hippies kill hippies

CD $12.00

06/15/2004 759718114324 

shr 143CD 


MP3 $0.00

06/15/2004  

 


***Powerful and terrifying melodic / atmospheric black metal from Marek Cimochowicz along with contributions from John Kerr (drums), Spenser Morris (bass) and Adam Harris (synths on " Próżnia I."

CD $10.50

01/14/2022  

VENDETTA 229 CD 


LP $18.50

09/02/2022  

VENDETTA 229 


*** Pitchfork review 8.0! First appearing incongruously on John Fahey’s Takoma label in 1981, Nommos remains enshrouded in impenetrable mystery—from its understated artwork to the rich assemblage of analog synths contained inside. According to Head Heritage, Nommos is the “missing link between the proto-industrial rhythm and drone of Suicide and the whole minimalist drone / static / repetition method of Terry Riley and La Monte Young.” Best known as a producer, Craig Leon worked on landmark debuts from Suicide, Richard Hell, The Ramones and Blondie. Rather than ape the early NYC punk that he helped foster, Leon’s own music is filled with lush textures and pulsating rhythm boxes. Comparisons can be made to German innovators such as Cluster and La Dusseldorf, yet Nommos is an unbalanced cosmos marked by anxious melodies, aggressive shifts and spiritual overtones. The name “Nommos” itself refers to mythical deities worshipped by tribes in West Africa. Some scholars have argued that the myth has extraterrestrial roots. While these are significant details for understanding the album’s peculiar meditative qualities, there was little context for these sounds upon their initial release. Even today, in the cold light of the early 21st century, Leon sounds fiercely contemporary. This first-time CD release is mastered from the original analog tapes.  “A perfect storm of pedigree, obscurity and musical uniqueness that creates a three-decades-in-the-making cult classic.” —The Wire

LP $17.50

07/23/2013 857176003171 

SV 017 


CD $16.00

05/13/2014 857176003836 

SV 017 CD 


Philosophy Of Living Fire by Alasehir

Alasehir

Philosophy Of Living Fire
Siltbreeze

Alasehir is the trio of Michael Gibbons, John Gibbons, and Jason Kourkounis, otherwise known as three-fifths of Bardo Pond. Their third release, following a CD apiece for the Important and aRCHIVE labels, Philosophy of Living Fire continues their sonic exploration of dense, languorous, free expansion. Billowing and exploding like a cluster of hashish stars, the three instrumental tracks produce a cosmic energy akin to a quasar in the heavens far left of Coltrane’s OM and just right of the galaxy known as Dead C’s Harsh ’70s Reality. Released in a one-time edition of 1000 LPs, this is the rocket ride into the outer stratum at which their previous CDs only hinted. So climb aboard and let Alasehir’s Philosophy Of Living Fire  be your 2007: A Space Odyssey.   A tour for later this year is being scheduled. Stay tuned to www.siltbreeze.com for further info.  “The secret here is the groove, it takes you in and it won’t let you go in all its head-nodding goodness. An essential slice of spiritual rock...”  —Boomkat

LP $12.00

10/23/2007  

SB 86 


***Big Takeover returns with features on NADA SURF, JOHN CALE, MERCURY REV, HOODOO GURUS, DOA / JOE KEITHLEY, MEAT PUPPETS (pt. 2), STEVE WYNN / DREAM SYNDICATE, essays on REDD KROSS and THE CHILLS' MARTIN PHILLIPS, and much more.

MAG $6.00

12/06/2024 725274879984 

BT 95 


Continuing Where The Beatles Left Off by Gloop Nox And The Stik People

Gloop Nox And The Stik People

Continuing Where The Beatles Left Off
Trubee

***After decades of crawling through life's vicissitudes, JOHN TRUBEE and JIM NEVIUS reformed GLOOP NOX AND THE STIK PEOPLE in 2011 to record their songs just for the fun of it. The band got its start in 1973 in central New Jersey—where the members were in high school— playing music that could be described as progressive rock leavened with juvenile humor. Disintegrating the band after graduation, Trubee and Nevius continued to play together in bands like ZYGOTE (circa 1976) NS NEIGHBORS (early '80s). Additional members went on to play with HOLLY AND THE ITALIANS, MARSHALL CRENSHAW, and OUR DAUGHTERS WEDDING among others.

LP $14.25

06/23/2015  

TR 7300222 


The Coroner's Gambit by Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats

The Coroner's Gambit
Merge

***Originally released in October 2000, The Coroner’s Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner’s Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames. The album came together slowly; the Mountain Goats had released music every year from 1991 to 1998, but between the release of that year’s New Asian Cinema EP and The Coroner’s Gambit, 1999 passed without an official Mountain Goats release. The additional time that went into The Coroner’s Gambit paid off: it is a breakthrough for Darnielle as a songwriter and practitioner of the full-length album. His characters are sharply drawn, the immaculately appointed lore of the worlds they occupy providing them some shelter from the storm. He has grown as a guitarist and in voice, wringing moments of sweetness and humor from songs of fury and lament, nimbly modulating from mourning to longing, passing air through the lungs of the dead and survivors alike. The mix of home and studio recordings grants The Coroner’s Gambit a thrilling sense of immediacy while pointing towards a future that is soon to break open with All Hail West Texas and Tallahassee. The Coroner’s Gambit is a masterpiece in its own right, an introspective epic that further burnishes Darnielle’s reputation as one of our greatest songwriters, one whose gift for confessional fabulism knows few rivals.

LP $25.95

06/28/2024 673855080017 

MRG 800 


Prismatic Parameter by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Prismatic Parameter
Gilgongo

***Uncompromising large ensemble studio recordings from Los Angeles, 2016: JOHN WIESE, CHARLIE MUMMA, BILL NACE (VAMPIRE BELT, BODY/HEAD), MARTIN ESCALANTE, TED BYRNES and elders of the LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY—ACE FARREN FORD (SMEGMA) and JOE POTTS and RICK POTTS (AIRWAY, LE FORTE FOUR).

2XCD $13.25

11/06/2020  

GGGR 111 CD 


Lost Takoma Sessions by Fosson, Mark

Fosson, Mark

Lost Takoma Sessions
Drag City

***A first-time release of MARK FOSSON’s unissued 1977 sessions recorded for Takoma and produced by JOHN FAHEY. Fosson was the last artist Fahey signed to the label, which subsequently went bankrupt and was sold to Chrysalis. Fosson’s sound is light, smooth, and melodious, and he plays with his own individual personality.

CD $13.75

07/25/2006 781484032229 

DC 322 CD 


***Jan Steele and Janet Sherbourne gained a reputation for being ambient musicians thanks to their appearance with John Cage on 1976’s Voices And Instruments from Brian Eno’s lofty Obscure series. But in a fascinating catalog spanning more than four decades, these English multi-instrumentalists’ variegated sonic sojourns have proved that label to be far too narrow. In the long-gestating, decades-spanning collection, Distant Saxophones, Steele and Sherbourne flaunt a nuanced vision that encompasses ECM-esque chamber jazz, minimalist modern composition, cinematic soundtracks, and an embryonic, contemplative precursor of postrock.  Important players in the UK’s avant-garde music scene and avid ethnomusicology students since the early ‘70s, saxophonist/flutist/composer Steele and pianist/vocalist Sherbourne showed affinities for neo-classical, gamelan, jazz, experimental pop, the Cuban dance music charanga, and production music. It may be these artists’ very diversity that has sabotaged their ability to gain greater attention in the fickle music business.   Distant Saxophones—many of whose tracks have been re-recorded and improved from their original incarnations—invites you to lean in and bask in an interiorized zone of revelations. These songs simultaneously freeze time and exist outside of it.  Community Library’s anthology is offered in a single LP format with a tracklist more limited than the CD version; the LP’s digital download ticket provides the full music set.

LP $19.95

04/22/2022  

CL 26 LP 


CD $14.75

04/22/2022  

CL 26 CD 


***During what should have been a routine medical procedure, the heart of JOHN TALLEY-JONES (URINALS, 100 FLOWERS), TROTSKY ICEPICK's lead vocalist, came to a complete stop. Through the eyes of his doctor, the odds were overwhelmingly against him. But Talley-Jones came back to life after a defibulator delivered two doses of electric current to his heart. This near-death experience literally jolted the creative process of Talley-Jones back to life, the episode inspired the lyrics for the first new Trotsky Icepick song written since the band broke up some twenty years earlier. Like their vocalist, the resurrected Trotsky Icepick has a new lease on life. Talley-Jones has reunited with original band members VITUS MATARE (THE LAST), KJEHL JOHANSEN (URINALS), JOHN FRANK (THE LAST), with TOM HOFER (LEAVING TRAINS).

LP $18.25

01/31/2020  

PSLP 1902 


CD $13.25

01/31/2020  

PSCD 1902 


***PAT THOMAS (Moog Theramin / electronics), JOHN BUTCHER (saxophones), STALE LIAVIK SOLBERG (drums / percussion). Recorded in concert at Iklectik, "Old People's Yard," London, July 19, 2017.

CD $11.00

08/16/2019 619843049451 

MF191 / AS088 CD 


MP3 $7.99

08/16/2019 619843049451 

MF191 / AS088 


FLAC $8.99

08/16/2019 619843049451 

MF191 / AS088 


Daughter Of Everything by Vertical Scratchers

Vertical Scratchers

Daughter Of Everything
Merge

Received a 7.2 rating from Pitchfork. VERTICAL SCRATCHERS is JOHN SCHMERSAL (ex-BRAINIAC, ENON, live CARIBOU and CROOKS ON TAPE) and CHRISTIAN BEAULIEU (ex-TRICLOPS!, ANYWHERE). Vertical Scratchers formed in Los Angeles in 2012. John and Christian met at a Thanksgiving party, began hanging out, and then just decided to be a band together. One of the most persistent elements you will hear throughout the record is the percussive nature in which the guitars were played and recorded. Guitar playing is vertical scratching, and in this band, the guitar strums are almost louder than the amps. Most Vertical Scratchers songs clock in under the two-minute mark but often go in twice as many directions as your average-length song. Pop deception. Think the Kinks with a Buzzcocks brevity. Daughter of Everything was recorded live in Los Angeles at The Smell in September of 2012. The special guest appearance lead vocal from ROBERT POLLARD was recorded at Waterloo Sound in Ohio by TODD TOBIAS.

LP $17.50

02/25/2014 673855049410 

MRG 494 


CD $13.50

02/25/2014 673855049427 

MRG 494 CD 


Perpetual Night by Home Blitz

Home Blitz

Perpetual Night
Almost Ready

***"Perhaps DANIEL’s most accomplished recordings to date. Mastered loud and clear by JOHN GOLDEN. Full color / heavy weight pocket sleeves. If you buy one modern single this year...this be it!"— Almost Ready

7" $7.25

06/07/2011  

ARR 014 


SISSY SPACEK's "Gore Jet" was recorded in Los Angeles in the summer of 1999 by JOHN WIESE (bass, drum machine) and CORYDON RONNAU (vocals).

MP3 $9.90

09/22/2009  

 


30 Gallon Tank by Spoon

Spoon

30 Gallon Tank
Peek-A-Boo

Warehouse Find!!!! "30 Gallon Tank" is a four-song EP recorded by John Croslin along with the band's "A Series of Sneaks" LP for Elektra. It was originally released by Peek-A-Boo Records in 1998 and contains the track "30 Gallon Tank" from "A Series of Sneaks," a weird remix of "Car Radio," plus two excellent exclusive tracks, "Revenge" & "I Could Be Underground."  

7" $4.00

10/29/2007  

 


VHÖL began as an idea by guitarist John Cobbett (Hammers of Misfortune) and drummer Aesop Dekker (Agalloch, Worm Ouroboros) to create music together. The two shared the stage for a number of years in the now-defunt Ludicra, and wanted their new collaboration to incorporate influences from both metal and hardcore punk—from the likes of old-school bands such as Discharge and classic Judas Priest. When the time came to find a vocalist, Cobbett and Dekker immediately thought of Mike Scheidt of YOB; without a second thought Scheidt committed his singular vocal talents to the project. Sigrid Sheie of (Hammers of Misfortune, Amber Asylum) rounded out the lineup on bass. Despite the members’ pedigrees, VHÖL is its own beast distinct from anything black metal or doom metal—don’t think “Ludicra Part Two” or “Ludicra with Mike from YOB on vocals.” Yet their signature styles are all over the group’s self-titled debut, a pummeling, face-melting attack that doesn’t let up for one moment. Raw and primal, the album pulls from a diverse set of influences for a feeling of both savagery and epic beauty.

CD $12.00

04/16/2013 616892108740 

PFL 113 


MP3 $6.93

04/16/2013 616892108740 

 


***Large ensemble Sissy Spacek recordings featuring the cream of LA. The line-up: John Wiese, Mitchell Brown, Joey Karam (The Locust), Peter Kolovos, Rick Potts (LAFMS), Damion Romero, Corydon Ronnau and Shannon Walter (16 Bitch Pile-Up). All the source recordings used for Sepsis were taken from a group improv session recorded for the Dublab radio in 2008. The recordings from each individual channel were later chopped and rearranged into audio collages by Wiese without any regard to preserving group interaction. These collages were then layered into the final pieces you here on the disc. To simplify this: the tracks feature what was played but not how they played as a group. The group communication that was broken up has been worked into another beast entirely. The results are a beautiful set of electro-acoustic works that have been freed from any of the patterns that can develop through group improvisation. These tracks are at once disorientating and alien, yet constantly engaging. 

MP3 $9.90

12/14/2010 655035178325 

H SEPSIS 


Thunder Down Under by Hot Snakes

Hot Snakes

Thunder Down Under
Swami

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! The highly anticipated farewell recording from JOHN REIS (ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, BACK OFF CUPIDS, DRIVE LIKE JEHU), RICK FORK a.k.a. ERIC FROEBERG (DRIVE LIKE JEHU), and JASON KURKOUNIS (DELTA 72, MULE). Gone but hardly forgotten.

LP $9.75

12/26/2006 823777013512 

SWA 135 LP 


CD $12.00

12/26/2006 823777013529 

SWA 135 CD 


MP3 $7.99

12/26/2006 823777013529 

 


Moon's Milk In Final Phase by Electric Sewer Age

Electric Sewer Age

Moon's Milk In Final Phase
Soleilmoon

***ELECTRIC SEWER AGE was conceived in 2006, a glowing spark in the imagination of JOHN DEEK of Divine Frequency. A brief, cryptic announcement in 2009, followed by a few rough tracks released online, heralded its birth. Announced with nothing more than the tagline “an Infinity of Sewers thrown open beneath the Threshold House”, little was known about this upcoming project other than it likely featured some involvement of former COIL legends PETER "SLEAZY" CHRISTOPHERSON and DANNY HYDE, and perhaps, it was rumored, with the posthumous contributions of JHONN BALANCE. Because Electric Sewer Age was intended to be an anonymous aural experiment meant to free the listeners mind of any preconceptions about who or what created it, little more was ever planned to be publicly revealed about the project, even after the first release. However, following the unexpected and untimely passing in 2010 of Christopherson, the first Electric Sewer Age EP became an epitaph to the loss of this peerless musician, for these were the last tracks he and his decades long collaborator and friend Danny Hyde ever completed together. The music, originally intended to conclude Coil’s Moon’s Milk series, was released on CD by Divine Frequency in 2012, and then on vinyl the next year by Danny Hyde. Both editions sold out quckly and have been unavailable until now. Moon’s Milk In Final Phase consists of four ambient-electronic instrumentals, reissued by Soleilmoon Recordings on CD and deluxe gatefold 12-inch, the latter in two colors—250 copies on moon green and 250...

LP $19.75

05/19/2017  

SOL 185 BLK 


CD $14.50

05/19/2017 753907788525 

SOL 185 CD 


Total Freedom by Spacin'

Spacin'

Total Freedom
Agitated

Long-overdue long-form platter from Philadelphia’s Spacin’, the low-key torchbearers of both John Sinclair’s bold program and the fuzzy truth that less is often more (much more) as demonstrated by Lou’s time with Morrison & Tucker & Cale. On Total Freedom, guitarist & vocalist Jason Killinger blazes the path, lead guitarist Paul Sukeena & bassist Sean Hamilton vamp on economical electric chugs while drummer Eva Killinger reprises in her role as thee undisputed master of basement motorik. As a handsomely illustrated insert attests, the whole thing is punctuated by flourishes from some of most celebrated talents of this town’s percolating stew. Blast it soon or remain condemned to a billion years probation.

CD $13.00

03/25/2016 5060446120446 

AGIT 037 CD 


Long-overdue long-form platter from Philadelphia’s Spacin’, the low-key torchbearers of both John Sinclair’s bold program and the fuzzy truth that less is often more (much more) as demonstrated by Lou’s time with Morrison & Tucker & Cale. On Total Freedom, guitarist & vocalist Jason Killinger blazes the path, lead guitarist Paul Sukeena & bassist Sean Hamilton vamp on economical electric chugs while drummer Eva Killinger reprises in her role as thee undisputed master of basement motorik. As a handsomely illustrated insert attests, the whole thing is punctuated by flourishes from some of most celebrated talents of this town’s percolating stew. Blast it soon or remain condemned to a billion years probation.

LP $13.00

03/25/2016 655035064116 

RR / TT 41 


MP3 $9.90

01/15/2016 642610485015 

RR / TT 41 


FLAC $11.99

01/15/2016 642610485015 

 


Over And Through by Cronin, Claire

Cronin, Claire

Over And Through
Ba Da Bing!

In anticipation of Came Down A Storm, Claire Cronin's full band collaboration with John Dieterich (Deerhoof) which Ba Da Bing will release next Spring, we present this Best Of compiling her solo songs of the past few years. Cronin's songs are sparse, deep, and dark, and her gravelly voice reaches unexpected levels of emotional beauty. There's something Jason Molina going on here, by way of Karen Dalton and Neil Young. Cronin is currently working towards a PhD in poetry at University of Georgia, and her lyrics reflect the intelligence and insight of someone so devoted to the written word.

MC $6.00

10/09/2015  

 


MP3 $5.99

10/09/2015 642610485169 

BING 1010 


FLAC $6.99

10/09/2015 642610485169 

 


X-polynation / Book Of Flags by Q And Not U

Q And Not U

X-polynation / Book Of Flags
Dischord

***A brand new single from Washington, DC post-rock trio Q AND NOT U—JOHN DAVIS, HARRIS KLAHR and CHRIS RICHARDS—and a teaser to an upcoming album to be released in 2004. Two new tracks of slightly angular, catchy and complex indie rockage. Produced and engineered at Inner Ear by IAN MACKAYE and DON ZIENTARA.

CD $4.50

09/23/2003 643859141021 

DIS 141 CD 


7" $5.60

02/16/2009  

DIS 141 


***SISSY SPACEK’s fourth release for Misanthropic Agenda is a documentation of a duo piece developed in 2008 by CORYDON RONNAU and JOHN WIESE for breaking glass. Two performances in Los Angeles and San Francisco are included in their entirety. Hand-numbered digipack in an edition of 300.

CD $11.25

04/20/2009  

MAR 022 CD 


MP3 $7.99

04/20/2009  

 


***An entropic vortex of full-room tear-up texture. Duo lineup of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese. Originally released in 2018 on LP/CS, this crucial CD reissue brings back into a print a pinnacle of modern, harsh musique concrète - with nearly 15 minutes of bonus material!

LP $14.75

08/24/2018  

GGGR 095 


CD $9.75

08/05/2022  

GGGR 127 CD 


Founded in Seattle, Washington, by vocalist and songwriter John Maiello in 2013, Dead Bars had a very specific plan: play one show, record a demo, and tour only Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. After four years of playing more shows, releasing five seven-inches on three different labels in three different countries, and never touring outside the continental United States, they are releasing Dream Gig, their first album, produced by Eric Randall of TacocaT. Sometimes things don’t always go as planned, and sometimes you don’t get what you want. Keep on dreamin’. “Like it or not, hardcore punk is now classic rock. So with John Maiello’s jarring, gravel-gargling vocals and C.J. Frederick’s full-throttle guitar, Dead Bars’ debut carries a Rainier-scented whiff of nostalgia for more aggro, string-busting times. Dream Gig is a feel-good epic about feeling bad, the self-described ‘aging rocker’ of its chorus the musical missing link between then and now.” —City Arts Magazine “Recommended for fans of bands like Dear Landlord and Iron Chic and other throaty punk bands who sing about not having any money and being romantically inept.” —Noisey “If Bruce Springsteen took a wrong turn at the New Jersey Turnpike and ended up joining a gang of chain-smoking bikers, he might sound a little like Seattle’s Dead Bars.” —Seattle Weekly

LP $17.50

08/25/2017 633757035713 

NIR 357 


CD $13.00

08/25/2017 633757035720 

NIR 357 CD 


I Staggered Mentally by Portion Control

Portion Control

I Staggered Mentally
Dark Entries

***PORTION CONTROL is a British electronic and industrial band from South London. The trio of JOHN WHYBREW, IAN SHARP and DEAN PIAVANI started out experimenting with electronics in 1980. Linking up with In Phaze Records, they released a number of cassettes and records before signing with Illuminated Records in 1983. There followed a series of classic 12" singles: Raise the Pulse, Rough Justice and Go-Talk, which have become underground dancefloor hits. The band classifies their music style as “Hard Rhythmic Electronics” and were a major influence on Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly and Depeche Mode.  Going back a few years, the band released their first official vinyl album I Staggered Mentally on In Phaze Records in 1982. This album laid the template for the harder edged rhythmic industrial sound of the ‘80s and ‘90s. I Staggered Mentally is as raw as electronic music gets. Dean Piavani’s anguished vocals are the lone human element amidst electric drones, metallic beats and alien analog flickers. Lead synths and effects were created with the Roland SH-09 and RS-09. The rhythm section was provided by the Roland TR-606 and then brand new TB-303 Bassline. Pulsing rhythmic tones were generated using the sample and hold feature of the Moog Rogue. This album documents the band's transition from Cabaret Voltaire-inspired experimentalists into proto-EBM and electro-industrial pioneers. It remains a shockingly brutal and viscerally exciting statement.  All songs have been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The jacket is an exact...

LP $17.75

03/10/2015 0730669337550 

DE 085 


All Eternals Deck by Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats

All Eternals Deck
Merge

***THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are a trio from the mid-Atlantic and points north, helmed by JOHN DARNIELLE (“one of America’s most startling lyricist/poets” —Boston Herald) and kept honest by PETER HUGHES and JON WURSTER. Though the Mountain Goats have been making records since the battle of Little Big Horn, All Eternals Deck is their third following the ratification by unanimous vote of their trio lineup. Having taken to the open road as soon as the act was signed into law and consolidated their powers into a focused triune weapon, the three spent 2010 making commando raids on studios up the seaboard from Tampa to Boston, recording along the way with producers JOHN CONGLETON, BRANDON EGGLESTON, ERIK RUTAN, and SCOTT SOLTER. Gravitating toward images and stories of doomed people or tribes trying to leave a scratch mark or two on some visible surface before their brief moment in the sun has slipped by forever, All Eternals Deck continues Darnielle’s career-long quest to find hard-won moments of joy in the momentary resolve of people who have recognized, in the glare of a train’s oncoming head lamp, their fate. (STREET DATE - 3/29/2011)

LP $19.95

03/29/2011 673855040516 

MRG 405 


CD $13.75

03/29/2011 673855040523 

MRG 405 CD 


Different Damage by Q And Not U

Q And Not U

Different Damage
Dischord

***The second album from Washington, DC post-this-and-that rockers Q AND NOT U—JOHN DAVIS, HARRIS KLAHR and CHRIS RICHARDS. A blend of slightly angular, catchy and complex indie rockage. Produced and engineered at Inner Ear by IAN MACKAYE and DON ZIENTARA.

LP $17.75

01/08/2001 718751963313 

DIS 133 V 


CD $11.00

10/29/2002 718751963320 

DIS 133 CD 


***A reissue of the classic 1996 Nothing For Juice album—the group’s first studio recorded effort—from the MOUNTAIN GOATS—singer/songwriter JOHN DARNIELLE along with bassist RACHEL WARE. Eighteen well-crafted tracks, including a version of Robert Johnson’s “Hellhound on My Trail, the song ”Moon and Sand” (once covered by Chet Baker), and Goat faves “It Froze Me” and “Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina.”

CD $7.95

06/13/2005 791071100729 

3BOS 1007.2 CD 


MP3 $9.90

06/13/2005 791071100729 

 


***The final recordings from this insanely underrated Chicago punk/garage/power pop combo, whose guitarist JOHN GLICK was tragically killed in an auto accident (along with Silkworm’s Michael Dahlquist and The Dials’ Doug Meis). Includes four unreleased studio tracks, along with three live cuts, including a cover of a Wedding Present song. All label profits to be donated to the John Glick Memorial Fund.

CD $12.00

03/21/2006 821970006324 

 


MP3 $5.99

03/21/2006 821970006324 

 


FLAC $6.99

03/21/2006 821970006324 

 


***As a guitarist and drummer, JOSH POLLOCK has run the voodoo down with the likes of John Cale, Gong, Van Dyke Parks, Jandek, Acid Mothers Temple, Tatsuya Yoshida, White Hills, Kevin Ayers, Citay, Bruce Ackley, Gary Floyd, and Flea, amongst others. As DJ FEMALE CONVICT SCORPION, he runs down the same voodoo, but with turntables and samplers instead of guitars and drums. Christian Marclay meets DJ Shadow is the best soundbite that springs to mind, buuuuut there's probably a better one. Ishmagrad, on Calar Music, is DJ Female Convict Scorpion's 16th album. Certainly not a mid-70s Pink Floyd album by any means, but perhaps a dream a mid-70s Pink Floyd album would have if albums fell asleep and had dreams. Heavy without being HEAVY, psychedelic without being "psychedelic", and off in a huge cinemascope field all by itself. Vinyl-only, edition of 225 copies.

LP $7.00

03/25/2022  

CAMUS 33005 


The Plotted Pavillion by Strain Of Laws

Strain Of Laws

The Plotted Pavillion
Helicopter

***From the cryptic duo of Aaron Hemphill (LIARS) and John Wiese, a bleak industrial landscape bathed in heavy hypnotics and mood-drenched vocals. Recorded in 2010 in Venice, California, cauldron-brewed for a decade, and finally escaped in a low hanging fog. An absolutely essential CD reissue of the ultra-limited double 7-inch on Helicopter.

CD $11.00

05/07/2021  

HEL 99084 CD 


Wolf Flow by Loop

Loop

Wolf Flow
Reactor

***RSD 2017 ITEM - BACK IN!!! LIMITED STOCK!!! All three LOOP John Peel sessions collated on one vinyl album from 1987–1990, these are some of the best recordings by LOOP. Remastered by Kevin Metcalf when the CDs were reissued in 2008, REACTOR has decided to reissue the famed WOLFFLOW 2LP for RSD 2017. In a new / updated sleeve, with new printed innerbags. Wolf Flow captures LOOP in their ascendency in the the late 90s, featuring tracks from all three of their albums, a cover of Rocket USA and the track Sunburst (b-side of Arc Lite)…theres a 10 minute version of Straight To Your Heart! Essential!! Recorded live at Mida Vale Studios. Edition of 1,300.

2XLP $31.00

04/22/2017 5060446121337 

 


Executive Slacks was spawned in the humidity of post-industrial Philadelphia by restless art students Matt Marello, John Young and Albert Ganss. Starting with performance art in subways, they soon took their angst-ridden act to galleries and night clubs. The trio recorded four songs in the fall of 1982 that became their self-titled EP released by local independent label Red Records in 1983.  On this debut, Marello roars and churns out white-hot shards of guitar while Young’s short-circuited noise machines and Ganss’s industrial metal drums create dramatic body rhythms. The Slacks drew their influences from contemporaries like Cabaret Voltaire and Tuxedomoon, but also from extremes like disco and dadaism. Songs were created using heavily modified synthesizers and various percussive instruments: industrial steel drums, a filing cabinet, metal rods and an African drum covered in antelope skin. Executive Slacks’ unique brew of primitive electronics, harsh guitars and aggressive vocals inspired many bands like Ministry, Front 242 and Skinny Puppy. All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in the original jacket featuring a painting by Ganss, each copy includes an eight-page booklet with lyrics, photos and press clippings from the band’s archives. As James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem said of “The Bus”: “I always wanted to make a sound like that.”

LP $15.50

07/22/2014 730669337437 

DE 071 


Even Still by Lhd

Lhd

Even Still
Troniks

***Two-and-a-half hours covering the LHD vinyl discography recorded between 2002 and 2007 by the double flamethrower unit of PHIL BLANKENSHIP and JOHN WIESE. Pure West Coast destruction, maximum density and speaker shred. Includes tracks from these sevens: Asthma (Helicopter); Hands of the Priestess (Miisc); Fascination (Swampland); Hotel Fire (P-Tapes); Normandie (Tape Room); Lock Up (Helicopter); Los Angeles (Troniks); and Veiled (Helicopter), and tracks from these twelves: Triple Void (Chondritic Sound): Electrophorus (Collective JYRK): Trap (Troniks), split with Immaculate:Grotesque (Truculent Recordings), plus two previously unreleased bonus tracks. Edition of 200.

2XCD $10.25

04/10/2012  

TRO 298 CD 


Citizens Dream Of A City by Spykes

Spykes

Citizens Dream Of A City
Sergent Massacre

***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! To plagiarize Volcanic Tongue, this solo effort by JOHN OLSON (WOLF EYES) encompasses abstruse sonic strategies (almost Sick Llama-esque in their inscrutability) and avant garde miniatures consisting of electrified balls of steel wire, stuck-groove drone epics, and primitive hobbyist hi-fi experiments. Olson wads up 20th century sound art practice (as documented by Alga Marghen, Revue Ou, et al.) with the home-burned aesthetic of the Chocolate Monk / Fag Tapes / American Tapes axis. Artwork by JONAS DELABORDE.

LP $21.85

12/14/2010  

SM 01 


Peel Session by Hot Snakes

Hot Snakes

Peel Session
Swami

***San Diego rock champions HOT SNAKES recorded live October 11, 2004 at BBC studios for the late JOHN PEEL—Peel’s final guests, as he died a week later while vacationing in Peru. Four tracks that perfectly capture the band’s rougher edges and spontaneous energy. STREET DATE - 04/26/2005

CD $6.75

04/25/2005 823777012829 

SWA 128 CD 


MP3 $3.96

04/25/2005 823777012829 

 


FLAC $4.99

04/25/2005 823777012829 

 


Jenny from Thebes by Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats

Jenny from Thebes
Merge

***Jenny from Thebes began its life as many albums by the Mountain Goats do, with John Darnielle playing the piano until a lyric emerged. That lyric, “Jenny was a warrior / Jenny was a thief / Jenny hit the corner clinic begging for relief,” became “Jenny III,” a song which laid down a challenge he’d never taken up before: writing a sequel to one of his most beloved albums. The Mountain Goats’ catalog is thick with recurring characters—Jenny, who originally appears in the All Hail West Texas track bearing her name, as well as in “Straight Six” from Jam Eater Blues and Transcendental Youth side two jam “Night Light,” is one of these, someone who enters a song unexpectedly, pricking up the ears of fans who are keen on continuing the various narrative threads running through the Mountain Goats’ discography before vanishing into the mist. In these songs, Jenny is largely defined by her absence, and she is given that definition by other characters. She is running from something. These features are beguiling, both to the characters who’ve told her story so far and to the listener. They invite certain questions: Who is Jenny, really? What is she running from? Well, she’s a warrior and a thief, and, this being an album by the Mountain Goats, it’s a safe bet whatever she’s fleeing is something bad. Something catastrophically bad. Jenny from Thebes is the story of Jenny, her southwestern ranch style house, the people for whom that house is...

LP $22.25

10/27/2023 673855084114 

MRG 841 


Since Dennis Callaci’s last solo record nearly four years ago, he has recorded and released a record with John Davis of The Folk Implosion (Arches and Pathways), Refrigerator (So Long to Farewell) as well as issuing a few books of short stories on Bamboo Dart Press. With records taking calendar months and sometimes years to complete (There are a slew of new records he has recorded/is recording in various states of dress with Italy’s Heimito Kunst, Refrigerator, Lonnie Methe and Jonathan Lethem due over the next year), this new recording was written and recorded over the course of a week in June of this year. Comprised of two fifteen minute plus songs, this record pulls, obfuscates and blends stripped acoustic and squealing guitar noise, drum machine bleed and up front vocals recalling more the earlier cassette recordings on Shrimper from the mid 90’s than his latter work. Each track recorded live and then overdubbed in another live full take. Strictly limited edition of 100 copies with unique sticker artwork.

MC $9.25

06/23/2023  

SHR 217 


Those Who Do Not by Psychic TV

Psychic TV

Those Who Do Not
Cold Spring

***The sound of the classic period of Psychic TV—featuring Peter Christopherson and Geff Rushton (John Balance) of Coil, this full show is interspersed with recordings of the Pagan marriage between Genesis and Paula P-Orridge conducted by Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson Allsherjargodi. Psychic TV at their most esoteric, their most ritual, and often most extreme, a perfect accompaniment to the legendary Dreams Less Sweet album of the same year. These recordings of a live disconcert by Psychic TV in Reykjavik, Iceland that took place November 1983 organized by HÖH and GRAMM Records. Out of print for 23 years, this is the ultimate edition for Psychick Youth. Meticulously remastered, with the track order finally arranged into what was the original show. 180-gram black vinyl. Housed in gatefold jackets.

2XLP $40.50

03/31/2023 641871745807 

CSR 323LP 


You Can't Pray A Lie by Laughing Hyenas

Laughing Hyenas

You Can't Pray A Lie
Third Man

***With their roots firmly planted in Detroit’s Cass Corridor punk rock and hardcore scene of the early 80s, John Brannon (Negative Approach) and Larissa Strickland (L-Seven), along with the locked in rhythm section of Kevin Strickland and Jim Kimball, the Laughing Hyenas took it to a completely different plane. Taking pointers from The Birthday Party and Funhouse era Stooges as well as early blues and jazz artists, the Laughing Hyenas were a fierce, sulfuric blast of noise.  Taking the name from a Mark Twain line, the Laughing Hyenas went back into Smart Studios with Butch Vig to record their debut full-length You Can’t Pray A Lie. The Hyenas further elaborated on the template that Merry Go Round set. Kevin, Jim and Larissa lay down deceptively simple hillbilly voodoo blues that at the same time is so rhythmically complex you’re never quite sure what’s going on. Brannon’s vocals are as frenzied and intense as ever. With the balance and everything just right on YCPAL, our dear Hyenas recorded and released one of the milestone/cornerstone albums of the 1980s American underground music scene.

LP $21.35

06/19/2020 813547025500 

TMR 471 


***With their roots firmly planted in Detroit’s Cass Corridor punk rock and hardcore scene of the early 80s, John Brannon (Negative Approach) and Larissa Strickland (L-Seven), along with the locked in rhythm section of Kevin Strickland and Jim Kimball, the Laughing Hyenas took it to a completely different plane. Taking pointers from The Birthday Party and Funhouse era Stooges as well as early blues and jazz artists, the Laughing Hyenas were a fierce, sulfuric blast of noise.  While their style didn’t change much over the course of their first three albums, they kept improving on the formula and on Life Of Crime, they reached their peak! Kevin’s thick and agile basslines and Jim’s bone-breaking drumming make a rhythm section that is incomparable. Larissa’s blistering guitar somehow builds haunting melodies out of the sonic chaos. Brannon is a punk rock whirlwind with the conviction of an old bluesman, his relentless howl make this one of his finest vocal performances to date and make this a truly disturbing and terrifying listen. This is the last record of the “Butch Vig Trilogy” — a beautiful, creative partnership that resulted in three untouchable records and helped point bands like Nirvana and Sonic Youth in Butch Vig’s direction.

LP $21.35

06/19/2020 813547025517 

TMR 472 


Digging For Something by Superchunk

Superchunk

Digging For Something
Merge

***The A-side of this limited edition “Digging for Something” vinyl 7-inch is taken from SUPERCHUNK’s upcoming Majesty Shredding and features guest vocals by JOHN DARNIELLE of THE MOUNTAIN GOATS.. The non-album B-side “February Punk” is proof postive—there are no throwaway Superchunk songs! Superchunk will release Majesty Shredding on September 14th, 2010. The band has already announced summer festival dates and September East Coast dates, with West Coast dates soon to be announced. Neither a return nor a departure, Majesty Shredding telescopes two decades into 41 indelible, action-packed minutes. It is the sound of youthful exuberance fine-tuned with grown-up confidence. Limited to 1,000 copies. (STREET DATE - 7/13/2010)

7" $5.40

07/13/2010 673855039077 

MRG 390 


Per Aspera Ad Astra by Stars Of The Lid

Stars Of The Lid

Per Aspera Ad Astra
Kranky

***A unique collaborative project between tonal feedback reverie kings Stars of the Lid, and New York minimalist painter JOHN McCAFFERTY who's work was influenced by the band's Music For Nitrous Oxide album. In an attempt to blur the distinctions between mediums, The Stars have incorporated the sounds of McCafferty painting into the music, as it was composed to accompany the visual images.

LP $19.00

01/08/2001  

KRANK028LP 


CD $14.00

11/17/1998 796441802821 

 


The Julie Mittens are a Dutch power trio who specialize in extended improvisation at extreme volume. Inspired by John Coltrane's The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording and the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do with Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, guitarist Aart-Jan Schakenbos, bassist Michael van Dam, and drummer Leo Fabriek consistently wreak havoc with lavish, textural, speaker-blowing meltdown jams; they surge with psychedelic power and a stellar rhythm section on the four studio recordings here.  About the name--it allegedly means something to the members of the group, but they won't say what. A Dutch thing? Just don't ask the guitar player to see his pick.  "... guitarist Aart-Jan Schakenbos, bassist Michael van Dam and drummer Leo Fabriek walk a harrowing path between amplifier anarchy and balanced interaction, never failing to make the two meet. Schakenbos provides the skyscraping as he warps and mutilates single notes with the centrifugal force of massive feedback. Van Dam either drops terrifying bass bombs that fill the vacuum Schakenbos leaves in his wake, drones ominously, or dialogues. Fabriek, however, harnesses the others' energy, as he resists the urge to flail away, and instead inserts a fill when it increases tension, thumps steadily when a groove is needed, or colors when space beckons." --Matthew Wuethrich, Dusted  "A kind of spiritual anarchy surfaces through the distorted bedlam, illuminating a full spectrum of frequencies which gives their most feverish moments the effect of coma-inducing psychical bliss landing somewhere between head banging and...

CD $12.00

03/25/2008 655035600529 

HOLYLSOD2005 


MP3 $9.90

03/25/2008  

 


Candle Finger by Bitter Wish

Bitter Wish

Candle Finger
Carbon

***Formed in Philadelphia during the COVID days of fall 2021, Bitter Wish is a psychedelic power trio comprising guitarist John Comune, bassist Clint Takeda (Bardo Pond/Double Wig) and percussionist Scott Verrastro (Kohoutek/ Heavy Lidders). While the band doesn't stray far from its Bardo Pond and Kohoutek roots, they incorporate more repetition and minimalism into their fuzzy vibe. Freeform psych—the children of Fire Music parents secretly raised on Sabbath... Candle Finger, Bitter Wish’s debut full-length, is comprised of two side-long jammers. Both sides are untitled, with side A starting out with nearly 10 minutes of psychedelic bass swells, light percussion, and soloing guitar, guiding the listener down the tunnel, just in time for the proverbial freight-train heading their way. It eventually builds into a faster-than-mid tempo scorcher, with heavily phaser-drenched bass, steady drumming with just the right number of fills, and that soloing guitar, still leading the listener on through to the other side of the mountain pass, before chilling things out before its time to flip the record. On the other hand, side B puts it right out there. Right off the bat, this is a thick, heavy, and plodding slab of awesomeness. Destroying everything in its path, before taking a slight breath for a bit, and then cranking up the speed to a manic frenzy. The last 5 or so minutes are spent winding things down, encouraging the listener to flip the record and start things all over again. Recorded live at Main Drag Music in Brooklyn NY, in...

LP $28.85

06/21/2024  

CR 287 


***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Collaborating for the first time, Will Long and John Daniel combine their methods using tape machines, loops, and computers to score a reimagining of Peter Weir's film and Paul Theroux's novel "The Mosquito Coast". Sourcing inspiration from a view of the film and book as a historical pendulum, the musicians found that these reinterpretations left them nostalgic for a different time, something that's only partly imagined, and without the defined predictions about the life cycles of mass culture based on our limited understanding of current events.

LP $22.95

06/28/2024  

CTATSU 005 


Blow wind, blow… one-take nautical folk anthems / underwater futures produced by John T. Gast and MC Boli, marrying minimalist, quasi-ceremonial orchestrations and massed pipes of un-peace to spacy Berlin-School electronics and plate-shifting, ship-sinking UK soundsystem pressure. 35 minutes of music. On ‘Domestic Saga (All Is Lost)’, wistful reeds extemporise against white tides of high-lonesome synth drift, sonar bleeps and sparsest percussions tumbling through 20,000 leagues of reverb…drowned-world echoes of John Surman’s kosmic Cornwall, Anna Själv Tredje’s epic alpine ego-dissolve, even Namlook/Hawtin’s horizontal techno meditations, all rendered ultra-uncanny by JTG soundboy mischiefs x the conservatoire poise/formality of Boli Group. ‘Ava Maria’ comes at you like an army of pissed-off, undead sailors through the fog – slow but tooled-up and sure of purpose, 100% bad news for you and anyone else unfortunate enough to be holidaying in this til-now quiet and idyllic fishing village with no internet or mobile reception. Properly heavy, heady material: bellows-blown thickening the air around you, pressing on your temples, eventually threatening the full Kananga. But 'Thank You Lord' - with its centrifugal, quintessentially Gast flute-loop (or harmonium or melodica or whatever it is) locating the pagan-folk energies in grime and vice versa - effortlessly steals the show. Propelled by torpedoing sub-bass and bombastic martial string/brass vamps fit for the court of Neptune (release the motherf*****g kraken!), draped with silken weather-storm keys and a surreal voiceover that sounds like a rogue Danish naval officer narrating his own mental collapse, it's just... woii. Unlike anything else out there...

12" $18.95

02/01/2019  

5GT4SAGA 


A Flourish and a Spoil by Districts, The

Districts, The

A Flourish and a Spoil
Fat Possum

***THE DISTRICTS deliver raw, rollicking power on A Flourish And A Spoil. JOHN CONGLETON (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen, Swans) produced/engineered/mixed the album at Seedy Underbelly Studio (formerly Pachyderm Studio) in Cannon Falls, MN. The resulting 10 tracks capture the boisterous live performances from the quartet, who are all between 19 and 20 years old. The Guardian UK says, “The Districts will be your new favourite band.” The four-piece band formed in 2009 while the members were still in high school in Lancaster County, PA. A Flourish And A Spoil features singer/guitarist ROB GROTE’s vocals front and center, combining equal parts ferocity and yearning as when he reflects on leaving behind suburban childhood on “Suburban Smell.” The Districts have toured with bands including Deer Tick, White Denim, Dr. Dog and Temples and won over fans on both sides of the pond with 2014 sets at Lollapalooza, ACL and Reading Festival, among others.

LP $26.95

03/03/2015 767981149714 

FP 1497 


CD $14.25

03/03/2015 767981149721 

 


***JAD FAIR returns under his cult moniker HALF JAPANESE for their first new release in four years. Together with JOHN SLUGGET, GILLES RIEDER, JASON WILLETT, F. ERICKSON and DALLAS GOOD, JAD continues to twist standard song writing and chord structure to produce soon-to-be classic indie-rock.

LP $6.75

03/13/2001 721616024517 

VIRUS 245 


CD $9.25

03/13/2001 721616024524 

VIRUS 245 CD 


MP3 $9.90

03/13/2001  

 


***For years Enon’s Long Play has been sort of secret origin story, the earliest creative output between the duo of John Schmersal (Brainiac) and Rick Lee (Butter 08, Skeleton Key) before they expanded into the full band we know and love. Long Play served as the precursor to their several incredible albums they would release on Touch & Go Records in the 2000s without ever getting much attention outside of their circle of diehard fans. Originally released as a homemade CD-R with crudely constructed artwork and layout Long Play offers up 13 mind melting tracks of Electronic/Rock/Jazz/Hip Hop fusion to get lost in. Remastered in 2020 by John Schmersal for supreme sound quality and enough low end to shake your next house party. The album also features artwork tastefully revamped and updated by Tim Krug.

LP $17.75

03/12/2021  

BRR 020 


***Received a 7.0 rating from Pitchfork. ***There are no Peel sessions anymore—that tradition was buried in the pyramids with John Peel himself upon the great man’s passing. Of the thousands left in the wake, six are ascribed to BONNIE PRINCE BILLY—and of those six, three have been combined to form the deeply congruous experience of Pond Scum. A span of eight years is covered, in reverse, and many chestnuts are rolled out, freed of former contexts with sparse arrangements. “(I Was Drunk at the) Pulpit” feels, ten years from inception, more vividly worn; “Death to Everyone” is loosed from its frame, the bones decoupled and spread out, giving the song a reflective air (as opposed the biting declamation of the original); “Arise, Therefore” adapts its metronomic base, the evangelic twist of its roots made palpable. With the center of the performance in stark relief, the gnomic qualities of two “Get On Jolly” pieces are intensified. Further accenting the devoted spirit of this collection is the inclusion of “When Thy Song Flows Through Me,” from the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, as well as the previously-unreleased original “Beezle.” Bonnie’s lone shadow casts over this lot, accompanied on the first four tracks by David Heumann, but otherwise playing solo through a set of original songs (and two covers) representing a decade of progress in the almost unbearably intimate-yet-unknowable manner that was so often the vibe of those strange and wondrous days. Peeling backwards through time produces a curious hypnosis that we may not...

LP $21.50

01/22/2016 781484064619 

 


CD $13.75

01/22/2016 781484064626 

DC 646 CD 


MC $8.50

01/22/2016  

DC 646 CS 


Kandodo 3 / Carlton Melton by Carlton Melton / Kandodo 3

Carlton Melton / Kandodo 3

Kandodo 3 / Carlton Melton
Creepy Crawl

***CARLTON MELTON lead the charge with three new tracks, recorded at the Dome with BRIAN MACDOUGALL taping it down and JOHN MCBAIN mastering it for vinyl perfection. This is the Melton soaring into the stratosphere with their own toke on spaced travel via olfactory motion. Many would simply say "psych", we say "SPACE" and "NO frontiers!", fly on brothers. KANDODO 3 is the new "nom de plume" for SIMON PRICE’s (THE HEADS) Kandodo project, having roped in fellow Heads' WAYNE MASKELL (drum patterns and rhythm driving) and HUGO MORGAN (bass throb and guidance) to record under the name Kandodo 3. They take up their whole side with one looping soundscape that jitters and skitters into and around patterns of dub and space, this exhilarating take on an already pre-determined trajectory is as awesome in its scope as it is in its journey, catch a ride! Mastered by SHAWN JOSEPH (Optimum). Simon Kandodo Price artwork. 500 copies only.

LP $17.50

03/03/2015  

CC 001 


***Carving an unlikely and elaborate niche in the stoney academic landscape which she once shared with the likes of Phill Niblock, John Cage, and Sorel Hayes, the excitable proto-punk poèmes sonores of the linguistic loose cannon known as Beth Anderson first rolled through New York in the mid-1970s (from Kentucky via San Francisco) like a jumbled tumbleweed of lost Letterism, face paint and threadbare drummy funk to astonish gallery floors, lecture theatres and loft apartment stages. One thousand leagues under the radar of the commercial music industry, with a sense of humor that elevated way above her highbrow peer group, the music of Beth Anderson has successfully evaded the pressing plant for most of her creative career, and not unlike fellow New York gallery actionist Suzanne Ciani, it has taken decades to successfully collect and contextualize these early recordings—expanding her elusive discography beyond the rare and mysterious solo single entry in the process. In 1980, the 45rpm single "I Can't Stand It" combusted into the consciousness of adventurous participants with its deep rhythmic backbeat (courtesy of future Sonic Youth / Dinosaur Jr producer Wharton Tiers, member of the new wave band Theoretical Girls), climaxing with two colorful and commanding linguistic tantrums before disappearing in a puff of smoke leaving would-be fans dumbstruck without so much as a label name or distribution contact to explain what they had just heard. For those who have spent the subsequent years on the edge of that same seat, it might come as some comfort...

LP $35.35

09/06/2024 5060099508141 

FKR 119 LP 


Recorded in early 2010 during winter break from the Flaming Lips “Embryonic” tour, Pink Purple features then-drummer Kliph Scurlock and John Huff. Borrowing mics from the band, Kliph and John set up an army of analog synths and other vintage equipment to create Pink Purple “Red”. This unreleased album highlights the band’s encyclopedic knowledge of classic British rock/prog/psych throughout the tracks.

MP3 $9.90

11/29/2019 843563118092 

 


FLAC $11.99

11/29/2019 843563118092 

 


***TITLE TRACKS is a trio from Washington, D.C. that features guitarist/singer and songwriter JOHN DAVIS (GEORGIE JAMES, Q AND NOT U, PAINT BRANCH), bassist MICHAEL COTTERMAN (THE LOVED ONES, KID DYNAMITE, DAVE HAUSE) and drummer ELMER SHARP (ROOFWALKERS). Title Tracks’ new album, Long Dream is its third, all of which have been released by The Ernest Jenning Record Co. Title Tracks’ first two albums, It Was Easy (2010) and In Blank (2011), came in quick succession and were followed with significant touring through the United States and Europe, including shows with the likes of Ted Leo, Pretty and Nice, Tommy Keene, The Paul Collins Beat, and many others. The five year gap between In Blank and Long Dream was due to a variety of life changes that emerged for different band members (babies, a new drummer, new careers, other bands), all of which find their way into the words and atmosphere of Long Dream. Finding time between parenting duties, graduate school classes, and a new career as a Performing Arts archivist at the University of Maryland, Davis wrote the 10 songs on Long Dream during late hours alone at the band’s practice space. Whether it’s the hurtling sprint of “I Don’t Need To Know,” the arpeggiated atmospherics of “Empty Heavens,” or the urgent power pop of “Low Cool,” nearly every song on the album refers to dreams in their many forms—lucid, feverish, aspirational, broken, or realized. Borne out of a brief period of major changes (and sleep deprivation), it became...

LP $15.00

11/18/2016 600064792912 

EJRC 129 


***Executive Slacks began in the hot, humid summer of 1980 Philadelphia by Matt Marello, John Young and Albert Ganss, three bored, broke, anxious art students. Starting out with performance art in subways, they soon took their angst-ridden act to galleries and night clubs. The band found their moniker in a run-down bookstore after seeing an ad for men’s polyester pants. They pieced together sounds that captured the growing paranoia of an age predicted by Orwell and the growing inequalities of the 1980s.  In 2014 we reissued their 4-song debut EP from 1982 and asked the band if they had any demos. They excavated two cassettes that contained their earliest recorded material from 1980 and 1981. "Seams Ruff" is a 13 song compilation from these cassette collections plus a bonus flexi disc featuring a live performance on WXPN from 1980. The tracks were created with the use of heavily modified synthesizers and noisemakers, the broken innards of a grand piano, metal oil drums and a spray painted Harmony Rocket guitar. The Slacks drew their influences from contemporaries like Cabaret Voltaire, SPK and Tuxedomoon, as well as Disco and Dadaism. Dripping in nihilism, the song’s lyrics tackle the existential dread of the late 20th century and three of the songs are taken from “Mann ist Mann” a 1926 play by the German modernist author Bertolt Brecht. Executive Slacks' unique brew of primitive electronics, harsh guitars and aggressive vocals inspired many bands like Ministry, Front 242 and Skinny Puppy.  All songs...

fpo $18.50

08/09/2016 744271372410 

 


Protein Source Of The Future... Now! by Mountain Goats

Mountain Goats

Protein Source Of The Future... Now!
3 Beads Of Sweat

***It's almost as good as if I'd died and gone to heaven. Twenty-three heavenly slices of John Darnielle pop lovin' compiled from the piles of out-of-print 7-inches, cassettes and compilations that once littered your floor. The first of three proposed volumes of collected MG works.

CD $7.95

04/23/2002 791071100125 

3BOS 1001.2 CD 


MP3 $9.90

04/23/2000 791071100125 

 


Forgiveness by Mrs Magician

Mrs Magician

Forgiveness
Swami

First single from the upcoming album “Bermuda”, to be released on May 20th. Produced by Swami John Reis (Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes).

MP3 $0.99

02/19/2016 642610485596 

 


FLAC $1.29

02/19/2016 642610485596 

 


The third album from Boston ensemble Ehnahre, Old Earth again finds the trio of Ricardo Donoso, John Carchia and Ryan McGuire (the latter two former members of avant-prog rockers Kayo Dot) exploring their unique fusion of hellish death-doom, blackened prog, avant-jazz and experimental composition with earth-scorching results.  Old Earth opens with a distant rustling creeping out of a dank underground space, as the dusty, warbling strains of a 78 RPM record drift past, introducing the first track with an eerie haze of corroded, hallucinatory sound. As a terrifying chorus of operatic female howls suddenly waft out of cracks in the floor, the guitars appear, all alone and slowly weaving an ominous, dissonant melody as the listener is propelled further into Ehnahre’s twisted soundscape. It’s not long before the band tumbles into their trademark atonal death-doom—if anything, even more abstract here than previous releases. Resembling a cross between Disembowelment and Obscura-era Gorguts, the warped, noisy death metal folds in on itself, mutating into crushing, droning riffage. On the intensely creepy second track, double-bass, keyboards and delicate percussion take over, joined by the gorgeous and ghostly trumpets of guest musicians Greg Kelley (Heathen Shame) and Forbes Graham (Kayo Dot). It’s one of Ehnahre’s most spellbinding moments as the band ventures into an twilight world of avant-jazz fusion and shadowy atmospherics. The third movement winds back into bone-crushing death-doom, another monstrous wave of lurching heaviness and dissonant skronk spilling over into the final passage while bludgeoning, jagged death metal riffs underpin a...

CD $12.00

09/18/2012 655035018928 

CBR 99 


MP3 $9.90

09/18/2012 655035018928 

 


Solitary Nail by Jazkamer

Jazkamer

Solitary Nail
Pica Disk

***The January edition of JAZKAMER’s 2010 monthly CD-series. A trio recording of JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS, JOHN HEGRE and LASSE MARHAUG. Studio live-electronics recorded to analog tape at Duper Studios in Bergen. Edited and post-produced by Gross. A dense tapestry of perfect electronic happiness. CD in digipak cover.

CD $15.50

02/23/2010  

PICA 014 


Tomorrow Show - Punk & New Wave by V/a

V/a

Tomorrow Show - Punk & New Wave
Shout Factory

***A double-DVD set featuring explosive live performances and revealing interviews originally aired on TOM SNYDER’s Tomorrow Show. You get legendary footage from JOHN LYDON & KEITH LEVINE, RAMONES, ELVIS COSTELLO, IGGY POP, THE JAM, PATTI SMITH, PLASMATICS, and more.

2XDVD $30.75

02/13/2006 826663814590 

D2D 38145 


***Desertshore is Nico's third solo album, recorded and released in 1970. It was co-produced by John Cale and Joe Boyd. Like its predecessor The Marble Index, it is an avant-garde album with chamber music elements. The back and front covers feature stills from the film La cicatrice interieure by Philippe Garrel, which starred Nico, Garrel and her son Ari Boulogne. A few of the songs from the album were included on the soundtrack of the film.

LP $31.25

11/24/2023 5060672888820 

HE 70004LP 


Featureless Thermal Equilibrium by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Featureless Thermal Equilibrium
Helicopter

New and revelatory full length album with a trio line-up of Charlie Mumma, Jay Randall, and John Wiese. A world of mesmerizing evocations and alternating realms. An unceasing kingdom of ash and scorch. Barbarous events augmented with glamour and suffering. A cruel attack on the unexpected success of the Rubik’s Cube.

CD $11.25

10/02/2020  

H 92 CD 


Hard Times + Crawl / Covers by Laughing Hyenas

Laughing Hyenas

Hard Times + Crawl / Covers
Third Man

***By the time the Laughing Hyenas went back into the studio, Kevin Strickland and Jim Kimball had left to form Mule and had left John and Larissa without a rhythm section. Many people thought this marked the end of the band. Not the case. Todd Swalla (founding member of Necros) stepped in on drums and Kevin Ries on bass. Todd is a much more subtle timekeeper than Jim and Ries had no problem locking in with him, but stayed in the background a little more than Strickland leaving Larissa to take up a little more of the slack. She rises to the occasion, her leads a bit more melodic than before, although still blanketed in a sheet of noise. Brannon’s anguished vocals will still peel the paint of the walls and over the new slightly toned down direction, somehow seem even more extreme. Crawl is notably the only of the Hyenas records recorded in Detroit at White Room Studios.

2XLP $24.95

06/19/2020 813547025531 

TMR 474 


Voices Of The Air by Porras, Jon

Porras, Jon

Voices Of The Air
Ba Da Bing!

One of the most incisive comments on how best to appreciate art came from the Indian musician Gita Sarabhai. In a recorded conversation with John Cage, Sarabhai described art’s effect as serving “to sober and quiet the mind, thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences.” Some of the best exploratory music incorporates this approach, and Jon Porras adopted it as a conceptual foundation for his new album, Voices Of The Air. The sounds Porras creates intend to provoke contemplativeness beyond expressing a concrete idea. As half of the duo Barn Owl, Porras composed intricate dual guitar improvisations that would shift and shimmer through multiple mutations within any singular piece. At the same time, his voyages into minimalism were served by Elm, his solo act. His focus has now shifted from guitar to synthesizer, narrowing in on the intersections between sound and neurology. Taking the Yamaha DX7 as his main instrument for this solo work, Porras read and incorporated John Chowning’s frequency modulation synthesis, the result being a nuanced and multidimensional sound with endless possibilties. Porras stacked, arranged and adjusted these sounds through digital synthesis and effects. “The process felt like mixing paint to get the right color and texture, then laying down a brushstroke, each day returning to the canvas to build on something I left there from the day before,” says Porras. Voices Of The Air broadcasts these intricate balances of sounds that slowly set together, creating an album of delicacy and power.

LP $17.50

10/26/2018 600197014318 

BING 143 


CD $9.50

10/26/2018 600197014325 

BING 143 CD 


MP3 $7.99

10/26/2018 600197014325 

BING 143 


FLAC $8.99

10/26/2018 600197014325 

BING 143 


***The A-side of Von Guts was originally released in July 2011 as a C-5 cassette on Effeminate by Anna Nasty (Olivia Neutron-John, Chain & the Gang). Raw and junky no-wave punk with lyrics borrowed from the late Kurt Vonnegut, with the flip-side featuring radical remixes of the entire release. Damaged music on both sides. Tiny Mix-Tapes: "When SS mash that “Von Guts”-proper riff into the ground like fish brains it’s like a pendant going back and forth in front of your eyes, hypnotizing you, leaving you ready to perform whatever task FELLA asks of you. Don’t drink that Kool-Aid, friend." Split release with Deliberate Indifference.

7" $4.50

06/23/2015  

DI 01 


***Hardcore but born from punk. Lab grown and hidden away in the rust belt of Buffalo, NY is JOHN TOOHILL's ever evolving solo project SCIENCE MAN. Now mutated from a wacked-out, solo garage punk experiment into a full band of mouth foaming, deranged hardcore. Science Man's now third LP, Nines Mecca, is ten songs of blistering punk, super charged with the complex pummeling of an enigmatic, genre-bending hardcore band. "...some kind of mix of Warthog and the Stooges"—No Echo

LP $18.50

10/07/2022  

SF 13 / FK 60 


Delta 88 Nightmare by X

X

Delta 88 Nightmare
Fat Possum

***BACK IN STOCK!!! Earlier in 2019, the original foursome - Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom, and DJ Bonebrake went into the studio together to record fresh material for the first time since 1985’s “Ain’t Love Grand." Five songs were recorded over the course of two days with producer Rob Schnapf. The first of these new songs is the recorded version of an older X song, "Delta 88 Nightmare," which previously was only included as a bonus track on the 2001 reissue of "Los Angeles" in demo form - never as a fully recorded and mixed track. The song is available today as a 7" with the flip side being the newly recorded "Cyrano de Berger's Back". Pressed on blue vinyl in an edition of 500 copies.

7" $14.75

12/06/2019 767981171265 

FP 1712 


Incomprehensible Dehumanization by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Incomprehensible Dehumanization
Gilgongo

***New duo recordings of CHARLIE MUMMA (SLEEPMUTE NIGHTMUTE, KNELT ROTE) and JOHN WIESE. Relentlessly jagged and hellaciously abrasive noisecore to suffocate. The seventh release by SISSY SPACEK for Gilgongo Records.

7" $5.40

01/14/2014  

GGGR 060 


Scorpio Little Devil by Revival Hour

Revival Hour

Scorpio Little Devil
Antiphon

***Destined to be one of our albums of 2013... the Debut full length from The Revival Hour. When John-Mark Lapham realised DM Stith's voice was exactly what was needed to finish a piece of music he'd been working on, neither knew the collaboration would work so well that they'd go on to strike up a partnership, name it The Revival Hour after a groundbreaking American evangelist radio show of the 1930s, and dedicate most of the next two years to investing their music with all the rousing emotion that such a name warranted. The duo's debut EP Clusterchord introduced an extraordinary fusion of panoramic and timeless sound with a thoroughly modernist and intimate feel: 60's R&B, soul, doo-wop and pop, fused together by a panoply of electronics and Stith's heavenly singing and vivid lyrical narratives: "pulp horror, comic drama, a dark cosmic pageant of chase sequences, monsters, spirits and explosions of blood," according to Stith. Scorpio Little Devil, the new album is a realization of all the potential seen on the EP. Exploring all the elements that made the EP stand out and pushing the electronic, experimental and pop sides even further, it is sure to make a mark in early 2013. In "Hold Back" they have a bona-fide classic single that leaves you breathless with love and admiration ? a song you feel you already know on first listen. The Revival Hour's brilliance isn't so surprising when you know the duo's previous form. Texas-born Lapham was the sounds-and-samples component...

LP $17.75

10/08/2013 5060174953873 

ANON 003 LP 


CD $13.75

10/08/2013 5060174953880 

ANON 003 CD 


Sister Jack by Spoon

Spoon

Sister Jack
Merge

***A brand new single from SPOON’s recent Gimmie Fiction album. Includes the stunning “Sister Jack,” along with a JOHN McENTIRE remix of “I Turn My Camera On,” and the song “Sunday Morning Wednesday Night.” Enhanced CD features a “Sister Jack” video directed by PETER SIMONITE.

CD $4.20

11/08/2005 036172957323 

MRG 273 CD 


Hot And Informed by Q And Not U

Q And Not U

Hot And Informed
Dischord

***REISSUED!!! Q AND NOT U, comprised of MATT BORLIK, JOHN DAVIS, HARRIS KLAHR and CHRIS RICHARDS, formed in the summer of 1998 and put on the monkey suit in December of that year. The band's first release, the Hot and Informed single, came out in April 2000 as a split label release between Dischord and Desoto Records. The single features different versions of the songs, “Washington Monument Blinks Goodnight” and “Kiss Distinctly American” that also appear on the band's first full-length No Kill No Beep Beep.

7" $7.75

04/06/2009  

DIS 123.5 V 


***Sissy Spacek celebrates its 20th anniversary with the release of its 30th full-length album of unrelenting, hellish grindcore/noisecore. Features John Wiese, a veteran of the American and international grindcore/noisecore/noise underground, on bass/electronics/vocals, and Charlie Mumma (Knelt Rote, Human Agony) on percussion/vocals. Artwork by John Wiese.

LP $19.95

05/03/2019  

ANTI-GOTH 392 


Flammable Materials From Foreign Lands by Haynes, Jim

Haynes, Jim

Flammable Materials From Foreign Lands
Elevator Bath

***Mostly composed, recorded, and sketched during an Estonian residency at MoKS for a program that was hosted by Simon Whetham and John Grzinich called Active Crossover, the goal of which was to bring together artists whose work pertained to environmental recordings. With the Estonian landscape pocked with abandoned buildings of considerable size and decay, and no electricity, JIM HAYNES relied on shortwave to capture any electro-magnetic disruptions. The radio reception was eerie and unsettled, producing a crackling, droning noise unlike what one hears in the United States. The A-side reflects an aestheticized paranoia through bursts of static, pulsed noise, and atonal sinews of sustained frequency. The B-side is more introspective, cutting up an Estonian radio broadcast into phonemes, disjointed phrases, and cryptic speech. What few words that can be recognized from the Estonian pertain to the forces of globalization. Clear vinyl. Edition of 300.

LP $22.75

12/16/2016 655035181110 

EEAOA 045 


MP3 $9.90

12/16/2016 655035181110 

 


FLAC $11.99

12/16/2016 655035181110 

 


Eden Express is a trio comprised of Kip Uhlhorn (Cloudland Canyon), Kelly Uhlhorn, and John David Lovelace. Their debut is a lush, tropical album formed by a decadent love of drink, the non-erotic possibilities of equestrian ownership, and a finely tuned sense of the dark supernatural side of things. It's like castle rock with warm, white sand beaches!  While most groups form to play together with recording an eventual if somewhat unnecessary goal, Eden Express was formed to record this album first and to become a band second. That they so wildly succeed is a testament to the magic used and manipulated here. The witchy beauty of Eden Express recalls Pan y Regalis, Charlie and Esdor, and early tropicalia albums. Pour yourself and a friend some cocktails, sit by the pool, and try to become lucid as your bare, tanned forearms grow beyond 17 feet long.

LP $13.00

06/24/2008  

HOLY7929 


CD $13.00

06/24/2008 655035692920 

HOLY7929 CD 


MP3 $8.91

06/24/2008  

 


***The End is the fourth studio album by German musician Nico. It was recorded in summer 1974 at Sound Techniques studio in London and produced by John Cale. It was released in November 1974. The End is Nico's fifth collaboration with John Cale and second with him as producer. It carries the same harmonium-based sound heard on The Marble Index (1968) and Desertshore (1970), with the addition of Brian Eno's synthesizers and electronic instruments. The song "You Forget to Answer" tells of the misery felt by Nico when she failed to reach ex-lover, and Doors' singer, Jim Morrison by phone only to find out later that he had died. The album was her first since Morrison's death in 1971.

LP $32.25

08/30/2024 8013252900129 

VL 900129 LP 


Ogopogo Punk by Evaporators

Evaporators

Ogopogo Punk
Mint

From the depths of the uncharted wilderness (or is it “wildness”?) Nardwuar the Human Serviette, John Collins, Stephen Hamm, Nick Thomas and Shawn Mrazek, known hereafter as The Evaporators, have released eight new songs in the form of a digital download and colored vinyl, titled Ogopogo Punk! The Evaporators sing about a lot of things on this latest album including: shaving, mohawks and dreadlocks, eating to win, the mythical landlocked BC monster the Ogopogo, Skagit Valley’s Chuckanut Drive and a whole lot more! Over the past decade The Evaporators have graced stages / halls / living rooms with everyone from Anal Mucus to Sleater-Kinney to the Whack Attack Puppet Show.

LP $17.50

01/13/2017 773871017018 

MRD 170 


MP3 $7.99

11/14/2016 773871017025 

 


FLAC $8.99

11/14/2016 773871017025 

MRD 170 


Andy Duvall, Rich Millman, Clint Golden and (introducing) John McBain on Echoplex (and mastering duties once more!) are Carlton Melton, Agitated Records’ standard bearers, their freak flag wavers. The travelers have returned with Always Even, their fourth album, recorded once again in a geodesic dome in the winter of 2012-13. Strap in, fly on—but do not be fooled by the gentle ease of opening track “Slow Wake.” It’s the calm before the psych-storm, a balm for one’s ears to prepare body and mind for the synth-riff-laden, psych-guitar-knockout blastings to come. Much like “Space Treader” on last year’s Photos of Photos, “Keeping On” launches into a unmapped zones, only to return to earth with the eased-back dome-drone of “Spider Web.” The trip continues with the furious, kraut-influenced “Sarsen,” a track that could soundtrack an entire flight to the Moon and back—not to mention fuel the rocket ship with its ampheto-cranked psych chug. Make sure all seat belts are fastened for final descent, as “The Splurge” envelopes all with its molasses-like fog / fug.

LP $18.95

10/01/2013 5060174956089 

AGIT 024 LP 


CD $13.00

10/01/2013 5060174956096 

AGIT 024 CD 


MP3 $8.99

10/01/2013 5060174956096 

 


Just A Dream by Strube Jackson

Strube Jackson

Just A Dream
Csj

***Magnificent debut 7” from STRUBE JACKSON of San Francisco, combining melodic synths with haunting vocals designed for the dancefloor. For fans of John Maus and New Order.

7" $6.75

04/30/2013  

CSJ 1988 


Demos & Rarities 1978 - 1981 by Stiffs

Stiffs

Demos & Rarities 1978 - 1981
Projectile Platters

***The STIFFS were a top caliber UK punk rock/ power pop / mod band hailing from Blackburn, Lancashire. A favourite of Radio 1 DJ John Peel, the band’s singles got loads of attention on Peel’s show as well as other BBC Radio shows such DJ Mike Read show. Our new collection compiles the bands studio demos from 1978 – 1981. The demos are loaded with pure punk energy, while the released studio recordings showcase more of the band's power pop elements the demos are full on punk, the guitars are raw and the vocals blistering. tracks were featured on a limited-edition long out of print UK only CD in 2001 but never before on vinyl. This is the first ever complete vinyl compilation of these recordings. As usual you get the top tier packaging and artwork from PNV.

LP $24.45

08/02/2024  

PP 14 


Singles Collection 1979 to 1985 by Stiffs

Stiffs

Singles Collection 1979 to 1985
Projectile Platters

***The STIFFS were a top caliber UK Punk Rock/ Power Pop/Mod band hailing from Blackburn, Lancashire. A favorite of Radio 1 DJ John Peel, the bands singles got loads of attention on Peel’s show as well as other BBC Radio shows such DJ Mike Read show. This collection compiles all their sought-after collectable singles from 1979-1985. This will be the first time these have been available on vinyl in over 20+ years and this is the first Stiffs vinyl LP compilation, previously everything had been CD

LP $24.45

12/16/2022  

PP 13 


***"The theme this time around is goth, a subject closer to my heart perhaps than that of any MOUNTAIN GOATS album previous. And while JOHN writes the songs, as he always has, it feels more than ever like he’s speaking for all of us in the band, erstwhile goths (raises hand) or otherwise, for these are songs that approach an identity most often associated with youth from a perspective that is inescapably adult. Anyone old enough to have had the experience of finding oneself at sea in a cultural landscape that’s suddenly indecipherable will empathize with Pat Travers showing up to a Bauhaus show looking to jam, for example. But underneath the outward humor, there is evident throughout a real tenderness toward, and solidarity with, our former fellow travelers—the friends whose bands never made it out of Fender’s Ballroom, the Gene Loves Jezebels of the world—the ones whose gothic paths were overtaken by the realities of life, or of its opposite. It’s something we talk about a lot, how fortunate and grateful we are to share this work, a career that’s become something more rewarding and fulfilling than I think any of us could have imagined. We all know how easily it could’ve gone the other way, and indeed for a long time did."—Peter Hughes, February 2017, Charlotte, NC. CD includes a 16-page booklet. Vinyl versions cut at 45 rpm and feature gatefold jackets with spot gloss. Limited edition version pressed on opaque red (LP1 & LP2) and tracklight green...

CD $14.00

05/19/2017 673855057927 

MRG 579 CD 


2XLP $30.25

05/19/2017 673855057910 

MRG 579 


***GOLDENDUST rides deep and dark but not free of a lush joyful pop sensibility sometimes sneaking in behind menacing moments to disrupt the darkness and let a little light through. If John Carpenter's soundtracks had more Romanticism or synth pop sensibility in there stark minimalism it would sound a bit like these songs. Still something else is at play that's not so easy to pinpoint, which is what separates Goldendust from the current crop of minimal synth revivalists. JOE’s vocals are unique in their delivery like a drifters sense of space and time they come not from some urban machine view of the world but from deserted small town parking lots or streets starring out into vacant fields. Maybe the experience  is what separates these songs, the identity of the duo itself not as big city chic but of rural state isolation JUSTIN’s dual analog synth approach creates the perfect balance between dense bass riffs and sharp leads and both dig deep into big melody. Recorded by LUKE TWEEDY at Flat Black Studio and mastered by PETE SWANSON for maximum fidelity; this is a record that sounds great and is not to be missed.

LP $15.75

11/13/2012  

NP 171 


Streethawk: A Seduction by Destroyer

Destroyer

Streethawk: A Seduction
Merge

***REISSUED!!! The classic Streethawk: A Seduction album from Vancouver songsmith DANIEL BEJAR (NEW PORNOGRAPHERS), along with buds JOHN COLLINS (NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, EVAPORATORS), SCOT MORGAN (LOSCIL), STEPHEN WOOD, and JAZON ZUMPANO (ZUMPANO). Twelve tasty tracks that build on a strong foundation of Bowie, Syd Barrett, Eno, Smiths, Pavement, and the Fall, and then shoots to the heavens. (STREET DATE - 4/20/2010)

LP $21.35

04/20/2010 673855037318 

MRG 373 


CD $13.75

04/20/2010 673855037325 

MRG 373 CD 


Shipwrecked by Sultans

Sultans

Shipwrecked
Swami

***After a two-year hiatus The SULTANS deliver another album loaded with explosive, compact tracks of raw punk and rock'n'roll. Led by JOHN REIS (ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, BACK OFF CUPIDS, HOT SNAKES, DRIVE LIKE JEHU). Recorded at San Diego's world renowned Drag Racist Studios by SWASIMODO.

CD $12.00

03/23/2004 823777012225 

SWA 122 CD 


MP3 $7.99

03/23/2004 823777012225 

 


Eucalyptus by Pitchfork

Pitchfork

Eucalyptus
Swami

***A reissue of this choice slice of San Diego punk history from this band that eventually evolved into DRIVE LIKE JEHU and ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT. Led by RICK FORK and JOHN REIS, the band rocked the '87-style with a potent mix of post-punk angularity, suburban frustration and melodic punk rock. Includes all the tracks from the original release (Nemesis Records), plus the three tracks from the band's debut Saturn Outhouse 7-inch.

CD $12.00

02/25/2003 823777011624 

SWA 116 CD 


MP3 $7.99

02/25/2003 823777011624 

 


All Tense Now Lax by Liberez

Liberez

All Tense Now Lax
Night School

Hermetically sealed and reveling in tumult, All Tense Now Lax is the most significant and developed work yet forged by Liberez. Based in main orchestrator John Hannon’s remote studio No Recordings in Rayleigh, England, Liberez have expanded their palette from previous outings on Alter to produce a perfectly engineered machine that consumes the beholder.   A tense, gut-wrenching listen wrought with carefully considered space, the range of techniques and the depth of atmosphere is staggering. All Tense Now Lax never settles on a simple depiction of dread, foreboding or anxiety but layers textures upon rhythms to produce towering minarets of conflicting emotion. _Захвална породица (translated “Grateful Family”) is a case in point: Hannon’s wailing violin is torn across collaborator Nina Bosnic’s lyric, while a loping beat is crushed with distortion. Indeed, a more pronounced focus on rhythm and movement on Liberez’ 3rd album is perhaps what sets it apart from previous work. Centerpiece Grease The Axles showcases Hannon’s technique of detourning from other cultures to dramatically altered effect. A lopsided rhythm and scraped violin are torn to breaking point: what starts off as a Moondog-esque tap at a train station ends with the train in flames. Liberez’ brutality is not as literal as this all the time: on How Much For Your Brother an aggressively over-driven vocal loop is hammered into the stereo field by primitive percussion courtesy of drummer Pete Wilkins, but the overall effect is one of movement and hypnosis. A Rebetika melting into night-terror. The title track,...

LP $20.25

08/07/2015 5060174958977 

 


CD $16.00

08/07/2015 5060174958984 

 


MP3 $8.91

07/24/2015 5060174958984 

LSSN 031 


FLAC $9.90

07/24/2015 5060174958984 

 


***A lo-fi garage clash by PHIL BLANKENSHIP, JESSE JACKSON, CHARLIE MUMMA, CORYDON RONNAU and JOHN WIESE, recorded during preparation for the December 2011 SISSY SPACEK tour. Thudding sickness, black-souled vocal retch, and thrashing violence turn to blistering white out. Recorded direct to tape and straight to hell at F-House.

MP3 $4.95

01/31/2012 655035180823 

H HARM 


Civilian by Wye Oak

Wye Oak

Civilian
Merge

***WYE OAK wrote what became Civilian between December 2009 and July 2010. After recording and mixing previous albums themselves, Wye Oak brought in mixing engineer JOHN CONGLETON (St. Vincent, Shearwater), who played a pivotal role in the sound of Civilian. “JC definitely pushed us into some exciting and sometimes scary new territory,” multi-instrumentalist ANDY STACK says. “It was the most that JENN and I had ever relinquished control of our music to someone else, but it gave us a chance to step back and see the big picture, whereas on previous recordings we got embroiled in the technical details.” Civilian is imbued with dense shoegaze guitars, nearly melodic rhythms, and impeccable splashes of electronic color. The songs beguile with fascinating chords and melodies, Jenn’s voice and riveting lyrics, mesmerizing rhythms, and an intoxicating aural landscape. Just as good writing has meaning between the lines, Civilian has meaning between the sounds: the combinations of harmonies, timbres, and words summon vivid and ineffable associations just beyond reach. No Exports to Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand. (STREET DATE - 3/08/2011)

LP $17.25

03/08/2011 673855040011 

MRG 400 


CD $13.75

03/08/2011 673855040028 

MRG 400 CD 


Book - Deluxe Edition by Jesus Lizard

Jesus Lizard

Book - Deluxe Edition
Akashic Books

***LIMITED EDITION! SPECIAL ORDER ONLY!!! 176 pg hardcover coffee table book COMES WITH 7" OF 2 UNRELEASED JESUS LIZARD RECORDINGS ON GOLD VINYL - both tracked by John Loder - AND A SIGNED PRINT BY DAVID YOW. Legendary indie rockers the JESUS LIZARD present an idiosyncratic, impassioned document of their rock & roll conquests. "Book" is a coffee table affair of exclusive photography, art, & other imagery with written pieces by all 4 members of the band. Included are many Polaroids by bassist David Wm. Sims, a delicious recipe by David Yow, a concise list of every show the Jesus Lizard played, & writings by 2 producers who recorded the band (Steve Albini & Andy Gill). There is biographical material of each member that covers childhood to the demise of the group. Other contributors include, Mike Watt, Alexander Hacke, Steve Gullick, Rebecca Gates, Jeff Lane, Sasha Frere-Jones, KRK, Bernie Bahrmasel, & many more.

BK $102.25

12/17/2013 9781617750809 

AKB 284 X 


The Music Of Harry Taussig & Max Ochs by Taussig, Harry & Max Ochs

Taussig, Harry & Max Ochs

The Music Of Harry Taussig & Max Ochs
Tompkins Square

***Fifty years ago, HARRY TAUSSIG and MAX OCHS were featured on a sampler LP, Contemporary Guitar - Spring '67, alongside John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Bukka White. Both guitarists were "re-discovered" by Tompkins Square in 2005, and have since released new recordings for the label. On May 26th, Tompkins Square will release The Music of Harry Taussig & Max Ochs featuring newly recorded material, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Takoma sampler they first appeared on. The pair will also meet for the first time and play select shows on the West Coast. The May 28th concert in Berkeley will also feature Tompkins Square recording artist Richard Osborn, a student of the late Robbie Basho.

LP $15.50

05/26/2017 856225005388 

TSQ 5388 


Fields / Church Of Broken Glass by Hammers Of Misfortune

Hammers Of Misfortune

Fields / Church Of Broken Glass
20 Buck Spin

The theater of San Francisco's Hammers of Misfortune return to the stage again with its latest performance piece, Fields / Church of Broken Glass. Master auteur John Cobbett (also of the blackened Ludicra) delivers a work specifically written for the double-vinyl format. Two distinct and separate albums, each with its own theme and aesthetic, joined at the spine. And with the its progressive and overtly '70s sound, it recalls a time when the double-vinyl format meant a unique dual thematic experience rather than a single album that was simply too long for two sides.  On Fields / Church of Broken Glass, Hammers of Misfortune continue with the political allegories and metaphors that were featured prominently on their previous LP, The Locust Years. As with all aspects of the band, a great deal of care was taken with the lyrical presentation of the album, avoiding the usual progressive and metal cliches. The sound goes further into the vintage sound of 1970s space travelers like Hawkwind, and the organ/keyboard/piano elements and female vocals feature more prominently then ever. Additionally, new singer Patrick Goodwin ably fills previous lead vocalist Mike Scalzi's large shoes with a voice perfectly suited to the warmer, analog vibe of the newer songs.  A new Hammers of Misfortune record is always an event for the band's vast worldwide following. Only one previous Hammers LP has actually been pressed to vinyl, and with the arrival of Fields / Church of Broken Glass on the deluxe double-LP format, the...

2XLP $20.25

11/18/2008 721616802511 

SPIN 025 


Feeding of the 5000 by Crass

Crass

Feeding of the 5000
Crass

***"The Feeding of the 5000 is the first album by the anarcho-punk band CRASS. The album was recorded on 29 October 1978, by JOHN LODER at Southern Studios and was released the same year. It was considered revolutionary in its time due to what was considered an extreme sound, frequently profane lyrical content and the anarchist political ideals in the lyrics. This album is considered one of the first punk albums to expound serious anarchist philosophies.

LP $29.95

02/14/2024  

621984 


Antler Joe and the Accidents recorded three songs: "Dogshit," "Words," and "Who Needs A Woman Like You." John said he had but one regret, and that was the enlisting of a sax player on the last song. The band printed up 300 copies complete with pic sleeves and inserts and released it as the Go Commercial EP (Killer Sheep Records 1981). The EP was greeted with the expected enthusiasm: the drummer quit and locals didn't give a shit.

7" $9.75

06/17/2022  

HAW 048 


Rock Your Arse Off! Live At Festival Hall 10 Nov. '72 by Coloured Balls

Coloured Balls

Rock Your Arse Off! Live At Festival Hall 10 Nov. '72
Just Add Water

***Stunning quality live recording documenting COLOURED BALLS tearing the roof off Melbourne's venerable Festival Hall - available on vinyl for the first time! This gig was recorded by Armstrong's Studio and engineered by JOHN SAYERS, who also did their Ball Power LP. This album has the entire 3-song, 30 minute set they played that night, including the only known recording of "GOD." with vocals! LOBBY LOYDE wryly introduces "GOD" with, "This is the first movement from an electronic symphony called 'The First Movement of GOD'. It may not be your thing, but can't win 'em all." Their set was shortened due to them playing last on the bill and Festival Hall not exactly being a late-night sort of place. The Festival Hall gig was a farewell show for headliners Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs, who were to jetting off to London the following day in search of even bigger recognition having already completely conquered their native Australia. Mastered from the original tape by Aztecs drummer and producer/engineer extraordinaire, GIL MATTHEWS. Analog start to finish. Liner notes by leading Australian Rock authority, IAN McFARLANE. Limited to 500 copies.

LP $24.50

07/17/2020  

 


Missive: Sister Ships by Stern

Stern

Missive: Sister Ships
Sleeping Giant Glossolalia

***STERN was founded in 2008 as an outlet for composer/vocalist CHUCK STERN, former frontman of TIME OF ORCHIDS, a band with releases on Cuneiform Records and John Zorn's Tzadik label. After three albums, the project grew into its current incarnation, a full band consisting of Chuck Stern and three current and former members of KAYO DOT: TOBY DRIVER, KEITH ABRAMS and TIM BYRNES. Missive: Sister Ships is the sixth Stern release in all, and the third to be made by the current lineup. Self-described as "icy pop gems for aching hearts and doom freaks," the Stern sound is haunting and slippery. With a palette of slow tempos and minimal instrumentation, the band constructs a highly unpredictable reality where serenity can flip into nausea in the space of one note. Restraint and dissonance are used as weapons in these austere, strangely meditative songs, but the half-charred remains of familiar pop structures and melodies are ever-present in the periphery. Features artwork by iAN ANDERSON of The Designer's Republic, known for their artwork for Pulp, Aphex Twin and Autechre.  "The quartet twists meticulously, almost seductively, through pop-rock songs refracted at disorienting angles. Stern himself is a provocative lyricist and an oddly endearing singer... His voice, like Scott Walker's, can quickly curve from a croon to a caterwaul... Like the best of Kayo Dot and Time of Orchids, it revels in the unexpected.”—Pitchfork

LP $26.95

08/31/2018  

SCG 056 


By the time Rosemary Lane was released in 1971, Bert Jansch had covered a great deal of territory on numerous albums as a solo artist, collaborations with John Renbourn and records by the band in which he and Renbourn sang and played guitar, Pentangle. Returning to the intimate economy of his self-titled debut LP from a half-dozen or so years earlier, Rosemary Lane was recorded on portable equipment by engineer/producer Bill Leader and featured Jansch with no accompaniment save his guitar and voice. Rosemary Lane has elements of many of the styles Jansch covered in his extraordinarily eclectic career — from the folk and blues that were his bedrock to medieval music — yet cuts to the heart of his strength as spell-binding storyteller and empathic interpreter of isolation and want. Occasional instrumentals vary the mood that, like much of his work, is usually somber and introspective. Jansch once again lights the way forward with detours through the past. His sparse arrangements seamlessly merge original songwriting and traditional folk songs, while Jansch’s imaginative lyrics charm every step of the way — as if speaking directly to the listener alone. This vinyl release has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes and features liner notes by Richie Unterberger.

LP $20.25

04/21/2017 855985006253 

SV 125 


Woods / Amps For Christ by Amps For Christ / Woods

Amps For Christ / Woods

Woods / Amps For Christ
Shrimper

Shrimper Records has a long-standing tradition, going back to the early years of the label, of its artists collaborating with one another—from John Davis and Lou Barlow’s Folk Implosion to Franklin Bruno and John Darnielle’s Extra Glenns / Lens, with dozens of other examples in between. This split between Woods and Amps for Christ began as an idea for a 7-inch single, but grew into a full-length LP featuring four songs by each artist and an additional collaborative track. While Woods and Amps for Christ explore a lot of the same land mass, each turns over different rocks and shards of glass. And even though the two work independently from one another, listeners will hear the sublime manner in which the LP’s two sides (or the harsh, tinny digital skree of the MP3s for you 20th century types, dig your irony) complement one another both musically and lyrically. Check out the ESP interplay of Henry Barnes and Jeremy Earl when together or separated by coasts.

LP $13.00

05/01/2012 759718116113 

SHR 161 


CD $12.00

04/17/2012 759718116120 

SHR 161 CD 


MP3 $8.91

04/17/2012 759718116120 

 


Finally back in print, the seventh studio album by the veteran avant-garde band Kayo Dot. Meaning “lantern” or “lamp” in the Enochian language of 16th century magicians John Dee and Edward Kelley, Hubardo follows the epic and heartbreaking narrative of a meteor falling to earth and the alchemical transformation of a lonely poet observer. This album displays aspects of the band’s many forms, even moments that hark back to the act’s former identity, Maudlin of the Well (including an appearance by MOTW vocalist Jason Byron). It is a dizzying trip through genres and moods that blossoms in wild directions, an out-of-control chemical reaction. From beautiful post-rock passages and demented ballads to tripped-out 70s prog fusion, jazz and black metal, Hubardo masterfully incorporates just about every style imaginable during its nearly 100 minute run time. “After a decade of trying to live up to the precedent set by their debut, Kayo Dot has finally reached – and surpassed – the level of not only themselves, but of everyone else within their realm of music.” —Bearded Gentlemen Music

2XCD $16.00

04/21/2017 647603397528 

FR 64 CD 


3XLP $31.00

06/16/2017 647603397511 

FR 64 


The Shaw Tapes - Live In Detroit 5/27/88 by Gories

Gories

The Shaw Tapes - Live In Detroit 5/27/88
Third Man

Recorded at a house party in a converted store front, the band captured here is at the height of its powers. Featuring covers of classics by the likes of John Lee Hooker, the Stooges and Willie Dixon, as well as a bevy of their oft-imitated originals.

LP $18.75

06/19/2020 858936003264 

TMR 138 


Jump And Shout by V/a

V/a

Jump And Shout
Jump & Shout

A wild comp of greasy, sloppy, post-R&B/pre-soul dance slop from obscure artists from 1961-1965.  Imagine if John Waters circa "Pink Flamingos" had chosen the "Hairspray" dance tunes!  Do the Grunt!  Do the Zombie Stomp!  Do the Wobble!  18 cuts.

LP $17.25

01/07/2017  

JS 7006265 


CD $15.00

01/07/2017  

JS 7006265 CD 


***Bored Out is a collection of RYAN LEACH's interviews (Razorcake and Terminal Boredom), spanning the years 2005 to 2016. Interviewees include JOHN TALLEY-JONES (URINALS), DAVE ALVIN, BRUCE MORELAND (WALL OF VOODOO, NERVOUS GENDER), KID CONGO POWERS, ERIC FRIEDL (OBLIVIANS, Goner Records), LARRY HARDY (In The Red Records), JEFFREY EVANS, JAMES ARTHUR, JOHN FELICE (REAL KIDS, MODERN LOVERS), ROBERT SCOTT (CLEAN, BATS, ELECTRIC BLOOD) and more. Includes oral histories on the GUN CLUB, CONSUMERS, and Memphis’ first punk band, the KLITZ. Foreword by GERARD COSLOY.

BK $12.60

08/26/2016  

SCR 016 


Double Mono by V/a

V/a

Double Mono
Aagoo

***Double Mono is a record with sounds hard panned between the left and right channels featuring THE OCTOPUS PROJECT, AU, PALAXY TRACKS, JOHN SABA JR., DEVIN MAXWELL, III, JIM ENO and ERIN FLANNERY & ZACH LAYTON. The album was put together in conjunction with a group show of art and design for anaglyph 3-D glasses. Artist and designer PHILLIP EDWARD NIEMEYER is the man responsible for the curation of the project. (STREET DATE - 9/03/2013)

LP $12.25

09/03/2013  

AGO 060 


Leavening by Shores

Shores

Leavening
No Idea

***SHORES was never intended to be a “band.” It had been a sound/style that had been obsessed over since the band members’ high school days. Formed by drummer JOHN MASSEL and guitarist/vocalist BRIAN PRZYBYLSKI somewhere in mid-2008, practicing in rogue basements around the Grand Rapids area and forming in the ashes of band members’ prior bands NORTH LINCOLN, WORMBURNER and THE HARTFORD WHALERS. Shores immediately embarked on their first album Coup de Grace tracked in just 16 hours over two days that fall. After a fairly inactive 2009, the band completed their critically acclaimed 2010 release To Volstead, adding members SEAN STEARNS (guitars) and BILLY BARTHOLOMEW (bass) to join the fold “for a few shows.” Bartholomew’s pop sensibility and love of all things “space rock” , and Stearns’ penchant for noise and sad bastard balladry were perfect complements, even almost missing pieces, to what Massel and Przybylski had already started, and led to an album described as reminiscent of slowcore champions Codeine, Red House Painters, Low, Slowdive, June of 44 and others. Leavening is a perfect reflection of Shores’ spectrum of influences, exploring loudness, playing with effects and noise, and raising the bar the band had previously set for themselves.

LP $14.00

08/14/2012 633757031814 

NIR 318 


CD $13.00

08/14/2012 633757031821 

 


***Elvin Jones, one of the true great drummers in jazz, recorded this album in 1971 after having led his own band for several years following his immortal work with the John Coltrane Quartet. This unique recording has a spacious feel with plenty of room for the players to work out the melodic compositions created by the members of the group. At times the recording creates an almost cinematic space, yet always propelling forward into unexpected territory. No pandering to contemporary tastes at this date or following the trends of the time, this is simply a great example of mature musicians given the freedom to create their own vision and place in time. Saxophonists Frank Foster and Dave Liebman instruments intertwine in a spellbinding way with opportunities to showcase Jones’ incredible virtuosity as a drummer. An album that reveals itself to the listener slowly with new delights every time it’s removed from the jacket.

LP $38.95

TBD  

TMR 852 


In The Name Of All That Is Unholy by Evil Acidhead

Evil Acidhead

In The Name Of All That Is Unholy
Agitated

Originally released in the late 1980s on cassette only, In the Name of All That Is Unholy is the long overdue reissue of the sole album by Evil Acidhead (a.k.a John McBain of Monster Magnet and Wellwater Conspiracy fame).  Fully remastered from the original recordings by McBain himself, In the Name of All That Is Unholy is a jarring mind-expansion of the third eye kind. It’s by no means a whimsy gaze—the album takes your psyche and smashes it into smithereens. The limited analog edition comes on two colored-vinyl platters and includes both an eye-searing poster and a CD copy of the album.

CD $16.00

07/10/2015 5060174958588 

AGIT 035 CD 


2XLP $20.25

07/10/2015 5060174958571 

AGIT 035 


MP3 $9.90

06/29/2015 5060174958588 

 


FLAC $11.99

06/29/2015 5060174958588 

 


***Trans-Atlantic collaboration that sounds like what happens when BLOOD STEREO's re-imagined thousand-year-old Druid chants are invaded by SMEGMA’s looped, psychedelic-folk-stomps. Liner notes by JOHN OLSON. Edition of 450.

LP $28.75

05/14/2013  

NP 10 


Modern Hysteric by Tala Vala

Tala Vala

Modern Hysteric
Number Witch

Tala Vala combine experimental recording methods bridging marginalized genres, synths, brass and strings, jagged guitars and primal percussion. John Roffe-Ridgard is a producer and former touring musician and Ben Locket is a composer for TV and Film. The pair began making music in 2017 and self-released their first EP on a limited vinyl run. Mixed by Jake Jackson at Masterchord studios, the records were sold exclusively through Sounds of the Universe and Bandcamp.  Enthused by the interest in the record and selling out the run, the pair set about recording a full-length album expanding on the ideas of the fist ep. The album was again performed and produced by Ben and John using mainly analogue processes, where possible utilizing 24 track tape and mixed by Jake. The self-titled record was self-released on vinyl and made it into the Stranger Than Paradise top 10 albums of the year.  Album number two began as a soundtrack project in early 2019, it was abandoned as they became disillusioned with the boundaries the film was imposing. The only remaining music from the soundtrack session is the opening cue which can be heard as the last track of what became Modern Hysteric, album two. The new album was worked on throughout 2019 and mixed in early 2020 again sticking to mainly analogue processes, avoiding any audio plugins and computer editing. Jim White (Dirty Three, Xylouris White) guest drums on two of the tracks ( Reoccurring Weather & Haxen ) bringing his instantly recognizable...

LP $22.00

04/30/2021 5060446129951 

NW001 


MP3 $8.99

02/19/2021 5060446129951 

NW001 


FLAC $9.90

02/19/2021 5060446129951 

NW001 


Start Of The World by Dark Blue

Dark Blue

Start Of The World
12xu

Dark Blue follows up their debut Pure Reality with Start Of The World—a soundtrack of a decaying United States. Each song drips with the reality of atrocities happening all around us. John Sharkey III (vocals, guitar) pushes the band far beyond the post-punk-meets-oi! sound they perfected on their earlier releases, and adds elements of Britpop and shoegaze. Recorded by Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, Nothing), this pop album makes no apologies. Boot-stomping opener “Union of Buffoons” sets the political tone with an anthem for workers’ rights, the biting lyrics referring to human expendability in the face of deregulation and stagnancy of labor rights. “Bombs on the Beach” evokes a playful innocence with ’50s doo-wop and surf rock, but the lyrics tear through any cheerfulness and describe the dropping of missiles on a beach of unsuspecting Palestinian children. Other tracks such as “Be Gone Everyone” and “Western Front” highlight the solid rhythm section of Michael Sneeriger (drums, Strand of Oaks) and Andrew Mackie Nelson (bass, Ceremony). Start Of The World is the kind of record that the band has always promised: a collection of smart, fully realized songs that tell stories. With the world falling apart around us, Dark Blue continues to give a voice to neglected perspectives, many which are unnerving but necessary to hear.

LP $17.50

11/04/2016 647603395715 

12XU 089-1 


MP3 $7.92

11/04/2016 647603395715 

 


FLAC $9.90

11/04/2016 647603395715 

 


Half Man Half Cop by Hobocop

Hobocop

Half Man Half Cop
Slovenly

***BACK IN STOCK!!! HOBOCOP is the bastard love child of an alleged member of SHANNON AND THE CLAMS (JUMBO JACK FLASH) and the reclusive LONG JOHN HOBOCOP. Half Man Half Cop is their vinyl debut. It's ideal for addicts of slop, fuzz, weirdness and fungus. Like the Screamers’ ‘78 demos blasted through a moldy boombox in a California flophouse, this splattering of sweet golden punk oldies is the perfect slice of slime for Slovenly to continue with our infrequently released large-hole 10-inch series.

10" $15.50

05/20/2014 888174675541 

 


***BACK IN STOCK!!! San Francisco's MOON DUO was formed in 2009 by Sanae Yamada and Erik Johnson (Wooden Shjips). Inspired initially by the legendary John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Moon Duo counts such variant groups as Silver Apples, Royal Trux, Moolah, Suicide, and Cluster as touchstones. Utilizing primarily guitar, keyboards, percussion, and vocals, the pair plays space against form to create a primordial and disorienting sonic stew. They released two acclaimed records in 2009: the Love on the Sea 12-inch single on Sick Thirst and the Killing Time EP on Sacred Bones. Escape, their debut long-player on Woodsist, marks the fullest realization yet of the young group's evolving sound. Received a 7.4 rating from Pitchfork.   "Moon Duo are the combined forces of Wooden Shjips' Erik Johnson and Sanae Yamada, and following a couple of singles this year, they're releasing a debut full-length on Woodsist in 2010. 'Stumbling 22nd St.,' a gauzy, lo-fi rock number built on a repetitive riff, goes on for nearly seven minutes and presents a pretty epic introduction to this band." --Pitchfork

LP $17.50

02/16/2010 655035003818 

 


CD $12.00

02/16/2010 616822089521 

WOODSIST 038 CD 


MP3 $3.96

02/16/2010 655035003818 

WOODSIST 038 


***Uncompromisingly bleak and harsh noisecore made from drums, vocals, bass, and electronics. All fifteen tracks from CHARLIE MUMMA and JOHN WIESE's Gate seven-inch (A Dear Girl Called Wendy, 2013), all five tracks from their Incomprehensible Dehumanization seven-inch (Gilgongo, 2014), and a six-minute bonus track “Live At 799 Towne Ave,” recorded February 2015.

CD $9.75

12/18/2015  

H 73 CD 


MP3 $1.99

12/10/2013 655035172279 

 


FLAC $2.99

12/10/2013 655035172279 

 


San Diego State Folk Festival 1972 by Holcomb, Roscoe

Holcomb, Roscoe

San Diego State Folk Festival 1972
Tompkins Square

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! The first-ever full length commercially available live album by old-time legend ROSCOE HOLCOMB. Notes by festival producer LOU CURTISS, and folklorist JOHN COHEN, who first discovered Holcomb in 1959. A favorite of Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton Features a duet with JEAN RITCHIE.

CD $13.75

01/01/2020 856225005210 

TSQ 5210 CD 


Hardcore Matinee by V/a

V/a

Hardcore Matinee
Swami

Hardcore Matinee is an ode to the budget, punk rock/hardcore compilations that proved to be informative in the early years of Swami Records head honcho, overlord, John Reis. Some of these budget, compilation LP’s were highly disposable, LP’s that shunned the concept of quality favoring instead the quantity of bands it included. 40, 50 sometimes up to 60 unknown groups were crammed onto these records that crackled and popped with tinny sound and infantile graphics. Over time, this cut-rate aesthetic actually weathered quite well. Call it nostalgia or perhaps it is a testament to how truly ugly the world has become, but some of these records can now be enjoyed as curious oddities of a bygone era. So, it was with this inspiration that Hardcore Matinee was assembled.   Hardcore Matinee features 22 of San Diego’s most exciting groups and covers the wide range of current punk music. From well-established bands such as Hot Snakes (with their first new recording since 2004 and featuring both drummers on the same recording), Pinback (their final recording before disbanding and then reforming) and Gary Wilson (off his recent collaboration with The Roots) to up and coming bands Octagrape (ex-Truman’s Water), Death Eyes (Hardcore supergroup with ex- Rat’s Eyes and ex-Death Crisis) and Schizophonics, this record’s varied styling is a jarring ride. The Swami Records harem is represented by the reformation of The Sultans (first recording since 2003), Beehive and The Barracudas (first new recordings since 2008), Mrs. Magician (an outtake from their soon...

LP $16.00

04/16/2016 655035214610 

SWA 146 LP 


MP3 $9.90

04/16/2016 655035214610 

 


FLAC $11.99

04/16/2016 655035214610 

 


The ever-mysterious Vibracathedral Orchestra returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition LPs. Slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts Mick Flower and Adam Davenport with frequent collaborators John Godbert (Total) and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides. The Secret Base starts up at full throttle, straight into a raw-sounding live outing, with Flower's overdriven guitar occupying the same sonic space that gives his Japan banjo / shaahi baaja workouts with Chris Corsano their urgency. The sound is dark and rough, almost Xpressway-like in its claustrophobic atmosphere. The percolating krautrock stylings of "If You Can't Smoke 'Em" chugs along hypnotically for over 13 minutes to close out the side. The entire B-side's 20+ minutes are devoted to the clanging free sound of "Eyes of Wood," where gamelan-like metal percussion dominates the proceedings.

LP $13.00

02/02/2010 783881012019 

VHF 120 


MP3 $9.90

02/02/2010 783881012019 

 


The ever-mysterious Vibracathedral Orchestra returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition LPs. Slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts Mick Flower and Adam Davenport with frequent collaborators John Godbert (Total) and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides. Smoke Song's more gentle exposition starts with Davenport's santoor (a type of hammered dulcimer) leading the band into a lengthy mid-tempo groove on "Smoke Song," followed on the second half of the side by the short, quiet "Cholita Maria." The second side's 17-minute "Get It?" lays down the tremolo and phase in a manner reminiscent of the best Spacemen 3 comedowns, taking a pulse and riding it into organ- and percussion-fueled bliss.

LP $13.00

02/02/2010 783881012118 

VHF 121 


MP3 $9.90

02/02/2010 783881012118 

 


The ever-mysterious Vibracathedral Orchestra returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition LPs. Slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts Mick Flower and Adam Davenport with frequent collaborators John Godbert (Total) and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides. Joka Baya offers up a set of shorter pieces on the A-side in a high-fidelity style that contrasts the dark, smoky sound of the rest of the tracks. The percussive grooves are overlaid with Sunroof!-like shimmer, stabbing electric leads, gentle acoustic rain, and droning organ peeking through at opportune moments. The roaring side-long epic on the flip is a droning, phasing slice of psychedelia with Moloney's drums battering the tape in between long stretches of humming stasis.

LP $13.00

02/02/2010 783881011913 

VHF 119 


MP3 $9.90

02/02/2010 783881011913 

 


Dare To Be Surprised by Folk Implosion

Folk Implosion

Dare To Be Surprised
Communion Label

***BACK IN PRINT and now 10.98 list price!! A 16-track recording (make no mistake) from 1997. This Lou Barlow / John Davis mind-meld alchemedicates the finest in tweaked beats, snakey guitars, prowling neo-Moogs and harmonies to be making thee swoon. Sigh. Includes the singles "Pole Position" and "Insinuation."    

LP $8.25

01/08/2001  

comm 45 


CD $9.50

01/08/2001 759718004526 

comm 45CD 


MC $7.25

01/08/2001 75971800454 

comm 45C 


Lovers in Marble by Cowboys, The

Cowboys, The

Lovers in Marble
Feel It

***Continuing on in their ever-prolific and sensational run of releases, The Cowboys are back with five tracks of pure analog gold on "Lovers in Marble". Recorded by the band in Cincinnati and mixed with John Hoffman (Vacation), this EP finds The Cowboys as cool and collected as ever, with Keith Harman's driving piano lines and vocal range atop the mix. It's quite the divine distillation of garage pop melody, (think 'Loaded' era VU, Walker Brothers, or Emitt Rhodes) given a sinister coating of The Kinks and Syd Barrett, curious production flourishes intact. The Cowboys have truly spent their quarantine days well, pairing brilliant pop compositions with some of the best instrumentation and recording quality across their ever-expanding discography. "Lovers in Marble" is a pivotal Cowboys release, perhaps their most accessible, but also most refined piece of work yet. A perfect sonic respite from the long, dark days of 2020.

MC $6.75

12/18/2020 767870665448 

FEEL IT 52 


MC $6.75

12/18/2020 767870665448 

FEEL IT 52 


MP3 $9.90

12/18/2020 767870665448 

 


FLAC $9.90

12/18/2020 767870665448 

 


Deeper Than Sky by Vhol

Vhol

Deeper Than Sky
Profound Lore

When their debut album was released in 2013, Vhol was a surprise to many with preconceived notions of what a new band comprised of two ex-Ludicra members would sound like. The project began when John Cobbett of Hammers of Misfortune and Aesop Dekker of Agalloch reunited with the desire to make music again, and the lineup gelled with the addition of bassist Sigrid Sheie (also of Hammers of Misfortune / ex-Amber Asylum) and YOB mastermind Mike Scheidt on vocals. Despite an extensive history of past projects, Vhol is a unique new musical group in which each member re-discovers their old-school metal roots. With their new album Deeper Than Sky, Vhol present something totally next-level, taking the sounds of their debut even further into the outer realms of sonic exploration yet remaining within the old-school speed metal paradigm. Of particular note is Scheidt, known as one of metal’s premiere vocalists today, who delivers his best vocal performance to date on this new album.

CD $12.00

10/23/2015 616892328049 

 


MP3 $7.99

10/23/2015 616892328049 

PFL 158 


FLAC $8.99

10/23/2015 616892328049 

 


***At a pub in Melbourne, Australia, Steve Shelley and Luc Suer caught a trio of Rowland S. Howard protégés—TIM HOWDEN, JOHN BROOKS and JASON G. BONEHAM, collectively known as HUNGRY GHOSTS—blowing the doors off the place with a wild storm of flickering Fender sparkle, Jaguar growl, bass drum boom, and minimal martial snare. That show and their self-released EP were impressive enough to prompt an invitation to come up from down under and make a new record. In June '99 the trio set up shop at Tribecca Recording, with Steve producing and Luc engineering, and cut fifteen tracks of sweet, outback soul and dusty red ballads that drip, curl, and spark. The 'Ghosts have expertly absorbed the rough, wailing waltzes and swooping, tidal minor movements of their countrymen The Dirty Three (not to mention the barroom baroque of the Boys Next Door brood: Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, These Immortal Souls), but Alone, Alone yields grander rewards—they've significantly expanded the palette by using equal measures of conventional chops and avant technical antics; liberally rotating instruments including electric and acoustic guitars, a wide range of tuned percussion, trap kit, fiddle, accordion, organ; and deftly deploying elements of Spanish, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian and American idioms. The result is a unique brand of combustive folk music, where primitive punk roots patrol a more mature Morricone/Badalamenti beat.  Yet this is no cliché "soundtrack without a film." Alone Alone's tracks stand alone. Divided into three programs—Before Then, Alone Alone, and No Wake—the album's...

CD $12.00

06/20/2000 787996003924 

SLR 039cd 


MP3 $9.90

06/20/2000  

 


Simple Distractions by Street Eaters

Street Eaters

Simple Distractions
Nervous Intent

***Simple Distractions is the new EP by Street Eaters, a Bay Area post-punk band formed by Megan March (Drums, Vocals) and John No (Bass, Vocals.) Building on influences ranging from the anti-authoritarian writing of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin to the discography of DC punk band Autoclave, Street Eaters have become an underground institution through years of non-stop touring and releasing albums on their own Nervous Intent Records and several European labels. To say that the new direction works would be an understatement. On new songs “Simple Distractions,” “Sophia,” and “Loose Grip,” guest guitarist Stevo (also of Tony Molina Band) joins March and No for three of their most engaging songs yet. The EP ends with a live cover of Gang of Four’s “Love Like Anthrax” featuring Marissa Paternoster (Screaming Femailes) on guitar+vocals that eschews dub influences from the original in favor of art-damaged feedback freakout. Edition of 200 copies on picture disc vinyl.

PIC7" $13.75

04/02/2021  

NIR 011 


Opium Musick by Rose, Jack

Rose, Jack

Opium Musick
Vhf

Part of a collaboration with Jack Rose’s estate and Three Lobed Records to restore all of his LPs to print, VHF presents new vinyl editions of the celebrated guitarist’s first three solo albums, newly cut by John Golden Mastering from the original source material. Originally issued on LP by Eclipse Records between 2002-04, these releases chart an eclectic, more experimental approach left behind as his technique and compositions became more refined and deliberate on later works like Kensington Blues. Recorded and originally released in 2003, Opium Musick is an eclectic collection with pieces for 12-string (the percussive and dark “Black Pearls”), 6-string, and lap guitar. The lovely raga-ish “Yaman Blues” features Mike Gangloff (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on tanpura, and echoes the extended modal work on Pelt’s contemporaneous Pearls From The River. The near-ragtime of “Linden Ave Stomp” showcases Glenn Jones on his vintage Gibson in a jumping duet with Rose’s lap steel. “Linden Ave” charted a path that Rose would determinedly pursue—short ragtime and old-time influenced pieces (originals and classics), with all phrasing worked out to a perfectionist standard. The lovely “Mountaintop Lamento” was memorably used in Catherine Pancake’s film about coal mining in Appalachia, Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice.  “In the year and half between Red Horse, White Mule and Opium Musick Mr. Rose spent the majority of his time honing his Ragtime and Jass skills. He met Dr. Chattanooga Red soon after recording his first LP and he revealed the secrets...

LP $17.50

09/23/2016 783881014211 

 


MP3 $3.96

09/16/2016 783881014211 

VHF 142 


***In the spring of 1986 Dischord founders IAN MACKAYE and JEFF NELSON (both formerly of MINOR THREAT) went to England to visit, and were invited by Southern Records founder JOHN LODER to do some recording while they were there. Southern was operated out of a row house in a neighborhood called Wood Green, and John had a 24-track studio set up in the garage. They recorded four songs, including "Me and You," something that the two had been playing together in the basement for many years, and "We All Fall Down," which was written by Ian for EMBRACE, but had been passed on by the band. Having had such a good time recording and hanging out in London, Ian and Jeff decided to release a single to mark the occasion. The name was chosen since it was recorded over Easter weekend. That summer they tried forming a new band called EGG HUNT with ex-members of GRAY MATTER, but it wasn't meant to be. The Southern session would turn out to be the last time the two would record music together. This single is being re-pressed for the first time in over 10 years (on colored vinyl).

7" $7.75

09/27/2011 643859020074 

 


Songs For Sensible People by Shapes

Shapes

Songs For Sensible People
Overground

***A look back at this early UK punk band's recklessly pursued musical exuberance. Between '79 and '81 the band put out two singles, "Part of the Furniture" on the Sofa label—which got them a John Peel gig as well as the title "punk pathetique"—and "Airline Disaster" on Belfast's Good Vibrations label. Known for their humorous views and complete lack of seriousness as well as vocalist SEYMOUR BYBUSS' wacked-out lyrics.

CD $13.00

08/02/2011 604388698929 

OVER 81 CD 


Raag Manifestos by Rose, Jack

Rose, Jack

Raag Manifestos
Vhf

Part of a collaboration with Jack Rose’s estate and Three Lobed Records to restore all of his LPs to print, VHF presents new vinyl editions of the celebrated guitarist’s first three solo albums, newly cut by John Golden Mastering from the original source material. Originally issued on LP by Eclipse Records between 2002-04, these releases chart an eclectic, more experimental approach left behind as his technique and compositions became more refined and deliberate on later works like Kensington Blues. Originally compiled from a variety of sources as a limited-edition CD to sell on tour in 2004 (released by VHF, later released on vinyl by Eclipse), Raag Manifestos presents much of Rose’s rawest and most experimental music, cutting across various acoustic styles, but with a much more jagged and aggressive attack than later music. “Black Pearls from the River” and “Hart Crane’s Old Boyfriends” are dense, serious assaults on the 12-string, with the intensity of the latter enhanced by Ian Nagoski’s roaring electronic backdrop. With subtle tabla accompaniment by Eric Carbonara, “Crossing The Great Waters” is another epic modal journey in the style of Pelt’s “Road To Catawba” and Rose’s own “Red Horse.” The traditional “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord” finishes off the LP on a calming note.

LP $17.50

09/23/2016 783881008517 

VHF 85 LP 


CD $12.00

05/23/2006 783881008524 

VHF 85CD 


MP3 $6.93

05/23/2006 783881008517 

 


We’ve Forgotten More Than You’ll Ever Know by Johnny Casino’s Easy Action

Johnny Casino’s Easy Action

We’ve Forgotten More Than You’ll Ever Know
Steel Cage

***A new album from this supergroup of sorts featuring Australian guitarist JOHNNY CASINO and his brother GRAHAME DELUXE (both of ASTEROID B-612), along with Philly residents STEVIE McCARTHY, JOHN ILISCO, and group founder THE COSMIC COMMANDER. Eleven tracks of muscular rock, blasted with blistering guitar workouts, soulful and menacing vocals, and relentless rhythms. Originally released by Off The Hip in Australia, this version features two bonus tracks featuring KENT STEEDMAN of the CELIBATE RIFLES.

CD $13.50

09/12/2005 696532004823 

STE 048 CD 


Semblance by Forma

Forma

Semblance
Kranky

Brooklyn trio Forma’s latest album continues their mission to “broaden the idea of what an electronic music ensemble can sound like.” Semblance emerged from exploratory sessions at The Schoolhouse, the Bushwick loft where members Mark Dwinell and John Also Bennett live, then was tracked at Gary’s Electric studios, where their previous album Physicalist was also recorded. Inspired by polyrhythmic composition, the human voice, and conceptual improvisation strategies, the songs are striking in their textural detail and emotional nuance, alternately synthetic and sentient, futuristic and intuitive. Incorporating flute, piano, guitar, saxophone, acoustic drums and cymbals alongside an array of synthesizers, the record persuasively demonstrates the group’s unique playing abilities and fluid chemistry—attributes they credit to “techniques we’ve developed to trick our electronic machines into mimicking the spontaneous character of live instruments.” Members George Bennett and John Also Bennett also cite as an influence their recent stint in minimalist composer Jon Gibson’s ensemble, performing his 1973 proto-ambient masterwork Visitations. The long-form modal piece requires restraint and deep listening to execute, qualities especially apparent in the more muted moments of this album, such as “Rebreather” and “New City.” The group states the intent of the new album as “to be more direct and exacting”, which it is. Over half a decade spent writing and recording together has distilled the band’s hybrid electro-acoustic interplay into an attuned and astounding language, capable of articulating impossible symmetries and reflective states. The stunning visuals of the artwork are by frequent collaborator Peter Burr.

LP $19.00

08/03/2018 796441821815 

 


CD $14.00

08/03/2018 796441821822 

KRANK218 CD 


Three Feet Behind Glass / Instant Classic by Slugfuckers

Slugfuckers

Three Feet Behind Glass / Instant Classic
Insolito

***BACK IN STOCK!!! THE SLUGFUCKERS started in the late 1970s in Sydney, Australia. TERRY BLAKE (vocals), JOHN LAIDLER (guitar) and GRAHAM FORSYTH (bass) were all students or recent graduates of the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University. CRAIG WILCOX (keyboard), GORDON RENOUF (guitar, sax), AUSTIN LAVERTY (drumkit) joined soon after. All the tracks from their two singles from 1979 are here. Bridging the nascence of punk, DIY, and industrial, The Slugfuckers shouted vocals, played almost rudimentarily, set the volume on ten and, in equal parts enthralled, engaged and repelled with their many obligatory messy interludes. Their raw, underproduced angry attack that bores right into your brain. 180g vinyl, tip-on jackets, liner notes. Edition of 500.

LP $19.75

01/11/2011  

LPSLUGFTHRE 


Huffin’ Rag Blues by Nurse With Wound

Nurse With Wound

Huffin’ Rag Blues
United Jnana

Nurse With Wound is the main recording vehicle for British musician Steven Stapleton. Since 1978, with collaborators such as David Tibet (Current 93), John Balance (Coil), Colin Potter and Matt Waldron (Irr. App [Ext]), Nurse With Wound has released dozens of albums that draw on nearly every genre of music. The only constant is that one never knows what the next album will sound like.  Stapleton and Andrew Liles form the core of the band on Huffin' Rag Blues, and the direction to which they are heading is the lounge! Huffin' Rag Blues is unlike any Nurse With Wound album in recent memory as they veer into the space-age bachelor pad. Guest vocalists Lynn Jackson and Freida Abtan channel Peggy Lee, while Matt Waldron also lends his golden pipes to one song. This is truly exotica as imagined by the twisted genius that is Nurse With Wound.

CD $13.00

06/24/2008 655035220420 

UJ 444 


MP3 $0.00

06/24/2008  

 


***NOW AVAILABLE!!! The Reputation album from INCREDIBLE STRING BAND founding member MIKE HERON, along with THE REPUTATION— MALCOLM LE MAISTRE, GRAHAM FORBES, and JOHN GIBSON. Originally released by Neighbourhood Records in 1976, Reputation features eleven songs that run toward a more rock sound than the folk of ISB.

CD $12.00

03/22/2005 5028207560627 

UGCD 5606 CD 


The Sun Comes Out Tonight by Richard & The Not Shits

Richard & The Not Shits

The Sun Comes Out Tonight
Hotard

***"Richard Martin (4 Johns, Victimized Carcass, Corn For Texture, True Sons Of Thunder) with John Floyd, Roger Moneymaker, and Eddie Hankins (under loose pseudonyms) in Free Rock blurred reality mode, 1997-98. Stars in a scene of their own.... outsider psych brilliance that only gets better the deeper you dig."—Goner  "Formidable non-lameness circa 97/98 from behind Goner Records lines, Memphis style. It's all heart, like one of those Animals, live-in-a-lounge-bar '68 mono boots when they're just killing it for themselves. And by The Animals, I also mean Pere Ubu circa, 'Don't Expect Art'... Fans of Metallic K.O. & The New York Dolls 'Red Patent Leather' will be thrilled"—Tom Lax

LP $26.95

08/05/2022  

HOT-5 


Jayson Gerycz - Drums & Percussion Dylan Baldi - Saxophone (of CLOUD NOTHINGS) John Kolodij - Guitar

LP $19.85

06/10/2022  

AS 168 


Song Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes by Basho, Robbie

Basho, Robbie

Song Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes
Tompkins Square

***Robbie Basho (1940-1986) is widely regarded as one of the progenitors of what's commonly known today as American Primitive guitar. Growing up in Maryland alongside neo-traditional guitar explorers John Fahey and Max Ochs, Basho's path would take a decidedly different turn, bringing Hindi, Indian, Japanese and Native American musical traditions into his work. His albums for Takoma and Vanguard have left an indelible trail of influence across generations of musicians, from William Ackerman and Pete Townshend to Ben Chasny and William Tyler.  Liam Barker first became aware of Basho having purchased Tompkins Square's reissue of Venus in Cancer, released in 2006. This led him on an incredible fact-finding expedition, unraveling the many layers of mystery surrounding Basho's life and death, all deftly compiled and depicted in his documentary film, Voice of the Eagle : The Enigma of Robbie Basho.  During the research process, Barker came across a large cache of unheard Basho tapes recorded throughout his career, ranging roughly from 1965-1985. By arrangement with Basho's Estate and the original custodians of the tapes, Tompkins Square is set to release Song of the Avatars : The Lost Master Tapes, a 5CD set of previously unreleased material. The label will release a single disc vinyl LP on Record Store Day '20 as well. The set includes notes by Barker, Henry Kaiser, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Glenn Jones and Richard Osborn, as well as many unseen photographs.

5XCD $65.95

12/04/2020 856225005715 

TSQ 5715 CD 


Rocket 808 by Rocket 808

Rocket 808

Rocket 808
12xu

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Following a late 2018 debut 7", ROCKET 808 is the eponymous debut LP from the latest brainchild of JOHN SCHOOLEY, a guitarist with an impressive resume in the American underground going back a couple of decades with bands including but not limited to the REVELATORS, THE HARD FEELINGS, JOHN SCHOOLEY'S ONE MAN BAND and MEET YOUR DEATH. This, however, might be his most daring gambit to date. Combining the primitive analog drum machine of 1970s New York underground icons Suicide with the snarl and twang of guitar progenitors Link Wray and Duane Eddy, Rocket 808 has created a unique aesthetic mixing minimalist proto-punk noise and roots guitar into a new futurism, finally giving us the tomorrow with flying cars we were promised in 1950s EC Comics, Blade Runner, and back issues of Popular Mechanics. If Martin Rev had produced ZZ Top’s Eliminator, or if Ry Cooder’s score to Streets of Fire was instead heard on Sid and Nancy, you’d have an idea of how Rocket 808 blurs the lines between guitar-heavy styles and eras using artificial percussion.   Just as The Cramps updated their 45 collection for a new generation, Rocket 808’s cover of Suicide's "Ghost Rider" exists alongside rockabilly classics like Ersel Hickey’s "Goin' Down That Road," while the band name conjures images of both Ike Turner’s supposedly “first rock n’ roll song” "Rocket 808" and the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, the world’s most famous drum machine. ORVILLE NEELY of OBN IIIs...

LP $17.75

10/18/2019  

12XU 121-1 


Destroy Oh Boy! by New Bomb Turks

New Bomb Turks

Destroy Oh Boy!
Crypt

***THE NEW BOMB TURKS return with 20th anniversary deluxe vinyl-only edition of their legendary Destroy Oh-Boy! album. LP comes in gatefold jacket, crammed with pics & liner notes by JOHN PETKOVIC (Death of Samantha). If you'd given Jimmy Lee Swaggart some PCP, three nubile teenage girls and a swank-ass voice, sooner or later he'd have formed a band just like this.

LP $20.85

01/06/2017 700498003216 

CR 032 


CD $14.75

01/06/2017 70049800322 

CR 032 CD 


A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood's Guitar Soli Chanukah Record by Lockwood, Jeremiah

Lockwood, Jeremiah

A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood's Guitar Soli Chanukah Record
Reboot

A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Chanukah Album, a solo guitar tribute to the holiday, is now available on Reboot Records. With heartfelt appreciation of the 1968 classic The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Record, Lockwood has sweetly crafted eight songs, one for each night of Chanukah, to celebrate the dancing candlelight with his new, blues-inspired takes on the most beloved melodies of the holiday’s canon. Lockwood’s career has followed a unique path, with deep musical inspiration coming from two mentors. His grandfather Cantor Jacob Konigsberg (1921-2007) infused in him the melodies of the Jewish liturgy, with Lockwood performing in his choir. Lockwood credits his career as a guitarist to a decade-long apprenticeship with the legendary blues musician Carolina Slim, a.k.a. Elijah Staley (1926-2014), who passed down to Lockwood the Piedmont blues tradition of Brownie McGhee and Buddy Moss. Lockwood also leads the band Sway Machinery, which features Jordan McLean of Antibalis and at one point Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Great Miracle is the ultimate realization of both sides of Lockwood’s learning, as he translates the major Chanukkah melodies into a blues language, through his fingers and the strings of his Gibson guitar. “Jeremiah Lockwood …has recorded an outstanding instrumental album of Chanukah songs in the style of American primitive icon John Fahey…Those familiar with the original source material will pick up on those melodic lines woven within his deft six-string picking. For example, “Ritual” opens the record with the simple melodies of...

LP $22.00

11/24/2023 824247032415 

RE 020 


MP3 $7.99

11/24/2023 824247032415 

RE 020 


FLAC $8.99

11/24/2023 824247032415 

RE 020 


Red Horse, White Mule by Rose, Jack

Rose, Jack

Red Horse, White Mule
Vhf

Part of a collaboration with Jack Rose’s estate and Three Lobed Records to restore all of his LPs to print, VHF presents new vinyl editions of the celebrated guitarist’s first three solo albums, newly cut by John Golden Mastering from the original source material. Originally issued on LP by Eclipse Records between 2002-04, these releases chart an eclectic, more experimental approach left behind as his technique and compositions became more refined and deliberate on later works like Kensington Blues. Rose’s 2002 solo debut Red Horse, White Mule was a bit of an outlier in the underground gestalt at the time, coming just before the wave of releases from the new generation of Takoma- / Fahey-inspired players. Strictly a solo affair, Red Horse balances the epic, side-long raga of “Red Horse” against a second side of shorter pieces, including the ragged slide style of “The Colonel’s Blues.” The compositions and performances incorporate the new and the classic with a rough-hewn charm.  “Rose’s personalized and disparate criteria awaken feelings of both rapture and tragedy on the scale of that which must have been felt by the newly-wed anthropologist who drove Kiowa Indian guests out of his Oklahoma residence with Victrola discs of Amelita Galli-Curci in order to go to bed with his bride or the child who, on hearing Bugs Bunny sing Queen Liluokalani’s dirge “Aloha Oe,” quarantined himself in the clothes hamper until such time that the United States withdraws from Hawai’i.” —Kisan Nagai, blues scholar, on Red Horse, White Mule

LP $17.50

09/23/2016 783881014112 

 


MP3 $9.90

09/16/2016 783881014112 

 


***Truly psychedelic and damaged, Wolf Eyes favourite new group. "I was [working at a call center] a few months and at the time I reconnected with John Brennan who I had played with briefly in Montreal at the Mutek Festival. In Montreal, John was running an experimental music night at a burrito shop downtown called Garbage Night. While in Vancouver I began connecting with the music scene there and would go hang out with the Shearing Pinx lads who I think lived with Sydney the bass player at the time... Fast forward to today. 2024... John asks if I'll sit in with Earth Ball and I keep thinking about Earth Balance, the vegan butter everyone eats here. I brought my aching bones and my IPads on the beautiful ferry named the Queen of Oak Bay and out to Nanaimo BC, home of the nanaimo bar... [W]hen Earth Ball fire up the amps in Izzy and Jer's basement you can hear the voices of the ghosts hum through electrical lines and out the speakers, Kellen's hued feedback, Izy's sturdy basslines, Jer's paperbag guitar tone and rumble pack zaps, Liam's (aka the Kid) sheets of sound and Brennen's multidirectional drums. You wouldn't guess Earth Ball was auto-composing and from what my rat brain can tell -- the lyrics are improvised too... Improvising lyrics and singing them is the hardest thing to do in all of music... Izzy and Jer are pros. And their attitudes are pro too. The live show is scorched...

LP $29.25

06/28/2024 828887116412 

UTR 164 LP 


Live In Hong Kong by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Live In Hong Kong
Helicopter

***Sissy Spacek is known for their extended approach to sound and performance. Founded in 1999, the group (since 2013, primarily a duo of Charlie Mumma and John Wiese) have released a broad range of work, from grindcore to musique concrète, with a considerable gulf of experimentation in between. Their performance at Empty Gallery in Hong Kong and its peripheral documentation is an example of the band’s abstracting style and approach. Recorded on the occasion of Takeshi Murata’s “Infinite Doors” opening, the album combines a multi-tracked live set of electronics and grindcore, which bookends an array of recordings made throughout their 5-day residency, combining graveyard field recordings, barrel scrapings, impromptu noisecore, and tape collage.

CD $12.00

06/02/2023  

H 134 CD 


Patterns Of Force Alternative Mix by Circle One

Circle One

Patterns Of Force Alternative Mix
Puke N Vomit

***BACK IN STOCK!!! Note new price. Unreleased alternate mix of their legendary 1983 album, taken from the original tapes. this was the first rough mix before John Macias decided to remix. fast and furious early 80s Southern California Hardcore.The original album is now considered a pioneering classic of American Hardcore for its lyrics dealing with teenage frustration and angst along such bands as Suicidal Tendencies and Black Flag.

LP $24.45

08/06/2021  

PNV 75 


***SGG are proud to present the staggering new album from Irish foursome Hands Up Who Wants to Die, featuring members of Shifting, No Spill Blood and Wild Rocket. Working again with long-time collaborators John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Black Midi, Lankum, Caroline) and Ian Chestnutt, Hands Up Who Wants To Die present their long awaited third long player, Nil All. The album expands upon the delicate, brutal spectrum found on Hands Up’s previous LP, Vega in the Lyre, pushing further into spacious light and claustrophobic void. The band has twisted minimal musical ideas in various directions, with Spud’s sonic orchestration harnessing the exploration of sinuous melodies, elastic time and delicate micropolyphony. The first release featuring Ten Past Seven’s Rory O’Brien on lyrical duties, themes include strange histories and characters enduring, often out of delusion. The anomalies and warped stories, barely believable. Life as a zero-sum game, brutal and absurd. Pressed in a limited edition run of 12" vinyl in two stunning color variations, housed in a beautiful package featuring the illustrations of Matt Hedigan.

LP $20.25

03/31/2023  

SGG 085 


Nuke Portland by U-nix

U-nix

Nuke Portland
Feel It

***U-NIX follow up their impressive debut 7" on Lumpy with Nuke Portland, a scathing, psychotic hardcore masterpiece. These eight new tracks fire at full speed, with JOHN CARDWELL's (ex-NASA Space Universe) trebly guitar attack leading the mix alongside a pulverizing rhythm section and gravely maniac vocals. This is total trend-stripping music—a furious hardcore attack that careens forward with precision and speed. An all out ten minute war, cut loud at 45 RPM and full of replay value. Simply put, U-NIX are one of the last pure hardcore bands worth their weight. Nuke Portland comes packaged in a full color sleeve designed by the band plus insert and download code.

12" $15.50

11/30/2018  

FEEL IT 21 


***SAVOY MOTEL is still on the case! Founding members, JEFFREY NOVAK (CHEAP TIME) and DILLON WATSON are like Sherlock and Dr. John (Watson), two dedicated fools keeping the high and low ends covered, with creamy electric bass and savory lead guitar. Meeting these dudes in the middle (sonically speaking) are a couple advanced cats (and old friends) from Music City U.S.A., dazzling pianist extraordinaire, CHRISTINA NORWOOD, and wonder boy drummer and percussionist, RYAN DONOHO. Together this new quartet drive that old "Savoy Sound" in a deep southern direction, down Route 45 toward the Mississippi Delta. The new album is, Love Your Face, the band's long awaited follow-up to their 2016 Self-Titled debut on What's Your Rupture? Following their debut, Savoy Motel recorded the aforementioned and now "legendary" Watermelon Fats album. After the band's opening slot on the North American Leg of pop-star Kesha's 2017 Rainbow World Tour, the Watermelon Fats album was scrapped and the original line-up "transitioned." At their former label's suggestion, the band started from scratch to create what would blossom into, Love Your Face, a fresh collection of hook filled ditties and alabaster funk sing-a-longs guaranteed to delight fans of Savoy Motel's earthy sound. Limited to 500 black vinyl copies, with an inner sleeve including additional band photos and all the song lyrics.

LP $15.00

03/04/2022  

OMR 007 


***First pressing of 700 copies on Black Wax. With collaborative artwork from Adam Francis Scott & Jaime Zuverza. Seven Bridges features: Jim Baker - Analogue Synthesizer; Sima Cunningham - Voice; John Hughes - Electronics; Nick Macri - Bass; Ron Miles - Cornet; Charlie Rumback - Drums, Guitar; Jason Stein - Bass Clarinet; Macie Stewart - Violin, Voice; John Tate - Bass; Greg Ward - Alto Saxophone; Krystle Warren - Voice.

LP $19.85

04/15/2022 733102723408 

AS151 


MP3 $9.90

11/19/2021 733102723408 

 


FLAC $11.99

11/19/2021 733102723408 

 


Redacted was originally issued in an edition of 100 gold tapes in 2013 and goes for £££ 2nd hand. This new version has been completely remastered by Matt Colton and comes highly recommended if you're into Pye Corner Audio, John Carpenter, Edward Artemiev...  While there’s a mutual sense of technoid momentum to both albums, Redacted is a far gauzier, freeform and sensual beast; one richly steeped in proto/post-club atmospheres and allowing his imagination to run away with itself.  Conceptually, Redacted pursues the “classified” themes of his Remote Viewing-inspired Umwelt (2013) LP into even murkier departments, drawing subtly ‘marish parallels between the cold war atmospheres that birthed original post punk, industrial and proto-techno, and the current pallor of socio-political unrest that pervades our present situation.  Omitting the original tape’s expansive closer for the sake of a single LP cut, this vinyl version plays out like an alternative soundtrack to scenes in the overgrown, radioactive zones of Tarkovsky’s Stalker, using an anachronistic palette of analogue machinery to emphasise a sense of fluid, shimmering motion and out-of-place-and-timelessness that genuinely goes straight to the head with trippy effect.   Swampy slow techno horror themes vacillate with decayed pastoral panoramas and windows of synthetic optimistic, both lush and disquietingly needling, using dissonance and sweeps of hazy noise to ultimately spell out a foreboding but dreamlike sort of electronic subterfuge and suspense that resonates with the nostalgic Stranger Things score as much as Leyland Kirby’s Intrigue & Stuff series.

MP3 $9.90

09/02/2016 5060165482320 

 


FLAC $11.99

09/02/2016 5060165482320 

 


It’s been fifteen years since Big Stick’s last proper record release. That’s an even longer period of time than some winged cicada bugs take to rise from the deep depths of earth and sing their noisy repertoire of songs. Their dynamic duo of John Gill and Yanna Trance are pleased to finally have a new album’s worth of material to share. This new release is simply titled LP. It’s a long playing collection of Big Stick selections cultivated over several years. This release is a joint effort between Big Stick’s new Drag Racing Underground record label and Forte Music Distribution. Gill and Trance performed most of the vocals and instrumentation on the album’s fifteen tracks. Some of their musician friends appear on select songs. Much of the recording was done at their own studio, using a vintage Otari MX-70 16-track analog tape machine. Big Stick are self-produced. Gill plays guitar and keyboard. Trance performs percussion, bass, and keyboards. Both of the duo write and compose.  This new album includes a retrospective collage of photographs and images, along with photos of Gill’s and Trance’s artwork as well as liner notes describing curious facts and trivia related to the duo and the featured songs. Both formats include a special bonus Some Of The Best Of Big Stick EP CD with ten “classic” Big Stick tracks.

LP $19.00

08/16/2019 5060446123218 

DRU 004 LP 


2XCD $16.00

07/26/2019 5060446123201 

DRU 004 CD 


MP3 $9.90

07/05/2019 5060446123201 

 


FLAC $11.99

07/05/2019 5060446123201 

 


***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.3 rating from Pitchfork. Era is the fourth annual report from Chicago powerhouse quartet DISAPPEARS. It was formed during the gloom of the Chicago winter at Electrical Audio by now regular foil JOHN CONGLETON. Insular and dark, the album sees the band further refining their love of dub, minimalism and repetition into their most original and stark set yet. It harks back to the early ‘80s post punk period, when almost anything seemed possible with the classic two guitar, bass and drums lineup, and exploration and expansion of what could be done with these elements was at the fore. Dueling wiry and squalling guitars lead the way while a lockdown rhythm section provides the perpetual forward motion. Era is Disappears at their most abrasive, contemplative, and paranoid—itʼs the sound of the void looking back.

LP $19.00

08/27/2013  

 


CD $14.00

08/27/2013 796441818228 

 


Gassy Jack And Other Tales by Evaporators

Evaporators

Gassy Jack And Other Tales
Mint

***Led by college radio personality legend and celebrity marauder Nardwuar, the Evaporators sling out one wildly infectious tune after another, luring you into their frenetic and slightly surreal world of sound. Named after Vancouver pioneer Captain John Deighton who got his nickname "Gassy" from talking non stop rather than farting, The Evaporators new release will attempt to school you the listener on how to Shake with the Shaggy Shaker and how to do the Eggbeater. Pure rock’n’roll fun.

LP $17.50

11/20/2007 773871011016 

MRL 110 


CD $13.00

10/29/2007 773871011023 

MRD 110 CD 


Camera Found The Ray Gun by Boston Spaceships

Boston Spaceships

Camera Found The Ray Gun
Jackpot

***New material from supergroup Boston Spaceships. Featuring the skilled popcraft of Bob Pollard (Guided By Voices), Chris Slusarenko (Guided By Voices) and John Moen (The Decemberists), this four-song offering gives us a new window into what powerful pressure-cooker pop can mean in the modern age. Taking a page from the Rough Trade catalog, and echoing the sneery bombast of the Fall or mid-period Wire, there's an undercurrent of new wave washing through the catchiness.” Vinyl is limited to 500 copies.

CD $7.25

03/23/2010 656605791029 

JPR 7108 CD 


7" $7.25

03/23/2010 656605791074 

JPR 7108 


***A brand new album from the legendary RED KRAYOLA released as the band rides a wave of creativity sparked by their 2005 world tour. Fifteen epic songs featuring MAYO THOMPSON along with STEPHEN PRIMA, TOM WATSON, JOHN McENTIRE (who recorded the album), NOEL KUPERSMITH, and new accordion player CHARLIE ABEL.

LP $17.75

04/18/2006  

 


CD $13.75

04/18/2006 781484030423 

DC 304 CD 


Rickets & Scurvy by Grubbs, David

Grubbs, David

Rickets & Scurvy
Drag City

***The follow-up to 2000's The Spectrum Between album from GASTR DEL SOL member and Blue Chopsticks label chief, DAVID GRUBBS. Ten songs that rock harder than any of his previous efforts, featuring backing from JOHN McENTIRE, MATMOS, NOEL AKCHOTE, DAN BROWN, and NICOLAS VERNES, and lyrical collaborations from RICK MOODY, author of The Ice Storm and Demonology.

CD $13.75

06/04/2002 781484022428 

DC 224 CD 


Patterns For Auto-tuned Voices And Delay by Lisel

Lisel

Patterns For Auto-tuned Voices And Delay
Ba Da Bing!

Eliza Bagg leads a complex musical life: working as a classical opera singer, she has soloed with the New York Philharmonic, performed in Meredith Monk’s opera at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and toured Europe with the legendary John Zorn. While making her own music under the guise of art-pop solo act Lisel, she’s also collaborated as a vocalist with some of the most renowned experimental artists, including Ben Frost, Julianna Barwick, Daniel Wohl, and many others, all while playing indie rock venues and lovably dingy basements. One day, it’s Lincoln Center or The Kitchen, the next it’s an outdoor LA ambient series. She was always torn between her two worlds, and it wasn’t until she began work on Patterns For Auto-tuned Voices And Delay that she discovered a way to merge them together. Patterns comes out of Bagg’s experience as a vocalist singing Renaissance and Baroque music along with the work of modern-day minimalists like Steve Reich and Philip Glass. “I developed a vocal processing system that allowed me to change the idea of what my instrument is,” Bagg says of the album’s genesis, a system that combines her virtuosic singing with autotune and delay effects to create a melding of human and machine. Sure, she’ll admit it. “I’m a sci-fi nerd,” she says, with a laugh. “I’m a Blade Runner and Battlestar person. I love things that explore how society interacts with machines.” While making Patterns, she dove first into Renaissance polyphony and chant. The music of Hildegard von...

CD $9.50

02/17/2023 600197017821 

BING 178 CD 


LP $22.00

02/17/2023 600197017814 

BING 178 


MP3 $8.99

02/17/2023 600197017821 

BING 178 CD 


FLAC $9.90

02/17/2023 600197017821 

BING 178 CD 


***A collection of phone pranks called into various radio personalities between 1979 and 1994 by a then-teenaged suburban D.C. miscreant known simply as THE SCREAMER. Includes goat-getting calls to such folks as SALLY JESSE RAPHAEL, JOHN McLAUGHLIN, JERRY SPRINGER, BRUCE WILLIAMS, and many more, as well as some calls to Christian talk radio programs and a member of the Battlestar Gallactica cast. Eighty-five tracks clocking in at around eighty minutes.

CD $12.00

09/03/2002 792487031522 

TB 315 CD 


Sinking Of The Titanic by Bryars, Gavin

Bryars, Gavin

Sinking Of The Titanic
Superior Viaduct

Gavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943. His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia and collaborated with Brian Eno on his famed Obscure imprint. The Sinking of the Titanic, Bryars’ first major composition, was inspired by the tragic event of the British passenger liner’s cross-Atlantic maiden voyage. Bryars eloquently reconstructs the passengers’ experience – at once forlorn and eerily calming – through assemblages of understated strings and indeterminate elements. A core principle of the piece is that the ship’s band continued to play as the vessel went down. One of the most sublime works in the modern classical canon, Titanic remains Bryars’ magnum opus. Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, the album’s second sidelong track, is based on a tape loop of a London street singer captured in the early 1970s. Featuring Derek Bailey, Michael Nyman and John White, Bryars’ composition gradually builds around the cripplingly poignant voice until its emotional force is almost too much to bear. It’s no surprise that Jesus’ Blood is known as Tom Waits’ all-time favorite piece of music. Produced by Brian Eno in 1975 as the inaugural release on Obscure, The Sinking of the Titanic draws the listener in to a majestic world. While these exquisite, hymn-like recordings have not changed in nearly 50 years, their deeply personal nature and the audience’s attention to...

CD $16.00

12/09/2022 855985006048 

SV 161 CD 


LP $27.00

11/25/2022 857661008971 

SV 161 LP 


Shrimper 25th Anniversary Cassette by V/a

V/a

Shrimper 25th Anniversary Cassette
Shrimper

Celebrating 25 years of Shrimper whose first cassette came out way back then. Features exclusive, brand new recordings by Calexico, The Babies, Simon Joyner, John Davis, Woods, Refrigerator, Franklin Bruno, WCKR SPGT, Liz Gilbert, Dump & Paste. Hand numbered/colored edition. Folded in the Callaci home by some of yer fave Shrimper recording artists. Edition of 300. Proceeds donated to EarthBagNepal for victims of Nepal earthquake.

MC $6.75

10/17/2015  

SHR 183 


Majesty Shredding by Superchunk

Superchunk

Majesty Shredding
Merge

***Majesty Shredding is a powerful document of SUPERCHUNK as a band, augmented as needed with well-placed harmonies, keyboards, and guitar overdubs (and some backing vocals courtesy of the MOUNTAIN GOATS’ JOHN DARNIELLE). Since releasing their first 7-inch in 1989, Superchunk has run the gamut of milestone albums: early punk rock stompers, polished mid-career masterpieces, and lush, adventurous curveballs. Conventional wisdom holds that a band two decades into its career can only rehash or reinvent, but with Majesty Shredding, Superchunk has done something entirely different. Neither a return nor a departure, Majesty Shredding telescopes two decades into 41 indelible, action-packed minutes. It is the sound of youthful exuberance fine-tuned with grown-up confidence. And it may very well be Superchunk’s best record yet. (STREET DATE - 9/14/2010)

LP $17.25

09/14/2010 673855038018 

MRG 380 


CD $13.75

09/14/2010 673855038025 

MRG 380 CD 


Some real nice data recovery here—lots of Gene Moore’s bizarrely played but nevertheless heavily scary organ music rescued from old acetates, plus a bunch of creepomatic dialogue from “a story so unusual it will burn itself into your mind.” With liner notes by screenwiter John Clifford and bonus tracks (producer-director Herk Harvey putting a little perspective on the whole thing and music recorded for the film that went unused).

CD $12.00

01/12/1999 607287001227 

bmr 012CD 


***"ACE FARREN FORD, DENNIS DUCK and JU SUK REET MEATE (three original members) are joined by ROCK ’N’ ROLL JACKIE (35 years in the band), JOHN WIESE (approximately 10 years), and a cast of others form the current third phase SMEGMA. The personnel of this album consists of this line-up plus CHARLIE MUMMA, a member of SISSY SPACEK since 2008. The source material of Ballast was recorded at home and on the Los Angeles radio station Dublab, but what we hear is not exactly Smegma and Sissy Spacek performing together as a live group. Wiese’s production of the recording is a kind of un-doing of the live group playing, forging it into a new collage of sound. The title of the album, Ballast, refers to a weight on a ship which improves it’s stability, but it is also a term for an electrical component that regulates electricity so as to not destroy the other components. It’s double meaning fits between the cover art and the collage process which is constantly partitioning and interrupting the elements of sound."—Takuya Sakaguchi, from the liner notes. (STREET DATE - 10/16/2020)

LP $22.50

10/16/2020  

 


I Know You Fine, But How You Doin'? by Gories

Gories

I Know You Fine, But How You Doin'?
Crypt

***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 700498004213 

CR 042 


Loggerheads by DOA

DOA

Loggerheads
Sudden Death

Another solid collection of no-frills, no-nonsense, no-punches-pulled, balls-to-the-wall punk rock blasts from the true veterans of "Fuck You" hardcore. Produced by Nomeansno's John Wright.

CD $8.00

01/01/1999 721616013023 

VIRUS 130 CD 


MP3 $9.90

01/01/1999  

 


Elemental 7 by Chris & Cosey

Chris & Cosey

Elemental 7
Cti

***REISSUED!!! Chris & Cosey 's Elemental 7—available here for the first time in 40 years—is the soundtrack to the film of the same name (on Cabaret Voltaire's Doublevision video imprint) that saw the duo working once more with John Lacey—Lacey had previously worked with Cosey in COUM Transmissions and introduced Chris Carter to the collective. The album's highlight and one of their best loved songs, "Dancing Ghosts," sounds as fresh and relevant today as it must have on its original release. "Elemental 7 has cast a looming shadow of influence over almost all electronic music since it was made."—Boomkat. Pressed on green vinyl.

LP $25.95

03/24/2023 5024545971019 

CTI E722  


***Original live re-score composed and performed by MORRICONE YOUTH inspired by George Miller's Classic 1979 Australian Dystopian Action Film. Features Devon E. Levins (guitars, keyboards), John Castro (bass, vocals, keyboards), Dan Kessler (analog synths and keyboards). Brian Kantor (drums), Fraser Campbell (saxophone, flute, keyboards), Aaron Bahr (trumpet), Karla Rose Moheno (vocals), Scott Hollingsworth (keyboards, percussion). Edition of 500 copies on coke bottle colored vinyl.Notes: Brian Kantor also drums with Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Nathan Larson of Shudder to Think, Higgins, Fruit Bats, Yellowbirds and Sam Cohen. The synths and keyboards used were all analog, mostly owned by Joe McGinty (of Psychedelic Furs/Loser's Lounge) and maintained in Carousel Vintage Recording Studio where we tracked with engineer Steve Silverstein (regular TapeOp contributor and member of Christmas Decorations).  The album was mixed by World Inferno Friendship Society founder/keyboardist Scott Hollingsworth (who has also engineers and mixes for Sean Lennon, Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger and Yuka Honda, amongst others).

LP $17.75

01/27/2017  

CCR 009 


Lead Their Exit by Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek

Lead Their Exit
Helicopter

On Xmas day in 1999, the channels of the noise canon received a new entry into its ranks by the name of SISSY SPACEK. 15 years later, the outfit, held together by core members JOHN WIESE and CHARLIE MUMMA, has left a littered trail of damaged recordings and countless performances in its wake. Known for it’s cult output and conceptual performances—each idea folding over the last to create havoc in the way that most would care to avoid, Sissy Spacek takes this all head on. Their newest 7” shows the band exploring song-based material (see also their live shows), employing it’s newest member SARA TAYLOR to provide vocal accompaniment to their special brand of furious destruction. To those familiar with their previous works on PPM, Chondritic Sound, Gilgongo or Wiese’s own Helicopter imprint, one will instantly welcome their signature hybrid of grindcore blasts and avant-garde sensibility and remain captured by the band’s semblance of leftfield song writing.

MP3 $3.99

06/23/2014 655035175676 

H LEAD 


FLAC $4.99

06/23/2014 655035175676 

 


***Albums of guitar duets are rare. Albums of guitar duets featuring one American and one Englishman, synthesizing their geographically specific approaches in a collection of new compositions, are rarer. Not since Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn’s partnerships of the 1970s has there been such a happy reconciliation of Merrie Old England and the good old USA, in which baroque meets the blues, music-hall steps out to ragtime, and Benjamin Britten sits down with Blind Blake. JAMES ELKINGTON moved from London to Chicago around the turn of the millennium and has since released a string of albums as leader of THE ZINCS for Thrill Jockey Records. After dissolving the band in 2008, Elkington has concentrated on acoustic, folk-tinged music with his band THE HORSE’S HA (that he shares with FREAKWATER’s JANET BEAN). NATHAN SALSBURG is best known as an archivist and producer for the Alan Lomax Archive, curator of the Twos & Fews vernacular music imprint on Drag City Records, and host of the “Root Hog Or Die” program on East Village Radio. He appears on Tompkins Square’s Imaginational Anthem Volume 3 compilation, and produced a tribute album to EC Ball, also on Tompkins Square. Elkington suggested a leap of faith into a collaboration, despite the fact that the two had never previously played guitar together. Avos, then, hither and thither over several seasons, between a porch in Louisville and a kitchen in Chicago, slowly took shape. Aptly, the name comes from the Russian word for the confident approach to new...

LP $14.75

08/30/2011 894807002615 

TSQ 2615 


***The debut album from this new band led by and named after VERSUS founding member and indie rock veteran FONTAINE TOUPS. A welcome batch of hard-edged, Versus-esque, melodic rock featuring the talents of guitarist extraordinaire ANDY CHEUNG and photographer JOHN SULLIVAN. Produced by ANDY LASUS who also recorded Versus' Stars Are Insane album.

CD $12.00

04/20/2004 792487037227 

TB 372 CD 


MP3 $9.90

04/20/2004 792487037234 

TB 372 


FLAC $11.99

04/20/2004 792487037234 

TB 372 


(Vol. II) Neither Here Nor There by Potter, Russell

Potter, Russell

(Vol. II) Neither Here Nor There
Tompkins Square

***“The two latest reissues to spin off from our acclaimed Imaginational Anthem Volume 8: The Private Press feature the solo guitar compositions of Russell Potter, recorded in the last waning days of the initial American Primitive explosion.   A then obsessed teenaged devotee of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and Leo Kottke at a time when Punk and New Wave were ascendant, Potter harnessed a similar DIY ethos to his own ends by starting his own label & self-publishing his first record, 'A Stone’s Throw’, while a freshman enrolled at Goddard College in Vermont in 1979. Assembled at the legendary Boddie Records in Potter’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, and sprinkled liberally with references to his heroes, from the initial record label name of Fonytone (which more than a little recalls Fahey’s earliest record label, Fonotone), to the arcane song titles and references to obscure rags.   Even as he looks to his elders, Potter’s debut release nimbly evinces a complete mastery of his form and is all the more remarkable for one of such tender years, as only the chutzpah of youth can account for such moves as successfully grafting one of your own composition to one of John Fahey’s, as he does here. There’s a very immediate, lovely, and real homespun quality to Potter’s chiming twelve-string compositions that puts it in the realm of those classic records that seem to simply exist outside of time.   Shortly after ‘A Stones Throw’, Potter produced & released a 45rpm single by an...

LP $17.75

06/25/2021 856225005807 

TSQ 5807 


Chesterfield King by Jawbreaker

Jawbreaker

Chesterfield King
Blackball

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Blackball Records presents the 20th anniversary edition of Jawbreaker’s Chesterfield King. Originally released in 1992, this groundbreaking EP has been remastered by John Golden from the original tapes, and the increased sampling rate boosts some of the bottom end and mid-range. 

12" $12.00

12/11/2012 759718089813 

BB 008 


MP3 $4.95

12/11/2012 759718089813 

BB 008 


On The Mouth by Superchunk

Superchunk

On The Mouth
Merge

***Often referred to as the "difficult third album," the only thing difficult about it has been trying to find a copy as of late. Now reissued in all of its dynamic, melodic glory. Produced by JOHN REIS of ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, it marks the beginning of the band's shift in musical direction away from their earlier "punk brashness," and toward a more complex sound. Remastered by JASON WARD. (STREET DATE - 8/17/2010)

LP $21.35

08/17/2010 673855017013 

MRG 170 


CD $12.25

08/17/2010 673855017020 

MRG 170 CD 


Musica Non Grata by Jazkamer

Jazkamer

Musica Non Grata
Pica Disk

***The February edition of JAZKAMER’s 2010 monthly CD-series, Musica Non Grata is a feedback-fest. Locked inside Duper Studios in Bergen with guitars and analogue synths and an arsenal of amps, JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS, JOHN HEGRE and LASSE MARHAUG explore how feedback-timbre sounds recorded on an analogue 24 track 2-inch tape-machine. The three long, slow-moving tracks are long-form meditations on feedback that will be bliss for a select few and hell for most. February is not an easy month.

CD $15.50

02/23/2010  

PICA 015 CD 


***Heading into 2003 in a completely different direction GUIDED BY VOICES mainman ROBERT POLLARD delivers a new album unlike anything he’s done before. A seven-track goodtime of catchy pop gems and experimental sound collages featuring contributions from JOHNNY STRANGE, JIM MACPHERSON, JOHN SHOUGH, NICK KIZIRNIS, GREG DEMOS, DON THRASHER, CHRIS SLUSARENKO, and the ORIGIALANACRUSI.

LP $12.00

02/04/2003 802685006724 

LUNA 67 lp 


CD $9.25

02/04/2003 802685006724 

LUNA 67 CD 


MP3 $6.93

02/04/2003 802685006724 

 


Fight With Donald by Neos

Neos

Fight With Donald
Supreme Echo

***"Victoria’s pioneers of hyperactive speed-punk, critically acclaimed as one of the very first of their kind. As lead-up to our soon to be released “Three Teens Hellbent On Speed” discography LP, Supreme Echo presents this 25th anniversary reissue from the original John Golden stampers. Blistering fast, raw and wild Canadian hardcore insanity recorded 1982-83. 18 songs, including “Sleeve” which is the only recording to reappear on their upcoming LP, maintaining this EP as a rather unique collection. Housed in its original multi-panel fold-over cover which folds out into a 14” x 21” collage poster."

7" $13.75

04/14/2023  

SE 38 


***NOW AVAILABLE!!! Trout Mask Replica is a touchstone in the history of recorded music. The mix of dada absurdist blues and previously unexplored experimental avenues has long been praised as one of the greatest albums of all time. As so eloquently put by John Peel, “If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work.”

2XLP $35.75

11/07/2022 813547025890 

TMR 546 


Victory Is Rated by Dark Blue

Dark Blue

Victory Is Rated
12xu

***Victory Is Rated is the 3rd studio album from Philadelphia’s DARK BLUE, following 2014’s Pure Reality and 2017’s widely acclaimed Start Of The World. Over the course of the last half decade, the ensemble—helmed by CLOCKCLEANER / PUERTO RICO FLOWERS founder JOHN SHARKEY III, have walked a thin line between defiance and fatalism, often trading in the anthemic with equal doses of the sardonic and the melancholy. That all of it is increasing informed & influenced by the real goddamned world probably helps. There’s some cruel irony in Sharkey’s (second) self-imposed exile from the USA occurring right after completing the recording of Victory Is Rated with conspirators ANDY NELSON (CEREMONY), MICHAEL SNEERINGER (STRANDS OF OAK, ROASLI) and B. DAVID WALSH given that this is by far, Dark Blue’s most fully realized statement—in some alternative universe where this band toured consistently, they’d be way too big for this label (frankly, they already are), but really, what has America done to actually deserve their brutal honesty?   Sharkey says the album’s main themes are class war and mortality. I’m not entirely sure there are other themes (not simply on Victory Is Rated, either) , but we’re very fortunate he’s so skilled at writing about those two. He also likens the record to “if Blitz went Brit pop” and while that ticks off a couple of crucial boxes for me, let’s get something rather thorny out of the way. However many allusions you’ve seen to some subculture you either dislike or can...

LP $17.75

02/22/2019  

12XU 116-1 


Nadine Khouri is a British-Lebanese musician and songwriter currently based in London. Influenced by dreampop, moody soundtracks and spoken-word, her sound has been described as a “music born of perennial outsider-status.” Noted by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Giant Sand) for her voice, Khouri was invited to sing on a track on his Screenplay album and subsequently to record The Salted Air with him in his hometown of Bristol. The resulting album is a haunting collection of poetic and atmospheric meditations on loss and transformation. The album also features guest contributions from Parish, Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley, violinist Emma Smith (James Yorkston, Hot Chip) and others. “Meditative, spectral dreamscapes…extraordinary voice: a fragile, sensuous instrument.” —MOJO “Nadine Khouri has always had the ability to make quietness and subtlety sound huge and mean more than it possibly could [...] The overwhelming breathless cool of Nadine’s voice is something that you cannot go without hearing.” —The 405

LP $20.25

02/10/2017 5060366784179 

ONEFL 05 LP 


CD $16.00

02/10/2017 5060366784209 

ONEFL 05 CD 


Thor & Friends is the eponymous full length debut from the avant-chamber ensemble formed by polymath percussionist Thor Harris. It was recorded in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and produced by Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost from A Hawk & A Hacksaw and Deerhoof’s John Dieterich. The three core members of the band are Peggy Ghorbani on marimba, Sarah “Goat” Gautier on marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, organ, voice, mellotron and piano, and Harris on sundry percussion and wind instruments including some of his own devising. They are joined Jeremy Barnes on accordion, drum, and mellotron; Heather Trost on violin, voice & marimba; John Dieterich on guitar, bass, castanets and special effects; and Raven on bone flute, and electronic sounds. The band was inaugurated after Harris toured for five years as the percussionist of iconic avant-rock ensemble Swans. As a vehicle for experimentation with American Minimalism with a rotating cast of Austin-based musicians, Harris draws on composers including Terry Riley and Steve Reich, but also such diverse influences as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Moondog and The Necks; the album centers around a polyrhythmic core of mallet-struck instruments—primarily marimba, xylophone and vibraphone. Circling these core motifs are shifting streams of everything from processed pedal steel and analog synthesizer to violin, viola, stand-up bass, clarinet, duduk and oboe. By rooting their art in both improvisation and the involvement of neighbors and friends in their process, Thor & Friends embody utopian optimism, making use of what and whom is around at any given moment to make music...

LP $16.00

10/07/2016 613505500076 

LM 11 


CD $9.25

10/07/2016 616892422440 

LM 11 CD 


MP3 $7.99

10/07/2016 616892422440 

 


FLAC $8.99

10/07/2016 616892422440 

 


Chappaquiddick Bridge by Poison Girls

Poison Girls

Chappaquiddick Bridge
Water Wing

***Chappaquiddick Bridge, the bands first full length LP, was originally released on Crass Records in 1980 and featured the same lineup as HEx. And like Hex, it shared the producer/engineer team of PENNY RIMBAUD and JOHN LODER. This record sees POISON GIRLS at their most experimental stage. The songs dig deeper into the connections between the personal and political. Starting with an uncredited version of ‘State Control’ (one of the bands punkiest crowd pleasers) done in an ‘unplugged’ style, and ending with the similarly stripped down ‘Tender Lover,’ this album broke all the rules of what a ’punk’ album should sound like. The songs are long. There are extended sonic workouts and codas, using synths, abused studio effects, electric violin, acoustic piano as well as ‘random’ electric guitar sounds and vocals. The mix has thundering drums up front that power the songs, and help create a barrage of rich sound. The lyrics speak of love, power, sexual politics, war and peace and most things in between. This is VI SUBVERSA at her most poetic, but with a razor sharp insight, and not holding back on using it. A truly original album. If it was removed, lost or destroyed, your original copy of Chappaquiddick Bridge came with a one-sided flexi disc containing the anthem "Statement." This 2014 reissue also includes "Statement" as a proper one-sided 7" vinyl. Sturdy tip-on gatefold cover.

LP+7" $16.35

10/28/2014  

WW 11 


David Ackles’s eponymous 1968 debut is a rich emotional experience rife with poignant balladry and evocative lyricism. The era’s market was unprepared for such a singular songwriter, but the cult of Ackles is a potent force and this reissue obliges its demands. Elton John, Bernie Taupin and Elvis Costello are Ackles acolytes—the latter even championed him as “perhaps the greatest unheralded songwriter of the late ’60s.” As a staff songwriter for Elektra and avid composer for theatre and film, Ackles developed a maverick style. Indeed, David Ackles materialized when Elektra couldn’t imagine a singer more suitable for the material than its composer. David Ackles boasts wonderfully restrained arrangements that only enhance its power. The widely covered opening track “The Road to Cairo” features Ackles at the pinnacle of his emotive ability. With marvelous dramatic grace, he evokes the weary traveler’s wisdom and turmoil as it devolves to a devastating breaking point. It’s a gut-wrenching moment, though one quickly tempered by the melancholy “When Love Is Gone” and beatific “What a Happy Day.” Perhaps akin to Randy Newman, Scott Walker or the darkest Van Dyke Parks (at least for their inimitability), Ackles’s debut sounds peerless today. As critic and archivist Richie Unterberger writes in the liner notes, “About 45 years later, the record is more durable than many a high-charting singer-songwriter statement of the time, precisely for the idiosyncratic qualities that kept it shrouded in obscurity at the time of its release.” This record is an extraordinary achievement—it belongs to a...

LP $17.50

02/18/2014 852545003707 

IF 70 


CD $16.00

12/10/2013 852545003585 

IF 58 


Abridged Perversion by V/a

V/a

Abridged Perversion
Shrimper

Thirty-four tracks of lo-fi genius hand picked by the Shrimper staff, Nothing Painted Blue, Mountain Goats, Lou Barlow, Bugskull, Refrigerator, John Davis, Simon Wickham-Smith, Paste. Now barcoded!

CD $8.25

01/08/2001 059718139823 

SHR 98CD 


MP3 $0.00

01/08/2001  

 


***Sam Evian releases his latest album, Time to Melt, via Fat Possum. Time to Melt reckons with the weight of our time, even when it sounds largely weightless. Inspired by John Coltrane’s mixture of grace and gravitas and Marvin Gaye’s uncanny ability to turn social issues into personal anthems, Sam strove to give these otherwise-beguiling instrumentals the thoughtfulness and depth these days demand. Following a brief decampment to upstate New York to create his last album, You, Forever, Sam realized he could no longer resist the urge to escape the anxious city life. He and his partner, Hannah Cohen, took themselves out of the city to upstate New York, building their refuge and Sam’s studio, Flying Cloud Recordings, in the quiet of a Catskills town. That reflective, relaxing environment shaped Time to Melt, a glowing set of soulfully psychedelic pop gems and a testimonial to the life and wisdom to be found when you give yourself the mercy of space. (STREET DATE - 10/29/2021)

LP $25.45

10/29/2021 767981177830 

 


Have We Met by Destroyer

Destroyer

Have We Met
Merge

***CHECK STOCK!!!  Received an 8.5 Best New Music rating from Pitchfork.  DESTROYER conceived of Have We Met as a Y2K album. DAN BEJAR assigned producer and bandmate JOHN COLLINS the role of layering synth and rhythm sections over demos with the period-specific Björk, Air, and Massive Attack in mind, but he soon realized the sonic template was too removed from Destroyer’s own, and the idea of a concept was silly anyway. So he abandoned it and gave Collins the most timeless instruction of all: “Make it sound cool.” The result is not a startling departure from 2017’s ken, but unlike that more band-oriented approach, the only actual instruments that appear are bass and electric guitar. MIDI instrumentation will of course invite Your Blues and Kaputt nostalgia, but Have We Met is buoyed by precise, plasticky guitar shredding three-dimensionally across massive percussion—the loudest and dirtiest drums on a Destroyer record to date. Atmosphere and loose approximations of a place or feeling are what we’ve come to expect from any new Destroyer record—certainly not an easily defined and stridently adhered to theme or concept. Have We Met manages to meet somewhere between those disparate Y2K reference points and Destroyer’s own area of expertise, gliding deftly into territory that marries the old strident Destroyer with the new, aged crooning one of late.

LP $18.85

01/31/2020 673855070919 

MRG 709 


CD $13.75

01/31/2020 673855070926 

MRG 709 CD 


Whirlyball 2 by V/a

V/a

Whirlyball 2
Chunklet

***The second in Chunklet’s limited edition Whirlyball series. You get BLACK LIPS performing a cover of “Hasabe,” BABY SHAKES kickin’ “What You Can Do,” GENTLEMAN JESSE & HIS MEN covering “Connection,” and COFFIN BOUND punching out “Is John Really Dead?”

7" $5.60

02/11/2007  

WHIRLYCHUNK 002 


MP3 $3.96

02/11/2007 647603397443 

 


FLAC $4.99

02/11/2007 647603397443 

 


***BIRD SHOW BAND documents BIRD SHOW’s new collaborative spirit and stands as the culmination of BEN VIDA’s Chicago-based work, featuring a who’s who of the city’s improvisational luminaries, including JOSH ABRAMS, JIM BAKER, DAN BITNEY and JOHN HERNDON. The improvisatory feel of the Bird Show Band sessions function as Vida’s paean to the Windy City. Rather than another Bird Show release that involves guest accompaniment on select tracks, Vida conceived of these recordings as a foray into session playing, tracking the entire album over just two days. While Herndon and Bitney’s percussion invokes German psych, progressive rock, and jazz idioms, Vida’s synth-based experiments, here accompanied by Jim Baker’s ARP 2600, provide the first indication of his recent musical pre-occupations, an interest that relies heavily on the Moog and his own fluid, lyrical melodic lines. (STREET DATE - 1/26/2010)

CD $14.00

01/26/2010 859739001419 

AMI 041 CD 


***The third album from the beautiful pop voice of JEFF GRAMM, and a fine extension to the dreamy sounds presented prior. Twelve new tracks featuring MARK GREENBERG (COCTAILS) on vibes, JOHN BLAHA (ALUMINUM GROUP) on drums, and DAVE TRUMFIO on production. Their previous album Black Cow was Teenbeat's best selling title in 1999.

CD $16.00

07/04/2000 792487028621 

TB 286 CD 


MP3 $9.90

07/04/2000 792487028638 

TB 286 


FLAC $11.99

07/04/2000 792487028638 

TB 286 


Kissed By An Animal by Kissed By An Animal

Kissed By An Animal

Kissed By An Animal
Handstand

***Kissed by an Animal is the auditory counterpart to the universe of illustrator/musician Dima Drjuchin. Dima is known in the art world for his rich surreal scenes plucked from an alternate dimension existing exclusively in his own mind. You can find his work on countless album covers from artists like Father John Misty, Brad Mehldau, and Reggie Watts. The debut LP from his band, Kissed by an Animal, articulates the chaos of his visual world through soaring guitar solos, unrelenting drums, and instantly memorable melodies that you will be singing to your grave - seriously. The marriage of Dima's music and his visual style is on harmonious display in their video for the single "The Good Times are Here Again," which depicts illustrated versions of the band performing in a technicolor dream world of Drjuchin's creation. Joining forces with veteran Brooklyn musicians, Jon F Daily (drums) and Tsugumi Takashi (bass), the band self released their debut LP on cassette in 2019 to rave reviews and is now being released on vinyl by Handstand Records. Kissed by an Animal wears its influences on their sleeve—from The Misfits to the Cure, from Dinosaur Jr to A Flock of Seagulls. You'll be pulled in by the instantly catchy melodies, you'll stay for the relentlessly driving rhythm section, and you'll be disappointed when the song is over before you've had your fill.

LP $21.50

03/26/2021  

HND 41 


Baalstorm, Sing Omega by Current 93

Current 93

Baalstorm, Sing Omega
Coptic Cat

***Coptic Cat present a reissue of CURRENT 93's BaalStorm, Sing Omega, originally released in 2010. Spinning in the Baalstorm as Current 93 were and weren't: ELIOT BATES, JAMES BLACKSHAW, JOHN CONTRERAS, BABY DEE, ANDREW LILES, MELON LILES, ALEX NEILSON, BEA TAYLOR, ISABEL TAYLOR, and DAVID TIBET. Includes a four-page 12" booklet with photos of the band and lyrics; Color sleeve with artwork by David Tibet; Edition of 500.The CD comes in a full-color digi-pack with a booklet including all the lyrics and photos of the banned band.

LP $32.75

01/27/2017 5055300320988 

NIFE 010 LP 


CD $13.00

07/06/2010 061297218394 

NIFE 010 


MP3 $8.91

07/06/2010 061297218394 

NIFE 010 


The Embarrassment EP by Embarrassment, The

Embarrassment, The

The Embarrassment EP
Last Laugh

***Before they broke up in 1983, this quartet from Wichita, Kansas rocked furiously, with less brittle/more melodious guitar than the Scottish new wave pop bands Orange Juice and Josef K to whom the Embos were sometimes compared. While John Nichols’ vocals weren’t incredible (Bill Goffrier’s guitar work nearly was), the Embarrassment did convey a promising array of nuances—from wistfulness to sarcasm—and an inquisitive, adventurous way with arrangements. The lyrics vary in quality, but “Don’t Choose the Wrong Song” and “Elizabeth Montgomery’s Face” show budding verbal pithiness; “Wellsville” has a laconic melodic strength. Best of all, most of the debut EP’s five songs grow on you with each listen.

12" $17.75

03/12/2021  

HAW 039 


The Complete Peel Sessions by White Stripes, The

White Stripes, The

The Complete Peel Sessions
Third Man

***BACK IN STOCK!!! The first-ever official release of The White Stripes Peel Sessions on 2 stuffed-to-the-brim discs. Capturing Jack and Meg at the precipice of international renown in the hubbub of White Blood Cells, their two live sessions with famed BBC DJ John Peel are arguably the best document of the White Stripes at that time.

CD $13.85

06/19/2020 813547026514 

TMR 375 CD 


2XLP $26.95

06/19/2020 813547022844 

TMR 375 


Vile Beast Of Abomination by Goreaphobia

Goreaphobia

Vile Beast Of Abomination
Dark Descent

Legendary east coast death metal! This is the long-awaited vinyl version of the Goreaphobia compilation, originally released by Necroharmonic on CD in 2007. We have removed the live tracks from the compilation and the music has been mastered for vinyl at The War Room by John Litchko. New cover art by Drew Elliott.

LP $19.00

08/16/2019 767870658945 

DDR 121 


MEAT JOY formed in late 1982 amidst the vibrant Austin, TX post-punk music scene. Its core members were Mellissa (Cobb) DeMille, Tim Mateer, John (Perkins) Hawkes, Gretchen Phillips, and Teresa Taylor (aka Teresa Nervosa). In April, 1983, Meat Joy played the Houston leg of the “Rock Against Reagan” tour headlined by the Crucifucks. That autumn, Taylor left to join the Butthole Surfers. Jamie Spidle joined the band in November, cementing its permanent lineup. In the coming months Meat Joy played shows with The Meat Puppets, Husker Du, The Dicks, The Mydolls, and The Big Boys. Meat Joy recorded and released an album in 1984. The LP featured eight different front covers, designed and silkscreened by the band. The back covers were each individually hand decorated by the band and friends. The record was distributed by Rough Trade and Dutch East India, and received critical praise internationally. The first run quickly sold out, as did the second. Today they're collector’s items and command exorbitant prices. The band was also featured on two compilation LPs, “Metal Moo Cow” and “Bands On The Block” alongside Scratch Acid and a host of Texas bands. Touring the Midwest in the summer of 1984, playing shows with CH3, Sun City Girls, Jodie Foster’s Army, Tales Of Terror, and many others, the group was voted “Best Avant-Garde/Experimental Band” in the 1984-85 Austin Chronicle Music Poll. The Chronicle Poll and the award show that followed laid the groundwork for what would become the SXSW Music Festival. Meat...

LP $24.00

10/13/2023 197644470457 

FAB003 


***OPEN CITY's self-titled debut full-length is ten songs of hardcore punk for this modern world, indebted in sonics and in ideology to forebears on labels like Dischord, Gravity and Kill Rock Stars. You ought to think Ignition, think John Henry West, think Universal Order Of Armageddon). The Philadelphia band is of DAN YEMIN (LIFETIME, KID DYNOMITE), ANDY NELSON (PAINT IT BLACK, CEREMONY), CHRIS WILSON (TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS, TITUS ANDRONICUS), and RACHEL RUBINO (BRIDGE AND TUNNEL, WORRIERS), and their collective decades spent helping to shape underground punk are quickly apparent across these ten tracks which showcase an intensity and musicality in increasingly short supply. Recorded at Studio 4 by WILL YIP (Title Fight, Turnstile, Nothing) and released on the band’s own label, Open City arrives to the world fully formed and defiantly self-reliant. Pressed on clear with heavy black swirl vinyl.

LP $17.75

04/14/2017  

 


The Ape Of Naples by Coil

Coil

The Ape Of Naples
Important

***BACK IN PRINT!!! Pressed using the original Ape Of Naples plates approved by PETER CHRISTOPHERSON. The Ape Of Naples is COIL's highly celebrated final album completed by Peter Christopherson following the tragic death of JOHN BALANCE in 2004. Often noted for being a fan favorite, The Ape Of Naples uses Balance's final recordings and material recorded at Trent Reznor's studio in New Orleans to create a deep, heavy masterpiece. Packaged in a heavy tip-on gatefold sleeve with IAN JOHNSTONE's original artwork coated in a custom spot gloss. Each LP is house in a printed inner sleeve and side D is printed with all three original etchings. Lyrics are printed across the gatefold.

2XLP $46.95

11/14/2018 793447617428 

IMPREC 174-2 LP 


Fascist Groove Thang by 100 Flowers

100 Flowers

Fascist Groove Thang
Spacecase

***Spacecase is proud to announce the first 100 FLOWERS release since 1984’s Drawing Fire EP. This 45 features a very timely cover and remix of Heaven 17’s "(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang.” The original 100 Flowers lineup of JOHN TALLEY-JONES, KJEHL JOHANSEN and KEVIN BARRETT is present, as is frequent Happy Squid collaborator VITUS MATARE (THE LAST, TROTSKY ICEPICK) and LINNEA JOHANSEN. Limited to 300 copies.

7" $9.75

11/29/2019  

SCR 030