***14-song document of the DIY punk/alternative scene in Peoria, Illinois, from its hardcore roots in the early 1980s through the late '90s. The album highlights out-of-print punk rock anthems, unreleased demos and rare studio tracks alongside extensive liner notes, photos and a scene poster. This compilation is the companion soundtrack to the book Punks In Peoria: Making A Scene In The American Heartland by Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett, published by University of Illinois Press. Punks In Peoria documents the evolution of the DIY punk scene in Peoria, Illinois—from its primal beginnings in the early 1980s to the dawn of the digital era. A lovingly curated collection of long-lost gems and hometown favorites from “Anytown U.S.A.,” it connects the varied work of disaffected youth across nearly two decades and multiple “generations” of Peoria punks, performers and scenesters. From Midwest hardcore legends Constant Vomit and Caustic Defiance to the inimitable shock rocker Bloody Mess, the Peoria punk scene was built on the DIY spirit from the very beginning. As it grew beyond the rudiments of hardcore, the Peoria scene mirrored the larger slicing and dicing of post-punk into ever-narrower sub-genres—embracing goth, synth, pop, psychedelia, metal, and more. Amidst the post-Nirvana haze of the early ‘90s, the gritty melodies of Dollface paved the way for a new generation of Peoria youth—some of whom would go on to tour the world in bands like Minsk and Planes Mistaken for Stars. This record is a document of that musical journey. 240 page paperback with...
BK $26.85
06/11/2021
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Alona’s Dream Records and Alternative Tentacles Records present the first ever official reissue of Articles of Faith’s debut 7” EP: What We Want Is Free. What We Want Is Free was released during the first wave of American hardcore punk in 1982. Original pressings of this record, still held in high esteem by punk fans today, command high prices in the used record market. Alona’s Dream has teamed up with legendary punk label Alternative Tentacles to make faithful official reproductions of this essential 7” available for the first time ever. These are the original mixes of the EP, transferred and mastered by Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room in 2018 and are pressed in black vinyl with careful reproductions of the original jackets and inserts. This limited edition of 666, one time only release will comprise 222 red jackets, 222 white jackets and 222 blue jackets, to reflect the three different colors of jackets on the original pressings.
7" $13.25
06/21/2019
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Alona’s Dream Records and Alternative Tentacles Records present the first ever official reissue of Articles of Faith’s second 7” EP: Wait. Wait was released during the first wave of American hardcore punk in 1983. It found the band exploring new sonic territory beyond the hardcore tempos of their debut 7”. Original pressings of this record, still held in high esteem by punk fans today, command high prices in the used record market. Alona’s Dream has teamed up with legendary punk label Alternative Tentacles to make faithful official reproductions of this essential 7” available for the first time ever. These are the original mixes of the EP, transferred and mastered by Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room in 2018 and are pressed in black vinyl with careful reproductions of the original jackets and inserts. One time only release of 666 copies.
7" $13.25
06/21/2019
***GIDIANS BIBLE got their start in the fertile 1960s Illinois music scene. During their brief existence they recorded five heavy psychedelic originals at Golden Voice Recording Co. This EP features all their songs: two from their sought after Golden Voice 45 as well as all three of their other unreleased cuts. Five songs total, three previously unreleased. Includes insert featuring unseen pictures and written history of the band.
10" $13.48
10/06/2017
CD $12.00
10/06/2017
Kid606’s pursuit of happiness comes to a close with this collection of stellar remixes from his last LP. Areal records techno guru Basteroid provides a super dynamic non-dancefloor remix of “Blood Stevia Sex magik”. Miffy goes into total late night underground dubby techno club vibes for both of his remixes, channeling the relentless spirit of Berghain, Club Mate and GHB (Minus the Date rape of course.) Rw Smith sings and dances his way through a Genre bending symphonic trap version of “Cloud Sculpting” Reminiscent of Baths, Rick Ross and John Adams. One of our favorite Japanese electronic music composers, MimiCof AKA Midori Hirano, retains the original glitchy uplifting spirit of “Tarsier Treehouse” while adding tasty skittering beats and drippy synthesizers. Magic Panda does his highly original electro-shoegazey thing as only he can. Is his “Cloud Sculpting” remix better then the original? For the sake ego of Kid606’s ego we will not say, but it’s definitely a close call! AM Version lives in San Francisco and releases house music on Roam Recordings. His über laid back saxophone heavy remix of “Smooth Sailing” is the perfect closer for the EP. It keeps the yacht rock feel of the original while adding some AFX styled analog synthesis and sweet wailing vocals from Alona.
MP3 $3.99
06/16/2014
FLAC $4.99
06/16/2014
Physically enveloping, forebodingly beautiful, and drawing on the animistic spirit of the natural world, Steve Von Till announces his seventh solo LP arriving on May 16th via Neurot Recordings. Ploughing a different furrow, Alone in a World of Wounds is an album of sweeping gothic tinged Americana, tripped out drones, beautiful world weary vocal melodies and slowly unfurling cello arrangements. Initially inspired by the harmonic resonance of piano and synths and his long standing love of ambient music, Alone in a World of Wounds follows 2021’s No Wilderness Deep Enough in reflective ambiance. Opening up his voice in ways he has never done before, the album's genesis came via intuitive improvisations. "The complex overtones of upright piano and synthesizers really inspired me to sing out more, to seek out the implied harmonies, and to find unique approaches within the limitations of my voice." says Von Till ‘It is the transcendent nature of music, the cathartic healing process where I can leave everything behind and become one with sound. When you allow yourself to go beyond the ordinary you might be fortunate enough to find a moment where you are creating in alignment with the flow of the river of the universe.' The search for deeper connection, living with the sorrow of our separation from the natural world, and relying on gut level intuition to get closer to the primal creative state are all key to Von Till’s creative process. Recorded mostly at his barn studio at home in Idaho and...
CD $13.00
05/16/2025
LP $24.00
05/30/2025
MP3 $7.99
05/16/2025
FLAC $8.99
05/16/2025
***LYNN FISTER's ALOONALUNA project is well known in the cassette world. She has released full length albums on Hooker Vision and Digitalis Limited, plus split cassettes and 7” singles with the likes of Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Ant’lrd and Starry Crowns. She has been featured on Pitchfork’s The Out Door column, Tiny Mix Tapes, and NPR’s All Songs Considered. The Gilded Hegemony of Stars is her new full-length and first release on vinyl. Awash in ambient synths, Fister’s vocals are layered into a spacey murmur. It’s an appropriate aesthetic choice for a record that comments on the way many present their lives online. Says Fister, “Most of the songs were created as a way of coming to terms with millennial culture—with its fragmented morality, narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies, privilege, self-righteousness, definitions, individualistic viewpoint, solipsism etc. Sometimes, I feel alienated and overwhelmed in such a digitized, click-bait, ADD, hook-up cultured, hyper-stylized world. Sometimes art-making seems pointless, as I never felt so weary of interpersonal relationships—which I believe is systemic from current American cultural and socio-political norms. But yet I embrace it and kiss it anyway. I try to wrap my head around a world that I will never be able to understand. My idealized / romanticized pastoral fantasy has been broken again and again, as I try constantly to rebuild a myth.”
LP $16.35
12/09/2016
***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
***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
Alive with lyrical depth, melodic intricacy and lush production, Horsebeach’s II is the work of confident and mature multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ryan Kennedy and crew. Opening with the subtle rumble of early-morning Chinatown, a hazy instrumental sharpens into focus with languid guitars, gently welcoming one into a dream of Kennedy’s creation. The summery groove and pop majesty of “It’s Alright” soon eases spinning into infinity, soothed by the warm, chiming guitars, while Beth de Cent’s smokey vocals come together in perfect harmony with Kennedy’s. “Andy” offers a yearning tale of forbidden love, packed with homoerotic overtones so full-blooded they’d make Morrissey blush like a young Caligula, while the marbled melodies of “Broken Light” come on in nostalgic ripples and waves of sepia-tinged beauty. Opening the B-side with masterful subtlety, synth-led instrumental “Midnight Part 2” takes a moonlit stroll by the ocean before “Dana” ushers in the dawn with the greatest X-Files inspired song ever written (sorry, Cerys). The antithesis of over-serious hipster cool, the earnestly emotional lyrics and anthemic chords should be enough to prompt John Hughes to rise again and make a much-needed sequel to The Breakfast Club. “Disappear” finds Kennedy and drummer Matt Booth drinking in the cosmic vintage of Düsseldorf ’72, as their chiming West Coast guitars are joined by celestial keys, head-nodding bass grooves and a motorik rhythm. “Avoid the Light” closes the album with a plea to stay in the dreamworld just a little longer.
LP $20.25
11/13/2015
CD $16.00
10/23/2015
MP3 $9.90
09/25/2015
FLAC $11.99
09/25/2015
Alongside the starry-eyed synth-pop and minor-key melancholia of his self-titled debut, Vancouver’s Jay Arner has mastered the art of deadpan absurdity. Oddball jokes and non-sequiturs linger around the edges of computer-animated music videos and sketchbook scribbles transformed into t-shirts. Now, joined by his partner in crime Jessica Delisle, these poker-faced put-ons have been conjured into a blob of pure sonic ectoplasm. Say hi to Energy Slime! New Dimensional is the duo’s primordial ooze, cramming ten songs into a jam-stacked thirteen minutes and two sides of a 7-inch. Like Robert Pollard in quick-hitter mode, or a circuit-fried Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson, the pair creates way-out musical miniatures. Energy Slime’s enchanting earworms range from the fuzzed-out glam stomp of “Bustin’ Up” to the stately Eno pomp of “Mother Brother Sister Father.” The breezy blue sky-ride of “Only Clouds” crash lands on the space cruise of “Star on the Ground,” after a 34-second huff of “Gas in a Bag.” Delisle grabs the mic for the shimmering Cyndi Lauper sock-hop of “Cool Ship II” while Arner shares his medical credentials with the feather-banged headbang of “Why U Wanna.” Road trippin’ ramble-riffs follow “Trial of the Mind” onto the rattling trail of “So Long Snakes.” And the crown-jeweled centerpiece is a lascivious tribute to one half of Stop Podcasting Yourself titled (natch) “Graham Fucks the Queen.”
7" $9.75
11/11/2014
MP3 $5.99
11/11/2014
FLAC $6.99
11/11/2014
***Medical Records presents a reissue of one of Germany’s most interesting records. The German duo ALOA only made one album in 1982, but it is one of the most peculiar and innovative records of the Neue Deutsche Welle movement. Long out of print, somewhat obscure, and very expensive, this record is due for an official reissue. The duo consisting of AL KANZ and MATTIAS BRENDEL both grew up in Kassel, Germany. Though both had different tastes of music, they fused influences and injected them into their own unique blend when they purchased Roland 606 and 808 drum machines plus a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5. After much development and evolution, the Aloa project came to life. The album explores a whole spectrum of textures, moods, and atmospheres. Ranging from dark complex synthed-out tracks to diverse instrumentation-laced almost Krautrock motifs, this album is definitely one of a kind. From the commanding first track “Weisser Wal” with it’s almost Bryan Ferry style vocals to the atmospheric “Banane Zitrone,” the twists and turns are endless. This is a very sultry record as well evidenced by the band’s constant obsession with sexy women who occupied their time. Definitely will appeal to fans of The Residents, Neue Deutsche Welle, and anything and everything that lives in the outer reaches of synth territory. Sadly the record was overlooked and misunderstood by the press and radio stations alike likely due to it’s obvious unorthodox and experimental interpretation of synthpop. Restored and mastered from the original master tapes by...
LP $18.95
02/18/2014
The death metal resurgence of the last five years has birthed an ever-expanding spectrum of styles collecting under the genre’s umbrella. Slower and mid-paced death metal has typically been the road for American bands lately—at least those adhering to the original ideals and not the modern tech-mech bastardization that the more stubborn among us choose to ignore. But the American scene has been severely lacking in bands that play the fast ’n’ loose style at which the original US bands were most adept. Enter Bone Sickness, who, after releasing a demo tape and an EP on Detest Records, now offers up their debut 12-inch Alone in the Grave. Bone Sickness are local to Olympia, WA (also the HQ of 20 Buck Spin) and have the relentless energy and ferocity of a young band that’s lived their lives in a smaller American town away from big-city trends. Not having the luxury of performing at city venues on a regular basis, the band cut their teeth in the Oly punk scene playing as many house shows with non-metal bands as they have clubs opening for “name” bands. The maelstrom of death metal savagery Bone Sickness conjures on Alone in the Grave recalls Repulsion’s Horrified LP and early Master / Deathstrike recordings, and exhumes Napalm Death when still commanded by domineering, barbaric drummer Mick Harris. No Incantation worship or goats ’n’ gasmasks posing; just American death metal disfigured by grindcore. Alone in the Grave represents a new turn (or return) to death...
12" $16.00
04/30/2013
MP3 $6.93
04/30/2013
***REISSUED AT A NEW LOWER PRICE!!! Melbourne’s “Most offensive record label” is pleased to present its second offering, the debut LP from Footscray misfits CUNTZ titled Aloha. Originally self-released by the band in May 2012, recorded by ALEX MACFARLANE, who was at the desk for the critically acclaimed BOOMGATES and CONSTANT MONGREL LPs released in 2012. Homeless was just in initial planning stages when the label head honcho witnessed a particularly violent & bloody CUNTZ show in the basement dungeon of the Grace Darling in April. The head honcho not only came away from the show with a name for his yet-to-be-decided record label, he also had planted the idea of releasing Aloha on vinyl later in the year. The band were excited by the prospect. And so, once the CD had been mastered by MIKEY YOUNG it was into production, and the band started planning their US tour, commencing Sept ’13 and includes an appearance at Gonerfest 10 in Memphis, alongside the Cosmic Psychos, Mudhoney, Wreckless Eric, Quintron and Guitar Wolf. Includes a download. New LP, Solid Mates, to follow shortly. On tour in the USA beginning September 12.
LP $18.60
09/17/2013
Along with the now-defunct Asunder, Portland, Oregon’s Aldebaran are the West Coast’s most prominent funeral / death / doom metal band. Despite only one proper album to their name, the group is relatively prolific, having released a number of EPs and appeared on many compilations and splits (with the likes of Unearthly Trance and Zoroaster, to name a few) since forming in 2004. Embracing the Lightless Depths is their long-awaited sophomore full-length—the follow-up to Dwellers in the Twilight (Parasitic Records, 2007)—and comes on the heels of last year’s single-track, 30-minute EP Buried Beneath Aeons. Delivering their strongest material to date, the album takes Aldebaran’s colossal funeral doom to its monolithic and monstrous zenith.
CD $12.00
05/15/2012
MP3 $4.95
05/15/2012
***Along with a liberal dose of borrowed beats and noises, the eleven songs on Kleptophonica include healthy splatterings of cassette deck tomfoolery, Speak'n'Spell abuse, typewriter percussion, lap steel warblings, echo nonsense, singing-into-the-washing-machine experiments, push-button sample blasts, as well as more conventional instrumentation like drum sets, maracas and keyboards. Using varying degrees of "unauthorized remixing," Agent Nova and Mor-X (both veterans of Milk Cult and Steel Pole Bath Tub) aim each song in its own direction, as melodies and rhythms are added and twisted and stretched on top of tape loops and scratchy thrift store records. The result is a softer, gentler sort of Frankenstein. More song-oriented then previous Milk Cult records, Kleptophonica is also a return to more basic recording. Whereas Project M-13 took about a month to record and an exhausting two years to edit, Kleptophonica, recorded in Olympia, Washington, at Mag Rec One, was completed in five days.
CD $12.00
02/05/2002
***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
MP3 $9.90
06/20/2000
Along with Hammers of Misfortune, Asunder, Grayceon, and Ludicra--bands currently raising a fervor in the Bay Area--Saros is regarded as one of the most promising new acts to arrive on the underground metal scene. Comprised of members from Amber Asylum, legendary black metal act Weakling, and Bastard Noise, Saros's unique progressive and epic extreme metal tastefully blends many styles. The four-piece draws influence from black metal, classic Bay Area metal (...And Justice For All-era Metallica), technical death metal (Symbolic-era Death), neo-classical chamber music (Saros could be considered the metal sister band of Amber Asylum, as singer/guitarist Leila Rauf is a full-time member of both bands while mastermind Kris Force makes an appearance on Acrid Plains), and neo-folk (Agalloch, Death in June). Produced by the legendary Billy Anderson (known for his work with High on Fire, Neurosis, Sleep, The Melvins, and more), this gem will only serve to further the band's growing reputation.
CD $12.00
03/03/2009
7" $4.00
01/08/2001
**Oakland's Parallel continue to evolve their hypnagogic take on post-punk and dream pop on Flooded. The six-song mini-album is a study in contrasts, pairing heavy, melancholic moods with light, radiant qualities, recalling ethereal forebears like The Chameleons, Slowdive, and The Durutti Column along with a range of influences from slowcore and coldwave to UK psych. The band's commitment to minimalism lends the songs a somber, fragile beauty, lush vocal harmonies interweaving with intricate dual-guitar melodies and driving basslines. Flooded explores the fleeting transitions between emotional states, delving into the "flooded" intensities of desire, rage, loss, and despair and the moments of suspension and dislocation that frame them. Current and former members of Ragana, Nothing Natural, Try The Pie, Romantic Feelings, and Negative Standards. Limited edition of 200.
12" $25.50
07/12/2024
***Right alongside a stellar upcoming single and 2018 LP on the esteemed Beach Impediment label, NYC's VANITY offer up another double A-sider for Feel It. Anticlimax rolls out of the gate with a cool, Stones-esque confidence, resting on the otherworldly lead guitar of "GROOVY" MIKE LIEBMAN (formerly of VEXX and RIK & THE PIGS). This irresistibly catchy, glammed-out rocker is backed up with "A Seat at the Table" quickening the pace atop a brilliant walking bass line. While Vanity have excelled in everything from Oi! to Britpop in their fascinating time as a band, both the songwriting and production on this single may be the band's highest mark yet. Edition of 400 packaged in a glue pocket sleeve with insert.
7" $9.25
03/06/2020
Released alongside the full length video from The Worble skate collective, Toxic Planet is Cobra Man’s follow up to their 2017 debut album New Driveway Soundtrack and is their second for Memphis, TN based Goner Records. The band initially formed to create music for a series of skate videos for Thrasher Magazine, which is how Goner founder Eric Friedl (The Oblivians) discovered the band. This is an album for a new way of life. The Los Angeles power disco duo blends the essence of classic disco funk, the raw power of warehouse punk, and the supernatural qualities of their favorite slasher films to create something unique. This record marks a step forward in production, arrangement and instrumentation from their more stripped down effort, making their sound more dynamic while still managing to retain that raw vitality that characterized their debut. These songs bring sounds both mysterious and obscure into the late night purple light on a smoke-filled dance floor. It’s a place you do not know, you’ve only heard of it. If there’s one thing you do know, the future is: Toxic Planet.
LP $16.00
10/26/2018
CD $12.00
11/02/2018
MP3 $9.90
08/24/2018
FLAC $11.99
08/24/2018
***MOUTHBREATHERS follow-up 7-inch to the In The Red Records release of the “Anxiety / The Creeper” single is said by many to be their most expansive song to date, and that is not because “Die Alone” clocks in at 5 minutes plus. Bleak arrangements over pulsing dead panned drums, slither their way underneath KYLE GOWDY’s aching vocals. The song slides along like a dark cloud until it finally explodes into an all out rage. Flip it over and you got “Validation,” a surf influenced number by land-locked Lawrence, KS boys, where their idea of “surfing” is ghost riding a stolen motorcycle into a tire fire. Enjoy.
7" $3.50
08/21/2012
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.2 rating from Pitchfork. The fourth BODUF SONGS extended play was created using MATHEW SWEET’s standard recording set up of a single microphone and a small array of instruments, but it comes with a few surprises—most notably the prominence of electric guitar, bass and stomping drums on a few tracks. All of the elements that make his previous sound creations so arresting are still present; the impeccable song structures, the minimal approach, the delicate yet dominant singing. The album opens with the naked sound of the hammers of an old upright piano striking strings, an apt metaphor for the lyrical content which is just as raw and exposed. Mathew broadens his vocal approach here, exploring range and employing some unpredictable, well-placed harmonies. This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything is effectively a concept record, and makes for a dramatic journey. Mat states "There is a theme that runs through each song and the track order is paramount to that - it's a hugely important part of making a record work." So pay attention.
LP $19.00
09/07/2010
***Along with their comrades in Oakland’s Stormcrow, Seattle’s SANCTUM are the new standard for crust obsessed metal, or War Crust as the kids call it. Raised on a diet of influences such as Bolt Thrower, Extreme Noise Terror, Entombed, Unleashed and Amebix, Sanctum mesh the best aspects of all those bands into a storming, unhinged cacophony of metallic upheaval. On On The Horizon, the band continues to crush the cenotaph. Includes seven bonus tracks taken from the band’s two early vinyl EPs—Sanctum and Enslaved. Packaged in sturdy oversized gatefold CD jackets.
CD $12.00
03/25/2008
MP3 $9.90
03/25/2008
Featured artists: Vashti Bunyan, William Basinski, Bill Fay, Simon Finn, Six Organs of Admittance, Angels of Light, Antony, Baby Dee, Ghost, The Hafler Trio, Pearls Before Swine, Jarboe, Devendra Banhart, Pantaleimon, Faun Fables, Nurse With Wound, Sundial, Current 93, irr. app. (ext.), Thighpaulsandra, srmeixner, Little Annie Anxiety, Jim O’Rourke, Lynn Jackson, Small Creatures, Michael Yonkers, Mirror, Jad Fair, Linda Perhacs, Edward Ka-Spel, Teenage Fanclub, Richard Buckner, Mary 5E, Anomoanon, L, Isobel Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, David Surkamp, Bonnie Prince Billy, Marc Almond, Damon and Naomi, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Unveiled, James William Hindle, Rose McDowall, John Maslen, Larsen, Mr Durt, Shannon Lyon, John Contreras, Brett Smiley, Cyclobe, Blue Eyed Black, Stephanie Volkmar, Howie B, Bevis Frond, Thurston Moore, Shockheaded Peters, John Terrill, Max Richter, Colin Potter, AUBE, Keiji Haino, Jeremy Reed, The Hollowings, Tom Recchion, Fursaxa, Amy Curl, Joolie Wood, Genesis P-Orridge, Suishou no Fune, Coil, Eric Lanzillotta, Scott Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Ghostigital, Charlemagne Palestine, and Matmos.
5XCD $25.00
04/04/2006
***Hot on the heels of the singles and rarities compilation Advance Base Battery Life comes Vs. Children, the fifth album proper by CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE. Vs. Children continues the trajectory of 2006's Etiquette, which showed singer/songwriter OWEN ASHWORTH straying from the strictly electronic instrumentation of his earlier recordings.
LP $18.50
08/16/2024
***REISSUED!!! “Never has electronic music sounded warmer or more human than Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Owen Ashworth uses equipment that could be considered antique (SK-1 or MT-100 models of Casio keyboards) to provide a humming, squeaking, buzzing backdrop for his tales of pained love.” "That was taken from the 2003 press release for Twinkle Echo, the third album I made under the name Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. Originally released on German electronic label Tomlab Records, Twinkle Echo has been out of print for nearly a decade, slowly building a cult audience from a new generation of DIY & indie music enthusiasts, thanks in large part to the album’s availability on streaming services. I’d previously reissued vinyl editions of two later Casiotone for the Painfully Alone albums (2006’s Etiquette & 2009’s Vs. Children) on my own label, Orindal Records, but I had some hesitation about reissuing Twinkle Echo, partially because its hyper, overdriven sound felt so far removed from the music I make now with Advance Base, & partially because this music came from a difficult period of my life that I just didn’t care to revisit. I’ve finally come around to the idea, thanks to the encouragement of some old friends & new listeners. Twinkle Echo is a rawer & more lo-fi affair than the later Casiotone releases, with its fourteen brief, abrasive electronic pop tunes performed almost exclusively on the cheap, battery-powered synthesizers that gave the project its name. The new vinyl edition of Twinkle Echo...
LP $18.50
08/16/2024
LP COLOR $20.35
08/16/2024
***The fourth album from CFTPA expands Owen Ashworth’s color palette to include a small orchestra of pianos, organs, strings, flutes, pedal steel guitars, drums, drum machines, and synths. His strongest and most cohesive work to date. Features musical and production aid from DEAD SCIENCE, DEAR NORA, PAPERCUTS, and DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE.
LP $18.50
08/16/2024
***A reissue of the band's first album from 1994 along with their debut demo from 1993. Countless words have been written about the black metal scene that flourished in Norway during the early 1990s, usually focused on the same few bands—Mayhem, Immortal, Darkthrone, etc.—that have come to be synonymous with the phrase “Norwegian Black Metal.” If those bands formed the nucleus of the scene, HADES was in tight orbit around them. After playing in AMPUTATION and IMMORTAL, guitarist JORN INGE TUNSBERG (who was also playing in OLD FUNERAL at the time) united with drummer REMI ANDERSEN to conjure a new entity known as Hades. Bored with bands more focused on speed than songwriting, the two took a multi-dimensional approach, slowing down the pace and emphasizing atmosphere and composition. Together with bassist and vocalist JANTO GARMANSLUND and second guitarist ANDREAS NAGELSETT, they recorded the three-song Alone Walkyng demo in 1993. Rather than settle for crude production, Hades recorded the demo at the legendary Grieghallen Studio, which Tunsberg knew from having previously recorded there with Amputation, and where many prominent Norwegian bands recorded their early material. Among those who ended up with a copy of the Alone Walkyng demo was JON JAMSHID, who had recently founded Full Moon Productions, one of the first black metal labels in the United States. Via handwritten letter, Jamshid expressed his desire to put out Hades’ debut as one of the first releases on the label. The band agreed, and, in 1994, following Nagelsett’s dismissal, they recruited...
CD $12.75
05/19/2023
MC $12.75
05/19/2023
2XLP $33.85
06/16/2023
***The trio along with INGRID LAUBROCK and LINA ALLEMANO.
CD $11.00
11/01/2019
We are honored to release ‘A Boy Alone’, a double LP set from Manchester electronic music pioneer Eric Random. Best known for his early recordings for New Hormones and Les Disques du Crépuscule and collaborations with Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks), Cabaret Voltaire and Nico. As an original member of The Tiller Boys with Shelley, Random injected a healthy dose of Krautrock into the dour Manchester post-punk scene in 1978/79 before going solo the following year. Random’s first 7” “Subliminal”/“23 Skidoo” was released in 1981 via Les Disques du Crépuscule and explored ominous sonic surrounds. That same year also saw the release of a second 7" single on New Hormones, “Dow Chemical Company”/ “Skin Deep”. Both tracks offered bubbling, rhythmic sound patterns, and were the first to feature other musicians that would become know as The Bedlamites. Consisting of Lynn Walton on vocals, Ian Runacres and Andy Diagram of Dislocation Dance, and bassist Wayne Worm, aka Wayne Sedgeman. Their debut 12” single “Subliminal Seduction”/“Bedlam-a-Go-Go” was released in 1982 through Plurex, mixing arid funk textures and sparse melodies. That same year the group contributed proto chill-out track “6.55” to Plurex compilation ‘Hours’ and the highly filmic track “In Cassette Conference” to the Touch cassette package ‘Feature Mist’. In 1983, Random spent several months in the Himalayas with a group of musicians from the Kulu Valley and studied non-Western instruments such as tabla. On returning to Manchester, Random convened a new group of Belamites including Walton, Sedgeman and drummer Graham Dowdall aka Dids of...
2XLP $22.25
09/07/2018
***An agitated alliance of atonal string, wind and percussion. Thick and chunky with a Black Eye and Aberratn sauce.Adelaide’s insoluble MEN WITH CHIPS submit to scanners this battered platter. Sharp implements smothered in a dry-retch resonance, shoved into corrugated tubs. Like when Jim Barnes and Don Cherry went into the landscaping racket together but it didn’t work out. “Adelaide’s Men With Chips are part sunglasses-at-night scuzz rock smart arses, part no-wave art-punk de(con)structers.”—Repressed Records. Limited edition of 400 copies.
LP $17.25
11/18/2016
***Chicago's most hated band on the world's most hated record label, what could go wrong? But don't believe what you've read in the papers, HEAVY TIMES are certainly back with their massive third album, mainlining 18 tracks in 33 minutes for maximum impact to your safely guarded danger zones, and simultaneously scoring the soundtrack to your summer of sickness. Picking up where the razored edge of Jacker left off and screaming off into the stratosphere where their heavenly guitar interplay weaves a complicated yet natural web around their unique and peerless punk sound, Heavy Times have raised the bar undoubtedly, and you'd better be ready. Recorded with COOPER CRAIN from Bitchin' Bajas/CAVE, this album jumps out of the grooves and shakes you senseless from one song style to the next, displaying a range and variety most modern punk bands wouldn't even understand, let alone be able to keep up with. Through all the dizzying highs, the sobering lows, and the creamy middles, Heavy Times are quickly mastering their form roght before our eyes and it's never been more evident as on the Fix It Alone LP, one incredible album that's a benchmark for modern punk, with all the hooks you just can't find in books.
LP $13.75
07/23/2013
CD $9.60
07/23/2013
MP3 $9.90
07/09/2013
***NAKED Aggression's March March Along is their 2nd full-length studio LP. It's their rawest most hardcore political punk rock recording and features a cool cover of Kim Wilde's "Kids In America."
LP $9.50
01/08/2001
CD $12.00
01/08/2001
Every so often an album comes along that, from the very first seconds, fills one with a state of overwhelm and wonder, knowing that one has stumbled upon something truly special. Swedish musician Petter Herbertsson has been steadily recording and releasing albums for over two decades with his group Testbild! (not to mention many other projects under various aliases), but he recorded his so-far career defining statement with Ulrika, an album of almost imperceptible beauty. Quietly released at the tail end of 2023 by Sweden’s Dilettante Productions in an edition of 199 copies, Ulrika unfolds like a flower in the morning sun, slowly opening and unveiling itself to the world. It’s hard to believe that Herbertsson plays all of the instruments on the album, as it is an especially sumptuous affair, with guitar, vibraphone, all manner of keys (including some especially lovely harpsichord), melodica, vocals and more all intertwining with each other. In someone else’s hands it could easily have come across as stiff and crowded, but here every instrument is given its proper amount of space to breathe, with an organic feeling of warmth that one just wants to sink into. Although some analogs can be made to ’70s era Robert Wyatt, Brian Wilson’s lush arrangements or Slapp Happy’s charming avant–pop, Herbertsson has done an impeccable job of distilling these influences into his own defined sound. From the production to the compositions, nothing about Ulrika feels modern, the entire affair sounding like it could have been released...
LP $29.00
07/26/2024
MP3 $9.90
07/26/2024
FLAC $11.99
07/26/2024
DiCaprio reside in a corner of atonal guitar dirge that would make X (the Australian one, not the LA one) proud. They recently self-released their first full length on Irrelevant Recordings. Obviously, it's great.
MP3 $1.98
05/11/2017
FLAC $2.99
05/11/2017
***A reissue of this 1975 private press LP originally released in an edition of 300 signed and numbered copies. Remastered from the original tapes. "Phil Lewin's homespun debut is a loner folk masterpiece; accidentally psychedelic, lit by heartbreak and timeless in its sadness and hope."—Jeff Conklin, WFMU.
LP $15.00
02/24/2017
CD $12.75
02/24/2017
***Another two shots of bilious commentary courtesy of Philadelphia's best band at the moment. The A-side is penned by Richard Charles; a litany of condescending, sneering lyrics behind the roar of what sounds like the gear shaft of a Kensington garbage truck being stripped out and blazing a path of fire down Girard Ave. You know, the kind of good timey tunage you can only light up somewhere between Mecht Mensh & Iron Cross. The flip is an interpretation of a song written by Louis Allan Reed. But Watery Love's cover eschews all manner of hip, uptown vibrato found on the original, preferring to accessorize their stud w/the leather & switchblade swagger needed in a sketchy, downtown milieu. You know, the kind of controlled lunacy you can only sniff out somewhere between John Cale & Chain Gang. Thick black vinyl pressing housed in a sweet high gloss sleeve. One time edition of 330.
7" $9.25
09/27/2011
***Refracting beatifically through realities and mirages flickering along his aural parade route, Animal Collective’s Geologist rides the high country on a hurdy gurdy of many colors. Via the mystery science of musical engagement, we take his sonic kaleidoscope of encounters into our own experience as we listen. That’s the beauty of Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?, the debut solo transmission of the heart and soul and life and times of Geologist.
2XLP $35.25
01/30/2026
Using an array of acoustic and electronic instruments alongside field recordings, Chantal Michelle conducts an anxious ensemble of sounds, inviting comparison to Lamin Fofana or Rachika Nayar. Her third solo album, 'Broken to Echoes' is Chantal Michelle's attempt to show how beauty can exist even as reality itself seems to disintegrate. She figures this out by offsetting traditionally pretty elements like the soaring choral vocals on opening track 'Departure of Light' with more unsettling instrumentation. 'Breathing Water' appears to grow from feedback and white noise, and vocals from Eliana Glass here sit awkwardly in the empty space, joined eventually by doomy strings and cavernous reverb. On 'Celestia', Chantal matches black metal-adjacent nursery rhyme synths with oscillating rainfall and distant woodwind blasts, playing up the album's theatricality. But she's keen not to let anything get too distracting - with any darkness there's usually light, and vice versa. 'Blue in Blue' is as refreshing as a fairy fountain in a Zelda game, and while 'Opening' is as dark as anything we've heard from Lustmord recently, the album's title track is comparatively sunny.
MP3 $9.90
04/14/2023
FLAC $11.99
04/14/2023
***This compilation album compiles FALSE CONFESSION's 18 track 1983 demo along with their collectable 1984 Mystic Records 7” EP. False Confession is an amazing dark punk band from Oxnard, California. The band is still playing shows, putting out records and touring.
LP $24.45
11/11/2022
***This playfully titled release features David Javelosa (on synth and vocals) along with Meg Brazill (on bass and vocals) plus drummer Todd “Rosa” Rosencrans. Side One features five studio tracks, none of which were included on the band’s 1981 Posh Boy LP, Life After Breakfast. Three of these tracks were recorded in ‘82; there’s no information regarding the provenance of the other two songs. The records’ second side collects five live recordings, capturing Los Microwaves onstage in New York City (The Peppermint Lounge) and Boston as well as at San Francisco’s own I-Beam, a venue that often played host to the band. Those tracks date form roughly the same ear, 1980-83. Sonically the songs variously recall Blondie, Flying Lizards, Gang of Four and a far less dour Human League. Importantly, the band rocks, even when it’s employing a spare drum kit, solid but elemental bass, and monophonic analog synthesizers. The stripped down aesthetics of the group – necessitated by its minimalist instrumental approach – are nonetheless thrilling. Even if you weren’t there in 1980, this’ll take you back.
LP $23.95
12/24/2021
***Nearly four years after delivering a handful of demos along with a live tape then seemingly dropping off the radar release wise, Bloomington's LAFFING GAS swing back at any and all credulous hardcore punk enthusiasts who might have forgotten about them or thought they'd just run their course and faded into obscurity as so many tend to do. It's a Beautiful Day in the Gulch showcases 10 blazing tracks of classic Midwestern hardcore punk, the vibe of which is more in debt to the revolutionary aural offerings of the early Touch and Go and/or Version Sound labels or even Kick N' Punch Records as a slightly more modern reference than what the region has become synonymous with in more recent times. Each record comes in a stunning glossy jacket featuring art and layout by the band's guitarist KORA PUCKETT.
LP $17.75
11/05/2021
***Vinyl repress of the 1992 “In Lucescitae Tristis Hiei” demo along with a rehearsal recording from 1994. 1990s black metal with an epic sound not dissimilar to Darkthrone, but drawing inspiration from ancient, traditional Mayan culture.
LP $19.95
08/13/2021
***Long time friends from LOOK BACK AND LAUGH (along with TALK IS POISON, NEEDLES, LIVING EYES, DEAD AND GONE, and others) have a new band! We are stoked to present the vinyl debut of MUTILATED TONGUE. 10 fast well crafted hardcore tracks played to the brink by these Oakland hc/punk veterans. Very stoked on this album! "Mutilated Tongue was formed in the summer of 2017, with the goal to play music reflecting our shared appreciation of the international, underground and hardcore-punk community of the '80s right up to now. All three members played together in Look Back And Laugh in the early 2000s. We've got BRIAN on guitar and vocals, TOBIA on bass and MOSES on drums. The band's main influences orbit around groups like So Much Hate, Youth Of Today, Raw Power and the FU's. Like most everyone else, we try to offer our own sound, but our music represents a lifetime of listening to DIY hardcore/punk and it's reflected without shame. We watch, listen and learn from the best!!! We are out to have a good time playing the music that we love and continuing with the intensity and spirit of the bands who laid the groundwork."
LP $17.75
05/31/2019
The creatures known as Mondo Drag hailed from deep along the banks of the wild Mississippi River where they created ominous, spiritual, savage psychedelic revival sounds. Summoned to the edge of the Earth, they journeyed west, collecting new sounds reminiscent of desert scapes, acid dreams, all-night prog vinyl spinning and a dark galaxy of protometal swirls, exalting the band unto new, wickedly brilliant horizons. Now settled in the deep realms of Oakland, the ensemble continues to create cosmically proportioned, churning jams evocative of a rainbow of obvious inspirations but also numinous new sounds emerging from the organ - heavy riffs. If you love Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, Can, Atomic Rooster, Hawkwind, Budgie, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple ,Italian prog, Krautrock in general, and heavy space-outs....get into Mondo Drag. They'll knock your socks off, let your hair down and take you on a mind's eye exploration you won't soon forget. Though they exude love for the spiraling tapestry of heavy psychedelia of the past, they are on a rock and roll mission all their own: an unearthed prog band, futuristic in their time capsule, rocketing forward through the depths, gathering the sounds of space itself.
LP $19.75
07/17/2015
CD $12.00
07/17/2015
***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
Andre Herman Dune, along with his brother David, is one of the two singer-songwriters of Herman Dune. Performing together for over ten years, the Swedish duo have recorded for a number of labels (Shrimper, Track & Field, Prohibited, Smoking Gun) and released a wealth of solo and collaborative recordings. Andre has self-released a few limited edition CDRs but Taeglich Brot is his first proper solo release. Recorded in Berlin over the course of a week, the album mines the same conversational, stripped-down folk of Herman Dune with a dozen songs that veer from four-piece pop to solo, acoustic torch songs. Andre will be touring throughout 2007 in support of Taglich Brot and with Herman Dune.
CD $12.00
10/10/2006
MP3 $0.00
10/10/2006
***YUKMOUTH is a member of the platinum-selling rap duo LUNIZ (along with NUMSKULL). Yuk went on to record solo albums for J-Prince’s Rap-A-Lot label, releasing three full-lengths, each selling at least 65,000 with little or no airplay. Now after cutting ties with his long time label, Yuk delivers his first album on his own Smoke-A-Lot imprint.
CD $14.00
03/03/2008
***Walnut Brain, the duo of Alina Josan and Steve Heise, mess around with a custom-made diddley bow and an electric guitar to make decidedly earthbound sounds that reach for the clouds or the stars or whatever’s out there. A diddley bow is an instrument whose single string, when struck and bowed by a sensitive player, emits sounds that both scrape and sing. As we all know, an electric guitar is a juiced up instrument capable of producing some of the most exciting sounds imaginable. In the intuitive hands of Walnut Brain, these instruments weave together to oscillating rhythms and fleeting melodies.Recorded entirely on location in only the most inspiring cabins, kitchens, and basements that this tri-state area has to offer, Weird Wire is an experience of pulses and textures swiped from the ether and committed to magnetic tape.
MC $12.00
08/15/2025
MP3 $7.99
08/15/2025
FLAC $8.99
08/15/2025
***The Minneapolis Uranium Club Band, along with Static Shock Records and the newly contracted Anti Fade Records, are proud to present “Infants Under the Bulb”; The Uranium Club’s fourth album and first full length since 2018’s "The Cosmo Cleaners". Precisely timed ahead of the band’s debut tour of Australia commencing March 19, Infants Under the Bulb will light up stores across the globe from March 1st. Recorded in Minneapolis over the course of 2023 by long time collaborator Grant Richardson and just as rampant and agitated as ever, The Uranium Club once again win their dear listeners over with eccentrically wild guitar parts, revolving voices, elastic-tight drums and the addition of their very own Saints-styled horn section. Lyrically, Under the Bulb opens up the history books of unsolved mysteries - unidentified, unsolved, unanswered subjects of suspicious acts or individuals across the last century. Who, what, when and where… but mostly, why? Ignorant humanity of earth orbits the sun once again. The Somerton Man, Bergmann, Bauby, Denton, phone phreakers, and just what is lurking behind the cosmic organ of The Wall? As always, the artwork was handled in-house by the Club and ambitious as ever. The spectacular cover shot captures a carefully coordinated event orchestrated by the Club to photograph a crowd of the local volunteers wearing ponchos standing together in an open field to make the shape of a giant spiral. The spiral pictured is 120 feet (36.5 meters) wide, photographed by drone, and was plotted out on the ground...
LP $21.35
08/19/2024
***The PNV Records compilation features the tracks from their rare 1984 7" vinyl EP along with tracks previously released on compilations and rare archival tracks. Ingron Hutlos were a short lived Swedish Hardcore band from Karlshamn, who’s members were also in Tristess and Nyx Negativ. Another slice of fast and furious noisy Swedish Hardcore.
LP $24.45
03/22/2024
Peter Zummo, known for his work alongside Arthur Russell shares a new sonic exploration titled Deep Drive 2+, a revisit of his 2014 album Deep Drive. The record exudes a magisterial air of calm and also boasts what can be described as an elemental quality. Diving deep and soaring high, Deep Drive 2+ can float equally effectively through air and water. This new take on the Deep Drive material feels utterly different. One which—to use a nautical metaphor—finds itself in balmier waters and much more pleasingly adrift from its moorings. The album showcases the talents of Peter Broderick (violin, drums, synthesizer), Joe Carvell (acoustic and electric bass), Mabe Fratti (cello) and Sebastian Rojas (synthesizer and electric organ).
LP $28.00
03/08/2024
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! Features the legend Mannie Fresh (alongside Bonka and Chedda) talking about 1994 when New Orleans rap was just getting primed to take over the world and "Out Here" features L.G. and Chels alongside Anderson.Paak, who needs no introduction!
7" $9.75
02/09/2024
***This PNV LP compiles their long out print and rare 1982 7” EP “Die Laughing” along with their 1981 sessions. Sin 34 were a popular early first wave Los Angeles Punk Hardcore known for their fast, defiant angry satire filled sound. Fronted by powerhouse female vocalist Julie Lanfeld and Sin 34 also featured famed indie film maker Dave Markey on drums. Dave is best known for the popular award winning 1991 tour film ‘The Year That Punk Broke’ that chronicled tours by Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr and others.
LP $24.45
04/22/2022
The Silvertones were steeped in the grand tradition of Jamaican vocal trios along with other greats such as The Heptones, The Abyssinians and The Kingstonians. Formed in 1964 by Delroy Denton, Keith Coley and Gilmore Grant, the group recorded under a variety of names in the ska and rocksteady era for Duke Reid’s Treasure Isle and Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One, before hooking up with producer Lee “Scratch” Perry. Originally released in 1973, The Silvertones’ debut Silver Bullets was recorded at Perry’s Black Ark studio with vocal tracks captured at King Tubby’s Dromilly Avenue studio in a marathon, all-night session. While firmly planted in roots reggae, Silver Bullets’ dense harmonies and relaxed vibe harken back to rocksteady. The album marks an interesting point in Jamaican music where the past and the future are visible in the grooves of a single LP—from classic rocksteady-tinged love songs like “That’s When It Hurts” and “Rock Me In Your Soul” to the Rasta anthem “Rejoice Jah Jah Children.” Antarctica Starts Here presents the first widely available domestic release of Silver Bullets. This reissue is part of an archival series that focuses on Trojan’s essential ’60s and ’70s catalogue. Liner notes by JR Gonne.
LP $22.00
04/01/2022
***The first duo album from Vancouver-based guitarist & oud player Gordon Grdina alongside legendary drummer Jim Black! This isn't the first meeting of course, as Grdina & Black have spent time together touring and recording with Grdina's Nomad Trio (also featuring Matt Mitchell), but Martian Kitties is a much looser and in some ways more exciting affair than their previously released recordings together. Grdina has made a name for himself as an inventive composer beyond just his incredible playing skills, but Martian Kitties finds both Grdina and Black having fun in a freely improvised setting! Comprised of 13 tracks that range from shorter vingettes to longer meditations, Grdina and Black let it fly—from the opening fire of "Martian Kitties" through lopping rhythms of "Short Scale" through the ending beauty in the hymn-like "Bear Handler." Grdina & Black stretch their skills about as far as they can. You can truly hear them having fun, like a throwback to a classic "blowing" session, allowing them to explore more possibilities—the gentle droning of "Black Lodge" (which I truly hope is a Twin Peaks reference since it sounds straight from the show), and the electronics laden "Fuzzy Goats." Martian Kitties might not be a landmark or [insert hyperbolic statement here] type album, but it sure is a helluva lot of fun and grows upon repeated listens. Grdina has continued to make his mark as a guitarist and Black here (now 3 decades into his career) makes us all wonder why he doesn't get more...
CD $11.00
08/20/2021
MP3 $9.90
08/20/2021
FLAC $11.99
08/20/2021
***Locked Down And Stripped Back includes twelve home recordings of WEDDING PRESENT favorites along with two previously unreleased songs: ‘You’re Just A Habit That I’m Trying To Break’ and ‘We Should Be Together’. The latter was originally recorded—but never released—by Britpop favorites, SLEEPER. With each band member recording and filming their parts at home due to lockdown restrictions, the recording process was far from easy, but the end result is, as always, typically satisfying. From the swagger of ‘A Million Miles’ (George Best, 1987) and ‘California’ (Hit Parade, 1992), to the joyous, previously unreleased ‘We Should Be Together’—featuring a special guest appearance from Sleeper singer LOUISE WENER—Locked Down And Stripped Back is an unexpected treat. Elsewhere, a re-working of ‘You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends'—originally released as a single in 1986—and a truly epic version of ‘Crawl’ (3 Songs EP, 1990), despite their ‘stripped back’ delivery, still pack a proverbial punch, while ‘You’re Just A Habit That I’m Trying to Break’—a new song co-written with new guitarist JON STEWART—is classic Wedding Present. Furthermore, bassist MELANIE HOWARD takes over vocal duties on the sumptuous ‘Sports Car’ (Mini, 1995), while none of DAVID GEDGE's famous sardonic wit is lost on the majestic ‘My Favourite Dress’ (George Best, 1987).
LP $19.85
03/19/2021
With ties to techno and a penchant for earth-rumbling post-punk—along with a staunch willingness to stop rape culture, privilege and patriarchy in its tracks—there’s no denying that Vancouver trio lié [pronounced “lee-ey” and lower-case preferred] are an integral force in the global underground. Since forming in 2013, they’ve only grown louder, brasher and more intense as they’ve developed their sound across numerous releases and a near endless stream of international DIY tours. That momentum has culminated in You Want It Real, an eight-song album. This fourth album expands on previous themes with an assured intensity and plenty of world-weary lyrics. Sonically, lié’s recordings have unlocked the full-bore wall of sound that’s present in their live shows. That’s due in part to the work of legendary punk producer Jesse Gander (White Lung, Japandroids), who has helped unlock a further disharmony of melody and feedback in the band’s relentless aggression. While the band has previously made a name for eschewing vagaries in favor of direct confrontation in their lyrics, this album leaves plenty open to interpretation. As guitarist and vocalist Ashlee Luk explains, the goal was to let some musical and metaphorical moments stand on their own. “Part of the shift away from the direct lyrics of previous albums is also in part to encourage the listener, (and the interviewer) to focus on the music as well, not just the lyrics,” Luk says. Musically, the sheer thrill of the album is the trio’s ability to build enormous and complex compositions within the...
LP $19.00
02/28/2020
CD $13.00
02/28/2020
MP3 $7.92
02/28/2020
FLAC $8.99
02/28/2020
***Old English power electronics dealing with Middle Ages warfare and subsequent exile of the King alongside the mythological poetry of Beowulf and, of course, the total and complete failure of modern-day society. Unpretentious in its visceral execution of high-pressure bass noise upholding doomsaying vocals from the streets recoiled at passersby as they do their best to move on quickly to safety. English Channel electronics. Edition of 250.
LP $25.85
01/24/2020
***This is still hard to even fathom, let alone anywhere near realistic, but HoZac Archival Records is proud to present a little piece of history for you here, which, if you are still unexposed, will knock your "punk clock" back a few years, resetting your concept of what punk evolved from, where punk germinated from, and how unhinged the Midwest (Ohio in particular) was in comparison to the East & West Coasts in the days before the Ramones & Sex Pistols records littered the land. The Cleveland-based (and formerly Columbus) ELECTRIC EELS were unrivaled in terms of sonic mayhem for 1974/1975, especially for the Midwest, where extremities in music were very much unwelcome and were not given the opportunities that the art scenes of the coasts got to foster. Despite the fact that this band was the starting point for not only NICK NOX, later of THE CRAMPS, it must be understood that this was not composed, blues-based Stooges-style grunt, gorgeous VU-type noise, glammy Alice Cooper-style grime, or high-frequency bombast like the MC5. This was an entirely new species emerging from the primordial ooze of the fertile crescent of a cesspool that birthed the 70s version of punk as we know it, this was true madness captured on tape, catchy and infectious insanity flowing through the air that never, EVER had a chance during it's time, and this is one of the reasons the eels have such creedence. It's no surprise that it wasn't until worldwide punk was in full...
7" $7.75
03/04/2014
MP3 $1.98
02/11/2014
FLAC $2.99
02/11/2014
***"NAKED RAYGUN was a huge inspiration for me. Along with Fugazi and Leatherface, they helped create the bedrock that defines the ‘Gainesville sound.’ As much as I discredit the root idea that such a sound even exists or is quantifiable to such a finite point, I will at least concede that there are certain key influences for many a young (at heart) local miscreant. The fact that twenty-one years after NR played a legion hall in Gainesville, we are putting out a record that not only stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the best NR album, but perhaps surpasses, well, this blows me away. I have a hard time finding words that express how much (JEFF) PEZZATI’s voice shakes me to the core. Crafting the music and bringing the workhorse/powerhouse ethic are JEFF DEAN, MIKE SOUCY, and PETE MITTLER, who have truly risen to the occasion. They have been in countless Chicago bands, and continue to split their time with several noteworthy, exceptional bands, including THE METHADONES and FOUR STAR ALARM. Energy. Focus. Intensity. As if it could get any better, the album was recorded by J. ROBBINS, who also makes appearances on various songs. He really brought out the best in the band and songs, amplifying and directing, especially in the vocal harmonies and melodies. Pezzati turned in vocals on the last PAINT IT BLACK, and DAN YEMIN returns the favor here. BOB NANNA also lends his inimitable pipes to the mix."—Var (No Idea). Pressed on colored vinyl. Includes a download code....
LP $16.00
10/20/2009
CD $13.00
10/20/2009
In advance of the forthcoming double-CD compilation of Vashti's early (pre-'Just Another Diamond Day') recordings from 1964 - 1967, DiCristina is issuing a limited pressing of 1000 copies of this historic 7” single. Originally released way back in 1965 on the Decca label (as just 'Vashti', no Bunyan), 'Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind' was actually the young London-based singer's debut record.Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song was handed to Vashti by Rolling Stones manager / guru Andrew Loog Oldham, who had recently discovered her via an industry friend. Vashti was put in the studio to record the song with the backing of a full orchestra. The track was backed by her own beautiful song, 'I Want To Be Alone' on the B-side and released as a 7” single in May 1965.Despite a whirlwind of promotion around the release and some very positive reviews, the single flopped and Vashti subsequently left the Decca label to pursue more pared-down ambitions, recording a further single ('Train Song' / 'Love Song') for Columbia in 1966, before returning again to Andrew Oldham and the independent Immediate label he had just started. There she recorded three more singles ('Winter Is Blue' / 'Coldest Night Of The Year' / 'I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind') between 1966 - 1967, yet each of these remained infuriatingly unreleased, leading to Vashti's disenchantment with the music industry and disappearance for the Isle of Skye and a colourful if obscure...
7" $5.50
10/02/2007
MP3 $1.98
10/02/2007
Damon & Naomi produced their third album in 1998, alone in their home studio — a personal, almost private recording, emotional and spare."Playback Singers comes from the soft side of the Velvet Underground, from the hushed folk of the late Nick Drake. Soft, sad, gently stirring." — Boston Globe
MP3 $8.91
04/07/1999
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Burying '60s sing-alongs and dance crazes beneath waves of reverb and giddy thud, Ty Segall has carved out his own shelf in the San Francisco neo-psych garage alongside local compatriots and collaborators Sic Alps and Thee Oh Sees. After shattering the Bay Area underground as a frantic one-man band that was devoured by the local press, Segall has now given up the solo act for a three-piece group that destroys sonic and melodic boundaries with manic glee. This new live setup is a better reflection of his studio work. As an exploration of the space between Cro-Magnon fuzz and atmospheric acoustic psych, Lemons is the natural next step after his celebrated self-titled 2008 debut on Castle Face. "Look out Jay Reatard, this Bay Area one-man band has even scuzzier static in his garage." --SPIN
LP $17.50
07/28/2009
CD $12.00
07/14/2009
This double-disc features a brand new album from Philadelphia guitarist Jack Rose along with his highly acclaimed and out-of-print self-titled record (originally a limited release on the Archive Recordings label). On Dr. Ragtime & Pals, Rose duets with Glenn Jones, Micah Smaldone, Mike Gangloff, Harmonica Dan, and Sean Bowles. This is a major work from a big player in the modern American Primitive world, often compared to the likes of John Fahey.
2XCD $16.00
04/22/2008
MP3 $14.99
04/22/2008
***The latest from Connecticut's leading otherworldly sound explorers LANDING (who along with Adam Forkner of Yume Bitsu make up the groups SURFACE OF ECEON). Adding vocals and a stronger sense of songwriting to their already mastered long ambient instrumentals, the band delivers some beautiful drones, delicate melodies, and wonderful moments.
CD $9.50
05/21/2002
MP3 $7.92
05/21/2002
***Seattle's drunk-roaring, sing-along Irish punks serve up a collection of cheers-to-you anthems just before falling flat on their faces and passing out for the night. Includes members of GITS, CHRISTDRIVER, SUBVERT, and ALCOHOL FUNNYCAR, as well as some fiddle and accordion playing. Aye.
CD $9.50
10/10/2000
***The second offering from this DC-based band featuring JUSTIN MOYER of EL GUAPO along with former VERTEBRATES members MIKE ANDRE and BEE ELVY. ANTELOPE play catchy and mesmerizing riffs that use the melody vs. repetition equation to produce tightly crafted gems. Two songs.
CD $4.50
02/17/2004
***Advance Base's Owen Ashworth (Casiotone For The Painfully Alone) sings stone cold country classics by K.T. Oslin, Lucinda Williams, Nanci Griffith, Wednesday, Iris DeMent, John Prine, Friendship & Gia Margaret over home-recorded karaoke synthesizer arrangements."Aside from playing Advance Base shows, the form of musical expression I’ve most desperately missed during our current era of social isolation is singing karaoke. I have a great affection for the tiny communities that come together in any dive bar or pizzeria willing to invest in a modest PA & karaoke license, united by a common compulsion to earnestly sing their favorite pop songs in front of friends & strangers, accompanied by the artifice of prerecorded electronic instrumental arrangement. Wall of Tears & Other Songs I Didn’t Write is my ode to karaoke bars & karaoke singers. Consider it an album-length karaoke performance by me, Owen Ashworth.The ten songs on this album were written by some of my very favorite songwriters, including a few I’m lucky enough to call friends. The original recordings of these songs have been constant companions in recent years, accompanying me on late night walks & aimless drives around Chicago & its suburbs. They have all made me cry at various points as I imagined how good it would feel to sing them at karaoke."
LP $20.50
08/01/2025
***REISSUED!!! The third hard-hitting breaks album from 2 FRESH—who along with DJ QUEST makes up the powerful MISSION CARTEL crew. Seventeen stellar cuts of superior-grade, soul breaks, loops, cuts, effects, and bangin' beats.
LP $15.50
12/13/2024
Drawn to the megaliths, ruins and ancient sites mapped out along the British and European mainland’s geographical and psychic landscapes, the folklore and apocrypha forever resurfacing as portals from a rational world, Triptych is a meditation forged from traces and residues, and an hallucinatory recollection of artists who have tapped into that enduring otherworldliness embedded within us all. It’s a dream diary narrating a passage through Summer Isle where Flying Saucer Attack are wafting out of a window, a distant Fairport Convention are being remixed by dub master Adrian Sherwood, celestial scanners Tangerine Dream are trying to drown out Bert Jansch and Hawkwind are playing Steeleye Span covers, all prised out of time yet bound to its singularity. Woven together from home studio recordings that span two decades, and with some notable guest appearances including; The Bug, Douglas Leal of Deafkids, Wayne Adams of Petbrick, Dave French of Yob and Sanford Parker, this final part of the Harvestman Triptych seeks once again for a lost world, with the voice of poet Ezra Pound extolling the virtues of "gather[ing] from the air a live tradition". Elsewhere, "Herne's Oak" provides seismic bass waves that physically halt the track in its steps - giant footfalls as Herne's antlers themselves are dragged along a corridor. Another curious and mysterious piece of British folklore brought to life by Harvestman. If Triptych is a multi- and extra-sensory experience, it extends to the remarkable glyph-style artwork of Henry Hablak, a map of correspondences from a long-forgotten ancient and advanced civilization. As...
CD $13.00
10/17/2024
LP $22.00
11/15/2024
MP3 $7.99
10/17/2024
FLAC $8.99
10/17/2024
***The PNV Records compilation collects all the 7" vinyl tracks from legendary early '80s Huntington Beach punks HATED along with rare previously unreleased demo tracks from 1979. The Hated were an amazing early Huntington punk band that featured future TSOL front man Joe Wood. First band authorized reissue of the 7"s and demos, includes a booklet of archival material
LP $24.45
03/22/2024
***KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW unleash another slammer. Includes the tracks “Animal Party” and “God of Raisins,” along with a 15-page coloring book with art/design by MATHIEU TRUDEL.
7W/BK $9.25
01/12/2009
***Pink Steel were a staple of the Victoria BC music scene 1979-83, playing alongside the Infamous Scientists, Neos, Nomeansno and more. Their sound was powerful, earnest and original punk rock unlike other groups — they had seven members and showed great dexterity with varied compositions. This carefully remastered mega-long EP contains all 6 songs from their two 7”s reissued for the first time since 1981. Includes a generous 16 page booklet full of photos and their story all housed in a deluxe close pocket sleeve.
7" $13.75
04/14/2023
***"Formed in 1991 and hailing from Houston, Imprecation are among the few bands from that era—along with such notable acts as Absu and Divine Eve—that were responsible for securing the legacy of death metal in Texas. The band began with guitarist Phil Westmoreland and drummer Ruben Elizondo, departed from a band called Dark Reign to pursue a different sound with a new project. Originally called Undertaker, the band underwent several lineup and stylistic changes before it coalesced into Imprecation with the addition of bassist Mark Beecher, guitarist Victor Fernandez, and vocalist Dave Herrera. Influenced by revered death metal acts like Entombed, Morbid Angel, and Immolation, as well as black metal pioneers Beherit, Blasphemy, and Profanatica, Imprecation enshrouded their tightly wound, intricately structured songs within a dense and opaque atmosphere. Like many of their peers in the underground scene at the time, there was a darker dimension to their style of death metal, channeling malefic forces and conjuring hellish visions."—J. Campbell. Theurgia Goetia Summa compiles the band's demos recorded between 1992 and 1994, along with four tracks from 2012.
LP $24.45
03/10/2023
CD $12.75
06/16/2023
PICLP $30.45
06/16/2023
***Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two features home recordings of Wedding Present and Cinerama classics, along with a previously unreleased song: ‘That Would Only Happen In A Movie.’ There is a bevy of guest stars on the album. Jon Stewart (of Platinum-album-selling Sleeper fame) reprises his new role as Wedding Present guitarist but is joined here by some Wedding Present members of old. Peter Solowka, from the band’s first line-up appears on ‘Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm’ playing his second instrument, the accordion, while Hit Parade guitarist Paul Dorrington contributes to a re-working of the Top 30 single ‘Blue Eyes.’ Long-time Wedding Present and Cinerama bass player Terry de Castro returns to infuse the album with her own unique style, while current Wedding Present bass player Melanie Howard takes over the lead vocal duties on a beautiful version of ‘At The Edge Of The Sea.’ Last, but certainly not least, Amelia Fletcher—backing vocalist on George Best and Bizarro—also returns to the party! As on the first volume, each musician recorded and filmed their parts at home and, as before, it is fascinating to see how stripped-back arrangements bring out different aspects of these brilliant songs.
LP $19.95
07/29/2022
***"How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars is an introspective record of songs which were written alongside those that appeared on Ignorance. It is intended not to be a follow up, but to be a companion piece, a piece of reflection and quiet, meant to hold stillness in the aftermath. It was recorded live, as a performance; an improvisation, with a group of Toronto jazz musicians. I imagined it as a record of ballads; simple, pure, almost naive, but speaking to many of the same realities as Ignorance does. I see the two albums as two halves of the same coin; the moon and sun, a photograph and a photonegative." Pressed on gold vinyl.
LP $26.95
03/04/2022
Dwyer, John, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone, Marcos Rodriguez, Ben Boye, Joce Soubiran, Laena Myers-Ionita, & Andres Renteria
Moon-Drenched
Castle Face
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
CD $12.00
10/01/2021
LP COLOR $19.75
01/13/2023
MP3 $8.99
09/10/2021
FLAC $9.90
05/28/2021
“When new projects are discussed, I sometimes hear a disclaimer along the lines of, ‘this band isn’t reinventing the wheel,’ to which I want to know what’s everyone’s so apologetic about. The wheel was a pretty good invention—good luck getting anywhere without one. So let’s consider a redefinition, instead. Los Angeles based quintet Richard Rose may or may not feature prominent players from bands including but not limited to Ex-Cult, GØGGS, OBN III’s, Snooty Garbagemen, Bad Sports, Hooveriii and Stress Group…but as much as said bands were amongst the best and brightest on offer in Memphis, Houston and Austin, this new amalgamation is a bolder proposition. “Without question, there’s echoes of their past work—the malevolent vocal presence of Laurence Richard and guitar virtuosity of Thomas Rose in particular—but Richard Rose’s first full-length thoroughly ups the ante on the band’s 2019 debut In The Red EP. The wheels in question have plowed thtough the respective discographies of Michigan / Australian bands you know and love, sure, but these guys have found their own voice in a shockingly brief matter of time. Simply put, they’ve fashioned an instant rock classic…there might be a handful of bands in America with this kind of confidence, but in most other instances it’s unwarranted. They don’t possess Richard Rose’s intellect, instrumental prowess, musical range or sense of purpose. “Finally, I will not insult your intelligence by claiming Richard Rose scale these lofty heights without artifice. That they insist on performing under dubious pseudonyms (Laurence...
LP $17.50
11/27/2020
MP3 $6.93
11/13/2020
FLAC $7.99
11/13/2020
Rare live & unreleased tracks from 1979 by the legendary Vertical Slit, passed along from Jim Shepard (to Tom Lax) in 1998. Housed in silkscreened jackets with insert.
LP $22.00
10/30/2020
MP3 $9.90
06/26/2020
FLAC $11.99
06/26/2020
***BACK IN PRINT!!! "The 1980 release of Catholic Boy, along with the re-publication of his cult-classic book The Basketball Diaries, shot Jim and his band into the international spotlight. Catholic Boy, named the second-most-popular album of 1980 by BAM, is now considered one of the last great punk albums. Jim appeared with his band on the variety program Fridays, he was interviewed by Tom Snyder, and he was featured on the MTV series The Roots of Rock, hosted by Lou Reed. Cover stories appeared in Newsweek, New York, Creem, Interview, Melody Maker, Stereo Review, Rolling Stone, Variety, and Penthouse. Playboy even printed a cartoon in which the punchline was, "Ever since the advent of Jim Carroll, 'I'm a Catholic junkie poet' seems hipper than 'What's your sign.'" Edition of 500 copies.
LP $26.95
11/15/2019
***"With the passage of two years since the release of their demo, along with a hefty helping of gigs under their belts, Mid-Atlantic powerhouse WITCHTRIAL have at long last bestowed upon us all the absolutely thunderous offering that is their self titled 12" EP. Drawing equally on the cult sounds of mid-'80s international hardcore punk and the early days of underground extreme metal, WITCHTRIAL has made it their duty to remind us that there'd be no Hellhammer without Discharge and no Bathory without GBH. This slab features 6 brand new cuts of the driving metalpunk madness that many a maniac has embraced since the group's inception. Recorded by CARSON COX and mixed & mastered by WILL KILLINGSWORTH ensuring a sonic assault that is unmatched. Each record comes in a jacket emblazoned with a dazzling layout designed by REUBEN STOREY."
12" $15.50
06/07/2019
***A collection of the three Pneuma Hagion demos in the “Trinity” series, along with the four tracks from the “Rituals of Extinction” EP. For fans of abyssal, cavernous death metal in the style of Incantation and Immolation.
LP $19.95
05/03/2019
***Features the tracks from both TWISTED WIRES 12-inch EPS—One Night At The Raw Deal and Struck Twice—along with bonus B-sides.
CD $6.00
08/07/2017
Malmö multi-instrumentalist Mattias Lagerkvist spent time in short-lived neo-Harmonia trio Cosmic Letters (alongside Martin Herterich of Sand Circles) but since 2012 his primary focus has been swirling, long-form tape delay odysseys issued under the name Ekolali. Previous releases have explored minimalist solarium drone (Vår Värld I Fossil, via Skeppet’s Kosmisk Vag imprint) and tropical kraut psychedelia (Tropisk Hägring) but Igor is his first inspired by, and centered on, guitar. A single 40-minute piece, the track flowers from ghostly electric haze into a glowing wormhole of looped hand-drums, phasing textures, and Space Echo-soaked riff abstractions, before receding to blank, haunted gauze for a full five minutes, only to gradually return for a final swooping arc of percussive kosmische freefall. In scope, depth, and functional hypnosis, the recording stands apart and above his prior creations, hinting at unknown pleasures in future days. The title “comes from the name me and my girlfriend gave a limping hooded crow; he lived in the parks of central Malmö, and we spent last summer feeding him.” Artwork designed by Britt Brown. Mastered by Alex Nagle.
MC $6.75
10/28/2016
MP3 $5.99
10/28/2016
FLAC $6.99
10/28/2016
You may remember Teddy Rankin-Parker (cello/electronics) & Daniel Pearce (drums) as 1/2 of Broken Trap Ensemble (alongside Aram Shelton & Kristina Dutton).
MP3 $7.99
07/22/2016
FLAC $8.99
07/22/2016
***No matter who he's on stage or recording with at the moment, PAUL CAPORINO alone has always been M.O.T.O., aka MASTERS OF THE OBVIOUS. He formed the band in 1981 in New Orleans and has been playing an infectious blend of garage, '70s punk and Brill Building worthy pop ever since. M.O.T.O. released more than fifteen cassette albums between 1985 and 1999. Virtually all were fuzzy 4-track recordings with Paul layering guitar, bass and vocals over a crude drum machine. The lyrics are filled with dick jokes, love themes and smart-assed social commentary. The music is lo-fi, hook-laden pop. Motoerectus was released in very limited quantities in 1987. This album represents some of M.O.T.O.'s last 4-track recordings before relocating to Boston. Although it's still showing much of the New Orleans / early years goofiness, there are a handful of tracks hinting at the slightly more serious pop sensibilities to come with M.O.T.O.'s '90s and beyond releases. Remastered for vinyl by producer GARRETT HAMMOND from the original tapes for maximum fuzziness. Edition of 500 copies.
LP $14.25
02/05/2016
***No matter who he's on stage or recording with at the moment, PAUL CAPORINO alone has always been M.O.T.O., aka MASTERS OF THE OBVIOUS. He formed the band in 1981 in New Orleans and has been playing an infectious blend of garage, '70s punk and Brill Building worthy pop ever since. M.O.T.O. released more than fifteen cassette albums between 1985 and 1999. Virtually all were fuzzy 4-track recordings with Paul layering guitar, bass and vocals over a crude drum machine. The lyrics are filled with dick jokes, love themes and smart-assed social commentary. The music is lo-fi, hook-laden pop. Ampeg Stud was released in 1995 and was M.O.T.O.'s last 4-track cassette-only album. Paul assembled a top-notch band while in Chicago, and most songs from Ampeg Stud would become longtime fan favorites and set staples. It almost plays like the demos for a greatest hits collection Remastered for vinyl by producer GARRETT HAMMOND from the original tapes for maximum fuzziness. Edition of 500 copies.
LP $14.25
02/05/2016
Pittsburgh tech-metal hactivists Creation Is Crucifixion emulate Lazarus with a double-LP collecting their last recordings along with an impressive live set. The “final” recording by the band’s last active lineup, the long-rumored nine-minute opus “Antenna Builder” brilliantly merges their heavy technical metal along with the noise passages for which they are reknowned. The lineup’s similarly oppressive Rerecorded Splits tracks, some of the highest-fidelity recordings from the band’s extensive output, fleshes out the first disc in this gatefold double-LP package. Accompanying the studio material is a live LP from a classic set recorded on the last Creation Is Crucifixion European tour, captured live in Geneva during May of the millennial year. These fifteen-year-old recordings showcase tracks from across the band’s catalog, with a higher clarity than some of their raw studio recordings. Specifically mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin, the Antenna Builder + Rerecorded Splits / Live in Geneva 2xLP comes housed in a stark black-and-white gatefold jacket with gold ink overlaid. A digital download of the full release is included.
2XLP $24.00
03/11/2016
MP3 $9.90
03/11/2016
FLAC $11.99
03/11/2016
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Expertly archived compilation (asssembled by LA's Permanent Records along with Riding Easy) explores the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner lost rock tracks from the past 30 years. Features blowouts from SNOW, TOUR, ZEBRA, BOB GOODSITE, RAW MEAT, PUNCH, BACCHUS, LENNY DRAKE, THE TODD, and JOSEFUS.
LP $24.00
12/18/2015
CD $12.00
11/10/2015
CD $12.00
11/10/2015
LP $19.75
12/18/2015
***Repress of Medical’s 2014 reissue of the long out of print and crucial LP Australia’s Severed Heads (alongside “City Slab Horror” also being repressed by Medical). Released in 1983 and features some of the most important yet underrated electronic music of the genre. Characterized by a fusion of experimental tape loop manipulation perfectly integrated into synth-based and quite catchy pop stylized tunes. Features the hit “Dead Eyes Opened” as well as other standout tracks such as “A Million Angels” and “A Relic Of The Empire”. For fans of innovative early industrial/wave crossovers such as Cabaret Voltaire, early Coil, and Chris & Cosey. Limited Edition.
LP $21.50
12/17/2021
***San Francisco's kings of misanthropy are back with two more tracks of slow brooding bummer punk that lurch along like a dead legged man. Covered in a wall of noise, negative vibes, and the booming dual drum assault. LIFE STINKS are equal parts Flipper, No Trend, and Germs and 100% TOTALLY PUNK.
7" $7.25
07/22/2014
***BURNT ONES picks up where it left off on the LPs Black Teeth & Golden Tongues and You’ll Never Walk Alone. Fuzzed out glam rock of the highest order on a release that fits the aesthetic of psych rock juggernauts Burger Records and Castleface Records. The vocals are more discernible and the instrumentals are tightened on this terrific sophomore effort. 1960s pop themes intertwine with fuzzed out psychedelic rock in an unabashed celebration of all things glam. On earlier releases, the vocals of lead-singer MARK TESTER often got lost in Burnt Ones all-encompassing wall of sound. Such is not the case here. The reverb-heavy vocals ride a propulsive crest of fuzzed out guitars. It’s a much bigger sound than any four-piece has a right to offer. THE MALLARD are an inside-out-echo-laser-garage-psych-rock four-piece from San Francisco. Their home fried songs harness the naked abandon of ‘60s punk (think earliest Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd), but inject the form with a deranged spirit all their own. Close attention to texture and dynamics allow the band to explore unusual terrain—to grant access into unexpected realms of beauty and terror... with dessert. Limited to 500 copies on two-color vinyl packaged in f-color cover jackets with debossed overprint and artwork by JAY HOWELL.
7" $6.30
06/03/2014
***It blows my mind that a single person, let alone a group of people, is able to get anything done in New York City. It's a non-stop claustrophobic hustle. You gotta fight just to get to the train that will probably be delayed and covered in a stranger's blood. Isn't everyone a stranger? Maybe it is that very environment that influences some of the best music of the Americas. It would certainly explain WARTHOG's brutish hardcore punk wildness. Our boys are gearing up to hurt some people. Get mean. Recorded and mastered at the same sessions as the Exterminate Me 7" on Katorga Works.
7" $7.25
04/22/2014
***BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL!!! Eight freedom jams recorded along the same studio journey that allowed their Snuffbox Immanence album to spread its wings. A series of dense, somber, acoustic compositions that beg your heartstrings to think of the plight of the Tibetan people. Includes a message from the Dalai Lama, as well as a cover of Pearls Before Swine's "Images of April."
2XLP $22.95
03/05/2013
Formed in 2001, London’s Indesinence is one of the few UK death / doom bands (alongside Esoteric) that upholds the classic tradition spearheaded long ago by the likes of Paradise Lost, Anathema and My Dying Bride—forefathers of the genre who have since shed their roots and explored different styles. Taking influence from the aforementioned British Big Three (most notably early Paradise Lost) along with other luminaries such as Disembowelment and Skepticism, Indesinence has generated quite the reputation in their homeland. With a career that spans twelve years, the group has put out only a handful of releases: the Ecstatic Lethargy demo, their Noctambulism full-length (Goat of Mendes Records), and Neptunian compilation EP. Vessels of Light and Decay, Indesinence’s long-awaited sophomore album and their first release since 2006, is a full-frontal assault in the spirit of Celtic Frost, Swans, Demoncy and Barclay James Harvest that solidifies their legacy in the death / funeral / doom metal movement. Beautifully packaged in a deluxe hardcover digibook, it is set to make a statement as one of the top albums that the genre will offer all year.
CD $13.00
10/16/2012
MP3 $9.90
10/16/2012
***No matter who he's on stage or recording with at the moment, PAUL CAPORINO alone has always been New Orleans based legends M.O.T.O., aka MASTERS OF THE OBVIOUS. He formed the band in 1981, and has been playing an infectious blend of garage, '70s punk rock and Brill Building worthy pop ever since. M.O.T.O. released more than fifteen cassette albums from 1985-1999. Virtually all were fuzzy 4-track cassette recordings with Paul layering guitar, bass and vocals over a crude drum machine. The lyrics are filled with dick jokes, love themes and social commentary. The music is lo-fi, hook laden pop...well, except for fun, yet warped distractions like "Cancer In My Dick" and "Transformoto," like on this album. E Pluribus M.O.T.O. was originally released in 1993, while Paul was living in Chicago. It was one of the first cassettes of what would be a very productive period for M.O.T.O. in the '90s. A slightly abbreviated version (due to time restrictions) was released as an obscenely small vinyl pressing by a German label in the mid '90s. Copies of that vinyl have been known to fetch over $100! Rerun is pleased to bring you a special 19th Anniversary Edition reissue of E PLuribus M.O.T.O.! We've even been able to add a couple tracks the German vinyl from the '90s didn't have, and it's been remastered by M.O.T.O.'s head producer Garret Hammond from Paul's original master tapes for maximum fuzziness! Pressed on thick black vinyl, in an edition of 500 copies.
LP $14.00
07/03/2012
***No matter who he's on stage or recording with at the moment, PAUL CAPORINO alone has always been New Orleans based legends M.O.T.O., aka MASTERS OF THE OBVIOUS. He formed the band in 1981, and has been playing an infectious blend of garage, '70s punk rock and Brill Building worthy pop ever since. When the band didn't record or play as much as Paul would have liked those first few years, he turned to his 4-track. He put down all vocals, guitar and bass tracks over a toy, Mattel Synsonics drum machine. Initially, these recordings were only planned as demos of new songs, but Paul was so satisfied with the results, he decided to release them to the public. M.O.T.O. would go on to release more than fifteen cassette albums from 1985-1999. Each one filled with an abundance of dick jokes and social commentary alike. They were met with rave reviews from indie 'zines, which helped Paul build a rabid, worldwide fan base. BOLT! was released as the second M.O.T.O. cassette. The tracks were recorded on Lent in 1986, and the final edit was "The Best of Lent Tapes" or simply BOLT! The lead off track "Dick About It" is a fan favorite and is still played regularly in live sets to this day. A vinyl pressing of BOLT! was released in Germany as a very limited vinyl pressing in the mid-'90s, but that's been tough to find since. When we decided to put BOLT! back in print 27 years...
LP $14.00
07/03/2012
***BACK IN PRINT ON VINYL!!! HARVEY MILK’s classic rock album The Pleaser along with its companion piece Live Pleaser nestled in a double album gatefold with all photos in full color and a full color insert complete with lyrics. The artwork is as jaw-dropping as the albums! And yes, the exclamation points are entirely warranted!!!!!
2XLP $24.00
02/21/2012
***This album consists of the original two tracks that made up the original vinyl album, “Alone into the Alone” and “Only Shadows of Hooks.” The CD comes with an 8-page colour booklet featuring some of the original "line-up" of the group. This release is limited to 1,000 copies come with an second CD of an ANDREW LILES remix of the entire album.
2XCD $21.50
01/24/2012
***FARAQUET began as a side project featuring SMART WENT CRAZY members DEVIN OCAMPO and JEFF BOSWELL, along with CHAD MOLTER. When SWC broke up, Faraquet stepped up as a full-time band and started playing more shows, releasing a couple of singles as well as appearing on a split CD with Akarso. After seeing Faraquet a few times around town, Fugazi invited them to do some shows on a short tour through the south. Soon after the band recorded with J. ROBBINS at Inner Ear Studio and released The View from This Tower in November of 2000. After some brief touring later that year the band broke up in 2001. In 2003 Devin and Chad reunited to form MEDICATIONS with Chad moving from drums to his native instrument, bass. Collected here are the songs the band recorded for various singles and split releases, all remixed by Ocampo and remastered by CHAD CLARK. Working on this project rekindled the bandmembersʼ interest in playing the songs and the band reunited for a Brazilian tour in 2007 and plan to continue to perform periodically in the future. LP version includes a free MP3.
LP $17.75
07/28/2008
CD $11.00
07/28/2008
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Another slice of supreme San Franciscan psych-melto to be filed alongside Wooden Shjips et al, and UK’s own Heads, maybe Earthless or White Hills, but this stands real tall indeed. Taking the cues of Hawkwind and Pink Floyd (there’s a heavy hitting cover of “When You’re In”) to create some great heavy droning fogged up glass onion sike…know what we’re saying? Recorded in a genuine geodesic dome. Features ex-members of ZEN GUERILLA, and is nothing short of highly recommended. CD comes with a whole slew of bonus tracks, including the quite sublime 15-minute-plus "Star Of Hazel."
CD $13.00
07/27/2010
MP3 $9.90
07/27/2010
Two years out of print, and just in time to go along with the album reissues, the double-DVD Galaxie 500 compendium has been made available once again via 20|20|20 at a discounted price. Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste is a comprehensive visual document spanning the history of Galaxie 500. A collection of all their music videos, a TV appearance and an archive of over 40 songs performed live, this two-DVD set includes an unreleased original song "Buzz in My Head" and a live version of Jonathan Richman's "Back in Your Life," both of which were never recorded or released in any other form. The deluxe booklet contains photos and a new interview with all three members conducted by Yo La Tengo's James McNew.
2XDVD $9.50
06/08/2010
***The debut album from this new quartet featuring ATOM (ATOM AND HIS PACKAGE), along with members of PAINT IT BLACK, LIFETIME, KID DYNAMITE, RESURRECTION, AMATEUR PARTY, KILL THE MAN WHO QUESTIONS, and TRUE IF DESTROYED. What does it sound like? Says Atom, “Hmmm...Mike likes Ignition a lot, and I am a sucker for pop...Dan & Jeff know the difference between coming in on the ‘1’ and the ‘and,’ and Mike and I fake it.”
LP $12.25
02/27/2006
CD $13.00
02/27/2006
***The debut full-length from this remained group formerly known as the BLACK SEA—SHELBY CINCA & JASON HAMACHER of FRODUS along with JOE LALLY of FUGAZI (who left the group after completing the album, and has been replaced by JOHNATHON FORD of ROADSIDE MONUMENT and UNWED SAILOR). A continuation of the brooding and intimate sounds delivered on the Black Sea CDEP, but with more bravado, tighter rhythms, and taut guitar work.
CD $11.25
05/04/2004
***A brand new offering from this hard-hitting group comprised of SHELBY CINCA & JASON HAMACHER of FRODUS along with JAKE BROWN (MOMENTS IN GRACE). Six stunning salvos on power, greed and the role of technology, blasted with ballistic drums, jagged and textured guitar, and thick bass. Includes a Quick Time video of the group’s 2004 Macrock performance.
CD $7.75
06/20/2005
***A new album from this trio comprised of HONEY OWENS (JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER), along with BRIAN FOOTE and PAUL DICKOW of FONTENELLE. Cached is a mix of balanced guitar and vocal melodies with electronic textures and rhythms that hint at dub reggae and African patterns. Nine tracks of wondrous pop, improv, rock and electronic sounds.
CD $16.00
05/16/2005
Boston Spaceships' Zero to 99 is quintessential Pollard, a record that holds its own alongside widely acknowledged classics like Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes, and Under the Bushes Under the Stars. One gets the sense that Pollard is having the most fun he's had in decades, before he was pulled reluctantly from obscurity and thrust into the limelight with GBV in those heady, post-Nirvana mid-1990s. The Boston Spaceships have not only landed; they're conquering the goddamn planet. "Is everybody happy now?" Pollard defiantly screams on the opening track, as if he knows this is this record that longtime fans have been waiting for. So it's perhaps ironic that he confirms these suspicions with track two, "How Wrong You Are," an anthemic Pollard insta-classic that proves quite quickly just how right listeners are to get excited. From the moment the first chorus begins, Pollard digs his hooks in deep and never lets go, culminating in a raucous sing-along reminiscent of the "You are forgiven" refrain in The Who's "A Quick One While He's Away." Zero to 99 barrels like a freight train from there, delivering track after track of vintage Pollard pop rock, with a band more than up to the task of helping to fuel the engine. From the Buzzcocks-esque guitars on "Found Obstruction Rock 'n' Rolls," to the Keith Moon-ish, Tommy-era drums of "Question Girls All Right," to the McCartney-like bass riffs on "Trashed Aircraft Baby" that would fit right in on Abbey Road, Zero to 99 is a...
LP $16.00
10/06/2009
CD $13.00
10/06/2009
MP3 $9.90
10/06/2009
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
MP3 $0.00
06/15/2004
***Knife in the Water's unique mix of bleak Texas pop and country creates the perfect soundtrack for downing a fifth of bourbon alone in your car, parked outside your ex's house in the dead of winter. You also may or may not be loading a gun. With a subtle blend of organ, guitar, pedal steel, bass and drums, they conjure the barren stretches of Texas plains, the faces in dusty bars and the smell of cheap perfume and sleazy motel rooms. An Austin five-piece with an academic background in avant-garde minimalism and blood-bucket honky tonk, Knife in the Water is capable and serious in executing their boundary-blurring vision of unusual modern American sounds. The band is comprised of Aaron Blount (vocals, guitar), Laura Krause (vocals, Hammond organ), Bill McCullough (pedal steel), Mark Nathan (bass) and Cisco Ryder (drums), all Texans by birth. Crosspross Bells finds them moving into more psychedelic-abstract territory than their previous long-players, Plays One Sound and Others and Red River. A resigned spiritual feel is evident on "Crosshair Chapel," and "From the Catbird Seat" bears the lysergic influence of the Thirteen Floor Elevators. The five songs on this EP share the themes of indifference and decay, and find a strange natural calm in both states. With several US and European tours under their belt, including stints with Calexico and Rhythm of Black Lines, the band is scheduled to crawl the US again this March/April with NYC's Mendoza Line.
CD $6.75
04/23/2002
MP3 $0.00
04/23/2002
***The latest from the ten-year-running TRIBES OF NEUROT project—NEUROSIS along with added musicians. Ten tracks that seethe and boil with tension, as the band delivers brooding atmospheres, filtered soundscapes, organic textures, and dense melodic noise. For fans of heavy music, as well as experimental, drone, and other forms of sound expression.
CD $13.00
11/01/2005
MP3 $9.90
11/01/2005
Read & Burn 03 is the first Wire release featuring entirely new material since 2003’s Send. Along with the re-launch of Wire’s official website, www.pinkflag.com, this 26-minute mini-album signals the stage-by-stage re-activation of the legendary and influential band as a recording and live entity. Read & Burn is the R&D series representing the state of Wire’s art right now. Wire continues to evolve and offers here the fresh fruits of its latest development. It should be noted that tracks from Read & Burn 03 will not be included on the next album to follow in the later half of 2008.
CD $9.50
11/13/2007
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
***You can’t discuss the American Street Punk movement of the 1990’s without talking about Lower Class Brats. Alongside bands like fellow TKO albums the Templars, the Brats helped usher in a new wave of American working class Punk Rock whose reverberations are still being felt nearly 30 years after the fact.Lower Class Brats. Additionally, TKO Records and Lower Class Brats.S have a shared history, dating back to 1997 (TKO Year One) and the label’s fourth release: the legendary Templars / Lower Class Brats split single. So with this in mind, it seems fitting, and perhaps a little overdue that we are proud to announce the reissue of Lower Class Brats’ classic debut album, Rather Be Hated Than Ignored.Originally released on CD in 1997 by GMM Records, Rather Be Hated Than Ignored served as Lower Class Brats’ raucous statement of intent. Combining influences from 70s UK Punk, Oi! and UK82 and early California Hardcore, Rather Be Hated… served to quickly and definitively establish the Brats’ style, and their legacy. Heavy on melody, attitude, and a distinctly American sense of confrontation, their debut album remains a foundational entry in the American Street Punk canon.This reissue bears all the hallmarks fans have come to expect from TKO. Rather Be Hated Than Ignored has been expertly remastered, repackaged and restored, all with our signature attention to detail. For the first time ever, the original GMM track sequence is available on a vinyl edition. When you get the opportunity to revisit a classic like this,...
LP $27.35
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***The third LP from the Houston band, combining country and indie rock sounds, along with influences like Fairport Convention and King Crimson.Features Tom Carter (Charalambides). Limited to 300 copies.
LP $22.35
09/19/2025
***For his second solo album, master drummer Jim White travels further into expressionist landscapes of private meditation; his vehicle, an evocative duet of keyboards and drums alongside his debut as a vocalist. Translating his formidable percussive intuitions through this dialogue has given Jim a fresh compositional voice. Inner Day is like a state of nature, evoking peace and tension, rest and disquiet, all aloft on the wind of new discovery.
LP $23.95
10/24/2025
***Lost recordings of the Freak Accident from 2009 featuring the superstar line-up of Kimo Ball (Jello Biafra and the GSM) on bass and Big Mike Branum (Capitol Punishment, Hanson Brothers) on drums along with your host Ralph Spight on guitar and vocals. After resuscitating a seemingly dead hard drive after many years, this 4 song, 22-minute magnum opus finally saw the light of day in 2022, when the world could finally hear “Almost Alive”, a laundry list of modern life simulations of real-experiences and “Oxygen Tent” the lost surf power-pop hit of the mid-aughts. If that isn’t enough to convince you, 12 minutes of “Irony Man” will make you a believer.
CD $7.00
08/01/2025
***Reissue of the debut Ripcord flexi The Damage Is Done, that was originally released on their own Raging Records in 1986 for just 50p. This was there right at the start of mid 80’s UK hardcore along with Heresy, Chaos UK and Extreme Noise Terror. Spread over nine tracks, Ripcord absolute rage with a mix of US hardcore and dirty UK82 style punk. The cardboard box drum sound gives the recording a timeless feel, as the band rip, pull and thrash. It’s raw, loose and unhinged UK hardcore at its finest. On the Side 1 you get the entire Flexi plus an unreleased version of "Blind Eye" which was recorded for a compilation that never happened and "Single Ticket To Hell" from the Manic Ears and Children of the Revolution Records Digging In The Water compilation from 1987. Side 2 features a mixing desk live set recorded at the Captains Cabin, Weston Super Mare, 3rd May 1986. Originally released as part of their VHS on MCR-UK. All tracks mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air. The record comes with a 16 page booklet. Layout by Will Kinser.
LP $30.85
08/08/2025
"Kyle Sowash has had it. I mean, he's not alone. Things are getting tough out there. People are on these streets selling their Built to Spill records just to make rent. It's not okay. Start Making Sense is an appeal to sanity for all dads and phantom dads. A celebration of the tired and a strong cry for another beer. In case of emergency, raise glass. We've come so far from simply filing things under 'what's important' and 'what's not;' on this record, Sowash deals with fragile men, Cleveland football and justice for classic rock drummers. That coffee-colored telecaster still gets beat to hell, just for the healing. Look at the guitar up close if you can. Or just listen closer. The band is locked in. La Russo bumps. You could marinate meat in Hemminger's tone. Bandman has arms like a government clock. There's a universal yuck on us. You wake up to a world advancing and aging and cracking apart. Put this record on, man. Start Making Sense is a modern life survival kit, replete with horn arrangements and hot dog hooks. You're gonna be okay. Or you're gonna get the dishes done, at the very least. Turn it around, my guy. Start making sense." – Lee Keeler
CD $13.00
10/06/2025
LP $19.00
10/03/2025
MP3 $9.90
10/03/2025
FLAC $11.99
10/03/2025
***Several years in the making, Lion can now finally deliver on our promise of another Groove Club volume dedicated to the deep and moving (and grooving) compositions of Sinn Sisamouth, sung by the Emperor of Khmer music himself, alone or duetting with the other legendary singer of those halcyon days in Cambodian music: Ros Sereysothea, the "Queen with the Golden Voice.”Groove Club Vol. 5 also includes a 16-page booklet featuring an exclusive interview with Mrs. Khav Thong Nhot, widow of Sinn Sisamouth, and Sin Sethsochhata, artist and granddaughter of Sinn Sisamouth, revealing more about Sinn Sisamouth than has ever been known before now. We hear directly from his wife about their courtship, their life together as Sinn Sisamouth became famous — and then what happened as the Khmer Rouge took control: the separation from her husband, and her own harrowing experiences trying to keep herself and their children alive. It’s not easy reading, yet stands as an important contribution (we feel) to a a story which until now has only been partially told. Sinn Sisamouth’s granddaughter, Sin Sethsochhata, a musical artist and also keeper of the family’s legacy, speaks of her own experiences in both realms.
LP $28.95
07/25/2025
***Created on the western edges of the infinite plains and prairies of coldest Canada, Edmonton, Alberta's HOME FRONT dance freely and madly along the edges of time and create their own moment amongst the revered and long frozen reserves of THE CURE, SUICIDE, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, "Second Empire Justice" era BLITZ, and NEW ORDER. A record bubbling over with analog synth, guitar loops, slammed 808 drums, and anthemic vocal pushes tugging at the great moment in-between the “death” of punk and the “birth” of new wave, pulling fresh sounds into their punk roots and shoving a studded leather jacket around a silk robe. Justice, violence, doubt and uncertainty a la Gary Numan narrating a Warren Miller Extreme Ski Special on the set of TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA: this is HOME FRONT.
LP $26.50
06/20/2025
***The Fallen Lament is the latest auditory assault by Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, a band renowned for their groove-driven, heavy slamming death metal sound. This release features one brand-new track alongside three re-recordings of their previously released slam-thems, each revamped to deliver an even more brutal experience.Heavily influenced by the likes of Last Days of Humanity, Disentomb, and Dehumanizing Itatrian Worship, the band's music is a relentless barrage of guttural vocals and crushing riffs. Each song on this EP is a testament to the band's mastery of slamming death metal, characterized by punishing rhythms and relentless guttural growls.
CD $11.25
06/27/2025
MC $9.75
06/27/2025
***PNV brings you more essential Swedish Punk/Hardcore. The latest TST PNV reissue compiles the bands mind blowing amazing 1982 Mini LP No Teenage Future. This Swedish HC/PUNK classic has never been reissued. The PNV reissue compiles the original 12” EP along with band’s debut 1981 7” Vås Punx and extra unreleased bonus tracks and a poster.
LP $24.45
07/04/2025
"Lucky Numbers & True Weight, the fourth full-length by the New York City artist Cube, continues to push to the surface what has been hiding in plain sight all along: the artist’s ability to write memorable songs that synthesize elements from a variety of left-field genres into its own sonic world. The grit of noise; the ammo splay of digital hardcore; the experimentation of footwork; the rigor of industrial and techno; all of this exists here on more or less equal footing. These musical languages are deployed by the artist—real name: Adam Keith—as a means of sustaining an atmosphere, both uneasy and ecstatic, that plays out through the duration of the project. "There is a sense of contemporary hard-boiled grit here, like this music was meant to accompany a grubby pawed swipe on a gambling app or the action at a smoke-logged off-track betting operation. 'Reverse Cowboy' is borderline-anthemic beat punk done up in an atemporal style, somewhere between The Normal and The Prodigy. The interlude 'Middle Man' lurches like a drunk noise kid at a warehouse show. 'New Stare' is goth DJ Nate. It’s music for both latent rockers and latent ravers, for a new era of cross-pollination. "If this record conjures contemporary technology, it is through a soiled patina. In the bowels of the city and far away from any techno-utopian ideals, Lucky Numbers & True Weight plays. It’s the soundtrack to smudged screens and fried Bluetooth speakers; to shadowy discotheques and corrupt sports bars. It’s a strobe...
LP $22.00
06/13/2025
***Tim Barnes is a storied drummer, engineer and producer whose CV encompasses col- laborations with a serious who’s-who of late 20th and early 21st century music. Most well known as one of the two drummers (alongside Glenn Kotche) on Jim O’Ro- urke’s seminal late 90s and early 2000s recordings, Tim has recorded, performed and collaborated with Tony Conrad, Faust, Alan Licht, P.G. Six, Silver Jews, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, The Tower Recordings, Ken Vandermark, Wilco, John Zorn and countless other artists working at the for- ward edge of improvised and experimental music.In 2021, Tim was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 54, and he and his family went public with this imme- diately. The response from Tim’s network of friends and musical peers was overwhelming, but the lingering shutdown meant only remote and long-distance interactions were possible. Beginning in late 2021, a large body of recordings coordinated and assembled by Tim’s longtime friend Ken (Bundy) Brown, with whom Tim had worked in the past as a member of the group Pullman, early pioneers of the new Americana movement in the indie scene of the late 90s.The recordings for Noumena feature the playing of Joshua Abrams, Oren Ambarchi, Ken Brown, John Dieterich, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche, Robert Carlos Lange, Ro(b)//ert Lundberg, Douglas McCombs, Matt Mehlan, Rob Mazurek, Tara Jane O’Neil, Jim O’Rourke, Chad Taylor, Thollem, Britt Walford and Mike Watt. As with Lost Words, Noumena cuts a dramatic swath through through a sweep of music styles, all of which...
LP $26.95
07/04/2025
***Tim Barnes is a storied drummer, engineer and producer whose CV encompasses col- laborations with a serious who’s-who of late 20th and early 21st century music. Most well known as one of the two drummers (alongside Glenn Kotche) on Jim O’Ro- urke’s seminal late 90s and early 2000s recordings, Tim has recorded, performed and collaborated with Tony Conrad, Faust, Alan Licht, P.G. Six, Silver Jews, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, The Tower Recordings, Ken Vandermark, Wilco, John Zorn and countless other artists working at the for- ward edge of improvised and experimental music.In 2021, Tim was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 54, and he and his family went public with this imme- diately. The response from Tim’s network of friends and musical peers was overwhelming, but the lingering shutdown meant only remote and long-distance interactions were possible. Beginning in late 2021, a large body of recordings coordinated and assembled by Tim’s longtime friend Ken (Bundy) Brown, with whom Tim had worked in the past as a member of the group Pullman, early pioneers of the new Americana movement in the indie scene of the late 90s.Lost Words features the playing of Joshua Abrams, Ken Brown, David Daneill, Darin Gray, David Grubbs, Glenn Kotche, Tara Jane O’Neil, Jim O’Rourke, Ken Vandermark and Britt Walford. Alongside its companion album, Noumena, Lost Words represents the culmination of years of work and demonstrates Tim’s infectious energy and depth as a percussionist across a broad sweep of styles.
LP $26.95
07/04/2025
***REMASTERED AND REISSUED!!! Despite being happily hunkered down in their Pacific Northwest bubble, POISON IDEA continued to gain cache as the 1980s plowed along, due in no small part to the worldwide acclaim received by their 1986 debut album Kings Of Punk.In their search for a label to unleash War All The Time, their sophomore effort, P.I. landed with the newly-launched Alchemy Records out of San Francisco that was co-helmed by Victor “The Mascara Snake” Hayden, a one-time member of Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.Recorded over the summer of 1987 and named after a book by famous boozebag poet Charles Bukowksi, War All The Time somehow managed to surpass the unbridled mayhem of Kings Of Punk, as proven by the blistering opener, “The Temple." Throughout its eleven-song duration, Poison Idea's primary inspirations of Discharge and the Germs are on full display. However, the recent addition of second guitarist Eric “Thee Vegetable” Olsen and the double-bass thunder of drummer Steve "Thee Slayer Hippy" Hanford brought a more metallic flare to tracks like “Hot Time," “Typical” and the pulverizing rendition of Motorhead’s “Motorhead”. As the next volume in TKO’s Poison Idea Remasters series, this newly sourced version of "War All The Time" proves the album to be a crucial, if sometimes overlooked, part of the band's hefty oeuvre.
LP $27.35
03/28/2025
***From the promethean forge we toiled endlessly to create a new batch of songs reflecting the cycle of birth to death and the violence betwixt. The four songs from the XIIV demo were re-recorded along with five new blisteringly fast death thrash hymns to flail your disgusting greasy hair to. Many influences were channeled in the creation of this from early German and Australian thrash outfits as well as the tried and true d-beat metal punk to form this 30 grit sonic sandblast.
LP $25.95
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The sonic narrative immerses you in the journey of being carried into the sky by the clouds, with all of its emotional elements and physical sensations. You let yourself feel as you're elevated to the unknown, learn to let go along the way—moment by moment—worry less about what’s left behind. You look around to the vast nothing and come to understand that loss and freedom can coexist. You return lighter than ever, just like a cloud. In the piano, prepared strings and unprepared strings create two distinct characters with percussive sounds and left-over pitches that shape into different modes. While live electronics from modular synthesizers get triggered by the piano sounds, through improvisation, the pieces travel between atonality and poly-modality and explore rhythmic structures that desire to burst out of their structured-ness.
MP3 $7.99
02/07/2025
FLAC $8.99
02/07/2025
Kneading dough is tricky—you should know how it’s supposed to feel. If you try too hard you could make it worse. It’s a beautiful practice—creation with a gentle touch, to work at something so it can be left alone. “If it’s too drawn out it’s awful. It’s easy to give too much.” Dance in the mirror. Contemplate your veiny hands. Who do they remind you of?On Progress Bakery, her second album as a solo artist, Toronto artist Eliza Niemi knows to leave some questions alone—to let juxtaposition and tension be the proof. It doesn’t have to be hard. The feelings and revelations they provoke rise in the heat. The smell is sweet. Crispy on the outside and soft all the way through. She playfully slip-slides through words and sounds and images, delighting in surprise, skimming ideas like stones cast across clear water, touching down briefly with uncommon grace.Music and words don’t always have to interact. Where she decides to keep them apart gives a new contour to where and how she puts them together. The kind of thing you’re supposed to take for granted with songs and their singers comes alive in Eliza’s hands—the little miracle of mixing, kneading, stretching, and stopping.
CD $16.00
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LP $29.00
04/04/2025
LP COLOR $29.00
04/04/2025
Robert Rental takes up residence with Dark Entries again for an expanded double vinyl reissue of Mental Detentions. Robert Rental was a Scottish pioneer of DIY electronic music. Along with his illustrious collaborators like Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller, Rental helped shape the countercultural sound of the UK with his timely melding of Krautrock, dub, and punk. Originally from Port Glasgow, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in the late 1970s, and became involved with the local music scene. Robert Rental however released very little of his solo music - the only solo recording from The 1970s is the 7" single "Paralysis" first released on the homemade Regular Records in 1978, and re-released on Dark Entries in 2020. Mental Detentions was released as a cassette in 1979, the same year as his masterpiece The Bridge, a collaboration with Thomas Leer. Using an assortment of budget electronics—a Roland drum machine, a kid’s Stylophone keyboard, and an Electroharmonix DrQ—Robert takes us on a gauzy, trip, at once expansive and intimate, minimalist and maximalist. “Stuck” is mangled motorik, like Neu! run through a meat grinder, while “Vox” meanders like an 18 minute ambient fever dream. Robert spoke to friends of his frustration at being unable to replicate his sound in a commercial studio - it was these demos' sound that he wanted to create. Sometimes having only access to the most rudimentary of equipment can sharpen one’s craft—necessity is the mother of invention, indeed. This ethic shines in his...
2XLP $29.00
11/01/2024
***The legendary True Sounds Of Liberty return with a 12" maxi single featuring three unreleased songs and one track that was only available on a super limited 7-inch. You get the originals "Darker My Love" and "White Amercan" along with covers of The Damned's "Politics" and Lou Reed's "Perfect Day." Pressed on splattered bone and black vinyl. Includes a 12"x18" poster of T.S.O.L. photos by Ed Colver, a sticker and postcard.
12" $18.50
11/15/2024
***Lucta from Milan finally unleash their debut album ‘Eterna Lotta’ which follows the demo 'Black Magic Punk’ from way back in 2018. The 9 track album takes you by the throat and never lets go. The music rages with a fierce atonal guitar tone and drums that push each track to its limits but it’s the vocals that really make this special. They are passionate and enraged and spat out in Italian. The band mixes the furious years of Italian hardcore from the 80’s, Rudimentary Peni and some classic pogo punk with a sense of paranoia to the overall sound. ‘Eterna Lotta represents the continuous internal and external struggle with life: from social interactions to self expectations and how everyone deals with it in eternal conflict. Lucta is the Latin word for "fight" and Lotta fully embraces every aspect of their lives. The band are outcasts, freaks, queers and punks and will forever fight for rights for those that need a voice and push towards a better future.'
LP $21.35
08/19/2024
***Flour is the long-awaited, much-anticipated, full-course follow-up to Buzzsaws—Brower’s debut album from 2018. Sure, there’s been tasty snacks and treats to sustain folks along the way: several singles worth, and a totally authentic “Live” album. But this is the fresh new long-player platter you’ve hungered for. Again, recorded entirely by Nat, at home and in the practice space (that is, various different practice spaces, due to unruly landlords) in Brooklyn. The recording project spanned several years due to touring, gigging, and rehearsing with the myriad of bands that form the Brower Cinematic Universe (including the live band, Brower; plus Josephine Network, Nancy, Metalleg, and The Wand-ers), not to mention working the many day-jobs it requires to barley sustain life in NYC. Flour is benefited by this kind of “slow” practice, where time lends itself to exploration. One gets a sense of Brower’s freedom to stretch out and try new things, new instrumentation, and take a deeper dive into the songwriting always brewing between his ears. In Brower’s kitchen, his recipe for Flour was created, tasted, tested, reworked, revisited, and rebuilt—from scratch—to the delight of the most choosy of rock ‘n’ roll gourmands and punk rock bon vivants. As they say, good food takes time. Now, once again, Brower is served. RECOMMENDED IF YOU DIG! Lennon, Nilsson, Beach Boys, Sweet, or Elton Motello.
LP $21.95
11/01/2024
MP3 $9.90
11/01/2024
FLAC $11.99
11/01/2024
***Though only ever released in Japan and in sore need of reissue (affordability not being among the virtues of an original copy), Green Line sits easily alongside the most progressive jazz albums of the early '70s, many of which featured the work of the quartet's alumni—namely Sharrock's uncredited appearance on "Yesternow" for Miles Davis' A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Vitous' early fusion-defining tenure with Weather Report, and Marcus' collaboration with Japanese jazz-rock outfit Jiro Inagaki and Soul Media. And so, Green Line was ultimately the beginning and end of its own trajectory, but damn, what a glorious path it blazed.
LP $31.35
06/14/2024
***A collaboration between The Bay/West Coast and Mexico Cumbia Powerhouses! Back again is the OG Deuce Eclipse along with the Discos Resaca crew teamed up with el maestro Robin Revilla of Grupo Maravilla Y Discos El Papi This 45rpm includes “Tírate la Chancla” and “Quiero yo Cumbia” on the flip side, Puro sabor tropical y Cumbia Trap.
7" $9.00
05/31/2024
***We're all familiar with this story: the pandemic struck, and people found themselves confined to their homes, left alone with their thoughts. Amidst various musical projects, Shelby Cinca reached out to his former bandmates with the idea of creating and instrumental album in the style of Frodus—a desire that had never materialized during the band's active years. Despite the challenges of life and logistics, the project began to take shape as Nate and Shelby brainstormed and organized their ideas. They recalled an offer from their fellow DC friend and prolific musician, Aaron DC Edge, to provide raw drum tracks. Shelby accepted Aaron's offer to kickstart a rhythmic foundation, and soon the project came to life. Some tracks remained faithful to the original demos, while others underwent substantial editing. Eventually, songs began to take form in an organic manner, despite the geographical distance between the collaborators. Conceptually, the group aimed to craft a soundtrack for a post-human world, inspired by a cryptic phrase hidden in the artwork of Frodus's last album: "when man dies, we become wolves again." These songs conjure images of overgrown and ruined cities, the return of wildlife, and the interplay of light and darkness, peace and savagery, coexisting in the after- math of humanity's downfall. Without the prominent narrative of anguished vocals, the vistas emerge in the mind's eye without barriers, allowing for a more subtle and profound exploration of the themes.
7" $8.05
05/31/2024
***By the time Jackie McLean began recording for Blue Note in 1959, the alto saxophonist had already been a stalwart of the NYC jazz scene for nearly a decade having spent the entirety of the 1950s cutting his teeth alongside bebop legends like Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. As the early 1960s progressed, McLean’s innovative hard bop sound began to take on a harder edge and a more adventurous spirit. Inspired by the likes of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, McLean started to seek a greater freedom of expression in his music and began to introduce elements of the avant-garde, while never fully relinquishing a grounding in his soulful sense of swing and chordal structures. On his 1963 quintet album One Step Beyond, McLean teamed up with the unique trombonist and composer Grachan Moncur III and brought in vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson instead of a pianist, a move that gave the music a freer, more spacious feel. Inspired by this new musical direction and the tonal qualities of the band, McLean brought Moncur and Hutcherson back into the studio later that year with Larry Ridley on bass and Roy Haynes to record what would be his masterpiece of inside-out jazz: Destination… Out! On four original pieces—three by Moncur (“Love and Hate,” “Esoteric,” “Riff Raff”) and one of McLean’s (“Kahlil the Prophet”)—the quintet goes exploring, conjuring different moods and creating exciting new sounds that still sound fresh today.
LP $23.95
05/10/2024
***The first ever reissue of the British band’s second studio full length album, originally released on UK Punk label Fallout in 1984. Another slice of catchy, sing-along 80s UK punk, all delivered with strong female vocals and solid playing.
LP $24.45
04/05/2024
London-based four-piece Adult Jazz announce their first full-length album in a decade, So Sorry So Slow, out 26 April 2024 via Spare Thought. Alongside the announcement comes lovesick new single ‘Suffer One’ featuring Owen Pallett, a cautious excavation of self and sexuality, clambering across a gorgeously shapeshifting, filmic five-minutes. Containing some of the band’s most abrasive but gentle, beautiful and melismatic work to date, So Sorry So Slow has many defining characteristics: romance, panic, devotion and remorse, threaded together by an intentionally laser-focused love. It’s deeply personal, bruised and candid in its expressions of tenderness, and deeply pained in its concurrent reflections of ecological regret. Across its hour-long runtime, a delicate, frenetic energy and glacial heaviness coexist, the band pitting those paces against one another. In their richly experimental timbre, dancing strings and fluttering falsettos prang against a bed of brass drones like a wounded bird. Recorded in bursts at studios across London and in the band members’ flats, at Konk, on the Isle of Wight and in Sussex, So Sorry is unambiguous in its evolution. Sonically, there are sparks of the arrhythmic brightness that afforded the band’s critically acclaimed debut album Gist Is its cult adoration, for fans of Arthur Russell and Meredith Monk, but with a blossoming, melancholic darkness often overhead. Piano sprees and luscious string sections appear like low-hanging stars on a night-time drive, whilst plunging vocal distortions and humming brass loops resurrect heavy limbs in a bad dream.
CD $16.00
05/03/2024
2XLP $33.00
05/03/2024
MP3 $9.90
05/03/2024
FLAC $11.99
05/03/2024
"Learn To Die is a bold new step for a group of musicians, artists, and writers that has at least nominally been considered a punk band. A stylistic overhaul. For those who have been following along, it’ll carry some surprises. Slender began over a decade ago as a semi-improvisational cassette recording project, a casual collaboration between a few friends that was initially documented by two self-titled cassette-only releases released in 2014 and 2015 respectively, now both unavailable and out of print. Most fans, however, will know Slender for their two most recent releases, Walled Garden (2017) and Time On Earth (2019), both released on the tastemaking London art-punk label La Vida Es Un Mus. "Their prior work has earned them comparisons to anarcho-punks Crass and The Snipers, lo-fi flagbearers Swell Maps and Pink Reason, and artrockers Cromagnon and Amon Düül. Here, however, such comparisons feel largely unfounded and the band feels somewhat peerless. Moments of artpunk brutalism, lo-fi experimentalism, and kosmiche detours grace the fabric of Learn To Die, but the album reaches for more than pastiche. Teasing the rarified worlds of chamber music and musique concrete, Slender manages something intangible and strange. A vocoded voice intones multi-lingual poems alongside tinny guitars and sampled strings and flutes. Three chord janglepunk anthems arise suddenly out of a cosmic mist crafted by analogue synths reciting the poetry of machines. The album moves in ways reminiscent of works by artists as varied and singular as Nobukazu Takemura, Chuquimamani-Condori, Coil, and Robert Wyatt,...
LP $24.00
04/19/2024
***NOW ON LIMITED FLUORESCENT PINK VINYL!!! Upon hearing Decrepit Flesh Relic, the first album from Civerous, one was left with a feeling of intense suffocating weight and agonal prostration in the service of bone-breaking death hymns. With the towering new album, Maze Envy, LA’s most creatively destructive death / doom ensemble let loose a freshly evolved but no less brutal conflagration of immersive horror and morbid lamentation. Where death / doom may often stay in safe and unadventerous realms of narrow focus, Maze Envy presents a more far-reaching breadth of ambition, where unusual technicality, progressive atmospheres, string flourishes and chaotic mysticism radiate a purple light of the soul’s ascension from the black oceans of dread Civerous inhabit. Chain-dragging dirge, blackened blasting, and the savage ferocity of Lord Foul’s hellish vocal exorcisms exalt Maze Envy with a hellish grandeur within its myriad paths to oblivion. With a massively crushing sound, Maze Envy is end times music for an age in which that reckoning feels unfathomably close. Civerous batter the senses into a state of labyrinthian turmoil from which emergence is ever more implausible.
CD $12.00
03/22/2024
LP $22.00
03/22/2024
LP COLOR $24.00
03/22/2024
MP3 $7.99
03/22/2024
FLAC $8.99
03/22/2024
***Originally released in 1983, Leather, Bristles, No Survivors and Sick Boys brought together the band's 1982 Sick Boy and No Survivor EPs along with the chart-topping English punk classic, Leather, Bristles, Studs and Acne mini-album from 1981. The PNV version features deluxe loaded packaging: Newly redesigned heavy gatefold sleeves, liner notes, extensive period photos and poster.
LP $24.45
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In 1962, legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans collaborated for the first time on record with jazz guitarist Jim Hall to create the landmark album Undercurrent. And even though it is a two-person improvisational affair, it is almost unfathomable that these two giants alone fill up all the grooves on this record. The thoughtful interplay between these two musicians created such a beautiful, lush, and emotional journey that their work influenced many. At the time of this recording, Bill Evans was one of the top jazz pianists (his performance with Miles Davis on Kind Of Blue is still a high-water mark), but he had stopped performing and recording after the death of his peer, bassist Scott LaFaro. Eventually, he was persuaded to return to music, and this was one of the first recordings upon his return. Guitarist Jim Hall - who had worked with Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, and Chico Hamilton - started his partnership with Evans during this time. Recorded over two sessions in April and May 1962, the two have that beautifully unspoken musical language of give and take; their recordings are refreshingly busy but also incredibly sparse. These two giants understand that intertwining their personalities and harmonic styles could create greatness. This notable re-issue is an all-analog production affair—AAA Mastered and cut live by audio guru Kevin Gray (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus)—and it’s never sounded better. So dim the lights and let this music breathe with you; it’s an incredible listen and an essential album for...
LP $31.95
02/09/2024
***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! A true DEAD MOON classic. One of their most beloved LPs. Features the mega hit "It's Okay," along with other classics like "Day After Day," "Cast Will Change," "Unknown Passage," and the best version of "The TImes They Are Changin'" ever recorded! All hits, no misses on this one.
LP $17.25
01/26/2024
Mary Jane Leach is a composer focussed on the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. She has played an instrumental role in NYC’s pioneering Downtown scene alongside Arthur Russell, Ellen Fullman, Peter Zummo, Philip Corner and Arnold Dreyblatt, as well as devoting years to the preservation and reappraisal of Julius Eastman’s work since his death in 1990, compiling the ‘Unjust Malaise’ 3CD set in 2005 and editing the 2015 book ‘Gay Guerrilla: Julius Eastman and His Music’. 'Woodwind Multiples' is her second album for Modern Love, following ‘(f)lute songs’ (2018). Woodwind Multiples features four pieces for multiples of the same instrument: four bass flutes, nine oboes, nine clarinets, and seven bassoons. Each piece works closely with the unique sound of each instrument, combining pitches that create other, sometimes unexpected, tones, primarily combination and interference tones, as well as rhythmic patterns. What you hear is what happens naturally - there is no processing or manipulation. 8B4 (1985/2022), played by Manuel Zurria, is for four bass flutes. It is a revision of 8x4, which was written in 1985 for the DownTown Ensemble and was only performed once, due to its unusual instrumentation: alto flute, English horn (originally bass oboe), clarinet, and voice. Xantippe’s Rebuke (1993) was written for Libby Van Cleve, for eight taped oboes and one live, solo oboe. The eight taped parts are equal and dependent, while the solo part is meant to be a solo with the tape as accompaniment. The piece works...
MP3 $9.90
07/14/2023
FLAC $11.99
07/14/2023
***The first ever vinyl reissue of their sought after 2000 album Party Political Bullshit. Funeral Dress has been terrorizing the kids with their catchy sing-along style of Pogo Punk since 1985. Hailing from Belgium, what began in as an effort to bring some life into the almost dead Belgian Punk scene has evolved into one of the longest lasting bands in their genre. Having released 7 studio albums, 1 DVD, 10 US Tours, tons of shows around Europe, and they're still here. Funeral Dress has played shows with bands like GBH, The Exploited, Sham 69, X Ray Spex and many more. When Party Political Bullshit was initially released in the US they toured with their good friends The Casualties, The Virus and Endless Struggle.
LP $24.45
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***First ever archival release from Southern California Punk band the Dischords. The compilation compiles their rare sought-after collectable 7” EP along with unreleased demo and live tracks. Formed in 1979 with Chuck Briggs (US Bombs) and Chris Engel. Andy Russell joined a short time later and Scott Kellems (The Jetz) got behind the kit in 1980. Dischords played the LA and OC circuit with bands such as Social Distortion, TSOL, Shattered Faith, Circle Jerks, etc. They released "Dirty Habits" 7’ EP in 1982, The EP went to the top 5 in the Flipside magazine readers poll and it got regular spins on Rodneys Bingenheimer’s legendary Rodney on the ROQ that aired Sunday Nights on KROQ.
LP $24.45
TBD
***American bestial death metal berserker Invultation returns with its second full-length abomination Feral Legion, a thirty seven-minute siege of inescapable black/death ruin whose ominous nature and intents are already clear and evident from the album title alone. Indeed, Feral Legion takes us forward, or back, to a time once evoked by Einstein in his (supposed) famous words "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". A time in which humanity's prolonged obsession for power through dominance has reduced the world to a lightless and inhuman prehistoric dark age where primeval animalistic instincts of survival and a complete lack of sanity are the only "logic" reigning. The music marvelously encapsulates this concept unfolding ten dehumanizing, life-scourging slabs of pure shellshock and complete sonic armageddon derived from the immortal legacy of black/death war cults like Blasphemy, Bestial Warlust and Angelcorpse. And while that is the premise and starting point, the means by which Invultation accomplishes its conquest is quite unprecedented for the standards of bestial extreme metal. The "chaos-for-chaos-sake" approach the genre has widely been known for is ignored in favor a hyper-realistic, (technical) death metal-derived approach with a crystalline production that exposes and exalts every moving part in the record, revealing an entity working within an evolved and sophisticated technical and compositional framework in which absolute destruction is achieved solely via the raw tonnage of the riffs and by the superb quality of the performative skill...
LP $22.25
09/15/2023
CD $12.25
09/29/2023
Debut 1969 album by New Orleans’ The Meters. Led by organist Art Neville, the quartet was rounded out by jazz-influenced guitarist Leo Nocentelli, along with the bubbling rhythm section of bassist George Porter, Jr. and drummer Joseph "Zigaboo” Modeliste. Their regional influences were a smashing together of rock n’ roll, syncopated ‘second line’ rhythms from Mardi Gras parades, and jazz improvisations that only could have come from the New Orleans music scene. The Meters helped move R&B music toward the heavier direction of funk—complicated rhythms meeting economically powerful riffs that were the wave of what was to come. New Black Vinyl Edition
LP $35.50
08/25/2023
LP $35.50
09/05/2025
***On Infinite Possible Futures, Bay Area psych-pop savant Mayya has gifted contemporary reality a deeply engrossing, mind-bending fantastical journey of a record. Deftly balancing jangly sparkle and fuzz-blast hooks, the record trundles along magically on licorice-whip dream-pop rails. Lacing together the freeform Jazzbo excursions and magical mystery psychedelia is Mayya’s heavy-lidded, pastel warble of a voice. Embracing Lo-Fi as a tonal palette (with levels balanced by the masterful Greg Saunier of Deerhoof), Infinite Possible Futures is one of the rare records that leaves the listener blissed out and grinning; wrapped in a warm glow, full-hearted, and just a touch disoriented. Mayya was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and grew up in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Inspired by anyone who is unapologetically themselves, she aspires to create a positive environment through her melodic, energetic music. Once she’d written the bones of the songs for Infinite Possible Future, she turned as always to her close- knit crew of compatriots to record; guitarist Spencer Owings (Juicebumps), bassist Jason Cirimele (Dust Collector, Indianna Hale) drummer Sam Jones (Mae Powell, Mild Universe), saxophonist Edan Mor, and violinist Sivan Lioncub (Everyone Is Dirty). The record was tracked and co-produced by Chris Daddio at Donut Time Audio in Oakland, CA, and mixed and mastered by Greg Saunier (Deerhoof). Fittingly, Infinite Possible Futures is a record that explores the eternal, internal struggle of being a good friend; both to oneself and to others. “There are infinite possible futures, as well as infinite possible presents” explains Mayya....
LP $27.00
08/21/2023
***When NYC hit its punk stride in the mid 1970s, the one-of-a-kind ‘Neon’ Leon Matthews was already in the thick of it. Getting his start in music in the late 60s and having incredible luck in his friendships along the way, Neon Leon’s life story could easily be made into a really amazing film. Along with being roommates with Rolling Stones’ guitarist Mick Taylor (and dating his wife!) while living in the UK in the early 70s, he was recording acetates as far back as the mid 1970s with the original members of Pure Hell around Philadelphia, and ended up moving into the Chelsea Hotel in ’73 soon after, upon the insistence of his pal Johnny Thunders. Making fast friends with Elda and the Stillettos, the New York Dolls, and David Peel and Harold Black & the Teenage Lust crew, he soon fell into the maddening world of the Lower East Side zeitgeist right when everything was exploding. He was gigging at Max’s on the regular, seeing the incredible NY punk scene blossom before his eyes, and he even got to appear briefly in the exploitation film classic, Punk Rock (1977) with Elda and the gang. Leon put together his band with girlfriend/stripper Honi O’Rourke and hit the scene around Max’s, CBGB and the like, and upon entering the studio, caught lightning in a bottle with the recording of the Rock’n Roll Is Alive 7” EP in 1979. The title track is simply irresistible, laying down the filthy scuzz guitar...
LP $17.75
07/21/2023
***The twenty-first issue of this magazine which provides an insight into the Japanese music scene and beyond. Though written in Japanese, there’s lots of swell pictures and graphics to check out, along with THREE CDs—the first features music from MICE PARADE and HIM recorded during their Summer 2004 Japanese tour; the second is a Norwegian jazz collection with ten tracks from THE THING, SCORCH TRIO, LARS HORNTVETH, CRIMETIME ORCHESTRA, MOTIF, and others; the third is an Article compilation with fifteen songs from MANDARIN MOVIE, BOBBY CONN, KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF, ERRORS, ARIEL PINK, SHUSUKE, FIRE ENGINES, and more.
BK W/CD $20.75
07/25/2005
***A reissue of HADES' second album from 1997 with two bonus tracks. In 1992, on Christmas Eve, Hades guitarist and founding member, JORN TUNSBERG, along with COUNT GRISHNACKH, set fire to the Åsane Church in Bergen. The police investigation lasted about a year and it took another year for Norwegian authorities to convict Tunsberg. He began serving his two-year sentence in March of 1995, just a few months after the release of Hades’ debut album …Again Shall Be. Though his time in prison stalled the band’s progress, Tunsberg and his bandmates remained committed to the work they’d begun with Hades. Tunsberg’s prison sentence meant the band could not tour; however, while incarcerated, Tunsberg and bassist/vocalist JANTO GARMANSLUND continued writing. Due to the comparatively relaxed nature of the Norwegian penal system, Tunsberg was able to rehearse with the band—both in the prison and at their rehearsal space—and was even allowed to play a show in Bergen in May of 1996. A couple months later, the band returned to Grieghallen Studio to record their monumental second album, The Dawn of the Dying Sun, featuring the core lineup of Tunsberg, Garmansland, drummer REMI ANDERSEN, and second guitarist STIG HAGENES. Released in December 1997 on Full Moon Productions, The Dawn of the Dying Sun represented the full bloom of Hades’ sound. Featuring vigorous riffs ensconced among cascading windswept melodies, The Dawn of the Dying Sun is compositionally darker and more aggressive than the band’s debut album. The densely layered production and complex songwriting give...
CD $12.75
05/19/2023
MC $12.75
05/19/2023
2XLP $33.85
06/16/2023
***24 Songs is a triple album which features all 12 7" singles from the 2022 Hit Parade Singles Club all in one package with extended versions of a few tracks and 5 bonus tracks. The vinyl comes in full color inner sleeves with liner notes and lyrics along with a DVD featuring a full length concert and documentary on the recording of 24 Songs. Limited to 500 copies in the USA. Throughout 2022, The Wedding Present’s 24 Songs series saw the legendary indie band release two new tracks a month as double A sided 7”s, ultimately creating a much-sought-after box set. David Gedge has now re-curated full-length versions of all twenty-four tracks for a new compilation album that will also comprise five bonus recordings including one featuring The Wedding Present’s first guitarist, Peter Solowka. 24 Songs was a doff of the cap to The Wedding Present’s Hit Parade project of 30 years previous. That series proved to be a real milestone for the band with them becoming only the second-ever artist to achieve twelve Official UK Top 40 hits in a calendar year—at the time something that only Elvis had achieved! David Gedge says: “When it came to compiling the ‘24 Songs’ album, I decided not to sequence the tracks in chronological order. With six sides of vinyl, you have six ‘beginnings’ and six ‘ends’ to play with, and I felt that the opportunity to build some kind of a musical journey was too good to miss! Listening back to...
3XLP+DVD $42.95
08/04/2023
***Pirates Press Records is unbelievably proud to announce the release of the first new Slackers full length album in seven years, and the first on Pirates! Filled front to back with true hits that could each stand alone as a single, this full length takes you on a real (musical) journey with this legendary band that so many have followed religiously for decades. The New York Times dubbed the Slackers part of 'the sound of New York,’ and the Slackers just keep at it, only getting better with age and experience—writing better and better songs, and continuing to build and strengthen that global Slackers family. This album is a testament to that age and experience.
LP $20.95
03/24/2023
London’s Vacuous finally present their debut album to follow the magnificent 2020 EP Katabasis. Greeting the listener along with the equally gloomy cover-art is an array of spectral and atmospheric death metal that is haunting beyond the nightmarish depths of the human mind. Perhaps owing to their fixation on the human psyche, or the equally inescapable reality their music conjures with contorting riffs, rock-solid drumming and bellowed vocals, chasms of atmosphere are opened to pour one’s own psyche into. One of the most unique things about Vacuous is their ability to play such bludgeoning, heavy music while retaining a very anguished emotional side, lending massively to the cataclysmic ambience of Dreams Of Dysphoria. The outcome of this is music is sonically punishing. From eerily dragging moments of graven doom through to the churning malice of sickeningly twisted fury, there is nothing but charnel brilliance on display here in a truly diverse platter of hostilities. While one could wrongfully assume that there is only simplicity to be found in this style of music, Vacuous have an utterly unique, warped way of writing their songs that is like no other. From the gloomier moments to the gut-wrenching hooks, there is always something slightly off-kilter here that is disquieting and unfamiliar. This feverish and unwelcoming side of the music is hard to shake, which gives the album a genuinely disturbing factor while the absolutely ferocious death metal core is never lost, nor anything short of thrust upon oneself. It would be an easy...
CD $13.00
03/17/2023
MP3 $5.99
03/17/2023
FLAC $6.99
03/17/2023
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. JOANNA NEWSOM follows her Ys album with a new EP featuring a brand new song— “Colleen”—along with newly-recorded and arranged versions of her classics “Cosmia” and “Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie.” Recorded and mixed by TIM GREEN and The Plant in Sausalito, California with backing from the YS STREET BAND—KEVIN BARKER, NEAL MORGAN, DAN CANTRELL and RYAN FRANCESCONI.
12" $17.75
11/12/2021
The Dark Entries Italo drop continues with Garland’s “Heartbeat”. Like the Alex Molo reissue, this is another 1986 dancefloor bomb produced by Claudio Corradini along with Massimo Filippi. Art Déco singer and songwriter Claudio Valenti conceived of Garland as an outlet for his more dancefloor-oriented material. Inspired by Valenti’s time spent in London seeing Steve Strange (of New Romantic group Visage) DJ at Heaven, “Heartbeat” is an epic Italo number with a heavy New Wave stamp. Déjà vu comes over the listener with melodies evoking Debarge and Bronski Beat, but this passes when the fist-pumping, sing-along-worthy chorus hits. Both the “Song Version” and the “Dance Version” are included on this reissue, with the latter featuring an extended intro and stripped down arrangement. “Heartbeat” was remastered by George Horn. The record is housed in a reproduction of the original sleeve and comes on pink vinyl. Also included is a postcard with lyrics, liner notes, and a photograph. This reissue is dedicated to Claudio Corradini, who sadly passed away in 2021.
12" $13.75
03/10/2023
***An impromptu live show at Worship vintage clothes store in Los Angeles, serving as a rehearsal for an acoustic set that would be part of a TY SEAGALL And FREEDOM BAND record release show. Ty along with EMMETT KELLY deliver five songs and show no rehearsal was necessary.
LP $21.25
08/11/2023
“Late in 2021, Slow Season announced they’d become Westing, and that Ben McLeod (also of Nashville’s All Them Witches) was now in the four-piece on lead guitar alongside guitarist, vocalist and keyboardist Daniel Story Rice, bassist Hayden Doyel and drummer / recording engineer Cody Tarbell. Their new LP (fourth overall for Riding Easy), Future, is not coincidentally titled. “Says Rice, ‘We wanted to hit the reset button on some things and so we included a new band name to that list. Fresh start, for the psychological effect of it. We first met Ben in 2014 opening for All Them Witches in San Diego, and we did that again in 2016 and he and Cody corresponded about tape machines, music production, and other similar nerd stuff. We started swapping a few ideas early in 2021 and then flew him out for four days in August 2021. We got Future mostly down in that short span and did some remote stuff for overdubs, but nothing major. Obviously, our creative processes jelled pretty well to allow for such an efficiently productive session.’ “So the story of Westing, and of Future, is about change, but the music makes itself so immediately familiar, it’s so welcoming, that it hardly matters. For about ten years, the Visalia, California, outfit wandered the earth representing a new generational interpretation of classic heavy rock. The tones, warm. The melodies, sweet. The boogie, infectious. They went to ground after supporting their 2016 self-titled third album, and clearly it was time...
CD $12.00
03/31/2023
LP $24.00
04/28/2023
***Civerous is composed of Daniel Salinas (guitar), Lord Foul (vocals), Drew Horton (bass), Alonso Santana (guitar), and Matt Valencia (drums). Decrepit Flesh Relic is their first full length album after a series of smaller projects. Civerous combines both slow, crushing dirges of doom metal with nauseatingly fast blackened death metal, giving the listener a moment of respite before dragging them into a pitch black cavern for more.
LP $20.50
01/27/2023
MC $9.75
05/05/2023
***Over the past 20 years, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. The group’s ninth album and first for Merge establishes them alongside modern luminaries like Yo La Tengo and Superchunk when it comes to their ability to evolve while still retaining what made them so special in the first place. A dazzling and intriguing collection of songs, Continue as a Guest finds bandleader A.C. NEWMAN and his compatriots NEKO CASE, KATHRYN CALDER, JOHN COLLINS, TODD FANCEY and JOE SEIDERS exploring fresh territory and shattering the barriers of their collective comfort zone. Newman began work on Continue as a Guest after the band had finished touring behind 2019’s In the Morse Code of Brake Lights. Themes of isolation and collapse bleed into this album, as Newman tackles the ambivalence of day-to-day life during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Newman says that Continue as a Guest’s title track also addresses the concerns that come with being in a band for so long. “The idea of continuing as a guest felt apropos to the times,” he explains. “Feeling out of place in culture, in society, being in a band that has been around for so long—not feeling like a part of any zeitgeist, but happy to be separate and living your simple life, your long fade-out. Living in a secluded place in an isolated time, it felt like a positive form of acceptance: find your own little nowhere, find some space to fall apart, continue...
LP $22.25
03/31/2023
***Emerging like a missile from some surreptitious silo in southwestern Ohio, The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners—perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be a causal manifestation of their immediate environments—hard-wired and hypnotic synthesized melodies propel alongside churning and scraping percussion of every metallic tonality—with temperamental and eremitic words and voices dictating the forlorn venture. Like their Ohio predecessors, The Serfs seem askew from the art that surrounds them, and proud of it. Pressed on white vinyl.
LP $31.95
01/20/2023
MP3 $7.99
01/20/2023
FLAC $8.99
01/20/2023
***"Oog Bogo is a Los Angeles based outfit oozing from the deviant mind of songwriter Kevin Boog. Boog, along with a cohort of co-conspirators, dissolve a myriad of influences from rock and punk’s outer fringe into a sodium bicarbonate solution. Heat is applied to the mixture until it congeals into a highly potent and smokable material whose idiosyncratic vocal harmonies and manic, unhinged guitar work push and pull against an unrelentingly in-the-pocket rhythm section. This tape, the 12th edition of Shout Recordings’ nefarious Beat Sessions, closely replicates the band’s live dynamic. Tracked at Golden Beat Studios in Los Angeles by Mike Kriebel and Ty Segall, the release features a collection of songs reimagined and reverse engineered from the perverse home recordings of Boog featured on the band’s previous three releases. Recorded immediately after a tour of America’s West Coast and featuring Shelby Jacobson (gtr), Kriebel (gtr), and Marley Jones (dr), the arrangements are refined in a way that only the road can and these 11 songs erupt from the speaker. The performances here are focused, sharp, and completely disturbing."
MC $13.75
01/20/2023
Decapitated Lovers was a short lived Washington D.C. side project from the late 1990’s that featured Myra Power (Slant 6) on guitar and shirtless local she-thug Speck Brown on drums, along with Aaron Montaigne (Heroin, Antioch Arrow), Andy Coronado (Monorchid), and the elusive North Carolina prop-comic Paul Swanson aka “Carrot-Bottom” (In/Humanity) who each took turns filling various duties within the group. The band never practiced all together at the same time and played only once at a not-so-legendary birthday party for Allison Wolfe in her urine soaked living room sometime in 1998. Recorded under forgotten circumstances, the demo has been fermenting patiently for 25 years on a dubbed-over copy of Fidelity Jones’s 1989 masterpiece “Piltdown Lad”. Unearthed by the band after a quarter century, LG Records is proud as can be to present this lost “gem” on a 200 gram one-sided 45 RPM 12” vinyl pressing housed in a sturdy tip-on style cardboard jacket and printed inner sleeve. The rediscovery of the Decapitated Lovers’ hard-core demonic cranium-crushing yet easy going sound will finally legitimize the historically overlooked and underrepresented DC punk scene on the grand musical chessboard and put the city on the map once and for all. Perchance.
12" $16.00
03/03/2023
Coming on like a mutation of all the wild and tempered instrumentation of the Dirty Three in full flow, the ambling and meandering yet intense desert rock of Scenic via a long and delightful trawl around the mountain tops of the Mediterranean coastline—evocative and exhilarating music that pulls you along for the ride!! Although an instrumental record, this album is as joyous as some of the most rambunctious and rowdy pop albums you’re ever likely to hear. Portron Portron Lopez don’t do concepts. There are no great discussions about where they should pull their influences from, or pre-planning about how to structure studio work. The Parisian-formed trio exist in spontaneity, a creative co-habitancy that relies on feel and groove—as evidenced on their three studio albums to-date. Exploratory odysseys that bely the potential pitfalls an improvisational-minded group might fall into during the recording process, they’ve moved between shades of psychedelia and Middle Eastern-inflected drones as well as more electronic and club-based touchstones, doing so in a way that feels effortlessly free. That sense of adventure is furthered still on forthcoming album Ice Cream Soufi.
LP $24.00
12/09/2022
MP3 $7.99
11/18/2022
FLAC $8.99
11/18/2022
***PNV continues to unearth, and release must have albums from the now legendary New York hardcore scene of the early and mid-80s. This compilation compiles URBAN WASTE's rare and pricey debut 7” EP from 1983 along with rare demo tracks and unreleased live tracks. Urban Waste was a juggernaut of NYC Hardcore, hailing from Queens. Known for their intense sludgy sound and ferocious lyrical assaults. Urban Waste was one of the hardest hitting and most original sounding bands in the early 80s New York hardcore scene. The band featured ANDY APATHY on bass formerly of REAGAN YOUTH. The LP is packaged in a cool gatefold sleeve with a multi-page booklet.
LP $24.45
09/30/2022
***The first domestic release of the Partisans second album. Originally released in 1984 on Cloak & Dagger Records. The Time Was Right starts off with a bang—"I Never Needed You," one of the best Punk songs ever written, begs the listener to shout along with the chorus. The album features other indispensable Punk classics like the magnanimous "The Money Rolls In" and the equally impressive "Blind Ambition," which are both teeming with emotion and pleading vocals. Off the live side, some highlights are the entreating "17 Years," "Arms Race," with its Cold War commentary, and "Overdose," with its memorable bass/drum intro and infectious beat.
LP $24.45
09/30/2022
***The long-awaited full-length from Tommy and The Ohs: Mariposa Gold. Ohs’ mastermind Thomas Oliverio has worked alongside some of the biggest names in music today—but with Mariposa Gold, he takes a sharp turn into the psychedelic reaches of American roots music and the avant-garde. The result is a wild trip through a lavish soundscape, a California of fantasy and heartbreak, where genres and traditions bleed together in “the big surreal.” Guided by Oliverio’s fine-tuned sense of production and melody, Mariposa Gold is lush with arrangements that strive toward new and surprising dimensions. These songs sway like hummable country weepers sent through the looking glass, joining sheer virtuosity, worthy of the best session players, to a distinct experimental sensibility shaped by bluegrass, country, and psychedelia.
LP $25.35
09/02/2022
***The debut album from Evan Kertman: Rancho Shalom. Hailing from Los Angeles by way of Japan and West Virginia, Kertman offers sharp-tongued reflections on love and loss in the form of baroque country folk. Recorded alongside multi-instrumentalist Aaron M. Olson, who layers the tracks with harmonica, vibraphone, horns, and strings, Rancho Shalom is a necessity for fans of classic country and Silver Jews, Bob Lind, and Jerry Jeff Walker.
LP $25.35
09/02/2022
***American technical brutal death metal absurdity Edenic Past join Sentient Ruin for a vinyl release of their synapse-twisting first ever LP Red Amarcord. Formed by Colin Marston and Nicholas McMaster of Krallice fame along with vocalist Paulo Paguntalan of Encenathrakh, on the surreal debut offering Edenic Past unfold an absurd and ultra-brutal hallucination of futuristic aural atavism that touches lows of knuckle-dragging sonic primitivism and brutality and peaks of masterful ambient avant-garde deconstructionism that will be both too much to handle or understand for the average “slam” knuckle brains, and too fucking brutal and ignorant for the average elitist prog nerd. Perhaps standing as the most imaginative and visionary “slamming” technical brutal death metal releases ever conceived, with Red Amarcord Edenic Past redefine the outer limits of brutal death metal and set an unprecedented foot in the future for the genre.
LP $17.75
08/06/2021
***Over the last decade-and-a-half, C JOYNES has ploughed a singular furrow through solo guitar, with a body of work incorporating English folk-tunes alongside North & West African music, and lifting proto-minimalist and improvised techniques from the European classical and avant-garde traditions. His new release, Poor Boy On The Wire, is his first full album dedicated wholly to the electric guitar. Through a typically wide-ranging set, Joynes exploits the instrument’s potential by placing intricate parlour music alongside overdriven garage blues throw-downs, wiry electric folk and the brittle ringing tones of free improvisation. However, these explorations of the tones and timbres of close-mic’d guitars and amplification retain an overall coherence and unity through the deliberate use of a limited palette of budget instruments and vintage equipment.
LP $23.50
08/05/2022
***The third volume in the PNV Joneses reissue series compiles their tracks from their Tits and Champagne EP (1989) and their self-released Anita Fix EP (1999), along with rare unreleased recordings.
LP $24.45
07/15/2022
***The second volume in the PNV Joneses reissue series compiles their tracks from the infamous Hell Comes To Your House Part II comp (1983) plus their sleaze soaked rock n roll debut LP Keeping Up With The Joneses (1986) along with other rare tracks.
LP $24.45
07/15/2022
***New collection from PNV Records of classic material from UK Punks Blitzkrieg. Our new album compiles their debut 1982 Lest We Forget. EP on legendary UK label No Future along with their self-released 2nd EP Animals In Lipstick from 1983 along with rare live tracks. Blitzkrieg were an 80s UK Punk band from Southport who lasted from 1981 to 1984 and are remembered for the ferocious and crushing sound.
LP $24.45
07/15/2022
***Available for the first time on a vinyl LP, PNV has compiled all the rare collectible 7” vinyl only tracks from 1982-1984 along with their sought after and rare Demo recording. Essential early 80s UK Punk/Hardcore.
LP $24.45
07/15/2022
***BACK IN STOCK!!! It’s springtime again and you need a soundtrack for your spring evenings. Nothing beats AL GREEN when it’s time to sip your Courvoisier on your white pleather couch, be it alone or with that special someone... Ten classic tracks from 1975. Try it. Satisfaction guaranteed.
LP $28.85
06/08/2009
The Secret Stars debut was a cassette-only release issued by Shrimper Records in 1995. Geoff Farina and Jodi Leo would record two more full length releases on Shrimper in the mid to late ’90s along with some seven-inch singles and scattered tracks. Geoff Farina would continue to write and record both solo and in the band Karate. Leo has recorded some solo records in the years since The Secret Stars disbanded. This reissue of the first cassette has never sounded so good. It has been painstakingly mastered from the original cassette by Carl Saff. The vinyl pressed at Smashed Plastic Pressing, the CD and digital taken from this mastering. Attention has been paid to detail, making the experience of listening analog or digitally reminiscent of the cassette experience. The tracks are banded as two tracks, side one and side two on the LP and as track one and two on the CD. The first press of the LP is on limited edition clear vinyl with a tour poster reproduction insert. The CD press is in a digipack. Both include new liner notes by Dennis Callaci.
CD $12.00
07/01/2022
LP $22.00
07/01/2022
MP3 $9.90
07/01/2022
FLAC $11.99
07/01/2022
“We’ve always done things our own way and without any outside pressure,” says Paul Isherwood of The Soundcarriers. “Making music like this keeps things fresh, you always lose something and gain something as you go along but I think of it as just another chapter.” There have been many chapters in the life of the band to date and each one is defined by the singular approach and style of the group. Since forming in 2007 the band—comprised of Isherwood, Adam Cann, Dorian Conway and Leonore Wheatley—have released three albums that position them as a distinct and unique force in British music. Eschewing fads and trends that come and go, they have instead focused on honing their own sonic world that glides between woozy psychedelia, immersive grooves, subtle pop and rich, enveloping soundscapes. They’ve consistently moved at their own pace and on their own terms and on their fourth album, Wilds, they return after seven years since their last. “The sessions started in a cottage in the wilds so there’s a literal meaning,” Isherwood says of the title. “But figuratively we’ve pretty much been in the wild for the last few years as far as a lot of people are concerned.” The recording was staggered over a few different locations, from cottages to primary schools, before finishing in an art gallery. “The beauty of recording in non-studio studios is you have the time for the unexpected to happen,” says Isherwood. “Which is really what keeps you coming back...
CD $17.50
06/17/2022
LP $28.00
06/17/2022
***BACK IN STOCK ON NEW RED VINYL!!! A stunning combination of style, vision, and execution. Crime of Passing, alongside related projects like The Serfs and The Drin, are at the helm of Cincinnati, Ohio's vibrant post-punk underground. Led by Andie Luman's fervent vocals, Crime of Passing's self-titled debut album is a wondrously textured web of sound. Shades of early '80s post-punk, synth-driven electro pop, and heavier Industrial/Krautrock tones combine across an album both instantly memorable and futuristic. Nine cold tracks for a new dark age.
LP $21.95
04/29/2022
CD $11.25
08/25/2023
MP3 $9.90
04/29/2022
FLAC $9.90
04/29/2022
***The second studio album from Brooklyn New York Street Punks the Krays will be released on vinyl for the first time ever. The album has been out of print since its initial release on CD only in 1999 on Temperance Records. Known for their aggressive Mohican catchy sing along street Punk stylings with elements of classic NYCHC elements. Members have served in other popular NYC bands such as The Devotchkas, The Casualties, Model Citizen, NY Rel-X, Roger Miret and The Disasters.
LP $23.50
05/20/2022
***Top-notch Punk Rock from SF, the PNV discography compilation features all the tracks from both of their collectable 7inches “In Vagueness Deal” (1979) and “Waiting for A Change / All We Wanna Do” (1980) plus the entire mind blowing “No More” (1983) mini-LP along with two unreleased tracks from the same era. The Breakouts were a powerhouse SF punk band known for lead singer Rudy Fontaine’s awesome vocals and killer song writing. Their 1983 track “Junkies All Around You” was college and underground radio staple. They toured the USA with Italian Hardcore legends Raw Power in 85.
LP $23.50
03/18/2022
Swiss musician Delia Meshlir didn’t realize what her voice could do when she started out playing music. Through such groups as the drudge-rock Cheyenne and experimental Primitive Trails, Meshlir let the music lead her singing along. It wasn’t until she began writing the songs for Calling The Unknown that she started allowing her vocals to preside. Unbounded by structure, Delia Meshlir’s first full-length under her name brings layers of beauty, intensity and strength, all coming to a head with her striking vocal delivery. Having acquired a stocking job at Irascible, a label based in Lausanne, Switzerland, dedicated to promoting local talent, Meshlir had the ideal launching point for her music. Now, in coordination with Irascible, Ba Da Bing will be releasing Calling The Unknown in North America. Meshlir lost her grandmother while preparing the album, and many of the tracks reflect seeking a path through grief with love. On “A River”, she explores where feelings can exist when they are for someone who has passed. She sings: “I’m calling the unknown / but no one remains.” As the first song on the album, it serves as a perfect introduction, with refined drumming, reverb-wrapped guitars and tasteful saxophone lines. At command of a full band, Meshlir never abuses the opportunity, often having members hold back in restraint and add mere touches of color to her songs. However, when more urgency is required, she adapts beautifully, as on the raw and driven track “Dirty Colors”. Ultimately, the album is an invitation to...
LP $17.50
04/22/2022
CD $9.50
04/22/2022
MP3 $7.99
03/18/2022
FLAC $8.99
03/18/2022
Francesco Messina is perhaps best known for his collaboration with fellow composer Raul Lovisoni on the album Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo, originally released on seminal Italian label Cramps in 1979. Along with contemporaries Franco Battiato, Juri Camisasca and Giusto Pio, Messina would help reshape the world of modern composition with an organic rawness and haunting beauty. In 1979, Messina was asked to perform at the Teatro Quartiere in Milan. As the composer writes in the liner notes, “Due to the limited availability of key technical features, it would have been too complicated to perform Prati Bagnati, and therefore I opted for these three pieces instead. We had never actually tried them all together, so I thought about renting a recording studio the previous afternoon. In that way, we could rehearse in a suitable place and use the opportunity to record the music on tape.” Unreleased for over thirty years, the recordings on Reflex have an unadorned, almost improvisational feel. “Untitled” (featuring Lovisoni’s plaintive flute) and “I Nuovi Pescheti” are full of meditative piano passages that lend an aura of new age, while the title track is more insistent with unfurling chords layered in real time via a reel-to-reel tape machine, resembling Steve Reich’s mesmeric phase-shifting works of the ’60s. A central figure within the Italian avant-garde, Francesco Messina gracefully expands his country’s contribution to Minimalism. This first-time vinyl release is recommended for fans of Joanna Brouk, Luciano Cilio and Charlemagne Palestine.
12" $17.50
03/04/2022
MP3 $4.99
03/04/2022
FLAC $5.99
03/04/2022
Cremation Lily’s debut album for The Flenser, Dreams Drenched in Static exists at the convergence of consciousness and disintegration. Artist and multi-instrumentalist Zen Zsigo’s ingenuity and vulnerability is on full display throughout the course of the album’s ten tracks — glacial soundscapes float alongside earnest lyrics that capture the author in the midst of collapse.Written throughout a culmination of years of chaos, Dreams Drenched in Static serves as part diary and part comfort blanket. The album was penned over countless sleepless nights and documents the liminal moments at the edge of sleep and the distressing thoughts that often accompany late-night R.E.M. disturbances. The lyrics were largely written in the darkest hours of the morning and serve to evoke reflection, depression and meditations on death that seem to haunt these early hours.Through the use of radiant tape hiss and degradation, guitar noise, frenetic vocal melodies and field recording samples, Cremation Lily creates a distinctive sensory experience. At times ambient and atmospheric, at others meditative and euphoric, Dreams Drenched in Static floats back and forth from fantasy to reality. Zsigo’s penchant for creating and dismantling traditional songwriting by using one-of-a-kind home-modified devices such as cassette walkman, micro-cassette dictaphone, circuit-bent Casio keyboard, various sequencers and self-created and tape loops weathered by nature and environment, creates an aqueous and all-encompassing aural encounter. Zsigo comments, “The processing on the album and the concept of it is a product of how it was made. After expressing pain and suffering in the recording of the songs, I...
LP $19.00
04/15/2022
MC $9.75
04/15/2022
MP3 $8.99
04/15/2022
FLAC $9.90
04/15/2022
***Available for the first time all the studio recordings of UK Punk band The Cause, the LP includes their rare and collectable 1984 7-inch "Silent Cry" along with both of their unreleased rare studio demos "Violence" and "Solider Boy." (STREET DATE - 1/28/2022)
LP $23.50
01/28/2022
***The debut album from Brooklyn New York Street Punks The Krays will be reissued after being out of print since its initial release in 1998 on Tribal War Records. Known for their aggressive mohican catchy sing along street Punk stylings with elements of classic NYCHC elements. Members have served in other popular NYC bands such as The Devotchkas, The Casualties, Model Citizen, NY Rel-X, Roger Miret and The Disasters.
LP $23.50
01/28/2022
Hyperdontia is a name that needs little introduction. In 2018 this Turkish-Danish death metal machine unleashed A Nexus Of Teeth which proved to be some of the most astounding death metal of recent years, earning the band a huge amount of respect. Along with a couple of EPs and a split with Mortiferum, the quality of their music has remained consistently high. Now they return with their second full length opus Hideous Entity. Opening with a charnel blend of doomy riffs and cavernous drum work, the band draw once more from the spectral vein of old school death metal with their own crushing blend of slower moving extremity. Those lurking riffs that change angle rapidly into ever-evolving depths of ferocity meet a busy and incredibly able drum performance, aided by monstrous vocals to ensure the entire band has a monolithic sound of pure obliteration. To balance such unfathomable musicianship with a tendency for catchiness and groove ensures one receives an expansive and unforgettable experience that will not only destroy but also stick with the listener long after the album finishes. There is a definite progression in instrumentation here as warped bass lines underline the venomous riffing and bombastic drums in a manner that can only be described as otherworldly. While A Nexus Of Teeth was a blunt force trauma of pure death metal hammering, this recording is razor sharp, though holding onto all of the great characteristics of its predecessor, they have not been afraid to experiment and embolden the...
CD $12.00
12/24/2021
MP3 $7.92
12/03/2021
FLAC $8.99
12/03/2021
Michael Price's new album, The Hope of Better Weather is part reissue and part reworks, taking his 2012 EP, The Hope of Better Weather, originally recorded by Price alone in a room with a piano improvising, and brings it fully to life with the addition of a series of re-workings by Yann Tiersen, Bill Ryder-Jones, Malibu, Peter Gregson and Eluvium. The five pieces, alongside these new re-workings capture a stark beauty, tenderness and delicacy in their tone. But they are also wind-like in their shifting, expansive and elemental essence—capturing an exploration of the natural world. Most musicians, if they are lucky, will master one craft or field within their career. For Michael Price, he’s managed three, with his music spanning across piano, orchestral and soundtrack work. The soundtrack work—for TV shows such as Sherlock, Dracula, and Unforgotten, and films such as Eternal Beauty, Cheerful Weather and Just Jim—has seen Price win an Emmy, as well as receive countless nominations (including a BAFTA nomination). His work as a solo artist takes the form of beautiful improvised piano works, such as Diary (2017), or via lush, grand, hyper-detailed orchestral work, as heard on critically acclaimed releases via Erased Tapes such as Entanglement (2015) and Tender Symmetry (2018). His latest release, The Hope of Better Weather, is rooted in the piano world but also exists as a bridge crossing into new terrain.
LP $22.00
12/17/2021
***Third Man Records proudly reissues Northern Americans album Going Steady. Originally released in 2018 in extremely limited numbers, Going Steady features North American's main man Patrick McDermott playing acoustic guitar and moog alongside contributions from Meg Duffy, Juliana Barwick, Hayden Pedigo, Dylan Baldy, and Joel Williams creating a gorgeous dusky instrumental album of cosmic pastoral sounds. Each song on Going Steady glimmers and shines, and taken in it's entirety is like a beautiful sunset transforming into a star-filled evening. This album has soundtracked countless late-night conversations on my front porch in Tennessee, as well as the next morning's coffee and sunrise. It is the American Songbook read, ingested and transformed into something completely new for our post-everything world. Featuring ground-breaking artwork from underground artist, Brian Blomerth, Going Steady is an album to stimulate all of your senses, a gorgeous and centering listen and a much-needed album in any collection of freak-folk or acoustic American albums.
LP $18.75
10/22/2021
"I'm considering, I'm considering, a move to Gothenburg... Alongside being in possession of the last great previously untaken band name, Treasury of Puppies arrive with a debut album that adds increasing cogency to the argument that Sweden is producing the most interesting new music in the world right now, with Gothenburg its spiritual point of convergence. The association with Förlag För Fri Musik provides ideal context (possibly even the inspiration, given how central the label is to modern Swedish music?) for the music of Charlott Malmenholt and Joakim Karlsson, which finds a midpoint between the late 80s/early 90s scorched earth underground of Siltbreeze & Xpressway and a more European tradition of avant / neo folk volksmusik, speaking as much to the haunted music box melodies of Brannten Schnurre as it does Current 93s horror of the countryside. Is this Sweden's hidden reverse? Or maybe this is just Sweden? You could resurrect a church inside this sound, devotional music that draws you in siren-like, the alternating sing-speak vocal deliveries both lullaby and gothic harbinger of... SOMETHING UNKNOWN. Can you levitate all the way to Gothenburg?" - World Of Echo
LP $22.00
05/20/2022
***On vinyl for the first time anywhere in the world,the debut demo tape from long running Polish punk band Sexbomba, this collection features their rare 1989 debut demo tape along with extras provided by the band and label. This collection was available briefly in Poland on CD in 2006 other than that one time it was only on a self released demo cassette in 1989. Sexbomba is one of longest running and most popular Polish punk bands. Great catchy pogo inspired punk with a healthy dose of Lurkers/ Ramones worship thrown into the mix. 2nd installment in the Eastern Bloc series. limited to 300 copies.
LP $21.95
08/13/2021
***BACK IN STOCK ON LIMITED MIXED COLORED VINYL!!! Note price increase. Antichrist Siege Machine was formed in 2016 as an alliance between RZ and SB. Through extensive touring along the east coast and multiple releases, the band has solidified their place as a violent force to be reckoned with. Each effort has further developed the duo’s sound, enhancing the barbarity of previous releases. The storm now approaches. Antichrist Siege Machine are prepared to release their new full length album Purifying Blade. Sustaining the unhinged violence on display on 2020’s Filth Of The World EP, they rise victorious in the temple assaulted. Each track on here is a weapon wielded by wickedness and hatred directed at the heart of Christendom. Faces of black evil, shields hardened with the cracked ribs of the dead.
LP $24.00
10/08/2021
CD $12.00
10/08/2021
MP3 $7.99
10/08/2021
FLAC $8.99
10/08/2021
***The highly praised early 90s Mexican black metal masterpiece once again available on vinyl format with proper packaging. Includes all album tracks in their original mix, along with four extra tracks taken from their split demo with Avzhia. Features completely reworked layout.
2XLP $28.75
08/13/2021
***Oduor Nyagweno is one of the last great elder players of the nyatiti, the eight stringed lyre of the Luo people from along the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. This is a collection of recordings done by Michigan based freak musician Dr. Pete Larson on his cell phone during their weekly lessons. Featuring a range of nyatiti songs, from traditional to modern, songs of heartbreak, tribute songs, salacious songs of randy happenings and musings on life, this could be one of the most comprehensive collections of material from one of the greatest practitioners of the traditional musical arts.
LP $17.75
07/09/2021
***Funeral Winds formed in 1991 as a trio composed of Hellchrist Xul (guitars/vocals), Gorgoroth (vocals), and Esteban (drums). Along with Bestial Summoning, which was founded approximately one year earlier, Funeral Winds was among the earliest of black metal bands to emerge from the Netherlands, and its activity through to the present day makes it one of the most significant in the country’s history. Given the era of the band’s formative years and its relative proximity to Norway, it is not surprising that Funeral Winds played in a style similar to that of the more well-known Norse bands like Mayhem and Gorgoroth. Prior to the release of its debut album, Godslayer Xul, in 1998, Funeral Winds recorded three demos, an EP, and a split CD with Abigail. These early recordings were later reissued by two different labels on two separate compilations entitled Screaming for Resurrection… and The Unheavenly Saviour in 2004 and 2019, respectively. These collections are hereby resurrected on vinyl by Nuclear War Now!, a few months after first being made available on cassette by the same label. The Unheavenly Saviour compiles the first two demos (Rehearsal 1992 and La Majeste Infernable), a live track, and an unreleased studio track from 1995 on a single LP. The Screaming for Resurrection… DLP consists of the third demo, Resurrection…, the Thy Eternal Flame EP, and the tracks from the split release with Abigail.
LP $19.25
06/25/2021
***Funeral Winds formed in 1991 as a trio composed of Hellchrist Xul (guitars/vocals), Gorgoroth (vocals), and Esteban (drums). Along with Bestial Summoning, which was founded approximately one year earlier, Funeral Winds was among the earliest of black metal bands to emerge from the Netherlands, and its activity through to the present day makes it one of the most significant in the country’s history. Given the era of the band’s formative years and its relative proximity to Norway, it is not surprising that Funeral Winds played in a style similar to that of the more well-known Norse bands like Mayhem and Gorgoroth. Prior to the release of its debut album, Godslayer Xul, in 1998, Funeral Winds recorded three demos, an EP, and a split CD with Abigail. These early recordings were later reissued by two different labels on two separate compilations entitled Screaming for Resurrection… and The Unheavenly Saviour in 2004 and 2019, respectively. These collections are hereby resurrected on vinyl by Nuclear War Now!, a few months after first being made available on cassette by the same label. The Unheavenly Saviour compiles the first two demos (Rehearsal 1992 and La Majeste Infernable), a live track, and an unreleased studio track from 1995 on a single LP. The Screaming for Resurrection… DLP consists of the third demo, Resurrection…, the Thy Eternal Flame EP, and the tracks from the split release with Abigail.
2XLP $28.75
06/25/2021
Formerly on Fluorescent Paper delivers 14 jaunts culled from the artist’s tape soup collage of several generations’ worth of punk and no-wave adjacent music. Be it jagged, angular, short tracks… atonal layers in otherwise listener-friendly settings… repetitive string clang aside gurgling synth and flailing reed-bite… Soft Shoulder continues to be the primary vehicle for Fella’s take on songwriting, in whatever the loosely defined genre(s) may be. However, compared to Not The New One (an eclectic collection of various incarnations), Contextual Depreciation (performance and practice tapes from the current group) and the recent Copy Machine Fall Down 7” (an abstract, long-distance-collaboration) …Formerly On Fluorescent Paper finds Fella alone. Written and recorded in the fever-dream of late 2020. Mastered by John Dieterich. (STREET DATE - 7/09/2021)
LP $17.00
07/09/2021
MP3 $9.90
07/09/2021
FLAC $11.99
07/09/2021
***NOW ON RED / CYAN / BONE TRI-COLOR MERGE W/ SILVER & GOLD SPLATTER!!! Spirit Adrift refuses to slow down. With Enlightened In Eternity, Nathan Garrett, alongside drummer Marcus Bryant, has created yet another monument to the timelessness of heavy metal. And while this album builds on the sizable foundation established by previous releases, it also sets itself apart in formidable new ways, widening the scope of what Spirit Adrift can be. What this band has mastered, and where others have failed, is the ability to invoke the power of metal’s past, whether it be the ’70s, ’80s or even the ’90s, as one hears here, without ever feeling throwback or “retro”. Spirit Adrift urgently represent the sonic and emotional zeitgeist of 2020. Enlightened In Eternity carries the same enormous magnitude of the most significant metal records of every era, but Garrett has carved out his own place among the greatest of songwriters, by crafting uniquely classic and instantly recognizable songs. Vocally, Garrett again showcases an obvious evolution of his already high-level ability with more soaring soul and snarling venom injected into his classic metal form. The gorgeous guitar leads, melodies, harmonies and unforgettably heavy riffs benefit from a huge, timeless production quality. Bryant has elevated his drumming to new levels of intensity and tasteful subtlety. And as always, the tracks remain imprinted on the mind long after the album has finished. Whether it’s the ever-expanding catalog of incredible albums and songs or the searing live performances, the dominance of...
LP $22.00
06/25/2021
When Molly Nilsson began recording her second album Europa in 2009, the world seemed to be at a turning point and she along with it. In the aftermath of a global financial crash, at the dawn of a new decade, the Stockholm-born, Berlin-based singer was busy molding her songwriting into an idiosyncratic, personal mythology that would take her to every continent, speaking directly to hearts in every corner of the globe. The first album on her own Dark Skies Association imprint, the first recorded in her home studio The Lighthouse, Europa broke new ground for Nilsson at the time. But also it spoke earnestly to the world about an idealism, an openness and hope that has not dimmed in the eleven years since its release. Europa contains the songs of a young, idealistic songwriter coming to terms with her genius for cutting to the chase, saying it as it is and, most importantly, as it should be. Over ten years on the artist’s vim and urge for...more.
LP $20.25
05/28/2021
CD $16.00
05/28/2021
The twelfth studio record by Refrigerator expands the line-up to five with the addition of Mark Givens from WCKR SPGT on second guitar. Along for the ride are guest appearances by legendary singer Claudia Lennear (vocals on the first single “Broken Glass Shore”), Shrimper Records stalwart Franklin Bruno, and the additional hand of Scott Solter, who mixed the record, which rests in a gorgeous sleeve with artwork by Jean Smith. The lovely live bleed of a band playing together in one room—guitars spilling onto the drum tracks, cymbals biting into the feedback from the amps—captures the live sound of Refrigerator as never before on record as caught by engineer Steve Folta. There are two physical versions of the record, one on black 160 gram vinyl, as well as a deluxe edition, available on green and white swirled vinyl that couples a bonus CD with six tracks to a fifty page Bamboo Dart Press chapbook that features drawings, short stories, photographs, lyrics and essays by the band, in an edition of 150 copies.
LP $19.75
05/14/2021
MP3 $9.90
05/14/2021
FLAC $11.99
05/14/2021
The twelfth studio record by Refrigerator expands the line-up to five with the addition of Mark Givens from WCKR SPGT on second guitar. Along for the ride are guest appearances by legendary singer Claudia Lennear (vocals on the first single “Broken Glass Shore”), Shrimper Records stalwart Franklin Bruno, and the additional hand of Scott Solter, who mixed the record, which rests in a gorgeous sleeve with artwork by Jean Smith. The lovely live bleed of a band playing together in one room—guitars spilling onto the drum tracks, cymbals biting into the feedback from the amps—captures the live sound of Refrigerator as never before on record as caught by engineer Steve Folta. There are two physical versions of the record, one on black 160 gram vinyl, as well as a deluxe edition, available on green and white swirled vinyl that couples a bonus CD with six tracks to a fifty page Bamboo Dart Press chapbook that features drawings, short stories, photographs, lyrics and essays by the band, in an edition of 150 copies.
LP+CD $29.00
05/14/2021
***Bakersfield post-punk duo FAWNS OF LOVE are back with their second KXLU Part Time Punks radio session titled, Part Time Punks Session: Permanent Revisited 12” EP. With this release this wife and husband duo further evolve their post-punk ethos using Cocteau Twins inspired reverb drenched vocals along with New Order inspired guitar leads and sequences. It features a live performance at Cave Studio (recorded by JOSIAH MAZZASCHI) of five tracks that originally appeared on their Permanent LP. Fawns of Love sought to add new dimensions to these five tracks by reworking the songs and creating new versions specifically tailored for Michael Stock’s Part Time Punks radio show on KXLU. Since the release of their critically acclaimed 2019 LP Permanent (Test Pattern), which according to LA Weekly, “...creates gorgeous swathes of moody, melancholic music,” the duo has had the honor of being LA Weekly’s album of the week, being one of Grimy Goods’ “20 Bands to Watch in 2020,” and the honor of being included in an impressive range of Best of 2019 end of the year lists including The Big Takeover Magazine, Ghettoblaster, Part Time Punks, and The Current. Fawns of Love also had the privilege of performing with many prolific DAIS Records acts including Choir Boy, Xeno & Oaklander, Cold Showers, and SRSQ. Lastly, FoL was thrilled to be a part of Michael Stock’s Part Time Punks 14th Anniversary and to be included in the Echo Park Rising Music Festival (2019) lineup. One time pressing on BLUE...
12" $17.75
10/23/2020
“I was guzzling wine at my favorite bar in San Francisco, the Rite Spot, and the entertainment that night was some local opera singers singing along with a big video screen showing a collage of various operatic moments with subtitles. One particular subtitle, ‘Ah! (etc)’ made me laugh, I thought it was a perfect description of life—the joy of existence against the etcetera of it all, the struggle. With a heavy head of rosé it seemed like ecstatic poetry! I scribbled it on a napkin and thought it might make a good title for something” And so the mystery behind the title of Kelley Stoltz’s new record is solved. Less of a mystery is the quality contained therein: after twelve releases and a several more under pseudonyms, Stoltz is the word for “one-man-band-home-recording-pop-songs of idiosyncratic character.” A quick follow up to his more power pop and pub rock LP only Hard Feelings offering in the summer, Ah! (etc) finds Stoltz returning to his sweet spot, writing songs that never were, but should have been in the ’60s and ’80s. As with other releases, Stoltz makes virtually every noise on the album which was written and recorded in 2019 at his Electric Duck Studio in San Francisco. A few friends popped in to play along: Stoltz former bandmate, Echo & the Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant adds electric guitar to “The Quiet Ones” a sort of Scott Walker lyrical take on strangers and neighbors. Karina Denike formerly of Dance Hall Crashers adds...
LP $20.25
12/11/2020
CD $16.00
12/11/2020
MP3 $9.90
11/27/2020
FLAC $11.99
11/27/2020
***While the 1980s output of Australia’s oft misunderstood Severed Heads is well known, the 2000s were also an intensely creative period for the group. Along with a periodical magazine/album called Op, SH released limited hand-cut discs, two computer games and a handful of ultra-rare artworks. Medical Records is proud to present a new museum Clifford 2000—-a 180-gram double album holding 18 years of music over four sides of continuous montage personally segued by Mr. Ellard himself.
2XLP $28.25
12/11/2020
***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
Spirit Adrift refuses to slow down. With Enlightened In Eternity, Nathan Garrett, alongside drummer Marcus Bryant, has created yet another monument to the timelessness of heavy metal. And while this album builds on the sizable foundation established by previous releases, it also sets itself apart in formidable new ways, widening the scope of what Spirit Adrift can be. What this band has mastered, and where others have failed, is the ability to invoke the power of metal’s past, whether it be the ’70s, ’80s or even the ’90s, as one hears here, without ever feeling throwback or “retro”. Spirit Adrift urgently represent the sonic and emotional zeitgeist of 2020. Enlightened In Eternity carries the same enormous magnitude of the most significant metal records of every era, but Garrett has carved out his own place among the greatest of songwriters, by crafting uniquely classic and instantly recognizable songs. Vocally, Garrett again showcases an obvious evolution of his already high-level ability with more soaring soul and snarling venom injected into his classic metal form. The gorgeous guitar leads, melodies, harmonies and unforgettably heavy riffs benefit from a huge, timeless production quality. Bryant has elevated his drumming to new levels of intensity and tasteful subtlety. And as always, the tracks remain imprinted on the mind long after the album has finished. Whether it’s the ever-expanding catalog of incredible albums and songs or the searing live performances, the dominance of Spirit Adrift upon the current heavy metal landscape is now undeniable. And while Enlightened...
LP $19.00
10/16/2020
CD $12.00
10/16/2020
MP3 $9.90
10/16/2020
FLAC $11.99
10/16/2020
ON LIMITED GRAY INSIDE PINK W/ WHITE SPLATTER VINYL!!! Spirit Adrift refuses to slow down. With Enlightened In Eternity, Nathan Garrett, alongside drummer Marcus Bryant, has created yet another monument to the timelessness of heavy metal. And while this album builds on the sizable foundation established by previous releases, it also sets itself apart in formidable new ways, widening the scope of what Spirit Adrift can be. What this band has mastered, and where others have failed, is the ability to invoke the power of metal’s past, whether it be the ’70s, ’80s or even the ’90s, as one hears here, without ever feeling throwback or “retro”. Spirit Adrift urgently represent the sonic and emotional zeitgeist of 2020. Enlightened In Eternity carries the same enormous magnitude of the most significant metal records of every era, but Garrett has carved out his own place among the greatest of songwriters, by crafting uniquely classic and instantly recognizable songs. Vocally, Garrett again showcases an obvious evolution of his already high-level ability with more soaring soul and snarling venom injected into his classic metal form. The gorgeous guitar leads, melodies, harmonies and unforgettably heavy riffs benefit from a huge, timeless production quality. Bryant has elevated his drumming to new levels of intensity and tasteful subtlety. And as always, the tracks remain imprinted on the mind long after the album has finished. Whether it’s the ever-expanding catalog of incredible albums and songs or the searing live performances, the dominance of Spirit Adrift upon...
LP $22.00
10/16/2020
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Robert Rental is an artist as influential as he is overlooked. An anchor of the early British DIY and post-punk scene, his name is most frequently uttered alongside illustrious collaborators such as Thomas Leer and Daniel Miller. Dark Entries and Optimo ally to illuminate some of Rental’s early solo works with an expanded reissue of his debut 7” "Paralysis/A.C.C." Both labels have previously excavated Rental’s catalog; we reissued the collaborative LP with Glenn Wallis in 2017, and Optimo released a collection of demos in 2018. The double A-side "Paralysis /A.C.C." 7” was self-released on Regular Records in 1978, around the same time as Leer’s "Private Plane/Internationa"l 7”. The record is a perfect document of the DIY ethos. It was recorded with the assistance of Leer in the council flat that Robert lived in, using an assortment of budget electronics: a Roland drum machine, a Stylophone, an Electroharmonix DrQ, and a TEAC A3440 4-track recorder. The record’s sleeves were surreptitiously photocopied after hours at the offices of Virgin Records by Robert's partner Hilary Farrow, and the labels were hand-stamped The initial print run was a scant 650 copies. With its prominent notes of Krautrock, prog, dub, and ambient, "Paralysis/A.C.C." points to a then-emergent musical form. “Paralysis” makes its four and a half minute runtime feel like an eon, an endless morass of processed vocals and mournful melodies underpinned by the static whirrings of synthesizers. “A.C.C.” is an angular pop song that is at once both fractured and droning,...
12" $12.00
07/31/2020
For the past five years, Australia’s Faceless Burial have been flying the flag of classicist ’90s death metal, first across a demo in 2015 and then the subsequent (and acclaimed) Grotesque Miscreation debut album in 2017, along with the follow-up Multiversal Abattoir 12-inch a year later. Those latter two recordings, in particular, portrayed the potency of this power-trio, displaying an unremittingly dark and dexterous sound which draws in a variety of death metal traditions. Going from strength to strength, the band play their strongest hand yet with the full-length Speciation. Altogether sharper and more finessed than all previous, this release spreads unimaginable death metal might with malignant ease. This band exudes a charm that’s all their own, which largely comes down to the songwriting itself. Preceding records maintained a murky ’n’ malodorous aspect, predominantly in the sound; here it’s been parlayed into tense ’n’ treacherous textures. Otherwise, no great changes have been made, nor should there be: forever twisting and never stagnating, each of these six songs reveals new corridors through which to spelunk, and efficiently so across the album’s deceptively epic 36-minute runtime. Thankfully, once again, Faceless Burial evade the riff-salad tendencies of so much tech-oriented death metal; their sound isn’t so much a restless blast through scattershot ideas as it is an endlessly malforming entity making rude shapes, and now one colored by narrative lead work. Which is to say nothing of the album’s powerful production, rendered in authentically analogue tones, further underlining the band’s...
CD $12.00
08/21/2020
MP3 $6.99
08/07/2020
FLAC $7.99
08/07/2020
***FUTURE ISLANDS bassist WILLIAM CASHION collects postcards. Years in one of the country’s hardest-touring bands often find him rushing from destination to destination without time to take a deep breath, let alone be present in each locale’s sights and sounds. But bringing home postcards helps coalesce ephemeral moments into souvenirs he can return to and access again. In crafting his first solo record, Cashion experimented in the studio, driven by a potentially infinite riddle: “what is the sound of a song that has no beginning and no end?” Exploring music’s unique ability to distort our sense of the passage of time—or even take us outside it—Cashion welcomed elements of repetition and chance into his process. The sessions were also highly informed by meditation, a new regular practice Cashion introduced to his daily routine during this period. The resulting album builds upon the most intriguing results of months of exploratory writing sessions. Acclaimed UK designer CHRIS BIGG helped visualize the world of Postcard Music, and Cashion’s wife, visual artist ELENA JOHNSTON contributed a painting to the album's inner sleeve. Cashion and Johnston have previously worked together on a series of collaborative paintings and brightly colored, curved neon light sculptures. During downtime between projects, he retreats to the beaches of North Carolina near where Future Islands formed. The eleven songs here were recorded in sessions in the Outer Banks, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Cashion’s current hometown Baltimore.
LP $19.75
07/17/2020
***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
***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
“Originating as a multi-channel installation commissioned by Nottingham Contemporary in 2018, the four extended pieces here were recorded at home in Morecambe Bay and then subsequently placed in a room alongside works by Moki Cherry (spouse of Don, mother of Neneh and Eagle-Eye Cherry), Penny Slinger, and a collection of static musical instruments the piece was intended to complement. As a follow-up to Sterling’s 2017 cult hit ‘Hollywood Medieval’ for The Death of Rave, ‘Laced With Rumour’ works with notably more fluid and gently psychoactive structuring that takes in seemingly disparate influences - from Roman mythology to Nottingham’s Lace industry - that result in a sprawling but intimate world of sound, characterised by aetheric arrangements that effectively elide the disciplines of spiritual jazz, chamber music, and art installation into something altogether new. Much like Kara-Lis Coverdale’s converging interests in traditional vs hyper-modern, acoustic vs artificial and synthetic modes of sound, Sterling’s work here is fluid and unorthodox, but rooted in a deep understanding of convention which he proceeds to bend and shape at will. The album opens with a slowly contemplative and almost solemn drift between ‘Laced’, which features samples of Don Cherry weft into its tingling fray of electro-acoustic timbres, alongside the breezy chamber strokes of ‘With Rumour’, the hallucinogenic qualities of ‘Loud-Speaker’, and the darker revelation ‘Of Truth’, which concludes with a transition from mired murk to tones that channel Maxwell’s refined cinematic nous. One of those albums that's impossible to fully absorb in one sitting, ‘Laced...
MP3 $9.90
05/01/2020
FLAC $11.99
05/01/2020
***The latest from COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS. Produced by ANDREW SARLO (Big Thief) and featuring BIG THIEF drummer JAMES KRIVCHENIA, along with Big Thief collaborator and TWAIN member MATTHEW DAVIDSON. “Old Flowers is about heartbreak. There are a million records and songs about that, but I did not lie when writing these songs. This album is about loving and caring for the person you know you can’t be with. It’s about being afraid to be vulnerable after you’ve been hurt. It’s about a woman who is alone, but okay with that, if it means truth. This was my truth this year—my nine-year relationship ended and I’m a woman alone in the world, but happy to know herself.”—Courtney Marie Andrews. Pressed on colored vinyl.
LP $25.45
07/17/2020
***Here to take the (20)20's by storm, Cleveland's THE COWBOY bless us with their second full length, WiFi on The Prairie. Yes, there's more genius to this album than the title alone! Hot on the heels of a new EP on Drunken Sailor, WiFi on the Prairie follows with twelve tracks of brute, urgent guitar music steeped in Cleveland's rich rock history. The Cowboy apply a wonderful angularity to the old budget rock formula, (see 2/3 of the lineup's previous work in HOMOSTUPIDS for further proof) while locking in / jamming out on another level. The Cowboy are IT—an endearing trio that treads on the competition and writes on a futuristic par. Just don't ask 'em for the WiFi password.
LP $18.35
03/06/2020
***DEVON GOLDBERG's original score to director Kire Paputts' 2019 dark comedy feature-length film The Last Porno Show, performed by MORRICONE YOUTH, along with COCHEMEA GASTELUM (SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS), SEAN MCCAUL (PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE), KAREN WALTUCH (WILCO, JIM O'ROURKE, JG THIRLWELL) and SCOTT HOLLINGSWORTH (WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY). Limited eddition of 500 copies with download card.
LP $19.95
05/08/2020
***BACK IN STOCK!!! One the NWOBHM’s most sought-after releases makes it’s proper return! The first ever official reissue of the On The Run EP, along with 6 unreleased tracks. Professionally remastered from the 40-year-old original cassettes. Unreleased material from the late '70s demos. Enjoy the raw sound and hear the organic mixture of some of the earliest forms of heavy metal from the UK. Not to miss for any serious NWOBHM collector! Pressed on white vinyl.
LP $19.95
01/03/2020
***Richmond, VA rapper NOAH-O returns with producer FAN RAN for another serving of Dirty Rice. The Rice God emerges from the kitchen with a renewed focus delivering his trademark gritty thought provoking rhymes backed by Ran's atmospheric dust laden production. Along for the ride is Griselda Records own CONWAY THE MACHINE, MUTANT ACADEMY's BIG KAHUNA OG & FLY ANAKIN, Charged Up Ent.'s SANTANA BROS. (DUSTY REYNOLDS & HONGO 1) and fellow Virginia based MC GOD GOLDIN.
LP $21.75
10/25/2019
***At last, the long-overdue and first-ever vinyl reissue of the final and most significant of the original three GOATPENIS demos from the early 1990s is unleashed. Jesus Coward, along with the debut album, Inhumanization, is widely considered to be among the very best of Goatpenis’s output. This represents the initial release in the First Blood series of early Goatpenis recordings from 1992 to 1994 to be made available by Nuclear War Now! There will be 3 LPs in total, and each demo is to be pressed as a separate 12″ in order to preserve the aesthetic integrity of each original release. Nothing new has been added to modernize the aesthetic, as had been done on previous reissues. All three are to be presented in the glory of their crusty ugliness, as they should be!
12" $17.75
10/11/2019
***Mali's SONGHOY BLUES return with their first release since their critically acclaimed 2017 Resistance album. Features covers of blues legend Junior Kimbrough's "Meet Me In The City" and Fela Kuti's "Shakara," along with the track "Time To Go Home," with lyrics by WILL OLDHAM and music by the band and MATT SWEENEY. Bonus mixes by BLAKE MILLS and DAVID FERGUSON round it out.
LP $25.50
10/18/2019
***Latest album by Japanese hardcore band NIGHTMARE, the same guys who made the excellent Give Notice Of Nightmare back in '88. The 10 new songs are great and the old power of Nightmare is still there. Along with Gauze & Warhead, Nightmare is one of the few classic Japanese bands that never broke up and it's still going strong after all these years. Limited to 500 copies only.
LP $21.25
09/06/2019
***Tompkins Square label's very first release in 2005 was the acoustic guitar compilation, Imaginational Anthem Volume One. The concept was to showcase new talents alongside first-gen American Primitive guitar legends, a formula that stuck across the first three volumes. Volume Four, released in 2010, featured all contemporary players, giving many folks their first taste of William Tyler, C Joynes, Chris Forsyth and Tyler Ramsey. The label then started farming out curation duties to others : Sam Moss for Volume 5, Chris King for Volume 6 (Origins of American Primitive Guitar), Hayden Pedigo for Volume 7, and Michael Klausman & Brooks Rice for Volume 8 (The Private Press). Tompkins Square recruited label alum RYLEY WALKER to compile Volume Nine. Given his deep Rolodex and exquisite taste, it's no surprise that this comp is probably the most diverse of the series. Nine of the eleven artists were previously unknown to us, so we get to discover new artists just like our label fans do.
LP $15.50
09/20/2019
CD $12.75
09/20/2019
The Hussy formed as a duo in Madison, WI in June 2008. Fronted by both Bobby Hussy (guitar / vocals) and Heather Hussy (drums / vocals), the band carved a trash-punk path through the 2000s into the 2010s playing shows alongside contemporary peers and timeless classics such as Mudhoney, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Twin Peaks, Reigning Sound, Spectrum (Ex-Spacemen 3), Black Bananas (ex-Royal Trux),The Black Lips, King Khan & BBQ, White Fence, The Faint, Tenement....and way too many more to all mention here. Known for their intensely chaotic live shows, they quickly gained a cult following in the Midwestern underground. After the release of the band’s classic and long sold out sophomore album, Weed Seizure (2012 - Tic Tac Totally), they played pinnacle garage rock festival Gonerfest in Memphis. The band is slated to play Gonerfest 16 later this year. The Hussy’s hyper-prolific output has spanned 20+ different record labels and every format imaginable. Both Bobby and Heather write songs and contribute equally to the project. Nearly all releases have been tracked by Bobby Hussy himself. In 2015 The Hussy added Tyler Fassnacht (Fire Heads, Proud Parents, T.S. Foss) as an official full-time third member to help fill out the sound at live shows. Now bolder and noisier than ever, The Hussy is exciting old and new fans alike with scuzz-pop gems chock full of hooks that rot and stick. At the end of 2018 The Hussy started tracking their new LP, Looming. Their last album saw the band...
LP $16.00
09/27/2019
CD $9.50
09/27/2019
MP3 $9.90
09/27/2019
FLAC $11.99
09/27/2019
***BACK IN STOCK!!! The Scientists’ pre-Swampland days in Perth are brilliantly encapsulated on this collection of mostly unreleased live material from ’78 and ‘79. These were the days when former Victims and future Hoodoo Gurus drummer James Baker led the band alongside guitarist/singer Kim Salmon, and when their poster read “Rock ‘n’ Roll in the tradition of The Groovies and The Heartbreakers”. The Perth-based line-up recorded the brilliant “Frantic Romantic” single and self-titled EP highlighted by “Last Night.” They also recorded a posthumously released LP—the “pink album”—which came as a massive disappointment due to bad production and a reduced line-up. Not For Sale: Live’ 78/79 is a collection of live and rehearsal tracks that captures the band making the same noises as on those 45s, and presents live versions of the fan faves and vastly superior versions of most of the LP tracks as well as coughing up a bunch of hitherto unreleased originals and covers to boot. This is “The Legendary Scientists”—as they were dubbing themselves within months of forming—as they should be heard. The main set comes from late 1979: a live-to-air broadcast from Melbourne’s 3RRR. The same line-up is also present on a handful of primitive live recordings, made by a friend at one of the group’s regular haunts, the Governor Broome Hotel in ‘79. Play this really loud and it sounds like right there in the pub, shitty PA and all. Packaged with rare and unseen images, an original 1979 Roadrunner magazine feature by Kim Williams...
CD $17.50
08/16/2019
2XLP $35.75
08/16/2019
***Light Bringer documents with pristine detail and gravity the live collaborations between two legends of early industrial techno and rhythmic noise, Orphx and JK Flesh. Consisting of one recording each from Berlin's Atonal Festival and the infamous Katharsis events in the Netherlands, these eight tracks show a peculiar flow and visceral funk rarely seen from live exchanges. Expert mastering by Joshua Eustis ascends these eight blinding cuts far away from any earth grounding and shows the rest of us how live electronics are done. Includes poster; Edition of 666.
2XLP $40.35
08/02/2019
***Cleveland's KNOWSO is another project from the PERVERTS AGAIN/ CRUELSTER camp and it's every bit as sardonic and demented as you've come to expect from these lads. Dark lumbering repetitive punk incantations driven along by tom heavy neanderthalic drums, chant heavy vocals, and shoulder shaking bass grooves. These boys have a penchant for off balance hardcore rumblings and KNOWSO is their newest platform in which to do so. 100% TOTAL PUNK!
7" $8.05
05/17/2019
***With a slight line up change in the drum department we see RAKTA tighten up their more tense, soundtrack natured developments alongside their more sparse and vulnerable elegance. They consistently manage to create a tripped out creep chamber with room to explore as the aura builds to nightmare crescendos juxtaposed with shaking silences. Simultaneously eerie and serene. With each new release we see more and more of what makes this group so essential in the canon of modern music. Recorded by FERNANDO SANCHES. Mastered by JAMES PLOTKIN. Art by ANDRE PENTEADO, KARLLA GIROTTO and Rakta. Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl housed in a beautiful printed inner sleeve inside a heavy duty reversible cover 24pt. jacket with a vellum insert and downward card included.
LP $17.75
04/26/2019
Australian death / black metal unit Consummation have completed work on their debut full-length album The Great Solar Hunter. Consummation is the brainchild of vocalist / guitarist Craig Young (ex-Impetuous Ritual) who is joined by drummer David Hayley (of technical death metal wizards Psycroptic) and bassist Joel Rademaker. Alongside this central trio, the album also features guitarist John Gossard (Dispirit /Asunder / The Gault / Weakling) among its ranks, lending his guitar work to this colossal work in helping to elevate it to an even darker, more warped and epic plateau. This album succeeds the band’s 2017 Ritual Severance EP (Invictus Productions), which was the follow-up to their 2012 self-titled demo. The Great Solar Hunter is the result of the band’s serpentine-like build up, since inception, to a impenetrably demonic and monolithic sonic vastness. The band’s elongated tracks are a key element to this sound—dark, murky, atmosphere-drenched dissonance and twisted guitar riff mutations flow through tense passages, building and culminating in epic and moving moments of melancholic majesty and triumph. It is these elements that give the band their sense of singularity and noteworthiness within the mire of extreme death /black metal.
CD $12.00
06/07/2019
2XLP $29.00
06/07/2019
MP3 $7.99
06/07/2019
FLAC $8.99
06/07/2019
***Formed in 1970, CARPE DIEM started out playing covers by the likes of East of Eden, King Crimson, Deep Purple, and Uriah Heep in clubs along the French Riviera. Original compositions made their way into the band's repertoire over the five years between their formation and the release of their debut album, En Regardent Passer Le Temps, in 1976. Little wonder then that the band sounds as magnificently tight, polished and mature on this classic debut, truly one of the gems of the French rock scene. The success of the album brought them dates with other major French bands like Magma and Ange, led to the recording of a second album, and then ultimately to the sort of nearly total obscurity which deserves to be undone with a reissue such as this one! “The album practically encompasses the diversity and inspiration of the French progressive rock underground. It is, easily, one of the finest albums to have emerged from that scene. At the risk of sounding like a raving fanboy, En Regardent Passer Le Temps is indeed a classic record for the ages.”—Greg Northrup, Progweed
LP $22.95
04/19/2019
Pylon Reenactment Society is fronted by former Pylon front woman Vanessa Briscoe Hay, whose inimitable vocal textures and phrasing defined Pylon’s sound for most listeners. Pylon is considered to be one of the most influential bands at the beginnings of what would become known as the “Athens, GA music scene.” Over 30 years ago, Pylon, along with The B-52’s and R.E.M., were heavily featured in the original feature documentary, "Athens, GA: Inside/Out” propelling them into the international spotlight. PRS formed in 2014 in what Hay thought would be one-off project for the group to perform for the event Art Rocks Athens. Since then, PRS has turned into a tight touring unit having performed at festivals and venues on both coasts and in the Southeast. In addition to Hay, PRS is rounded out by Jason NeSmith (Casper & The Cookies) on guitar, Kay Stanton (Casper & The Cookies) on bass guitar and backing vocals,Damon Denton (Big Atomic) on keyboards, and Joe Rowe (The Glands) on drums. PRS released a 6-song EP, "Part Time Punks Session" on Henry Owings’ Chunklet Industries to rave reviews. The two new original songs, “Messenger” and “Cliff Notes,” were recorded and mixed by NeSmith at his home studio; he mastered them at Chase Park Transduction. Adam Smith cut the acetate in Austin, Texas. The single is being pressed by Musicol in Ohio. “Messenger” is a mid tempo meditation on love, war and modern communication. “Cliff Notes” jumps in right in at breakneck speed. The lyrics...
7" $7.75
01/18/2019
“Four long pieces for flute and voice composed between 1985-2018 by Mary Jane Leach, a pivotal part of NYC’s pioneering avant-garde community since the 1970s and an active member of the legendary DownTown Ensemble, working alongside peers including Arthur Russell, Ellen Fullman, Peter Zummo, Philip Corner and Arnold Dreyblatt, as well as devoting years to the preservation of Julius Eastman’s legacy since his death in 1990. Mary Jane's vinyl debut 'Pipe Dreams' arrived last year via the Blume imprint and completely blew us away, and '(f)lute songs’ is only her second vinyl release in over five decades, feeding and expanding our obsession with her work. In the late 1970’s Mary Jane Leach was triggered by an interview she heard with Steve Reich in which he implored artists to figure out ways of becoming more self sufficient when it came to performance rather than relying on traditional group structures. At the time Leach had already began to experiment with recordings she had made of herself performing long sustained tones made on instruments she could play; mostly voice and bass clarinet, and gradually became fascinated by the sound phenomena resulting from layering tones on her multi-track tape machine. Reich’s thoughts, however, made Leach realise that she didn't have to restrict herself to instruments she could play and, in an indirect way, were the foundation for this album. Trio for Duo (1985), was Mary Jane's first attempt at creating work for instruments she couldn't play; revolving around alto flute and voice. She...
MP3 $9.90
10/19/2018
FLAC $11.99
10/19/2018
In 2011 Charles Belpois and Baptiste Martin became roommates in Dijon, France and began making music, both together and alone. The solo projects they birthed – Magnétophonique and Les Halles, respectively – share a similarly introspective mood, vignettes of emotive, smeared ambience conjured from private communions with tape hiss, loop stations, and bleached keys. The label they founded, Carpi, issued many of their early recordings (typically in editions smaller than 50) but ceased operations in 2015, with Belpois’ last release coming out on defunct Mexican imprint Dept Tapes the year before. Une Cartographie Idéale collects 12 gems from the Magnétophonique catalog to map a nuanced portrait of his evocative mirage exotica, wavering between bliss and abandonment, paradise and prison. Isolation and island fantasy intermingle in bewitching delirium, the sound of waves and tropical birds refracted through heat-stroked haze while melting cassettes unspool degraded melodies into lost horizons. Escape is heaven – until it isn’t; in the artist’s words: “You’ll never belong here.” Recorded in Dijon and Lyon, 2011-2014. Remastered by Alex Nagle.
MC $7.75
08/31/2018
MP3 $5.99
08/31/2018
FLAC $6.99
08/31/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! American composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century. In 1966, along with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, Curran co-founded Musica Elettronica Viva, a seminal gesture in collective free improvisation. In the early ’70s, his solo work would become a crucial bridge between minimalist traditions on both sides of the Atlantic. Canti E Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico, Curran’s solo debut, was recorded by the artist himself and issued on Ananda, the small Italian imprint started by Curran and fellow composers Giacinto Scelsi and Roberto Laneri. The piece itself was put together in the winter of 1973 and presented for the first time at Teatro Beat 72 (Rome’s The Kitchen). Encouraged by the work of Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Charlemagne Palestine and Simone Forti, Curran binds the listener to aberrant notions of place and time: blending field recordings (wind, high-tension wires, beach waves, etc.) with simple and often primitive instruments. Across two sidelong tracks, Giardino Magnetico forms a lyrical collage of synthesizer, glass and metal chimes, plastic tubes, brass and the composer’s alluring voice—converging in an immersive realm of Curran’s inner / outer experiences. This first-time vinyl reissue is recommended for fans of Harry Bertoia, Michel Redolfi and Lino Capra Vaccina.
LP $22.00
09/28/2018
Umo Vogue formed in Bristol by Stig Manley, Russ Crook and Neil Deamer who were in Bath based ska rock outfit ‘The AT’s’, along with Bristol based singer Debbie Marlow. Neil’s Brother Clive joined the band bringing a fantastic new dynamic to the band on drums, percussion and heavy artillery. The band name is a deliberate misspelling of the ultra-chic Italian fashion magazine ‘L’Uomo Vogue’. After winning the Bristol ‘Battle of the Bands’ in 1982 they were signed to Phonogram and dropped a few months later. They then signed to EMI in ’83 and released their first single ‘Just My Love’ released in early 1984. The second single was ‘Make It Real’ and was never released as the band were culled from the EMI roster in late ’84. For this reissue of their debut single we’ve added 3 bonus tracks, a demo of “Just My Love”, the unreleased follow single “Make It Real” and a bedroom demo “Erotica.” Each song displays ridiculously catchy melodies and innovative electronic rhythms. The drum tracks, a combination of rhythm machines and hand percussion, were mixed down from the 4-track tape used as backing on stage, with the rich slap bass and Roland SH09 synths weaves fluid lead lines in between the harmony vocals. All songs have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studios. The record is housed in an exact replica of the original jacket and includes an 8-page booklet with photos, notes and press clippings from the band’s archive. “We’re synthetic but...
12" $12.00
08/20/2018
***Schizophrenic Records presents a slab of unhinged, lasting ephemera from Hamilton’s UNCONTROLLABLE URGE (a group comprised of ANGIE LANZA alongside three-quarters of the members of TV FREAKS). Freshly minted and naturally forged in free thought, UU emit a stash of ten reductive ear worms. Common restraints do not factor into this equation, their self-titled debut finds them grappling with the absurdity of life through a hazy lens. This is punk music for the post-alt-whatever leaners: songs for the overworked, misinformed and the perpetually connected. RIYL: Kleenex/Liliput, Wire, Sonic Youth, The Pixies and Gang of Four.
LP $17.25
07/27/2018
Faust stand among the most influential creative forces to have emerged from Germany in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Along with Can, Agitation Free, Neu! and others, Faust rejected the Anglo-American norms of rock ’n’ roll to start a back-to-basics and uniquely Teutonic revolution in sound—later dubbed by the UK press with the semi-derogatory term “krautrock.” Faust would reach near-mythical status through a series of classic albums recorded between 1970 and 1973 at their secluded Wümme studio. As Dave Segal writes in the liner notes, “There’s no consensus about which Faust album represents their zenith. But a survey of the group’s fans would likely find the collage-heavy messterpiece The Faust Tapes triumphing. Its freewheeling, jump-cut nature and unlikely earworm moments conspire for more what-the-fuck epiphanies per minute than just about any other record about which Krautrocksampler author Julian Cope has raved.” Comprised of twenty odd tape-manipulation experiments and freak-out jams, The Faust Tapes stashes away some of the band’s best-known songs. “Flashback Caruso,” with its delicate acoustic guitar and Rudolf Sosna’s airy vocals, could easily have appeared on So Far or Faust IV, while on “J’ai Mal Aux Dents,” Jean-Hervé Peron’s playful lyrics and this ecstatic, era-defining riff perfectly represent Faust’s magical mischievousness. This first-time domestic release of The Faust Tapes on vinyl reproduces the original sleeve design, featuring artwork by Bridget Riley.
LP $22.00
08/31/2018
Originally released in 1972, Lord Of Lords was Alice Coltrane’s final album for Impulse! and the last installment in her awe-inspiring trilogy that also included Universal Consciousness and World Galaxy. While all three records featured strings alongside a jazz ensemble, Lords Of Lords stood apart from its predecessors due to the sheer size of the orchestra (12 violins, 6 violas and 7 cellos, arranged and conducted by Coltrane herself) and its refined, blissful performances—shining a vital light on the devotional path that she would follow for the rest of her career. On the first two pieces, “Andromeda’s Suffering” and “Sri Rama Ohnedaruth” (titled after the spiritual name for her late husband), Alice’s dazzling piano and harp blend perfectly with the blanket of strings, while the haunting rhythm section of Charlie Haden and Ben Riley and a magnificent, droning electric organ emerge immaculately on the title track and closer “Going Home.” Coltrane’s musical vision is bold in its imagination and cosmic in scope, yet remains intensely personal and immediate. Lord Of Lords points inward as much as to the beyond, recalling her classical roots and recasting Eastern modes to radically invert the American avant-garde and spiritual jazz traditions. This first-time vinyl reissue has been carefully remastered from the original master tapes.
LP $22.00
08/03/2018
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
Counterforce, the crowning new release of mentation electronics from Black Mecha (masterminded by Fortress Crookedjaw of Wold), provides raw beats and hooks, alongside reflexive black laser rays, cumulating in a sci-fi themed conceptual rhythm music for your mind / body. The visual art, adorned on the front and back cover, provides advanced actualization of Internal Masonry S. Star Sigil rumination-emanation-metaphor technique, which encompasses special geometric-based inner space / mind constellation illustrations.
2XLP $24.00
02/09/2018
MP3 $9.90
01/12/2018
FLAC $11.99
01/12/2018
Les Fleurs Dul Mal is the absorbingly grotesque sophomore album by pioneering artist, DJ and label owner Eric C. Burton aka Rabit, who, along with regular collaborators such as Chino Amobi (NON) and Elysia Crampton, is in part responsible for defining the contemporary conflux of avant club, folk and noise musics. On his solo follow-up to Communion [Tri Angle, 2015], Rabit indulges his fascinations with psychedelic themes in an ambitious attempt to locate his sense of self amid increasingly chaotic environments. The result is a personal milestone for the artist; a riveting tableaux of hyper sensual texture, colour and melody forming a densely detailed and layered prism to best peer upon the abyss between reality and our shared hallucinations. Mantled in reference to Baudelaire’s classic volume of poetry on decadence and eroticism, Rabit presents a metaphorical arena or “spielraum” - described by author Frances S. Connelly as “a vehicle for mediating the ever-collapsing boundaries of the unknown” - opening an im/possible noumenal no-man’s-land where his imagination can express itself unimpeded, without judgement. In aesthetic and intent, Rabit boldly embraces the vacuum left by the late, great Coil; realising a genre-agnostic consolidation of folk, new age, drone and noise tropes transcended thru acousmatic processing and modular synthesis, in this case fittingly provided by erstwhile Coil member Drew McDowell. In the process he potentially triangulates Les Fleurs Dul Mal with records by fellow Coil fiends, Elysia Crampton’s Demon City and Chino Amobi’s Paradiso, who all essentially project bold,...
MP3 $9.90
11/03/2017
FLAC $11.99
11/03/2017
***Two of central Texas's best guitar-heavy '90s indie rock throwback loyalists pay tribute to the almighty Guided By Voices! THE EX-OPTIMISTS (from College Station, TX) offer one original along with two GBV covers including perennial favorite "Drinker's Peace" and "14 Cheerleader Coldfront" (from the GBV Propellor LP), while Austin's ECONOMY ISLAND offer one original of their own along with their take on the Guided By Voices song "Pantherz." Special sci-fi /GBV mashup parody cover art is sure to gain the attention of fans of both alike!
7" $5.40
10/27/2017
Refrigerator’s eleventh full length record High Desert Lows was recorded over a week in Omaha, Nebraska. Produced by Simon Joyner (who plays and sings on a number of songs on the record, along with members of his Ghosts band), the new record calls out to the more pastoral sounds of their Comedy Minus One album, with viola, cello, vibes, slide guitar and wurlitzer dotting the edges of nearly every song, a stark contrast to the loud squall of preceding record Temple City. The album begins with a song penned by drummer Chris Jones, bending to Barstow, and then bleeds into songs that skirt a number of counties from Apple Valley to Victorville before closing with a minor chamber orchestra and a vocalist shutting down the town. Twenty-seven years on, with all the original members (plus Daniel Brodo who joined in 1995), the band is still improvising and communicating without bowing to commerce.
LP $16.00
02/09/2018
CD $9.50
02/09/2018
MP3 $9.90
02/09/2018
FLAC $11.99
02/09/2018
***The DINOSAURS were a garage-punk band that formed in St. Louis in 1978. Made up of misfits and outsiders, they existed alongside but apart from the emerging punk rock movement. To record collectors, the Dinosaurs are the creators of the sought after “Rock & Roll Moron” 45, which the band self-released in 1979. But to most patrons of underground culture around the Midwest, the Dinosaurs are known as the starting point in the musical history of BOB REUTER, St. Louis’ D.I.Y. “Renaissance Man” who gained regional success as a songwriter, radio DJ (“Bob’s Scratchy Records”), lo-fi photographer, and late-in-life author. Inspired by the new wave counterculture as much as the pop sensibilities it rebelled against, the Dinosaurs played a mix of proto-punk and classic rock, delighting some while offending others. Consisting of four ne’er-do-well city boys, the Dinosaurs were defiantly uncouth and had an explosive energy that mirrored the raw aggression of the forgotten, post-industrial Midwest city they called home. Alongside the catchy and compulsive songwriting of the band’s founder, Bob Reuter, the Dinosaurs became oddities in St. Louis’ growing punk scene. They made an initial splash as the weekend house band in a neighborhood dive bar playing for four hours a night. Their sets attracted a mixed crowd of factory workers, freaks and oddballs who fell in love with the wild musicians and the unruly atmosphere their music created. After a few months and one too many violent incidents, the band was asked to move on. The Dinosaurs drifted...
LP $16.35
09/22/2017
Bay Area beacon Michael Claus operates from an overtly Pacific perspective in his house and techno constructs, shaping fog and bass along shorelines of elusive rhythm. Though active since 2004 he’s only in the past few years begun issuing tracks under his own name to the public domain, the latest collection of which goes furthest in embedding amorphous acid and cloud-soft synths into introspective coastal jack. Memory Protect maps eight hazed designs sourced from three years of work, misting the difference between movement and meditation, atmosphere and anticipation. Past collabs with Nackt hinted at a subtle touch for hypnosis and heightened sensory environment but here Claus captures his essence in its freest, most fluid state. Bodies of water, oceans of memory – what collects, continues. Recorded in San Francisco, 2014-2017. Mastered by Matt Tammariello.
MC $7.75
09/22/2017
MP3 $5.99
09/22/2017
FLAC $6.99
09/22/2017
West Philly’s avant-R&B up + comer Mhysa makes a big impression with fantasii, her first album proper following dispatches with NON and a lauded mixtape alongside chukwumaa as SCRAAATCH for The Fader. Think Klein’s freeform R&B structures riddled with Rabit-like production tics, and you’re in grasping distance of the fractious but idiosyncratically coherent styes inhabited by this highly intriguing addition to the vanguard of new music from the fertile margins of American music and society. Against a refreshing general lack of broken glass or gunshot samples, the self-described ‘Black queer femme cultural producer, sound designer, womanist + Diva’ animates swirling, impossibly balanced structures with a tearaway imagination, keening from vaulted, pitch-shifting gospel in Special Needs Intro to a multi-dimensional, abstract grime cover of Prince in the course of 11 songs. The Klein comparisons only end where she tends toward collage, and Mhysa uses original production, but beside that difference, the pair share a unique perception of R&B and church musics as a gateway to other, dreamlike dimensions. From the way she appropriates the ecclesiastic psychedelia of physical church spaces in the reverbstorm of Glory be Black to the rugged ambient inversion of R&B’s usual warmth in the 6minute highlight Bb, or undermining the conventions of club music in the A-grade anti-bangers Strobe and You Not About That Lyfe, she offers a particular example of the contemporary, young, Black and queer experience. No doubt, Fantasii is a vial addition to the canon of boundary pushing and resetting music...
MP3 $9.90
07/21/2017
FLAC $11.99
07/21/2017
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Codek is the brainchild of Jean-Marie Salaun who grew up in Paris influenced by the folklore of the inner city. In 1978 he joined art rock group SpionS alongside Gregory Davidow and recorded two singles. Diving into the Paris post punk scene he met Claude Arto and designed the artwork for Claude’s single on Celluloid “Kwai Systeme / Betty Boop.” Robin Scott (M “Pop Music”) had produced the SpionS first single and wanted to collaborate further. With Claude, Jean-Marie wrote “Me Me Me”, intended for a choir, for M. Then SpionS split and Robin was off to Switzerland to record an album to follow-up his hit single. That left Jean-Marie alone in London, where he began working as Codek, a play on the brand name Kodak The “Me Me Me” single was released by MCA Records in 1980. Back in Paris, now with some studio experience, Celluloid Records hired Jean-Marie to produce records for Artefact and Les Orphelins. Over the next 2 years he began working on ideas for the next Codek single “Closer / “Tam Tam” “Closer” started its life as an electric baseline played by Jean-Marie. Claude Arto sequenced the floating synthesizers. Laurent Grangier and Frédéric Lapierre of reggae band Immigration Act played the horns. The lyrics “Hard to say. Easy to do. We don’t need to say what we do” were a statement on creation as narration expressed Jean-Marie’s ennui, “I’m tired with it.” “Tam Tam” was inspired by Burundi drummers...
12" $12.00
07/11/2017
***New St. Louis band that blends some classic aggro post punk (Wire, Crisis) with a modern punk/hardcore (Total Control, Wiccans) sound. Chorus pedal guitar leads wail alongside panicked vocals as the beat marches on and on. Artwork by LAURA PALLMALL.
7" $7.00
05/19/2017
***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
There is a station where the train never arrives, where the Waiting Room is always occupied, where the conversation is inevitably awkward and where you’re never quite alone, but perpetually ALMOST alone. Ladies & Gentlemen, welcome to Station Yellow Moon, the final bastion of humanity, the last stuttering blip on the life support system, the domain where Access Is Denied perpetually—but who the Hell would want to go there anyhow? Well, some pay handsomely for the Great Escape, despite the risks…. High On Station Yellow Moon is a new solo album by EDWARD KA-SPEL of THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS and marks the beginning of his collaboration with longtime friend and fellow traveler AMANDA PALMER of THE DRESDEN DOLLS. It doesn’t get more conceptual than this. Limited USA tour begins May 17th.
LP $17.75
05/19/2017
CD $14.50
05/19/2017
Since 2013 Finland’s Oranssi Pazuzu has released two critically lauded full length albums via 20 Buck Spin in North America, 2013’s Valonielu and 2016’s Värähtelijä. Both albums showed the boundless enormity and remarkable uniqueness that this band alone creates. Are they a psych-influenced black metal band or a black-metal-influenced psych band? No one knows for sure and it doesn’t matter anyway—no other band bends these genres into such an extraordinarily cohesive whole. For most in North America, the Oranssi Pazuzu black hole only came into focus with the aforementioned last two albums. However, the band has previously recorded and released two full length albums and a split LP. With their growing reputation here, their back catalog has become increasingly in demand. 20 Buck Spin will now present the band’s back catalog on various formats domestically for the first time. Muukalainen Puhuu is where the Oranssi Pazuzu story begins. This 2009 debut full length already reveals a band with a firm conceptual and musical mission. For most, this album would be a seasoned, mature display of musical prowess only reached well into their life as a band, and yet for them it’s merely the first foray into the limitless expanse that they would come to command.
LP $20.25
05/05/2017
CD $12.00
05/05/2017
MP3 $7.92
05/05/2017
FLAC $8.99
05/05/2017
Since 2013 Finland’s Oranssi Pazuzu has released two critically lauded full length albums via 20 Buck Spin in North America, 2013’s Valonielu and 2016’s Värähtelijä. Both albums showed the boundless enormity and remarkable uniqueness that this band alone creates. Are they a psych-influenced black metal band or a black-metal-influenced psych band? No one knows for sure and it doesn’t matter anyway—no other band bends these genres into such an extraordinarily cohesive whole. For most in North America, the Oranssi Pazuzu black hole only came into focus with the aforementioned last two albums. However, the band has previously recorded and released two full length albums and a split LP. With their growing reputation here, their back catalog has become increasingly in demand. 20 Buck Spin will now present the band’s back catalog on various formats domestically for the first time. The Kosmonument 2xLP from 2012 was another huge leap forward for the band both musically and in terms of exposure. They signed to UMG-owned Spinefarm Records, which the album still calls home today. However the vinyl edition, a sprawling, triple-gatefold double album with some of the most incredible artwork in the band’s history, was only released in a small quantity in Europe with very few copies arriving in North America. It will now see its first domestic vinyl release in the same deluxe format.
2XLP $29.00
05/05/2017
Since 2013 Finland’s Oranssi Pazuzu has released two critically lauded full length albums via 20 Buck Spin in North America, 2013’s Valonielu and 2016’s Värähtelijä. Both albums showed the boundless enormity and remarkable uniqueness that this band alone creates. Are they a psych-influenced black metal band or a black-metal-influenced psych band? No one knows for sure and it doesn’t matter anyway—no other band bends these genres into such an extraordinarily cohesive whole. For most in North America, the Oranssi Pazuzu black hole only came into focus with the aforementioned last two albums. However, the band has previously recorded and released two full length albums and a split LP. With their growing reputation here, their back catalog has become increasingly in demand. 20 Buck Spin will now present the band’s back catalog on various formats domestically for the first time. The Farmokologinen 12-inch contains songs from a split album the band did in 2010 between their first and second full lengths. On these four tracks nearly 27 minutes in length, the band showcases their growing immensity and burning cold bleakness, now a stand-alone release with all new artwork, on vinyl and digital formats.
12" $16.00
05/05/2017
MP3 $3.96
05/05/2017
FLAC $4.99
05/05/2017
From Nursery to Misery were three teenagers who grew up together on the same street in Basildon, Essex. Formed in 1987, the band was comprised of vocalists (and identical twins) Gina and Tina Fear, along with keyboard player and producer Lee Stevens. Lee invited the twins to over to record some music with him, suggesting they try singing over some instrumentals he had written and recorded on a newly purchased 4-track. They played a sum total of four gigs before splitting in 1991. Their recorded output, however, was relatively prodigious, with the band appearing on over 22 compilations, as well as self-releasing two album-length tapes ‘The Oak Tree’ (1989), and ‘Equilibrium’ (1990), and a split EP with Germany’s Nostalgie Eternelle, ‘Art is the Tool’ (1990). All these releases were home-produced, hand-made cassettes distributed and swapped via the Mail Art scene. ‘Pixies In The Woods’ is a 13-track career spanning compilation including three previously unreleased tracks. Tracks range from no-fi synth pop overlaid with ethereal, child-like vocals, to audio collages of animal noises and harrowing, double-speed monologues. Lee’s expansive synth productions, informed by the Blade Runner soundtrack, early electro records, and 4AD acts like Dead Can Dance, provided a rich, spacious platform for Gina and Tina’s sung-spoken introspective lyrics. Their songs are disarmingly direct and unfiltered, the product of three self-confessed misfits exploring difficult, often intensely personal issues. As the band says, they just wanted to make pop music and FNTM is what came out. All songs have been...
LP $17.75
05/02/2017
***D.C.'s ground-shakers return with their signature brand of hardcore/noise infused grind. Super destructive and malicious music that wastes no time getting to the point. Before you know it the record is over and you're left wondering where it all went and why you're so alone with the world destroyed around you. Sorry for your loss. 500 copies on black vinyl housed in a 6-panel fold-out sleeves adorned with with painstaking artwork by NOLAN.
7" $7.25
02/10/2017
Die Tödliche Doris was born out of West Berlin’s lively post-punk community in the early ‘80s. Along with Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris ranks amongst the Geniale Dilletanten – which roughly translates as “ingenious dilettantes” – who sought to democratize cultural productions beyond the grip of both Western capitalism and GDR socialism. The Geniale Dilletanten became synonymous with a free-for-all approach to music, film, painting and performance where participants encouraged raw expression through provocation and experimentation. Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen founded Die Tödliche Doris in 1980, presenting the public persona of Doris as a constantly shifting entity that deliberately engaged the contradictions of the human condition. The band often referenced themselves in the third person singular, alluding to Doris as a fully-formed female character with explosive, colorful emotions. For her debut album – originally released on Zickzack in 1982 and playfully titled " " (that is, blank space surrounded by quotation marks) – Doris most closely entertains the notion of a typical rock band with drums, bass and guitar. Produced by Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld, the thirteen songs presented here are disquieting lullabies of profound anxiety, savage and primitive deconstructions of German polka and manic lacerations of punk minimalism: all reflections of the many and fractured personalities of Doris. This first-time vinyl reissue includes a reproduction of the original 24-page booklet. Limited edition repress of 500 copies on black vinyl.
LP $22.00
04/07/2017
Robert Pollard’s freak-rock trio Circus Devils (2001 – 2017) says farewell with a pair of simultaneous releases. First is their 14th and final album Laughs Last, along with a best-of, double LP collection titled Laughs Best: The Kids Eat It Up (with DVD included). On Laughs Last, Pollard and the Tobias brothers romp breathlessly through multiple styles, starting off with the brash hotdogger, “Get Out Of My Way When I’m In Town.” Along the way we’re treated to the R.E.M. inflected “I Do the Nixon,” the organ-fuzz stomper “Teenage Rooster,” and the defiantly conventional “Crucified by The British Press.” Full of high humor and low drama, Laughs Last is the bold exclamation point at the end of Circus Devils’ 16-year run.
LP $16.00
02/24/2017
CD $12.00
02/24/2017
MP3 $9.90
02/24/2017
FLAC $11.99
02/24/2017
Robert Pollard’s freak-rock trio Circus Devils (2001 – 2017) says farewell with a pair of simultaneous releases. First is their 14th and final album Laughs Last, along with a best-of, double LP collection titled Laughs Best: The Kids Eat It Up (with DVD included). Laughs Best (The Kids Eat it Up) — a collection of 30 speedy deliveries from rock’n’roll’s Twilight Zone — will leave you exhausted, satisfied, and ready for another spin. Circus Devils’ entire mind-bending catalogue is represented here, including three songs from the brand new album. While the emphasis is on friendlier numbers, plenty of the trio’s prog psychedelia is also on display.
CD+DVD $16.00
02/24/2017
2XLP+DVD $31.00
02/24/2017
MP3 $9.90
02/24/2017
FLAC $11.99
02/24/2017
***One of the classics of the “Deutschpunk” scene of the late 70s and early 80s, here is a repress of NOTDURFT's 1982 self titled debut LP on Aggressive Rockproduktionen. Notdurft appeared alongside other German bands of the era like Slime, OHL, Beton Combo, and Vorkriegsjugend, though were a bit more varied and tuneful than some of the other aforementioned bands. Package includes a faithful reproduction of the original album sleeve, with archival photos and a band history (albeit in German) on the insert. A classic bit of German punk history via Hoehnie Records.
LP $22.25
12/30/2016
***BACK IN PRINT!!! The sophomore full-length from former VERSUS members JAMES and PATRICK, along with good friend CHRIS. Rocking harder than ever, the boys approach their edgy live sound, bringing new life to their melodic structures and electronic drum loops. Features a guest spot from MARGARET McCARTNEY of TUSCADERO. Enhanced with video.
CD $12.00
05/16/2005
MP3 $9.90
05/16/2005
FLAC $11.99
05/16/2005
***2011 is the title of Jovan Karcic’s second solo album and it is his sonic shadow of that year. Recorded mostly alone, and originally released locally as an edition of 53 (!!!) hand-drawn oil/crayon/ink/chalk covers, Karcic sits nicely beside other DIY loners like Michael Yonkers, Bob Trimble, and Dave Cloud.
LP $14.50
01/08/2001
***BACK IN PRINT AT A NEW LOWER PRICE!!! The follow up to minimalist black metal weirdos BOSSE-DE-NAGE’s self titled debut. This album was recorded in 2010 by JUSTIN WEIS and features a HUGE sound along with the Lousiville-styled post rock (think Slint not Godspeed) and black metal weirdness that made Bosse-de-Nage’s debut a divisive genre defying classic. This is black metal, but black metal tinged with 20th century minimalism and outlandish vocals.
LP $13.00
08/30/2011
CD $9.50
08/30/2011
MP3 $7.99
08/30/2011
FLAC $8.99
08/30/2011
Feral Ohms is a power trio from Oakland, California, led by Comets On Fire / Howlin Rain / Heron Oblivion guitar and voice fireball Ethan Miller along with animal drummer Chris Johnson (Drunk Horse / Andy Human) and the loudest bassist in fifteen counties, Josh Haynes (Nudity). The band turns the spatial pyrotechnics and expansive spirit of classic psychedelia inside out, dragging it through the punk rock era kicking and screaming and boils it down into a series of explosions that start at needle drop and end when the record does. They blast pure action and outlaw rock’n’roll joy through relentless, violent musical force, blowing the doors off psychedelic rock and letting loose the raw, wild, high speed feedback wail of something massive careening off the rails and into your ears. This is FO’s debut studio album. Recorded by Eric “King Riff” Bauer (Ty Segall, White Fence, Heron Oblivion), Phil Manley (Earthless, Wooden Shjips) and mixed with scorched Earth policy by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz)
LP $17.50
03/24/2017
CD $12.00
03/24/2017
MC $7.75
03/24/2017
MP3 $8.91
03/24/2017
FLAC $9.90
03/24/2017
***"The work of prolific Los Angeles producer M. GEDDES GENGRAS is often discussed in terms of 'vibes.' This is fair enough, given the wandering modular synth experiments for which he’s known (not to mention his warmer forays into dub alongside SUN ARAW and his stated late-blooming appreciation for the Dead). Lest such language imply a relaxed sort of grooviness, however, his latest full-length—a double LP comprising four barely-discrete compositions, each around 18 minutes—extends into more anxious territory. Composed and recorded over the last six years, Interior Architecture is so expansive that it can be hard for the listener to find her footing. What’s rewarding, in addition to the lush and liquid sound of Gengras’ indulgent approach, is that very experience of instability. It’s more pronounced than in his previous releases, and here takes on a psychological dimension."—Pitchfork (7.0 rating)
2XLP $29.75
09/16/2016
MP3 $8.99
09/23/2016
FLAC $9.90
09/23/2016
***We present to you the debut single from New Orleans' newest powerhouse LSDOGS. Featuring members of VATICAN DAGGER, BUCK BILOXI, SICK THOUGHTS and BLACK ABBA, the pedigree alone should give you a good idea of what you are in for. Negativity at it's finest from some of the world's best purveyors of the stuff. Two short blast of straight forward punk rock. Great for scaring off the mailman, riling up your pack, and 100% TOTAL PUNK!!! Edition of 500 copies.
7" $7.25
07/22/2016
***Long before it began sprouting Americana bands on every corner, the sleepy college town of Charlottesville, VA boasted a punk rock scene whose ferocity belied its small size. THE LANDLORDS, along with Lackey Die and the Beef People, stood at the epicenter of the action. After releasing the highly regarded Hey! It's A Teenage House Party! LP in 1984, The Landlords returned to the legendary Inner Ear Studios over the next few years to record their second album, Fitzgerald's Paris. Restored from the original master tapes and released after almost 30 years, Fitzgerald’s Paris offers seventeen tracks of pure rock and roll mayhem. Fusing musical influences as varied as Black Flag, Chuck Berry, and Motörhead, side A’s avalanche of epigrammatic money-tunes showcases The Landlords at their peak. Side B’s plunge into the jungle of noise builds on the intense dissonance of Scratch Acid, Live Skull, and The Landlords’ own infamous spinoff duo, HAPPY FLOWERS, all the while remaining rooted in hardcore punk. No matter the style, all the tunes on Fitzgerald’s Paris are destined to delight America’s next generation of alienated youth, while infuriating school boards, police departments, and town councils everywhere. Packaging includes an 11"x22" insert containing lyrics, flyers, and unpublished photos plus a free download of bonus studio material and a live set recorded off the board at CBGB's in September 1985.
LP $16.35
04/08/2016
French exoticist Baptiste Martin has been crafting fragile pastures of pan flute, field recordings, and stargazing keys as Les Halles since 2012, inspired by a formatively nostalgic night alone “watching the summer sky, thinking of all the mystery.” Previous collections on Constellation Tatsu and Noumenal Loom showcased the nuance of his signature Incan drift mode but Transient further hones his heightened passage into escapist beauty and Tascam grain. The album’s eight pieces are constructed from Amerindian flute samples diffused through lilting echo and streaked with soft-focus textures. As always with Les Halles, there is a mesmerizing mood of natural space and weightlessness – the breath of sky, clouds smeared by breeze, inner islands of peace. Few current crouched pedal-pushers channel ambient dimensions with such poise and blurry grace. Out of time meditations for a newer new age. Recorded and mixed in Lyon, January-October 2015. Mastered by Alex Nagle. Artwork and design by Dieter Durinck.
LP $13.00
07/01/2016
MC $7.75
08/31/2018
MP3 $7.92
06/17/2016
FLAC $8.99
06/17/2016
Versatile visual artist (of key work for Destruction Unit, Chelsea Wolfe + Deafheaven) and multi-instrumentalist Reuben Sawyer along with vocalist Morgan Enos follow two well received LPs and a slew of EPs with further-reaching explorations of Hollow Sunshine's drone/darkwave/pop amalgam. "Burning" is the new EP from the increasingly prolific California duo, and while the previous Hollow Sunshine work explored the landscapes of 1990s atmospheric pop and sludge, "Burning" pushes deeper into both the past and the future. The four new songs feel ancient and coated in precious metals, as Sawyer and Enos tap into the muses of Florian Fricke, Alice Coltrane and Bill Fay to form their most mature and realized release yet. Fans of conemporary, heavy/pop-influenced outfits Jesu and Hum will also rejoice in the beautiful contrast of Sawyer's downtuned guitar mass with Enos' subdued, haunting vocal melodies as the duo deftly wade through songs of helplessness, departure and relief.
MP3 $2.99
03/11/2016
FLAC $3.99
03/11/2016
***Slovenly imprint Black Gladiator was founded on the principle that ANDY MACBAIN (TUNNEL OF LOVE, THE MONSIEURS, ANDY CALIFORNIA) is the last true savior of rock'n'roll. Along with the mighty Billy Childish, Mark Sultan, King Khan, Haunted George, Oblivians, Cheater Slicks, Gories and a monkey's paw full of others that were actually there for, and brought up on, 20th century noise, Andy California is an essential and spiritual component of the great force of primal, rhythmic skronk, and possibly the only man left with the sincerity and inalienable right to deliver it. With three tracks deliberately more blues than his usual pop hook snarl, this EP is the last goddamn word in testosterone soaked primitivity.
7" $9.25
02/26/2016
***THE SALAD BOYS celebrate their second vinyl release through Chunklet Industries! Hot off the heels of their Metalmania LP on Trouble In Mind, “Scarce Tracks” digs back into the band’s debut tape along with some new selections. The Christchurch trio’s single is a perfect companion piece to their full length and is available only for a limited time! (STREET DATE - 12/11/2015)
7" $6.75
12/11/2015
MP3 $3.96
12/11/2015
FLAC $4.99
12/11/2015
***CHICOS DE NAZCA are yet another psychedelic product of Santiago’s underground movement, formed in 2010 by guitarist and vocalist FRANCISCO CABALA to run alongside his full time band LA HELL GANG. As part of Chile’s prolific BYM Records collective, Chicos De Nazca benefit from a fluid line-up of musicians who appear across the band’s different albums: IGNACIO RODRIGUEZ (La Hell Gang), JUAN PABLO RODRIGUEZ (FOLLAKZOID), MARTIN AVENDANO (DELTA 21) and CARLOS CABALA have all been part of the Chicos clan at various points. Chicos De Nazca have released three official albums (on BYM Records and Hozac Records) and two unofficial ones, utilizing tape recording, analog effects and endless layers of guitars to build their atmospherics sounds. The group’s characteristic gentle and psychedelic repertoire—in which the rhythm and keyboards are essential to keep the songs afloat—owes a bedt to the generation of rock bands that sprung from the post-acid house fever of 1988 in Chicago and England. A soundtrack for a trip to a place of dreams. Limited to 400 copies on black vinyl. Download included.
LP $20.95
10/23/2015
***Two previously unreleased—and actually forgotten about—recordings circa 1985 and 1986 from gone-rock powerhouse ROYAL TRUX. You get "Domo des Burros (Two Sticks)" along with "Boxing Story"—which was originally recorded on several different reels with the idea of playing the pieces simultaneously on several tape machines to achieve the whole. Features a vast array of instrumentation including drum machines, guitars, violins, pump organ, Moog, radio, piano, harmonica, mechanical monkey, and much more.
LP $17.75
08/28/2015
CD $13.75
08/28/2015
The 78 Project is on a journey across America to make one-of-a-kind 78rpm records with musicians in their hometowns using a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc recorder. With one microphone. With one blank disc. In one 3-minute take. Along the way, a kaleidoscope of technologists, historians and craftsmen from every facet of field recording – Grammy-winning producers, 78 collectors, curators from the Library of Congress and Smithsonian – provide insights and history. In Tennessee, Mississippi, California, Louisiana, the folk singers, punk rockers, Gospel and Cajun singers in the film share their lives through intimate performances, and find in that adventure a new connection to our cultural legacy.With musical performances by: Reverend John Wilkins (Como, MS), Louis Michot, Corey Ledet & Ashlee Michot (Arnaudville, LA), Victoria Williams (Los Angeles, CA), John Doe (Fairfax, CA), Dawn Landes (Brooklyn, NY), Holly Williams w/ Chris Coleman (Nashville, TN), John Reilly & Tom Brosseau (Pasadena, CA), Gaby Moreno & Adam Levy (Los Angeles, CA), Jaron Lanier (Berkeley, CA), Ella Mae Bowen (Franklin, TN), Dylan LeBlanc (Franklin, TN), Coati Mundi (Murrieta, CA), The Bo-Keys w/ Percy Wiggins (Memphis, TN), John Paul Keith (Memphis, TN), Ben Vaughn (Wonder Valley, CA), Sea of Bees (Sacramento, CA), The Easy Leaves (Santa Rosa, CA) and Little Wings (Topanga Canyon, CA) And featuring: Todd Harvey (Library of Congress, Washington, DC), Jeff Place (Smithsonian, Washington, DC), Richard Matthews (Leeds Radio, Brooklyn, NY), Wayne Cory (Apollo Masters, Banning, CA), Joe Bussard (Frederick, MD), Bob Saliba (Randolph, NJ), Alan Graves (Port Tobacco, MD) and Matt Barton...
DVD $20.25
08/14/2015
Having only released a demo, split and EP since forming in 2007, UK band Cruciamentum wields a reputation as one of the most prominent acts in today’s death metal scene alongside counterparts Dead Congregation and Grave Miasma (with whom Cruciamentum share two members). Despite their limited output, however, the band is quite active on the live front, having done several European and US tours, played many exclusive shows, and appeared at notable festivals such as Hell’s Pleasure and Killtown in Europe and Maryland Deathfest, Chaos in Tejas, Rites of Darkness (twice) and Martyrdoom in the US. Following a brief hiatus, Cruciamentum has been resurrected to finally deliver their debut full-length. Their mightiest work yet, Charnel Passages has been deemed one of the most anticipated metal albums of the year. It is true death metal majesty in every sense of the word, unleashing dark atmosphere, pummeling brutality and skillful playing, all rendered with clear warm, natural-sounding production. Charnel Passages will make its impact on the death metal scene unlike any album released this year.
LP $22.00
03/18/2016
CD $12.00
09/04/2015
MP3 $7.99
09/04/2015
FLAC $8.99
09/04/2015
***Both tracks from this 7-inch are urgent, catchy, and reverb dipped. "Fly On The Wall" has all of the pop elements to make it catchy and sing-along, while still maintaining a garage punk/surf undertone. On the flip side, “Blue” starts at a frantic pace and a relentless sense of urgency while telling a tale of lost youth. Expect to hear fuzzy guitars, heavy phazed bass, warped keys i.e. The Screamers, and vocals to match any paint fume high. Fans of stripped down '70s punk, and current West Coast garage will both find this 7-inch accessible and must have for their record collections. A very Midwest take on punk and surf rock from the “coast” of the Ohio River.
7" $7.25
06/23/2015
***Extracting themselves from the dumpsters of Austin, Texas to create their “paranoid art punk”, No Wave sound—SPRAY PAINT once again present the atonal throb “post-punk workouts” they do so well, this time with some kraut drum beats thrown in for good measure. With two albums on S-S Records in 2013 and Clean Blood, Regular Acid released Oct ’14, all of which appeared regularly on end-of-year lists—Spray Paint’s fourth album, Punters On a Barge, is released on Homeless. Touring the USA with Parquet Courts and Protomartyr and frequent tours of the States that have included two invitations to play Gonerfest (Memphis), plus the annual SXSW gathering in home town of Austin, TX. The band also toured Europe Novemember 2014 and will play Japan/Australia June 2015, see them before the inevitable big time hits. "If Spray Paint's skull-ringing single 'Day of the Rope' wasn't enough to give you a damn-near stroke, their latest full-length LP Punters On a Barge will bash your head into oblivion. The Austin, Texas trio jack-hammers their way from militant post-punk to industrial noise with clanging guitars and droned-out vocals that could very well summon the robot apocalypse. Be still my cyborg heart."—Noisey “…the trio’s frantic rants glisten with sweat generated by decades of post-punk workouts. That sweat also pushes them beyond mimicry. The exhilarating execution of their taut-yet-rubbery songs puts Spray Paint’s music squarely in the present tense.” – Pitchfork
LP $23.95
06/02/2015
***SPIRIT CLUB is NATHAN WILLIAMS (WAVVES), ANDREW CADDICK (JEANS WILDER), and JOEL WILLIAMS (SWEET VALLEY). Brothers Joel and Nathan, alongside childhood best friend Andrew make music about loss that frays at the seams. Soaring harmonies over sludgy guitars and lush production create a sound all their own.
LP $17.50
05/12/2015
CD $12.00
05/12/2015
MP3 $9.90
05/12/2015
FLAC $11.99
05/12/2015
***Colpo Rovente is one of the rarest soundtrack albums in the Italian film music history. This soundtrack stands out from the traditional period into the psychedelic era. Soft-spoken and suave cool jazz, along with hallucinogenic go-go sounds appears throughout the film and soundtrack. Dynamic big band tunes are stunningly matched with impossibly beautiful jazz funk scores infused with a touch of bossa nova. If your tastes lie somewhere in the intersection between elegant European lounge and primal psychedelia, this soundtrack is a must-listen. Remastered from the original tapes and pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
LP $26.10
03/31/2015
CD $23.50
03/24/2015
Two years ago Maltese musician Rudi Agius aka Jupiter Jax was in London, finishing a PHD in computational biology, awake late and usually alone, when Visions emerged: “My life was literally getting back from the lab, and spending the night (usually till 4-5 AM) making some music… the gloom is something that I love.” Many nights bled into dawn while designing presets for his synths – “sounds that give me feeling” – from which bass lines, beats, and the exploration of “further territory” flowed forth: quartz-clouded, questing house (“Armed For Peace,” “Soul Searching”), foggy breakbeat (“The Deepest”), tranced technoid (“Beyond The Walls”), plus glimmering, ghosted-vocal guest spots by Merwyn Virgo Four, Xosar, and Mykle Anthony. Across eight hazed vistas, Visions never wanes: “Jupiter Jax is about ethereal music.” Deep planetary Italo disco moods dissolved through overcast city voids, haunted by the heartbeat of melancholic early Chicago jack. See beyond the walls. Grid-mapped cloudscape cover art by the artist. Mastered by Alex Nagle.
LP $13.00
05/12/2015
MP3 $7.92
05/12/2015
FLAC $8.99
05/12/2015
***The legendary URINALS are back with their third long-player, Next Year at Marienbad. Sure to be another fan sing-along favorite, the record delivers thirteen high-energy tracks showing the Urinals haven’t taken their foot of the pedal. Formed in the first wave of Los Angeles punk in 1978, the Urinals forged a unique path by gigging with bands across the LA punk and post-punk spectrum, from hardcore (Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Minutemen) to paisley underground (The Last, Rain Parade, Bang[les]) to everything in between (Go-Go’s, X, Savage Republic, Gun Club). They morphed into 100 FLOWERS in the early ‘80s and released a critically acclaimed LP (recently reissued on vinyl by Superior Viaduct) and are back now as the Urinals, playing songs from all phases of their 35 year career. The Urinals are KEVIN BARRETT (drums), ROB ROBERGE (guitar/vocals) and JOHN TALLEY-JONES (bass/vocals). In the past few years the Urinals have headlined festivals from Calgary to Louisville, from Belgium to Beijing. They continue to perform on a regular basis, giving their fans a taste from the past (”I’m A Bug,” “Black Hole,” “Ack Ack Ack Ack”) mixed with songs from their current lineup. They band will be touring the US and Europe to promote NYAM. (STREET DATE - 2/17/2015)
LP $15.50
02/17/2015
CD $13.25
02/17/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! SHOCK were part of the first wave of punk to hit Los Angeles in the mid 1970s alongside the likes of The Germs, The Weirdos, Screamers and X. Shock Proof is a 20-song LP featuring collected material from 1976 to 1979 with many never before released tracks. Hear SHOCK they way they were meant to sound in all their blazing rock'n'punk glory! Limited edition of 500 copies on white vinyl with 8-page insert.
LP $12.75
02/03/2015
***DEAD HEAVENS is the new project of legendary hardcore/post-rock veteran WALTER SCHREIFELS (GORILLA BISCUITS, QUICKSAND, ROYAL SCHOOLS, VANISHING LIFE)—along with PAUL KOSTABI (YOUTH GONE MAD, WHITE ZOMBIE, PSYCHOTICA), NATHAN AGUILAR (CULTS) and DREW THOMAS (CRIPPLED YOUTH, BOLD, YOUTH OF TODAY).
7" $7.50
02/17/2015
MP3 $1.98
02/17/2015
FLAC $2.99
02/17/2015
*** Available on vinyl again - note cheaper price!! Renowned American singer-songwriter Simon Joyner first came to prominence during the lo-fi movement of the early ’90s alongside contemporaries like Will Oldham, Peter Jefferies, the Mountain Goats, Smog and Alastair Galbraith. Joyner was championed early on by the late British DJ John Peel, who famously played Joyner’s 1994 LP, The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll, start to finish on one of his BBC programs, making Joyner more well known overseas than in his own country. Considered a forefather of the Omaha music scene, he’s released critically acclaimed albums on various independent labels every few years for over two decades. He keeps a low profile and tours only occasionally, spending most of his time working and raising a family, allowing writing and music to remain an artistic outlet rather than an occupation. Grass, Branch & Bone is Joyner’s thirteenth proper album and a sonic departure from 2012’s Ghosts. While that record was a double-disc collection of dark, dissonant songs confronting death and loss in the vein of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night, this new one is sparse by comparison, running with the likes of other singer-songwriter outcast aftermath albums like Dylan’s John Wesley Harding, Gene Clark’s White Light, David Blue’s Stories, Jerry Jeff Walker’s Five Years Gone, Townes Van Zandt’s Our Mother the Mountain and Cohen’s Recent Songs. It’s a natural progression—after a funeral, one takes stock and reflect upon his or her own life. Grass, Branch & Bone...
LP $16.00
03/31/2015
MP3 $8.91
03/31/2015
FLAC $9.90
03/31/2015
Astral Spirits presents “Stepped Stoned” (AS004/MF079) from France-based drummer Will Guthrie. “Stepped Stoned” is a tour-de-force of solo percussion that can stand alongside heavyweights such as Han Bennink, Milford Graves, Tony Oxley, Chris Corsano and more. “Stepped Stoned” is an uninterrupted 34 minute live recording from a show in Le Havre, France. There is a fluidity to the piece that will leave you breathless….building from a near inaudible cymbal patter to a cascade of drums and buzzing percussion and back again, truly epic in scope and execution.
MC $0.00
01/20/2015
MP3 $5.99
12/16/2014
FLAC $6.99
12/16/2014
***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
***BACK IN STOCK!!! There’s no denying that Melbourne’s CUNTZ crafted the feel-good hit of last summer with Never Felt Better—a frantic atonal mess from a country that has no shortage of gems in their jewel encrusted crown. When on tour in the US in 2013, Chunklet industries were completely floored by their live show here in Atlanta at the Earl and were ready to work with them in any capacity. Enter their first LIVE album—Here Come The Real Boys—culled from performances at WFMU, Death By Audio, Gonerfest 2013 and The Earl in Atlanta. LP limited to 450 copies. Includes download.
LP $13.00
09/09/2014
MP3 $9.90
09/09/2014
FLAC $11.99
09/09/2014
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork. BITCHIN BAJAS have been around the world in five years; chasing sonics through space and time and coming up with a lot of conclusions along their discographical path. Always, they push forward, recklessly consuming processes in order to realize their own works—but the sound and the music regularly emerges with tranquil essence, bringing them and their listeners into a shared experience. Bitchin Bajas’ output has been remarkably diverse in search of this singular goal, which makes for great listening across multiple albums etc.—and with the release of this new double-LP, they have mapped and traversed their own ecosystem as they journey in search of the aural epiphany, the true unknowing. With plenty of room stretched over four sides, Bitchin Bajas use their many methods to attain PERFECT FLOW throughout the 76 minutes of this self-titled record. Self-titled because this is who they are at their core; these are the flares and oscillations of their soul. They will be other things again, horizons will continue to rise and fade away in their path as they continue forward and upward—but this self-titled record is a pure vision at the heart of Bitchin Bajas.
2XLP $32.75
08/26/2014
2XMC $11.25
08/26/2014
***The name MIKE “REP” HUMMEL means many things to different people. Many equate Rep with ‘70s "Proto-Punk", ‘80'"D.I.Y." or a pioneering founder of ‘90s "Lo-Fi" (Rep prefers the term "Mega-Fi" himself). Along with his bands MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS and the seminal (Ohio) TRUE BELIEVERS, he was also a a cohort in the ‘90s Columbus "supergroup" EGO SUMMIT among a plethera of other Ohio band involvements. Also known for recording and/or mixing ("Lovingly Fucking With") such bands of note as Guided By Voices, Times New Viking, Jim Shepard, The Gibson Brothers, Strapping Fields Hands, Mount Carmel and dozens of others, mostly in their formative garage/basement incarnations. "I prefer deflowering to retooling. Both present worthwhile challenges but working with virgin talent won't get you an STD" he once infamously said. Still others remember him for his groundbreaking Columbus Ohio homegrown label New Age Records (named before there was such a thing as New Age music) which evolved into the ‘80s/’90s cassette pioneering signpost to new space OldAge/NO Age label through the ‘90s. And so the name Mike Rep Hummel has a polarizing effect on many who either admire or deride his body of work. Hummel's new record Darby Creek Drifter is one that is sure to draw the line even deeper into the sand. Rep sez; "As my pal Bob Pollard" once quipped, "this does not rock". But it rolls baby, it rolls.
LP $14.00
07/29/2014
Formed in 2008, Vancouver, BC’s Auroch are poised to bear the flag of Canadian death metal chaos alongside likeminded bands of the new generation Mitochondrion (vocalist / guitarist Shawn Haché and live-lineup bassist Sebastian Montesi both play in Auroch), Antediluvian and Chthe’ilist. It’s a tradition stretching from the legendary and still-active Gorguts back to the mid-’90s heydays of Cryptopsy and Kataklysm. Auroch released their debut From Forgotten Worlds in 2011 on Poland’s Hellthrasher Productions. That album’s insane musical approach to violent, technical death metal is present on its followup, Taman Shud, albeit in a darker, deadlier manifestation. Here the band truly makes their mark upon the death metal scene as one of North America’s most brutal and musically proficient acts. The release is preceded by the limited-edition Seven Veils 7-inch EP (Graceless Recordings), and the Auroch is scheduled to play this year’s Killtown Deathfest, Europe’s premiere death metal festival, and Incubate fest; live assaults in Canada and the US are imminent.
CD $12.00
06/24/2014
MP3 $7.99
06/24/2014
FLAC $9.90
06/24/2014
***The punk band D.O.A., established in 1978, is considered one of the founders of hardcore punk, alongside such other seminal groups as Black Flag and Minor Threat. Their raw, melodic sound, which drew comparisons to the Clash and the Ramones, has always been matched by the band’s acute political sensibility; known for its uncompromising and outspoken anarchist viewpoints, D.O.A. has been active on behalf of many issues, including anti-racism, anti-globalization, freedom of speech, women’s rights, and the environment. Its slogan, “Talk – Action = 0,” refers to the importance of artists and others who need to “walk the walk” when it comes to their politics. After more than thirty years, D.O.A. remains as active as ever, touring internationally (including a trip to China, the first punk band to do so) and recording regularly (their thirteenth studio album was released in 2010); their fan base now spans three generations. This large-format book is a sprawling visual history of the group by lead singer/guitarist Keithley—made up of vintage photographs, posters, handwritten lyrics, and other various ephemera—that offers a visceral glimpse into the hardcore life of one of the hardest-working punk bands in the business.
BK $11.00
03/25/2014
Over the years, Chicago doom / noise band Lord Mantis have made a name for themselves within the underground metal scene alongside fellow local metal bands like The Atlas Moth and Yakuza. Their last album, Pervertor (Candlelight Records), brought them recognition within doom and even black metal circles, assisted by the fact that the band features current and former members from Indian, Nachtmystium, Abigail Williams and Avichi. With their third album, Lord Mantis present their most devastating and triumphant work to date. Death Mask is a much darker, doomier and more experimental offering destined to bring further recognition to Lord Mantis among the doom / black / noise metal elite, who will herald them as one of the best and most twisted underground metal bands hailing from America.
CD $12.00
04/29/2014
MP3 $7.99
04/29/2014
FLAC $9.90
04/29/2014
***BACK IN STOCK!!! “Live at Death By Audio 2012 is a playable flexi record book featuring kick ass tracks from JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD, TIM HARRINGTON as OBFS, BLACK PUS, RUINS ALONE, FUTURE ISLANDS, ERIC COPELAND, TY SEGALL, THEE OH SEES, METZ, GROOMS, and A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, all recorded LIVE in 2012 at the Brooklyn venue Death By Audio. This puppy comes packed with artwork by BRIAN CHIPPENDALE, DAVE SINGLEY, PERRY LUBIN, MATT LEINS, RON REGE JR., JON VERMILYEA, and BRENDAN NAKAHARA. To top it off is a full download of the whole comp PLUS the entire live set from Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segal.
5X7 FLEXI BOOK $27.50
03/18/2014
Burnt Ones have been Castle Face favorites for years, and last year’s You’ll Never Walk Alone on Burger was the one for which they kicked themelves repeatedly for not getting to first. The label is very honored to present their third record, Gift. Far more psychedelic than their previous work, the album may be a bit of a surprise to fans on first listen. A potent blend of wide-eyed strummers on shifting sands is punctuated by blinking oscillators, left turns into wispy sound collage and tape manipulations, drug-rug-wrapped lushness and telephone whispers from a supremely stoned sounding Mark Tester, the guide through this cultish and vaguely sinister headphone-scape. It’s a woozy and a woolly one.
LP $19.00
03/18/2014
CD $12.00
03/25/2014
MP3 $9.90
03/18/2014
FLAC $11.99
03/25/2014
The final installment of Ketamines’ four-part 7-inch series finds everyone’s favorite spaced-out punks straying from the garage, discovering amphetamines and taking that swing into the sunshine of romance and power pop. Along the same gracious lines, B-side “Always Small” is self-affirmation in sugar-pill form. Parts one through three of the series were released by Pleasence Records, Leaning Trees Records and Hosehead Records, and are available individually from those labels in frighteningly small quantities. Collect all four to complete a grand, mind-bending image of magic by artist Felix Morel. “Ketamines have found the delight in the details, adding to their pop-tarted tracks with fuzzed-out blasts, cartoon-indebted backing tracks, moody guitar washes and synth stabs that all seem pulled from their personal obsessions, then melted, sewn and stapled together into music that feels as personally seamless as it is aesthetically schizophrenic.” —Raven Sings the Blues “Ketamines are nearly impossible to pin down: lo- / no-fi garage rock that’s occasionally poppy / catchy, sometimes glittery, often ass-kickin’ and always, at the very least, engrossing.” —Gumshoe Grove “Lots of sound effects like when a person materializes in a He-Man cartoon.” —Vice
7" $5.75
03/04/2014
***BACK IN STOCK!!! A double-LP collection of every single and compilation track THEE OH SEES have released to date, along with one previously unreleased gem. Tracks run the gambit from very mellow stuff with strings to completely fried burners.
CD $12.00
01/21/2014
2XLP $28.00
04/26/2011
MP3 $9.90
04/26/2011
FLAC $11.99
01/21/2014
Complimenting the full-length LP of Shoes This High’s previously unreleased archival recordings, Siltbreeze presents the first-time legitimate reissue of this essential high water mark and crucial New Zealand post-punk classic. Alongside the Gordons’ debut 7-inch, the band’s sole EP—originally self-released in 1981—uncapped a ferocity yet unheard not just in New Zealand, but in most corners of the global underground fraternity. Needless to say, Shoes This High is a defining moment in definitive.
7" $9.25
01/21/2014
Ablaze, Karren
City is Ablaze: The Story of a Post-punk Popzine 1984-1994
Happy Happy Birthday To Me / Ablaze
***Ablaze fanzine was published in Manchester and Leeds in the late eighties and early nineties by Karren Ablaze!. The best bits of this notorious and outspokenly passionately zine are now available in book format. Alongside hundreds of zine pages, The City is Ablaze features new writings by Karren and other members of the Ablaze! team, as well as interviews with other zine writers, essays by DIY cultural commentators, a re-examination of the Riot Grrrl movement, and an epilogue by Gary Jarman (the Cribs). The 320 page A4 book covers other zines that Karren produced in Manchester and Leeds between 1984 and 1994, capturing an era where DIY was de rigueur and indie actually meant something. You'll be able to read original interviews with the following bands (in chronological order). Eyeless in Gaza, the Membranes, the Stone Roses, the Inca Babies, Tools You Can Trust, the Bodines, Inspiral Carpets, the Pastels, the Janitors, Happy Mondays, King of the Slums, the Dust Devils, the Shamen, Cud, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, the Pixies, Throwing Muses, the Sundays, Thrilled Skinny, Rapeman, UT, Dog Faced Hermans, Edsel Auctioneer, Mudhoney, AC Temple, fIREHOSE, Band of Susans, Henry Rollins, Live Skull, Kilgore Trout, the Sun and the Moon, the Breeders, Happy Flowers, Silverfish, the Keatons, the Stretchheads, Pregnant Neck, Mayomberos Alive, Fluff, Archbishop Kebab, Nirvana, Pale Saints, Mercury Rev, The Heart Throbs, Babes in Toyland, American Music Club, Hole, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Shudder to Think, the Wedding Present, Leatherface, Nation of Ulysses, Tsunami, Poster Children, Sugar,...
BK $47.75
11/26/2013
***Taken from REVEREND LOUIS OVERSTREET’s privately released 45s. Raucous guitar work and great gospel energy from one of the most renowned guitar evangelists along with Utah Smith and Charlie Jackson. This record features “Blessings” b/w “Black But Proud.” Originally recorded in the 1970s and released in tiny runs on the Overstreet and Lodestone record labels. Limited edition of 500.
7" $6.75
11/12/2013
French electronic band DAT Politics returns to Tigerbeat6 with their brand new EP. The followup to 2012’s Blitz Gazer album, Powermoon sets itself up smoothly in the group’s evolving universe, launching incandescent shooting stars like “Fox Box Sound” and “Trance Mission” alongside gravity-free lullabies like “Boogie Mind” and “Ghost Town.” The final moonquake comes from the collaboration with Drew Daniel’s The Soft Pink Truth on a booty version of “Hold That Pose (My Mother Told Me).” DAT Politics has toured the world extensively since forming in 1999, displaying incredible energy on stage and generating a cult-like enthusiasm for their eminently danceable brand of electro-pop. Founding members Claude Pailliot and Gaëtan Collet are also known for their side projects Tone Rec and Skipp, and have influenced a generation of young electronic composers across the globe. The group has appeared at loads of festivals over the years—Warp label night in England, CTM in Berlin, Sonar in Barcelona, Dour Festival in Belgium, and Donau Festival in Austria—and remixed a bunch of great musicians like Jaga Jazzist, The Blow, Architecture in Helsinki and YACHT.
CD $9.25
11/26/2013
MP3 $3.99
11/04/2013
Wait, is this a new band? We've positioned this incredible debut LP along with our Archival series batch for good reason, as FIRST BASE are one of the purest bands you're likely to come across, a true pop milestone so authentic and airtight, you'll swear you've heard these chords before. Originally one of the 'mystery bands on MySpace" from the mid-2000's, FIRST BASE released a string of much loved singles & EPs but kept a low profile despite being an active performing band in their hometown of Toronto, but it wasn't their intent to be anonymous. If you'll recall, they gained a wider appreciation after Personal & the Pizzas covered their iconic "Nobody Makes My Girl Cry But Me" which pushed them further onto the underground pop radar, and they returned the favor by covering " I Don't Feel So Happy Now" on their last EP. But affiliations aside, FIRST BASE are going to leave a deep scar on your world, and they'll be dumping sugar and syrup deep in those wounds with every repeated listen of this incredible pop debut. Like Jesus & Mary Chain fronting the Ramones, covering Joey Levine, FIRST BASE are pure honey-dripping salvation from the sadistic world we're trapped inside, a true ray of sunshine on an otherwise cloudy day, just try to not melt away.
LP $13.75
11/26/2013
CD $9.60
10/29/2013
MP3 $9.90
10/15/2013
***Official reissue from Scotland's longest running punk band. This is their self-released single from 1978. The title track was featured on Killed By Death Volumes 6 and 7 along with a Bloodstains Across the UK.
7" $9.25
10/15/2013
***MOVING FINGER—don't call it a side project. Featuring power couple JB HORRELL and LAUREL FERDON (of EX-CULT and NOTS respectively), along with PATRICK GLASS (NOISE CHOIR) and NATALIE HOFFMAN (Ex-Cult, Nots), Moving Finger takes psychedelic punk to a level that few dare to tread. Fantastic, forward-thinking avant-punk that reminds us of the early days of UK or Cleveland experimentalism in the late ‘70s where primitive technique and ambitious ideas lead to some great music. Edition of 400 copies. "Sounding like they could have been featured on the off—kilter punk compilation Cleveland Confidential alongside bands like the Styrenes and the Easter Monkeys, Moving Finger are an exercise in primitive noise, stripping songs to the bone before thrashing through them altogether. It's a formula that worked well for hardcore bands in the early 80s and it works here too."—Memphis Flyer
7" $6.00
10/15/2013
MP3 $2.97
10/15/2013
***The brainchild of ANGELO PERROTTI, the SYSTEM recorded their first and only single "The Box" b/w "The Weekend" for Piss Records in 1980. Brothers Angelo and REMO PERROTTI (AA), along with RICHARD STEEGMANS,ERIK SLEGERS and EDDY GABRIEL (AA) got together in a small recording studio in Diest, the same studio Remo and Eddy would go on to record the Essential Entertainment EP one year later. Like many bands of the time and region, the System's story is a fleeting one. "The Box" b/w "The Weekend" is comprised of two flamboyant, ‘60s pop inspired songs. Softspot is proud to revive this forgotten 7" single. Black vinyl packaged with it's original artwork.
7" $6.30
08/13/2013
Ensemble Economique has emerged as an unusually globe-trotting creative valve for Arcata, CA, beachcomber Brian Pyle. The last year alone has seen him backpacking through Scandinavia, Europe and Russia—twice. Maybe his spirit’s too absorbent, ’cause he’s brought back some deeply heavier moods and ancient world weariness since his last outing on Not Not Fun, 2010’s demonic tribal monsoon Psychical. Recent splits with similarly instinctual psychedelic unclassifiables like Lee Noble and Heroin in Tahiti have hinted at his bracing off-roader headspace, but he bares all on Fever Logic, six songs smeared across 40 minutes. Pyle positions each composition as a slow-motion funereal landslide; grey clay electronics losing form, echoes of processed guitar, depressive synth mist, all drizzling down over his wailing prisoner’s prayer vocals. A few flirt with slightly more overt goth-gaze signifiers (“Walking into the Light,” “We Come Spinning Out of Control”), but the rest run closer to some kind of miasmic electronic abstraction mode, merging submerged mumbling and isolationist field recordings with intensely personal melodies and spacious cathedrals of ritual guitar. As with so many of Pyle’s past steps, it’s all-consuming and all out on its own (the only guest appearance is his brother, Jon, echo-plexing some occult percussion to the opening track). Ensemble Economique "We Come Spinning Out Of Control" by NOT NOT FUN
LP $13.00
08/06/2013
MP3 $5.94
08/06/2013
FLAC $6.99
08/06/2013
When we first met the man behind Light Fantastic, Terry Sowers was singing harmonies and playing guitar in the Farmer Dave Scher band. His introduction to the stage was a diving-head-first experience, playing alongside one of his musical heroes as support for acts like Jenny and Johnny and Conor Oberst. However, Sowers was also sitting on a treasure chest of his own songs, fine-tuning a sound he’d developed for years, mostly alone, in his Victorian apartment in San Francisco. Teaming up with Jeremy Bringetto (Vue, Bellavista, Tamaryn), the two worked this set of bedroom pop sketches into what can be described as a modern take on California—as much Southern California as an expression of the Bay Area. This dreamy, surfy shoegaze views an age of innocence through the idyllic lens of reflection and personal nostalgia, like the pure, happy memories of a long-lost love. It’s no surprise that the songs’ author hails from the hot suburbs of Los Angeles and that his compositions string together a sincere sense of personal displacement and longing for home. When Sowers and Bringetto brought their song ideas to Rex Shelverton, who was in the midst of producing Tamaryn’s latest album, a strange but harmonious union was born of light and dark. Shelverton’s homegrown version of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound was the perfect compliment to songs that evoked Laurel Canyon, Carol Kaye and mid-’60s Brian Wilson California optimism. The Light Fantastic EP is sunny, hopeful and dreamy, and even in its darkest moments aims...
12" $12.00
06/25/2013
MP3 $3.96
06/25/2013
FLAC $4.99
06/25/2013
***THE ANDROIDS OF MU were a noisy all-girl early post-punk band that emerged from London, UK, in 1979, alongside the likes of The Slits and The Raincoats.They met up in the wild squatter-lands of west London. SUZE THE BLOOZ, CORRINA, COZMIC and BESS became immersed in the local counter-culture. They grounded themselves in psychedelic synthesizer and guitar music, playing with Planet Gong and Here & Now, and musicians from Hawkwind. When they finally got hold of a cheap synth and a noisy guitar of their own, they used them, at full volume, with fat bass and bouncing drums, to record an album in the form of their new, colourful and zazzy reflections of life, from under the long dark shadow of puppet Thatcher's corporate new Britain. They gigged around, sharing bills with the likes of The Mob, Zounds and The Astronauts. Blood Robots was recorded at lo-fi cult studio Street Level in 1979, this was their only ever album, originally released on Fuck Off Records. Now, cruel world, it is time for you to receive it. (This 2013 release has been carefully remastered from the original tapes. Includes insert with early photos and complete songwords).
LP $14.75
04/16/2013
***In downtown New York City, in 1979, painter JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT and performance artist MICHAEL HOLMAN founded their industrial-sound band, GRAY (along with NICHOLAS TAYLOR, JUSTIN THYME and VINCENT GALLO). Jean named the band after Gray's Anatomy (the human anatomy textbook), an important reference source for his paintings and the perfect name to capture the haunting, machine-like ambient music the band wrote and performed. In the Whitney Museum's catalog for Basquiat's 1991 Retrospective, Robert Farris Thompson, professor of Anthropology at Yale, wrote this about Gray: "They worked the Mudd Club, CBGB's, and Hurrah's in New York, where Blondie and the Talking Heads were at that time emerging. They performed, in other words, at the epicenter of New Wave. Here they contended for space and recognition with a style that, in Basquiat's own words, was 'incomplete, abrasive, and oddly beautiful.'" In an Interview magazine review (Jan. 1981) Glenn O'Brien wrote: "Gray became an industrial sound effects band. They played on scaffolds... Lately, they've really developed their own groove... it's sort of an easy listening bebop industrial sound effects lounge ensemble." Limited edition of 1,000 copies signed by Holman and Taylor.
LP $22.25
01/29/2013
A gift: Four of Justin K. Broadrick’s incredible sonic personalities on one impressive EP, titled simply Christmas. Jesu lays the foundation with the initial hymn, along with remixes from related projects Pale Sketcher and Final, plus an exclusive and brand new remix by the oppressive JK Flesh entity. Originally released as a digital-only EP for Christmas 2010, the 35+ minutes of music here have been sonically upgraded by mastering wizard James Plotkin specifically for the physical release. The CD includes an exclusive lyrics sheet and is limited to one-time pressing of 500 copies
CD $12.00
12/25/2012
12" $17.50
12/25/2012
***A figure in the avant garde noise and electronics underworld for over 20 years, DEISON’s music has appeared on split-releases alongside Thurston Moore, Scanner and KK Null. On Quiet Rooms, the experimental artist builds four enchanting ambient soundscapes from field recordings of empty hotel rooms. Delicately layered and processed, these lonely urban soundtracks evoke powerful tensions between serenity and alienation. In the he ethereal opener,” Room 1” Deison has captured the anxiety of isolation. Drones builds to such dystopian density that the sounds of our world become science fiction. In “Room 3” , with the inclusion of distinguishable ambient hotel noises, Deison listens in on forgotten stories trapped in the walls. Doors open and close, phonecalls fail to reach their recipient, a distant cat meows. These are the intimate moments and mysterious lives of hotel guests. Further adding to the tension of this powerful release is the 16-panel poster designed by BAS MANTEL. Lock yourself into these stationary images and slow moving sounds. Spend time in Deison’s Quiet Rooms and you will never look at an empty hotel room the same again.
CD $12.25
10/02/2012
***BRIAN PYLE’s work under the ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE banner has been undergoing heavy shift lately, prompted by both creative restlessness as well as inner life upheavals. He’s quested out on 2 lone wolf UK/Euro tours in the past half-year alone, plus dropped an ace LP on the Dekorder label of ominous soundtrack menace. When rapid transformation takes hold, it’s best to just roll tape and make sense of it later. Thus, in anticipation of his forthcoming 2012 NNF full-length, we present EE: Live In London, an impressively recorded 37-minute performance at The Vortex in August of last year, comprised of all new material. Primitive drum machine rhythms stutter in primal-industrial patterns, cloaked in disquieting drones and oblique tape samples (police sirens, jungle bird calls, Sinead O’Connor vocal raptures), accompanied by pained crooning, ragged squalls of electric guitar, and minor-key synth depressions. More song-based than his voodoo hallucination breakthrough, 2010’s Psychical, but no less unsettling, the new Economique approach has shades of Eyeless In Gaza’s eerie, fatalist drift but the thrust is some sort of goth-psych/beat music hybrid that we’re not aware even really exists yet. A captivating document of an artist at the crossroads. White, imprinted tapes with high-art jazz-splatter J-cards designed by AMANDA BROWN. Edition of 150.
MC $6.00
07/31/2012
***California Babylon is a far more sparse and caustic offering than FACTRIX's debut, Scheintot, documenting their live collaboration with notorious artist MONTE CAZAZZA, who along with recording for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial label also coined its "Industrial Music for Industrial People" motto. Originally released on the seminal Subterranean Records in 1982, California Babylon remains one of the best collections of violent guitar and primitive machine-noise resonance ever released. Featuring a musical treatment of the Brion Gysin permutation poem, "Kick That Habit Man," with avant-garde percussionist Z'EV backing the band. This first time reissue comes from the original analog source. LP with archival inserts. CD+DVD contains bonus material of four studio tracks previously unreleased in the US, the "Prescient Dreams" single, and a feature-length movie, the so-called Night of the Succubus (live in San Francisco 1981), complete with special appearance by MARK PAULINE from SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABS.
LP $16.00
06/19/2012
CD+DVD $19.50
06/19/2012
MP3 $9.90
06/19/2012
FLAC $11.99
06/19/2012
***In service to TASHI WADA’s ongoing work with sound perception as a basis for direct modes of listening, he and Marc Sabat produce two sustained tones, a fourth apart, positioned along a wall, one at each end—a very slow glissando from one pitch to the other while moving accordingly. In other words, the string players' physical locations in space correspond with pitches of the sounds. One of his adapted violas of Harry Partch, who often worked with this type of harmony, was used for the recording of Gradient. The result is a sculpture-like presence shifting through all the blue notes.
7" $9.25
04/24/2012
Phase Two of The Dicks began in San Francisco, 1983, when Gary Floyd relocated to a new city and reformed the groundbreaking band with a new lineup. Eschewing the traditional hardcore formula, Floyd along with drummer Lynn Perko, guitarist Tim Carroll and bassist Sebastian Fuchs evolved a more mature punk sound while still retaining their political edge. This incarnation recorded the Peace? 7-inch and These People album. They disbanded in 1986 and Floyd and Perko went on to form Sister Double Happiness. For a limited time, These People and Peace? will be sold as one vinyl package. After the first pressing runs out, Peace? will be available as a separate single. The digital and CD versions contain the complete studio output of the San Francisco lineup of the Dicks. Alternative Tentacles is proud to present this essential document of 1980s punk, remastered with love by Jello Biafra.
CD $13.00
07/17/2012
MP3 $9.90
07/17/2012
Phase Two of The Dicks began in San Francisco, 1983, when Gary Floyd relocated to a new city and reformed the groundbreaking band with a new lineup. Eschewing the traditional hardcore formula, Floyd along with drummer Lynn Perko, guitarist Tim Carroll and bassist Sebastian Fuchs evolved a more mature punk sound while still retaining their political edge. This incarnation recorded the Peace? 7-inch and These People album. They disbanded in 1986 and Floyd and Perko went on to form Sister Double Happiness. For a limited time, These People and Peace? will be sold as one vinyl package. After the first pressing runs out, Peace? will be available as a separate single. The digital and CD versions contain the complete studio output of the San Francisco lineup of the Dicks. Alternative Tentacles is proud to present this essential document of 1980s punk, remastered with love by Jello Biafra.
LP $13.00
07/17/2012
Phase Two of The Dicks began in San Francisco, 1983, when Gary Floyd relocated to a new city and reformed the groundbreaking band with a new lineup. Eschewing the traditional hardcore formula, Floyd along with drummer Lynn Perko, guitarist Tim Carroll and bassist Sebastian Fuchs evolved a more mature punk sound while still retaining their political edge. This incarnation recorded the Peace? 7-inch and These People album. They disbanded in 1986 and Floyd and Perko went on to form Sister Double Happiness. The three-track Peace? 7-inch was the first release from the reconstituted Dicks and revealed the unit to be as intimidating as ever. Alternative Tentacles is proud to present this essential document of 1980s punk, remastered with love by Jello Biafra.
7" $5.75
01/29/2013
Falco, Tav And The Panther Burns
Behind The Magnolia Curtain / Blow Your Top - Love And Testament Vol. 1
Fat Possum
***“The master of a raw and shambolic fusion of rockabilly, blues, and fractured noise, TAV FALCO, was, along with the Cramps, one of the earliest purveyors of what would come to be known as psychobilly (though his version of the sound lacked the campy horror movie ambience others brought to it), and he anticipated the fractured but hard-hitting blues wailing of the Gories and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion by close to a decade. Born in Arkansas, Falco moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1973 and introduced himself to the city’s creative community as a filmmaker and performance artist while supporting himself with a variety of odd jobs. While making documentary films on blues artists in Tennessee and Mississippi (including a piece on R.L. Burnside shot at his legendary juke joint in 1974), Falco was inspired to pick up the guitar, though his first on-stage performance with the instrument involved him destroying a six-string with a chain saw.”—Allmusic Guide.
LP $26.95
03/06/2012
CD $17.75
03/27/2012
2XLP $30.50
03/06/2012
Coyote Clean Up, aka Ice Cold Chrissy, went to the same high school as Madonna. He’s raved alongside Detroit hard-knockers and partied with the big D noise-boys. FROZEN SOLID’s got the pickled perspective mesh/mash-up of glam-mo sensuality, post-industrial apocalypse humor, and Midwest wind-chill dream grime that all the coasters could use a sonic dose of. Snatch, crackle, pop: these are the backroom, rotating bed, velvet wallpaper, dance jams SILK built the foundation for their house on, sparkling and fading into the mini-reels of cassette candy. Vintage is only a vantage point for the crickety critics – CCU’s got old style for the new world, fresh and frozen for all you future freaks.
MP3 $6.93
03/20/2012
***Originally released on the small Children Of The Revolution label back in 1984, Short Sharp Shock is CHAOS UK's own undiscussed masterpiece, and their first album recorded with the classic MOWER / CHUCK / GABBA / CHAOS line up. Up there along with Discharge’s Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing and Disorder’s 1984 Under The Scalpel Blade, straight out of the holy trinity of British ‘80s Punk: angry, pissed and out of tune like it always should have sounded.
LP $29.50
03/06/2012
***“Although some people considered the band punk rock, the band itself liked to describe themselves as ‘Blister Pop.’ The Village Voice's long-time chief music critic, Robert Christgau, called them a ‘great lost American band.’ Along with bands like Get Smart! and the Mortal Micronotz, THE EMABARRASSMENT were prominent in the Lawrence punk scene of the early '80s and they would regularly play at venues like the Lawrence Opera House (now called Liberty Hall) and the Off The Wall Hall (later called Cogburn's, now called The Bottleneck).” An incredible single.
7" $9.25
02/28/2012
***Punks on Mars is Ryan Howe, the artist formerly known as Luke Perry. Along with past and present Zoo Music artists such as Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls and Dirty Beaches, Howe creates his own sonic world, but according to Altered Zones, his is one where “ambitious, full-band stadium swagger... sounds like it’s being re-directed live from Mars.” The four-song Hey! Tiffany EP is issued in a limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl. “The Damned’s ‘New Rose,’ Generation X’s ‘Kiss Me Deadly’ and now this—the latest entry into the paedo-punk canon comes courtesy of sicko Luke Perry... [This] really does sound like Glitter doing unspeakable things to underage Martians. Enjoy it while you can….” —Vice
7" $6.00
01/31/2012
MP3 $3.96
11/01/2011
***BACK IN STOCK!!! A rip-it-up collection of rare and out-of-print material from punk rockers the SPITS. Includes all the songs from the band's 19 Million AC 7-inch EP, along with seven unheard new songs, and a handful of rare and unreleased gems—including covers of GG Allin's "Drink, Fight & Fuck" and the Dick's "Kill From The Heart."
LP $15.50
10/04/2011
***BACK IN PRINT!!! Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork. Heartfelt and marbled, SUN ARAW’s new album is documentation of the slow exit (the triumphal entry): moving the camera back 8 stages along the circumference of the circle to the point where the obverse is reverse, in order to celebrate the building of an edifice and then walk away from it in wisdom, gaining freedom from it.
CD $13.75
09/15/2022
2XLP $32.40
08/23/2011
***BORGHESIA is an electronic music group from Ljubljana, Slovenia, created in 1982 by ALDO IVANCIC and DARIO SERAVAL who were members of the alternative theater troupe FV-112/15. Along with Laibach, Borghesia is the most successful band from the territory of former Yugoslavia who launched the activist movement and managed to turn sexual freedom into an important political issue by creating the New Slovenian Art scene. After two cassette-only releases the band recorded their debut vinyl LP Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti (“Love Is Colder Than Death”) during the winter of 1983-84. The band was eager to use early sampling techniques to construct tracks from cut up radio noises and movie dialogue. They developed their own brand of EBM (Electronic Body Music) that combined symphonic synthesizers (Korg PolySix), funky basslines, military drum beats (Roland TR-808) and harsh, crisp sequenced rhythms that repeat in trance-like loops (Roland TB-303). All songs from Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti are sung/recited in Croatian and use the imagery of the prohibited, tabooed and repressed. Equal parts Chris & Cosey, Cabaret Voltaire, Art of Noise and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. All tracks have been remastered by George Horn at Fantasy Studio in Berkeley. Pressed on blood red vinyl, each disc is manufactured with its own unique pattern: no two discs are identical. Each LP is housed in an exact replica of the original large 6-panel fold out poster with lyrics and photos. Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies.
LP $17.50
08/16/2011
***This Australian avant garde percussionist’s long-standing preoccupation with extended technique and acoustically generated noise applied to the conventional drumkit in a freely improvised context has helped push the bounds of the acoustic drumkit’s sonic potential (alongside compatriots Robbie Avenaim, Tony Buck, Steve Heather, Joe Talia and Will Guthrie). SEAN BAXTER’s concise improvisations, performed with unconventional implements, extract unusual timbres from the drumkit. His vast and dense sonic worlds, created without overdubs or processing, allude to avant garde electronic music, Modernist chamber music in the style of Xenakis and Lachenmann, extreme noise and the maximalist spectrum of post-AMM free improv. On “Metal,” piercing untuned aluminium windchimes flail against the rims and membranes of the kit in a chaotic flurry, creating a barrage of stochastic rhythms and accidental harmonies, exploiting the high frequency ranges of metallic sound. “Flesh,” in complete contrast, employs the exclusive use of the body; fingers, hands, fists and elbows strike, coddle and pummel various components of the drumkit, coercing and coaxing more rounded, but equally uncompromising and slightly uncomfortable bottom-end sounds from the instrument.
7" $12.00
07/19/2011
***DINOSAUR JR.'s first DVD release! This full-length concert DVD featuring the band in its original lineup, was filmed at New York's Irving Plaza, December 2005, and at other shows along the band's December tour. With unfettered access to this famously elusive band, fans get complete backstage access to the recent reunion tour, one-on-one interviews, behind the scenes goings-on and a full set of performances of Dinosaur Jr. favorites. Bonus features: interview footage: KEVIN SHIELDS, KIM GORDON, THURSTON MOORE, MIKE WATT, MATT DILLON and STEVE ALBINI.
DVD $25.50
06/04/2007
***A reissue of this party rap classic from 1980 from slept-on Bronx emcee KOOL KYLE STARCHILD (an unofficial member of the FURIOUS 5). Includes the original 8-minute version, along with an extended remix B-side.
12" $3.75
12/27/2005
“For Moon Glyph's eighth release, the label offers up Dante & the Lobster's "Wonders". Appropriately titled, this selection seems to bounce along on a sense of wonderment. Aurally, any of these songs would not sound out of place on a Nuggets compilation, each featuring boyish harmonies and the jangling guitars so prominent in the mid-Sixties. There are moments on this record that might remind listeners almost simultaneously of the Troggs, Comus, the Yardbirds, the 13th Floor Elevators and the Chocolate Watch Band - an impressive feat of psychedelic pop amalgamation.” —Moon Glyph
MP3 $8.91
01/14/2010
Utterances into a dictophone from a backdoor man hiding in the closet as the husband arrives home. The tales plod along in whispers, accompanied by defined guitar interplay, punctuated piano and snappy drums. Nearly every accent of guitar seems present. Fragile flamenco plucks, fuzz-to-the-front fumblings onto smooth lyrics of a detective attempting to resolve his own crimes. Vocals and acoustic guitar were recorded by Greg Weeks. The arrangements, instrumentation and production were lovingly handled by Jonathan Wilson. Ilya Monosov is a member of Shining Path and Monosov/Swirnoff duo. While those musics were often meant to be visceral and joyous, Sailor Man presents whispers from one person to another, ruminative meditations on loss of places and people.
LP $16.00
09/20/2011
MP3 $8.91
09/20/2011
***A re-release of the debut release from post-hardcore powerhouse RENEE HEARTFELT—former members of COUNT ME OUT, STRIKING DISTANCE, and GIVE UP THE GHOST. Includes all five tracks from the original release, along with a bonus cut. Remastered to capture the band’s power and emotive sound.
CD $1.50
08/08/2005
*** How do CHILD ABUSE induce complete aural convulsion in their audience and, at the same time, drench them in their own metaphorical Gurdjieffian "I" vomit. By combining the heavy machine-gun spurts of atonal tech-metal with confusing, off-time blurps and murps, Residents-style hump-funk, aspects of wildly enthusiastic children's music, and growls and howls of 1973 mud improvisations with the spirits of Drumbo and Carl Nielson hovering ominously overhead. That's how. Think a Sonic Pig Destroyer. SHOPWORN COPIES.
LP $2.00
04/13/2009
Ardoin, Amede
Mama, I’ll Be Long Gone - The Complete Recordings Of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934
Tompkins Square
***The father of Cajun and Zydeco is celebrated for the first time with his complete 34 recordings in one deluxe double-CD set. Rare Afro-Creole rhythms are heard alongside blues and breakdowns in this exquisitely remastered and produced volume, the first in the series of Long Gone Sounds for Tompkins Square. Produced by CHRISTOPEHR KING and designed by SUSAN ARCHIE.
2XCD $18.95
03/08/2011
***Known in their native Australia as the country’s most prominent underground doom band, WHITEHORSE are now poised to make their worldwide debut for 20 Buck Spin with their self-titled double-CD. Collecting brand new studio material, along with tracks from their limited edition LP from the Conspiracy Records 10th anniversary series and other short-run releases, Whitehorse’s doom is of the monstrously slow, detuned, feedbacking, glassthroat variety that so many love, and so many others loathe. At times mixing in improv guitar noise à la their countrymen in Grey Daturas, and at others, quieter atmosphere to add peaks and valleys to the epic length jams, the music always centers around crushing riffs and drums that sound as though they’ll collapse at any moment. Already well-known throughout the land, yet only now making their official debut, Whitehorse is set to destroy doom for good in 2007.
2XCD $13.00
06/12/2007
MP3 $9.90
06/12/2007
***The second full-length outing from Fabulous Diamonds is a continuation of the lush and mesmerizing electro / percussive landscapes explored on their self-titled debut LP (released on Siltbreeze in 2008). Jarrod Zlatic and Nisa Venerosa spark lots of musical embers along the way: dub, trance, house, ambient, minimalist, hints of Suicide and Terry Riley--basically everything from Silver Apples to Silver Apples of the Moon. Fabulous Diamonds are equally at home in indie gulags, art galleries or disco gullies. Fans of the more esoteric side of Siltbreeze--Blues Control and US Girls, especially--should be mightily chuffed by the beauteous hypnotic (hypnagogic?) pop Fab Ds are laying down here. Look for the band to tour Europe in mid/late 2010. Received a 7.4 rating from Pitchfork. "Part minimalist drone, part dub, and part pagan sleepover incantation, Melbourne, Australia's Fabulous Diamonds specialize not so much in songs but in pools of unease.... They embrace bass frequencies instead of treble, easy tempos instead of manic energy, and a full-bore penchant for the macabre. But where similarly minded Southern Hemisphere contemporaries like Naked on the Vague brandish sharp edges and jagged textures, Fabulous Diamonds songs are smooth enough to run your fingers over." --Pitchfork
LP $16.00
08/03/2010
***PSYCLONES are an obscure ‘80s artpunk band equally influenced by Devo, Chrome, and Cabaret Voltaire. They released LPs on Subterranean and RRRecords along with numerous cassettes on their own label, Ladd-Frith, throughout the ‘80s. They played shows with many legendary punk groups such as X, the Lewd, Hüsker Dü and appeared on The Gift Of Noise comp in 1983 alongside No Trend, F/i, Senseless Hate, and Smersh. They're a self-proclaimed INDUSTRIAL POP group. The Psyclones' Different Thinking People LP on Permanent Records contains only previously unreleased material from the bands formative years. The full-color printed inner sleeve features vintage show flyers, lyrics, and discography album art. Limited one-time pressing of 500! (STREET DATE - 3/01/2011)
LP $15.50
03/01/2011
***An expanded reissue of the Shadow Hearts album from German metalcore jackhammers CALIBAN. Includes all eleven crushing tracks from the original release, along with two deadly bonus tracks to finish you off. For fans of Bolt Thrower, Slayer, Hatebreed, Converge, and the like.
CD $2.50
11/22/2005
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! A brand new solo album from JOEY SHITHEAD KEITHLEY of Canada’s legendary DOA. A fourteen-track blaster that combines punkabilly, ska, punk and roots rock flavors, along with Keithley’s humorous and political lyrics. Upbeat, energetic and ripping. Features backing from RANDY RAMPAGE (DOA), KEVIN KANE (GRAPES OF WRATH), JESSE ZUBOT (ZUBOT AND DAWSON), THE GREAT BALDINI (DOA), and BILL RUNGE & JOHN KORSARD (HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA).
CD $13.00
10/22/2007
MP3 $0.00
10/22/2007
***Hailing from the hinterlands of Canada, this wild quartet combines a rock rhythm section with an assortment of influences and styles to create their own "Skaltic" sound. A fourteen-track stomp-along of ska, rock, funk, country, and humor (they are Canadian, afterall).
CD $9.60
10/09/2001
MP3 $0.00
10/09/2001
***The debut release from this punishing new quintet led by DWID HELLION (INTEGRITY, PSYWARFARE), along with members of European crush specialists CONGRESS, EMPATHY, LIAR, and DEATH BEFORE DISCO. Four tracks of forceful, hard, and heavy HC punk rock, pounded with Dwid's deep yells, and the band's breakneck speed.
CD $1.00
01/08/2001
This was COM 8, Willie Lane's solo debut. Long term guitarist alongside MV & EE and one of the original members of the Bummer Road/Golden Road. Founder of his own label Cord Art releasing second full length on LP as leader called "Known Quantity" followed by a 7 inch single "Sleepy Hands" b/w "Arrested For Decay". Appears on Espers II, has gigged with Tom Carter and Meg Baird, has a duo project Slurp Dogs, a duo with Grant Acker (of Un fame) released on cassette via Sloow Tapes. "I’d just played a showcase inside a Hampshire College yurt when MV invited me up to Max Arousal to do a COM. I guess he dug my discreet use of a Distortion+. His offer took me by surprise, as the Child of Microtones imprint wasn’t known for keeping a stable outside the Tower axis. Nevertheless, I hit my flanger with some pot cleaner and headed north to Guilford, relishing the idea of my own edition of 99. The recording process was country-simple: I spent the day and night riffing in the skyhouse while MV massaged the signal on its path from dov electronics to Tascam. No prepared material; I just played what I felt, depending on the Slopbucket quotient, and tried to serve up enough raw meat to render a COM-worthy loaf. EE furnished me with an exquisite sruti bedrock for the Fender-driven ragas. When frets were fried we adjourned to McNeill’s, where, incidentally, I was hired on the spot to deliver...
MP3 $9.90
02/22/2011
***The second single from the Radio Blackout album from swaggering Berlin-based electro bad-ass T. RAUMSCHMIERE (aka MARCO HAAS). Includes two versions of the cut "Rabaukendisko," along with two rough and crunchy "Rabaukendisko" remixes by THE BUG (aka KEVIN MARTIN).
12" $1.00
01/08/2001
INCLUDES FREE DOWNLOAD COUPON!!! “As Dan Melchior continues to kick the Medway gutbucket to the curb, he is also willfully absorbing all manner’ve underground cankerous crud along the way. For those endeared to wallet chains and crisp, cuffed jeans, this has been tantamount to heresy. But for thems what’s embraced the sounds of “the new Dan,” said aberrations are as welcome to caustic ears as a cold beer is to a set’ve parched lips. And while last year’s Visionary Pangs LP (released with Das Menace on the S-S label) was a grower and a half, Assemblage Blues snuffs it as if it were no more’n a sneeze in the wind. “This here LP seemingly vibes from such leftfield Blighty heavies as Instant Automatons and L. Voag as well as the dark side of Alex Chilton (think Dusted in Memphis) and the 3:00 A.M. shudder of Prominent Disturbance. Within the canon of the Siltbreeze label, Melchior’s magnificent malarkey on Assemblage Blues has secured him a spot somewhere between The Shadow Ring and Jim Shepard. The pone don’t sizzle much hotter than there. And the sneezin’ is nil. “I’d bet this ain’t your Dad’s Dan Melchior. Not by a mile. But if it is, it’s only ’cause he’s back from the future. Just ask him. He’s glowin’ to tell ya.” —Roland Woodbe, Professional Writer
LP $13.00
03/01/2011
MP3 $9.90
03/01/2011
***The latest single from the Radio Blackout album from barrier-blasting electronic artist T. RAUMSCHMIERE (aka MARCO HAAS). Includes remix versions of "A Million Brothers" by POLE, SUBSPECIES, and TECHNO ANIMAL," along with a "Querstromzerpaner" remix by LFO.
12" $1.00
01/08/2001
***OLYMPUS is the banner under which STEFAN NEVILLE (PUMICE) and KRAUS (ex-FUTURIANS, THE AESTHETICS) clang, pound, and in general, collaborate. The obscure and legendary NZ duo surfs along a warbled, technicolor path lined with basement kraut grooves, blasted tape manipulation, fuzzed-out electro-bleats, explosive drumming, minimal synth dervishes and melancholy pop tunes. Includes a download.
LP $16.00
10/05/2010
***REISSUED!!! THREE—JEFF NELSON (MINOR THREAT, TEEN IDLES, EGG HUNT), along with STEVE NILES, GEOFF TURNER and MARK HAGGERTY of GRAY MATTER—did a few short tours, and recorded at Geoff's home studio as well as Inner Ear. Things were looking up for them, but the band self-destructed shortly before releasing Dark Days Coming in November 1989. The LP featured songs from the Inner Ear recording while the CD also included 11 extra tracks from the band’s home recordings. Shortly after the demise of Three, Geoff, Mark and Steve joined again with Dante Ferrando and reunited Gray Matter. Several of the Three demos included on the “extra tracks” later surfaced on Gray Matter’s album, Thog. LP includes a download.
LP $17.75
09/21/2010
CD $11.00
09/21/2010
Keeping true to his techno sensibilities (or non-sensibilities?), Live Wrong and Prosper is a full-length-album sized collection of Luke's finest recent work along with some massive exclusive tracks, including an extra special 2010 VIP re-mash of his 2 biggest tracks to date! (see: 'Working on the Floor'). Expect ultra-heavy bass juggernauts in 'Gross Negligence' and 'Bruce Wobbelaar'. Sexy acid swing-time in 'Nice Car' and 'Tombstone Trax' and all out wonk-factor-10 with 'Worried Sid' and 'Beebop Drop' and many more percolating slammers to be discovered! Fans of the trademark “Luke’s Anger charm” will have a field day with this release, with every track dripping in fat, tasty analogue lushness!
MP3 $9.90
09/28/2010
***The debut solo from up-and-cooming Bay Area hip hop emcee TRUNKS (who's previously appeared on Gonervill's FREAK BROS. release, along with EXTRAKD, DJ FLARE, BUCKETHEAD, and BRAIN). Features guest mic-work from superstars PEP-LOVE (HIEROGLYPHICS) and RASCO (CALI AGENTS), to push it to the next level. SHOPWORN COPIES.
12" $0.75
01/08/2001
***Yes, its finally here, all on one handly format for accessing the hottest cuts from the first Round of the HoZac singles club, along with two previously unreleased BONUS TRACKS by TEEPEE and IDLE TIMES. This compilation spans the first ten elusive subscription-only 7-inch records released from 2009-2010, featuring rare tracks by DUM DUM GIRLS, WOVEN BONES, BOX ELDERS, FLIGHT, WHITE MYSTERY, TEEPEE, IDLE TIMES, MOTHER OF TEARS, ART THIEVES, and TEETH (the elusive Blank Dogs/Spider side project), and is not to be missed.
LP $13.50
08/24/2010
CD $11.25
08/24/2010
MP3 $9.90
08/24/2010
***A collection of material from one of Sweden's reigning political hardcore powerhouses INTENSITY. Twenty-five speed-and-heart tracks featuring their import smasher Wash Off The Lies album, along with the tracks from their Battered Soul EP.
CD $1.50
01/08/2001
***Actual wrecking yard detritus - found notes, cassettes, laundry lists, etc - forms the basis of this poignant 64-page full-color book with read-along CD soundscape. The album is a return to pure noise collage, closest in spirit to "A Big 10-8 Place" but utterly unique in the Negativland canon... no words, just sounds.
BK W/CD $13.00
06/09/2010
MP3 $9.90
06/09/2010
***Two more new songs, recorded in 2010 with the original band lineup of MIKE, BEN, TRAVIS and DAN. Songs are "Some Optimistic" and "Never Walk This Alone." The Bike Browns again! Limited to 1,200 copies! Colored vinyl; includes download code!
7" $5.40
06/01/2010
***REISSUED AND REMASTERED!!! FARAQUET began as a side project featuring SMART WENT CRAZY members DEVIN OCAMPO and JEFF BOSWELL, along with Devin's high school friend CHAD MOLTER. Faraquet stepped up as a full-time band after the demise of SWC and started playing more shows, releasing a couple of singles as well as appearing on a split CD with Akarso. Due to their non-traditional time signatures and off-kilter arrangements the band was often described as “math-rock”—a description they never warmed up to. Faraquet felt more aligned with the Minutemen and both the passion of their live performance and their advanced sense of melody set them well above and apart from the basement scientist crowd. The View from This Tower was recorded by J. ROBBINS and released in November of 2000. In 2003 core Faraquet members Devin and Chad reunited to form MEDICATIONS, who continue to release new music on Dischord Records. Remastered from the original tapes. LP includes a download.
LP $17.75
04/27/2010
CD $11.00
04/27/2010
***SHAWN DAVID MCMILLEN is a guitarist living in Austin, Texas. Along with various compilations, CDRs, cassettes and LPs, SDM has appeared under his own name via Catfish, End Of The City and now, Dead Friends. Past involvements have included work with FRIDAY GROUP, ASH CASTLES, MAX OCHS, JANDEK, WARMER MILKS, TOM & CHRISTINA CARTER, PETER WALKER, RALPH WHITE, STARVING WEIRDOS, and many others. Dead Friends is Shawn’s new record. It has electric and acoustic guitars, strings, piano, electronics, vocals, fiddle, drums, and tapes. All rendered in amber fidelity. From “Phantom Rivers” to “Sick on Navasota” it’s all here. A real slow burner. LP limited to 500 copies.
LP $9.35
04/20/2010
The book version of Luna is a limited edition of the Aliens' latest masterpiece. This 60-page, full-color hardcover book includes the CD along with copious drawings, photos, poems and lyrics taken from the band's archives. Grab the future in your hands with this guide to the world of the Aliens. The Aliens recorded Luna in an isolated, ramshakle studio in a small Scottish village, embracing their freedom from the major record label machine and exploring each track with focus and willful experimentation. Luna is an ambitious, thrilling, and immensely rewarding album, the sound of the Aliens fully realizing their extra-terrestrial musical vision. Its songs unfold into rolling, expansive sonic panoramas. It's a mesmeric, psych-tinged, honeycomb folk-pop masterpiece that runs free, and has been drawing comparisons to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Formed in 2005, these Aliens have history. Between them, they have been behind some of the most enthralling British music of the last decade: John Maclean and Robin Jones were in the Beta Band, and Gordon Anderson was a founding Beta Band member who went on to record two albums under the Lone Pigeon moniker. "Luna is a psychedelic delight." --Observe Music Monthly "The Aliens boldly aim toward music for the 21st century." --The Word (UK) "An incredible psychedelic stew, a joyride round the galaxy." --NME "A bonafide gem." --Sunday Telegraph (UK) "The real deal, a 70-minute fantasy." --FT (UK)
BK W/CD $14.00
04/20/2010
Since 2003, La Otracina has been hell-bent on creating highly visionary music that melds sonic ideas from the outer reaches of heavy and weird. The Brooklyn group has released three full-length albums and twelve mini-albums, along with a slew of splits and compilation trackss on labels including Holy Mountain and band founder Adam Kriney's own Colour Sounds Recordings. They have completed eight US tours and one Italian tour, in addition to countless shows in their hometown. Their tireless work ethic and far-reaching musical abilities have earned them a devoted cult following in the underground psychedelic / heavy music world, and their live shows leave fans screaming and fist-pumping in ecstatic awe.La Otracina's new double-album is the first to feature drummer Kriney as lead vocalist, which catapults the trio into their most cohesive and focused release to date. Reality Has Got to Die showcases the band's mind-blowing ability to evoke the timeless space-rock magic of Hawkwind, the prog-improv wizardry of King Crimson, the fuck-yeah of early Metallica, and the synthesizer mind-warp of Tangerine Dream, all fused in a Krautrock state of mind. This musical journey through deep and heavy sound worlds envokes images of the emerald beyond and the darkest future alien universe, while also staying rooted in the tradition of rock 'n' roll's ever-winding history. But don't confuse this for faux-New-Age blabber--this is street-wise and from the gut, straight from the minds of three men living their art, sacrificing everything and manifesting a boundless sphere of music, ideas, and...
CD $12.00
09/21/2010
2XLP $17.50
09/21/2010
MP3 $9.90
06/22/2010
***JONAS REINHARDT continues his cosmic flight inward on this latest release. The instrumentation from his debut album expands here to include acoustic drum patterns, guitars, and woodwinds alongside synthesizers and electronics. Together, these voices seamlessly twist and meld into a singular aural journey. This is music of the spheres for an electronic era where new age visions are re-imagined through a lens of experimental rock. The titular concept behind the album, drawn from ideas of the post-war avant-garde, refers simply to the human capacity to audition sound and fill in blanks where the composer leaves space for interpretation. Jonas explains: "Each of the songs is meant to engage the listener's innate power of audition to fill in intentionally left blanks. These occur throughout the recording where there is either diminished narrative resolution or explicit sectional movement meant to provoke an auditory response." The result is a mesmerizing journey to cracked and digitized moonscapes where Reinhardt's transparent relationship with instruments, sound, and form are made whole and hints of a beat-centered future are just around the corner. (STREET DATE - 3/16/2010)
LP $19.00
03/30/2010
CD $16.00
03/16/2010
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! CHEAP RED is the dazzling new band from JEN TURRELL and STEWART ANDERSON (BOYRACER), along with AKIN and ARLAND (KANDA). Their debut release is a double-CD featuring fourteen pop songs on one disc and thirteen classy remixes on the other. Remixes come in from BRACKEN (HOOD), KID606, SISTERHOOD OF CONVOLUTED THINKERS, DJ DOWNFALL, JAMES EARTHENWARE, TEAM FOREST, SIMPATICO, JIB KIDDER, FINGERNAIL, STEWARD, THE DECLINING WRITER (Hood), PATRICK VIDRO and KING PRUSSIA. Cheap Red are your new favorite band.
2XCD $7.25
02/09/2010
***Here we have four songs by the great Monterrey, Mexico punk band, their first release after their Siltbreeze-released LP Mocosos Pateticos—their Killed By Death-meets-Dead Moon punk winning over audiences across the US. Along with their neighbors Los Llamarados, XYX, and Inservibles, RATAS DEL VATICANO play a large part in the recent resurgence of Mexican punk and general musical weirdness that has caught on this side of the border.
7" $5.40
01/19/2010
***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
MP3 $9.90
06/13/2005
***The killer debut from this new quartet from Stockholm, Sweden featuring members of HENRY FIAT'S OPEN SORE, THE BLACKS, and TURPENTINE, along with a girl from Japan named TOMOKO. Clean, crisp, and adrenaline-charged '77-style punk and rock'n'roll. Imported from the UK.
7" $4.50
03/16/2004
AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! A first-time-on-CD reissue of the Keats Rides A Harley compilation originally released in 1981 by Happy Squid. You get all nine-tracks of pioneering art-punk, along with nine bonus tracks from the original sessions, and five additional tracks originally included on the 1980 Happy Squid sampler. Bands include URINALS, GUN CLUB, MEAT PUPPETS, LEAVING TRAINS, 100 FLOWERS, EARWIGS, TOXIC SHOCK, HUMAN HAND, S SQUAD, TUNNEL TONES, VIDIOTS, ARROW BOOK CLUB, DANNY AND THE DOORKNOBS, and PHIL BEDEL.
CD $12.75
06/10/2016
***A reissue of PSYCHIC TV's Peak Hour album penned by GENESIS P-ORRIDGE during his exile in America ten years ago. All eight tracks from the original release—a twisted trip through the technological landscape Genesis has made his home—along with three bonus tracks—both impossible to find "Tribal" remixes by the DRUM CLUB, and a PTV remix of GODZILLA's "Return to the Sea." Remastered to achieve the highest sound quality.
CD $14.75
04/16/2002
***A remix from ROB SWIFT's acclaimed Sound Event album featuring Swift and DR. BUTCHER on the beat, along with LARGE PROFESSOR and AKINYELE spitting verses. Just like the original, Rob murders the track with his signature cuts, and AK's verses are brand new. B-side features INVISIBLE completely destroying the cut BT-versed cut "Hang Wit Us." Includes alternate mixes of each.
12" $6.30
08/31/2004
***A German-only double-vinyl version of the new album from legendary rock’n’rollers THE NEW YORK DOLLS—the band’s first new release in 30 years. Includes all thirteen tracks from the CD version, along with a bonus fourteenth track.
2XLP $24.35
09/04/2006
***The final release from Oxnard, California's long-running hardcore heavy-hitters IN CONTROL. Three brand new exclusive songs, along with re-recorded versions of old faves "He Fails Me" and "Fuel The Fire."
CD $8.50
05/04/2004
***BACK IN PRINT AGAIN!!! The latest in a series of reissues of Oakland-via-New Mexico hardcore attackers GRIMPLE's 1993 Up Your Ass album. A vicious mesh of top-notch melodic punk and sing-along flavors with extremely caustic thrash hardcore sounds cut from the original plates.
LP $18.50
11/12/2021
CD $10.00
11/12/2021
***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
***Detroit faves the COME-ONS return with an old style dance 12-inch featuring two burning originals and hot two remixes. Includes the tracks “Higher,” along with a techno-house (for real!) remix by Detroit producer JIM KISSLING (who used to work with Kevin Saunderson), backed by the song “Not The Man,” and a long, noisy remix of the band’s cover of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” courtesy of MICHAEL IVINS of the FLAMING LIPS. Packaged in die-cut, black DJ sleeves.
12" $5.40
05/23/2005
***Yet another ensemble eclectic from the bowels of the elephant 6, led by Monsieur Julian Koster of the esteemed Neutral Milk Hotel. He receives help from conspirator Robbie Cucchiaro along with the secret elephant cabal of Will Hart (Olivia Tremor Control) & Jeff Mangum (N.M.H.). This LP took over 4 years of work to complete, and thousands of hours of recording, splicing et. al. , so you know the the tender lovin' given to the recording is almost too much to bear. Yet more imagineering & musical experimentation from the collective who have taken over the subconscious of indie America. Nice artwork...natch!
CD $14.50
07/13/1999
***A brand new EP from this group comprised of former SLEEPYTIME TRIO members BEN DAVIS and DAVID NeSMITH, along with drummer LUKE HERBST. Four tracks of meticulously crafted pop that crackles with energy, verve, and intricate and versatile vocals.
CD $7.75
06/15/2004
***The second single from the Let Us Never Speak of it Again album from OUT HUD. Includes the album version of the song “Its For You,” along with a radio edit, and a remix by NYC DJ team RUB N’ TUG. Enhanced CD features a video created by THE WILDERNESS.
CD $6.00
07/04/2005
12" $6.00
07/04/2005
***Still determined to drift and dream following the demise of JESSAMINE, guitarist REX RITTER and keyboardist ANDY BROWN formed FONTANELLE. Continuing along the righteous path set by their former group, they bring their electric pianos and synths into even more complex patterns, layering guitars over them the entire way. Six detailed and intricate songs.
CD $16.00
06/06/2000
***A beautiful collection of tracks set down between 1994 and 1998 by CHRISTINA CARTER (CHARALAMBIDES, SCORCES). Recorded on boombox and four-track tape using an acoustic guitar and occasional vocals, Living Contract expands our understanding of her contributions to Charalambides and stands alone as affecting acoustic music.
CD $16.00
11/16/2004
***JESSICA BAILIFF's third album is simultaneously clearer and murkier than her previous two, and features a more acoustic focus and experimental sound placement. Recorded at home with help from JESSE EDWARDS (who along with Bailiff make up RED MORNING CHORUS) and former bandmate NOEL KEESEE. Recorded between September 2001 and February 2002, Untitled is another dreamy delight performed with an assortment of instrumentation including the violin-uke (most notably the stark "Hour of the Traces"), tin whistle, piano, a few computer effects, drums, smeary guitars and even sitar.
LP $19.00
07/15/2008
CD $16.00
10/29/2002
***Underground Bay Area hip hop masters PSYCHOKINETICS—DJs DENIZEN & ILL MEDIA and MCs CELSIUSSEVEN and SPIDEY—return with a party-rockin' new EP. Five bangin' tracks, along with two scratch tool pieces. Fresh, positive, vibrant and engaging. Sunspot Jonz recommended.
LP $10.25
07/09/2002
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! The Firm Stance EP from Bay Area blue collar hip hoppers CO-DEEZ (aka CO-DEFENDANTS). You get three tracks from the group’s Royalty full-length— “Firm Stance,” “Final Round,” and “Careful”—along with alternate mixes.
12" $5.25
04/25/2005
***A collection of select tracks from these British pop secrets formed from the ashes of Sarah Records mainstays the SEA URCHINS. Includes stellar cuts from the band's rare-as-fuck Sugared Up 10-inch (Che), along with some tunes from a handful of EPs released by Dishy, and some unreleased gems.
CD $13.75
05/04/2004
***The debut hip hop 12-inch from the crate-diggin’ folks at Dis-Joint comes off in style with the groove-loaded sounds of the San Francisco’s CONNOISSEURS—hip hop veteran P.E.A.C.E. (FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP), along with newcomers DERANGED and MONSTR, and beatmaker N.O. “U.V.” is a left-of-center dancefloor banger with an intense, irresistible groove. The flip, “R&B,” is a short, midtempo treat with chopped drums and a resonating keyboard sound that can be compared to Eric B and Rakim. Includes alternate mixes of each. Named hip hop 12-inch of the year by Wire Magazine.
12" $6.00
02/15/2005
***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
MP3 $5.99
03/21/2006
FLAC $6.99
03/21/2006
***BACK IN STOCK!!! An expanded reissue of the Kangaroo EP from snotty punk rockers CAREER SUICIDE. Originally released as a 7-inch in 2003, this new issue features all eight original tracks, along with a previously unreleased bonus cut from the same recording sessions.
LP $13.25
05/08/2006
***Not feeling entirely comfortable with the idea of releasing a live album, long-running Champaign super-dupes the POSTER CHILDREN have chosen to release a live movie of themselves instead. Seventeen songs performed live in concert, along with some behind-the-scenes tour footage, video action, and more. Limited edition of 500 copies.
DVD $17.95
04/02/2002
***The long awaited, self-produced debut album by KLANG—ELASTICA's DONNA MATTHEWS, along with ISABEL WAIDNER and Japanese drummer KEISUKE HIRATSUKA. A wonderful nine-track follow up to the trio's brilliant 2003 debut single "l.o.v.e./No Thing" 7-inch, delivered with the minimalist aesthetic of krautrock, the repetition of groups like Can and Neu, and the naive funk of no wave. A truly original group, Klang have been attracting attention from all over the British Isles, recently set off on a UK tour with Erase Errata, and were featured on the Sonic Mook Hot Shit compilation with one of the album's stand out tracks "Outside My Area." Released on the all new Blast First (Petite) label.
LP $12.00
06/22/2004
CD $12.00
06/22/2004
***Psych rock juggernaut PAIK returns with a DVD of atom-smashing live performance footage shot over the past nine years. Includes an entire set from the Irving Plaza in New York, along with a bonus 3-inch CD of the band’s ultra-rare 1998 “Spacer” single, which was originally released in an edition of 80 copies.
DVD+3"CD $18.45
07/25/2006
***BACK IN STOCK!!! A collection of out of print instrumental and orchestral compositions, along with 45 minutes of previously unreleased material from the late ARTHUR RUSSELL. Initially intended to be performed in one 48-hour cycle, “Instrumentals” was in fact only performed in excerpts a handful of times as a work in progress. The legendary performances captured live in New York at The Kitchen and Franklin St. Arts Center include the cream of that era’s downtown new music scene including ERNIE BROOKS, RHYS CHATHAM, JON GIBSON, PETER GORDON, GARRETT LIST, ANDY PALEY, DAVE VAN TIEGHAM, and PETER ZUMMO. Included here are the previously unreleased “Instrumentals” Vol. 1 along with “Instrumentals” Vol. 2 that have been out of print for over twenty years. Originally released in 1984, sections of “Instrumentals” Vol. 2 were incorrectly mastered at half speed, and have been now corrected for this compilation. “Reach One” is one of Arthur’s earliest compositions dating back to 1973. The hypnotic soundscape was written and performed for two Fender Rhodes pianos, and is previously unreleased. One of the holy grails in Arthur’s discography, “Tower Of Meaning” is a beautiful and stunningly moving orchestral work. Conducted by the late JULIUS EASTMAN, “Tower Of Meaning” was originally released in a limited private edition of only 320 copies. “Sketch For The Face Of Helen” shares only the same title as the previously released excerpt from 1981. Inspired by his work with friend and composer Arnold Dreyblatt, this previously unreleased version was recorded with an electronic tone...
2XCD $20.50
04/04/2006
***BACK IN STOCK!!! A live performance captured at the No Fun Fest, March 31, 2006 featuring a noise-rock powerhouse set from WOLF EYES and SMEGMA, along with TOVAH OLSON (DEAD MACHINES), MIKE CONNELLY (HAIR POLICE), ANGIE TARANTISM, JOSEPH HAMMER (SOLID EYE), and CONROY, and video effect work by AA boss ALIVIA ZIVICH.
DVD $18.95
10/23/2006
***The anticipated new EP from inventive San Diego rock squad PLOT TO BLOW UP THE EIFFEL TOWER. Includes the track “INRI,” along with a cover of Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging,” plus a special “INRI” remix by NICK ZINNER of YEAH YEAH YEAHS. CD includes live video footage.
CD $6.00
06/26/2006
***UG MAN are legendary Tokyo skate hardcore, featuring members of SPITFIRE and GODS GUTS among many others. Manic without being metallic, frantic without copying modern styles. Along with UG Man is CHARM, who are one of the craziest Tokyo thrash mongers ever. Insane distortion, stand-up bass, crazy time changes—this is a pure blast of insanity. Split LP released in support of their West Coast Tour in 2006.
LP $9.25
10/02/2006
***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
***The debut album from this new supergroup comprised of WILCO's JEFF TWEEDY and GLENN KOTCHE, along with JIM O'ROURKE (now of SONIC YOUTH). A six-track, forty-minute blend of all kinds of music for all kinds of people, expertly crafted into some of the hottest pop sounds to hit the streets in years.
CD $13.75
02/04/2003
LP $25.75
09/15/2022
***“HELLO SHITTY PEOPLE from Chattanooga left this world in 2001, leaving behind a 7-inch on This Here Records and an LP recorded but never released. I bought that 7” based on their band name alone almost 9 years ago. How could a band called ‘Hello Shitty People’ not be good? Anyway I’ve honestly treasured that little record ever since. The true early Crimpshriney spirit of East Bay Pop punk had been picked up, kicked in the side and made weirder by these southern gents in a way I honestly don’t think has been done better by anyone claiming to do the same thing. It’s dark, it’s positive, it has bass lines that make Matt Freeman look like a rank amateur. I’m only half joking about that last one. These guys came from and went on to be in bands like LOS CANADIANS, RADON, CORTEZ THE KILLER and a million others.”—1-2-3-4 Go.
LP $9.75
09/22/2009
Long planned (and frequently delayed) restoration of this Virginia trio's rare and out of print singles and compilation tracks from the early 90's. All 30 tracks make their first appearance on CD here, restoring two of the earliest VHF titles to print, along with a wealth of other impossible to find gems. Covering their most active years, "Add This to Rhetoric" captures Sloat at their baffling, fragmentary best, dealing out slashing rock sides that bristle with hooks and ear-catching weirdness. Sloat's superbly packaged, handmade/homemade singles were among the finest of their era, and although they appear here on a plain ol' CD, the music still sounds as revelatory as it did 15 years ago. Rifling through ideas with Wire-like efficiency, Pat Foster's trebly, jabbing guitar, Ange Dubuc's rumbling bass, and Dave Bishop's unpredictable drum splatter carried the charge that pretty much invented the VHF label itself. Wearing their influences on their sleeves, the CD includes smashing covers of key tracks by the Clean, Tall Dwarfs, Sun City Girls, and World of Pooh. Booklet includes liner notes from the band and VHF HQ along with period ephemera for a full immersion experience.
CD $12.00
06/26/2007
MP3 $9.90
06/26/2007
Diana Rogerson was a member of cult band Whore 156 in the 1970s. Dubbed “the female Whitehouse,” they later mutated into Fistfuck in the early ‘80s. They were legendary lynchpins in the London underground industrial scene, alongside bands like SPK and the aforementioned Whitehouse. Rogerson later went on to do vocals for Nurse With Wound and Shock Headed Peters, and worked alongside Foetus. She made two albums in the ‘80s under the pseudonym Chrystal Belle Scrodd. They were described as psychedelic outsider classics by critics and gained underground notoriety. These albums were originally released on the highly collectible United Dairies label. The Lights Are On But No-One’s Home, released on United Jnana, is the long-awaited follow-up to Rogerson’s 1987 album Belle De Jour. It is a collection of new songs and instrumentals in her unique style, recorded with the help of Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter (of Nurse With Wound) and also Matt Waldron of irr. app. (ext.). Recently, the early recordings of Fistfuck live performances were released by the Viennese Actionist Recording label and have already sold out! Rogerson is also a guest vocalist on the new Faust album. • New solo album from notorious underground British artist, recorded by Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound), and Matt Waldron • Long-awaited follow-up to 1987’s Belle De Jour • Former member of Whore 156 and Fistfuck who has also worked with Nurse With Wound, Shock Headed Peters, and Foetus • No exports to the...
CD $13.00
07/31/2007
This well-fitting follow-up to Kid606’s Resilience album, featuring two of the most applauded songs from that release along with a sizzling fuzzed-out methadone influenced cover of current chart hit “Heartbeat” by Norwegian Europop sensation Annie, has to be heard to be believed (and understood!). Remixes come courtesy of three of Kid606’s favorite post-rock-tronica acts of today: Scottish anthemic sweethearts Mogwai; Californian master of melancholy Her Space Holiday; and Tigerbeat6’s very own Swedish psychedelic warrior, Dwayne Sodahberk.
12" $3.50
01/17/2006
MP3 $0.00
01/17/2006
***A reissue of the fan-favorite Yank Crime album originally released in 1994 on Interscope from San Diego rock-action heroes DRIVE LIKE JEHU. Includes all the tracks from the original release, along with three bonus tracks—"Bullet Train to Vegas" and "Hand Over Fist" from the out-of-print Merge single, and the original version of "Sinews" from the Head Start to Purgatory compilation.
CD $12.00
06/30/2009
MP3 $7.99
06/30/2009
***An expanded reissue of the legendary San Francisco's Doomed album from legendary 1970s police-uniform-clad punk rockers CRIME. Includes all the tracks from the original album, along with two unreleased bonus tracks (alternate takes of "Hot Wire My Heart" and "You're So Repulsive"), unpublished photos, updated liner notes, and better mastering. STREET DATE - 08/31/2004
LP $9.75
09/07/2004
CD $12.00
09/07/2004
MP3 $7.99
09/07/2004
Guided By Voices may be gone, but that doesn’t mean Robert Pollard has severed relations with his former bandmates. On the contrary, The Takeovers feature Pollard and GBV bassist Chris Slusarenko along with an impressive cast of musicians from the great Northwest. Sam Coomes (Quasi), Eric Bennes, Brian Berg, Charlie Campbell, Dan Peters and Jim Talstra all contribute to this diverse yet strangely cohesive album. Turn To Red is experimental. It’s psychedelic. It’s a mixture of old ideas and new with Pollard’s gift for words and melody bringing the whole thing together. This album of beautifully damaged, psychedelic pop-rock will stick to the roof of your mouth like peanut butter.
LP $13.00
06/27/2006
CD $9.25
06/27/2006
MP3 $9.90
06/27/2006
***The latest offering from psychedelic pop explorers GREEN PAJAMAS. Three brand new exclusive tracks, along with a live cover of "Autum Leaves" originally recorded by GREEN PAJAMAS leaders JEFF KELLY and LAURA WELLER's other group, THE GOBLIN MARKET.
CD $9.50
06/18/2002
MP3 $3.96
06/18/2002
***The highly anticipated new album from this Los Angeles band comprised of members from ISIS, NEUROSIS, and HALIFAX PIER, along with new drummer DAVE CLIFFORD (VSS, PLEASURE FOREVER). Eight tracks of dark and focused rock recorded and mixed by TIM GREEN. Gorgeously packaged with five-color artwork and an O-card designed by JOSH GRAHAM.
CD $13.00
09/19/2006
***Fitting to its namesake, ENABLERS is a San Francisco quartet that’s dark, compulsive and eager to drag us along to willful destruction. Its visceral narratives and compelling sounds feature former members of SWANS, TOILING MIDGETS, TARNATION, and NICE STRONG ARM. Nine tracks for fans of Saccharine Trust and Slint.
CD $13.00
04/04/2006
***An acoustic/electric psychedelic collaboration between NEUROSIS members SCOTT KELLY (guitars and lead vocals) and NOAH LANDIS (keyboards, atmospheres, backing vocals), along with ANTHONY NELSON (bass) and STEPHEN GARETT (drums). Nine tracks that focus on big space and beauty with occasional sonic eruptions. Lyrically deep and musically vast, BLOOD AND TIME's intent is obvious—to cut you to your soul!
CD $13.00
02/17/2004
MP3 $8.91
02/17/2004
***The latest from BATTLE OF MICE—JOSH GRAHAM (RED SPAROWES, NEUROSIS) and JULIE CHRISTMAS (MADE OUT OF BABIES), along with contributions from JOEL HAMILTON (BOOK OF KNOTS) and TONY MAIMONE (Book Of Knots, PERE UBU). A Day Of Nights documents the savage trajectory of an interpersonal flameout, and a testament to the inexorable miasma of suspicion and paranoia that creeps, unannounced, into the open spaces between us all. Seven tracks.
CD $13.00
10/31/2006
MP3 $6.93
10/31/2006
*** This cheap In The Red sampler is the perfect introduction to one of the coolest labels around. In The Red stands alone as a repository for the highest-quality, scuzziest, nastiest, snarlingest garage punk around, and also some of the most accessible garage pop. More than 70 minutes of prime cuts from the label roster, mixing forthcoming, already released, and unreleased tracks.TRACK LISTING1. The Dirtbombs • I Can’t Stop Thinking About It2. The Hunches • Static Disaster3. Reigning Sound • Drowning4. Cheater Slicks • Walk Up The Street5. The Deadly Snakes • I Can’t Sleep At Night6. Lost Sounds • Trails/Fears7. Blacktop • I Think It’s Gonna Rain8. The Ponys • Chemical Imbalance9. Country Teasers • Success10. King Brothers • Lulu11. Dan Melchior’s Broke Revue • I’m A Robot12. The Bassholes • Microscope Feeling13. The Mystery Girls • Silver Turns To Gold14. The Piranhas • Girls Like It Too15. The Screws • I See You, Baby16. The Hospitals • I’m A Bug17. Clone Defects • Shapes Of Venus18. The Horrors • Cold Blooded19. VOLT • I Don’t Feel So Good20. The Intelligence • Tropical Struggle21. Speedball Baby • Do Ya Wanna Scratch It?22. The FUSE! • League Of Women Voters23. Knoxville Girls • That’s Alright With Me24. The Necessary Evils • Drag Pow Wow Drag25. Andre Williams • I Wanna Be Your Favorite Pair...
CD $8.25
05/17/2005
MP3 $5.99
05/17/2005
***For the past six years TIM KERR and the LORD HIGH FIXERS kicked up one of the craziest rackets to ever come out of Texas. Fronted by MIKE CARROLL, who had previously led POISON 13 along with Kerr (Now TIme Delegation, King Sound Quartet, Big Boys, Jack O'Fire), the Lord High Fixers made music drawing on influences from all over the musical map. Garage, punk, blues, free jazz, beat poetry and hip hop elements all found their way into the 'Fixers topography. Their rare live performances were the stuff of legend—chaos reigned supreme, with band members falling into each other, instruments getting unplugged and broken, bones, cartilage and skin all enduring more than their fair share of abuse. A band like this could only exist for so long before burning out, and The Beginning of the End is the final statement by this ambitious band, who are certainly exiting on a high note. Tim Kerr's guitar duets with free jazz saxophonist KEN VANDERMARK here are unlike anything else on a garage rock record. Even the straight garage rock is exceptional; why else would Byron Coley have bothered to write the band's liner notes / epitaph? * Popular garage-punk blues outfit by Tim Kerr, whose pedigree in untamed wildness is long, solid, and beyond reproach * Previously successful releases on Estrus * Liner notes by Byron Coley
CD $12.00
05/07/2002
MP3 $9.90
05/07/2002
***THE CHEATER SLICKS have been responsible for some of the raunchiest racket around for more than fifteen years. Atonal and hateful. Music for misanthropes. Fuzzed out, freaked out and bummed out. Psychedelic-garage-noise-pop for miscreants. Music made by misfits for misfits. Tales of transsexuals, suicide attempts and bad acid trips. Eleven brand new slices of sludge so thick it'll clog your stereo speakers. 100% negative energy rock'n'roll.
CD $12.00
08/20/2002
MP3 $9.90
08/20/2002
***A reissue of the 1977 punk rock "super session" Music To Kill By album featuring the GIZMOS' KEN HIGHLAND, along with members of the SLICKEE BOYS, LOOK, TEENAGE BOYS, O. REX, and THE KAISER'S KITTENS. Includes all twenty-two tracks from the original album—with classic themes of bothersome complexions, mental health, and girls—plus eight studio outtakes and four live tracks. Packaged with a sixteen-page booklet with notes, bios, and pics.
CD $13.50
12/11/2001
MP3 $9.90
12/11/2001
Durtro/Jnana is honored and excited to announce the release of the soundtrack Songs From Cam Archer’s Film “Wild Tigers I Have Known.” Andria Degens and Cam Archer have produced the album. The CD features songs and music selected by Archer, along with original sketches and photo stills from the film. Cam is a celebrated indie film director most noted for his 2004 film: American Fame Pt. 1: Drowning River Phoenix. The 13-track collection features unreleased songs from Djuna Bel, Pantaleimon, Anders &Woods, and Emily Jane White, along with previously released material by Six Organs of Admittance and Current 93, and songs specifically composed for the film by the filmmaker’s brother Nate Archer.
CD $13.00
07/31/2007
***The Communion Label is pleased to release the second album by North Carolina trio Idyll Swords, titled II - almost an hour of natural and fluid American folk and blues, along with the buzzy and sublime sounds of India, Persia and Turkey, all baked by three hot-shit guitarists: Dave Brylawski played guitar in Polvo and has recently completed his masters in social work at Columbia. Chuck Johnson played in Spatula and continues to work with innumerable other projects, including the Micro-East Collective, modelled after the Mills College-based Micro-Collective. Chuck is also studying Hindustani classical music with noted sarod-player K. Sridhar and a Hindustani vocal teacher. Grant Tennille is the quiet genius type, responsible for some of the most epic 'Swords work, and likes to collect bootlegs on the Internet. For those who have to put the peg in the hole, well, he does session work for Trans Am, all right? The Swords' music is stunning, influenced by many worlds while retaining the flavor of its own place. Those who'd like to take Pocahantas back to the city will be thrilled to introduce this charming entity to their friends. References: the Takoma Records triumvirate (Fahey, Basho, Kottke), Vishwan Mohan Bhatt, Davey Graham, the kudzu plant, a train ride in Rajhastan, the smell of wood powder and spice, Ankara International Airport.
CD $11.00
11/07/2000
MP3 $9.90
11/07/2000
***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
CD $11.00
01/08/2001
MP3 $9.90
01/08/2001
***The second singles collection by San Francisco's J CHURCH contains cuts from seven different singles, including the tracks from the Tide of Fate CD. Great originals along with cool covers of DURAN DURAN, Radio Head 26 songs total. ****Vinyl is a double
CD $12.00
01/08/2004
2XLP $12.00
01/08/2004
Recorded in a disused 19th-century palace on the outskirts of Budapest, Benjamin Wetherill's first album captures the intimacy of a delicate folk idiom along with the innovation of original technique and approach. Wetherill, a Leeds native who has been making his own music for almost a decade, plays intricate fingerpicked guitar passages, and sings with a lilting style unlike anybody recording today. A startling listen for anyone looking for truly talented musicians wholly focused on their own vision. Jeremy Barnes, A Hawk and a Hacksaw's inventive songwriter, heard Wetherill while touring and offered to produce his debut album. Barnes enlisted his Hun Hangar Ensemble of Hungarian musicians to assist in the recording, delicately expanding Wetherill's songs to include a feather orchestra of light touches and subtle accents, blending sentiments of pre-war European jazz with early English pathos. The result is Laura, an album as emotional as it is detailed and fragile. Folk music has enjoyed a resurgence of late, but with Wetherill one always seems to get something refreshingly different--true, original music in a manner never quite done before, with the capacity to combine a mystifying sense of the early 19th century with a 20th century outlook. The effect is startling.
CD $12.00
07/15/2008
MP3 $9.90
07/15/2008
***A resurrection of some primo, vintage hardcore from Las Vegas/Orange County legends M.I.A. Includes all the tracks from their Murder in a Foreign Place 12-inch and their side of the Last Rights album, along with early demos and lost live cuts.
CD $13.00
04/10/2001
2XLP $16.00
01/19/2008
MP3 $9.90
04/10/2001
***Previously available as a handmade CDR that the band sold at shows, Peas Feast is now available on 12-inch vinyl with a download card with unreleased bonus demos. Vinyl features four lengthy songs loaded with zonked out sludge, atonal guitar freakouts, crushing glacial metal, drunken punk and pop hooks. For fans of Harvey Milk, Mammatus and Torche.
12" $13.00
06/15/2009
The second in a series of Dead C reissue collaborations between Jagjaguwar and Ba Da Bing, Eusa Kills has been pressed on vinyl for the first time in years, along with the Helen Said This 12-inch as a bonus record. Eusa Kills is The Dead C's second album from 1989, released by Flying Nun, the arbiter of the time for all that mattered in New Zealand rock. Considered by many to be their "songs" record, Eusa Kills adds ominous aggression to the abstract sounds of their time--those being created by such luminaries as Dustdevils, This Kind of Punishment, and Dadamah. Sneering vocals drift over improvised melodies and unstructured rock songs. One can hear the direct influence The Dead C had on Sonic Youth at the time--mining deep into the underbelly of music to yield a truly intense and unparalleled sound. This reissue also contains as a bonus record the rare Helen Said This 12-inch from the same recording period. Originally released by Siltbreeze at 33 rpm, this is the first vinyl reprint, and will display improved sound quality at 45 rpm.
2XLP $20.25
10/28/2008
The first in a series of Dead C reissue collaborations between Jagjaguwar and Ba Da Bing, DR503 has been pressed on vinyl for the first time in years, along with the Sun Stabbed EP as a bonus record. Originally released in 1987 (and not to be confused with the releases DR503b or DR503c, which are completely different recordings), DR503 sounded like nothing that came before--a furious pastiche of unrelenting drones, noise and menace. It didn't fit in with the other bands New Zealand's venerable Flying Nun was releasing, and it immediately staked a fork in the road, dividing the "New Zealand Pop Sound" from its black sheep brother, "New Zealand Noise." Today, the record still sounds as vicious and vital as when it first went to vinyl, except now perhaps there will be more people ready to appreciate the innovative approach the band took some 21 years ago. This reissue also contains a bonus record of the rare Sun Stabbed EP from the same recording period. With bonus tracks not on the original 7-inch, the recordings from the Sun Stabbed sessions are being released for the first time in their entirety.
2XLP $20.25
10/28/2008
***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
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! A collection of demo recordings from the last year or so of the INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, along with some new recordings of some songs that fell by the wayside for one reason or another, all compiled by ISP member MIKE HERON. Nine tracks in all.
CD $12.00
03/22/2005
***Canadian Scottish punk party men return with a booze-fueled live tribute to Robbie Burns. Features a stomping live set packed with the band's best songs, along with a video, and assorted behind-the-scenes type shite.
DVD $13.00
11/02/2004
***A limited edition 10-inch EP from Omaha, Nebraska favorites CURSIVE. Includes two CD singles originally released by Saddle Creek to support the band’s Ugly Organ album—you get “Art Is Hard” and “The Recluse,” along with three rarely heard B-sides, “Sinner’s Serenade,” “One,” and “Adapt.” Limited to 2,750 copies.
10" $9.75
02/08/2005
***Beyond a few seconds of snatched performance, a micro-interview on Tony Wilson's precursor to So It Goes, and a couple of mime-alongs on Belgian TV, there is no footage of Wire from the '70s beyond one item. Luckily it has been preserved. British viewers never got to see a live performance of Wire on their tellies, but Alan Bangs, who had the late night show on British Forces radio in Germany, crossed over to German-speaking media and by early 1979 was a presenter on RockPalast, an hour-long studio concert slot on WDR, already established as German's most important "serious" rock music show. Wire were old sparring partners of Bangs, appearing on his radio show every time they were anywhere near Cologne. Although 15th generation VHS copies of the screened parts of this performance have been making the rounds for many years, this DVD is the first time that the complete performance and the never-screened interview have been brought together. The combination of video digitally cloned from the broadcast master and freshly mastered audio eclipse the rogue dubs completely and permanently. You are now free to record over the nefarious bootlegs. Track listing: 1. Introduction 2. Another the Letter 3. The 15th 4. Practice Makes Perfect 5. Two People in a Room 6. I Feel Mysterious Today 7. Being Sucked in Again 8. Once is Enough 9. Blessed State 10. A Question of Degree 11. Single KO 12. Mercy 13. 40...
DVD+CD $16.00
10/05/2004
***An improvised live set featuring Sonic Boom (as E.A.R.) on modular synthesizers, theremin and bowed cymbals. Prior to hitting the stage, Mr. Boom made a sketch indicating peaks and valleys along a timeline that the group used as a "map" for the music to be played. What followed, though, nobody could have predicted. Beginning as a wash of Mr. Boom's modulating oscillators, the sound soon transformed when Jessamine's unique groove began to surface. The music synergized into a craft that the group members gently guided across the map and its diverse terrain, without words or signals. As the last notes died down, all in attendence knew that they had experienced an important moment in time. Leading up to the evening, Jessamine had completed their mostly improvised album, "The Long Arm of Coincidence" and the collaborative EP "A Pox on You" with Mr. Boom's other project Spectrum (released on Space Age Recordings). Concurrently, Mr. Boom had mastered a new sound focused around a barrage of modular sythesizers. Living Sound was a convergence; a compelling aural document that will serve as a reference for 1996.
CD $12.00
04/20/1999
***A crash-and-smash goodtime of brutal improvisation mixed with stark, crushing melodies for a world ruled by giant owls and bitter rabbits from former DEERHOOF guitarist ROB FISK, along with MIYA OSAKI, STEVE GIGANTE (TINY BIRD MOUTHS, THETEETHE) and KELLY GOODEFISK (also ex-DEERHOOF). Packaged with hand painted covers.
CD $13.00
03/04/2003
***Three gorgeous new songs from our dream hero. The a-side unloads most beautifully with "Elegy For Nick Drake" released to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. The b-side delivers some stellar super-effected guitar shimmer along with Montgomery's rich vocals on one cut, and a shimmering strummer with guest bass and vocals by Lisa Siegel. Recorded last January in New York. Some copies are on blue vinyl intermixed with the black ones.
7" $3.50
11/24/1998
***A cool 3-song EP from France's THE NO-TALENTS. The cover art is based on the old STARSHOOTERS single Quelle Crise Baby (with a Japanese translation) which THE NO-TALENTS cover on this record along with two new original tunes. Great '77-era style punk rock!! Red Vinyl
7" $4.00
01/08/2001
*** "ASTRID OTO is a new cool high energy punk band out of Asheville, NC that harkens back to a bit of older exciting East Bay punk sound. Why wouldn't they because along with CINDY on vocals who does Doris zine there's AARON COMETBUS (Cometbus zine, CRIMPSHRINE, etc...etc...) on drums."
7" $3.50
05/09/2000
***MIHO HATORI (CIBO MATTO, GORILLAZ) and SMOKEY HORMEL (TOM WAITS, BECK) deliver four original tunes inspired by their shared love of 1960s Brazilian sounds, along with a cover of a '60s Angolan tune by Euclides F. Pereira. Sung in both English and Japanese, and featuring backing from friends DON FALZONE, JON BIRDSONG, and JOEY WARONKER.
CD $7.75
03/05/2002
***The long-awaited new release from pop rock specialists MONOCHROME, the band's first new material in four years. Includes six new tracks, along with the song "Angelfire," which was previously released on a 7-inch by Dim Mak. Subdued and layered melodies, delivered with beautiful male and female vocal interplay. Nice packaging to boot.
CD $11.25
09/16/2003
***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
***The second album from Swedish contemporary classical duo LIBRARY TAPES, a year on from the sold out debut Alone In The Bright Lights Of A Shattered Life. Once more, sparse, bleak compositions take center stage on Feelings For Something Lost, with the piano more prominent and the overall sound more stripped down than was the case with its predecessor; dark atmospherics echoing the work of Rachels, Set Fire To Flames, Sylvain Chauveau et al. UK import.
CD $16.10
10/23/2006
***The fifth release from power pop favorites the PLUS ONES. Taking stock of what makes the genre so timeless, the band expands the sound adding their own vibrant post-punk influences, along with lyrics which are both personal and sincere in nature. Eleven powerful, dramatic, and lively songs.
CD $13.50
07/25/2005
***“A crunk cosmopolitan, Rio de Janeiro's MAGA BO bumps more hot street-side beats than anybody we we've ever met. He's played everywhere from Zanzibar to Sri Lanka to Capetown, trading ideas and sonics with musicians along the way. (it made licensing this mixtape EASY!) For example, Maga Bo was working with top baile funk MC Mr. Catra years before most folks had even heard of the music—and the tune drops on his debut mixtape CD, Confusion Of Tongues. You'll also hear exclusive Maga Bo productions voiced by Senegalese hip hop godfathers PEE FROISS, new school Moroccan rap heroes BIGG and K-LIBRE, and more. When the freelance sound engineer works outside of his Brazil home-base, Maga Bo stays for weeks at a time: voicing dubplates, recording musicians, doing things like skills exchange and workshops (i.e. teaching young African hip hoppers how to rock pirated audio software...) Call it what you want—creating community, deconstructing the exotic, making collaborations in a fair and respectful way—the music speaks for itself. Mixed live on London's Resonance FM, Confusion consists largely of these unreleased collaborations. The CD includes two unmixed tunes at the end—a Maga Bo special, and a remix by NETTLE (DJ /RUPTURE's live ensemble).
CD $14.50
04/17/2007
12" $4.44
05/28/2007
In the annals of punk, few albums hit with the seismic force of NOMEANSNO’s Sex Mad. Released in 1986, this was more than a record, it was a detonation. Amid the Cold War and the Reagan era’s cultural tension, Sex Mad erupted as a raw, furious, and utterly fearless statement that redefined what punk could be.From the opening blast of “Dad,” NOMEANSNO made it clear they weren’t following anyone’s blueprint. The Wright brothers Rob and John, alongside guitarist Andy Kerr, forged a sound that fused hardcore intensity with the precision of jazz, the elasticity of funk, and the cerebral bite of art rock. The result was unlike anything else emerging from the scene at the time.Lyrically, Sex Mad dove headlong into alienation, addiction, and societal rot. These are subjects punk had tackled before, but rarely with such intelligence and emotional gravity. Rob Wright’s snarling vocals and razor-edged bass lines delivered every word with conviction. Even the controversial cover art, an original painting by Andy Kerr was censored by some retailers,. This just underscored the band’s willingness to confront discomfort and provoke dialogue.Recorded at Profile Studios in Vancouver with producer Cecil English (D.O.A., Subhumans), Sex Mad captured the raw electricity of NOMEANSNO’s live shows while revealing the intricate musicianship that set them apart from their peers. Though critics at the time didn’t always know what to make of it, Sex Mad has since become a cornerstone of experimental punk. A record that influenced everyone from the Melvins and Primus to Faith...
LP $22.00
01/23/2026
LP COLOR $24.00
01/23/2026
Second LP of duets by these longtime VHF family staples, here delivering 2 side-long epics of “minimalist” bliss. Both sides feature Daniel on piano and Richard on zither, with rippling waves of sound recalling classics like Charlemagne Palestine’s “Strumming Music” (Dan is a frequent collaborator with C.P.) and Richard’s “Advent.” “Persian Carpets I” is a real-humans performance full of tiny variants in rhythm and attack, rising and falling in intensity – sometimes a rush of sound, sometimes a cloud of soft overtones and phantom notes. “Persian Carpets II” is more spare, with quiet and careful piano alongside Richard’s subdued accompaniment – a gorgeous bath of pointillist sound that rewards close listening.
LP $20.25
01/23/2026
MP3 $9.90
01/23/2026
FLAC $11.99
01/23/2026
***As a founding member of one of Los Angeles’ earliest female-led bands, BACKSTAGE PASS, Genevieve Schorr lived and breathed rock’n roll growing up like a lot of teenagers at the time. What set her apart was forging her unique band so early in the punk timeline (a direct shot from her glam & pub rock influences) and eventually evolving her life into becoming a professional rock’n roll stylist to the stars. Genny’s book reads like a lost diary trapped in a punk house time capsule from the era, complete with tales of dereliction and unsuspecting victories along the way. Crossing paths with such wildly diverse characters such as The Screamers, The Mumps, Dr. Feelgood, The Damned, The Quick, Jon Stewart, Jim Carrey, The Bangles, and Linda Ronstadt, All Roads Lead To Punk is an invigorating flash through a wild life not to be forgotten. This book comes also with a limited edition BACKSTAGE PASS 7″ single featuring the original 1977 studio recordings of “Legend (Come On Up To Me)” (immortalized by Redd Kross’s version in Desperate Teenage Lovedolls) b/w “Let Me Show You Love” – the debut 7″ that never was…170 page softcover. Edition of 500 copies.
BK+7 $39.25
11/14/2025
***Spontaneous and genuine yet undeniably within the canon of extreme metal, Araphel wear no masks nor offer no mysticism. Full-length proof: The Endchanter, which follows last year's introductory Old Comet Transition EP. Across the record's seven-song / 39-minute runtime, one will hear the honest voice of a musician speaking about his experiences and point of view—in this case, prolific Italian musician Santo alongside a lineup made up of veteran musicians of the Italian underground scene—sharing a critique of society and the dullness of our lives and rules we are forced to live by. The music is rooted in black metal, with a clear METAL aesthetic, and has deep ties to the best of the underground and classic metal tradition, but it's the heartfelt synthesis of form and content where The Endchanter creates its own poignant landscape. To be sure, sonic signposts are aplenty on The Endchanter—from old-school Greek black metal to the culter likes of Poland's Xantotol and Colombia's Nebiros to the spirit of Bathory, Dissection, Immortal, and Desaster among others—but where Araphel excel is narrative songwriting, rooted in sincerity and personal truth rather than fantasy. To immerse oneself in the album's lyrics is as engrossing as the music itself. There are no devils, messiahs, or sacrificial horrors here—just reality, resulting in an experience brimming with tragedy and triumph. A raw-yet-poetic reflection on the END—not just of individual existence, but of an entire belief system—Araphel's debut album seeks authenticity in a fragmented era, offering a perspective that is clear-eyed, disenchanted,...
LP $25.50
11/14/2025
In a time when cleverness is prized over belly-busting fun, in a musical landscape that worships genre over invention, and in a world increasingly begging computers to think on our behalf — Equipment Pointed Ankh’s fifth studio album Eggs A Little Late (out 11/28 via Philly’s indomitable Petty Bunco label) arrives an abundantly refreshing gift, truly funny and smart. Recorded in bandleader Jim Marlowe’s studio End of an Ear (Louisville, KY) off and on over the last three years, the core Ankh crew (Marlowe, Chris Bush, Dan Davis, Ryan Davis, Shutaro Noguchi) gathered when they were able to get serious about play, along with some new and returning guests (Eric Lanham, Jeannine Lonardo, Trevor Nikrant, Jenny Rose, Ryan Swigart, Ben Traughber and Seth Manchester.) How do so many people (having this much fun) make a record so singular and cohesive? I don’t know, exactly, but I’ve heard a few rumors. Dan Davis once told me that Ankh operates with a radically democratic process: no single part stays unless there is unanimous enthusiasm for it. If any one person doesn’t dig any one cowbell hit, it’s cut — and so the bonsai is trimmed. Listening to these miracles of tracks, I can hear that balance of freedom and restraint. Music made in this spirit (jamming, free improv, whatever you want to call it; Roscoe Mitchell called it “composing in real time”) often feels like it can percolate forever, occasionally over boiling. Ankh’s recordings never come close — they glint...
LP $29.00
12/05/2025
MP3 $7.99
11/28/2025
FLAC $8.99
11/28/2025
***This is a record of dissonance: Think too much and you incapacitate yourself. Think too little and you become a pawn. Solitude is deadening, yet people are infuriating. The past haunts, the future horrifies, the present stultifies. Age brings confidence, along with irrelevance as the world moves on, replacing each generation with the next.What does it sound like? The above, by way of guitar, bass, drums, vocals, volume, speed, anguished sonic twists. A short, sharp shock, with little hope but ample catharsis. Just another exercise in hardcore-punk ritualism, or is there more to it? Up to you. Put on your dancing shoes and flail blindly until something hits you.500 copies on black 150gr vinyl housed in a 24pt reverse board jacket with oversized lyric sheet included. Recorded by Jeffery McNulty. Mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk. Art by Paulo Jeca Schulz with text by Shaun Dean.FFO: Cold Sweat, Negative FX, Ripcord, Agnostic Front, Urban Waste, Die Kreuzen.
LP $30.75
11/28/2025
***On the cover—A comprehensive feature by music writer Shahlin Graves on why JAPANESE BREAKFAST’s recent record For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) rules so hard, going in-depth on the meaning and gestation of many of its songs with band leader Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart. We also have a bunch of really killer, exclusive photos lovingly accompanying the piece.An exceptional interview with Kai Slater, the super prolific, talented 20 year-old member of Lifeguard, about his terrific pure-pop-for-now-people solo project SHARP PINS by one of our favorite writers, Sydney Salk.Somehow we scored this amazing, lengthy oral history from the crew who worked behind the scenes on the 1981 Bronx-based cult horror flick WOLFEN. This alone is probably worth the price of admission (and is courtesy of our friends at the publisher Feral House.)A deliriously well-written tribute by noted music scribe and DJ Kurt Reighley to GAVIN FRIDAY, covering his entire career: from the Virgin Prunes through Hollywood collaborations, and his solo work today.Two separate charged and cantankerous interviews by Knoxville-based historian Eric Dawson, stitched together and serving as a swell tribute to the great Pere Ubu leader DAVID THOMAS (RIP). Ubu forever.
MAG $9.35
10/24/2025
SF's Fog Lamp have been at it for a few yrs now, repping heavily around the local environs, garnering a solid word-of-mouth reputation. Originally a trio sans tubs, the synth-driven iron gulp of their early days was like Animal of Anti-Nowhere League crashing a Cabaret Voltaire rehearsal. 'Power to the paradox' I like to say, or in the immortal words of Tug McGraw, "Ya Gotta Believe!" So after a couple tapes & whatnot, Siltbreeze got clued in & have solidly backed their debut vinyl lp, Still Entangled. Along the way, the band enlisted the solid drumming prowess of Rachelle Hughes & by doing so, Fog Lamp have zoned in an intensive, beguiling churn of Dossier era Chrome slipping into The Sleepers panic-creep of 'Painless Nights'. Their hauntingly dense & layered murk is as authentically Bay Area as a bowl of Cioppino. Look for them on tour (West Coast only) in Jan. of 2026. Flannel is the new Goth.
LP $22.00
01/23/2026
Australian death metal fiends Vile Apparition are back with their second album. Proudly released by Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Dark Descent Records.Mechanically precise drumming violence and crazed riffs fire you into an onslaught of malevolent extremity with intense, guttural vocals spewing through the mix. The ruthless aggression shown from the very beginning will transport you back to the brutality of the 90s with a modern twist showcasing only the most gruesomely barbaric ideas from the band. Warped ideas contort into truly abysmal visions of gore and depravity with only the most malignant of sounds making the cut. Along with the groove-laden riffing, technical solos fit the unwavering madness to give some impressive shred flair to the monstrous hammering assault.If pounding madness and malicious technical flourishes is your thing then Vile Apparition have you covered. This is totally cranked brutality and unwavering musicianship taken to its logical and perverse conclusion. A torturous blend of brutal death metal that takes no prisoners and gives no quarter. Find yourself holding your breath from the unending ruthless musical mayhem (or perhaps the stench of offal in the air). Malignity delivers what the title promises, and your brain matter will be splattered by the end of a single listen of this record.
CD $13.00
11/28/2025
MP3 $7.99
11/28/2025
FLAC $8.99
11/28/2025
***"Long awaited release of Aaron Dilloway’s foreboding ’ambient’ works with Psychic Sounds' initial selection entitled Medicine Stunts: Two sprawling sides of atmospheric practices & mysterious meditations fully mastered and pressed on wax for the first time, all which include the glacial ‘Stunt 1’ of sparse industrial factory mesmerization invoking shadowed moments reminicent of the beloved David Lynch & Alan Splet's Eraserhead soundtrack. Dilloway's tape chops glide into glass harmonic chamber echos calling on such spirited reverberations by way of crystallophone, Aeolian harp, or even frequencies recalling Coil's experimental investigations on the legendary Soviet-era ANS photoelectric synthesizer. In this instance, a distant alien cooing along the liminal glassy seam is introduced alongside slow pumping mechanical wield, and further minimal creature calls reminiscent of the stranger field recordings documented on Folkways 'Sounds of the Sea' or Amphibian related releases.Flipside 'Stunts 2 & 3' brings the gurgling & juggling metallic slabber warbled in a box bleeding into slight fuzz unknown, all which gently wades into a pulsating pump of squells.... it all certainly stirs a flavor of your regional moldy spook house attraction soundtrack crackling through the busted sound system. If this isn't enough for the adventurous listener , a suspenseful end event on the horizon offers us an unsettling whistle in the Old West Morricone ghost town. A beautifully haunted hallway of reflected recourse through the reality of the unsettling American jokes & labyrinths of now."
LP $22.50
10/31/2025
***After a busy year, Split System returns with their third and final 7” of 2025, ‘No Cops In Heaven / Pull The Trigger’. Recorded live to tape at Soundpark Studios on a Saturday in August 2024, the new 7” features two hefty slices of punk.The idea for ‘No Cops In Heaven’ was sparked during a drive through Burnley in Melbourne, listening to Angel in a Raincoat by The Sleepers while passing highway police. The track expresses a distrust of police, politicians, and media figures, stemming from ongoing inaction and victim-blaming around femicide, along with concerns regarding the growing power and militarization of police forces across Australia.‘Pull The Trigger’ takes aim at war mongers, oil barons, and politicians who benefit from ongoing conflicts and genocide. The song’s narrator finds themself at the end of their tether, ready to take matters into their own hands.
7" $10.50
10/17/2025
***The self-titled debut album by The Melody Chamber is steeped in new romantic post-punk and southern gothic jangle-pop, feeling like watching an old VHS tape of 120 Minutes where it’s just a forgotten cult classic next to another until the tape gives out.Upon repeat listens the album starts to feel like it has two themes of both space and time running through the album. Space is in almost every song on the album from the moon, the sun, the planets, and the stars showing how large the universe is and how small our own reflection of time and how little time we really have in the grand scheme of things. Space is so expansive and there is an underlying despair in the album because the sad truth is that time and life is linear. Wallace Dietz, who writes the lyrics, swears he doesn’t journal or pre-write the lyrics, but he just plays the melody and lets words flow as he goes along. Subjects are usually nameless and shrouded in mystery allowing the listener to build a bit of their own world within the album, and the stories come from parts of Wallace’s own life, but only loosely. A phrase or a single word can set him in the direction of what flows forth which is a very stream of conscious style writing.
LP $20.85
11/21/2025
15 years deep and still on the clock. Late Shift Silk toasts 100% Silk’s decade and a half anniversary in the backrooms of dance. From Tokyo to Wicklow, Russia to Florida, and up and down the West Coast, the tracks lay 11 more bricks along The SILK Road: monorail house, transistor acid, ASMR breaks, boombox 2-step, desert electro, sunset techno, lo-fi cruise, velvet groove, northern lights, aquatic dub, flatliner electronics. Most of the projects are new to the label; a few aren’t. Individual wavelengths diverge and re-align, but the collective flow is one of liquid rhythm and horizon moods, out late and outlasting. Music for inner circles under low lights, holding it down and holding together to the end of the end of the night.
MC $12.00
12/05/2025
MP3 $9.90
12/05/2025
FLAC $11.99
12/05/2025
***Strange Passage is a band stuck twofold: locatively, being split between Boston and New York; and trajectorily, embracing the past while barreling toward the future.The group formed among the shadows of Boston in the pale, early days of 2016 and has been delighting listeners and confounding expectations since. Immediate comparisons were made to Felt, the Feelies, and the Church. The band quietly hammered out an EP (Shine and Scatter) and LP (Shouldn’t Be Too Long) both released on Syncro System Records, and toured extensively throughout the United States, sharing the stage with contemporaries like Tony Molina, Dummy, En Attendant Ana, and Chain of Flowers along the way. Proof that artists could work in relative social media reclusion, eschewing the brain-numbing content churn of the billionaires' nightmare machine.A Folded Sky on Meritorio Records is Strange Passage’s second album, which crystallizes the band’s sound and ethos. The album showcases the band’s signature sense of melody while incorporating influences like from the motorik beats of NEU!, the psychedelic sounds of Velvet Underground, and the political sensibilities of McCarthy and Zounds.The band features Greg Witz on guitar, Ricky Hartman on drums, Andrew Jackmauh on bass, and Renato Montenegro on guitar and vocals. Stalwarts of the East Coast music scene, members have played in The Spatulas, Invisible Rays, Missionary Work, Bummed, Sap, Austerity, Magic Circle, and Cut the Shit, among many others.Pressed on coke bottle green vinyl.
LP $22.25
12/05/2025
***Tarantula is a solo project now with a full band, Vlad from Killing Pace, Regulate, Downfall, and more. He's taking a step away from Hardcore on this release doing a more Alt rock/Indie styled release, not unlike a Tony Molina/Tenement type. Vlad has been a customer with VC since he was like 13 years old, and its been exciting to see his path along the way, through many bands. His current roster of hardcore bands he writes for are some local favorites, and his writing in this style is no exception, with heathy nod's at Elliot Smith and Weezer, you are also not too far off from a Hostage Calm or Crime In Stereo either. The band is already actively touring just getting back from runs with Hotline TNT, Hunny, and Split Chain. This is a limited edition pressing of 500 copies.
LP $25.50
09/26/2025
***"Novel Tea is the 5th studio album by San Francisco singer-songwriter Luke Sweeney. An honest x-ray into the soul of its singer-songwriter, Novel Tea serves as an unapologetic tracing of our inner worlds as they spill and intersect unto the collective psyche. It’s a loaded bag of motley commentary and point-blank personal confessions steeped inside a soulful mix of warm fuzzy guitar tones, sparkling 80’s synth lines, and rich ethereal vocal layers. Coastal psychedelic spells abound, along with African rhythms, early doo-wop, and a wild range of influences, stirring even the jaded spirit against the grain of our modern existential strife.Novel Tea is the third installment of Sweeney’s collaboration with longtime friend Robin MacMillan (Lake Street Dive, Kolumbo), and as one esteemed engineer/producer friend with a gold record to his name has already written, Maybe (the) best yet. Lots of great juicy textures and the songs are all bangers.”
LP $21.35
08/29/2025
***Virginia-based industrial metal nihilists Hold Me Down reach the milestone of the second full-length album, christened under the name “Devour” and designed as further progression of their abysmal exploration into the outer realms of synthetic sonic abandon. What unfolds on this second mechanized auditory assault from the Richmond voidscapers is an all-corroding synthesis of industrialized terror harkening back to formative years of extreme industrial music when bands like Swans, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy and Godflesh were looking for new pathways to transform their times’ confusion and alienation into an oppressive audial dehumanization. A torrential onslaught of pounding drum machines and atonal guitars creating a physical and mental cage of submission, within which the listener is trapped and cornered, only to be further punished by a white, colorless, and sterile burden of noise. The only human thing toiling within the ashen framework of this stark and dystopian cyberscape is vocalist Jim Gullickson’s devastated voice, the last spasm of humanity disintegrating within the aseptic turbulence of a paranoid, life-draining contraption. The way the album is built and conceived is intended to mimic human sensory dismantlement, or its destruction from within, similarly to how our digitalized society erases individuals leaving only empty shells. The senses are used as sensors to gain access to the listener’s humanity, into which an injection of sterilizing sequences and nerve-eating samples are inserted to scrape the consciousness clean. A new era of post-industrial enslavement and banishment of any human thrive has just cast its purifying shadow across the...
CD $10.50
09/05/2025
LP $22.25
09/05/2025
***Most of these songs have been around the block several times, some in different neighborhoods, so say the liner notes to this album. What that means is that Mike Shanley wrote some of these tunes while playing in bands like the Love Letters or the Mofones and never got to record them. (He was also in Bone Of Contention, the band that launched Igor Records.)The Harry Von Zells only played a few shows before the sessions for this album started. Along with Shanley, the band features guitarist Erik Cirelli (Emily Rodgers Band, Skelontonized, and others), keyboardist Michael Cunningham (formerly of Neighbours) and drummer Nate Figlar. Wendy Eisenberg guests on three songs, adding banjo and some frenzied guitar solos. Additional vocals were added by Erin Dawes (also of the Love Letters), Jennifer Schmidt (Catamount) and John Young (the Optimists).Play It Backwards straddles noisy and catchy—overdriven bass lines give way to jangly riffs, morphing into drones. Some of the lyrics border on plotlines—discussing relationships, musical obsessions and the strange feelings that accompany writing (a recurring Shanley subject). If that wasn't enough, the band also covers "Stardom Because," a song by Big Dipper, the great, underrated band from late '80s/early '90s Boston.
LP $23.95
08/08/2025
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Hailing from the Central Valley of California, HÖG’s founding member Daniel moved to Portland in 2018 and formed the group, releasing an EP with the initial lineup in 2022. In early 2024 it was announced that Portland locals and friends Adam and Bobcat would join ranks, and they went to work playing shows and developing their upcoming debut album, Blackhole.While HÖG aligns with the familiar tones and rhythm of heavy rock n roll of the 1970s, this group is by no means derivative. Their collective influences and backgrounds of punk and metal that encourage steady experimentation, along with what Daniel identified as “the dirty bleakness that Portland embodies most of the year” allows the sound of Blackhole to stand on its own. It is dark and grimy, and best played loud.Daniel’s writing occurred over two timelines, and while the lyrical content has shifted from “optimistically defiant and lighthearted” in the early work to more serious subject matter influenced by “the state of the world, depression, and sex” in newer songs, the execution in both live performance and studio sound does not feel disjointed. This stands as a testament to the band’s membership and unity. Adam’s swift cadence on the kit with Bobcat’s bassline moving in waves, the low end allows Daniel to wail through every fret on his guitar while performing his lyrics in an equally wide vocal range.Recorded in the summer of 2024 in the back of Trevor Labovitz's amp repair store named Arcane Amps in...
CD $12.00
09/19/2025
LP $27.00
09/05/2025
Jackpot Records is extremely proud to announce our reissue of the revered reggae album 1976’s War Ina Babylon by Max Romeo & The Upsetters. Originally released on Island Records, the album is considered one of the greatest Reggae albums of all time and was a massive influence on the UK punk movement that was just starting to bubble to the surface.The record’s incredible power belies an unlikely partnership between one of the world’s greatest producers (and experimenters in sound), Lee “Scratch” Perry, and vocalist Max Romeo (who by 1976 had performed on over 120 7” singles) Romeo had been transforming from his “rude” records to writing lyrics with social themes as the era in Jamaica was rife with poverty, gangs, and politically motivated killings. As he was looking to produce protest music at its most powerful alongside music that would never leave the listener’s souls, Lee Perry and Max Romeo started collaborating together.Recorded in two weeks in 1976, utilizing Lee Perry’s kitchen sink production, War Ina Babylon is considered part of Lee Perry’s ‘holy trinity’ Black Ark produced LPs released by Island Records (Junior Murvin’s Police and Thieves and The Heptones’ Party Time being the other classics LPs in the trinity), this LP continues to find new fans with every passing generation.
LP $31.95
08/29/2025
***Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean is a blackened-doom heavy metal band based out of Western Massachusetts. Obsession Destruction is the band's first full-length coming on the heels of 5 sold out EP releases spotted over the last 5 years. Chained has found a fanbase by winning over crowds with unprecedented volume and uncompromising live sound.Obsession Destruction is an eight song double LP clocking in at over an hour in length, housed in a stunning gatefold LP with artwork created by the late Mariusz Lewandowski (Bell Witch, Obituary, Fuming Mouth...). This full length finds the band honing the songwriting and experimentation within their fundamental sound and elevating it to the highest caliber possible.Chained has toured up and down the East Coast and throughout the Midwest playing shows alongside: The Acacia Strain, Undeath, Thou, Hell, Black Tusk, Come to Grief...Recorded by Chris Teti at Silver Bullet Studios and mastered by Magnus Lingberg.New edition on Coke bottle clear with multi splatter vinyl.
CD $13.25
08/08/2025
2XLP $43.25
08/08/2025
London’s The Lo Yo Yo was conceptualized by John “Alig” Pearce in 1984 after his primary group, the deservedly legendary Family Fodder, went dormant. Soon enough a few others were enlisted to round out the quartet, including Mick Hobbs of The Work and Officer! fame, alongside friends Joey Stack and Carrie Brooks. The Lo Yo Yo took elements from their other groups and, in the tradition of somewhat like-minded acts like The Raincoats, Naffi and Amos & Sara, added a strong dub/reggae element.Shortly before their lone studio LP, which was recorded by Charles Bullen of This Heat fame, the band self-recorded a demo tape at home on an eight track reel to reel, reissued here on vinyl for the first time by Concentric Circles. It is a wonder of DIY production with a rich and layered sound that belies their humble means. Although about half of the songs on the demo would wind up being re-recorded for the studio LP, the demo versions are radically different from what is heard on their proper album. There is a feeling of intensity to the demo that was missing from the LP, which had a noticeably cleaner fidelity and more subdued playing. Here the band plays with true force and determination, with Stack’s socialist leaning lyrics taking on an extra sharp bite. Unafraid to show off their skills at writing irresistibly catchy pop songs, things are carried on by Alig’s big bass sound and a barrage of polyrhythmic dueling drums and percussion. The...
LP $27.00
08/22/2025
MP3 $9.90
08/22/2025
FLAC $11.99
08/22/2025
***"St Louis e’er-do-wells Bunnygrunt sprung fully formed into the Great Indie Pop Underground of the early 1990’s, when gas was cheap, 7” singles grew on trees, and every zine had a reader. After a hugely successful turn at 1994’s YoYo-A-GoGo festival and a steady stream of 45’s, the band hit the studio in early 1995 to record their full length debut Action Pants for LA scene makers No Life Records. Unfortunately, the band lineup shifted and the track list contracted between recording and release, leaving a few songs on the cutting room floor. Now is the time to re-introduce the world to the Action Pants it needs now more than ever. Alongside the breezy perfection of 'Just Like Suppertime', the clattering feedback frenzy of 'GI2K', the jangle motorik of 'Open Up And Say Oblina', and the other hits you know and love, faithful Bungalos can now feast their ears on the shambling glory of 'Eggy Greggy', the transmission from another planet of 'Maude' (in two parts!), and originally planned pre-release single 'Inanimate Objects'. Meet Action Pants: The Thirtieth Anniversary Director’s Cut! A split release between Georgia’s Happy Happy Birthday To Me & St Louis’s Silly Moo, it’s just like the old one, only, like, better…"
LP $14.65
08/08/2025
Recorded and mixed at Duke Reid’s storied Treasure Isle studio by Duke’s nephew, young engineer Errol Brown, Dub Expression collects dubbed up treatments of seminal rockers rhythms crafted for Marcia Griffiths, John Holt, Dennis Brown and more.Propelled by the drums of Lowell “Sly” Dunbar, the appropriately named Revolutionaries (with their tough and radical sound) were the ideal group to reflect a turbulent period in Jamaican politics. While the band’s personnel remained fluid—depending on which players were available and frequently overlapping with other seminal sessions bands such as Joe Gibbs’ The Professionals and Bunny “Striker” Lee’s The Aggrovators—The Revolutionaries were most known as Channel One’s house band in the mid to late ’70s.The decision to top-bill The Revolutionaries, rather than feature an individual artist as was customary at the time, was made by Kingston’s most celebrated female producer, Sonia Pottinger who shrewdly determined that The Revolutionaries’ name alone would be a can’t miss selling point. One only needs to spend a minute with Dub Expression to hear why.Originally released in 1978 on Pottinger’s High Note label, Dub Expression represents the essence of dub in its purest form. An absolute classic. Liner notes by JR Gonne.
LP $27.00
08/22/2025
***Laughing Hyenas is the saga of one of the most uncompromising quartets in post-punk’s artistically dubious history. It’s a legacy of hell-bent self-destruction in the name of making an unholy racket, a sound both original and traditional, fueled by a love of punk rock, blues and the endless highway. The Hyenas shared stages with indie rock royalty and crisscrossed the nation to deliver the gospel of the New Sounds.The band's road to big things was blocked by heroin habits, along with the incumbent personality problems that go along with addiction. Based on new interviews and fresh source material, Laughing Hyenas intimately chronicles the history of one of the last outlaw rock ‘n’ roll bands of our era. 164 page 5"x8" paperback book. Includes 22 black and white photos“Laughing Hyenas’ John Brannon and Larissa Strickland were Michigan’s own version of Sid and Nancy. Their ferocious mix of punk and the blues made them a true original. I don’t know if it was fate, bad luck, or the band’s self-destructive habits—possibly a combination of all three—but, as Steve Miller shows, Laughing Hyenas were never destined for stardom. But their legacy speaks for itself—and deserves to be listened to today.”—Butch Vig, producer
BK $14.00
07/29/2025
***"Our favorite six-string shaman is waving that axe around again! Sir Richard Bishop wrenches forth fresh damnable truth and beauty from a musical kamikaze run through histories both known and unknown. Turning a gimlet eye to the American Primitive guitar style, Sir Rick applies his own bloodthirsty interpretive methods on a self-described 'excursion into the dark woods,' to locate—and play along with—the Primitive’s moonshine-fed inner savage."
LP $22.45
09/26/2025
CD $14.50
09/26/2025
Orcutt Shelley Miller is an avant-rock trio comprised of three highly celebrated figures of experimental music: Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets On Fire). Following in the footsteps of the high-firing free jazz and European outer-rock bands of the ’60s and ’70s and the Pacific Rim’s subterranean reimagining of “rock” form in the ’90s, Orcutt Shelley Miller utilize explosive group chemistry, focused intention and chance to pursue the creation of song in its rawest, purest form. “The landscape Orcutt Shelley Miller inhabits lies deep in the stoner American bedrock, fed by volcanic riffage and hypnotic phrasing with rhythmic nods to the SoCal ’60s and atonal slash piled on a mid ’80s SST punk-fusionoid substrate, ultimately blasting a ‘big rock statement’ that treads the line between good times and blown minds.” —Tom Carter
CD $13.00
09/05/2025
LP $24.00
09/05/2025
LP COLOR $27.00
09/05/2025
MP3 $5.99
09/05/2025
FLAC $6.99
09/05/2025
***The Wind-Ups (Northern California) return with their third album this summer. 11 blistering tracks of lo-fi sugar punk à la the Ramones and Spits, Confection is a cotton candy rock’n’roll blitzkrieg. Recorded to tape by frontman/ ringleader Jake Sprecher.The anxious and snarling energy of the lead off track "A Fine Pink Mist" recalls the early days of Denton, TX's Marked Men in their most primitive state. From there the tone is quite literally set; a wall of noise and fuzz-drenched guitars recalls Black Tambourine's Ramones covers EP, with a backbeat that feels like a panic attack. The result: bubblegum music through blown out speakers played at the wrong speed, noisy and demented in the best possible way.When Sprecher sweetens things up a bit for the saccharine sing-alongs "(That's Just My) Dream Girl" and "To Keep Away," Confection shows its softer and more sensitive Joey side; but it’s the midtempo spoken word duet "Cheer Up" that steals the show. A love letter to those feeling exhausted, beaten down and doubting themselves, the song radiates the genuineness, positivity and earnestness that really defines who The Wind-Ups are. Last but certainly not least, the LP closes with a rare electric guitar appearance from Jonathan Richman, on the outro of “Little Boy Blue,” quietly released in 2023 and now available for the first time on vinyl.Confection bakes the hooks, energy and non-existent production style of forgotten punk and garage bands of the past in a sentimental syrup.(STREET DATE - 7/11/2025)
LP $20.50
07/11/2025
MP3 $7.99
07/11/2025
FLAC $8.99
07/11/2025
***Part Two of Shrinkwrap Killers’ Feed the Clones duololy has finally arrived with eleven more trashy mutant Synth-Punk anthems by Oakland’s shrinkwrapped maniac! Emerging from the underbelly of Oakland, CA in 2018, Shrinkwrap Killers, the brainchild of Greg Wilkinson (Autopsy, Deathgrave, Static Abyss), set out to create a band capable of encompassing New Wave, 70’s & 80’s Punk, Film Scores, Sci-Fi, Horror, Films, and Comics into a consistent outlet. Taking influence from The Spits, Wall of Voodoo, and Kraftwerk, Shrinkwrap Killers delivers a demented form of Lo-Fi New Wave Synth Punk that has spanned three LPs and two 7” EP’s, garnering the love and admiration from entities beyond our galaxy along with everyday cretins living here on Earth. Feed the Clones Pt. 2 is the follow up to Feed the Clones Pt. 1, released by Iron Lung and Transylvanian Recordings in 2023. Feed the Clones Pt. 2 was Written, Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studio in Oakland, California between January 2023 and October 2024. Front Cover, Back Cover, and Additional Illustrations by Santos (High On Fire, Lamb of God, Neurosis)
CD $10.50
06/27/2025
LP $16.50
06/27/2025
MC $13.25
06/27/2025
***Yorkshire's most Honorable Master of Mangel brings to bear upon us the sophomore RAT CAGE full-length, an anxiety-compounding white-knuckle ride through the nauseating experience commonly known as trying to get by. On SAVAGE VISIONS, listeners are exposed to the maniacal cries of the critically-minded individual pushed to the absolute brink, copping rapid fire tidings of woe belted out by an unhinged unit who has finally ceased to give a fuck. Here we find Bryan of Sheffield, defiant and desperate on what is by far the most sinister, claustrophobic, reckless and dynamic release in the RAT CAGE catalogue to date. Though it may be full of huge sing-along-moments and loaded with surprises, SAVAGE VISIONS is no party, because there's nothing to celebrate. The boisterous resilience and boozy joy of previous works has vanished. With the rule book shattering the window of the '82nd floor, SAVAGE VISIONS lashes out at times towards the not-too-distant sounds of VENOM, MIDNIGHT and later DARKTHRONE, expertly folding these riff expressions back in to the irresistibly dysfunctional bop of GBH and CRUCIFIX.
LP $26.50
06/20/2025
***KRIEGSHÖG is back. Five years after their last single and 14 since their debut album, the Tokyo Hardcore band finally delivers a new release. Love and Revenge is a record of consummate savagery and monster riffs. Picking up where Paint It Black 7” left, and moving forward as a heavy toned hardcore record that finds the band in its own realm. While following the Japanese tradition of long running bands operating at their own pace and mastering their sound along the way. The band leave behind their speedier sound, moving now at a slower tempo but still pummelling their riffing sound. The incorporation of a new drummer, adds much more than a steady beat, amplifying the KRIEGSHÖG sonic experience. Their sound is bass-driven to the point of near hypnosis, becoming quasi-psychedelic at times. The guitar tone is a nasty crunch and the vocal delivery has only got more brutal, with a glass eating demon on the mic conjuring the darkest side of your soul. Perfect for night rides into the abyss. Their influences are still there. With KURO, ZOUO or THE CLAY shaking hands with the darkest 70’s hard rock via JERUSALEM and modern stoner rock via KYUSS or SLEEP. And the band motto still remains the same… PLAY LOUD AND DIE.
LP $26.50
06/20/2025
***Georgia in 1982 was a peculiar place, for sure. Athens was just starting to get up to cruising altitude (starting with the B52s a mere five years earlier) and was beginning to consume a lot of oxygen in the regional and national press. While Atlanta had industry heavy hitters like the Producers and the Brains, the buzz at venues like the Bistro, 688, TV Dinner and The Agora was legitimately palpable. Three childhood best friends, Ken Shenck on vox and guitar and bassist Max Koshewa (both of locals Lobe Tan), along with their pal (from their high school band Acropolis), Mac McNeilly on drums. This three piece formed in 1981 and by 1982, the label OHP released their debut release. With a beautiful folded poster/sleeve designed by Swimming Pool Q Anne Richmond Boston, the single was followed up by another single on the label in 1983. What you get on this single is those first two releases. Digitized and sweetened by the maestro Jason NeSmith at Chase Park Transduction. Also included is an insert with one of four different promo photos that the band had made in the forest somewhere in Decatur using smoke bombs for ambience. This is the first of (hopefully) many releases celebrating the legacy of this noted Atlanta powerhouse.
7" $9.75
08/08/2025
MP3 $1.99
07/11/2025
FLAC $2.99
07/11/2025
***Perhaps best known for his guitar playing in the Montreal noise-rock band AIDS Wolf, Alex Moskos has been producing records under the name Drainolith since 1999. He has released countless cassettes, CDRs & 7" records on various labels culminating in two full length albums: Fighting (2012) on Spectrum Spools and Hysteria (2015) on NNA Tapes.More recently Moskos has performed and recorded alongside Max Eilbacher (Horse Lords) and Duncan Moore as SEF III, and with Nate Young, John Olson and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Raven Chacon as The Difficult Messages Band. He has also played alongside Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux), Charles Balas and Nate Young in Dan’l Boon (Drag City). Moskos is an amateur historian and works in community radio at CKUT 90.3FM—Montreal’s oldest freeform radio station. He lives in Hochelaga, an east end neighborhood of Montreal with artist Jessica Mensch and Boots The Cat.Macbeth was initially intended as a double LP. Though now whittled down to under thirty minutes it somehow remains both epic and kaleidoscopic. It is by turns dissonant, comedic and elevating. Moskos uses poetry and song to recount the lives of Montreal’s many wayward souls, the uncelebrated history of its street life and personalities, addiction, and the tension of maintaining an inner life while living in the metropolis, all set to a backdrop of electronics, raw guitar playing, and samples.Macbeth features Moskos’ own production work alongside two tracks produced by the mysterious Collections Crew (who have played on more legendary Montreal records than you would believe). An...
LP $23.95
06/27/2025
***PROCRASTINATORS were a locally cherished ‘77 infused punk rock band active from 1994 to 1997 in Portland, Oregon. For whatever reason, the rest of the world has taken its sweet time discovering this gem. Featuring Portland all-star Chris Carey (RIP) who would later grace his presence in many local bands including POISON IDEA, DEATHCHARGE, RELIGIOUS WAR, DEFIANCE, etc., etc., this is a great document of how it all started with this very important figure in the scene here along with many others who were very active in the Portland underground scene throughout the 90’s. Musically, these punks can be likened to cohorts, The Riffs with the straight ahead street punky rock n roll executed totally raw and unadulterated. This LP collects variations of the tracks on their one and only 7” EP, demo stuff, an unreleased EP, a comp track, rehearsal track, and live song simply titled “New Song”. This record comes with an extensive layout with liner notes from surviving members, a lot of photos, reviews and snippets from fanzines. One excerpt from the insert sums Procrastinators up perfectly: “Like an old Stooges t-shirt; comfortable and classic.”
LP $22.25
06/27/2025
***For the past 16 years, Alice Sandahl has been carving a unique sonic path, transforming her academic background and years on the road into a sound that is wholly her own. Her journey began with classical training in college and blossomed into her role as a founding member of the acclaimed rock band La Luz. Over the last decade, she has released four albums on the respected indie label Hardly Art, collaborated with visionaries like Ty Segall and Dan Auerbach, and spent countless hours touring—collecting stories, songs, and hard-won perspective along the way.Hologram is a colorful, soulful love letter to the broken heart. Intimately, delicately, it reflects on healing, hope, and growth after heartbreak. Tender words are carried effortlessly on buttery vocals, charming piano phrases cascade like flecks of light, dreamlike interludes sparkle and soothe between verses. Lead single “Broken Baby” stands out as a lighthearted jaunt that wouldn’t be out of place in an indie coming-of-age film. It’s bold, electrifying, yet soft. In these songs, the listener is gently called to consider the innocence of past selves, and the wisdom that comes with experience. Hologram is sweet brown sugar on any lover’s tongue.
LP $22.25
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***Drawing inspiration from a wide berth of genres, from rocksteady, to garage, to grupero, Los Angeles based proto/post punk band El Colmo cooks it all down to bring us melodic, degenerative twang you can groove to. After their contribution to Slouch Records’ panoptic compilation Permanent Fixtures, El Colmo releases this otherworldly 7” with a seductively eerie bonus track.Two tracks on the ghastly, the unseen, the wicked! That which creeps below our consciousness and whispers behind our ears. La Casa Invisible is a structure purely corporeal: one of brick, bone, and blood—but lacking soul. Alone it stands, permeated by spectors unaware of their ghosthood, crumbling from the inside out. I Hear Voices is a deeply hypnotic, haunting, and sensual cover of the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins joint by the same name. This track is exclusive to the vinyl. Grab the record now or let it forever twist in the wind.
7" $12.75
06/20/2025
Alternative Tentacles proudly welcomes Dead Bob to the family with their brand new 7-inch release, "Some Bodies / We Are The Humans"! Hailing from Vancouver Island, Canada, Dead Bob is the solo project of John Wright—legendary drummer of the now-retired punk rock powerhouse NoMeansNo. In this new incarnation, Wright is joined by Colin MacRae, Byron Slack, Ford Pier, and Kristy Lee Audette, reimagining two incredible covers to mark his reunion with the label that helped launch his legacy. He didn’t have to look far for the track “Some Bodies,” originally a NoMeansNo song from their 1985 release You Kill Me. This new version starts with rich vocal harmonies in the call back to the original a cappella intro and builds into an explosive reworking of the classic—with Audette’s powerful vocals along with bold horn arrangements driving it into new territory. The song loses none of its original intensity, instead gaining new layers and depth. NoMeansNo fans will be thrilled. On the flip side, "We Are The Humans" is a complete reimagining of Kraftwerk’s "We Are The Robots". In the age of AI, the track feels more relevant than ever with the new title and chant. The guitar and bass work is front and center, reminding listeners why John Wright's incredible songwriting legacy endures to this day. There’s a reason we say: Play it loud. With Dead Bob, John Wright and company do what few have managed since NoMeansNo’s retirement— honoring that stylistic past while boldly forging their own path forward....
7" $9.25
07/25/2025
One magical night in Bergen, Norway, Sarabeth Tucek proved to herself that she could muster up the music again. It had been five long years since she performed in Madrid before walking away from being a recording artist for the foreseeable future. She was coaxed to the city known as “Gateway To The Fjords” by HP Gundersen as part of a days-long festival of female songwriters. The acoustic set was comprised of songs from her minimal yet powerful back catalogue, plus two new ones which would foreshadow her return to the music scene via her masterful comeback double album Joan Of All. Along with her longtime producer / guitarist Luther Russell and engineer / bassist Jason Hiller, she played the set of her life, unaware it was being recorded. The audience was rapturous and the vibe in the intimate Scandinavian club was thick as a storm cloud. Live In Bergen features ten tracks which range from a reimagined version of her classic “Something For You” to a maiden airing of “The Living Room” and an emotionally shattering reading of her indelible “Get Well Soon”.
LP $27.00
05/23/2025
MP3 $9.90
06/13/2025
FLAC $11.99
06/13/2025
To celebrate the release of All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synthpop 1979 - 1985, Night School is releasing a double A 7" through its archive label School Daze. All The Young Droids is an overview of the post-punk synth explosion curated by Phil King, when alongside chart superstars like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell et. al a whole generation of musicians embraced new technologies that democracized pop music. This includes established artists who hoped to jumpstart their careers with drum machines and upstarts inspired to release DIY 7" records by the first waves of synth stars. Ian North of power pop pre-punkers Milk N Cookies bought his first synth after supporting Magazine on tour while still in his group Neo. When guitarist Robin Simon was poached for the end days of Magazine and John Foxx-period Ultravox, North then returned to New York after his visa expired and recorded his synth pop album ‘My Girlfriend’s Dead’ album in his apartment in Brooklyn – which was released in 1980 – and from which ‘We’re Not Lonely’ is taken. Credited to John Howard and Cal Mylar on the single 'I-Tune-Into-You (I-2NE-IN-2-U)' on CBS in 1980 - which is featured on All The Young Droids, 'We Can See' is a previously unreleased song from the same recording session. Cal Mylar was actually an imaginary character thought up by John Howard - who had previously released an album on CBS in 1975 called 'Kid In In A Big World' (which got rave reviews on its reissue...
7" $16.00
05/23/2025
Hailing from the southwest side of Detroit, Michigan, Dusty Rose Gang makes music that sounds like a celebratory summer evening with friends on the beach of the city’s crown jewel, Belle Isle. The band’s feel-good rock & roll rests its laurels alongside many of the city’s musical heavyweights, bringing a swagger and heft present in the best of the MC5 and the Stooges, while balancing the subtle tones and attitude found in prime-era Sabbath, Queen, Jimi Hendrix and the Flower Travellin’ Band. It should be no surprise that the band’s songwriter, Dusty Rose, haunted the same high school halls as the MC5 at Lincoln Park High, as much of the attitude, poise and spirit can be found on the band’s A-One From Day One long player debut for the legendary Riding Easy Records. The songs shimmer and shake, shredding through solo after solo, while packing just enough hazy 70’s influence to make it sound like Dusty Rose Gang has been here all along. This is Detroit rock n’ roll made by lifers for lifers, the no-bullshit real deal that the Motor City has been breathing since before Gene Simmons coined the term “Detroit Rock City."A-One From Day One was produced and recorded by Warren Defever at Free Party Bar, Hamtramck and mastered at Third Man Mastering. Engineered by Cam Frank. The album was recorded with Brett Donlon (bass), J. Rowe (drums, percussion), Kara Meister (backing vocals), and Warren Defever (mellotron, organ). The current line-up of Dusty Rose Gang features Dusty...
CD $12.00
06/13/2025
LP $24.00
05/30/2025
***Amazing Hardcore Punk band from Gävle Sweden. They were around sonically destroying ears and inspiring kids to go crazy from 1980 til 1984. In those four years they released some amazing essential records in Sweden. PNV brings you the first ever reissue the band’s 2nd LP from 1983. This is the first ever reissue of this Swedish Hardcore Punk classic. Along with some amazing Punk /Hardcore the band drops some fantastic Punky Dub.
LP $24.45
07/04/2025
***NOW AVAILABLE!!! "For their third album, The Control Freaks have surprised us with several ballads, a beautiful piano piece that will move you to tears, and a seven-minute operatic number about the pointlessness of human existence. Just kidding! The Control Freaks will always sound like The Control Freaks, and who would want it any other way? Get Some Help is hands-down the album of the year. It's also one of the best records that Greg Lowery has ever played on -- which is really saying something!Get Some Help is 13 tracks of catchy three-chord punk rock full of humor and raw energy. The songs rarely go too far beyond the two-minute mark and lend themselves to a variety of responses such as singing along, dancing in your underwear, and flipping off your neighbors. We'd probably be grateful if Greg were still making records half as good as he did 20-25 years ago, but honestly he's still in peak form with this band. If you were out and about and heard the title track, you might think it was an old Rip Offs song that you somehow missed..."—Faster And Louder
LP $20.50
05/02/2025
***Imprecation issues a new studio attack featuring their departed founder, Ruben Elizondo. The result is a Satanic storm of madness, mixed and mastered by legendary producer Harris Johns (Kreator, Immolation, etc.) for maximum impact. This release features five new tracks that were restored and completed from unreleased material, along with alternate versions of “Devil’s Furnace” from In Nomine Diaboli and “Ancient Portals of the Faceless Lords”, now darker and heavier than ever. While this is the last album with Ruben’s contribution, the band vows to continue his legacy by writing and recording more material in the future. Long live the true Texan death metal spirit!
LP $23.95
05/30/2025
***Times of Inquisition is their unreleased studio album from 1993 that would've put Chemical Death in the same category as Mystifier, Impurity and Amen Corner as one of the leading bands in the early 90's Brazilian black metal movement. Equal parts old Cogumelo (Sarcofago, Sextrash, Expulser) and Mystifier/Blasphemy worship, Chemical Death's one and only album is a testament to the unique sound that was still around in the early 90's scene before globalization neutralized what made that region's metal music unique. This is an artifact from the past that should be mentioned along side Wicca, Goetia, and The Lamb's Fury.
LP $23.95
05/30/2025
***Jeremy Bradley Earl is a NY-based visual artist and musician in the psychedelic folk rock band Woods. This four song EP marks his first recorded music under his own name and coincides with his first solo tour outside of Woods. As a longtime champion and maker of psychedelic American music, Jeremy Earl knows how to play it wrong in order to get it so right. He’s spent twenty years on a space echo trail with his band Woods, and while he’s refined his craft, there’s still a gentle chaos inside. These four solo songs blend folk and rock like his band, but left alone his writing cuts a little deeper, the hallucinations homespun, the illuminations ghostly. Includes a cover of "Deep Water" by Ed Askew. Jeremy Bradley Earl (vocals, guitars, Casio, percussion, drums), Sam Cohen (guitar, bass, drums, mellotron), Kyle Forester (piano). Limited edition color risograph 7-inch pressed on black vinyl.
7" $12.00
05/02/2025
MC $12.00
05/02/2025
MP3 $3.99
05/02/2025
FLAC $4.99
05/02/2025
***Composed, performed and produced by Cosey Fanni Tutti, this nine-track album moves between propulsive beat constructions and expansive electronic explorations, continuing themes from 2019's acclaimed album TUTTI. It is a personal reflection; a sonic realization of her life, drawing on her powerful inner resolve and expressing it through music. The album finds Cosey making sense of some very tough years, dealing with personal bereavements alongside swinging world events. Centering on her own strength and self will, the album's two distinct parts —one rhythmic, one more meditative—are connected by an overwhelmingly positive mood. Even in the more melancholic moments, there's a lightness that she explains is an "acknowledgement that it's alright to be sad, that's part of life, but there is so much joy too in our memories of people we lose and in the moments we share with each other. Joy is our resistance." There are also threads from her most recent projects running through 2t2. Cosey's process and the different strands that make up her work form a totality of vision. She goes on to say, "Once you get creating and listening, weaving, collaging sound it's a wonderfully fulfilling feeling that takes you both out of yourself at the same time as essentially deep within." The artwork reflects this idea that the album is a "sound cameo," reflecting the light within the music, and the buzz of life that exists within all of Cosey's work. Musician, artist and author Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions through...
LP $36.75
06/13/2025
Between 1975 and 1978, Brian Eno’s Obscure imprint produced ten LPs to document the work of virtually unknown composers at the time. These records continue to inspire both practitioners and fans of experimental, ambient and modern classical music.Machine Music, Obscure No. 8 and the third title to feature Gavin Bryars, showcases “systems music” pioneer John White. Largely known for his compositions for tuba and piano, White was a stylistically omnivorous artist who felt at home in his position as musical director at the Western Theatre Ballet as well as playing alongside Cornelius Cardew and Bryars in the radical Scratch Orchestra.Performed by the composer, Christopher Hobbs, Michael Nyman and Bryars, the album’s first side is comprised of four White pieces. Short, repetitive themes—for brass, woodwinds, strings, piano and jaw harp—share common ground with the minimalist work of Steve Reich and Terry Riley. Splendid timbral variations reveal a trance-inducing listening experience. “Drinking And Hooting Machine,” the side’s eerie finale, features the sound of five musicians (including Eno himself) blowing into empty milk bottles—a reminder that serious avant-garde music can sometimes be puckish and strange.Side two consists of Bryars’ “The Squirrel And The Ricketty Racketty Bridge,” a mesmeric piece that finds Derek Bailey, Fred Firth, Bryars and Eno each striking a pair of tabletop guitars. Fans of Michael O’Shea and Eno’s own protege Laraaji will find much to love here. Machine Music serves as an ideal entry point to the kind of compelling art music that would become Obscure’s stock and trade.
LP $27.00
05/30/2025
***The return of your favorite unknown guitarist’s favorite unknown guitarist! If previous platters ran on filthy diesel and sputtering engines, Eye I Aye Ivy is powered by jet fuel and has sights set way beyond the horizon. It's a cosmic headbanger that vamps on nearly recognizable rock riffs to build one excruciating crescendo after another. It’s the soundtrack for the first ravioli western to be filmed on the moon in the gutter. Conceived and recorded entirely by Ry himself, this thing is stuffed with twelve tracks that show influences ranging from the patient throb of King Tubby, the confident triumph of Iron Maiden, the otherworldly din of Blues Control, the budget sci-fi fantasy of Chrome, and the easy come down of Spacemen 3, often within the same damn tune. It’s the type of record that’ll have ya knee deep in murk, humming along, and flipping it over and over and over again, desperately waiting for the next time Ry turns up from parts unknown to give us another King Blood offering.
LP $29.00
04/11/2025
MP3 $7.99
04/11/2025
FLAC $8.99
04/11/2025
***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.
LP $24.00
04/18/2025
***Loose Enchantment consists of eleven new pieces, a mix of music conceived of in a different frame of mind for humans living in a world nearly-disenchanted with itself. Recorded with great collaborative assistance from a sometimes-silent and shadowy partner, Pancho, along with a host of harmonically sympathetic luminaries, including Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), Alejandro Salazar-Dyer (Rincs), Kathy Lea (Soft Location), John Herndon (Tortoise), and Aaron Fernandez Olson (LA Takedown), these musical endeavors implement elements of the technologically advanced and the undeniably broken. Odes to self-delusion, the mysteries of creation, cleanliness, and the secrets in other people’s lives.Over and through the hot cement of North East L.A., an almost-dry riverbed winds like a snake through the city. Coyotes lap at its trickling stream by moonlight, as pedestrians rush past it by day without a second glance, their thoughts tangled up in the distractions of life in a sprawling metropolis. Here, amongst the many avenues and gentle hills, we find Coffin Prick (alias: Ryan Weinstein).Loose Enchantment, this latest Coffin Prick record, is music conceived of in a different frame of mind for humans living in a world nearly-disenchanted with itself. The album consists of eleven new pieces of music recorded by Coffin Prick himself at his home in Los Angeles, a great city of quicksand-like commitments and those who love them enough to uphold the ends of their collective bargains. A record as much about the confusion of modern life as it is endeavored to expose the lusts in the very loins of...
LP $27.35
05/30/2025
Zurich’s Sebastian Bischoff is Son Of Buzzi, a self-taught finger style guitar player whose unique manner of playing is compounded on his new record by the world of producer Michael Potter. Previous outings on Cardinal Fuzz, Stoned To Death and Dadaist are comprised of his instrumental guitar pieces sometimes coupled with synthesizers or his no-input mixer to create other worldy ambience and noise. Bischoff’s compositions capture the resonance of the instruments used and importantly, that of the environment he records in, be it a kitchen, an abandoned balcony or in the case of this record, a hut. Son Of Buzzi’s latest album, Ein Hase, Ein Phönix, Ein Schwan was recorded on guitar in December of 2024 inside a hut in the Ticino Mountains in Switzerland alone over a long weekend. The electronic accompaniments were recorded in Zurich and arranged together with Michael Potter (The Electric Nature). The title cut evolved over a series of Bischoff’s tour of USA, and defines the marriage of the impressionistic with the concrete on this gorgeous album of alchemy and transformation that engulfs the senses as the slow reveal of these unique pieces unfold. Son Of Buzzi will be playing festival and solo dates across Europe in support of the record throughout the summer and into fall. “Bischoff bends the rules of American Primitive guitar playing, bringing them into the future without destroying their rootwork.” —Byron Coley, Wire Magazine “Partly improvisation and partly written pieces, Buzzi’s sound lives on an honesty all its...
CD $13.00
05/16/2025
MP3 $7.99
05/16/2025
FLAC $8.99
05/16/2025
For the better part of five decades, Ron House has been dispatching his singular take on the musical landscape of Americana via bands such as Moses Carryout, Great Plains, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apts & Counter Intuits. Yet in 2002 he self released a solo CD, Obsessed, which is the most ambitious effort in his canon. And arguably his most ignored.Obsessed follows the front-to-back tale of an unnamed protagonist as he traverses the landscape of a disintegrating relationship.The honeymoon has long since past & life appears to be in freefall, but it's never over till it's over. It is an opus of maddening despair, wrapped around a Edward Albee-esque drama, played out enigmatically in The People's Court of song. Delivering key musical assists along the way are members of Movieola, TJSA, Jerry DeCicca & Noel Sayre. In the rarefied modus operandi of The Harrisburg Players, the tenor on Obsessed thread a needle through the sanguinity of Townes Van Zandt, Phil Ochs self immolation & the cracker barrel charm of Michael Hurley. And if that's good enough for God, surely it's good enough for you. Now finally made available on vinyl by the folks at Zaius Tapes, file alongside, Tommy Jay's Tall Tales Of Trauma, Mike Rep's Darby Creek Drifter, Don Howland's The Land Between The Mountains & Jim Shepard's, Picking Through The Wreckage With a Stick. Edition of 300 copies.
LP $22.00
05/02/2025
***As fitting for Takuro Okada’s first collection to be released outside of his home country of Japan, the title evokes the vastness of an unknown world that lies just beyond the periphery of the senses. For Okada, growing up in Fussa, Tokyo–home to the Yokota U.S. Air Force base and the clash of customs and traditions that come with it–meant navigating through the familiar and the unfamiliar, observing and absorbing the uniquely hybrid culture that would play a large role in shaping his musical identity as a guitarist, producer, and band leader. While Okada honed his skills playing to American military members inside clubs along Fussa’s infamous “Bar Row,” at home he would experiment with home recording techniques and develop his skills as a producer.This album contains selections from the expansive archive of recorded material Okada has amassed over the past decade. While his past releases have included notable collaborators such as Haruomi Hosono, Nels Cline, Sam Gendel, and Carlos Niño, among others who have contributed to his band and ensemble recordings, this collection showcases Okada mainly as a solo musician, focusing mostly on his main instrument, the guitar. These tracks demonstrate his mastery in bringing out strange and beautiful tones from the instrument, from ambient and Americana, to psychedelic and other-worldly harmonics. This multiplicity of sounds serves as testament to Okada’s versatility as a musician, while his singular approach to the act of recording keeps it all cohesive as the unmistakable work of Takuro Okada.
LP $27.35
03/28/2025
***Released on Jim O'Rourke's Moikai imprint of Drag City, Mike's Box is a deep dive into the fifty-year career of anti-establishment performance artist Michael Smith. Its eight DVDs collect his performances, videos, installations, and collaborations, along with a 128-page book about his works, providing an even deep dive into his ideas.“In a manner befitting the everyday otherworld- liness of Michael Smith’s work, I was 13 when I first stumbled on his work through Public TV’s Image Union. His “Secret Horror” was a hilar- ious, deadpan and appropriately unflinching look into the abyss. This superimposition of states had a profound impact on my life and work, to this day. This boxset is the doorway into that world, Mike’s World, that will throw you for a loop, wild-eyed and helpless.”—Jim O’Rourke, 2025
8XDVD $65.95
05/30/2025
"Portland, OR musician and visual artist Lila Jarzombek has been in a groove over the past year. In 2024 she contributed searing guitar leads to The Spatulas' first couple of releases, including their exceptional LP Beehive Mind (Post Present Medium), and she also cooked up the first Nowhere Flower release of her potent solo recordings, Ruts the Place (Radical Documents). On HEAT DOME, her urgent new LP for Digital Regress, she embarks on a further excursion into her third ear across 14 transporting tracks. Throughout HEAT DOME, Lila leads us around a world of her own design, coaxing out rhythmic grooves and sweet melodies along the way. She employs a diverse patchwork of sounds while leaving space for an airy lightness. Bright and crisp guitar chords and fuzzy leads, swirling phased out synthesizer, fiddle, drum machines, keyboards, and melodica weave in between and around her unearthly and spellbinding vocals. She channels these sounds through slow-burning rockers like HEAT DOME and WHAT THE CREEK SAID and melancholic psych-folk ballads TORCHING IT ALL and GROUND CLOUD. HARMONICA is a cosmic bridge to side B, a windy portal that transports you to another realm. This album would be great company to 90s/00s “new weird” New England groups like Tower Recordings or Magik Markers with their wide-ranging interpretations of psych. And it embodies the spirit of punk like Japanese underground artists Onna or Michio Kadotani, or Columbus home-recording geniuses Jim Shepard or Tommy Jay. But like those singular artists, this music is authentic and...
LP $24.00
04/18/2025
In under half hour Canadian bestial death metal cataclysm Prophetic Suffering conceive the unthinkable and create a violent and dark monstrosity bringing together the feral black/death terror of Blasphemy with the gruesome and sanguinary gore-infested death metal of Cannibal Corpse albums like "The Bleeding" and "Tomb of the Mutilated". This obfuscating and chaos-wielding approach to USDM metal had already been observed before within the underground’s most forbidden folds, as exemplified for example through the perversions of cult terrorscapers like Drawn and Quartered or Angelcorpse, but what transpires from Prophetic Suffering’s abysmal vision is something of even less canonical lineaments, and which sets various precedents in the development of this peculiar strain of darkened and ultra-gruesome death metal. Foremost, a pervasive and weaponized use of black metal and technical death-derived dissonance that has metastasized into a torrential maelstrom of gnarled, atonal fretwork destruction. A mind-expanding contrast is created where the guitarwork stretches forward to embrace a mutating modernity still in becoming, while the rest of the band deliberately collapses backward, perpetrating a primeval onslaught of carpet-bombing hammer blasts, searing basslines, and soul-tearing death grunts. This contrast between the album’s transformative articulation and its visceral adherence to primitivism and barbarity is what makes “Rivalry of Thyself” such an abomination unto itself. A cataclysmic hellscape of enigmatic complexity and truculent violence in which impenetrable atmospheres enshroud a monolithic, screaming altar of mutilated bodies and trodden flesh, harkening back to a familiar golden age of extreme death metal just as it evokes sinister presages...
CD $12.75
05/09/2025
LP $24.95
05/09/2025
***Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come in And Out & Sketches For World of Echo offers two intimate unedited Arthur Russell solo live performances recorded at Phil Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 12/20/85 and 06/25/84.Phil curated and produced with Arthur both concerts at EI that would become part of the foundation for the World of Echo album. Arthur titled the performances "Sketches For World Of Echo" and "Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In And Out".These extraordinary performances were recorded 18 months apart between 1984/85 by Steve Cellum and overseen by Phill and Arthur. Arthur would later edit sections from both concerts merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986.The double vinyl LP includes the complete nineteen minute plus version of Tower of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away along with the previously unreleased songs "That’s The Very Reason", and "Too Early to Tell."Side four includes two instrumental performances from the 06/25/84 Sketches for World of Echo performance, “Changing Forest” and “Sunlit Water” along with a full color insert and liner notes from Audika Records and Arthur Russell archivist Steve Knutson.Double CD digipack with full color insert and liner notes. 2xCD contains the complete Sketches performance.
2XCD $23.50
03/28/2025
***Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come in And Out & Sketches For World of Echo offers two intimate unedited Arthur Russell solo live performances recorded at Phil Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation in Downtown NYC on 12/20/85 and 06/25/84.Phil curated and produced with Arthur both concerts at EI that would become part of the foundation for the World of Echo album. Arthur titled the performances "Sketches For World Of Echo" and "Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In And Out".These extraordinary performances were recorded 18 months apart between 1984/85 by Steve Cellum and overseen by Phill and Arthur. Arthur would later edit sections from both concerts merging it with studio material recorded at Battery Sound to finalize the World of Echo album released in 1986.The double vinyl LP includes the complete nineteen minute plus version of Tower of Meaning/Rabbit’s Ear/Home Away along with the previously unreleased songs "That’s The Very Reason", and "Too Early to Tell."Side four includes two instrumental performances from the 06/25/84 Sketches for World of Echo performance, “Changing Forest” and “Sunlit Water” along with a full color insert and liner notes from Audika Records and Arthur Russell archivist Steve Knutson.Double CD digipack with full color insert and liner notes. 2xCD contains the complete Sketches performance.
2XLP $36.25
03/28/2025
***PNV Records presents the first ever official reissue of the 1983 classic 7” S+M from Public Disturbance, an early 80s American Hardcore Punk band founded by Paul Cowen from Point Pleasant, New Jersey in 1981. The 7” was originally released on Mutha Records, unofficially re-released on the epic Killed By Death series in the 1990s, and has gone to become a sought-after slice of East Coast Hardcore Punk. The LP compiles the 7” tracks along with unreleased live material recorded at the legendary CBGB’s in NYC, one of the birthplaces of American Punk.
LP $24.45
04/04/2025
***PNV Records presents the first ever reissue of the 1982 debut album from pioneering Swiss Punk band NDT. Originally pressed once in Switzerland only, it has been out if print since, that is until now. An awesome album loaded with catchy sing-along Punk with great blazing guitar play and fast driving songs.
LP $24.45
05/23/2025
***Six decades after they stormed the British and American charts in 1964, The Zombies are possibly more popular than ever. Their biggest hits, ‘She’s Not There’, ‘Tell Her No’ and ‘Time of the Season’ have been played more than 14 million times on U.S. radio alone. Praised by critics, discovered by a new generation of fans and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Zombies returned in the 2000s to establish themselves as a top-class touring act still driven to create new music.Based largely on the author’s interviews with the five original band members, Times and Seasons – The Zombies tells the whole story in detail: from the mid-‘60s Decca Records hits and misses through the break-up, the solo years, and their unexpected revival in the 21st century.Times and Seasons recounts the unlikely tale of an inexperienced quintet of English schoolboys who made the hit parade in 1964 only to watch their fortunes dwindle, splitting just weeks after completing their 1968 masterpiece Odessey and Oracle. The book covers the unexpected posthumous success of ‘Time of the Season’ in 1969 and how the band’s refusal to reunite led to a plague of phony bands touring under The Zombies’ name. The book looks at the 1970s solo success of Colin Blunstone and the band Argent, the chance encounter that led to a hugely successful Zombies revival, and all points in between.356 page softcover book. Edition of 600 copies.
BK $31.95
03/07/2025