NEW ARRIVALS
Friday, August 27th
Pop / Rock / Punk
Abe Vigoda
"s/t" 7" (PPM) Brand new 2-song single from LA 'tropical punk'
group.
Adam & The Ants "Family
of Noise" LP (Pure Sound) These 1978 studio recordings include
"Bathroom Function," "The Day I Met God," "Boil in the Bag Man,"
"Christian Dior," "A Song for Ruth Ellis," "Family of Noise," "Il
Duce," "Rubber People," "B Side Baby," "It Doesn't Matter," "Beat
My Guest," and "Whip in My Valise."
Antony and the Johnsons
"Thank you for your love" CD (Secretly Canadian) New five-track EP,
released in anticipation of the upcoming full-length.
Brendo, Eric "Over the
Dunes and into the Cave" 7" (The Council) Brand new 4 track EP by
this Austin based artist.
Blonde Redhead "Here
Sometimes" 12" (4AD) Their new EP.
Boys Next Door "The Lost
& Brave" LP 'Fanclub' issue of rarities from this pre-Birthday
Party outfit. Comes housed in a nice handscreened sleeve.
Chesnutt, Vic "About to
Choke" 180 gram LP (Plain Recordings) One of his best, most
affecting sets. Released in 1996 just after the tribute album
'Sweet Relief' for his benefit.
!!! (Chk Chk Chk) "Strange Weather,
Isn't It?" CD/2LP (Warp Records) 4th album in just under 10 years
as a band, another high quality funk-punk dub hybrid. The flow was
clearly made for the dancefloor, with a little angst thrown in for
good measure.
Cotton Jones "Tall Hours
in the Glowstream" CD/LP (Suicide Squeeze) New album from this
young pop band.
The Cramps "Memphis
Poseurs: The 1977 Demos" LP 1977 demo recordings. Fanclub issue,
housed in a nice handscreened sleeve.
Cure "Pillbox Tales
1977-1979" LP Fanclub issue or early pre-LP Cure tracks, from the
more punk sounding days. Comes housed in a nice handscreened
sleeve.
Eskorbuto "Maldito Pais:
Primera Epoca 1982-84" 2CD (Munster) Compilation of all the
recordings by this legendary Spanish punk band prior to their
LPs.
Gainsbourg, Serge & Jane
Birkin "Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus" CD/LP (Light In the
Attic) Originally released in '69, very appropriate. A typically
beautiful repress courtesy of the Light in the Attic guys, comes
with bonus picture sleev 7".
Goldmund "Famous Places"
CD (Western Vinyl) Mixes the delicate composition of composers such
as Erik Satie and Harold Budd with a quiet and elegant
simplicity.
Grass Widow "Past Time"
CD/LP (Kill Rock Stars) 2nd full length LP from Bay Area all-woman
trio, taking influence from early Raincoats, Kleenex and the
Neo-Boys.
Laner, Brad "Natural
Selections" CD (Hometapes) A founding father of shoegaze and the
man behind Medicine, Savage Republic, Electric Company, and The
Internal Tulips, Brad Laner returns with the follow-up to his 2007
psychedelic pop wonder Neighbor Singing.
Langford, John & Skull
Orchard "Old Devils" CD/LP (Bloodshot) New solo album from
founding member of the Mekons and roots rabble-rousers the Waco
Brothers.
Leblanc, Dylan"Pauper's
Field" CD/LP (Rough Trade) Debut album by this young
singer-songwriter from Louisiana. Heartbreaking music in the vein
of Conor Oberst or early Ryan Adams solo material.
Magic Kids "Memphis" CD/LP
(True Panther Sounds) Their debut full-length of swelling and
heartfelt baroque pop gems.
Midlake "Trials of Van
Occupanther" LP (Nova Posta) Vinyl back in stock.
Mirah "Gone are the Days"
12" (K Records) Remix 12" of tracks from her most recent LP,
"(a)Spera".
Mogwai "Special Moves" CD
+ DVD (Rock Action Records) Mogwai's first ever live album, with
bonus DVD.
No Age "Glitter" 12" (Sub
Pop) New 12" single from LA-based art punkers.
Outer Minds "bloodshot
eyes" 7" Brand new 7" on HoZac, ex-members of Lover!.
Possessed By Paul James
"Feed The Family" CD (Hillgrass Bluebilly) Brand new release from
this up-and-coming roots label.
Pure Ecstasy "Voices" 7"
New limited 7" vinyl.
Queens of the Stone Age
"Rated R [Deluxe Edition]" CD (Interscope) Deluxe ten-year
anniversary reissue, with extra disc of bonus non-album
material.
Ra Ra Riot "The Orchard"
CD/LP (Barsuk) Sophomore effort by this Chamber Pop group.
S. Carey "All We Grow"
CD/LP (Jagjaguwar) Solo debut from Bon Iver member Sean
Carey.
Spiritualized "Ladies and
Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" LP (Plain Recordings) Now
reissued on vinyl.
Super Wild Horses
"Fifteen" CD/LP (HoZac) Melbourne duo all wrapped up in a scratchy
indie-pop envelope. Also available on CD.
Tallest Man on Earth
"Shallow Grave" CD (Dead Oceans) Domestic reissue of 2008 debut
album.
Vampire Weekend "Holiday"
7" (XL) 3rd single.
Vaselines "Sex with an X"
7" (Sub Pop) Brand new recordings from the Scottish indie pop
legends.
v/a "Hozac Hookup Klub Round
One" LP (HoZac) Compilation spans the first ten elusive
subscription-only 7-inch records released from 2009-2010.
Metal
Boris & Ian Astbury
"BXI" CD (Southern Lord) New collaboration between Japan's Boris
and Ian Astbury of The Cult (yes, the Cult). 3 original songs and
one cover of the Cult's "Rain".
Eagle Claw "Poacher" CD
Local metal prog band makes good with their debut album. Features
heavy riffs and crunchy playing from the quartet, check it.
Mammoth Grinder s/t 7"
(Hell Massacre) Austin Death Metal, b-side features a ripping cover
of Venom's "Welcome to Hell".
Mercyful Fate "B Sides" LP
Compilation of live and rare material from Denmark's metal
masters.
Slaughter Strike "At Life's End" 12" (Cyclopean) Death metal from
ex-members of Rammer, released on the local Cyclopean label.
Sword "Warp Riders" CD/LP
(Kemado) Austin's own with their third full-length and first
concept album. If Hawkwind had a baby with Sabbath and it grew up
in Austin, this is what it would sound like.
Composers /
Experimental
Fennesz / Daniell / Buck
"Knoxville" CD/LP (Thrill Jockey) CD/LP Recorded on February 7th,
2009, at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. Christian
Fennesz (guitar and electronics), David Daniell (guitar), and Tony
Buck (drums) were brought together and encouraged to collaborate by
the festival, and used the opportunity to channel their collective
energies into a darkly atmospheric piece of music.
Paavoharju "Yha hamaraa"
LP (Fonal Finland) More confusingly beautiful experimental sounds
from Finland and on vinyl.
Blues /
Folk
Hooker, John Lee "Driftin'
Thru The Blues" LP (Doxy) The five tracks on side A were recorded
in Detroit between 1949 and 1950 and feature stereo recordings of
mainly solo performances by John Lee Hooker. The five tracks on
Side B, also recorded in Detroit, are mono recordings primarily
from 1954 and feature Hooker in a band format backed by tenor sax,
piano and drums.
Hooker, John Lee "Folk
Blues" LP (Doxy) Reissue of this Blues classic.
Hooker, John Lee "The
Blues" LP (Doxy) Reissue of classic blues LP.
Hooker, John Lee "The
Great John Lee Hooker" LP (Doxy) Reissue of this Blues
classic.
Hopkins, Lightin "Country
Blues" LP (Doxy) Blues classic.
v/a "Angola Prisoners'
Blues" LP (Doxy) Reissue of rare 1959 compilation, with
tracks from Hogman Maxey, Robert Pete Williams, Butterbeans and
more.
v/a "Harry Smith's Anthology Of
American Folk Music Vol. 2" LP (Doxy) 2nd installment of the
legendary compilation, reissued on double vinyl.
v/a "Harry Smith's Anthology Of
American Folk Music Vol. 3" LP (Doxy) 3rd installment of the
legendary compilation, reissued on double vinyl.
v/a "I'll Meet You On That Other
Shore" LP (Mississippi Records)
v/a "I'll Meet You On That Other
Shore" LP (Mississippi Records)
v/a "'ll Be So Glad When the Sun
Goes Down" LP (Mississippi Records)
v/a "Wave The Ocean, Wave The
Sea" LP (Mississippi Records)
v/a "Worried Now, Won't Be
Worried Long" LP (Mississippi Records)
To celebrate the Southern Journey's 50th anniversary, Mississippi
Records and the Alan Lomax Collection have collaborated on five
commemorative LPs, spanning the breadth of Lomax's '59-60 Southern
recordings, drawing on new transfers of the original 1/4" tapes,
and featuring a considerable amount of previously unreleased
material. And just to stress you and your wallet out, they hit all
5 at once! But you know you need them.
Disco /
Electronic
Gibbons, Walter "Jungle
Music 1976-1986" 2CD (Strut) Walter Gibbons remains one of the most
important and unheralded DJ / remixers in New York dance music
history, a pioneer of reel to reel edits and the art of the remix
and a tangible link between early hip hop and disco through his
quickfire turntable skills developed during the mid-'70s.
Ill Blu "Bellion / Dragon
Pop" 12" (Hyperdub) Debut release on Hyperdub for north London's
production duo Ill Blu.
Joy Orbison "The Shrew
Would Have Cushioned The Blow EP" 12" (Aus Music Germany) 2 new
high quality sidelong tracks from this dance music producer
extraordinaire.
Koner, Thomas "Nunatak,
Teimo, Permafrost" 3CD (Type UK) Following on from three limited
vinyl editions, now with a triple CD package including the first
three long-unavailable and newly-mastered albums from this
influential drone soundscapist. Easily one of the best producers of
the modern day ambient composition.
Richter, Max "Infra" LP
(Fatcat) Originally conceived as a Royal Ballet commissioned
collaboration between composer Max Richter, choreographer Wayne
McGregor and artist Julian Opie.
Skream "Outside The Box"
4x12" 12" Tempa (UK) Deluxe 4x12" box version.
Hip-hop
Antibalas "Who Is This
America?" CD Newest album from New York afro-beat ensemble.
Curren$y (Currency) "Pilot
Talk" CD (Island / Def-Jam) Featuring tracks produced by Ski Beatz
and Mos Def, and featuring artists such as Jay Electronica, Mos
Def, Wiz Khalifa, Devin the Dude, Mikey Rocks, Stalley and
more.
Jazz
Out Like Lambs "Not So
Winter Waltz" CD/LP aka Rachel Ade on vocals & Michael Lucio
Sternbach on guitar and composition, both out of NY. The songs are
poetic and sweet but what really sets this apart is the huge cast
of extras, including Daniel Carter (trumpet and clarinet), and
nearly 20 others.
Ugly Elephant "s/t" CD
Local Funk-Jazz-Fusion Band.
Prog
/ Psych
Brainticket "Psychonaut"
LP+CD (Lilith) Heavily jammed-out, trippy space rock from
Switzerland, circa early 70's.
Rother, Michael "Flammende
Herzen" 180 gram LP (4 Men With Beards) Reissue of the first solo
album by former member of Neu! and Harmonia. This record is similar
in vein to the more mellow Neu! tracks but with Jaki from Can on
drums. From 1976 and most recommended.
Reggae
Midnight Riders "Posse
Form A Line" 7" (Dig Killer) Domestic reissue of classic 1978 roots
reggae single on the Digi Killer label.
Myers, Philip "Ghetto
Struggle / Version" 7" (Dig Killer) Domestic reissue of classic
1986 dancehall single on the Digi Killer label.
Soundtracks /
Comedy
Morricone, Ennio "Le Clan
Des Siciliens" LP (Vadim) Vinyl pressing of this 1969 soundtrack
from the master composer.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the
World OST LP (Abkco.) Featuring tracks from Black Lips,
T-Rex, Broken Social Scene, Beck and more.
Cho, Margaret
"Cho-Dependent" CD/LP (Clownery Records) Margaret's brand new album
featuring comedy songs she collaborated on with Ben Lee, Tegan and
Sara, Fiona Apple, Brendan Benson, Jon Brion, Garrison Starr,
Meghan Toohey, Ani DiFranco, Tommy Chong, Grant Lee Phillips,
Rachael Yamagata, AC Newman, Patty Griffin and Andrew Bird.
World
D.O. Misani & Shirati
Jazz "The King Of History" CD (Sterns Africa) Classic 1970's
Benga Beats from Kenya. 14 seriously warm choice cuts from this
superb singer / guitarist.
v/a "Afro-Beat Airways" CD
(Analog Africa Germany) Subtitled: West African Shock Waves: Ghana
& Togo 1972-1978. Organ-driven Afro-beat, cosmic Afro-funk and
raw, psychedelic boogie on this highly danceable compilation by
Samy Ben Redjeb, founder of Analog Africa.
Borges, Lo "S/T" LP (4 Men
With Beards) Originally released in 1972, Lo Borges' solo debut.
Combining influences ranging from soul, jazz, pop, psychedelic, and
bossa nova with brilliant musicianship and wild arrangements. One
of the finest Brazilian records of the 1970s.
Gilberto, Joao "Chega De
Saudade" LP (Doxy) Reissue of this 1959 Bossa classic.
DVD
Rolling Stones "Stones In
Exile" DVD Footage of the Stones in France during the recording of
'Exile on Main St'. Includes extensive bonus features with band
interviews, footage from 'Cocksucker Blues', and more.
Thin Lizzy "Rockpalast :
Are You Ready" DVD Recorded in 1981 for the German 'Rockpalast'
television show. 19 songs in 110 minutes.
Print
Wire #319 September 2010
Cover story about the resurgence in minimal wave synth style, also
featuring LA Vampires, Cindytalk and way more.
Friday, August 20th
Pop / Rock / Punk / Metal
A Giant Dog
"the Grand" 7" One ofour favorite local bands.
Autopsy "Awakened By Gore" LP (Nuclear War Now) Reissue of
Autopsy's legendary demos, essential for every worshiper of the Bay
Areas kings of scum-drenched Death Metal.
Awen "The Bells Before Dawn" CD (Triskele) Neo-folk
industrial... in the Cold Meat vein.
Bastard Noise "A Culture
Of Monsters" LP (Deep Six) New full length.
Bauhaus "...And Remains"
CD (Beggars) Contains alternative mixes / takes and live
recordings.
Crypt of Kerberos "Visions
Beyond Darkness" LP (Dark Symphonies)
Crypt of Kerberos "World
of Myths" LP (Dark Symphonies)
Cum Stain "Bachelor's
Life" 7" The cover art is worth the price alone.
Darker My Love "Alive as
You Are" CD/LP (Dangerbird) 3rd album by this Los Angeles quintet,
recorded at San Francisco's legendary Hyde Street Studios with
producer Nick Huntington (of Freescha).
Dikes Of Holland "Into The
Ditches" 7"
Ducktails "Mirror Image"
7" (SHDWPLY)
Ducktails "s/t" LP (Not Not
Fun) Back in print and in stock.
Gaitan, Nick & the Umbrella
Man "Live at the Continental Club" CD
Gaitan, Nick & the Umbrella
Man "s/t" CD
Hagerty, Neil Michael
"Plays That Good Old Rock and Roll" LP (Drag City) Back in
stock.
Hagerty, Neil Michael "The
Howling Hex" 2LP (Drag City) Back in stock.
Hamburger, Neil "Hot
February Night" LP (Drag City) This latest is the first album in
which Neil actually dies during the performance. Actual death will
be a part of all subsequent releases.
Hurley, Michael "Blue
Hills" LP (Mississippi Records) New recordings.
Intelligence "Males" CD/LP
(In the Red) 2010 release, the sixth full-length album from this
Seattle Washington band.
Monae, Janelle "The
Archandroid" CD/LP (Atlantic) Includes Big Boi of OutKast, renowned
poet Saul Williams, Of Montreal, Deep Cotton, and the Wondaland
Arch Orchestra.
Motorhead "s/t" LP
(Drastic Plastic) This vinyl edition is limited to 1000 copies and
is pressed on white vinyl.
Numan, Gary "1979: The
Live EP's" CD (Beggars) This is about the best live recordings have
ever sounded, mixed perfectly for modern listening. Gary Numan at
his early best.
Puffy Areolas "Rock n Roll
Express" 7" (Die Stasi)
Rip It Up "Flatliners"
7"
Sex Church "6 Songs By Sex
Church" LP (Convulsive)
Scorpion Violente "s/t"
12" (Bruit Direct Disques) Dark electronic wave duo from France,
current but with that analog synth timelessness.
Simple Circuit "Teenage
Ghost" 7"
Stornoway "Beachcomber's
Windowsill" CD/LP (4AD) Newly signed 4AD band.
Superchunk "No Pocket for
Kitty" CD/LP (Merge)
Superchunk "On The Mouth"
LP (Merge)
Tozibabe "s/t " EP 7"
Reissue of a Slovenian all female hardcore / punk band active
during 80s in former Yugoslavia.
v/a "Manifest Destiny" CD
(Triskele) neo-folk industrial... in the Cold Meat vein.
Whiskey Priest "Wave and
Cloud" CD
Wire "Send Ultimate" 2CD
CD (Pink Flag) Deluxe two CD edition of the veteran post punk
masters band's 2003 release.
Xibalba "Demo 2010"
cassette Captivating raw Black
Metal from Mexico.
Composers /
Experimental
Ferrari, Luc "Exercices
D'Improvisation" LP (Planam Italy) Luc Ferrari conceived this work
in 1977 as a sequence of seven individually or collectively
improvised exercises for tape and any instrument or group of
instruments. New recordings overseen by Brunhild.
Schnitzler, Conrad "Zug" LP
(M=Minimal Germany) One of the first electronic minimalist works
that was published in the 1970s, coinciding with Kraftwerk's
Autobahn. Side B features 2 long remixes by Pole and Con, keeping
the entire affair definitely very German.
Gospel
T.L. Barrett & The Youth For
Christ Choir "Christ Choir" LP (Light In The Attic)
Digitally remastered edition of this 1971 cult release from the
pastor, musician and motivational speaker.
Soundtracks /
Library
Leuter, Cecil "Pop
Electronique" LP (Vadim) Reissue of Roger Roger's pioneering 1969
French Library Music 180gram LP, Limited edition, hand
numbered.
Nardini, Nino (feat Roger
Roger) "Jungle Obssession" LP (Vadim) Released in 1971, under the
blanket of library music anonymity, "Jungle Obsession" is one of
those rare and precious records. Timeless. Luminous. We mean it for
real.
Techno /
Electronic / Dubstep
King Midas Sound "Waiting
For You" 2LP (Hyperdub) Limited Edition 180g double-vinyl pressing
in deluxe gatefold sleeve. 2000 copies only.
World
Orchestre Regional De Mopti
"Les Meilleurs Souvenirs De La 1ere Biennale Artistique Et
Culturelle De La Jeunesse 1970" LP (Mississippi Records) Recorded
in 1970 as part of the First Biennale of Arts and Culture for the
Young in Mali. The Regional Orchestra of Mopti was a state funded
orchestra that participated in country wide music festivals and
competitions. A hypnotic band featuring electric guitars & a
large horn section.
DVD
Stone DVD (Severin) The
1974 "Ozploitation Biker-Psych Cult Classic"... translation -
Australian pre-Mad Max biker movie, expect insane stunts and lonely
highways. We got this in because B-Music reissued the soundtrack
and it's super cool, figured we should get the movie too.
Print
Hagerty, Neil Michael
"Victory Chimp" (Drag City)
Maximum Rock n'Roll # 328
October 2010 Featuring Agnostic Front, Puffy Areolas, The
Conversions, and much more - as usual printed on mid-quality toilet
paper.
Moonlit #4
Wire #318 August
2010
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Friday, August 6th
Arcade Fire
"the Suburbs" CD/LP (Merge) Their brand new full-length.
Co-produced by Markus Dravs and recorded around Montreal and New
York over the past two years.
Black Crowes "Croweology"
CD (Silver Arrow) Their new one and comes with a free 7" while
supplies last.
Bob & Barbara "s/t"
cassette
Ceremony "Rohnert Park" LP
(Bridge 9) Equal parts aggressive, incendiary and, catchy.
Ceremony "Still Nothing
Moves You" LP (Bridge 9)
Cocker Spaniels, The
"Sometimes You've Gotta Fight to Get a Bit of Peace" CD
Dondero, David "#Zero with
a Bullet" CD (Team Love Records) His latest.
Feldgrau "Mechanized
Misanthropy LP (Satanic Skinhead) Industrial Black Death from Pete
Helmkamp (Order From Chaos, Angel Corpse). Vinyl reissue of 1995
CD-only release.
Four Tet "Angel Echoes
Remixes" 12" (Domino) Caribou and Jon Hopkins with the remix
action.
Goat Penis
"Biochemterrorism" LP (Satanic Skinhead) 2nd full-length release by
these Brazilian War Metal Barbarians.
Gov't Mule "Mulennium" 3CD
(Evil Teen) Multiple versions of a bunch of the band's 15 year
history, a whole lot of bang for your buck.
JJ "jj n 2" CD/LP
(Secretly Canadian) A domestic reissue of the group's debut.
Loden "Buggy" CD (Mush)
Brussels' Loden returns with a new plate of sonic landscapes.
Mt. St. Helen's Vietnam
Band "Where the Messengers Meet" CD/LP (Dead Oceans) An
expansion of the sound of the band's eponymous debut with lush
production and a haunting atmosphere.
National, The "s/t" LP
(Brassland) Now in print on vinyl.
Riggs, Dax "Say Goodnight
to the World" CD (Fat Possum) Louisiana's own dark star of all
roots music, doom metal and glam-punk poetry.
Shapes and Sizes "Candle to
Your Eyes" CD (Asthmatic Kitty) Their latest.
Spoon "Kill the Moonlight"
LP (Merge) Now back in print on 180 gram vinyl.
Tammar"I Live Here Now" LP
(St. Ives) Captured over three live performances at Bloomington's
Russian Recording in July/August of 2009.
Vandervelde, David "Summer
Time Hits" LP (Secretly Canadian) Collects songs originally
released as digital singles, onto a limited-press, screen-printed
12" vinyl.
Versus "On the Ones and
Threes" CD/LP (Merge) The band's first LP in ten years featuring
the reappearances of original member Edward Baluyut, and engineer
Nicolas Vernhes
Wavves "King of the Beach"
CD/LP (Fat Possum) Their new album recoreded at Sweet Tea Recording
in Oxford, Mississippi.
v/a "Next Stop Soweto Vol 3:
Giants, Ministers and Makers - Jazz In South Aftrica
1963-1984" CD/LP (Strut) Long overdue retrospective of the
rich jazz scene happening in South Africa from the early 60s to
mid-80s.
Print
Yeti #9 w/ CD Includes:
Pip Proud, Maryanne Amacher, an amazing 1973 interview with Bruce
Conner, Indian music scholar and record collector Vak Ranga Rao,
Alasdair Roberts, and so much more.
Friday, July 30th
Rock / Indie
Avenged Sevenfold "Nightmare" CD (Warner Bros)AM Taxi "We Don't Stand a Chance" CD (Virgin Records)
Best Coast "Crazy For You" CD/LP (Mexican Summer) Debut album from loved lo-fi pop duo.
Department of Eagles "Archive 2003-2006" CD/LP (American Dust)
For Want Of "Orchestrated" 7"
Galbraith, Alastair "Mass" LP (Siltbreeze) A new release on vinyl.
Jaill "That's How We Burn" CD/LP (Sub Pop) Debut album from this psych-pop 4-piece from Milwaukee.
Kowalczyk, Ed "Alive" CD (Soul Whisper) First solo album from the frontman of the band Live.
Lower Dens "Twin-Hand Movement" CD/LP (Gnomonsong) Swarming guitar fuzz, bass waves, insistent drum throbs with Jana Hunter's redolent and charred voice.
Major Lazer "Lazers Never Die" CD (Downtown) Comprises two new tracks and three remixes of songs from their album Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do. "Sound Of Siren" features M.I.A. on the chorus and Busy Signal as MC.
McHugh, Sarin & the Everymen "Rotocoma Pollution!" 7"
Menomena "double seven" 7" (Barsuk)
Menomena "Mines" CD/2LP (Barsuk) The fourth album from this trio from Portland, Oregon.
Miniature Tigers "Fortress" CD (Modern Art) New release produced by Chris Chu of the Morning Benders. The first single "Gold Skull" was produced by Neon Indian.
National "Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers" LP (Brassland) 2nd album now available on vinyl.
Olson, Mark "Many Colored Kite" CD (Rykodisc) New release from co-founder of The Jayhawks. Earthy, neo-Folk feel that encompasses classic and '60's British Folk.
Snowy Red "S/T" LP (Dirty Dance Records) We got a few more in. Ultra limited reissue of this very rare legendary 1980 first LP by Belgian minimal synth legend Mickey Mike, a.k.a. Snowy Red.
Snowy Red "The Right To Die" LP (Dirty Dance Records) If you are even vaguely interested in synths or coldwave these are essential.
Soft Healer "S/T" 7"
When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth "Jandek Cat" 7" This is worth it for the front picture alone.
Punk
Eskorbuto "Maldito Pais" LP (Munster Spain)Eskorbuto / RIP split LP (Munster Spain)
Hard Skin "Same Meat Different Gravy" LP (Feral Ward)
Inepsy "S/T" 7"
John's Town Aloha "Bloody Ravens Wander" 7" (HG FACT)
John's Town Aloha "Digworker" 7" (HG FACT)
Kylma Sota "10 tracks" LP (Feral Ward)
Masshysteri s/t (2nd) LP (Feral Ward) 2nd more sophisticated album from this Swedish punk band.
Nervebreakers, The "We Want Everything" CD
Varaus "1/1" LP (Feral Ward)
Composers / Experimental
Gate "Republic of Sadness" LP (Ba Da Bing) New solo work from Dead C's Michael Morley. Kind of a techno record if you can believe it, well as much as a guy from Dead C would make anyway.Latin Soul / Funk
Colon, Willie "Cosa Nuestra" CD (Fania) His hard hitting masterpiece from 1969.Colon, Willie "La Gran Fuga (The Big Break)" CD (Fania) Another amazingly great recording from 1970.
La Sonora Poncena "Greatest Hits" CD (Fania) A collection of the best from this Puerto Rican institution.
Ocho "Numero 1" CD (Fania) A collection of the first three albums from this defining band of the Latin New York Funk sound.
World
v/a "Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974" 2LP (Sublime Frequencies) The latest awesome comp from the Sun City Girls' world label. There aren't words to convey just how great all of them are, and this one is no exception - wartime garage rock, anything we could do they could do better.DVD
Captain Beefheart "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band" DVD Mostly live performances from 1968 - mid '70s, with a couple of promo spots thrown in for good measure.Cooper, Alice "Caught In A Dream" 1969-1972 Vol. 1 DVD TV footage from 1969-1972.
Cooper, Alice "Is It My Body?" 1969-1972 Vol. 2 DVD Videos and appearances from 1969-1972.
Electric Prunes DVD Every conceivable television appearance imaginable from 66-69.
Garage Rock USA Vol. 1 DVD
Garage Rock USA Vol. 2 DVD
Garage Rock USA Vol. 3 DVD ? Mark & The Mysterians, 13th Floor Elevators, Blues Project, Beau Brummels, Love, Music machine, New Colony Six, Richard And The Young Lions, Syndicate Of Sound, Amboy Dukes, The Barbarians, Bram Rigg Set, Breed, Castaways, Electric Prunes, Seeds, and many more.
Magazine "Definitive Gaze" DVD TV appearances and promo videos, largely taken from a Berlin show in Oct 1980.
Sky Saxon And The Seeds DVD Every conceivable television appearance imaginable from 66-69.
Upbeat Rock DVD Rock & Pop Performances from Cleveland's Legendary Upbeat! Show. Box Tops, 1910 fruit Gum Co., Amboy Dukes, Steppenwolf, Guess Who, and many more.
Upbeat Soul DVD
Walker, Scott "This Is How You Disappear" 1966-2006 DVD (Scopitone) Compilation of most of his TV appearances spanning his entire career.
Friday, July 23rd
Rock / Indie
Amen Dunes "Murder Dull Mind" 12" (Sacred Bones) Seven new works of sunlit haziness.Antena "Versions Speciales - Camino del Sol" CD (Permanent Vacation Germany) Remixes by Nouvelle Vague, Todd Terje, Joakim, Steve Yanko, Escort, Disco Devil, Chromatics, Enne, Lexx, Pink Alert and Phreek Plus One.
Bats "Law of Things" CD (Communion Label) Warehouse find.
Bitters "Hav A Nap Hotel" 12" (Sacred Bones) Toronto-based duo forging their self-coined "cave pop" genre
Books "The Way Out" CD/LP (Temporary Residence Ltd) Their first album in 5 years, continuing their extremely unique plundering of various sources and mashing them into a type of folk-tronic set of songs.
Boris "Absolutego" 2LP (Southern Lord) For the first time ever, the very first Boris album on vinyl. The 66+ minute title track has been carefully edited over four sides for the Lp format. It is followed by the final track "Dronevil".
Boris "Amplifier Worship" 2LP (Southern Lord) For the first time ever, the second Boris studio album is now available on vinyl!
Coathangers "143 (Dan Deacon Remix)" / "Arthritis Sux (Judi Chicago Remix)" 7" (Suicide Squeeze) Limited to 750 hand numbered copies.
Crushed Butler "Uncrushed" LP (Radio Heartbeat) A legendary band whose assualt on the UK rock scene in 1969-70 laid out the dynamics that were to follow in the best punk, glam and pub rock records of the seventies.
Cultural Decay "Eight Ways to Start a Day: Singles & Demos" CD/LP (Sacred Bones) Cultural Decay existed from 1980-1982. The band's collective discography is comprised of a highly sought after 7" single and two song 12" EP
Drake, Nick "Second Grace" LP Reissue of this well known collection of studio demos and home recordings, this features 15 songs that did not appear in any form on his 3 original studio albums.
Effi Briest "Rhizomes" CD/LP (Sacred Bones) Debut full length from this all female outfit. Includes two of the band's UK singles on Loog records and seven more previously unreleased original songs.
Endless Boogie "Full House Head" CD/LP (No Quarter) Deep, heady grooves anchor the second album by New York's Endless Boogie.
Eno, Brian "BBC Sessions" LP This collection of 1970's tracks includes 4 songs recorded with studio band, The Winkies, on BBC 4 with John Peel co-producing, plus 2 more recorded at the Reading Festival in July 1976, and closing with 2 outtakes from "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy".v/a "Wierd Presents: Cold Waves And Minimal Electronics Volume 1" CD/LPv/a "Wierd Presents: Cold Waves And Minimal Electronics Volume 1" CD/LP
Indian Jewelry "Totaled" LP (We Are Free) Now in stock on vinyl.
Jeff the Brotherhood "Mellow Out" / "Heavy Days" 7" (Suicide Squeeze) Limited. aka Nashville's real-bros, Jake and Jamin Orrall, bring more of their tune shredding.
LCD Soundsystem "This is Happening" LP (LCD) Now in stock on vinyl at a reasonable domestic price.
Mahjongg "The Long Shadow of the Paper Tiger" CD/LP (K Records) New album by this Chicago-based dance group. They want to invent a new style of music they call Chicagotronics.
Majeure "Timespan Remixes" LP (Temporary Resistance) Remix LP of music made by one of the guys in Zombi.
Miro, Steve "Rude Intrusions / Second Sentence / Trilemna" 2CD (Boutique UK) The first ever CD reissues by cult Manchester artist Steve Miro, active between 1979 and 1984 on the highly collectible Object Music label.
Power Drowning "S/T" LP
Secret Cities "Pink Graffiti" CD/LP (Western Vinyl) Distorted loops, drones, and thundering toms underpin distant voices by this band out of Fargo, ND.
V/A "Songs the Cramps Taught Us, Vol. 3" LP More Rockabilly and Garage tracks made famous by the Cramps.
v/a "Wierd Presents: Cold Waves And Minimal Electronics Volume 1" CD/LP (Angular Records UK) A suitable (though not directly related) companion compilation to the recent Minimal Waves reissues, selected by Pieter Schoolwerth and Angular's Joe Daniel. Great rare tracks from the early '80s synth craze.
Waits, Tom "Better Off Without You" LP
Waits, Tom "Never Talk to Strangers" LP
Young, Matthew "Traveler's Advisory" LP (Drag City) Recorded at home, made and distributed at the end of the first age of vinyl. A 25-year-old '12th-century/folk/electronic album'
Youngs, Richard "Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits" LP (Jagjaguwar) Young's attempt at making a proper pop record.
Zero 7 "Record" CD (Atlantic) A retrospective collection of the last 10 years with tracks and remixes from their previous four albums plus a track from their very first EP that was released on limited vinyl.
Punk
Altars "s/t" LP From members of Storm the Tower and Signal Lost comes the debut album from Austin's own ripping metal/hardcore band. A must buy!Cramps "Ohio Demos" LP Famous 1979 Chris Spedding basement demo tapes.
F "Mess You Up / You are an E.P." LP This collects a bunch of tracks by this mid-'80s South Florida punk band, including all 6 tracks from their 1983 "You are an E.P." 12", all 5 tracks from their 1988 "Mess You Up" 7", their track on the 1984 "Flipside Vinyl Fanzine" compilation LP, their track on the 1985 "Peace" split LP, and one track from their 1988 "Burn the World into Ashes and Sweep It Under the Rug" LP.
GG Allin "Always Was, Is and Always Shall Be" LP Rogueitry in motion.
GG Allin "Out for Blood" 7" A reissue of five of GG Allin's earliest songs, "Out for Blood" and "Sixty Nine" from '83, "Fags in the Living Room," recorded in Allin's bedroom in '82, and "Nuke Attack" and "I'm Right" from all the way back in 1979!
Kebab "s/t" LP (Softspot) A short-lived quartet of punk-minded Belgian youths. Inspired by the Crass Records DIY mentality, the burgeoning UK art-punk scene, and their own boredom,
v/a "More then Music vol 1" 7"
Neon Christ "Parental Suppression" 7" (Fan Club) A semi legit fan club issue of Georgia hardcore legends Neon Christ's "Parental Suppression" 7-inch EP, originally released in 1984.
Radio Birdman "Radios Appear" 180 gram LP (4 Men With Beards) Back in print.
SOA "No Policy" LP Collecting many rare tracks from this early Washington DC hardcore band (with Henry "Rollins" Garfield on vocals), this includes their 1981 "No Policy" 7" on Dischord, a 1980 demo session, their tracks on the classic 1982 "Flex Your Head" compilation, some 1980 live tracks, plus tracks from their direct predecessor band The Extorts, which featured Lyle Preslar (later of Minor Threat) on vocals.
Toxin III "I Rock I Ran" LP (Burka For Everyone) This classic reissue LP features the EP in its entirety plus a bunch of extras. Louisana punk band which existed from 1979-1982.
Blues
v/a "I'm Going Where The Water Drinks Like Wine" LP (Sub Rosa) Subtitled: 18 Unsung Bluesmen: Rarities 1923-1929. T\he musicians highlighted here are the ones that didn't become major figures, either constructed by myth or defined by history.White, Bukka "Mississippi Blues" CD (Water) Originally released in 1969 on John Fahey's Takoma record label.
Composers / Experimental
Blood of Heroes "s/t" CD (Ohm Resistance) aka Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, Napalm Death) and Bill Laswell, with beats from Submerged and End.user and vocals from Dr. Israel.Nadja / Ovo "Live And Death Of A Wasp" CD (Broken Spine / Bar La Muerte) Another productive collaboration of dreamy darkness, this one kind of rocks out with some real drums and even some vocals that approach a Yoko-ish quality.
Nadja / Troum "Dominium Visurgis" CD (Transgredient Dominium) The result of what one would call a "dreamlike liaison." Combining their exceptional talents, German post-industrial / experimental drone pioneers Troum and Canadian avant metal / doom duo Nadja (who name Troum as one of their early influences) have become something greater than the sum of their parts.
Nurse With Wound "Huffin' Rag Blues" 2LP LP (Dirter Promotions UK) Back in stock.
Pansonic / Keiji Haino "Synergy Between Mercy And Self-Annihilation Overturned" 2LP (Blast First Petite UK) Now in stock on vinyl.
Richter, Max "Infra" CD (Fat Cat) New piano and string based compositions.
Winderen "The Noisiest Guys On The Planet" Cassette (Ash Int'l) An ongoing investigation into the use and production of sound by decapods.
Hip-Hop
Big Boi "Sir Luscious Left Foot" LP (Def Jam) In stock on vinyl.Freestyle Fellowship "Temptations" 2LP (Ground Control) Warehouse find - one of the greatest hip-hop groups of all time.
MIA "XXXO - The Remixes" 12" (Interscope) 6 remixes.
Prog / Psych
Hawkwind "s/t" 180 gram LP (4 Men With Beards) Their first album, now back in print on vinyl.Soft Machine "Top Gear UK" LP Two BBC sessions recorded for John Peel's "Top Gear" show. The first, from 1967 features Kevin Ayers. The second session dates from 1969 after Hugh and Brian Hopper had joined.
Spur "Of the Moments" LP (Drag City) For 60s 'psych' enthusiasts, or really just fans of anything essentially rock n roll, there is a grove of treasures on this lone insanely rare micro-pressed LP.
Szajner, Bernard "Some Deaths Take Forever" CD (Boutique UK) Multimedia artist and electro-wizard's 1980 album commissioned by Amnesty International as a protest against the death penalty. It's not quite as heavy as it sounds, but there are plenty of dark, not-quite-goth touches.
Tully "Live At Sydney Town Hall, 1969-70" CD (Chapter Music Australia) Two rare live recordings from quintessential Sydney prog group Tully, including their 1970 performance of Australia's first-ever rock opera.
Velvet Underground "Hilltop Pop Festival" LP Live recording is from an August 1969 New Hampshire festival.
v/a "The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia In 1970s Nigeria" 2CD (Soundway UK) From Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s.
Techno / Dance / Electronic
Negro, Joey "The Soul of Disco" 2CD (Z Records UK) Reissue of a long out-of-print 2005 Z Records fave. UK crate-diggers Joey Negro and Sean P uncover some of the lesser-known, but equally deserving tracks from the classic disco days.Hell, Rene "Porcelain Opera" CD (Type UK) Short but very sweet electro-acoustic compositions that alternate between drones and odd insect-like percussive clatter.
Ielasi, Giuseppe "Tools" CD (12K) A new, highly percussive release from this master sound manipulator.
Mathieu, Stephan + Taylor Deupree "Transcriptions" CD (Spekk Japan) Processed samples of old wax cylinders and other lo-fi sources layered over drones and other electro-acoustic tones. Very beautiful.
North Manc Beds "Mancweb" 12" (Skam UK) Low frequencies when you need a power kip.
On (reworked by Fennesz) "Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not" LP (Type UK) aka Steven Hess & Sylvain Chauveau, plus Fennesz giving his unmistakeable touch as a sort of remix.
Pigbag "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag" 12" (Fire UK) A fresh slab of vinyl sporting new remixes of Pigbag's "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag," from 1981. I'm sure the special Vuvuzela remix might clear the floor.
So Percussion & Matmos "Treasure State" CD (Cantaloupe) So Percussion and Matmos compositions in which the ensembles reinforce each other's techniques and methodologies.
v/a "GetDarker Presents This Is Dubstep Vol. 1" 2CD (AEI Music) Featuring 33 massive dubstep anthems from the scene's biggest artists. The first CD is mixed by DJ Darkside.
DVD
Decline Of Western Civilization DVD Filmmaker Penelope Spheeris's famous 1980 headlong dive into Los Angeles punk.Decline Of Western Civilization Part 2 The Metal Years DVD Awesome documentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles heavy metal scene in the early 80's
Derek Jarman & Throbbing Gristle "In the Shadow of the Sun" DVD Jarman assembled the visuals for this 1980 film from 1970s vintage home movie footage, slowed down to 3-6 frames per second, layered and superimposed, then treated with color effects. Throbbing Gristle's accompanying soundtrack is by turns ambient, eerie, unsettling and menacing.
Forbidden World (Roger Corman's Cult Classics) DVD (Shout Factory) Bio-Engineering Sci-Fi cult epic from 1982, produced by movie maverick Roger Corman.
Galaxy Of Terror (Roger Corman's Cult Classics) DVD (Shout Factory) Another early 80's Corman Sci-Fi production. This one stars Robert Englund and features production design by a young James Cameron.
Throbbing Gristle "Live at Kezar" DVD May 1981 final live performance... until the recent reunion of course.
Throbbing Gristle "Live at Oundle School" DVD Live performance at an English boys' school, exactly one month after the "Heathen Earth" recording in1980.
Throbbing Gristle "Recording Heathen Earth" DVD Documents the recording of their 1980 album "Heathen Earth," and was shot in front of a small invited audience.
V/A "New Wave Theatre, Vol. 1" DVD Bands include Suburban Lawns, Ivy & the Eaters, Los Dudes, Factor, Bad Religion, Monitor, Plugz, and more.
V/A "New Wave Theatre, Vol. 2" DVD Bands include X, The Stepmothers, Church, The Generals, Andy & The Rattlesnakes, Geza X & The Mommymen, Castration Squad, Carl Stewart, Rees Nevo, DJ Lebowitz, The Executives, Mr. Lucky, Gaea, The Clients, Overman, Forbidden Colors, and USA.
V/A "New Wave Theatre, Vol. 3" DVD Bands include The Mentors, Wild Kingdom, The Clique, The Boxboys, The Model, Pearls, Cypher, Angry Samoans, Hollywood Trash, The Subjects, Babylon Warriors, 45 Grave, The Gears, Art Thieves, and Butch.
V/A "New Wave Theatre, Vol. 4" DVD Bands include Fear, Zoogz Rift, Grobbshcnitt, Venus & Unit 3, Cypher, JFK, The Film, Rayonics, Powertrip, Red Wedding, Birthday, Marvin & The Paramount, The Plugz, Prefix, Johanna Went, Butch, The Irritators, Kaos, Gaea, New Marines, and Russell Jessel, plus an interview with director David Lynch.
V/A "New Wave Theatre, Vol. 5" DVD Bands include The Blasters, UXA, White Hope, THE 80's, Butch, Dead Hippie, Heroic Struggles, The Squids, Tropic Of People, Circle Jerks, 45 Grave, Snakepit, Rayonics, Levi Dexter & The Tribe, The Plugz, Attila, Western Heroes, Panic, The Film, and Several Pamelas.
V/A "New Wave Theatre, Vol. 6" DVD Bands include The Fiobnaccis, Brainiacs, New Marines, Voodoo Church, American Martyrs, Angry Samoans, Vox Pop, Los Microwaves, The Film, Rayonics, Los Dudes, D-Day, D.I., Legal Weapon, Top Jimmy And The Rhythm Pigs, Sexsick, and The Unknowns.
V/A "New Wave Theatre, Vol. 7" DVD Bands include Dead Kennedys, Fear, Killer Pussy, The Plugz, and Mnomec Devices, plus the complete, two volume "Best of" collections (each running 1 hour) that include many segments from the above discs as well as many more from other episodes. Two bonus shorts include a liveDevo performance from the same time period, plus host Peter Ivers playing with Darby Crash and Pat Smear of The Germs.
Friday, July 16th
Rock / Indie / Punk
Admiral Radley "I Heart California" CD (The Ship) aka Jason Lytle and Aaron Burtch of Grandaddy, Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murry of Earlimart.Big Troubles "Drastic & Difficult" 7" (Olde English Spelling Bee) Kicking off the new OESB 7" series with a 4 track single by Big Troubles.
Carissa's Weird "They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003" CD (Hardly Art) Retrospective compilation from this Seattle band, which featured members of Band of Horses and Grand Archives. Free 7" with purchase.
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse "Dark Night Of The Soul" CD/LP (Capitol) All songs co-written by Dangermouse and Mark Linous (RIP), with a slew of guest writers & vocalists such as Flaming Lips, Jason Lyttle, Frank Black, Iggy Pop, David Lynch, Suzanne Vega, and Vic Chesnutt (RIP).
Flat Can Co. "Remember When I Set You on Fire" LP
Flat Can Co. "S/T" CD
Flat Can Co. "Single Live Gonzo" CD
Futureheads, the "The Chaos" LP (Dovecote Records) Now in stock on vinyl.
Gogol Bordello "Trans-Continental Hustle" LP (Columbia) Now in stock on vinyl.
High Wolf "Ascension" LP (Not Not Fun) His debut vinyl full-length, utilizes his usual toolbag of looped tablas, fuzz guitar leads, chiming white light guitar, synth swells, and cloud-climbing electronics.
LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus "s/t" LP (Not Not Fun) Cold dub rhythms echo down grimy corridors while heartbroken tag-team femme howls come bleeding out of the horizon drenched in spectral delay.
Love Language "Libraries" CD (Merge) Spectoresque walls of reckless sound, cavernous drums, middle-school percussion, and moody swells of stringed instruments.
Lucca, Tony "Rendezvous With the Angels" CD (Rock Ridge) His 6th studio album.
Lynch, Julian "Mare" LP (Olde English Spelling Bee) A really beautiful record full of variety and inventiveness. Some tracks are folky acoustic guitar like John Fahey, while others verge on weird processed sound-art, with a few actual songs in between. Very nice from this increasingly diverse label.
Melvins / Isis "split" 12" (Hydra Head) Limited split.
MIA M.I.A. "/ \ / \ / \ Y / \" (MAYA) CD/LP (Interscope) Not including the intro track this is 11 new insane productions that will alternately exhilerate you and probably wear you out by the end. We have some free 7"s to give away with purchase.
Mystery Jets "Serotonin" CD (Rough Trade UK) outfit mapping out a new musical direction for themselves with synthesizer-fueled pop.
R.E.M. "Fables of Reconstruction" CD (Capitol) Bonus disc contains previously unreleased demos of full album plus 3 bonus tracks. Special package lift top box contains 2 CDs, booklet, 24"x 36" poster plus 4 postcards.
R. Stevie Moore "Phonography" LP (Sundazed) Now in on vinyl, a selection of mostly early tracks.
Sleigh Bells "Treats" LP (Mom & Pop Music) Now in stock on vinyl.
Sober Daze "Move Up" 7" New local release.
Sober Daze "No Brainz No Headache" CD
Sun Kil Moon "Admiral Fell Promises" CD (Caldo Verde) New Mark Kozelek solo album, 10 intimate songs performed using only his voice and a Spanish nylon-string guitar.
Composers / Experimental
Oram, Daphne "Oramics" 4LP (Young Americans UK) Although the short pieces on this record are very basic, it could be argued that this is the first-ever electronic dance record! Now for the first time, is a survey of nearly all the major pieces that she produced since her departure from the BBC in January 1959 until her final tape piece in 1977.Richard Ramirez / Crawling Iris "split" CD If the Texas noise / experimental scene was more well known then Ramirez would be considered a legend.
Prog / Psych
Moolah "Woe Ye Demons Possessed" LP (Moolah) A cosmic psych record from New York 1974, now reissued as close to the original private press as possible. Reverb / delay drenched piano and percussion resulting in deep meditation waveforms.Rose, Jack "The Black Dirt Sessions" LP (3 Lobed) His final studio recording, made available on 180 gram vinyl in a one-time press of 2000. Beautiful modal guitar workouts from a man who was constantly searching to the day he died.
Soft Machine "s/t" LP (Sundazed) Their debut originally released in 1968.
Soft Machine "Volume Two" LP (Sundazed) Their second album from 1969 mastered from the original analog tapes and pressed on pristine high-definition vinyl. A retooled Soft Machine lineup, with Wyatt and Ratledge joined by bassist Hugh Hopper, an old Canterbury friend who had guested on the first album.
Velvet Underground "The Quine Tapes" 6LP (Sundazed) Captured on tape by fan and future collaborator Robert Quine in San Francisco and St. Louis between May and December of 1969 now available as a 6LP boxset.
Techno / Dance
Autechre "Move of Ten" CD (Warp Records) An EP of ten all new tracks on CD or as two separate vinyl 12"s (four tracks on one, six on the other) with design and artwork from The Designers Republic.Autechre "Move of Ten" X format (tracks 1-4) 12" (Warp Records) Vinyl version split into 2 12"s.
Autechre "Move of Ten" Y format (tracks 5-10) 12" Warp Records
World
Charanjit Singh "Synthesizing - Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat" CD (Bombay Connection) Originally released in 1982, this electronic raga record is like pulsating psychedelic techno way before there was techno. Recommended.v/a "Rara In Haiti" CD (Soul Jazz Records) Rara is the music played throughout Kanaval, an anarchic folk-meets-punk collision of drums, voices and bamboo sticks which all creates an exciting, energizing soundtrack to Kanaval in Haiti.
v/a "Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa" CD/2LP (Honest Jon's) I thought this was playing at the wrong speed at first when it started - some seriously high energy keyboard based songs from the early 2000s. Another unexpected yet totally appropriate choice for release from this always great label.
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DVD
Death Race 2000 (Roger Corman's Cult Classics) DVD (Shout Factory) Classic political parody / action flick from 1976, starring David Carradine, a young Sylvester Stallone, and directed by the always independently awesome Paul Bartel.Rock N Roll High School (Roger Corman's Cult Classics) DVD (Shout Factory) Roger Corman's classic about High School takeover by the Ramones. Essential.
When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors DVD (Eagle Rock) A treasure trove of heretofore unscreened footage from the band's heyday, including backstage material, film-school stuff, and more.
Friday, July 9th
Rock / Indie / Punk
Baths "Cerulean" CD (Anticon) From Los Angeles, acoustic-fueled electronic music.Beach Fossils "s/t" LP (Captured Tracks) Now in stock on vinyl. The jangly, self recorded ramblings of Brooklyn's Dustin Payseur and co. Sun drenched riffs, kaleidoscopic rhythms and hazy lyrics.
Blank Dogs "cassette tape of EPs" Cassette (Captured Tracks) Some Blank Dogs cassettes to fill in the gaps in your collection.
Blank Dogs "cassette tape of singles" Cassette (Captured Tracks)
Blank Dogs "On Two Sides / The Fields" Cassette (Captured Tracks)
Clash "s/t" LP (Drastic Plastic) Reissue of the first album.
D'Ancey, Graham Philip EP 12" (Minimal Wave) From 1980, recorded on Denmark Street in the West End of London using a Roland SH-09, ARP Odyssey, a Gibson Les Paul with soap-bar pick-ups through a cranked up Vox AC 15, a Watkins Copycat, some Tin Whistles, and various drum machines, mainly Roland.
Deux "Decadence" LP (Minimal Wave) Full length album from this French Duo from 1981 who are featured on the Minimal Wave compilation. 180 gram
Dignan Porch "Tendrils" LP (Captured Tracks) New Release from this South London group offering up their brand of dreamy psyche pop.
Galbraith, Alastair "Orb" CD (Nextbestway) Spine-tingling master of deeply personal song soothing, and a wondrously fulfilling lo-fi affair.
Girls Names "Don't Let Me In" 12" (Captured Tracks) Belfast's own new release with an early/mid 80's sound.
Perfume Genius "Learning" CD/LP (Matador) Debut album with home-recorded songs that bring to mind early Cat Power, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens and Pink Moon-era Nick Drake.
Saint Vitus "Heavier Than Thou" 2LP (SST) Re-Issue
Segall, Ty "Horn of Unicorn" LP Back in print and back in stock.
Snowy Red "S/T" LP Ultra limited reissue of this very rare legendary 1980 first LP by Belgian minimal synth legend Mickey Mike.
Soft Moon "Breathe the Fire" 7" (Captured Tracks) Debut release from this moody synth act from San Francisco.
Trout, Walter "Common Ground" CD (Mascot) His latest release.
Wetdog "Frauhaus" LP (Captured Tracks) Now in stock on vinyl. London-based trio Wetdog jabs, plods, and stammers out some of the best jaunty female post-punk since The Slits or The Raincoats.
Young, The "Voyagers of Legend" LP (Mexican Summer) Debut full-length from Austin's own.
Composers / Experimental
Brain Sound "An Attempt To Record Coincidence" LP (Neros Neptune) Hans Pokora's 1001 Record Collector Dreams, this is a rare Austrian avant garde LP from 1972.Metzger, Paul "Uses of Infinity" LP (Locust) 2010 album from the lonesome banjo picker. Recorded in one take in a century old cathedral in Northern Minnesota, this platter is a six part cosmic hobo's dream suite for 23 string banjo.
Hip-Hop
J Dilla "Donut Shop" 2LP (Stones Throw) Special limited edition. 2 discs with six J Dilla tracks, 2 sides with Serato Control Tone (for use with Serato Scratch Live DJ software), and 2 donut slipmats in a package designed by Studio No.1.Madlib "Medicine Vol. 5: The History of the Loop Digga" 2LP (Stones Throw) Thirty-four tracks of Madlib's fifth installment of the infamous Medicine Show Series.
Roots "How I Got Over" LP (DefJam) Vinyl now in stock. 9th studio album.
Slum Village "Faster b/w Lock It Down" 12" (Ne'Astra Music Group)
Young Jazz Rebels "Slave Riot" LP (Stones Throw) The second of Madlib's 2010 jazz albums.
Prog / Psych
Birds "Collector's Guide To Rare British Birds" CD (Decca) Bringing together all four of The Birds extremely rare 1964-1965 Decca singles, along with ten unreleased demos, alternate takes, and unissued rarities, painstakingly restored to digital brilliance.Blue Things "Blue Things Story Vol. 1" LP (Cicadelic Records) First compiled from the band's 1960's recordings and originally issued in 1987, this collection has been out of print since 1989. It is now available in a limited 180 gram edition of 600 copies. More good news, it has been expanded to include a whopping nineteen tracks.
Drendall, John & B.A. Thrower & Friends "Papa Never Let Me Sing The Blues" LP (Outsider Spain) Fully licensed, first ever vinyl reissue. Was released as a private pressing in 1972 from blues rock to acoustic gems with a folkier mood, and some psychedelic jams.
Eden Rose "On The Way To Eden" LP (Guersson) Proto-progressive, groovy instrumental psychedelia, recorded in France in 1969. Swirling Hammond grooves by keyboard virtuoso Henri Garella, top guitar playing by Jean- Pierre Alacen and a tight, funky rhythm section create one of the best early prog/ psych French albums ever.
Fifth Order "Bonfire! Return Of The Fifth Order" CD/LP (Break-A-Way) Their 1966 garage classic 'Goin' Too Far' b/w 'Walkin' Away' was a tremendous regional success, becoming the biggest selling single from Columbus, Ohio. Their second local hit, 'A Thousand Devils (Are Chasing)' b/w 'Today I Got A Letter,' was picked up by Laurie for national release. These two records have long been recognized as sterling examples of Ohio's vibrant mid-60s garage rock scene.
Heitkotter, Stephen David "Heitkotter" LP (Time Lag) Reissue of this legendary super-rare private press. A three-piece band plays sprawling, inept baked blues led by a mysterious mental patient. Housed in an ultra heavy cardboard sleeve on 180 gram vinyl, with an insert of insightful and speculative liner notes. The most information you'll ever find about this mythic record.
Howell, Peter & John Ferdinando "Alice Through The Looking Glass" CD (Lion) The first release (1969) from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell (he wrote the second version of the Doctor Who theme tune for BBC-TV) and his musical partner John Ferdinando, makers of legendary albums under the names Ithaca, Agincourt, Friends, and Tomorrow Come Someday.
Jagged Edge "A Change Is Gonna Come" LP (Break-A-Way) Part of the mystique of the '60s garage legacy is that the bands seemed to put all of their considerable talents into one or two singles, and that was it. But behind every 45 there often lurked a handful of equally killer tunes performed or even recorded, but never released at the time. The Jagged Edge from Brooklyn, New York, seemed to have it all: the chops, an excellent (and decent-selling) debut 45, and competent management. They'd performed with a veritable who's who of big-name artists, and they seemed poised for better things. But it all went downhill suddenly, beginning with a threatening lawsuit over their name. Crucial momentum was lost and the Jagged Edge never reached the prominence they deserved. Now the exposure they warranted all along is finally here.
Kristyl "S/T" LP (Guersson) 1975 self-released sole album by Kentucky band Kristyl is now reissued fully legit for the first time. Regarded as one of the best guitar psych-rock albums from the 70's. Limited vinyl edition of 500 copies including an insert with photos and liners by Kristyl fan Patrick Lundborg.
Lemon Drops "Sunshine Flower Power" LP (Cicadelic Records) This suburban Chicago group was in and out of the studio throughout 1967 and '68, laying down various demos and tracks for a prototype album with the proposed title Sunshower Flower Power. This 180gm vinyl LP presents 14 of those tracks (including 'Springtime'), beautifully remastered, with full liner notes and lots of cool pics.
Los Young Beats "The Exciting Sounds Of Los Young Beats" LP (Break-A-Way) Today this album is one of the rarest and most sought-after collectors' items from the South American sixties beat scene. On this platter the band's recordings are available again, along with four bonus cuts by the Time Machine, another Colombian band Roberto played with.
Morning Dew "Early Years: Topeka, Kansas 1966-69" LP (Break-A-Way) The Morning Dew are mainly known for their highly regarded 1970 psychedelic album recorded for Roulette Records (one of the best psych albums ever made... no, really). Between 1966 and 1969, the band had already established a big rep as a local and regional garage and psychedelic band; along with The Blue Things, they were one of Kansas' most exciting regional top-acts.
Oho "Okinawa" CD (Rockadrome) Official reissue of this rare tripped-out progressive psychedelic rock private press record out of Baltimore circa 1974. This release features the entire original recording as it was meant to be, but was shortened for release back in 1974 due to the time constraints of the original vinyl format.
Ozzie "Parabolic Rock - 1975-1982" LP (S-S) This double album vinyl release features 24 songs covering the career of one of Sacramento's most iconoclastic eclectic artrock bands.
Shusha "Shusha + This Is The Day" CD (BGO) Two full-length releases by this Iranian folk singer / jazz-rocker featuring a stellar backing band that included BJ Cole.
United Travel Service "Wind And Stone" LP (Break-A-Way) Dateline 1966: the Pacific Northwest. A collection of the band's rare 45s, along with five unreleased studio recordings, as well as three home demos. Included is a detailed history of the UTS stuffed with rare photos and labels from the band-members' scrapbook.
Williamson, Robin "Myrrh" CD (BGO) First solo album from Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band, from 1972.
Soul / Funk
Liquid Liquid "Cavern / ESG - UFO" 12" Repress now in stock.Moulin, Marc & Placebo "1973" LP (EMI /Harvest) Replica reissue of another amazing record by Marc Moulin & co. (the third album of cult Belgian band Placebo). Killer tracks like the pounding beat of 'Stomps,' the subtle spacy groove of 'S.U.S,' or the hot trippy mid tempo prog jazz of 'dag madam merci.' Originals go for around $750. Now you can hear why.
Moulin, Marc & Placebo "S/T" LP Finally reissued, this is definitely the hardest to find of the three Placebo masterpieces (this one on CBS). We have Marc Moulin's gang at his best: includes 'Balek,' one of the best euro jazz funk tune ever recorded on wax, but as you might know the whole album is the bomb.
Techno / Dance
v/a "Horse Meat Disco Vol 2" LP (Strut) Follow up to last year's comp of similar tone and quality. Mostly all female vocal disco tracks from the late '70s / early '80s.Friday, July 2nd
Rock / Indie / Punk
Alex Band "We've All Been There" CD (AMB Records) The voice and soundwriter from the band The Calling.Bad Brains "Live at CBGB 1982" LP (MVD) Now available on vinyl.
Beach Fossils "s/t" CD (Captured Tracks) The jangly, self recorded ramblings of Brooklyn's Dustin Payseur and company. Sun drenched riffs, kaleidoscopic rhythms and hazy lyric.
Bell Gardens "Hangups Need Company" LP (Failed Better) Debut led by Ken Gibson (Furry Things) and Brian McBride (Stars of the Lid).
Broken Social Scene "Forgiveness Rock Record" 2LP (Arts & Crafts) Now in stock on vinyl.
Cadillac Sky "Letters in the Deep" CD (Dualtone) Produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys.
Cap n Jazz "Analphabetapolothology" LP (Jade Tree) Reissue now available on vinyl.
Crystal Castles "s/t" 2nd (Universal) Now available on vinyl.
Delphic "Acolyte" CD (Dangerbird) Post-dance futurist nostalgics from Manchester.
Escovedo, Alejandro "Street Songs of Love" CD (Fantasy) Produced by legendary Tony Visconti and mixed by Bob Clearmountain, this new release features guest performances by Bruce Springsteen and Ian Hunter.
Fleming, Renee "Dark Hope" CD (Decca Crossover) Opera star performing tracks by Band of Horses, Arcade Fire, Tears For Fears, Leonard Cohen, and more.
Kings Go Forth "The Outsiders Are Back" CD (Luaka Bop) Creating their own sound from a broad palette of classic R&B.
Knut "Wonder" CD (Hydra Head) 4th proper full-length record of math metal.
Low Red Center "s/t" 10" (SS Records) Austin minimal wave revival, released by the Sacramento, CA label, S-S Records. This 10" features 7 songs from the self-titled CDR plus one previously unavailable track.
Mangum, Jeff "Live at Jittery Joe's" LP (American Dust) Now in stock on vinyl.
Maps & Atlases "Perch Patchwork" CD (Barsuk) Chicago outfit with their full-length debut on Barsuk.
Messersmith, Jeremy "the Reluctant Graveyard" CD/LP New local release.
Nerve City "Sleepwalker" 12" (Sacred Bones) One man home recording project out of Richmond, Virginia.
Pains of Being Pure at Heart "Say No to Love" 7" (Slumberland) Brand new single, a shimmering slice of pure pop just right for the summer.
Pinker Tones "Modular" CD (Nacional) Barcelona's electronic indie pop group return with their latest.
Pollard, Robert "Moses on a Snail" CD/LP (Guided By Voices Inc) Pollard has put out an unbelievable twelve albums in a span of roughly two years--and that's not even including all the various EPs, singles and a (third) box set of outtakes and unreleased tracks.
Rolling Stones "Exile on Main Street" LP Now back in stock. Double vinyl LP pressing. 2010 reissue of the classic Stones album.
Scissor Sisters "Night Work" CD (Downtown) Third album by this electro dance/rock act.
Steel Train "S/T" CD Third album by these New Jersey-based indie rockers.
Suckers "Wild Smile" CD (French Kiss) Debut album from this Williamsburg outfit.
Tender Trap "Dansette Dansette" CD/LP (Slumberland) The band now combines the harmonies, oohs, ahhs and sha-la-las of classic girl-group pop with the stripped-down beats and dirty guitars of the Shop Assistants and The Vaselines.
To Rococo Rot "Speculation" CD (Domino) The trio of Stefan Schneider and brothers Robert and Ronald Lippok, debuted just over a decade ago at the point where digital precision and instrumental abstraction were harnessed into new directions.
V/A "Beyond Berkley Guitar" CD (Tompkins Square) Displays the prowess of seven Bay Area guitarists, all of whom use solo guitar composition as a means of profound personal expression.
v/a "Bustin' Out 1982 - New Wave To New Beat Volume 2" CD (Year Zero UK) 15 tracks including cuts from Gary Numan, Pylon, Front 242, Die Krupps and many others.
Wolf Parade "Expo 86" CD/LP (Sub Pop) Third album by Montreal's Wolf Parade and its on sale too.
Composers / Experimental
Column One / Idpa / MZ.412 "Live Action / Voodoo Bumble Bee" LP (Tourette) Edition of 412 numbered copies.Current 93 "Baalstorm, Sing Omega" CD (Coptic Cat) The current formation of the group includes Eliot Bates, James Blackshaw, John Contreras, Baby Dee, Andrew Liles, Melon Liles, Alex Neilson, Bea Taylor, Isabel Taylor and David Tibet.
Delaurenti, Chris "Favorite Intermissions" CD (GD Stereo) Subtitled: Music Before And Between Beethoven, Stravinsky, Holst.
Merzbow "Collection 4" Some limited Merzbow cassettes.
Merzbow "Collection 5" cassette
Merzbow "Flesh Metal Orgasm" cassette
Merzbow "Graft" LP Cold Spring Records (UK) Pressed on lime-green vinyl in a "bootleg"-style sleeve and sealed with a sticker. Limited to 300 regular copies. According to the Merzbow blog, the design was inspired by a '70s Jethro Tull bootleg called My God.
Merzbow "Normal Music" cassette
Muslimgauze "Iran" CD (Soleilmoon) Now repressed and available again.
Oneohtrix Point Never "Returnal" CD (Mego) Fourth album from Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never project. Now in stock on CD.
Peterlicker "Last Slave" cassette (Editions Mego Austria) Vienna-based Peterlicker (Hergovich - Rehberg - Schachinger - Weissegger) were an underground unit operating between autumn 1989 to possibly spring 1990, playing three or four blistering performances, and rehearsing even less.
Prog / Psych
Deutsche Wertarbeit "s/t" LP (Medical Records) Fantastic and long out of print solo project of Dorothea Raukes previously released by Sky Records in 1981. The LP is instrumental and reminiscent of a style similar to other classic late 1970's synth pioneers (Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Wolfgang Riechmann, etc.) Limited to 500 and recommended.Les Rallizes Denudes "Blind Baby Has It's Mothers Eyes" CD (Phoenix Records UK) This one made #11 on Julian Cope's list of top Japanese albums. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet.
Les Rallizes Denudes "Heavier Than A Death In The Family" CD (Phoenix Records UK) This release sits at an esteemed #3 position on Julian Cope's Japrocksampler top 50 list. Reverb so heavy, it will split your frontal lobe in two. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet.
Roedelius "Lustwandel" LP (Bureau B Germany) Now in stock on vinyl.
v/a "Cloud Cuckooland" CD (B-Music) Rare prog rock from Ihre Kinder, Out Of Focus and Armageddon; proto-electronica from Sam Spence and Deuter; and rare music from the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
v/a "Psicotronica! Vol. 1" LP (Hundergrum Spain) Subtitled: Spanish Cinematic Grooves & Funky Soundtracks, 1968-1978.
v/a "Psicotronica! Vol. 2" LP (Hundergrum Spain) Subtitled: Spanish Cinematic Grooves & Funky Soundtracks, 1971-1976. Volume 2 in the series.
v/a "Psych Bites Volume Two" CD (Past & Present) Throws up an international melting pot of twisted mantras and wide-eyed rockers that are almost religiously defined by the volume of their fuzz boxes.
v/a "The Electric Asylum Volume 5: Rare British Freakrock" CD (Past & Present) An eternally-immoral cast of British freakbeat players from the late-'60s to mid-'70s.
Vertical Slit "Slit And Pre-Slit" LP (Smudge) Originally released in a vanity pressing of 100 copies, this debut by James Michael Shepard and Vertical Slit has long been a holy grail item on many a collectors list. Mastered in the furnace of the future so to bask in the luminous glow of the past. Edition of 350.
Techno / Electronic
Peaches / Effi Briest / Alan Vega "Jonny/Universe/No Tomorrow" 10" Celebrate Alan Vega's 70th birthday with three Vega tracks, including one by the man himself. Limited to 1500 copies with big penis artwork.Africa Hitech "Hitecherous" 2x12" LP (Warp) Africa Hitech forms part of Mark Pritchard's (aka Harmonic 313) collective of projects.
Pan Sonic "Gravitoni" CD (Blast First Petite UK) Eleven tracks of their trademark warm, deep, muscular sound that acts as a personal trainer to your speaker cones. Gravitoni is their seventh son born as a duo since 1995.
v/a "Milky Disco 3: To the Stars" CD (Lo Recordings) Third installment of cosmic space nuggets to light up your life. Featuring Soft Rocks, Hatchback, Black Devil Disco Club and many more.
World
v/a "Spirits of Life: Haitian Vodo0" 2LP LP (Soul Jazz Records) Now repressed.DVD
Rush "Beyond the Lighted Stage" DVD (Rounder) I will add that Blake has watched this twice now. This 2-disc DVD features over 3 hours of video, including a 1.5 hour bonus disc of never-before-seen live performances, special features, and deleted scenes from the film.Friday, June 25th
Rock / Indie / Punk
22-20's "Shake / Shiver / Moan" CD (ATO) Their latest of up-tempo rock.Black Congress "Davidians" 7" (Team Science)
Born Ruffians "Say It" CD/LP (Warp) 2nd album from this Canadian rock band
Coliseum "House With a Curse" CD/LP (Temporary Residence Ltd) Latest by this Louisville power trio.
Endtables "s/t" 12" (Drag City) Finally got more back in stock on vinyl. The band first took the stage in late 1978 & was finished by the summer of 1980. This release includes those 6 tracks plus more previously unreleased live tracks & never-before-seen video footage of the band. Another chapter in pure American weirdness, as jaw-locking today as the day it was recorded.
Energy, The "First Album" LP (Team Science)
Gray, Macy "the Sellout" CD (Concord) Her first album in more than 3 years.
Health "Disco 2" 2CD/2LP (Lovepump United) "Get Color" remixed by Tobacco, Crystal Castles, Salem, Javelin, and Gold Panda among others.
Johnston, Daniel "The Story of an Artist" 6LP/6CD (Munster Spain) Whoa, awesome. This is the long awaited monstrous compilation of Daniel's first 6 cassettes from 1980-83. Includes a mini book and a big poster, remastered sound and truly beautiful packaging by this label out of Spain. We are selling the LP box for $99.99 and the CD box $79.99
Kele "The Boxer" CD (Glassnote Records) aka Kele Okereke (of Bloc Party) going solo.
La Dispute "Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega & Altair" CD (No Sleep Records)
Lauper, Cyndi "Memphis Blues" CD (Downtown) I saw her at the Erwin Center in 1985 and I was sad when "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" came on and she said that only girls could get up and dance to it.
Marmalakes "Wonder Wind" CD New local release
Mason, Steve "Boys Outside" CD (Domino) Former Beta Band founder and lead singer now with a solo under his own name. His other project was King Biscuit Time.
Monotonix "Fun Fun Fun" 7" (Drag City) A couple of 7"s in by this Israeli punk band. Recorded by Steve Albini.
Monotonix "Never Died Before" 7" (Drag City)
Nastasia, Nina "Outlaster" CD/LP (Fatcat Records) Recorded with a small orchestra by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, and featuring string arrangements by Paul Bryan,
Osbourne, Ozzy "Scream" CD (Epic Records) First album in three years and 10th studio album overall.
Pastels, The "A Truckload Of Trouble: 1986-1993" CD (Fire UK)
Pernice Brothers "Goodbye, Killer" CD (Ashmont Records)
Psychic Ills "Catoptric" LP (The Social Registry) Four tracks recorded around the time of "Mirror Eye". Limited to 600 copies.
Randolph, Robert & the Family Band "We Walk this Road" CD (Warner Bros) Produced by T Bone Burnett.
Reactionaries, The "1979" CD (Water Under the Bridge Records) Before the Minutemen, Watt, D. Boon, and George Hurley were joined by Martin Tamburovich to create awesome raw punk from 1979.
Roberts, Alasdair "Too Long In This Condition" CD/LP (Drag CIty) A return to traditional ballads by this Scottish singer/songwriter
Stars "Five Ghosts" CD (Vagrant Records) Toronto based outfit with their latest.
V/A "180 South Soundtrack" CD (Brushfire Records) By James Mercer (Shins), Isaac Brock (Ugly Casanova / Modest Mouse) and Mason Jennings.
V/A "Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine" CD (Oh Boy) Newly-recorded versions of classic John Prine songs by Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, My Morning Jacket, The Avett Brothers, Josh Ritter and more.
Windsor For the Derby "Against Love" CD/LP (Secretly Canadian) Their latest collection of sweet chamber pop and drone based meditative songs. Come check out the instore performance tomorrow afternoon!
Wovenhand "The Threshingfloor" CD (Sounds Familyre) Wovenhand's sixth full-length album
Young, Pegi "Foul Deeds" CD Vapor Singer / songwriter with a new disc of country folk.
OST "Trash Humpers" 7" (Drag City) Soundtrack for Harmony Korine's new movie.
Blues / Folk
McBee, Hamper "The Old-Fashioned Way" CD/LP (Drag City) He was the subject of Sol Korine's documentary Raw Mash, which led to an album on Rounder. The Old-Fashioned Way is an expanded reissue from the Raw Mash recordings, featuring twelve previously unreleased songs and/or stories. Hamper was an old southern drunk, but his bawdy and vulgar ways have an almost gentlemanly quality.Composers / Experimental
Ferrari, Brunhild "Tranquilles Impatiences" LP (Alga Marghen) Single sided press of this austere and quite beautiful drone piece from Luc Ferrari's widow. She doesn't usually get the credit she deserves, but this new composition is proof of her creativity.Ferrari, Luc "Ephemere I & II" CD (Alga Marghen) 2 long pieces from the mid-70s, each composed for tape and undetermined instrumentation.
Bianchi, Maurizio "Endometrio" LP (Dais) MB repress, early '80s industrial drones.
Blue Raspberry Sour Apple "The Touchy Feely Record" CD aka Sandy Ewen and Yet, a guitar & dance duo out of Houston. They just played a great set at the recent NMASS festival here in town.
English, Lawrence "Incongruous Harmonies" 7" (Touch UK)
Expensive Shit "ATX Ghosts + Flowers" CD
Fox, Robin "A Handful Of Automation" LP (Editions Mego Austria) Australian laser artist (seriously) with his second solo work composed around extreme digital and computer abuse.
Fuckin' Flyin A-Heads "Swiss-Cheese Back / Watching T.V." 7" (De Stijl)
Jeck, Philip & Marcus Davidson "Spliced" 7" (Touch UK)
Maclise, Angus "The Cloud Doctrine" 2CD CD (Sub Rosa) 159 minutes of minimal electronic music, readings, and soundtracks from the archives of composer, poet, occultist, calligrapher, and original Velvet Underground drummer from 1963-1976.
Menche, Daniel "Raw Fall" CS (Tapeworm UK)
Thor and Halverson "Fields of Innards II" CD aka Thor Harris, drummer for Shearwater and sometimes member of Angels of Light and now Swans! This is his more abstract ambient project with Rob Halverson, really pretty and mysterious electronics with percussion, voice and clarinet. Highly recommended and very affordable.
Hip-hop
Roots "How I Got Over" CD (Def Jam) A brand new spooky set of 12 tracks and 2 sketches, featuring such unlikely collaborators as Dirty Projectors, Monsters of Folk, and Joanna Newsom. Don't worry though, it's still a hip-hop album.Jazz
Hancock, Herbie "The Imagine Project" CD (Hancock Records) International recording and film project featuring collaborations between music legend Herbie Hancock and a dozen superstars from around the planet.Prog / Psych
Roedelius "Lustwandel" CD (Bureau B Germany) From 1981, beautiful.Rose, Jack with D. Charles Speer & The Helix "Ragged and Right" CD/12" (Thrill Jockey)
v/a "Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol. 4" CD (Purple Lantern)
Reggae
Andy, Horace "Serious Thing" 12" (Wackies) From 1981, another killer production.Dadawah "Peace And Love" CD (Dug Out UK) Now in stock on CD.
Techno / Electronic
Chemical Brothers "Further" Deluxe CD (Astralwerks) New album from the big beat veterans.Deupree, Taylor "Shoals" CD (12K) Inspired by and composed mainly of gamelan instruments, the usual extreme high quality you know from Deupree.
Frost, Ben "By The Throat" LP (Bedroom) His recent dark ambient metal-tude compositions now on vinyl.
Koner, Thomas "Teimo" LP (Type UK) A beautiful electro-acoustic drone album originally from 1992, thankfully available again.
Oval "Oh" 12" (Thrill Jockey) Markus Popp's first Oval release after almost a decade of silence sounds more like a Battles b-side than any of his old cd-skipping pieces.
Trentemoller "Into The Great Wide Yonder" CD (In My Room Germany) Second studio album by Anders Trentemoller. Eerie sounds from everything including a Theremin to an old music box is used to create a warm analog sound.
World
Koes Plus "Dheg Dheg Plas & Volume 2" CD (Sublime Frequencies) Known as the Beatles of Indonesia.Traore, Abdoulaye "s/t" CD (Yaala Yaala) Two new releases from this label. Both of these performers are playing in the traditional donso ngoni style of Yoro Sidibe, a ritual music meant to get tribal hunters ready. It's low-down back-country dusty-as-hell funk, played on a little stringed box with a little bit of singing.
Traore, Toba Seydou "s/t" CD (Yaala Yaala)
v/a "My Friend Rain" + DVD CD (Sublime Frequencies) Short film + music all from Southeast Asia in the early 00s. Amazing and confounding as everything brought to light by the Sun City Girls' label.
v/a "Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots in Colombia" 3LP (Soundway UK)
v/a "Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 1 - Ethnic Music Classics 1925-1948" 2LP (Outernational Records) Now available on vinyl, this series is probably the best collection of world folk music ever conceived. Beautiful choice tracks from all over the world, displaying no bias except to quality and originality.
v/a "Thai Beat A Go-Go Vol 3" LP (Subliminal Sounds) Now in stock on vinyl.
v/a "To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings From Istanbul" 2CD/4LP (Honest Jon's) Another winner from Damon Albarn's world label, lovingly packaged and remastered for modern listening.
Waxpoetics #41 May / June 2010 - The hip-hop issue, KRS-One on cover and also featuring Souls of Mischief, Easy Mo Dee, Ice-T, Ice Cube, EPMD and Peanut Butter Wolf.
Wire #317 July 2010 - Kevin Martin (aka The Bug) on cover, plus Oneohtrix Point Never, Alan Moore and much more.
Friday, June 18th
Rock / Indie / Punk
Antena "Camino Del Sol" CD/LP (Numero) One of the lesser stars in the Factory Records universe, Antena were a mutant anomaly, a chance meeting of Jobim samba and Young Marble Giants electro-pop austerity.Black, Lewis "Stark Raving Black" CD (Comedy Central) His latest shaking-hand, body-trembling, spewing of diatribe-laced dialectic comedy.
Delta Spirit "History From Below" CD/LP (Rounder) Their newest release now in stock on CD and vinyl.
Devo "Something for Everybody" CD (WEA) 9th studio album, 1st in almost twenty years! The first person to come into the shop and tell us who Devo's mascot was gets a free LP copy of "Are We Not Men" and "Duty Now for the Future".
Eat "Communist Radio" 7" (Almost Ready) Re-Issue of this highly sought after punk single from '79.
Foals "Total Life Forever" CD (Sub Pop) Sophomore album from this Oxford postpunk band. Recorded in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Freestone "Bummer Bitch" 7" (Almost Ready) Re-Issue of this song appeard on Killed by Death #2.
Habitat "You Can't Argue With Nature" CD Experimental goth-tech.
Harcourt Ed "Lustre" CD (Nice Music Group) 2010 release from British singer/songwriter.
Hollywood Gossip "Dear As Diamonds" CD New album from Austin's own.
Like, The "Release Me" CD (Downtown) An all-female quartet with a mission to create the lost 60's girl group record of their dreams.
McLachlan, Sarah "the Laws of Illusion" CD (RCA) 10th studio release.
McPherson, Pete "Saint Rita" CD Local release.
My Education "Sunrise" LP (Strange Attractors Audio House) Conceived as a sort of soundtrack to the '20s classic film by Murnau, this is probably their moodiest and darkest album yet. Really pretty slow-building instrumentals in the Explosions in the Sky / Mogwai style, yet arguably even besting many of their peer's high points.
Original Mexican Bob "s/t" CD New local release.
Petty Tom & the Heartbreakers "Mojo" CD (Warner Bros) New album.
Robyn "Body Talk Pt. 1" CD (Konichiwa/Cherry Tree) Swedish pop singer latest release.
Sideshow Tragedy "S/T" CD
Sugar & Gold "Get Wet!" CD/LP (Antenna Farm) Second full-length album from San Francisco's R&B-obsessed disco-pop quintet. Now in stock on CD and vinyl.
We are Scientists "Barbara" CD (MRI) Latest by this Brooklyn trio.
Wild America "The Sea" 7" 4 song debut from local punk band who were recently featured on Matador's Casual Victim Comp.
Hip-hop
Nicknack "Dearly Departed" CD (Crowd Control Records) 15 tracks of sultry, soulful downtempo instrumental sound that is sure to move you whether you like hip hop, soul, rock or downtempo electronica. Comes in a digipack with real vintage photos.Nicknack "Strangest Secret" 7" New single from local hip-hop instrumentalist.
v/a "Eccentric Breaks & Beats" CD/LP (Numero) Made exclusively out of previous Numero releases, rather than sue the person that did it, they just put it out.
Jazz
Brown, Clifford "Memorial Album" LP (Blue Note) Double LP 45 RPM Audiophile repressings. Limited.Green, Grant "Solid" LP (Blue Note) Double LP 45 RPM Audiophile repressings. Limited.
Simmons, Sonny "Staying on the Watch" CD (ESP-Disk) His debut as bandleader from 1966, extremely dense and fiery quintet performances.
Smith, Louis "Smithville" LP ?(Blue Note) Double LP 45 RPM Audiophile repressings. Limited.
Szabo, Gabor "Jazz Raga" CD (Light in the Attic) His third album for Impulse, from 1967.
Young, Larry "Unity" LP (Blue Note) Double LP 45 RPM Audiophile repressings. Limited.
Soul / Funk
v/a "Light: On The South Side" LP (Numero) Gathers for the first time over 100 of Michael Abramson's photos taken on Chicago's south side in the late 70s. The 132-page hard back book features photos, an ephemera section, and an essay by Nick Hornby. Housed in a gorgeous slipcase with the 12X12 book is Pepper's Jukebox, a seventeen track compilation of the kind of funky Chicago blues heard from the stage and the Wurlitizer. The deluxe 2LP set is packaged in a sharp gatefold jacket with two inner sleeves crammed to the gills with label scans and stories from the bar stool.Soundtracks
Loussier, Jacques "Tu Seras Terriblement Gentille OST" LP (Vadim Music) Mythical and rare record and wonderful soundtrack of the 60's, also known as "You Only Love Once".Nilovic, Janko "Rhythmes Contemporains" LP (Vadim Music) One of the most ambitious and costly 70's library records, This complex and protean work shines out particularly from the rich discography of this Yugoslavian composer siding with visions of the likes of David Axelrod or Lalo Schifrin.
Schafer, Karl-Heinz "Les Gants Blancs Du Diable OST" LP (Vadim Music) Jazzy fusion score for this 1973 film.
Techno / Electronic
DiskJokke "En Fid Tid" CD (Smalltown Supersound) Latest from Norwegian producer Joachim Dyrdahl aka Diskjokke with his prog disco.World
v/a "Ethiopiques 25" CD (Buda Records) Subtitled "1971-1975 Modern Roots" so you know it's at least as good as everything else this series has produced.Friday, June 11th
Rock / Indie / Punk
A Certain Ratio "Live America 1985" CD (Melodic) Recorded live on cassette, a quite good performance that manages to be very tight but loose and funky at the same time.Agent Orange "Living in Darkness" (orange ltd ed) LP (Drastic Plastic Records) The first album by the legendary Southern California beach skatecore band, tossing hardcore punk, metal and instro surf into the mix for a unique, genre-bending experience.
Agent Orange / Jesus And The Gospel Fuckers "Split" LP (Kangaroo)
Alps, The "Le Voyage" CD (Type UK) Still comprised of the core threesome of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma (Tarentel), Alexis Georgopoulos (ARP) and Scott Hewicker (Troll), The Alps return to Type in full force for their fourth sprawling long-player.
Amidon, Sam "I See the Sign" CD (Bedroom Community Iceland) Fourth album from experimental folkie Amidon, comprised mostly of new arrangements of traditional, public domain songs.
Ariel Pink "Before Today" CD/LP (4AD) His first real album with a real band, still his unique personality on display but with a little more unified quality. A weird mix of surreal takes on '70s AM rock filtered through some lo-fi synths and other modern touches.
Blank Dogs "Phrases" 12" (Captured Tracks) Mike Sniper's latest EP in a long succession of vinyl-only releases.
Blitzen Trapper "Destroyer Of The Void" CD/LP (Sub Pop) Exploring new combinations of folk, country, and rock, with an emphasis on experimental songwriting and lush melodies.
BLK JKS "ZOL! " CD (Secretly Canadian) The new BLK JKS ep just in time for The World Cup.
Cold Cave "Live Magazine Remixes" 12" (Matador) 4 mixes, including work by Arthur Baker, Pantha du Prince and Prurient.
Cure "Disintegration" (20th Anniversary Edition) CD/LP (Elektra) 3 CD remastered edition on it's 20th anniversary. The Cure's classic 1989 album has been remastered. 2LP and now features complete lyrics & bonus photos.
Durutti Column "LC" 180 gram LP (4 Men With Beards) The first two of Vini Reilly's albums under the moniker.
Durutti Column "The Return of the Durutti Column" 180 gram LP (4 Men With Beards)
Freshmillions "Fresh Millions" CD (Insect Records) First album from this local band - amazing huge songs from a huge drumset, old keyboards, marimba all captured in dope-o-phonic sound.
Henry Clay People "Somewhere On the Golden Coast" CD (TBD Records) New record from this up and coming west coast indie band currently on tour with Drive By Truckers.
Here We Go Magic "Pigeons" CD/LP (Secretly Canadian) Their follow-up to last year's release on Western Vinyl, this time fleshing out the tracks with a full band.
Hot Hot Heat "Future Breeds" CD (Dangerbird) After leaving their previous label, the foursome stripped away all the unnecessary elements in their lives, built their own studio in Vancouver, and emerged renewed and recharged.
Ichi Ni San Shi "Everything Leveling" 7" (Super Secret Records) Bill Jefferies and co.
King Lee & Quintron "Tire Shop" 7" (Goner Records) This single is a late-night ode to the St. Claude Tire Shop, recorded by Quintron and King Lee just blocks away at the Spellcaster. It's all over this incredibly slow drum-machine / echo-organ jam.
Light Pollution "Apparitions" CD/LP (Carpark) Inventive soundscapes and choral arrangements push the current boundaries of pop music.
Minks "Funeral Song" 7" (Captured Tracks) Like if Robert Smith gave birth to a baby, and the baby was actually a cassette of Cure demos.
Nada Surf "If I Had A Hi-Fi " CD (Mardev Records) A covers album full of inspired, unexpected choices. From avant-pop Kate Bush to underground power-pop classicist Dwight Twilley.
Ratatat "LP4" CD/LP (XL) Well they aren't going to win any awards for creative album titles, but this new collection is just as strong as anything else they've released.
Rose, Anna "Nomad" CD (White Pony) A 24-year-old singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
Segall, Ty "Melted" LP (Goner Records) 3rd album from this San Fransisco noise pop king.
Stormcrow / Coffins "split" 12" (20 Buck Spin) Their new split on the 20 Buck Spin label.
Tavana "Electric Monkey" CD Local release.
Teenage Fanclub "Shadows" CD (Merge) Five long years since their last album. Overflowing with tgorgeous, harmony-driven classics.
Tender Forever "No Snare" CD (K Records) Melanie Valera's third full length album moves into a darker and more melancholy direction.
Tender Trap "Do You Want A Boyfriend?" 7" Their new 7".
Tobacco "Maniac Meat" 2LP (Anticon) The creative force behind Black Moth Super Rainbow goes it solo for a 2nd time, handling all duties himself except for a couple of appearances from Beck.
Villagers "Becoming A Jackal" CD (Domino) Young Dubliner Conor J. O'Brien aka Villagers, is the behind the eleven varied, subtle, complex and gorgeous songs.
Wipers "Out Takes" LP (Jackpot) 13 unreleased songs and different versions collected from the years 1979-83. In other words culled from their very best material and completely great as always.
X (Australia) "Aspirations" LP (Rocknroll Blitzkrieg) Reissued!Just over 30 years after its original release, the classic Australian punk LP X-Aspirations is finally back in print on vinyl! Originally recorded in 1979 and released in 1980, Lobby Loyde (Coloured Balls) produced this album in a blistering 5 hour session.
Yo La Tengo "Here To Fall Remixes" 12" (Matador) De La Soul, RJD2 and Pete Rock, plus the original album version of the track.
Experimental
Emeralds "Does It Look Like I'm Here?" CD (Mego) Comprising of a number of tracks from their ultra-limited 7" series on Wagon as well as new tracks, there's more polish but possibly even more beauty than anything else they've done so far. If the sound of Tangerine Dream hanging out with Goblin (in a good mood anyway) and maybe trying to channel some Terry Riley or Mother Mallard sounds good to you, check it.Z'ev "as/if/when" LP (Sub Rosa) Side A recorded in 1978, and Side B recoded in 1981.
Jazz
Fire! "You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago" LP (Rune Grammofon) aka Mats Gustafsson (here on Fender Rhodes) with Johan Berthling (of Tape) on bass, electric guitar, and Hammond organ and Andreas Werliin on drums.Latin
Added some new titles and restocked some essentials in our Latin funk and soul sectionBobo, Willie "Let's Go Bobo" LP (Roulette) Great album from one of the best Latin Percussionists of all time.
Colon, Johnny "Portrait Of Johnny" LP (Cotique) Originally released on the Cotique label from 1971.
Colon, Johnny y su Orchestra "Boogaloo Blues" LP (Cotique) Classic Cotique release, originally from 1967.
Esto Si, Es Boogaloo "Con el combi nacional" LP (Seeco) Classic Boogaloo on the Seeco label.
Grand, Rene & His Combo New York "el Gran" LP (Seeco)
Grand, Rene & His Combo New York "Exciting And Grand" LP (Seeco) More great mid-60's latin Jazz from the Seeco label.
Latin Blues Band / Luis Aviles "Take A Trip Pussycat" LP (Speed) An awesome Psychedelic Latin Soul record from the late 60's on the Speed label.
Latinaires "Camel Walk" LP (Fania) Legendary Fania Boogaloo LP originally released in 1968.
Lebron Brothers "Brooklyn Bums" LP (Cotique) Late 60's work from the Laebron Brothers, featuring the track "Let's Get Stoned".
Lebron Brothers Orchestra "Psychedelic Goes Latin" LP (Cotique)
Mendez, Silvestre "Oriza" LP (Seeco) Great Santerian percussion freak-out.
Pucho & The Latin Soul Brothers "Tough!" LP (Prestige)
Rodriguez, Pete "I Like It Like That (A Mi Me Gusta Asi)" LP (Alegre)
Sesar, Lenni "s/t" LP (Fania)
Torrens, Ozie "Boogaloo In Apartment 41" LP (Decca) Awesome Boogaloo on the Decca label.
Metal
Hellhammer "Death Fiend" LP Also known as "Satanic Rites," this is the 1982 first demo recording by this very influential Swiss extreme metal band, who later went on to form Celtic Frost.Napalm Death "Peel Sessions" LP This combines the tracks from both Peel sessions the band did in 1987 and 1988, for a total of 25 tracks. With Lee Dorrian on vocals, this has been called their best lineup ever and one of the best recordings from these pioneers of extreme metal.
Prog / Psych
Can "Moonshake" LP This features four excellent tracks recorded for the BBC in 1973 and 1974: "Up the Bakerloo Line with Anne" from Feb. 1973, "Return to BB City" and "Tape Kebab" from Oct. 1974, and "Tony Wanna Go" from Jan. 1974. Nice blue and silver artworkGift "Blue Apple" LP A limited vinyl reissue of a rare Krautrock release from 1974 on the Nova label. Their 2nd album, it continues with the excellent heavy, hard-charging guitar riffing of the first, but adds substantial progressive keyboard parts with organ, mellotron, piano and moog. Really worth it for the outrageous cover art though.
Friedhof "S/T" LP A reissue of a very rare and obscure Krautrock gem from the early 1970s (various sources say 1971-73), this was the band's sole release, and combines relatively lo-fi recording with what "Crack in the Cosmic Egg" called "totally freaked-out guitar, bass and drums instrumentals, charged to the power of mind-numbing intensity."
Gottsching, Manuel "E2-E4" LP Pretty much the blueprint for all club / trance / ambient music since it was created in 1984. Now in on vinyl.
Green, Billy "Stone" OST LP (B-Music) Untraveled electronic swamp-funk from the 1974 Ozploitation biker-psych cult classic. Featuring 7 exclusive tracks not available on original LP. To many global record collectors, DJs, music producers and general retrophiles living outside of Australia "Stone" was primarily known for its electronic sound effects, psychedelic guitars, cosmic sound scapes and funky basslines.
Lazy Smoke "Corridor of Faces" LP (Jackpot) Back in stock. An obscure Massachusetts band of the late 1960s, Lazy Smoke offered a sort of Transatlantic psychedelic sound with roughly equal debts to American and British influences.
Moebius & Plank "Material" LP (Bureau B Germany) Their strange second album from 1981, originally released on Sky records.
Roedelius "The Diary Of The Unforgotten (Selbstportrait VI)" CD (Bureau B Germany) A collection of recordings from the years 1972 to 1978 and was first released in 1990.
v/a "Zulu Stomp!! South Africa Garage Beats!!" 12" (Nosmokerrecords Portugal) Great compilation of 60's South African garage bands.
Soul / Funk
Negro, Joey "Backstreet Brit Funk" 2CD (Ze Records) Awesome compilation of late 70's / early 80's British Disco and Funk.Soundtracks
v/a "Daisies OST" CD (Finders Keepers) Great soundtrack recordings from the Czech New Wave film "Daisies".Techno / Electronic
Hecker "Neu" CD (Neu Germany) Features three computer-generated pieces which were produced in close relation to Hecker's first exhibition at Gallery Neu in 2007. Comes with a 12-page booklet featuring the product photography of the original CD case design by Peter Saville.Koner, Thomas "Nunatak" 2LP (Type UK) Reissues German music producer Thomas Koner's debut album, the first in a set of three, on vinyl for the very first time. Originally introduced to the world in 1990, Nunatak (then named Nunatak Gongamur) was shockingly ahead of its time.
Mayer, Michael "Immer 3" CD (Kompakt) Presenting the third volume in Michael Mayer's highly-respected Immer (trans. "Always") mix compilation series.
Mills, Jeff "Waveform Transmission Vol. 1" CD (Tresor) This is the debut album from seminal techno DJ Jeff Mills, recorded in Detroit and released in 1992.
Mills, Jeff "Waveform Transmission Vol. 3" 2LP (Tresor) This is the last in the legendary Waveform Transmission series, originally released in 1994 and arguably a stylistic swan song.
World
Konono No 1 "Assume Crash Position" CD (Crammed) Long-anticipated follow-up to Konono's 2005 debut album sees their trademark thrilling junkyard sonics & relentlessly hypnotic percussive grooves (as created using thumb pianos & drums made from scrap metal & disused car parts) further elevated with electric guitars & bass.v/a "Ethnic Minority Music of Northwest Xinjiang, China" CD (Sublime Frequencies) New Sublime Frequencies release. An amazing batch of recordings collected during the weeks leading up to the volatile Uyghur uprising of 2009.
v/a "Let's A Go-go! Singapore" CD Awesome collection of Southeast Asian Pop, Garage, and Psychedelic music from the 60's.
v/a "Palenque Palenque: Champeta Criolla & Afro Roots in Colombia" CD (Soundway UK) 21 pulsating tracks drawn from the northern coasts of Colombia made between 1975-91. Reveals a unique and fascinating story of how Afro Colombian music developed from the 1970s onwards and how the local sound-systems in Cartagena and Barranquilla played such an important role in shaping the sound of the Colombian champeta.
DVD
Feldman, Morton "Trio" DVD (Mode) This is the only readily available performance of the Trio available in the U.S.A.Galaxie 500 "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste" 2DVD (202020.11) A comprehensive visual document spanning the history of Galaxie 500. A compendium of all their music videos, a TV appearance, and an archive of over 40 songs performed live. Jonsi "Go Quiet" DVD (XL) I's New Year's Day in Reykjavik, and Jonsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his party.
V/A "Deutschrock: Nacht 5" DVD More in this awesome series of German TV performances, features Scorpions, Popol Vuh, Amon Duul, Kraftwerk and many more!
V/A "Deutschrock: Nacht 6" DVD Seventeen tracks from the 1970s golden age of German progressive rock , this features Can, Tangerine Dream, Eloy, Embryo, Scorpions, Holderlin, Kraan, and more in performances from 1973 to 1979, plus two 2005 tracks as bonuses, from Tangerine Dream and Broselmashine.
Friday, June 4th
All Genres
Ambulars, The "Nothing to Say From Miles Away" 7" (Cosmic Debris) Emo out of DC, capital of all things emotive.Dirty Charlie "S/T" 7" (Raw Sugar)
Futureheads "The Chaos" CD (Dovecote Records) Recorded over a series of sessions with David Brewis of Field Music and renowned producer Youth (The Verve).
Goatsnake "Flower of Disease" LP (Southern Lord) Now in stock on vinyl.
Good Old War "S/T" CD (Sargent House) Second self-titled album by Pennsylvania indie-rock trio.
Hawthorne Heights "Skeletons" CD (Wind Up) Their latest.
Kisses And Hugs "S/T" LP (Raw Sugar) Originally recorded in 1994 and kept locked in a dank basement for close to a decade, this piece of Pennsylvania punk is finally seeing the light of day. Limited to 500 copies.
Lamb of God "Hourglass v.2, The Epic Years" CD (Epic) 13 songs from their 3 Epic albums.
Lazer Sword "Gucci Sweatshirt" 12" (Innovative Leisure)
Madlib "Madlib Medicine Show No. 3" LP (Madlib Medicine Show) Now in stock on vinyl.
Melvins "The Bride Screamed Murder" CD (Ipecac) Their new album.
Mexicans With Guns "Me Gusto" 12" (Innovative Leisure)
Ninjasonik "Art School Girls" CD (Green Owl) DIY Brookyln indie / rap / crunk trio of Telli, Jah and Teenwolf.
Patton, Mike "Mondo Cane" CD (Ipecac) Mike Patton (Faith No More, Peeping Tom, Tomahawk) unveils Mondo Cane, his Italian language rock-meets-orchestra hybrid.
Sue, Peggy "Fossils and Other Phantoms" CD (Yep Roc) 1st full length release from this Brighton UK based band.
The Big Take-Over #66 Special 30th Anniversary issue with Spoon on the cover. Includes part two of interviews with Lou Barlow, Big Star (R.I.P. Alex Chilton), and The Nerves.
Vandenavond, Tom "You Oughta Know Me By Now" CD (Hillgrass Bluebilly)
Virulence "If This Isn't A Dream 1985-1989" CD (Southern Lord) Reissue of the California punk band featuring future Nebula / Fu Manchu drummer Ruben Romano.
Weller, Paul "Wake up the Nation" CD (Yep Roc) Two tracks feature Bruce Foxton. Also contributions from Kevin Shields, ELO's Bev Bevan and drummer Clem Cattini.