June 14th Newsletter

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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Gene Criss And The Hep Cats ‎– Hep Cat Baby [reissue]
    Gene Criss And The Hep Cats ‎– Hep Cat Baby [reissue]
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Rhythm (5) – RR-102 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue Country: US Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Mac Curtis – Grandaddy’s Rockin’ / Half Hearted Love
    Mac Curtis – Grandaddy’s Rockin’ / Half Hearted Love
    $50.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: King Records (3) – K-4949 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Reissue, Styrene Country: US Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Peppermint Harris – Angel Child / Ain’t No Business
    Peppermint Harris – Angel Child / Ain’t No Business
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Duke (4) – 319 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo, Reissue, Unofficial Release Country: UK Released: 2010 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Blues
  • The Larks – No Mama No / Honey From The Bee
    The Larks – No Mama No / Honey From The Bee
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Apollo Records (2) – 475-45 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1955 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rhythm & Blues
  • The Kids From Texas – Long Legged Linda / I’m So Lonely
    The Kids From Texas – Long Legged Linda / I’m So Lonely
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Hanover (3) – 4500 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Unofficial Release Country: US Released: 1974 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Roy Hall And His Jumping Cats ‎– Bed Spring Motel
    Roy Hall And His Jumping Cats ‎– Bed Spring Motel
    $70.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Hi-Q – 5045 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1965 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Billy Harlan – School House Rock / I Wanna Bop [reissue/bootleg]
    Billy Harlan – School House Rock / I Wanna Bop [reissue/bootleg]
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Brunswick – 9-55066 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue, Unofficial Release Country: US Released: 1973 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Joe Clay – Duck Tail / Sixteen Chicks
    Joe Clay – Duck Tail / Sixteen Chicks
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Vik – 4X-0211 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Eddie Bond And His Stompers – Slip, Slip, Slippin’ In
    Eddie Bond And His Stompers – Slip, Slip, Slippin’ In
    $42.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Mercury – 70882X45 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Reissue Country: US Released: 1973 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Al Casey And The Bats ‎– (Got The) Teen-Age Blues
    Al Casey And The Bats ‎– (Got The) Teen-Age Blues
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Highland Records – 1002 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Repress Country: US Released: 1974 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE:
  • Lee Finn & His Rhythm Boys – Cat All Night
    Lee Finn & His Rhythm Boys – Cat All Night
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Rollin’ Rock – EP-45-024 Format: Vinyl, 7″, EP Country: UK Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Hayden Thompson ‎– Fairlane Rock / Blues Blues Blues
    Hayden Thompson ‎– Fairlane Rock / Blues Blues Blues
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Sun (9) – 605 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: France Released: 1976 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll

VINYL

  • Gene Criss And The Hep Cats ‎– Hep Cat Baby [reissue]
    Gene Criss And The Hep Cats ‎– Hep Cat Baby [reissue]
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Rhythm (5) – RR-102 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue Country: US Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Mac Curtis – Grandaddy’s Rockin’ / Half Hearted Love
    Mac Curtis – Grandaddy’s Rockin’ / Half Hearted Love
    $50.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: King Records (3) – K-4949 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Reissue, Styrene Country: US Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Peppermint Harris – Angel Child / Ain’t No Business
    Peppermint Harris – Angel Child / Ain’t No Business
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Duke (4) – 319 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo, Reissue, Unofficial Release Country: UK Released: 2010 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Blues
  • The Larks – No Mama No / Honey From The Bee
    The Larks – No Mama No / Honey From The Bee
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Apollo Records (2) – 475-45 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1955 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rhythm & Blues
  • The Kids From Texas – Long Legged Linda / I’m So Lonely
    The Kids From Texas – Long Legged Linda / I’m So Lonely
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Hanover (3) – 4500 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Unofficial Release Country: US Released: 1974 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Roy Hall And His Jumping Cats ‎– Bed Spring Motel
    Roy Hall And His Jumping Cats ‎– Bed Spring Motel
    $70.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Hi-Q – 5045 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1965 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Billy Harlan – School House Rock / I Wanna Bop [reissue/bootleg]
    Billy Harlan – School House Rock / I Wanna Bop [reissue/bootleg]
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Brunswick – 9-55066 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue, Unofficial Release Country: US Released: 1973 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Joe Clay – Duck Tail / Sixteen Chicks
    Joe Clay – Duck Tail / Sixteen Chicks
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Vik – 4X-0211 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Eddie Bond And His Stompers – Slip, Slip, Slippin’ In
    Eddie Bond And His Stompers – Slip, Slip, Slippin’ In
    $42.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Mercury – 70882X45 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Reissue Country: US Released: 1973 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Al Casey And The Bats ‎– (Got The) Teen-Age Blues
    Al Casey And The Bats ‎– (Got The) Teen-Age Blues
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Highland Records – 1002 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Repress Country: US Released: 1974 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE:
  • Lee Finn & His Rhythm Boys – Cat All Night
    Lee Finn & His Rhythm Boys – Cat All Night
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Rollin’ Rock – EP-45-024 Format: Vinyl, 7″, EP Country: UK Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Hayden Thompson ‎– Fairlane Rock / Blues Blues Blues
    Hayden Thompson ‎– Fairlane Rock / Blues Blues Blues
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Sun (9) – 605 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: France Released: 1976 Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: Generic

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll

CDs

  • Unrest – Perfect Teeth (30th Anniversary Edition) (2xCD)
    Unrest – Perfect Teeth (30th Anniversary Edition) (2xCD)
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Bowing out at their creative peak, Perfect Teeth is the wonderful final album by American 90s indie rock greats Unrest. Having just clocked 30 years, 4AD and the band are […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Seefeel – Quique (Redux) (2xCD)
    Seefeel – Quique (Redux) (2xCD)
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Seefeel’s Quique emerged in 1993 on the Too Pure label, blending elements of shoegaze, ambient, and electronic music into an innovative and genre-defying sound. The record’s complex [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pulp – More.
    Pulp – More.
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    WORDS FROM JARVIS ON “MORE”: “This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for almost 24 years. How did that happen? […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pale Saints – Slow Buildings 30th Anniversary Re:Masters (2xCD)
    Pale Saints – Slow Buildings 30th Anniversary Re:Masters (2xCD)
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    The Pale Saints complete their series of 30th anniversary reissues with the release of an expanded edition of their third and final album, Slow Buildings.By 1994 they were the quartet […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mdou Moctar – Tears Of Injustice
    Mdou Moctar – Tears Of Injustice
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Tears of Injustice is the acoustic version of Funeral For Justice. If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s […]

    GENRE: African
  • Maria Somerville – Luster
    Maria Somerville – Luster
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    By the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lifeguard – Ripped And Torn
    Lifeguard – Ripped And Torn
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Ripped and Torn on June 6. The youthful trio of Asher Case, Isaac Lowenstein, and Kai Slater have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist
    Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Norwegian musician, artist and novelist Jenny Hval announces her new album, Iris Silver Mist, out on 2 May, the lead single/video ‘To be a rose’, and a UK/EU tour. Iris […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Horsegirl – Phonetics On And On
    Horsegirl – Phonetics On And On
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January— the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – Caroline 2
    Caroline – Caroline 2
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Returning with ‘caroline 2’, the eight-piece collective embrace a bolder, more expansive sound. Going beyond their debut’s explorations of repetition, slowness and space, the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
    Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Are you having Aerial Troubles with your Colour TV? We can’t help with the technical issues, but we are able to take your minds off the problem with news of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pete Shelley – Homosapien
    Pete Shelley – Homosapien
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    After Buzzcocks disbanded in 1981, frontman Pete Shelley teamed up with Martin Rushent, embracing the producer’s newly acquired synths and drum machines to rework his tracks, crafting a new [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop

BOOKS

  • Roland Barthes – Mythologies
    Roland Barthes – Mythologies
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    “[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes’s progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
    Sidney D. Kirkpatrick – A Cast Of Killers
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    Forty years after the 1921 murder of distinguised silent film director William Desmond Taylor, another famed director, King Vidor, ferreted out Taylor’s murderer. The full story of this [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sybil Leek – The Complete Art Of Witchcraft (Very Rare)
    Sybil Leek – The Complete Art Of Witchcraft (Very Rare)
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    Packed with revealing anecdotes and information, this rich, enticing portrait of witchcraft presents the engrossing, fiery history of the ancient religion kept alive despite centuries of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Print
    The Print
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    A discussion of the art of printmaking, with particular consideration paid to photo prints. Time Life Books, 1981 Hardcover edition. Some staining to boards.

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Jeanne Betancourt – Women In Focus (Scarce, as-is)
    Jeanne Betancourt – Women In Focus (Scarce, as-is)
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    An early study on women directors across a variety of genres Pflaum Publishing, 1974 Softcover edition. Tear to front wrap at spine. Remainder holepunh in front wrap. Some discoloration to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Patricia Bosworth – Diane Arbus
    Patricia Bosworth – Diane Arbus
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In this book we follow Arbus’ progress as a photographer – coming to see how the work of others influenced her, and how the “New Documents” exhibit at the Museum [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut
    Hitchcock/Truffaut
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    In Hitchcock, film critic François Truffaut presents fifty hours of interviews with Alfred Hitchcock about the whole of his vast directorial career, from his silent movies in Great Britain to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Focus On: Hitchcock (as-is)
    Focus On: Hitchcock (as-is)
    $5.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In this volume LaValley presents the most comprehensive look at Hitchcock to date, examining the man and his films from a three-fold approach; Hitchcock on Hitchcock, the Hitchcock [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
    Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mal’uocchiu: Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress
    Mal’uocchiu: Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine. Researchers have attempted to identify and explain this essentially [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
    Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
    Dark Matter: In Defiance of Catastrophic Modernity: A Fieldguide to Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction