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  • Luisa – Luísa
    Luisa – Luísa
    $17.00 | ,

    “Azymuth bassist Alex Malheiros doesn’t remember recording this single. It’s understandable — the sessions happened over forty years ago, and at the time, Malheiros, Ivan [...]

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
    Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
    $29.00 | ,

    “Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s The Walls Have Ears appeared/disappeared as a 2LP set in [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sonic Youth – Sister
    Sonic Youth – Sister
    $25.00 | ,

    “One of Sonic Youth’s most beloved albums, 1987’s Sister incorporated the dissonance of their earlier releases into more traditional song structures. It’s an innovative [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ciccone Youth – The Whitey Album
    Ciccone Youth – The Whitey Album
    $21.00 | ,

    “A deluxe vinyl re-release of Ciccone Youth’s The Whitey Album, the full-length recorded by Sonic Youth’s Top-40 obsessed alter-ego is now available on the band’s own [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Phylipe Nunes Araújo – Phylipe Nunes Araújo
    Phylipe Nunes Araújo – Phylipe Nunes Araújo
    $28.00 | ,

    “Phylipe Nunes Araújo’s songs are as rich and varied as the diverse landscapes they were written in. The hills of Pernambuco, the lagoons of Alagoas, and the beaches of Bahia […]

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Agustin Pereyra Lucena – Puertos De Alternativa
    Agustin Pereyra Lucena – Puertos De Alternativa
    $28.00 | ,

    “Far Out Recordings continues its reissue campaign of the late Argentinian guitarist Agustin Pereyra Lucena’s work with the first-ever vinyl reissue of his singular 1988 private press [...]

    GENRE: International, Latin
  • Hüma Utku – Dracones
    Hüma Utku – Dracones
    $31.00 | ,

    “Hüma Utku returns to Editions Mego with her new album. The title Dracones makes reference to the mediaeval Latin term “Hic sunt dracones” (Here be dragons), marking the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Rivet – Peck Glamour
    Rivet – Peck Glamour
    $31.00 | ,

    “Rivet’s new album for Editions Mego is an uplifting and joyous affair coming in the wake of tragedy and disenchantment. It is yet another rebirth from an artist willing to […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Thom Gill – Horizon
    Thom Gill – Horizon
    $28.00 | ,

    “Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Horizon, featuring music by Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill as a score for artist David Hartt’s film. This vinyl-only project is co-released with [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ken Vandermark – October Flowers for Joe McPhee
    Ken Vandermark – October Flowers for Joe McPhee
    $14.00 | ,

    “It’s not a stretch to say that saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Vandermark’s path into creative music was paved by Joe McPhee. In particular, McPhee’s landmark 1976 LP [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions – The Last Quintet
    Extraordinary Popular Delusions – The Last Quintet
    $19.00 | ,

    “Two decades ago, an all-star assembly of Chicago improvisers started a new band, drawing its name from an 1841 book by Charles Mackay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions. With weekly gigs at [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Alice – Châteaux Faibles
    Alice – Châteaux Faibles
    $18.00 | ,

    “Alice is a vocal harmony trio made up of three persons, joined by a cheap synth and limited virtuosity. Together, they craft a kind of future folklore that’s part funny, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Smog – Rain On Lens
    Smog – Rain On Lens
    $24.00 | ,

    “The uninitiated listeners will hear this LP as a greatest hits package, sending one scurrying to find the record each song is from. NOTE: They’re all from Rain on Lens […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Major Stars – Return To Form
    Major Stars – Return To Form
    $13.00 | ,

    “On their seventh album, Return to Form, acid rockers Major Stars make a journey back to their fuzzier, more psychedelic roots. Sandra Barrett is still holding down the vocal duties, but [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Major Stars – Mirror/Messenger
    Major Stars – Mirror/Messenger
    $13.00 | ,

    “New school psych freak-outs from the Northeast. Three guitars slice at your ears with knives of all sizes while Sandra Barrett belts out her vocals, drawing the songs tight before […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Joanna Newsom – Divers
    Joanna Newsom – Divers
    $13.00 | ,

    “…further along and down the road apiece from where she took her leave of us, Joanna Newsom plays on. Breathe deep and equalize your today-ears to the new world of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jim White – Inner Day
    Jim White – Inner Day
    $25.00 | ,

    “For his second solo album, master drummer Jim White travels further into expressionist landscapes of private meditation; his vehicle, an evocative duet of keyboards and drums alongside his [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jim White – Inner Day
    Jim White – Inner Day
    $13.00 | ,

    “For his second solo album, master drummer Jim White travels further into expressionist landscapes of private meditation; his vehicle, an evocative duet of keyboards and drums alongside his [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Glyders – Forever
    Glyders – Forever
    $24.00 | ,

    “Look what glyded in, y’all – drop Forever on the platter and get the house party started! Glyders been dreaming up this sound for ages – over years, with different […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Death – III
    Death – III
    $22.00 | ,

    “Death comes a-knockin’ again! Two later phases set the stage for a third rip through the archives: 1980’s “North St.” finds the band still uncoiling dense knots of [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Broth…
    $13.00 | ,

    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Broth…
    $23.00 | ,

    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Ease Down The Road
    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Ease Down The Road
    $13.00 | ,

    “The palace halls are rocking with new music! Take heart- our Bonnie “Prince” has lived to sing another day.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
    Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
    $13.00 | ,

    “Hark, the Prince returns! Dark and mysterious, yet occasionally jovial – that’s the man you remember. Here he brings some of the classic country sound mixed with his own honest [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
    Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware
    $26.00 | ,

    “Hark, the Prince returns! Dark and mysterious, yet occasionally jovial – that’s the man you remember. Here he brings some of the classic country sound mixed with his own honest [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tongues
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea Of Tong…
    $13.00 | ,

    “At the locus of five corners, mythos is in the wind; a sea of tongues boils forth, mountains spurting forth from the magma. Bonny sings for who he was and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master And Everyone
    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Master And Everyone
    $13.00 | ,

    “Ain’t you wealthy? Ain’t you wise? BPB’s 3rd album.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Arnold Dreyblatt – Nodal Excitation
    Arnold Dreyblatt – Nodal Excitation
    $23.00 | ,

    “Minimalist avant-rock from experimentalist Dreyblatt: ultra-rhythmic overtones created from striking piano strings strung to a bass.”

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Norbert Wiener – The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
    Norbert Wiener – The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and …
    $19.00 | ,

    For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings–the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eileen Myles – Cool for You
    Eileen Myles – Cool for You
    $17.00 | ,

    “Why can’t I live right now. Because I am not rich, I am not a saint. But I do know this: not all of us were sent here to work. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
    Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of C…
    $24.00 | ,

    “When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    $34.00 | ,

    “The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Simon Critchley – Mysticism
    Simon Critchley – Mysticism
    $19.00 | ,

    A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
    Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
    $20.00 | ,

    Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    $30.00 | ,

    With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
    Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
    $25.00 | ,

    The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Severo Sarduy – Cobra
    Severo Sarduy – Cobra
    $17.00 | ,

    The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Originally […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
    Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House
    $16.00 | ,

    Altered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Techno / House / Electronic
  • The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France
    The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Sièc…
    $38.00 | ,

    In fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chenille – Riffing On The Loaf
    Chenille – Riffing On The Loaf
    $10.00 | ,

    Off-kilter and lo-fi slowcore. Think Raincoats fronting a band on Darla.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hawkwind – Live 1972
    Hawkwind – Live 1972
    $10.00 | ,

    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Recorded live by the BBC on 28th September 1972 at the famed Paris Theatre in London, this is the classic Space Ritual-era Hawkwind, featuring […]

  • Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
    Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
    $10.00 | ,

    In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. This work is a masterpiece compilation released from Ethiopia’s in 1972 on the eve of the release of Mulatu Astatke’s masterpiece [...]

  • I Want To Die. I Want To Live. – An Acid Mixtape – Radio Topo #19
    I Want To Die. I Want To Live. – An Acid Mixtape – Radio T…
    $10.00 |

    Deep in the bad places in your mind, you have to fight to get out. C50 of acid bummers.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    Golden Rain – Balinese Gamelan Music
    $10.00 |

    Nowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]

    GENRE: International
  • Primitive Impulse – Piss It Away
    Primitive Impulse – Piss It Away
    $20.00 | ,

    Like a roar, or a belch, in the face of late-stage capitalism Cincinnati’s Primitive Impulse comes blasting through your speakers with thirteen tracks of head-pounding drums, face-shredding [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion
    Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion
    $20.00 | ,

    After some turbulent late teen years in her former pop punk band, Mixtapes, Maura Weaver needed a break. Months became years and the songs still weren’t coming. It wasn’t until […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Self Improvement – Syndrome
    Self Improvement – Syndrome
    $20.00 | ,

    Perhaps in the contemporary simulacra wherein copies are all copies of other copies, the sense of the fraught sophomore effort is accentuated even more so. In a world of endless […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Portable Vaudeville – Holland Festival
    Portable Vaudeville – Holland Festival
    $30.00 | ,

    Infinite Expanse is excited to announce the reissue of Holland Festival, the soundtrack for The Theatre for Moveable People, Objects and Music, originally performed live in 1983 during the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Phobophlyptix – Phobophlyptix
    Phobophlyptix – Phobophlyptix
    $20.00 | ,

    Radical Documents is amped to announce the debut LP from LA, CA’s PHOBOPHLYPTIX. In 10 songs, clocking just over 9 minutes, ZZ, JJ, Paully, and Sammy thrash, grind, chug, and […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Martin Franklin & Michael O’Dempsey – Kolbe
    Martin Franklin & Michael O’Dempsey – Kolbe
    $13.00 | ,

    Live recordings taken from the theatrical performance at St Edwards Church, Windsor, UK September 1986. Michael O’Dempsey: Yamaha CX5M, modified violin, piano, voice Martin Franklin: Korg MS10, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Soundtracks / Library Music