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  • Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
    Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
    $75.00 | , ,

    “To hear a tape containing their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and locked away until now, is to hear traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Calvin Johnson – Gallows Wine
    Calvin Johnson – Gallows Wine
    $20.00 | ,

    Rock’n’roll is dead. Gallows Wine [KLP287] is a wake for it’s charred remains. Calvin Johnson traveled to Columbus, Mississippi to record Gallows Wine with the combo Hartle Road at their [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
    Ahmad Shamlou – Born Upon the Dark Spear
    $13.00 | ,

    Chasm. Mist. Dark Song. Hour of Execution. Behind the Wall. These are just some of the poetic titles of Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000) that together form the cipher to one of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    Ishmael Reed – Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
    $17.00 | ,

    Ishmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
    Anselm Hollo – The Tortoise of History
    $8.00 | ,

    Anselm Hollo (1934–2013) authored more than forty books and was an award-winning translator. Born in Helsinki, Finland, he was fluent in German, Swedish, Finnish, and English by age ten. Hollo [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    Alan Licht and John Krausbauer – Self Titled 7″
    $12.00 |

    What our staff has to say: “Insane amplified violin shredding on top of electric guitar on A side – I’ve never heard a violin sounding like that, blending completely with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
    John Krausbauer + Patrick Shiroishi – High Life 7″
    $12.00 |

    High Life is like a mini-album, a short journey or guide. The perfect use of the 7″ format, showcasing the range of this inventive duo with each playing their core […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Komet – Rausch LP
    Komet – Rausch LP
    $32.00 | ,

      Komet // Frank Bretschneider is one of the founders of the esteemed raster-media label. This album – originally a CD released on 12k in 2000, features clean sine-tones and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    $29.00 | ,

    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

    GENRE: International
  • Howard “Youngblood” Bomar – I Who Have Nothing
    Howard “Youngblood” Bomar – I Who Have Nothing
    $27.00 | ,

    Howard “Youngblood” Bomar’s long overdue debut album finally makes landfall! Howard Bomar was a man who slipped through everybody’s fingers. But his artistry escapes that fate thanks to I, Who [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Ahl Nana – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
    Ahl Nana – L’Orchestre National Mauritanien
    $40.00 | ,

    Lost recordings that defined the modern sound of the Sahara. This album contains the first recordings of modern music from the Sahara and mark the birth of the genre that […]

    GENRE: International
  • Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norm…
    $15.00 | ,

    In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
    George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of th…
    $14.00 | ,

    Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
    Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
    $25.00 | ,

    The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Boris Vian – Blues for a Black Cat & Other Stories
    Boris Vian – Blues for a Black Cat & Other Stories
    $15.00 | ,

    “[This collection] displays Vian’s range from gallows humor to verbal fireworks, and happily serves to give visibility to this important writer.”- Publishers Weekly. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Verlaines – Bird Dog (RSD, Opaque Purple Vinyl)
    The Verlaines – Bird Dog (RSD, Opaque Purple Vinyl)
    $30.00 | ,

    Bird Dog is an album by The Verlaines, originally released in 1987. It’s often considered to be their best, most introspective piece of work, and its songs “Slow Sad Love […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Phil Ochs – Best Of The Rest: Rare And Unreleased Recordings (RSD)
    Phil Ochs – Best Of The Rest: Rare And Unreleased Recordings (RS…
    $45.00 | ,

    Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter, but his talents extend far beyond that to short stories, poetry and satire. More than a torrent, less than a flood, the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jason Doell –  Becoming In The Shadows ~ Of Being Touched LP
    Jason Doell – Becoming In The Shadows ~ Of Being Touched LP
    $18.00 | ,

    It’s hard to parse exactly what you’re listening to when you immerse yourself in Jason Doell’s new recording, Becoming In Shadows ~ Of Being Touched. The old adage about never [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Boy Harsher – Burn It Down
    Boy Harsher – Burn It Down
    $19.00 | ,

    Fan favorite dark dance outfit Boy Harsher have contributed a sumptuously eerie track for the David Gordon Green directed finale to the iconic Halloween franchise. Sacred Bones and Nude Club […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
    Sistrenatus ? Sensitive Disturbance
    $5.00 |

    Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. “Sensitive Disturbance” is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Splinterskin ? Wayward Souls
    Splinterskin ? Wayward Souls
    $6.00 |

    Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
    Trepaneringsritualen – Veil The World
    $10.00 | ,

    »All seals have been broken« proclaims a demonic voice on the titular track of Veil The World, and that is something terrifyingly evident in the music contained therein. On Veil […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
    South Saturn Delta ? Experience The Concreteness
    $4.00 |

    This is South Saturn Delta’s debut album, featuring their finest live recordings from between 2003-2005, in Osaka and Tokyo. SSD is a kind of Japanoise supergroup, formed in 2003, with […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Spiteful Womb – Interior Castle
    Spiteful Womb – Interior Castle
    $23.00 |

    the debut LP of Nora Zimmerman’s project Spiteful Womb. ‘Interior Castle’ coalesces so many of the elements which have coursed through Nora’s near-decade of cassette and CDR releases, combining [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Shirese – Rose Of Smiling Faces LP
    Shirese – Rose Of Smiling Faces LP
    $23.00 |

    What our staff has to say: “If the almighty Grapefruit Records has a hand in it, you know it’s going to be good. Killer psyched out rock very reminiscent of […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – I.d. Art #2
    V/A – I.d. Art #2
    $24.00 | ,

    “Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle. Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Avey Tare – 7s
    Avey Tare – 7s
    $24.00 | ,

    During the first week of January 2021, Avey Tare (Animal Collective) began making regular drives to his friend Adam McDaniel’s Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, NC to give guts […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Melvin Van Peebles – Watermelon Man (Green Watermelon Skin Vinyl
    Melvin Van Peebles – Watermelon Man (Green Watermelon Skin Vinyl
    $26.00 | ,

    In an extraordinary career spanning seven decades, director and “godfather of black cinema” Melvin Van Peebles only made one studio film. 1970’s Watermelon Man shattered [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • East Coast – S/T (Fire Orange With Black Streaks Vinyl)
    East Coast – S/T (Fire Orange With Black Streaks Vinyl)
    $26.00 | ,

    The only conceivable reason this 1973 album isn’t generally recognized as a soul-funk classic is because it came out on Bernard Purdie’s Encounter label, which mustered only five LP [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • George Scott – Find Someone to Love (Green Vinyl)
    George Scott – Find Someone to Love (Green Vinyl)
    $25.00 | ,

    This soul-funk nugget, released in the early ’70s on the uber-collectible Maple label, qualifies as a major find based on George Scott’s Wilson Pickett-meets-James-Brown vocal [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live In Brussels ?19  (White, Orange, Blue Vinyl)
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Live In Brussels ?19 (W…
    $56.00 | ,

    This is the Fuzz Club Records official bootleg of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s ‘Live In Brussels ‘19’ LP. The live album was recorded when the prolific Australian psych-rock […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard / Demos & Rarities  (One Blue / One Violet LP)
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard / Demos & Rarities (One Bl…
    $43.00 | ,

    Spanning the best part of a decade, in 2020 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard released a two-volume demo collection recorded between 2011 and 2020. This Fuzz Club Bootleg brings […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • SOHN – Trust
    SOHN – Trust
    $14.00 | ,

    Trust marks a seismic shift in perception and direction for the solo artist, echoing SOHN’s new responsibility as the father of three children. Moving from Los Angeles to the serenity […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Freddie Gibbs – Singles
    Freddie Gibbs – Singles
    $21.00 | ,

    Freddie Gibbs latest release is a special limited edition 12 inch available in 3 random covers pressed on black vinyl.

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • The Residents – Meet The Residents (50th Anniversary 3xLP Boxset)
    The Residents – Meet The Residents (50th Anniversary 3xLP Boxset…
    $58.00 | ,

    “Formed in the early 1970s, The Residents have now been charting a unique path through the musical landscape for half a century. To commemorate their 50th Anniversary, the group revisit [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Cosmic Jokers / Sternenmädchen – Gilles Zeitschiff
    Cosmic Jokers / Sternenmädchen – Gilles Zeitschiff
    $25.00 | ,

    Reissue of the original 1974 album by Gille Lettmann aka Sternenmädchen/Star Maiden. Live in the Quadro Studio: Gille and Klaus Schulze. Music inserts from the LPs Seven Up (Ash Ra […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • NBDY – Woods & Wires
    NBDY – Woods & Wires
    $10.00 |

    Czech Republic based artist NBDY utilities precise measures in his approach to cut-up noise. Tearing into passages with precise immediacy which at points abruptly hyperextends into crisp, bracing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset & Book
    The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival – Boxset �…
    $85.00 | ,

    What our staff has to say: “Almost 5 hours of recordings from the 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival on 4 cassettes and including a lovely 240 page book documenting […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Matthew J Rolin – Passing
    Matthew J Rolin – Passing
    $22.00 |

    What our staff has to say: “I’m a big fan of Matthew Rolin’s guitar style, and this recent record is stunning. Each track is a dense, glimmering passage of fingerstyle […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
    Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
    $13.00 | ,

    Limited pressing of 300 with riso sleeve. “In the spirit of Dead Moon before them, Green/Blue have wrangled the simplicity of “Worry” and “Gimme Hell” to write some of their […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
    Joseph Kessel – Army Of Shadows
    $10.00 | ,

    Originally published in Algiers in 1943, Joseph Kessel’s Army of Shadows is one of the first books to have been written about the French Resistance. Now available in paperback, Contra […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
    Mattxibarra – Absolute Misery
    $9.00 |

    It should come as no surprise that ‘deep listening,’ a practice attributed to the late Pauline Oliveros, gestated into a form of ‘music,’ often labelled ‘as ambient, ethereal, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
    $12.00 |

    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    Demonologists – Dissociative Themes
    $12.00 |

    Released October, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Demonologists/Utarm
    Demonologists/Utarm
    $12.00 |

    Released December, 2020

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Changing Legs
    $10.00 |

    What our staff has to say: “EPA return with a disc of duos. I would say this is a good disc for all Improv Heads, Kraut Rock Dropouts, & Kentucky […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chronophage – S/T
    Chronophage – S/T
    $20.00 | ,

    What our staff has to say: “Chronophage is one of those bands that I will forever be interested in their output. This most recent record feels like a small departure […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
    Fuxter Schittly – “1998 – 1999 God Particles”
    $10.00 | ,

    What our staff has to say: “An excellent example that we have no real grasp on what is going on around us. In a world of fake news and discordianism, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Private Lives – S/T CS
    Private Lives – S/T CS
    $8.00 |

    Five tracks of incredibly vital and hard hitting punk from Montréal! Private Lives morphed from the pandemic bedroom project of husband and wife Chance (guitar) and Jackie (vocals) into a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Why Bother? – There Are Such Things CS
    Why Bother? – There Are Such Things CS
    $10.00 | ,

    Undeniably one of the most prolific punk bands of the moment, Iowa’s WHY BOTHER? are back mere weeks after their debut LP with an eleven song cassette! Just in time […]