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  • George Berger – Story Of Crass
    George Berger – Story Of Crass
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    Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
    BP Nichol – Martyrology Books 1 & 2
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    ‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
    Cecilia Konchar Farr – As I Was Saying
    $30.00 | ,

    An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans. One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
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    Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the Sands of North Africa
    Brion Gysin – The Process: Beat-Era Mysticism and Madness in the…
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    The Process by Brion Gysin is a groundbreaking novel that takes readers on a hallucinatory journey across the Sahara Desert. The story follows Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
    Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
    $16.00 | ,

    In these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
    Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
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    Jane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling. Two […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Natsuo Kirino – Out
    Natsuo Kirino – Out
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    This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
    Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
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    A special edition of A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Deleuze & Guattari – Anti-Oedipus
    Deleuze & Guattari – Anti-Oedipus
    $23.00 | ,

    When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars
    Ken Hollings – Welcome to Mars
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    Welcome to Mars is a captivating look at the culture of postwar America and its dream of limitless technological and human development. Utilizing declassified government archives, newspaper [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde
    Nothing and Everything – The Influence of Buddhism on the Americ…
    $22.00 | ,

    In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, the world—and life itself—became a legitimate artist’s tool, aligning with Zen Buddhism’s emphasis on “enlightenment at any moment” and living in […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Will Lawrence – Rooftops In The Centerfold
    Will Lawrence – Rooftops In The Centerfold
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    “Lawrence’s pedigree as an artist extends beyond his solo career, as the drummer of popular Americana act The Felice Brothers, as well as John Early and the Lemon Squares and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Grace Rogers – Mad Dogs
    Grace Rogers – Mad Dogs
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    Kentucky singer, songwriter and poet, Grace Rogers, comes from a family of old time, traditional and string band musicians. Her great grandpa Charlie Rogers played guitar in the Kentucky String [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Shutaro Noguchi & The Roadhouse Band* – On The Run
    Shutaro Noguchi & The Roadhouse Band* – On The Run
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    “Shutaro Noguchi didn’t set out to make a farewell album, but On the Run captures a moment of profound change. Recorded just weeks before moving back to Japan after 20 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Arbor Labor Union – Out To Pasture
    Arbor Labor Union – Out To Pasture
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    Stretching out from purple dawn (Patch of Violet) to cicada twilight (Spittle of the Morning Moon) like Whitman laying on his back observing the dew drop worlds collected on shards […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unclouded
    Melody’s Echo Chamber – Unclouded
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    On her fourth album, Unclouded, Melody’s Echo Chamber embarks on a life-affirming new chapter with an album that celebrates the present moment, whatever state we find ourselves in. There’s a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009)
    Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009)
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    A new live album that sees the band reflecting on their 6th album, Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) is comprised of performances of songs in London, Amsterdam, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Daniel Avery – Tremor
    Daniel Avery – Tremor
    $32.00 | ,

    Tremor – the breathtaking sixth album by Daniel Avery. An inner world built from chaotic noise, transcendental ambience and voices that echo around it like pulsing transmissions from some distant [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Big Thief – Double Infinity
    Big Thief – Double Infinity
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    It was winter in Manhattan. The streets were frozen and still the band rode bicycles to the Power Station on 53rd and back to Brooklyn for three weeks. Three weeks […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pharoah Sanders – Izipho Zam (My Gifts)
    Pharoah Sanders – Izipho Zam (My Gifts)
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    Pharoah Sanders’ Izipho Zam (My Gifts) is a groundbreaking jazz masterpiece. Recorded in 1969, two years after John Coltrane’s passing, and released in 1973 on Strata-East, the album [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
    Jaime Semprún – A Gallery of Recuperation
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    The first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France’s most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
    Manfred Hermes – Hystericizing Germany
    $26.00 | ,

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fourteen-part Berlin Alexanderplatz, broadcast on German television in 1980, is a pivotal work in the artist’s oeuvre. The 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
    Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
    $29.00 | ,

    Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years. Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
    Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
    $26.00 | ,

    Sweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
    Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
    $21.00 | ,

    The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Mark Fisher – K-Punk
    Mark Fisher – K-Punk
    $35.00 | ,

    A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation. This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryann Donnelly – Body High
    Ryann Donnelly – Body High
    $15.00 | ,

    How do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the ’60s offer remedies to the author’s […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
    Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
    $15.00 | ,

    A nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972
    Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute o…
    $25.00 | ,

    The history of India’s first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor. Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends
    Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery &…
    $19.00 | ,

    120 vivid “exquisite corpse” drawings made by the outrageous artist, performer, and designer Leigh Bowery with friends and collaborators during the 1980s and 1990s. In the wild years [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
    Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
    $35.00 | ,

    An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
    Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
    $25.00 | ,

    Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
    Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
    $18.00 | ,

    A forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert’s version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community. Tony Duvert’s novel Atlantic [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
    Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
    $17.00 | ,

    A report on the administration of deviant desire in specialized clinics that documents the way our postmodern society exposes sexuality to the point of overexposure. Do you ever get aroused […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
    Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
    $20.00 | ,

    An uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario Džamonja wrote raw, unfiltered accounts of life in the streets […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Golomb – The Beat Goes On
    Golomb – The Beat Goes On
    $14.00 | ,

    Molded in the fertile rock crescent of Columbus,Ohio, three-piece Golomb – comprised of Mickey Shuman (vocals/guitar), Xenia Shuman (bass/guitar) and Hawken Holm (drums) – channel [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    $22.00 | ,

    Joan Shelley follows her critically-acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her 7th album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), the 13-tracks feature [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    $14.00 | ,

    Joan Shelley follows her critically-acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her 7th album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), the 13-tracks feature [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
    Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
    $25.00 | ,

    “The recordings Contained herein are contained here after many years on the shelf…” So begin Michael Hurley’s notes to these unbelievably great recordings from [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru* – Church of Kidane Mehret
    Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru* – Church of Kidane Mehret
    $15.00 | ,

    Deeply resonant spiritual music transmitted via piano, organ, and harmonium by beloved composer and Ethiopian Orthodox nun Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. Church of Kidane Mehret collects all the [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
    Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
    $23.00 | ,

    Country, township jazz, and pop hits from the height of Zambia’s freedom movement. Vocalist, guitarist, and bandleader Alick Nkhata moved effortlessly between lonesome country slide, big band [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Crushed – No Scope
    Crushed – No Scope
    $24.00 | ,

    As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Crushed – No Scope
    Crushed – No Scope
    $14.00 | ,

    As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • JJulius* – Vol III
    JJulius* – Vol III
    $25.00 | ,

    In the discourse around new albums from singular, world-building artists, the phrase “a big step forward” can often be a blinking red warning sign. You know you’re about to be […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • François J. Bonnet* / Sarah Davachi – Banshee / Basse Brevis
    François J. Bonnet* / Sarah Davachi – Banshee / Basse Brevis
    $22.00 | ,

    François J. Bonnet – Banshee Banshee is an ear directed towards the edges of the old world, where these infinite fines terrae cut and fractalize into coasts, harbours, fjords, peninsulas […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sissy Spacek – Entrance
    Sissy Spacek – Entrance
    $27.00 | ,

    Entering its 26th year of activity, the morphing, Los Angeles based experimental outfit, Sissy Spacek, joins Shelter Press with Entrance, among the project’s most captivating outings to date. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – A Todas Las Imágenes Del Mundo: Antología Del Canto A Lo Divino
    V/A – A Todas Las Imágenes Del Mundo: Antología Del Canto A Lo Divino
    $28.00 | ,

    Canto A Lo Divino is the unique musical expression of the Chilean peasant world – a conversation with the divine nourished by Biblical and other sacred texts. It is communal […]

    GENRE: International
  • Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    $21.00 | ,

    A reimagined version of Michael Hurley’s 2002 masterpiece! Some of the most beautiful recordings of his catalog available on vinyl for the first time. Sweetkorn was originally released on [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Rail Band – Rail Band
    Rail Band – Rail Band
    $22.00 | ,

    One of the greatest, heaviest, and hardest-to-find guitar records from 1970s West Africa, available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade!!! A product of Mali’s golden age, […]

    GENRE: International