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  • Intrinsic Action ‎– III
    Intrinsic Action ‎– III
    $6.00 | , ,

    “Re-mastered re-release of the third I.A. cassette, originally issued in 1987. The core recordings consist of the band’s third live show, ever. Includes two bonus SCTL tracks. [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    $12.00 | , ,

    “”Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you” sayeth Jesus in Matthew […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Scream – Still Screaming [Radio Station Promo w/ ad]
    Scream – Still Screaming [Radio Station Promo w/ ad]
    $100.00 | , ,

    “Before their current role as a Nirvana footnote, Scream was actually one of Dischord’s best bands. Formed in Northern Virginia in 1981 by singer Peter Stahl, his brother Franz on […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Toxic Reasons – Kill By Remote Control
    Toxic Reasons – Kill By Remote Control
    $40.00 | , ,

    “Live, the TOXICS seem intent on following DOA into a rock-oriented rut, but this album is filled with sharp songs that lock in firmly on your memory. Most of them […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Active Ingredients – Active Ingredients (PROMO)
    Active Ingredients – Active Ingredients (PROMO)
    $64.00 | , , ,

    Label: Not On Label – none Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1984 Media: VG+ Jacket: GEN Notes: No Sleeve. Comes with Generic Sleeve with Contact information […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts (180g Reissue)
    Sam Rivers ‎– Contrasts (180g Reissue)
    $24.00 | , ,

    “Tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers (also heard on soprano and flute) teams up in a quartet with trombonist George Lewis, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Thurman Barker (doubling on marimba) for [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • James Brown – Sings Out Of Sight
    James Brown – Sings Out Of Sight
    $18.00 | , ,

    “Brown actually recorded this album in 1964, during his brief alliance with Smash; a court injunction from King Records prevented its release at the time, and it wasn’t issued until [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Joseph Allred – New Jerusalem
    Joseph Allred – New Jerusalem
    $22.00 | , ,

    “Joseph Allred isn’t sure how many albums they have released. It is thought to be in the neighborhood of twenty-two, not counting collaborations, digital only, and split releases. Most of [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Kuroi Ame – Sacred
    Kuroi Ame – Sacred
    $40.00 | , ,

    “Wake up in a dream. Looking for someone. Searching an inner world. The memory of a name. ‘Midori’. Black rain. Shelter below the underpass in the Electric District. Hallucinogenic whisper [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Pagan Altar – Mythical & Magical
    Pagan Altar – Mythical & Magical
    $67.00 | , ,

    “Featuring songs written mostly between 1976 and 1983, Mythical & Magical is Pagan Altar’s third album and is, without a doubt, the pinnacle of their career. This grandiose, [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • J.R. Bohannon* – Compulsions
    J.R. Bohannon* – Compulsions
    $3.00 | , ,

    ‘The isolation of lockdown was challenging for guitarist J.R. Bohannon. In refreshingly vulnerable linear notes, he describes how his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Holt* – Build Yourself A Space
    Holt* – Build Yourself A Space
    $3.00 | , ,

    “Holt Bodish is best known as one third of Montana’s finest treble strummers, Mordecai. But with that operation now spread all over this repulsive and insane nation he’s gotta [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Wehrmacht – Shark Attack
    Wehrmacht – Shark Attack
    $15.00 | , ,

    “A question popular among followers of Thrash Metal is undeniably this, “Which is considered the fastest Thrash Metal album of all time?”. There would be a high percentage of answers […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Hum Of The Druid  – A Strange Export
    Hum Of The Druid – A Strange Export
    $8.00 | , ,

    “The first new recordings released since “Predatory Outlook,” marking the 15th anniversary of the project, this has glimpses of similarly chilling melodic ambient music but runs [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Duke Ellington ‎– The Reprise Studio Recordings
    Duke Ellington ‎– The Reprise Studio Recordings
    $80.00 | ,

    #1-8 is mono. All other is stereo. # 2-15 to 2-20, 3-1 to 3-5 Produced Under License From Atlantic Recording Corp., All Other Produced Under License From Warner Bros. Records, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Arp – Inversions
    Arp – Inversions
    $18.00 | , ,

    “It’s been described as an Eno-like transformation more than once before, but the comparison seems more fitting than ever in light of this magnificent tape of long form, no pussyfooting, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Diatom Deli – TQM
    Diatom Deli – TQM
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Serene ambient music that evokes guided meditation through the use of phase-shifting melodies, droning bass, and gauzy synth textures. Her live performance utilizes classical guitar, [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Moor Jewelry – True Opera
    Moor Jewelry – True Opera
    $30.00 | , ,

    “On True Opera, Moor Jewelry took a different approach — exploring the visceral, physical punk music that the duo grew up listening to.The tracks were improvised in the recording [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Famous Mammals – Famous Mammals
    Famous Mammals – Famous Mammals
    $35.00 | , ,

    “Famous Mammals were already going to be fantastic the moment they decided to form as a pandemic avocation in 2020, considering they’d been birthed from the flames of recent Oakland, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Dancer – Dancer
    Dancer – Dancer
    $25.00 | , ,

    “A new Glasgow band with members of Current Affairs (Tough Love), Nightshift (Trouble in Mind), Order of the Toad (Gringo records) and Robert Sotelo (Upset the Rhythm).” Label: Gold [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    $10.00 | , ,

    Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    $10.00 | , ,

    Over the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Inte…
    $12.00 | ,

    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night
    $14.00 | , ,

    “Saturday Night is the debut LP by old friends and collaborators Alex Twomey, Matthew Sullivan, and Sean McCann. Recorded over numerous evenings at the artists’ homes, and completed just [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928
    $12.00 | , ,

    In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
    Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mall…
    $12.00 | , ,

    At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
    $12.00 | , ,

    Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction
  • Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789
    Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex & Infanticide in…
    $10.00 | , ,

    This captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets―incest, abortion, and infanticide―in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
    Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
    $9.00 | , ,

    A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
    Michel Leiris – Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3
    $10.00 | , ,

    A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
    Michel Leiris – Scratches: Rules of the Game – Volume 1
    $12.00 | , ,

    “For me his work is not only a document that enriches our knowledge of man, but also a personal testament that touches me deeply.”–Francis BaconScratches is the first volume in [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.
    Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema…
    $12.00 | , ,

    Egyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, cast and crew, director, screenwriter, and music [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
    Trip: Andy Warhol’s Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure.
    $10.00 | , ,

    From the author of Strapless and Guest of Honor, a book about a little-known road trip Andy Warhol took from New York to LA in 1963, and how that journey—and […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentieth Century.
    Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, & Activisim in the Late Twentie…
    $10.00 | , ,

    This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or “Xerox machine,” became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
    Absence of Clutter: Minimal Writing as Art & Literature.
    $12.00 | , ,

    In the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists stripped language down to its most basic components: the word and the letter. Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Carl Andre, Lawrence Weiner, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Star Club – The Very Best Of The Star Club
    The Star Club – The Very Best Of The Star Club
    $24.00 | , ,

    A compilation of the best of the early material from the first era of The Star Club, a long running and heavily influential Japanese punk band. Label: Club The Star […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
    Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
    $85.00 | , ,

    “A fabulous album, done when Pickett was in the midst of his best period at Atlantic. It had everything — great songs, wonderful production and arrangements, and a hungry, galvanizing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Ted Curson Quintet – Live At La’Tete De L’Art: The Canadian Concert Of Ted Curson
    The Ted Curson Quintet – Live At La’Tete De L’Art: The Can…
    $26.00 | , ,

    A smoking modal set from the trumpeter’s legendary quintet. Label: Can-Am Records – CA 1700 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: Canada Released: 1985 VG+/VG+. Jacket in shrink.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Steve Roach, VidnaObmana* – Spirit Dome – Live Archive
    Steve Roach, VidnaObmana* – Spirit Dome – Live Archive
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Spirit Dome returns with a perfect companion, Live Archive. Two out-of-print releases from this acclaimed ambient duo are brought together in this value-priced 2-CD release. Living proof [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Andrew Liles – Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D’antan)
    Andrew Liles – Miscellany Deluxe (Souvenirs Perdus D’antan)
    $20.00 | , ,

    “Miscellany Deluxe was originally released as a 13 CDR box set in 2003. Eleven of the albums included in the box were later made available as individual downloads in 2011. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    Philip Pearlstein – Landscape Aquatints
    $18.00 | ,

    A selection of Philip Pearlstein’s illustrations from 1978-1980 Staple-bound zine with dustjacket. Moisture damage/staining along upper edge

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    Gallery Of Photography: Vision
    $12.00 | ,

    A pamphlet featuring work from the Vision Gallery, based out of Boston, circa 1980s Staple-bound zine with some discoloration

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
    D.M Thomas – News From The Front (signed)
    $20.00 | ,

    “A collaborative work “featuring a fictional encounter between a businessman and a Portuguese girl on holiday in London” (from the front flap). The authors take turns writing [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
    Alberto Moravia – Time Of Desecration
    $12.00 | , ,

    Alberto Moravia’s nightmarish exploration of disaffected youth in fascist Italy. FSG, 1980 Hardcover First US edition. Light discoloration to dustjacket.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
    Donald Antrim – The Hundred Brothers (signed)
    $15.00 | , ,

    There’s Rob, Bob, Tom, Paul, Ralph, and Phil; Siegfried, the sculptor in burning steel; blind Albert and ninety-three-year-old Hiram; Foster, the New Age psychoanalyst; and Maxwell, the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
    Ismail Kadare – Doruntine
    $20.00 | , ,

    Doruntine or Who brought Dorontine is a novel by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It is based on the old Albanian legend of Constantin and Doruntine Book is in “Like New” […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Inner Dialogue – Friend
    Inner Dialogue – Friend
    $14.00 | , ,

    Psych-pop from California Label: Ranwood – R-8074 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released:1970 VG+/VG. Light shelf wear. Couple faint marks on record.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Rottweiler – Haight
    Rottweiler – Haight
    $8.00 | ,

    Hard-hitting acid house from Ariel Motto Label: Chicago Research – CR038 Format: CS, Album Country: US Released: 2020 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Mind Garage – Mind Garage
    Mind Garage – Mind Garage
    $35.00 | , ,

    Christian psych-rock from West Virginia Label: RCA Victor – LSP-4218 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Fraternity Of Man – The Fraternity Of Man
    The Fraternity Of Man – The Fraternity Of Man
    $17.00 | , ,

    “The short-lived Fraternity of Man is undoubtedly best known for the pro-pot anthem “Don’t Bogart Me,” which showed up during an unforgettable scene in the genre-defining [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych