The second in our series exploring the pan-American funk experience, Cult Cargo: Grand Bahama Goombay is a deep overview of Funky Nassau’s redheaded sister city, Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. [...]
While not manning knobs and faders for Gil Scott-Heron, Hugh Masekela, Soul Searchers, Van McCoy, and a host of major label also-rans at Edgewood Studios, Washington, D.C.’s most opulent [...]
“The second Tower of Power LP, Bump City was the first to make any impact. The group went to Memphis, cut their first great single in “You’re Still A Young […]
Killer gospel-soul album that sounds as raw & present as it does soulful Label: ASL (Atlanta Soul Liberation) – ASL-1092 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: VG+/VG. Sleeve high end […]
“Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I’m Back, Sly Stone’s ninth album for Epic, features a reunited Sly & the Family Stone. Sly’s previous album, the funk-filled High on You [...]
“Sly & the Family Stone’s debut album is more restrained and not nearly as funky or psychedelic as their subsequent efforts, owing far more to traditional soul arrangements. These [...]
“This is a strong major-label debut that the Chicago-born San Francisco bluesman was unable to capitalize on. Most of the tracks are from the same session that produced Live at […]
“As one of the first albums Herbie Hancock recorded after departing Miles Davis’ quintet in 1968, as well as his final album for Blue Note, The Prisoner is one of […]
“A somnambulant journey through psychedelic bedroom fantasy-scapes, Glare is Roe Enney’s first proper LP after only a few under-the-radar cassette releases on Phaserprone, Discriminate and [...]
“Edition of 200 hand stamped one sided records. “It all started, like most good things, in the late 70s. Peter Z.O. formed the American Industrial outfit Z.O. VOIDER just along […]
“Greg Fox’s The Gradual Progression offers a new strain of spiritual jazz compelled by virtuosic playing and responsive music technology. Energetic and gestural, akin to an action painting, [...]
“Black mirror malevolence from the darkside. Three dread epics, unmistakably Mark: impossibly stealthy yet cunningly ruthless. Junglist noir for the malaise in us all. Proper rollage; [...]
“Editions Mego is proud to present the latest opus from legendary British composer, actor, sound designer and all round fine human Simon Fisher Turner. Giraffe is a new major work […]
“‘Le Lisse et le Strié’ is a new work by french composer François J. Bonnet, released under his project name Kassel Jaeger. Based in Paris, Bonnet is the Director of […]
“It’s tempting to view guitarist Kris Gruda, a North Carolina resident, as part of a lineage of demented Southern avant-pickers stretching back to Chadbourne, and while that’s [...]
Polish hard-rock/heavy metal. In similar zone as Scorpions. Label: Polton – PLP-002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Poland Released: 1982 VG+/VG. Noticeable edgewear/spinewear
“As a young person I frequently heard tales that high-end stereo shops used Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ as a demonstration disc, in order to fully document the […]
Compilation of the garage punk band’s best work, featuring ex Pussy Galore members. Label: In The Red Recordings – ITR273 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue Country: US Released: 2015 [...]
“When Timo Van Luijk isn’t working under his own name, he works under the alias Af Ursin – a project focused on structured improvisation, combining electronic and acoustic instrumentation. [...]
“Emotional Rescue returns with the third album in a series based around the music of Luis Delgado and Javier Bergia. After a collecton of Javier’s best music, the reissue of […]
“Following the ambient-rhythmic-noise course of his Olympic Mess LP and his heat-warped Rawabet instalments, World In Action finds Helm farther downstream at a turbulent confluence of both [...]
“Realized in the summer of 2018, Thema draws on an interior/exterior dialogue within found, repurposed and recorded sound.” Label: Total Stasis – STASIS015 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: [...]
Good metal of loud and brash variety. Label: Island Records – 7 91072-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1989 VG+/VG+. Some corner creasing to sleeve
“On nearly all counts, the debut from Los Angeles heavy metal quartet Steeler is an unremarkable, even generic release; but what makes the album important is the presence of Swedish […]
Fastway’s fun and campy shredder soundtrack to the equally campy 1986 film, Trick Or Treat. Label: Columbia – PC 40549 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1986 VG+/VG+. In […]
80’s Australian Heavy Metal, in similar zone as Ratt/Judas Priest Label: Columbia – BFC 40018 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1985 VG+/VG+
“Hilary Woods’ Birthmarks has been a labor of intensity and intuition, written over the course of two years. Recorded whilst heavily pregnant between Galway and Oslo in the winter of […]
“For his second album, Symphony for Improvisers, Don Cherry expanded his Complete Communion quartet — tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, bassist Henry Grimes, and drummer Ed Blackwell [...]
“Unfortunately, this concert album is often overlooked when discussions of the great live rock albums of the ’70s arise. UFO’s Strangers in the Night deserves to be right up [...]
The debut album by Glam-metal band Keel. Label: Shrapnel Records – SH-1014 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG. Corner creasing/sleevewear
The second live album by Judas Priest, from their Turbo tour. Label: Columbia – C2 40794 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG+
“Recorded in two hours as the cheapest studio in the phone book, White Zombie’s sophomore single Gods On Voodoo Moon is back in print on 45 (Zombie Black, Zombie Puss, […]
Killer comp featuring Hellion, Vice, Assassin and more Label: New Renaissance Records – NR-01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Translucent Vinyl Country: US Released: 1985 VG+/VG. Sleeve has [...]
A document and labor of love. Label: Apple Records – SMAX-3361 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Box Set Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG+. Includes all inserts! Disc in great shape. Outer […]
“Over 70 releases and 44 years into his career as a jazz drummer and composer, William Hooker has made (arguably) his best album yet during the pandemic in 2020, a […]
“Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993’s Fake Train ripped through, they’d been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark [...]
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings’ sixth studio album, consisting of covers and new arrangements of traditional folk songs Label: Acony Records – ACNY-2015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, [...]
“In the smoggy orange light of a new millennium, the young Deb Demure would take the bus, once a week, from his home in crumbling Hollywood to his grandmother’s apartment, […]
“NOTON is pleased to announce the release of Subterraneans, a collaborative EP featuring Alva Noto, Depeche Mode’s Martin L. Gore and William Basinski’s cover of David Bowie’s homonymous [...]
Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown that followed illuminated an incontrovertible truth—that love is [...]
Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s …
Miss May Does Not Exist, by Carrie Courogen is the riveting biography of comedian, director, actor and writer Elaine May, one of America’s greatest comic geniuses. May began her career […]
During his career, Michael Mann has drawn a singular and innovative line within the Hollywood industry. The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Revelations, Ali, Collateral, Miami Vice, and even Public [...]
Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard’s insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Pop Art epitomized the free spirit of the 1960s, [...]
During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest geniuses of the twentieth century. As the architectural designer and futurist best known for the geodesic dome, he […]
This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century’s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned [...]
Kathy Acker (1947–1997) was a rare and almost inconceivable thing: a celebrity experimental writer. Twenty-five years after her death, she remains one of the most original, shocking, and [...]
In this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time. […]
One of America’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of America’s most enduring icons in Blonde—the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. The legend of [...]