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  • Roxy Music ‎– Angel Eyes [UK 79 pressing]
    Roxy Music ‎– Angel Eyes [UK 79 pressing]
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    Roxy Music’s third single from their 1979 album Manifesto Label: Polydor – POSP 67 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Spokane Mystics – I’m In Love / Check Point
    The Spokane Mystics – I’m In Love / Check Point
    $6.00 | , ,

    Maniac garage rock from the Pacific Northwest scene Label: Hillsdale Records – HR-20 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1997 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • The Del-Tino’s – Go! Go! Go!
    The Del-Tino’s – Go! Go! Go!
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Wild n’frantic Southern Michigan teenage instro raunch & stormin’vocal shakedowns ’63-66!! Includes four rare 45’s plus scads of outtakes, lost demos and home [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • Jim Colegrove & The Juke Jumpers ‎– Ubangi Stomp
    Jim Colegrove & The Juke Jumpers ‎– Ubangi Stomp
    $5.00 | , ,

    Jump & stomp music from FT Worth, Texas. Label: Greco Records Inc. – G 608 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1980 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • The Rooks – A Girl Like You
    The Rooks – A Girl Like You
    $10.00 | , ,

    “Anytime we can offer up a mid-sixties garage band from our favorite hotbed, the Windy City (particularly a combo citing Them and the Pretty Things as faves!!), good things can […]

    GENRE: Rockabilly / Early Rock N Roll
  • Wreckless Eric – A Popsong
    Wreckless Eric – A Popsong
    $6.00 | , ,

    Classic power-pop from the “Whole Wide World” hitmaker. Label: Stiff Records – BUY 64 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: Netherlands Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Light wear to sleeve

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Guided By Voices – Universal Truths And Cycles
    Guided By Voices – Universal Truths And Cycles
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    Title track from GBV’s 2002 album Label: Fading Captain Series – #23 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 2002 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sex Pistols – Power Of The Pistols
    Sex Pistols – Power Of The Pistols
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    A1-B1 live in Halmstad, Sweden (Diskotek Stranden, 15 July 1977) (Uncredited) B2-6 live in Atlanta, USA (Great South East Music Hall, 5 Jan 1978) (Uncredited) Label: 77 Records – 772 […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Russell Haswell ‎– Respondent
    Russell Haswell ‎– Respondent
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    “Russell Haswell returns to Diagonal with a new five-track mini-album called Respondent. Not quite an EP nor long enough for a full album, this record marks a significant shift in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Not Waving ‎– Good Luck
    Not Waving ‎– Good Luck
    $15.00 | , ,

    “Alessio Natalizia aka Not Waving rides the wave of a lifetime on his magnum opus, Good Luck. The London-based Italian artist’s second album for Diagonal is an emotional but fiercely […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Acid Mothers Temple / Circle – S/T
    Acid Mothers Temple / Circle – S/T
    $35.00 | , ,

    Split 7″ inspired by Acid Mothers Temple tour with Circle in 2002 Label: Verdura – verdu-9 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, 45 RPM, Limited Edition Country: Finland Released: 2002 […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
    Patrick Brantlinger – Bread & Circuses
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    Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • C.A Conrad – The Book Of Frank
    C.A Conrad – The Book Of Frank
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    Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a “voyeuresque surreal portrait,” The Book of Frank is also, in the words of poet-critic Alan Gilbert, a “candid portrayal of human cruelty and […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bill Nace & Chik White – Bill Nace & Chik White
    Bill Nace & Chik White – Bill Nace & Chik White
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    Bill Nace—-acoustic Guitar/amplified acoustic– chik white—vocals, jaw harp Label: Open Mouth – OM63 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2019 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • William Basinski ‎– The Garden Of Brokenness
    William Basinski ‎– The Garden Of Brokenness
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    “The main loop in this piece is one of the original piano and tape experiments from my early days as a composer. A few of the derivative piano variations have […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • William Basinski ‎– Nocturnes
    William Basinski ‎– Nocturnes
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    1. Nocturnes 41:33 dark, suspended and formal early prepared piano and tape composition from San Francisco period c. 1979-80. 2. The Trail of Tears 28:03 tape loop and delay recording […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
    Frederic W. Goudy – The Alphabet
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    Traces the developments of the alphabet and lettering from ancient times, and presents a variety of lettering styles which have evolved Dorset Press, 1989 Hardcover Edition. Light general wear.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
    Fluxus And The Essential Questions Of Life
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    Fluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Animism In Art And Performance
    Animism In Art And Performance
    $45.00 | , ,

    This book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-is, TEXT IN FRENCH)
    Giovanni Lista – Theatre Futuriste Italien Vol I & II (as-i…
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    An anthology of Futurist theater works, wonderfully illustrated. La Cite, 1976 Softcover Edition. Noticeable discoloration to wraps of both volumes and edges of pages. Substantial glue breaks at [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
    Giovanni Lista – L’Art Postal Futuriste (TEXT IN FRENCH)
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    Giovanni Lista’s survey of mail art within the Futurist movement. Lavishly illustrated. Jean-Michel Place Publishers, 1979 Hardcover Edition. Light discoloration to edges of pages/boards. [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
    Justin Green – Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary
    $70.00 | , ,

    A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green’s autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • William Wegman
    William Wegman
    $40.00 | , ,

    Large softcover catalogue published on the occasion of the William Wegman exhibition in the Rooseum – Center For Contemporary art, Malmo March 7 – May 10 1998. Rooseum, 1998 Softcover [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Thomas Hine – Populuxe
    Thomas Hine – Populuxe
    $10.00 | , ,

    “The decade from 1954 to 1964 was one of America’s great shopping sprees: never before were so many people able to acquire so many things, and never before was there […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
    Luigi Russolo – L’Arte Dei Rumori (TEXT IN ITALIAN)
    $30.00 | , ,

    Luigi Russolo’s seminal manifesto/essay on the art of noise. Carucci Reprint of 1916 Softcover Edition. Writing on front wrap. Noticeable foxing/discoloration to both wraps and pages. TEXT [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Vacant Gardens – Under The Bloom
    Vacant Gardens – Under The Bloom
    $60.00 | , ,

    RELEASED ON VINYL BY TALL TEXAN, NOW OUT-OF-PRINT released February 14, 2020 MUSIC BY JEM FANVU & GLENN DONALDSON COVER ART BY NOH YUNG HOON MASTERED BY SEAN MCCANN   […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cult Of Youth ‎– Final Days
    Cult Of Youth ‎– Final Days
    $16.00 | , ,

    For their third full-length for Sacred Bones, Cult of Youth have delved deeper into their style of punk-influenced psychedelic neofolk and created a self- described “post-industrial Pet Sounds.” [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Sarah Davachi ‎– Gave In Rest
    Sarah Davachi ‎– Gave In Rest
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    Composed and mixed by Sarah Davachi Recorded April and July 2017 at Hotel2Tango in Montréal QC, engineered by Howard Bilerman Additional overdubs recorded at home in Los Angeles in November […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
    Daryl Easlea – Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco
    $12.00 | , ,

    Few narratives in pop encompass Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis and Led Zeppelin. This story is one of them. Chic, led by […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Electric Muse Revisited
    The Electric Muse Revisited
    $12.00 | , ,

    Folk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
    The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity
    $10.00 | , ,

    From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The […]

    GENRE: International, Non-Fiction
  • Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
    Catherine Zimmer – Surveillance Cinema
    $12.00 | , ,

    In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
    Jacques Boyreau – Supertrash
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    SuperTrash is the mutagenic sequel to Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002, Chronicle), the book that became a prophecy of the lasting influence of grindhouse and a […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
    Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
    $12.00 | , ,

    Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the W…
    $12.00 | , ,

    In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
    Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics
    $10.00 | , ,

    The French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest (1951), The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962), The Devil, Probably (1977), and L’Argent (1983), […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 4: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
    Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 4: Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905
    $10.00 | , ,

    Restoration and Reform, 1872-1905, is the fourth and final volume in a monumental new series that traces kabuki’s changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The twelve [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
    Leo Tolstoy – Three Simple Men: And Other Holy Folktales
    $8.00 | , ,

    You’ve met the characters in these stories before. We meet them in folktales from all around the world. There is the simple, wise old man who understands far more than […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
    Lafcadio Hearn – Short Stories: Tales of the Supernatural
    $12.00 | , ,

    This gorgeous hardback edition brings the writing of Lafcadio Hearn to life. Ranging from the legends of the West Indies to the mysteries of the Orient, Lafcadio Hearn blurs the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
    James Purdy – Malcolm: A Comic Novel
    $8.00 | , ,

    The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Introduced simply as “the boy on the bench,” the titular character of Malcolm is a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
    Viktor Shklovsky – Literature and Cinematography
    $9.00 | , ,

    In this short, brilliant book, Viktor Shklovsky enunciates the function of the arts: what they are and, just as importantly, what they are not. In the course of defining what […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
    James Purdy – Eustace Chisholm & the Works: A Novel
    $8.00 | , ,

    No James Purdy novel has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy depression-era boarding house in Chicago plays host to […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
    Surrealism in Latin America: Vivísimo Muerto
    $12.00 | , ,

    This collection of essays—the first major account of surrealism in Latin America that covers both literary and visual production—explores the role the movement played in the construction and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism
    Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolita…
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    Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses […]

    GENRE: International, Non-Fiction
  • Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
    Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979
    $12.00 | , ,

    Featuring some of the most exciting artworks of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore the rich history of conceptual art in Britain during a key period […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected Takes 1965-1987
    Concerning Violence: Fanon, Film, and Liberation in Africa, Selected T…
    $12.00 | , ,

    An unblinking portrait of the anticolonial struggles of the 1960s, Concerning Violence combines more than one hundred and fifty arresting color and black-and-white photographs from Göran Hugo [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
    Robin Brown – Blood Ivory: The Massacre of the African Elephant
    $10.00 | , ,

    It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. However, it is only in the last hundred years, with the coming of the ‘Great White […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
    Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972
    $10.00 | , ,

    How the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Decades since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African Electronic Stories
    Noel Lobley – Sound Fragments: From Field Recording to African E…
    $10.00 | , ,

    This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the […]

    GENRE: International, Non-Fiction
  • Allan Marett – Songs, Dreamings, & Ghosts
    Allan Marett – Songs, Dreamings, & Ghosts
    $10.00 | , ,

    Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of […]

    GENRE: International