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+
“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 [...]
“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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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.” [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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), […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]