Lunchbox’s legendary lost album “Evolver” is lost no more! Sparklingly remastered for the album’s twentieth (and a few!) anniversary and available on CD, cassette and (for the [...]
Noah Sterba is one of Omaha’s underground music heroes, literally performing most of his songs and poetry into dented Radio Shack microphones in the subterranean basements of tornado alley for [...]
”Listening to Thomas E. Frank’s debut solo album for the first time, I’m amazed at how recognizable and familiar it sounds. Not in the heard-it-a-thousand-times-before kind of way, but more […]
“Jon Spencer’s first ever solo album!!! Despite the title, this is not a hits collection but is instead twelve brand new Spencer penned originals. Spencer Sings The Hits is a […]
“on november 19 we had the privilege of helping introduce you all to the self-titled debut album from body/dilloway/head. this album is a serious and apt soundtrack for our times […]
“When words trail off at the beginning of claire rousay’s “everything perfect is already here,” ornate instrumentation is waiting to fill a void left by the breakdown of language. Yet […]
Cover of The Standells track by the British pub-rock group, The Inmates. Label: Radar Records – ADA 44 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Light […]
Electro/synth-pop track that bears some similarities to B-52s & Devo. Label: Logo – BOOK 1 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Light sleevewear/discoloration
One of the best tracks from their debut album, Kilimanjaro. Label: Zoo Records – CAGE 008 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Some edgewear
Sole power-pop 7″ from the Punts. RIYL: Pretenders, Go-Go’s. Label: Bondage Records – 0001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG+
Great Australian garage/beat record that matches the Kinks in terms of poppy fun. Label: Albert Productions – APLP.057 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: Australia Released: 1982 VG+/VG. Upper [...]
Sole single from these avant-pop weirdos. Sounds like the catchier bits from Ralph Records, fed through a uranium tube. Label: Cheap Records – 110032X Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single […]
“The songs which make up Blue Earth originated as demos, and save for some minor studio tinkering, are presented here in their original embryonic state. As a consequence, the record […]
“Fire Fidelity brings you an LP featuring 24 of the best songs spanning the career of the legendary Jad Fair and his band Half Japanese plus a free download card […]
Francisca de Luarca, the daughter of a silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams – dreams in which the work of her father’s silkworms is woven into robes for […]
In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man’s life. Six years later they were bitter […]
Rhythmic and pounding noise from Christopher Reid Martin Label: A.C.T.I.O.N. – LAO 18 Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition, C60 Country: US Released: 2015 VG+/VG+
Recorded live at Social in Ybor City during No Rave on July 26, 2013. Label: Ascetic House –no cat number Format: Cassette Country: US Released: 2015 VG+/VG+
“Welcome to the wild, bizarro world of the experimental artists called The Residents. Little is known about the group’s origins or its members’ identities, although it is widely [...]
“Blood curdling unissued 1963 R&B booze savagery! The Figures of Light It’s Lame was the Monster Of The Year for 2006, CJ and the Casuals’ Study Hall was the Monster […]
“4 skullbustin’ 1964 Minnesota surf rippers! Readymen serve up bird dance classic Shortnin’ Bread and the deadly unissued whomp of Disintegration while the Yetti-Men barrel thru [...]
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 [...]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]