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  • Intersystems – S/T
    Intersystems – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Fantastic boxset that collects all 3 LP’s from Canada’s Intersystems, includes a lovely 132-page book.  For anyone interested in Canada’s [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Body – I Shall Die Here
    The Body – I Shall Die Here
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    “Sharing their heathen vision with The Haxan Cloak, The Body’s tried and true sound is cut to pieces, mutilated by process and re-animated in a spectral state for their fourth […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • The Missing Brazilians* – Warzone
    The Missing Brazilians* – Warzone
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    “Another Science Fiction Dancehall Classic! Originally released in 1984, this is one of the most envelope-pushing records on the On-U Sound label: a rhythmic collision of noise, dub and [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • V/A – Schau Hör Main Herz Ist Rhein
    V/A – Schau Hör Main Herz Ist Rhein
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    Obscure German industrial comp from the label that eventually became Selektion Label: Wahrnehmungen – WNP 001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Germany Released: 1981 VG+/VG, with some [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • DDAA – Ronsard
    DDAA – Ronsard
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    French experimental/art-music that crosses into industrial at certain points. Label: Electrip – ELECTRIP 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:Belgium Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
    Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
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    Reissue of a limited edition CDr from 2003 Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records – mt056b Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
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    “This 1978 recording finds the estimable British guitarist in the musical company of several members of the cutting edge of the Japanese jazz avant-garde of the time. These musicians, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Motörhead ‎– Orgasmatron
    Motörhead ‎– Orgasmatron
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    “I admire metal’s integrity, brutality, and obsessiveness, but I can’t stand its delusions of grandeur–the way it apes and misapprehends reactionary notions of nobility. [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink Plus Albert Mangelsdorff – The End (Late 70’s Pressing)
    Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink Plus Albert Mangelsdorff – The End (Late 70’s Pressing)
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    “The great thing about this trilogy/set is how naturally everything flows. . . . each subdividing of the group, each solo excursion, feels smooth and logical, as though the player(s) […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Revolutionary Ensemble – Vietnam (Japanese Pressing)
    Revolutionary Ensemble – Vietnam (Japanese Pressing)
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    “For the first time, this album is released as the unbroken improvisation it was when performed “live,” instead of being broken into two parts as it was when released on […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
    Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
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    Ethnographic field recordings of Balinese cultural ceremonial music. Label: Lokananta Records – BRD-020 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Indonesia Released: 1969 VG+/VG with Old store sticker. Some [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Damned – The Black Album
    The Damned – The Black Album
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    The Damned embrace goth & art-rock leanings on their fourth album Label: Chiswick Records – CWK 3015 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+ with light marks & […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Golden Dawn  – Power Plant
    The Golden Dawn – Power Plant
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    The sole album by the “Other Great Texas Psych Band”, The Golden Dawn. Label: International Artists – IA-LP #4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Inspiration & Power 14 Free Jazz Festival 1 (Legendary Japanese Free Jazz Gig)
    V/A – Inspiration & Power 14 Free Jazz Festival 1 (Legendary Japanese Free Jazz Gig)
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    One of the best examples of Japanese Free Music ever recorded. Label: Trio Records – PA-3006~7 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released: 1973 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bad Brains – Rock For Light
    Bad Brains – Rock For Light
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    “This band was a weird bundle of contradictions from day one: black Rastafarian instrumental virtuosos playing hardcore punk, formerly the exclusive domain of white, aggressively atheist [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Charged G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats (UK Pressing 1982)
    Charged G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats (UK Pressing 1982)
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    “Street punk pioneers Charged G.B.H. formed in Birmingham in l978, the name referencing original bassist Sean McCarthy’s trial for grievous bodily harm. The in-your-face hardcore of [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
    The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
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    “In the wake of the star-filled A Minute To Pray A Second To Die, The Flesh Eaters’ frontman Chris D. assembled a leaner, meaner band to deliver his next unbound […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
    Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
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    “By the time they started touring to preview and then support the revamped version of ‘Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac,’ the Buttholes’ live show was a berserk, evolving [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds Of
    The 13th Floor Elevators – The Psychedelic Sounds Of
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    “Did the 13th Floor Elevators invent psychedelic rock? Aficionados will be debating that point for decades, but if Roky Erickson and his fellow travelers into inner space weren’t [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
    Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
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    It’s all about Sister Ray. Label: Verve Records – 23MM 0190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Epicycle – Special First Edition
    Epicycle – Special First Edition
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    Psych tinged power-pop from Chicago. Label:Cirkle Records – CST 1111 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG with some noticeable sleevewear & staining. Start of split at upper [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • PiL – Metal Box (All Inserts Included)
    PiL – Metal Box (All Inserts Included)
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    “The key word, though, is reinvention. Lydon talked grandly of abandoning rock altogether,  arguing that killing off the genre had been the true point of punk. But unlike the absolutely [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Nick Drake – Demo Collection Volume Two
    Nick Drake – Demo Collection Volume Two
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    Fan club collection of early takes & demos from Drake’s haunted career. Label: no label Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Unofficial Release Country: US Released: undated VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • My Bloody Valentine ‎– m b v
    My Bloody Valentine ‎– m b v
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    My Bloody Valentine’s 3rd album, covering the ground they’d previously established and embracing an oceanic current. Label: MBV Records – mbv lp 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pop Group – Y (OG Japanese Pressing)
    Pop Group – Y (OG Japanese Pressing)
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    “The repackaged LP starts with the legendary single ‘She is Beyond Good and Evil’. Lacerated with slashes of James Brown-like guitar, the track re-imagines the love song as a Dionysiac […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
    Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
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    “Tones for Joan’s Bones, Chick Corea’s first session as a leader, is a blazing, advanced hard bop set from late 1966, with writing that reveals an affinity with McCoy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Steve Marcus, Miroslav Vitous, Sonny Sharrock, Daniel Humair – Green Line (OG Japanese Pressing)
    Steve Marcus, Miroslav Vitous, Sonny Sharrock, Daniel Humair – Green Line (OG Japanese Pressing)
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    “Terrific session originally licensed on Japanese indie label Nivico in 1970. Recorded at Victor Studio, Aoyama, Tokyo on September 11, the album is the essential work of four wicked minds. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
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    “The most significant dividing line in Ornette’s chronology might be Charlie Haden’s leaving the group in the mid-’70s. This set of duos from a few years later highlights the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
    Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
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    Documentation of The Stooges final live performance. Heavy & hostile. Label: Import Records – IMP 1015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released: 1977 VG+/VG+ with light marks & some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    “Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey’s generous latest offering is a tape-mangled, xenharmonic trip into the dissociated outerzone. Properly next level spirit-calling drone musick that [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    North Carolina based singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman has spent the last decade using her voice and guitar to construct tunes built upon the spectrum between joy and pain – deeply [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    “Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation—for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    Prairiewolf – Deep Time
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    Prairiewolf make easy listening music for an age of fracture. They almost do it in spite of themselves. No one can seriously question the head music bona fides of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
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    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    Old Saw – Dissection Maps
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    Old Saw, the enigmatic New England collective led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), return with their third long-playing record, Dissection Maps. _____________________________________ It is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
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    Cara Beth Satalino built her adulthood in feral, eccentric Baltimore, Maryland, waiting tables and playing in a band, keeping her schedule flexible just in case an opportunity arose. Though [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
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    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Cop City/Chill Pillars – Gift Shop
    Cop City/Chill Pillars – Gift Shop
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    “*Once in a while a new life form will come to the surface, emerge from the primordial ooze and crawl ashore, develop legs where its fins used to be, and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
    Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
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    Delightful & catchy power-pop

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Population – White Crosses
    Population – White Crosses
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    Hard-hitting and heavy post-punk

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Far-Out Fangtooth – The Thorns
    Far-Out Fangtooth – The Thorns
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    “Philadelphia’s FAR OUT FANGTOOTH have been meddling within their own poisonous cloud of murky, atmospheric noise for a while now, and after a stellar debut LP on Siltbreeze last year, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Man – Carousel Of Sound
    The Man – Carousel Of Sound
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    “ARE YOU WIRED TO GET HIRED? Let’s get this straight, nobody likes to be pushed around by THE MAN. With all of the corporate involvement in the music industry these […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Connections – 5 Imaginary Boys
    Connections – 5 Imaginary Boys
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    “This modern Columbus, Ohio pop band flashed before us via KEVIN ELLIOT, previously of 84 NASH and one of the guys with great musical taste at the Agit Reader that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Repairs – Decay / Cycle
    Repairs – Decay / Cycle
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    “That’s right, yet another crucial Australian single, from the blackend depths of minimal synth hysteria, and offering up the perfect chaser to the debut Nun LP. Rooted in an electronic [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Gross Pointe – Bad Seed
    Gross Pointe – Bad Seed
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    “What’s this, yet another ravaging Chicago punk band bursting out onto a 7” EP for the first time? Gross Pointe are another perfect example of how good this town has […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Brown Spiders – It’s Something To Do
    Brown Spiders – It’s Something To Do
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    “Brown Spiders sound like a band that’s about to vibrate apart. The bass is distorted as hell, and the drums are forever pounding and pushing everyone else forward. The title […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Heavy Times – Black Sunglasses
    Heavy Times – Black Sunglasses
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    ” It’s been too long since you’ve felt the damp, leathery slap of Heavy Times across the small of your back, and it’s about time, isn’t it? We’re proud to […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Velveteen Rabbit – Mind-Numbing Entertainment
    Velveteen Rabbit – Mind-Numbing Entertainment
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    “As sad it was to hear about the demise of The Jeanies, by far NYC’s most addictive power pop band of the last half decade, we’re happy to announce their […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Surfbort – Bort To Death
    Surfbort – Bort To Death
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    “Well look at this, a Brooklyn band that is somehow actually dripping, and/or seething with raw punk ooze??? Look no further than Surfbort, a rock’n roll mutation with living, breathing, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Puffy Areolas – Gentlemen’s Grip
    Puffy Areolas – Gentlemen’s Grip
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    “One of the most pivotal bands currently infecting the Midwest universe, PUFFY AREOLAS are a pummeling ensemble of free jazz skronk, laid mercilessly on top of a proto-punk nuclear waste [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Shrapnelles – Asscalibur
    The Shrapnelles – Asscalibur
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    “This gang of women raised by wolves from the great northern province of Alberta, Canada have effortlessly pulled themselves up through the cracks of the “girlbandghetto” trappings and [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Medication – Don’t Die
    Medication – Don’t Die
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    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sharp Ends – Northern Front
    Sharp Ends – Northern Front
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    “Calgary, Alberta has been unearthing gem after gem of exciting new post-punk outfits recently, and SHARP ENDS are the “gateway drug” into that inner circle people been waiting [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Fungi Girls – Turquoise Hotel / Doldrums
    Fungi Girls – Turquoise Hotel / Doldrums
    $4.00 | , Add to cart

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fey Gods – Untied
    Fey Gods – Untied
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    “The oddness and ambiguity of Columbus, OH’s own FEY GODS may seem like a handicap in some outsider perspectives, but following the rich musical tradition of Columbus’ seemingly [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The People’s Temple – Make You Understand
    The People’s Temple – Make You Understand
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    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tortured Tongues – Let Me Down
    Tortured Tongues – Let Me Down
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    “It’s bad times all year ’round in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the castrated legions that makeup the by-product known as TORTURED TONGUES reside. The tar-like muck that [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Outer Minds – Bloodshot Eyes
    Outer Minds – Bloodshot Eyes
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    “Chicago’s explosive and underrated OUTER MINDS have finally come to the surface after simmering in the underworld in several different incarnations over the past few years, and with [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sleepovers – Secret
    Sleepovers – Secret
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    Debut 3-track power-pop EP

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative