“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 […]
Peter Jefferies, a living legend of New Zealand underground music, from his seminal bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment, to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal [...]
L. EUGENE METHE (pronounced meth-e) is a sub-underground DIY lifer. At age 17, Methe started performing at bars in Omaha, Nebraska, fronting a band with six guitars, bass and drums […]
Grapefruit Records is proud to introduce Stenhjärta, a new duo consisting of Gustaf Dicksson & Magnus Jäverling. Both are active in the Swedish Underground music scene centered in Gothenburg. [...]
“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 [...]
“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, [...]
“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 […]
“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: [...]
“Interval Band Selections” transmits two recordings from Bruce McClure’s October 11, 2019 performance at Cafe OTO, each utilizing one 16mm projector threaded with a film loop of [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
In a time when cleverness is prized over belly-busting fun, in a musical landscape that worships genre over invention, and in a world increasingly begging computers to think on our […]
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 […]
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, […]
Folklore & Concepts, the latest release by Smegma—now five decades into their outsider avant-garde career—extends the band’s legacy of ritualistic collage, spontaneous improvisation, and [...]
Here we are again inside Timeout Room. Inside the lo-fi tape hiss, and lyrical odes to fallen bodies & future Fun Fridays, where dead flies in the ointment hang. Where […]
Bilders new album is a mix of psychic adventures, hard psychedelia and commentary with a bite. Bilders have always sung outliers with a heap of empathy—exploitation of migrants, unmitigated [...]
Continuing much of the instrumental, musically dense partnership of Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille in the 80s and 90s, Crucible stands out as a clear highlight in the pair’s musical [...]
I dipped my comb in shochu and ran it through the hair of the night is the brand new release from the intriguing trio 番長 Taste, consisting of Mark Anderson […]
There’s an alternate reality where everyone makes a living wage and the cleanest buses you’ve ever seen arrive every other minute. Where the most intense songs are about confessing your […]
Produced by Josephine “Jo” Bridges and signed to her We Produce imprint, The Temprees were a Memphis soul vocal trio powered by one of the great falsettos in pop music, […]
The success of Shaft and Superfly ignited an explosion of films, many produced by small independent studios and filmmakers, whose soundtracks continue to provide rich fodder for turntablists, [...]
Released in 1976 on the pioneering Strata-East Records label, Marchin’ On! feat. Stanley Cowell by The Heath Brothers is a masterful blend of tradition and innovation that captured the [...]
Don’t Trust Mirrors marks one of the most transformative chapters in New York-based composer and producer, Kelly Moran’s career. In 2019, fresh from touring her Warp debut Ultraviolet, she began [...]
Tony Molina has been putting out records with marked consistency for well over twenty years. Underpinned by an unwavering ethos of independence and an unrelenting devotion to songcraft, his music [...]
Over the course of a decade playing together and making records as Jeanines, the duo of Alicia Jeanine and Jed Smith have charted a distinctive course through the history of […]
On their spellbinding sophomore album, “Whispers in the Speech Machine,” the young Ohio siblings from The Laughing Chimes fully embrace their Southern Gothic influences, cannily [...]
Neutrals are a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area, channeling a wide range of ’70s and ’80s punk, post-punk, and DIY indiepop influences. Their spare, angular songs don’t [...]
After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her [...]
Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his […]
The San Francisco bay area has long been an important outpost of the International Pop Underground, from the 90s heyday of The Aislers Set, #Poundsign# and The Fairways to the […]
NYC’s Peel Dream Magazine dazzled listeners with their recent release “Agitprop Alterna,” a smart album that draws from a wide set of post-punk, shoegaze and indiepop influences [...]
Highly interesting split between composers, featuring the debut piece by Steven Birchall of Reality Gates fame. Label: Opus One – number 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: US Released: 1970 [...]
“Taxi is Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare’s own label and production company, and this 1981 collection is something of a statement of purpose for the pair. The mathematical title is [...]