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Lee Morgan’s magnum opus The Sidewinder—recorded in 1963 and release in 1964—was both a comeback and a coronation. The prodigious trumpeter had debuted on Blue Note in 1956 at the age of 18, but [...]
Down Below is a stunning work of memoir that gives readers a look into the mind of one of Surrealism’s most compelling figures and an unforgettable depiction of brilliance and madness. [...]
An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby [...]
One of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautréamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and [...]
Powerful, provocative essays by the legendary punk musician and counterculture artist. “So Real It Hurts is the perfect title for this collection. It’s a mission statement. A few [...]
Norwegian duo Lost Girls, artist and writer Jenny Hval and multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden, release their first album after collaborating for more than ten years. Volden has been playing [...]
A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology A New York Times Best Art Book of 2020 The divide between the digital and the real world [...]
The acclaimed art fanzine’s psychogeographic drifts through a ruined city Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford’s fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book [...]
Full performance archival recordings of Scant, Shredded Nerve, and Inferior Passions from the notorious April 2015 gig at The Smell in Los Angeles. Forty-five minutes of distant and detached [...]
A footrace on the moon / two show up armed with nothing but a polished flute and an assortment of scraping, stumbling percussion. No audience, no prize, no celebration, no start line no finish [...]
With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in [...]
LP is enveloped in a clear plastic outer sleeve. The titles are translated to Spanish. Odeon Pops – URL 2111 Uruguay pressing Media Condition – NM, sealed Sleeve Condition – [...]
2016 repress. “Lazy Smoke – Corridor Of Faces is held in high regards as one of the rarest psych albums ever made. The sole offering recorded in Massachusettes in 1968, Lazy Smoke is [...]
“Yes, it is sitar music. Well, no, it isn’t sitar music in the sense of the classical ragas performed by Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee. Nor is it, if you’re looking for a [...]
Fantôme Phonographique present a reissue of Luc Estang and Pierre Henry‘s Saint-Exupéry, originally released as a 10″ in 1959. During his long and illustrious career, the French [...]
“This beyond a doubt is one of the most exciting jazz treats today. Throughout the entire album I know you will notice a fresh approach, undoubtedly due to the use of much original and [...]
Five cuts of obsessive electro/ebm from the cold heart of Croatia that will make you sweat. Unchaste vocals on brash basslines and slicing snares are melted with acid sounds and thumping beats. [...]
Kranky – KRANK191 Released November 17, 2014 Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+
Percussion-focused modern comp from Italian percussionist, Lino Capra Vaccina. Gorgeous, gentle tracks. Die Schachtel – DS27/2 LP 2014 Italy Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition [...]
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over by Beth B is the first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City’s [...]
TEST PRESSING: “Kings of Drugs proclaim H.Sap insane as daylight radio waves fade. Survivors of Syrian Wars tell of video kiosks with torture tapes worldwide copyright Police Operational [...]
Les Filles de Illighadad comes from the village of Illighadad in a remote region of central Niger. Like many of the villages in the area, its borders are loosely defined, owing to the largely [...]
Mixtape #5: Loners & Outsiders, Country artists who took their own path. From the Dollar Country website: Welcome to Dollar Country! Dollar Country is a radio show hosted by WTFC radio. It [...]
Kristen Hayter, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, and vocalist known as Lingua Ignota has announced her Sargent House debut, SINNER GET READY. A graduate of the [...]
Christian DeRoeck wasn’t sure he’d ever make another Little Gold record. The Athens, Ga. country-rock band was broken up, and the frontman was feeling like the project had run its course. But [...]
2015 repress. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & The Upsetters‘ Eternal Dubs Chapter 2 on Clocktower. Tracks: “Brad Draw,” “Clocktower Version,” “Clocktower [...]
Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: May 1, 2018 Beyond Majority Rule began by surveying how non-hierarchical groups make decisions, with a particular [...]
Documentation for fanatics only. 3,700 word essay by Chris Sienko detailing the history and releases of LHD, plus illustrated discography. Limited release. 6×9-inches, 54 pages, Hardcover
Soleilmoon Recordings – SOL 1 1998 US, picture discs, 119/512 Media Condition – VG+, records look really clean! Sleeve Condition – VG, comes with card insert, light wear on front of box, marks on [...]
A slim volume of essays and critiques of the work and enigmatic life of Kathy Acker. VG with light shelfwear and wear to backcover
Masterfully orchestrated sonic bustles, erratically battle each other while simultaneously looping into an ascendancy, binding and surmounting into myriads of convulsive, hyper-jittery, tonal [...]
It’s about time that our partner in crime Lostsoundbytes joined us for a ride. Kept on the back burner for a while, the debut album by the Belgium-based producer and Vastechoses label honcho [...]
Long time kept in the pipelines, we are proud to welcome the discreet, although agitated newcomer Legion 808 conveying his debut vinyl release on the label. Composed while stuck in some kind of [...]
“I wonder if my fascination for clouds (without being an obsession) may have risen at the end of the ’80s as, whilst composing ‘Micro-climat’, I would regularly wander [...]
ESP-Disk’ present a Lowell Davidson Trio‘s self-titled album, originally released in 1965. On Ornette Coleman‘s recommendation, ESP-Disk’ owner Bernard Stollman signed up [...]
2021 repress. Feedback drenched noise for the classic “France” Demos from Japanese psych noise legend, Les Rallizes Denudes.
Editions EG – MBF 1335 Comes with OBI & insert Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+ with light shelfwear
The electric filmmaking genius John Cassavetes and his brilliant wife and collaborator Gena Rowlands give luminous, fragile performances as two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls who [...]
Toiling tirelessly among the shadows of the crumbling imperial superstructure, beloved noise hero Limbs Bin emerges in 2021 with a new full-length studio album on Damien Records. Burnt White [...]
As Arthur Lee entered the studio to begin the sessions for 1969’s Four Sail, he was the only remaining band member from the previous three LPs’ lineups. Enlisting the aid of Frank Fayad on bass, [...]
Our favourite Italian Techno Noise Industrialiast is back! Leather Parisi – Clockwise Mayhem Anxiety and the daily rush that marks our daily life. Each song reperesents one hour of the day [...]
Smooth operator Arlo (Lawrence Pertillar) is setting up an erotic musical in New York. Free-spirited Lialeh (Jennifer Leigh), a woman with many talents who longs for a singing career will do [...]
US Pressing DRP-8243 Recorded July 19th, 1982 at the Cafe Union in Knoxville, Tennessee. Media Condition: VG Sleeve Condition: VG Few light scuff marks on both sides. Top left corner of sleeve is [...]
Channeling temperaments of dislocation and wanderlust, filtered through impressions of distinctly American landscapes—coasts, cities, prairie—and the sonic material of everyday experience, [...]
By the time bohemian singer/poet/artist Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded her fifth album, 1988’s Suspense, she’d enjoyed a recording career that was as far from the clichés of music lore as is [...]
By the time poet, singer-songwriter, and artist Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded 1984’s Zulu Rock, she’d marked herself out as both a globe trotter with more passport stamps than Tintin and a [...]
In the course of three albums, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, the rogue poet, artist, and singer-songwriter, traveled on a musical voyage from Manhattan (1979 debut Press Color) to The Bahamas (1981 [...]
Political post-punk trio This Heat dissolved at a turbulent time in the UK. Margaret “The Iron Lady” Thatcher was in power, and her budget-cutting, ultra-conservative influence was felt strongly [...]
“I asked him if he wanted to use any of his songs, and he said, “No.” We had a long chat before we did any of this. He said, ‘No, I want you to do it and I want to just be a singer.’ So I said [...]
Phoenix, Arizona 1955…a twenty-five year old disc jockey and fledgling songwriter, Lee Hazlewood, is trying to break into the music industry. He takes Greyhound bus trips to Los Angeles to pitch [...]
Brand new sprawling double cassette document from Lisa Cameron & Sandy Ewen! “Sea Creatures Too” features one tape of newly recording studio tracks and a second tape of live [...]
When Linda Smith purchased a 4 track cassette recorder in the mid-1980s, it was not with the intention of launching a solo career. At the time, she was playing guitar in a band called the Woods, [...]
From the Psychic Liberation vaults comes a pairing of sonic material from artists LXV and Glyn Maier. Having originally been planned for respective 7” releases, the pairing of these modernist [...]
Liam O’Gallagher‘s audio work, People’s Opera aka Aerosol/or the Computer That Couldn’t Hear: An Inter-Media Opera, features nine transistor radios (four tuned to FM stations [...]
Label Description: New 7” from Sydney’s Low Life featuring two previously unreleased tracks which tie up loose ends from the band’s first wave period. ‘Catholic Guilt’ was originally leftover [...]
Norwegian duo Lost Girls, artist and writer Jenny Hval and multi-instrumentalist Havard Volden, release their first album after collaborating for more than ten years. Volden has been playing [...]
Label Description: Grinding urban destruction from this NYC-based duo of Chelsea O’Connor and Chris Hansell. Blasting noise action with flourishes of electronic ambience that weave together [...]
High quality vinyl edition, originally issued in 1976. Lee Perry & The Upsetters create unequaled Reggae CLASSICS.
“Once again Clocktower bring you the massive and powerful tracks, such as ‘Cloak & Dagger’ DJ style led by King Tubby and Lee Perry. And they’ve also included the slow [...]
Laurie Spiegel’s second full-length album, Unseen Worlds, arrived just over ten years after her debut album. Having realized the pieces found on The Expanding Universe (1980) on an instrument no [...]
The sophomore album from New York-based duo LEYA, Flood Dream, is a haunting, collection of structurally concise and aurally spacious songs for harp, violin, and voice that move between intense [...]
Label Description: Debut LP of ambient and synth music. LP color vinyl edition of 100 with risograph inserts and home made cover.
Dark Entires is honored to reissue the long out of print debut album “Elevator to Eden” by Lives of Angels. Lives of Angels was the brainchild of Gerald O’Connell from London, [...]
‘Really rad and impossibly beautiful post-glitch ambient ethereal brilliance. Yet another totally mandatory Hologram disc.’ -BH limited to 100 numbered copies
Lingula was a Texas based harsh noise collaboration between David Gilden and Richard Ramirez that existed from 1994-1996. The aptly titled ‘Static Fuzz Drill’ is a non-stop 72 minute [...]
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Margaret (Anne Carlisle) is a fashion model with dreams of stardom, whose alter ego and rival, Jimmy (also Carlisle), abuses and takes advantage of her to satisfy his rampant drug addiction. [...]
Pirouetting on decadence, meeting eyes with a dizzy sensation, falling and flying at the same time—Lust for Youth have continually held poise through the most vitalizing of times. Their new [...]
Laura Luna Castillo is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician currently residing in Puebla, Mexico. Through these convergences of time-based media, music, sculpture and narrative languages, she [...]
“Back in 2018, I was invited by Dave Rempis to participate in the Exposure Series at Elastic Arts in Chicago. The Series was for me a shining example of artist-lead organizing of different [...]
Doc Lloyd Miller returns with his signature and timeless Spiritual Jazz and World/Cultural Music trademarks, as well as inviting a few contemporary sensibilities contributed by himself and [...]
“Much sought after Peel Session recorded shortly after LFO had released their first single on Warp and featuring otherwise unheard tracks.”
Blown out and massed patterns of red-line scrape and abrasion; cyclical and blaring, a thunderstorm of gutter-nihilism emanates from the streets and sewers of NYC. 40 continuous minutes of rugged [...]
Chaz Prymek’s ongoing Lake Mary project transcended the boundaries of a mere solo project long ago, having evolved into an ever-shifting collective of like-minded artists, performers and [...]
Blow the horn and tap the tambourine! For want of live performances in this blighted year, LIMBS BIN has self-released a pro CD-R containing two of 2019’s most ecstatic declarations of existence [...]
Luka Productions presents Falaw, an innovative take on West African Hip Hop and sample-based folktronica. A follow up from the acclaimed Malian “new age” inspired Fasokan (2017), Luka [...]
Vision Songs Vol. 1 is the Laraaji album like no other, located at the intersection of new age and gospel, his outlier and magnum opus, the feel-good DIY tape of the century. Casio synth jams [...]
“Black Mass is an album of supernatural electronics from synth pioneer Mort Garson, the mastermind behind the cult classic Mother Earth’s Plantasia. Originally released in 1971, it’s [...]
Fifth album by Lakes, aka Sean Bailey from Melbourne, Australia. Since 2002, Lakes has released a constant stream of 7-inch’s, cassettes, CD-R’s and LP’s cloaked in a thick mist of noise and [...]
After starring in 100 movies over the past two decades, Tina Krause has established herself as an unstoppable warrior from the DIY fringes. LIMBO is the first — and to this day, only [...]
Lucrecia Dalt dissolves herself into sound on No era sólida, a suspended auditory illusion guided by unconscious murmurs, cosmic oscillations, and unpredictable percussion. No era sólida is a [...]
Beautiful Dreamer is a two-part suite dedicated to Steve Dalachinsky — an original among New Yorkers and everyone else; an indefatigable supporter of the avant garde; an ingenious poet; and [...]
“The lost yearbook from Louis Wayne Moody High’s graduating class of 1967, chronicling the peaks and valleys of teenage angst, lost loves, and life after summer vacation. Fourteen moody [...]
Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series Curated by Don Was and Cem Kurosman; Great Reid Miles Covers (Part 3) Themed Installment Presented on 180g Vinyl LP In honor of Blue Note Records’ 80th [...]
“Felis Catus and Silence is a breakthrough release for Tokyo composer-guitarist Leo Takami, following the milestone albums Children’s Song (2012) and Tree of Life (2017). Takami [...]
“The fourth album that Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett have recorded as a duo — the second for us, following 2017’s Live NYC (FTR 302LP) — is much less about [...]
“What more can be said about the legend that is Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry! He has been recording and producing music from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s ,90’s and beyond [...]
“Love‘s debut is both their hardest-rocking early album and their most Byrds influenced. Arthur Lee‘s songwriting muse hadn’t fully developed at this stage, and in [...]
Forever Changes is the third album by the American psych band Love. It was released by Elektra in November 1967 and would be the final album by the original band, as subsequent albums featured [...]
2017 USA edition. Lou Reed remaster. Hard-edged, dark & seedy 1978 album that divides fans & critics alike.
Eternally perverse, Reed responded to having a pop hit with Transformer by making a massive bummer of an album, built around reworked versions of a couple of older songs. Berlin is [...]
Leonard Cohen – Greatest Hits album by Leonard Cohen, originally released in 1975. In some countries from Europe, it was released under the title Greatest Hits. This alternative title was [...]
“Lena Platonos is a Greek musician, pianist and music composer. She was one of the pioneers in the Greek electronic music scene of the 1980s, and she remains active today. Lena was born on [...]
“Kings of Drugs proclaim H.Sap insane as daylight radio waves fade. Survivors of Syrian Wars tell of video kiosks with torture tapes worldwide copyright Police Operational Arts. Lo! King [...]
Pennsylvania’s dark shadow figure, Lunacy, has been releasing music in small batches since 2016. After 4 EP’s and a compilation LP, the time for a debut album has come, the “Age Of Truth” [...]
“Lhasa is the brainchild of Alain Raes from Siegen, Germany. As a teenager he was inspired by Tubeway Army’s “Are Friends Electric” and Art Of Noise’s “Beatbox”. In 1985 he began [...]