V/A – Eccentric Disco (Clear w/ Yellow & Purple Vinyl)

Ten independent and private press, dance floor ready dive bombers from disco’s all-to-brief heyday, previously swept under rug by the whitewashed glitz and glam of the era. Chugging grooves, [...]

V/A – Love, Peace & Poetry – Chilean Psychedelic Music

Limited 2022 restock; LP glossy gatefold heavy sleeve; 180 gram pressing. The Love, Peace & Poetry series from QDK continues in Chile, with 17 tracks culled from some of the […]

Volta Jazz – Air Volta

From the landlocked tropical savanna of Upper Volta, an ever-evolving cast of musicians brought the world’s rhythms to the streets of their native Bobo-Dioulasso. Combining Congolese rhumba, [...]

VA: Shanghai’d Soul Episode 4 (Purple Vinyl)

Everybody’s still talking about the good ol’ days! A rough and rugged collection of ol’ dirty classics that have inspired swarms of killer beats. A head nod to the sounds […]

VA ‎– Los Angeles Modern Kent Northern Soul

Vampire Can’t – Key Cutter

“This 2005 recording collaboration of Vampire Belt, the long running Western Massachusetts duo of Chris Corsano (frequent YOD associate and collaborator with Jandek, John Olson, and Paul [...]

Various ‎– Misra Records 15 Years: Adventures In Obstinacy

Vivian Girls – Memory

While a reunion record titled Memory may conjure images of a band waxing nostalgic about the halcyon days of yore, Vivian Girls’ newest record is anything but a pleasant reminiscence. […]

Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong

Swirling noise Brooklynites, Vivian Girls released their sophomore album, Everything Goes Wrong, almost exactly one year after their self-titled debut Everything Goes Wrong is longer than the 22 [...]

Van Morrison – His Band And The Street Choir (UK Import)

Van’s 1970 album that exudes the rhythm and blues sound of his inspiration: Domino; Crazy Face; Give Me a Kiss; I’ve Been Working; Call Me Up in Dreamland; Blue Money; […]

V/A – New Tape

Founded in early ’70s by historical RAI TV trumpeter and composer Cicci Santucci (Looking Around (1971), On The Underground Road (1971)), New Tape grew up during the golden period of […]

V/A – Underground Mood

“First launched in 1971, Flirt Records was one of the many notable production music imprints distributed by Flipper Music, iconic publishing company founded by Romani Di Bari in 1968 and [...]

Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap

2022 repress. Originally released in 2014. Received a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork. “Nine years after Lookaftering, her last album of new material, legendary British singer-songwriter Vashti [...]

V/A – Ebirac All-Stars (Boricua Blue Vinyl)

Holed up in the bustling Puerto Rican community centers of Chicago’s west side, the salseros featured on Ebiriac All-Stars make up the best of Carlos Ruiz’ Ebirac label, which ran […]

V/A – The D-Vine Spirituals Story Vol. 1

In 1970, while the United States was recovering from the tumultuous unrest of the sixties and Southern segregationist George Wallace was between bids for the presidency, a young black preacher [...]

V/A – INASOUND: retour aux sources de l’électro avec l’INA GRM

Pioneer of electro-acoustic and experimental music, the French Groupe de Recherches Musicales (Musical Research Group) created by Pierre Schaeffer right after World War II still influences [...]

V/A – Function Underground: The Black & Brown American Rock Sound 1969-1974

2022 restock. “14 tracks by Jimi Macon, Black Maffia, Blacklites and more, many reissued for the first time. Includes a 16 page booklet with extensive notes on an overlooked and […]

V/A – Nouakchott Wedding Songs

Raucous and electrified wedding songs from the desert kingdom of Mauritania. Luxurious overload of microtonal scales, phaser pedals, and unpredictable polyrhythms. Documentation of a little known [...]

Van Der Graaf Generator – The Aerosol Grey Machine

The Aerosol Grey Machine is the debut studio album by English progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. It was first released in the United States in 1969 by Mercury […]

Voices Of East Harlem – S/T

The Voices Of East Harlem were an ensemble of vocalists who for Just Sunshine Records recorded two albums under the direction of Leroy Hutson and Curtis Mayfield. They were managed […]

V/A – Best Of Original Dancehall Vol. 1

Part of a series of newly created Trojan Records compilations celebrating the re-launch of Trojan Records. In the early eighties, a hard new style returned Reggae to its core audience: […]

V/A – Best Of Lovers Rock Vol. 1

Part of a series of newly created Trojan Records compilations celebrating the re-launch of Trojan Records. In the mid-1970 s, many British Reggae fans found fulfilment in the first home-produced [...]

V/A – Best Of Classic Reggae Vol. 1

Part of a series of newly created Trojan Records compilations celebrating the re-launch of Trojan Records. Towards the close of 1968, Jamaican music experienced the latest in a series of […]

V/A – Best Of Trojan Roots Vol. 1

The early seventies witnessed the development of ROOTS an inward-looking Reggae style that drew inspiration from the Rastafarian faith, political wrongdoings and cultural heritage. Features 10 of [...]

V/A – Step Forward Youth: Roots Masters from the “Punky Reggae Party”

2018 release. “1976 saw the explosion of punk rock and it’s unlikely championing of reggae in the UK and beyond. Through a 12-track LP compilation of essential recordings, Step [...]

V/A – Musique Concrete

Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales (The Group of Musical Research) of the O.R.T.F. (Office of the French Radio-Television) is known in the world principally as the promoter of an original […]

V/A – I Believe I’ll Go Back Home

A sequel (of sorts) to the “I Don’t Feel At Home In this World Anymore” compilation. The stone cold beautiful African guitar playing and singing of Sabelo and G. Wayawaya, […]

V/A ‎– Trojan Records Tighten Up Reggae Volume 1

Part of series of newly created Trojan Records compilations celebrating the re-launch of Trojan Records. When Reggae burst onto the Jamaican music scene late in 1968, the style was anything […]

V/A ‎– Nuggets (Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968)

While it’s not the extended, long-form work of a single artist whose muse simply cannot be contained by a mere two sides of vinyl (the ostensible purpose of this column), […]

V/A – Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip

Here are just some of the gems from this latest edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost vintage ’60s-’70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid – The [...]

Vis-A-Vis ‎– The Best Of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style

A remastered reissue of The Best of Vis- A-Vis in Congo Style – the album finds the the young band in great form, with six new songs. The album was […]

Vijay Iyer – UnEasy

Uneasy, with Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh, is Vijay Iyer’s second trio album on ECM and his seventh appearance as a leader on the label. Navigating from one […]

V/A – Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal

The genesis of our Good God! series, dedicated to divergent sounds from devout records, A Gospel Funk Hymnal explores injections of a profane funk into gospel music’s sacred beatitude. Completing [...]

V/A – Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands

“The second in our series of peeks into the world of regional studios hones in on Mickey Rouse’s Lowland operation out of Beaumont, Texas. Long after the Bopper’s plane crashed […]

V/A – Local Customs: Cavern Sound

Not quite hell, but close enough. Local Customs: Cavern Sound covers six years lost in the deranging darkness of Independence, Missouri’s Pixley limestone mine, where a team of misfit engineers [...]

V/A – Give Me The Funk Vol. 1

Wagram teams up with the magazine Funk-U in order to create a new incredible Funk collection for true groove lovers! Features Booker T. and The MG’s, James Brown & The […]

VA ‎– Flash And Crash (The Northwest Battle Of The Bands Volume One)

THIS PLATTER – AND A BARREL OF CRISCO – IS ALL YOU NEED TO THROW YOUR OWN NORTH-WEST-STYLE TEEN-DANCE PARTY! AFTER HITTING BIG WITH THE KINGSMENʼS “LOUIE, LOUIE,” JERDEN RECORDS […]

VA – Ain’t It Hard! (Sunset Strip ’60s Sounds! Garage & Psych From Viva Records)

The short-lived Viva Records label was one wildly eclectic outfit. Helmed by hitmaker Snuff Garrett, this Los Angeles-based imprint targeted the teen marketplace with a series of extraordinary [...]

VA – Pebbles Vol. 5

“An enjoyable collection of obscure regional bands, featuring 19 recordings from 1965-1967 and one (Magi’s “You Don’t Know Me”) from 1971. Highlights include the [...]

VA – Pebbles Vol. 9

Premier series of 60s garage/punk/teenbeat compilations. This is the second to feature bands from Southern California.

VA ‎– Deutsche Elektronische Musik (Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83) – Volume Two LP

AVAILABLE AGAIN! Soul Jazz Records new 2018 edition of their long out of print classic first “Deutsche Elektronische Musik – Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1972-83” is ‘a [...]

VA ‎– Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4 (Experimental German Rock And Electronic Music 1971-83)

This is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ ground-breaking Deutsche Elektronische Musik series, ‘A near-definitive guide to some of the world’s most extraordinary music’ (The [...]

VA – No New York

One of the brightest and most famous projects of the entire punk/new wave scene, No New York was released in 1978 on Island’s sub-label Antilles. Featuring some of the most […]

VA – Psychedelic Unknowns: Volume 8

A classic garage-psych comp

VA – Brown Acid: The Sixth Trip

“Six volumes worth of licensed tracks released in just three years: doing the Dark Lord’s work isn’t an easy job, but somebody’s gotta do it, so here is Brown Acid […]

VA – Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip

“If you thought we were getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with our last Trip, you were dead wrong… we’re only just getting rolling. The well […]

VA – Brown Acid: The Ninth Trip

“The forthcoming ninth edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost vintage 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid – The Ninth Trip is set for [...]

Visions – Visions

Dark, gothic, melodic, and catchy punk rock from Portland, OR backed with very solid singing that is delivered with depth and sophistication. Very well done. Three of the four members […]

VA – Ethiopian Wedding Songs

With a mix of modern and traditional instruments these fourteen songs go through the progression of an Ethiopian Amhara wedding sung in Amharic. With the trio of singers, Lemma G. […]

V/A – Kearney Barton: Architectof the Northwest Sound

When Seattle-based recording engineer Kearney Barton died in 2012, the 80 year-old studio veteran had spent the past 50 years recording the cream of the Seattle music scene through the […]

Vis-A-Vis – Odo Gu Ahorow

As both a popular live act and in-demand studio musicians, Vis-A-Vis released 13 albums between 1975 and 1982. Led by vocalist Isaac “Superstar” Yeboah and featuring Sammy Cropper on guitar, […]

Villa Abo – Carpet Proof Of Daily Reports

It’s a Swedish house thing. Börft boss Jan Zwarre Svensson a.k.a Frak returns to his early project, Villa Åbo, for six deep and rude acid rub downs.