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  • Johnny Cash – Live From Austin, TX (Green Marbled Vinyl)
    Johnny Cash – Live From Austin, TX (Green Marbled Vinyl)
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    “January 3, 1987 was a milestone in Austin City Limits history. One of the few individuals in the world of music who truly deserves the title of “legend” set foot […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois
    Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois
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    The first major biography on artist Louise Bourgeois brings the life and work of an iconic twentieth-century artist into sharp focus Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most important [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eugene Thacker – Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3
    Eugene Thacker – Horror of Philosophy: Vols. 1-3
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    Zer0 Books presents a new, omnibus edition of a cult classic: all three volumes of Eugene Thacker’s Horror of Philosophy trilogy, revised and expanded by the author. Across the three […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
    Pierre Guyotat – Idiocy
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    Pierre Guyotat was one of the most radical and uncompromising writers of the twentieth century, a literary successor to Sade, Bataille, and Genet whose visceral fictions and bold experiments with [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mark Fisher – Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
    Mark Fisher – Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction
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    Completed in 1999 during his time with the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Mark Fisher’s PhD thesis, Flatline Constructs, invents a fusion of culture, critique, and radical philosophy that [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
    Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
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    At the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
    Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
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    When it was originally published in 1999, Techno Rebels became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno’s characteristics, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Catherine Breillat – I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet
    Catherine Breillat – I Only Believe in Myself: Conversation with Murielle Joudet
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    Catherine Breillat has always told just one story: her own, the story of a young girl whose existence was forbidden, who was, from childhood, cut in half, split between her […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Klaus Theweleit – Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies
    Klaus Theweleit – Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women Floods Bodies
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    First of this two-volume work providing an imaginative interpretation of the image of women in the collective unconscious of the fascist “warrior” through a study of the fantasies of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nick Land – Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
    Nick Land – Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007
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    A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land. During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land’s unique work, variously described as “rabid [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Renbourn ‎– Sir John Alot Of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte (UK Pressing)
    John Renbourn ‎– Sir John Alot Of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte (UK Pressing)
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    “An instrumental album (originally called Sir John Alot of Merrie England) featuring John Renbourn with his Pentangle bandmate Terry Cox on percussion and Ray Warleigh on flute. Originally [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Shiloh – Shiloh (Don Henley’s Pre-Eagles band)
    Shiloh – Shiloh (Don Henley’s Pre-Eagles band)
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    Pre-Eagles Henley, roots rock kinda jams. Produced by Kenny Rogers Label: Amos Records – AAS7015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG/VG No exact label layout on discogs, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Trader Horne ‎– Morning Way (1970 UK Pressing)
    Trader Horne ‎– Morning Way (1970 UK Pressing)
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    “Legendarily named after DJ John Peel’s nickname for his nanny, the duo Trader Horne were one of those wonderful, short-lived footnotes of musical history with which the [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Willie Lane – Recliner Ragas
    Willie Lane – Recliner Ragas
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    LP reissue of 2006 CDr from New England folk guitarist. Label: Humito – HUM 1004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: US Released: 2012 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dr. J. Tavares Fortuna – Fados De Coimbra – Fui Moço, Fui Rapaz…
    Dr. J. Tavares Fortuna – Fados De Coimbra – Fui Moço, Fui Rapaz…
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    Portugese fado LP that came in with a recent collection. Beautiful early 80s recording. Label: Roda – SSRL 9006 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Portugal Released: 1981 VG+/VG Some laminate […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fairport Convention ‎– Fairport Convention
    Fairport Convention ‎– Fairport Convention
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    “By far the most rock-oriented of Fairport Convention’s early albums, this debut was recorded before Sandy Denny joined the band (Judy Dyble handles the female vocals). Unjustly [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fairport Convention ‎– Full House
    Fairport Convention ‎– Full House
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    “Fairport Convention is a group that has always beaten the odds — that’s why a version of the band is working in the 21st century. By the time of this, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking
    Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking
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    An ugly repackage for their classic 3rd LP. “Unhalfbricking was, if only in retrospect, a transitional album for the young Fairport Convention, in which the group shed its closest ties […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fotheringay ‎– Fotheringay
    Fotheringay ‎– Fotheringay
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    “When Sandy Denny departed Fairport Convention, insisting that she wanted to concentrate upon her own songwriting rather than pursue the band’s exploration of traditional English [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob and Carole Pegg ‎– He Came From The Mountains
    Bob and Carole Pegg ‎– He Came From The Mountains
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    Obscure 70’s UK Folk weirdness. The Peggs would later go on to found the slightly more conventional folk-rock band Mr. Fox. Label: Trailer – LER 3016 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Sir Richard Bishop – Hillbilly Ragas
    Sir Richard Bishop – Hillbilly Ragas
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    “Our favorite six-string shaman is waving that axe around again! Sir Richard Bishop wrenches forth fresh damnable truth and beauty from a musical kamikaze run through histories both known [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
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    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
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    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
    Annie Jacobsen – Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
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    “When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
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    “The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Simon Critchley – Mysticism
    Simon Critchley – Mysticism
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    A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
    Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
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    Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the “All-American Terrorist,” this [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
    Donna Haraway – Manifestly Haraway
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    Electrifying, provocative, and controversial when first published thirty years ago, Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” is even more relevant today, when the divisions that she so eloquently [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt
    The Collected Poems of Mary Ellen Solt
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    Nearly five decades of work by the beloved American critic and concrete poet best known for her flower-shaped poems. This volume brings together a half century’s worth of work by […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
    Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
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    With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
    Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
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    The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
    Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
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    Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Nicolas Devil & Jean Rollin – Saga de Xam
    Nicolas Devil & Jean Rollin – Saga de Xam
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    In the annals of alternative comics, few works are as venerated, or as underseen, as Saga de Xam, the legendary French graphic novel by Nicholas Devil and Jean Rollin. Originally […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
    Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
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    In his short 37 years, John Whiteside “Jack” Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life. By day, Parsons’ unorthodox genius created a [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
    Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
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    With mass poisonings, global warming and other tidings of contemporary civilization threatening the planet, shouldn’t we begin to reconsider our unthinking attachment to it? Feral House’s new [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
    Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
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    In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction
  • Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group
    Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker: The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea, and the Black Mask Group
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    Founded in New York City in the mid-1960s by self-educated ghetto kid and painter Ben Morea, the Black Mask group melded the ideas and inspiration of Dada and the Surrealists, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
    Murder Ballads Old and New: A Dark and Bloody Record
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    Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic– our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
    Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
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    Scott Bukatman’s Terminal Identity—referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional “subject” and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
    Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
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    First published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun’s wildly radical answer to [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Flanger Magazine – Breslin
    Flanger Magazine – Breslin
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    “A set of spry, pastoral Aecoustic Guitar and errant Electronic pieces that harken back to libraries by Teisco, Vittorio Marino, and the like, yet mapped in an alien manner unlike […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Willie Lane ‎– Guitar Army Of One
    Willie Lane ‎– Guitar Army Of One
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    “Remastered reissue of the second brilliant Willie Lane LP released by Cord-Art, originally available (for a few moments, anyway) in 2012. Guitar Army of One is a bit less folk […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Willie Lane – Known Quantity
    Willie Lane – Known Quantity
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    “Newly remastered reissue of Willie Lane’s 2009 solo guitar LP, Known Quantity, originally released on his own Cord Art label. Over the last few years, this album has been requested [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Various – Spela Själv (Repress)
    Various – Spela Själv (Repress)
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    “A bit of confusion surrounds this release: The album has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they aren’t featured on it. Bo Anders Persson did, in fact, in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
    Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
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    A dazzling display of 12-string melodicism, Arc Minutes is the second full-length LP from once New Englander, now Tokyo-based, instrumentalist Rob Noyes. If one had to pin an influence from […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Noah Sterba ‎– The 13-Bar Blues
    Noah Sterba ‎– The 13-Bar Blues
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Thomas E. Frank – Tre Månader
    Thomas E. Frank – Tre Månader
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    ”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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A  – Buried Country: An Anthology Of Aboriginal Australian Country Music
    V/A – Buried Country: An Anthology Of Aboriginal Australian Country Music
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    Mississippi compile a selection rootsy Aboriginal music which has never been reissued on vinyl before. Political and powerful songs from communities throughout Australia. Label: Mississippi [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, International
  • Emmanuelle Parrenin – Maison Rose + 17 Decembre / La Foret Bleue
    Emmanuelle Parrenin – Maison Rose + 17 Decembre / La Foret Bleue
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    An album such as this obviously owes a lot to the atmosphere in which it was recorded, which we can imagine was magical. We know it took place in Fromentel, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Jayhawks ‎– Blue Earth (1989 TwinTone Pressing)
    The Jayhawks ‎– Blue Earth (1989 TwinTone Pressing)
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative