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  • John And Yoko ‎– Wedding Album (with all inserts/posters!)
    John And Yoko ‎– Wedding Album (with all inserts/posters!)
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Seeds ‎– Future (1967 Stereo)
    The Seeds ‎– Future (1967 Stereo)
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    “Though the Seeds’ third album, 1967’s Future, was pegged by critics as the band’s attempt to ride the wave of baroque/psychedelic/orchestral magic the Beatles defined [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Seeds ‎– A Web Of Sound (Mono Pressing)
    The Seeds ‎– A Web Of Sound (Mono Pressing)
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    “Recorded in the midst of 1966, naturally after the spring release of their debut but before “Pushin’ Too Hard” climbed into the national charts in the spring of 1967, A [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Love ‎– Love (1966 Mono)
    Love ‎– Love (1966 Mono)
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Love ‎– Da Capo (1966 Mono)
    Love ‎– Da Capo (1966 Mono)
    $32.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Love broadened their scope into psychedelia on their sophomore effort, Arthur Lee’s achingly melodic songwriting gifts reaching full flower. The six songs that comprised the first [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Harmonia ‎– Complete Works
    Harmonia ‎– Complete Works
    $90.00 | , , Add to cart

    Contains all four Harmonia albums, and Harmonia & Eno’s Tracks And Traces album. Label: Grönland Records – no cat number Format: 5xCD, Box Set, Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gillian Welch & David Rawlings ‎– All The Good Times (Are Past & Gone)
    Gillian Welch & David Rawlings ‎– All The Good Times (Are Past &#…
    $120.00 | , , Add to cart

    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, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson – Daily Dance
    Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson – Daily Dance
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    “Less often than not, a sound recording will reach your ears that turns speculation into confirmation and leaves you wondering if it all really happened. TWS is usually the case […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Joanna Sternberg – I’ve Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg – I’ve Got Me
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    “There’s not a lot of pretense to the songs of Joanna Sternberg. The New Yorker is about as open and vulnerable as a singer/songwriter gets, relating their fears, anxieties, and […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille – Crucible
    Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille – Crucible
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    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 [...]

    GENRE: Blues, Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Donald Hünerberg, Peter Gillespie – Phase Murmur 7-11-73
    Donald Hünerberg, Peter Gillespie – Phase Murmur 7-11-73
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Self-released avant garde jazz – reissued for the first time! Recalling Kraftwerk precursor the Organisation, or contemporaries like Faust, Hünerberg employs flute, organ, bass and balloon to his [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Areski – Brigitte Fontaine – L’Incendie
    Areski – Brigitte Fontaine – L’Incendie
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    Vocalist-multi-instrumentalist Areski and singer Brigitte Fontaine are a legendary French musical couple that rose to prominence in the ‘60s, making a series of albums that showcased a boldly [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • Emmylou Harris – Spyboy
    Emmylou Harris – Spyboy
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    “A good song can survive and shine in different ways in the hands of different musicians,” says Emmylou Harris. “It can have different meanings at different times in your life. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Post Moves – No Dignity In Haste
    Post Moves – No Dignity In Haste
    $5.00 | , Add to cart

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A – Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
    V/A – Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
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    “The Numero Group has painstakingly audited every tape in the Lowland archives, selecting the best of the best (22 tracks on CD, 28 for the 2LP) for this peerless compilation. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • The Cosmic Jokers ‎– Planeten Sit-In
    The Cosmic Jokers ‎– Planeten Sit-In
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    “Whereas the two earlier Cosmic Jokers albums, the eponymous first effort and Galactic Supermarket, offered long, intense, free-flowing jams, Planeten Sit-In contains much shorter snippets [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Kim Fowley ‎– I’m Bad
    Kim Fowley ‎– I’m Bad
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “One of rock & roll’s great eccentrics, Kim Fowley has had a long and often successful career as a producer, songwriter, and talent scout (anyone who fronted the Hollywood [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Velvet Underground – Tune In / Drop Out
    Velvet Underground – Tune In / Drop Out
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    We opened the door to a 6 foot by 6 foot concrete room. There they were, all the dogs standing in puddles of blood. Who put them here? What’s on […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Mike Cooper With The Machine Gun Co. And Michael Gibbs / The Machine Gun Co. With Mike Cooper ‎– Places I Know / The Machine Gun Co. With Mike Cooper
    Mike Cooper With The Machine Gun Co. And Michael Gibbs / The Machine G…
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Paradise of Bachelors is proud to present the first artist-sanctioned reissues—and first-ever vinyl reissues—of iconoclastic English-born, Rome-based folk and experimental music legend [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Damnation Of Adam Blessing ‎– The Second Damnation
    Damnation Of Adam Blessing ‎– The Second Damnation
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The Damnation of Adam Blessing’s second LP (sometimes attributed in discographies to Damnation) went in a harder rock direction than their 1969 self-titled debut. The result was a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Lennon And Yoko Ono* ‎– Unfinished Music No. 1. Two Virgins
    John Lennon And Yoko Ono* ‎– Unfinished Music No. 1. Two Virgins
    $45.00 | , , Add to cart

    Conceptual/art-music melding of minds between two lynchpins of the 60’s. Label: Apple Records – T-5001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Mad River – Mad River (1968 US Pressing)
    Mad River – Mad River (1968 US Pressing)
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    “By far the most ominous-sounding of the Bay Area’s 1960s psychedelic bands, Berkeley’s Mad River comes across like a spiraling, acid-spiked descent into hell. With a raw, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bill MacKay, Ryley Walker ‎– SpiderBeetleBee
    Bill MacKay, Ryley Walker ‎– SpiderBeetleBee
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    “Shared joy and acoustics in rambling conversation, as two friends travel the continents via high-road, short-cut and their own paths, yet untravelled. Picking in the tradition, Walker and [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • UFO ‎– Flying
    UFO ‎– Flying
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The first two albums by UFO featured an odd mix of crisp, focussed songs alternating with meandering electric guitar-led soundscapes. Flying starts off with perhaps their best of the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Metal, Rock / Pop
  • UFO ‎– Live In Japan
    UFO ‎– Live In Japan
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “It’s been speculated that this album, taped in front of an enthusiastic Tokyo audience in the early ’70s, was recorded without UFO’s knowledge. When it was issued, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Metal, Rock / Pop
  • UFO ‎– UFO 1
    UFO ‎– UFO 1
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Recorded on a shoestring budget, UFO has several challenging sonic moments. The uneven mixes and amateur performances that some listeners might find quaint or innocent could be distracting [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Metal
  • Various – Weaving The Strands
    Various – Weaving The Strands
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    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot
    The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    The Alan Parsons Project I Robot is re-issued in a variety of different formats including as a blu-ray disc (ABC Region Free) containing Dolby Atmos, 5.1 surround sound mixes by […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Ra Can Row ‎– Ra Can Row
    Ra Can Row ‎– Ra Can Row
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “An instrumental band from the USA active in early 80s, built around guitars, throbbing bass lines and a solid drum drive, moog synths and electronics, enrich with a spatial feel […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Michael Hurley – Broken Homes And Gardens
    Michael Hurley – Broken Homes And Gardens
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Broken Homes and Gardens, the final studio album from Michael Hurley, was completed in March 2025 just before Hurley left for his final shows in Asheville and Knoxville. He had […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
    Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    “The recordings Contained herein are contained here after many years on the shelf…” So begin Michael Hurley’s notes to these unbelievably great recordings from [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    A reimagined version of Michael Hurley’s 2002 masterpiece! Some of the most beautiful recordings of his catalog available on vinyl for the first time. Sweetkorn was originally released on [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat [early 70s Stereo/Mono]
    The Velvet Underground ‎– White Light/White Heat [early 70s Stereo/Mon…
    $75.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The world of pop music was hardly ready for The Velvet Underground’s first album when it appeared in the spring of 1967, but while The Velvet Underground and Nico sounded […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
    Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Jackie-O Motherfucker – Flags Of The Sacred Harp
    Jackie-O Motherfucker – Flags Of The Sacred Harp
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    20th anniversary 2xLP reissue of Flags Of The Sacred Harp, a transcendent masterpiece of free-folk, gospel-drone, and psychedelic Americana. A re-imagining of traditional hymns and anthems from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Bevis Frond – Bevis Through The Looking Glass (The Great Magnet Disaster)
    Bevis Frond – Bevis Through The Looking Glass (The Great Magnet Disast…
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    An album originally recorded in the great Woronzow studios (Nick’s Back Room) until the great magnet disaster, which meant that it had to be mastered from a second generation cassette. […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bevis Frond – Inner Marshland (Purple Vinyl)
    Bevis Frond – Inner Marshland (Purple Vinyl)
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    This is the second album by Nick Saloman, aka the Bevis Frond. Released after the unexpected success of Miasma, it features some of his most enduring tracks including “Eyes in […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Bevis Frond – Miasma
    The Bevis Frond – Miasma
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    After experience in a couple of Post Punk Psychedelic Bands, Nick Saloman was involved in a horrendous Motorbike smash, courtesy of Camden Council. Eventually they paid compensation, and Nick [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Project Undark – Radium Girls
    Project Undark – Radium Girls
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    In the shadow of the nuclear accident in Fukushima in 2011, Japanese musician Phew, artist Erika Kobayashi, and German electronic music pioneer Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia) came together [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Fripp & Eno ‎– Evening Star (check condition, plays w/noise)
    Fripp & Eno ‎– Evening Star (check condition, plays w/noise)
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Robert Fripp’s second team up with Brian Eno was a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno’s then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in (No […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Big Star ‎– Sister Lovers (The Third Album) (1987 UK Reissue)
    Big Star ‎– Sister Lovers (The Third Album) (1987 UK Reissue)
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A shambling wreck of an album, Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers ranks among the most harrowing experiences in pop music; impassioned, erratic, and stark, it’s the slow, sinking [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Blue Cheer – Blue Cheer (German Pressing Comp)
    Blue Cheer – Blue Cheer (German Pressing Comp)
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    German comp including the entirety of Outsideinside, along with two extra tracks. Label: Philips – 6463 142 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo Country: Germany Released: VG/VG. light marks on [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
    Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-197…
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • 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 & …
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “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)
    $100.00 | , , Add to cart

    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)
    $130.00 | , , Add to cart

    “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
  • Dr. J. Tavares Fortuna – Fados De Coimbra – Fui Moço, Fui Rapaz…
    Dr. J. Tavares Fortuna – Fados De Coimbra – Fui Moço, Fui Rapaz&…
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    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 ‎– 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
  • V/A – Behind The Dykes (Beat, Blues And Psychedelic Nuggets From The Lowlands 1964-1972)
    V/A – Behind The Dykes (Beat, Blues And Psychedelic Nuggets From The L…
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Behind The Dykes is a double LP compilation presenting the best bands and artists the Dutch had to offer in the period 1964-1972. The Netherlands was the first non-English speaking […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Garage / Proto Punk
  • The Shaggs ‎– “Shaggs’ Own Thing” (Yellow Vinyl)
    The Shaggs ‎– “Shaggs’ Own Thing” (Yellow Vinyl)
    $26.00 | , , Add to cart

    “When The Shaggs’ Philosophy Of The World came out in 1969, some people couldn’t or wouldn’t understand it. But many musicians, including Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain, cited the Shaggs […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Garage / Proto Punk