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  • V/A – Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981-2023)
    V/A – Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981-2023)
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    Double LP version. Christoph Dallach, Andreas Dorau, and Daniel Jahn present Echo Neuklang, a compilation which explores the question of how krautrock has influenced generation after generation [...]

  • Grauzone – S/T
    Grauzone – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “What’s more appealing than a post punk band who speaks a different language?? A post punk band that speaks a different language and writes […]

  • David Cunningham – Grey Scale
    David Cunningham – Grey Scale
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    “David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954. His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists. His first significant commercial [...]

  • Fugazi – Repeater
    Fugazi – Repeater
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    ***BACK IN STOCK!!! Remastered by BOB WESTON at Chicago Mastering Services.

  • V/A – Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1980-86
    V/A – Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1980-86
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    Double LP version. Do not adjust your sets. Take a step back from the tracking. This is the sound of Germany’s musical youth let loose on cheap synths and pawnshop […]

  • Minor Threat – S/T
    Minor Threat – S/T
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    2022 repress. Recut from the Silver Sonyare masters in November 2008 at Chicago Mastering Service, features a new blue cover, blue vinyl, and comes with a free MP3 download of […]

  • Bikini Kill – Pussy Whipped
    Bikini Kill – Pussy Whipped
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    REISSUED!!! The debut full-length from BIKINI KILL originally released in 1993 on Kill Rock Stars. Includes the track “Rebel Girl,” listed # 27 on Rolling Stone’s “Most [...]

  • Alternative TV – Vibing Up The Senile Man
    Alternative TV – Vibing Up The Senile Man
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    Possibly one of the weirdest experiments in the post-punk realm, Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One) is the second studio album by English anti-heroes Alternative TV, originally released in […]

  • Fear Before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union
    Fear Before the Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union
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    Alienation, generational tensions, rampant nationalism and the pervasiveness of atomic danger are all topics that haunted late Soviet citizens, and those fears are reflected in the films meant to [...]

  • Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
    Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
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    Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to Sawney Bean, and from the Ghuls of ancient Persia to […]

  • Eugene Thacker – In the Dust of This Planet
    Eugene Thacker – In the Dust of This Planet
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    “Thacker’s discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating…” Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human [...]

  • Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances
    Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances
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    Calling the Spirits investigates the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer’s Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism–when Victorians were [...]

  • Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
    Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
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    Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]

  • William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
    William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
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    Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]

  • Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
    Unmask Alice: Lsd, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
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    Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage [...]

  • David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
    David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
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    John Cage’s disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues […]

  • Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
    Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
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    In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]

  • Maurice Blanchot – The Book to Come
    Maurice Blanchot – The Book to Come
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    During the last half of the twentieth century in France, Maurice Blanchot was a key figure in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. He developed early on a distinctive, […]

  • 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 [...]

  • Maria Negroni – Elegy for Joseph Cornell
    Maria Negroni – Elegy for Joseph Cornell
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    Elegy for Joseph Cornell is at once a monologue; a collection of metafictional microfictions; a series of prose poems; an artist’s quest; the hero’s journey; a filmography, biography, [...]

  • Morwan – Zola-Zemlya LP (Forest Green Vinyl)
    Morwan – Zola-Zemlya LP (Forest Green Vinyl)
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    The flourishing Eastern European post-punk scene has given way to a boom of dark, rhythmic, and powerful new activity. One of the most original and captivating artists to recently emerge […]

  • Lana Del Rabies – Strega Beata 2xLP
    Lana Del Rabies – Strega Beata 2xLP
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    Shipping in 1-2 weeks. ‘STREGA BEATA’ is the 3rd full-length album from Sam An’s dark electronic, genre-bridging solo project under the semi-notorious moniker Lana Del Rabies. After a brief [...]

  • Soft Shoulder – Smile Building’s Exit LP
    Soft Shoulder – Smile Building’s Exit LP
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    Ships 1-2 weeks! Recorded in late 2020 but catching an extreme pressing plant bottleneck, the new LP from Soft Shoulder could appropriately be subtitled: “More Songs About Nothing Much, [...]

  • Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor, 1977-1982
    Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor, 1977-1982
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    Available now is the authorized history of the obscure and influential Los Angeles art and music collective World Imitation Productions (WImP). Emerging as creators of collaged and photocopied [...]

  • The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]

  • The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind
    The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind
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    This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an [...]

  • Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
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    In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]

  • Tony Conrad: Writings
    Tony Conrad: Writings
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    Essential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a legendary multidisciplinary artist known for his [...]

  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
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    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

  • Ibn Khaldûn – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
    Ibn Khaldûn – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
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    The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]

  • Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
    Moondog: The Viking of 6th Avenue: The Authorized Biography
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Moondog is one of America’s great originals.–Alan Rich, New York Magazine Here is a revised edition of a book that celebrates one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth […]

  • Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment — Expanded Edition
    Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment — Expanded Edition
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.   Love, Sex, Fear, Death […]

  • Victor Segalen – Journey to the Land of the Real: A Translation of Equipée
    Victor Segalen – Journey to the Land of the Real: A Translation of Equipée
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    A masterpiece that effortlessly takes its place among the classics of travel writing Victor Segalen (1878-1919) was a French doctor, archaeologist, explorer and author who traveled extensively in [...]

  • Joseph Cornell – Dreams
    Joseph Cornell – Dreams
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    A selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]

  • Dating Ai, a Guide to Falling in Love with Artificial Intelligence
    Dating Ai, a Guide to Falling in Love with Artificial Intelligence
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    Dating AI is “a meditation on how to prepare for the unknown,” a thought experiment designed to stimulate new ideas about issues that are important now as well as in […]

  • Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden
    Black Opium: Ecstasy of the Forbidden
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    Interest in heroin is surging back after years of dormancy. Why? Supply and demand! Drug cartels have increased the supply of heroin, so that it is cheaper and purer than […]

  • John Fahey – Vampire Vultures
    John Fahey – Vampire Vultures
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    A wide range of memoir-like pieces, including interviews, letters, and verse, makes this collection a fitting companion to Fahey’s How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life. Published [...]

  • DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
    DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
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    DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known […]

  • The Residents – Our Finest Flowers (RSD)
    The Residents – Our Finest Flowers (RSD)
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    In 1992, The Residents pondered their 20th Anniversary. A best-of collection had been proposed, and the group gathered together to draw up a potential tracklist. All was well until one […]

  • The Adicts – Fifth Overture (RSD, Yellow Vinyl)
    The Adicts – Fifth Overture (RSD, Yellow Vinyl)
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    The Adicts came from Ipswich on the east coast of England, dressed in white in an amalgam of The Joker and Clockwork Orange imagery. They made a big impact in […]

  • Suicide – A Way of Life Rarities (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    Suicide – A Way of Life Rarities (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
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    This Rarities EP is part of the celebration of the 35th anniversary of Suicide’s third studio album. It includes a selection of unheard rarities found in the band’s archive ,including […]

  • Hüsker Dü – Hüsker Dü – Tonite Longhorn (2xLP, Album, RSD) (NM or M-)
    Hüsker Dü – Hüsker Dü – Tonite Longhorn (2xLP, Album, RSD) (NM or M-)
    $47.00 | , Add to cart

    A 2xLP set of rare, early Hüsker Dü live recordings, featuring original flyers and artwork. Drawn from the historical Hüsker Dü recording archives compiled by Terry Katzman, this double disc […]

  • Boy Harsher – Burn It Down
    Boy Harsher – Burn It Down
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    Fan favorite dark dance outfit Boy Harsher have contributed a sumptuously eerie track for the David Gordon Green directed finale to the iconic Halloween franchise. Sacred Bones and Nude Club […]

  • SDH – Fake Is Real CD (Pre-Order)
    SDH – Fake Is Real CD (Pre-Order)
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    Please Note: This item is a Pre-Order! Expected to ship mid-June 2023 The duo formed by Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz is a specialist in shedding skin and gladly […]

  • SDH – Fake Is Real LP (Pre-Order)
    SDH – Fake Is Real LP (Pre-Order)
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    Please Note: This item is a Pre-Order! Expected to ship mid-June 2023 The duo formed by Andrea P. Latorre and Sergi Algiz is a specialist in shedding skin and gladly […]

  • Carnivorous Bells ‎– Room Above All
    Carnivorous Bells ‎– Room Above All
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    Human Headstone presents…”Room Above All,” the sophomore installment from Philadelphia’s Carnivorous Bells.Carnivorous Bells uniquely carve through ten compositions under [...]

  • Cartoon – Cartoon CS
    Cartoon – Cartoon CS
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    What our staff has to say: “A new tape from Philadelphia label ‘Human Headstone Presents’ defies popular myth that american prog is dead. Cartoon is here, playing it well. On […]

  • Garden of Mary – The Agony In Memory
    Garden of Mary – The Agony In Memory
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    180 gram 2023 first time vinyl pressing.

  • Fearing – Shadow
    Fearing – Shadow
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    Back in print! 180 gram 2023 repress Fearing is a dark post-punk band based out of Oakland, California who formed in 2016, when an online friendship quickly blossomed between James Rogers […]

  • True Body – Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated
    True Body – Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated
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    Back in print! 180 gram 2023 repress “We’re thrilled to announce the debut LP from Richmond’s best kept secret, True Body. 10 songs of uncompromising power and emotion, ebbing and […]

  • Twin Tribes – Altars CD
    Twin Tribes – Altars CD
    $14.00 | Add to cart

  • Why Bother? – A City of Unsolved Miseries LP
    Why Bother? – A City of Unsolved Miseries LP
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    Mason City, Iowa’s WHY BOTHER? return with ‘A City of Unsolved Miseries’, their third album in as many years. Their patented basement recording setup has yet again captured [...]

  • Disintegration – Time Moves for Me 12″
    Disintegration – Time Moves for Me 12″
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    From the minds of Haley Himiko (Pleasure Leftists), Noah Anthony (Profligate) and Christopher Brown (Cloud Nothings), Disintegration’s Time Moves for Me EP transcends the post-punk and [...]

  • Heavy Mother – Comical Uncertainty CS
    Heavy Mother – Comical Uncertainty CS
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    Bloomington, Indiana’s HEAVY MOTHER are back with a new EP to kick off 2023. Three new originals follow up nicely on their debut album, ‘This Time Around’, that came out […]

  • Stallone N’ Roses – When The Mountains Turn Blue
    Stallone N’ Roses – When The Mountains Turn Blue
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    “Here is a case where the band’s name made me curious, their photo made me smile and the music made me stay. Let me introduce you to Cincinnati trio Stallone […]

  • Buzz Kull – New Kind Of Cross CD
    Buzz Kull – New Kind Of Cross CD
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    New Kind of Cross is the sophomore LP, and follow-up to 2017’s stunning Chroma, from Sydney based synth-maestro, Buzz Kull. Traversing darkwave, EBM, and industrial with ease; New Kind of […]

  • Buzz Kull – Fascination CD
    Buzz Kull – Fascination CD
    $14.00 | Add to cart

    Pleaste Note: This item is a Pre-Order! Expected to ship late March / Early April 2023 The Australian master of the dark synth arts is back and – boy – […]

  • Twin Tribes – Ceremony CD
    Twin Tribes – Ceremony CD
    $12.00 | Add to cart

  • Twin Tribes – Shadows CD
    Twin Tribes – Shadows CD
    $12.00 | Add to cart

  • Monochromatic Visions – Reform CS
    Monochromatic Visions – Reform CS
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    “REFORM” is the second full-length album by London-based rock band Monochromatic Visions.Created in the most unusual of times during the global pandemic, its themes explore the process of [...]