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  • Chenille – Riffing On The Loaf
    Chenille – Riffing On The Loaf
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    Off-kilter and lo-fi slowcore. Think Raincoats fronting a band on Darla.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kilynn Lunsford – Promiscuous Genes
    Kilynn Lunsford – Promiscuous Genes
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    God bless the barbarians and the ignorami for rescuing us from an even more repulsive technological society .. If we hadn’t had a “dark age,” if Mao’s fanatic followers hadn’t […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion
    Maura Weaver – Strange Devotion
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    After some turbulent late teen years in her former pop punk band, Mixtapes, Maura Weaver needed a break. Months became years and the songs still weren’t coming. It wasn’t until […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jim Shepard ‎– Heavy Action
    Jim Shepard ‎– Heavy Action
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    “When Charles and Josh tapped me to spill some ink for this project, I couldn’t say yes fast enough. Culled from Charles’s vast personal collection, the contents herein abide no […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Coolies – Kaka
    The Coolies – Kaka
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    “The Coolies have been blurting out random batches of high order avant garage spew since 1997. Sjionel Timu and Tina Pihema are the core of the band. Formed in the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Birdie – Some Dusty (Green Vinyl)
    Birdie – Some Dusty (Green Vinyl)
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    Birdie’s debut album, 1999’s “Some Dusty,” is the culmination of a series of fortuitous events, set in motion in 1992 when members Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) and Paul [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • LEYA – Eyeline
    LEYA – Eyeline
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    “Eyeline is a mixtape we started in mid-November while on tour. We recorded it mostly at home and asked friends to contribute.” Label: NNA Tapes – NNA 45 Format: Vinyl, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Country Teasers – The Empire Strikes Back
    Country Teasers – The Empire Strikes Back
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    “In the industry, I am the only complete man…” sang Country Teaser’s B.R. Wallers, quoting Naked Lunch, back in 1995. If modesty didn’t forbid, he might’ve been speaking of his […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • JJulius ‎– Vol I
    JJulius ‎– Vol I
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    Debut solo-album by JJULIUS. Recorded and mixed by JJULIUS in Gothenburg from autumn 2020 to winter 2021 Label: Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox – MMJ004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Divine Horsemen – Middle Of The Night
    Divine Horsemen – Middle Of The Night
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    A selection of alternate takes and unreleased recordings. Label: SST Records – SST 090 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG. Sleeve low end VG with some noticeable […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Heavenly ‎– Heavenly Vs Satan
    Heavenly ‎– Heavenly Vs Satan
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    Heavenly’s first LP for Sarah Records was, like the two that followed, an eight-song affair – though both sides of early 7” singles I Fell In Love Last Night are […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf
    Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf
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    In a period of governmental and cultural transition, former Pipettes front-woman, Gwenno Saunders, releases a political concept album inspired by an obscure 1970s Welsh language sci-fi novel, [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Heavenly ‎– A Bout De Heavenly: The Singles
    Heavenly ‎– A Bout De Heavenly: The Singles
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    “Heavenly debuted with the 7″ single ‘I Fell in Love Last Night’, followed by another 7″, ‘Our Love Is Heavenly’, both released in 1990 on Sarah Records. Heavenly vs. Satan, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • People Skills ‎– Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks
    People Skills ‎– Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks
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    “Sophomore Lounge gifts us a vinyl reissue of People Skills, Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks, which was quietly released by Saga House in 2016. Inzane Johnny called it “the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • Kim Gordon ‎– No Home Record
    Kim Gordon ‎– No Home Record
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    With a career spanning nearly four decades, Kim Gordon is one of the most prolific and visionary artists working today. A co-founder of the legendary Sonic Youth, Gordon has performed […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Vertical Slit ‎– Live At Brown’s
    Vertical Slit ‎– Live At Brown’s
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    Rare live & unreleased tracks from 1979 by the legendary Vertical Slit, passed along from Jim Shepard (to Tom Lax) in 1998. Label: Siltbreeze – SB186 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • Moonlove ‎– May Never Happen
    Moonlove ‎– May Never Happen
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    Moonlove, a group who went unknown in their time except to a few locals in their hometown of Kent, Ohio, quietly released a masterpiece of melancholy, jangly pop called “May […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • Able Tasmans ‎– Store In A Cool Place
    Able Tasmans ‎– Store In A Cool Place
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    Able Tasmans wear their influences on their down-under sleeves; their fourth album (and first in the U.S.) Store in a Cool Place blends British folk melodies, garage-band riffs, and Jefferson [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • Astrel K ‎– Flickering i
    Astrel K ‎– Flickering i
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    “Astrel K’s debut single ‘You Could If You Can’ was released via Duophonic Super 45s – a label which has a history of releasing limited edition abstract releases from Stereolab, [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits
    Jon Spencer – Spencer Sings The Hits
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    “Jon Spencer’s first ever solo album!!! Despite the title, this is not a hits collection but is instead twelve brand new Spencer penned originals. Spencer Sings The Hits is a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Blueboy ‎– If Wishes Were Horses
    Blueboy ‎– If Wishes Were Horses
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    Blueboy followed their first two 7″s for Sarah Records with this 8-track mini-album recorded at the White House in Weston-super-Mare. With the twin guitars of Paul Stewart and (former Field [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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 Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
    The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
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    The Hard Quartet is comprised of: Emmett Kelly, a songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist best known for his work in The Cairo Gang and The Double, as well as in the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Swans – Soundtracks For The Blind
    Swans – Soundtracks For The Blind
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    “Choosing to extinguish the band name under which Gira and Jarboe had worked together for so long must not have been an easy step, but when they decided to end […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Xiu Xiu ‎– Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks (Red/Blue Vinyl)
    Xiu Xiu ‎– Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks (Red/Blue Vinyl)
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    “Australia’s Gallery of Modern Art commissioned Xiu Xiu to reinterpret the music from Twin Peaks for their David Lynch: Between Two Worlds exhibition. Since then, the band has performed [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • The Inmates – Dirty Water
    The Inmates – Dirty Water
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    Cover of The Standells track by the British pub-rock group, The Inmates. Label: Radar Records – ADA 44 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Light […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • The Teardrop Explodes ‎– Treason
    The Teardrop Explodes ‎– Treason
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    One of the best tracks from their debut album, Kilimanjaro. Label: Zoo Records – CAGE 008 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Some edgewear

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Balloon Man
    Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Balloon Man
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    A fun jangle-pop tune from Robyn Hitchcock’s Globe Of Frogs album. Label: A&M Records – AM-3023 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1988 VG+/VG+. Light marks/sleeve [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Spizzoil ‎– Cold City : 4
    Spizzoil ‎– Cold City : 4
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    An almost industrial post-punk track from Spizzoil. Label: Rough Trade – RTSO-2 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Light marks/sleeve discoloration

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Hüsker Dü ‎– Makes No Sense At All / Love Is All Around
    Hüsker Dü ‎– Makes No Sense At All / Love Is All Around
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    “While the primal blast of Black Flag’s early releases sounded the clarion call for what would become the hardcore punk revolution, SST, the label founded by Black Flag leader Greg [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Punts ‎– Shelly’s Boyfriend / Rochambeau
    Punts ‎– Shelly’s Boyfriend / Rochambeau
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    Sole power-pop 7″ from the Punts. RIYL: Pretenders, Go-Go’s. Label: Bondage Records – 0001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • R.E.M. ‎– (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
    R.E.M. ‎– (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
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    The second single from their Reckoning album. Label: I.R.S. Records – IR 9931 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Styrene Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG. Some sleeve discoloration/wear

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tone Deaf And The Idiots ‎– A Special Floppy Election Disc
    Tone Deaf And The Idiots ‎– A Special Floppy Election Disc
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    Private UK punk that sounds akin to some of the weirder stuff on Crass Records. Label: Blue Angel Records – BLI 2 Format: Flexi-disc, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG/VG. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Young Marble Giants ‎– Final Day
    Young Marble Giants ‎– Final Day
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    “”Final Day” is so brilliantly simple and slight, a pop song running just over a minute and a half with gentle guitar plucking, hardly audible keyboards, Alison Statton’s [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Housemartins ‎– London 0 Hull 4
    The Housemartins ‎– London 0 Hull 4
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    Super clean first US pressing. Jangle supremacy. Label: Elektra – 9 60501-1, Elektra – 60501-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, SP – Specialty Pressing Country: 1986 Released: USA VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lucinda Williams ‎– Lucinda Williams [1988 pressing]
    Lucinda Williams ‎– Lucinda Williams [1988 pressing]
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    “Lucinda Williams took eight years to write and record her second album of original songs. While some producers and record executives have said that she is difficult to work with, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • Karate ‎– The Bed Is In The Ocean
    Karate ‎– The Bed Is In The Ocean
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    A lingering guitar note. A cushion of a bassline nudging along a hushed cadence unspooling impressionistic poeticism one halting line at a time; the sparse snap of a snare providing […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Guided By Voices – Propeller
    Guided By Voices – Propeller
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    “”Propeller was the fifth album by Guided By Voices, and was intended to be the group’s last. Released as a limited edition of 500 LPs in 1992, the album featured […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Butthole Surfers ‎– Rembrandt Pussyhorse / Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis
    Butthole Surfers ‎– Rembrandt Pussyhorse / Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis
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    “Everything seems to start almost normally on Pussyhorse with “Creep in the Cellar,” even with the rather gone violin line — Haynes is intelligible, the piano part is [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Rob Mohan – A Sign of Things to Come
    Rob Mohan – A Sign of Things to Come
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    Excellent American primitive guitar from Cincinnati Ohio’s Rob Mohan. Recorded on both 6 & 12 string guitar, crispy clear recording of beautiful original compositions by Rob.

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jad Fair – Beautiful Songs: The Best Of The Best Of Jad Fair
    Jad Fair – Beautiful Songs: The Best Of The Best Of Jad Fair
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    “Fire Fidelity brings you an LP featuring 24 of the best songs spanning the career of the legendary Jad Fair and his band Half Japanese plus a free download card […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative