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Gerycz Powers Rolin – Activator
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartActivator is the third installment from the trio of Jayson Gerycz, Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin, who respectively need no introduction writ-large. For anyone observing the American underground in [...]
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Bill MacKay And Nathan Bowles – Keys
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartBill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise […]
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Eli Winter – S/T
$22.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartChicago-based guitarist / composer Eli Winter’s new self-titled album finds him building on the promise of his recent records—like 2020’s Unbecoming and his 2021 collaboration with Cameron [...]
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Ananya Ganesh – Precis-Loving
$13.00 | Cassette Add to cartAnanya Ganesh (b. 1997) is an improviser from Madras based in North America. Their idiosyncratically simultaneous improvisation of the voice and piano lies between the unrealizable and what could [...]
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Small Sur – Attic Room
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartAttic Room is Bob Keal’s fifth full-length album as Small Sur and first since his daughter’s birth in 2014. In this collection of songs, Keal meditates on the rhythms of […]
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Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartRecorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]
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Ralph E. White – Something About Dreaming
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartRecorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]
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Michael O’Shea – S/T
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartHaving sold his instruments to fund a nomadic 1970s lifestyle, eccentric Irish experimentalist Michael O’Shea was forced to create his own handmade answer to the sitars and zelochords he’d become [...]
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Thurston Moore – Sonic Life: A Memoir
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author’s life and art–from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of [...]
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The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
$8.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Writings of Austin Osman Spare is a collection of three books written by the famous artist and occult author. The three books included in this publication are Anathema of […]
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Mark Fry – Dreaming With Alice
$28.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Total classic of the acid folk underground, finally reissued direct from the original master tapes. Recorded in 1972, when he was only 19, this […]
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Smog – Wild Love
$24.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat you remember: the upside-down crosses on your girlfriend’s jean jacket. Always drawn with magic marker. Always smeared in the wash.
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Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]
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Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]
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Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhy, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out […]
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William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cart“Beast or poet? Monster or moralist? Charlatan or magician? Genius or madman?” These are the questions William Seabrook, the great writer on such things as zombies and witchcraft, [...]
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSince launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and […]
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JJ Band – Live I Kungsten
$21.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhile working on his solo albums, JJulius put together a live band consisting of Clara Flygare (Standard) on drums and vocals, Gustav Danielsbacka (Incipientium) on guitar and Mattias Rörström [...]
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Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArtist, 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 […]
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Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 – Immeasurable Equation
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSun Ra was a master jazz musician unlike any before or after him. Here is a stunning collection of 260 of his cosmic poems and selected prose.
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMurder, 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 [...]
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Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn 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 […]
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Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree 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 […]
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George Melly – Don’t Tell Sybil: A Libidinous Memoir of the Unusual Impresario of English Surrealism
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDon’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926-2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came […]
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Phil Ochs – Best Of The Rest: Rare And Unreleased Recordings (RSD)
$45.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartPhil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter, but his talents extend far beyond that to short stories, poetry and satire. More than a torrent, less than a flood, the […]
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The Incredible String Band – Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air
$6.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cart1972 US Pressing on Eletrka, EKS-74112 VG/VG Some marks on LP. Ring wear on back of jacket. Some discoloration and some corner wear.
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Splinterskin – Wayward Souls
$6.00 | CD Add to cartSplinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied […]
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Tim Buckley – The Dream Belongs to Me (Gold Vinyl)
$38.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartOf all the singer-songwriters to emerge from the ‘60s, Tim Buckley was the most difficult to pigeonhole. Was his music folk? Rock? Jazz? Even R&B? The answer was, of course, […]
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Matthew J Rolin – Passing
$22.00 | LP Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “I’m a big fan of Matthew Rolin’s guitar style, and this recent record is stunning. Each track is a dense, glimmering passage of fingerstyle […]
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Jean-Luc Godard – Phrases: Six Films
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPhrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard: Germany Nine Zero, The Kids Play Russian, JLG / JLG, 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema, For Ever […]
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Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCage’s passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will [...]
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Walter Benjamin – Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of works from one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century–as selected by Hannah Arendt and including a classic essay of her own about Walter […]
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Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and [...]
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Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$33.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]
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Theodore Roszak – Flicker
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and […]
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Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]
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Construction Site for Possible Worlds
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPerspectives from philosophy, aesthetics, and art on how to envisage the construction site of possible worlds. Given the highly coercive and heavily surveilled dynamics of the present moment, [...]
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American Hardcore: A Tribal History
$23.00 | Book, Print Add to cartSteven Blush’s “definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk” (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics–distributed documentary American [...]
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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]
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Flanger Magazine
$18.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cart“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 […]
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Joan Shelley – The Spur
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartI want to explain these songs / I want to leave them unexplained. We’ve all been working with a lot of silence. I was tired from touring, remembering the long […]
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Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
$16.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartAfter breaking through with a batch of restless, itinerant songs on Honest Life in 2016, Courtney Marie Andrews longs for something more permanent on the follow-up. The Seattle singer spends […]
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Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAre women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to [...]
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Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band – Smokin’ The Dummy
$30.00 | LP, Used Items Add to cartFate Records – 38121 Media Condition – VG, has some scratches/marks Sleeve Condition – G, sharpie marks on sleeve as photographed, ring wear, sleeve is also splitting in some spots.
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Norma Tanega – I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964–1971
$39.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartI’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964-1971 compiles the enduring and unheard work of Norma Tanega, the musician, painter, activist, teacher, and dreamer. Tanega’s lifelong pursuit of art [...]
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Loren Connors – 9th Avenue
$25.00 | LP Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Room next door practice amp blues. Total control and fearlessly personal riffing – TRUE BLUES.” – Alex For me, this is the blues. Utterly […]
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Richard Thompson – Music From Grizzly Man
$26.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartRichard Thompson’s score for Grizzly Man – Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness – is one of the best-kept secrets in the […]
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Bill Fay – Still Some Light: Part 2
$32.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartBill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are “calming hymns for another chaotic time”, he says. His [...]
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The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe most accessible and informative version of the Buddhist classic available in English, with instruction in meditation, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of the prayers [...]
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Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTony Wilson, who passed away in 2007, was a journalist, broadcaster, and music-industry veteran. Known as Mr. Manchester, Wilson ran the infamous Factory Records and was a key figure in […]
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All Gates Open: The Story Of Can
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAll Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, […]
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Ian A. Anderson – Royal York Crescent (RSD Italy)
$35.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartINDIE EXCLUSIVE, RSD ITALY APRIL RELEASE. When we talk about British folk revival, we should not forget a key figure as Ian A. Anderson, a songwriter on its own and […]
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Wanda Jackson – There’s A Party Goin’ On
$14.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “When it comes to people who I think have some of the most interesting voices in rock, Wanda Jackson is on that list. The […]
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Brix Smith Start – The Rise, The Fall & The Rise
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Although, best known for her work in The Fall, Brix’s story […]
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On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]
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Josephine Foster – Godmother
$25.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartA beautifully observed baroque masterpiece, part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk with ambient synths and Josephine Foster’s plaintive guitar. Godmother is a slowly unfolding song cycle that [...]
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Alan Licht – Currents
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Gorgeous acoustic guitar instrumentals, melodies are hidden everywhere within Alan Licht’s thick strumming style. This record will excite you and put you at [...]
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Michael Morley – Heavens Idleness Awaits
$25.00 | 2xLP, Vinyl Add to cartMichael Morley has long been acclaimed for his electric guitar and electronic forays in New Zealand’s legendary The Dead C and Gate. On Heavens Idleness Awaits he strips his music […]
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Wendy Eisenberg – Its Shape Is Your Touch
$20.00 | LP, Vinyl Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A narrative journey of avant garde blues guitar. I am a huge fan of solo guitar music, and this is top tier.” – Alex […]