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  • Corpses, Fools And Monsters
    Corpses, Fools And Monsters
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    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future. In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a […]

  • Fluid Futures: Science Fiction And Potentiality
    Fluid Futures: Science Fiction And Potentiality
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    How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open […]

  • Will Veeder – The Lost And Found
    Will Veeder – The Lost And Found
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    A combination of finger-picking acoustic and electric guitar with percussion. American-primitive psych. Will Veeder is a master at conjuring up vivid images and emotions, using a combination of [...]

  • Ethan WL – Blood Farm
    Ethan WL – Blood Farm
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    “This is my latest album, about 40 straight minutes of acoustic guitar. All originals, live takes, and no overdubs. Filmmaker and Journalist Bill Lichtenstein told me that it ‘sounds like […]

  • Grant / McGuire / Flaherty – 10″
    Grant / McGuire / Flaherty – 10″
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    “It’s like a fever dream at a fiddlers convention when you wake up sweating in your tent at 4 in the morning. And the music outside, you can’t tell if […]

  • Terry Allen – Lubbock (On Everything)
    Terry Allen – Lubbock (On Everything)
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    Label: Paradise Of Bachelors – PoB-27 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2016 VG+/VG+. Some wear to corners, particularly upper right. Hype sticker on jacket

  • Conduit Gold – s/t
    Conduit Gold – s/t
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    Electric guitar duo musings from Kelly MacDonald & Alex York. Released in tape edition of 30 copies & given away for free at our first gig opening for Ned Collette […]

  • The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
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    Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into [...]

  • A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
    A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
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    The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.” Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any […]

  • Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
    Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
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    In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a […]

  • SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    SUSS – Birds & Beasts
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    SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound [...]

  • Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
    Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
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    A lot has happened to SUSS since their last vinyl release, 2020’s Promise on Northern Spy Records. That album ended up on many best-of lists that year, and was cited […]

  • Mushrooms: A Separate Kingdom
    Mushrooms: A Separate Kingdom
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    Oxmoor House, 1979 hardcover edition, first printing. Small amount of staining to dust-jacket. David Jenkins’s mycological writings, accompanied by Loni Parker’s beautiful watercolors [...]

  • Whole Earth Catalog: Spring 1969
    Whole Earth Catalog: Spring 1969
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    Portola Institute, 1969 second printing. Noticeable rubbing & chipping/wear to spine. Some rubbing to front cover. Foxing to pages. “The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC) was an American [...]

  • The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
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    Feral House, 2004 paperback edition. Some light corner & edgewear to the wraps. Writing on front page. Probably the single greatest work of conspiracy literature. Needs to be read to […]

  • William Woods – A History Of The Devil
    William Woods – A History Of The Devil
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    Putnam, 1974 first American hardcover edition. Ex-library with stamps & carding. Remainder or cataloging markings along both edges and opening of book. Writing on front board as well. [...]

  • Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology
    Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology
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    Lexington Books, 1991 hardcover edition. Light wear & staining to dust-jacket. An early cultural study of heavy metal and fans.

  • Rapid Eye 1
    Rapid Eye 1
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    Creation Books, 1995 third revised edition. Small amount of staining to front cover, along with some edge/cornerwear to wraps. Tiny indentation to front cover as well, as if by pen. […]

  • Here Comes Your Midnight Man – A Folk Mixtape – Radio Topo #5
    Here Comes Your Midnight Man – A Folk Mixtape – Radio Topo #5
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    Recycled C60 CS Folk mixtape curated by Alex York (Torn Light/Fantastique) & John Rich (Wasteland Jazz Unit / No Response) C60 (minus a few min’s) of downer folk. Dreary and […]

  • Mekons – Honky Tonkin’
    Mekons – Honky Tonkin’
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    Label: Twin/Tone Records – TTR 87113 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG+

  • Andy Irvine, Paul Brady – S/T
    Andy Irvine, Paul Brady – S/T
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    Label: Mulligan – LUN 008 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Ireland Released: 1976 VG+/VG, with Light shelf wear.

  • Nick Maurer – Come On In!
    Nick Maurer – Come On In!
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    Nick Maurer’s Come On In! is the stuff of a modern American fable. The 20 year-old Cincinnatian’s first release on Happy Families feels wise beyond years but is equally moving […]

  • Fred Neil – Everybody’s Talkin’ (Theme From Midnight Cowboy)
    Fred Neil – Everybody’s Talkin’ (Theme From Midnight Cowboy)
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    Label:Capitol Records – ST 294 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: US Released: 1969 VG+/VG, with faint wear on record. Light shelf wear on jacket.

  • John Fahey ‎– Volume 3 / The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites (Rare Alternate Cover, includes booklet)
    John Fahey ‎– Volume 3 / The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites (Rare Alternate Cover, includes booklet)
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    Label: Takoma – C-1004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: US Released: 1967 VG/VG+, Record close to VG+, has some faint scuffing. Jacket in shrink. Includes booklet.

  • Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
    Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
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    In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive [...]

  • Hermann Burger – Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
    Hermann Burger – Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
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    In the tunnel-village of Göschenen, a man named Hermann Burger has vanished without a trace from his hotel room, suspected of suicide. What is found in his room is not […]

  • Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
    Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
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    Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]

  • Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
    Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived The British-born artist and writer […]

  • Lucy Sante – Maybe the People Would Be the Times
    Lucy Sante – Maybe the People Would Be the Times
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    In her second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Lucy Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape […]

  • Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
    Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    The rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you? The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion […]

  • Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
    Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
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    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]

  • Charlie Fox – This Young Monster
    Charlie Fox – This Young Monster
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    This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to […]

  • Jamie Stewart – Anything That Moves
    Jamie Stewart – Anything That Moves
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    From being caught having their first orgasm by their mom’s best friend to being stalked and propositioned by a fundamentalist pastor; from soliciting spanking dates over the Internet to scoring [...]

  • Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
    Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for […]

  • Wojciech Tochman – Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry
    Wojciech Tochman – Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry
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    Equipped with the sensitivity known from his earlier reportages, in Roosters Crow, Dogs Whine, Wojciech Tochman addresses people with mental illnesses in Cambodia who are imprisoned in kennels, [...]

  • Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
    Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews
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    The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are little known. In this volume, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of […]

  • Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
    Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of […]

  • Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
    Jonas Mekas: Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954-2010
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    Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono ― Jonas Mekas was well acquainted with a great many New York artists. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via […]

  • Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
    Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
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    References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by [...]

  • Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
    Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
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    A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly […]

  • Daniel Oberhaus – Extraterrestrial Languages
    Daniel Oberhaus – Extraterrestrial Languages
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    If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been […]

  • Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
    Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
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    John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 […]

  • Fernando Pessoa – Philosophical Essays
    Fernando Pessoa – Philosophical Essays
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    Fernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by “thousands of philosophies,” all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting [...]

  • England’s Hidden Reverse, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
    England’s Hidden Reverse, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
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    An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound. This newly expanded edition of [...]

  • Bill MacKay And Nathan Bowles – Keys
    Bill MacKay And Nathan Bowles – Keys
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    Bill 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 […]

  • Eli Winter – S/T
    Eli Winter – S/T
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    Chicago-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 [...]

  • Ananya Ganesh – Precis​-​Loving
    Ananya Ganesh – Precis​-​Loving
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    Ananya 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 [...]

  • Small Sur – Attic Room
    Small Sur – Attic Room
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    Attic 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 […]

  • Ralph E. White – Something About Dreaming
    Ralph E. White – Something About Dreaming
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    Recorded 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 […]

  • The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
    The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, The Book of Pleasure, and The Focus of Life
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    The 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 […]

  • Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
    Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
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    What our staff has to say: “The Harry Smith resurgence is upon us.” – Jack He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught [...]

  • Smog ‎– Wild Love
    Smog ‎– Wild Love
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    What you remember: the upside-down crosses on your girlfriend’s jean jacket. Always drawn with magic marker. Always smeared in the wash.

  • Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
    Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
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    Evil 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 […]

  • Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
    Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
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    In 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 […]

  • Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
    Renata Salecl – Perversions of Love and Hate
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    Why, 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 […]

  • William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
    William Seabrook – Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers’ Mystic Love Cult
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    “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, [...]

  • Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
    Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music […]

  • Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
    Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
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    Since 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 […]

  • JJ Band – Live I Kungsten
    JJ Band – Live I Kungsten
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    While 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 [...]

  • 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 […]