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  • Kim Gordon – Is It My Body?
    Kim Gordon – Is It My Body?
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    Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
    Jörg Heiser – Double Lives in Art and Pop Music
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    Exploring the relationship between art and pop music over the last fifty years. Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
    Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
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    Sweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
    Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother
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    The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock, pop, funk, new wave, hip-hop, and techno. From music writer Alex Coles, Fusion! From Alice Coltrane to Moor Mother traces the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Mark Fisher – K-Punk
    Mark Fisher – K-Punk
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    A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation. This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ryann Donnelly – Body High
    Ryann Donnelly – Body High
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    How do we medicate ourselves, and why can’t we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the ’60s offer remedies to the author’s […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
    Michael Gardiner – Empire of Deterrence
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    A nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute of Design, India 1969–1972
    Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music at the National Institute o…
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    The history of India’s first electronic music studio founded in 1969 at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad by David Tudor. Subcontinental Synthesis explores the history of India’s [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Gary Panter – Jimbo
    Gary Panter – Jimbo
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    Gary Panter is one of America’s great creative forces: the illustrator for the trailblazing punk magazine Slash, set designer for the legendary TV show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and one of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery & Friends
    Bat Girls and Acid Boys: The Spontaneous Drawings of Leigh Bowery &…
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    120 vivid “exquisite corpse” drawings made by the outrageous artist, performer, and designer Leigh Bowery with friends and collaborators during the 1980s and 1990s. In the wild years [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
    Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna
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    An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna. A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Keith Haring – Journals
    Keith Haring – Journals
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    Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980’s. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world’s [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
    Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
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    Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
    Tony Duvert – Atlantic Island
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    A forgotten gem of French literature, Duvert’s version of The Lord of the Flies: an indictment against the violence embedded in a middle-class community. Tony Duvert’s novel Atlantic [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Schizo-Culture: The Event/The Book
    Schizo-Culture: The Event/The Book
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    Never-before-published lectures, Q&As, and squabbles from the conference that introduced French theory into America, with a facsimile of the journal issue that emerged from it. I think [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Pierre Guyotat – In The Deep
    Pierre Guyotat – In The Deep
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    An autobiographical incantation of adolescent shame, religious masturbation, and the salvation embodied in the creative act. I believe that destiny is the hesitation between whorehouse writing [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
    Sylvère Lotringer – Overexposed
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    A report on the administration of deviant desire in specialized clinics that documents the way our postmodern society exposes sexuality to the point of overexposure. Do you ever get aroused […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jean-Christophe Godard & Alberto Rangel – Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian
    Jean-Christophe Godard & Alberto Rangel – Verdant Inferno/A …
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    A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity. A classic [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • L. A. Warman – Dust
    L. A. Warman – Dust
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    A devastating apocalyptic love story of two immortals. Two anonymous lovers traverse the vast and lonely desert which has blighted most of the continent. In their possession is the gift […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marguerite Duras – Six Films
    Marguerite Duras – Six Films
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    The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras. In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
    Dario Dzamonja – Letters from the Madhouse
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    An uncompromising account of a Bosnian writer’s life as an exile in America. Considered a literary icon of Bosnia, Dario Džamonja wrote raw, unfiltered accounts of life in the streets […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Golomb – The Beat Goes On
    Golomb – The Beat Goes On
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    Molded in the fertile rock crescent of Columbus,Ohio, three-piece Golomb – comprised of Mickey Shuman (vocals/guitar), Xenia Shuman (bass/guitar) and Hawken Holm (drums) – channel [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Michael Hurley – Broken Homes And Gardens
    Michael Hurley – Broken Homes And Gardens
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    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
  • Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
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    Joan Shelley follows her critically-acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her 7th album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), the 13-tracks feature [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
    Joan Shelley – Real Warmth
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    Joan Shelley follows her critically-acclaimed 2022 album The Spur with Real Warmth. Her 7th album, recorded in Toronto with producer Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), the 13-tracks feature [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Steve Gunn – Daylight Daylight
    Steve Gunn – Daylight Daylight
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    American singer Steve Gunn has been at the vanguard of American experimental / guitar-oriented rock music for over a decade. After a trio of acclaimed albums recorded for Matador, Gunn […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou – Souvenirs
    Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou – Souvenirs
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    The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
    Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
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    “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
  • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru* – Church of Kidane Mehret
    Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru* – Church of Kidane Mehret
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    Deeply resonant spiritual music transmitted via piano, organ, and harmonium by beloved composer and Ethiopian Orthodox nun Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru. Church of Kidane Mehret collects all the [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
    Alick Nkhata – Radio Lusaka
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    Country, township jazz, and pop hits from the height of Zambia’s freedom movement. Vocalist, guitarist, and bandleader Alick Nkhata moved effortlessly between lonesome country slide, big band [...]

    GENRE: African
  • Crushed – No Scope
    Crushed – No Scope
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    As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Crushed – No Scope
    Crushed – No Scope
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    As crushed, musicians Bre Morell and Shaun Durkan make maximalist dream pop music for themselves. Recording out of various homes, not fixed to any single location (Morell from Texas, now […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pamela Z – Echolocation
    Pamela Z – Echolocation
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    Echolocation is the debut work by Pamela Z, the pioneering Bay Area intermedia performance artist and composer. Recorded, released and distributed on cassette by Pamela in 1988, and a definitive, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • JJulius* – Vol III
    JJulius* – Vol III
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    In the discourse around new albums from singular, world-building artists, the phrase “a big step forward” can often be a blinking red warning sign. You know you’re about to be […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kedr Livanskiy – Myrtus Myth
    Kedr Livanskiy – Myrtus Myth
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    The alchemy by which history becomes myth is mysterious. Much is lost to time and reinterpretation, but the result is something more universal, a symbol. All artistic practice, in this […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • François J. Bonnet* / Sarah Davachi – Banshee / Basse Brevis
    François J. Bonnet* / Sarah Davachi – Banshee / Basse Brevis
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    François J. Bonnet – Banshee Banshee is an ear directed towards the edges of the old world, where these infinite fines terrae cut and fractalize into coasts, harbours, fjords, peninsulas […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sissy Spacek – Entrance
    Sissy Spacek – Entrance
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    Entering its 26th year of activity, the morphing, Los Angeles based experimental outfit, Sissy Spacek, joins Shelter Press with Entrance, among the project’s most captivating outings to date. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Anxious Color
    V/A – Anxious Color
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    A compilation of way obscure moody garage and psychedelic rock from 1966-1967, long out of print! Includes the gems “Leaving My Old Life Behind” by Jonathan Halper, “Gone To The [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • V/A – A Todas Las Imágenes Del Mundo: Antología Del Canto A Lo Divino
    V/A – A Todas Las Imágenes Del Mundo: Antología Del Canto A Lo Divino
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    Canto A Lo Divino is the unique musical expression of the Chilean peasant world – a conversation with the divine nourished by Biblical and other sacred texts. It is communal […]

    GENRE: International
  • Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
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    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
  • Rail Band – Rail Band
    Rail Band – Rail Band
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    One of the greatest, heaviest, and hardest-to-find guitar records from 1970s West Africa, available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade!!! A product of Mali’s golden age, […]

    GENRE: International
  • Pierced Arrows – Straight To The Heart
    Pierced Arrows – Straight To The Heart
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    Pierced Arrow’s first record! Fred And Toody Cole’s post Dead Moon band with Legendary rocker Kelly Haliburton on drums. Most musicians get softer with age, but Fred and Toody brought [...]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk
  • V/A – Towards A Total Poetry
    V/A – Towards A Total Poetry
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    “Culled from live performances in Los Angeles in 1980, Towards A Total Poetry holds radioplays and sound poems by Julien Blaine, Adriano Spatola, F. Tiziano, and Paul Vangelisti. Two [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Atrás Del Cosmos ‎– Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams
    Atrás Del Cosmos ‎– Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams
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    “Atrás del Cosmos have been called Mexico’s first free jazz ensemble. Founded in 1975 by pianist Ana Ruiz, saxophonist Henry West, and percussionist Evry Mann, the trio soon became a […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Heliocentrics ‎– Telemetric Sounds
    The Heliocentrics ‎– Telemetric Sounds
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    “The Heliocentrics’ albums are all confounding pieces of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Kayo Makino & Tori Kudo ‎– Ein Traum Für Dich
    Kayo Makino & Tori Kudo ‎– Ein Traum Für Dich
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    “Black Truffle is pleased to announce the release of this genuine head-scratcher, the first collaboration between DJ/mixtape-compiler Kayo Makino and underground legend Tori Kudo. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Creep Of Paris ‎– Virgin Brood
    Creep Of Paris ‎– Virgin Brood
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    “Creep Of Paris is the solo project of Thomas LaRoche (aka Eudocimus Ruber). Complementing his audio and visual output, he moonlights as an insect breeder and secondhand book seller. He [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chippendale* – Gustafsson* – Pupillo* ‎– Melt
    Chippendale* – Gustafsson* – Pupillo* ‎– Melt
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    “Begun as a temporary project in 2014 by Mats Gustafsson (The Thing, Fire!), Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt), and Massimo Pupillo (Zu), this trio soon evolved into a band project. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • PDP III ‎– Pilled Up On A Couple Of Doves
    PDP III ‎– Pilled Up On A Couple Of Doves
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    “Pilled Up on a Couple of Doves is the debut full-length by PDP III, who fell into alignment in December of 2018 amid a handful of immersive and improvisatory recording […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dickie Landry ‎– Solos
    Dickie Landry ‎– Solos
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    “On February 19, 1972, a crew of mostly Louisiana-raised musicians came together at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in Soho to perform a wholly improvised concert. This ensemble’s [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic