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Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey – Saturday Night

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“Saturday Night is the debut LP by old friends and collaborators Alex Twomey, Matthew Sullivan, and Sean McCann. Recorded over numerous evenings at the artists’ homes, and completed just [...]

GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic

CRASS – Who Dunnit? (1983 Brown Vinyl)

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“This is more of a novelty record than a punk record per se. The song gets to the core of British life, both thematically and structurally, since it’s in the […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Zounds – More Trouble Coming Every Day

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“I (Steve Lake) wrote ‘More Trouble…’ during the riots that were taking place in London and other English towns at the time. I nicked the title from Frank Zappa (who […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives

$175.00 | 3LP, Box Set, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cart

“Recording is the Trip – The Karen Dalton Archives is a three-LP, three-CD box set, including a download card and a shirt. Three LPs: Includes for the first-time ever on […]

GENRE: Folk / Country

Z’EV / Zerfall_Gebiete – Untitled

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“Four exclusive tracks. Released in conjunction with a live performance at the Lagerhaus Bremen on 17. April 2004. Record One features two very dynamic untitled tracks by legendary [...]

GENRE: Experimental / Noise

Don Dietrich – Chinese Root Letter / Tabulae Sex

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Free Sax Madness from the Borbetomagus member. Label: Ecstatic Peace! – E#25 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: US Released: 1995 VG+/VG+

GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz

Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer (4LP+DVD)

$180.00 | 4xLP, Box Set, Used Items, Vinyl Add to cart

Includes: Towers, Rift Canyon Dreams, The Bleeder/Rift Canyon Dreams 12″, Live At The China Club 1996 and a DVD of two live sets from 1997. . Label: Southern Lord – […]

GENRE: Metal

Various ‎– Hipsville 29 B.C.

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Compilation of rare Garage 45s, featuring The Vagrants & The Fantastic Dee-Jays. Label: Kramden Records – KR 101 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Repress Country: US Released: 1996 VG/VG. [...]

GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk

Gillian Welch ‎– Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (Vol. 1 | 2 | 3)

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“Unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs is the second release of archival music from the vault of Gillian Welch and David [...]

GENRE: Folk / Country

Hair Police – Strict

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Label: Troubleman Unlimited – TMU 181 Format: Vinyl, 7″ Country: US Released:2007 VG+/VG+

GENRE: Experimental / Noise

Crass – How Does It Feel-

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“George Barber wrote in the crass story, Having had a bit more time to consider their response, Crass released another single: ‘How Does It Feel To Be The Mother Of […]

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Trees – Trees

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“It’s now over fifty years since Trees’ formation, a band who helped define ‘Acid Folk’, creating a sub-category in the lexicon of record dealers and music critics alike. Earth’s new […]

GENRE: Folk / Country

Lee Hazlewood ‎– Forty

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“Originally titled Will The Real Lee Hazlewood Please Stand Up?, Forty was a different kind of Hazlewood album, one in which Lee just focused on being a performer. In 1969 […]

GENRE: Rock / Pop

Hapshash And The Coloured Coat – Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids

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“One of the most sought-after of all ’60s cult LPs, 1967’s Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids is the sort of record […]

GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych

The Fabulous Wailers Featuring Rockin’ Robin And Gail Harris – At The Castle

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“Bobby Blue” Bland, James Brown, Freddy King: the Wailers all had that roots music imbedded in us, we played black music but white people thought it was ours. It was […]

GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy* – Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (2×10″ & book)

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Limited edition of 300 copies encased in a chocolate and silver Solander box. Included is the signed and numbered hardback edition of the book ‘Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ [...]

GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative

The Damned – The History Of The World Part I

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The first single from The Damned’s 1980 album, The Black Album. Label: Chiswick Records – CHIS 135 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG.

GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

Art & Power: The Avant-garde & the Soviet State, 1917-1928

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In Art and Power, Andrei Sarabyanov and Natalia Strizhkova explore the historical period between 1917 to the early 1930s, when avant-garde artists and Bolshevik leaders worked hand in hand to [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction

Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé

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At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Real Hallucinations: Psychiatric Illness, Intentionality, & the Interpersonal World

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In Real Hallucinations, Matthew Ratcliffe offers a philosophical examination of the structure of human experience, its vulnerability to disruption, and how it is shaped by relations with other [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Nervous Systems: Brain Science in the Early Cold War

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The 1950s were a transformative, even revolutionary decade in the history of brain science. Using new techniques for probing brain activity and function, researchers in neurosurgery, psychiatry, [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Rolling Thunder Logbook: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright’s Account of Bob Dylan’s Legendary Tour

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In the autumn of 1975, when “New England is festering with Bicentennial madness,” Bob Dylan and his Rolling Thunder Revue-a rag-tag variety show that Dylan envisioned as a traveling [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap, & Basement Made Music New Again

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Neon Screams is a manifesto, a rallying cry for the new musical futurism. Taking street music’s embrace of Auto-Tune in the late 2000s as his starting point, Kit Mackintosh launches […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery

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Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a […]

GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Non-Fiction

Soma: The Divine Hallucinogen

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Soma has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. It is simultaneously a sacred hallucinogenic plant used in secret rituals, a personified God, and an important cosmological principle. Summarizing [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

From the Bodies of the Gods: Psychoactive Plants & the Cults of the Dead as Revealed in Pagan, Hebrew, Minoan, & Christian Traditions

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Long before the beginnings of civilization, humans have been sacrificed and their flesh used to produce sacred foods and oils for use in religious rites. Originating with the sacred harvest […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation

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The widespread turmoil that shook Western Europe as it entered the new millennium with the year 1000 prompted a vast reevaluation of the chief tenets of society. Foremost among these […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Vladimir Nabokov – Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, & Letters to the Editor

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“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child”: so Vladimir Nabokov famously wrote in the introduction to his volume of selected […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer

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When Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

John Waters – Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

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No one knows more about everything―especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling―than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament

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A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]

GENRE: Memoir

Angela Carter – Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

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Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Lydia Davis – Essays Two

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In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called “a magician of self-consciousness” by Jonathan Franzen and “the best prose stylist in America” by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Marcus Rainsford – Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti

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As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing [...]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Ramayana: A Tale of Gods & Demons

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From the kingdom of Ayodhya to the isle of Lanka, we are transported to a land that has inspired morality and spiritual tradition for thousands of years. Rama, the king […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Sex Scene: Media & the Sexual Revolution

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Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the […]

GENRE: Non-Fiction

Dream Factory on the Nile: Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards.

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Egyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, cast and crew, director, screenwriter, and music [...]

GENRE: Art/Photography

Harry Matthews – Tlooth

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This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists. There is a plot (of sorts), one of revenge surrounding a […]