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  • The Terminals – Uncoffined
    The Terminals – Uncoffined
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    “25th Anniversary remastered edition, the Kiwi Pop classic origininally on Flying Nun Records, now available on HoZac Archival, 500 copies pressed.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
    Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Droney & spacey indie rock.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Oister – Pre-Dwight Twilley Band 1973-1974 Teac Tapes
    Oister – Pre-Dwight Twilley Band 1973-1974 Teac Tapes
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “The legendary 1973-74 ‘Teac Tapes’ from deep inside the Dwight Twilley Band vault have been unleashed, never before available in any format, OISTER was the primary name of the Dwight […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Lewsberg – Out And About
    Lewsberg – Out And About
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    Dutch four-piece Lewsberg are set to release their fourth studio album, ‘Out And About’ in September 2023. Since forming in 2016, Lewsberg have gone from strength to strength. Despite [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lewsberg – Out And About
    Lewsberg – Out And About
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    Dutch four-piece Lewsberg are set to release their fourth studio album, ‘Out And About’ in September 2023. Since forming in 2016, Lewsberg have gone from strength to strength. Despite [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lewsberg – Lewsberg
    Lewsberg – Lewsberg
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    First US pressing of Lewsberg’s 2018 debut album.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gerycz* / Powers* / Rolin* – Activator
    Gerycz* / Powers* / Rolin* – Activator
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “Activator” 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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dommer – Cemetary Bread
    Dommer – Cemetary Bread
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    DIY self released 7″ single of indie rock perfection. Jam the track here.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma
    Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma
    $35.00 | , Ships on/around Dec 27, 2024 Add to cart

    I have recently been watching a lot of Japanese popular movies from the 50s and 60s. I loved the vibrant Japan of this era. After the war, Japan was rapidly changing […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
    Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending, Revised and Expanded Edition: An Incredible String Band Compendium
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene. “Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • The Chills – Scatterbrain LP
    The Chills – Scatterbrain LP
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    New studio album from the Dunedin (NZ) songsmiths helmed by the enigmatic Martin Phillipps with artwork by Trees’ David Costa. Dunedin’s finest, The Chills release their seventh studio album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
    A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)
    A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)
    $38.00 | Add to cart

    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Candy Apple – Stargazer / Instinction [Deadstock w/ new covers – 1980 Power Pop]
    Candy Apple – Stargazer / Instinction [Deadstock w/ new covers – 1980 Power Pop]
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Deadstock copy with new covers. Glam punk rocker from Cincinnati Ohio circa 1980. Originally released on Shake It!. Rare one to find at all… These were a bit dusty but […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Jessica Pratt ? On Your Own Love Again
    Jessica Pratt ? On Your Own Love Again
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Seeing the world through a Pratt’s eyes is a surpassingly beautiful thing. But subtly, oh so subtly, and with such sweet flakes of humor falling. Tunes and vibe to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    M as in mysterious. A group of sounds recorded in Louisville KY. Smooth blue instrumental guitar music. In the musical alphabet, what comes after rock?

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
    Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
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    Dirty Three Ahoy! Appropriately disheveled, the Three emerge from the unending waves of time to pick up their guitar drum and viola/violin/piano/synthesizer/loops/percussion for their first album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
    Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
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    Sticking us with something that won’t go away, the Dirty Three are back. It’s been awhile, but that just means that the music here is heavy with seven years in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
    Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    It’s 2012 — do you know where your government is tonight? Occupy yourselves — and let’s get busy with the music in our minds.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
    L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
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    The Earth, the sky and the earth again — plus another trip through “La Soci é t é du Spectacle.” Something between a riveting caress and an invigorating shake. Elevated […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gastr Del Sol _? We Have Dozens Of Titles 3LP boxset
    Gastr Del Sol _? We Have Dozens Of Titles 3LP boxset
    $66.00 | , Add to cart

    Nearly twenty-five years after disbanding, Gastr del Sol have unpacked their archive, stringing together an alternative view to their genre-melting 1993-1998 run. This assembly of previously [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy ? Sings Greatest Palace Music
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy ? Sings Greatest Palace Music
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    The master Bonnie comes to terms with his past and takes it to Nashville for some serious revamping. The greatest release from the greatest Prince in the greatest Palace- historically […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
    Alien Stadium – Livin’ in Elizabethan Times
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    Livin’ In Elizabethan Times is a 2017 mini-album by Alien Stadium – a collaboration between Steve Mason and Primal Scream’s Martin Duffy.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    IGGY and The Stooges, ‘METALLIC K.O.’, the Original 1976 Album, the notorious ‘Last Ever Iggy & The Stooges Show’!, ‘METALLIC K.O.’ is the remarkable album [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
    The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Garage/mod rock at its best

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
    The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    The Prisoners, contemporaries of Billy Childish, epitomize the garage punk sound of the Medway Delta. This reissue of their 1982 debut album is re-mastered from the original tapes & is […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – In from the Cold
    The Prisoners – In from the Cold
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    The Prisoners got their start in the same Medway River delta area of Britain as Billy Childish’s Pop Rivets. After the band’s demise singer/guitarist/songwriter Graham Day went on to [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Stooges – The Stooges
    The Stooges – The Stooges
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    “Everything the peace and love vibe of the ’60s wasn’t the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop’s monotone [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Heavy beyond heavy, hard beyond hard. MC5 did it all on this one.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Stooges – Funhouse
    The Stooges – Funhouse
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    “Of course the Stooges were stupid, that was the whole point. Three chords were okay, two were even better, one or none (the cacophonous “L.A. Blues”) was best of all. […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
    Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    After years of pursuing Angels of Light and recording and producing a diverse roster of artists for his Young God label, Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bj?rk – Vulnicura Strings
    Bj?rk – Vulnicura Strings
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Vulnicura Strings is the acoustic version of Björk’s Vulnicura, featuring strings, voice and viola organista only – out on CD and vinyl. The original version of Vulnicura layered the boom […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joni Île – Semaphore CS
    Joni Île – Semaphore CS
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    In the age of boredom-less nights I sometimes yearn for times I sat on my bedroom floor listening to the same albums over and over. The first time I heard […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Home Blitz ? All Through The Year
    Home Blitz ? All Through The Year
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    “Mercer County is in central New Jersey, main city is Trenton (they make pork roll) but the more known town is Princeton (they have the college where Einstein spent time […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bilders* ? Dustbin Of Empathy
    Bilders* ? Dustbin Of Empathy
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Co-Released by Sophomore Lounge and Grapefruit Records. The NZ-American *Bilders* brings *Matt Swanson (Lambchop,* *My Dad Is Dead*) and *Alex McManus (Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop)* into the fold, all [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ned Collette – Our Other History
    Ned Collette – Our Other History
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “Our Other History is a wonderful new LP by this wandering Berlin-based Melbourne expat. Ned’s last album, Afternoon Dusk was an avant instrumental trio outing with James Rushford and Joe [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Styrofoam Winos – Real Time
    Styrofoam Winos – Real Time
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “The Styrofoam Winos are that band that we love to have in our lives because they transcend the language of music, not by their individual parts, but by their oneness. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
    Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
    $21.00 | Add to cart

    With his 2021 self-titled debut, Andy Pastalaniec’s Chime School became one of the defining acts of the seemingly never-ending, prolific and multifaceted Bay Area pop scene. Slumberland Records [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • David Bowie ? Lodger
    David Bowie ? Lodger
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    The third (and arguably most underrated) of Bowie’s Berlin trilogy, demonstrating his interest in both world music & krautrock Label: RCA – RVP-6390 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Bob Dylan _? Another Side Of Bob Dylan (64 Mono)
    Bob Dylan _? Another Side Of Bob Dylan (64 Mono)
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Early 64 Mono pressing of Dylan’s 3rd. Label: Columbia – CL 2193 Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Terre Haute Country: US Released: 1964 VG/G+

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
    Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    City Pop 12″ with some solid melodies and grooves Label: Niagara Records – 15AH 1515 Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Mini-Album Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International, Rock / Pop
  • Third Ear Band ? Music From Macbeth
    Third Ear Band ? Music From Macbeth
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    Third Ear Band’s psych-folk score to Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Macbeth Label: Harvest – SHSP 4019 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress Country: UK Released: undated repress VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Third Ear Band ? Alchemy
    Third Ear Band ? Alchemy
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    ““One of the first releases on EMI’s progressive rock label, Harvest in July 1969, Alchemy was the debut album by Third Ear Band. One of the earliest signings to Harvest, […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Clear Cut 5
    Clear Cut 5
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    The fifth and final volume in Rough Trade’s Clear Cut series Label: Rough Trade – RTL 35 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Japan Released: 1983 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Smile – Wall of Eyes
    The Smile – Wall of Eyes
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    The Smile’s new album Wall Of Eyes, will be released on 26th January on XL Recordings. The new album, was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios, and is produced […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
    Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Allying strong words and minimal electronics, Sleaford Mods’ second ‘proper’ album the self-released Divide And Exit was not only Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s most effective artistic [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pale Saints – In Ribbons (30th anniversary)
    Pale Saints – In Ribbons (30th anniversary)
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Pale Saints second album In Ribbons is finally getting the 30th Anniversary celebration it deserves after covid and production delays, with a special double LP / CD release – the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Helado Negro – Phasor
    Helado Negro – Phasor
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    While Phasor feels loose and expansive, it’s Lange’s tightest collection—deep, atmospheric, meticulously executed. It’s aligned with 2019’s This Is How You Smile, which found him incorporating [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
    Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    There are bands that come and go, and then there are those that carve their own unique path, leaving an indelible mark on the heart of listeners. Future Islands are […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
    Future Islands – People Who Aren’t There Anymore
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    There are bands that come and go, and then there are those that carve their own unique path, leaving an indelible mark on the heart of listeners. Future Islands are […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
    $13.00 | Add to cart

    Less than eighteen months after the release of their debut album New Long Leg, Dry Cleaning return with their sophomore album entitled Stumpwork. With 25M+ streams behind them and over […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Less than eighteen months after the release of their debut album New Long Leg, Dry Cleaning return with their sophomore album entitled Stumpwork. With 25M+ streams behind them and over […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dry Cleaning – Boundry Road Snacks
    Dry Cleaning – Boundry Road Snacks
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Following two critically acclaimed John Parish-produced studio albums – New Long Leg (2021) and Stumpwork (2022) – South London’s Dry Cleaning take a moment to reflect on their journey and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain (clear green vinyl)
    Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain (clear green vinyl)
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    For his latest solo album, Buck Meek, lead guitarist of Big Thief, went back to Texas with his band – Adam Brisbin (guitar), Austin Vaughn (drums), Ken Woodward (bass), Mat […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain (black vinyl)
    Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain (black vinyl)
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    For his latest solo album, Buck Meek, lead guitarist of Big Thief, went back to Texas with his band – Adam Brisbin (guitar), Austin Vaughn (drums), Ken Woodward (bass), Mat […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Big Thief – U.F.O.F.
    Big Thief – U.F.O.F.
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    U.F.O.F., F standing for ‘Friend’, is the name of the highly anticipated third record by Big Thief, set to be released by 4AD on May 3rd. The New York-based band, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
    Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage…
    Stereolab – Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage…
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    Remastered from original tapes. 6 panel digipak w/ 8 panel booklet of lyrics and sleevenotes. Bonus disk of unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate mixes. Co-released by band’s own label [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Will Veeder – The Lost And Found
    Will Veeder – The Lost And Found
    $22.00 | Add to cart

    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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country