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  • Louis Gray – Wobblin’/Up Above Our Knees
    Louis Gray – Wobblin’/Up Above Our Knees
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    Label: ERA Records – 3072 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1962 Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul Media Condition: VG Looks G+, but plays closer to […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The V.I.P.’s – Strange Little Girl / My Girl Cried
    The V.I.P.’s – Strange Little Girl / My Girl Cried
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    Label: Congress – CG-211 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul, Pop Style: Soul Media Condition:G+ Solid G+ with surface noise noticeable. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Pat Johnson – Love Brought You Here
    Pat Johnson – Love Brought You Here
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    Label: Win Or Lose – WL-221 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo, Stereo, Mono, SP Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG+ In between […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Larry Bright – Shake That Thing
    Larry Bright – Shake That Thing
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    Label: Del-Fi Records – 4214 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo, Styrene Country: US Released: 1963 Media: VG Noticeable light marks & label wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Ann Fleming – Beside You / You’re Just One Man
    Ann Fleming – Beside You / You’re Just One Man
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    Label: Cookin’ Records (2) – 605 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Rhythm & Blues Media: G+ Noticeable scuffing and marks, along with […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81
    Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81
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    “Like a snotty bottle rocket shot out of The Damned’s dressing room and straight into the gut of Cheap Trick, suburban Chicago’s sorely under appreciated teen punk pioneers, EPICYCLE, were [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
    Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
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    Delightful & catchy power-pop

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Velveteen Rabbit – Mind-Numbing Entertainment
    Velveteen Rabbit – Mind-Numbing Entertainment
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    “As sad it was to hear about the demise of The Jeanies, by far NYC’s most addictive power pop band of the last half decade, we’re happy to announce their […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Happy Thoughts – The Happy Thoughts
    The Happy Thoughts – The Happy Thoughts
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    “We’ll admit, this finished album landed at our headquarters late last summer, but it just seemed unfair to release it in the Fall or Winter months, since this debut LP […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
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    Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series Reissue of Patrice Rushen’s 1974 Debut Album Prelusion on 180g LP. Available on Vinyl for the First Time Since Its Original Release 50 Years Ago. Mastered [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
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    Heavy beyond heavy, hard beyond hard. MC5 did it all on this one.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Movers – The Movers Vol 1 (1970 – 1976)
    The Movers – The Movers Vol 1 (1970 – 1976)
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    It’s a special, but also a strange sensation to be releasing an album of one of your early musical heroes. I first discovered The Movers on my very first “record […]

    GENRE: African, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
    Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
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    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
  • V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label
    V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label
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    After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got to work reinventing […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
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    Kick Out The Jams still sounds astonishingly powerful after almost 30 years. Recorded live at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom in 1968, this relentless, aggressive set offers the frenzy of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
    Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 (Deluxe Edition)
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    “To hear a tape containing their earliest demos, recorded on May 11, 1965, and locked away until now, is to hear traces of things rarely associated with The Velvet Underground: […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Rock / Pop
  • Howard “Youngblood” Bomar – I Who Have Nothing
    Howard “Youngblood” Bomar – I Who Have Nothing
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    Howard “Youngblood” Bomar’s long overdue debut album finally makes landfall! Howard Bomar was a man who slipped through everybody’s fingers. But his artistry escapes that fate thanks to I, Who [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Melvin Van Peebles – Watermelon Man (Green Watermelon Skin Vinyl
    Melvin Van Peebles – Watermelon Man (Green Watermelon Skin Vinyl
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    In an extraordinary career spanning seven decades, director and “godfather of black cinema” Melvin Van Peebles only made one studio film. 1970’s Watermelon Man shattered [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • East Coast – S/T (Fire Orange With Black Streaks Vinyl)
    East Coast – S/T (Fire Orange With Black Streaks Vinyl)
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    The only conceivable reason this 1973 album isn’t generally recognized as a soul-funk classic is because it came out on Bernard Purdie’s Encounter label, which mustered only five LP [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • George Scott – Find Someone to Love (Green Vinyl)
    George Scott – Find Someone to Love (Green Vinyl)
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    This soul-funk nugget, released in the early ’70s on the uber-collectible Maple label, qualifies as a major find based on George Scott’s Wilson Pickett-meets-James-Brown vocal [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Eddie Vedder – Earthling
    Eddie Vedder – Earthling
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    Earthling, the third studio album from Eddie Vedder, features the singles “Long Way,” “The Haves,” and “Brother The Cloud.” In addition, the album features collaborations with music legends [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Gabbard Brothers – S/T
    Gabbard Brothers – S/T
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    From the ashes of the acclaimed Ohio rock band Buffalo Killers, singers/ songwriters/siblings Zachary and Andrew Gabbard have re-emerged as The Gabbard Brothers. And while there are still [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Archie James  Cavanaugh – Black And White Raven (White Raven Vinyl)
    Archie James Cavanaugh – Black And White Raven (White Raven Vinyl)
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    A masterpiece of the schooner rock variety, Black and White Raven is an album that emerged from Archie James Cavanaugh’s youthful dream of recording his own music while stuck in […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Kelly Finnigan – The Tales People Tell (instrumentals)
    Kelly Finnigan – The Tales People Tell (instrumentals)
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    Kelly Finnigan’s debut solo album for Colemine Records represents the culmination of his 15 years of experience – in the studio as a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
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    What our staff has to say: “Absolutely beyond Raw, Stooges at their best.” – Cleo IGGY and the STOOGES ‘METALLIC K.O.’ The Original 1976 Album – the notorious [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Sylk – S/T
    Sylk – S/T
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    Sylk was a short-lived soul & funk band from the Aiken, South Carolina – Augusta, Georgia border area (better known as the CSRA) who released just one album in 1983. […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • M Ross Perkins – E Pluribus M Ross
    M Ross Perkins – E Pluribus M Ross
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    Like some kind of time-hopping wizard with preternatural melodic sensibilities, M Ross Perkins is back with his sophomore full-length, E Pluribus M Ross. The album, his first for Colemine/Karma [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Lonnie Holley – MITH
    Lonnie Holley – MITH
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    The expansive American experience Lonnie Holley quilts together across his astounding new album, MITH, is both multitudinous and finely detailed. Holley’s self-taught piano improvisations [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
    Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
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    DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL’S NINTH STUDIO ALBUM, ALL THE TRUTH THAT I CAN TELL, IS BOTH A REMARKABLE RENEWAL AND FORTUNATE STEP FORWARD FOR THE BAND’S SONGWRITER, FRONT MAN, AND FOUNDER, CHRIS […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Clarence Reid – On The Job
    Clarence Reid – On The Job
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    Clarence Henry Reid is also known by the stage name and alternate persona Blowfly Reid wrote and produced for artists including Betty Wright Sam & Dave, Gwen McCrae, Jimmy “Bo” [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Wanda Jackson – There’s A Party Goin’ On
    Wanda Jackson – There’s A Party Goin’ On
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    What 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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • The Invaders ? Test Card
    The Invaders ? Test Card
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    UK power-pop that verges on post-punk Polydor – 2383 589 1980 UK Media Condition – NM Sleeve Condition -VG+, very light ringwear and edge wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn
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    10 new songs that capture the raw, idiosyncratic rock and roll spirit and lyrical beauty that epitomizes a classic NYCH collaboration. Recorded this summer under a full moon, in a […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • V/A – Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records
    V/A – Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records
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    Craft Recordings is pleased to launch its 75th-anniversary celebrations of Specialty Records with a brand-new compilation, Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records. Available for pre-order now, [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • King Hannibal (featuring Lee Moses)  – Truth
    King Hannibal (featuring Lee Moses) – Truth
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    James Shaw (aka The Mighty Hannibal aka King Hannibal) was an American R&B, soul and funk singer, songwriter and record producer known for his showmanship and outlandish costumes. Several of [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bobby Story – The Storyteller
    Bobby Story – The Storyteller
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    Bobby Patterson’s (born 1944) life in music has had many facets. Whether as a DJ in Texas (he had a popular show at the Dallas-based radio station KKDA until 2012), a producer […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • King Bullard Version: Songs Of The BOS Label
    King Bullard Version: Songs Of The BOS Label
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    On Cleveland’s late ‘60s gospel scene, the BOS label was the refined, professional ying to Boddie’s lo-fi yang, galloping to the fore bearing a torch for Curtis Mayfield’s robe-wearing roots. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Sequoyah Murray – Before You Begin
    Sequoyah Murray – Before You Begin
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    “At just 22 years old, Sequoyah Murray is crafting the kind of concise, singular musical statements that many artists strive for their whole careers. His mutant brand of modern soul […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco