There’s an alternate reality where everyone makes a living wage and the cleanest buses you’ve ever seen arrive every other minute. Where the most intense songs are about confessing your […]
Despite its title, Ratboys’ new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair is not defined by what’s missing. Rather, it’s the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one, […]
One of many projects on Strata-East spearheaded by bassist, composer, and arranger Bill Lee (legendary director Spike Lee’s father), The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe’s only album, A Spirit [...]
A hushed and intimate reimagining of a landmark indie classic, Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump… On a Wooden Piano—originally released in 2011—returns in a limited Eco-Mix “Tangelo” vinyl [...]
A hushed and intimate reimagining of a landmark indie classic, Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump… On a Wooden Piano—originally released in 2011—returns in a limited Eco-Mix “Tangelo” vinyl [...]
The Beths occupy a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me, produced by guitarist Jonathan Pearce and [...]
The Beths occupy a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me, produced by guitarist Jonathan Pearce and [...]
1967 DEBUT BY SAN FRANCISCO-BASED PSYCH PIONEERS! Rock ‘n’ Roll lightning can strike anywhere. The Neigb’rhood Childr’n, tucked away in Medford, Oregon, (near the [...]
1967 DEBUT BY SAN FRANCISCO-BASED PSYCH PIONEERS! Rock ‘n’ Roll lightning can strike anywhere. The Neigb’rhood Childr’n, tucked away in Medford, Oregon, (near the [...]
Kill Rock Stars is proud to re-issue Roman Candle, Elliott Smiths first solo album, originally released on Portlands Cavity Search Records in 1994. Roman Candle is now remastered for the […]
With this limited color vinyl pressing, Barsuk marks the 15th anniversary of David Bazan’s masterful Strange Negotiations — the prophetic 2011 meditation on what he was already seeing as a […]
With this limited color vinyl pressing, Barsuk marks the 15th anniversary of David Bazan’s masterful Strange Negotiations — the prophetic 2011 meditation on what he was already seeing as a […]
“This three-CD box set currently rates as the best — and most digestible — overview of Howlin’ Wolf’s career. Disc one starts with the Memphis sides that eventually [...]
“This magnificent 12-CD set contains all of Bill Evans’ Riverside recordings as a leader, an extremely important period in the influential pianist’s development. The first [...]
“From the time of his first Blue Note recording in 1964 to his final session for the label in 1967, Sam Rivers made stunning progress as an avant-garde innovator. Starting […]
Looks at paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture by Arp, Dali, Ernst, Gorky, Grosz, and others This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah [...]
“The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the [...]
In his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the […]
An exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth.The Spice Route […]
From the Nile’s black land to the Aztec’s world of the Fifth Sun, from the shrines at Phylakopi to the Maya ceremonial center of Xunantunich, sophisticated scientific techniques have [...]
For many ancient societies, the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets constituted an elaborate language, expressing the intentions of the spiritual forces they believed ruled the world. [...]
An introductory overview by Ann Farkas and essays by Russian authorities explain the history and archaeology of the nomads of Eurasia, the Filippovka kurgans, cults and rituals of the steppe […]
The age of the Baroque—a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics—witnessed the construction of some of the world’s most magnificent buildings. What did the work of […]
Mounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North America. This book, now in its seventh printing, […]
Though its roots are in Hinduism, tantra’s goals are the universal ones of self-knowledge and liberated joy. Its methods and effects transcend geography and era, and can be applied to […]
In 1995, to honor the role of Central Europe in the spiritual history of the West, the New York Open Center invited students of Rosicrucianism and the Western Mystery traditions […]
“The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to construct national identity…. Above all, the [...]
A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While […]
Ibn al-‘Arabi is still known as “the Great Sheik” among the surviving Sufi orders. Born in Muslim Spain, he has become famous in the West as the greatest mystical thinker […]
The masterworks of one of the most influential teacher-artists of the twentieth century, originally published as a limited, boxed edition in 1963, was conceived as a guide and teaching aid […]
Despite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the [...]
This book is a section by section commentary on Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis. Alchemy is a confusing topic by itself. Jung’s interpretation of it is highly nuanced and can easily be [...]
A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political […]
Of all the peoples who fought for supremacy on the vast eastern European plains, the Slavs have proved the most enduring. They spread out from homelands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, […]
Detailed and illustrated overview of the art found in the communities on the Sepik River in New Guinea This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and […]
The View Over Atlantis, John Michell’s unrivaled introduction to megalithic science, earth mysteries, and the inner meaning of number and measure, was described by Colin Wilson as [...]
Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism — Islamic mysticism — from its beginnings through the [...]
Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was considered one of the 20th century’s most important creators of political illustrations and caricatures. While largely unknown in Europe, his work is highly [...]
Refuges d’Art* is a hiking route spanning roughly ten days, conceived by Andy Goldsworthy in the Digne region, within the protected territory of the Haute-Provence Geological Reserve. [...]
The art of renowned American watercolorist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) has been described as “one of the most original phenomena in American art.” This interdisciplinary study of [...]
The great national epic of Persia—the most complete English-language edition and definitive translation by Dick Davis, available in a deluxe edition by Penguin Classics. Wherever Persian [...]
Examines the symbiotic relationship between Christianity and eastern thought This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear to the wraps/boards, […]
“A sketchy and underfocused debut, Rocka Rolla nonetheless begins to delineate the musical territory Judas Priest would explore over the remainder of the decade: frighteningly dark in its [...]
“If their fantastic new EP We Are Sonic Art is any indication, expect a fine squall of garage-noise-pop somewhere between the pre-punk isolation of Mid-west 70s isolates like Half Japanese [...]
“Rob Noyes has been on the Eastern Massachusetts scene for a while, but what we’ve heard him play is music from within the context of electric bands, most of whom […]
“The departure of Ronnie James Dio gave Ritchie Blackmore a chance to reinvent Rainbow, which he does to a certain extent on Down to Earth. Adding former Deep Purple colleague […]
“Are Possible is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums, made possible by the individual perspectives of Nathan, double-bassist Casey [...]
Recorded on tour with Sunn O))) in Europe and Scandinavia, March and April 2005. Label: Troniks – tro-255 Format: Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2007 VG+/VG+. […]