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  • Chime School – Chime School (Magenta Vinyl)
    Chime School – Chime School (Magenta Vinyl)
    $20.00 | ,

    Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
    The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
    $19.00 | ,

    The San Francisco bay area has long been an important outpost of the International Pop Underground, from the 90s heyday of The Aislers Set, #Poundsign# and The Fairways to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chime School – Chime School
    Chime School – Chime School
    $10.00 | ,

    Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
    The Umbrellas – The Umbrellas
    $11.00 | ,

    The San Francisco bay area has long been an important outpost of the International Pop Underground, from the 90s heyday of The Aislers Set, #Poundsign# and The Fairways to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Peel Dream Magazine – Moral Panics (Yellow Vinyl)
    Peel Dream Magazine – Moral Panics (Yellow Vinyl)
    $15.00 | ,

    NYC’s Peel Dream Magazine dazzled listeners with their recent release “Agitprop Alterna,” a smart album that draws from a wide set of post-punk, shoegaze and indiepop influences [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jeanines – Jeanines
    Jeanines – Jeanines
    $11.00 | ,

    Brooklyn’s Jeanines specialize in short bursts of energetic but melancholy minor-key pop. With influences that run deep into the most crucial tributaries of DIY pop — Television [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic
    Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic
    $11.00 | ,

    Joe Stevens’ Peel Dream Magazine project has been turning heads and catching ears since late 2017. Stevens is a brilliant writer and arranger and something of a pop scholar; steeped […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Aphex Twin – Syro
    Aphex Twin – Syro
    $49.00 | ,

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
    $12.00 | ,

    From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves—and the limits of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vu: The Story of a Magazine
    Vu: The Story of a Magazine
    $30.00 | ,

    The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s. Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
    The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
    $17.00 | ,

    The Tekkieh Moaven is a significant religious monument in Kermanshah and one of the most important national memorials in Iran. Following the building’s destruction in the early 20th [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
    Rock Against Racism: 1976–1981
    $17.00 | ,

    An outstanding photography book documenting a movement that rocked the world. Syd Shelton: Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
    Lesley Chamberlain – Rilke: The Last Inward Man
    $8.00 | , ,

    An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
    Tracy K. Smith – Ordinary Light
    $8.00 | , ,

    In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
    Jacques Ranciere – Modern Times
    $8.00 | , ,

    The critique of modernist ideology from France’s leading radical theorist In this book Jacques Rancière radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
    Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
    $10.00 | , ,

    A major biography—the first in three decades—of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
    The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou Choi
    $18.00 | , ,

    An icon in his native city, Tsang Tsou Choi (1921–2007) covered the streets of Hong Kong with his graffiti for over 35 years, using a brush and ink to proclaim […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
    Lei Xue – Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Call…
    $22.00 | , ,

    Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yi he ming) is perhaps the most eccentric piece in China’s calligraphic canon. Apparently marking the burial of a crane, the large inscription, datable to […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Steven Birchall / Scott Huston ‎– Phenomena / Reciprocals II / Pento-Tholoi
    Steven Birchall / Scott Huston ‎– Phenomena / Reciprocals II / Pento-T…
    $25.00 | , ,

    Highly interesting split between composers, featuring the debut piece by Steven Birchall of Reality Gates fame. Label: Opus One – number 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Country: US Released: 1970 [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Limbs Bin – New Berkshire Blues
    Limbs Bin – New Berkshire Blues
    $10.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Scald Hymn – You’re Not Supposed To Be Alive
    Scald Hymn – You’re Not Supposed To Be Alive
    $8.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Hairbrushing – Two Broken Mirrors & Thirty​-​One Open Windows
    Hairbrushing – Two Broken Mirrors & Thirty​-​One Open Windows
    $3.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nystrand / Klein – Bayou Stickee
    Nystrand / Klein – Bayou Stickee
    $6.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Ligature – 245 Days In Hell
    Ligature – 245 Days In Hell
    $6.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Vestigial Limb – Now, Voyager
    Vestigial Limb – Now, Voyager
    $4.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Cold Electric Fire ‎– The Mule
    Cold Electric Fire ‎– The Mule
    $5.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Ambient
  • Ligature ‎– Night Discussions
    Ligature ‎– Night Discussions
    $6.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Grant Evans – Concrete Narcissus
    Grant Evans – Concrete Narcissus
    $4.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Cold Electric Fire ‎– The Alchemist: The Complete Recordings Of Cold Electric Fire
    Cold Electric Fire ‎– The Alchemist: The Complete Recordings Of Cold E…
    $10.00 | , ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Ambient
  • Crappy Nightmareville – Speck E.P.
    Crappy Nightmareville – Speck E.P.
    $8.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Limbs Bin – Shelf Dreams
    Limbs Bin – Shelf Dreams
    $5.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Machine Listener – Headfooter
    Machine Listener – Headfooter
    $4.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Ambient
  • Werewolf Jerusalem – Hand Of The Gallows
    Werewolf Jerusalem – Hand Of The Gallows
    $5.00 | ,

    Grading: VG+/VG+ *Image in listing is stock there may be variation in actual product.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
    Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
    $25.00 | ,

    Structured around a single moment in time ― 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 ― Perec’s spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    Maria Tatar – The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: E…
    $23.00 | ,

    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excursion
    Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excurs…
    $20.00 | ,

    In translation at last, a delightfully delirious novel in which absurdity gives way to nightmare This novel by French writer Fernand Combet is at long last available in English. A […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
    Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
    $29.00 | ,

    The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
    Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
    $13.00 | ,

    A Rimbaudesque novella of wayward wanderlust and liberty from the cofounder of Surrealism Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    James Van Der Zee – The Harlem Book of the Dead
    $24.00 | ,

    Available for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van Der Zee’s unflinching creative vision Originally published in 1978, The Harlem Book of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
    Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
    $17.00 | ,

    Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
    Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
    $17.00 | ,

    In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    Michel Chion – Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen
    $32.00 | ,

    Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. Chion argues that sound film [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
    Joanne Kyger – There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
    $25.00 | ,

    The inaugural book of Wave’s new interview series, There You Are combines forty years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather’s House
    Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
    $18.00 | ,

    A tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Anniversary Edition
    Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: 20th Ann…
    $28.00 | ,

    Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits
    $35.00 | ,

    In Experimental Otherwise, Benjamin Piekut takes the reader into the heart of what we mean by “experimental” in avant-garde music. Focusing on one place and time―New York City, 1964―Piekut [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre R…
    $27.00 | ,

    Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    Michel Chion – Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise
    $35.00 | ,

    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion’s Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: Excerpts from an Intimate Diary
    Raul Ruiz – Notes, Recollections and Sequences of Things Seen: E…
    $25.00 | ,

    Meditations on cinema and method from the acclaimed Chilean director of City of Pirates and Life Is a Dream This volume gathers excerpts from the diary of celebrated Chilean experimental […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
    Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
    $15.00 | ,

    Written in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy’s ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive