April 26th Newsletter
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  • Cartoon ? Nyuck Nyuck Boing!
    Cartoon ? Nyuck Nyuck Boing!
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    Human Headstone Presents… “Nyuck Nyuck Boing!”, the debut full-length from Philadelphia’s CARTOON. Listener discretion advised : Weight-defying escapades, technicolor transmutations, a swirling [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Joy Guidry ? Amen
    Joy Guidry ? Amen
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    AMEN is the 3rd release by bassoonist / composer / producer Joy Guidry. Representing a major step up in her ability to fully realize and embody a sound and concept, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork Of The Late 20th Century
    A Record Could Be Your Whole World: Vinyl Records as the Total Artwork Of The Late 20th Century
    $50.00 | , Add to cart

    This is a book about records considered ‘in themselves’. It is not about musicians, or music, or design, or music history — though all those things are considered at various […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
    Imminent Death – Radiant Ignition
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • INTRAVIS Compilation
    INTRAVIS Compilation
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    A compilation featuring Nota Grave, Vampiros Kosmos, Universal Cell Unlock, Zach Rowden, Energy Gradient, Tval, Shredded Nerve, Mortido, Prosperity, and Cienfuegos.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Spiteful Womb – Traumacore
    Spiteful Womb – Traumacore
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    C20, Edition of 50

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
    Martin Wong: Footprints, Poems, and Leaves
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    A rich and engaging facsimile of the artist’s first visual poetry book, self-published in 1968 The paintings of Chinese American artist Martin Wong (1946-99) are celebrated for their [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
    Marcel Schwob – Spicilege
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    Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob “All over the world,” wrote [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Marguerite Young – Miss Macintosh, My Darling
    Marguerite Young – Miss Macintosh, My Darling
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
    Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
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    In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
    Propaganda and the Holy Writ of the Process Church of the Final Judgment: Process Sex Issue-Fear Issue-Death Issue
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    The rare and collectible Process Church magazines are back in print. Do you dare find out who rules you? The Process Church of the Final Judgement inspired fear and devotion […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
    Kate Zambreno – To Write As If Already Dead
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    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno’s failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this […]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
    Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    The now-classic exploration of the role of women and the feminine in Buddhist Tantra The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
    Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
    Erik Davis – Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codes — spiritual, cultural, and embodied — that people use to escape the limitations of their lives and enrich their experience of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jimmy Desana: Salvation
    Jimmy Desana: Salvation
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    Salvation is a previously-unpublished artist book by Jimmy DeSana that he conceptualized shortly before his death in 1990. The publication contains 44 of the artist’s late photographic [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
    Stefan Aune – Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
    Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Jose Donoso – The Obscene Bird Of Night
    Jose Donoso – The Obscene Bird Of Night
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    Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of a crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Carmelo Bene – Our Lady of the Turks
    Carmelo Bene – Our Lady of the Turks
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    Carmelo Bene (1937–2002) was a notorious Italian actor, writer, and director who inaugurated his theater in 1959 with Camus’ Caligula then exploded onto the artistic scene with his outré Christ [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Heather Lewis – Notice
    Heather Lewis – Notice
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    A classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation. The reason it’s never just once is the same reason money’s only a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Cage/Aaron Dilloway – Rozart Mix
    John Cage/Aaron Dilloway – Rozart Mix
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “So excited and honored to finally release the vinyl document of my realization of JOHN CAGE’s ROZART MIX.  Back in the extremely strange year of 2020, I was approached by […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Indigo Ranch – Hard Gloss
    Indigo Ranch – Hard Gloss
    $22.00 | Add to cart

    Recorded by the band in their studio in 2022, Indigo Ranch’s Hard Gloss scratches an itch for DIY sound & aesthetics. Mixed with Jeff Zeigler and mastered by Mikey Young, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Mot ? Remains
    Mot ? Remains
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    Recorded during the Autumn of 2023 amidst fluctuating extreme states of tension and tranquility, Canadian artist Paul van Trigt delivers 30 minutes of thoughtfully spliced cassette and reel [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bermuda Squares – Outsider
    Bermuda Squares – Outsider
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    As corny as it sounds, you can’t help but describe Bermuda Squares as a Minneapolis supergroup. Ringleaded by singer/guitarist Tony Milek, the band comprises members of Sinks, Neo Neos, Citric [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Why Bother? ? Serenading Unwanted Ballads
    Why Bother? ? Serenading Unwanted Ballads
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    Serenading Unwanted Ballads is the fifth album from Iowa’s WHY BOTHER? and a testament to the fact that they will never make the same record twice. Full of twists, their […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Ar-Kaics ? See The World On Fire
    The Ar-Kaics ? See The World On Fire
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    The Ar-Kaics are back with See the World on Fire, their first new album in six years. It’s also the first release from this newly-minted partnership between Feel It Records […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Choncy ? 20X Multiplier
    Choncy ? 20X Multiplier
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    From the foxhole of the Rust Belt, Choncy fleshes out a frenzied, multifaceted approach to punk with their sophomore album, 20X MULTIPLIER. The Cincinnati four-piece delivers an intoxicating [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Vacation – Rare Earth
    Vacation – Rare Earth
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    “Vacation’s new album Rare Earth comes at a time when the powder keg of civilization as we know it is particularly vulnerable to the spark that swallows our very existence. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Vacation ? Rare Earth
    Vacation ? Rare Earth
    $12.00 | Add to cart

    “Vacation’s new album Rare Earth comes at a time when the powder keg of civilization as we know it is particularly vulnerable to the spark that swallows our very existence. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Pumice – Miserable Poison
    Pumice – Miserable Poison
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    A career-spanning overview of almost epic proportions, Miserable Poison is a massive 2.5 hour collection of Pumice recordings made between 1996 and 2021. The tracks on Miserable Poison are culled [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Thistle Group, P Wits ? Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
    Thistle Group, P Wits ? Fog On My Brain/Figure It Out
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Match made in heaven collaborative hit single from New Zealand-based artists Claire Mahoney (Thistle Group) and Benedict Quilter (P Wits). Recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville, mastered for vinyl [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Dancing Plague* – Elogium
    Dancing Plague* – Elogium
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Portland based act Dancing Plague has been a steady presence in the dark/cold electronic music scene for quite a few years now. Since 2016 Conor Knowles’ solo project has been […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Poison Point – Wandering Echoes
    Poison Point – Wandering Echoes
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Since a while now, the uncanniness from dreams and the unconscious amazes me. These things are quite deep rooted in my way of writing lyrics like in many previous tracks […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Blind Seagull ? Decade Of Effort
    Blind Seagull ? Decade Of Effort
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    10 Years Anniversary compilation LP. Ten years ago, on 21 April 2014, Russian enclave of the Baltic Kaliningrad-based trio Blind Seagull started off its adventure in the soon to be […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Profit Prison ? Gilt
    Profit Prison ? Gilt
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Four years and one pandemic after his latest Dreams Of A Dark Building EP, the herald of dungeon synth pop is finally back from his shallow grave. Life has not […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Container – Yacker
    Container – Yacker
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    Ren Schofield’s long running electronic project Container returns with his first release since the Creamer EP in 2021. Rolling straight out of the pandemic Schofield has since played a large […]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Franciska – Afvikling
    Franciska – Afvikling
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    The latest in the prolific output of Copenhagen’s talented Jonas Torstensen, better known as Franciska. Those already familiar with Franciska’s output from the past couple years on [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Alex York – Electro Paralysis
    Alex York – Electro Paralysis
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    Frequent patrons of the Prime Ruin catalog should already recognize Alex York as a household name but for those that don’t, here is a brief introduction: Hailing from the Cincinnati, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
    Stinkmeat – Stinkmeat
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    “Who is he?!” While the subgenre of gorenoise may be a hair outside of this label’s wheelhouse, Gracious Host is no less proud to present the debut of Ithaca’s STINKMEAT. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music: 1953-1969
    V/A – Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music: 1953-1969
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    This LP reveals the extraordinary diversity of research — almost all hidden — by Spanish musicians in the ’50s and ’60s. Those pieces were composed while the country was [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Stereolab –  Switched On Volumes 1-5 (8xCD Boxset)
    Stereolab – Switched On Volumes 1-5 (8xCD Boxset)
    $60.00 | Add to cart

    An anthology boxset that compiles all five volumes of the Stereolab Switched On series: 94 non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the groop. Includes the original Switched On […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Misha Mengelberg & ICP Orchestra – Japan Japon
    Misha Mengelberg & ICP Orchestra – Japan Japon
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    Recorded on 11 May 1982 at Osaka and 17 May 1982 in Tokyo. Label: Instant Composer’s Pool – ICP 024 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Japan Released:1982 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Black Vinyl)
    Auntie Pus – Halfway to Venezuela b/w Marmalade Freak (Black Vinyl)
    $8.50 | Add to cart

    Julian Isaacs aka Auntie Pus, made a bet with his childhood friend Chris Millar (Rat Scabies of The Damned) that one of them would have a top ten record within […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Pixies – Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91
    Pixies – Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91
    $51.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/8/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Between 1988 and 1991 – during the band’s 4AD years – Pixies recorded six sessions for the BBC, five for […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • L’Infonie – S/T
    L’Infonie – S/T
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 3/1/24.  Will ship on or around release date. Beat poetry influence free form jazz collective, formed in Montreal in 1967, L’Infonie existed officially until 1974. Lead by [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • V/A – Skyway Soul: Gary, Indiana
    V/A – Skyway Soul: Gary, Indiana
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    A sonic snapshot of America’s steel capital, developed in the prosperous cavern between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of U.S. Steel, Skyway Soul is […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label
    V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Daniel Johnston – Alive in New York City (Clear Vinyl)
    Daniel Johnston – Alive in New York City (Clear Vinyl)
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    Daniel played several shows in New York City in April of the year 2000, but there is no way to know for certain the exact date this recording was made, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Weeds – Just Colour
    The Weeds – Just Colour
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    “Fred Cole’s legendary 1961-1966 band. The 12” is a straight reissue of the 1968 LP (unfortunately originally released as “The Lollipop Shoppe” but now returned to the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych