May 3rd Newsletter
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  • The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
    The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
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    “While some continue to champion the Replacements’ Don’t Tell a Soul and All Shook Down exit albums, Pleased to Meet Me truly represents the last vital effort of a great […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Replacements – Tim
    The Replacements – Tim
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    “Tim was the group’s fourth studio album and the last to feature the original line-up. Fan favorite tracks include “Bastards of Young”, “Here Comes a Regular”, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
    John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this introduction to John Coltrane’s revered Atlantic recordings. Trane: The Atlantic Collection includes the hit single ‘My [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
    Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
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    “Richard & Linda Thompson’s marriage was crumbling as they were recording Shoot Out the Lights in 1982, and many critics have read the album as a chronicle of the couple’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ramones – Rocket To Russia
    Ramones – Rocket To Russia
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    Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Rocket to Russia is the third studio album by the American punk rock band The Ramones, and was released on November 4, 1977, through Sire […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ramones – Ramones
    Ramones – Ramones
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    Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The Ramones ignited the punk-rock movement with their eponymous 1976 debut album, revitalizing rock and roll at one of it’s lowest ebbs with attitude, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ramones – Road To Ruin
    Ramones – Road To Ruin
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    Ramones’ fourth studio album from 1978. Features the classic song I Wanna Be Sedated. – The Ramones ignited the punk-rock movement with their eponymous 1976 debut album, revitalizing [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Heldon – Heldon.6. Interface
    Heldon – Heldon.6. Interface
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    Spoiler alert. A brilliant moment occurs right at the end of 1977’s Interface. The album’s final song, its side-long title track, builds up slowly into a roaring tornado of fiercely […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Prine – Sweet Revenge
    John Prine – Sweet Revenge
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    Sweet Revenge is the third album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1973. Prine started veering rock ‘n’ roll on this 1973 album, and the result […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine – John Prine
    John Prine – John Prine
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    John Prine is the debut album by American country/folk singer-songwriter John Prine, issued by Atlantic Records in 1971. In 2012, the album was ranked number 452 on Rolling Stone magazine’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine – Common Sense
    John Prine – Common Sense
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    John Prine’s fourth studio album Common Sense was produced by Steve Cropper and was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and Larabee Studios in Los Angeles. The album features [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Faust – The Faust Tapes
    Faust – The Faust Tapes
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1973. There’s something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Johnny Thunders – So Alone
    Johnny Thunders – So Alone
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    “Following the drug-fueled implosion of the Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders bounced back with his first solo outing, So Alone. Featuring a veritable who’s who of ’70s punk and [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
    The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this 1986 album from the legendary British quartet. The Queen Is Dead is The Smiths’ great leap forward, taking the band to new […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Smiths – The Smiths
    The Smiths – The Smiths
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally re-mastered edition of the 1984 debut album from the legendary British quartet. Arriving in an era dominated by Synthpop and gloomy Post-Punk, the Smith’s [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Le Gip ‎– The Voodoo Drums Of Le Gip
    Le Gip ‎– The Voodoo Drums Of Le Gip
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    ** two copies available. Kind of exploitive cover & write up, but still a cool drum & vocal record from “Le Gip” … ? VG+/VG+ one copy has bent lower […]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Ti Roro ‎– Ti Roro, Et Ses Tambours Vaudou – And His Voodoo Drums
    Ti Roro ‎– Ti Roro, Et Ses Tambours Vaudou – And His Voodoo Drums
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Haitian Vodou drummer, VG/VG+ Marks on vinyl.

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Groupe Les Chleu-Chleu ‎– Haiti, Mon Pays
    Groupe Les Chleu-Chleu ‎– Haiti, Mon Pays
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    Mid 60s Compas gold. Beautiful saxophone on this. VG/VG

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Ensemble Nemours Jn Baptiste – Musical Tour Of Haiti
    Ensemble Nemours Jn Baptiste – Musical Tour Of Haiti
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    Late 50s into the 1960s Compas group. VG/VG+ Vinyl has marks but plays a nice VG.

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 20eme Anniversaire
    Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 20eme Anniversaire
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • L’Immortel Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 33è Anniversaire
    L’Immortel Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 33è Anniversaire
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    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– Super Jazz Des Jeunes
    Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– Super Jazz Des Jeunes
    $100.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Orchestre Tropicana – A New York
    Orchestre Tropicana – A New York
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    Mid 70s Compas, some great Bolero here… Gushing with character. VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– Marie Sou Piano
    Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– Marie Sou Piano
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Trio Select With Gesner Henry ‎– Gros Bambou
    Trio Select With Gesner Henry ‎– Gros Bambou
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    Fresh & pleasant sounds from Trio Select, featuring thee Gesner Henry. VG+/VG+ In excellent condition.

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Le Groupe Volo Volo De Boston – Caresse
    Le Groupe Volo Volo De Boston – Caresse
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    Mid 70s Compas. VG+/VG+ Excellent condition!

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Jazz Des Jeunes – Saturday Night In Port Au Prince
    Super Jazz Des Jeunes – Saturday Night In Port Au Prince
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    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Tabou Combo ‎– The Masters
    Tabou Combo ‎– The Masters
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    Mid 70s Compas group, Tabou. One of the most famous Haitian Compas groups. VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Trio Select, Gesner Henry – Haiti Vol 2
    Trio Select, Gesner Henry – Haiti Vol 2
    $61.00 | , , Add to cart

    Fresh & pleasant sounds from Trio Select, featuring thee Gesner Henry. VG+/VG+ In excellent condition overall!

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Orchestre Septentrional – Noël Des Copains
    Orchestre Septentrional – Noël Des Copains
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    VG/VG+ Vinyl has light marks that are lightly audible.

    GENRE:
  • Orchestre Septentrional – Apollo 11
    Orchestre Septentrional – Apollo 11
    $19.00 | , , Add to cart

    60s institution of carribean jazz & calypso. VG+/VG+ Excellent condition.

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Ensemble Webert Sicot ‎– Cadence Rampa
    Super Ensemble Webert Sicot ‎– Cadence Rampa
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    Early 60s Weber Sicot. Legendary Compas sax player. VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Raoul Guillaume Et Son Groupe ‎– A Musical Trip To Haiti
    Raoul Guillaume Et Son Groupe ‎– A Musical Trip To Haiti
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    Fantastic 1960 LP from Raoul Guillaume… Compas & earlier stylings of carribean music. The origins of jazz & how latin rhythms bled into the Americas. Record smokes. VG/VG+ Vinyl [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 35ème Anniversaire
    Super Jazz Des Jeunes ‎– 35ème Anniversaire
    $55.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Super Jazz des Jeunes are an institution of Haitian music. Headed by saxophonist and arranger René St. Aude, they developed what they termed ‘Voudou Jazz’, blending traditional folk songs and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Super Choucoune ‎– Myrtho [nice Compas / Jazz – is amazing]
    Super Choucoune ‎– Myrtho [nice Compas / Jazz – is amazing]
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    Excellet 10/10 mellow Compas LP. Great starting point. VG/VG+ Vinyl has some light noise, but overall sounds great.

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Webert Sicot and Son Super Ensemble – Sons and Couleurs D’Haiti
    Webert Sicot and Son Super Ensemble – Sons and Couleurs D’Haiti
    $35.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Sons & Couleurs D’Haiti” by Webert Sicot & Son Super Ensemble is a landmark album in the realm of Haitian music. Led by the talented saxophonist, composer, and [...]

    GENRE: Haitian / Compas / Merenge
  • Joan Didion – The Year Of Magical Thinking
    Joan Didion – The Year Of Magical Thinking
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Patti Smith – Just Kids
    Patti Smith – Just Kids
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    “It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
    Milan Kundera – The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
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    “Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
    Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
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    “They live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William S Burroughs – Naked Lunch
    William S Burroughs – Naked Lunch
    $6.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture. An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
    Sam Rohdie – Fellini Lexicon
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    “Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films – among them […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Federico Garcia Lorca – Three Tragedies
    Federico Garcia Lorca – Three Tragedies
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    “Blood Wedding. Concerned with love that cannot become marriage among the primitive hill people of Castile, this is a play of the workings of tremendous passions and tribal ritual toward [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
    Julio Cortazar – Hopscotch
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    “Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves “the Club.” A [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – Cronopios & Famas
    Julio Cortazar – Cronopios & Famas
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    “Cronopios and Famas is one of the best-loved books by Julio Cortázar, one of the greatest of Latin American novelists. “The Instruction Manual,” the first chapter, is an absurd [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Don Delillo – Players
    Don Delillo – Players
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    “In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Don Delillo – Libra
    Don Delillo – Libra
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    “In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poetics Of Heresy
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    “This work examines the writings of this Italian poet, novelist, filmmaker, theorist, and dramaturge, directing attention to this neglected area of study by focusing on the question of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – Poems (1st Edition)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
    Oswald Stack – Pasolini (as-is, scarce)
    $28.00 | , , Add to cart

    A book-length interview with the controversial filmmaker covering his career up till Theorem. Thames & Hudson, Cinema One Series, 1969 Paperback edition. Discoloration/wear to wraps and edges [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction