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  • SS-20 – Daddy’s Drunk On Christmas
    SS-20 – Daddy’s Drunk On Christmas
    $80.00 | , , ,

    Label: No Pretense Records Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG+ W/ Insert

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Witch In Her Tomb – Maleficus Maleficarum
    Witch In Her Tomb – Maleficus Maleficarum
    $15.00 | , ,

    Label: Crippled Sound Records – CSR 018, Tyr Records – TYR001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Limited Edition, Mint Green, Glows In The Dark Country: US Released: 2013 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Metal
  • The Slickee Boys – This Party Sucks
    The Slickee Boys – This Party Sucks
    $22.00 | , ,

    Label: New Rose Records – NEW 112 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, 45 RPM Country: France Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Agent Orange – Secret Agent Man / Shakin All Over (unofficial)
    Agent Orange – Secret Agent Man / Shakin All Over (unofficial)
    $13.00 | , ,

    Label: Invisible Records (9) – 245t Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single, Reissue, Unofficial Release, White Clear Transparent Country: Europe Released: 2000 NM/VG+ SEALED / Bootleg

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
    Ian Brady – Gates Of Janus (1st Edition)
    $32.00 | , ,

    The infamous “Moors Murderer,” writing from his U.K. jail cell, Brady provides a rambling account of the socio-philosophical and psychological genesis of the modern day serial killer, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Saint Abdullah, Jason Nazary – Evicted In The Morning
    Saint Abdullah, Jason Nazary – Evicted In The Morning
    $12.00 | , , ,

    “A unique dialogue between the electronic textures of Saint Abdullah with the live drums of Jason Nazary (Anteloper). Saint Abdullah consists of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kalyanji Anandji – Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
    Kalyanji Anandji – Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
    $50.00 | , , ,

    “O Saathi Re”!!!! Incredible 3 track EP from the film Muqaddar Ka Sikandar Label: His Master’s Voice – 7EPE 7538 Country: India Released: 1978 VG+/VG

    GENRE: Bollywood
  • Mrinalini Sarabhai With Chathunni Panicker And The Southern India Darpana Co. Of Dancers And Musicians* – Wondrous Music Of India (South)
    Mrinalini Sarabhai With Chathunni Panicker And The Southern India Darp…
    $35.00 | , , ,

    Sealed copy! South Indian – various tracks of flute music, vocal & classical, ragas, etc Label: Request Records – SRLP 8076 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US NM/VG+  Sealed

    GENRE: Indian
  • Parween Sultana ‎– Sings Rare Melodies
    Parween Sultana ‎– Sings Rare Melodies
    $30.00 | , , ,

    “Parween Sultana’s voice soars, and this album of two ragas is great evidence. If you love Hindustani vocal acrobatics, Sultana will not disappoint!” – Adam_A, discogs [...]

    GENRE: Hindustani, Indian
  • The Bevis Frond – Dolly Bug
    The Bevis Frond – Dolly Bug
    $15.00 | , , ,

    Great neo-psych from the British masters. Label: Damaged Goods – DAMGOOD 81 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: UK Released: 1995 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Frank W. Becker / Michiko Akao – Incantation
    Frank W. Becker / Michiko Akao – Incantation
    $13.00 | , , ,

    Haunting soundscapes from the synthesizer pioneer and flutist duo. Label: Toshiba Records – TP-72321 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Japan Released: 1979 VG+/VG  

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • MC5 – Back In The USA
    MC5 – Back In The USA
    $50.00 | , , ,

    The second MC5 record, cementing their status as proto-punk stalwarts Label: Atlantic – SD 8247 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG+/VG. Drillhole, some moisture damage and [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Off Our Shoulders Volume 2
    V/A – Off Our Shoulders Volume 2
    $15.00 | , ,

    New Zealand indie rock/DIY compilation featuring Kinisis, Psychic Daisies & Nichola Donovan Label: Unwucht – PRA 2430 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Germany Released: 2014 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Schakalens Bror ‎– Omelette Of Disease
    Schakalens Bror ‎– Omelette Of Disease
    $22.00 | , ,

    Guitar-driven sheets of noise from the ever-potent Förlag För Fri Musik label. Label: Förlag För Fri Musik – 008 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden Released: 2018 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nagisa Ni Te ‎– Newocean
    Nagisa Ni Te ‎– Newocean
    $22.00 | , ,

    “Since their first album in 1995, Japan’s Nagisa Ni Te has created an enchanting and deeply personal sound world woven from elements of folk, psychedelia and rock along with wistful [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Leda ‎– Neuter
    Leda ‎– Neuter
    $22.00 | , ,

    “Sofie Herner (Enhet För Fri Musik, Neutral) returns with Neuter, the first proper album since the Gitarrmusik III-X LP released on Förlag För Fri Musik back in 2017. Neuter was […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Octopus ‎– An Ocean Of Rocks
    Octopus ‎– An Ocean Of Rocks
    $18.00 | , ,

    Keyboard-led prog/psych rock from Germany. Recommended if you like your prog mellow. Label: Sky Records – sky 016 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 1978 VG+/VG. Sleeve has some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Monocot – Direction We Know
    Monocot – Direction We Know
    $20.00 | , ,

    “In one sense all collaborations and recordings thereof have a certain surprise factor. Any time two or more people get together to create something from nothing, the exact contours of […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Di Stefano – For The Moment
    John Di Stefano – For The Moment
    $10.00 | ,

    American-born, Japan-based composer John Di Stefano self-released a number of cassettes as part of the 80s DIY underground on his own imprint Oktron Produktions, including Klang’s Drift, a [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
    Pier Paolo Pasolini – The Divine Mimesis
    $18.00 | ,

    Written between 1963 and 1967, The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini’s imitation of the early cantos of the Inferno, offers a searing critique of Italian society and the intelligentsia of the 1960s. [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    Ghérasim Luca – Self-Shadowing Prey
    $19.00 | ,

    Self-Shadowing Prey, one of the final texts by the Romanian poet Ghérasim Luca (1913–1994), is clearly constructed around the sought complications of language. Embodying the surrealist operation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing Melodies
    Rainer J. Hanshe/Friedrich Nietzsche/Vincent Van Gogh – Closing …
    $40.00 | ,

    As the 19th century comes to a close, Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh unknowingly traverse proximate geographical terrain, nearly circling one another like close but distant stars as the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
    Marquis De Sade – Stories, Tales, & Fables
    $34.00 | ,

    Written in his Bastille cell in the years between 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, this is the first English translation of Marquis de Sade’s collection of short works, Stories, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of David Cronenberg
    Children of the New Flesh: The Early Work and Pervasive Influence of D…
    $18.00 | ,

    Children of the New Flesh is a wide-ranging compendium of reflections on the enduring impact of David Cronenberg, one of the most significant filmmakers of all time. Focusing on a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
    Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France
    $18.00 | ,

    Norma Cole has combed through books, little magazines, and correspondence to gather an exciting body of writing by our French contemporaries. There are letters, poems, interviews, critical [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
    Lisa Jarnot – Some Other Kind Of Mission
    $15.00 | ,

    Composed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Habib Tengour – Crossings
    Habib Tengour – Crossings
    $17.00 | ,

    Beginning with the astonishing prologue poem, “Conversation with Mohammed Dib,” followed by four long, spectacular poems, each a small book in itself, Habib Tengour’s Crossings takes us through [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
    Gérard Macé – The Last of the Egyptians
    $15.00 | ,

    “About Champollion I knew: that he did not go to Egypt with Napoleon, that he never saw the actual Rosetta stone, only more or less bad copies, that he suffered […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
    Felix Bernstein – Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry
    $15.00 | ,

    An aggravated surveyer of contemporary poetry, art, and criticism, Felix Bernstein conducts an archaeological dig of the relics and ruins of Language poetry, Conceptual poetry, and his own [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
    Ron Silliman – Against Conceptual Poetry
    $20.00 | ,

    If you search on references to Ron Silliman in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), you [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
    Jeremy Reed – Bad Boys
    $20.00 | ,

    Jeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
    Kyle Booten – Salon des Fantômes
    $24.00 | ,

    Kyle Booten’s colossal Salon des Fantômes is a farcical evening with the digital summoning of long dead thinkers from history. They discuss aesthetics & ethics while getting falldown [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
    John Belshaw & Diane Purvey – Vancouver Noir
    $25.00 | ,

    It was an era of gambling, smuggling rings, grifters, police corruption, bootleggers, brothels, murders, and more. It was also a time of intensified concern with order, conformity, structure, and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
    J.K. Huysmans – The Cathedral
    $30.00 | ,

    THE CATHEDRAL, by J.K. Huysmans was originally published in French in 1898. The same year, this English translation by Clara Bell was published. THE CATHEDRAL is the second in a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Trefry – Plats
    John Trefry – Plats
    $18.00 | ,

    Plats is the ornate debut novel by John Trefry. A hallucinatory meditation on life in Los Angeles by a schizophrenic consciousness, Plats turns a funhouse mirror on the banality of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Situationist International Anthology
    Situationist International Anthology
    $30.00 | ,

    The Situationist International Anthology is the most comprehensive and accurately translated collection of situationist writings in English. In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
    Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
    $29.00 | ,

    The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback   Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Ophelias – Spring Grove (Forest Green Vinyl)
    The Ophelias – Spring Grove (Forest Green Vinyl)
    $24.00 | ,

    During the pandemic, The Ophelias transformed uncertainty into Spring Grove, their fourth album and most dynamic offering yet. Named after a Cincinnati cemetery, the album blends nostalgia with [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang W…
    $19.00 | ,

    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
    Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader
    $27.00 | ,

    Collected here is the best of Harry Crews: his astoundingly beautiful memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place; two if his most memorable novels, Car and The Gypsy’s Curse; […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
    Neon Nightmares – L.A. Thrillers of the 1980s
    $32.00 | ,

    Between 1980 and 1989, Los Angeles was the world’s most popular location for thriller movies, providing the perfect setting for gritty neo-noirs, buddy cop actioners, cautionary tales, vigilante [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People
    Red Army Faction, a Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the…
    $34.00 | ,

    The first in a two-volume series, as part of a co-publishing project between PM Press and Kersplebedeb, is by far the most in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
    Ingeborg Bachmann – The Honditsch Cross
    $16.00 | ,

    Written when Ingeborg Bachmann was only eighteen, The Honditsch Cross, her second-longest completed work of prose, is a historical novella set during the final days of the Napoleonic occupation [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sumac & Moor Mother – The Film (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Pink Vinyl)
    Sumac & Moor Mother – The Film (Original Motion Picture Soundtrac…
    $33.00 | ,

    What happens when you combine SUMAC: a band that uses the volume, distortion, and guitar-centric approach of metal to make music that has the malleability of jazz and textural exploration […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • V/A – Queen Dem
    V/A – Queen Dem
    $40.00 | ,

    Featured artists include Yaya Bey, Sudan Archives, Yaeji, COUCOU CHLOE, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Miso Extra, Aunty Rayzor, TeeZandos, Queenie, MC Yallah, Dizzy Fae, Vanessa the Finessa, Nira and [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Fuubutsushi – Columbia Deluxe
    Fuubutsushi – Columbia Deluxe
    $22.00 | ,

    Columbia Deluxe imbues Fuubutsushi’s music with the electricity of playing for a crowd. Borne of the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic, the group prepared countless releases remotely from around [...]

  • Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
    Ad Vat – Spiral Of Objects
    $23.00 | ,

    Welcome to a miasmic world of passion and play, in which humans and dolls interact to the ecstatic point of blurring the boundaries between waking reality and dark dreams; between […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
    Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry
    $32.00 | ,

    Other Influences frames a new literary history in which feminist, avant-garde, and poetry practices intersect, foregrounding critically neglected but artistically powerful lineages in twentieth- [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
    Benjamin Breen – Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War…
    $30.00 | ,

    Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
    Harald Jahner – Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
    $31.00 | ,

    The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction