For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings–the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many [...]
“When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA’s Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations [...]
“The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]
A probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our […]
With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider […]
The landmark book that situates Blake’s poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readers. Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s [...]
The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and Cobra was his finest creation. Originally […]
Altered State–now updated—is the definitive text on ecstasy culture, using a cast of characters to track the origins of the scene through psychedelic subcults, underground gay discos, [...]
In fin-de-siècle France, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture at the end of the millennium resonated in a [...]
In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. Recorded live by the BBC on 28th September 1972 at the famed Paris Theatre in London, this is the classic Space Ritual-era Hawkwind, featuring […]
Mulatu Astatke – Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits
In from Nagrania Cukiernicze, Polish label. This work is a masterpiece compilation released from Ethiopia’s in 1972 on the eve of the release of Mulatu Astatke’s masterpiece [...]
I Want To Die. I Want To Live. – An Acid Mixtape – Radio T…
Nowhere is the richness of Balinese art more evident than in the glitteringly brilliant music and dance of gamelan gong kebjar, which uses a 25-piece orchestra of xylophone-like bronze-keyed [...]
Like a roar, or a belch, in the face of late-stage capitalism Cincinnati’s Primitive Impulse comes blasting through your speakers with thirteen tracks of head-pounding drums, face-shredding [...]
After some turbulent late teen years in her former pop punk band, Mixtapes, Maura Weaver needed a break. Months became years and the songs still weren’t coming. It wasn’t until […]
Perhaps in the contemporary simulacra wherein copies are all copies of other copies, the sense of the fraught sophomore effort is accentuated even more so. In a world of endless […]
Radical Documents is amped to announce the debut LP from LA, CA’s PHOBOPHLYPTIX. In 10 songs, clocking just over 9 minutes, ZZ, JJ, Paully, and Sammy thrash, grind, chug, and […]
Live recordings taken from the theatrical performance at St Edwards Church, Windsor, UK September 1986. Michael O’Dempsey: Yamaha CX5M, modified violin, piano, voice Martin Franklin: Korg MS10, [...]
Michael Atherton is a writer, composer and educator from Sydney, Australia. Originally born in Liverpool, England, to Welsh-Irish and German parents, his family later migrated to Australia in [...]
L are a disassociated non-music trio based around the writings of card magician Jack Paton. Jack is joined by Laurie Pitt (Golden Teacher, The Modern Institute) and Jack Mellin (Smack Wizards, [...]
A pivotal document of the early 90s Czech alternative music scene, Zahrada – the deeply immersive 1992 album by Prague-based composer and sound artist Jaroslav Kořán – finally makes its […]
“The Features, perhaps more than anybody, were the band that provided the stylistic delineation between punk and post-punk in the Auckland, New Zealand scene. The band formed in late 1979, [...]
There are commitments whose delineations are only defined by a territory. The series initiated in 2016 by Marion Cousin prompts an exploration of the Iberian Peninsula through its enchanted [...]
“Starting as a collaborator of François de Roubaix and Michel Magne in the 60s, Eric Demarsan went on to become a mainstay of French cinema soundtracks, composing for directors such […]
“If you wandered into a smoky South Side club in Chicago during the early ’70s, there’s a good chance you’d have been met by the raw, unvarnished truth of Arelean […]
“Though it’s somewhat surprising Thurston Moore and Beck didn’t work together prior to Demolished Thoughts, their collaboration lives up to its promise, delivering an album of psychedelic [...]
Debut solo-album by JJULIUS. Recorded and mixed by JJULIUS in Gothenburg from autumn 2020 to winter 2021 Label: Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox – MMJ004 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Sweden [...]
Continuing the tradition of its milestone-marking compilations, Carbon is using the occasion of its 25th year to bring together an impressive roster of guitar-based artists. Showcasing the use of [...]
An organism of shredded memories, connections and relations. Existing because of mixtures, collages, escapism and rescues. Behind Goose there are two of the currently most forward thinking and [...]
“Keeping a band together was difficult in the late 1960s. Tough too, because Michael Oosten was writing songs that veered away from pop-song structures. There was also the relative ease [...]
A dazzling display of 12-string melodicism, Arc Minutes is the second full-length LP from once New Englander, now Tokyo-based, instrumentalist Rob Noyes. If one had to pin an influence from […]
Lunchbox’s legendary lost album “Evolver” is lost no more! Sparklingly remastered for the album’s twentieth (and a few!) anniversary and available on CD, cassette and (for the [...]
Artist duo Amy Howden-Chapman and Steve Kado return with a follow up to their debut album on Radical Documents. The side long pieces on 2 are sprawling and intense. The […]
Noah Sterba is one of Omaha’s underground music heroes, literally performing most of his songs and poetry into dented Radio Shack microphones in the subterranean basements of tornado alley for [...]
”Listening to Thomas E. Frank’s debut solo album for the first time, I’m amazed at how recognizable and familiar it sounds. Not in the heard-it-a-thousand-times-before kind of way, but more […]
“Jon Spencer’s first ever solo album!!! Despite the title, this is not a hits collection but is instead twelve brand new Spencer penned originals. Spencer Sings The Hits is a […]
“on november 19 we had the privilege of helping introduce you all to the self-titled debut album from body/dilloway/head. this album is a serious and apt soundtrack for our times […]
“When words trail off at the beginning of claire rousay’s “everything perfect is already here,” ornate instrumentation is waiting to fill a void left by the breakdown of language. Yet […]
Cover of The Standells track by the British pub-rock group, The Inmates. Label: Radar Records – ADA 44 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1979 VG+/VG+. Light […]
Electro/synth-pop track that bears some similarities to B-52s & Devo. Label: Logo – BOOK 1 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Light sleevewear/discoloration
Wonderful power-pop track on Stiff Records. Label: Stiff Records – BUY 74 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Light wear. Old store sticker
One of the best tracks from their debut album, Kilimanjaro. Label: Zoo Records – CAGE 008 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+. Some edgewear
Sole power-pop 7″ from the Punts. RIYL: Pretenders, Go-Go’s. Label: Bondage Records – 0001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG+
Great Australian garage/beat record that matches the Kinks in terms of poppy fun. Label: Albert Productions – APLP.057 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue Country: Australia Released: 1982 VG+/VG. Upper [...]