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  • Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
    Fruit LoOops – Last Chance At The Pharmacy CS (2nd pressing)
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    Ships by or around 7/21/223 “Do you wanna hear it? Do you want to hear me screeeaaaaammmm!?” Fruit LoOops vocalist Jackie Switzer opened their 2020 LP, Orangina, with these words. […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Punk / Hardcore
  • Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
    Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
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    Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
    William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
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    Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
    Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
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    In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
    The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
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    In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Tony Conrad: Writings
    Tony Conrad: Writings
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    Essential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone music Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a legendary multidisciplinary artist known for his [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Joseph Cornell – Dreams
    Joseph Cornell – Dreams
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    A selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
    Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
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    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, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction
  • Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
    Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
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    The Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
    Green/Blue – Worry / Gimme Hell
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    Limited pressing of 300 with riso sleeve. “In the spirit of Dead Moon before them, Green/Blue have wrangled the simplicity of “Worry” and “Gimme Hell” to write some of their […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Fucked Up – Do All Words Can Do
    Fucked Up – Do All Words Can Do
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    B-sides and rarities from the era of Fucked Up’s opus: David Comes To Life. Featuring 9 songs previously only available on 7-inch vinyl.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Iggy Pop – Apres (Pink Vinyl, RSD)
    Iggy Pop – Apres (Pink Vinyl, RSD)
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    Après has NEVER been released in the US before (there was a limited run in 2012 only released in Europe). It is Iggy Pop’s 16th studio release that includes crooner […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
    Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
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    Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Private Lives – S/T CS
    Private Lives – S/T CS
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    Five tracks of incredibly vital and hard hitting punk from Montréal! Private Lives morphed from the pandemic bedroom project of husband and wife Chance (guitar) and Jackie (vocals) into a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    Sluggo – Sluggo LP
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    What our staff has to say: “Sluggo was that band, and The Contradiction E.P. that gave me pride of being from the midwest. Amazing reissue with the first EP and […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sun Spots – Loosey 12″ EP
    Sun Spots – Loosey 12″ EP
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    What our staff has to say: “Sun Spots 3rd EP Loosy hits hard with Tracks like Big Stroke and the title track Loosey heavily influenced by bands like SuperChunk and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
    Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
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    Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
    Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
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    Dark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, True Crime
  • Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
    Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
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    This is the first cultural history of the world’s most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
    The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
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    The Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
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    What our staff has to say: “Absolutely beyond Raw, Stooges at their best.” – Cleo IGGY and the STOOGES ‘METALLIC K.O.’ The Original 1976 Album – the notorious [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Malcria – El Reino De Lo Falso
    Malcria – El Reino De Lo Falso
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    Pointed, chaotic and forceful hardcore from Mexico City. MALCRÍA underlines their odd brand of precise punk with dark urgency and pained screams without a drop of reference or a borrowed […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Go Ahead Punk: Make My Day (Orange Splatter VInyl) (RSD)
    V/A – Go Ahead Punk: Make My Day (Orange Splatter VInyl) (RSD)
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    Any ’90s punk fan will surely remember coveting a copy of Go Ahead Punk… Make My Day – a classic CD sampler from Nitro Records. Originally released in 1996, the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Dominant Force – Cosmic Denial
    Dominant Force – Cosmic Denial
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    Debut 12″ from Aloma Hardcore’s own DOMINANT FORCE

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Cold Sweat – Blinded
    Cold Sweat – Blinded
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    Hugely influential and genre defining trashy hardcore punk from these Washington weirdos. With influences like Gauze, No Comment, Coltrane, Sabbath and Siege as a starting point, Cold Sweat set [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
    Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
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    Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
    Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
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    Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
    Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
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    Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
    On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
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    Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Fucked Up – Epics In Minutes
    Fucked Up – Epics In Minutes
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    Epics in Minutes is the definitive landmark of Fucked Up’s early days of releasing 7″ records and cassettes. Released only three years into their existence on CD only, it is […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ztuped – Are You Stupid?
    Ztuped – Are You Stupid?
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    ARE YOU STUPID? Get ready to find out! This DC group of young guns are taking the IQ lower than a limbo pole. Playing punk hardcore inspired by greats such […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Glenn Danzig – Who Killed Marilyn? (1989 boot)
    Glenn Danzig – Who Killed Marilyn? (1989 boot)
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    1989 boot Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, a little creasing

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Red Death – Permanent Exile
    Red Death – Permanent Exile
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    “In 2014, DC’s RED DEATH came out of the gate and obliterated everyone with one of the best hardcore demos of the year. Their first recorded output channeled the sheer […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nightmare – Thirsty And Wander
    Nightmare – Thirsty And Wander
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    Latest album by japanese hardcore band Nightmare, the same guys who made the excellent “Give Notice Of Nightmare” back in ’88. The 10 new songs are great and the old […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Criminal Code – No Device
    Criminal Code – No Device
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    First LP PNW punk outfit Criminal Code on Deranged Records

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
    Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
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    Charging Swedish punk attack, burning guitars and sore throats, cracked cymbals and worn out DISCHARGE records, KSngNSve ( pronounced SCHANG-NAA-VEH, meaning “Crust Fist”) is the [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nancy Barile – I’m Not Holding Your Coat
    Nancy Barile – I’m Not Holding Your Coat
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    What our staff has to say: “Awesome memoir about being a part of the Philly hardcore scene in the 80s. Barile’s story is deeply personal while also steeped in punk […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Punk / Hardcore
  • D.O.A. – War On 45
    D.O.A. – War On 45
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    Reissue of this 1982 D.O.A. classic album in its original form. This was D.O.A’s third album, coming on the heels of Something Better Change and Hardcore 81. It made a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Dangerhouse Volume 1
    V/A – Dangerhouse Volume 1
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    Either the A-side or B-side from each of the bands appearing on the long-defunct and most collectable LA punk indie label. With the Bags, X, Black Randy, Deadbeats, Weirdos, Avengers, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Static – Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
    Static – Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
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    Long before John Brannon of Negative Approach cemented himself as a USHC icon, you would hear rumblings about his pre-NA glam group, STATIC. Only a handful of people were lucky/brave […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Chubby And The Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts [orange vinyl]
    Chubby And The Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts [orange vinyl]
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    Limited Edition Orange Vinyl   West London five-piece Chubby and the Gang are balanced by two energies – a casual “fuck it” on one side, an active “fuck off” on […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Matt Adis – Heads Of The Malnourished
    Matt Adis – Heads Of The Malnourished
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    Published in 2020 by IQ32 Press 8.5″ x 11” zine – 24 pages Full color printed eggshell covers Includes single color 8.5”x11” risograph printed by Nick Flessa at the Los […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Uniform – Shame [Smoke Vinyl]
    Uniform – Shame [Smoke Vinyl]
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    What if the antihero in your favorite film or book had no chance to repent, reconcile, or redeem himself? There’s no victim to rescue. There’s no evil to thwart. There’s […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Royal Trux – White Stuff
    Royal Trux – White Stuff
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    New 2019 album … their first in 19 years! Tearaway trouble-punk ‘n’ bubblegum scuzz-rock from the notorious US duo, now signed to Fat Possum. Includes “Year Of The Dog”.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore