The Alan Parsons Project’s multi-million selling critically acclaimed album Eye In The Sky is re-issued in a variety of formats including as an Abbey Road remaster, expanded CD with 4 […]
The Alan Parsons Project’s multi-million selling critically acclaimed album Eye In The Sky is re-issued in a variety of formats including as an Abbey Road remaster, expanded CD with 4 […]
Horrorful Heights marks a formidable new chapter in The Bevis Frond’s deep and storied catalogue, showcasing the enduring creativity of songwriter, guitarist and frontman Nick Saloman as he moves [...]
Horrorful Heights marks a formidable new chapter in The Bevis Frond’s deep and storied catalogue, showcasing the enduring creativity of songwriter, guitarist and frontman Nick Saloman as he moves [...]
“Future Ruins achieves everything an admirer could ask of the reunited band’s new album…Swervedriver now posses a melancholic, autumnal undertow that suits them like a little distinguished grey [...]
UK Shoegaze legends, now on baby blue vinyl! “Future Ruins achieves everything an admirer could ask of the reunited band’s new album…Swervedriver now posses a melancholic, autumnal undertow that [...]
There’s an alternate reality where everyone makes a living wage and the cleanest buses you’ve ever seen arrive every other minute. Where the most intense songs are about confessing your […]
Despite its title, Ratboys’ new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair is not defined by what’s missing. Rather, it’s the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one, […]
Despite its title, Ratboys’ new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair is not defined by what’s missing. Rather, it’s the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one, […]
One of many projects on Strata-East spearheaded by bassist, composer, and arranger Bill Lee (legendary director Spike Lee’s father), The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe’s only album, A Spirit [...]
‘Memorial Waterslides’ is the debut album from MEMORIALS, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire). This is an otherworldly, surrealist pop [...]
A hushed and intimate reimagining of a landmark indie classic, Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump… On a Wooden Piano—originally released in 2011—returns in a limited Eco-Mix “Tangelo” vinyl [...]
A hushed and intimate reimagining of a landmark indie classic, Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump… On a Wooden Piano—originally released in 2011—returns in a limited Eco-Mix “Tangelo” vinyl [...]
The Beths occupy a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me, produced by guitarist Jonathan Pearce and [...]
The Beths occupy a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me, produced by guitarist Jonathan Pearce and [...]
The Beths occupy a warm, energetic sonic space between joyful hooks, sun-soaked harmonies, and acerbic lyrics. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me, produced by guitarist Jonathan Pearce and [...]
1967 DEBUT BY SAN FRANCISCO-BASED PSYCH PIONEERS! Rock ‘n’ Roll lightning can strike anywhere. The Neigb’rhood Childr’n, tucked away in Medford, Oregon, (near the [...]
1967 DEBUT BY SAN FRANCISCO-BASED PSYCH PIONEERS! Rock ‘n’ Roll lightning can strike anywhere. The Neigb’rhood Childr’n, tucked away in Medford, Oregon, (near the [...]
Kill Rock Stars is proud to re-issue Roman Candle, Elliott Smiths first solo album, originally released on Portlands Cavity Search Records in 1994. Roman Candle is now remastered for the […]
Kill Rock Stars is proud to re-issue Roman Candle, Elliott Smiths first solo album, originally released on Portlands Cavity Search Records in 1994. Roman Candle is now remastered for the […]
With this limited color vinyl pressing, Barsuk marks the 15th anniversary of David Bazan’s masterful Strange Negotiations — the prophetic 2011 meditation on what he was already seeing as a […]
With this limited color vinyl pressing, Barsuk marks the 15th anniversary of David Bazan’s masterful Strange Negotiations — the prophetic 2011 meditation on what he was already seeing as a […]
On their debut “Hold Your Horse Is” Hella’s style started to transform, organically. Zach was pushing the envelope rhythmically, and Spencer began to simultaneously play both [...]
“This three-CD box set currently rates as the best — and most digestible — overview of Howlin’ Wolf’s career. Disc one starts with the Memphis sides that eventually [...]
“This magnificent 12-CD set contains all of Bill Evans’ Riverside recordings as a leader, an extremely important period in the influential pianist’s development. The first [...]
“Wes Montgomery recorded exclusively for the Riverside label during the four years covered by this massive 12-CD box set and, although his later albums for Verve and particularly the [...]
“From the time of his first Blue Note recording in 1964 to his final session for the label in 1967, Sam Rivers made stunning progress as an avant-garde innovator. Starting […]
Looks at paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture by Arp, Dali, Ernst, Gorky, Grosz, and others This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some […]
Classic work on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist school of Persian Sufism by renowned philosopher and Iranologist Henry Corbin. In the Sufism of ancient Iran, the quest for the dawning of light in [...]
Gnosticism developed alongside Judeo-Christianity over two thousand years ago, but with an important difference: It emphasizes, not faith, but direct perception of God–Gnosticism being [...]
One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah [...]
We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there […]
“The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida’s central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the [...]
Idries Shah’s The Sufis is the most authoritative book about Sufism ever produced for a modern audience. This definitive work explores an immemorial wisdom tradition best-known for its [...]
The mystic’s moment of illumination shares with great poetry the liberating power of the deepest levels of consciousness. In the words of William Blake, “If the doors of perception [...]
In his classic study The Masks of God, Joseph Campbell conducted us on a fascinating global tour, showing how the seeds of myth grew in a similar fashion throughout the […]
An exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth.The Spice Route […]
From the Nile’s black land to the Aztec’s world of the Fifth Sun, from the shrines at Phylakopi to the Maya ceremonial center of Xunantunich, sophisticated scientific techniques have [...]
A collection of twenty of Paglia’s out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America’s ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the [...]
For many ancient societies, the movements of the sun, moon, stars, and planets constituted an elaborate language, expressing the intentions of the spiritual forces they believed ruled the world. [...]
An introductory overview by Ann Farkas and essays by Russian authorities explain the history and archaeology of the nomads of Eurasia, the Filippovka kurgans, cults and rituals of the steppe […]
The age of the Baroque—a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics—witnessed the construction of some of the world’s most magnificent buildings. What did the work of […]
Mounds and earthworks are the most conspicuous elements of prehistoric Native American culture to be found on the landscape of eastern North America. This book, now in its seventh printing, […]
Though its roots are in Hinduism, tantra’s goals are the universal ones of self-knowledge and liberated joy. Its methods and effects transcend geography and era, and can be applied to […]
In 1995, to honor the role of Central Europe in the spiritual history of the West, the New York Open Center invited students of Rosicrucianism and the Western Mystery traditions […]
First published in 1911, Mysticism remains the classic in its field and was lauded by The Princeton Theological Review as “brilliantly written [and] illuminated with numerous well-chosen [...]
Jacques Derrida’s revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American [...]
“The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elastic medium with which to construct national identity…. Above all, the [...]
A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While […]