April 18th Newsletter

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  • Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    $18.00 |

    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
    $13.00 |

    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
  • V-3 – Hit Dead Center With My Disease LP
    V-3 – Hit Dead Center With My Disease LP
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    As I was reviewing V3’s cycle of works from early 1986 to the end of Roxanne Newman’s’ tenure in late 1991, I became increasingly flabbergasted at the band. At the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Circuit Des Yeux – In Plain Speech
    Circuit Des Yeux – In Plain Speech
    $25.00 | ,

    Haley Fohr’s music strikes a unique balance between the personal and universal. As Circuit des Yeux she creates music that embodies the complexity of human emotions, juxtaposing tenderness and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist
    Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist
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    Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker are both known for their creativity and curious spirits. Rumback is a drummer in high demand in Chicago’s free-jazz circles, and a pillar of the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come
    Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come
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    To wit, if you think you know already what you’ll be getting into here—heady, Television-esque multi-guitar jams played with motorik precision and a fiercely American intensity: you know, a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stella Donnelly – Flood
    Stella Donnelly – Flood
    $12.00 | ,

    Like the many Banded Stilts that spread across the cover of her newest album Flood, Stella Donnelly is wading into uncharted territory. Here, she finds herself discovering who she is […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lace – Human Condition LP
    Lace – Human Condition LP
    $19.00 |

    “Crawling out of the darkness in early 2016, Houston’s Lace grabbed several lifetimes of depression, displacement, and outsider feelings, and stuffed them into one-minute blasts of [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Spoils – Find Later CS
    Spoils – Find Later CS
    $8.00 |

    What our staff has to say: “Spoils are my favorite band in Ohio. Rock for life.” – Kobe “Ohio style baby you know what we mean haha” Upon first listen […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
    Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentiet…
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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
  • Helado Negro – Far In
    Helado Negro – Far In
    $24.00 | ,

    When Roberto Carlos Lange, the musician known as Helado Negro, began writing Far In immediately following the release of his acclaimed 2019 This is How You Smile, he could not […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • EMA – The Future’s Void
    EMA – The Future’s Void
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    EMA recently told NME that the album was influenced by, among other things, NiN demos, the heavier side of early K Records, and William Gibson’s Neuromancer, and that the album […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chalk – Neophobia
    Chalk – Neophobia
    $20.00 | ,

    How can music be violent when it’s not loud? When is malice beautiful? Neophobia is a meditative saga which, despite the name, radically embraces the aesthetics and methods of post-modernity. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gabbard Brothers – S/T
    Gabbard Brothers – S/T
    $21.00 | ,

    From the ashes of the acclaimed Ohio rock band Buffalo Killers, singers/ songwriters/siblings Zachary and Andrew Gabbard have re-emerged as The Gabbard Brothers. And while there are still [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Maggot Brain – Issue #9
    Maggot Brain – Issue #9
    $12.00 | ,

    WELCOME TO MAGGOT BRAIN #9 – RAYMOND PETTIBON ON THE COVER! RAYMOND PETTIBON: IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM WOODHEAD JOHN BRANNON: NEGATIVE APPROACH HONCHO UNLOADS JOHN WATERS: THE RETURN OF THE […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Indie / Alternative
  • Mikey Young – You Feelin Me?
    Mikey Young – You Feelin Me?
    $12.00 | ,

    What our staff has to say: “The solo endeavor of Mikey Young, who’s resume of bands include Total Control and Eddy Current Suppression Ring just to name a few. You […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joni Void – Mise En Abyme
    Joni Void – Mise En Abyme
    $6.00 | ,

    Mise En Abyme is the second full-length by Joni Void, the plunderphonic electronica project of France/Canada producer Jean Cousin, following his acutely accomplished and acclaimed 2017 debut [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Varsity – Fine Forever
    Varsity – Fine Forever
    $11.00 | ,

    From the very start of “Runaway,” the opening track on Varsity’s third album Fine Forever, it’s clear that the Chicago quintet has morphed into something new. While still working in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Zola Jesus – Arkhon
    Zola Jesus – Arkhon
    $8.00 | ,

    There is a way a voice can cut through the fascia of reality, cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience. Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter, and producer […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joan Shelley – The Spur
    Joan Shelley – The Spur
    $8.00 | ,

    I want to explain these songs / I want to leave them unexplained. We’ve all been working with a lot of silence. I was tired from touring, remembering the long […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    $25.00 | ,

    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
  • Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
    Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
    $22.00 | ,

    The combustive guitar/cello chemistry of MacKay and Kleijn is drawn from avant-rock, classical and experimental inspirations, forged through years of live performance. The freedom-cum-new [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hatred Surge – Human Overdose LP (Yellow Vinyl 2022 Repress)
    Hatred Surge – Human Overdose LP (Yellow Vinyl 2022 Repress)
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    What our staff has to say: “Top tier death metal. Absolutely crushing, FFO being absolutely destroyed. Favorite track ‘Skinjob’” – Dan HATRED SURGE – Human Overdose LP [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Dominant Force – Cosmic Denial
    Dominant Force – Cosmic Denial
    $6.00 | ,

    Debut 12″ from Aloma Hardcore’s own DOMINANT FORCE

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • PJ Bond – Brother Bones
    PJ Bond – Brother Bones
    $5.00 | ,

    This is an 8 song split record with brothers PJ and Brian Bond, who each wrote the songs on their respective sides.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
    $9.00 | ,

    While initial ideas for Endless Rooms were traded online during long spells spent separated by Australia’s strict lockdowns, the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • SOAK – If I Never Know You Like This Again
    SOAK – If I Never Know You Like This Again
    $7.00 | ,

    With their new album, ‘If I Never Know You Like This Again’, SOAK has finally shaken the hangover of their starry debut ‘Before We Forgot How To Dream’, and the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Melody’s Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal
    Melody’s Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal
    $14.00 | ,

    Emotional Eternal, the third studio album from Melody’s Echo Chamber, is a deeply human collection of songs full of prolonged moments of sonic transcendency – a record that clearly exhibits […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
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    Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We’ve Been Going About This All […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Broadcast – Microtronics – Volumes 1 & 2
    Broadcast – Microtronics – Volumes 1 & 2
    $30.00 | ,

    Originally released as 3” tour only CDs in 2003 and 2005, the albums have been compiled and remastered. 21 instrumental tracks available on a single LP, CD and digitally.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Broadcast – Mother Is The Milky Way
    Broadcast – Mother Is The Milky Way
    $30.00 | ,

    Mother Is The Milky Way – Originally released as a tour only CD in 2009, the album has been remastered. 11 tracks available on LP, CD and digitally.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gentle Leader XIV ? Channels
    Gentle Leader XIV ? Channels
    $15.00 | ,

    Gentle Leader XIV conjures the unholy ghost of modern life while warming around the fire of a domesticated mythology. A friend long gone, a beloved object stolen, a bird on […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Snail Mail – Valentine CD
    Snail Mail – Valentine CD
    $14.00 |

    Valentine was written and produced by Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). Written in 2019-2020 the album is filled with romance, heartbreak, blood, sweat and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – S/T
    Caroline – S/T
    $19.00 | ,

    UK eight-piece caroline’s eponymous debut album often cascades with force like an avalanche, squalling and rumbling on the edge of all-out collapse. At other points they slip back into impossibly [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ethan P. Flynn – Universal Deluge
    Ethan P. Flynn – Universal Deluge
    $7.00 | ,

    On his forthcoming EP ‘Universal Deluge’, Ethan P. Flynn plunges into the darker side of experimental pop, combining electronics with stripped-back acoustics, underpinned by his well-recognised [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
    Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
    $13.00 | ,

    DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL’S NINTH STUDIO ALBUM, ALL THE TRUTH THAT I CAN TELL, IS BOTH A REMARKABLE RENEWAL AND FORTUNATE STEP FORWARD FOR THE BAND’S SONGWRITER, FRONT MAN, AND FOUNDER, CHRIS […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • So Pitted – Neo
    So Pitted – Neo
    $8.00 | ,

    Nathan Rodriguez, of Seattle’s So Pitted, is referring to a viral clip of a surfer, standing on the shore in front of mountainous morning waves, relaying to a reporter the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 2.1E+12
    2.1E+12
    $23.00 | ,

    On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Che-Shizu – A Journey
    Che-Shizu – A Journey
    $22.00 | ,

    Ché-SHIZU is one of the most original and mystifying groups to ever emerge from Japan’s musical underground. Founded by master improviser Chie Mukai in 1981 the group has been guided […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Ztuped – Are You Stupid?
    Ztuped – Are You Stupid?
    $9.00 | ,

    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
  • Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
    Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
    $9.00 | ,

    The new record by Eric Chenaux is his most immaculate and pristine. Say Laura perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
    Autumn Casey – Your Own Entertainment Channel
    $7.00 | ,

    Currently based out Miami FL Autumn Casey is an Artist in the truest sense, using multiple different mediums to express her inspirations. On the A.side of “Your Own Entertainment [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Advance Base – Live At Home
    Advance Base – Live At Home
    $9.00 |

    The last Advance Base show in front of a live audience was in Portland, Oregon on March 11, 2020, four days into a west coast tour with Claire Cronin & […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
    Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
    $8.00 | ,

    Platinum Tips + Ice Cream is the first release from Royal Trux in 17 years, culled from two live sets recently recorded in New York and Los Angeles. It is […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
    Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
    $19.00 | ,

    In and out of focus in a hallucinogenic haze, Bill’s conversations with himself follow a travel-worn map copied over and over again. The picker journeys sonically from familiar to unknown [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • No Age – Goons Be Gone
    No Age – Goons Be Gone
    $9.00 | ,

    Summer 2020, and No Age are back out on the street! Effortlessly raw and extravagantly indulgent in one practiced swoop, they set their live/bedroom internal clock and get out early […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Red Death – Permanent Exile
    Red Death – Permanent Exile
    $8.00 | ,

    “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
  • Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
    Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
    $7.00 | ,

    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
    $9.00 | ,

    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
  • Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
    Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
    $9.00 | ,

    Seven years after their last album release, Efterklang make a welcome return with a fifth studio record Altid Sammen on 20th September. Altid Sammen (meaning “always together”) is deep and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative