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Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM
Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM
Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM
Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM
Curious what the staff at Torn Light are listening to? Check out the titles we’ve been digging lately below.
“After several stand out collaborative releases, including a duo LP with Mark Shippy and another duo LP with Claire Rousay, violinist Alex Cunningham returns to solo form with As Slow as [...]
“Music For Mornings” is a mixtape full of folk jammers & love songs, running at just under an hour this is the perfect tape to jam to start off your day.
Folk mixtape curated by Alex York (Torn Light/Fantastique) & John Rich (Wasteland Jazz Unit / No Response) C60 (minus a few min’s) of downer folk. Dreary and sad, broken and busted. [...]
LTD 12″ LP There’s a body of water in the woods near Carrboro. Dappled light on the trail leads you to it. Crunch of leaves underfoot. A river feeds the swimming hole where people plunge, [...]
Boise hardcore legends return with one of the best hardcore LPs of the last 10+ years.
Originally the brainchild of Jim Marlowe (Tropical Trash, Teal Grapefruit, etc), Equipment Pointed Ankh has been churning out material since 2016, with a handful of tape releases, a previous LP, [...]
For the entirety of history, mankind has been fascinated and humbled by the incomprehensible immensity of the night skies and the universe contained within them. Eternally expanding and [...]
A bootleg audio-only edition of the legendary 1989 cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man, with a 100% analog transfer directly from VHS to cassette including all sound effects, dialogue, and music [...]
Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a police [...]
P.S.Y.W.A.R. – 2021 Demo Exclusive 4.Q. second pressing of Blasting Lo Fi HC from members of Spine, Devil’s Den And Direct Threat. Limited to 25 Red J-Card 1.Intro/ Mandatory Institution 2.His [...]
In June 2021, an unmarked package arrived at the Psychic Liberation headquarters. The small box, which had no return address, contained three items: a thumb drive, a printed message from a notes [...]
As escapism from corporate banality turned the corner in the ‘90s, a new generation of vibrant, software generated soundscapes emerged. Communal access to the internet propagated the new hive [...]
Everyone who reads this most likely have the same reason to do this & know what it’s all about. As said in previous sales pitches – Gothenburg is the centre of the universe. It’s a bold [...]
Mixtape #5: Loners & Outsiders, Country artists who took their own path. From the Dollar Country website: Welcome to Dollar Country! Dollar Country is a radio show hosted by WTFC radio. It [...]
Chubby and the Gang are swinging into spring with two awesome new songs: “Lightning Don’t Strike Twice” and “Life’s Lemons”! This double A-sided 7” has their first new tunes since last [...]
Sweden’s TOTALITÄR originated from small town Hudiksvall in the mid-80’s silver age of Swedish Hardcore punk, releasing a few EP’s and touring the UK before disbanding in 1990. In 1994 the band [...]
Osaka’s CROW formed in the early 1980’s explosion of Japanese hardcore, but have always been a distinctive, unique band even within that astonishing pantheon. Much of Early Japanese [...]
2021 repress. “Originally released in 1972, Lord Of Lords was Alice Coltrane’s final album for Impulse! and the last installment in her awe-inspiring trilogy that also included [...]
2021 repress. “The cover art by the band’s Chris Marec tells nearly everything one needs to know about this album: a misshapen, CHUD-like figure wanders in a graveyard bearing a [...]
The definitive reissue of one of rock’s rarest and most sought-after albums — ‘acid-folk’ — equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic. The fi¬rst time [...]
2021 repress. “The go-go band’s sought after debut album. Enriched funk. Magical, mystical, Afrocentric, progressive –words that could be used to describe any number of musical [...]
Legendary German post-rock band formed in 1971 by undisputed noise pioneer Uwe Nettelbeck, Faust garnered an immediate following due to its artistically extreme experimentations with music cut [...]
Clear 180 gram vinyl. Debut solo album for Alternative TV front man and long-time running UK punk scenester, originally released in 1980 on Deptford Fun City Records. Mark Perry was also the man [...]
2015 release. Originally released 1967; exact reissue, 180 Gram, Gatefold sleeve. Part of the Back To Black series. Including digital download code. “During 1967-69 avant-garde innovator [...]
Reaching a near-mythical status amongst fans of free jazz’s most worldly intrepid explorer, these seldom heard Paris soundtrack sessions known as Music, Wisdom, Love have evaded [...]
With over two decades of formal exploration and exhilarating abstraction, Get On is, somewhat surprisingly, only the fourth solo Pita full-length. Peter Rehberg has always been vouched for [...]
The 1990s were a fascinating moment for music and new idioms of experimental music began to bubble in the underground. While often belonging to highly localized scenes and thus overlooked by a [...]
The third installment in an ongoing series of albums produced by John Wiese using an expanded ensemble of recorded sound contributions. Audio collage and experimental sonics featuring input from [...]
Soft cover, perfect bound 64 pages, 6.5 × 9-inch Edition of 500 Release date: March 1, 2021 Joe Potts is a Los Angeles based artist, creating art and sound for installations and performances [...]
This greatly expanded performance journal has more dates, more locations, more names, and more back stories than any other attempt at cataloging the immeasurability of the history of GX & The [...]
Five friends set out for a weekend camping excursion, to drink, frolic and skinny-dip on an isolated piece of land one of them has inherited. Despite ominous warnings from locals, including [...]
The Doberman crew has been relentlessly touring the U.S. for years now, existing as a traveling band of frequent collaborators and changing lineups, consisting of often radically different [...]
“46 full size pages of writing and photos about punk and hardcore! (no fucking ads!) In this issue, Mune from Japanese hardcore legends PAINTBOX talks openly and emotionally about his early [...]
“Excited to announce a vinyl reissue of this amazing debut! Long OOP and previously only available as a cassette! Grab your copy on gorgeous vinyl now! To celebrate the reissue, we have a [...]
“Underground music is filled with all kinds of characters, personalities, and peculiarities. Rare are the musical/artistic soul mates who have forged life, as well as creative, [...]
Debut offering of haunting alchemical ritual music drawn from the duo of K. Falvo + S. English. Eight movements of modern spiritual industrial. Tracklist: 1. Instruktions 2. Shot Tower 3. Mortar [...]
WORLDWIDE PREMIERE OF THE UNRATED VERSION WITH ALL-NEW SPECIAL FEATURES! His mind-blowing work as an FX artist has included everything from Frank Henenlotter’s BRAIN DAMAGE and [...]
Matt Ibarra presents “Seventeen” a double LP working through 6 compositions. Soothing minimalist ambient akin to Loscil or Windy & Carl.
Surfing is the only thing to do for high school students Chuck and Bob who are in preparation for the big surf competition. However, their fathers, sales reps for a new soda named Buzzz Cola, [...]
In this definitive spaghetti western, Franco Nero (Keoma, The Fifth Cord) gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the [...]
SLANT are back with 17 minutes of pure bristling rage. Corrosive hardcore music for the pit AND the pendulum recalling the stomping catchy vibes of recent luminaries like BOSTON STRANGLER or [...]
Warlord is the latest full-length album from Kjostad, the follow up to last year’s Extinctionist released on Chondritic Sound. This is the evolution of Kjostad’s approach in every [...]
Did you say Bath-House?”, was the initial response when I proudly announced to a Norman-troglodyte about the newest, ear blastingest, front-over-sideways puke-a-thon noise-rocking trio [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the wilderness, director William Girdler and producer Ed Montoro sought to top their surprise blockbuster GRIZZLY with a bigger budget, larger [...]
Existing in a place not normally associated with the darker currents of culture, the pristine valley backdrop of Salt Lake City is home to the moody and vibrant new romantic sounds of Sculpture [...]
Marquez’s brilliant non-linear take on a typical detective story. One of Marquez’s few works that isn’t in the realm of magical realism, this quick and bitter tale of revenge [...]
ARTIST STATEMENTS “I met Aaron in Madeira around 10 years ago, and I was blown away by his set, when I was going to tour the US for the first time, Forest, my US my booking agent asked me if I [...]
We’re proud to present Accidental Business, a long-term project strewn with pitfalls and disillusions nodding to the incongruous events that led to the birth of Unknown Precept. Looking [...]
“Colour Green” was recorded in Germany in the 1970-1973. In a particularly dark and moody period of her young life, Claudine, a friend of Sibylle’s, dragged her out from under [...]
VHS mixtape by Justin Weise, curator at Torn Light Records. Highly recommended.
Militarie Gun return with their Second EP “All Roads Lead To The Gun”, 4 tracks that are as abrasive as they are catchy. 1. Ain’t No Flowers 2. Don’t Pick Up The Phone 3. [...]
Epic – BC 1118 c. 1961 US Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – G+, old tape on one corner of sleeve and part of spine, light marks on cover where stickers were removed, writing in pen next to [...]
50 years since their first LP Brian Jones presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka was released (1971), The Master Musicians of Joujouka release a stunning double-LP recorded live at Centre Georges [...]
The skylines of Tokyo and New York City are impenetrable. On the streets it is cold — the ravens have blocked out the sun. The barbed chicken wire that surrounds the cities wave scraps of [...]
Possibly one of the weirdest experiments in the post-punk realm, Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One) is the second studio album by English anti-heroes Alternative TV, originally released in March [...]
Pharaway Sounds present a reissue of the first album by Selda Bagcan, originally released in 1976. A collection of well-known poems and folk-songs, recorded in cooperation with the most [...]
Oz Echoes peels away another layer of Australia’s ’80s DIY hive mind. The Oz Waves (EFFICIENT 004LP, 2017) successor exposes a deeper circuit of micro-run cassettes, community radio [...]
Sowing Records present a reissue of Dorothy Ashby‘s debut album, The Jazz Harpist, originally released in 1957 by the Regent label. Recognized as the woman who gave the harp a jazz voice, [...]
OTOROKU present a reissue of Evan Parker‘s legendary box set Collected Solos. Originally issued in 1989 and long ago sold out, Collected Solos brings Evan Parker’s first four solo LPs [...]