November 2nd Newsletter

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Torn Light Records
1855 N Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60647
312.955.0614
Open Everyday
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    North Carolina based singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman has spent the last decade using her voice and guitar to construct tunes built upon the spectrum between joy and pain – deeply [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey’s generous latest offering is a tape-mangled, xenharmonic trip into the dissociated outerzone. Properly next level spirit-calling drone musick that [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    “Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation—for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Prairiewolf make easy listening music for an age of fracture. They almost do it in spite of themselves. No one can seriously question the head music bona fides of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Old Saw, the enigmatic New England collective led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), return with their third long-playing record, Dissection Maps. _____________________________________ It is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Cara Beth Satalino built her adulthood in feral, eccentric Baltimore, Maryland, waiting tables and playing in a band, keeping her schedule flexible just in case an opportunity arose. Though [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Northwoods Sleep Baseball
    Northwoods Sleep Baseball
    $18.00 | Add to cart

    “Even though I know that there’s no cure for insomnia, the same part of my brain that believes the polar bears might be O.K. in the end keeps me trawling […]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music, Spoken Word
  • Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders – Planet Lidders
    Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders – Planet Lidders
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders takes the freaked improvisation of Alexander’s long-running instrumental band – DWLVS / Dire Wolves – into the world of song. Heady songwriting, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Corey Madden – Taste The Hour
    Corey Madden – Taste The Hour
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    AI this is not. 2024 finds guitar journeyman Corey Madden stepping out and into his own zone. An NYC expat, and a founding member of the Los Angeles based Color […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych

VINYL

  • Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    North Carolina based singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman has spent the last decade using her voice and guitar to construct tunes built upon the spectrum between joy and pain – deeply [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey’s generous latest offering is a tape-mangled, xenharmonic trip into the dissociated outerzone. Properly next level spirit-calling drone musick that [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    “Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation—for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Prairiewolf make easy listening music for an age of fracture. They almost do it in spite of themselves. No one can seriously question the head music bona fides of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Old Saw, the enigmatic New England collective led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), return with their third long-playing record, Dissection Maps. _____________________________________ It is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Cara Beth Satalino built her adulthood in feral, eccentric Baltimore, Maryland, waiting tables and playing in a band, keeping her schedule flexible just in case an opportunity arose. Though [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Cop City/Chill Pillars – Gift Shop
    Cop City/Chill Pillars – Gift Shop
    $4.00 | , Add to cart

    “*Once in a while a new life form will come to the surface, emerge from the primordial ooze and crawl ashore, develop legs where its fins used to be, and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
    Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
    $4.00 | , Add to cart

    Delightful & catchy power-pop

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Population – White Crosses
    Population – White Crosses
    $5.00 | , Add to cart

    Hard-hitting and heavy post-punk

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth

CDs

BOOKS

  • Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
    Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    “San Francisco rock’n roll bleeds through Michael Goldberg – an innovative, inspiring figure who always has been quietly pioneering something interesting for the past 50+ years. Hozac Books [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The White Label Promo Preservation Society Vol 2
    The White Label Promo Preservation Society Vol 2
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “The White Label Promo Preservation Society returns with another collection of essays celebrating albums that fell short of cracking Billboard’s top 100, but belong in the libraries of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey
    Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “For our 15th book release, we present WICKED GAME: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey by author Michael Goldberg. Another incredibly in-depth look into the dark side of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records And The Rise Of New Wave
    Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records And The Rise Of New Wave
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    In the late ‘70s and early to mid 1980s, San Francisco was a creative incubator, bringing forth all manner of new music acts. Ground zero for the scene was the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Ideal For Living: A Celebration Of The EP
    An Ideal For Living: A Celebration Of The EP
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    “Hozac Books is proud to present An Ideal For Living- A Celebration of the E.P. (Extended Play) by Corey du Browa & friends. An impressive first overview & history of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sal Maida – Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s & Bottom’s Up
    Sal Maida – Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s & Bottom’s Up
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    “HoZac Books is proud to present Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s, & Bottom’s Up, written by Sal Maida, one of the most interesting 1970s rock figures you just don’t […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kill A Punk For Rock & Roll: Photographs By Marty Perez 1976-2019
    Kill A Punk For Rock & Roll: Photographs By Marty Perez 1976-2019
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    “Marty Perez is a Chicago-based photographer who has been documenting the parallels between the worlds of underground rock as well as some of the biggest stars of pop music, from […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Paul Collins – I Don’t Fit In: My Wild Ride Through The Punk & Power-Pop Trenches
    Paul Collins – I Don’t Fit In: My Wild Ride Through The Punk & Power-Pop Trenches
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    “After two long years of painstaking research and development, we present to you, the first major memoir covering the birth of DIY Power Pop, from Paul Collins. From it’s initial […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • All Over The Place: The Rise Of The Bangles From The L.A Underground
    All Over The Place: The Rise Of The Bangles From The L.A Underground
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “This monumental project, started by author and unofficial band historian Eric Shade back in the 1990s has had quite a journey from start to finish. This insane overview of the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Masterpieces Of American Modernism
    Masterpieces Of American Modernism
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Modernism, referring to the period dating roughly from the late 19th century through 1970, is regarded as a crucial moment in the history of American art. Although Modernist artists [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • The Prison Experience
    The Prison Experience
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In this document of prison life Morrie Camhi includes portraits of prisoners alone–together and with their families–as well as comments by prisoners and their families about [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Emmet Gowin – Photographs
    Emmet Gowin – Photographs
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A magnificently produced retrospective of the work of distinguished photographer Emmet Gowin. Although Gowin’s work, spiritually charged and technically exquisite, is well known and [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography