NEW ARRIVALS
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Banks Violette (Whitney Monograph)
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBanks Violette (b. 1973) has been called the “Grown-Up Goth.” Whitney Museum of American Art curator Chrissie Isles, at the time of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, described his work as [...]
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Ashley Kahn – Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Master…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJazz musicians call it The Bible. Critics call it the one jazz album every fan must own. Forty-one years since its recording in 1959, it has sold millions worldwide and […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Rob Young – Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction -
Galactic Zoo Dossier #7
$20.00 | Print, Used Items, ZineHuge Issue Includes Two Sets of Trading Cards (72 cards total!) Interviews w/ Clive Palmer, Strawbs, Kevin Coyne, Gary Panter, Ed Askew, and more! Book is in Very Good condition […]
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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Andy Hamilton – Aesthetics and Music Continuum
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Emile Menasche – What’s A Synthesizer
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsConfused by the rapid pace of music technology, and perhaps a little threatened by it all? Relax. This book will explain, simply and briefly, the whats, hows, and whys of […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Nick Cave – Faith, Hope and Carnage
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCreated from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhere did musical minimalism come from―and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Sol Lewitt: Incomplete Open Cubes
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA documentation and critical examination of Sol LeWitt’s influential Incomplete Open Cubes. With essays by Nicholas Baume, Jonathan Flatley, and Pamela M. Lee. Begun in 1974, Incomplete [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin, over 15 million strong, are heirs to one of the oldest and greatest artistic traditions in West Africa. This text offers a look […]
GENRE: Art/Photography
VINYL
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The Rules – Organizing The Flesh
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“proper hybrid techno for all of our collective submissions which presents the thesis of seasonal listening all year round. snowy dub – bright warehouses – vast intimacy – [...]
GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic -
Chaka Khan – Chaka (45th Anniversary Reissue)
$20.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Chaka Khan’s transition to solo artist in 1978 could not have been smoother. At the top of the year, Street Player, her sixth album with Rufus, appeared with a sleeve […]
GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco -
Alvvays – Alvvays (Light Blue Marble)
$22.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Canadian quintet Alvvays (pronounced “Always”) burst out of the gates with their self-titled 2014 debut, a brief but bright collection of nine songs of nearly perfect, [...]
GENRE: Indie / Alternative -
D’Angelo And The Vanguard – Black Messiah
$26.00 | 2xLP, Used Items, Vinyl“The one-eighty Questlove promised back in 2012, when the drummer and producer persuaded D’Angelo to perform for the first time in a dozen years, turns out to be closer to […]
GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk, Soul / Funk / Disco -
Percy Sledge – When A Man Loves A Woman
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“A country-soul masterpiece. The title track remains among the most beloved, anthemic explanations of love’s impact and travails ever written or performed. Had Sledge never made [...]
GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco -
Tortoise – Touch
$21.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“The songs on Touch, the first new Tortoise music in nine years, are dramas without words. They’re elaborately appointed and carefully mixed to enhance a familiar feeling — a distinctly [...]
GENRE: Indie / Alternative -
Jawbox – Novelty (Clear Orange Vinyl)
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Novelty ushered in second guitarist and vocalist Bill Barbot, immediately bolstering Jawbox’s might. Differing from the debut, the guitars are sharper and the riffs are more concise. [...]
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Betsy Jolas / Iannis Xenakis / André Boucourechliev – New Sounds From…
$9.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylQuatuor II composed in 1964. Herma composed between 1960 and 1961. Archipel I composed in January and February, 1967. Label: Angel Records – S-36655 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US […]
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The Jesus Lizard – Liar
$22.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“From the first few seconds, in which “Boilermaker” leaps out of the speakers like a crank-addled mugger armed with a tire iron, Liar captures the Jesus Lizard in gloriously [...]
GENRE: Indie / Alternative -
Leather Hearse – Burn In Heaven | Decalogue
$12.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“LEATHER HEARSE is a project brought to life by Tannon Penland, the guitarist known for his contributions to the instrumental band LOINCLOTH and the ambient enigma GAUCHISTE. The concept of [...]
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Lungfish – Rainbows From Atoms (Orange Vinyl)
$16.00 | LP, Used Items, VinylLungfish’s second full-length LP, released in 1993. Label: Dischord Records – DIS78V Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Orange Vinyl Country: US Released: 2022 VG+/VG+
GENRE: Indie / Alternative -
Year Of No Light – Les Maîtres Fous
$18.00 | LP, Used Items, Vinyl“Haunting, discordant and deeply unsettling, ‘Les Maîtres Fous’ (‘The Mad Masters’) was written by French post-metal collective Year of No Light in response to French filmmaker Jean Rouch’s [...]
GENRE: Metal
CDs
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Sutekh Hexen – Primeval
$13.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“SUTEKH HEXEN at the core has conducted experimental black metal deconstructionism from the blight of the Bay Area, and depending on conceptual framework, with a global cast of high-calibre [...]
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Sylvain Chauveau – S.
$7.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsAll pieces composed for the dance show “Au nombre des choses” (A thing among things) by Compagnie Mi-Octobre / Serge Ricci. Label: Type – TYPE030 Format: CD, Mini-Album, Digipak [...]
GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic -
Goat – Commune
$7.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“With a sound that seems to exist outside of any particular place and time, Goat materialize once again to bestow upon us their second musical offering, Commune. A simmering head […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative -
Alchimia – Aurora
$8.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“On June 15 Instant Classic will release “Aurora” – a second album from free jazz-ambient trio Alchimia. The album comes out in a limited run of only 100 copies in […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Faro – Roma
$14.00 | 2xCD, CD, Used ItemsMulti-instrumentalist Robert Iwanik collaborating with players such as Eugene Robinson and Doug Scharin Label: Not On Label – 001 Format: 2 x CD, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo Country: US [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz -
Jonathan Coleclough & Colin Potter – Low Ground
$10.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsTrack 1 recorded at Parkwood, Bottom Wood and the Water Tower. Tracks 2 and 3 recorded at the Water Tower. Track 4 recorded along the Kennet & Avon canal, at […]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Final – One
$6.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsSolo dark ambient music by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh. Label: Subharmonic – SD 7014-2 Format: CD, Album, Digipak Country: US Released: 1994 VG+/VG+. marker through barcode on back of digipack. [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise -
Guided By Voices – The Best Of Guided By Voices – Human Amusemen…
$6.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsOut of hundreds, here are 32 of the best. Label: Matador – OLE 565-2 Format: CD, Compilation Country: US Released: 2003 VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may […]
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Jan Jelinek Avec The Exposures – La Nouvelle Pauvreté
$7.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Every musician wants his own sound. I would imagine that in electronic music, the desire to carve a unique sonic identity into the endless wall of digital possibilities is even […]
GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic -
Pole – R
$6.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsR = Room R is the new album by Berlin-based producer and ~scape founder Stefan Betke aka Pole. And, at the same time, it isn’t. Central to the album are […]
GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic -
Voïvod – Symphonique
$13.00 | CD, CD, Used ItemsAfter more than 40 eventful years of existence, Canada’s progressive sci-fi metal innovators Voïvod return with “Symphonique”, a special live release together with the Quebec Symphony [...]
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Miles Davis – Panthalassa: The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974
$6.00 | CD, CD, Used Items“Panthalassa” marks a return to some of the most important recordings of Miles Davis’ passionate and controversial “electric” period of the early 1970s. Conceived by [...]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
BOOKS
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Banks Violette (Whitney Monograph)
$45.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsBanks Violette (b. 1973) has been called the “Grown-Up Goth.” Whitney Museum of American Art curator Chrissie Isles, at the time of the 2004 Whitney Biennial, described his work as [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Ashley Kahn – Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Master…
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsJazz musicians call it The Bible. Critics call it the one jazz album every fan must own. Forty-one years since its recording in 1959, it has sold millions worldwide and […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Rob Young – Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary …
$10.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsIn the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the lost treasures of English roots […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
$12.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, [...]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Non-Fiction -
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Andy Hamilton – Aesthetics and Music Continuum
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Continuum Aesthetics Series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating, engaging and accessible, the series offers food for thought not only for [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Emile Menasche – What’s A Synthesizer
$6.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsConfused by the rapid pace of music technology, and perhaps a little threatened by it all? Relax. This book will explain, simply and briefly, the whats, hows, and whys of […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Nick Cave – Faith, Hope and Carnage
$8.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsCreated from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice
$18.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsWhere did musical minimalism come from―and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Sol Lewitt: Incomplete Open Cubes
$50.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA documentation and critical examination of Sol LeWitt’s influential Incomplete Open Cubes. With essays by Nicholas Baume, Jonathan Flatley, and Pamela M. Lee. Begun in 1974, Incomplete [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
$15.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsThe Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin, over 15 million strong, are heirs to one of the oldest and greatest artistic traditions in West Africa. This text offers a look […]
GENRE: Art/Photography -
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hard…
$7.00 | Book, Print, Used ItemsA raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore’s growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they “sell out” and find mainstream […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
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