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  • Nape Neck – Nape Neck
    Nape Neck – Nape Neck
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    “In the very first year of the doomed 2020s, the Leeds, UK-based art-punk trio Nape Neck made their debut with a self-titled/self-released cassette, featuring eight absolutely visceral [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Leopardo – Side A / Side B
    Leopardo – Side A / Side B
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    “Leopardo, the well-mannered and quirky Swiss group from Fribourg, are back once again with SIDE A / SIDE B, an album that invites the world into their jagged and naïve […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • C.A.D. & The Peacetime Consumers – Play Atlantis
    C.A.D. & The Peacetime Consumers – Play Atlantis
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    “With a pre-Asylum Laurel Canyon vibe by way of those busted Wayne County roads, Play Atlantis deftly splits the difference between the Straight and the Bizarre. Though the committed [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tarotplane – Between Soil And Sky
    Tarotplane – Between Soil And Sky
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    Between Soil and Sky is the 2024 CD release by devoted experimentalist, PJ Dorsey (Tarotplane), and his second release with Noir Age. A curated embodiment of an amphibious reality — […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Little Annie Meets Night Foundation – Inertia
    Little Annie Meets Night Foundation – Inertia
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    A multidisciplinary artist, and avant-garde icon in her own right, Little Annie leaves little room for an introduction that is worthy of her prolific career. She has remained relevant for […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
    Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas – Totality
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    Totality! It can only be good news. The second convergence of Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas, years removed from the first, misses no steps and posits low-key revolutions in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Gastr Del Sol – Upgrade & Afterlife
    Gastr Del Sol – Upgrade & Afterlife
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    When placed next to each other, dueling concerns enrich each other and push the envelope into new, newer, and newest envelopes of a different color. Step inside this magnetic garden […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – The Natural Bridge
    Silver Jews – The Natural Bridge
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    Includes everything that is in the script and nothing that is not in the script. A record made by Capricorns especially for Capricorns. Featuring the All-Marijuana Scarecrow. Released October 1, [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Bright Flight
    Silver Jews – Bright Flight
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    The first thing I remember about the recording of Bright Flight is that when we opened the door to Hum Depot’s roller rink of a basement studio, the console was […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Early Times
    Silver Jews – Early Times
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    Well, “Salad Days” was taken and “Wild Turkey” sounds like an insult. These field recordings capture the birth of the Jews, from way back in the days of the Silver […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
    Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers
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    David Berman and Co. tear through 10 more numbers, loving you to the max the whole time. Jews fans rejoice, your master is back. released October 18, 2005

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains
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    David Berman comes in from the cold after ten long years. His new musical expression is a meltdown unparalleled in modern memory. He warns us that his findings might be […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Drive Like Jehu – Drive Like Jehu
    Drive Like Jehu – Drive Like Jehu
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    Repressed again on black vinyl. The San Diego post-hardcore band’s debut album from 1991, containing the legendary Rick Froberg & John Reis guitar team dipped in battery acid, wired to [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
    Sun Ra And The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
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    Sun Ra’s second album was a Delmark release recorded in 1957, although it was originally intended for the Transition label, which did not survive long enough to release it. Personnel: […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Wipers – Is This Real?
    Wipers – Is This Real?
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    Unquestionably Portland’s most well-loved punk group, they formed in the late 70’s & in 1980 released their debut LP. 12 songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, & [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77
    Talking Heads – Talking Heads: 77
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    When they burst out of the New York underground/CBGB’s movement, the Heads stood apart from the pack because not only were they unlike anything that gone before, they were even […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Wipers – Over The Edge
    Wipers – Over The Edge
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    Bleak, hard-driven 3rd LP (1983) offers GREG SAGE at his most chased & breathless, lashing out w/ sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. The jagged, effortless […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Wipers – Youth Of America
    Wipers – Youth Of America
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    Deluxe reissue of their 2nd LP, from ’81. Mastered from the original tapes by Greg Sage himself. One of the most passionate & influential punk records ever. Broken up into […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Residents – Meet The Residents
    The Residents – Meet The Residents
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    Vinyl reissue of The Residents’ classic debut originally released on Ralph Records in 1974. The whole, bizarre Residents trip started here (at least officially)! Mixing everything from [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
    Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
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    Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis’s masterpiece. This 1959 album’s influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
    The Residents – The Third Reich ‘N’ Roll
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    The Residents released of their third album, “The Third Reich ‘n’ Roll” in 1976. People have speculated whether the Residents were hinting that Rock ‘n’ Roll [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Residents – Duck Stab
    The Residents – Duck Stab
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    Musically, it’s difficult to describe this diverse album. There is a silky, seductive, and murky aspect which creates a supporting liquid background upon which the lyrics float. There is a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel
    Gram Parsons – Grievous Angel
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    Limited 180 gram vinyl LP pressing. Gram Parsons pioneered the concept of a rock band playing country music, playing in bands such as the Byrds, the International Submarine Band and […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
    The Meters – Fire On The Bayou
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    “By the time they released Fire On the Bayou in 1975, the Meters (now a quintet, with addition of Cyril Neville to the lineup) had graduated from regional cult heroes […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
    The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
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    Vinyl LP repressing of this 1988 album from the British band fronted by the troubled genius that is Shane MacGowan. If I Should Fall From Grace With God was the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Joy Division – Closer
    Joy Division – Closer
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    Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP repressing of this album by the Manchester post-punk icons featuring the original Peter Saville designed packaging. Closer, the band’s 1980 sophomore album [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
    Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
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    Limited 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP repressing of this album by the Manchester post-punk icons featuring the original Peter Saville designed packaging. 1979’s Unknown Pleasures features [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
    The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
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    “The Replacements’ 1981 debut, like the Stink EP that came on its heels, is laden with hardcore punk that was the flavor in underground rock of the time, albeit of […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Replacements – Let It Be
    The Replacements – Let It Be
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    Let It Be looms large among ’80s rock albums, generally regarded as one of the greatest records of the decade. Nothing about Let It Be is clean; it’s all a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Black Sabbath – Paranoid
    Black Sabbath – Paranoid
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    Limited 180 gram black vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. Paranoid is the second studio album by English metal band Black Sabbath. Released in September 1970, it was the [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Replacements – Don’t Tell A Soul
    The Replacements – Don’t Tell A Soul
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    The Replacements penultimate and darkest album

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
    The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
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    “While some continue to champion the Replacements’ Don’t Tell a Soul and All Shook Down exit albums, Pleased to Meet Me truly represents the last vital effort of a great […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
    John Coltrane – Trane: The Atlantic Collection
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition of this introduction to John Coltrane’s revered Atlantic recordings. Trane: The Atlantic Collection includes the hit single ‘My [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
    Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
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    “Richard & Linda Thompson’s marriage was crumbling as they were recording Shoot Out the Lights in 1982, and many critics have read the album as a chronicle of the couple’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ramones – Rocket To Russia
    Ramones – Rocket To Russia
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    Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Rocket to Russia is the third studio album by the American punk rock band The Ramones, and was released on November 4, 1977, through Sire […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ramones – Ramones
    Ramones – Ramones
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    Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The Ramones ignited the punk-rock movement with their eponymous 1976 debut album, revitalizing rock and roll at one of it’s lowest ebbs with attitude, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Ramones – Road To Ruin
    Ramones – Road To Ruin
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    Ramones’ fourth studio album from 1978. Features the classic song I Wanna Be Sedated. – The Ramones ignited the punk-rock movement with their eponymous 1976 debut album, revitalizing [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Heldon – Heldon.6. Interface
    Heldon – Heldon.6. Interface
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    Spoiler alert. A brilliant moment occurs right at the end of 1977’s Interface. The album’s final song, its side-long title track, builds up slowly into a roaring tornado of fiercely […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Prine – Sweet Revenge
    John Prine – Sweet Revenge
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    Sweet Revenge is the third album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1973. Prine started veering rock ‘n’ roll on this 1973 album, and the result […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine – John Prine
    John Prine – John Prine
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    John Prine is the debut album by American country/folk singer-songwriter John Prine, issued by Atlantic Records in 1971. In 2012, the album was ranked number 452 on Rolling Stone magazine’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine – Common Sense
    John Prine – Common Sense
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    John Prine’s fourth studio album Common Sense was produced by Steve Cropper and was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and Larabee Studios in Los Angeles. The album features [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A – Lost In Translation
    V/A – Lost In Translation
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    Lost In Translation (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack) was the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s Academy Award winning movie of the same name. The soundtrack earned supervisor / [...]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Faust – The Faust Tapes
    Faust – The Faust Tapes
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 1973. There’s something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973. [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
    Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
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    Vinyl LP pressing. Fleetwood Mac is the tenth studio album by Fleetwood Mac, originally released in 1975. This was the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham as guitarist and […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Johnny Thunders – So Alone
    Johnny Thunders – So Alone
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    “Following the drug-fueled implosion of the Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders bounced back with his first solo outing, So Alone. Featuring a veritable who’s who of ’70s punk and [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Curtis Mayfield – Curtis
    Curtis Mayfield – Curtis
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    “The first solo album by the former leader of the Impressions, Curtis represented a musical apotheosis for Curtis Mayfield — indeed, it was practically the “Sgt. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Talking Heads – True Stories
    Talking Heads – True Stories
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    True Stories, originally released in 1986 includes “Wild Wild Life” and “Love For Sale”. Reissued for the first time since the original release.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Talking Heads – Little Creatures
    Talking Heads – Little Creatures
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    Little Creatures, originally released in 1985 includes the classics “And She Was” and “Road To Nowhere”. Reissued for the first time since the original release.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra* – A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
    Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra* – A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
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    A Fireside Chat with Lucifer was issued by Sun Ra in 1983 (Saturn Gemini 19841). Like many Sun Ra albums, Fireside Chat offered stylistic random shuffle, as was the artist’s […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Heldon – Electronique Guerilla
    Heldon – Electronique Guerilla
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    In 1973, 22-year-old Richard Pinhas was well on his way to becoming a full-time philosopher. He had almost finished his Ph.D and begun teaching at the University of Paris. But […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych