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  • Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond
    Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond
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    Since bassist Lou Barlow left Dinosaur Jr. in 1989, the band–whose last record was 1997’s expansive Hand It Over–has largely become an alter-ego moniker for guitarist/vocalist J [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
    Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
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    “Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
    Kristín Anna* – I Must Be The Devil
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    Kristin Anna (Múm) and Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros) have created one of the most painfully beautiful albums I’ve heard in years. Kristin’s voice is as gorgeous as it is unique […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
    Alex Sopp – The Hem And The Haw
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    On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Alex Sopp, the flutist, composer, vocalist, and visual artist releases the title track ‘The Hem & The Haw’ from her upcoming debut album The Hem […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dior – Angels Kiss At The Edge Of Cacatopia
    Dior – Angels Kiss At The Edge Of Cacatopia
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    DIOR is Sarah Moore and Stasia Kowaleski, (of Vats, Porcelain Gods, Trixie Linoleum, Babyface Evil) Sarah from Snoqualmie, WA and Phoenix and Stasia (Ghost Bitch, Desire Complex, kzv, Babyface [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
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    It’s as if the all star cast of a specific midwestern underground scene conspired to turn to their roots, an expansive flat land, rows of corn and a god damn […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • American Friend – Sound Under Rock
    American Friend – Sound Under Rock
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    Adam’s drums keep the blood flowing and Sarah’s bass holds the body upright, Jana’s guitar reacts to the confines of rhythm and their lyrics pinch. They pull open the curtains […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Xiu Xiu – The Air Force
    Xiu Xiu – The Air Force
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    “It comes in waves of nausea and unease. The Air Force is a wraith, and wraithlike it moves according to genuine, human rhythms; we see frontman Jamie Stewart staring into […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick ‎– Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby (pink vinyl)
    Sarah Mary Chadwick ‎– Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby (pink vinyl)
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    Me And Ennui Are Friends, Baby is the latest full-length from New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter, Sarah Mary Chadwick, whose brutally honest songwriting has cast her contrary to [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Xiu Xiu – Knife Play
    Xiu Xiu – Knife Play
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    Xiu Xiu’s daring first album Label: Absolutely Kosher – AK018 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2003 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sarah Mary Chadwick – 9 Classic Tracks
    Sarah Mary Chadwick – 9 Classic Tracks
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    Sarah Mary Chadwick is back with her second official full-length release since her debut solo LP Eating for Two (Bedroom Suck Records, 2012). While preserving her distinctive traits of [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill Fay – Life Is People
    Bill Fay – Life Is People
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    “Bill Fay is one of English music’s best kept secrets. At the dawn of the 1970s, he was a one-man song factory, with a piano that spilled liquid gold and […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Arab Strap – The Shy Retirer E.P.
    Arab Strap – The Shy Retirer E.P.
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    Features AC/DC and Van Halen covers. Mope-rock. Label: Chemikal Underground – CHEM067 Format: Vinyl, 12″, EP Country: UK Released: 2003 VG+/VG+. Old store sticker

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Six Organs Of Admittance – Shelter From The Ash
    Six Organs Of Admittance – Shelter From The Ash
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    “Music for those post-apocalyptic dreams we’re all having. The ones where you’re stumbling through the desert with one leg bandaged from the last coyote attack. These songs are [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Live Skull ‎– Dangerous Visions
    Live Skull ‎– Dangerous Visions
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    “Emerging in the early 80s at the end of New York’s legendary No Wave scene alongside Manhattan comrades Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull reshaped the aggression of burned-out post-punk [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill Callahan – The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10 2001 Peel Session
    Bill Callahan – The Holy Grail: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” Dec. 10 2001 Peel Session
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    “December 2001, Maida Vale: Bill Callahan’s “Smog” perform with demonstrative zeal for their British witness at the BBC, shimmering and hissing with a Lynchian vibe of U.S. darkness in the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Papa M – Ballads Of Harry Houdini
    Papa M – Ballads Of Harry Houdini
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    “The “Great Escape Artist” is back! No, not THAT one – dude’s dead! We’re talking about Papa M. And HE’s talking ‘bout Harry Houdini – in the album title, anyway, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Adrianne Lenker – Once A Bunch / Who Can Say
    Adrianne Lenker – Once A Bunch / Who Can Say
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    Earlier this year, Adrianne Lenker released her beloved new album Bright Future via 4AD. Praised as “characteristically brutal and brave” (Rolling Stone) and “a genuine competitor for the best [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More
    Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More
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    Nobody Loves You More is Kim Deal’s debut album, although it’s technically not her first release under her own name – she self-released a 5-part, 10-song 7” vinyl series in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fontaines D.C. – Romance
    Fontaines D.C. – Romance
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    Irish indie rock sensation Fontaines D.C. return with new album ROMANCE, their debut on XL Recordings, out on August 23rd. Recorded shortly after their tour supporting Arctic Monkeys, it seizes [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – Extra Painful
    Yo La Tengo – Extra Painful
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    Deluxe Reissue of 1993’s classic Painful, in time for the band’s 30th anniversary this December. 2xLP includes bonus 7” + download coupon with 15 extra tracks , in p/s with […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On
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    There’s a riot going on. You don’t need me, or Yo La Tengo, to tell you that. These are dark times, in our heads as much as in the streets. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
    Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
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    Today, Yo La Tengo’s undeniable classic 1997 album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is a quarter of a century old. To celebrate, a digital deluxe version of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bardo Pond – Melt Away
    Bardo Pond – Melt Away
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    Melt Away, the new double LP compilation, catalogues late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex in Bardo Pond’s career. Of these, album highlight ‘The Trail’, originally recorded [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Godspeed You Black Emperor! – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend Ascend
    Godspeed You Black Emperor! – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend Ascend
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    “Featuring two twenty-minute slabs of epic instrumental rock music and two six-and-a-half minute drones, ‘ALLELUJAH! DON’T BEND! ASCEND! provides soaring, shining proof of the band’s [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Pandoras ‎– I’m Here I’m Gone
    The Pandoras ‎– I’m Here I’m Gone
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    Label: Moxie Records – MM 1044 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1984 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Plasticland – Pop! Op Drops
    Plasticland – Pop! Op Drops
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    Label: Scadillac – SC-3003 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1982 Media : VG+ Sleeve : VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Plasticland ‎– Color Appreciation / The Mushroom Hill
    Plasticland ‎– Color Appreciation / The Mushroom Hill
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    Label: Scadillac – SC-1002 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 Media : VG+ Sleeve: VG+

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
    Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
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    “By the time they started touring to preview and then support the revamped version of ‘Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac,’ the Buttholes’ live show was a berserk, evolving [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Radar Eyes – Radar Eyes
    Radar Eyes – Radar Eyes
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    “Radar Eyes encompass a sound that’s familiar, yet revealing, driving neurotic, icy 12-string guitar lines over heavenly blocks of perfectly contained noise and rhythm, bound by a untamed [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fungi Girls – Some Easy Magic
    Fungi Girls – Some Easy Magic
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    Reverbed-out & jangly indie-rock.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
    Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
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    Droney & spacey indie rock.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Georgiana Starlington – Paper Moon
    Georgiana Starlington – Paper Moon
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    Country-tinted indie-rock ala Gun Outfit.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Idle Times – Idle Times
    Idle Times – Idle Times
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    “Since their inception, Seattle’s eminently unique noise-benders, Idle Times have enshrouded their unhinged pop dexterity in an entire soiled spectrum of illustrious cloaks, assuring every [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Connections – 5 Imaginary Boys
    Connections – 5 Imaginary Boys
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    “This modern Columbus, Ohio pop band flashed before us via KEVIN ELLIOT, previously of 84 NASH and one of the guys with great musical taste at the Agit Reader that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Medication – Don’t Die
    Medication – Don’t Die
    $4.00 | , Add to cart

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Outer Minds – Bloodshot Eyes
    Outer Minds – Bloodshot Eyes
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    “Chicago’s explosive and underrated OUTER MINDS have finally come to the surface after simmering in the underworld in several different incarnations over the past few years, and with [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sleepovers – Secret
    Sleepovers – Secret
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    Debut 3-track power-pop EP

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Nerve City – Red Tops
    Nerve City – Red Tops
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    “As raw and bitter as the north winds blowing off the Virginia mountaintops, HoZac is proud to serve you a platter of new songs to ease the winter solitude with […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Plastic Crimewave Sound – Shockwave Rider
    Plastic Crimewave Sound – Shockwave Rider
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    “For years, this Chicago scuzz-punk psychedelic prog machine has been turning heads as the Midwest’s answer to Hawkwind, Can and other mind-expanding primordial brain-fryers. At long [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Cozy – Cola Shock Kids
    Cozy – Cola Shock Kids
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    “COZY are four young men who have captured the hearts of fans across the globe with their movie star looks, boyish charm, dapper denim outfits, and a stage show that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bare Mutants – Without You
    Bare Mutants – Without You
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    “Jered Gummere, most notably of Chicago’s PONYS, leads this new combo, which coalesces all of the most pivotal nuances of his repertoire into a perfectly minimal, mid-tempo snapshot [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Plateaus – Do It For You
    Plateaus – Do It For You
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    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Medication – This Town
    Medication – This Town
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    “The debut album from New Milford, Connecticut’s melodic saving grace, MEDICATION. The one-man home-recording project has built itself up into a fully-automated live band over the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Terminals – Uncoffined
    The Terminals – Uncoffined
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    “25th Anniversary remastered edition, the Kiwi Pop classic origininally on Flying Nun Records, now available on HoZac Archival, 500 copies pressed.”

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
    Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
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    Droney & spacey indie rock.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lewsberg – Out And About
    Lewsberg – Out And About
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    Dutch four-piece Lewsberg are set to release their fourth studio album, ‘Out And About’ in September 2023. Since forming in 2016, Lewsberg have gone from strength to strength. Despite [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lewsberg – Out And About
    Lewsberg – Out And About
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    Dutch four-piece Lewsberg are set to release their fourth studio album, ‘Out And About’ in September 2023. Since forming in 2016, Lewsberg have gone from strength to strength. Despite [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lewsberg – Lewsberg
    Lewsberg – Lewsberg
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    First US pressing of Lewsberg’s 2018 debut album.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dommer – Cemetary Bread
    Dommer – Cemetary Bread
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    DIY self released 7″ single of indie rock perfection. Jam the track here.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Chills – Scatterbrain LP
    The Chills – Scatterbrain LP
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    New studio album from the Dunedin (NZ) songsmiths helmed by the enigmatic Martin Phillipps with artwork by Trees’ David Costa. Dunedin’s finest, The Chills release their seventh studio album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
    A place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer CD
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)
    A Place To Bury Strangers – Synthesizer LP (Functional circuit board cover)
    $38.00 | Add to cart

    Synthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Candy Apple – Stargazer / Instinction [Deadstock w/ new covers – 1980 Power Pop]
    Candy Apple – Stargazer / Instinction [Deadstock w/ new covers – 1980 Power Pop]
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    Deadstock copy with new covers. Glam punk rocker from Cincinnati Ohio circa 1980. Originally released on Shake It!. Rare one to find at all… These were a bit dusty but […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Punk / Hardcore
  • Jessica Pratt ? On Your Own Love Again
    Jessica Pratt ? On Your Own Love Again
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    Seeing the world through a Pratt’s eyes is a surpassingly beautiful thing. But subtly, oh so subtly, and with such sweet flakes of humor falling. Tunes and vibe to the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
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    M as in mysterious. A group of sounds recorded in Louisville KY. Smooth blue instrumental guitar music. In the musical alphabet, what comes after rock?

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
    Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
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    Dirty Three Ahoy! Appropriately disheveled, the Three emerge from the unending waves of time to pick up their guitar drum and viola/violin/piano/synthesizer/loops/percussion for their first album [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
    Dirty Three ? Toward The Low Sun
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    Sticking us with something that won’t go away, the Dirty Three are back. It’s been awhile, but that just means that the music here is heavy with seven years in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
    Laetitia Sadier _? Silencio
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    It’s 2012 — do you know where your government is tonight? Occupy yourselves — and let’s get busy with the music in our minds.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
    L?titia Sadier _? Something Shines
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    The Earth, the sky and the earth again — plus another trip through “La Soci é t é du Spectacle.” Something between a riveting caress and an invigorating shake. Elevated […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative