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Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJohn Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
England’s Hidden Reverse, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAn expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground—with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound. This newly expanded edition of [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics, Non-Fiction -
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$31.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “The Harry Smith resurgence is upon us.” – Jack He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Marjorie Muir Worthington – The Strange World Of Willie Seabrook
$18.00 | Book, Print Add to cartLiterary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two writers: Marjorie Worthington and William Seabrook. A renowned writer on the exotic and the occult, [...]
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Susan Neiman – Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter […]
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Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]
GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Pierre Clastres – Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
$22.00 | Book, Print Add to cartChronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres’s account of his 1963–64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and [...]
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The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Ac?phale and Lectures to the College of Sociology
$32.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGeorges Bataille’s secret society, long the stuff of legend, is now revealed in its texts, meditations, rules and prohibitions This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual […]
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Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992
$28.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York’s downtown music […]
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Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “Essential reading about an otherwise secretive band.” – Cleo Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the [...]
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Giovanni Intra – Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
$13.00 | Book, Print Add to cartArtist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra’s inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era. Everything you read about […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction -
William Cooper – Behold a Pale Horse (Revised)
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartBill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena -
David Grubbs – Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
$27.00 | Book, Print Add to cartJohn Cage’s disdain for records was legendary. He repeatedly spoke of the ways in which recorded music was antithetical to his work. In Records Ruin the Landscape, David Grubbs argues […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s [...]
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Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry. Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the [...]
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$14.00 | Book, Print Add to cartMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s [...]
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Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartIn addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]
GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction -
Joseph Cornell – Dreams
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA selection of dream epiphanies and reveries from Joseph Cornell’s voluminous diaries Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir, Non-Fiction -
Three New York Dadas and the Blind Man: Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roch?, Beatrice Wood
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThree New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of […]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Non-Fiction -
Ibn Khald?n – The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century [...]
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Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFirst published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. The Das Kapital of the 20th [...]
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Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartHoly Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartCage’s passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will [...]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing [...]
GENRE: Art/Photography, Cult/Exploitation, Non-Fiction -
Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartPink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Non-Fiction -
Greil Marcus – Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Anniversary)
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth, Punk / Hardcore -
Mors Mystica: Black Metal Theory Symposium
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartEssays and artworks related to Mors Mystica, a black metal theory symposium on the theme of mystical death.
GENRE: Metal, Non-Fiction -
Theodore Roszak – Flicker
$10.00 | Book, Print Add to cartFrom the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and […]
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Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]
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Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
$30.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThis is the first cultural history of the world’s most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual […]
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The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartThe Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Joanna Russ – How To Suppress Women’s Writing
$15.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAre women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle–and not so [...]
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
$12.00 | Book, Print Add to cartA scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Claudio Lomnitz – Death And The Idea Of Mexico
$26.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Carol J. Clover – Men, Women & Chainsaws
$20.00 | Book, Print Add to cartDo the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music & The Free Jazz Revolution 1957-1977
$19.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “A very good book about the scope of free jazz. The author being a music journalist has first hand accounts of viewing and interviewing […]
GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
On Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures: (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
$17.00 | Book, Print Add to cartReviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Arcana: Musicians On Music (Arcana #1)
$35.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAnswering a need for critical attention towards experimental and avant-garde music, Arcana is a ground-breaking work–as far-ranging and dynamic as the current generation of musicians. [...]
GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction -
John Cage – Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
$24.00 | Book, Print Add to cartNow available in an expanded paperback edition, Diary registers Cage’s assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portents about the world we live […]
GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction -
Common Tones: Selected Interviews with Artists and Musicians 1995-2020
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartWhat our staff has to say: “One of my favorite books I read last year, features an unreal interview with Milford Graves to close it out as well. Highest Rec […]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage
$25.00 | Book, Print Add to cartTony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction -
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
$16.00 | Book, Print Add to cartAcid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain’s exhaustively researched and astonishing [...]
GENRE: Non-Fiction