April 19th Newsletter
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Hopkins
    Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Hopkins
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Texas bluesman Samuel “Lightnin’” Hopkins’ musical career was reignited by this 1959 release. With the aid of a little gin and a borrowed acoustic guitar, musicologist Sam Charters recorded [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Matmos – Return To Archive
    Matmos – Return To Archive
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Prine – Now Playing
    John Prine – Now Playing
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Introducing John Prine Now Playing on Cobalt Blue vinyl – This Now Playing John Prine’s tracklist features a collection of deeply personal and storytelling songs that span folk and [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
    Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Released by the Kapp label in 1970 and produced by the Oscar-winning Leonard Rosenman, Parallelograms was the first and only album by American psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs until the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The New Stan Getz Quartet ft. Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
    The New Stan Getz Quartet ft. Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Recorded in 1964 during two concerts in the venerable Greenwich Village venue, the Café Au Go Go, two months after Astrud Gilberto’s “Girl From Ipanema” became a Top Five pop [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Pharoah Sanders – Love In Us All
    Pharoah Sanders – Love In Us All
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Comprising of two extended length compositions – “Love Is Everywhere” and “To John”, this 1974 release through Impulse is evidence of Pharaoh Sanders’ ability during this time to force [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – The Magic Of Ju-Ju
    Archie Shepp – The Magic Of Ju-Ju
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Opening with the 18+ minute track of the same name, Archie Shepp’s The Magic of Ju-Ju takes on a fevered pace as the centerpiece of this date from 1968. Shepp […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cherub Scourge / The Twerps – Split
    Cherub Scourge / The Twerps – Split
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    Label: Small Town Kids Records – STK 03 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM Country: US Released: 1995 Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Notes: Clean Copy w/ Insert  

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Aryan Disgrace – Faggot In The Family (Censored Version 1983)
    Aryan Disgrace – Faggot In The Family (Censored Version 1983)
    $400.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Mystic Records (8) – M45 127 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Censored Country: US Released: 1983 Media: VG Jacket: GEN Notes:Censored Version / “promotional copy” [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Active Ingredients – Active Ingredients (PROMO)
    Active Ingredients – Active Ingredients (PROMO)
    $80.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Not On Label – none Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1984 Media: VG+ Jacket: GEN Notes: No Sleeve. Comes with Generic Sleeve with Contact information […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Hüsker Dü – Eight Miles High (SST 1984)
    Hüsker Dü – Eight Miles High (SST 1984)
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: SST Records – SST 025 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: May 1984 Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Notes: Clean Copy, Sleeve has edge wear/ foxing  

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Freeze – Guilty Face (1982)
    The Freeze – Guilty Face (1982)
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Modern Method Records – MM018 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1982 Media:VG Jacket: G+ Notes: Plays great with only minimal noise. (Radio Station Copy) Jacket [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

VINYL

  • Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Hopkins
    Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Hopkins
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Texas bluesman Samuel “Lightnin’” Hopkins’ musical career was reignited by this 1959 release. With the aid of a little gin and a borrowed acoustic guitar, musicologist Sam Charters recorded [...]

    GENRE: Blues
  • Matmos – Return To Archive
    Matmos – Return To Archive
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • John Prine – Now Playing
    John Prine – Now Playing
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Introducing John Prine Now Playing on Cobalt Blue vinyl – This Now Playing John Prine’s tracklist features a collection of deeply personal and storytelling songs that span folk and [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
    Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Released by the Kapp label in 1970 and produced by the Oscar-winning Leonard Rosenman, Parallelograms was the first and only album by American psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs until the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The New Stan Getz Quartet ft. Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
    The New Stan Getz Quartet ft. Astrud Gilberto – Getz Au Go Go
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Recorded in 1964 during two concerts in the venerable Greenwich Village venue, the Café Au Go Go, two months after Astrud Gilberto’s “Girl From Ipanema” became a Top Five pop [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – The Magic Of Ju-Ju
    Archie Shepp – The Magic Of Ju-Ju
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Opening with the 18+ minute track of the same name, Archie Shepp’s The Magic of Ju-Ju takes on a fevered pace as the centerpiece of this date from 1968. Shepp […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Pharoah Sanders – Love In Us All
    Pharoah Sanders – Love In Us All
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Comprising of two extended length compositions – “Love Is Everywhere” and “To John”, this 1974 release through Impulse is evidence of Pharaoh Sanders’ ability during this time to force [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cherub Scourge / The Twerps – Split
    Cherub Scourge / The Twerps – Split
    $10.00 | , , , Add to cart

    Label: Small Town Kids Records – STK 03 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 33 ⅓ RPM Country: US Released: 1995 Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Notes: Clean Copy w/ Insert  

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Aryan Disgrace – Faggot In The Family (Censored Version 1983)
    Aryan Disgrace – Faggot In The Family (Censored Version 1983)
    $400.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Mystic Records (8) – M45 127 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Censored Country: US Released: 1983 Media: VG Jacket: GEN Notes:Censored Version / “promotional copy” [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Active Ingredients – Active Ingredients (PROMO)
    Active Ingredients – Active Ingredients (PROMO)
    $80.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Not On Label – none Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1984 Media: VG+ Jacket: GEN Notes: No Sleeve. Comes with Generic Sleeve with Contact information […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Hüsker Dü – Eight Miles High (SST 1984)
    Hüsker Dü – Eight Miles High (SST 1984)
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: SST Records – SST 025 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: May 1984 Media: VG+ Jacket: VG+ Notes: Clean Copy, Sleeve has edge wear/ foxing  

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Freeze – Guilty Face (1982)
    The Freeze – Guilty Face (1982)
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Modern Method Records – MM018 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, EP Country: US Released: 1982 Media:VG Jacket: G+ Notes: Plays great with only minimal noise. (Radio Station Copy) Jacket [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore

CDs

  • Don Cherry – “Mu” First Part / “Mu” Second Part
    Don Cherry – “Mu” First Part / “Mu” Second Part
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    – Two historic 1969 Paris recording sessions now gathered on one deluxe 2-CD set – Restored & remastered from the original tapes – New & insightful essay by author & [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
    Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Official BYG Records release: one of the defining labels of the Free Jazz era – Follow-up release of Live at the Panafrican Festival by Archie Shepp. After appearing with Archie […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Paul Bley – Ramblin’
    Paul Bley – Ramblin’
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    CD edition presented in a deluxe digi-sleeve that echoes the original LP’s aesthetics, complete with a 16-page booklet and an inner printed wallet. Includes exclusive notes by author and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Mother Gong – Fairy Tales
    Mother Gong – Fairy Tales
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Enhanced CD Edition remastered from the original master tapes. CD digi-sleeve mimics the vibe of the original LP and comes with a 12-page booklet that includes lyrics for an immersive […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    New 96KHZ-24bit transfer from an original mixed master – Facsimile stereo edition . 1967 second studio album by the Texan pioneers of psychedelia. This ground-breaking album not only [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
    Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Four tracks of harsh noise with a junk noise vortex that leans into all manner of collapsed constraint. Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, and guests Anjilla Ulfhednar, Scott Kindberg, Thomas Puopolo [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
    Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Tracks complied from previously released cassettes released on Property Solution as “Dopamine Scythe”, “Imprudent Abjection”, “Pure Slaughter Value” and “Sabotage Momentum” All sounds and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
    Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Amplexus is a raw unforgiving barrage of harsh noise as one might expect from two well-known figures in the noise world. There is definitely some shared territory with the newer […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
    Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Reissue of cassette on Bizarre Audio Arts from 2018

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Parasite Nurse  – Lack
    Parasite Nurse – Lack
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Parasite Nurse’s follow up to 2023’s “Life Is Beautiful” with “Lack” which as far as I’m concerned, it might be necessary to listen to as a whole, all [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
    Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    A live documentation of a collaboration between T. Mikawa: Electronics and Reona: Tap Dance, Metal sheets, Chains, Loud speaker. Disarming, complex tension creeping through a labyrinth of junk [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Max Roach Plus Four ‎– The Complete Mercury Max Roach Plus Four Sessions
    Max Roach Plus Four ‎– The Complete Mercury Max Roach Plus Four Sessions
    $110.00 | , Add to cart

    Incredible amount of Roach here… late 50s into early 60s group that includes Bob Boswell, Julian Priester, Ray Bryant, Stanley Turrentine & Tommy Turrentine. Label: Mosaic Records (2) – [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz

BOOKS

  • D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
    D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
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    Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
    More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking & Legacy of L.A. Punk
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.’s punk rock […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, Punk / Hardcore
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
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    Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of France’s leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
    Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
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    Over the past twenty-five years, Italy’s film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    Mel Bochner – Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings & Interviews.
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, magazine interventions, and other writings on art and art in the form of writing by a leading conceptual [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
    Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
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    An innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media. Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
    Rauschenberg: Art & Life (New Edition)
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    A revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    Dieter Roth: Souvenirs. (Text in English & German)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    Art polymath extraordinaire, Dieter Roth (1930-1998) maintained throughout his career an output so prodigious and various that art historians and fans are still struggling to keep up. Bringing [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Artist & His Critic Stripped Bare: The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel (Bilingual Edition)
    Artist & His Critic Stripped Bare: The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel (Bilingual Edition)
    $9.00 | , , Add to cart

    Robert Lebel, French art critic and collector, was instrumental in rendering Marcel Duchamp’s often hermetic life, art, and ideas accessible to a wider public across Europe and the United States, [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
    Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
    Arthur Machen – Ornaments In Jade
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    Long out of print and presented here for the first time in paperback, is Arthur Machen’s classic collection of prose poems. The ten exquisite pieces included in this volume are: […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive