April 19th Newsletter
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NEW ARRIVALS

  • Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
    Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Koln, Germany around 1991. After a 40-minute train ride from Aachen, Christoph Heemann and Jim O’Rourke are sitting around with Jan St. Werner, C-Schulz, Frank Dommert and George Odjik. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smog – Knock Knock
    Smog – Knock Knock
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Featuring string quartet and children’s choir, just like The Wall. We don’t need no stinkin’ education, just the new Smog album (and our front teeth back).

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gentle Leader XIV – Joke in the Shadow
    Gentle Leader XIV – Joke in the Shadow
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    End days pop. Electronic extinction rock. No future for sure, surf’s up dude. Gentle Leader XIV (jen-tul lee-der ex-ivy) is a post-punk synth-pop band from the ends of Ohio. The […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • SiP – Leos Ultras
    SiP – Leos Ultras
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    [Out Nov 1st!] A full four years after Chicago organ maestro Jimmy Lacy’s maiden voyage as SiP (Leos Naturals, 2020), he returns with a lush, layered, long-awaited sequel: Leos Ultras. […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
    Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The second album from Nick Drake came in 1970, and while not quite as melancholy as his debut, Five Leaves Left, there are certain brooding qualities that continued to propagate […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
    Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    “I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn’t let go of. It’s an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
    Einstürzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost fully a cappella title track, [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Ende Neu
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Ende Neu
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    On this release, the quintessential scientists of the post-avant-garde abstain from focusing on listener disintegration tactics as they did on prior albums, but opt instead to hone their [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Haus Der Luege
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Haus Der Luege
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    This is the fifth album by Einstürzende Neubauten, originally released in 1989, now remastered. Highly energetic and possessed of a certain level of danceability, Haus Der Lüge was perhaps the [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstérzende Neubauten (trans. “Collapsing New Buildings”). The [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Silence Is Sexy
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Silence Is Sexy
    $49.00 | , Add to cart

    Gatefold vinyl reissue of Einstürzende Neubauten‘s Silence Is Sexy, originally released in 2000. This vinyl double album contains the track “Pelikanol,” first available as a [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics

VINYL

  • Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    Aerial M ‎– Aerial M
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    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
  • Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
    Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Koln, Germany around 1991. After a 40-minute train ride from Aachen, Christoph Heemann and Jim O’Rourke are sitting around with Jan St. Werner, C-Schulz, Frank Dommert and George Odjik. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Smog – Knock Knock
    Smog – Knock Knock
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Featuring string quartet and children’s choir, just like The Wall. We don’t need no stinkin’ education, just the new Smog album (and our front teeth back).

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gentle Leader XIV – Joke in the Shadow
    Gentle Leader XIV – Joke in the Shadow
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    End days pop. Electronic extinction rock. No future for sure, surf’s up dude. Gentle Leader XIV (jen-tul lee-der ex-ivy) is a post-punk synth-pop band from the ends of Ohio. The […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • SiP – Leos Ultras
    SiP – Leos Ultras
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    [Out Nov 1st!] A full four years after Chicago organ maestro Jimmy Lacy’s maiden voyage as SiP (Leos Naturals, 2020), he returns with a lush, layered, long-awaited sequel: Leos Ultras. […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
    Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The second album from Nick Drake came in 1970, and while not quite as melancholy as his debut, Five Leaves Left, there are certain brooding qualities that continued to propagate […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
    Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    “I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn’t let go of. It’s an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
    Einstürzende Neubauten – 1/2 Mensch
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost fully a cappella title track, [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Ende Neu
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Ende Neu
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    On this release, the quintessential scientists of the post-avant-garde abstain from focusing on listener disintegration tactics as they did on prior albums, but opt instead to hone their [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Haus Der Luege
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Haus Der Luege
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    This is the fifth album by Einstürzende Neubauten, originally released in 1989, now remastered. Highly energetic and possessed of a certain level of danceability, Haus Der Lüge was perhaps the [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Kollaps
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstérzende Neubauten (trans. “Collapsing New Buildings”). The [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Einstürzende Neubauten – Silence Is Sexy
    Einstürzende Neubauten – Silence Is Sexy
    $49.00 | , Add to cart

    Gatefold vinyl reissue of Einstürzende Neubauten‘s Silence Is Sexy, originally released in 2000. This vinyl double album contains the track “Pelikanol,” first available as a [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics

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
  • Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh ‎– The Complete Atlantic Recordings Of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh
    Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh ‎– The Complete Atlantic Recordings Of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh
    $80.00 | , , Add to cart

    Cool jazz giants boxset. Very ill – 6CDs. Label: Mosaic Records (2) – MD6-174 Format: 6 x CD, Compilation Box Set, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: US Released: 1997 VG+/VG+ Virtually [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz

BOOKS

  • D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
    D. N. Rodowick – Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    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
  • Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
    Big Goodbye: Chinatown & the Last Years of Hollywood
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    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
  • Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    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
  • After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age
    $10.00 | , , Add to cart

    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
  • Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
    Kate Brideau – Typographic Medium
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    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
  • 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
  • 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