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  • Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over You
    Durand Jones – Wait Til I Get Over You
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    Durand Jones’s Wait ‘Til I Get Over is a memoir and a love letter. It is the story of Jones’s life, his growth and revelations, the wisdom of his hometown […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Calvin Johnson – Gallows Wine
    Calvin Johnson – Gallows Wine
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    Rock’n’roll is dead. Gallows Wine [KLP287] is a wake for it’s charred remains. Calvin Johnson traveled to Columbus, Mississippi to record Gallows Wine with the combo Hartle Road at their [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Komet – Rausch LP
    Komet – Rausch LP
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      Komet // Frank Bretschneider is one of the founders of the esteemed raster-media label. This album – originally a CD released on 12k in 2000, features clean sine-tones and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
    Tom Zé – The Hips Of Tradition – Brazil 5: The Return Of Tom Zé
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    “Tom Zé continues to feed off of these conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the […]

    GENRE: International
  • Howard “Youngblood” Bomar – I Who Have Nothing
    Howard “Youngblood” Bomar – I Who Have Nothing
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    Howard “Youngblood” Bomar’s long overdue debut album finally makes landfall! Howard Bomar was a man who slipped through everybody’s fingers. But his artistry escapes that fate thanks to I, Who [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Grupo Um – Starting Point
    Grupo Um – Starting Point
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    Includes insert. The previously unreleased debut album from 1975. In 1975, under the oppressive military dictatorship in Brazil, brothers Lelo and Zé Eduardo Nazario invited bassist Zeca [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Fred Davis – Cleveland Blues (RSD)
    Fred Davis – Cleveland Blues (RSD)
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    “Fred Davis was a legend, but only in my living room. There was always music around my house, but as a teenager, I started digging deeper and deeper in to […]

    GENRE: Blues
  • The Verlaines – Bird Dog (RSD, Opaque Purple Vinyl)
    The Verlaines – Bird Dog (RSD, Opaque Purple Vinyl)
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    Bird Dog is an album by The Verlaines, originally released in 1987. It’s often considered to be their best, most introspective piece of work, and its songs “Slow Sad Love […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • William Hooker – Shamballa – Duets With Thurston Moore And Elliott Sharp (RSD)
    William Hooker – Shamballa – Duets With Thurston Moore And Elliott Sharp (RSD)
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    Shamballa is the 1993 collaboration from jazz drummer William Hooker, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and composer Elliott Sharp. The release features Hooker performing duets with each musician. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Frank Black – Live 2006 (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
    Frank Black – Live 2006 (RSD, Colored Vinyl)
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    Live tracks previously included on the ’93 – ’03 Best Of CD, which have never before been released on vinyl. This stand-alone release for Record Store Day 2023 has newly […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Residents – Our Finest Flowers (RSD)
    The Residents – Our Finest Flowers (RSD)
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    In 1992, The Residents pondered their 20th Anniversary. A best-of collection had been proposed, and the group gathered together to draw up a potential tracklist. All was well until one […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • ‘-  – Jazz Artist Guild – Newport Rebels () (NM or M-)
    ‘- – Jazz Artist Guild – Newport Rebels () (NM or M-)
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    Mingus and Roach’s protest to the pop leaning Newport Jazz Festival / Remastered by Bernie Grundman / Exclusive Color / 180 gm / 24pt Matte Jacket

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jason Doell –  Becoming In The Shadows ~ Of Being Touched LP
    Jason Doell – Becoming In The Shadows ~ Of Being Touched LP
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    It’s hard to parse exactly what you’re listening to when you immerse yourself in Jason Doell’s new recording, Becoming In Shadows ~ Of Being Touched. The old adage about never [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • XV – On The Creekbeds On The Thrones
    XV – On The Creekbeds On The Thrones
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    What our staff has to say: “Psycho garage jammers XV with an incredible LP of mangled rock. 10/10 Beyond measure, it’s a perfect album. Disjointed jangle garage stoner thrift midnight […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Spiteful Womb – Interior Castle
    Spiteful Womb – Interior Castle
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    the debut LP of Nora Zimmerman’s project Spiteful Womb. ‘Interior Castle’ coalesces so many of the elements which have coursed through Nora’s near-decade of cassette and CDR releases, combining [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Shirese – Rose Of Smiling Faces LP
    Shirese – Rose Of Smiling Faces LP
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    What our staff has to say: “If the almighty Grapefruit Records has a hand in it, you know it’s going to be good. Killer psyched out rock very reminiscent of […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sleaford Mods – UK Grim (Silver Vinyl)
    Sleaford Mods – UK Grim (Silver Vinyl)
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    Sleaford Mods will return in 2023 with new album UK GRIM. Throughout their music the duo’s poetic protest and electronic resistance has seen them consistency chart and call out their […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A – Sound
    V/A – Sound
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    What our staff has to say: “Etats-Unis (Superior Viaduct’s more experimental reissue label) had a recent LAFMS drop (Smegma, ID Art #2, Blorp Esette Volume One, and the La Forte […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • V/A – I.d. Art #2
    V/A – I.d. Art #2
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    “Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) formed in the mid-1970s as a loose-knit experimental music collective and multimedia publishing vehicle. Founded by teenage Le Forte Four members [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Phil Ranelin – The Time Is Now!
    Phil Ranelin – The Time Is Now!
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    2023 repress. “The Tribe co-founder’s debut, lacquered directly from his master tapes in an all-analog transfer by Bernie Grundman. The definitive reissue of this spiritual jazz album [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Avey Tare – 7s
    Avey Tare – 7s
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    During the first week of January 2021, Avey Tare (Animal Collective) began making regular drives to his friend Adam McDaniel’s Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, NC to give guts […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Melvin Van Peebles – Watermelon Man (Green Watermelon Skin Vinyl
    Melvin Van Peebles – Watermelon Man (Green Watermelon Skin Vinyl
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    In an extraordinary career spanning seven decades, director and “godfather of black cinema” Melvin Van Peebles only made one studio film. 1970’s Watermelon Man shattered [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • East Coast – S/T (Fire Orange With Black Streaks Vinyl)
    East Coast – S/T (Fire Orange With Black Streaks Vinyl)
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    The only conceivable reason this 1973 album isn’t generally recognized as a soul-funk classic is because it came out on Bernard Purdie’s Encounter label, which mustered only five LP [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • George Scott – Find Someone to Love (Green Vinyl)
    George Scott – Find Someone to Love (Green Vinyl)
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    This soul-funk nugget, released in the early ’70s on the uber-collectible Maple label, qualifies as a major find based on George Scott’s Wilson Pickett-meets-James-Brown vocal [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Beat Happening – Dreamy
    Beat Happening – Dreamy
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    Produced by Steve Fisk. Released in tandem with the International Pop Underground festival, 1991 was a very good year on the S.S. Beat Happening. Songs from Dreamy crowd many fan […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Siegfried Kessler / Gus Nemeth / Stu Martin – Solaire
    Siegfried Kessler / Gus Nemeth / Stu Martin – Solaire
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    Reissue, originally released in 1971. Solaire, Siegfried Kessler, that is the least you can say! Aged four: learns piano. Aged six: his first concert. After this: studies classical music like [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Beat Happening – Black Candy
    Beat Happening – Black Candy
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    What our staff has to say: “Some records should never go out of print, Beat Happening’s output is a staple of indie rock. Glad these are available again, for now.” […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • SOHN – Trust
    SOHN – Trust
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    Trust marks a seismic shift in perception and direction for the solo artist, echoing SOHN’s new responsibility as the father of three children. Moving from Los Angeles to the serenity […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Romantične Boje – Romantične Boje LP
    Romantične Boje – Romantične Boje LP
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    In cooperation with Doomed To Extinction Records Romanticne Boje (Romantic Colours) was the very first synth-pop band from Nis, a town in South Eastern Serbia (former Yugoslavia). They started as [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Joy Division – Unreleased Pleasures
    Joy Division – Unreleased Pleasures
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    Unreleased radio sessions and demos spanning Joy Division’s career. Fan club edition.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • The Fall – Live At The Phoenix Festival ’95
    The Fall – Live At The Phoenix Festival ’95
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    The Fall’s performance at the annual Phoenix Festival was broadcast live on the BBC by DJ John Peel. Their blistering 1995 performance is now available here in deluxe vinyl format […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Cosmic Jokers / Sternenmädchen – Gilles Zeitschiff
    Cosmic Jokers / Sternenmädchen – Gilles Zeitschiff
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    Reissue of the original 1974 album by Gille Lettmann aka Sternenmädchen/Star Maiden. Live in the Quadro Studio: Gille and Klaus Schulze. Music inserts from the LPs Seven Up (Ash Ra […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Love & Rockets – Express
    Love & Rockets – Express
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    Express is a unique, mystical and transcendental travelogue of sorts. The original press release for the album said that “the balance of light and dark, positive and negative, yin and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future
    Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future
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    Sons of Kemet return in 2021 with their new album Black To The Future. This release finds the UK-based quartet at their most dynamic – showcasing harmonically elegant arrangements and […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McClean – A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80th Anniversary Edition)
    Jackie McClean – A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80th Anniversary Edition)
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series Curated by Don Was and Cem Kurosman; Great Reid Miles Covers (Part 3) Themed Installment Presented on 180g Vinyl LP In honor of Blue […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Grant Green – The Latin Bit (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
    Grant Green – The Latin Bit (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
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    All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Grant Green’s The Latin Bit Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Just Coolin’
    Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Just Coolin’
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    All-analog 180-gram LP mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio No drummer more palpably imprinted their sonic identity and aesthetic principles on the soundtrack and culture of late 20th- and [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Frank Wright Trio – Frank Wright Trio
    Frank Wright Trio – Frank Wright Trio
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    Reissue, originally released on ESP Disk’ in 1966. Frank “The Reverend” Wright was one of the most powerful saxophonists to pick up on Albert Ayler‘s freedom and ferocious [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Matthew J Rolin – Passing
    Matthew J Rolin – Passing
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    What our staff has to say: “I’m a big fan of Matthew Rolin’s guitar style, and this recent record is stunning. Each track is a dense, glimmering passage of fingerstyle […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Smut – How The Light Felt (Transparent Orange Vinyl)
    Smut – How The Light Felt (Transparent Orange Vinyl)
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    Smut shines a spotlight on the sounds of the 90s across genres – a record scratch, a spacey synth line, a breakcore beat – all while maintaining freshness and originality. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tempers – New Meaning
    Tempers – New Meaning
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    The New York City duo of Jasmine Golestaneh and Eddie Cooper aka Tempers specialize in a sleek strain of low-lit poetic synth-pop, the latest statement of which feels like the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
    Wasteland Jazz Ensemble – S/T 2xLP
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    Out December 16th, 2022 – Pre-Orders ship immediately! “Wasteland Jazz Unit is a staple in the world of destroyed music. With countless releases cataloged by a literal who’s who [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Harko City – Harko City
    Harko City – Harko City
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    Harko City is a cult industrial/ horror electronics project of Evan Price and Cory Rowell (Demonologists). The debut album for Harko City contains 15 tracks, 4 of which have the […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Chronophage – S/T
    Chronophage – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Chronophage is one of those bands that I will forever be interested in their output. This most recent record feels like a small departure […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
    Takehisa Kosugi & Akio Suzuki – New Sense of Hearing
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    On April 2, 1979, Japanese musicians and Fluxus practitioners Takehiosa Kosugi and Akio Suzuki recorded New Sense of Hearing at Tokyo’s Aeolian Hall. Described by Suzuki as the “culmination” of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Iceage – Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015?2021
    Iceage – Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015?2021
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    Shake the Feeling: B-Sides & Rarities 2015–2021 surveys the sound surrounding Iceage’s last three albums, Plowing Into the Field of Love, Beyondless and Seek Shelter. A study in the powerful [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Ryu Hankil – 3
    Ryu Hankil – 3
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    Released by Incheon Art Platform in Korea. “This is also connected with exorcism. In the ruling system of medieval religion and politics, demons, devils, etc. were treated as viruses that [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Various Artists – Ny Dansk Romantik LP
    Various Artists – Ny Dansk Romantik LP
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    Iindisputably, one of the most critically acclaimed compilations in 2014. Originally released on cassette by Janushoved on a much sought-after limited edition of 61 copies, now outstandingly [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Sorry Eric – The Problem With Fun LP
    Sorry Eric – The Problem With Fun LP
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    What our staff has to say: “Honestly how does a record this good get made??? Sorry Eric – The Problem with fun is the perfect driving the car record, it’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    Sluggo – Sluggo LP
    $18.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Sluggo was that band, and The Contradiction E.P. that gave me pride of being from the midwest. Amazing reissue with the first EP and […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore