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  • Blue Lick – Hold On, Hold Fast
    Blue Lick – Hold On, Hold Fast
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    “I was trying to express the aggression I was feeling without sounding like I had a chip on my shoulder.” That’s Havadine Stone of experimental electronic project Blue Lick, a […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Josephine Foster – Godmother
    Josephine Foster – Godmother
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    A beautifully observed baroque masterpiece, part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk with ambient synths and Josephine Foster’s plaintive guitar. Godmother is a slowly unfolding song cycle that [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • So Pitted – Neo
    So Pitted – Neo
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    Nathan Rodriguez, of Seattle’s So Pitted, is referring to a viral clip of a surfer, standing on the shore in front of mountainous morning waves, relaying to a reporter the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 2.1E+12
    2.1E+12
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    On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • M//R – Anxious Meditation LP
    M//R – Anxious Meditation LP
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    Description With a steady drip of releases from labels such as Great Circles, L.I.E.S., and Jack Dept., Philadephia-based M//R (Billy Werner) has carved out a uniquely penumbral club zone. [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Dexter Gordon – Clubhouse
    Dexter Gordon – Clubhouse
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    One of the enduring mysteries of Blue Note history is that superb sessions such as Dexter Gordon’s Clubhouse (recorded in 1965) remained unreleased until the late 1970s. Recorded during [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jackie McLean – Destination Out
    Jackie McLean – Destination Out
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    he innovative hard bop of Jackie McLean evolved as the `60s progressed. Inspired by Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist ventured into the avant-garde but never let go of a soulful sense […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Jon Mueller – Family Secret
    Jon Mueller – Family Secret
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    Wisconsin musician Jon Mueller is inquisitive. Open to pushing his experience and his limits, he’s demonstrated the many sides of himself both as a solo performer and as a key […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Little Bits – Girl Give Me Love (Orange Vinyl)
    The Little Bits – Girl Give Me Love (Orange Vinyl)
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    Wailing and thrashing around the melody like candy-fueled maniacs, The Little Bits pack a punch so savage it makes appropriately aged teen rockers hopped up on testosterone and intoxicants sound [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Alan Licht – Currents
    Alan Licht – Currents
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    What our staff has to say: “Gorgeous acoustic guitar instrumentals, melodies are hidden everywhere within Alan Licht’s thick strumming style. This record will excite you and put you at [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
    Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
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    On Transgression!!!, Donald Miller, guitar icon known for destroying worlds in the great Borbetomagus, takes the listener on an unexpected journey through the 12-string acoustic guitar. Utilizing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Mr Dibbs x Brett Fullerton – Everything Burns Everybody Bleeds LP
    Mr Dibbs x Brett Fullerton – Everything Burns Everybody Bleeds LP
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    NO DONKEYS, NO ELEPHANTS… NO GODS, NO MASTERS…

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • The Dodos – Grizzly Peak (Light Pink Vinyl)
    The Dodos – Grizzly Peak (Light Pink Vinyl)
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    For over 15 years, The Dodos have been careening, almost recklessly, towards some perfect ideal of how The Dodos should sound. First formed with the intention of creating a record […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Deerhoof – Reveille (Light Blue Vinyl)
    Deerhoof – Reveille (Light Blue Vinyl)
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    Reveille, Deerhoof‘s fourth full-length, is the first to feature guitarist John Dieterich, joining existing members Satomi Matsuzaki and Greg Saunier. This re-issue of Reveille features a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
    Eric Chenaux – Say Laura
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    The new record by Eric Chenaux is his most immaculate and pristine. Say Laura perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Endless Boogie – Admonitions
    Endless Boogie – Admonitions
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    Endless Boogie rejoins with its fifth proper studio album for No Quarter. It contains and is called ADMONITIONS. Seven tracks of unrefined wisdom, mostly put to tape in improvised fashion […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ryley Walker ‎– Course In Fable
    Ryley Walker ‎– Course In Fable
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    released April 2, 2021 Ryley Walker- Guitar/Vocals Andrew Scott Young – Bass/Piano Bill MacKay – Guitar/Piano Ryan Jewell – Drums/Percussion John McEntire – [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding (Mono)
    Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding (Mono)
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    In the year of psychedelia, Dylan bucked the trend with this rootsy classic. All Along the Watchtower is the highlight on an album packed with amazing tracks like I Dreamed […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn
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    10 new songs that capture the raw, idiosyncratic rock and roll spirit and lyrical beauty that epitomizes a classic NYCH collaboration. Recorded this summer under a full moon, in a […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tor Lundvall – Beautiful Illusions
    Tor Lundvall – Beautiful Illusions
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    New York painter and musician Tor Lundvall initially envisioned his 14th album, Beautiful Illusions, as an entirely instrumental affair, “inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Constant Smiles – Paragons
    Constant Smiles – Paragons
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    Typically, a band’s big indie label debut doesn’t come 15 albums into its career, but with Constant Smiles’ Paragons, here we are. Primary songwriter and sole “constant” member Ben [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bunkur Vs. Mordor ‎–S/T
    Bunkur Vs. Mordor ‎–S/T
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    After several years in the making, it is Nuclear War Now’s honor to finally present this split album from Bunkur and Mordor, two of the most extreme and unorthodox bands […]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Joanna Newsom ‎– Divers
    Joanna Newsom ‎– Divers
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    …further along and down the road apiece from where she took her leave of us, Joanna Newsom plays on. Breathe deep and equalize your today-ears to the new world of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
    Royal Trux “Live” ‎– Platinum Tips + Ice Cream
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    Platinum Tips + Ice Cream is the first release from Royal Trux in 17 years, culled from two live sets recently recorded in New York and Los Angeles. It is […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Royal Trux ‎– Hand Of Glory
    Royal Trux ‎– Hand Of Glory
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    Royal Trux’s 1990 four-song album Twin Infinitives holds an odd position in the canon of drug music. Neil “Michael” Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema have said that although the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Royal Trux ‎– Pound For Pound
    Royal Trux ‎– Pound For Pound
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    On Pound for Pound, Royal Trux’s second album within a year, the increasingly prolific group revisits the laid-back, scuzzy sound of albums like Thank You and Sweet Sixteen — albeit [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
    Bill MacKay – Fountain Fire
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    In and out of focus in a hallucinogenic haze, Bill’s conversations with himself follow a travel-worn map copied over and over again. The picker journeys sonically from familiar to unknown [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • No Age – Goons Be Gone
    No Age – Goons Be Gone
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    Summer 2020, and No Age are back out on the street! Effortlessly raw and extravagantly indulgent in one practiced swoop, they set their live/bedroom internal clock and get out early […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gary Higgins ‎– Seconds
    Gary Higgins ‎– Seconds
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    “The music business is full of funny stories — and some of them aren’t that funny at all. Take Gary Higgins. In the early 70s, he made a great record, […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Father Yod And The Spirit Of ’76 ‎– Kohoutek
    Father Yod And The Spirit Of ’76 ‎– Kohoutek
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      “….the second coming of Kohoutek. This was the first spontaneous release that was made into a record, credited to Father Yod and The Spirit of ’76. It came out […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Cat Power – Wanderer
    Cat Power – Wanderer
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    Produced in its entirety by Chan Marshall herself, Wanderer represents a remarkable return from an iconic American voice. 24” x 24” poster foldout with embossed outer sleeve

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Deerhoof – Holdypaws
    Deerhoof – Holdypaws
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    During the recording of Holdypaws, Saunier thought he’d discovered a foolproof formula for high-fidelity pop perfection, but things didn’t turn out as planned. “Our friend Bob got a computer,” [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Red Death – Permanent Exile
    Red Death – Permanent Exile
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    “In 2014, DC’s RED DEATH came out of the gate and obliterated everyone with one of the best hardcore demos of the year. Their first recorded output channeled the sheer […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Nightmare – Thirsty And Wander
    Nightmare – Thirsty And Wander
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    Latest album by japanese hardcore band Nightmare, the same guys who made the excellent “Give Notice Of Nightmare” back in ’88. The 10 new songs are great and the old […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Criminal Code – No Device
    Criminal Code – No Device
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    First LP PNW punk outfit Criminal Code on Deranged Records

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
    Sunday Morning Einsteins – Kangnave
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    Charging Swedish punk attack, burning guitars and sore throats, cracked cymbals and worn out DISCHARGE records, KSngNSve ( pronounced SCHANG-NAA-VEH, meaning “Crust Fist”) is the [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines
    Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines
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    eople have written about roads for as long as they’ve been around. And before there were roads, people still wrote about travel and about landscape. Roads are the stages upon […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lie In Ruins – Floating In Timeless Streams
    Lie In Ruins – Floating In Timeless Streams
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    Six years since Finland’s Lie in Ruin’s last full-length (2014’s Towards Divine Death), “Floating in Timeless Streams” sees a more streamlined approach from the [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Razor – Live! Osaka Saikou 大阪最高 Reissue (black vinyl)
    Razor – Live! Osaka Saikou 大阪最高 Reissue (black vinyl)
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    RAZOR, Canada’s legendary Thrash Metal icons return with the reissue of their classic 1984 debut EP, Armed & Dangerous, and the highly sought-after 2011 live album, Live! Osaka Saikou [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet – S/T
    Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet – S/T
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    Luke Stewart – bass Jarvis Earnshaw – sitar, loops Ryan Sawyer – drums Devan Waldman – alto sax

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • The Goon Sax – Mirror II
    The Goon Sax – Mirror II
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    Since forming in high school, Brisbane band The Goon Sax—the trio of Riley Jones, Louis Forster, and James Harrison, best friends who take turns writing, singing, and playing each instrument— [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Algiers ‎– There Is No Year
    Algiers ‎– There Is No Year
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    In the FBI file on the American rock ‘n’ roll band Algiers—which given their prior penchant for repping the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, and Afeni Shakur, among others, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
    Efterklang ‎– Altid Sammen
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    Seven years after their last album release, Efterklang make a welcome return with a fifth studio record Altid Sammen on 20th September. Altid Sammen (meaning “always together”) is deep and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Circuit Des Yeux _? -io
    Circuit Des Yeux _? -io
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    Haley Fohr (b. Dec 16 1988) is a vocalist, composer and singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. Her musical endeavors focus around our human condition, and her 10-year career as Circuit des [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Doug Carn – Adam’s Apple
    Doug Carn – Adam’s Apple
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    Doug Carn made four records for the Black Jazz label, more than any other artist, and each one topped the previous release’s lofty standard. Adam’s Apple was his last (1974) […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • V/A – Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records
    V/A – Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records
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    Craft Recordings is pleased to launch its 75th-anniversary celebrations of Specialty Records with a brand-new compilation, Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records. Available for pre-order now, [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • D.O.A. – War On 45
    D.O.A. – War On 45
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    Reissue of this 1982 D.O.A. classic album in its original form. This was D.O.A’s third album, coming on the heels of Something Better Change and Hardcore 81. It made a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Static – Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
    Static – Toothpaste And Pills (Demos And Live 1978-1981)
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    Long before John Brannon of Negative Approach cemented himself as a USHC icon, you would hear rumblings about his pre-NA glam group, STATIC. Only a handful of people were lucky/brave […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • King Hannibal (featuring Lee Moses)  – Truth
    King Hannibal (featuring Lee Moses) – Truth
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    James Shaw (aka The Mighty Hannibal aka King Hannibal) was an American R&B, soul and funk singer, songwriter and record producer known for his showmanship and outlandish costumes. Several of [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bobby Story – The Storyteller
    Bobby Story – The Storyteller
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    Bobby Patterson’s (born 1944) life in music has had many facets. Whether as a DJ in Texas (he had a popular show at the Dallas-based radio station KKDA until 2012), a producer […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco