March 8th Newsletter
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  • Soul Side ‎– Less Deep Inside Keeps
    Soul Side ‎– Less Deep Inside Keeps
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    “From the ashes of LUNCHMEAT, this band kicks out a strong melodic hardcore sound much like that of early SCREAM. Catchy riffs, clear vocals, pounding bass and personally political lyrics [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Jerry’s Kids ‎– Kill Kill Kill
    Jerry’s Kids ‎– Kill Kill Kill
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The new Kids harness some of the original blurring speed on solid crunchers like “Fire,” “Bad Trip” and “Back Off,” but there’s a weightier demi-metal bottom to most of Kill […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Government Issue ‎– Crash
    Government Issue ‎– Crash
    $16.00 | , , Add to cart

    “The apex of GI’s studio career, Crash is something of a musical summary of the band’s eight-year history. Each track sounds as if it had been assembled on a loom, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Grong Grong ‎– Grong Grong
    Grong Grong ‎– Grong Grong
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “That weird ol’ Jello has a passion for dementia (FLIPPER, BUTTHOLES, etc.) and after seeing these guys Down Under, decided to get ’em released domestically. Like the aforementioned bands, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • U.K. Subs* – A.W.O.L. (1987 blue vinyl)
    U.K. Subs* – A.W.O.L. (1987 blue vinyl)
    $24.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Circa ’82 SUBS, some released before, some not — all studio. Classic punk sounds from a band that dates back to ’77 and who sport a singer older than me. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Faith – Subject To Change
    Faith – Subject To Change
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “What can I say? Wherever MINOR THREAT left off, FAITH might be able to step in. Even though I worry that they might be too much of a sound-alike, they’re […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – Rodney On The ROQ Vol. III
    V/A – Rodney On The ROQ Vol. III
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “1982 Posh Boy comp featuring The Vandals, Ill Repute, The Bangles & more” Label: Posh Boy – PBS 140 Series: Rodney On The ROQ – Vol. III Format:  Vinyl, LP, […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Discharge – Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
    Discharge – Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Doom with a very fast beat. Don’t say that these guys didn’t warn us if someone drops the big one, because this is the second LP (they also have four […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • English Dogs ‎– Metalmorphosis
    English Dogs ‎– Metalmorphosis
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Adie’s vox have a character that brings the great speedcore compositions of the ENGLISH DOGS to a thundering proportion, raw, uncompromising, and shouting. They blurt well with this crazed [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • S.N.F.U* – … And No One Else Wanted To Play
    S.N.F.U* – … And No One Else Wanted To Play
    $40.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Rigorous energy pushing the limits of power with knocking flurry and extreme excitement. One of the best Canadian releases in a long time, this album carries a weight of potent […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Psycho ‎– Hosebags From Hell
    Psycho ‎– Hosebags From Hell
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    “PSYCHO has released a full album’s worth of blazing thrash which is undeniably powerful, but some tempo variations would have helped. Lyrics cover conformity, society, Ed Gein, and more. A [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Neurosis ‎– The Word As Law (check condition, plays w/some noise)
    Neurosis ‎– The Word As Law (check condition, plays w/some noise)
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    A transitional Neurosis album, not far from their hardcore beginnings but before full on metal. Label: Lookout! Records ‎– Lookout 021 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 01 Jun […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Sons Of Ishmael ‎– Pariah Martyr Demands A Sacrifice
    Sons Of Ishmael ‎– Pariah Martyr Demands A Sacrifice
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Two years after the Hayseed Hardcore EP and some lineup changes, the Canadian SONS return. This is a great album of sociopolitical thrash and the lyrics are right on target. […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Stikky ‎– Where’s My Lunchpail?
    Stikky ‎– Where’s My Lunchpail?
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “We’d already been to Los Angeles to play and record with a label that never got off the ground, but that had promised us the world. Chris felt like a […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Jerry’s Kids – Is This My World?
    Jerry’s Kids – Is This My World?
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “An adventure into hyperactive, full-tilt, bulldozing quickness and thundering power. This overwhelming supply of burning rapid-fire speed destroys the mold, exploding into maniac doses of [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Broken Bones ‎– Bonecrusher
    Broken Bones ‎– Bonecrusher
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Side one is the better recorded of the sides, with a mighty driving bass clearing all obstacles, leading the way for non-stop metalish thrash. Lyrics remain in the doom-and-gloom mold, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Detox ‎– Detox
    Detox ‎– Detox
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Sounds like a less thrashy and slightly more serious VANDALS. There’s lots of catchy punk songs with lots of humor or satire, plenty of melody, tight playing, and even tinges […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Cro-Mags – Best Wishes (promo)
    Cro-Mags – Best Wishes (promo)
    $65.00 | , , Add to cart

    Crossover classick – Cro-Mags 2nd album of Hindu Thrash… Label: Profile Records ‎– PRO-1274-DJ Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo Country: US Released: 26 Apr 1989 VG+/VG Light marks. [...]

    GENRE: Metal, Punk / Hardcore
  • V/A – They Don’t Get Paid, They Don’t Get Laid, But Boy Do They Work Hard! (A D.I.Y. Compilation)
    V/A – They Don’t Get Paid, They Don’t Get Laid, But Boy Do They Work Hard! (A D.I.Y. Compilation)
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    1989 MRR comp featuring The Detonators, Amenity, Christ On A Crutch, Nausea, Apocalypse, Conspiracy of Equals & MORE. Label: Maximumrocknroll ‎– MRR No. 4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Würm – Feast
    Würm – Feast
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    “Würm prefigured Chuck Dukowski’s tenure in Black Flag; he reformed the group temporarily in 1982 and cut a belated LP which SST issued a few years later. Feast features the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Judge ‎– Bringin’ It Down
    Judge ‎– Bringin’ It Down
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    Meathead positive hardcore. Nasty riffs. Label: Revelation Records Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1989 VG/VG High end VG with some noticeable light marks.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Vinny & Charlie – The Repo Code
    Vinny & Charlie – The Repo Code
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Following in the steps of last year’s mysterious “Beyond the Garage” 12 inch, L.I.E.S. throws another curve ball with a 30 track continuous LP from veteran West Coast producers, [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Wolf Eyes – Dread
    Wolf Eyes – Dread
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    A sought after early Wolf Eyes album back on vinyl and CD for the first time in 17 years. Originally released on Hanson Records, American Tapes and Bulb Records in […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Tommy Jay & Mike Rep ‎– The Grim-O Comix Sequence
    Tommy Jay & Mike Rep ‎– The Grim-O Comix Sequence
    $17.00 | , , Add to cart

    “It’s not essential, but this collection of early, (mostly) acoustic recordings from Ohio oddballs Tommy Jay and Mike Rep is there for you when you want to wade deep into […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
    Technicolor Band – Walks The Blue Circle
    $25.00 | , Ships on/around May 19, 2025 Add to cart

    Technicolor Band is a revolving-cast, cross-genre improv unit based in Bloomington, IN. The group, initially instigated by multi-instrumentalists David Brown and Caleb Hickman as a regular [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
    Church Shuttle – ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle
    $22.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 01, 2025 Add to cart

    Pre-order ships on or around April 1st, 2025. Church Shuttle “ESP Grifter / Junk Oracle” is an 8 track LP of alien abducted industrial music. Specifically Pure Michigan soundscapes Chris […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Richard Band ‎– H.P. Lovecradt’s Classic Tale of Horror Re-Animator (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    Richard Band ‎– H.P. Lovecradt’s Classic Tale of Horror Re-Animator (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
    $70.00 | , , Add to cart

    OG Copy! “Stuart Gordon’s 1985 movie based on the H.P. Lovecraft story “Herbery West – Re-Animator” was an instantly made its mark on the science fiction horror genre. [...]

    GENRE: Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Henry Wolff, Nancy Hennings With Drew Gladstone – Tibetan Bells
    Henry Wolff, Nancy Hennings With Drew Gladstone – Tibetan Bells
    $8.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Back in 1972, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings made a landmark recording. They released the first album of Tibetan singing bowls and Tibetan bells. They, in effect, introduced the meditative [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Quiet Sun – Mainstream
    Quiet Sun – Mainstream
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    “QUIET SUN is a strange little beast. The jazz-fusion band existing in the Canterbury Scene was one of the few to incorporate highly distorted rock guitar in its sound. The […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians ‎– Fegmania!
    Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians ‎– Fegmania!
    $24.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Robyn manages to combine his Syd Barrett/John Lennon-esque oh-so-British vocals, Byrds-y guitar jangle, and lyrics which run the gamut from Monty Python-like absurdity to late [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Billy Bragg – Back To Basics
    Billy Bragg – Back To Basics
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    After Elektra signed Billy Bragg to his first major-label deal and released Talking with the Taxman About Poetry in 1986, the label decided to do a clean-up job on his […]

    GENRE:
  • Jon Cale – Caribbean Sunset
    Jon Cale – Caribbean Sunset
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: ZE Records – IT 8401 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Van Der Graaf Generator ‎– Pawn Hearts
    Van Der Graaf Generator ‎– Pawn Hearts
    $32.00 | , , Add to cart

    Van der Graaf Generator’s fourth album, Pawn Hearts was also their second most popular; at one time this record was a major King Crimson cult item due to the presence […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Dexys Midnight Runners ‎– Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
    Dexys Midnight Runners ‎– Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    The crackling stations being switched on the radio and the gang shout followed by the spoken injunction to “burn it down” sound like they should be starting off a Sham […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Van Der Graaf Generator ‎– H To He Who Am The Only One
    Van Der Graaf Generator ‎– H To He Who Am The Only One
    $25.00 | , , Add to cart

    The foreboding crawl of the Hammond organ is what made Van Der Graaf Generator one of the darkest and most engrossing of all the early progressive bands. On H to […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff
    Van Der Graaf Generator – Godbluff
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    Following the release of Pawn Hearts, bandleader Peter Hammill took time out to develop a solo career, choosing to focus his energy on darkly introspective works that seemed to be […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cale ‎– Sabotage/Live
    John Cale ‎– Sabotage/Live
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    Though Lou Reed is often thought of as the abrasive member of the Velvet Underground, during the punk era Reed was writing confessional singer/songwriter albums while his former bandmate John [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cale – Honi Soit
    John Cale – Honi Soit
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    The rise of the punk/new wave scene finally provided John Cale with a context in which he didn’t seem that much more eccentric than the other musicians surrounding him, and […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • John Cale – Artificial Intelligence
    John Cale – Artificial Intelligence
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    Though this is still nowhere near prime John Cale, 1985’s Artificial Intelligence is a big step up from its predecessor, 1984’s weak and sloppy Caribbean Sunset. For the first time [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gism / The Comes ‎– Detestation / No Side [w/ insert & printed inner]
    Gism / The Comes ‎– Detestation / No Side [w/ insert & printed inner]
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    Infamous bootleg split. Green Vinyl. Includes insert. Buy this and have Sakevi’s ghost haunt you.   Label: Not On Label (G.I.S.M.) – none, Not On Label (The Comes) – none […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • John Cale – Vintage Violence
    John Cale – Vintage Violence
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    John Cale had the strongest avant-garde credentials of anyone in the Velvet Underground, but he was also the Velvet whose solo career was the least strongly defined by his work […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Oneohtrix Point Never – Russian Mind
    Oneohtrix Point Never – Russian Mind
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘Russian Mind’ is centred around the theme of a Russian cosmonaut past his prime, composing the score to a film from his hospital bed in a room on [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Conrad Schnitzler – Con
    Conrad Schnitzler – Con
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Bureau B present a reissue of Conrad Schnitzler’s Con, originally released in 1978. Conrad Schnitzler: In the electric garden by Wolfgang Seidel, May 2020: “… Whilst on shore [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Gespenterland
    V/A – Gespenterland
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Over the last ten years a strange mycelium was sprouting from the ground of Germany’s sound topography, going widely unnoticed while creeping its way up through the copse of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Blickwinkel
    Faust – Blickwinkel
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    “After dipping into the archive to deliver a series of essential reissues, Bureau B continues to encourage the chaotic brilliance of Faust with an LP of brand new music curated […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Conrad Schnitzler – Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal
    Conrad Schnitzler – Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    “Auf dem schwarzen Kanal” is one of the most outstanding and sought-after releases in Conrad Schnitzler’s extensive catalog. Released in 1980 as the only one of [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
    Supersempfft – Roboterwerke
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    LP version. After introducing listeners to the techno-tropical pop of Supersempfft via an essential reissue of their stargazing sophomore LP Metaluna, those surefooted folks at Bureau B beam back [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Von Spar, Ishibashi, Talia, Yamamoto – Album 1
    Von Spar, Ishibashi, Talia, Yamamoto – Album 1
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The inspiration for ‘Album l’ and ‘Album Il’ began with a performance by Japanese musician Eiko Ishibashi at Cologne’s Week-End Fest in 2019. For this appearance the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Toluse Low Trax – Kiosique Versions
    Toluse Low Trax – Kiosique Versions
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Parisian-by-choice Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax turns the page again. Always willing for a new episode, notion, impulse, idea, ideal. Searching for some light out there. Now Kiosque [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Cluster – Cluster II
    Cluster – Cluster II
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Cluster’s second album finds them still in their Berlin phase, that of the amorphous analog electronic passages without the reference points of any actual rhythms. The tracks move along [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych