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  • Yo La Tengo – Extra Painful
    Yo La Tengo – Extra Painful
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    Deluxe Reissue of 1993’s classic Painful, in time for the band’s 30th anniversary this December. 2xLP includes bonus 7” + download coupon with 15 extra tracks , in p/s with […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On
    Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On
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    There’s a riot going on. You don’t need me, or Yo La Tengo, to tell you that. These are dark times, in our heads as much as in the streets. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
    Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
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    Today, Yo La Tengo’s undeniable classic 1997 album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is a quarter of a century old. To celebrate, a digital deluxe version of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bardo Pond – Melt Away
    Bardo Pond – Melt Away
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    Melt Away, the new double LP compilation, catalogues late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex in Bardo Pond’s career. Of these, album highlight ‘The Trail’, originally recorded [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Indie / Alternative
  • Bardo Pond – Set And Setting (25th Anniversary Edition)
    Bardo Pond – Set And Setting (25th Anniversary Edition)
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    Following not-so-hot on the heels of a long-since sold out 2021 repress of Bardo Pond’s monolithic Matador label debut, ‘Amanita,’ we are pleased to announce a much overdue reissue of […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Gang Of Four – Songs Of The Free
    Gang Of Four – Songs Of The Free
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    Gang of Four was formed in Leeds in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Bar Italia – The Twits
    Bar Italia – The Twits
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    bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, ‘The Twits’, on November 3, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Butthole Surfers – Creamed Corn From The Socket Of Davis 12″EP
    Butthole Surfers – Creamed Corn From The Socket Of Davis 12″EP
    $22.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs — 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician LP
    Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician LP
    $26.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs — 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Hairway To Steven LP
    Butthole Surfers – Hairway To Steven LP
    $26.00 | Ships on/around Sep 20, 2024 Add to cart

    This Is A Preorder

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bar Italia – The Twits
    Bar Italia – The Twits
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    ‘The Twits’ was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Algiers – Shook
    Algiers – Shook
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    “The world got shook” So Algiers formed a crew. The band—who have built one of the most exciting catalogs and cult followings of recent years, with 2020’s There Is No […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
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    What our staff has to say: “Absolutely floored by this, feels like it’s already 20 years old. Everything from the recording to the writing feels genuine for YLT and the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Kim Gordon – No Home Record
    Kim Gordon – No Home Record
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    With a career spanning nearly four decades, Kim Gordon is one of the most prolific and visionary artists working today. A co-founder of the legendary Sonic Youth, Gordon has performed […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – Painful
    Yo La Tengo – Painful
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    Back in print on vinyl for the first time in years.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – Electr-o-pura
    Yo La Tengo – Electr-o-pura
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    Continuing with their ever-expanding Revisionist History series, Matador Records announce a 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo’s 1995 album Electr-o-pura. Now in a gatefold sleeve and cut [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Fucked Up – Do All Words Can Do
    Fucked Up – Do All Words Can Do
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    B-sides and rarities from the era of Fucked Up’s opus: David Comes To Life. Featuring 9 songs previously only available on 7-inch vinyl.

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Spoon Vs On-U Sound ? Lucifer On The Moon
    Spoon Vs On-U Sound ? Lucifer On The Moon
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    Lucifer on the Moon is the anti-gravity companion to Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa. A top-to-bottom rework of the Austin band’s tenth album, it was created by On-U Sound founder […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Interpol – The Other Side Of Make Believe
    Interpol – The Other Side Of Make Believe
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    If fate didn’t quite ordain the circumstances for Interpol’s seventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded their Marauder cycle on stage in front of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • EMA – The Future’s Void
    EMA – The Future’s Void
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    EMA recently told NME that the album was influenced by, among other things, NiN demos, the heavier side of early K Records, and William Gibson’s Neuromancer, and that the album […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Goin On
    Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Goin On
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Snail Mail – Valentine CD
    Snail Mail – Valentine CD
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    Valentine was written and produced by Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). Written in 2019-2020 the album is filled with romance, heartbreak, blood, sweat and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stephen Malkmus – Groove Denied
    Stephen Malkmus – Groove Denied
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    Following hot on the heels of 2018’s Sparkle Hard comes Groove Denied, the rejected album Stephen has been telling everyone about. Groove Denied was written in Berlin and Oregon between […]

    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
  • Fucked Up – Glass Boys
    Fucked Up – Glass Boys
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    Fucked Up are a punk band. They were a punk band when they started in Toronto more than a decade ago, and they’ve remained a punk band even as they’ve […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Steve Gunn – Other You
    Steve Gunn – Other You
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    Other You is the sixth studio album by American singer Steve Gunn. Recorded during two visits to Los Angeles in late 2020 and early 2021, the album was made with […]

    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