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  • Cannibal Error (Revised)
    Cannibal Error (Revised)
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    A social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-sized cartridge of [...]

  • Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
    Antonin Artaud – Journey To Mexico
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    On 10 January 1936, the poet, actor, and dramatic theorist, Antonin Artaud departed Europe on a journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls […]

  • Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976-1988
    Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976-1988
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    A visual history of the artists, fans, and fanzines of widely influential British punk. Zerox Machine is an immersive journey through the vibrant history of British punk and its associated […]

  • Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
    Noel Smith – Crazy Man Crazy: Teds Versus Punks And Other Gang Wars
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    In 1976 Noel ‘Razor’ Smith became a Teddy Boy and formed a gang called the Balham Wildkatz. Soon they became rockabillies and blazed their way through South London’s pubs and [...]

  • Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
    Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    The first ever oral-history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, [...]

  • Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
    Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the Fbi, the Kkk, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control
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    New evidence in ‘Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control’ uncovers the origin of an organized group of racist terrorists committing [...]

  • The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
    The Sphinx and the Milky Way: Selections from the Journals of Charles Burchfield
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Mystical and everyday reveries from the visionary American modernist In the early years of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield painted mystic and visionary landscapes, and with some of his [...]

  • Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
    Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder and faster than […]

  • Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
    Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Is Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. […]

  • Fluid Futures: Science Fiction And Potentiality
    Fluid Futures: Science Fiction And Potentiality
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open […]

  • The Cure – Pornography Demos
    The Cure – Pornography Demos
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    An collection of demos from The Cure’s dark fourth album, Pornography. fan club edition

  • The Cure – BBC Sessions
    The Cure – BBC Sessions
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Early Cure BBC Sessions featuring tracks from the first three albums. European fan club reissue.

  • The Fall – The Peel Sessions: 1978-1980
    The Fall – The Peel Sessions: 1978-1980
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    Selection of The Fall’s Peel Sessions, featuring a stellar rendition of New Face In Hell. fan club edition.

  • The Cure – From A Land Down Under: Live In Sydney
    The Cure – From A Land Down Under: Live In Sydney
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    Early live set from The Cure. Fan club edition.

  • The Cure – Faith Demos
    The Cure – Faith Demos
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    Collection of demos from The Cure’s third album, Faith. fan club edition.

  • Joy Division – The European Radio Broadcasts
    Joy Division – The European Radio Broadcasts
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    A selection of broadcast sessions from throughout Joy Division’s career. Previously released in the Heart & Soul boxset and under the title Autosuggestion.

  • The Cure – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Demos
    The Cure – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Demos
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    Collection of demos from The Cure’s goth-pop opus. fan club edition.

  • G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats
    G.B.H. – City Baby Attacked By Rats
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    Street punk pioneers Charged G.B.H. formed in Birmingham in 1978, the name referencing original bassist Sean McCarthy’s trial for grievous bodily harm. The in-your-face hardcore of EP “Leather, [...]

  • My Bloody Valentine – This Is Your Bloody Valentine
    My Bloody Valentine – This Is Your Bloody Valentine
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Debut mini-album from My Bloody Valentine, pre-Loveless/shoegaze era, featuring a more post-punk sound. Fan Club Edition.

  • Brendan Perry – Eye Of The Hunter / Live @ The ICA 2LP
    Brendan Perry – Eye Of The Hunter / Live @ The ICA 2LP
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    A long awaited expanded repress of the debut solo album from Dead Can Dance’s Brendan Perry, Eye Of The Hunter has been remastered at Abbey Road, and expanded to include […]

  • Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses
    Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses
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    Released in March 1996, Milk & Kisses is the eighth and final studio album by Cocteau Twins. And like its predecessor, 1993’s Four Calendar Café, it’s yet to be formally […]

  • Cocteau Twins – Four Calendar Cafe
    Cocteau Twins – Four Calendar Cafe
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    Having just turned 30, Four-Calendar Café, was the first of two Cocteau Twins albums previously released via Capitol Records in the US. Like most Cocteau Twins works before it, Four-Calendar […]

  • 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, […]

  • The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into [...]

  • A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
    A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.” Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any […]

  • Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
    Kathy Acker & Paul Buck: Spread Wide
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker. Using as source the raw materials of their correspondence from the early 80s, a […]

  • Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
    Adam Pendleton – Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths: Revisiting the Black Dada Reader
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    The sequel to Pendleton’s acclaimed Black Dada Reader, compiling an anti-canon of radical experimentation and thought In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) assembled Black Dada Reader, [...]

  • Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
    Emiliana Torrini – Miss Flower
    $17.00 | Add to cart

    Emilíana Torrini emerges from hiatus with a brand new album, MISS FLOWER. Returning to an illustrious career, spanning chart-topping hits like ‘Sunny Road’ and ‘Jungle Drum’ from acclaimed albums [...]

  • Neutral – Neutral
    Neutral – Neutral
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    Label: Grapefruit Records – GY12-4 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 2022 VG+/VG+

  • DAF – Fur Immer
    DAF – Fur Immer
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Many things have been said about this band: they were called the godfathers of techno, the pioneers of EBM and the forefathers of electropunk. Yet they only laugh coolly and […]

  • DAF – Gold Und Liebe
    DAF – Gold Und Liebe
    $16.00 | Add to cart

    Groenland reissue Deutsch Amerikan Freundschaft’s classic 1981 LP.

  • DAF – Fur Immer
    DAF – Fur Immer
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Many things have been said about this band: they were called the godfathers of techno, the pioneers of EBM and the forefathers of electropunk. Yet they only laugh coolly and […]

  • Mushrooms: A Separate Kingdom
    Mushrooms: A Separate Kingdom
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    Oxmoor House, 1979 hardcover edition, first printing. Small amount of staining to dust-jacket. David Jenkins’s mycological writings, accompanied by Loni Parker’s beautiful watercolors [...]

  • Whole Earth Catalog: Spring 1969
    Whole Earth Catalog: Spring 1969
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    Portola Institute, 1969 second printing. Noticeable rubbing & chipping/wear to spine. Some rubbing to front cover. Foxing to pages. “The Whole Earth Catalog (WEC) was an American [...]

  • The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death Of Danny Casolaro
    $150.00 | , , Add to cart

    Feral House, 2004 paperback edition. Some light corner & edgewear to the wraps. Writing on front page. Probably the single greatest work of conspiracy literature. Needs to be read to […]

  • John Cage – Notations
    John Cage – Notations
    $200.00 | , , Add to cart

    Something Else Press hardcover edition. Ex-library with stamps.  Dust-jacket shows large amount of staining and wear. Some chipping & tearing apparent as well. Upper edge of pages badly [...]

  • Rapid Eye 1
    Rapid Eye 1
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    Creation Books, 1995 third revised edition. Small amount of staining to front cover, along with some edge/cornerwear to wraps. Tiny indentation to front cover as well, as if by pen. […]

  • Transmissions From Abroad – Soviet Wave 1986 – 1990 –  Radio Topo #2
    Transmissions From Abroad – Soviet Wave 1986 – 1990 – Radio Topo #2
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Soviet Wave Tape. 35 Min mixtape of dark and synth wave tracks virtually unheard and kept behind the Iron Curtain until this amazing curation […]

  • Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
    Diptych / Ohnive Plamene – split cassette
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    Czech split cassette from Happy Families. “When I heard the Diptych / Ohnive plamene split tape I felt alive for the first time in a long while. What is going […]

  • Kleenex/Liliput – First Songs (DEEP PURPLE VINYL)
    Kleenex/Liliput – First Songs (DEEP PURPLE VINYL)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Legendary Swiss punk band from the late 70s. “You can’t dispute Liliput’s status as pioneers of feminist art-punk. Along with fellow travelers like the Slits and the Raincoats, this [...]

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    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD
    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls CD
    $15.00 | Ships on/around Oct 25, 2024 Add to cart

    Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

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    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Ladies, Women and Girls LP (Red vinyl)
    $25.00 | Ships on/around Oct 25, 2024 Add to cart

    Bratmobile’s sophomore LP finds Allison Wolfe’s singsong delivery of her trademark barbed-wire lyrics center stage – each line catching the ear and cutting with truth. Backed by Molly [...]

  • Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD
    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy CD
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    Preorder Release Date : 10/25/24   Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, [...]

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    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Girls Get Busy LP (Evergreen vinyl)
    $25.00 | Ships on/around Oct 25, 2024 Add to cart

    Equal parts sass, snark and surf-punk infused guitar, Bratmobile’s third album bursts with catchy hooks and thought-provoking critiques of their scene, consumerism and the patriarchy. It’s [...]

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    Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD
    Bratmobile – Pottymouth CD
    $15.00 | Ships on/around Oct 25, 2024 Add to cart

    Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

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    Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)
    Bratmobile – Pottymouth LP (Lemon vinyl)
    $25.00 | , Ships on/around Oct 25, 2024 Add to cart

    Along with Bikini Kill, Bratmobile spearheaded the riot grrrl revolution of the early 1990s, battling the long-standing dominance of men within the punk rock community to help empower a new […]

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    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 […]

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    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 […]

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    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

  • Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd – The Moon and the Melodies CD
    Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd – The Moon and the Melodies CD
    $14.00 | Ships on/around Aug 23, 2024 Add to cart

    The eight songs comprising The Moon and the Melodies, alternately instrumental or with vocal accompaniment, were originally intended as a score to a documentary film. As Guthrie explained to Todd [...]

  • The Drin – Elude The Torch
    The Drin – Elude The Torch
    $19.00 | Add to cart

    The Drin forge further into their own captivating world of sound on their fourth album, ‘Elude the Torch’. Since 2021, the Cincinnati group has released one strikingly original album [...]

  • Rolex – Promo 2022
    Rolex – Promo 2022
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    THEY’RE BACK! Rolex is back with a promo that returns with a vengeance. From an upcoming split LP with my other favorite LA band, Grimly Forming. These are four of […]

  • Grand Scheme – Numbers Game
    Grand Scheme – Numbers Game
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    Generations in hardcore move quickly. The scene changes constantly, and yet there is always a group of bands uninterested in the current trends. Some people just want to write aggressive […]

  • Shitty Life – Limits To Growth
    Shitty Life – Limits To Growth
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    Blazing fast, Chitarrino-Punk from Parma, Italy. If you enjoy Shitty Limits, Youth Avoiders, or Social Cirkle, you will love this new record. You might have seen them on tour recently […]

  • Subliminal Excess – Witness
    Subliminal Excess – Witness
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    From the depths of lower wacker…its the return of Subliminal Excess. With a demo that ushered in the cold reality of 2020, they are keeping that same energy with witness. […]

  • Suicidal Tendencies – S/T
    Suicidal Tendencies – S/T
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    Label: Frontier Records – FLP 1011 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1983 VG/VG+ with noticeable light marks & some sleevewear/discoloration

  • V/A – Max’s Kansas City – New York New Wave
    V/A – Max’s Kansas City – New York New Wave
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: CBS – S CBS 82670 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: UK Released: 1978 VG+/VG+ with light marks/wear

  • Bathouse – S/T
    Bathouse – S/T
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    Label: Happiest Place – HP10 Format:  LP Country: Sweden Released: 2021

  • Spllit – Infinite Hatch
    Spllit – Infinite Hatch
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    Cut from a magnetic, jagged edge of the Louisiana underground, Spllit open up an entirely new can of worms on ‘Infinite Hatch’. A dozen new originals, mined from the minds […]

  • Tetsu Arrey ‎– II (includes OBI/Poster)
    Tetsu Arrey ‎– II (includes OBI/Poster)
    $50.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: HG Fact – HG-100 Format: Vinyl Country: Japan Released: 1998 VG+/VG+