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  • The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
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    IGGY and The Stooges, ‘METALLIC K.O.’, the Original 1976 Album, the notorious ‘Last Ever Iggy & The Stooges Show’!, ‘METALLIC K.O.’ is the remarkable album [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
    Pretty Things – The Pretty Things
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    The Pretty Things created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the late sixties and early seventies. Winners of the Hero award at the 2009 Mojo Honours, the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Pretty Things – Parachute
    Pretty Things – Parachute
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    “The Pretty Things always made ‘The Stones’ look tame, and I think the time has come for their renaissance” David Gilmour, Pink Floyd The Pretty Things, iconic 1st wave R&B […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
    The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
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    Garage/mod rock at its best

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
    The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
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    The Prisoners, contemporaries of Billy Childish, epitomize the garage punk sound of the Medway Delta. This reissue of their 1982 debut album is re-mastered from the original tapes & is […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – In from the Cold
    The Prisoners – In from the Cold
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    The Prisoners got their start in the same Medway River delta area of Britain as Billy Childish’s Pop Rivets. After the band’s demise singer/guitarist/songwriter Graham Day went on to [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Stooges – The Stooges
    The Stooges – The Stooges
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    “Everything the peace and love vibe of the ’60s wasn’t the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop’s monotone [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
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    Heavy beyond heavy, hard beyond hard. MC5 did it all on this one.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Stooges – Funhouse
    The Stooges – Funhouse
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    “Of course the Stooges were stupid, that was the whole point. Three chords were okay, two were even better, one or none (the cacophonous “L.A. Blues”) was best of all. […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
    Zeus B. Held – Attack Time
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    With Attack Time’ by sound tinkerer Zeus B. Held, Bureau B is re-releasing one of the most exciting records of the original experimental Kraut-pop period. After various stints, including prog [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
    The Cosmic Jokers – The Cosmic Jokers
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    Die Kosmischen Kuriere reissue the legendary debut album of the krautrock all-star band from 1974. Produced at Dierks Studios with the collaboration of Dieter Dierks. What an amazing improvement [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
    Hijss – Stuck On Common Ground
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    Stuck on common ground is the debut album of the Italian Power Trio hijss. With a mixture of heavy blues influenced riffs and synthesized Krautrock parts hijss tries to create […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
    Faust – Seventy One Minutes Of
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    Compilation CD including tracks from Munic & Elsewear and The Last LP

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – Leaving Meaning
    Swans – Leaving Meaning
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    leaving meaning. is the first Swans album to be released since I dissolved the line up of musicians that constituted Swans from 2010 – 2017. Swans is now comprised of […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Can – Soundtracks
    Can – Soundtracks
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    First released in 1970, Soundtracks consists of songs written for various films. The album marks the departure of the band’s original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, who sings on two tracks, to [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
    Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up to a Rope to the Sky
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    After years of pursuing Angels of Light and recording and producing a diverse roster of artists for his Young God label, Michael Gira has decided to reconvene his legendary group […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Can – Live in Brighton 1975
    Can – Live in Brighton 1975
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    Can Live Series Vol II.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Velvet Underground – The Best of the Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground – The Best of the Velvet Underground
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    The best tracks from their entire career.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bj?rk – Vulnicura Strings
    Bj?rk – Vulnicura Strings
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    Vulnicura Strings is the acoustic version of Björk’s Vulnicura, featuring strings, voice and viola organista only – out on CD and vinyl. The original version of Vulnicura layered the boom […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joni Île – Semaphore CS
    Joni Île – Semaphore CS
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    In the age of boredom-less nights I sometimes yearn for times I sat on my bedroom floor listening to the same albums over and over. The first time I heard […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
    Annette Michelson – On The Wings Of Hypothesis: Collected Writings On Soviet Cinema
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    Annette Michelson’s erudite and incisive readings of the revolutionary films of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, collected for the first time.This posthumous volume gathers Annette [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
    Joel Warner – The Curse Of The Marquis De Sade
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    Described as both “one of the most important novels ever written” and “the gospel of evil,” 120 Days of Sodom was written by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
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    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
    Stereophonica: Sound And Space In Science, Technology And The Arts
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    Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
    Marcel Schwob – The Children’s Crusade
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    “I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reverence. I am profoundly moved: what a work! And to think I’d never heard the name […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
    Robert Barry – The Music Of The Future
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    The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it’s a history […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
    October Files: Robert Rauschenberg
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    Critical essays on the artist Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on the important period of his development in the 1950s and 1960s.From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
    Derek Jarman – Jubilee: Six Film Scripts
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    From the early seventies until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: Akenaten, Jubilee, Bob-Up-A-Down, B Movie: Little [...]

    GENRE:
  • Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
    Marjorie Perloff – The Futurist Moment
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    Marjorie Perloff’s stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
    Laura Mulvey – Fetishism And Curiosity (Silver Edition)
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    Writer and film-maker Laura Mulvey is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary cultural theorists, credited for incorporating film theory, psychoanalysis and [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
    Philippe Grandrieux: Sonic Cinema
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    Philippe Grandrieux is one of cinema’s only living true radicals and feted as one of the most innovative and important film makers of his generation. His consistently controversial work [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Surrealism At Play
    Surrealism At Play
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    In Surrealism at Play Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy. For surrealist artists, […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Semiotext(e): The German Issue
    Semiotext(e): The German Issue
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    A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.The German Issue (1982) was originally [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
    From A Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art And Representation In France
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    From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history’s understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within art [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
    The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Improvisation, Rights And The Ethics Of Cocreation
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    The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Non-Fiction
  • Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
    Seeing The Unspeakable: The Art Of Kara Walker
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    One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
    Parallel Public: Experimental Art In Late East Germany
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    How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
    A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise Of The New Art Practice In Yugoslavia
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    The first comprehensive study of the former Yugoslavia’s diverse and groundbreaking alternative art scenes from the 1960s to the 1980s. This first comprehensive study of the former [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Non-Fiction
  • Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
    Out Of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene Of The Sixities
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    A social and cultural history of Los Angeles and its emerging art scene in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s The history of modern art typically begins in Paris and ends […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • On & By: Andy Warhol
    On & By: Andy Warhol
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    Writings about Andy Warhol by critics, artists, cultural theorists, and Factory associates together with archival material, interviews, and texts by Warhol himself. The impact of Andy Warhol on [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • October Files: John Cage
    October Files: John Cage
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    An extended trajectory of Cage literature, from early critical reaction to writing by contemporaries to current scholarship.John Cage (1912–1992) defined a radical practice of composition that [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Non-Fiction
  • Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.* – Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
    Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.* – Glorify Astrological Martyrdom
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    “Acid Mother’s Temple’s Glorify Astrological Martyrdom is sure to appeal to the myriad AMT fans who have made Crystal Rainbow Pyramid a new fan favorite. Professionally recorded [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise
  • Home Blitz ? All Through The Year
    Home Blitz ? All Through The Year
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    “Mercer County is in central New Jersey, main city is Trenton (they make pork roll) but the more known town is Princeton (they have the college where Einstein spent time […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
    Coffin Prick ? Side Splits
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    The collection of music you’re about to squeeze through your temporal lobe is not comprised of your standard 4/4 dance remixes. Unlike traditional remix records, these thirteen pieces are [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
    Broken Telepathy – Broken Telepathy
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    Using an idiosyncratic compass and thinly disguised as Broken Telepathy, the Bronx-based duo of Kaori Nakamura (Soft Gang) and Darin Mickey (Dichroics/Soft Gang) navigate a range of emotional [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Bilders* ? Dustbin Of Empathy
    Bilders* ? Dustbin Of Empathy
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    Co-Released by Sophomore Lounge and Grapefruit Records. The NZ-American *Bilders* brings *Matt Swanson (Lambchop,* *My Dad Is Dead*) and *Alex McManus (Vic Chesnutt, Lambchop)* into the fold, all [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ned Collette – Our Other History
    Ned Collette – Our Other History
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    “Our Other History is a wonderful new LP by this wandering Berlin-based Melbourne expat. Ned’s last album, Afternoon Dusk was an avant instrumental trio outing with James Rushford and Joe [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Styrofoam Winos – Real Time
    Styrofoam Winos – Real Time
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    “The Styrofoam Winos are that band that we love to have in our lives because they transcend the language of music, not by their individual parts, but by their oneness. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
    Equipment Pointed Ankh – Without Human Permission
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    What our staff has to say: “One of my favorite bands making music in the world today. All star cast of Kentucky HEADS – members of Flanger Magazine (Torn Light), […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
    Chime School – The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel (blue vinyl)
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    With his 2021 self-titled debut, Andy Pastalaniec’s Chime School became one of the defining acts of the seemingly never-ending, prolific and multifaceted Bay Area pop scene. Slumberland Records [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Nala Sinephro – Endlessness CD
    Nala Sinephro – Endlessness CD
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    ‘Endlessness’ is a deep dive into the cycle of existence. The 45-minute album delicately spans 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout, creating an expansive, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • DJ Speedsick / Giugno
    DJ Speedsick / Giugno
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    Released on CDr from endogenesis – housed in a manilla envelope. labeled CDr.

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Black Tote Bag
    Black Tote Bag
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    New shop tote – green ink on black canvas. Holds around 25 LPs.

    GENRE:
  • Rog Logan – Explode The Rose
    Rog Logan – Explode The Rose
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    “Explode the Rose” is the first solo recording by Rob Logan (Desert Liminal / Midnight Minds). The album is as much self-examination as it is an exploration of composition and […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
    R. Buckminster Fuller – Intuition
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    Accomplished polymath R.Buckminster Fuller impacted and influenced everyone from John Cage to early hippie movements. Intuition is his 12th book. “In this series of poem-essays, Fuller [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
    Zach Rowden – Limit Experience
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    A solo double bass LP from Zach Rowden. A minimal and  drone album that requires you to let go, and hear Zach’s discipline and from that – patience. Immediately intimate, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
    Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology
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    Now in paperback, a significant new collection of concrete poetry that redefines what this unique literary movement means today. Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology is the first overview of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
    Iceberg Slim – Night Train to Sugar Hill
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    1980s Los Angeles. The crack epidemic has hit hard. Innocent and damned alike fall victim to the artificial allure of the drug — a teenager accidentally overdoses, junkies smoke crack […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
    Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms
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    A major contribution for American readers and students of Russian literature and an exciting discovery for fans of contemporary writers as eclectic as George Saunders, John Ashbery, and Martin [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • 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 [...]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction