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  • The Weeds – Just Colour
    The Weeds – Just Colour
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    “Fred Cole’s legendary 1961-1966 band. The 12” is a straight reissue of the 1968 LP (unfortunately originally released as “The Lollipop Shoppe” but now returned to the [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Sonic Youth – Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
    Sonic Youth – Slaapkamers Met Slagroom
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Unfettered by studio time limitations with their own home base of Echo Canyon, SYR 2 shows Sonic Youth chasing the shadows of predecessor SYR 1 and the series’ distinct aesthetic: […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Coil – Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)
    Coil – Moon’s Milk (In Four Phases)
    $57.00 | , Ships on/around Mar 15, 2024 Add to cart

    Release Date: 3/15/24. Will shipped on or around release date. First compiled as a double CD in 2002, Moon’s Milk (in Four Phases) is a suite of four EPs that […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    New Monuments – Language Is The Skin CD
    $13.00 | Ships on/around Jun 30, 2022 Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The birth of NEW FREE JAZZ. A completely unhinged document of New Monuments. Fresh new quartet line-up. This is the next level, and the […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    $40.00 | , Add to cart

    Void Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    Point Of Memory – Void Pusher
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    Void Pusher is acoustic computer music; combining digital cut ups and live ambient noise with raw organic qualities. Inaudible super-bass frequencies pumping through a room filled with acoustic [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Running – Wake Up Applauding
    Running – Wake Up Applauding
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    2016 release from the alt-punks. Running elbows in quick from the City of the Big Shoulders with Wake Up Applauding. Delivered loudly, dripping in unintelligible menace with the occasional flash [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Running – Wake Up Applauding
    Running – Wake Up Applauding
    $5.00 | Add to cart

    2016 release from the alt-punks. Running elbows in quick from the City of the Big Shoulders with Wake Up Applauding. Delivered loudly, dripping in unintelligible menace with the occasional flash [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Running – Vaguely Ethnic
    Running – Vaguely Ethnic
    $5.00 | Add to cart

    The screech. The wall. The slanted-floor nausea. There’s not a word for the signature cyclical howling that Chicago’s RUNNING harnesses and tortures into submission. They play with their food [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Running & Ryley Walker – s/t
    Running & Ryley Walker – s/t
    $7.00 | Add to cart

    Ryley Walker, guitar Jeffrey Tucholski, guitar Matthew Hord, bass Alejandro Morales, drums

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mike Collino – Come The Maker Carcass
    Mike Collino – Come The Maker Carcass
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    January 6, 2024 Edition of 100 Alien Passengers #97

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Running ? Vaguely Ethnic
    Running ? Vaguely Ethnic
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    The screech. The wall. The slanted-floor nausea. There’s not a word for the signature cyclical howling that Chicago’s RUNNING harnesses and tortures into submission. They play with their food [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • DJ DQ ? Where The Sidewalk Begins
    DJ DQ ? Where The Sidewalk Begins
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Recited by DQ as told to by Scott Hayden. Cut-Ups/Instrumental Hip-Hop

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • Merzbow / Sissy Spacek – Coronado
    Merzbow / Sissy Spacek – Coronado
    $15.00 | Add to cart

    In their first collaborative album, pioneering Japanese sound artist Merzbow and prolific outsider outfit Sissy Spacek unite to unleash an unstoppable firebomb of frenzied electronics and raging [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Sissy Spacek – Cosm
    Sissy Spacek – Cosm
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    A new Sissy Spacek album in the realm of free-improv, but a great expansion of the perimeter. This power trio features Charlie Mumma on drums, Masahiko Ohno (Solmania) on guitar, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • C.C.C.C. – Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
    C.C.C.C. – Community Center Cyber Crash / Live In Pittsburgh
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    A searing document of C.C.C.C.’s indelible live performance at Wilkins School Community Center on October 11, 1992, Community Center Cyber Crash/Live In Pittsburgh voyages into an abyss of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Erez Dessel – Non Define Roar
    Erez Dessel – Non Define Roar
    $11.00 | Add to cart

    In my never ending quest to find fearless music that hasn’t grown soft and conventional with jazz department comportment and scene assimilation I have a deep tendency to lurk deep […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Dave Grundy – The Problem, The Questions, The Poem
    Dave Grundy – The Problem, The Questions, The Poem
    $11.00 | Add to cart

    The deeper goal of poetry has always been ritual. In Fred Moten’s early PennSound recordings, unbelievable, I listened in headphones for the year of 2010, the words, crawling and dripping, […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Cartas Da Catalunya – When Damian Meets Suitcase Bob
    Cartas Da Catalunya – When Damian Meets Suitcase Bob
    $11.00 | Add to cart

    Bruno Abdala, or Abdala, or Ab as he’s known in Brazil is an enthusiastic supporter. Unlike folks of a certain age who center themselves in every story as hero or […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Shadowklan – Einstein’s Rainbow
    Shadowklan – Einstein’s Rainbow
    $11.00 | Add to cart

    Shadow Klan is a ghost. Like Sun Ra he is utterly aware that it’s after the end of the world. And if that is the case, then he’s already gone, […]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • Phew ? New Decade (Clear Vinyl)
    Phew ? New Decade (Clear Vinyl)
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    conic Japanese experimentalist Phew returns to Mute for first time in 30 years with a haunted and strung out set of barely-there vox and submerged synths     “Rising to […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) (Velvet Purple Vinyl)
    West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 2 (Breaking Through) (Velvet Purple Vinyl)
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    Released in 1967 on Reprise Records as a follow up to Part One, Vol. 2 takes the band into more ambitious territory. Reaching out to more psychedelic territory than the […]

    GENRE:
  • Simon Fisher Turner, Edmund de Waal ? A Quiet Corner In Time
    Simon Fisher Turner, Edmund de Waal ? A Quiet Corner In Time
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    A Quiet Corner In Time began life as a sound work created by the composer Fisher Turner for renowned ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal’s architectural installation, – one way […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The Reds, Pinks & Purples ? You Might Be Happy Someday (Blue Pastel Vinyl)
    The Reds, Pinks & Purples ? You Might Be Happy Someday (Blue Pastel Vinyl)
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Deep amidst San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood misty air and washed-out pastel blocks, Glenn Donaldson has been diligently creating minor masterpieces with rudimentary home technology for some [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 781484078418
    781484078418
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Liars ? S/T (Colored Vinyl)
    Liars ? S/T (Colored Vinyl)
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    Liars was recorded on the heels of 2006’s Drum’s not Dead somewhere between LA and Berlin. Liars’ fourth album marks another bold transition for Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Masaki Batoh ? Smile Jesus Loves YOU!
    Masaki Batoh ? Smile Jesus Loves YOU!
    $16.00 | , Add to cart

    Batoh is back! Solo again after last fall’s new Silence album, the Japanese psychedelic guru makes some solo cuts, with others featuring Ghost and Silence family members, including free drumming [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • A Certain Ratio ? Loco Remezclada
    A Certain Ratio ? Loco Remezclada
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    This ACR release compiles remixes of tracks from the band’s highly acclaimed 2020 studio album ACR Loco. Featuring all new remixes from Lonelady, Skream, Maps, Number, Lounge Society and more. [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Eli Winter ? S/T
    Eli Winter ? S/T
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Chicago-based guitarist / composer Eli Winter’s new self-titled album finds him building on the promise of his recent records—like 2020’s Unbecoming and his 2021 collaboration with Cameron [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Roger Eno – The Turning Year
    Roger Eno – The Turning Year
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    Roger Eno is a British composer and musician whose distinctive style as a recording artist has attracted a cult following. Last year he made his debut on Deutsche Grammophon with […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Love – Revisited
    Love – Revisited
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    In four short years from 1966-1970, Love released four albums of increasingly adventurous rock and, mainly due to their hesitance to tour, remained an enigma to most music listeners beyond […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Lee Ranaldo & Ra?l Refree ? Names Of North End Women
    Lee Ranaldo & Ra?l Refree ? Names Of North End Women
    $17.00 | , Add to cart

    Ranaldo and Refree worked together Ranaldo’s last solo album, Electric Trim (Mute, 2017), and soon after the pair returned to the studio to record the follow up they realised that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mekons ? Deserted
    Mekons ? Deserted
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    This legendary group from Leeds, have written contemporary music history for the last 40 years as radical innovators of both first generation punk and insurgent roots music. Their new album […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Hawkwind – Somnia
    Hawkwind – Somnia
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Hawkwind have announced a brand-new studio album and tour for the autumn. Somnia follows their critically acclaimed 2020 Hawkwind Light Orchestra album Carnivorous and live album 50th Anniversary [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Pyramids – Birth/Speed/Merging
    The Pyramids – Birth/Speed/Merging
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Birth/Speed/Merging was recorded in 1976 after the band’s move to San Francisco. The album closes the Pyramids’ 70s trilogy and makes more use of studio technology: adding overdubs [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • V/A – Gritty ’60s Garage & Punk
    V/A – Gritty ’60s Garage & Punk
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Early punk, garage rock, & psych monsters! Rare & originally unissued artifacts from the unstoppable ‘60s infestation of teenagers with guitars & drums that took over their [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • V/A – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993
    V/A – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Strut present the rst ever compilation bringing together classics and rarities from the seminal spiritual jazz and conscious soul label Black Fire, covering 1975 to 1993.

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • My Bloody Valentine – M B V
    My Bloody Valentine – M B V
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    m b v is the highly anticipated and long awaited 2013 album from the British Alt-Rock icons led by the esteemed Kevin Shields. MBV is the follow-up to their genre-defining […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace
    Alabaster DePlume – Come With Fierce Grace
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    When we are boldly and sincerely requested as ourselves, as whoever we may be, we can, in response to one-another, create naturally, things that no-one could have ever specifically demanded […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge – Doug Carn
    Doug Carn, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge – Doug Carn
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Doug Carn’s newest project, his entry in the Jazz Is Dead album series helmed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, takes his unique and timeless art and places it […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ripple – S/T
    Ripple – S/T
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Seminal rare groove funk and deep soul album originally released in 1973 on GRC Records now released 50 years later on Soul Jazz Records in this fully remastered edition of […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
    Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective’s ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Juju – A Message From Mozambique
    Juju – A Message From Mozambique
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    The roots of Juju started in San Francisco after Plunky had met his musical mentor, Zulu musician Ndikho Xaba, helping to form his band Ndikho and The Natives. Three members […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Full Moon Ensemble – Crowded With Loneliness
    Full Moon Ensemble – Crowded With Loneliness
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Reissue of this French spiritual free jazz masterpiece, includes the killer poetry jazz tune ʻSamba Miaouʼ! Crowded with Loneliness by Full Moon Ensemble was produced by Claude Delcloo, check the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • We Jazz Issue 05: Amaryllis
    We Jazz Issue 05: Amaryllis
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    2022 release. The fifth issue of We Jazz Magazine, Amaryllis for Mary Halvorson. All articles presented in English. Stories include Mary Halvorson by Peter Margasak, Pi Recordings by Will Layman, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Holger Hiller – Ein Bundel Faulnis in der Grube
    Holger Hiller – Ein Bundel Faulnis in der Grube
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    With Ein Bündel Fäulnis in der Grube, Holger Hiller presented his solo debut having left Palais Schaumburg. Originally released in 1983 on the Düsseldorf scene label Ata Tak, an international [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
    Os Mutantes – A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (White Vinyl)
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    2023 repress. Originally released in 1970 this was the third album from Os Mutantes, the geniuses of wacked out Brazilian psychedelic rock. They may have been trying to pay homage […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, International
  • 75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
    75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    2023 repress! 75 Dollar Bill, a project by Che Chen and Rick Brown present Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock. “Che’s interest in the Arabic modes of Mauritanian music has marked [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sven Torstenson – Drugs
    Sven Torstenson – Drugs
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Sven Torstenson‘s notorious Drugs is a loopdigga’s fever dream, bursting with breaks for days and featuring possibly the most iconic cover of all library music’s cult classics. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • V/A – Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981-2023)
    V/A – Echo Neuklang (Neo-Kraut-Sounds 1981-2023)
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    Double LP version. Christoph Dallach, Andreas Dorau, and Daniel Jahn present Echo Neuklang, a compilation which explores the question of how krautrock has influenced generation after generation [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Philippe Doray & Les Asociaux Associes – Le Composant Compositeur
    Philippe Doray & Les Asociaux Associes – Le Composant Compositeur
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Having dynamited the end of the ’70s with two radical albums — Ramasse-Miettes Nucléaires (FFL 058LP) in 1976 and Nouveaux Modes Industriels (FFL 059LP) in 1978, both reissued by [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
    Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Release date: 2/9/24 Will ship around this date   “Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s The […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chai – S/T (Loser Edition – Colored Vinyl)
    Chai – S/T (Loser Edition – Colored Vinyl)
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    The Japanese band CHAI cast a spell on the world in 2017, when they released their debut album, PINK, a collection of songs that introduced us to their singular brand […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Marnie Stern – The Comeback Kid
    Marnie Stern – The Comeback Kid
    $24.00 | , Add to cart

    It’s been a decade since we last heard from Marnie Stern, but when her guitar bursts in like a shower of stardust on The Comeback Kid, the follow-up to 2013’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • John Bender – Pop Surgery
    John Bender – Pop Surgery
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Following the release of lo-fi electronic masterpiece I Don’t Remember Now / I Don’t Want To Talk About It and his brilliant follow-up Plaster Falling, Cincinnati-based artist John Bender began [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Kevin Morby ? More Photographs (A Continuum)
    Kevin Morby ? More Photographs (A Continuum)
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph, studies life, time and mortality through myriad lenses. It’s [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • John Coltrane – Kulu Se Mama
    John Coltrane – Kulu Se Mama
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Reissue of John Coltrane’s classic album Kulu Sé Mama from 1967 on Orange Impulse Rec. Considered to be the last Coltrane’s lifetime release it includes the all-time classic [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Archie Shepp – Derailleur: The 1964 Demo
    Archie Shepp – Derailleur: The 1964 Demo
    $34.00 | , Add to cart

    Archie Shepp’s world has always been filled with fire music, and eventually Fire Music. Before that landmark LP, Shepp made Four for Trane — his August 1964 beachhead with Impulse. [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ahmed Abdullah – A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
    Ahmed Abdullah – A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    “A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra’s Arkestra and New York’s avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s. In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Les Rallizes Denudes – Acid Psychedelic King Go To The East
    Les Rallizes Denudes – Acid Psychedelic King Go To The East
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    Rare 1975 live and studio recordings by the Japanese psychedelic noise legends Les Rallizes Dénudés.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych