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  • Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
    Herve Guibert – Ghost Image
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    Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays―meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems―and not a single image. Hervé Guibert’s brief, literary rumination on [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Theodore Roszak – Flicker
    Theodore Roszak – Flicker
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    From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
    Eileen Ormsby – The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives . . . the Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
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    Dark… A kingpin willing to murder to protect his dark web drug empire. A corrupt government official determined to avoid exposure. The death of a dark web drugs czar in […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction, True Crime
  • Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
    Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
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    Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
    Walter Tevis – The Man Who Fell To Earth
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    A man wanders into town one day seemingly out of nowhere. He starts by peddling valuables just to get by. But he possesses uncanny scientific knowledge, which he uses to […]

    GENRE: Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Eddie Vedder – Earthling
    Eddie Vedder – Earthling
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    Earthling, the third studio album from Eddie Vedder, features the singles “Long Way,” “The Haves,” and “Brother The Cloud.” In addition, the album features collaborations with music legends [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Alan Harman – Human Research Program CS
    Alan Harman – Human Research Program CS
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    What our staff has to say: “Cold Minimal synth cassette! It’s good.” – Jack Label Description: Alan Harman is the solo minimal synth project of Ethan Harman from the small […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Nordvest – Grøndal LP (Sleeparchive)
    Nordvest – Grøndal LP (Sleeparchive)
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    What our staff has to say: “Absolute stunner of a minimalist synth LP from techno legend, SLEEPARCHIVE (Tresor etc.) Apparently these recordings were ‘rejected’ under that [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • Shearwater – The Great Awakening
    Shearwater – The Great Awakening
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    In December 2016, during Shearwater’s last live show, bandleader Jonathan Meiburg picked up a slip of paper from the stage: a prayer request card, left behind by a church that […]

    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
  • Helado Negro – Far In
    Helado Negro – Far In
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    When Roberto Carlos Lange, the musician known as Helado Negro, began writing Far In immediately following the release of his acclaimed 2019 This is How You Smile, he could not […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 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
  • The Wire  – #460 June 2022
    The Wire – #460 June 2022
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    “On the cover: Phew. The Japanese punk survivor and intrepid vocalist/composer continues to build an impressive catalogue of collaborations, solo projects and band work in a career now [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Artbreakhotel – Karas LP
    Artbreakhotel – Karas LP
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    Nobuo Yamada returns with his first LP under the moniker ARTBREAKHOTEL (Saitama, Japan). KARAS swivels two unyielding junk-metal-compositions of wheezing steel, fluid screeching, and a horde of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
    Various Artists – Slowscan 52 – Drag Marks (10 CS boxset)
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    In (heavy and over-sized) wooden box of 40 handnumbered copies. Includes one handnumbered insert. 10 audiotqps with interviews/statements, experimental and electronic music by William Burroughs, [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
    Sam Weinberg, Henry Fraser, Tyler Damon – Foment
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    “Foment” represents a first-meeting of New Yorkers saxophonist Sam Weinberg & bassist Henry Fraser with Chicago drummer Tyler Damon. Although the three musicians had not played in [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Chalk – Neophobia
    Chalk – Neophobia
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    How can music be violent when it’s not loud? When is malice beautiful? Neophobia is a meditative saga which, despite the name, radically embraces the aesthetics and methods of post-modernity. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gabbard Brothers – S/T
    Gabbard Brothers – S/T
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    From the ashes of the acclaimed Ohio rock band Buffalo Killers, singers/ songwriters/siblings Zachary and Andrew Gabbard have re-emerged as The Gabbard Brothers. And while there are still [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Bitter Blood Street Theatre ? Vol. I
    Bitter Blood Street Theatre ? Vol. I
    $36.00 | , Add to cart

    Super regional psych/weirdo rock from Ohio. Later became Blacklight Braille. Vetco Records – Vetco 701 Media Condition – VG, has some bigger marks in a few spots Sleeve Condition [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bitter Blood Street Theatre ? Vol. 2
    Bitter Blood Street Theatre ? Vol. 2
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    Super regional psych/weirdo rock from Ohio. Later became Blacklight Braille. Vetco Records – Vetco 703 Media Condition – VG+, few marks on each side Sleeve Condition – VG, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Alex Cunningham – Armor
    Alex Cunningham – Armor
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    Six tracks of solo acoustic violin improvisation, recorded at home in October 2020. Alex Cunningham – violin, objects, artwork

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Archie James  Cavanaugh – Black And White Raven (White Raven Vinyl)
    Archie James Cavanaugh – Black And White Raven (White Raven Vinyl)
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    A masterpiece of the schooner rock variety, Black and White Raven is an album that emerged from Archie James Cavanaugh’s youthful dream of recording his own music while stuck in […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Maggot Brain – Issue #9
    Maggot Brain – Issue #9
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    WELCOME TO MAGGOT BRAIN #9 – RAYMOND PETTIBON ON THE COVER! RAYMOND PETTIBON: IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM WOODHEAD JOHN BRANNON: NEGATIVE APPROACH HONCHO UNLOADS JOHN WATERS: THE RETURN OF THE […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Indie / Alternative
  • Harry Sword – Monolithic Undertow
    Harry Sword – Monolithic Undertow
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    Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Metal
  • Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn
    Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn
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    Fear of the Dawn is the fourth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
    Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    This is the first cultural history of the world’s most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
    The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
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    The Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Kelly Finnigan – The Tales People Tell (instrumentals)
    Kelly Finnigan – The Tales People Tell (instrumentals)
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Kelly Finnigan’s debut solo album for Colemine Records represents the culmination of his 15 years of experience – in the studio as a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
    Baad John Cross – New Revolution Chapter 1
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    Baad John Cross’s New Revolution is a Afro-electro-funk-boogie-disco banger that could only come from 1980s Nigeria. Bright, optimistic, with an unrelenting eye on the dance floor, it is regarded [...]

    GENRE: International
  • R Giradin – Emotional Music
    R Giradin – Emotional Music
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    R. Girardin – Emotional Music is a collaborative release from Palto Flats and Zero Grow, a contemporary rendering of synthetic midi-fusion and DAW experimentalism. Drawing links between Rashad [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Flanger Magazine
    Flanger Magazine
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    “A set of spry, pastoral Aecoustic Guitar and errant Electronic pieces that harken back to libraries by Teisco, Vittorio Marino, and the like, yet mapped in an alien manner unlike […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Mikey Young – You Feelin Me?
    Mikey Young – You Feelin Me?
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    What our staff has to say: “The solo endeavor of Mikey Young, who’s resume of bands include Total Control and Eddy Current Suppression Ring just to name a few. You […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Wax Chattels – s/t
    Wax Chattels – s/t
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    The inception of Wax Chattels occurred rather rapidly. Several years after completing jazz school together, Peter Ruddell and Amanda Cheng reconnected at a Preoccupations show in 2016 at [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • LP Sleeve 3 mil. 100 ct.
    LP Sleeve 3 mil. 100 ct.
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    Bags Unlimited Brand. Fits over the LP Jacket. Will hold Double LP Jackets. 100 count Clear 12-3/4 x 12-3/4″ 3 mil POLYETHYLENE Sound Sleeves Record Album Sleeves with no flap. […]

    GENRE:
  • Paper Sleeves – 100 count bag
    Paper Sleeves – 100 count bag
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    Bag Unlimited brand. Die cut center hole 12″ paper inner sleeves.

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  • Joni Void – Mise En Abyme
    Joni Void – Mise En Abyme
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    Mise En Abyme is the second full-length by Joni Void, the plunderphonic electronica project of France/Canada producer Jean Cousin, following his acutely accomplished and acclaimed 2017 debut [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Varsity – Fine Forever
    Varsity – Fine Forever
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    From the very start of “Runaway,” the opening track on Varsity’s third album Fine Forever, it’s clear that the Chicago quintet has morphed into something new. While still working in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sunwatchers – Brave Rats
    Sunwatchers – Brave Rats
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    SUNWATCHERS’ Brave Rats EP (AMI 051) is the band’s third Amish-related release (also see: 3 Characters with Eugene Chadbourne and Arthur Doyle’s First House).  Quick on the heels of [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Zola Jesus – Arkhon
    Zola Jesus – Arkhon
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    There is a way a voice can cut through the fascia of reality, cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience. Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter, and producer […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Kanye West – Donda
    Kanye West – Donda
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    What our staff has to say: “Donda is the nexus of Kanye’s genius and mania. Praising god, remembering his mother and grieving the breakup of his family. It is easy […]

    GENRE: Hip Hop / Rap / Neo Soul
  • Joan Shelley – The Spur
    Joan Shelley – The Spur
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    I want to explain these songs / I want to leave them unexplained. We’ve all been working with a lot of silence. I was tired from touring, remembering the long […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
    Iggy & The Stooges – Metallic K.O.
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    What our staff has to say: “Absolutely beyond Raw, Stooges at their best.” – Cleo IGGY and the STOOGES ‘METALLIC K.O.’ The Original 1976 Album – the notorious [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Rostam ? Changephobia
    Rostam ? Changephobia
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    Changephobia is the 2nd full-length solo record from Grammy Award-winning songwriter, producer, and composer Rostam Batmanglij. An adventurous new direction for Rostam, the songs collected on [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Reigning Sound – Abdication
    Reigning Sound – Abdication
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    Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and Reigning Sound frontman Greg Cartwright, Abdication… For Your Love was originally available solely as a promotional giveaway. This 2019 reissue [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Palberta – Palberta5000
    Palberta – Palberta5000
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    “While punk music was our first love, pop music has become our fixation. Throughout the making of ‘Palberta5000,’ we were focused on making music that people could not only sing […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • No Joy – Motherhood LP
    No Joy – Motherhood LP
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    No Joy’s relentless sonic permutations are evidence of frontperson and principal songwriter Jasamine White-Gluz’s insatiable desire to grow. The Montréal-based project began a decade ago as [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Boys Next Door – Lost And Brave Exhibition (Rarities / Demos)
    Boys Next Door – Lost And Brave Exhibition (Rarities / Demos)
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    Fan Club Edition

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Malcria – El Reino De Lo Falso
    Malcria – El Reino De Lo Falso
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    Pointed, chaotic and forceful hardcore from Mexico City. MALCRÍA underlines their odd brand of precise punk with dark urgency and pained screams without a drop of reference or a borrowed […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
    Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
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    The combustive guitar/cello chemistry of MacKay and Kleijn is drawn from avant-rock, classical and experimental inspirations, forged through years of live performance. The freedom-cum-new [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lower Dens – Competition
    Lower Dens – Competition
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    The fourth album from Lower Dens, The Competition is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent, dealing with modern capitalism and its psychotic effects. Its 11 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Christiane F. – Gesundheit! (RSD)
    Christiane F. – Gesundheit! (RSD)
    $13.00 | , Add to cart

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  • Otto Kentrol – No Mistakes (RSD)
    Otto Kentrol – No Mistakes (RSD)
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    What our staff has to say: “Not often mentioned when people discuss New York’s no wave scene, Otto Kentrol aka Bill Yitalo, finally gets his dues with a 2xLP archival […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • V/A – Go Ahead Punk: Make My Day (Orange Splatter VInyl) (RSD)
    V/A – Go Ahead Punk: Make My Day (Orange Splatter VInyl) (RSD)
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    Any ’90s punk fan will surely remember coveting a copy of Go Ahead Punk… Make My Day – a classic CD sampler from Nitro Records. Originally released in 1996, the […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri (Clear Vinyl, Bonus 12″) (RSD)
    Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri (Clear Vinyl, Bonus 12″) (RSD)
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    Limited edtion clear vinyl pressing. Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of an exclusive Record Store Day 2022 limited gatefold clear vinyl edition of Tangerine Dream’s [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • The Album Leaf – Past & Future
    The Album Leaf – Past & Future
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    Three long ou-of-print EPs, two available for the first time on vinyl. Packaged together with an EP of brand new material. Pressed on opaque galaxy vinyl with four album-sized art […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V/A – The Soul Sides (RSD)
    V/A – The Soul Sides (RSD)
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    First ever compilation of the deep ’60s soul from Jetstar, including Alder Ray Mathis’ Northern Soul stepper ‘Take Me Baby’! Featuring previously unissued tracks from [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Miles Davis – What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83 (RSD)
    Miles Davis – What It Is: Montreal 7/7/83 (RSD)
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    This double LP release includes one of Miles Davis’ final great bands including John Scofield on guitar, Bill “The Other Bill Evans” Evans on saxophones, flute and electric [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Peter Hook & The Light – Closer Live 2011
    Peter Hook & The Light – Closer Live 2011
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    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Itasca – Spring
    Itasca – Spring
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    What our staff has to say: “One of my favorite folk albums of the past 10 years. Laurel Canyon styled folk. Joni Mitchell – breezy afternoon. Heavy southwest vibe. Bitchin […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Half Japanese – Crazy Hearts
    Half Japanese – Crazy Hearts
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    Half Japanese return with another thrilling ride into unknown charters encountering beasts, celebrities, and menaces. Purveyors of noise and indie rock for over four decades, Half Japanese have [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative