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  • Thomas Bernhard – Correction
    Thomas Bernhard – Correction
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    “The scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to “the Cone,” an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Time Bomb: A Nuclear Reader From The Progressive
    Time Bomb: A Nuclear Reader From The Progressive
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    An awareness and preparedness guide from the anti-nuclear Progressive Foundation. Progressive Foundation, 1980. Some rubbing & cornerwear to wraps, along with some foxing to pages.

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • DDAA – Ronsard
    DDAA – Ronsard
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    French experimental/art-music that crosses into industrial at certain points. Label: Electrip – ELECTRIP 01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:Belgium Released: 1988 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
    Nurse With Wound – The Musty Odour Of Pierced Rectums (A Collection Of Obsolete Primitive Variations)
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    Reissue of a limited edition CDr from 2003 Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Records – mt056b Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
    Derek Bailey – Duo & Trio Improvisation
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    “This 1978 recording finds the estimable British guitarist in the musical company of several members of the cutting edge of the Japanese jazz avant-garde of the time. These musicians, [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Motörhead ‎– Orgasmatron
    Motörhead ‎– Orgasmatron
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    “I admire metal’s integrity, brutality, and obsessiveness, but I can’t stand its delusions of grandeur–the way it apes and misapprehends reactionary notions of nobility. [...]

    GENRE: Metal
  • Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
    Kel. Putra Bali Purantara Jogjakarta* – Gending2 Tarian Bali
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    Ethnographic field recordings of Balinese cultural ceremonial music. Label: Lokananta Records – BRD-020 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Indonesia Released: 1969 VG+/VG with Old store sticker. Some [...]

    GENRE: International
  • The Damned – The Black Album
    The Damned – The Black Album
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    The Damned embrace goth & art-rock leanings on their fourth album Label: Chiswick Records – CWK 3015 Format: 2xVinyl, LP, Album Country: UK Released: 1980 VG+/VG+ with light marks & […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
    The Flesh Eaters ‎– Forever Came Today
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    “In the wake of the star-filled A Minute To Pray A Second To Die, The Flesh Eaters’ frontman Chris D. assembled a leaner, meaner band to deliver his next unbound […]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
    Butthole Surfers – Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac (clear 1984 pressing)
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    “By the time they started touring to preview and then support the revamped version of ‘Psychic… Powerless… Another Man’s Sac,’ the Buttholes’ live show was a berserk, evolving [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
    Velvet Underground – White Light / White Heat (80’s Japanese Pressing)
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    It’s all about Sister Ray. Label: Verve Records – 23MM 0190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Epicycle – Special First Edition
    Epicycle – Special First Edition
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    Psych tinged power-pop from Chicago. Label:Cirkle Records – CST 1111 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1981 VG+/VG with some noticeable sleevewear & staining. Start of split at upper [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
    Chick Corea – Tones For Joan’s Bones (’76 Japanese Pressing)
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    “Tones for Joan’s Bones, Chick Corea’s first session as a leader, is a blazing, advanced hard bop set from late 1966, with writing that reveals an affinity with McCoy [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
    Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
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    “The most significant dividing line in Ornette’s chronology might be Charlie Haden’s leaving the group in the mid-’70s. This set of duos from a few years later highlights the [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
    Iggy And The Stooges* ‎– Metallic ‘KO
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    Documentation of The Stooges final live performance. Heavy & hostile. Label: Import Records – IMP 1015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released: 1977 VG+/VG+ with light marks & some [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
    Tongue Depressor – Bones For Time
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    “Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey’s generous latest offering is a tape-mangled, xenharmonic trip into the dissociated outerzone. Properly next level spirit-calling drone musick that [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
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    North Carolina based singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman has spent the last decade using her voice and guitar to construct tunes built upon the spectrum between joy and pain – deeply [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
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    “Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation—for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
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    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Prairiewolf – Deep Time
    Prairiewolf – Deep Time
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    Prairiewolf make easy listening music for an age of fracture. They almost do it in spite of themselves. No one can seriously question the head music bona fides of the […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
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    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    Old Saw – Dissection Maps
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    Old Saw, the enigmatic New England collective led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), return with their third long-playing record, Dissection Maps. _____________________________________ It is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
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    Cara Beth Satalino built her adulthood in feral, eccentric Baltimore, Maryland, waiting tables and playing in a band, keeping her schedule flexible just in case an opportunity arose. Though [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
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    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Corey Madden – Taste The Hour
    Corey Madden – Taste The Hour
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    AI this is not. 2024 finds guitar journeyman Corey Madden stepping out and into his own zone. An NYC expat, and a founding member of the Los Angeles based Color […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders – Planet Lidders
    Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders – Planet Lidders
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    Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders takes the freaked improvisation of Alexander’s long-running instrumental band – DWLVS / Dire Wolves – into the world of song. Heady songwriting, [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
    Brendan Eder Ensemble – Therapy
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    Following 2021’s Cape Cod Cottage — Eder’s concept album under the guise of Edward Blankman, a retired dentist who wrote elegant jazz in the1970s — on Therapy, Eder drops the […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Lone Mesa – Dirt Park
    Lone Mesa – Dirt Park
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    home recordings, with ambient folk / american primitive influences

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Ananya Ganesh – Precis-Loving
    Ananya Ganesh – Precis-Loving
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    Ananya Ganesh (b. 1997) is an improviser from Madras based in North America. Their idiosyncratically simultaneous improvisation of the voice and piano lies between the unrealizable and what could [...]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Blaine Todd – Goodbye ‘Til I Do Good By You
    Blaine Todd – Goodbye ‘Til I Do Good By You
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    All songs written by Blaine Todd except Just As You Are written by Robert Wyatt Blaine Todd: guitar, bass, voice Henry Birdsey: pedal steel Liam Herb: synth on Wild Desperation […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
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    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
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    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
    Jukebox: Photographs 1967-2023
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    “San Francisco rock’n roll bleeds through Michael Goldberg – an innovative, inspiring figure who always has been quietly pioneering something interesting for the past 50+ years. Hozac Books [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography
  • Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records And The Rise Of New Wave
    Disturbing The Peace: 415 Records And The Rise Of New Wave
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    In the late ‘70s and early to mid 1980s, San Francisco was a creative incubator, bringing forth all manner of new music acts. Ground zero for the scene was the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • An Ideal For Living: A Celebration Of The EP
    An Ideal For Living: A Celebration Of The EP
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    “Hozac Books is proud to present An Ideal For Living- A Celebration of the E.P. (Extended Play) by Corey du Browa & friends. An impressive first overview & history of […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Sal Maida – Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s & Bottom’s Up
    Sal Maida – Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s & Bottom’s Up
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    “HoZac Books is proud to present Four Strings, Phony Proof, 300 45s, & Bottom’s Up, written by Sal Maida, one of the most interesting 1970s rock figures you just don’t […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • All Over The Place: The Rise Of The Bangles From The L.A Underground
    All Over The Place: The Rise Of The Bangles From The L.A Underground
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    “This monumental project, started by author and unofficial band historian Eric Shade back in the 1990s has had quite a journey from start to finish. This insane overview of the […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Paul Collins – I Don’t Fit In: My Wild Ride Through The Punk & Power-Pop Trenches
    Paul Collins – I Don’t Fit In: My Wild Ride Through The Punk & Power-Pop Trenches
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    “After two long years of painstaking research and development, we present to you, the first major memoir covering the birth of DIY Power Pop, from Paul Collins. From it’s initial […]

    GENRE: Non-Fiction
  • Wizzard Sleeve – Make The World Go Away
    Wizzard Sleeve – Make The World Go Away
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    Heavy, psych-influenced garage rock.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Wax Idols – No Future
    Wax Idols – No Future
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    Fast and blazing post-punk.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • K-Holes – K-Holes
    K-Holes – K-Holes
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    Goth-tinged punk.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Radar Eyes – Radar Eyes
    Radar Eyes – Radar Eyes
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    “Radar Eyes encompass a sound that’s familiar, yet revealing, driving neurotic, icy 12-string guitar lines over heavenly blocks of perfectly contained noise and rhythm, bound by a untamed [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Heavy Times – Jacker
    Heavy Times – Jacker
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    Released in 2011 on Hozac Records

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Peoples Temple* – More For The Masses
    Peoples Temple* – More For The Masses
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    Snarling, Garage-psych rock.

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Mickey – Rock ‘N Roll Dreamer
    Mickey – Rock ‘N Roll Dreamer
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    Garage-punk led by Mac Blackout

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
    Woven Bones – In And Out And Back Again
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    Droney & spacey indie rock.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The People’s Temple – Musical Garden
    The People’s Temple – Musical Garden
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    “Hailing from Lansing, Michigan, these guys bring the psychedelic leanings of the Electric Prunes and fuse them to the kick ass rock power of The Seeds and somehow give it […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Georgiana Starlington – Paper Moon
    Georgiana Starlington – Paper Moon
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    Country-tinted indie-rock ala Gun Outfit.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Rayon Beach – This Looks Serious
    Rayon Beach – This Looks Serious
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    “The swirling cloud of deranged noise emanating from the highly radioactive inner core of RAYON BEACH has once again reared its head up, bucking wildly and shattering the iridescent thunder [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore
  • Idle Times – Idle Times
    Idle Times – Idle Times
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    “Since their inception, Seattle’s eminently unique noise-benders, Idle Times have enshrouded their unhinged pop dexterity in an entire soiled spectrum of illustrious cloaks, assuring every [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Black Bug – Reflecting The Light
    Black Bug – Reflecting The Light
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    “A terrifying throb of sinister synthesizers, endless shadows, and mysterious dried blood, this transplanted Swedish band now evading the authorities in Bordeaux, France is a seductively subtle [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Nice Face – Horizon Fires
    Nice Face – Horizon Fires
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    Synth-driven post-punk.

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81
    Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81
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    “Like a snotty bottle rocket shot out of The Damned’s dressing room and straight into the gut of Cheap Trick, suburban Chicago’s sorely under appreciated teen punk pioneers, EPICYCLE, were [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Puffy Areolas ‎– 1982: Dishonorable Discharge
    Puffy Areolas ‎– 1982: Dishonorable Discharge
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    “One of the most pivotal bands currently infecting the Midwest universe, Puffy Areolas are a pummeling ensemble of free jazz skronk, laid mercilessly on top of a proto-punk nuclear waste [...]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Cop City/Chill Pillars – Gift Shop
    Cop City/Chill Pillars – Gift Shop
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    “*Once in a while a new life form will come to the surface, emerge from the primordial ooze and crawl ashore, develop legs where its fins used to be, and […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
    Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
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    Delightful & catchy power-pop

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Population – White Crosses
    Population – White Crosses
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    Hard-hitting and heavy post-punk

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Far-Out Fangtooth – The Thorns
    Far-Out Fangtooth – The Thorns
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    “Philadelphia’s FAR OUT FANGTOOTH have been meddling within their own poisonous cloud of murky, atmospheric noise for a while now, and after a stellar debut LP on Siltbreeze last year, […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • The Man – Carousel Of Sound
    The Man – Carousel Of Sound
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    “ARE YOU WIRED TO GET HIRED? Let’s get this straight, nobody likes to be pushed around by THE MAN. With all of the corporate involvement in the music industry these […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Connections – 5 Imaginary Boys
    Connections – 5 Imaginary Boys
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    “This modern Columbus, Ohio pop band flashed before us via KEVIN ELLIOT, previously of 84 NASH and one of the guys with great musical taste at the Agit Reader that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative