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A Bolha Um Passo a Frente lp

A Bolha Um Passo a Frente lp

lp 2010/1971-73 new 2nd album by the former Brazilian jovem guarda band The Bubbles, who'd just switched to the Portuguese version of their name. Having backed Gal Costa & Leno & visited the UK for...
Groovie $27.50

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Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister Iwa lp

Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister Iwa lp

lp 2010/1982 new Fuji is a Nigerian style made up by Barrister & named after a tourist poster he saw at an airport. It improvises on Muslim Ramadan prayer songs, mixing in other Yoruba traditions...
Klimt $25.00

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Ali Birra Ammalele lp

Ali Birra Ammalele lp

lp 2012/1976 new Ethiopian singer who spent a couple of years in the Imperial Body Guard Band (which gave the world both Mahmoud Ahmed & Tlahoun Gessesse). Being Oromo rather than Amharic, Birra is...
Mississippi $14.00

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Anne Briggs lp

Anne Briggs lp

lp 2008/1971 new Bert Jansch's pure-voiced roommate had already spent several years hanging around the UK folk scene, but she was notoriously unreliable about turning up for shows, & was known for...
4 Men With Beards $18.00

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Anne Briggs Nottinghamshire Tales lp

Anne Briggs Nottinghamshire Tales lp

lp 2009/1973 new Aka 'Sing a Song For You'. Third album before she gave up music to raise some kids & live in the Scottish countryside. Briggs unique voice & thick Midlands accent scalpels through...
Vinyl Lovers $23.00

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Anne Briggs The Time Has Come lp

Anne Briggs The Time Has Come lp

lp 2007/1971 new Mid 60s UK trad folk singer who was a generation younger than everybody else & suddenly started drinking a lot, hanging out with Bert Jansch & writing her own material. Her 2nd album...
Four Men With Beards $18.00

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Anton Bruhin Deux Pipes lp

Anton Bruhin Deux Pipes lp

lp 2010/1994-2000 new Bruhin's been playing jew's harp since the mid 60s and has invented several unusual modifications for the instrument. He samples himself on a little casio, and then solos over...
Alga Marghen $30.00

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Banque Allemande Willst du Chinese Sein Musst Du Die Ekligen lp

Banque Allemande Willst du Chinese Sein Musst Du Die Ekligen lp

lp 2013/2012 new Berlin guys who slam their super cruddy, dogged, low-tuned guitars real hard & don't let up on that one trick for their whole record. Tidy, low key songwriting & cool production,...
S-S $14.00

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Beach Boys Surfin Safari lp + cd

Beach Boys Surfin Safari lp + cd

lp + cd 2013/1962 new So if you're looking to extend your summer until it's endless, then there's a bunch of early hits you know on this 1st wunnerful lp by God's favorite white boys. If not, there's...
Doxy $25.50

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Beakers Four Steps Toward A Cultural Revolution lp

Beakers Four Steps Toward A Cultural Revolution lp

lp 2012/1980 new Seattle's credible & twitchy answer to the Contortions, who appeared on the earliest Sub Pop cassette release. They opened for Gang of Four & invited a bevy of sax players to jump...
K $11.50

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Beat 4 Habia Una Vez lp

Beat 4 Habia Una Vez lp

lp 2012/1968 new Fuzzers that strike a carefree balance between snarling garage & beat pop, from Santiago Chile. Far snappier than their compatriots like the Blops & lighter than Kissing Spell or Los...
Shadoks $40.00

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Beat Boys lp

Beat Boys lp

lp 2009/1968 new The Beat Boys were the band that backed Gilberto Gil when he sang 'Alegria Alegria' at the Third International Song Festival, which nearly had the crowd in a riot and exhuberantly...
Groovie $28.00

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Beatnicks lp

Beatnicks lp

lp 2009/1971-78 new Portuguese psych band that suffered through mandatory army service, exile to Belgium, the local answer to Woodstock, & car accident deaths, & so was only able to put out a few...
Past & Present $27.50

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Beer Damage Hobo on the Face of Music lp

Beer Damage Hobo on the Face of Music lp

lp 2013 new Brian Sullivan of Mouthus & Pete Swanson of the Yellow Swans, and in a huge upset, it's not just gestureless distortion or faux techno. Lots of backwards & heavily processed, mmm let's...
Our Mouth $20.00

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Benitez and Nebula Night Life/Essence of Life lp

Benitez and Nebula Night Life/Essence of Life lp

lp 2006/1976-77 new Raised in Spain, where his elementary school guitar teacher was Andres Segovia, Eddie Benitez formed his 1st band in Brooklyn at age 12, and he was signed to Fania while still a...
Vampisoul $16.00

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Big Star Number One Record lp

Big Star Number One Record lp

lp 2005/1972 new Approximately eleven jillion awful pop bands/songwriters try to pull off this combination of acoustic guitars, confessional/melancholy lyrics, artfully stacked harmonies & orchestral...
Ardent $13.50

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Big Star Radio City lp

Big Star Radio City lp

lp 2009/1974 new Wistful piano songs bordering on contemptuous/tortured with aching harmonies & shimmering guitars. Chris Bell had recently been edged out & Chilton was raging defiantly. Maybe it's...
Ardent $13.50

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Big Star Third lp

Big Star Third lp

lp 2011/1978/1974 new The mood is disconsolate and ragged melancholy, but those pop strings are gleaming & sculpted. Alex Chilton & drummer Jody Stephens (now the only surviving member of the band)...
4 Men With Beards $18.00

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Birth Refusal/Cassis Cornuta lp

Birth Refusal/Cassis Cornuta lp

lp 2007 new One sided lp. John Olson & Mike Connelly with a funny Scottish/Belgian guy named Daniel Renders who likes homemade tape loops & field recordings. Olson, quotable as usual, sez: "Like...
Ultra Eczema $25.50

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Black Artists Group In Paris Aries 1973 lp

Black Artists Group In Paris Aries 1973 lp

lp 2011/1973 new St. Louis free jazz band started by Oliver Lake & Lester Bowie's little brother Joseph. Even though they were working with theater troupes & had landed their own warehouse space as a...
Rank & File $25.50

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Black Seeds/Sound Trek lp

Black Seeds/Sound Trek lp

lp 2012/1970-71 new Winners of United States Army sponsored soul band battles that took place in Mannheim, Germany near the end of the Vietnam war. Military bands played for soldiers stationed...
Now Again $21.00

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Black Task lp

Black Task lp

lp 2012/1984-85 new Magnificent mid-80s tinny thrash/death metal from Philly, clearly recorded on a boombox, with a frequency response about two & a half hertz wide. Razor slashes up & down the...
Radio Raheem $11.00

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Black Voices On the Street in Watts lp

Black Voices On the Street in Watts lp

lp 2011/1970 new The Watts Prophets before they got their name, and they bring you scathing kill whitey poetry over bongos & great free sax (by Greg Edwards). They grew out of a writer's workshop...
Ala $11.00

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Blind Blake Back Biting Bee Blues lp

Blind Blake Back Biting Bee Blues lp

lp 2009/1926-32 new Stylish & swanky as his peaked double breasted suit, Arthur Blake makes his guitar boogie-oogie-woogie like a fast piano left hand. He can get an entire band arrangement out of...
Monk $23.50

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Blind Blake That Will Happen No More lp

Blind Blake That Will Happen No More lp

lp 2010/1927-28 new Stephen Calt (best known for his unforgettable Skip James bio book) says Blind Blake probably has some dance band history in his past. And that makes sense, as the guy's little...
Monk $21.00

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Blo Phase 2 lp

Blo Phase 2 lp

lp 2012/1974 new Sweltering Nigerian funk & they're one of the most psych oriented bands of the entire Lagos scene. The band started out as the Clusters & played on the same stages with Gerald Pino &...
Strawberry Rain $23.00

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BLO Step Three lp

BLO Step Three lp

lp 2012/1975 new Step one on any journey through Nigerian afrobeat, and here's yet another reason why. BLO members began in bands with Joni Haastrup & Geraldo Pino before the Nigerian civil war in...
Hot Casa $23.00

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Blood Stereo The Larval Tuning Fork & Other Visions lp

Blood Stereo The Larval Tuning Fork & Other Visions lp

lp 2011 new Remember when you were a kid and you got your first big hunk of bubblegum? Course after the first fifteen seconds the stuff always tastes like rubber tires. But what kid could care? Nah,...
Twisted Knister $21.00

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Blossom Toes If Only For A Moment 2lp

Blossom Toes If Only For A Moment 2lp

2lp 2007/1969 new 2nd album leaves behind the sundappled popsike for which they're beloved, & takes on hard rock/folk switchoffs (which basically makes the band sound like they listened to 'Hair' a...
Sunbeam $29.50

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Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum lp

Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum lp

lp 2010/1968 new The loudest rock band of all time, bar none, and it gets no heavier. Has their crude power blooze hit 'Summertime Blues' and produced by Abe 'Voco' Kesh. They say Keiji Haino can...
Sundazed $11.00

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Blues Addicts lp

Blues Addicts lp

lp 2007/1970 new Cream/Hendrix heavy rock from Denmark, originally on Spectator. Just a little bit too bluesy here & there to hit the high water mark of Randy Holden et al, but these 3 guys are...
Shadoks $39.00

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Blues Control Valley Tangents lp

Blues Control Valley Tangents lp

lp 2012/2011 new Piano/fuzz duets. I could go on all day about how Waterhouse & Cho are refreshing social superheroes, as they seem like the only people in all of NYC who don't act like New Yorkers....
Drag City $15.00

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Blues Creation Demon & Eleven Children lp

Blues Creation Demon & Eleven Children lp

lp 2010/1971 new Rippling, bursting Sabbath/Cream fuzz & chugging that'll turn your ass-cheese to butter. Takes some balls to start a Japanese record with a nuclear blast sound effect, and they name...
Theraputic $28.00

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Bohemian Vendetta lp

Bohemian Vendetta lp

lp 2007/1968 new Best version of Stones 'Satisfaction' ever. Really, ever. The lp came out on Mainstream originally & the band was pissed off that they didn't promote it better. While thumb...
Mainstream $13.00

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Bola Vol. 7 lp

Bola Vol. 7 lp

lp 2012/2009 new All about the funk. Contemporary northern Ghana guy who plays a 2-string diddley bow that you usually pick with a chunk of an orange drink bottle. Utterly mesmerizing, loping rhythm...
Awesome Tapes From Africa $19.50

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Bone Rattle Toxcatl Calling lp

Bone Rattle Toxcatl Calling lp

lp 2013/2009-10 new Ryan of LA Drugs, Dreamhouse, & Rotten Apples leads a percussion trance team. Clacking and shaking and clanging things, plus everything from drum machines to homemade electronics...
Anonymous Dog $13.00

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Born Losers Cycle Guitars lp

Born Losers Cycle Guitars lp

lp 2012/2009-10 new Barcelona instrumental group that's clearly heavily into Davie Allan. You can also hear some Ventures moves, esp circa 'The Horse'. They're careful to make the timeslip as...
Kingsnake $18.50

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Boscoe lp

Boscoe lp

lp 2008/1973 new Top shelf kill-whitey funk from Chicago with some cosmic jazz brass (sax, trumpet, & trombone with guitar) & scathing lyrics. Tracklisting: Introduction, Writin on the Wall, He Keeps...
Asterisk $17.00

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Boys Next Door Door Door lp

Boys Next Door Door Door lp

lp 2012/1979 new Pre-Birthday Party with all the same members. Not quite as unhinged as they'd shortly be, but still quite dour. They start out sounding pretty close to Richard Hell, but even after...
Mushroom $18.00

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Bren't Lewiis Ensemble At the North Pole Easter Day 1982 one sid

Bren't Lewiis Ensemble At the North Pole Easter Day 1982 one sid

one sided lp + 3 inch 2010/1983 new The promise of the BUFMS box set reaches it's sweetest apex yet with this absurd little performance of few instruments and abundant shenanigans. Band taped a bunch...
What The $16.00

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Bren't Lewiis Ensemble Three Christs of Ypsilanti lp

Bren't Lewiis Ensemble Three Christs of Ypsilanti lp

lp 2010/1984-86 new Seymour Glass from Bananafish's band from Chico, CA with the two girls from Vomit Launch. Although Glass had already fallen under the influence of JD Salinger, he was rechristened...
Siltbreeze $12.50

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Bren't Lewiis/Silvia Kastel/Ninni Morgia Fix It Again Tony lp

Bren't Lewiis/Silvia Kastel/Ninni Morgia Fix It Again Tony lp

lp 2013/2012 new After appearing here & there on Bananafish-related recordings since at least the early 90s, & maybe earlier, Lucien Tielens finally proved himself (at least for those of us who don't...
BUFMS $17.50

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Brother JT The Sveltness of Boogietude lp

Brother JT The Sveltness of Boogietude lp

lp 2013/2011-12 new Pitch shifted phase pedal vocals are JT's calling card. And here they get turned into Prince/Parliament backup singers. And then sometimes it'll switch to indie rocker ballads or...
Thrill Jockey $17.00

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Brothers Unconnected Unrock the House 2lp

Brothers Unconnected Unrock the House 2lp

2lp 2012/2011 new Double acoustic guitar versions of SCG classics from the mid-90s & 'Torch of the Mystics'. Recorded in Germany in what sounds to be a large dinner theater with a high ceiling. The...
Unrock $35.50

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Buari lp

Buari lp

lp 2012/1975 new Sidiku Buari was a silver medal Olympic runner in the mid-1960s. He moved from Accra to Chicago at the end of his athletic career & ended up in music school there. This record was...
RCA $20.00

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Bubble Puppy A Gathering of Promises lp

Bubble Puppy A Gathering of Promises lp

lp 2008/1969 new Sick dual-lead boogie from Tejas. Their sweeeeet smouldering single 'Hot Smoke & Sassafrass' kept International Artists afloat for an additional couple of years. After a few money...
International Artists $11.00

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Bubbles Raw and Unreleased lp

Bubbles Raw and Unreleased lp

lp 2010/1966-71 new Rio's answer to the Pretty Things (or at least Herman's Hermits), the Bubbles started out as pubescent, round faced kids who could barely hold instruments, playing UK hits for...
Groovie $27.50

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Burning Star Core Papercuts Theater 2lp

Burning Star Core Papercuts Theater 2lp

lp 2010/1997-2008 new Tons of C Spencer Yeh's live shows (66 of them, spanning more than ten years) mulched together into one big wriggling pit of snakes. Tons of guests too, including all of Hair...
No Quarter $16.50

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Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen lp

Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen lp

lp 2011/1977-78 new 1st album with a tish less melody & a tosh more metal guitar sheen than many of their singles with Howard Devoto. Toward the end of the record, songs tighten up into repeated...
Vinilissimo $24.00

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Carmen Maki & Blues Creation lp

Carmen Maki & Blues Creation lp

lp 2012/1971 new Heavy rock & britblooze by bonkers-guitar strangler Kazuo Takeda & pals. Carmen Maki is a slightly arrhythmic Grace Slick impersonator whose voice is bright, but thoroughly trashy &...
Phoenix $21.50

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