Artists

Title-	Label	Price
A Frames 333 3lp 3lp 2010/2000-07 new Terse, agtitated punk that balances stripped-bare songwriting with tech-philic, foreboding lyrics & completely indomitable drums. As pragmatic as a can of Pabst, & leaves a...	S-S	$32.50 Add:
Absentees Illegal Listening Device cd cd 2002/1979-2000 new Demented california hardcore band that only ever pressed a single to get back at a former member of the band (a girl, wouldn't you know it, and so the b-side was just a chant of...	Artifix	$12.00 Add:
African Music Machine Black Water Gold lp lp 2005/1972-74 new New Orleans funk combo with no songs- just endless vamps in the mold of 'Tighten Up'- and they cruise like the goddamn Love Boat. Except for a couple of 'right on brother' and...	Soul Power	$10.00 Add:
Aguaturbia Psychedelic Drugstore cd cd 2010/1996/1970 new Hairy Chilean bloozerock with a bit of Jefferson Airplane in the vocals & some swashbuckling & low slung guitar solos. With their first record sporting the band sitting naked in...	Relics	$16.00 Add:
Airway Beyond the Pink Live cd+dvd+7 inch cd+dvd+7 inch 2001/1998/1977 new LAFMS' first businessman & label-owner Joe Potts decided during the late 70s that he needed a project that was meant to deliver subliminal messages. His basic idea...	Cortical Foundation	$30.00 Add:
Aka Hard Beat cd cd 2011/1971-77 new Over the top wailing hard rock band from East Java that played lots of covers live, doing all originals here and nipping constantly from Zep, Sab, ACDC, Purple, Mountain, you name...	Strawberry Rain	$15.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Live in Saint Paul de Vence 27th July 1970 lp lp 2011/1970 new Aka 'Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 2'. Last concert, and throughout the 70s & 80s it was reviled because of the involvement of singer Mary Maria Parks. She's kinda the avant...	B13	$26.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Spirits lp lp 2011/1964 new 2nd session, and his 1st in NYC after coming home from Copenhagen. Cecil Taylor's rhythm section (Sunny Murray and Henry Grimes) plus a couple of Clevelanders on trumpet & a 2nd...	Klimt	$21.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Spirits Rejoice cd cd 2008/1965 new Albert Ayler is pretty much the Plato of experimental jazz- sometimes it seems like everything else is just a footnote in his story. A rollercoaster of raw energy, tears of sax that...	ESP	$13.00 Add:
Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity cd cd 2005/1964 new The visceral clarion call for the entire world of free jazz, and still one of it's clearest expressions. Ayler's tone is so rough & vibrato so wide that most of the time it sounds...	ESP	$13.00 Add:
Algarnas Tradgard Framtiden ar ett Svavande Skepp Forankrat cd cd 1995/1972 new Swedish trippy hippies, who are not yet (though they would be shortly) delving into prog. Spaced-out medieval violins, jew's harps & tablas are mixed up with wiggy Moog synths & a...	Silence	$14.00 Add:
Ali Ag Amoumine Takamba lp + 7 inch lp + 7 inch 2011/2009 new Sand-swallowed tin can distortion on a rippling little ngoni in Timbuktu, Mali, plus dry clicks of percussion made by a guy's rings slapping against a calabash gourd. The...	Sahel Sounds	$14.00 Add:
Alternative TV The Image Has Cracked lp lp 2009/1978 new ATV could've been a slightly darker answer to the Buzzcocks, but almost immediately they began to implode under the headstrong cantankerousness that made them want to hang out with...	Get Back	$14.00 Add:
Alvarius B Baroque Primitiva cd cd 2011/2005-11 new If you haven't been waiting for the next message from Al. B- & waiting like you're crouched behind a tomb and the shuffling noises won't go away- then I warn you little one,...	Abduction	$17.00 Add:
Alvarius B Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset cd cd 2011/2006 new Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls. Last time this was around I named it my favorite record of the last five years. Guess I'll have to make it ten or twelve then. Vocal overdubs...	Abduction	$15.00 Add:
Alvarius B cd cd 2006/1994/1981-9 new One-eyed pirate attacks on a guitar with six extra holes in it recorded onto a shitty cassette recorder hanging from a rope in the middle of an old shed. A few breaks for...	Abduction	$13.50 Add:
AM Fishman Alights Darkling Upon the Shore cd cd 2006 new Moody floating laptop drones and blackened tape murk from Washington state. Tracklisting: Standing, Panterns, Cavern.	Audiobot	$6.50 Add:
Amanaz Africa cd cd 2008/1975 new Lots of African psych doesn't blend influences so much as it stacks up strikingly different ones next to each other, but this one's a fascinating missing link. Cream-type rhythm...	QDK	$14.50 Add:
Ambergris Anti Matter Alma Mater lp lp 2012 new Matthew Thurber is a comics guy, mostly known for his book 1-800-MICE. Really loopy & colorful semi-linear skit about childhood time travel & field trips to inner space on one side. Flip...	Feeding Tube	$18.50 Add:
Amboy Dukes Journey to the Center of the Mind lp lp 2008/1968 new Fine & raw heavy psych with completely drugged out lyrics written by Steve Farmer & the inimitable Ted Nugent. Recorded amidst a whirlwind of lineup changes, many of them due to...	Mainstream	$13.00 Add:
Amede Ardoin Mama I'll Be Long Gone 2cd 2cd 2011/1929-34 new Ardoin's wheezing duets with fiddler Dennis McGee are the starting point for all things cajun/zydeco. Ardoin has a high tenor voice that ripples like a flag & hiccoughs on cue...	Tompkins Square	$18.00 Add:
Amen Dunes Dia cd cd 2009/2006 new Recorded alone in a cabin, but the result is closer to Sic Alps' burned & buried pop than anything you'd associate with going blind from too much moonshine. Fuzzed out, but light...	Locust	$13.00 Add:
AMM Generative Themes cd cd 1994/1982-83 new A circuit is a garden, and AMM grew this solitary & diaphanous blossom, in a landscape arid & alien, when nobody but nobody was walking around thinking the same thing. The classic...	Matchless	$18.00 Add:
AMM/John Butcher Trinity cd cd 2008 new Even after 40 years, AMM is so subtle it makes other improvised records seem like they were put together with jackhammers. Never just a drone, never just chirping, but curling waves of...	Matchless	$18.00 Add:
Amnesty Free Your Mind cd cd 2007/1973 new Large, horn heavy funk ensemble from Indiana that was born when two earlier bands merged. Starts off in an Earth Wind & Fire mode (and that trumpet is wayyyy too high in the mix,...	Now Again	$14.00 Add:
An Apple A Day lp lp 2011/1969 new Doctor Rock is indeed a rockin' Doc! Totally loveable little record that looks forward to power pop more than around at it's peers in the contemporary pop-psych scene. Catchy as shit...	Guerssen	$25.00 Add:
Ancient Grease Women and Children First lp lp 2012/1970 new A studio project between 2 different bands from Wales (they were named Eyes of Blue & Strawberry Dust), that just got together to make this one album. There are a few ballad moments...	Sireena	$20.00 Add:
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase/Bhob Rainey 7 inch 7 inch 2008 new Whirs and flappings spliced to ribbons & then put back together again. Cooper from Fat Worm & Bhob from Nmperign. Tracklisting: Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase-Journey to the Center of...	Sedimental	$8.50 Add:
Annexus Quam Osmose lp lp 2008/1970 new Dreamy krautrock mysticism with a bit of Embryo-type trumpet & flute waft, plus some echo-laden Floydish guitar workouts. Cover folds out into a pyramid & the vinyl is purple.	Wah Wah	$29.50 Add:
Apryl Fool cd cd 2010/1968-69 new Jap band that plays hard but simple 'tardo bar blues suddenly crimps itself into a flash fire of blister-riddled psych with the vocalist acting as fuzz bomber by singing through...	Bamboo	$16.00 Add:
Art Ensemble of Chicago Les Stances A Sophie cd cd 2008/1970 new Not as extreme as 'A Jackson In Your House' or 'Reese and the Smooth Ones', but a groovy title with enough little instrument breakouts to keep freaks happy & one that works well for...	Soul Jazz	$18.00 Add:
Art of Lovin lp lp 2008/1968 new Simple but poppy Mamas & Papas light psych that occasionally spotlights a Grace Slick style female singer. Band was from Massachuetts (Newton, I think) & there's a Tim Hardin cover....	Mainstream	$15.00 Add:
Arzachel lp lp 2011/1969 new Slobbering, slugging UK fuzz bombs that you could easily pass off as being by the Groundhogs, and on the comedown cuts there's some acid-drenched Phantom of the Opera organ. Resume...	Klimt	$23.00 Add:
Ash Ra Tempel cd cd 2012/1971 new Manuel Gotsching & Klaus Schulze (who'd already done time in Tangerine Dream) discover the floating power of the chord that never moves. Their 1st, best, & most cosmically melted....	MG Art	$16.00 Add:
Ash Ra Tempel Join Inn cd cd 2012/1973 new Klaus Schulze rejoins the band after a spell with a solo career, and impressively it's his drums rather than his famed EMS synthi that make this one the krautrockinest of all their...	MG Art	$16.00 Add:
Atomic Forest Obsession cd cd 2012/1973-77 new Heavy psych from India, by one of the precious few groups to form outside of the Bollywood film industry. Compilation that switches uneasily between both of the band's very...	Now Again	$21.00 Add:
Augusto Alguero Todas sus Grabaciones en Polydor 2 cd set 2 cd set 2006/1968-71 new Spanish easy listening soundtrack composer who nearly won Eurovision a few times, and is the spitting image of Peter Sellers. By our ears anyhow, his best album would be "Mi...	Rama Lama	$24.50 Add:
Authorities Puppy Love lp lp 2011/1982-83 new Pretty much perfect, fast & simple punk rock. Band's from a suburb in California that also birthed Lord Buckley, Gil Evans, & Pavement in their own time. Their complete...	Get Hip	$13.00 Add:
Avengers 2cd 2cd 2012/1977-78 new Joan Jett is awesome and everything, no argument, but fuck her. When Penelope Houston opens up her mouth you can still hear the jumble of disdain, disgust, sarcasm, and...	Water	$21.00 Add:
Avengers lp lp 2012/1977-78 new Joan Jett is awesome and everything, no argument, but fuck her. When Penelope Houston opens up her mouth you can still hear the jumble of disdain, disgust, sarcasm, and...	4 Men With Beards	$18.00 Add:
Avengers Paint it Black 7 inch 7 inch 2012/1983/1978 new Penelope Houston improves upon the Jagger/Richards hit easily, mostly just because you can actually believe that she'd like to see a world without bumblebees and rainbows in...	Superior Viaduct	$9.00 Add:
Avengers The American in Me cd cd 2004/1978-79 new Live in SF just a few shows before they broke up, at a club that was way too polite for a real punk show. Penelope Houston was the real deal, and you can still hear the jumble of...	DBK	$17.00 Add:
Azanyah The One cd cd 2012/1987 new Atlanta Coltrane-worshippers who have somehow not figured out that they traveled forward 20 years in a time machine to 1987. They're at their best when they're taking it slow rather...	Jazzman	$16.00 Add:
Best of the Android Sisters cd cd 2004/1984 new The second I heard this, it became one of my favorite releases of the year, and I'm completely stoked to have it back around after several months of unavailability. Fried and...	EM	$19.50 Add:
Charles Packy Axton Late Late Party lp lp 2011/1965-67 new Tenor sax player who was the son of Estelle Axton (the 'ax' of Stax) and nephew of Jim Stewart (who provided the 'st'). His band the Mar-Keys was the label house band before the...	Light in the Attic	$18.00 Add:
Dorothy Ashby Afro-Harping lp lp 2007/1969 new Dorothy grew up in Detroit & discovered the harp in highschool, using it to play be-bop (!) around town. As the fad for trippy sounds hit the mainstream in the late 60s, Ashby...	Cadet	$11.00 Add:
Dorothy Ashby Hip Harp lp lp 2010/1958 new Dot went to the same high school as Kenny Burell & Donald Byrd, had her own radio show & put on plays in Detroit with her husband/drummer. She's probably best known as a much-sampled...	Prestige	$11.00 Add:
Ed Askew Imperfiction lp lp 2011/1984 new Tender plinking on 10 string ukulele & harpsichord. Every chord is arpeggiated across a constant stream of eighth notes, so that you slip along a fanciful river of lonesome. Askew...	Drag City	$15.00 Add:
Edip Akbayram 2cd 2cd 2006/1972-80 new Career overview of the ace from the 2nd generation of Turkish rockers. Edip started out winning a song contest and was soon cranking out electrified saz laments. His voice has a...	Shadoks	$17.50 Add:
Eduardo Araujo A Onda E Boogaloo lp lp 2011/1969 new Araujo is a Jovem Guarda singer who switched styles frequently enough that he had time to run down a side road into a whole album of uptempo shakin R&B. Gritty Otis Redding-style...	-	$15.00 Add: