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cd 2010 new Beijing sound art fella who started out organizing rock shows around China, then switched over from guitars to no-input mixers, cd sampling equipment, & other stuff that's not supposed to... |
Kwanyin |
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cd 2011/2006 new Solo live acoustic guitar by picker of the 60s British folk clubs. Jones busked in Paris instead of hanging out in hip spots, & so didn't start issuing records until '69, giving... |
Sunbeam |
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cd 2011/1965-71 new Before he was Willie Nelson's pot buddy in the 70s, Jennings was a scuzzy East Texan with way too much pomade in his hair. He began his career by being a sub bass player for Buddy... |
Omni |
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cd 2010/1973 new Tom Johnson is well known for writing a 1977 Village Voice essay that, in the days before NPR, introduced a bunch of brownstone dwellers to minimalism. His most famous piece lasts... |
Irritable Hedgehog |
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cd + dvd 2010/2005/ new I think of Henry Jacobs as the man who first invented the bullshit detector for hipsterism. Might not sound like much of an accomplishment, until the day you're surrounded by... |
Important |
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lp 2013/1969 new Johnson's 2nd album is a black power concept record, & one of those green-glowing jewels of sweet deep funk that should have slaughtered the charts right alongside Marvin Gaye or Al... |
Numero |
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lp 2013/1969 new Johnson hails from Holly Springs, Mississippi, where he grew up with Magic Sam as his next door neighbor. He started out in the Chicago electric blues scene & was even a session... |
Numero |
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6lp + 4cd 2010/1959-1977 new Nothing quite like the sassy, buoyant, bright spot in Johnson's voice. He can grouse, belt, hit a funk break hard, slither around a word a thousand ways, and likely only... |
Numero |
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cd 1998/1941-47 new Not John Cage, sure as shit not John Zorn, not Sun Ra, not Fluxus. And no, not any hippies or 'edgy' pop stars either. No one who ever lived happily shoved the avant garde pie in... |
Avid |
$14.00
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lp 2013/1986/1931 new James' high, frail falsetto is one of the most haunting sounds recorded by humans. And underlined with his virtuoso and self-invented open D minor 3-finger picking style, no... |
Yazoo |
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lp 2009/1931 new James' murderous, misanthropic mind is couched in a soft high howl & dazzling guitar & piano peacocking. After scuttling through whorehouses, his father's stuffy church, & nasty... |
Monk |
$23.50
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cd 2007 new Sharon runs the greatest soul band in the land, & the greatest that's come around since Gerald Ford too. Pocket tight grooves, effortlessly relaxed virtuosity, & brass burnished laments... |
Daptone |
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lp 2010/2001/2010 new Drummer/electronics friend-of-all, who comes out of OH & knocks about the country quite a bit. Here he's got a loud side and a quiet side. Loud side is a fast mix of sucking... |
Hot Releases |
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lp 2012/1960 new No woman made rockabilly as tough as Wanda's. Hank Thompson plucked her from obscurity while she was still in high school, and she carved out a career that survived well into the 70s... |
Rumble |
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lp 2011/1971 new Soundtrack to a British kids tv show about paper hand puppets that used the shape of the puppeteer's hand in a glove to form the body of the character, thus making it cuter than ten... |
Trunk |
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lp 2009/1960 new Atlanta Baptist preacher who combines singing, sermonizing, & heavy breathing in the style of CL Franklin (Aretha's dad, the varsity star of shouting preachers). During the 70s, he... |
Parlortone |
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lp 2012/1974-89 new Wonderous live gospel performances from around Baton Rouge LA with heavily distorted electric guitar. And as more & more of Jackson's stuff makes it out into the world, more &... |
50 Miles of Elbow Room |
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lp 2013/1991 new This Kind of Punishment's baritone voice & the production wizard of Xpressway goes solo. Jefferies is a charming, intimate songwriter, and he's particularly great at juxtaposing the... |
De Stijl |
$19.00
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3lp 2007/1966-72 new Highlife, belting 60s R&B from the USA, Yoruba portable piano, Charlie Parker, deep funk, & nightclub dance all get mixed up together a full four years before Fela took Lagos by... |
Tedium House |
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lp 2011/1973 new Previously unknown lp, found by Frank Gossner, whose digging empire is roughly equal to the reach of the French colonies. Recorded at Ginger Baker's studio in Lagos on a 24 track,... |
Voodoo Funk |
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cd 2011/1973 new Previously unknown lp, found by Frank Gossner, whose digging empire is roughly equal to the reach of the French colonies. Recorded at Ginger Baker's studio in Lagos on a 24 track,... |
Voodoo Funk |
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cd 2003/1969-72 new Highlife, belting 60s R&B from the USA, Yoruba portable piano, Charlie Parker, deep funk, & nightclub dance all get mixed up together a full four years before Fela took Lagos by... |
Soundway |
$11.00
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lp 2007/1969 new Bass player for Eddie Harris lights up his lava lamp by putting his bass through a bunch of ridiculous electric guitar pedals. Guests on this one include Roscoe Mitchell, Lester... |
Dusty Groove |
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lp + 7 inch 2012/1991-11 new Sparkling & echo-heavy Peruvian chica by guys who have their own nascar-style jumpsuits. Leader Teo Laura was clearly born to be a guitar god. Originally a cassette.... |
Masstropicas |
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lp 2012/1960 new A Texas mechanic who made a few 45s for Gold Star & Imperial in the ten years after WWII. He was injured in a car wreck in the mid-50s & gave up music until Arhoolie dug him up at... |
Arhoolie |
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cd 2007/1962-66 new Laurie (who's a gent, thank you) is best known for his urbane & politely surreal music behind the Avengers tv series, but he also scored several other UK spy/detective shows... |
El |
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cd 2006/1974/1972 new Philly black power jazz that has really unusual reverb-drenched drums (which make for a reggae feel once in a while), shredding free jazz clarinets, marimba solos, vibes, & even... |
Eremite |
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cd 2008/1970 new Baby butt smooth softpop from London with lots of dreamy harp, LA-style choral arrangements led by crystalline female vox & a depressed, bummer vibe that can't be beat. 2 bonus... |
Down Under |
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7 inch 2013/2012 new The wonderful Ms. Hiroshige from Hijokaidan calls down the sun with her mind-boggling 6-dimensional screams. Nothing sounds like the particular gnawing, screeching streaks that... |
L'Espirit de L'Escalier |
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lp 2008/2006 new Searing, snarling, ripped-to-shreds screaming has only one horror-queen, & it's Junko from Hijokaidan. Straight up & full on yelling over black noise from both of them. Overall it's... |
Tochnit Aleph |
$23.00
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5cdr 2008/1996/1979-82 new Late 70s Jap blastoffs that prefigure the Boredoms. Schizoid & brain-tingling destructo songs, sometimes with infantile yelling & sometimes with crude smash & grab synth... |
BWIE |
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cd 2004/1974 new Pinoy power trio boogie that's got a little more dune-buggy-in-the-desert than their previous Cream-influenced album. Rak en Roll sa Mundo, brother. Tracklisting: Maskara, Pinoy... |
Vicor |
$10.00
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cd 2004/1973 new Get drunk all day & get down all night with the 2nd & best album of brutally heavy Manila smoke riffage from Wally Gonzales, Mike Hanopol, & Joey 'Pepe' Smith (Speed Glue & Shinki).... |
Vicor |
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cd 2007/1978-9 new Sproing goes the guitar & ker-chunk goes the turntable on this late 70s sampler's delight. Low key, mossy mulch & fun spits of noises from horn & mouth hang about together without... |
De Stijl |
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lp 2013/1979 new They'd only been called Joy Divison for a year and a half, & 'Unknown Pleasures' had only been recorded 6 months back. The band wasn't super hot on the sound of the record,... |
Acme |
$26.00
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lp 2012/1980 new Long considered the best Joy Division live recording, & booted at least 4 times over the years (one cd version has about double the tracks that are here, btw). Decent sound, and the... |
B13 |
$27.00
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lp 2010/1969-70 new Sweaty & mighty TX blooze hard rock. They were banned from the club that fed bands to International Artist Records. They finally found a hopeful label, but then refused to change... |
Klimt |
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2cd 2002/1970-76 new They're pretty much the Chad & Jeremy of Spain, except that they got more famous as the 70s went on & ended up being liked by Spanish housewives who would've liked Linda Ronstadt... |
Rama Lama |
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lp 2013/1982 new Completely neon-drenched Nigerian synthboogie with unbelivably cheap production, tons of popping bass & tiny drum pads. The opening tune also sports way off-pitch falsetto singing... |
Tembo |
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cd 2013/1982 new Completely neon-drenched Nigerian synthboogie with unbelivably cheap production, tons of popping bass & tiny drum pads. The opening tune also sports way off-pitch falsetto singing... |
Tembo |
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lp 2009/1966-68 new Marc Bolan's first band, which he took over while still quite young, already a fully formed songwriter. Due to their manager Simon Napier Bell, they fast became known for having... |
Vinyl Lovers |
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cd 2002/1985 new One 30 minute recording of a gallery installation with Fluxus gent's handmade perpetual music machines. Hand drums get bonked rather irregularly, while airy zithers & funky mobiles... |
What |
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lp 2010/1969-71 new In Spain, the thing that clicked was not the Beatles, but the Animals, & hard driving R&B combos with singers who belted harder than Tom Jones were in every Madrid dance club.... |
Groovie |
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cd 2011/1972 new Managed by Ian Gillan from Purple, but they're closer to the Groundhogs in style and throw in the occasional eastern-tinged fuzz solo. 'She Came Like a Bat From Hell' nips generously... |
Rockadrome |
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cdr 2008/1978 new Lesbian free folk issued on private press. Jeriann Hilderley plays long crescendos of soft, wavy, post-Coltrane marimba abetted by cello & afghan drum. Willowy vocal wails over the... |
BWIE |
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one sided lp 2007 new Brilliantly named band of Tovah Olson's. Features top notch lumbering electonics by Tovah & Dan from Detroit's Haunted Castle, plus some seagull calls in the background by this... |
Tovinator |
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cd 2008/1967-69 new Perfect moody popsike dripping with organ. Vaguely in the much-copied style of 'Whiter Shade of Pale', but with effervescent baroque filigrees & heavenly phased harmony vocals on... |
Wooden Hill |
$21.00
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cd 2011/1970 new Canadian hard psych from just north of Duluth that is over the top in it's stumbling plops of guitar crud. Lyrics tend to be about how corporate bosses are screwing up the... |
Lion |
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cd 2009 new Another solo acoustic studio album in the "classic" vein to round out the year. As always, teaser titles that're perfectly set to make fans itch like crazy ('Will There Be No More... |
Corwood |
$6.50
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cd 2008 new What a grin! You can always count on a new surprise from Corwood headquarters, & here's the first in a long spell to feature a smile. Nothing like the anticipation for the impact of each... |
Corwood |
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