Wazoo Records

2012-01-27T13:43:00.001-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 1/24 & 31

"Chimes Of Freedom - Songs Of Bob Dylan"
(4CD set for Amnesty Intl.)
Lamb Of God - "Resolution" CD
Lana Del Rey - "Born To Die" CD
Gotye - "Making Mirrors" CD
Leonard Cohen - "Old Ideas" - LP or CD
Metronomy - "The English Riviera" CD
(Made many U.K. top ten of 2011 Lists)
New batch of Reggae Vinyl
(Mostly Dubwise & Ska)

Reissues
Talking Heads - "Chronology"
(DVD Anthology)
Candi Staton - "Complete Fame Masters" 2CD
The DOORS - L.A. Woman
(2CD 40th Anniv. Edition)
More IMPULSE! 2-Fer CDs
(Alice Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp)

2012-01-13T14:39:00.000-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 1/10-17/12
Ani Difranco - "Which side Are You On?" - CD
Snow Patrol - "Fallen Empires" - LP
Modeselektor - "Monkeytown" CD
(w/ Thom Yorke)

Lots of Reissues
Alex Chilton - "Free Again" - CD or LP
(1970 recordings between Box Tops and Big Star)
Sunn O))) & Nurse With Wound- "Iron Soul" - 2 LP
Miles Davis - Live @ Hill Auditorium 1970 - LP
Morphine - Cure For pain" - LP
It's A Beautiful Day - First two records on one import (budget) CD
"Michigan Mixture" - 2CDs/31 tracks of rare rockin' 60's psych from hereabouts
Cramps - "Sacred Music" CD (all early singles compiled)

Soundtracks
"Angels From Hell" LP - 60's biker film madness
"Bollywood Bloodbath" CD

...And Even More THROBBING GRISTLE LPs & CDs

2012-01-05T11:03:00.000-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 1/4/12
*Year-end Stragglers/Overlooked Gems*

Adele - "Live @ Royal Albert Hall" -DVD & CD
Rationals - S/T 1970 CD (debut issue)
Pharoah Sanders - "Village of Pharoahs / Wisdom Through Music"- 2-fer CD
Bats - "Free All The Monsters" LP
Dirty Beaches - "Badlands" - CD or LP
Holy Ghost! - S/T CD
Kuedo - "Severant" LP
Ty Segall - "Singles 2007-2010" - CD or 2LP
Tyvek - "Fast Metabolism" - LP

Lastly, our vote for best "overlooked" Record of 2011:
Lake - "Giving & Receiving"

2011-12-19T13:46:00.000-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 12/20
Josh ritter - 2CD+DVD Live
Roy Harper- 2CD Retrospective
Throbbing Gristle- 2CD reissues
of all Titles
Fennesz+Sakamoto - "Flumina" 2CD
"Psychomania" -Cult Biker Sondtrack CD

NOW ON VINYL
Justice - 2LP + CD
Captain Beefheart-
"Doc At The radar Station"
& "Ice Cream For Crow"
Boddie Records- 5LP Set- Numero Group
Brazilian Nuggets Vol. 2
Gun Club - "Fire Of Love"

2011-12-15T13:04:00.000-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 12/13

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Stage Whisper - 2CD Studio/Live
"We Bought A Zoo" - OST CD (Jonsi)
Smashing Pumpkins - Vinyl Reissues

We Have Plenty of CHRISTMAS
LPs, CDs, DVDs, Cassettes & VHS

We will have special Hours Of Business
during the holidays. They Are:
Sun. Dec.18th thru Fri. Dec 23rd - Noon to 6pm
Sat. Dec. 24th - 10am - 3pm
Christmas Day - CLOSED
Mon. Dec. 26th thru Fri. Dec. 30th - Noon to 6pm
Sat. Dec 31st - 10am - 6pm
New Year's Day - CLOSED
Mon. Jan. 2nd - CLOSED

2011-12-06T10:11:00.000-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 12/06

Black Keys - "El Camino" - CD (LP Soon)
Amy Winehouse - "Lioness" CD
Roots - "Undun" - CD
Crystal Stilts - "Radiant Door" LP or CD

NOW ON VINYL
Brian Eno - "Small Craft On A Milk Sea"
Kate Bush - "50 Words For Snow"
Tallest Man On Earth - "Shallow Grave"

Added Value

"Bon Iver" CD & LP Now Available With Free DVD/Video Accompaniment for each song (While Supplies Last)

Wazoo "BOGO" Deal: Buy any CD For $5 & Up and choose a FREE CD from our large selection of Promos -- No Limit -- While supplies Last

Gift Certificates available

2011-11-22T13:25:00.000-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 11/22

Kate Bush - "50 Words For Snow" CD
Thee Oh Sees - "Carrion Crawler" CD
Betty Wright & The roots - "The Movie" CD
Death Cab For Cutie - Remix CD EP
Childish Gambino - "Camp" CD

Reissues

Rolling Stones - "Some Girls" - DLX 2CD
The Who - "Quadrophenia" - 2CD DLX Edition
Olivia Tremor Control - "Black Foliage" - 2CD

2011-11-22T12:29:00.000-08:00

Listen up! Here's what we will have on offer for Record Store Day - BLACK FRIDAY
ALL vinyl except where noted on sale @ 12PM , 11/25
for details Go To:
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

Beatles
4 x 7" Box Set

Pink Floyd
The Wall--Singles Box Set

Lennon, John
Imagine--40th Anniversary Box Set

Barrett, Syd
Mick Rock: Syd Barrett, The Photography of Mick Rock BOX SET in tin

Fear
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" 7"

Dylan, Bob
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? BOX SET 7"

Nirvana
Nevermind--The Singles 10" box

Soundgarden
Live on I-5--Before The Doors Soundcheck EP

Townshend,Pete
The Quadrophenia Demos Volume 1

Iron & Wine
Morning Becomes Eclectic

Black Keys
"Lonely Boy"

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blood Suger Sex Magik - RED VINYL

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Kiss My Amps Live

Doors, The
LA Woman singles box set

Wilco
Speak Into The Rose

Phish
Party Time

Phish
The White Tape

Cale, John
EP: Extra Playful CD

Boris
"New Album" - CD

Sharon Jones & DKs
Soul Time! CD & LP

Beach Fossils
Beach Fossils

Cornell, Chris
Songbook

Dr. Dog
"Warrior Man" 7"

2011-11-22T12:27:00.000-08:00

PLEASE NOTE - Our hours for the Thanksgiving week have changed:
Wazoo Holiday Week Hours
Mon-Tues-Weds: Noon-6PM
Thurs: Closed
Friday: Noon-6PM
Sat: 10AM-6PM
Sun: Noon-6PM

2011-11-14T13:46:00.000-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 11/15

Sigur Ros - "Inni" - 2CD+DVD or 3LP+DVD
Drake - "Take Care" CD
Betty Wright & The ROOTS - "The Movie" - CD
Kurt Vile - "Smokerings" DLX 2CD or "Outta Reach" Vinyl EP
Mikal Cronin (Oh Sees) - CD
Portishead - "Chase The Tear" - 12" Vinyl
Joker - "The Vision" - 2LP
King Krule - 12" or CDEP
White Denim - New Vinyl EP
James Blake - "Enough Thunder" 12" Vinyl
John Fahey - "1958-1965 The Fonotone Years" 5CD + Hardbound Book, w/ photos, essays, etc.

Not so new, but nonetheless worthy

Richmond Fontaine - "The High Country" - CD
Field - "Looping State Of Mind" - Back In stock on CD and now 2LP vinyl + CD
Atlas Sound - "Parallax" - Now On Vinyl
Jonathan Wilson - "Gentle Spirit" CD
Caretaker - "Perpetual Repetition Of Phrases" CD

reissues
Throbbing Gristle - "Second Annual Report" - 2CD or LP,
and "D.O.A. : Third And Final Report" - 2CD or LP
Jurgen Mueller - "Science Of The Sea" LP
Question Mark & The Mysterians - "Action" LP

From Africa
"Highlife Time Vol.2"- 2CD or 3 LP - Music of Nigeria and Ghana
"Bambara Mystic Soul" - Burkina Faso 1974-79 CD

...and other parts
Erkin Koray - "Mechul" LP (70s Turkish Psych)
Roedelius - "Wasser Im Wind" CD or LP

2011-11-07T14:28:00.000-08:00

New @ Wazoo - 11/08

Atlas Sound - "Parallax" - CD
Supreme Dicks - 4CD "Complete"
Panda Bear - "Tomboy" - 4LP Expanded Box
Brian Eno/Rick Holland - New EP
Soft Moon - "Total Decay" Now on vinyl
Mike Patton - "The Solitude Of Prime Numbers" CD
Black Milk & Danny Brown - "Black & Brown" CD
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here" 2CD Experience Edition
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Replica" - CD or LP
Cass McCombs - "Humor Risk" CD
Medeski,Martin,Wood & Scofield- Live CD
King Crimson - "Starless" -40th Anniv. CD/DVD-A
DJ Shadow - "Less You Know" now on LP
Real Estate - "Days" - Finally(!) on Vinyl
Dirty Projectors and Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca CD

Plus- Back In Stock
ALL - Wilco Vinyl
St. Vincent - "Strange Mercy" - CD & LP

2011-11-03T12:57:00.000-07:00

New @ Wazoo - 11/01

Beach Boys - "Smile" DELUXE 2CD or 2LP
Decemberists - "Long Live The King" CD EP or 10" vinyl
Coldplay - "Mylo Xyloto" Now on LP
Wale - "Ambition" CD
Rustie - "Glass Swords" CD
Florence & The Machine "Ceremonials"
Lou Reed & Metallica- "Lulu" 2CD
Deertick "Divine Providence" - LP & CD
Soft Moon - "Total Decay" CD/EP
John Prine - "Singing Mailman"- 2CD (1970 Studio/Live)

2011-10-30T14:03:00.000-07:00

Stragglers...

Here are a few tasty items that have found their way into the racks lately that may have escaped your notice. Not necessarily Brand New, but, we think, worthy of your attention. Titles and minimal descriptions will be provided. The rest is up to you. If your curiosity is piqued you may refer to your favorite source of info on das internet or stop by for a more full blown enticement.

Mark Hollis-S/T
reissue of 1998 solo LP from Talk Talk frontman.

Cave - "Neverendless"
now here on CD or LP

Jim Ford - "Harlan County"
reissue of overlooked gem of Country Soul from late Seventies

Father's Children - "Who's Gonna Save The World"
Unbelievably Numero Group provides us with one more unearthed, unreleased treasure from 1973 by this fine DC soul outfit

Laura Marling - "A Creature I Don't Know"
this is getting some of the best reviews we seen in a while. Apparently quite "a stunning fulfilment of early promise" say Record Collector. This 21-yr-old British chanteuse is definitely on the way up. LP or CD

Field - "Looping State Of Mind"
yet another band that seems to improve with each new release. "Minimal techno stylings" probably does it an injustice. Top notch

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - "S/T"
the group is comprised of a dude from Stars Of The Lid and Dustin O'Halloran. It was described as "pastoral". That usually floats our boat.

2011-10-24T13:33:00.000-07:00

New @ Wazoo - 10/24

Tom Waits - "Bad As Me" - CD DLX 2CD or LP (w/CD)
Surfer Blood -"Tarot Classics" EP or CD
Justice - New CD (LP later)
Coldplay - New CD (LP later)
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday - 2CD Expanded
Bjork - Biophilia 2LP
Future Islands - "On The Water" CD
Popul Vuh - 'Revisited & Remixed" 2CD
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Now on 180g audiophile 2LP set

Local
new Macpodz CD/EP
George Bedard - New CD & several older titles

still holding
Primus - "Green Naugahyde" - CD or LP
Lots of Exotic foreign film music on CD

...and it's never too early for "A Very She & Him Christmas" on CD

2011-10-17T12:08:00.000-07:00

New at Wazoo 10/11 & 10/18

Bjork - Biophilia CD (LP Soon)
Peter Gabriel - Live - Regular and 2CD Edition
Feist - Metals - CD & LP
DJ Shadow - "Les You Know" CD
Radiohead 2CD remixes of "King Of Limbs"
Mayer Hawthorne - New CD & LP
Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire CD (LP to follow)
Bonnie Prince Billy - Wolfroy Goes To Town - CD & LP
Zola Jesus - Conatus LP & CD
Jens Lekmans - New EP & 12"
AIDS Wolf - New LP
Tammar - New LP
Trust - Bulbform 12"
White Dog - Triturate LP
M83 - 2CD or 2LP
Real Estate - New CD
Cant (of Grizzly Bear) - LP & CD
Jane's Addiction - New CD
Kimya Dawson - Thunder thighs CD
J. Cole - Cole World CD

Reissues

Animal Collective - Danse Manatee LP
Dinosuar Jr. - First Three LPs
Minus The Bear - 2 early LPs
Dark Side of the Moon - CD, LP , 2CD and "Immersion" Box )CDs,DVDs, Scarf,Marbles, etc)

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - REGGAE, baby. Plus Minutemen.

2011-10-06T13:09:00.000-07:00

v/a TREASURE ISLAND IN DUB LP
*** "Jamaican Recordings & sister label Kingston Sounds drop 180-gram vinyl pressings of vintage reggae, rocksteady and ska from the 1960's-1980's. Choice comp!

BEASTIE BOYS Paul's Boutique 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

FEIST Metals LP+MP3 / CD
*** *** "Astoundingly intimate, yet often exuberant; rife with transcendent & unforgettable pop gems -- a stunningly beautiful, sublime record."

KING TUBBY Dub From The Roots LP
*** "Some prime Tubby's material, with the King taking apart Cornell Campbell cut and feeding it through a head mashing matrix of echo and delay treatments with an unbridled voracity."

MINUTEMEN Double Nickels On The Dime 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! And ho-lee shiiiiiiit! Do you own this yet? You have to do some serious time with this album.

MODEST MOUSE Good News For People Who Love Bad News 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

AUGUSTUS PABLO Ital Dub LP
*** "Fresh off the success of his album Rebel Rock Reggae, and about to enter the most prolific period of his career with legendary dub engineer King Tubby, this being their first collaboration."

LEE PERRY Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread LP
LEE PERRY Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Dub Treasures From The Black Ark LP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 2 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Classic albums & recent compilations slay so completely.

PRINCE JAMMY In Lion Dub Style LP
*** Dub tracks from Black Uhuru's first album "Love Crisis", from 1977!

YOUTH LAGOON The Year Of Hibernation LP
*** "Although the music seems somewhat dreamy upon first listen, the lyrics show a different side to the matter. Hidden beneath the melodies is a voice that is eerie yet nostalgic."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Bjork, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Feist, Radiohead & Jean-Claude Vannier

2011-10-06T13:08:00.000-07:00

BJORK Biophilia CD
*** "Biophilia is the Icelandic singer and composer's most ambitious undertaking in her 20-year career. Someone actually said, 'To me, it feels like the birth of opera or the birth of cinema'."

BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY Wolfroy Goes To Town LP / CD
*** Yet another gemstone from WILL OLDHAM! And by gum, it was recorded in KENTUCKY. A bunch of people play on it -- all of them are prrrretty good musicians. Ah, music -- the nectar of life!

FEIST Metals LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Astoundingly intimate, yet often exuberant; rife with transcendent & unforgettable pop gems -- a stunningly beautiful, sublime record."

PETER GABRIEL New Blood CD
*** "New Blood is a continuum of Peter's previous Scratch My Back album - the song-swap project where he covered the songs of others, all to an orchestral backing."

GILBERTO GIL The Sound of Revolution 1968-69 CD
*** "The Sound of Revolution combines Gilberto Gil's brilliant 1968 and '69 Tropicalia albums, Frevo Rasgado and Cerebro Electronico; joyous, extraordinarily inventive pop. Two albums on one disc + 2 additional bonus tracks."

RADIOHEAD TKOL RMX 1234567 2xCD
*** "The double CD set brings together all 19 remixes that form the band's current 12" vinyl singles series."

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS Headstone: Contact Sessions 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "The Contact Sessions were the first studio recordings by The 13th Floor Elevators, recorded in 1966, which never saw the light of day in those heady drug-filled days. Mono & stereo versions included!"

JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER Electro Rapide CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Electro Rapide is a collection of rare & unreleased archive material from the vaults of Jean-Claude Vannier. Taken from the period before and during his revered creative period with Serge Gainsbourg, this is a mix of JCVs familiar trade-mark motifs from his coveted work for idiosyncratic French pop vocalists (Briggitte Fontaine, Claude Nougaro, Leonie, Anna St Clair) with the seldom heard experimental music for ballets, fashion shows as well as his infamous film music (such as the soundtracks for Cannabis & La Horse)."

JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER Roses Rouge Sang CD
*** "A NEW album from JCV! The signature sound is there, complete with his brooding orchestral sweeps, pensive drum-drops, loudly plucked bass & biting clavinet."

NEW ARRIVALS: VINYL - Soul Jazz vinyl, Mogwai, Michael Yonkers, Sebadoh & more

2011-09-27T09:30:00.002-07:00

v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound 2xLP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! Top notch collection of Tropicalia music with all the hitmakers: CAETANO VELOSO, TOM ZE, OS MUTANTES, GAL COSTA, GILBERTO GIL, & JORGE BEN. On SOUL JAZZ.

BLITZEN TRAPPER American Goldwing LP+MP3 / CD
*** "On American Goldwing, Blitzen Trapper let their loves and influences hard guitar rock, country picking and pawn-shop Casio aplomb hang out for all to see. You'll want to shotgun a beer in the shower!"

MEMORYHOUSE The Years 12"+MP3
*** "Five tracks that form a cohesive set of gorgeous, ethereal synth-pop songs, all of which are seeing their first release on CD or vinyl!"

MOGWAI Earth Division EP 12" / CD
*** "Scottish experimental-rock institution Mogwai follow up their Sub Pop debut with a more subdued side of Mogwai, with three quietly plaintive piano- and string-infused tracks, plus the fuzz-drenched haze of 'Drunk and Crazy'."

ARTHUR RUSSELL The World Of Arthur Russell 3xLP
*** "The first collected work of Arthur Russell feat. both classic tracks of Arthur Russell alongside impossible-to-find collectors tracks and private-press only jams." On SOUL JAZZ.

SEBADOH Bakesale: Deluxe Edition LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

SHIMMERING STARS Violent Hearts LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Filtered through years of Spector records and awash in an echo chamber of dark reverb, Shimmering Stars specialize in crafting subtle, lilting pop for both bedroom loners and sock hop slow dancers alike."

MICHAEL YONKERS Microminiature Love LP+MP3
*** NOW ON VINYL! Includes four bonus jammers.

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Wilco, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Mark McGuire, Mogwai, Madlib et al

2011-09-27T09:30:00.001-07:00

v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 CD+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED "After Motown, the car industry & the advances of civil rights in the 1960s, came a decade of gov't abandonment, high unemployment, inner-city violence & urban decay. Tribe (Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney, Marcus Belgrave) was brought together to fight these negative forces, producing seminal deep jazz & funk albums." On SOUL JAZZ.

v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound 2xLP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! Top notch collection of Tropicalia music with all the hitmakers: CAETANO VELOSO, TOM ZE, OS MUTANTES, GAL COSTA, GILBERTO GIL, & JORGE BEN. On SOUL JAZZ.

BLINK 182 Neighborhoods CD
*** "The self produced 'Neighborhoods' reflects each band member's different point of view." Great!

BLITZEN TRAPPER American Goldwing LP+MP3 / CD
*** "On American Goldwing, Blitzen Trapper let their loves and influences hard guitar rock, country picking and pawn-shop Casio aplomb hang out for all to see. You'll want to shotgun a beer in the shower!"

DUM DUM GIRLS Only In Dreams CD
*** "A great leap forward for a gifted songwriter, blending deeply personal lyrics with a signature blend of '60s girl-gang pop, the primitive propulsion of the Cramps and the moody atmospherics of Mazzy Star."

BILL FRISELL All We Are Saying... CD
*** Consummate guitarist, composer and musical interpreter Bill Frisell has assembled a trusted ensemble to record his definitive take on the classic songs of John Lennon."

MADLIB Medicine Show No. 12 - Raw Medicine: Madlib Remixes CD
*** "Raw Medicine: Madlib Remixes - part mixtape, part beat tape, featuring a host of un-suspecting collaborators that run the gamut from thugs, street poets, star emcees and underdogs. We ain't naming names. 60 mins, 30+ tracks."

MARK MCGUIRE Get Lost LP / CD
*** NOW AVAILABLE ON CD! "A killer album from Mark McGuire of EMERALDS! More electronic elements than usual & even some voices, but still the unique blend of feel-good riffs, electric & acoustic loops and melodies that just stick in the head."

MOGWAI Earth Division EP 12" / CD
*** "Scottish experimental-rock institution Mogwai follow up their Sub Pop debut with a more subdued side of Mogwai, with three quietly plaintive piano- and string-infused tracks, plus the fuzz-drenched haze of 'Drunk and Crazy'."

NIRVANA Nevermind CD
NIRVANA Nevermind: Deluxe Edition 4xLP / 2xCD
*** REMASTERED! 2xCD & 4xLP versions include b-sides, Smart Studio sessions, boombox rehearsals, and BBC sessions.

PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon CD
PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon 2xCD
*** REMASTERED! 2xCD includes a live version of the entire album.

PINK FLOYD The Wall 2xCD
PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here CD
*** REMASTERED!

SHIMMERING STARS Violent Hearts LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Filtered through years of Spector records and awash in an echo chamber of dark reverb, Shimmering Stars specialize in crafting subtle, lilting pop for both bedroom loners and sock hop slow dancers alike."

SPANK ROCK Everything Is Boring & Everyone Is a Fucking Liar CD
*** "Spank Rock took the road less traveled and stepped out on his own to record an album free of manipulation, full of creativity and home spun at the lab of master DJ/Producer Boys Noize."

WILCO The Whole Love CD / 2xCD
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! Someone tried to pay them a billion bucks but these guys won't stop making music! 2xCD version is in a snappy package, includes a bonus disc, and is LIMITED EDITION.

STEVEN WILSON Grace For Drowning 2xCD
*** "The new solo double-album from writer, producer & PORCUPINE TREE founder member Steven Wilson."

EVENTS - Ann Arbor Film Festival Retrospective Screening #1

2011-09-20T11:58:00.001-07:00

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING #1 - Thursday, Sept. 22 @ Michigan Theater
*** "AAFF's 50th season launches with the first of a five-part Retrospective Screening Series, which presents influential and rare films. The first retrospective screening includes films by Alice Anne Parker (a.k.a. Anne Severson) that provoked a riot during its screening at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1972."
Michigan Theater / 603 E. Liberty / Ann Arbor, MI / 7:30PM / $10 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/qUAa9t

NEW ARRIVALS: VINYL - Squarepusher, Clams Casino, Beastie Boys, Fennesz, Mount Kimbie, Mount Eerie & more

2011-09-20T11:57:00.001-07:00

BEASTIE BOYS Hot Sauce Committee Part Two 2xLP+7"+MP3
*** NOW ON VINYL! Finally. Two white 180g LPs plus the download and a bonus 7". Apparently there's an iron-on in there too.

CLAMS CASINO Rainforest LP
*** "As the producer of some of Lil B & Soulja Boy's weirdest, most inventive beats, everyone is excited about the debut EP by Clams Casino! It's a record drenched in mysterious atmospherics, like a foggy memory of a far-off exotic place."

FENNESZ Seven Stars 10"
*** "New 4-track 10". Using acoustic and electric guitars, bass, synths and computers, Fennesz continues to engage and entrance us in equal measure. For the first time, Fennesz employs drums!"

HOWLIN' WOLF The Howlin' Wolf Album LP+POSTER
*** "The Howlin' Wolf Album was a radical experiment for a well-established artist: integrate electric instruments & psychedelic arrangements into Wolf's signature blues sound. It's a unique mix of traditional blues and electric rock elements."

MICHAEL HURLEY Fatboy Spring LP
*** "A full LP of never before released Hurley recordings from 1972-73! A laid back countryish album sure to please the hardcore Hurley fan and casual listener too. Deep and breezy."

KWJAZ Kwjaz LP
*** "The 'post-plastic sublime decomposed luxury grooves' tape-degraded gem of a mix tape on vinyl! Cloud-jazz passages, bouncy weirdo dub-funk vignettes, stretched-out syrupy synth stews, and smooth faux-Steely D soft-rock abstractions." On NOT NOT FUN.

LA VAMPIRES goes ITAL Streetwise EP
*** "Four-song 45 rpm EP of raw 90s-style body workouts by NNF head mistress LA Vampires & Brooklyn rhythm-head ITAL. Gritty dancefloor jams filtered through tape-hiss and graffiti'd concrete. Limited edition of 700." On NOT NOT FUN.

MARK MCGUIRE Get Lost LP
*** "Another killer album from Mark McGuire of EMERALDS! A few more electronic elements than usual & even some voices, but still the unique blend of feel-good riffs, electric and acoustic loops and melodies that just stick in the head."

MARIA MINERVA Cabaret Cixous LP
*** "Estonian Euro-beat enchantress Maria Minerva crafted a fresh 11-song dream ride down fascination street -- a gorgeous, gauzy thrill of cracked-crystal karaoke pop singles, full of the weird vision and hazed-out soulfulness." On NOT NOT FUN.

MOUNT EERIE Song Islands Vol. 2 2xLP+BOOK+MP3
*** INCREDIBLE PACKAGING ALERT! "Collecting non-album tracks by Phil Elverum's Mount Eerie spanning 2002 to 2009. Raw poems, acoustic guitar, wooden percussion, distorted punk instructionals, hundreds of voices singing. Unreleased + obscure 7" jams."

MOUNT KIMBIE Carbonated 2x12"
*** "The lead track plus two previously unreleased tracks plus remixes and more."

NEWWORLDAQUARIUM The Dead Bears 2xLP
*** "Reissue of the highly-acclaimed double LP! Obscure, ultra-fat discofied house tracks to spaced-out ambient soundscapes. Thick, thick! Enter the world of Newworldaquarium."

THE RAPTURE In The Grace Of Your Love 2xLP / CD
*** "Immerse yourself in waves of lyrical optimism & introspection among angular guitars & pulsing synthesizers, pounding drums & sweet rhythmical lullabies. This is the sound of The Rapture re-engaged and revitalized." On DFA.

ROEDELIUS Wasser Im Wind LP
*** "Ah, the Hans-Joachim Roedelius solo release most closely resembling Cluster. Wasser Im Wind sees Roedelius pumping the familiar sound of the Drummer One rhythm machine, drifting melodies, sounds emerging from the cosmos."

SILK FLOWERS Days Of Arrest EP+MP3
*** "Straying from the glossy veneer of their last LP, here's a much colder, hyper-focused work. Their raw jaggedness is refined into brittle columns, the sound of repetition and confinement, the dull ache of raw nerves."

OMAR SOULEYMAN Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts 2xLP / CD
*** "An hour of the best moments from Souleyman's Western tours, captured in striking fidelity and intensity. Syrian electrified folkloric dabke, Iraqi choubi and Arabic shaabi!"

SPANK ROCK Energy 12"
*** "The first single from Everything Is Boring And Everyone Is A Fucking Liar ditches synthetic sheen to sample Can's 'Vitamin C.' Remixes by Jan Driver, Win Win and The Glimmers."

SQUAREPUSHER Shobaleader One EP
*** "Killer effort on the jazz-funk-electro tip -- the perfect soundtrack for a remake of Zabriskie Point. Heavy bass that slaps your flesh and some sunset vocoder. Remix by Mr. Oizo. Joint venture from Because, Ed Banger & Warp."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Grateful Dead, Opeth, Omar Souleyman, Clap Yr Hads, Tori + THIS MAY BE MY LAST TIME SINGING!

2011-09-20T11:56:00.001-07:00

v/a ¡CHICAS!: Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974 CD
*** "From 1963 onwards, female ye-yé shook the Spanish society of the period -- a small revolution of customs dressed in a mini-skirt and playing at 45 rpm. Latin, rock & roll, twist, ye-yé, beat, garage, rhythm & blues, soul, etc."

v/a THIS MAY BE MY LAST TIME SINGING: Raw African-American Gospel On 45RPM 1957-1982 3xCD
*** RECOMMENDED "Fiery sanctified soul, heavy Pentecostal jams, drum machine gospel, slow-burning moaners, glorified guitar sermons & righteously ragged a cappela hymns! The music on this compilation was originally released on small label 45s, mostly in the 1960s and '70s. Compilerd by Mike McGonigal."

TORI AMOS Night Of Hunters CD
*** "Tori Amos's debut on Deutsche Grammophon Night of Hunters is a 21st century song-cycle, inspired by classical music from the last 400 years."

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH Hysterical CD
*** "Their first new album in more than three years finds the band at their most confident and creative. Chrome-plated licks, sheets of eddying synths & emotive motorik pulsebeats."

GRATEFUL DEAD Europe '72 Vol. 2 2xCD
*** "Recorded at various locations during the band's 22-show '72 tour, the collection captures the Dead in white-hot moments of improvisational revelry. The set includes an epic hour-plus jam that combines 'Dark Star' & 'The Other One'."

JAYHAWKS Mockingbird Time CD
*** "The Jayhawks once again push the envelope in songs and performances of rarefied dynamism and grace. The album's shapes and textures range from string-laden grandeur to widescreen vistas to streamlined 12-string jangle."

ERKIN KORAY Meçhul: Singles & Rarities CD
*** RECOMMENDED "A collection of rare tracks and lesser-heard singles recorded in Turkey between 1970-1977, culled from Koray's personal vinyl collection. One of the foremost global leaders of psychedelic, folk rock, pop and balladry."

OPETH Heritage CD
*** 'The doom-laden shade of occult-infused Scandinavian death metal charged with transcendent, emotional melodicism on this mind-boggling dense maze of tempo shifts, off-time signatures, percussive experimentation and warped rhythms."

OMAR SOULEYMAN Haflat Gharb 2xLP / CD
*** "An hour of the best moments from Souleyman's Western tours, captured in striking fidelity and intensity. Syrian electrified folkloric dabke, Iraqi choubi and Arabic shaabi!"

NEW ARRIVALS: VINYL - Restocks on wax, my baby!

2011-09-19T12:45:00.000-07:00

v/a FLIPPER PSYCHOUT: Original Italian Library Music From The Vaults 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Dig into the historical library catalog of Italy's Flipper Music -- a brilliant blend of obscure early '70s tracks: cinematic sound landscapes, space-age bachelor pad music (Italian style) & atmospheric, fuzzy psych-grooves."

JEFF BUCKLEY Grace LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! This probably won't be around long.

EMERALDS Does It Look Like I'm Here 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Critically acclaimed wicked album on heavyweight double LP.

BRIAN ENO Drums Between The Bells 2xLP
*** Perhaps you've heard of him! On WARP.

GUN CLUB Fire Of Love LP
*** RECOMMENDED Available again on heavyweight vinyl.

MODEST MOUSE Good News For People 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

JONAS REINHARDT Music For The Tactile Dome LP
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "Nine technicolor fractals of glittering synthesizer skyways & master-crafted pulsing kosmische kraut terrariums. Heavy headphone communion. Art by Sean Patrick." On NOT NOT FUN.

RADIOHEAD The Bends 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

SUBLIME Sublime 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

SCOTT WALKER 4 LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! This won't be available for long -- the recent pressings of the first four albums seem to be going out of print.

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Restocks on CD, my baby!

2011-09-19T12:44:00.000-07:00

v/a R&B HIPSHAKERS Vol. 1 CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "A raucous and potentially life-changing comp of '60s R&B compiled by DJ Mr. Fine Wine (WFMU) - crazy dances, guitar instrumentals, inspired forays into mind-altering whimsy and hook-filled, honest-to-goodness love songs."

EMERALDS Emeralds CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Taking the thick drone sound of 'Solar Bridge' into an even more abstract and strange place, this is an intense journey that drops you off in a place just beyond death. Field recording contributions from AARON DILLOWAY."

NATHANIEL MAYER I Want Love & Affection CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The first, only, complete and definitive anthology of Nathaniel Mayer's thumping R&B/soul primitivism -- 21 slices so frenetic that it's impossible to take sitting down. A Mayer 45 is an instant party." Most singles come from Detroit's own FORTUNE RECORDS.

NOVELLER Glacial Glow CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Her most assured, accomplished statement to date, trading distortion & feedback for memorable melodies & a wider sonic palette. Icy shards from the heavens! Pulsing throbs! Creeping anxiety! Fleeting melancholy!"

PEAKING LIGHTS 936 CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "Melodic gold dust, drift-dub haze, cool crate-digger grit, silky soul-jazz keys, tranced vocals, bass loops, drum loops & sneaky dub guitar -- a total groove-wave classic!" On NOT NOT FUN.

SCOTT WALKER 5 Easy Pieces 5xCD
*** "96 tracks across 5 themed CDs. Many rare & deleted tracks. Scott's soundtrack work collected on one CD for the first time. 56 page booklet of notes."

JUNIOR WELLS Hoodoo Man Blues (Expanded Edition) CD
*** "Considered to be one of the best blues albums of all time, this new edition feat. 17 performances: 12 songs from the original LP, 3 alternate takes plus 2 never-before-released performances."

ANDRE WILLIAMS Movin' On With Andre CD
*** RECOMMENDED Compiling some of Andre's most down & dirty, dark & funky soul tracks from the '60s for Fortune, Avin, Sport, Wingate, Ric-Tic, Checker & Chess. Featuring "Bacon Fat," "JailBait" & "The Greasy Chicken." MUST HAVE.

EVENTS - CAVE and Ann Arbor Film Festival

2011-09-14T13:01:00.001-07:00

FRUSTRATIONS wsg CAVE and SKATE LAWS - Sunday, Sept. 18 @ Lager House
*** "Deeply insane fried skronk! Shirtless & scary! Live murder; run for the hills! Heavy psych + gnarly kraut reverberations = some kinda' trance-inducing monster sweating on your ascot! A sucker from Canned Heat shoves a pistol into a cop's mouth ala SST vibes."
Lager House / 1254 Michigan Ave / Detroit, MI / 9:30PM / $? / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/oP2Acv

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE SCREENING #1 - Thursday, Sept. 22 @ Michigan Theater
*** "AAFF's 50th season launches with the first of a five-part Retrospective Screening Series, which presents influential and rare films. The first retrospective screening includes films by Alice Anne Parker (a.k.a. Anne Severson) that provoked a riot during its screening at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1972."
Michigan Theater / 603 E. Liberty / Ann Arbor, MI / 7:30PM / $10 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/qUAa9t

NEW ARRIVALS: Magazines - MILD VILNC!

2011-09-14T12:59:00.001-07:00

MILD VILNC No. 2 MAG
MILD VILNC No. 3 MAG
*** Designed & published by Brian Case of DISAPPEARS. MILD VILNC is a quarterly broadsheet newsprint 'zine devoted to music and the arts. Interviews focus on process and purpose, with a slant towards the up and coming, the avant, and the icons." Also, it's FREE.

NEW ARRIVALS: Cassette - Bitchcopter + Skate Laws!

2011-09-13T12:59:00.000-07:00

SKATE LAWS / BITCHCOPTER Purple Reign In Blood CS
*** 14 tracks in 20 minutes from some of Ann Arbor's gnarliest creeps! Shit gets weird, raw, wet & wild -- but no horseplay!! Pop it in & peel a layer off of your brain. Limited to 100 copies.

NEW ARRIVALS: VINYL - King Crimson, Puce Moment, Jimi, The Cramps

2011-09-13T12:58:00.000-07:00

v/a BRASILIAN GUITAR FUZZ BANANAS 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Following the success of Psych Funk 101, Brasilian Guitar, Fuzz Bananas should serve as a master class for those entranced by the funky, heavy psychedelic wonders of the Tropicalia movement and all that it spawned."

ADELE 21 LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

AIR Moon Safari LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

JAMES BLAKE James Blake 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

THE CRAMPS Smell Of Female LP
*** "Totally killer 1983 live album from the garage/punk pioneers -- one of the most renowned live albums of all time -- recorded when the band were in fine fettle, full flight and fantastic form."

DAFT PUNK Discovery 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

JIMI HENDRIX Hendrix In The West 2xLP / CD
*** "The definitive Hendrix live album has now been expanded to include five new performances. Deluxe 24-page booklet with rare photos."

KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! It's insane how many of these we'll sell.

PUCE MOMENT OST by Jonathan Halper 7"
*** Holy shit! The soundtrack to KENNETH ANGER's 'Puce Moment' film. It's crazy, man. Limited to an unholy 300 copies on a label as mysterious as the maker of the score. As Rough Trade says, "the songs are astonishingly post-modern and way ahead of their time . . . containing tape effects and a cosmic folk-pop sensibility that could only be matched by the late-great Syd Barrett."

ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy LP+MP3 / CD
*** "'Playful chanteuse [and] fearsome shredder' (NY Times) Annie Clark reveals 11 new tracks showcasing a gift for fusing the cerebral and the visceral, her melodically elegant arrangements packing hefty emotional punches."

WILD FLAG Wild Flag LP+MP3 / CD
*** "The members of Wild Flag have played in Sleater-Kinney, Helium, Quasi, The Minders, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks & more. All tracks were recorded live. This band rules so hard."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Wild Flag, Toro Y Moi, St Vincent, Primus, Neon Indian & more

2011-09-13T12:57:00.000-07:00

AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE Voodoo Of The Godsent CD
*** "Voodoo Of The Godsent is the first new recording in five years from African Head Charge & it's a triumphant mix of dub, psychedelia, trance, afro and tribal rhythms that have given them their own unique place in contemporary music."

DAS RACIST Relax CD
*** "Pop-rap experimentalists Das Racist are back with their sprawling, visionary cyberdelic, Black Eyed Peas-ian epic tone poem. Feat. El-P, Vampire Weekend's Rostam, Yeasayer's Anand, Diplo and Detroit rap eccentric Danny Brown."

GIRLS Father Son Holy Ghost CD
*** "Girls return with a more spontaneous & stripped-down record. Father, Son, Holy Ghost is a gorgeous, largely minor-key record, enlivened by flashes of innocent pop and given depth by its wealth of influences and willingness to face sadness."

JIMI HENDRIX Hendrix In The West 2xLP / CD
*** "The definitive Hendrix live album has now been expanded to include five new performances. Deluxe 24-page booklet with rare photos."

JIMI HENDRIX Winterland CD
*** "Features never before released music from Jimi's unforgettable Winterland performances. Includes 24-page boolet with never before published photos from the performance."

NEON INDIAN Era Extrana CD
*** "Neon Indian is Alan Palomo, a brilliantly lucid 21-year-old synth-wizard. As Neon Indian, Palomo has made an art of leaving out the details and letting the world draw its own conclusions." Mmmm... okay!

PRIMUS Green Naugahyde CD
*** "Influential alternative rock icons Primus are back with their first album of brand new music since 1999's Antipop."

ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy LP+MP3 / CD
*** "'Playful chanteuse [and] fearsome shredder' (NY Times) Annie Clark reveals 11 new tracks showcasing a gift for fusing the cerebral and the visceral, her melodically elegant arrangements packing hefty emotional punches."

TORO Y MOI Freaking Out CD
*** "Freaking Out finds Toro Y Moi reveling in twenty minutes of boogie, roping in the heavy sounds of groups like the Gap Band and Mtume."

WILD FLAG Wild Flag LP+MP3 / CD
*** "The members of Wild Flag have played in Sleater-Kinney, Helium, Quasi, The Minders, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks & more. All tracks were recorded live. This band rules so hard."

EVENTS - CAVE and Ann Arbor Film Festival

2011-09-07T11:49:00.000-07:00

NEW ARRIVALS: 7" & 10" Vinyl - Puce Moment!

2011-09-06T11:49:00.000-07:00

PUCE MOMENT OST by Jonathan Halper 7"
*** RECOMMENDED Holy shit! The soundtrack to KENNETH ANGER's 'Puce Moment' film. It's crazy, man. Limited to an unholy 300 copies on a label as mysterious as the maker of the score. As Rough Trade says, "the songs are astonishingly post-modern and way ahead of their time . . . containing tape effects and a cosmic folk-pop sensibility that could only be matched by the late-great Syd Barrett."

NEW ARRIVALS: VINYL - Innergaze, Ice Cube, Beirut, Daft Punk & more

2011-09-06T11:48:00.000-07:00

v/a BRASILIAN GUITAR FUZZ BANANAS 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Following the success of Psych Funk 101, Brasilian Guitar, Fuzz Bananas should serve as a master class for those entranced by the funky, heavy psychedelic wonders of the Tropicalia movement and all that it spawned."

BEIRUT The Rip Tide LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL! "Beginning life as small melodies conceived on piano or ukulele, the results sound like they were recorded in a single session, with exciting rhythms matching the upbeat horns and contrasting the mournful strings. The style that emerged belongs uniquely & distinctly to Beirut."

DAFT PUNK Discovery 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK

DJ DIAMOND Flight Muzik 2xLP
*** "DJ Diamond has an unusual ear for unexpected sonic and rhythmic combinations within the footwork template: his samples are often so thoroughly edited that they become tiny, trance-inducing, techno-like stabs with neon synths and loose, effects-laden drums."

ICE CUBE Kill At Will EP
*** "A seven-track postscript to AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and a booming car tape for short drives, this is why people thought gangsta rap was a good idea at the time. Includes two of the darkest, toughest, truest tracks Cube's ever done."

INNERGAZE Shadow Disco 12"
*** RECOMMENDED “Bump & fuzz and slo-mo vo-co’s based on a lifetime of nighttimes, the syrup n’ synth soundstage for romance, tragedy, and a rorschach of broken dreams, disco balls and cracked make-up mirrors where you can’t find your fur coat." On 100% SILK.

MADLIB Shades Of Blue 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Madlib was afforded the opportunity to mine the crates of Blue Note & delivers remixes and brand spanking new interpretations of Blue Note classics."

RAINBOW VOMIT FAMILY BAND Warm Feelings LP
*** Hailed by FRED THOMAS as an "instant classic," here are ten tunes by PATRICK ELKINS & Co. including "Everything Smells Like Marijuana (To Me)."

THE RAPTURE In The Grace Of Your Love 2xLP / CD
*** "In the Grace of You Love exhibits a bold & euphoric sound that is definitively & distinctly like The Rapture. Immerse yourself as waves of optimism & introspection crash between angular guitars & pulsing synthesizers, pounding drums & sweet rhythmic lullabies."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Sun Araw, Junior Wells, Hella, Lil Wayne & more

2011-09-06T11:47:00.000-07:00

v/a SEHORN'S SOUL FARM 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! This thing is hot. "2 rare comps from Allen Toussaint’s Sansu label that revived the moribund New Orleans music scene of the 1960s, signing the cream of the city’s soul and R&B acts. Includes 18 previously uncollected bonus tracks."

BEIRUT The Rip Tide LP / CD
*** "Beginning life as small melodies conceived on piano or ukulele, the results sound like they were recorded in a single session, with exciting rhythms matching the upbeat horns and contrasting the mournful strings. The style that emerged belongs uniquely & distinctly to Beirut."

HELLA Tripper CD
*** "After a four year hiatus, legendary experimental duo Hella stripped back down to the original 2-piece lineup, featuring drummer Zach Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim, finding Hella in classic frenetic anthemic form."

LIL WAYNE Tha Carter IV CD
*** "Weezy is back! 'Tha Carter I'" features 3 #1 singles."

THE RAPTURE In The Grace Of Your Love 2xLP / CD
*** "In the Grace of You Love exhibits a bold & euphoric sound that is definitively & distinctly like The Rapture. Immerse yourself as waves of optimism & introspection crash between angular guitars & pulsing synthesizers, pounding drums & sweet rhythmic lullabies."

SUN ARAW Ancient Romans CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Heartfelt and marbled, this is documentation of the slow exit (the triumphal entry): moving the camera back 8 stages along the circumference of the circle to where the obverse is reverse, in order to celebrate the building of an edifice and then walk away from it in wisdom."

JUNIOR WELLS Hoodoo Man CD
*** "Hoodoo Man Blues is considered by most blues aficionados to be one of the best blues albums of all time. This re-issue contains 17 performances: the 12 songs from the original LP, 3 alt takes, 2 never-before-released performances, and one completely unissued song."

YACHT Shangri-La CD
*** "Shangri-La showcases an exponential evolution in songwriting and sharp, surreal hooks. Recorded in the Texas desert with no engineer, the duo employed a kaleidoscope of genres—ranging from disco to psychedelia, from krautrock to punk—all culminating in pure pop."

NEW ARRIVALS: Magazines - MILD VILNC!

2011-08-31T12:57:00.001-07:00

NEW ARRIVALS: Cassette - Bitchcopter + Skate Laws!

2011-08-31T12:56:00.000-07:00

NEW ARRIVALS: VINYL - Animal Collective, U.S. Girls, War On Drugs, Matt Valentine, Serge Gainsbourg & more

2011-08-31T12:55:00.002-07:00

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Sung Tongs 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN PRINT! Now includes MP3s.

BITCHIN' BAJAS / FACEPLANT Split LP
*** "BITCHIN BAJAS is the solo analog synthscapes & organ tones from COOPER CRAIN of modern krautrock masters CAVE. FACEPLANT is the solo work of AARON COYES of PEAKING LIGHTS. Kraut-y, dubby, noisy, synthy."

BJORK The Crystalline Series (Matthew Herbert Remixes) 12"
BJORK The Crystalline Series (Serban Ghenea Remixes) 12"
BJORK The Crystalline Series (Omar Souleyman Versions) 12"
*** Yeah, doggy. LIMITED EDITION.

COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES Giving LP+MP3 / CD
*** "A 4-song, 28-minute eruption: the crashing waves of Rosenau's guitar, the pelting rain of Mueller's percussion, the vaporous breaths of Thomas Wincek's piano, and the rhythmic fabric woven by Jim Schoenecker (electronics), Daniel Spack (guitar), and Matthew Skemp (bass)."

DREAM SYNDICATE Days Of Wine & Roses LP
*** "Classic debut full-length album by the quintessential group of the ‘80s Paisley Underground scene recorded in Los Angeles during September 1982."

SERGE GAINSBOURG Gainsbourg Percussions LP
*** "Originally released in 1964, this record will totally blow you away -- this is Afrobeat with a capital A, all percussions and drums and in-your-face female backing singers all topped off by Gainsbourg's smoky and dark vocals."

SERGE GAINSBOURG Initials BB LP
*** "A second set of songs cut with the one and only BRIGITTE BARDOT. Initials B.B. sounds almost like a greatest hits of funky decadence. The sensuous melodies & gorgeous arrangements make the songs like little technicolor movies in sound."

ITAL Only For Tonight 12"
*** "Dancing in the light of a miracle: that’s the gift Ital keeps giving. A love song from an era gone, “Only For Tonight” is a tawdry affair with rhythm, fickle and free. There’s no ceiling to his dancefloor, no cap on his bottle of juice." AKA Daniel Martin-McCormick of MI AMI.

KUEDO Videowave 12"
*** "The Videowave EP collects early material & three remixes from the his Dream Sequence EP by Kuedo, a.k.a. Jamie Teasdale (formerly of the legendary dubstep duo Vex’d)."

LAKE Giving & Receiving LP / CD
*** "LAKE's newest LP soars with beautiful melodies & gentle, yet deliberate instrumentation. Some songs were born in a shed and have the creaky barn wood/fresh air sound to prove it."

LIGHT ASYLUM In Tension 12"
*** "An EP showcasing Light Asylum’s fluid synth pop attack that shifts elegantly from midtempo industrial dance to subliminal futureballads that are deceptively uplifting when considering LI’s relentless dark sheen." LIMITED.

MACHINEDRUM Sacred Frequency 12"
*** "The songs are light and sun-hued with psychedelic, colorful sounds and melodies. Clocking in at 160 BPM, they work with the rhythmic conventions of footwork and jungle. Lush, hazy ecstasy."

THE NATIONAL Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

PEACH MELBA Can't Let Go 12"
*** "Built on tracks THE JUAN MACLEAN felt were too 'house-y' to be included amongst the more song-oriented singles on a proper JM release, Peach Melba is Maclean's vehicle for releasing tracks legitimately close to classic Detroit techno & house in this age."

RAPTURE How Deep Is Your Love? 12"
*** "Set in the midst of a repeated piano house line, handclaps and a lightly buzzing synth drone, LUKE JENNER’s gospel inflected vocals, the song lifts at its chorus into a hard-to-forget trail of gently rising and falling notes. Remix by EMPEROR MACHINE."

MIKE SIMONETTI Capricorn Rising LP
*** "Italians Do It Better & Troubleman Unlimited head honcho MIKE SIMONETTI is pleased to present his first slice of original music, alternating between pulsating rhythms & atmospheric clouds. He blurs the lines between major, minor and motorik."

MIKE SIMONETTI & JOHNNY JEWEL Hollywood Seven 12"
*** "'Hollywood Seven' has been a dance floor weapon of MIKE SIMONETTI’s DJ sets for almost six years, one of those tracks people ask about the most. Perseo is happy to finally answer that question with this essential release."

ANGELO SPENCER World Garage LP
*** "Inspired by Bollywood, a trip to Morocco, and Serge Gainsbourg, Angelo Spencer's second full-length brings armloads of new instruments & the flavor of exotic locations to a compilation of songs that amount to more than just an album, but an experience of wildness."

US GIRLS Go Grey LP+MP3
*** "A fully realized excursion into a hazy alternate universe where pop vocals and muzzy scree fuse in harmony, conjuring ambient aerosols while luminous kaleidoscopes of sound sizzle, peak, and explode."

US GIRLS / SLIM TWIG Split LP
*** "Artform likened U.S. GIRLS to 'blunted Lee 'Scratch' Perry remixes of Cambodian Rocks covers of western pop' -- beloved soul & classic rock with strains of static & tape hiss. SLIM TWIG is a shape-shifting performer born from a twisted landscape of pop and experimental music, pulp literature and movie magic."

UMBERTO Prophecy Of The Black LP
*** “Early/mid-’80s new wave creep-scapes with plenty of eerie nightmare keyboard riffs & vintage witch-disco breakouts but the synths squelch with more of a neon retrofuturist bent & one brazenly feelgood soaring-into-the-sunset closing credits anthem."

MATT VALENTINE What I Became LP
*** "Elements of deep forest psychedelia brush against Crazy Horse guitar/vocal flourishes that explode to reveal volk-based form mayhem at its hickiest. It will soothe your savage breasts. It will turn your evil mother-in-law into a porpoise."

WAR ON DRUGS Slave Ambient LP+MP3
*** "A brilliant 47-minute sprawl of rock 'n' roll. Synthesizers fall where you might expect more electric guitars (and vice versa); country-rock sidles up to the warped extravagance of '80s pop. Part Spingsteen fever dream, part motorik anthem."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Tinariwen, Tame Impala, Fugs, Lake, Beirut & more!

2011-08-31T12:55:00.001-07:00

BEIRUT The Rip Tide CD
*** "Beginning life as small melodies conceived on piano or ukulele, the results sound like they were recorded in a single session, with exciting rhythms matching the upbeat horns and contrasting the mournful strings. The style that emerged belongs uniquely & distinctly to Beirut."

JOHN CALE & TERRY RILEY Church Of Anthrax CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! The poppiest thing Terry Riley ever did. Classic Cale that's been available only on vinyl for the last several years.

COLLECTIONS OF COLONIES OF BEES Giving LP+MP3 / CD
*** "A 4-song, 28-minute eruption: the crashing waves of Rosenau's guitar, the pelting rain of Mueller's percussion, the vaporous breaths of Thomas Wincek's piano, and the rhythmic fabric woven by Jim Schoenecker (electronics), Daniel Spack (guitar), and Matthew Skemp (bass)."

DOM Family Of Love CD
*** "Heaven-sent harmonies and hooks that are heavier than -- and about as colorful as -- DOM's pink paisley guitar. As unique as it is universal."

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Sky Full Of Holes CD
*** "Wise guys with flashes of empathy writing finely observed, neatly rhymed character studies set to sleekly produced pop-rock."

THE FUGS Tenderness Junction / It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! Two albums on one disc!

LAKE Giving & Receiving LP / CD
*** "LAKE's newest LP soars with beautiful melodies & gentle, yet deliberate instrumentation. Some songs were born in a shed and have the creaky barn wood/fresh air sound to prove it."

TAME IMPALA Innerspeaker LP / CD
*** NOW AVAILABLE DOMESTICALLY! And only about a year too late. "The album sounds like a mashup between The Beatles Sgt Pepper & Caribou's Andorra. A joyous summertime romp through fields of honeyed harmony and crispy good times."

TINARIWEN Tassili CD
*** "Gnarly Tuareg musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. Features collaborations with Nels Cline, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio."

NEW ARRIVALS: 7" & 10" Vinyl - Eric Copeland of Black Dice + BARR

2011-08-18T11:59:00.000-07:00

BARR The Song Is The Single 7"
*** RECOMMENDED We got a lifechanging single here! "We all know that rock and roll is the language of night but this got made in the day, it was bright."

ERIC COPELAND Whorehouse Blues 7"
*** "Eric Copeland is an experimental musician based in New York. He is a core member of Black Dice and this is his 5th PPM release! It's a brainbender!"

NEW ARRIVALS: VINYL - Restocks on wax, my baby!

2011-08-18T11:56:00.000-07:00

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Feels LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Reissue with 320kbps MP3s.

BON IVER Bon Iver LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! And going fast.

THE BOOKS Lemon Of Pink LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Remastered reissue.

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR F#A#(infinity) LP
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Lift Yr Skinny Fists... 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! F#A#(infinity) includes the flattened penny, photos, etc. Rules.

MODEST MOUSE Sad Sappy Sucker LP+MP3
MODEST MOUSE The Fruit That Ate Itself EP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Recently reissued, includes downloadales.

SUFJAN STEVENS Michigan 2xLP
SUFJAN STEVENS Illinois 2xLP
SUFJAN STEVENS The BQE LP+STUFF
SUFJAN STEVENS The Age Of Adz LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH The Wild Hunt LP+MP3
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird EP
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH The Tallest Man On Earth EP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! All include MP3s.

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Restocks on CD, my baby!

2011-08-18T11:55:00.000-07:00

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO Suara Naga CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

HUMAN EYE They Came From The Sky CD
*** RECOMMENDED Detroit creeps!

PSYCHEDELIC HORESHIT Laced CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! I can't believe these guys don't get beat up at every show.

THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT II CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! Intense band.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Shallow Grave LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

EVENTS - The Whip! + EL TOPO!!!

2011-08-17T12:55:00.001-07:00

THE WHIP! - Friday, August 26 @ Elks Lodge
*** PSYCH ROCK & SOUL! R&B STOMPERS & INSTRUMENTAL KLANG! BLUES BUMPS & GIRL GROUP BOUNCE! The foot bruising party returns with DJs Forest Juziuk (HOTT LAVA) & Richie Wohlfeil (CONTACT). Dance, stomp & scream at the Detroit-meets-Ann Arbor-meets-Detroit party THE WHIP!!
Elks Lodge / 220 W Sunset / 10PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/osAE5z

EL TOPO - Saturday, August 27 @ State Theatre
*** HOTT LAVA presents a "midnight special" -- Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1970 psychedelic western about an outlaw who battles mystical gunfighters before helping a bunch of deformed people escape a town run by degenerate religous fascists!
State Theatre / 220 S. State, A2 / $6 / MIDNIGHT / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/pxJAuB

NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - Trash Humpers (again!!)

2011-08-16T12:54:00.000-07:00

TRASH HUMPERS by Harmony Korine DVD+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! While the title is by no means a misnomer, Trash Humpers is one of the most unpredictable & frightening films of all time! Is it the future of horror films? Certainly, the trailer must be seen to be believed! We sell this thing like hot cakes -- and for good reason!

NEW ARRIVALS: 7" & 10" Vinyl - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Pylon, Talk Normal, Yellow Fever

2011-08-16T12:53:00.000-07:00

BONNIE PRINCE BILLY There Is No God / God Is Love 10"
*** "Summoning up two sides of the argument (to which there are more sides and more arguments too) in a neat flip of the platter, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is back on the 10" parade route. Backing vocals by RACHEL KORINE and CASSIE BERMAN."

BONNIE PRINCE BILLY & THE CAIRO GANG Island Brothers / New Wonder 10"
*** "Two great songs with stunning artwork benefitting grassroots water purification systems. Special guest: ROB MAZUREK. Careful dynamics! Ballad styles!"

PYLON Cover + Remix 7"
*** DEERHUNTER covers “Cool” and CALVINIST (a.k.a. Sasha Frere Jones) remixes “Yo-Yo.”

TALK NORMAL Lone General 7"
*** Brooklyn superduo's first single for M'lady's! Double A-sided onslaught, light years ahead of all the squares, for reals. So brilliant.

YELLOW FEVER Bermuda Triangle 7"
*** First new music in years from YELLOW FEVER! Amazing preview of their debut full-length out later this year.

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Noveller, T Rex, Townes Van Zandt, F'Lips, Mississippi Records

2011-08-16T12:52:00.001-07:00

v/a IN THE STORM SO LONG LP+MAG
*** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED "A compilation of gospel songs from the Pitch/Gussman label. Raw & ragged 1960s & 1970s recordings made in Georgia. Most tracks have a heavy guitar sound with loads of reverb. At times haunting and at times joyous. Real rockin' homemade music by and for the people."

AIR Moon Safari LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Outsells any Air album by far.

BEIRUT Gulag Orkestar LP
BEIRUT The Flying Cup Club LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! New album post-haste!

BIG STAR 3rd LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BLUES CONTROL Puff LP
*** NOW ON VINYL! Long unavailable on LP.

JEFF BUCKLEY Grace LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Get your makeout on.

DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI Rome LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

FLAMING LIPS Hear It Is LP
FLAMING LIPS Telepathic Surgery 2xLP
FLAMING LIPS In A Priest Driven Ambulance 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! We haven't had these in a hot minute

FUNKADELIC America Eats Its Young LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

MINOR THREAT Out Of Step LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

JOANNA NEWSOM & THE YS STREET BAND s/t 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK!

NOVELLER Desert Fires LP
*** RECOMMENDED NOW ON VINYL! "Guitarist and filmmaker SARAH LIPSTATE (Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army, Glenn Branca's 100 guitar ensemble) takes a compositional evolutionary step from layered, loop-based drones to more expansive formal arrangements of swells, throbs, tones and shimmer."

PEAKING LIGHTS 936 LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "Melodic gold dust, drift-dub haze, cool crate-digger grit, silky soul-jazz keys, tranced vocals, bass loops, drum loops and sneaky dub guitar -- a total groove-wave classic!" Check this groovy video: http://vimeo.com/20580559 On NOT NOT FUN.

TY SEGALL Goodbye Bread LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

T REX Slider LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

TOWNES VAN ZANDT Live At The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Holy smokes, this is a Wazoo bestseller!

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Nascimento, Sehorn's Soul Farm, Richard Buckner, Kanye & Jay-Z

2011-08-16T12:52:00.000-07:00

v/a SEHORN'S SOUL FARM 2xCD
*** "2 rare compilations from Allen Toussaint’s Sansu label that revived the somewhat moribund New Orleans music scene of the mid to late sixties, signing the cream of the city’s soul and R&B acts. Includes 18 previously uncollected bonus tracks."

RICHARD BUCKNER Our Blood CD
*** "Since 2006's Meadow, fans of Richard Buckner have been clamoring for new material and wondering what was keeping their hero from releasing the new songs he would perform on the road. Well, it's a long story!"

JAY-Z & KANYE WEST Watch The Throne CD
*** "Though shrouded in secrecy, the album has already been heralded a 'masterpiece' by those who have heard it, feat. production from The RZA, The Neptunes & Mike Dean. Feat. vox from Frank Ocean, Beyoncé, Curtis Mayfield & Mr. Hudson."

MILTON NASCIMENTO Clube Da Esquina 2xLP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Along with Lo Borges and arrangements from Eumir Deodato, Nascimento combines bossa nova with soul, pop, jazz, psychedelic & classical influences. A masterpiece on par with any of the classic releases from the more well-known Tropicalia movement."

NURSE WITH WOUND Who Can I Turn To Stereo 2xCD
*** "Remastered reissue of the 1996 classic expanded to feature the complete Stereo Wastelands -- a very limited and now out-of-print collection of musical debris from the Who Can I Turn To Stereo sessions."

PEAKING LIGHTS 936 LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "Melodic gold dust, drift-dub haze, cool crate-digger grit, silky soul-jazz keys, tranced vocals, bass loops, drum loops and sneaky dub guitar -- a total groove-wave classic!" Check this groovy video: http://vimeo.com/20580559 On NOT NOT FUN.

SPARKS The Seduction Of Ingmar Berman - LA Film Festival 2011 Edition CD
*** "Originally commissioned by Sweden's national public radio station Sveriges Radio to write and produce an original radio musical, Sparks created the musical fantasy based on the internationally acclaimed film director Ingmar Bergman."

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS Headstone: Contact Sessions 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "The Contact Sessions were the first studio recordings by The 13th Floor Elevators, recorded in Texas in January and February 1966, which never saw the light of day in those heady drug-filled days. Mono & stereo versions included!"

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Incredible haul of soul, jazz, psych & more!

2011-08-10T12:48:00.000-07:00

AHMED ABDUL-MALIK Sounds Of Africa LP
*** "One of Malik's greatest combining both his modern & experimental sides, a mixture of off-key hardbop and odd instrumentation that includes cello, oud & percussion."

AFRICAN MUSIC MACHINE Black Water Gold LP
*** "Rolling basslines, spacey organ grooves, tight choppy guitar riffs & punchy horn blasts. Similar to Cymande but with less of the dub-heavy influences & more of a raw southern funk groove."

AFRO SOULTET Afrodesia LP
*** "The wildly diverse, heavily percussive global jazz, soul & exotica inspired Afrodesia from the late 60s combo Afro Soultet."

ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO Message To Our Folks LP
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO Great Black Music A Jackson In Your House LP
*** "Two of the Art Ensemble Of Chicago's all-time classics! Out but rockin'."

DOROTHY ASHBY Afro-Harping LP
DOROTHY ASHBY The Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby LP
*** "Two of the grooviest records ever – a sublime blend of African percussion, soulful orchestrations & Dorothy Ashby's amazing electric harp!"

MULATU ASTATKE Mulatu Of Ethiopia LP
*** "Killer blend of weird rhythms, sweet funk & dope vibes – and the grooves on the set are really unique – slow, snakey, and with a sinister, almost other-worldly feel." 180g.

DAVID AXELROD Songs Of Experience LP
DAVID AXELROD Earth Rot LP
DAVID AXELROD The Auction LP
DAVID AXELROD Messiah LP
DAVID AXELROD Heavy Axe LP
*** One of the most sampled composers in hip-hop, Axelrod's transcendent jazz is both extremely funky & snappy yet orchestral -- this music is insane. There's nothing like it. So unique, so catchy too.

RAY BARRETTO The Message LP
*** "One of Ray Barretto's hardest-hitting salsa albums of the 70s – a raw set of grooves that's less playful & in a more righteous mode."

BLACULA OST by Gene Page LP
*** "These tunes rank with the best blacksploitation work of the decade – hard and funky groovers."

BLOWFLY Zodiac Blowfly LP
*** Good lord. I don't know what to tell you. Look up the artwork.

WILLIE BOBO Let's Go Bobo! LP
*** "Recorded in 1964, drifting to a more high energy sound from more traditional cuban jazz & mainstream mambo to the more funky urban boogaloo with no musical chops lacking."

JAMES BROWN Hell LP
JAMES BROWN The Payback LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of him!

TERRY CALLIER What Color Is Love LP
*** Possibly the greatest album ever by the legendary Chicago soul singer Terry Callier!

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Safe As Milk LP
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of this creep. LPs be rulin'.

JAMES CARR You Got My Mind Messed Up LP
*** "An incredible bit of southern soul." Dood's voice is so sweet. People marvel at the tunes.

CEYLIEB PEOPLE Tanyet LP
*** RECOMMENDED "A blend of fuzzy psychedelia with trippier influences from India & other points east, heavy drums & jamming guitar with lots of sitar, tamboura, and rootsy percussion! All instrumental and mind-expanding grooves."

CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND The Inner Mystique LP
*** "Mystically grooving psychedelia from Chocolate Watch Band – a heady mix of the psyche sounds of the era with some really groovy Eastern inspired spirals of sound!"

ALICE CLARK Alice Clark LP
*** "A really right-on sort of sound that's totally great, and way hipper than most 70s chart soul! Arrangements are by Ernie Wilkins, who brings in a touch of jazz."

BILLY COBHAM Spectrum LP
*** DJ classic from this jazz drummer.

DENNIS COFFEY Hair & Thangs LP
*** "Cracklin' drums & scratchy guitar jams from start to finish. A real treat for the breakbeat enthusiast."

ALICE COLTRANE Huntington Ashram Monastery LP
ALICE COLTRANE Eternity LP
ALICE COLTRANE Journey In Satchidananda LP
*** RECOMMENDED Holy lord, Alice Colrance is a religion. A harpist & pianist of the highest order, her jams = deep spirituality & stoned vibes. Serious, serious grooves. 180g.

DAVE "BABY" CORTEZ Soul Vibration LP
*** "A very weird record – and one of the most compelling albums ever cut by organ whiz Dave Baby Cortez! Pop soul instrumentals, the funky soul jazz of the early 70s, and some trippier sounds that have a wild spaced out feel."

CYMANDE Second Time Round LP
*** "The second album of dubby funk by the legendary Cymande! This monster funk combo had a totally unique sound, with rolling bassy-grooves, and a very nice stoner-funk feel."

DEMON FUZZ Afreaka! LP
*** "Messed-up funky jazz from an obscure early 70s UK group – and an album that really lives up to its trippy cover! Organ, sax, and spaced out drums – and the overall style is a mix of dub-heavy funk, Afro jazz, and a bit of jazz rock jamming!"

EAST NEW YORK ENSEMBLE DE MUSIC At The Helm LP
*** "An extremely righteous bit of soul jazz. The sound is loose and free – spiritually building in a manner that recalls the work of Ahmed Abdul Malik, Phil Cohran, and some of the AACM."

ELECTRIC PRUNES I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night LP
*** "Their scintillating debut!"

ETHIOPIAN QUINTET Afro-Latin Soul LP
*** "An incredible blend of New York Latin and some of the more Afro-styled grooves Mulatu explored more freely on his Ethiopian recordings. 180g.

EDDIE FISHER The Third Cup LP
EDDIE FISHER Eddie Fisher & The Next One Hundred Years LP
*** "Madly tripped out guitar funk & stripped down jazz with a small combo."

FUNKADELIC Funkadelic LP
FUNKADELIC Maggot Brain LP
FUNKADELIC Free Your Mind... LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of them!

MARVIN GAYE I Want You LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of him!

GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION Ain't-No-'Bout-A-Doubt-It LP
*** "One of the high points of Larry Graham's career – a hard-jamming set of guitar-based funk that forever put Graham Central Station on the map!"

HERBIE HANCOCK Fat Albert Rotunda LP
*** "Herbie breaks away from his straight jazz work with a harder, heavier sound than some of his straight electric ones." Oft-sampled, totally jammin'.

HARLEM UNDERGROUND Harlem Underground LP
*** "A mix of funky jazz and gritty soul put together with some really weird studio touches -- as mysterious as it is funky. George Benson, Dave Baby Cortez, Willis Jackson & Earl Williams."

RUFUS HARLEY Bagpipe Blues LP
*** "Don't be put off by the bagpipes -- Harley plays in a righteous soul jazz groove, using the instrument as a Coltrane-ish reed soloing vehicle, with sheets of hard blown sound as opposed to a corny Scottish sounding vibe."

WENDELL HARRISON An Evening With The Devil LP
*** "The groove is laidback and spacey, with some nice electric piano & good mellow solos that have a nice soulful vibe to them. Other parts of the album are a little bit more out & have a sharp edge to them." On TRIBE.

EDDIE HAZEL Jams From The Heart LP
*** "Legendary Funkadelic guitarist Eddie Hazel is in fine form and really cuts loose on these tracks from a 1975 studio session on this mostly instrumental EP."

JOHN LEE HOOKER On Campus LP
*** "Electric blues from John Lee Hooker released in the mid 60s on Vee Jay – all Hooker originals that are riveting and soul shaking as you could hope for."

LEROY HUTSON Hutson II LP
*** "A complete masterpiece from the mighty Leroy Hutson."

THE INTRIGUES In A Moment LP
*** "The set brings together titles from the Intrigues' one and only album – initially issued on the tiny Yew label. Nice stuff – with a sound that bridges rawer Philly 60s group soul & later smoother work from the 70s."

WELDON IRVINE Cosmic Vortex (Justice Divine) LP
WELDON IRVINE Spirit Man LP
*** "A moody blend of electric keys, heavy percussion, and some slight bits of jazzy solo work."

MELVIN JACKSON Funky Skull LP
*** "Jackson's bass is looped through all sorts of crazy effects, and the result is this amazing blend of avant garde playing and groovy rhythms that is beyond compare!" 180g.

WANDA JACKSON There's A Party Going On LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of this saucy firecracker! She can howl, she can yowl.

THE JB'S Doing It To Death LP
THE JB'S Breakin' Bread LP
*** James Brown's TIGHT AS HELL band.

JUJU A Message From Mozambique LP
JUJU African Rhythms LP
*** "Very much in kind of an Art Ensemble Of Chicago mode - with more 'out' soloing overall, mixed with some of the spiritual jazz leanings. Nice."

THE LAFAYETTE AFRO ROCK BAND Malik LP
*** "Lafayette Afro-Rock Band were a jazz-based super session group that created a heavy, dense, no compromise ghetto funk that has since been sampled by everyone from Public Enemy to Wreckz 'N' Effect."

DENISE LASALLE A Lady In The Street LP
*** Love this gal. Some vibe.

THE LAST POETS The Last Poets LP
*** The boys who invented rap!

YUSEF LATEEF Detroit LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Lateef's sweet blend of righteous jazz & soulful orchestrations, blending together strings and soul jazz with a hip approach that almost makes the record feel like an early blacksploitation soundtrack."

THE LATIN SOULS Boo-Ga-Loo & Shing-A-Ling LP
*** "Many of the cuts have a nicely dark undercurrent – a bit like the best work of Ralph Robles – but the harmonies give the record a somewhat more sincere feel too, with echoes of Joe Bataan in the mix."

THE LEBRON BROTHERS ORCHESTRA Psychedelic Goes Latin LP
*** "Latin definitely goes psychedelic on this one – burning through a cloud of smoke with a brilliant blend of soul, jazz, and the hipper rhythms of the Spanish Harlem scene."

MAGIC SAM West Side Soul LP
*** RECOMMENDED "A set of rough and ready blues tunes that would have played well on both sides of the tracks at the time."

SABU MARTINEZ Afro Temple LP
*** "The album mixes Latin grooves and hard funk in a way that's rarely been duplicated, and which has ensured Sabu a place in the funk hall of fame for all time!"

CURTIS MAYFIELD Roots LP
CURTIS MAYFIELD Back To The World LP
CURTIS MAYFIELD Live! 2xLP
*** Perhaps you've heard of him! 180g.

GWEN MCCRAE Rockin' Chair LP
*** The disco diva! She's slayin' it live, sweatin' hard on the LP sleeve.

JACK MCDUFF Sophisticated Funk LP
*** One of the best album covers of all time!

EUGENE MCDANIELS Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse LP
EUGENE MCDANIELS Outlaw LP
*** RIP. Wild & progressive albums from this former MOR singer. 180g.

JIMMY MCGRIFF Groove Grease LP
JIMMY MCGRIFF Electric Funk LP
*** A nice bit of funky organ work from Jimmy McGriff!

BLIND WILLIE MCTELL The Early Years 1927-1933 LP
*** He may be blind but the man could play!

MIGHTY TOMCATS Soul Makossa LP
*** Apparently this has the most jammin' version of "Soul Makossa" out there.

OS MUTANTES Jardim Eletrico LP
OS MUTANTES Os Mutantes LP
*** Hello! Long regarded as some of the very finest Brazilian pop psych. And for good reason.

SHUGGIE OTIS Inspiration Information LP
*** "1974 brainchild of guitar prodigy Shuggie Otis (son of Johnny Otis), the 19-year-old Otis spent three years in the studio generating this one-man opus. Multitracked rhythms recall the Meters embroidered with psychedelic filigree." 180g.

PARLIAMENT Trombipulation LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of them!

HARRY PARTCH Delusion Of The Fury 2xLP
HARRY PARTCH The World Of Harry Partch LP
*** This old coot made a bunch of his own instruments, scales & tones. Really wild, really happenin' stuff. These albums have been out-of-print & in demand for years.

LOUIE RAMIREZ Tipico LP
*** "In spite of the 2 boleros, I really see this album as a must have."

JIMMY REED I'm Jimmy Reed LP
*** "Jimmy Reed's debut LP was about as strong a first album as was heard in Chicago blues. Two-string boogie!"

GIL SCOTT-HERON Small Talk At 125th & Lenox LP
GIL SCOTT-HERON It's Your World LP
GIL SCOTT-HERON From South Africa To South Carolina LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of him! Prepare to have your ass kicked by this master wordsmith.

SONNY SHARROCK Monkey-Pockie-Boo LP
*** "This is one of Sonny Sharrock's rare early recordings, recorded in France shortly after he had been playing with Herbie Mann. The groove's kind of crazy."

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE There's A Riot Going On LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of him! On 180g vinyl.

ALAN SILVA & HIS CELESTIAL COMMUNICATION ORCHESTRA Luna Surface LP
*** "A group that includes Grachan Moncur III, Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton, Malachi Favors, Dave Burrell, and Bernard Vitet. The group was one of the most successful meetings of the French and African-American avant gardes, 180g.

SKULL SNAPS Skull Snaps LP
*** "One of the most legendary funk albums of the 70s – a real gem through and through, and filled with a masterful blend of hard funk, sweet soul, and soaring group grooves."

LONNIE LISTON SMITH & THE COSMIC ECHOES Astral Traveling LP
*** RECOMMENDED "This album has the same swirling and ecstatic highs as Alice Coltrane's or Pharoah Sanders's music, reminiscent of classic Impulse! spiritual jazz sides." Endlessly listenable with a real stone-y vibe.

LONNIE LISTON SMITH & THE COSMIC ECHOES Expansions LP
*** A funkier set of tunes with incredible production work.

SRC s/t LP
*** "A heady brew of ripping guitars, burning Hammond, and massively pounding drums – all recorded with a slightly garagey edge."

SUN RA The Magic City LP
SUN RA The Solar-Myth Approach Vol. 1 LP
SUN RA Angels & Demons At Play LP
SUN RA Of Mythic Worlds LP
SUN RA Strange Strings LP
SUN RA Atlantis LP
SUN RA Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of him! On 180g vinyl.

TIMMY THOMAS Why Can't We Live Together LP
*** Peculiar but excellent organ & drum machine one man soul band.

THE WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND In The Jungle, Babe LP
*** "In The Jungle, Babe is filled with Funk flavor and Soul seasoning and features one of the most underrated Funk ensembles to slap down some grooves on black wax."

THE WATTS PROPHETS Rappin' Black In A White World LP
*** "Fusing music with jazz and funk roots with a rapid-fire, spoken word sound which established a strong tendency toward social commentary and a reputation for militancy."

RANDY WESTON African Cookbook LP
*** "Effusive, Pan-African melodies & generous percussion."

STEVE WONDER Music Of My Mind LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of him! On 180g vinyl.

LYMAN WOODARD ORGANIZATION Saturday Night Special LP
*** RECOMMENDED "A unique amalgamation of organ funk, sophisticated soul, and straight-ahead jazz recorded in Detroit, MI. Brilliant." On STRATA.

LARRY YOUNG Lawrence Of Newark LP
*** RECOMMENDED "The John Coltrane of the organ!" Incredible, fiery set of psychedelic jazz.

EVENTS - The Whip! + EL TOPO!!!

2011-08-03T11:49:00.001-07:00

THE WHIP! - Friday, August 26 @ Elks Lodge
*** PSYCH ROCK & SOUL! R&B STOMPERS & INSTRUMENTAL KLANG! BLUES BUMPS & GIRL GROUP BOUNCE! The foot bruising party returns with DJs Forest Juziuk (HOTT LAVA) & Richie Wohlfeil (CONTACT). Dance, stomp & scream at the Detroit-meets-Ann Arbor-meets-Detroit party THE WHIP!!
Elks Lodge / 220 W Sunset / 10PM / $5

EL TOPO - Saturday, August 27 @ State Theatre
*** HOTT LAVA presents a "midnight special" -- Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1970 psychedelic western about an outlaw who battles mystical gunfighters before helping a bunch of deformed people escape a town run by degenerate religous fascists!
State Theatre / 220 S. State, A2 / MIDNIGHT / $6

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Brian Eno, Neil Young, Zombies et al

2011-08-02T11:48:00.000-07:00

BAD MEETS EVIL Hell: The Sequel LP
*** The team of Detroit MC's Eminem & Royce da 5'9 became a rap legend of unfulfilled promise. Now, a decade after they last recorded together, Eminem and Royce da 5'9 have revived Bad Meets Evil."

JAMES BLAKE James Blake 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BOOGIE DOWN PRODUCTIONS Criminal Minded LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

BRIAN ENO Drums Between The Bells 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

JOHN MAUS We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves CD
*** NOW ON VINYL! "Questing synthesizers, tense bass lines & drum machines provide the perfect backdrop for John's reverb-drenched vox. It's a world where the Germs jam with Jerry Goldsmith, Cabaret Voltaire relocate to Eternia & Josquin des Prez writes a new score for RoboCop."

MELLOWHYPE BlackenedWhite LP / CD
*** "Alternative hip-hop featuring Hodgy Beats and Left Brain from the collective Odd Future."

METALLICA Ride The Lightning LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! And still rulin' after so many years!

MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

NEIL YOUNG Harvest LP
*** Insane remastered deluxe edition thingamajig. Pretty impressive in person.

THE ZOMBIES Odyssey & Oracle LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Mellowhype, Ronettes, Motor City Drum Ensemble & more

2011-08-02T11:34:00.000-07:00

ost WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS by Don Gere CD
*** RECOMMENDED "A stoned, country commune, lycanthropic Z-movie soundtrack welding motoric redneck funk with broken eastern promises. Imagine marrying Amon Düül 1 to Sandy Bull in a phoney black mass with Skip Spence and The Godz as bridesmaids."

AMON DUUL II Yeti CD
AMON DUUL II Phallus Dei CD
AMON DUUL II Tanz Der Lemming CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

FRUIT BATS Tripper CD
*** "More of a solitary pursuit than his previous album, Tripper is a bittersweet meditation on hitting the road, leaving the familiar behind and reinventing yourself -- the album a reinvention itself."

MELLOWHYPE BlackenedWhite LP / CD
*** "Alternative hip-hop featuring Hodgy Beats and Left Brain from the collective Odd Future."

MOTOR CITY DRUM ENSEMBLE DJ-Kicks CD
*** Dood rules so hard. Unbeatable 12"s with ridiculous sonics. This mix is long-awaited! "Look at the opening selections of this mix to get a glimpse of Motor City Drum Ensembles amazing ability to fuse totally disparate sound aesthetics into a coherent whole."

RONETTES Be My Baby: The Very Best CD
*** "With their sweet, polished harmonies, cat-eye makeup and beehive hairdos, The Ronettes added a tough, New York street flavor to the girl group model of the early 60s, quickly becoming Philles leading group."

COLIN STETSON New History Warfare 2: Judges CD
*** "Weaving a flow of arpeggiated swirls & chordal progressions while singing yearning melodic lines through the reed of his horn, Stetson's work is rooted in a pop sensibility, both harmonically and overall song structure." On CONSTELLATION.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Join Us CD
*** "From inspired electronic excursions to blazing mind-crushers featuring their legendary barn-storming live band...They Might Be Giants is back."

EVENTS - the last ever Jury Duty! Plus FREE mix!

2011-07-20T11:59:00.002-07:00

JURY DUTY - Friday, July 22 @ Elks Lodge
*** The last ever JURY DUTY! Disc jocks FOREST J. (HOTT LAVA), GEOFF P. (Mystery Party), and ROBERT W. (Ann Arbor Soul Club) do the pony & watusi with you, baby. Soul, R&B, boogie, disco, bounce, int'l & more. Free mix for the first 50 attendees!
Elks Lodge / 220 Sunset, A2 / 10:30PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/p0BM5p

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Ron Hardy, Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo, Bibio + amazing comps!

2011-07-20T11:59:00.001-07:00

v/a FOLLOW ME DOWN: Vanguard's Lost Psychedelic Era (1966-1970) 2xLP
*** "Deep within the Vanguard Records vaults lies some of the craziest & most mysterious psychedelic rock music to come out of the '60s. This is the first time the Vanguard label has selected tracks from their best 'lost' psychedelic records & 45's."

v/a LONDON IS THE PLACE FOR ME: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-1956 2xLP
*** "Honest Jon's comp of Caribbean calypso that was crucial to the development of British swing and jazz music, ranging from social satire to sexual double-entendre, from voodoo to the most pressing issues of the day, from sporting events to competitive insult."

v/a WHERE THE SOUL OF MAN NEVER DIES: A Treasury Of Caucasian-American Gospel LP
*** "Compilation of rare white gospel spanning the years 1937-1977. Early country brother duo harmonies, gorgeous gospel bluegrass, and roaring Pentecostal pandemonium. Liner notes by Mike McGonigal."

BIBIO K Is For Kelson 12"
*** "K Is For Kelson is a limited 4 track 12" featuring an alternative version of the title track and 3 brand new songs. The track is a multi-instrumental smorgasbord, with Bibio (aka Stephen Wilkinson) playing every instrument -- including a bermibau, brandy glasses and a Chinese silk fan."

BORDEN / FERRARO / GODIN / HALO / LOPATIN Frkwys Vol. 7 LP+MP3
*** "FRKWYS Vol. 7 features pieces improvised by David Borden, James Ferraro, Samuel Godin, Laurel Halo, and Daniel Lopatin (ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, FORD & LOPATIN). Cosmically dense Fourth World freak out."

RON HARDY Music Box Classics Vol. 1 12"
RON HARDY Music Box Classics Vol. 2 12"
*** RECOMMENDED White label reissue of Ron Hardy's re-edit series. Chicago dance classics.

ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO 1st Album LP / CD
*** "Some of the most raw & psychedelic Afro sounds from arguably Africa's most innovative band. By building upon and modernizing the traditional rhythms of Vodoun, conforming to the Afrobeat sound of the time, incorporating Western styles and injecting a healthy Latin dose."

SEBADOH Bakesale LP
*** BACK IN PRINT! Remastered but still all screwy sounding. Choice!

WASHED OUT Within & Without LP+MP3+7" / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL! BONUS 7"! "Washed Out is the operational alias for Atlanta, GA's Ernest Greene recorded with Ben Allen who co-produced Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillio & Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Andre Williams, Washed Out, Alice Coltrane, 13th Floor Elevators + more!

2011-07-20T11:56:00.000-07:00

v/a R&B HIPSHAKERS Vol. 2: Scratch That Itch CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The second volume of rockin' R&B and early soul from the King/Federal/DeLuxe catalog ca. 1956-1967 -- 20 killer cuts selected by DJ Mr. Fine Wine of Downtown Soulville/WFMU. Virtuosic instrumentals, classy love songs, unholy dances & holy nonsense."

v/a RED HOT + RIO 2 2XCD
*** "Red Hot + Rio 2 is a contemporary take on the late 60s Brazilian Tropicália & features 34 original collaborations between Brazils legendary musicians and some of the best of today s international indie, R&B, and pop artists."

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS Headstone: Contact Sessions 2xCD
*** "The Contact Sessions were the first studio recordings by The 13th Floor Elevators, recorded in Texas in January and February 1966, which never saw the light of day in those heady drug-filled days. Mono & stereo versions included!"

DENNIS COFFEY Big City Funk: Original Old School Breaks & Heavy Guitar Soul CD
*** "Dennis Coffey (born in Detroit, Michigan) is notable as a prominent studio musician for many soul and R&B recordings. This comp is culled from four studio albums cut between 1971 & 1974 and are not unlike a big personal advertisement for potential film score work. Raw, big city breakbeat funk."

ALICE COLTRANE Universal Consciousness / Lord Of Lords CD
*** RECOMMENDED Holy smokes, we're about to get REAL heavy here! Choice import of two of Alice Coltrane's finest moments on one disc. Heartbreaking strings married to chaotic jazz, Alice's harp & piano playing... ah, holy smokes. This woman is a religion.

DEMDIKE STARE Tryptych 3xCD
*** "Four albums worth of music! KPM Library records meets Basic Channel! Hypnagogic & hauntological, based largely on obscure library records to long-forgotten jazz, early electronic & industrial recordings, alongside an array of Iranian, Pakistani, Turkish & Eastern European material re-aligned via an array of analog machines, ending with something that is in part plunderphonic."

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & DAN MELCHOIR Desperate Little Town LP / CD
*** "Reissue of a great lost album originally released on Sympathy For The Record Industry. Recorded in London & California with Bruce Brand (HEADCOATS) on percussion, this album features 10 tracks."

GOOGOOSH Googoosh CD
*** "The East's best kept secret? Some of the rarest, heart-melting pop music in the world -- mid-tempo pop peons with pulsating rhythm sections awash with expertly orchestrated strings from 'Iran's Daughter'."

KATE SIMKO Lights Out CD
*** "Debut full-length of delicate fluttering percussions, effortless yet hypnotic drone, dark, sexy meanderings of minimal mastery, intricate rhythms and time-stopping harmonies! Vivid."

WASHED OUT Within & Without LP+MP3+7" / CD
*** "Washed Out is the operational alias for Atlanta, GA's Ernest Greene recorded with Ben Allen who co-produced Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavillio & Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest."

ANDRE WILLIAMS Movin' On With Andre Williams CD
*** RECOMMENDED Compiling some of Andre's most down & dirty, dark & funky soul tracks from the '60s for Fortune, Avin, Sport, Wingate, Ric-Tic, Checker & Chess. Featuring "Bacon Fat," "JailBait" & "The Greasy Chicken." MUST HAVE.

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Black Keys, Daft Punk, Grandaddy, Chris Bathgate & more

2011-07-15T12:35:00.000-07:00

CHRIS BATHGATE Salt Year LP / CD
*** "After several years of struggle, Bathgate has reemerged on the other side of struggle & tumult with a more realized version of his signature country-tinged gothic folk. It is perhaps that very struggle that makes this latest album such a triumph."

THE BEATLES Abbey Road LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Currently the only Beatles album in print domestic.

BLACK KEYS Rubber Factory LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

CRYSTAL ANTLERS Two-Way Mirror LP+CD
*** "The album is truly their most defiant and ambitious work yet. Produced by Ikey Owens (the Mars Volta), mixed by Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney, etc) and cover art by Raymond Pettibon."

DAFT PUNK Discovery 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

GRANDADDY Under The Western Freeway LP
GRANDADDY The Sophtware Slump LP
GRANDADDY Sumday 2xLP
*** NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!

KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Worn Copy 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN PRINT! Includes digital MP3 files.

TOOL Undertow LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

SCOTT WALKER Scott 1 LP
SCOTT WALKER Scott 2 LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! And I think these are on their way out of print so don't delay!

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Handsome Fures, Red Krayola, Creation Rebel, Brian Eno & more

2011-07-15T12:33:00.000-07:00

v/a KEB DARGE & LITTLE EDITH'S LEGENDARY WILD ROCKERS CD
*** "Scottish Northern soul & funk legend Keb Darge & Little Edith’s collection of surf / rockabilly rarities and other lost finds."

CHRIS BATHGATE Salt Year LP / CD
*** "After several years of struggle, Bathgate has reemerged on the other side of struggle & tumult with a more realized version of his signature country-tinged gothic folk. It is perhaps that very struggle that makes this latest album such a triumph."

CREATION REBEL Starship Africa CD
*** "'Starship Africa'' is the greatest sci-fi dub soundtrack never put to film. Produced and arranged by Adrian Sherwood and created by some of the greats from the On-U Sound stable, it is one of the finest moments of British Dub."

BRIAN ENO & RICK HOLLAND Drums Between The Bells CD
*** "Brian Eno first came across the work of Rick Holland in the late 90's but in early 2011, the pair resolved to finish a project. Drums Between the Bells is the result."

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Last Summer CD
*** "Eleanor Friedberger is previously known for her work in Chicago harmonie-musik bandThe Fiery Furnaces. They won awards, sold out happenings & made 9 albums. She was inspired her to make her first solo record!"

FUSIOON Absolute Fusioon CD
*** "Imagine a Spanish merging of Soft Machine & Egg. An uber-legendary exponent of Ibizas' 1970 psychedelic club scene. Imagine a Spanish mutation somewhere between Goblin and The Stark Reality."

HANDSOME FURS Sound Kapital CD
*** "Handsome Furs use keyboards & drum machines to forge life-affirming anthems taut with muscle & blood. These nine songs of innocence & experience occasionally look ahead to a better world in the not-so-distant future." Okay?

JOHN MAUS We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves CD
*** "Questing synthesizers, tense bass lines & drum machines provide the perfect backdrop for John's reverb-drenched vox. It's a world where the Germs jam with Jerry Goldsmith, Cabaret Voltaire relocate to Eternia & Josquin des Prez writes a new score for RoboCop."

MEN Talk About Body CD
*** "The debut album from MEN, the new project from LE TIGRE's JD Samson, feminist leader and gay icon. MEN focus on the radical potential of dance music & speaks of issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise, and the demand of liberties."

RED KRAYOLA The Parable Of Arable Land 2xCD
*** YES! "The ground-breaking 1966 album. Remastered by SONIC BOOM. 2xCD edition with both the Stereo & the first reissue of the Mono version. Book + bonus tracks!" Killer reissue in the vein of the 13th Floor Charly reissues.

SKELETONS People CD
*** "Skeletons work a globe spanning realm of inspirations into a singular and colorful vision of guitar based songcraft. Sonic excursions boiled down into a collection of concise, fluid and emotive songs."

EVENTS - the last ever Jury Duty!

2011-07-06T12:49:00.000-07:00

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Shabazz Palaces, Laurel Halo, Shigeto, Battles et al

2011-07-05T12:49:00.000-07:00

BATTLES Gloss Drop 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BURIAL Street Halo 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK!

LAUREL HALO Hour Logic EP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

KRAFTWERK Trans Europe Express LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Remastered Kling Klang edition.

SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up CD / LP+MP3
*** "If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn't come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Fifty thousand years in the making."

SHIGETO Full Circle Remixes EP
*** "Ghostly and Rush Hour have teamed up to release select tracks for a 12” white label version of Full Circle Remixes feat. Mike Slott, Take, Om Unit & Brainfeeder’s Samiyam. Essential."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Ellington, Ililonga, Shabazz Palaces & Sylvian

2011-07-05T12:47:00.000-07:00

DUKE ELLINGTON The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse: A Suite In Eight Parts CD
*** RECOMMENDED Fuggin' KILLER 1971 album of insanely hooky & bumpin' "world music" that Allmusic calls one of Ellington's "most intriguing works from his later years . . . showing the influence of rock, African folk music & more advanced areas of jazz."

RIKKI ILILONGA & MUSI-O-TUNYA Dark Sunrise: The Birth Of Zamrock 1973-1976 2xCD
*** "32 tracks characterized by James Brown's raw funk combined with the fuzz guitar sounds of Jimi Hendrix and the polyrhythms native to this African nation. But this neglects to mention Musi-O-Tunya and Ililonga's otherworldliness." On NOW AGAIN.

SHABAZZ PALACES Black Up CD / LP+MP3
*** "If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn't come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Fifty thousand years in the making."

DAVID SYLVIAN Died In The Wool: MANAFON Variations 2xCD
*** "Ballads, ambient improvisations, groundbreaking & extreme works come together in a new collection with composer Dai Fujikura. There is a complete bonus disc with just one long piece."

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Deerhoof, Sublime(!), Bon Iver EP, Black Moth Super Rainbow

2011-06-29T12:14:00.000-07:00

ARCTIC MONKEYS Suck It And See 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL! These guys are the worst.

BLACK ANGELS Phosphene Dream 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Dandelion Gum PIC.LP
*** REISSUED! Now on a wacky "picture disc."

BON IVER Calgary EP
*** "The first single from Bon Iver is a worship song to everything 'For Emma, Forever Ago' mourned." Two exclusive tracks!

DEERHOOF Milkman LP+MP3
*** REISSUED! On yellow vinyl. Includes MP3 download.

SUBLIME Sublime 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Samiyam, Wallahi Le Zein!!, Gillian Welch, Trojan Dub

2011-06-29T12:10:00.000-07:00

v/a TROJAN DUB RARITIES 3xCD
*** "Every recording new to CD. 51 Tracks from natty dub, roots and effortless dub mixes." Trojan stockpile! Cheap as can be too.

v/a WALLAHI LE ZEIN!!: Wezin, Jakwar and Guitar Boogie from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania 2xCD
*** "Rare compilation of Mauritania's Beydance and Haratine music, one of the few global sounds with no industry surrounding it."

AFRICA HITECH 93 Million CD
*** "Mark Pritchard & Steve Spacek bonded over Detroit techno, soul & fierce Jamaican digital dancehall. Their first full length project carves a new faultline into the rapidly expanding terrain of ''bass music'' or whatever."

FORD & LOPATIN Channel Pressure CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "The new album from TIGERCITY and ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER is a highly focused study in the effects of consumer electronics that touches on sensual bangers and hyper-spherical anthems prime for the dance floor."

SAMIYAM Sam Baker's Album CD
*** "40 minutes of pure listening pleasure, a series of woozy, off-centre hip hop instrumentals drawing heavily on electronic funk but never in hock to it, intensely detailed and carrying considerable emotional weight."

GILLIAN WELCH The Harrow & The Harvest CD
*** Already the best seller this week! First album in eight (8!!) years.

NEW ARRIVALS: Cassette - Bad Indians!

2011-06-22T11:53:00.000-07:00

BAD INDIANS Not Having Any Fun CS
*** RECOMMENDED From Archaic Formats: "Classicist rock spuh in the tradition of many fine ‘80s nuevo-garage freakers (Gun Club, Chris D., Mudhoney, Dead Moon), not to mention THEIR forefathers (Standells, Seeds, the second Godz LP, etc.)." More info: http://badindians.bandcamp.com/album/not-having-any-fun

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - King Crimson, QOTSA, Metallica & Daft Punk

2011-06-22T11:45:00.000-07:00

DAFT PUNK Discovery 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

KING CRIMSON In The Court Of The Crimson King LP
*** NEW VINYL ISSUE! And it's expensive but it is probably the best way to hear this album yet.

METALLICA Ride The Lightning LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Ohmigod, this album is SO INSANE!

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Queens Of The Stone Age 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL! "Fully remastered from the original tapes and expanded by three tracks."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Ford & Lopatin, Raphael Saadiq, Jill Scott, Harmonia & Eno!

2011-06-22T11:43:00.000-07:00

FORD & LOPATIN Channel Pressure CD
*** NOW ON CD! "The new album from TIGERCITY and ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER is a highly focused study in the effects of consumer electronics that touches on sensual bangers and hyper-spherical anthems prime for the dance floor."

GOMEZ Whatevers On Your Mind 2xCD
*** "Deep in the woods of Virginia, Gomez have conspired to make the most compelling, direct album of their 15 year career." Includes BONUS DISC.

HARMONIA & ENO Tracks & Traces CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "CLUSTER, one half of NEU!, and BRIAN ENO present a milestone in the history of Ambient/Electronic music from 1976 -- a classic of electronic krautrock!!"

RAPHAEL SAADIQ Stone Rollin' CD
*** "10 new tracks with nods to Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Little Walter & Sly Stone while merging his own contemporary twist born out of inspiration derived from indie acts that hold regular rotation in Saadiq's ipod."

JILL SCOTT Light Of The Sun CD
*** "Executive produced by Jill Scott and J.R Hutson (Pharell, Faith Evans), The Light Of The Sun features appearances by rappers Paul Wall, Doug E. Fresh, and Eve and traverses the rocky terrain of love, longing and loss."

JOHN ZORN Interzone CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "ZORN'S LONG AWAITED TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM BURROUGHS! Seedy bars, Moroccan streets, mind control offices, carnival side shows & science fiction fantasies the music develops from moment to moment with the inevitability and power of Zorn's finest work."

EVENTS - Bon Iver listening party at Wazoo TONIGHT + Jury Duty

2011-06-21T10:35:00.000-07:00

BON IVER LISTENING PARTY - Tuesday, June 21 @ Wazoo!
*** TONIGHT! From 6-8PM, BON IVER's new album will be on repeat. We have bonus discs, the Calgary 12" a couple weeks early, posters & giveaways for every buyer & more. Swing on by!
Wazoo Records / 336 1/2 S State, A2 / 6PM / FREE

JURY DUTY - Friday, June 24 @ Elks Lodge
*** Disc jocks FOREST J. (HOTT LAVA), GEOFF P. (Mystery Party), and ROBERT W. (Ann Arbor Soul Club) do the pony & watusi with you, baby. Soul, R&B, boogie, disco, bounce, int'l & more.
Elks Lodge / 220 Sunset, A2 / 10:30PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/lnbUFh

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Trust, Psychedelic Horseshit, Animal Collective, The Coathangers & more

2011-06-21T10:33:00.001-07:00

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Feels LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BON IVER Bon Iver LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Former haunts, new spirit. The reprises are there: solitude, quietude, hope & desperation compressed but always a rhythm arises, a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes. The winter, the legend, has faded to just that, and this is the new momentary present. The icicles have dropped, rising up again as grass."

CHALK CIRCLE Reflection LP+MP3
*** "Chalk Circle were the first all-female band to record & perform in DC during the punk/hardcore scene of the early 80s. The 12 songs on this release are from compilations, live shows, and unreleased recordings. Includes a book by guitarist/vocalist Sharon Cheslow that tells the Chalk Circle story in its entirety."

CITY CENTER Redeemer LP / CD
*** "City Center draws equally on the amped up teenage anger of the Void side of the Faith/Void split, confused angst at the Gap sales rack circa '93 (Dinosaur Jr. style guitar solos over mumbling harmonies) or the frustration of the kid trying to talk about Fluxus at the open-armed parking lot scene of a Dead show in 1971."

THE COATHANGERS Larceny & Old Lace LP+MP3 / CD
*** "The Coathangers reckless energy from their half-serious roots is every bit as vibrant and rambunctious as anything. The Coathangers' latest offering is easily their best record to date. Join the party."

DESTROYER Ideas For Songs LP+MP3
*** "Remastered edition of a sixteen-track private press Destroyer 1997 cassette. Packaged with a fresh transfer of Welsh-born painter SYLVIA SLEIGH’s (1916-2010) original nude Bejar portrait artwork. Includes a free download."

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO Suara Naga LP / CD
*** "You know how in the 1950s the press and parents and such talked about how rock'n'roll had some evil, sexual, tribal force that was going to possess the youth? Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa is really that. Trance-punk dancehall!"

LAUREL HALO Hour Logic LP
*** "Hour Logic is an ode to time leaping, designed to aid in moments of brain traffic and physical transit."

HELADO NEGRO Canta Lechuza LP+MP3
*** "Dance music turned inside out, percussion plipping & plapping, basslines like a tube of blue neon, micro-drones, growls from a wash of sun-filtered haze--morphing & bending around globular droplets of blood-red electro."

HUMAN EYE They Came From The Sky LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Ohhhhhhhh shit -- inter-planetary life and travel, alien/ human relationships & horror films filtered through an unhinged psychedelic punk juggernaut. The perfect garage freak-out from Vulgar and crew!"

JOHANN JOHANNSSON The Miners' Hymn LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Chilling, stirring, and powerfully evocative music of genuine beauty, The Miners' Hymn is the haunting score to a film by Bill Morrison (Decasia), lamenting & almost droning in moments, sweeping & almost heartstoppingly dynamic in others."

KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS Gorilla Rose LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Thirteen jams hitting ’60s Chicano rock, slip sliding rockabilly, teenage punkdom, mystic krautrock, baby-making sleaze, the best bad peyote trip you ever took and even a velvety call from the beyond. Flamboyant and inspired."

EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK Plays High Gospel 2xLP
*** "A powerful and personal album from co-founder of Godspeed You! Black Emperor & leader of Silver Mt Zion offering a confident, focused, humble and enveloping song cycle.

NOVELLER Glacial Glow LP / CD
*** "Her most assured, accomplished statement to date, trading distortion & feedback for memorable melodies & a wider sonic palette. Icy shards from the heavens! Pulsing throbs! Creeping anxiety! Fleeting melancholy!"

THEE OH SEES Castlemania 2xLP / CD
*** "Castlemania is more low-key than previous Oh Sees records -- 'summer-y & poppy' with electric guitars jettisoned for acoustic, the normally echo-laden vocals a bit clearer. Happy pop melodies, sweet and somber tunes, psychedelic moves galore & more."

ONEIDA Absolute II LP
*** "Absolute II is the final piece in Oneida's Thank Your Parents triptych. Absolute II stands on its own, in addition to serving as a chapter in an immense whole."

PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT Laced LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Boundary-pushing, thrilling, unique: Psychedelic Horseshit blaze with a coherent set of bustling, hookladen, melted outsider pop songs. Shitgaze!"

TY SEGALL Goodbye Bread LP / CD
*** "TY SEGALL has his finger on it. A finger on it, digging into your vinyl. It’s 2011. Ty is 23. So, do we get the comedown record? Yes and massive.”—Andrew Loog Oldham, San Mateo, CA 2.17.11.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH The Tallest Man On Earth LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

TRUST Candy Walls / Trinity 7"
*** "Nostalgia, erotomania, and lust via dark synth arpeggios, live & programmed drum beats and haunting vocals. Consider minimal synth warping into a sort of slow-techno equal parts introspective cold-wave and extroverted danceable."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Bon Iver, Human Eye, City Center, Chalk Circle & more!

2011-06-21T10:32:00.001-07:00

BON IVER Bon Iver LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Former haunts, new spirit. The reprises are there: solitude, quietude, hope & desperation compressed but always a rhythm arises, a pulse vivified by gratitude and grace notes. The winter, the legend, has faded to just that, and this is the new momentary present. The icicles have dropped, rising up again as grass."

CHALK CIRCLE Reflection LP+MP3
*** "Chalk Circle were the first all-female band to record & perform in DC during the punk/hardcore scene of the early 80s. The 12 songs on this release are from compilations, live shows, and unreleased recordings. Includes a book by guitarist/vocalist Sharon Cheslow that tells the Chalk Circle story in its entirety."

CITY CENTER Redeemer LP / CD
*** "City Center draws equally on the amped up teenage anger of the Void side of the Faith/Void split, confused angst at the Gap sales rack circa '93 (Dinosaur Jr. style guitar solos over mumbling harmonies) or the frustration of the kid trying to talk about Fluxus at the open-armed parking lot scene of a Dead show in 1971."

THE COATHANGERS Larceny & Old Lace LP+MP3 / CD
*** "The Coathangers reckless energy from their half-serious roots is every bit as vibrant and rambunctious as anything. The Coathangers' latest offering is easily their best record to date. Join the party."

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO Suara Naga LP / CD
*** "You know how in the 1950s the press and parents and such talked about how rock'n'roll had some evil, sexual, tribal force that was going to possess the youth? Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa is really that. Trance-punk dancehall!"

HUMAN EYE They Came From The Sky LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Ohhhhhhhh shit -- inter-planetary life and travel, alien/ human relationships & horror films filtered through an unhinged psychedelic punk juggernaut. The perfect garage freak-out from Vulgar and crew!"

JOHANN JOHANNSSON The Miners' Hymn LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Chilling, stirring, and powerfully evocative music of genuine beauty, The Miners' Hymn is the haunting score to a film by Bill Morrison (Decasia), lamenting & almost droning in moments, sweeping & almost heartstoppingly dynamic in others."

KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS Gorilla Rose LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Thirteen jams hitting ’60s Chicano rock, slip sliding rockabilly, teenage punkdom, mystic krautrock, baby-making sleaze, the best bad peyote trip you ever took and even a velvety call from the beyond. Flamboyant and inspired."

NOVELLER Glacial Glow LP / CD
*** "Her most assured, accomplished statement to date, trading distortion & feedback for memorable melodies & a wider sonic palette. Icy shards from the heavens! Pulsing throbs! Creeping anxiety! Fleeting melancholy!"

THEE OH SEES Castlemania 2xLP / CD
*** "Castlemania is more low-key than previous Oh Sees records -- 'summer-y & poppy' with electric guitars jettisoned for acoustic, the normally echo-laden vocals a bit clearer. Happy pop melodies, sweet and somber tunes, psychedelic moves galore & more."

PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT Laced LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Boundary-pushing, thrilling, unique: Psychedelic Horseshit blaze with a coherent set of bustling, hookladen, melted outsider pop songs. Shitgaze!"

TY SEGALL Goodbye Bread LP / CD
*** "TY SEGALL has his finger on it. A finger on it, digging into your vinyl. It’s 2011. Ty is 23. So, do we get the comedown record? Yes and massive.”—Andrew Loog Oldham, San Mateo, CA 2.17.11.

TINDERSTICKS Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009 5xCD
*** RECOMMENDED Whoa! Truly incredible batch of beauty on Constellation Records. Get out your hankies! "Six subtle & beautiful scores by Tindersticks recorded for French filmmaker Claire Denis, four of which are previously unreleased."

EVENTS - Tim Monger (IN STORE) + Jury Duty

2011-06-14T16:43:00.000-07:00

TIM MONGER - Tuesday, June 21 @ Wazoo Records
*** Great Lakes Myth Society man plays some jams at the shop at 10AM! It's crazy, I know. Please swing on by!
Wazoo Records / 336 1/2 S. State, A2 / 10AM / FREE

JURY DUTY - Friday, June 24 @ Elks Lodge
*** Disc jocks FOREST J. (HOTT LAVA), GEOFF P. (Mystery Party), and ROBERT W. (Ann Arbor Soul Club) do the pony & watusi with you, baby. Soul, R&B, boogie, disco, bounce, int'l & more.
Elks Lodge / 220 Sunset, A2 / 10:30PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/lnbUFh

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Segall, Oh Sees, Soft Moon, Madlib, Mount Eerie, Laurel Halo & more

2011-06-14T16:42:00.000-07:00

BATTLES Gloss Drop 2xLP / CD
*** "It is true that Gloss Drop is a bewitching, entrancing album that defies both categorization and easy analysis. This is truly seismic shift from Mirrored, propelling them once more into uncharted territory.''

BEIRUT East Harlem 7"
*** New single!

BLACK PUS Primordial Pus LP
*** Brian Chippendale of LIGHTNING BOLT! "Insanely long saccharine loops are pushed, pulled, screwed and tattooed all over your face -- an enduring record of stone-etched brute pop is forged."

JAMES BLAKE James Blake 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Plus bonus tracks!

BLANK DOGS Collected By Itself 2xLP+MP3
BLANK DOGS Land & Fixed LP+MP3 / CD
*** "'Collected' compiles long out of print singles, EPs, cassette and compilation tracks from the BLANK DOGS archive. 'Land' is a 12-song album!"

LO BORGES Lo Borges LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BOXCUTTER Dissolve LP
*** "Barry Lynn leaves Dubstep behind entirely to create an unpolished hue with keyboards, drum machine, echo, tape & even electric guitar while showing an affinity to Theo Parrish & even hypnagogic pop."

CRYSTAL STILTS In Love With Oblivion LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

MELVIN DAVIS Detroit Soul Ambassador LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

DEATH Spiritual Mental Physical LP
*** BACK IN STOCK! A collection of

DESTROYER Ideas For Songs LP+MP3
*** "Remastered edition of a sixteen-track private press Destroyer 1997 cassette. Packaged with a fresh transfer of Welsh-born painter SYLVIA SLEIGH’s (1916-2010) original nude Bejar portrait artwork. Includes a free download."

FUNKADELIC Maggot Brain LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

GANG GANG DANCE Kamakura LP
*** "Utilizing avant garde sensibilities and cut-and-paste assemblies, GGD dump some awesome Middle Eastern percussion & keyboard stabs colliding with Far Eastern instrumentation, and elements of Western pop & dance."

LAUREL HALO Hour Logic LP
*** "Hour Logic is an ode to time leaping, designed to aid in moments of brain traffic and physical transit."

INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE In A Hole / Can't Feel 12"
*** "More dream-steeped than anything before it, relying on vintage & home made gear, darkened tones mingling with floating percussion and vocals processed to nearly melancholic depths." On DFA.

NICHOLAS JAAR Space Is Only Noise LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS Gorilla Rose LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Thirteen jams hitting ’60s Chicano rock, slip sliding rockabilly, teenage punkdom, mystic krautrock, baby-making sleaze, the best bad peyote trip you ever took and even a velvety call from the beyond. Flamboyant and inspired."

LA VAMPIRES & ZOLA JESUS Self-titled LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

JULIAN LYNCH Terra LP / CD
*** "Dood played in bands alongside future members of REAL ESTATE, TITUS ANDRONICUS and FAMILY PORTRAIT. Dog is studying Ethnomusicology and Anthropology. People like his music!"

MADLIB Medicine Show 1 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL! "A full 17-track hip hop album with original tracks and 'the OJ Simpson remixes' featuring GUILTY SIMPSON. There are two brief guest appearances by MED and J DILLA."

MOON POOL & DEAD BAND Patsy / Patsy (Jack Ruby Mix) 7"
*** "Oh shit! What happens when a dude from the SIGHTS/SSM hooks up with one of the geniuses behind noise-mongers WOLF EYES? Old-school Detroit techno jams, plain and simple. Analog synthesizers and sequencers to the max."

MOUNT EERIE Black Wooden LP
*** "Six songs referencing black metal recorded in 2007 at Southern Studios at the beginning of Mount Eerie's black metal infatuation. Limited edition of 1,000 copies."

MILTON NASCIMENTO Clube Da Esquina 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

NODZZZ Innings LP / CD
*** "14 discretely memorable songs in the band’s growing idiom -- neurotic power-pop antics and jangly, shambolic post-punk." On WOODSIST.

NOVELLER Glacial Glow LP / CD
*** "Her most assured, accomplished statement to date, trading distortion & feedback for memorable melodies & a wider sonic palette. Icy shards from the heavens! Pulsing throbs! Creeping anxiety! Feeting melancholy!"

THEE OH SEES Castlemania 2xLP / CD
*** "Castlemania is more low-key than previous Oh Sees records -- 'summer-y & poppy' with electric guitars jettisoned for acoustic, the normally echo-laden vocals a bit clearer. Happy pop melodies, sweet and somber tunes, psychedelic moves galore & more."

ROBERT POLLARD Lord Of The Birdcage LP / CD
*** "On Lord of the Birdcage, Pollard reverses his songwriting process, transforming a dozen previously written poems into songs. He’s never written in this fashion before, and his whimsical, surrealist lyrics take center stage."

TY SEGALL Goodbye Bread LP / CD
*** "TY SEGALL has his finger on it. A finger on it, digging into your vinyl. It’s 2011. Ty is 23. So, do we get the comedown record? Yes and massive.”—Andrew Loog Oldham, San Mateo, CA 2.17.11.

THE SOFT MOON Soft Moon LP / CD
*** "THE SOFT MOON channels both his punk upbringing and Afro-Cuban heritage to sculpt decidedly dystopian soundscapes for a new generation of torn romantics."

MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY Must Be Blind 10"
*** "The men of Superwolf have a new pair of songs on Drag City evoking the constant trickle of sweat & the madness of bodies crushed together on the street."

WEEKEND End Times 7"+MP3
*** "Power-pop interpreted by My Bloody Valentine, a sublime mix of melody and racket driven by relentless drums and a pummeling bass line. It could be straightforward pop with the insane, shredding feedback guitar."

WOODS Sun & Shade LP / CD
*** "Folk-rock, fuzz, tambourines, tapes and raw lunch pulled straight from the yard. Pop songs and other things: Sun and Shade."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Ty Segall, Woods, Thee Oh Sees, Noveller, Kid Congo, Battles & mo'

2011-06-14T16:37:00.000-07:00

v/a RESPECT TO STUDIO ONE: 33 Dancehall, Reggae & Ska Classics 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! Killer selection of old school reggae & ska joints. Longtime Wazoo fav.

v/a SOLLA SOLLA: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja & The Electronic Pop Sound of Kollywood 1977-1983 CD
*** "Culled from 900 film scores in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, this is some the heaviest dancefloor friendly electronic Tamil pop to ever emerge from Southern India. Kollywood/Bollywood klassics!"

BATTLES Gloss Drop 2xLP / CD
*** "It is true that Gloss Drop is a bewitching, entrancing album that defies both categorization and easy analysis. This is truly seismic shift from Mirrored, propelling them once more into uncharted territory.''

KATE BUSH Director's Cut: Collector's Edition 3xCD
*** "Deluxe three CD edition includes Director's Cut plus remastered versions of The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, all housed in a case-bound book."

DICK DALE Guitar Legend: Very Best Of CD
*** Career-spanning collection of rippin' jackers. Every song is great except for the version of "Pipeline" with Stevie Ray Vaughan.

LEE DORSEY Soul Mine: The Greatest Hits & More 1960-1978 2xCD
*** "Over 50 tracks encompassing his 30 year career, featuring his biggest hits & many hard to find gems." Fancy package!

FOREST SWORDS Dagger Paths CD
*** "Textured, gauzy music, bleak-yet-beautiful & completely organic, sounding like a dancehall mix of Mogwai's more luscious soundscapes, Burial's sample-strewn claustrophobia, & Ennio Morricone's spaghetti western scores."

NINA HAGEN Nunsexmonkrock + Nina Hagen Band EP CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "NunSexMonkRock is the first solo album by punk singer-songwriter Nina Hagen after the two albums she made with the Nina Hagen Band."

GREGORY ISAACS Love Is Overdue: The Classic CG's Recordings 2xCD
*** "39 track 2xCD set featuring the cream of Gregory's 70s recordings."

KID CONGO & THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS Gorilla Rose LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Thirteen jams hitting ’60s Chicano rock, slip sliding rockabilly, teenage punkdom, mystic krautrock, baby-making sleaze, the best bad peyote trip you ever took and even a velvety call from the beyond. Flamboyant and inspired."

JULIAN LYNCH Terra LP / CD
*** "Dood played in bands alongside future members of REAL ESTATE, TITUS ANDRONICUS and FAMILY PORTRAIT. Dog is studying Ethnomusicology and Anthropology. People like his music!"

THE METERS Here Comes The Meter Man 2xCD
*** Subtitled: The Complete Josie Recordings 1968-1970. "50 tracks from the masters of New Orleans Funk. Featuring 'Cissy Strut,' 'Hand Clapping Song' and more."

NODZZZ Innings LP / CD
*** "14 discretely memorable songs in the band’s growing idiom -- neurotic power-pop antics and jangly, shambolic post-punk." On WOODSIST.

NOVELLER Glacial Glow LP / CD
*** "Her most assured, accomplished statement to date, trading distortion & feedback for memorable melodies & a wider sonic palette. Icy shards from the heavens! Pulsing throbs! Creeping anxiety! Fleeting melancholy!"

THEE OH SEES Castlemania 2xLP / CD
*** "Castlemania is more low-key than previous Oh Sees records -- 'summer-y & poppy' with electric guitars jettisoned for acoustic, the normally echo-laden vocals a bit clearer. Happy pop melodies, sweet and somber tunes, psychedelic moves galore & more."

ROBERT POLLARD Lord Of The Birdcage LP / CD
*** "On Lord of the Birdcage, Pollard reverses his songwriting process, transforming a dozen previously written poems into songs. He’s never written in this fashion before, and his whimsical, surrealist lyrics take center stage."

TY SEGALL Goodbye Bread LP / CD
*** "TY SEGALL has his finger on it. A finger on it, digging into your vinyl. It’s 2011. Ty is 23. So, do we get the comedown record? Yes and massive.”—Andrew Loog Oldham, San Mateo, CA 2.17.11.

THE SOFT MOON Soft Moon LP / CD
*** "THE SOFT MOON channels both his punk upbringing and Afro-Cuban heritage to sculpt decidedly dystopian soundscapes for a new generation of torn romantics."

TOWNES VAN ZANDT Legend: The Very Best Of CD
*** An incredible songwriter & sad sack -- I love Townes! This guy is great.

WOODS Sun & Shade LP / CD
*** "Folk-rock, fuzz, tambourines, tapes and raw lunch pulled straight from the yard. Pop songs and other things: Sun and Shade."

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Ital, Ebo Taylor, Floyd, Melvin Davis, killer comps galore!

2011-05-31T11:25:00.001-07:00

ost VAMPYROS LESBOS: Sexadelic Dance Party 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

v/a AFRO-BEAT AIRWAYS: West African Shock Waves - Ghana & Togo 1972-1978 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

v/a ANGOLA SOUNDTRACK: The Unique Sound Of Luanda 1968-1976 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK

v/a GROOVE CLUB VOL. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified! 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

v/a FLIPPER PSYCH OUT 2xLP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

MELVIN DAVIS Detroit Soul Ambassador LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

DENGUE FEVER Cannibal Courtship LP+MP3
*** Dengue Fever, with their exotic blend of Cambodian rock, Afro grooves, surf and garage psych, returns with Cannibal Courtship, the group's first studio album since 2008's Venus on Earth and their Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group debut.

HAWKWIND Hawkwind LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

ITAL Culture Clubs 12"
*** "Two elegiac cuts plus a remix by Chicago's f'ed-techno mastermind, HIEROGLYPHIC BEING. Deep opulent sway, submerged pitch bend and thousand yard stare ambiance. HB's "No Culture" mix freaks like none other." Ltd. to 500.

PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon LP+STUFF
*** BACK IN STOCK!

EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."

ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - My Morning Jacket, Madlib, Broken Bells & more

2011-05-31T11:15:00.000-07:00

v/a BARRY 7's CONNECTORS Vol. 2 CD
*** RECOMMENDED! Make that "highly recommended." This is another superb collection of library tracks compiled by Add N To (X) frontman, Barry 7 from the CAM library. Really good stuff.

BROKEN BELLS Meyrin Fields EP CD
*** "Danger Mouse & the dood from THE SHINS present a new four-song EP."

MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor CD
*** "The British Folk singer/songwriter's 1970 LP. Like other Harvest artists, Chapman's music contains a drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Beautiful acoustic guitars, deranged vocals, floating conga drums & cello."

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Codes & Keys 2xLP / CD
*** 2011 album from the Alt-Rock heroes. The album breaks away, though not completely, from the guitar-driven style of the band known so well to fans, making use of piano and electronically centered songs that will undoubtedly meet their expectations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP."

BO DIDDLEY Bo Diddley's Beach Party CD
*** "Reissue of the legendary rocker's first live album ever: a rough `n' tumble affair recorded live at a raucous Myrtle Beach club in 1963 with nine originals plus an instrumental take on Chuck Berry's 'Memphis.'" KILLER.

FLOGGING MOLLY Speed Of Darkness LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Arguably Flogging Molly's most important album. Speed Of Darkness was written in Detroit, MI and takes a hardnosed look at the economic collapse in the US: the causes and the direct effect it has had on everyday people."

MADLIB Medicine Show No.9: Nittyville CD
*** "Nittyville is pretty traditional for Madlib: one MC, one producer, and a rap record all about stunts, blunts & hip-hop feat. Frank of Detroit's Frank-n-Dank. Also feat. MED, Oh No, Madlib, and a supporting cast of extras."

MY MORNING JACKET Circuital 2xLP / CD
*** "The stunning Circuital is yet another reinvention of their sound that both forges new ground and maintains the distinct spirit of MMJ's previous work."

JAMES PANTS James Pants CD
*** "'It's that Twin Peaks sound,' says James Pants. 'More noise and wailing guitars.' Plus there are jams not unlike a doo-wop-channeling prom song in a John Hughes movie. That is, until a swirling guitar so specific to now joins the dance." What?

EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."

ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Zombi, Ebo, Dengue Fever & Pink Floyd

2011-05-25T12:42:00.000-07:00

DENGUE FEVER Cannibal Courtship LP+MP3
*** Dengue Fever, with their exotic blend of Cambodian rock, Afro grooves, surf and garage psych, returns with Cannibal Courtship, the group's first studio album since 2008's Venus on Earth and their Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group debut. Includes MP3s + bonus track.

PINK FLOYD The Dark Side Of The Moon LP+STUFF
*** BACK IN STOCK! Killer reissue of the classic album including the original inserts, etc. This is the best version of this album, period.

EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."

ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Zombi, James Pants, Bo Diddley, Michael Chapman & mo'

2011-05-25T12:38:00.000-07:00

v/a BARRY 7's CONNECTORS Vol. 2 CD
*** RECOMMENDED Make that "highly recommended." This is another superb collection of library tracks compiled by Add N To (X) frontman, Barry 7 from the CAM library. Really good stuff.

BROKEN BELLS Meyrin Fields EP CD
*** "Danger Mouse & the dood from THE SHINS present a new four-song EP."

MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor CD
*** "The British Folk singer/songwriter's 1970 LP. Like other Harvest artists, Chapman's music contains a drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Beautiful acoustic guitars, deranged vocals, floating conga drums & cello."

DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP."

BO DIDDLEY Bo Diddley's Beach Party CD
*** "Reissue of the legendary rocker's first live album ever: a rough `n' tumble affair recorded live at a raucous Myrtle Beach club in 1963 with nine originals plus an instrumental take on Chuck Berry's 'Memphis.'" KILLER.

JAMES PANTS James Pants CD
*** "'It's that Twin Peaks sound,' says James Pants. 'More noise and wailing guitars.' Plus there are jams not unlike a doo-wop-channeling prom song in a John Hughes movie. That is, until a swirling guitar so specific to now joins the dance." What?

EBO TAYLOR Life Stories: Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980 2xLP / CD
*** "This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk. Taylor studied music alongside FELA KUTI too."

ZOMBI Escape Velocity LP / CD
*** "ZOMBI continues their exploration of Giorgio Moroder and legendary Kraut Rock icons Neu & Harmonia. The sweeping synth sequences & pulsing rhythms are sometimes dancey, sometimes reflective, but always hypnotic."

NEW ARRIVALS: Cassette - Sail + Skate Laws!

2011-05-24T10:00:00.003-07:00

SAIL Sail CS
*** "Beaches + psychedelia + sunsets + vague memories + jams + blown glass. This is beach music, desert songs, psychedelic space folk, primitive electronic music. This is Ypsilanti's fantastic Sail!"

SKATE LAWS U.S. Post-Disco CS
*** "The first released document of a dood's one-man skatecore assault feat. classix like “Asylumed By My Parents” and “Clawing At Spiders.” Obvious reference points include early Flag, VOID, and maybe Suicidal Tendencies. Each package comes with a piece of grip tape."

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Not Not Fun & Sublime Frequencies, Nite Jewel, Todd Terje, Nite Jewel & more

2011-05-24T10:00:00.001-07:00

v/a FOLK & POP SOUNDS OF SUMATRA LP
*** "Selections from Indonesia's largest island include droning beat pop, early Orkes Melayu songs, Batak Tapanuli, traditional Minang music & folk drama soundtracks taken from old cassette tapes. Eccentric artifacts!" On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.

v/a PRINCESS NICOTINE: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Myanmar (Burma) LP
*** "Here are some of the greatest names from the past 50 years of Burmese musical history from the original recordings featuring Mar Mar Aye, Bo Sein, and the incomparable Tonte Theintan. Listen, and be amazed! Compiled by Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls)." On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.

AMIINA Puzzle LP+MP3
*** "Sigur Rós' string section is now a sextet with a widened sonic palette, more rhythmically rugged than Amiina's previous work and heavier in their use of electronics. Amiina's long-standing fondness for zero-g melodies and open-minded instrumentation, however, continues."

BEACH BOYS Pet Sounds LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BOOKER T. JONES The Road From Memphis LP / CD
*** New album! I think The Roots are on it. It's like a throwback, then an ultimate throwback, then like a new thing.

BURIAL Street Halo 12"
*** "This single is a surprise to all and is the first new official solo material from the mysterious dubstep magnate since 2007. Three all new tracks: 'Street Halo,' 'NYC' and 'Stolen Dog'. Their combined length is 20 minutes, 41 seconds."

DEERHUNTER Cryptograms/Fluorescent Grey 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

DISAPPEARS Guider LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

GILLETTE Gillette 12"
*** "Ladies and gentlemen, we're not floating through space, we're riding the Gillette monorail through a black-lit, airbrushed metropolis where 'cussive keys are cold currency. Melancholic yet uplifting, picturesque while bleak." On 100% Silk.

ITAL Culture Clubs 12"
*** "A new smooth, luxury club zone from Daniel Martin-Mccormick of MI AMI and SEX WORKER. Feat. a remix by HIEROGLYPHIC BEING. Check the original jame here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZZhXYmmdA

JON MUELLER Alphabet Of Movements LP
*** RECOMMENDED "A radical cloud of snare & gong -- thick, resonant, cavernous drones of buzzing rhythm & near-cacophony. It's hard to emerge with music that could honestly be described as original, but Alphabet Of Movements is a truly singular piece of work." Immense percussion record!

NITE JEWEL It Goes Through Your Head EP+MP3
*** "TEEN STEAM! A restless, infectious R&B beat, a voice you can sing along to, a positive outlook that sympathizes with your troubles and helps you to dance them away. Remixes by DAM-FUNK and THE SAMPS."

NOVELLER / UNFACT Bleached Valentine LP+MP3
*** "Split LP between the excellent Noveller and unFact (David Wm. Sims of the Jesus Lizard). Sound-sculptures, canvases of noise and melody & more. Limited to 500 LPs pressed on a gorgeous b&w marble." Includes MP3s.

PEAKING LIGHTS 936 LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Melodic gold dust, drift-dub haze, cool crate-digger grit, silky soul-jazz keys, tranced vocals, bass loops, drum loops and sneaky dub guitar -- a total groove-wave classic!" Check this groovy video: http://vimeo.com/20580559 On NOT NOT FUN.

POCAHAUNTED Make It Real LP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Seven jams in 40 minutes: basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment." On NOT NOT FUN.

PSYCHIC REALITY Vibrant New Age LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Leyna Noel's New Age is not the '80s redux fad of healing crystals, pastel fades, dolphin consciousness, etc, but a living, electrified awakening. High drama drum machinery; naked, airy avant-pop; stuttery, mechanized power ballad finales!" Ltd. to 600 copies. On NOT NOT FUN.

RADIO DEPT Passive 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

RADIOHEAD Ok Computer 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

JONAS REINHARDT Tactile Dome LP
*** "Easily the most micro-focus Jonas odyssey to date, Dome is nine technicolor fractals of glittering synthesizer skyways and master-crafted pulsing kosmische kraut terrariums. Heavy headphone communion. Art by Sean Patrick." Ltd. to 650 copies. On NOT NOT FUN.

SALEM King Knight LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

SEX WORKER / PSYCHIC REALITY Bored Fortress 7"
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Farmer’s market zen learner Leyna Noel channels the swaggering lust of Jimi via stumbling drum machines and amplifier howls while her beau Sex Worker mines Debbie Harry’s telephonic anxieties for deeper fears, darker secrets." Out of print!

SUPERSILENT 10 LP
*** "Supersilent moves slightly towards a more acoustic landscape, featuring some of the band's most beautiful and lyrical moments side-by-side with some of their most eerie soundscapes."

TODD TERJE Ragysh 12"
*** "You've been touched by the hand of Todd. Todd Terje, that is. Trans-dance from the Norwegian chief inspector with greatysh hypnotism, properysh beats and a lovelysh Terjerine dream to round it all off."

WET HAIR / PEAKING LIGHTS Bored Fortress 7"
*** "Iowa City silver apple-pickers Wet Hair pitter-patter into yet another picture-perfect futurist synth-pop raga. On the flip, midwestern matrimony team Peaking Lights hotbox a basement of black ark basslines & waterlogged reggae 45s."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Iggy, Thurston, Liturgy, Coffey, Doueh, Cave, Boris & more

2011-05-24T09:38:00.000-07:00

ost KES by John Cameron CD
*** "A sublime pastoral jazz soundtrack by one of the finest British jazz line-ups of the 1960s put together by the incredibly talented John Cameron (arranger for Donovan). Beauty, freedom, innocence and tragedy."

v/a R&B HIPSHAKERS Vol. 2: Scratch That Itch CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The second volume of rockin' R&B and early soul from the King/Federal/DeLuxe catalog ca. 1956-1967 -- 20 killer cuts selected by DJ Mr. Fine Wine of Downtown Soulville/WFMU. Virtuosic instrumentals, classy love songs, unholy dances & holy nonsense."

TONY ALLEN Afro Disco Beat 2xCD
*** "A complete '70s anthology of the drummer and music director of African superstar Fela Kuti's band. This monster pack includes Tony's first four solo albums, the first three produced by Fela Kuti himself and with Africa 70; the last one with Tony´s band The Afro Messengers."

ART BRUT Brilliant Tragic CD
*** "Tapping the genius of Frank Black to produce your record may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime event for many bands, but the pop culture obsessive Art Brut have once again nabbed the Pixies frontman to man the boards for their fourth LP."

ALVARIUS B. Baroque Primitiva CD+BOOK
*** "The 6th album by Alvarius B. (aka Alan Bishop of SUN CITY GIRLS) is a deep dive through mysterious waters. The songs often have a trippy & meditative pace, filled with gorgeous lo-fi blends of vocals, guitar, bass & keys. Feat. Eyvind Kang."

DAVID BAZAN Strange Negotiations CD
*** "Strange Negotiations focuses toward the external, centering on disappointment in the current state of accelerating American & global social fragmentation. But it also sounds like a great rock band playing songs they're beyond intimate with."

BORIS Heavy Rocks CD
*** "Heavy Rocks seeks to redefine 'heavy' music, expertly harnessing psychedelic metal, colossal drone, blistering punk and distortion-ravaged shoegaze. It is beyond heavy & firmly establishes Boris as a pillar of innovation and integrity in guitar based music."

BORIS Attention Please CD
*** "The first Boris album on which all vocals are sung by lead guitarist, Wata -- sultry, intoxicating catchiness, melodic without sounding pop, psychedelic without sounding dated. It's heavy without relying on barre chord riffs. It is this."

GREG BROWN Freak Flag CD
*** "A new set of songs recorded at Memphis, Tennessee's legendary Ardent Studios that are being called Greg's best work. Dood is former musical director for Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.''

NICK CAVE Boatman's Call CD+DVD
NICK CAVE Let Love In CD+DVD
NICK CAVE Murder Ballads CD+DVD
NICK CAVE No More Shall We Part CD+DVD
*** Finally! The next batch of Nick Cave remastered albums is here. Each album comes with a DVD feat. videos, bonus tracks, and an exclusive short film.

DENNIS COFFEY Dennis Coffey CD
*** "Dennis Coffey’s new album is a dense, fuzz-heavy haze of incendiary psychedelic soul much like his seminal, trippy ’Hair ’N’ Thangs’ LP. Coffey was a member of the Motown ’Funk Brothers’ backing band & key in bringing heavy wah wah guitar to soul and R&B during the late ’60s."

GROUP DOUEH Zayna Jumma CD
*** "On this album, Group Doueh's newest phase is that of a formidable ROCK unit speaking to the shared resonances between Western rock rhythms & the pulse of the Saharan trance tradition. Grooves balanced with searing modalities."

HOWLIN' WOLF The Howlin' Wolf Album CD
*** "The Howlin Wolf Album was a radical experiment attempting to integrate electric instruments & psychedelic arrangements into a revered signature blues sound. Wolf initially disregarded the album but it's gone on to near mythic status."

JESU Ascension CD
*** "Jesu is Justin Broadrick and he has been on this path for many years now. Ascension may be another way station on this journey or it may be a peak but it certainly is part of a body of work that is rising with much power and majesty."

BOOKER T. JONES The Road From Memphis LP / CD
*** "The Road from Memphis is classic Memphis soul, and classic Booker in the tradition of "Green Onions", but beyond that it is the story of a sound, and how Booker, working with the inheritors of his sound, is keeping a tradition alive." Feat. THE ROOTS.

LA NUEVA BANDA Sabor a Fresa CD
*** "An exotic cocktail of jazz, Brazilian music, flamenco influences and spaghetti-western soundtracks originally released in 1971 -- the envy of Euro groove holy grails & epicenter of club culture in early '70s Madrid."

LADY GAGA Born This Way CD
*** Perhaps you've heard fo Lady Gaga! She's wacky, she's silly, and her new album cover is styled after the very creepy Wheelers from Return to Oz! Must see!

LITURGY Aesthethica CD
*** "Disregarding the genre boundaries of black metal, hardcore & experimental music, the music is both elaborately crafted and chaotically performed. Songs often begin in the form of a simple chant or hypnotic abstraction, then evolve into something dense & complex."

MAN MAN Life Fantastic CD
*** "Man Man have brought along the fierce energy of their live show while finding a new melodic voice. Expanding their palette while keeping the found instruments, Man Man continue to evolve into an entirely new form of propulsive pop music."

MOON WIRING CLUB A Spare Tabby At The Cat's Wedding CD
*** "Hauntological creeps take note! Voices tumble over voices, VHS-tainted synths bubble up beneath them. The fingerprints of the '70s and '80s are present!" RIYL: Ghost Box, Broadcast, Olde English Spelling Bee.

THURSTON MOORE Demolished Thoughts CD
*** "3rd solo album from SY's T. Moore, produced by Beck & feat. Mary Lattimore on harp, Samara Lubielski on violin, and Beck. An equally beautiful and brooding work, the execution is nothing short of staggering.

MOUNT KIMBIE Crooks & Lovers CD
*** "Mount Kimbie ties traces of Burial & The Bug, Xiu Xiu & Grouper, D'Angelo & the Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti & Madlib. Crooks & Lovers floats through dubstep & hip-hop, jazz, techno & ambient, post-rock, UK garage & film scores to startling effect."

IGGY POP Roadkill Rising 4xCD
*** "A 4-CD set of newly remastered bootleg concert recordings by Iggy Pop feat. the best of concerts recorded over four decades. All his Stooges and solo classics are covered, as well as deep album tracks and offbeat covers."

ALLEN TOUSSAINT Everything I Dp Gonh Be Funky 2xCD
*** Subtitled: The Hit Songs & Productions 1957-1978.

WHITE DENIM D LP / CD
*** Out now on two formats!

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Insane int'l comps, Hawkwind, Clube de Esquina, Italian library music...

2011-05-23T12:41:00.000-07:00

ost VAMPYROS LESBOS: Sexadelic Dance Party 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

v/a AFRO-BEAT AIRWAYS: West African Shock Waves: Ghana & Togo 1972-1978 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

v/a ANGOLA SOUNDTRACK: The Unique Sound Of Luanda 1968-1976 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK

v/a GROOVE CLUB VOL. 3: Cambodia Rock Intensified! 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

v/a FLIPPER PSYCH OUT: Original Italian Library Music From The Vaults Of Flipper 2xLP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

MELVIN DAVIS Detroit Soul Ambassador LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

NICHOLAS JAAR Space Is Only LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

LO BORGES Lo Borges LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

FUNKADELIC Maggot Brain LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

HAWKWIND Hawkwind LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

MILTON NASCIMENTO Clube Da Esquina 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - Sigur Ros tearjerker for real!

2011-05-17T10:40:00.001-07:00

SIGUR ROS Heima 2xDVD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Chronicling a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native Iceland over the course of summer 2006, the tour provides a unique insight into one of the world's most inscrutable bands while exploring their natural habitat like never before.

NEW ARRIVALS: Cassette - Sail + Skate Laws!

2011-05-17T10:38:00.004-07:00

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Tyler The Creator, Tribe Called Quest, The Fall, Gang Gang Dance & more

2011-05-17T10:38:00.001-07:00

BLACK SABBATH Master Of Reality LP
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BRIGHT EYES The People's Key LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

THE FALL The Wonderful & Frightening World... LP
THE FALL This Nation's Saving Grace LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

GANG GANG DANCE Glass Jar b/w Mindkilla 12"
*** "Double A-side 12" single serves to offer an insight into Gang Gang Dance's 2011 album, Eye Contact."

GANG GANG DANCE Eye Contact 2xLP+MP3 CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

JANES ADDICTION Nothing's Shocking LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL In The Aeroplane Over The Sea LP+MP3
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL On Avery Island LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

NEW ORDER Power, Corruption & Lies LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

NIRVANA Nevermind LP
NIRVANA In Utero LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

PANDA BEAR Tomboy LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

PANTHA DU PRINCE V Versions Of Black Noise EP+MP3 / CD
*** "An album of reworkings of tracks originally on Black Noise by friends and contemporaries including amongst others ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, MORITZ VON OSWALD, FOUR TET, HYROGLYPHIC BEING & more."

PAVEMENT Slanted & Enchanted LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Includes MP3s, y'all! Remastered too.

PIXIES Surfer Rosa LP
PIXIES Doolittle LP
PIXIES Trompe Le Monde LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

ST. VINCENT Marry Me LP+MP3
ST. VINCENT Actor LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Low End Theory LP
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Midnight Marauders LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin 2xLP+MP3
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin DELUXE CD
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."

WHITE STRIPES De Stijl LP
WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

THE XX Xx LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

YO LA TENGO I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Includes MP3s, y'all! Remastered too. Heavyweight vinyl.

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Tyler The Creator, QOTSA, Pantha Du Prince, Jason Forrest & more

2011-05-17T10:37:00.000-07:00

v/a MUSIC FOR JAPAN: A Collection Of Songs By Independent Artists For The Relief Efforts In Japan CD
*** "Independent Michigan musicians contributed songs for the ongoing relief & recovery efforts in Japan following the earthquake & tsunami of March 11, 2011." Includes Swimsuit, Skate Laws, Tree City, October Babies, Sir Lord Sean Ike & more.

DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI Rome CD
*** "United by their shared passion for classic Italian film music, DM & DL travelled to Rome, assembled the original musicians from films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly & Once Upon a Time in the West and cut this record." Feat EDDA DELL'ORSO!

ESG Dance To The Beat Of ESG 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED "Finally! All in one place! The first comprehensive best of compilation for the iconic ESG!"

JASON FORREST The Everything CD
*** "A logical follow-up to Mr Forrest's past and quite a surprise: still mostly sample-base, psych-leaning, ADHD. It sounds like a weird mixture of old 70's porn soundtrack mixed with current pop melodies and the odd gabber beats."

PANTHA DU PRINCE XI Versions Of Black Noise EP+MP3 / CD
*** "An album of reworkings of tracks originally on Black Noise by friends and contemporaries including amongst others ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, MORITZ VON OSWALD, FOUR TET, HYROGLYPHIC BEING & more."

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Queens Of The Stone Age CD
*** "Fully remastered from the original tapes and expanded by three tracks."

TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin 2xLP+MP3
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin DELUXE CD
TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Panda Bear, White Stripes, Nirvana, New Order, Sabbath & more

2011-05-11T14:29:00.000-07:00

BLACK SABBATH Master Of Reality LP
BLACK SABBATH Paranoid LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

BRIGHT EYES The People's Key LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

JANES ADDICTION Nothing's Shocking LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL In The Aeroplane Over The Sea LP+MP3
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL On Avery Island LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

NEW ORDER Power, Corruption & Lies LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

NIRVANA Nevermind LP
NIRVANA In Utero LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

PANDA BEAR Tomboy LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Low End Theory LP
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST Midnight Marauders LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

WHITE STRIPES De Stijl LP
WHITE STRIPES White Blood Cells LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - ESG, Rome, QOTSA, Tyler The Creator. Also: Jason Forrest.

2011-05-11T14:28:00.000-07:00

DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI Rome CD
*** "United by their shared passion for classic Italian film music, DM & DL travelled to Rome, assembled the original musicians from films such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly & Once Upon a Time in the West and cut this record." Feat EDDA DELL'ORSO!

ESG Dance To The Beat Of ESG 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED "Finally! All in one place! The first comprehensive best of compilation for the iconic ESG!"

JASON FORREST The Everything CD
*** "A logical follow-up to Mr Forrest's past and quite a surprise: still mostly sample-base, psych-leaning, ADHD. It sounds like a weird mixture of old 70's porn soundtrack mixed with current pop melodies and the odd gabber beats."

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Queens Of The Stone Age CD
*** "Fully remastered from the original tapes and expanded by three tracks."

TYLER THE CREATOR Goblin CD
*** VINYL ON THE WAY! NPR sez... "The last thing you'd say about the prolific young rap collective Odd Future is that they're boring. You could say a lot of things about them, but you can't say that they re just like everyone else. You know what else? They're really good. Especially their ringleader, called Tyler The Creator."

EVENTS - Arrington de Dionyso!!

2011-05-10T10:26:00.001-07:00

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO wsg ESPECIALLY GOOD, DAYTIME TELEVISION AND DJ FOREST JUZIUK - Wednesday, May 11 @ Arbor Vitae
*** Throbbing, hallucinogenic, trance-inducing Indonesian-sung trans-utopian cosmic post-punk sounds from OLD TIME RELIJUN's Arrington de Dionyso. And you can dance to it. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!! It will be epic.
Arbor Vitae / 336 1/2 S. State (above Wazoo), A2 / $5 / http://on.fb.me/mbRjKF

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Soul Jazz, Antlers, Washed Out, and reggae for days!

2011-05-10T10:25:00.000-07:00

v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 1 2XLP
v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 2 2XLP
*** "Can You Dig It? charts the rise and fall of black action films from 1968-75, covering music from such classic 'blaxploitation' films as Blacula, Shaft, Across 110th Street, Super Fly, Foxy Brown and Black Caesar and obscurities from Don Costa, Grant Green, Dennis Coffy, Don Julian and others." On SOUL JAZZ.

v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 1 2xLP
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 2 2xLP
*** "The objectives of German experimental rock and electronic music in the 1970s were to create a new music, 'free' from the cultural 'nothingness' that young Germans felt after World War 2. This spawned new radical German bands including AMON DüüL, FAUST, CAN, CLUSTER & more." On SOUL JAZZ. For more info:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676

v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 2xLP+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED "After Motown, the boom of the car industry and the advances of civil rights in the 1960s, came a decade of governmental abandonment, high unemployment and inner-city violence and urban decay. Tribe (Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney, Marcus Belgrave) was a collective brought together to fight these negative forces, producing seminal deep jazz and funk albums & more." On SOUL JAZZ.

v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound 2xLP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP / CD
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."

BURNING SPEAR Presenting... LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

CULTURE Two Sevens Clash LP
*** "Culture hurls lightning-'n'-thunder reggae prophesy on the most feverish of the act's consistently inspired output: the apocalyptic Two Sevens Clash."

BOB DYLAN Live in Concert: Brandeis University 1963 LP
*** NOW ON VINYL! "Drawn from two sets that spring night at the 1963 Brandeis Folk Festival. Previously limited edition."

LEE PERRY Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread LP
LEE PERRY Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of The Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 1 2xLP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 2 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Classic albums & recent compilations slay so completely.

PRINCE JAMMY In Lion Dub Style LP
*** 1978 duuuuuub.

REAL ESTATE Reality LP+MP3
*** "Real Estate captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, the band's sweet, loose pop ballads are drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears."

RICO RODRIGUEZ Warrika Dub LP
*** "This 1977 dub album shows Rico's skills at his best."

TUNE-YARDS w h o k i l l LP+MP3 / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Garbus has applied the tUnE-yArDs live approach to her studio work but her tools have not changed. She's added more buttons and joints to those already being used & the opportunities exploited are evident in the album's dynamic range."

WASHED OUT Life Of Leisure LP+MP3
*** "Debut 12" from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club banger. All recorded in his parent's home in the rural Georgia town where he grew up. Essential and addictive."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Okkervil River, Sea & Cake, Gang Gang Dance & more

2011-05-10T10:17:00.000-07:00

v/a NIGERIA 70: Sweet Times (Afro Funk, Highlife and Juju from 1970s Lagos) CD
*** “Another choice batch of rare grooves from Nigeria spotlighting traditional guitar highlife blended with jazz and funk, hypnotic juju grooves & heavy West African takes on U.S. soul, funk, disco and rock.”

THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP / CD
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."

BIG JEFF BESS Tennessee Home Brew CD
*** "Big Jeff Bess was a Nashville legend making some of the purest hillbilly, swingin'est honky tonk, & rockin'est country. This includes all 18 songs issued by Big Jeff between 1947 and 1952, eight songs from live WLAC radio broadcasts in the mid-1950s, three unissued demos, and more!" On BEAR FAMILY.

CHROMATICS In The City II CD
*** "A buffed up edition of Chromatics' breakthrough single 'In Shining Violence', retitled as 'In The City' plus five new tracks including 'Hands In The Dark' track from the 'After Dark' comp and a cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire'."

GANG GANG DANCE Eye Contact CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Recorded in an old church converted to a recording studio with a myriad of chimes, drums and good vibrations. Impromptu jam sessions & structured songs combined make the cleanest, freshest and most focused Gang Gang Record to date."

OKKERVIL RIVER I Am Very Far CD
*** "A startling break from anything this band has done before! By turns terrifying and joyous, violent and serene, grotesque and romantic, it's a celebration of forces beyond our control."

THE SEA & CAKE The Moonlight Butterfly CD
*** "33 minute mini-album delivering long form, cinematic pieces, leaning upon the band's more experimental tendencies and shifting emphasis to a more instrumental approach."

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Soul Jazz, Antlers, Washed Out, and reggae for days!

2011-05-04T11:23:00.000-07:00

v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 1 2XLP
v/a CAN YOU DIG IT? The Music and Politics Of Black Action Films 1968-75 Vol. 2 2XLP
*** "Can You Dig It? charts the rise and fall of black action films from 1968-75, covering music from such classic 'blaxploitation' films as Blacula, Shaft, Across 110th Street, Super Fly, Foxy Brown and Black Caesar and obscurities from Don Costa, Grant Green, Dennis Coffy, Don Julian and others." On SOUL JAZZ.

v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 1 2xLP
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock & Electronic Musik 1972-1983 Vol. 2 2xLP
*** "The objectives of German experimental rock and electronic music in the 1970s were to create a new music, 'free' from the cultural 'nothingness' that young Germans felt as a consequence of Germany's role in the Second World War. This spawned new radical German bands including AMON DüüL, FAUST, CAN, CLUSTER and more." On SOUL JAZZ. For more info:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676

v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 2xLP+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED "After Motown, the boom of the car industry and the advances of civil rights in the 1960s, came a decade of governmental abandonment, high unemployment and inner-city violence and urban decay. Tribe (Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney, Marcus Belgrave) was a collective brought together to fight these negative forces, producing seminal deep jazz and funk albums & more. This album features the best of the seminal music produced by this legendary Detroit collective." On SOUL JAZZ.

v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound 2xLP / CD+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! One of Wazoo's all-time best sellers!

THE ANTLERS Burst Apart LP
*** "The Antlers present an inspired melding of complex electronic textures and acutely emotive song craft, drawing upon post-rock sounds & employing classic songwritlng structures to evoke a full panoply of feeling."

BURNING SPEAR Presenting... LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

CULTURE Two Sevens Clash LP
*** "Culture hurls lightning-'n'-thunder reggae prophesy on the most feverish of the act's consistently inspired output: the apocalyptic Two Sevens Clash."

LEE PERRY Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread LP
LEE PERRY Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of The Super Ape LP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 1 2xLP
LEE PERRY Return Of Sound System Scratch: More Lee Perry's Dub Plate Mixes Vol. 2 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! Classic albums & recent compilations slay so completely.

PRINCE JAMMY In Lion Dub Style LP
*** 1978 duuuuuub.

REAL ESTATE Reality LP+MP3
*** "Real Estate captured the sound of a late Sunday afternoon, the band's sweet, loose pop ballads are drifting and dreamlike, as their tales of suburban indifference and insecurity mask your own fears."

RICO RODRIGUEZ Warrika Dub LP
*** "This 1977 dub album shows Rico's skills at his best."

WASHED OUT Life Of Leisure LP+MP3
*** "Debut 12" from Ernest Greene aka Washed Out. Bent synth-pop gems that are equal parts psychedelia and anthemic club banger. All recorded in his parent's home in the rural Georgia town where he grew up. Essential and addictive."

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Beach Fossils, Big Freedia, John Fahey, Record Store Day leftovers

2011-05-03T12:08:00.000-07:00

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Cervantine LP / CD
*** "A record that gloriously connects a deep fascination with folk and gypsy groups of former Yugoslavia, Greece & Romania with the desert plains of the American Southwest not unlike Beirut or Calexico with a left-field edge."

BABIES Babies LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Kevin Morby (WOODS), Cassie Ramone (VIVIAN GIRLS), Justin Sullivan and Nathan Starkmake roughed-up jewels cut from the same cloth as Hazlewood and Sinatra, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Pisces and Linda Bruner, and other dream marriages."

JULIANNA BARWICK The Magic Place LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

BEACH FOSSILS What A Pleasure 12"
*** "A beautifully crafted EP with their most dynamic songs yet. Clean, simple guitar lines, melancholic endings, mature sounds & cleaner production values."

BEANS End It All LP / CD
*** "Lush, darkly tinted soundscapes from some of the most inspired names in contemporary production -- Four Tet, Clark, Tobacco, Son Lux, etc -- united by the inimitable flow and reborn swagger of Beans. The first Beans album to feature all guest production!"

THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! Import. Out of print (again).

BIG FREEDIA Azz Everywhere 12"
*** Whoa nelly! "The 'Queen Diva' of New Orleans bounce! There’s nothing like Freedia herself telling you to 'Bend ova/ like I told ya,' but if you can’t shake it to the real thing, this record is a living testament to our primal and spiritual need to toot it up."

BOXCUTTER Allele 12"
*** "Echoey drums, juke-influenced patterns, old-school hardcore-style vocal, wavering chords and drops, restrained but ravey breakbeats. Also: hazy two-step beats, bittersweet melodies, shimmering effects and delays."

BILL CALLAHAN Apocalypse LP / CD
*** "Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, BILL CALLAHAN’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delectables and guts!"

MICHAEL CHAPMAN Fully Qualified Survivor LP
*** "A peer of Roy Harper, John Marytn & Bert Jansch, Chapman’s music contains a slightly drugged out feel, sublime guitar playing and intense lyrics. Featuring deranged vocals, floating conga drums, cello, and Mick Ronson.The perfect album for a blissful day and a joint."

CRYSTAL STILTS In Love With Oblivion LP / CD
*** "Indulging their more strung-out sides, full of elliptical verses and perfectly chiming guitars, cranky pop organs and the punkest of rhythms, the new LP is a perfect blend of pop smarts and beguiling experiment. Spooked, psychedelic requiems!"

BETH DITTO Beth Ditto EP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.

DUCKTAILS Ducktails III LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 2xLP / CD
*** "Explosions In The Sky take some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, unplaceable sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, Japanese singing bowls and more."

JOHN FAHEY Requia & Other Compositions For Guitar Solo LP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.

FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "Drawing inspiration from folk/rock from about 1965 to 1973, and 'Astral Weeks' in particular, Helplessness Blues sees Fleet Foxes adding instrumentation (clarinet, the music box, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, Tibetan singing bowls, vibraphone, etc., along with more traditional band instrumentation), with a focus on clear, direct lyrics, and an emphasis on group vocal harmonies."

FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues / Grown Ocean 12"
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.

FRESH & ONLYS Secret Walls 12" / CD
*** "The cavernous opening sounds of Secret Walls reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's moody and jangly guitar pop."

GOLD PANDA Marriage 12"
*** Gold Panda’s “Marriage”—the third single from the UK producer’s watershed full-length Lucky Shiner—further explores the artist’s dancefloor inclinations, with a twist."

THE HEAD & THE HEART The Head & The Heart LP+MP3 / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!

LITURGY / OVAL Split 12"
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.

MARS CLASSROOM Theory Of Everything LP / CD
*** Robert Pollard + Gary Waleik (BIG DIPPER) have the formula for perfect song-craft. Irrepressibly hooky, guitar-driven, trippy moodiness, Brit-chime riffing and dirty-sweet harmonies."

THE MUMMIES Play Their Own Records LP
*** RECOMMENDED "After long years in remission, Play Their Own Records is back! Marvel at the spiritual bond you will share with The Mummies as you listen to the strains of their first four singles (including five tracks you won’t find on CD) together."

ROBERT POLLARD Space City Kicks LP / CD
*** "Space City Kicks, an eighteen-song compendium of Bee Thousand-sized sonic chunks that range from noisy pop to poppy noise but mostly just R-O-C-K. Pollard at his loosest and most free, conditions under which he very often produces his finest work."

PONYTAIL Do Whatever You Want All The Time LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Like 'Ice Cream Spiritual,' the energy of Ponytail is still alive and full throttle, but on Do Whatever You Want All The Time there is a more sophisticated and experimental approach of the song. This is complex-intellectual pop."

QUINTRON Sucre Du Sauvage LP / CD
*** "Quintron recorded a severely schizophrenic dual album of songs and field recordings in & on the grounds of New Orleans Museum Of Art (NOMA). Electronic and acoustic instruments blur together with ducks, insects, birds, water and even museum elevators until they all become brutal hypnotic madness."

OTIS REDDING Otis Blue LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

ARTHUR RUSSELL World Of Echo LP
*** RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE There's just a couple copies left of this gem.

THE SONICS Introducing The Sonics LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

ALEXANDER "SKIP" SPENCE Oar LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

SUPERCHUNK Here's Where The Strings Come In LP / CD
*** BACK IN PRINT!

TEENGENERATE Smash Hits LP
*** "Fifteen doses of revved-up and raw punk fury culled from an unrelenting kamikaze barrage of 7-inch buzz bombs…only the best of the best from Japan’s undisputed garage/punk overlords, TEENGENERATE!"

THE TRASHMEN Surfin' Bird LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

WEEKEND Sports 2x12"
*** NOW ON VINYL! Hard to keep this one in stock.

WEEN God Ween Satan 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Fleet Foxes, Bill Callahan, Soul Jazz, Tindersticks & more

2011-05-03T12:07:00.000-07:00

v/a BRAZIL '70: AFTER TROPICALIA New Directions In Brazilian Music in the 1970s CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK: Experimental German Rock And Eletronick Musik 1972-83 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

v/a TROPICALIA: A Brazilian Revolution In Sound CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

A CERTAIN RATIO Early 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Cervantine LP / CD
*** "A record that gloriously connects a deep fascination with folk and gypsy groups of former Yugoslavia, Greece & Romania with the desert plains of the American Southwest not unlike Beirut or Calexico with a left-field edge."

AETHENOR En Form For Bla CD
*** NOW ON CD!

ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI Moment Bends CD
*** Hear ye, hear ye! There's a new AIH rekkid afoot!

BABIES Babies LP / CD
*** "Kevin Morby (WOODS), Cassie Ramone (VIVIAN GIRLS), Justin Sullivan and Nathan Starkmake roughed-up jewels cut from the same cloth as Hazlewood and Sinatra, The Velvet Underground and Nico, Pisces and Linda Bruner, and other dream marriages."

BEANS End It All LP / CD
*** "Lush, darkly tinted soundscapes from some of the most inspired names in contemporary production -- Four Tet, Clark, Tobacco, Son Lux, etc -- united by the inimitable flow and reborn swagger of Beans. The first Beans album to feature all guest production!"

BEASTIE BOYS Hot Sauce Committee Part Two CD
*** "The long-awaited eighth album from the Hip Hop/Rock trio."

BILL CALLAHAN Apocalypse LP / CD
*** "Essentially an ensemble recorded live in the studio, BILL CALLAHAN’s Apocalypse is the corpus delecti. Something happened here! If tape is like meat, this record is the whole hog! No cuts! Delectables and guts!"

CURRENT 93 Honeysuckle Æons CD
*** Honeysuckle Æons is the new album by hallucinatory gnostic supergroup Current 93. Current 93, who were as cool as flies and as real as rainbows, are now as perfect as planets: Eliot Bates, Baby Dee, Andrew Liles, Lisa Pizzighella, Armen Ra and David Tibet."

MATTHEW ROBERT COOPER Some Days Are Better Than Others OST CD
*** Matthew Cooper's spellbinding soundtrack to Some Days Are Better Than Others since before his creative breakthrough album, Similes (released under his more widely known Eluvium moniker) was even made."

DEERHOOF Friend Opportunity LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Take Care, Take Care, Take Care 2xLP / CD
*** "Explosions In The Sky take some of their greatest creative leaps yet, experimenting with layers of haunting, unplaceable sounds, euphoric vocals, classical guitar, body percussion, Japanese singing bowls and more."

FRESH & ONLYS Secret Walls 12" / CD
*** "The cavernous opening sounds of Secret Walls reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's moody and jangly guitar pop."

HAUSCHKA Salon Des Amateurs CD
*** "Salon des Amateurs finds Hauschka focusing on rhythmic possibilities of his own prepared piano, as well as his first recorded collaborations with kit drummers: the album is a thrillingly unique sonic achievement."

HIGH LLAMAS Talahomi Way CD
*** "In the course of their post-millennial albums, The High Llamas sound has shifted subtly into a more organic setting—gone are the slick, electric-band settings of their great ‘90s albums, giving the music a more intimate, personal resonance."

ETTA JAMES Who's Blue: Rare Chess Recordings Of The 60s & 70s CD
*** "Over 70 minutes of soul, R&B, funk and jazz gems! For each of her LPs that exists on CD, there is an equally good album not available in its entirety."

LITTLE SCREAM The Golden Record CD
*** "Little Scream weaves multiple genres into a sparkly and Jovian landscape, conjuring visions of receiving signals and painting portals through space over celestial echoes and otherworldly buzzes."

ROBERT POLLARD Space City Kicks LP / CD
*** "Space City Kicks, an eighteen-song compendium of Bee Thousand-sized sonic chunks that range from noisy pop to poppy noise but mostly just R-O-C-K. Pollard at his loosest and most free, conditions under which he very often produces his finest work."

PONYTAIL Do Whatever You Want All The Time LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Like 'Ice Cream Spiritual,' the energy of Ponytail is still alive and full throttle, but on Do Whatever You Want All The Time there is a more sophisticated and experimental approach of the song. This is complex-intellectual pop."

ARTHUR RUSSELL The World Of Arthur Russell CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

THOUSANDS The Sound Of Everything CD
*** "Born out of late-night graveyard experimentation, the duo's stark and original spin on modern folk music is one of the most gentle and serene recordings you're likely to ever hear: solely voices, guitars, and an array of environmental sounds."

THE TINDERSTICKS Claire Denis Film Scores 5xCD
*** RECOMMENDED 5xCD box set gathering all six of the Claire Denis soundtracks written and performed by Tindersticks or their members w/ four of the six soundtracks are previously unreleased. Comes in a slipcase box made from deluxe uncoated black paperboard with a custom die-cut window and metallic cover-print."

TUNE-YARDS w h o k i l l CD
*** "Garbus has applied the tUnE-yArDs live approach to her studio work but her tools have not changed. She's added more buttons and joints to those already being used & the opportunities exploited are evident in the album's dynamic range."

EVENTS - HOTT LAVA wsg Moon Duo + Bad Indians + Wicked/Gnarly Installation, my baby!!

2011-03-29T10:42:00.000-07:00

HOTT LAVA presents MOON DUO & BAD INDIANS - Friday, April 1 @ Arbor Vitae
*** New film program curated by HOTT LAVA from VHS onto VHS, DJ Richie W & Forest J of The Whip!, musical acts MOON DUO and BAD INDIANS, and a massive video & film installation by Ted Kennedy and Burton Theatre's Matt Kelson inside the loft above Wazoo. A genuine psychedelic haunted house! Witchy! More info here: http://bit.ly/hlmoonduo
Arbor Vitae / 336 1/2 S. State (above Wazoo) / 9PM / $7 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/eKFr1H

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Moon Duo, Radiohead, Tape, Okkervil River, Mi Ami & more

2011-03-29T10:41:00.000-07:00

v/a GROOVE CLUB VOL. 2: CAMBODIA ROCK SPECTACULAR! 2XLP
*** RECOMMENDED "Recorded in raw, bare bones conditions, the wild and anarchic, rhythmic and undulating, sometimes sweet and lyrical music of the Khmer rock musicians seduced listeners around the world with their groovy sound. This is perhaps the most definitive collection of classic Cambodian rock music to appear on the scene to date."

v/a PAKISTAN: FOLK & POP INSTRUMENTALS 1966-1976 2xLP
*** RECOMMENDED "A mind-blowing set of Pakistani instrumentals spanning the period between 1966 and 1976. It’s all here: rock and roll beat, surf, folk traditional mixed with pop, film tunes, electric guitars, sitar and organ solos, brilliant percussion and arrangements crafted by the grooviest bands of the period." On SUBLIME FREQUENCIES.

v/a WEST INDIES FUNK 2xLP
*** "11 choice cuts ranging from the Esso Trinidad Steel Band's steel drum-infused cover of the Jackson 5's 'I Want You Back' to the smooth, sweet harmonies of Wendell Stuart, to the thick bass and funky organ of 'Cardova' by Syd Jones & the Troubadours. Curated and compiled for maximum enjoyment!"

THE BOOKS Thought For Food LP+MP3 / CD
THE BOOKS The Lemon Of Pink LP+MP3 / CD
*** BACK IN PRINT! New art & remastered + mp3s!

LO BORGES Lo Borges LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

CAVE SINGERS No Witch LP / CD
*** "The Cave Singers songs have always been like beautiful, faded grayscale photos of this hinterland. Now, these photos are injected with hot blood and technicolor, a ferocity and bite: lush, greasy guitars Eastern-influenced blues, gospel choirs et al."

CHAIN & THE GANG Cry, Cry, Cry Over You 7"
*** "While recording their first album at Dub Narcotic, Chain & The Gang had so many good, extra songs and radical ideas, it became obvious that it would spill over onto a Dub Narcotic Disco Plate 7" single."

CHAIN & THE GANG Music's Not For Everyone LP / CD
*** "Music's Not For Everyone is pithy and succinct. Led by Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Make Up, Weird War etc), there are roaring organ solos, shredding guitar, and plomping percussion with call and response vocals by fabulous back-up singers. Some will play this Music at pool parties, proms and pizzerias because there's a hard-edged dance groove. It sounds real 'earthy'."

CULT OF YOUTH Cult Of Youth LP / CD
*** "Born out of a love for the post-industrial music and culture that had inspired him ever since he had first discovered music as a teenager, 'Cult of Youth' is a neo-folk masterpiece rooted in the acoustic guitar driven Teutonic chants of the early material."

DANIELSON Best Of Gloucester County LP / CD
*** "A startlingly effective new band, a new thematic field (the locally-grown opus), produced with more sonic ambition than any recent Danielson effort, but without sacrificing the brave interior journey that we have come to expect from Daniel Christopher Smith." Okay!

DERADOORIAN / ALBERT MCCLOUD Split 7"
*** NEW!

EAST NEW YORK ENSEMBLE At The Helm LP
*** "At The Helm is a gorgeously careening collection of Indo-jazz that draws heavily on the near and far eastern sounds of Turkey, Korea, North Africa, India and China and threads them into a distinctively forceful Black Jazz idiom. This is a must for fans of rare groove & spiritual black jazz."

ETERNAL TAPESTRY Beyond The 4th Door LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Beyond the 4th Door contains long stretches of melodic guitar improvisations, dark brooding songs that slowly build and expand to allow in layers of light harkening back to the early '70s experimental rock such as Popol Vuh, Cluster and Träd Gräs och Stenar."

THE EX Catch My Shoe LP
*** "This is the 25th release on their own Ex Records & Catch My Shoe is the first with new singer Arnold de Boer. The songs range from high energy Gurage music from Ethiopia to hypnotic full on dance tunes."

MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER Meet Me In Miramas LP
*** "Matthew Friedberger is one half of The Fiery Furnaces. He considers Rock-n-Roll, or Rock 'n Roll, or Rock, or This Thing, to be the Queen, or King, or Tyrant of Indeterminate Gender, of the Popular Arts. The word Tyrant in the last sentence is meant to include a sense of necessary illegitimacy."

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR F#A#(Infinity) LP
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Slow Riot For A New Kanada LP
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Lift Your Skinny Fists 2xLP
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Yanqui U.X.O. 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

GRAILS Deep Politics 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "In their ongoing exploration of occult/fringe culture and the rich history of film music, they have cultivated a unique environment that inspires both an eternal sense of longing and an indelible sense of dread. Grails have found their true calling as purveyors of a new kind of library music."

INFINITY WINDOW Artificial Midnight LP
*** "Comprised of Dan Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and Taylor Richardson (Prehistoric Blackout), this LP is equally influenced by John Carpenter and the Taj Mahal Travellers; a heavy haze of fog, dark and heavy."

ITAL Ital's Theme 12"
*** "100% Silk is a new Not Not Fun sister label from Amanda Brown (Pocahaunted, LA Vampires). "Debut outing by Daniel Martin-McCormick's (of Mi Ami, Sex Worker, etc) new late nite club-love project. You can feel the brotherhood."

JIB KIDDER Library Catalog Music Series LP / CD
*** "For his Library Catalog release, Jib Kidder limited his sound pallette to the existing AK catalog, using only turntable manipulations, respatializing effects (echo, reverb, EQ) and splicing to create new mood-based shorts."

MI AMI Dolphins 12"+MP3
*** RECOMMENDED "Dolphins is a melting, dystopian refraction of left-field new age, lush soundscapes and Italo daydreams overlapping with slaughtered dolphins and the heartbreak of 'Hard Up.' Simultaneously ingesting and rejecting pop pleasure, wide-eyed optimism and modern despair, it is equal parts improvisatory winging it and forceful, fully-realized vision. Blurring the line between the tainted and the sublime, Dolphins is the sound of a band thrillingly re-imagining itself."

MOON DUO Mazes LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Certainly the most pop-oriented batch of songs from psych prodigies Moon Duo. Propulsive beats, the concepts of minimalism, expansion through repetition and sensory distortion are all still here and the dynamic interplay between Ripley of WOODEN SHJIPS guitar and Sanae's keyboard continue to push this band and genre into uncharted territory."

OKKERVIL RIVER Mermaid 12"
*** ""Mermaid" is the darkest song you'll hear all year." WHATEVER, DOOD.

THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT II LP / CD
*** "As single-minded as The Psychic Paramount's music may seem at first, it exists at higher elevations of decibel, intensity, motion, color, temperature and spills freely over the walls of genre, magma into new land. It is punk in its fury, noise in its rash extremity, and progressive in form."

RADIOHEAD The King Of Limbs LP / CD
*** New! Perhaps you've heard of this hot, young British band. I've heard that one of the members even dabbles in soundtracks and another is a "dee jay!"

ROEDELIUS Selbstportrait Vol. 1 LP
ROEDELIUS Selbstportrait Vol. 2 LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Roedelius of CLUSTER! Fleeting sketches, spontaneous improvisations, implied miniatures, rough compositions -- Roedelius recorded virtually every idea he came up with outside the studio sessions on a Revox A77 reel to reel, all played on Hammond & characterized by a combination of ländler, minimalism and harmonic simplicity."

SILK FLOWERS Ltd. Form LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Silk Flowers are a synth-driven trio balancing parts of pop and noise with melodies that evoke emotion & counter typical notions of electronic music writing songs for live performance, creating a visceral dynamic event that fluctuates between gleeful dance music and rough-edged dissonance."

THE SKULL DEFEKTS Peer Amid 2xLP / CD
*** "The Skull Defekts are Sweden's answer to the States' Sonic Youth and the Netherlands' The Ex and one of the centerpieces of the Swedish experimental rock scene. Taking a base of classic rock & infusing it with circular composition, drone, tribal music, Indian ragas, '60s minimalism, and experimental music from numerous ages." Also: vocals by DANIEL HIGGS.

D. CHARLES SPEER & THE HELIX Arghiledes LP+MP3
*** "D. Charles Speer is a founding member of No Neck Blues Band Arghiledes is greatly influenced by archival Arabic and Greek recordings and to those following modern takes on Arabic music (i.e. Sir Richard Bishop's Freak Of Araby)."

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Dusty In Memphis LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

TAPE Revelationes LP+MP3 / CD
*** "This is the eagerly-awaited fifth full-length album from Sweden's Tape. Tape has been around since 2000, making music in between experimentalism, pop and folk."

THANK YOU Golden Worry LP+MP3 / CD
*** "An urgent collision of rhythm, melody, and noise with ears attuned to dub, Eno, 20th Century classical, and Konono No. 1, Thank You compose intricate yet immediate stunners. Ecstatic, fierce energy!"

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Radiohead, Silk Flowers, Jad Fair, Chain & The Gang and more

2011-03-29T10:40:00.000-07:00

v/a SHIM SHAM SHIMMY: Dr. Boogie Presents... CD
*** "Rare and lost recordings from the '20s to the '60s embraced at all the studios and night clubs in the U.S. -- boogie-woogie, R&B, slide guitar, electrified harmonica. This is an incredible house rockin' party platter."

v/a SOUND OF SIAM: Leftfield Luk Thung, Jazz & Molam In Thailand 1964-1975 CD
*** "Be it spaced-out jazz, raw funk or meditative sounds, Soundway has dug deep into the Thailand's vinyl archives to present Thai classical to Luk Krung and Luk Thung -- music that incorporated Western influences such as jazz, surf guitar, ballroom and even Latin and African."

ARBOURETUM The Gathering LP / CD
*** "The Gathering is the 4th album from the Baltimore band Arbouretum, borrowing themes from Jung and Bowles to explore the depths of the mind with long, expressive instrumental passages to explore the outer reaches of sonic space."

CHAIN & THE GANG Music's Not For Everyone LP / CD
*** "Music's Not For Everyone is pithy and succinct. Led by Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Make Up, Weird War etc), there are roaring organ solos, shredding guitar, and plomping percussion with call and response vocals by fabulous back-up singers. Some will play this Music at pool parties, proms and pizzerias because there's a hard-edged dance groove. It sounds real 'earthy'."

ETERNAL TAPESTRY Beyond The 4th Door LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Beyond the 4th Door contains long stretches of melodic guitar improvisations, dark brooding songs that slowly build and expand to allow in layers of light harkening back to the early '70s experimental rock such as Popol Vuh, Cluster and Träd Gräs och Stenar."

JAD FAIR Beautiful Songs 3xCD
*** "Fire Records brings you a triple CD crammed with over one hundred of the best songs spanning the career of the legendary Jad Fair and his band Half Japanese. Liner notes by Everett True."

GRAILS Deep Politics 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "In their ongoing exploration of occult/fringe culture and the rich history of film music, they have cultivated a unique environment that inspires both an eternal sense of longing and an indelible sense of dread. Grails have found their true calling as purveyors of a new kind of library music."

HAYVANLAR ALEMI Guarana Super Power CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Turkish psych-rock + '80s post-punk experimental mind-melting, referencing Torch Of The Mystics-era Sun City Girls + tripped-out surf + retro Cambodian rock + electrified Thai Mor Lam & Saharan guitar music = AWESOME."

JIB KIDDER Library Catalog Music Series LP / CD
*** "For his Library Catalog release, Jib Kidder limited his sound pallette to the existing AK catalog, using only turntable manipulations, respatializing effects (echo, reverb, EQ) and splicing to create new mood-based shorts."

JON MUELLER The Whole LP+CD / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

PLASTIKMAN Kompilation CD
*** "Kompilation is a limited edition CD containing tracks from 1993's "Helikopter" through 2003's "Ask Yourself." It works as a collector's item just as well as an introduction to the Plastikman discography and reflects the running order of the 2010 Plastikman Live show."

THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT II LP / CD
*** "As single-minded as The Psychic Paramount's music may seem at first, it exists at higher elevations of decibel, intensity, motion, color, temperature and spills freely over the walls of genre, magma into new land. It is punk in its fury, noise in its rash extremity, and progressive in form."

RADIOHEAD The King Of Limbs LP / CD
*** New! Perhaps you've heard of this hot, young British band. I've heard that one of the members even dabbles in soundtracks and another is a "dee jay!"

SILK FLOWERS Ltd. Form LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Silk Flowers are a synth-driven trio balancing parts of pop and noise with melodies that evoke emotion & counter typical notions of electronic music writing songs for live performance, creating a visceral dynamic event that fluctuates between gleeful dance music and rough-edged dissonance."

THE SKULL DEFEKTS Peer Amid 2xLP / CD
*** "The Skull Defekts are Sweden's answer to the States' Sonic Youth and the Netherlands' The Ex and one of the centerpieces of the Swedish experimental rock scene. Taking a base of classic rock & infusing it with circular composition, drone, tribal music, Indian ragas, '60s minimalism, and experimental music from numerous ages." Also: vocals by DANIEL HIGGS.

TAPE Revelationes LP+MP3 / CD
*** "This is the eagerly-awaited fifth full-length album from Sweden's Tape. Tape has been around since 2000, making music in between experimentalism, pop and folk."

THANK YOU Golden Worry LP+MP3 / CD
*** "An urgent collision of rhythm, melody, and noise with ears attuned to dub, Eno, 20th Century classical, and Konono No. 1, Thank You compose intricate yet immediate stunners. Ecstatic, fierce energy!"

EVENTS - Found & HOTT LAVA events, The Whip!, Mi Ami and Jury Duty

2011-03-09T12:02:00.001-08:00

FOUND MAGAZINE & HOTT LAVA present 'EASIER WITH PRACTICE' - Friday, March 11 @ Yellow Barn
*** "A real true-life honest-to-gawd bonafide story based upon the frustrating coming-of-age experiences of Ann Arbor's very own DAVY ROTHBART."
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/hNh5Fa

THE WHIP! - Friday, March 11 @ Yellow Barn
*** The certified foot bruising party returns! Save a seat on this tomb ride cuz it's dripping in psych rock & soul, R&B stomps & instro klang, blues bumps & girl group bounce. DJs: Richie Wohlfeil & Forest Juziuk.
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/eTBeqm

MI AMI + TERRIBLE TWOS + SKATE LAWS + R E L A X E R (DJ) + FOREST JUZIUK (DJ) - Wednesday, March 23 @ Yellow Barn
*** Mi Ami's severely mutated disco gets way more mutated as a two-piece. Detroit destroyers Terrible Twos open, Skate Laws will make an appearance, and Macho City's Scott Zacharias & Forest Juziuk DJ.
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 10PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/ePfGT5

JURY DUTY - Friday, March 25 @ Elks Lodge
*** Disc jocks FOREST J. (HOTT LAVA), GEOFF P. (Mystery Party), and ROBERT W. (Ann Arbor Soul Club) do the pony & watusi with you, baby. Soul, R&B, boogie, disco, bounce, int'l & more.
Elks Lodge / 220 Sunset, A2 / 10:30PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/hYIvec

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Reissues, first times on vinyl & more!

2011-03-09T12:01:00.000-08:00

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS Psychedelic Sounds Of LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI The Doldrums LP+MP3
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI House Arrest LP+MP3
*** BACK IN PRINT!

BIBIO Excuses 10"
*** "The first single from Bibio's upcoming album. The track is a warm haze of layered sounds and clip-clop percussion, with Bibio's bright vocals percolating through a cluster of rhythmical spikes. The B-side from the 10" single is a non-album track."

THE CLASH Give 'Em Enough Rope LP
*** BACK IN PRINT!

THE GO TEAM Rolling Blackouts LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

PJ HARVEY Let England Shake LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

THE RESIDENTS Not Available LP+MP3
*** BACK IN PRINT!

SONIC YOUTH Simon Werner A Disparu LP+MP3
*** NOW ON VINYL! Includes bonus tracks.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Blessed 2xLP+2xCD
*** "Blessed is 12 new songs that cover an even wider emotional spectrum than her previous work, without moving too far in any one direction. Gritty, wise, uncompromising."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Kurt Vile, Lykke Li, Alice Coltrane & more

2011-03-09T11:59:00.000-08:00

SAXANA: The Girl On A Broomstick OST by Angelo Michajlov CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The previously unreleased spooked-out psychedelic-jazz score to 70s Czech's 'other' favourite teenage witch flick. This is instrumental and incidental music of the spooky variety only to be found in European cinemas. Put down the brass and pull out the electric bass and mid-tempo score sheets, add backwards percussion samples and eerie manmade Hex F.X."

ALICE COLTRANE Ptah The Daoud CD
*** RECOMMENDED "The music here is enchanting; it swings with precision and ease and draws the listener into its orbit with an uncommon grace. Alice Coltrane's compositions give the soloists ample material to explore and demonstrate her discerning compositional gifts. Along with some of Sanders's recordings from the same period, this is a rewarding, still not fully explored direction in jazz."

LUPE FIASCO Lasers CD
*** "Lasers features some of the most thought-provoking rhymes and concepts Fiasco has ever conceived, combined with irresistible melodies, production by the likes of Jerry Wonder and The Neptunes and others."

NICOLAS JAAR Space Is Only Noise CD
*** Already sold out!

LYKKE LI Wounded Rhymes CD
*** "Channeling the demise of The Shangri-La's Leader of the Pack, women under the influence, ladies and gentlemen of the canyon, a Kung-fu Marianne Faithful, and an armed Nancy Sinatra on peyote, Lykke Li has created an eleven song album that sounds like no other."

RAEKWON Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang CD
*** "Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang, the long awaited concept album from Raekwon the Chef. Back with the gritty tales from the street that have made him a hip hop legend, Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang captures Raekwon at the top of his lyrical game."

KURT VILE Smoke Ring For My Halo CD
*** "Philadelphia singer/songwriter Kurt Vile returns with a gorgeously layered record ranging from tender breezy folk to the tuff urban guitar riffery -- a sweeping & evocative project - a true American psychedelic folk album."

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Blessed 2xLP+2xCD / 2xCD
*** "Blessed is 12 new songs that cover an even wider emotional spectrum than her previous work, without moving too far in any one direction. Gritty, wise, uncompromising."

EVENTS - Thank You; Jury Duty; The Beets & Bad Indians!

2011-02-23T11:46:00.001-08:00

THANK YOU wsg ORIGAMI CAT PLAN + MOTHER WHALE - Wednesday, February 23 @ Woodruff's
*** Currently one of the best bands playing, Thank You (Thrill Jockey) returns to Michigan for a set in Ypsi w/ Origami Cat and the loud, spacey & wicked Mother Whale.
Woodruff's Bar / 36 E Cross Street, Ypsilanti / 8PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/huQbXt

JURY DUTY - Friday, February 25 @ Elks Lodge
*** Disc jocks FOREST J. (HOTT LAVA), GEOFF P. (Mystery Party), and ROBERT W. (Ann Arbor Soul Club) do the pony & watusi with you, baby. Soul, R&B, boogie, disco, bounce, int'l & more.
Elks Lodge / 220 Sunset, A2 / 10:30PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/hYIvec

THE BEETS wsg BAD INDIANS + THE SUGARCOATS - Saturday, February 26 @ Yellow Barn
*** The Beets have played just about every bill in New York City with every band you know that's passed through there. Plus BAD INDIANS!!
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/fHMG2B

NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - Trash Humpers (again!) & Fugazi

2011-02-23T11:45:00.001-08:00

FUGAZI Instrument DVD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! The excellent feature-length documentary by the talented Jem Cohen made from over ten years of footage shot by Cohen, fans, and others. Truly astounding.

TRASH HUMPERS by Harmony Korine DVD+BOOK
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! While the title is by no means a misnomer, Trash Humpers is one of the most unpredictable & frightening films of all time! Is it the future of horror films? Certainly, the trailer must be seen to be believed:

NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Dead Kennedys, Modest Mouse, Sparklehorse & more

2011-02-23T11:44:00.000-08:00

DEAD KENNEDYS Frankenchrist LP
DEAD KENNEDYS Bedtime For Democracy LP
DEAD KENNEDYS Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables LP
DEAD KENNEDYS Plastic Surgery Disasters LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

DELTRON 3030 Deltron 3030 LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

THE DIRTBOMBS Party Store 3x12"
*** NOW ON VINYL!

DISMEMBERMENT PLAN Emergency & I 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK! Hooooooly smokes! We can barely keep this one on the shelf. Welcome back, Travis Morrison.

TALB KWELI Gutter Rainbows LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!

MODEST MOUSE The Moon & Antarctica 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Asleep On The Floodplain LP / CD
*** "Ten portable slabs of home recorded blur-and-ripple (and warble) from a (mostly) acoustic Six Organs. Ben just hangs around with the creatures of the earth and he likes the sounds and transcending the body, that's all. The NEW new spirituals!"

SPARKLEHORSE Good Morning Spider LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!

TORO Y MOI Underneath The Pine LP / CD
*** "Underneath The Pine is an album evocative of R.Stevie Moore's homespun ruminations, David Axelrod's sonic scope, Steve Reich-ian piano phrasing, and the pervasive funk of Toro Y Moi's first record."

NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Toro Y Moi, 13 Floor Elevators, Six Organs, Chain & The Gang...

2011-02-23T11:43:00.000-08:00

CUL-DE-SAC OST by Krzysztof Komeda CD
*** "Jazz pianist, Christopher Komeda's rarest and weirdest music performed for a film directed by his friend, Roman Polanski. Huge rarity -- here for the first time since 1966. Full explanatory liner notes included."

ADELE 21 CD
*** "21 is the eagerly awaited sophomore album from British singer-songwriter Adele. Adele said: 'I discovered lots of artists I'd never heard of, particularly Wanda Jackson, Allison Krauss, Yvonne Fair, Andrew Bird, Neko Case...'”

WILLIAM BASINSKI A Red Score In Tile CD
*** "Think how Erik Satie could have sounded like if his most famous pieces had been inserted in a muffling mix after dropping him down a couple of octaves: a lament of decaying sounds, the feeling of a growing sorrow. I suggest you to listen to this on a sunny late afternoon; you could have a lot of secrets revealed."

JOHNNY CASH Bootleg 2: From Memphis To Hollywood 2xCD
*** "Featuring previously unreleased and incredibly hard-to-find singles, demos and other rarities recorded from 1955 through the late 60s, chronicling his exciting rise from local sensation to an artist of national importance." 57 tracks.

CHAIN & THE GANG Music's Not For Everyone CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Music's Not For Everyone is their follow-up long-player to Down With Liberty... and it is pithy and succinct. Led by Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Make Up, Weird War), it features roaring organ solos, shredding guitar, and plomping percussion by an all star cast (Fred Thomas, Arrington de Dionyso, Brian Weber)."

THE CRYSTALS Best Of CD
*** YES! Budget priced remastered best of compilation.

EARTH Angels Of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Drawing on inspiration from both British Folk-Rock bands the Pentangle and Fairpoint Convention and the North African Tuuareg band Tinariwen, the new material, while still heavy contains many breaths of fresh air, hopeful tones and drones as well as more eerie ones."

TIM HECKER Ravedeath 1972 CD
*** "Recorded in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland and using a pipe organ as the primary sound source, this piece is essentially a live recording. In reality, it exists in a nether world between captured live performance and meticulous studio work, melding the two approaches to sonic artifice as a unity."

LOW ANTHEM Smart Flesh CD
*** "With its dreamy, rustic take on the idea of Americana, the Low Anthem's Smart Flesh builds on the promise of the group's 2008 Nonesuch Records debut."

JIM O'ROURKE & CHRISTOPH HEEMAN Plastic Palace People CD
*** "Previously unreleased recordings of Jim O'Rourke and Germany's Christoph Heemann, presenting an intense three part journey, a mix of granular synthesis and concrete sounds, reshaped, reassembled."

PETE ROCK Petestrumentals CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!

RONETTES Best of CD
*** Double-yes!! Budget priced remastered best of compilation.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Asleep On The Floodplain LP / CD
*** "Ten portable slabs of home recorded blur-and-ripple (and warble) from a (mostly) acoustic Six Organs. Ben just hangs around with the creatures of the earth and he likes the sounds and transcending the body, that's all. The NEW new spirituals!"

PHIL SPECTOR Wall Of Sound CD
*** Budget priced remastered best of compilation.

13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS Easter Everywhere 2xCD
*** New two-disc deluxe edition of the acid rock originator's 1967 album.

TORO Y MOI Underneath The Pine LP / CD
*** "Underneath The Pine is an album evocative of R.Stevie Moore's homespun ruminations, David Axelrod's sonic scope, Steve Reich-ian piano phrasing, and the pervasive funk of Toro Y Moi's first record."

EVENTS - And a whole lot of 'em too!

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CALVIN JOHNSON wsg SWIMSUIT + TOVAH D-DAY & HOLLY HELLFIRE
*** Underground stalwart, K Records honcho, Beat Happening main man, and righteous DJ Calvin Johnson visits Ypsilanti for the first time! Also
Dreamland Theatre / 26 N Washington, Ypsilanti / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/gDDEp5

THE FORMS wsg SKATE LAWS + OUR BROTHER THE NATIVE - Tuesday, February 22 @ Arbor Vitae
*** The Forms (NYC) plus one-man hardcore sensation Skate Laws and FatCat's Our Brother the Native. Sleep not!
Arbor Vitae / 336 1/2 S. State (above Wazoo), A2 / $5 / FBOOK: http://on.fb.me/h5NvZh

THANK YOU wsg ORIGAMI CAT + MOTHER WHALE - Wednesday, February 23 @ Woodruff's
*** Currently one of the best bands playing, Thank You (Thrill Jockey) returns to Michigan for a set in Ypsi w/ Origami Cat and the loud, spacey & wicked Mother Whale.
Woodruff's Bar / 36 E Cross Street, Ypsilanti / 8PM / $5

JURY DUTY - Friday, February 25 @ Elks Lodge
*** Disc jocks FOREST J. (HOTT LAVA), GEOFF P. (Mystery Party), and ROBERT W. (Ann Arbor Soul Club) do the pony & watusi with you, baby. Soul, R&B, boogie, disco, bounce, int'l & more.
Elks Lodge / 220 Sunset, A2 / 10:30PM / $5

THE BEETS wsg BAD INDIANS + more - Saturday, February 26 @ Yellow Barn
*** The Beets have played just about every bill in New York City with every band you know that's passed through there. Plus BAD INDIANS!!
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 9PM / $5

NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - Brian Eno + Avant Garde shorts

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AVANT-GARDE: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s 2xDVD
*** RECOMMENDED "In the latter half of the 20th century, Raymond Rohauer was one of the nation's foremost proponents of experimental cinema. This two-DVD collection assembles some of the most influential and eclectic short films in the Rohauer Collection, including works by Man Ray, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Watson & Webber, Fernand Leger, Joris Ivens, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Jean Epstein, and Orson Welles."

BRIAN ENO 14 Video Paintings DVD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Comprised of 'Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan' & 'Thursday Afternoon' & created for art gallery exhibition, viewers are presented with a series of slowly evolving 'video paintings' with alternate versions of classic Eno ambient tracks & an unreleased track."