ANN ARBOR SOUL CLUB - Friday, July 2 @ Blind Pig
*** Robert Wells, Brad Hales, Breck Bunce & Aaron Anderson play the finest Northern Soul, r&b, modern, Motown, etc. you will never hear on the radio or pretty much anywhere else. Not only that but MR. FINE WINE himself will be guest DJ'n!!
Blind Pig / 208 S. First, A2 / 9:30PM / $5
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - By Brakhage Vol. 2 + The Doors!
BY BRAKHAGE: An Anthology, Volume Two 3xDVD
*** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED "Working outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of birth, sex, death, and the search for God, Brakhage turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all. By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two is comprised of thirty astonishing works from 1950s films to his final work, from 2003."
DOORS When You're Strange DVD
*** "Graced(!) by the narration of Johnny Depp, this 90-minute presentation features never-before-seen rare archival film, pulled from their inception in 1966 to Morrison's passing in 1971. These snapshot scenes of the band's history is as much an intimate experience, as it is revealing."
*** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED "Working outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of birth, sex, death, and the search for God, Brakhage turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all. By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two is comprised of thirty astonishing works from 1950s films to his final work, from 2003."
DOORS When You're Strange DVD
*** "Graced(!) by the narration of Johnny Depp, this 90-minute presentation features never-before-seen rare archival film, pulled from their inception in 1966 to Morrison's passing in 1971. These snapshot scenes of the band's history is as much an intimate experience, as it is revealing."
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Dum Dum Girls, Wolf Parade, Golden Triangle + Iron & Wine
DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be LP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
GOLDEN TRIANGLE Double Jointer LP+MP3 / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED And it's a fuggin' dooooozy. Love this records.
IRON & WINE The Sea & The Rhythm 12"+MP3
*** NOW ON VINYL!
WOLF PARADE Expo 86 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "Recorded and mixed at Hotel2Tango, with Howard Bilerman, in late February and early March of 2010, EXPO 86 is the name of the new and third album by Montreal s Wolf Parade."
*** BACK IN STOCK!
GOLDEN TRIANGLE Double Jointer LP+MP3 / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED And it's a fuggin' dooooozy. Love this records.
IRON & WINE The Sea & The Rhythm 12"+MP3
*** NOW ON VINYL!
WOLF PARADE Expo 86 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "Recorded and mixed at Hotel2Tango, with Howard Bilerman, in late February and early March of 2010, EXPO 86 is the name of the new and third album by Montreal s Wolf Parade."
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Wolf Parade, Golden Triangle, RJD2 & more
GOLDEN TRIANGLE Double Jointer LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Golden Triangle is a band of three girls and three boys who play music that's loud and spooky, and will make you aroused and ambitious. They fall somewhere along the psychedelic / garage / post-punk spectrum, with two singing ladies who sound like soulful ghosts."
THEE HEADCOATS Heavens To Murgatroyd... CD
*** RECOMMENDED Dang! Wild Billy Childish's Sub Pop LP is a gem! Do you know this man? The finest in outsider garage rock, to be sure. Listen to "Girl Of Matches" for a taste -- the wild video is probably on YouTube.
RJD2 Inversions Of The Colossus CD
*** "All 7 of the vocal songs on 'The Colossus' appear here sans vocals. The remainder of the album is made up of 7 new songs -- 14 tracks in all! Ranging from banging dance floor funk to extreme psychedelia, it follows a similar 'no format' approach as 'The Colossus' did. Yet another solid collection of classic RJD2."
SCISSOR SISTERS Night Work CD
*** "Night Work is a Dance record but it's not all Electronic. You can still hear the sound of a band spinning out together in a rehearsal room. It is the first time Scissor Sisters recruited Stuart Price (The Killers, Madonna) to co-produce."
WOLF PARADE Expo 86 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "Recorded and mixed at Hotel2Tango, with Howard Bilerman, in late February and early March of 2010, EXPO 86 is the name of the new and third album by Montreal s Wolf Parade."
*** RECOMMENDED "Golden Triangle is a band of three girls and three boys who play music that's loud and spooky, and will make you aroused and ambitious. They fall somewhere along the psychedelic / garage / post-punk spectrum, with two singing ladies who sound like soulful ghosts."
THEE HEADCOATS Heavens To Murgatroyd... CD
*** RECOMMENDED Dang! Wild Billy Childish's Sub Pop LP is a gem! Do you know this man? The finest in outsider garage rock, to be sure. Listen to "Girl Of Matches" for a taste -- the wild video is probably on YouTube.
RJD2 Inversions Of The Colossus CD
*** "All 7 of the vocal songs on 'The Colossus' appear here sans vocals. The remainder of the album is made up of 7 new songs -- 14 tracks in all! Ranging from banging dance floor funk to extreme psychedelia, it follows a similar 'no format' approach as 'The Colossus' did. Yet another solid collection of classic RJD2."
SCISSOR SISTERS Night Work CD
*** "Night Work is a Dance record but it's not all Electronic. You can still hear the sound of a band spinning out together in a rehearsal room. It is the first time Scissor Sisters recruited Stuart Price (The Killers, Madonna) to co-produce."
WOLF PARADE Expo 86 2xLP+MP3 / CD
*** "Recorded and mixed at Hotel2Tango, with Howard Bilerman, in late February and early March of 2010, EXPO 86 is the name of the new and third album by Montreal s Wolf Parade."
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
EVENTS - You've been summoned to JURY DUTY!
JURY DUTY - Friday, June 25 @ Elks Lodge
*** A brand spanking new dance night featuring deejays FOREST JUZIUK (Dark Matter), ROBERT WELLS (Ann Arbor Soul Club) and GEOFF PERRIN (Strictly Modern). Do the pony & watusi with us, baby. Soul, R&B, chicano rock, int'l psych & more. Only $3!
Elks Lodge / 220 W Sunset, A2 / 10PM / $3 / http://bit.ly/cjyoTa
*** A brand spanking new dance night featuring deejays FOREST JUZIUK (Dark Matter), ROBERT WELLS (Ann Arbor Soul Club) and GEOFF PERRIN (Strictly Modern). Do the pony & watusi with us, baby. Soul, R&B, chicano rock, int'l psych & more. Only $3!
Elks Lodge / 220 W Sunset, A2 / 10PM / $3 / http://bit.ly/cjyoTa
NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - By Brakhage Vol. 2, Jonsi & Sigur Ros
BY BRAKHAGE: An Anthology, Volume Two 3xDVD
*** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED "Working outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of birth, sex, death, and the search for God, Brakhage turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all. By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two is comprised of thirty astonishing works from 1950s films to his final work, from 2003."
JONSI Go Quiet DVD
*** "On New Year's Day in Reykjavik, SIGUR ROS frontman Jonsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his party, avoids cleaning up and instead procrastinates by playing songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of a year gone by."
SIGUR ROS Heima 2xDVD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
*** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED "Working outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of birth, sex, death, and the search for God, Brakhage turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all. By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two is comprised of thirty astonishing works from 1950s films to his final work, from 2003."
JONSI Go Quiet DVD
*** "On New Year's Day in Reykjavik, SIGUR ROS frontman Jonsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his party, avoids cleaning up and instead procrastinates by playing songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of a year gone by."
SIGUR ROS Heima 2xDVD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Maurizio Bianchi, ARP & Anthony Moore, New Blockaders & Das
ARP & ANTHONY MOORE FRKWYS Vol. 3 LP
*** "ARP & Anthony Moore contribute an album of modern minimalist compositions culled from reworkings of some of Moore's unreleased late '60s compositions and the incorporation of actual extant tapes from that time, to the newly minted pieces by ARP along with new accompaniments to the original recordings. Neither a 'Krautrock or art rock LP but a bona fide minimal classic.'" Limited to 550 copies.
MAURIZIO BIANCHI Endometrio LP
*** "Highly coveted classic 1983 LP by Italian noise/sound visionary M.B. at his most crucial turning point, delving into the uncharted waters he aptly titled 'bionic music', blending organic electronics with contorted sounds of the human body to compose one of the most interesting ambient records to date." Limited to 500 copies.
DAS Non-Chalant LP
DAS Artfact LP
*** "Destined to be renowned as an all-time private press, basement classic, Non-Chalant has been compared to Captain Beefheart, Lou Reed, CAN, and Steely Dan but Das himself said 'I just want to make music that sounds like what I used to hear on WABX." Limited to 300 copies.
THE NEW BLOCKADERS Crincum-Crancum / Meta-Klamauk LP
*** "Imagine a tall grain silo, full of corn, but riddled by some horrible infestation of insect. Put your ear to the hot metal and hear the things inside that are eating and eating, stirring the contents with their activity. Surprising presence of some actual pitches(!) amidst all the scraping. Edition of 300, already getting tough to score."
*** "ARP & Anthony Moore contribute an album of modern minimalist compositions culled from reworkings of some of Moore's unreleased late '60s compositions and the incorporation of actual extant tapes from that time, to the newly minted pieces by ARP along with new accompaniments to the original recordings. Neither a 'Krautrock or art rock LP but a bona fide minimal classic.'" Limited to 550 copies.
MAURIZIO BIANCHI Endometrio LP
*** "Highly coveted classic 1983 LP by Italian noise/sound visionary M.B. at his most crucial turning point, delving into the uncharted waters he aptly titled 'bionic music', blending organic electronics with contorted sounds of the human body to compose one of the most interesting ambient records to date." Limited to 500 copies.
DAS Non-Chalant LP
DAS Artfact LP
*** "Destined to be renowned as an all-time private press, basement classic, Non-Chalant has been compared to Captain Beefheart, Lou Reed, CAN, and Steely Dan but Das himself said 'I just want to make music that sounds like what I used to hear on WABX." Limited to 300 copies.
THE NEW BLOCKADERS Crincum-Crancum / Meta-Klamauk LP
*** "Imagine a tall grain silo, full of corn, but riddled by some horrible infestation of insect. Put your ear to the hot metal and hear the things inside that are eating and eating, stirring the contents with their activity. Surprising presence of some actual pitches(!) amidst all the scraping. Edition of 300, already getting tough to score."
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - The Roots, Devo, Stars, Prenice Bros, Laurie Anderson & more
ost 180° SOUTH CD
*** The main men from MODEST MOUSE and THE SHINS score a film that "retraces Yvon Chouinard's and Doug Tompkins' epic 1968 journey to Patagonia through the eyes of adventurer Jeff Johnson." Solar-lovin' jerk, JACK JOHNSON, also appears.
LAURIE ANDERSON Homeland CD+DVD
*** "Some of Anderson's most incisive work -- darkly humorous, starkly emotional & at times movingly tender; a distilled, up-to-the-minute portrait of our agitated nation, its politics, its economics, its delusions and its dreams, stripped down to a handful of players, centered around Anderson's haunting violin and voice."
DEVO Something For Everybody CD
*** "More than three decades after the release of its visionary debut, Devo is back with a long rumored, wildly anticipated album built on Devo's signature mechanized swing."
SARAH MCLACHLAN Laws Of Illusion CD
*** This is Sarah’s first studio album of new material in seven years, since the double–platinum Afterglow in 2003, and its twelve songs rank with the most compelling work ever created by this gifted artist.
PERNICE BROTHERS Goodbye, Killer CD
*** "10 Pernice originals: including full-on rock 'n rollers, signature pop songs, Scuds-esque tunes, and two AM radio would-be classics. Goodbye, Killer is a versatile album thats trademark Pernice."
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS Mojo CD
*** "'MOJO' has juice and guts but it also has some sweet balladry for the slow dancers and even a wacked-out reggae number that is unlike anything. It's the kind of album nobody's supposed to be able to make anymore. It got here just in time."
ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND We Walk This Road CD
*** "Produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett, 'We Walk This Road' draws from archival blues and rock to field recordings and gospel."
THE ROOTS How I Got Over CD
*** "The Roots release their 9th studio album, taking its name from Clara Ward's gospel classic and 'depicting the everyman's search for hope in this dispiriting post-hope zeitgeist'." Feat. JOANNA NEWSOM(!).
SIA We Are Born CD
*** "A deliriously happy burst of good times and a call to the dance floor wherever you are. Also, haunting signature Sia ballads."
STARS The Five Ghosts CD
*** "Simpler, sparer, and more confident (in its own quiet way), Stars trade some of the band's previous dramatic flourish for the sort of direct, heart-bearing communication that comes from hard-won experience."
SUZANNE VEGA Close Up Vol. 1: Love Songs CD
*** "Suzanne Vega is reinterpreting a majority of her catalog in an intimate and personal manner, creating four new thematic albums that will be released over the next two years."
*** The main men from MODEST MOUSE and THE SHINS score a film that "retraces Yvon Chouinard's and Doug Tompkins' epic 1968 journey to Patagonia through the eyes of adventurer Jeff Johnson." Solar-lovin' jerk, JACK JOHNSON, also appears.
LAURIE ANDERSON Homeland CD+DVD
*** "Some of Anderson's most incisive work -- darkly humorous, starkly emotional & at times movingly tender; a distilled, up-to-the-minute portrait of our agitated nation, its politics, its economics, its delusions and its dreams, stripped down to a handful of players, centered around Anderson's haunting violin and voice."
DEVO Something For Everybody CD
*** "More than three decades after the release of its visionary debut, Devo is back with a long rumored, wildly anticipated album built on Devo's signature mechanized swing."
SARAH MCLACHLAN Laws Of Illusion CD
*** This is Sarah’s first studio album of new material in seven years, since the double–platinum Afterglow in 2003, and its twelve songs rank with the most compelling work ever created by this gifted artist.
PERNICE BROTHERS Goodbye, Killer CD
*** "10 Pernice originals: including full-on rock 'n rollers, signature pop songs, Scuds-esque tunes, and two AM radio would-be classics. Goodbye, Killer is a versatile album thats trademark Pernice."
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS Mojo CD
*** "'MOJO' has juice and guts but it also has some sweet balladry for the slow dancers and even a wacked-out reggae number that is unlike anything. It's the kind of album nobody's supposed to be able to make anymore. It got here just in time."
ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND We Walk This Road CD
*** "Produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett, 'We Walk This Road' draws from archival blues and rock to field recordings and gospel."
THE ROOTS How I Got Over CD
*** "The Roots release their 9th studio album, taking its name from Clara Ward's gospel classic and 'depicting the everyman's search for hope in this dispiriting post-hope zeitgeist'." Feat. JOANNA NEWSOM(!).
SIA We Are Born CD
*** "A deliriously happy burst of good times and a call to the dance floor wherever you are. Also, haunting signature Sia ballads."
STARS The Five Ghosts CD
*** "Simpler, sparer, and more confident (in its own quiet way), Stars trade some of the band's previous dramatic flourish for the sort of direct, heart-bearing communication that comes from hard-won experience."
SUZANNE VEGA Close Up Vol. 1: Love Songs CD
*** "Suzanne Vega is reinterpreting a majority of her catalog in an intimate and personal manner, creating four new thematic albums that will be released over the next two years."
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
EVENTS - HOTT LAVA and CAVE + STELLAR OM SOURCE + SFV ACID
HOTT LAVA IV wsg WHITE/LIGHT + tba - Friday, June 11 @ YELLOW BARN
*** Brainbending, hair raising, beguiling & gnarly tempered with that mysterious & otherworldly SOMETHING -- HOTT LAVA returns with Chicago's sick, brainpeeling dronesters WHITE/LIGHT. Lots more info TBA. HL BBQ?? Perhaps.
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 8PM / $10 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/91S4PT
CAVE + STELLAR OM SOURCE + SFV ACID - Saturday, June 19 @ Dreamland Theater
*** Radical recent DRAG CITY signees CAVE play w/ post-new age synth goddess STELLAR OM SOURCE and hazy rainbow-synth beat jerk SFV ACID. Seriously killer bill. If you take a chance on this show, you will not be disappointed. Holy smokes.
Dreamland Theater / 26 N Washington, Ypsilanti / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/c3Es0D
*** Brainbending, hair raising, beguiling & gnarly tempered with that mysterious & otherworldly SOMETHING -- HOTT LAVA returns with Chicago's sick, brainpeeling dronesters WHITE/LIGHT. Lots more info TBA. HL BBQ?? Perhaps.
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 8PM / $10 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/91S4PT
CAVE + STELLAR OM SOURCE + SFV ACID - Saturday, June 19 @ Dreamland Theater
*** Radical recent DRAG CITY signees CAVE play w/ post-new age synth goddess STELLAR OM SOURCE and hazy rainbow-synth beat jerk SFV ACID. Seriously killer bill. If you take a chance on this show, you will not be disappointed. Holy smokes.
Dreamland Theater / 26 N Washington, Ypsilanti / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/c3Es0D
NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - Sigur Ros, etc.
JONSI Go Quiet DVD
*** The concept behind "Go Quiet" was simple: It's New Year's Day in Reykjavik, and Jónsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his party. He avoids cleaning up and instead procrastinates by playing songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of a year gone by." - Director Dean DeBlois
SIGUR ROS Heima 2xDVD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
*** The concept behind "Go Quiet" was simple: It's New Year's Day in Reykjavik, and Jónsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his party. He avoids cleaning up and instead procrastinates by playing songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of a year gone by." - Director Dean DeBlois
SIGUR ROS Heima 2xDVD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Soul Jazz comps, various 7"s, Kurt Vile, Yo La Tengo
v/a AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC Vol. 2 3xLP
*** "Sub Rosa issues the highly-acclaimed Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music collection on vinyl -- 3LPs housed in a luxurious triple gatefold sleeve. The story continues with volume 2, featuring slow explorations of the past and the present." Artists: Wladimir Ussachevsky + Otto Luening, Autechre, Luc Ferrari, Laibach, Alan R. Splet, SPK, Tod Dockstader, Johanna M. Beyer, Morton Subotnick, Captain Beefheart, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner, Hugh Davies, Daphne Oram, Sun Ra, Kim Cascone, Yoshihiro Hanno, Meira Asher, Woody McBride, Lasse Steen/Choose, Arcane Devices, and Percy Grainger.
v/a BRAZILIAN GUITAR FUZZ BANANAS 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Following the brilliant PSYCH FUNK 101, Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas is a master class for those entranced by the rarest & best funky, heavy psychedelic wonders of the Tropicalia psychedelia movement. You will recognize some of the labels contained here, but not the artists!"
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK Vol. 1: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 2xLP
*** RECOMMENDED "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 so it's going to be great. For more info:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676
v/a WATCH HOW THE PEOPLE DANCING: Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989 2xLP / CD
*** "Brilliant, haughty Jamaican avant‐gardism, inspired by Jammy's Sleng Teng explosion, rearing up at a Hackney crossroads in north East London, and facing down techno, hip-hop, breakbeat and rave. Staggering, exhilarating reggae music made by soundmen on a Casio and a drum machine, in a room over Eddie Regal's record shop. A Jamaican secession from London, with themes of inner‐city sufferation running alongside hymns to the dancehall and the herb superb brilliantly mastered by Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel." On HONEST JON'S.
CAMERA OBSCURA The Nights Are Cold 7"
*** "The Nights Are Cold" is a Richard Hawley cover and then he puts his touch on Camera Obscura on the b-side. Real nice.
CAVE Psychic Psummer LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Major momentum expertly crafted and embracing maximum minimalism, repetition, Can cloud-bounce & full on heavy chant. Like driving a train full speed off a cliff only to discover that the train can fly and you'll live forever if you stay inside."
COLD CAVE Life Magazine Remixes 12"+MP3
*** Four distinct and great takes on Cold Cave's brilliant "Life Magazine". Limited. OPTIMO, ARTHUR BAKER, PANTHA DU PRINCE, PRURIENT
DISAPPEARS Single #1 7"
DISAPPEARS Single #2 7"
*** BACK IN STOCK! This band is exxxxxcellent. Latest album is on Kranky with another one in the wings. So good! Not unlike early WIRE plus some kinda' wicked krauty drone.
GOD HELP THE GIRL Stills 10"
*** BACK IN STOCK!
HARLEM LSD Saves 7"
*** Two brand new Harlem songs recorded at the same time as "Hippies" and released on their own label Female Fantasy. Totally great.
MOEBIUS PLANK NEUMEIER Zero Set LP
*** "Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Conny Plank and Mani Neumeier of Guru Guru create infectious, tribal motorik rhythms that chunder along to dark synth squelches and squeals, that all feels exquisitely placed with factory-precision."
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Before Today LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "As sublime as surreal, Ariel Pink's sound is loaded with hazy nostalgia and a fiercely experimental pop palette. This new album is blowing up & for good reason: it slays. The limited ed. 'Round & Round' 7" sold out in no time & the LP may do the same."
RATATAT LP4 LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Conceived during the creative streak that began during the LP3 sessions, LP4 is ‘weirder’ than LP3, with more instruments than ever before, a full string section, and spoken word interludes from Stroszeck and Days Of Heaven."
ROEDELIUS Durch Die Wüste LP
*** "The first solo LP by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a prolific musician of the German avant-garde and key figure in Krautrock, synthesizer pop and ambient music is a space-y, organic, relatable warmth to this record that absolutely transcends time."
ROEDELIUS Wenn Der Südwind Weht LP
*** "Roedelius, a pioneer of ambient music, Krautrock and, arguably, synthesizer pop, member of such seminal bands as Cluster and Harmonia, revels in alien worlds on this record. Tranquil and otherworldly."
TIMES NEW VIKING No Time No Hope 7"
*** "Norwegian TNV single. LP version of NT, NH and a pretty drasticly different take of 'End Of All Things.'"
KURT VILE Square Shells EP+MP3
*** RECOMMENDED "KURT VILE returns with a stepping-stone 7-song EP of dreamgazey jams to plaintive, folky melodies recorded in a brighter, less homemade sound."
YO LA TENGO Here To Fall Remixes EP+MP3 / CD
*** Yep! Remixes by DE LA SOUL, RJD2, and PETE ROCK. Believe it!
*** "Sub Rosa issues the highly-acclaimed Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music collection on vinyl -- 3LPs housed in a luxurious triple gatefold sleeve. The story continues with volume 2, featuring slow explorations of the past and the present." Artists: Wladimir Ussachevsky + Otto Luening, Autechre, Luc Ferrari, Laibach, Alan R. Splet, SPK, Tod Dockstader, Johanna M. Beyer, Morton Subotnick, Captain Beefheart, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner, Hugh Davies, Daphne Oram, Sun Ra, Kim Cascone, Yoshihiro Hanno, Meira Asher, Woody McBride, Lasse Steen/Choose, Arcane Devices, and Percy Grainger.
v/a BRAZILIAN GUITAR FUZZ BANANAS 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Following the brilliant PSYCH FUNK 101, Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas is a master class for those entranced by the rarest & best funky, heavy psychedelic wonders of the Tropicalia psychedelia movement. You will recognize some of the labels contained here, but not the artists!"
v/a DEUTSCHE ELEKTRONISCHE MUSIK Vol. 1: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 2xLP
*** RECOMMENDED "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 so it's going to be great. For more info:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676
v/a WATCH HOW THE PEOPLE DANCING: Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989 2xLP / CD
*** "Brilliant, haughty Jamaican avant‐gardism, inspired by Jammy's Sleng Teng explosion, rearing up at a Hackney crossroads in north East London, and facing down techno, hip-hop, breakbeat and rave. Staggering, exhilarating reggae music made by soundmen on a Casio and a drum machine, in a room over Eddie Regal's record shop. A Jamaican secession from London, with themes of inner‐city sufferation running alongside hymns to the dancehall and the herb superb brilliantly mastered by Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel." On HONEST JON'S.
CAMERA OBSCURA The Nights Are Cold 7"
*** "The Nights Are Cold" is a Richard Hawley cover and then he puts his touch on Camera Obscura on the b-side. Real nice.
CAVE Psychic Psummer LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Major momentum expertly crafted and embracing maximum minimalism, repetition, Can cloud-bounce & full on heavy chant. Like driving a train full speed off a cliff only to discover that the train can fly and you'll live forever if you stay inside."
COLD CAVE Life Magazine Remixes 12"+MP3
*** Four distinct and great takes on Cold Cave's brilliant "Life Magazine". Limited. OPTIMO, ARTHUR BAKER, PANTHA DU PRINCE, PRURIENT
DISAPPEARS Single #1 7"
DISAPPEARS Single #2 7"
*** BACK IN STOCK! This band is exxxxxcellent. Latest album is on Kranky with another one in the wings. So good! Not unlike early WIRE plus some kinda' wicked krauty drone.
GOD HELP THE GIRL Stills 10"
*** BACK IN STOCK!
HARLEM LSD Saves 7"
*** Two brand new Harlem songs recorded at the same time as "Hippies" and released on their own label Female Fantasy. Totally great.
MOEBIUS PLANK NEUMEIER Zero Set LP
*** "Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Conny Plank and Mani Neumeier of Guru Guru create infectious, tribal motorik rhythms that chunder along to dark synth squelches and squeals, that all feels exquisitely placed with factory-precision."
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Before Today LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "As sublime as surreal, Ariel Pink's sound is loaded with hazy nostalgia and a fiercely experimental pop palette. This new album is blowing up & for good reason: it slays. The limited ed. 'Round & Round' 7" sold out in no time & the LP may do the same."
RATATAT LP4 LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Conceived during the creative streak that began during the LP3 sessions, LP4 is ‘weirder’ than LP3, with more instruments than ever before, a full string section, and spoken word interludes from Stroszeck and Days Of Heaven."
ROEDELIUS Durch Die Wüste LP
*** "The first solo LP by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, a prolific musician of the German avant-garde and key figure in Krautrock, synthesizer pop and ambient music is a space-y, organic, relatable warmth to this record that absolutely transcends time."
ROEDELIUS Wenn Der Südwind Weht LP
*** "Roedelius, a pioneer of ambient music, Krautrock and, arguably, synthesizer pop, member of such seminal bands as Cluster and Harmonia, revels in alien worlds on this record. Tranquil and otherworldly."
TIMES NEW VIKING No Time No Hope 7"
*** "Norwegian TNV single. LP version of NT, NH and a pretty drasticly different take of 'End Of All Things.'"
KURT VILE Square Shells EP+MP3
*** RECOMMENDED "KURT VILE returns with a stepping-stone 7-song EP of dreamgazey jams to plaintive, folky melodies recorded in a brighter, less homemade sound."
YO LA TENGO Here To Fall Remixes EP+MP3 / CD
*** Yep! Remixes by DE LA SOUL, RJD2, and PETE ROCK. Believe it!
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Ariel Pink, Emeralds, Henry Jacobs, Ratatat, Omar Souleyman...
v/a AFRICAN PEARLS: Congo - Pont Sur Le Congo 2xCD
*** "A 2xCD sampling of Congolese music from the '60s and '70s combining influences of jazz and European and Cuban music resonating on both sides of the Congo River where Western productions like American rhythm'n'blues, British rock, and French pop also infiltrated the local musical customs. Includes 20-page booklet."
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 2xLP+BOOK / CD+BOOK
*** BACK IN PRINT! 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. In the seven years it existed in Detroit, Tribe produced seminal deep jazz and funk albums, published Tribe magazine (featuring local community, music and arts issues) and ran numerous education workshops. This album features the best of the seminal music produced by this legendary Detroit collective." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a WATCH HOW THE PEOPLE DANCING: Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989 2xLP / CD
*** "Brilliant, haughty Jamaican avant‐gardism, inspired by Jammy's Sleng Teng explosion, rearing up at a Hackney crossroads in north East London, and facing down techno, hip-hop, breakbeat and rave. Staggering, exhilarating reggae music made by soundmen on a Casio and a drum machine, in a room over Eddie Regal's record shop. A Jamaican secession from London, with themes of inner‐city sufferation running alongside hymns to the dancehall and the herb superb brilliantly mastered by Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel."
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Before Today LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "As sublime as surreal, Ariel Pink's sound is loaded with hazy nostalgia and a fiercely experimental pop palette. This new album is blowing up & for good reason: it slays. The limited ed. 'Round & Round' 7" sold out in no time & the LP may do the same."
CAVE Psychic Psummer LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Major momentum expertly crafted and embracing maximum minimalism, repetition, Can cloud-bounce & full on heavy chant. Like driving a train full speed off a cliff only to discover that the train can fly and you'll live forever if you stay inside."
THE CHARLATANS U.K. Some Friendly - Expanded 2xCD
*** "The Charlatans debut get the remastered treatment plus a treasure trove of all the releated singles and Peel sessions and more."
DARA PUSPITA Dara Puspita 1966-1968 CD
*** "Dara Puspita (trans. "Flower Girls") was arguably the world's greatest all-female garage rock band. Extremely popular in 1960s Indonesia, the music on this collection is guaranteed to appeal to all fans of the beat a-go-go era of the mid-late 1960s and is a significant missing piece of the global pop music history puzzle. Every single track is a classic, the sound quality is superb, and it should only take one listen to become completely addicted to and charmed by this legendary Indonesian group."
KAREN ELSON The Ghost Who Walks CD
*** "On her debut disc, Karen Elson spins intriguingly unsettling tales of lost love, dashed hope, romantic betrayal and various crimes of passion witnessed only by the full moon. In a coolly inviting voice, strumming an acoustic guitar, she summons up a dark yet seductive atmosphere, an after-midnight world that’s irresistibly alluring."
EMERALDS Does It Look Like I'm Here? CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Integrating complex analog and analog/digital hybrids as well as guitar synthesizers have yielded outstanding results for our heroes. Perfect melodies intertwined with ripping sequences and a new shortened 'pop format' for the jams. Fresh, shiny and totally essential."
EMERALDS Emeralds CD
*** RECOMMENDED "CD version of the sold out self-released/self-titled 2008 LP. 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."
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter CD
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion CD
*** BACK IN PRINT! Two of Incredible String Band's best albums, hugely influential on everyone from Led Zep to Boards of Canada. Remasterd & looking good, it'll take you one 'net search to read the many praises.
HENRY JACOBS The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs CD/DVD
*** "Henry Jacobs is a sound artist and improviser par excellence with an irreverent sense of humor and a love for musics of the world. From the early 1950s into the 1970s, Jacobs experimented with tape music, staged the early surround sound and visual spectacle Vortex, and developed an array of absurd characters that would pop up as crank callers, relaxation coaches, or upside-down smiling instructors. This CD/DVD collection presents recovered and restored audio as well as rare animated films that will give you a taste of this man's special talents."
KOES BERSAUDARA Koes Bersaudara 1967 CD
*** "Sublime Frequencies is chronicling Indonesian popular music from the late 1950s through the late 1970s. This CD features the first-ever reissue of Koes Bersaudara's two extremely rare and almost impossible-to-find original recordings from 1967 considered by Indonesian music historians as their nation's legendary garage rock masterpiece, not to mention the first record to directly challenge or speak out against the Indonesian government."
PRINS THOMAS Prins Thomas CD
*** "First album from Norwegian disco superstar, Prins Thomas, showcasing Thomas's myriad musical gifts over seven sprawling, ever-evolving, head-nodding, navel-gazing, body-moving, kraut-rocky, mind-mushing tracks, perfectly assembled for an hour-long trip, almost all of it played by the man himself."
RATATAT LP4 LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Conceived during the creative streak that began during the LP3 sessions, LP4 is ‘weirder’ than LP3, with more instruments than ever before, a full string section, and spoken word interludes from Stroszeck and Days Of Heaven."
TERRY RILEY A Rainbow In Curved Air CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED "Riley is one of the granddaddies of Minimalism. A spooky & hypnotic masterpiece, the music on this extraordinary disc was made with electric organ, electric harpsichord, "rocksichord," dumbec, tambourine, and soprano saxophone."
OMAR SOULEYMAN Jazeera Nights: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria CD
*** "Omar Souleyman's third Western collection of Syrian street-level dabke folk-pop feat. live recordings spanning 15 years of Omar's tireless repertoire, and is rife with frenzied Syrian dabke, Iraqi choubi and a host of Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish styles."
SPACEMEN 3 Sound Of Confusion CD
SPACEMEN 3 The Perfect Prescription CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! And back in print, we should add, and lookin' good in mini-sleeves.
ARTHUR VEROCAI Arranjos E Composicoes: A Mix By DJ Nuts CD
*** "DJ Nuts is an astute and rigorous historian of Brasil's vast and varied musical culture commissioned to make a mix to illustrate the extraordinary legacy of Arthu Verocai. 78 minutes of all Verocai compositions and arrangements!"
*** "A 2xCD sampling of Congolese music from the '60s and '70s combining influences of jazz and European and Cuban music resonating on both sides of the Congo River where Western productions like American rhythm'n'blues, British rock, and French pop also infiltrated the local musical customs. Includes 20-page booklet."
v/a MESSAGE FROM THE TRIBE An Anthology Of Tribe Records: 1972-1976 2xLP+BOOK / CD+BOOK
*** BACK IN PRINT! 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. In the seven years it existed in Detroit, Tribe produced seminal deep jazz and funk albums, published Tribe magazine (featuring local community, music and arts issues) and ran numerous education workshops. This album features the best of the seminal music produced by this legendary Detroit collective." On SOUL JAZZ.
v/a WATCH HOW THE PEOPLE DANCING: Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989 2xLP / CD
*** "Brilliant, haughty Jamaican avant‐gardism, inspired by Jammy's Sleng Teng explosion, rearing up at a Hackney crossroads in north East London, and facing down techno, hip-hop, breakbeat and rave. Staggering, exhilarating reggae music made by soundmen on a Casio and a drum machine, in a room over Eddie Regal's record shop. A Jamaican secession from London, with themes of inner‐city sufferation running alongside hymns to the dancehall and the herb superb brilliantly mastered by Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel."
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Before Today LP+MP3 / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "As sublime as surreal, Ariel Pink's sound is loaded with hazy nostalgia and a fiercely experimental pop palette. This new album is blowing up & for good reason: it slays. The limited ed. 'Round & Round' 7" sold out in no time & the LP may do the same."
CAVE Psychic Psummer LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Major momentum expertly crafted and embracing maximum minimalism, repetition, Can cloud-bounce & full on heavy chant. Like driving a train full speed off a cliff only to discover that the train can fly and you'll live forever if you stay inside."
THE CHARLATANS U.K. Some Friendly - Expanded 2xCD
*** "The Charlatans debut get the remastered treatment plus a treasure trove of all the releated singles and Peel sessions and more."
DARA PUSPITA Dara Puspita 1966-1968 CD
*** "Dara Puspita (trans. "Flower Girls") was arguably the world's greatest all-female garage rock band. Extremely popular in 1960s Indonesia, the music on this collection is guaranteed to appeal to all fans of the beat a-go-go era of the mid-late 1960s and is a significant missing piece of the global pop music history puzzle. Every single track is a classic, the sound quality is superb, and it should only take one listen to become completely addicted to and charmed by this legendary Indonesian group."
KAREN ELSON The Ghost Who Walks CD
*** "On her debut disc, Karen Elson spins intriguingly unsettling tales of lost love, dashed hope, romantic betrayal and various crimes of passion witnessed only by the full moon. In a coolly inviting voice, strumming an acoustic guitar, she summons up a dark yet seductive atmosphere, an after-midnight world that’s irresistibly alluring."
EMERALDS Does It Look Like I'm Here? CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Integrating complex analog and analog/digital hybrids as well as guitar synthesizers have yielded outstanding results for our heroes. Perfect melodies intertwined with ripping sequences and a new shortened 'pop format' for the jams. Fresh, shiny and totally essential."
EMERALDS Emeralds CD
*** RECOMMENDED "CD version of the sold out self-released/self-titled 2008 LP. 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."
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter CD
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion CD
*** BACK IN PRINT! Two of Incredible String Band's best albums, hugely influential on everyone from Led Zep to Boards of Canada. Remasterd & looking good, it'll take you one 'net search to read the many praises.
HENRY JACOBS The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs CD/DVD
*** "Henry Jacobs is a sound artist and improviser par excellence with an irreverent sense of humor and a love for musics of the world. From the early 1950s into the 1970s, Jacobs experimented with tape music, staged the early surround sound and visual spectacle Vortex, and developed an array of absurd characters that would pop up as crank callers, relaxation coaches, or upside-down smiling instructors. This CD/DVD collection presents recovered and restored audio as well as rare animated films that will give you a taste of this man's special talents."
KOES BERSAUDARA Koes Bersaudara 1967 CD
*** "Sublime Frequencies is chronicling Indonesian popular music from the late 1950s through the late 1970s. This CD features the first-ever reissue of Koes Bersaudara's two extremely rare and almost impossible-to-find original recordings from 1967 considered by Indonesian music historians as their nation's legendary garage rock masterpiece, not to mention the first record to directly challenge or speak out against the Indonesian government."
PRINS THOMAS Prins Thomas CD
*** "First album from Norwegian disco superstar, Prins Thomas, showcasing Thomas's myriad musical gifts over seven sprawling, ever-evolving, head-nodding, navel-gazing, body-moving, kraut-rocky, mind-mushing tracks, perfectly assembled for an hour-long trip, almost all of it played by the man himself."
RATATAT LP4 LP+MP3 / CD
*** "Conceived during the creative streak that began during the LP3 sessions, LP4 is ‘weirder’ than LP3, with more instruments than ever before, a full string section, and spoken word interludes from Stroszeck and Days Of Heaven."
TERRY RILEY A Rainbow In Curved Air CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! RECOMMENDED "Riley is one of the granddaddies of Minimalism. A spooky & hypnotic masterpiece, the music on this extraordinary disc was made with electric organ, electric harpsichord, "rocksichord," dumbec, tambourine, and soprano saxophone."
OMAR SOULEYMAN Jazeera Nights: Folk & Pop Sounds of Syria CD
*** "Omar Souleyman's third Western collection of Syrian street-level dabke folk-pop feat. live recordings spanning 15 years of Omar's tireless repertoire, and is rife with frenzied Syrian dabke, Iraqi choubi and a host of Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish styles."
SPACEMEN 3 Sound Of Confusion CD
SPACEMEN 3 The Perfect Prescription CD
*** BACK IN STOCK! And back in print, we should add, and lookin' good in mini-sleeves.
ARTHUR VEROCAI Arranjos E Composicoes: A Mix By DJ Nuts CD
*** "DJ Nuts is an astute and rigorous historian of Brasil's vast and varied musical culture commissioned to make a mix to illustrate the extraordinary legacy of Arthu Verocai. 78 minutes of all Verocai compositions and arrangements!"
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
EVENTS - electro-drone at Burton Theatre, HOTT LAVA and CAVE + STELLAR OM SOURCE + SFV ACID
SIGNALDRIFT + CASINO VS. JAPAN + NUDGE + WINDY & CARL - Sunday, June 6 @ Burton Theatre
*** Hey-o! This is quite the stellar line-up of greats. What can I say? Casino Vs. Japan wasn't even doing anything for a hot minute. Windy & Carl is always a dream and Nudge is supposed to be great live. Signaldrift is releasing an album too. And it's in a THEATER!
Burton Theatre / 3420 Cass, Detroit / 8PM / $? / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/ahaM8x
HOTT LAVA IV wsg WHITE/LIGHT + tba - Friday, June 11 @ YELLOW BARN
*** Brainbending, hair raising, beguiling & gnarly tempered with that mysterious & otherworldly SOMETHING -- HOTT LAVA returns with Chicago's sick, brainpeeling dronesters WHITE/LIGHT. Lots more info TBA. HL BBQ?? Perhaps.
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 8PM / $10 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/c3Es0D
CAVE + STELLAR OM SOURCE + SFV ACID - Saturday, June 19 @ Dreamland Theater
*** Radical recent DRAG CITY signees CAVE play w/ post-new age synth goddess STELLAR OM SOURCE and hazy rainbow-synth beat jerk SFV ACID. Seriously killer bill. If you take a chance on this show, you will not be disappointed. Holy smokes.
Dreamland Theater / 26 N Washington, Ypsilanti / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/c3Es0D
*** Hey-o! This is quite the stellar line-up of greats. What can I say? Casino Vs. Japan wasn't even doing anything for a hot minute. Windy & Carl is always a dream and Nudge is supposed to be great live. Signaldrift is releasing an album too. And it's in a THEATER!
Burton Theatre / 3420 Cass, Detroit / 8PM / $? / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/ahaM8x
HOTT LAVA IV wsg WHITE/LIGHT + tba - Friday, June 11 @ YELLOW BARN
*** Brainbending, hair raising, beguiling & gnarly tempered with that mysterious & otherworldly SOMETHING -- HOTT LAVA returns with Chicago's sick, brainpeeling dronesters WHITE/LIGHT. Lots more info TBA. HL BBQ?? Perhaps.
Yellow Barn / 416 W Huron, A2 / 8PM / $10 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/c3Es0D
CAVE + STELLAR OM SOURCE + SFV ACID - Saturday, June 19 @ Dreamland Theater
*** Radical recent DRAG CITY signees CAVE play w/ post-new age synth goddess STELLAR OM SOURCE and hazy rainbow-synth beat jerk SFV ACID. Seriously killer bill. If you take a chance on this show, you will not be disappointed. Holy smokes.
Dreamland Theater / 26 N Washington, Ypsilanti / 9PM / $5 / FBOOK: http://bit.ly/c3Es0D
NEW ARRIVALS: DVD - Woodstock on BLU-RAY, y'all!
WOODSTOCK The Director's Cut 2xBLU-RAY + MAG + PATCH + etc.
*** Yeah, y'all. It's crazy. Ain't nothing like it! And you'd never believe the bonus content. This is the ultimate Woodstock thingamajig & we got it at a special price.
*** Yeah, y'all. It's crazy. Ain't nothing like it! And you'd never believe the bonus content. This is the ultimate Woodstock thingamajig & we got it at a special price.
NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl - Faust, Void/Faith, Big Star, Daft Punk...
BIG STAR 3rd LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
DAFT PUNK Discovery 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
FAITH / VOID Split LP+MP3
*** Whoa nelly! The most gnarly entry in the DISCHORD catalog gets the remaster/reissue treatment PLUS the mp3s! FAITH is great but the VOID side is where it's at.
FAUST IV LP
*** RECOMMENDED Holy smokes, have you heard this album? It's crazy & this Capital repress is so nice, I can't even begin to go into it. Super-heavy vinyl, beautiful packaging; this LP is mandatory!
JACK JOHNSON To The Sea LP+MP3 / CD
*** Recorded with SOLAR POWER!
MADLIB Shades Of Blue 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
*** BACK IN STOCK!
DAFT PUNK Discovery 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
FAITH / VOID Split LP+MP3
*** Whoa nelly! The most gnarly entry in the DISCHORD catalog gets the remaster/reissue treatment PLUS the mp3s! FAITH is great but the VOID side is where it's at.
FAUST IV LP
*** RECOMMENDED Holy smokes, have you heard this album? It's crazy & this Capital repress is so nice, I can't even begin to go into it. Super-heavy vinyl, beautiful packaging; this LP is mandatory!
JACK JOHNSON To The Sea LP+MP3 / CD
*** Recorded with SOLAR POWER!
MADLIB Shades Of Blue 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
NEW ARRIVALS: CDs - Melvins, Terry Riley, Destroy All Monsters, Scott Morgan, Sleigh Bells & more
ost BLACK GIRL CD
*** "One of the rarest and most obscure of the soundtracks for black movies from the 70s feat. BETTY EVERETT, rare contributions from Rodger Collins and Walter Hawkins, and instrumentals with MERL SAUNDERS on organ."
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS 1974-1976 3xCD
*** RECOMMENDED "Finally! The 3 CD set that introduced the world to the pre-punk DAM. Out of the gloomy basements of Ann Arbor Michigan flowed the horrid strains of a music never before heard. Experience it in all of its musty glory. Yes, Destroy All Monsters rises again. 76 tracks."
JACK JOHNSON To The Sea LP+MP3 / CD
*** "The fifth studio album from the acclaimed singer/songwriter, recorded at the Mango Tree Studio in Hawaii, and the Solar Powered Plastic Plant in LA using 100% solar power."
KALEIDOSCOPE Pulsating Dreams 3xCD
*** "The entire 1967-1970 output from one of the most eclectic bands of the psychedelic era while signed to Epic Records. Features David Lindley on guitar & a host of exotic stringed instruments. Described by Jimmy Page as 'My favorite band of all time'."
MELVINS The Bride Screamed Murder CD
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! The MELVINS -- can't stop, won't stop! And now they have two drummers which is never a bad idea.
SCOTT MORGAN Scott Morgan CD
*** "The legendary Scott Morgan (RATIONALS and SONIC'S RENDEZVOUS BAND) has teamed up with some of Detroit's most highly regarded underground luminaries to make his definitive solo album where Detroit soul tradition meets Ann Arbor music history in a blast of Downtown Detroit contemporary rockn'roll culture."
TERRY RILEY A Rainbow In Curved Air CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Riley is one of the granddaddies of Minimalism. A spooky & hypnotic masterpiece, the music on this extraordinary disc was made with electric organ, electric harpsichord, "rocksichord," dumbec, tambourine, and soprano saxophone."
GUILTY SIMPSON OJ Simpson CD
*** "OJ Simpson. That's the name of the album. No bloody gloves. No Ford Broncos. 12 hard-hitting tracks featuring Guilty's inimitable baritone, and an equal number of Madlib's signature album-as-soundtrack/radio/sideshow arrangements, where the beat & sequence is as important as the rap."
SLEIGH BELLS Treats CD
*** "Rhythmic pop songs that combine overdriven guitar riffs and sugary female vocal melodies, earning the adoration of critics at the New Yorker, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice. M.I.A. put this shit out!"
PAUL WELLER Wake Up The Nation CD+BONUS MP3s
*** "Lean, mean and as uncompromisingly focused as its maker, feat. members of THE JAM, ELO, and MY BLOODY VALENTINE."
*** "One of the rarest and most obscure of the soundtracks for black movies from the 70s feat. BETTY EVERETT, rare contributions from Rodger Collins and Walter Hawkins, and instrumentals with MERL SAUNDERS on organ."
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS 1974-1976 3xCD
*** RECOMMENDED "Finally! The 3 CD set that introduced the world to the pre-punk DAM. Out of the gloomy basements of Ann Arbor Michigan flowed the horrid strains of a music never before heard. Experience it in all of its musty glory. Yes, Destroy All Monsters rises again. 76 tracks."
JACK JOHNSON To The Sea LP+MP3 / CD
*** "The fifth studio album from the acclaimed singer/songwriter, recorded at the Mango Tree Studio in Hawaii, and the Solar Powered Plastic Plant in LA using 100% solar power."
KALEIDOSCOPE Pulsating Dreams 3xCD
*** "The entire 1967-1970 output from one of the most eclectic bands of the psychedelic era while signed to Epic Records. Features David Lindley on guitar & a host of exotic stringed instruments. Described by Jimmy Page as 'My favorite band of all time'."
MELVINS The Bride Screamed Murder CD
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! The MELVINS -- can't stop, won't stop! And now they have two drummers which is never a bad idea.
SCOTT MORGAN Scott Morgan CD
*** "The legendary Scott Morgan (RATIONALS and SONIC'S RENDEZVOUS BAND) has teamed up with some of Detroit's most highly regarded underground luminaries to make his definitive solo album where Detroit soul tradition meets Ann Arbor music history in a blast of Downtown Detroit contemporary rockn'roll culture."
TERRY RILEY A Rainbow In Curved Air CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Riley is one of the granddaddies of Minimalism. A spooky & hypnotic masterpiece, the music on this extraordinary disc was made with electric organ, electric harpsichord, "rocksichord," dumbec, tambourine, and soprano saxophone."
GUILTY SIMPSON OJ Simpson CD
*** "OJ Simpson. That's the name of the album. No bloody gloves. No Ford Broncos. 12 hard-hitting tracks featuring Guilty's inimitable baritone, and an equal number of Madlib's signature album-as-soundtrack/radio/sideshow arrangements, where the beat & sequence is as important as the rap."
SLEIGH BELLS Treats CD
*** "Rhythmic pop songs that combine overdriven guitar riffs and sugary female vocal melodies, earning the adoration of critics at the New Yorker, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and the Village Voice. M.I.A. put this shit out!"
PAUL WELLER Wake Up The Nation CD+BONUS MP3s
*** "Lean, mean and as uncompromisingly focused as its maker, feat. members of THE JAM, ELO, and MY BLOODY VALENTINE."
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