v/a SITAR BEAT! Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol. II 2xLP
*** "A collection of some of the rarest, funkiest, most beat-heavy and best tracks recorded in India between the years of 1970 and 1984."
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI Like It Or Not EP
*** "Two exclusive tracks accompanying the single version of “Like It or Not.” Remix by EL GUINCHO."
BIZZY B Retrospective 3xLP / CD
*** "Bizzy B, master of the Amen, returns to Planet Mu with a retrospective featuring twelve of his ultimate classic plates from back in the day ('92-'94) plus two unreleased tracks from the same period."
BLUES CONTROL Local Flavor LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
VASHTI BUNYAN Just Another Diamond Day LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
BUTTHOLE SURFERS Brown Reason To Live EP
*** "This is where it all began for these acid casualty reality trippers -- their very first release from 1983 -- a 12" vinyl - 7-song EP, still as crazed and lysergic as ever!"
CAT POWER Dear Sir LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
CURRENT 93 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain 2xLP+DVD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
DIPLO & BLAQSTARR Get Off 12"
*** "The song 'Get Off' plus bonus beats. Remix by JACK BEATS (the craziest electro wobble ever heard) and ROB3."
ERIC B & RAKIM Follow The Leader LP
*** REISSUED ON VINYL! Classic 2nd album.
SERGE GAINSBOURG & BRIGITTE BARDOT Bonnie & Clyde LP
*** "One of Gainsbourg’sÊfinest releases featuring a wide range of styles from moody, funky French-pop to barroom piano jazz, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, to the swinging ‘60s pop he was most known."
BRIAN GLAZE Green Living LP
*** "The new album by the original drummer in the BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE is a "best of" collection of moody, atmospheric home recordings, surprisingly cohesive album with a strong narrative arc."
KURT VILE Hunchback EP
*** "Oddly pleasant singing, in-the-red fingerpicking, twisting swells of feedback, totally POUNDING drums, and Krautlike-zen fill both sides of this record. Loud and proud, file next to your Neil, Faust, and Spacemen 3 records."
LOW Secret Name 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
MGMT Of Moons, Birds And Monsters Remix 12"
*** "Lost In Records drops a killer two-track remix 12-inch from red hot indie rock dance band MGMT." Remixes by SOFT ROCKS and HOLY GHOST."
MR. BUNGLE Mr. Bungle LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE SMITHS Meat Is Murder LP
THE SMITHS The Queen Is Dead LP
THE SMITHS The Smiths LP
*** NOW ON VINYL! It's about time. Back in print on super-fancy heavyweight vinyl. Don't miss out!
TY SEGALL Lemons LP / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL!
TYVEK Mary Ellen Claims 7"
*** "TYVEK’s attacks car culture (Side B) and the mass media's promotion of anti-psychotic drugs for the youth as a cure for demonic possession (Side A). The sound is distorted, all cheap old guitars and busted up drums, and the playing is usually teetering on the edge of ineptitude, at times falling off completely."
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: CDs ))))) Yacht, Arctic Monkeys, David Bazan, Reigning Sound
ARCTIC MONKEYS Humbug CD
*** "The album is stunning set of songs brimming with vim, vigor and new ideas, both heavier and lush than previous albums but still full of the Monkeys usual punch and vitality."
DAVID BAZAN Curse Your Branches CD
*** "Revered for his work fronting the influential group Pedro The Lion, Curse Your Branches is David Bazan's first full-length release under his own name. It's a flat-out masterwork by a modern American poet at the height of his powers."
BLITZEN TRAPPER Black River Killer CD
*** "The disturbing and great song title track plus 6 more songs that have been, up to now, only available as a CDR that Blitzen Trapper has been selling at their live performances for the past year or so."
TIM BUCKLEY Live At The Folklore Center, NYC - March 6, 1967 CD
*** "The earliest live recording of Buckley showcases an intimate, solo acoustic setting, highlighting his magical guitar playing and soaring vocal style.
DJ PAUL NICE Drum Library Vol. 1-5 2xCD
*** "The best-selling vinyl series for DJs and producers now available for the first time on CD. Ultra-hard and mega-rare drums compiled from every source imaginable. Drum Library is the ultimate drum connoisseur's compilation. Two CDs of over 100 Drum Breaks previously only available on vinyl."
JEGA Variance 2xCD
*** "Having last released an album nine years ago, Jega has finally completed his brand new record. Volume One is the light, with beautiful synth arpeggios battle with sampled flutes and organic hip-hop- and soul-inspired breaks. Volume Two is the darkness, altogether starker."
SAMARA LUBELSKI Future Slip CD
*** "Envision France Gall performing the songs of Sterling Morrison and Mo Tucker with Ralph Molina on drums. The show is at a loft across Bowery from CBGB’s and the only person in the audience at soundcheck is Jandek, cross-legged in the middle of the floor." Produced by THURSTON MOORE.
MATISYAHU Light CD
*** "While reggae is far from absent here, 'Light' covers a dizzying amount of stylistic ground, from hard-edged dancehall and ska-inflected New Wave to laidback pop-rock and acoustic folk-soul."
MEW No More Stories... CD
*** "A towering, masterpiece follow-up to the Danish experimental Dream-Pop trio's critically acclaimed breakthrough."
ROBERT POLLARD Elephant Jokes CD
*** Perhaps you've heard of him!
RADIOHEAD Kid A 2xCD
RADIOHEAD Amnesiac 2xCD
RADIOHEAD Hail To The Thief 2xCD
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! The internet is going crazy over them!
RAINBOW ARABIA Kabukimono CD
*** "Recorded between tours with fellow exotic spice beat-makers, Gang Gang Dance, RAINBOW ARABIA digs inspiration from Sublime Frequencies compilations and Neo-Gothic sub-culture."
REIGNING SOUND Love & Curses CD
*** "A return to the sound and style of 'Time Bomb High School,' Love and Curses strikes a balance between soulful rockers and beautiful ballads. The results are a rock 'n' roll album as near to perfection as any one is likely to hear this year."
SCREAMING FEMALES What If Someone Is Watching Their TV? CD
*** "SCREAMING FEMALES’ second album, previously self-released and only available directly from the band! This record defined their sound."
THE SEEDS Pushin' Too Hard: The Best Of... 2xCD
*** "49 garage-punk classics!"
SLEEP OF OLDOMINION Hesitation Wounds CD
*** "A mix of samples, live instrumentation, and a myriad of styles with more to offer the game than brag raps." Feat. DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN and GRAYSKUL.
LUKE VIBERT We Hear You CD
*** We Hear You is a genre-defying record that combines his idiosyncratic samples, sweetly strange melody, big bass and sloppy drums. On the album, Vibert connects the dots between Terry Riley, Dubstep Bass, Techno and Hip Hop. 13 tracks.
YACHT See Mystery Lights CD
*** "An intimate party record by a former member of THE BLOW, captured in widescreen Technicolor, mixing electro and post punk rhythms seamlessly."
*** "The album is stunning set of songs brimming with vim, vigor and new ideas, both heavier and lush than previous albums but still full of the Monkeys usual punch and vitality."
DAVID BAZAN Curse Your Branches CD
*** "Revered for his work fronting the influential group Pedro The Lion, Curse Your Branches is David Bazan's first full-length release under his own name. It's a flat-out masterwork by a modern American poet at the height of his powers."
BLITZEN TRAPPER Black River Killer CD
*** "The disturbing and great song title track plus 6 more songs that have been, up to now, only available as a CDR that Blitzen Trapper has been selling at their live performances for the past year or so."
TIM BUCKLEY Live At The Folklore Center, NYC - March 6, 1967 CD
*** "The earliest live recording of Buckley showcases an intimate, solo acoustic setting, highlighting his magical guitar playing and soaring vocal style.
DJ PAUL NICE Drum Library Vol. 1-5 2xCD
*** "The best-selling vinyl series for DJs and producers now available for the first time on CD. Ultra-hard and mega-rare drums compiled from every source imaginable. Drum Library is the ultimate drum connoisseur's compilation. Two CDs of over 100 Drum Breaks previously only available on vinyl."
JEGA Variance 2xCD
*** "Having last released an album nine years ago, Jega has finally completed his brand new record. Volume One is the light, with beautiful synth arpeggios battle with sampled flutes and organic hip-hop- and soul-inspired breaks. Volume Two is the darkness, altogether starker."
SAMARA LUBELSKI Future Slip CD
*** "Envision France Gall performing the songs of Sterling Morrison and Mo Tucker with Ralph Molina on drums. The show is at a loft across Bowery from CBGB’s and the only person in the audience at soundcheck is Jandek, cross-legged in the middle of the floor." Produced by THURSTON MOORE.
MATISYAHU Light CD
*** "While reggae is far from absent here, 'Light' covers a dizzying amount of stylistic ground, from hard-edged dancehall and ska-inflected New Wave to laidback pop-rock and acoustic folk-soul."
MEW No More Stories... CD
*** "A towering, masterpiece follow-up to the Danish experimental Dream-Pop trio's critically acclaimed breakthrough."
ROBERT POLLARD Elephant Jokes CD
*** Perhaps you've heard of him!
RADIOHEAD Kid A 2xCD
RADIOHEAD Amnesiac 2xCD
RADIOHEAD Hail To The Thief 2xCD
*** Perhaps you've heard of them! The internet is going crazy over them!
RAINBOW ARABIA Kabukimono CD
*** "Recorded between tours with fellow exotic spice beat-makers, Gang Gang Dance, RAINBOW ARABIA digs inspiration from Sublime Frequencies compilations and Neo-Gothic sub-culture."
REIGNING SOUND Love & Curses CD
*** "A return to the sound and style of 'Time Bomb High School,' Love and Curses strikes a balance between soulful rockers and beautiful ballads. The results are a rock 'n' roll album as near to perfection as any one is likely to hear this year."
SCREAMING FEMALES What If Someone Is Watching Their TV? CD
*** "SCREAMING FEMALES’ second album, previously self-released and only available directly from the band! This record defined their sound."
THE SEEDS Pushin' Too Hard: The Best Of... 2xCD
*** "49 garage-punk classics!"
SLEEP OF OLDOMINION Hesitation Wounds CD
*** "A mix of samples, live instrumentation, and a myriad of styles with more to offer the game than brag raps." Feat. DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN and GRAYSKUL.
LUKE VIBERT We Hear You CD
*** We Hear You is a genre-defying record that combines his idiosyncratic samples, sweetly strange melody, big bass and sloppy drums. On the album, Vibert connects the dots between Terry Riley, Dubstep Bass, Techno and Hip Hop. 13 tracks.
YACHT See Mystery Lights CD
*** "An intimate party record by a former member of THE BLOW, captured in widescreen Technicolor, mixing electro and post punk rhythms seamlessly."
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: Books & Magazines )))))
GALACTIC ZOO DOSSIER #8 MAG+CD
*** "Issue number 8 of this hand-drawn psychedelic underground fave. Includes interviews with VASHTI BUNYAN, DJIN AQUARIAN (YA HO WHA 13), PETER WALKER, MANI NEUMEIR (GURU GURU), and BILL HAM, along with features on DEL SHANNON, BLUE THINGS, EDDIE HAZEL, GEORGE-EDWARDS GROUP, HOYT AXTON, MV & EE, KIM FOWLEY, SKIP JAMES vs. CREAM, and more. Packaged with a CD featuring unreleased tracks from Ya Ho Wha 13, Vashti Bunyan, Peter Walker, MONSTER MAGNET, LA OTRACINA, NAKED DEATH, CHRISTINA CARTER, RUTHANN FRIEDMAN, SAMARA LUBELSKI, and others."
MINUS TIMES #29 MAG
*** "Putting the 'Great' back in Depression, the latest The Minus Times is a 72-page double issue starring Dave Eggers, Sam Lipsyte and David Berman. Issue #29 brings in a cross-section of American talent: rock & rollers Sam Beam, Will Oldham, Colin Gagon, Neil Michael Hagerty; artists Harrison Haynes, Hope Gangloff, Forest Juziuk, and Steve Keene; cartoonist and animator Brad Neely; filmmakers Kathy Egan and Andrew Pope; poets Joe Wenderoth and Mike Topp; photographer Michael McLeod, along with writers Brian Howe, Theodore McDermott, Patrick deWitt, Wells Tower, Brent Van Daley, Mike Laus, and Jeff Johnson. Handsomely weathered scene stealers one and all." Published by DRAG CITY. Featuring Wazoo's FOREST JUZIUK.
THE PORTABLE FEBRUARY by David Berman BOOK
*** "DAVID BERMAN has spent the last two decades in the public eye, stalking out his own territory as the leader of the rock band SILVER JEWS as well as poet and writer of the book Actual Air. In both cases, his address to the world has been marked with a singular touch; a literate, yet low-budget approach to communicating the beauty and absurdity of Earth-based life. The Portable February is a cheaply-priced but handsomely appointed hardcover compendium of the Berman visual sensibility: a left-handed, child-like scrawl, scored with a wit and observation that confutes the often primitive nature of his line. As the artist himself put it, 'The drawings are pitched into some rudimentary space of public art, a place we might think of as between and below Gary Larson and Raymond Pettibon.' Hardcover book, 97 pages.
*** "Issue number 8 of this hand-drawn psychedelic underground fave. Includes interviews with VASHTI BUNYAN, DJIN AQUARIAN (YA HO WHA 13), PETER WALKER, MANI NEUMEIR (GURU GURU), and BILL HAM, along with features on DEL SHANNON, BLUE THINGS, EDDIE HAZEL, GEORGE-EDWARDS GROUP, HOYT AXTON, MV & EE, KIM FOWLEY, SKIP JAMES vs. CREAM, and more. Packaged with a CD featuring unreleased tracks from Ya Ho Wha 13, Vashti Bunyan, Peter Walker, MONSTER MAGNET, LA OTRACINA, NAKED DEATH, CHRISTINA CARTER, RUTHANN FRIEDMAN, SAMARA LUBELSKI, and others."
MINUS TIMES #29 MAG
*** "Putting the 'Great' back in Depression, the latest The Minus Times is a 72-page double issue starring Dave Eggers, Sam Lipsyte and David Berman. Issue #29 brings in a cross-section of American talent: rock & rollers Sam Beam, Will Oldham, Colin Gagon, Neil Michael Hagerty; artists Harrison Haynes, Hope Gangloff, Forest Juziuk, and Steve Keene; cartoonist and animator Brad Neely; filmmakers Kathy Egan and Andrew Pope; poets Joe Wenderoth and Mike Topp; photographer Michael McLeod, along with writers Brian Howe, Theodore McDermott, Patrick deWitt, Wells Tower, Brent Van Daley, Mike Laus, and Jeff Johnson. Handsomely weathered scene stealers one and all." Published by DRAG CITY. Featuring Wazoo's FOREST JUZIUK.
THE PORTABLE FEBRUARY by David Berman BOOK
*** "DAVID BERMAN has spent the last two decades in the public eye, stalking out his own territory as the leader of the rock band SILVER JEWS as well as poet and writer of the book Actual Air. In both cases, his address to the world has been marked with a singular touch; a literate, yet low-budget approach to communicating the beauty and absurdity of Earth-based life. The Portable February is a cheaply-priced but handsomely appointed hardcover compendium of the Berman visual sensibility: a left-handed, child-like scrawl, scored with a wit and observation that confutes the often primitive nature of his line. As the artist himself put it, 'The drawings are pitched into some rudimentary space of public art, a place we might think of as between and below Gary Larson and Raymond Pettibon.' Hardcover book, 97 pages.
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: DVD ))))) Fugazi & Silver Jews!
FUGAZI Instrument DVD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SILVER JEWS Silver Jew DVD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SILVER JEWS Silver Jew DVD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl ))))) Six Organs, Pissed Jeans, Flying Lotus, Bibio...
BIBIO Ambivalence Avenue 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
HUSKER DU Zen Arcade 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
JAY-Z Death Of Auto-Tune 12"
*** Feat. KANYE.
PISSED JEANS King Of Jeans LP / CD
*** "King of Jeans is Pissed Jeans formal and uneasy acceptance of adulthood, by way of one hell of a rock record. From simple minds and simple fabrics comes this King of Jeans. And there can be only one.
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE rtz 3xLP / 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Luminous Night LP / CD
*** *** RECOMMENDED "Through dark days and glowing nights, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, BEN CHASNY refuses to stagnate, or to evolve in predictable fashion."
*** BACK IN STOCK!
FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
HUSKER DU Zen Arcade 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
JAY-Z Death Of Auto-Tune 12"
*** Feat. KANYE.
PISSED JEANS King Of Jeans LP / CD
*** "King of Jeans is Pissed Jeans formal and uneasy acceptance of adulthood, by way of one hell of a rock record. From simple minds and simple fabrics comes this King of Jeans. And there can be only one.
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE rtz 3xLP / 2xCD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Luminous Night LP / CD
*** *** RECOMMENDED "Through dark days and glowing nights, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, BEN CHASNY refuses to stagnate, or to evolve in predictable fashion."
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: CDs ))))) Jay Reatard, Pissed Jeans, Six Organs, Brendan Benson & more
THE ANTLERS Hospice CD
*** "Hospice resonates on debilitating sonic and lyrical levels, from hypnotic harp and tension-ratcheting builds, amidst contrasting shards of ambient noise, sweeping strings and smoky horns."
BACHELORETTE My Electric Family CD
*** "Bachelorette’s music beams to us through a universe of unconquered psychedelic pop, where long beams of sunlight extend to infinity, and blue moons shimmer in an acousto-synthetic haze."
BRENDAN BENSON My Old, Familiar Friend CD
*** "Taking a break from writing, recording, and touring with the Grammy-winning Raconteurs, Benson drops his fourth album." 11 tracks.
SIR RICHARD BISHOP Freak Of Araby LP / CD
*** Sun City Girl Sir Richard gets deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and a heavy dose of Moroccan chanters, all of it captured with depth, detail and sympathy."
DEL CLOSE & JOHN BRENT How To Speak Hip CD
*** "The 1959 'didactic tool to be used by the listener to learn the secret language of the 'hipster'. As a parody of language-learning tools, the album presents basic concepts such as "cool" and "uncool," as well as vocabulary building ("dig", "dig it", "dig yourself, baby", "dig the chick", "dig the cat", "What a drag!"). However, the hipster rebels against participating in the teaching tool, leading to a humorously compromised teaching style."
ERIC COPELAND Alien In A Garbage Dump CD
*** "Compiles 'Alien In a Garbage Dump' & 'Al Anon' vinyl EPs." Member of BLACK DICE.
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Live From Austin City Limits CD+DVD
*** "Entire performance on both CD and DVD -- over an hour on each disc."
HELENA ESPVALL & MASAKI BATOH Overloaded Ark CD
*** "Armed with a veritable cornucopia of instruments, HELENA ESPVALL (ESPERS) and MASAKI BATOH (GHOST) backed by two of Batoh’s Ghost-mates deliver a trove of traditional & ancient musics alongside self-composed explorations."
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE Lungs CD
*** "With several strong singles taking up a fair portion of this debut release, it's clear that Florence Welch is as much a pop writer as she is a left-field artist, tempered by an admiration for soul and contemporary indie."
MARK FOSSON The Lost Takoma Sessions CD
*** "A first-time release of MARK FOSSON’s unissued 1977 sessions recorded for Takoma and produced by JOHN FAHEY. Fosson’s sound is light, smooth, and melodious, and he plays with his own individual personality."
LIGHTS Rites CD
*** "LIGHTS are a Brooklyn musical troupe that have shaped psychedelic mojo pop into a serpentine smoke ring, floating over both New York’s forbidding urban scapes and the West Coast’s sunshine vibes."
MAGIK MARKERS Balf Quarry CD
*** "Long known for their shattering live appearances, Magik Markers have captured different moods and twitches, from tremoring mid-rhythms, a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free rock & several clinking music boxes of woe."
WILLIAM OLDHAM Joya CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
PISSED JEANS King Of Jeans LP / CD
*** "King of Jeans is Pissed Jeans formal and uneasy acceptance of adulthood, by way of one hell of a rock record. From simple minds and simple fabrics comes this King of Jeans. And there can be only one.
JAY REATARD Watch Me Fall CD
*** "Memphis prolific punk wunderkind Jay Reatard has recorded an album chockful of irresistible melodies, the songs cascading with joyous hooks marked by a certain aggro negativity."
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Luminous Night LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Through dark days and glowing nights, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, BEN CHASNY refuses to stagnate, or to evolve in predictable fashion."
YAHOWHA 13 Magnificence In The Memory CD
*** "New jam from the Source Family vaults runs the gamut of a rainbow of styles, riffs & grooves sounding like German prog bands, psychedelic rock bands or the as-yet-uncreated avant sounds from the indie rock movement."
*** "Hospice resonates on debilitating sonic and lyrical levels, from hypnotic harp and tension-ratcheting builds, amidst contrasting shards of ambient noise, sweeping strings and smoky horns."
BACHELORETTE My Electric Family CD
*** "Bachelorette’s music beams to us through a universe of unconquered psychedelic pop, where long beams of sunlight extend to infinity, and blue moons shimmer in an acousto-synthetic haze."
BRENDAN BENSON My Old, Familiar Friend CD
*** "Taking a break from writing, recording, and touring with the Grammy-winning Raconteurs, Benson drops his fourth album." 11 tracks.
SIR RICHARD BISHOP Freak Of Araby LP / CD
*** Sun City Girl Sir Richard gets deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and a heavy dose of Moroccan chanters, all of it captured with depth, detail and sympathy."
DEL CLOSE & JOHN BRENT How To Speak Hip CD
*** "The 1959 'didactic tool to be used by the listener to learn the secret language of the 'hipster'. As a parody of language-learning tools, the album presents basic concepts such as "cool" and "uncool," as well as vocabulary building ("dig", "dig it", "dig yourself, baby", "dig the chick", "dig the cat", "What a drag!"). However, the hipster rebels against participating in the teaching tool, leading to a humorously compromised teaching style."
ERIC COPELAND Alien In A Garbage Dump CD
*** "Compiles 'Alien In a Garbage Dump' & 'Al Anon' vinyl EPs." Member of BLACK DICE.
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Live From Austin City Limits CD+DVD
*** "Entire performance on both CD and DVD -- over an hour on each disc."
HELENA ESPVALL & MASAKI BATOH Overloaded Ark CD
*** "Armed with a veritable cornucopia of instruments, HELENA ESPVALL (ESPERS) and MASAKI BATOH (GHOST) backed by two of Batoh’s Ghost-mates deliver a trove of traditional & ancient musics alongside self-composed explorations."
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE Lungs CD
*** "With several strong singles taking up a fair portion of this debut release, it's clear that Florence Welch is as much a pop writer as she is a left-field artist, tempered by an admiration for soul and contemporary indie."
MARK FOSSON The Lost Takoma Sessions CD
*** "A first-time release of MARK FOSSON’s unissued 1977 sessions recorded for Takoma and produced by JOHN FAHEY. Fosson’s sound is light, smooth, and melodious, and he plays with his own individual personality."
LIGHTS Rites CD
*** "LIGHTS are a Brooklyn musical troupe that have shaped psychedelic mojo pop into a serpentine smoke ring, floating over both New York’s forbidding urban scapes and the West Coast’s sunshine vibes."
MAGIK MARKERS Balf Quarry CD
*** "Long known for their shattering live appearances, Magik Markers have captured different moods and twitches, from tremoring mid-rhythms, a couple showers of hardcore, high flying free rock & several clinking music boxes of woe."
WILLIAM OLDHAM Joya CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
PISSED JEANS King Of Jeans LP / CD
*** "King of Jeans is Pissed Jeans formal and uneasy acceptance of adulthood, by way of one hell of a rock record. From simple minds and simple fabrics comes this King of Jeans. And there can be only one.
JAY REATARD Watch Me Fall CD
*** "Memphis prolific punk wunderkind Jay Reatard has recorded an album chockful of irresistible melodies, the songs cascading with joyous hooks marked by a certain aggro negativity."
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Luminous Night LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Through dark days and glowing nights, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, BEN CHASNY refuses to stagnate, or to evolve in predictable fashion."
YAHOWHA 13 Magnificence In The Memory CD
*** "New jam from the Source Family vaults runs the gamut of a rainbow of styles, riffs & grooves sounding like German prog bands, psychedelic rock bands or the as-yet-uncreated avant sounds from the indie rock movement."
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
((( EVENTS ))) Calvin Johnson tonite; The Breeders at Stormy!
CALVIN JOHNSON & HIVE DWELLERS / CITY CENTER / TYVEK @ Yellow Barn - Tuesday, August 11
*** The excellent new band from K Records head Calvin Johnson makes its Ann Arbor debut w/ Fred Thomas & Ryan Howard's City Center and the always great/sloppy Tyvek. I think Brett Lyman & Forest Juziuk will be playing records inbetween/after.
416 W. Huron, A2 / 8PM / $5 / ALL AGES
THE BREEDERS @ Stormy Records!! - Friday, August 14
*** The same day they play the Crofoot, THE BREEDERS will do a little meet & greet / in-store signing at Dearborn's Stormy Records! They won't be there long, maybe an hour, so make sure you don't miss them. Windy & Carl are honored to welcome the breeders into their shop and introduce them in person to so many nice folks. The Breeders will have tour merch for sale while they are in the shop, and posters, etc., for signing. Stormy is located between Schaefer and Wyoming, on the north side of the streeet, in the upper level of Green Brain Comics.
13210 Michigan Ave., Dearborn / 2PM / free / ALL AGES 313-581-9322
*** The excellent new band from K Records head Calvin Johnson makes its Ann Arbor debut w/ Fred Thomas & Ryan Howard's City Center and the always great/sloppy Tyvek. I think Brett Lyman & Forest Juziuk will be playing records inbetween/after.
416 W. Huron, A2 / 8PM / $5 / ALL AGES
THE BREEDERS @ Stormy Records!! - Friday, August 14
*** The same day they play the Crofoot, THE BREEDERS will do a little meet & greet / in-store signing at Dearborn's Stormy Records! They won't be there long, maybe an hour, so make sure you don't miss them. Windy & Carl are honored to welcome the breeders into their shop and introduce them in person to so many nice folks. The Breeders will have tour merch for sale while they are in the shop, and posters, etc., for signing. Stormy is located between Schaefer and Wyoming, on the north side of the streeet, in the upper level of Green Brain Comics.
13210 Michigan Ave., Dearborn / 2PM / free / ALL AGES 313-581-9322
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl ))))) Amon Duul II, for real!
AMON DUUL II Yeti 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL! Wicked, insane reissue of Amon Duul II's great Yeti album on double-vinyl. Don't sleep on it! Methinks it's a limited one.
*** NOW ON VINYL! Wicked, insane reissue of Amon Duul II's great Yeti album on double-vinyl. Don't sleep on it! Methinks it's a limited one.
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: CDs ))))) Blues Control, Blur, Soft Machine & more!
AMANDA BLANK I Love You CD
*** "From racy rap records to deeply moving electro-pop songs to records that channel Blondie and the Beasties at the same time, Blank's debut is a post-modern, subversive pop masterpiece."
BLUES CONTROL Local Flavor CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Fantastic newest shimmer from Blues Control. A touch of boogie rock has penetrated their beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia and billowing fog of ambient space." So good!
BLUR A Beginner's Guide To Blue 2xCD
*** 25 of Blur's best songs, scrapping some of the hits and showcasing their artier side.
FRUIT BATS The Ruminant Band CD
*** "Using bright melodies, defiantly major-key chord structures, natural imagery mixed with the occasional blazing insight and tender observation, the Fruit Bats choogle through barn-floor stomp, Fleetwood Mac-esque shimmies, propulsive ‘70s country-rock jams and parlor piano soft-shoe."
JAMES LAVELLE Global Underground 37: Bangkok 2xCD
*** "An eclectic, psychedelic rainbow of sound, dazzling with colour. A spectrum of some of the most exciting sounds in electronic music today. Lavelle's finest mix to date!"
PROFESSOR LONGHAIR Red Beans 'n' Rice CD
*** The original Star Talent recordings; Sea Saint, New Orleans sessions; and Fess live in New Orleans -- 14 jams in all.
SOFT MACHINE Fourth/Fifth CD
SOFT MACHINE Six/Seven 2xCD
*** Dang! These guys rule. Is it jazz? Not-jazz? What is it!?! It's brilliance, that's what it is. And what's better than one Soft Machine album? How about two? Two in one package? Sure. Four in two packages? Yes, yeah, totally.
SUN RA Helsinki 1971 2xCD+DVD
*** The complete concert finally! At last!
*** "From racy rap records to deeply moving electro-pop songs to records that channel Blondie and the Beasties at the same time, Blank's debut is a post-modern, subversive pop masterpiece."
BLUES CONTROL Local Flavor CD
*** RECOMMENDED "Fantastic newest shimmer from Blues Control. A touch of boogie rock has penetrated their beauteous extrapolations into the miasmic core of psychedelia and billowing fog of ambient space." So good!
BLUR A Beginner's Guide To Blue 2xCD
*** 25 of Blur's best songs, scrapping some of the hits and showcasing their artier side.
FRUIT BATS The Ruminant Band CD
*** "Using bright melodies, defiantly major-key chord structures, natural imagery mixed with the occasional blazing insight and tender observation, the Fruit Bats choogle through barn-floor stomp, Fleetwood Mac-esque shimmies, propulsive ‘70s country-rock jams and parlor piano soft-shoe."
JAMES LAVELLE Global Underground 37: Bangkok 2xCD
*** "An eclectic, psychedelic rainbow of sound, dazzling with colour. A spectrum of some of the most exciting sounds in electronic music today. Lavelle's finest mix to date!"
PROFESSOR LONGHAIR Red Beans 'n' Rice CD
*** The original Star Talent recordings; Sea Saint, New Orleans sessions; and Fess live in New Orleans -- 14 jams in all.
SOFT MACHINE Fourth/Fifth CD
SOFT MACHINE Six/Seven 2xCD
*** Dang! These guys rule. Is it jazz? Not-jazz? What is it!?! It's brilliance, that's what it is. And what's better than one Soft Machine album? How about two? Two in one package? Sure. Four in two packages? Yes, yeah, totally.
SUN RA Helsinki 1971 2xCD+DVD
*** The complete concert finally! At last!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
((( EVENTS ))) Calvin Johnson (K Records/Beat Happening) + City Center + Tyvek
CALVIN JOHNSON & Hive Dwellers / CITY CENTER / TYVEK*** The excellent new band from K Records head Calvin Johnson makes its Ann Arbor debut w/ Fred Thomas & Ryan Howard's City Center and the always great/sloppy Tyvek. I think Brett Lyman & myself will be playing records inbetween/after.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, A2 / 8PM / $5 / ALL AGES
- Calvin Johnson - www.krecs.com
- City Center on Blogspot - citycenternyc.blogspot.com
- City Center on MySpace - www.myspace.com/citycenternyc
- Tyvek on MySpace - www.myspace.com/tyvekmusic
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl ))))) Flying Lotus, Dead Weather 45, restocks
AIR Moon Safari LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE DEAD WEATHER Hang You From The Heavens 7"
*** Everybody wants this thing so we got this thing.
FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles 2xLP
FLYING LOTUS Reset Ep 12"
FLYING LOTUS 1983 LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
JAMES PANTS & EGYPTIAN LOVER Cosmic Rapp 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK! This thing has been flying out of here. Serious best-selling 12" here.
MAJOR LAZER Guns Don't Kill People... Lazer's Do 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
*** BACK IN STOCK!
THE DEAD WEATHER Hang You From The Heavens 7"
*** Everybody wants this thing so we got this thing.
FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles 2xLP
FLYING LOTUS Reset Ep 12"
FLYING LOTUS 1983 LP
*** BACK IN STOCK!
JAMES PANTS & EGYPTIAN LOVER Cosmic Rapp 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK! This thing has been flying out of here. Serious best-selling 12" here.
MAJOR LAZER Guns Don't Kill People... Lazer's Do 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: CDs ))))) Twisted Nerve, Jim James, Modest Mouse, Georgia Anne Muldrow & more
v/a TWISTED NERVE 10th ANNIVERSARY mixed by Andy Votel CD
*** RECOMMENDED "A high-speed mutant mixtape from B-musicologist Andy Votel, using tracks exclusively selected from the vaults of his own independent non-record label Twisted Nerve. A 40 track masala of DIY classics, B-sides, rarities and remixes celebrating a decade of teenage garage jams, Mancunian psychsploitation, arkhestral communism and workshop Pop."
CYRO BAPTISTA'S BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS Infinito CD
*** Dusty Groove says: "A richly creative, cool blend of Brazilian roots, jazzy inflections, and other inventive experimentation."
BIG STAR #1 Record / Radio City CD
*** "Contains two albums both in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Album's of All Time. Includes two tracks never before available on CD."
JIM JAMES as YIM YAMES Tribute To... CD
*** "Debut solo release from MY MORNING JACKET's Jim James, comprised of George Harrison songs that James recorded back in 2001."
JONSI & ALEX Riceboy Sleeps CD
*** "The instrumental side project from SIGUR ROS member Jon Thor Birgisson and collaborator Alex Somers. Riceboy Sleeps is human in a profound and verging-on spiritual way. Its slowly evolving abstract landscapes are both edifying and life-affirming, existing in a contemplative dream-state, unconstrained and mesmeric, seemingly outside time."
MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD Radiolarians 3 CD
*** "The third and final installment in their Radiolarians trilogy, maybe the strongest and most cohesive album of the Radiolarian's series."
MODEST MOUSE No One's First & You're Next CD
*** "A collection of newly recorded songs from the We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and Good News for People Who Love Bad News sessions, as well as two rare b-sides."
GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW Umsindo CD
*** "Well known for her unorthodox soundscaping and inspired traditional African Song structuring, UMSINDO is her second full length with subject matter ranging from world politics to the metaphysical sciences-with laserlike synthwork to match!"
THE OCTOPUS PROJECT Golden Beds CD
*** "Five different tunes from five different rooms of the neon mansion the band has built - from big-riff Rock to tiny electronics to blissful sing-alongs. Dip your arms deep into a kaleidoscopic candy jar filled with tasty Octopus-flavored treats." There are a whole bunch of videos on here too.
JULIAN PLENTI ...is Skyscraper CD
*** A.K.A. Paul Banks of INTERPOL. "This incredibly varied album runs the gamut from gorgeous folk-tinged acoustic songs to huge, orchestral guitar anthems. The palette changes from black and white to color and back, from regal Eastern European synth sounds to sad but triumphant brass."
*** RECOMMENDED "A high-speed mutant mixtape from B-musicologist Andy Votel, using tracks exclusively selected from the vaults of his own independent non-record label Twisted Nerve. A 40 track masala of DIY classics, B-sides, rarities and remixes celebrating a decade of teenage garage jams, Mancunian psychsploitation, arkhestral communism and workshop Pop."
CYRO BAPTISTA'S BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS Infinito CD
*** Dusty Groove says: "A richly creative, cool blend of Brazilian roots, jazzy inflections, and other inventive experimentation."
BIG STAR #1 Record / Radio City CD
*** "Contains two albums both in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Album's of All Time. Includes two tracks never before available on CD."
JIM JAMES as YIM YAMES Tribute To... CD
*** "Debut solo release from MY MORNING JACKET's Jim James, comprised of George Harrison songs that James recorded back in 2001."
JONSI & ALEX Riceboy Sleeps CD
*** "The instrumental side project from SIGUR ROS member Jon Thor Birgisson and collaborator Alex Somers. Riceboy Sleeps is human in a profound and verging-on spiritual way. Its slowly evolving abstract landscapes are both edifying and life-affirming, existing in a contemplative dream-state, unconstrained and mesmeric, seemingly outside time."
MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD Radiolarians 3 CD
*** "The third and final installment in their Radiolarians trilogy, maybe the strongest and most cohesive album of the Radiolarian's series."
MODEST MOUSE No One's First & You're Next CD
*** "A collection of newly recorded songs from the We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and Good News for People Who Love Bad News sessions, as well as two rare b-sides."
GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW Umsindo CD
*** "Well known for her unorthodox soundscaping and inspired traditional African Song structuring, UMSINDO is her second full length with subject matter ranging from world politics to the metaphysical sciences-with laserlike synthwork to match!"
THE OCTOPUS PROJECT Golden Beds CD
*** "Five different tunes from five different rooms of the neon mansion the band has built - from big-riff Rock to tiny electronics to blissful sing-alongs. Dip your arms deep into a kaleidoscopic candy jar filled with tasty Octopus-flavored treats." There are a whole bunch of videos on here too.
JULIAN PLENTI ...is Skyscraper CD
*** A.K.A. Paul Banks of INTERPOL. "This incredibly varied album runs the gamut from gorgeous folk-tinged acoustic songs to huge, orchestral guitar anthems. The palette changes from black and white to color and back, from regal Eastern European synth sounds to sad but triumphant brass."
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
((( EVENTS ))) Ann Arbor Soul Club, Our Brother The Native & Psychic Reality, Calvin Johnson
7 August 2009
ANN ARBOR SOUL CLUB
*** Brad Hales & Breck Bunce play the very finest Northern Soul, r&b, modern, Motown, etc. you will never hear on the radio or pretty much anywhere else,. Always, always a good time. Robert Wells returns in September!
Blind Pig / 208 S. First, A2 / 9:30PM / $5
9 August 2009
OUR BROTHER THE NATIVE / PSYCHIC REALITY / ROYALCHORD / DARK MATTER DJ
*** Fatcat artists, Our Brother the Native, play with SF's awesome Psychic Reality (starring Ms. Leyna Noel, a member of Mirah's touring band) and Royalchord. The Dark Matter doods, Aaron Lindell & myself, will play records inbetween.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, A2 / 8PM / $5
11 August 2009
CALVIN JOHNSON & Hive Dwellers / CITY CENTER / TYVEK
*** The excellent new band from K Records head Calvin Johnson makes its Ann Arbor debut w/ Fred Thomas & Ryan Howard's City Center and the always great/sloppy Tyvek. I think Brett Lyman & myself will be playing records inbetween/after.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, A2 / 8PM / $5 / ALL AGES
ANN ARBOR SOUL CLUB
*** Brad Hales & Breck Bunce play the very finest Northern Soul, r&b, modern, Motown, etc. you will never hear on the radio or pretty much anywhere else,. Always, always a good time. Robert Wells returns in September!
Blind Pig / 208 S. First, A2 / 9:30PM / $5
- Ann Arbor Soul Club on Facebook - www.facebook.com/pages/Ann-Arbor-Soul-Club/59084941493
- Ann Arbor Soul Club on MySpace - www.myspace.com/a2soulclub
9 August 2009
OUR BROTHER THE NATIVE / PSYCHIC REALITY / ROYALCHORD / DARK MATTER DJ
*** Fatcat artists, Our Brother the Native, play with SF's awesome Psychic Reality (starring Ms. Leyna Noel, a member of Mirah's touring band) and Royalchord. The Dark Matter doods, Aaron Lindell & myself, will play records inbetween.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, A2 / 8PM / $5
- Our Brother the Native - www.obtn.biz
- Our Brother the Native on MySpace - www.myspace.com/ourbrotherthenative
- Psychic Reality on MySpace - www.myspace.com/realitypsychic
- Royalchord on MySpace - www.myspace.com/royalchordroyalchord
11 August 2009
CALVIN JOHNSON & Hive Dwellers / CITY CENTER / TYVEK
*** The excellent new band from K Records head Calvin Johnson makes its Ann Arbor debut w/ Fred Thomas & Ryan Howard's City Center and the always great/sloppy Tyvek. I think Brett Lyman & myself will be playing records inbetween/after.
Yellow Barn / 416 W. Huron, A2 / 8PM / $5 / ALL AGES
- Calvin Johnson - www.krecs.com
- City Center on Blogspot - citycenternyc.blogspot.com
- City Center on MySpace - www.myspace.com/citycenternyc
- Tyvek on MySpace - www.myspace.com/tyvekmusic
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl ))))) Black Rio samba, M Ward reissue
v/a BLACK RIO 2: Original Samba Soul 1968-1981 2xLP
*** "DJ Cliffy has done a marvelous job selecting a compilation for Strut -- 18 prime Samba Soul joints of intoxicatingly slinky and sexually charged rhythms mixed with the typical fender rhodes strokes, squealing horns, cooing backing singers and James Brown style grunts."
M WARD End Of Amnesia 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
*** "DJ Cliffy has done a marvelous job selecting a compilation for Strut -- 18 prime Samba Soul joints of intoxicatingly slinky and sexually charged rhythms mixed with the typical fender rhodes strokes, squealing horns, cooing backing singers and James Brown style grunts."
M WARD End Of Amnesia 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: CDs ))))) Bill Frisell, Cass McCombs, Clark & more
24-CARAT BLACK Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday CD
*** "Rediscovered in the early 90s by Britain's rare groove scene, 24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth has since been known as their first and final chapter, barely a footnote in the well documented history of Stax. Wildly divergent in tone, scope, and mission, the second 24-Carat Black album is tethered to the first by a single, crucial element: its creator."
CLARK Totems Flare CD
*** "Totems Flare is Clark's boldest yet most accessible effort to date, featuring breakneck Dance, driving Techno and baroque melodics. It's also perhaps his most accessible, as it's the first to feature his own vocals as well as guitar, drums and piano (albeit unrecognizably processed at times)."
SUGAR PIE DESANTO Go Go Power: The Complete Chess Singles 1961-1966 CD
*** "The complete Chess singles of Sugar Pie DeSanto, one of the original female stars of soul. Includes a UK-only gem, three great duets with Etta James and a tremendous previously unissued bonus track. Many titles are new to CD."
BILL FRISELL Disfarmer CD
*** Created as a result of a multimedia work in which Bill Frisell, lap steel guitar player Greg Leisz and violinist Jenny Scheinman played to slides of the late Michael Disfarmer's photos. A work uniquely American, subtly yet stunningly beautiful.
CASS McCOMBS Catacombs CD
*** "Each track of Cass's fourth album is cloaked in shiver inducing melodies that lay the perfect foundation for Cass' true source of transcendence his vocals and lyrics. McCombs carries on transcending fad and fashion to ensure the art of songwriting lives on."
ROSCOE MITCHELL Congliptious CD
*** "A stunning departure in 1968, presenting instrumental solos by bassist Malachi Favors, trumpeter Lester Bowie and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and a longer group performance where Mitchell, Lester Bowie and Malachi Favors are joined by Robert Crowder on drums. Also included are two tunes recorded for single release."
BRIDGET ST. JOHN Songs For The Gentle Man CD
*** 1971 album by the British folk-rock singer/songwriter, originally released on John Peel's Dandelion label.
*** "Rediscovered in the early 90s by Britain's rare groove scene, 24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth has since been known as their first and final chapter, barely a footnote in the well documented history of Stax. Wildly divergent in tone, scope, and mission, the second 24-Carat Black album is tethered to the first by a single, crucial element: its creator."
CLARK Totems Flare CD
*** "Totems Flare is Clark's boldest yet most accessible effort to date, featuring breakneck Dance, driving Techno and baroque melodics. It's also perhaps his most accessible, as it's the first to feature his own vocals as well as guitar, drums and piano (albeit unrecognizably processed at times)."
SUGAR PIE DESANTO Go Go Power: The Complete Chess Singles 1961-1966 CD
*** "The complete Chess singles of Sugar Pie DeSanto, one of the original female stars of soul. Includes a UK-only gem, three great duets with Etta James and a tremendous previously unissued bonus track. Many titles are new to CD."
BILL FRISELL Disfarmer CD
*** Created as a result of a multimedia work in which Bill Frisell, lap steel guitar player Greg Leisz and violinist Jenny Scheinman played to slides of the late Michael Disfarmer's photos. A work uniquely American, subtly yet stunningly beautiful.
CASS McCOMBS Catacombs CD
*** "Each track of Cass's fourth album is cloaked in shiver inducing melodies that lay the perfect foundation for Cass' true source of transcendence his vocals and lyrics. McCombs carries on transcending fad and fashion to ensure the art of songwriting lives on."
ROSCOE MITCHELL Congliptious CD
*** "A stunning departure in 1968, presenting instrumental solos by bassist Malachi Favors, trumpeter Lester Bowie and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and a longer group performance where Mitchell, Lester Bowie and Malachi Favors are joined by Robert Crowder on drums. Also included are two tunes recorded for single release."
BRIDGET ST. JOHN Songs For The Gentle Man CD
*** 1971 album by the British folk-rock singer/songwriter, originally released on John Peel's Dandelion label.
Monday, July 20, 2009
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl ))))) Planet Mu & DFA, Flipper, Public Image Ltd. & more
ALTAIR NOUVEAU Space Fortress 12"
*** "Altair Nouveau's music, though designed with the dance floor in mind, evokes a uniquely personal element -- indistinguishable, larger-than-life, spaced-out future disco sound sure to cause a dance floor frenzy."
BLACK METEORIC STAR Death Tunnel 12"
BLACK METEORIC STAR Domination 12"
BLACK METEORIC STAR Dreamcatcher 12"
*** "Three 12" singles of extended versions of DFA alumni Gavin Russom's new album inspired by equal parts Euro-disco, wonky early electronic body music from America's Midwest, and a fascination with the outer reaches of global psychedelic rock."
JAMES BLACKSHAW Glass Bead Game LP+CD
*** NOW ON VINYL! Includes CD.
BOXCUTTER Arecibo Message 2xLP / CD
*** "Arecibo Message's organic texture is the result of analog synths, delays, and guitar pedals with more guitars and bass than on previous records, with influences ranging from Hendrix to two-step garage." On PLANET MU.
BRACKLES Lhc 12"
*** "With a sound a million miles away from the current blokey, sludgy dubstep fare, this kid effortlessly incorporates funky, rolling grime, vintage two-step, and bassline into his energetic, elastic sets." On PLANET MU.
DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
FALTY DL Human Meadow 12"
FALTY DL Love Is A Liability 2xLP / CD
*** "Post-garage ambience; round, warm melodies; and skippy two-step beats like it's 1999 again. This nostalgic record is immersed in the old New York and Chicago sounds, mashing together influences from hip hop, dubstep, soul, and electronica."
FLIPPER Sex Bomb Baby LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Originally released in 1987, Sex Bomb Baby is actually a of material dated no later than 1982, comprised of singles, B-sides, and compilation tracks."
GALAXIE 500 On Fire LP
GALAXIE 500 This Is Our Music LP
GALAXIE 500 Today LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
GUILTY SIMPSON Stress 12"
*** Produced by J DILLA.
WALTER JONES I'll Keep On Loving You 12"
*** "Over the course of almost ten years, Walter Jones has released so few singles, one can count them on one hand. This new single is two tracks (no remixes) so staggeringly unique, haunting, and beautiful, DFA was ready to beg and plead Jones to release it."
THE JUAN MACLEAN The Future Will Come 2xLP+CD / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL! Includes CD.
MAJOR LAZER Hold The Line 12"
*** "DIPLO says “‘Hold The Line’--its like a surf rock ragga thingamajig, zeen! and its got MR. LEXX (formerly LEXXUS) and SANTIGOLD rockin out.' Exclusive b-side. Remix by TOADALLY KROSSED OUT."
MILANESE Lockout 2x12" / CD
*** "Melting dubstep's earthshaking frequencies with hip hop and grime vocals and hard-edged Timbaland-influenced drums and percussion, the result defies categorization: neither dubstep, grime, hip hop, nor IDM." On PLANET MU.
NITE JEWEL What Did He Say 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK!
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. Flowers Of Romance LP
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. Second Edition 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
RISIL Non Meters Vol. 1 2xLP / CD
*** "First in a series of collaborative albums by Guillermo Herren (Prefuse 73/Savath & Savallas), Zach Hill (Hella), Tyondai Braxton (Battles), John McEntire (Tortoise), Alejandra Deheza (School Of Seven Bells), Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath & Savalas)."
SHIT ROBOT Simple Things (Work It Out) 12"
*** "The new tracks on this DFA single feature throbbing bass, acidic sounds, and the perfectly haunting vocals of Washington, DC indie legend Ian Svenonius (MAKE UP, NATION OF ULYSSES, WEIRD WAR). Remix by TODD TERJE."
SHITMAT One Foot In The Rave 2xLP / CD
*** "A nostalgic album of '92-'94 jungle breaks and Amen killers, keeping the original authentic jungle sound using an Akai S950 sampler -- the hardcore junglist's weapon of choice -- and samples cassettes from old pirate radio shows."
SOLANGE Robots Are Un-American 12"
*** "A reissue of the 1984 Italo Disco 12" by SOLANGE and producer TINTO B. on Il Discotto Productions backed by a new dub version produced by BOTTIN."
MARK SULTAN Sultanic Verses LP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
VENETIAN SNARES Horsey Noises 12"
*** "Hot on the heels of his new album, Venetian Snares is back with a new four-track EP entitled Horsey Noises. The title track includes a vocal, and the B-side includes a remix of the song."
JAMIE VEX'D In System Travel 12"
*** "One of the pioneers of the Dubstep/Bass scene. Waves of bass, flickers of light, and space debris everywhere. Listening is believing." On PLANET MU.
KURT VILE Constant Hitmaker LP / CD
*** “KURT VILE's recordings reflect the artists admiration of everything from delta blues to the minimalist agro of Suicide, the downer psyche of 39 Clocks as well as the skiffle hum of Strapping Fieldhands."
WEEN Chocolate & Cheese 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "WEEN’s fourth album, originally released in 1994, is perhaps their finest moment, a brilliant mix of twisted humor and pure pop genius. An outsider-pop classic."
*** "Altair Nouveau's music, though designed with the dance floor in mind, evokes a uniquely personal element -- indistinguishable, larger-than-life, spaced-out future disco sound sure to cause a dance floor frenzy."
BLACK METEORIC STAR Death Tunnel 12"
BLACK METEORIC STAR Domination 12"
BLACK METEORIC STAR Dreamcatcher 12"
*** "Three 12" singles of extended versions of DFA alumni Gavin Russom's new album inspired by equal parts Euro-disco, wonky early electronic body music from America's Midwest, and a fascination with the outer reaches of global psychedelic rock."
JAMES BLACKSHAW Glass Bead Game LP+CD
*** NOW ON VINYL! Includes CD.
BOXCUTTER Arecibo Message 2xLP / CD
*** "Arecibo Message's organic texture is the result of analog synths, delays, and guitar pedals with more guitars and bass than on previous records, with influences ranging from Hendrix to two-step garage." On PLANET MU.
BRACKLES Lhc 12"
*** "With a sound a million miles away from the current blokey, sludgy dubstep fare, this kid effortlessly incorporates funky, rolling grime, vintage two-step, and bassline into his energetic, elastic sets." On PLANET MU.
DIRTY PROJECTORS Bitte Orca 2xLP+MP3
*** BACK IN STOCK!
FALTY DL Human Meadow 12"
FALTY DL Love Is A Liability 2xLP / CD
*** "Post-garage ambience; round, warm melodies; and skippy two-step beats like it's 1999 again. This nostalgic record is immersed in the old New York and Chicago sounds, mashing together influences from hip hop, dubstep, soul, and electronica."
FLIPPER Sex Bomb Baby LP
*** RECOMMENDED "Originally released in 1987, Sex Bomb Baby is actually a of material dated no later than 1982, comprised of singles, B-sides, and compilation tracks."
GALAXIE 500 On Fire LP
GALAXIE 500 This Is Our Music LP
GALAXIE 500 Today LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
GUILTY SIMPSON Stress 12"
*** Produced by J DILLA.
WALTER JONES I'll Keep On Loving You 12"
*** "Over the course of almost ten years, Walter Jones has released so few singles, one can count them on one hand. This new single is two tracks (no remixes) so staggeringly unique, haunting, and beautiful, DFA was ready to beg and plead Jones to release it."
THE JUAN MACLEAN The Future Will Come 2xLP+CD / CD
*** NOW ON VINYL! Includes CD.
MAJOR LAZER Hold The Line 12"
*** "DIPLO says “‘Hold The Line’--its like a surf rock ragga thingamajig, zeen! and its got MR. LEXX (formerly LEXXUS) and SANTIGOLD rockin out.' Exclusive b-side. Remix by TOADALLY KROSSED OUT."
MILANESE Lockout 2x12" / CD
*** "Melting dubstep's earthshaking frequencies with hip hop and grime vocals and hard-edged Timbaland-influenced drums and percussion, the result defies categorization: neither dubstep, grime, hip hop, nor IDM." On PLANET MU.
NITE JEWEL What Did He Say 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK!
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. Flowers Of Romance LP
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. Second Edition 2xLP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
RISIL Non Meters Vol. 1 2xLP / CD
*** "First in a series of collaborative albums by Guillermo Herren (Prefuse 73/Savath & Savallas), Zach Hill (Hella), Tyondai Braxton (Battles), John McEntire (Tortoise), Alejandra Deheza (School Of Seven Bells), Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath & Savalas)."
SHIT ROBOT Simple Things (Work It Out) 12"
*** "The new tracks on this DFA single feature throbbing bass, acidic sounds, and the perfectly haunting vocals of Washington, DC indie legend Ian Svenonius (MAKE UP, NATION OF ULYSSES, WEIRD WAR). Remix by TODD TERJE."
SHITMAT One Foot In The Rave 2xLP / CD
*** "A nostalgic album of '92-'94 jungle breaks and Amen killers, keeping the original authentic jungle sound using an Akai S950 sampler -- the hardcore junglist's weapon of choice -- and samples cassettes from old pirate radio shows."
SOLANGE Robots Are Un-American 12"
*** "A reissue of the 1984 Italo Disco 12" by SOLANGE and producer TINTO B. on Il Discotto Productions backed by a new dub version produced by BOTTIN."
MARK SULTAN Sultanic Verses LP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
VENETIAN SNARES Horsey Noises 12"
*** "Hot on the heels of his new album, Venetian Snares is back with a new four-track EP entitled Horsey Noises. The title track includes a vocal, and the B-side includes a remix of the song."
JAMIE VEX'D In System Travel 12"
*** "One of the pioneers of the Dubstep/Bass scene. Waves of bass, flickers of light, and space debris everywhere. Listening is believing." On PLANET MU.
KURT VILE Constant Hitmaker LP / CD
*** “KURT VILE's recordings reflect the artists admiration of everything from delta blues to the minimalist agro of Suicide, the downer psyche of 39 Clocks as well as the skiffle hum of Strapping Fieldhands."
WEEN Chocolate & Cheese 2xLP
*** BACK IN STOCK! "WEEN’s fourth album, originally released in 1994, is perhaps their finest moment, a brilliant mix of twisted humor and pure pop genius. An outsider-pop classic."
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: CDs ))))) Magnolia Electric Co., Kurt Vile, Terry Riley, Planet Mu, etc
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Dark Side Of The Black Moon CD
*** "Focused riffing, super fidelity recording and proffy psych sounds mixing Pink Floyd, fuzzed out wah guitars and sounds from the cosmos."
BLACK METEORIC STAR Black Meteoric Star CD
*** "New album from DFA alumni Gavin Russom inspired by equal parts Euro-disco, wonky early electronic body music from America's Midwest, and a fascination with the outer reaches of global psychedelic rock."
BOXCUTTER Arecibo Message 2xLP / CD
*** "Arecibo Message's organic texture is the result of analog synths, delays, and guitar pedals with more guitars and bass than on previous records, with influences ranging from Hendrix to two-step garage." On PLANET MU.
CHROMATICS Nite CD
*** "The first fully realized CHROMATICS tracks since the new lineup/mindset. Intense vocoder action over heavy Italo beats will blow you out of the water."
AARON DILLOWAY Chain Shot CD
*** "A digipak CD reissue of AARON DILLOWAY’s Chain Shot album, which was originally released on LP by Throne Heap. Contains a 28-minute bonus track."
EYEDEA & ABILITIES By The Throat CD
*** "After a five year break exploring new sounds and building their personal repertoires, Eyedea & Abilities return with biting guitars, fuzzy keyboards, melodic choruses, and some of their most intricate turntable work to date."
FALTY DL Love Is A Liability 2xLP / CD
*** "Post-garage ambience; round, warm melodies; and skippy two-step beats like it's 1999 again. This nostalgic record is immersed in the old New York and Chicago sounds, mashing together influences from hip hop, dubstep, soul, and electronica."
FIERY FURNACES I'm Going Away CD
*** "Their eighth album and first studio record since 2007's "Widow City"."
GROUPER Cover The Windows And The Walls CD
*** "Cyclical vocal vapors and guitar / piano shapes from Liz Harris levitate on the surface of hissy atmospherics dense with a feedback that conjures up all sorts of latent images from the subtle body / mind."
MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. Josephine CD
*** "Jason Molina's sixteenth full-length is a concept album that pays tribute to the life and spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell. It contains some of the strongest songs Molina has written. He's approached the universal loneliness before, but never in such a focused, directed manner."
MILANESE Lockout 2x12" / CD
*** "Melting dubstep's earthshaking frequencies with hip hop and grime vocals and hard-edged Timbaland-influenced drums and percussion, the result defies categorization: neither dubstep, grime, hip hop, nor IDM." On PLANET MU.
NURSE WITH WOUND & JIM O'ROURKE Angry Electric Finger 1 CD
*** "Haunting, weird, and beautifully dark ambient music that sounds like a hybrid between NWW's Soliloquy For Lilith/Spiral Insana and O'Rourke's Disengage/Tamper."
TERRY RILEY Music For The Gift CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
RISIL Non Meters Vol. 1 2xLP / CD
*** "First in a series of collaborative albums by Guillermo Herren (Prefuse 73/Savath & Savallas), Zach Hill (Hella), Tyondai Braxton (Battles), John McEntire (Tortoise), Alejandra Deheza (School Of Seven Bells), Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath & Savalas)."
SECRET CHIEFS 3 Le Mani Destre Recise LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "An imagined Giallo Horror Film Soundtrack by Secret Chiefs 3 where dissonant, violent strings recede into beautiful textures with flute and female vocals through echoplex; analog synthesizers, harpsichords, and celestas hover above a tight, '70s-style rock band rhythm section; crazed psychedelic freakouts payoff majorly; church organs grant repose, until tape treatments and a shrieking chorus of possessed voices force the listener to reconsider his or her position on the existence of Evil."
TY SEGALL Lemons CD
*** "Burying '60s sing-alongs and dance crazes beneath waves of reverb and giddy thud, Lemons is an exploration of the space between Cro-Magnon fuzz and atmospheric acoustic psych."
SHITMAT One Foot In The Rave 2xLP / CD
*** "A nostalgic album of '92-'94 jungle breaks and Amen killers, keeping the original authentic jungle sound using an Akai S950 sampler -- the hardcore junglist's weapon of choice -- and samples cassettes from old pirate radio shows."
MARK SULTAN Sultanic Verses LP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
MATTHEW SWEET & SUSANNA HOFFS Under The Covers Vol. 2 CD
*** "Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs take on another decade: the '70s. From power-pop like The Raspberries and Big Star to the soft-rock of Carly Simon and Bread, and from the classic-rock of John Lennon and Derek and the Dominos to the prog-rock of Yes."
KURT VILE Constant Hitmaker LP / CD
*** “KURT VILE's recordings reflect the artists admiration of everything from delta blues to the minimalist agro of Suicide, the downer psyche of 39 Clocks as well as the skiffle hum of Strapping Fieldhands."
*** "Focused riffing, super fidelity recording and proffy psych sounds mixing Pink Floyd, fuzzed out wah guitars and sounds from the cosmos."
BLACK METEORIC STAR Black Meteoric Star CD
*** "New album from DFA alumni Gavin Russom inspired by equal parts Euro-disco, wonky early electronic body music from America's Midwest, and a fascination with the outer reaches of global psychedelic rock."
BOXCUTTER Arecibo Message 2xLP / CD
*** "Arecibo Message's organic texture is the result of analog synths, delays, and guitar pedals with more guitars and bass than on previous records, with influences ranging from Hendrix to two-step garage." On PLANET MU.
CHROMATICS Nite CD
*** "The first fully realized CHROMATICS tracks since the new lineup/mindset. Intense vocoder action over heavy Italo beats will blow you out of the water."
AARON DILLOWAY Chain Shot CD
*** "A digipak CD reissue of AARON DILLOWAY’s Chain Shot album, which was originally released on LP by Throne Heap. Contains a 28-minute bonus track."
EYEDEA & ABILITIES By The Throat CD
*** "After a five year break exploring new sounds and building their personal repertoires, Eyedea & Abilities return with biting guitars, fuzzy keyboards, melodic choruses, and some of their most intricate turntable work to date."
FALTY DL Love Is A Liability 2xLP / CD
*** "Post-garage ambience; round, warm melodies; and skippy two-step beats like it's 1999 again. This nostalgic record is immersed in the old New York and Chicago sounds, mashing together influences from hip hop, dubstep, soul, and electronica."
FIERY FURNACES I'm Going Away CD
*** "Their eighth album and first studio record since 2007's "Widow City"."
GROUPER Cover The Windows And The Walls CD
*** "Cyclical vocal vapors and guitar / piano shapes from Liz Harris levitate on the surface of hissy atmospherics dense with a feedback that conjures up all sorts of latent images from the subtle body / mind."
MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. Josephine CD
*** "Jason Molina's sixteenth full-length is a concept album that pays tribute to the life and spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell. It contains some of the strongest songs Molina has written. He's approached the universal loneliness before, but never in such a focused, directed manner."
MILANESE Lockout 2x12" / CD
*** "Melting dubstep's earthshaking frequencies with hip hop and grime vocals and hard-edged Timbaland-influenced drums and percussion, the result defies categorization: neither dubstep, grime, hip hop, nor IDM." On PLANET MU.
NURSE WITH WOUND & JIM O'ROURKE Angry Electric Finger 1 CD
*** "Haunting, weird, and beautifully dark ambient music that sounds like a hybrid between NWW's Soliloquy For Lilith/Spiral Insana and O'Rourke's Disengage/Tamper."
TERRY RILEY Music For The Gift CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
RISIL Non Meters Vol. 1 2xLP / CD
*** "First in a series of collaborative albums by Guillermo Herren (Prefuse 73/Savath & Savallas), Zach Hill (Hella), Tyondai Braxton (Battles), John McEntire (Tortoise), Alejandra Deheza (School Of Seven Bells), Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath & Savalas)."
SECRET CHIEFS 3 Le Mani Destre Recise LP / CD
*** RECOMMENDED "An imagined Giallo Horror Film Soundtrack by Secret Chiefs 3 where dissonant, violent strings recede into beautiful textures with flute and female vocals through echoplex; analog synthesizers, harpsichords, and celestas hover above a tight, '70s-style rock band rhythm section; crazed psychedelic freakouts payoff majorly; church organs grant repose, until tape treatments and a shrieking chorus of possessed voices force the listener to reconsider his or her position on the existence of Evil."
TY SEGALL Lemons CD
*** "Burying '60s sing-alongs and dance crazes beneath waves of reverb and giddy thud, Lemons is an exploration of the space between Cro-Magnon fuzz and atmospheric acoustic psych."
SHITMAT One Foot In The Rave 2xLP / CD
*** "A nostalgic album of '92-'94 jungle breaks and Amen killers, keeping the original authentic jungle sound using an Akai S950 sampler -- the hardcore junglist's weapon of choice -- and samples cassettes from old pirate radio shows."
MARK SULTAN Sultanic Verses LP / CD
*** BACK IN STOCK!
MATTHEW SWEET & SUSANNA HOFFS Under The Covers Vol. 2 CD
*** "Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs take on another decade: the '70s. From power-pop like The Raspberries and Big Star to the soft-rock of Carly Simon and Bread, and from the classic-rock of John Lennon and Derek and the Dominos to the prog-rock of Yes."
KURT VILE Constant Hitmaker LP / CD
*** “KURT VILE's recordings reflect the artists admiration of everything from delta blues to the minimalist agro of Suicide, the downer psyche of 39 Clocks as well as the skiffle hum of Strapping Fieldhands."
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: DVD )))) Llik Your Idols!
LLIK YOUR IDOLS by Angelique Bosio DVD
*** "Through steamy excerpts, exclusive interviews (RICHARD KERN, LYDIA LUNCH, JOE COLEMAN, THURSTON MOORE...), in-your-face performances and previously unreleased photographs, Llik Your Idols retraces the chaotic story of transgressive cinema. In 1980s New York, this spontaneous movement -- a monster child of Reaganism -- definitively broke free of the codes set by avant-gardism and the classic conventions of storytelling. As ephemeral as a suicide, as sensual as it is sexual, transgressive cinema created for itself improbable links between Warhol, Dadaism and the punk attitude."
*** "Through steamy excerpts, exclusive interviews (RICHARD KERN, LYDIA LUNCH, JOE COLEMAN, THURSTON MOORE...), in-your-face performances and previously unreleased photographs, Llik Your Idols retraces the chaotic story of transgressive cinema. In 1980s New York, this spontaneous movement -- a monster child of Reaganism -- definitively broke free of the codes set by avant-gardism and the classic conventions of storytelling. As ephemeral as a suicide, as sensual as it is sexual, transgressive cinema created for itself improbable links between Warhol, Dadaism and the punk attitude."
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: Vinyl ))))) Animal Collective, Carl Craig, William S. Burroughs & more
ELLEN ALLIEN Ondo b/w Caress 12"
*** From Sool. "'Ondu' and 'Caress' get the remix treatment by Chaim and Paul Ritch."
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Water Curses 12"
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Peacebone 12"
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Summertime Clothes 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK! Exclusive tracks and remixes.
GUI BORATTO Atomic Soda 12"
*** From Take My Breath Away. BACK IN STOCK!
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Break Through In Grey Room LP
*** "An explosion of styles -- a blasting of borders, the silence after a gunshot -- from the exploded painting to the cut tape. Extraordinary cut-up voices recorded during the mid-60's in hotel rooms in New York, Paris, London. It's impossible not to recognize the writer's voice."
CARL CRAIG Angel Remixes 12"
*** "Observers of Carl's music declare this era to have been the strongest material since earlier tempered Psyche/BFC classics. Jerome Sydenham and Detroit native Keith Kemp remix"
DIRTY PROJECTORS Stillness If The Move 12"
*** From Bitte Orca. BACK IN STOCK! Exclusive tracks.
SLIM HARPO Raining In My Heart LP
*** RECOMMENDED Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1961 on Excello.
LINDSTROM & PRINS THOMAS II 2xLP+CD / CD
LINDSTROM & PRINS THOMAS Tirsdagjam 12"
*** "Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas present a distinctively more organic, psychedelic, live and loose release. Featuring elements of Italo, Krautrock and disco-influenced productions."
ORCHESTRE POLY RYTHMO Vol. 1: The Vodoun Effect 2xLP
*** Subtitled "...Funk & Sato From Benin's Obscure Labels 1972-1975." Following the highly-acclaimed African Scream Contest, the music on this compilation is not only rare, but illustrates how Orchestre Poly-Rythmo thrived by mixing the coolest parts of funk, soul, crazy organ sounds and psychedelic guitar riffs, Latin and vodun rhythms into a new sound."
ARTHUR RUSSELL Is It All Over My Face? 12"
*** A1. Is It All Over My Face B1. Home Away From Home B2. This Is How We Walk On The Moon B3. See Through Love. Tracks
TELEFON TEL AVIV Immolate Yourself LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
*** From Sool. "'Ondu' and 'Caress' get the remix treatment by Chaim and Paul Ritch."
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Water Curses 12"
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Peacebone 12"
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Summertime Clothes 12"
*** BACK IN STOCK! Exclusive tracks and remixes.
GUI BORATTO Atomic Soda 12"
*** From Take My Breath Away. BACK IN STOCK!
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Break Through In Grey Room LP
*** "An explosion of styles -- a blasting of borders, the silence after a gunshot -- from the exploded painting to the cut tape. Extraordinary cut-up voices recorded during the mid-60's in hotel rooms in New York, Paris, London. It's impossible not to recognize the writer's voice."
CARL CRAIG Angel Remixes 12"
*** "Observers of Carl's music declare this era to have been the strongest material since earlier tempered Psyche/BFC classics. Jerome Sydenham and Detroit native Keith Kemp remix"
DIRTY PROJECTORS Stillness If The Move 12"
*** From Bitte Orca. BACK IN STOCK! Exclusive tracks.
SLIM HARPO Raining In My Heart LP
*** RECOMMENDED Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1961 on Excello.
LINDSTROM & PRINS THOMAS II 2xLP+CD / CD
LINDSTROM & PRINS THOMAS Tirsdagjam 12"
*** "Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas present a distinctively more organic, psychedelic, live and loose release. Featuring elements of Italo, Krautrock and disco-influenced productions."
ORCHESTRE POLY RYTHMO Vol. 1: The Vodoun Effect 2xLP
*** Subtitled "...Funk & Sato From Benin's Obscure Labels 1972-1975." Following the highly-acclaimed African Scream Contest, the music on this compilation is not only rare, but illustrates how Orchestre Poly-Rythmo thrived by mixing the coolest parts of funk, soul, crazy organ sounds and psychedelic guitar riffs, Latin and vodun rhythms into a new sound."
ARTHUR RUSSELL Is It All Over My Face? 12"
*** A1. Is It All Over My Face B1. Home Away From Home B2. This Is How We Walk On The Moon B3. See Through Love. Tracks
TELEFON TEL AVIV Immolate Yourself LP
*** NOW ON VINYL!
((((( NEW ARRIVALS: CDs ))))) Wolf Eyes, MGMT, Son Volt, Dead Weather and weird stuff
ost CUL-DE-SAC CD
*** "Jazz pianist, Krzysztof 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."
v/a LEGENDS OF BENIN CD+BOOK
*** Analog Africa presents Legends Of Benin, a collection of super-rare and highly danceable masterpieces recorded between 1969-1981. What you are about to hear is distinctively Benin -- a thick brew of agbadja, soul, cavacha, funk, Afrobeat, and Afro-Latin sounds all mixed in with heavy traditional rhythms."
v/a LOCAL CUSTOMS: Downriver Revival CD+DVD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Between 1967 and 1981 in Ecorse, Michigan, Felton Williams chronicled gospel, group soul, garage-punk, northern, jazz, and funk and issued them on the Solid Rock, Compose, and Revival labels. Compiled here are 24 recordings and a DVD of the over 200 sound recordings and a 30 minute featurette on the making of Downriver Revival."
v/a ROOTS OF CHICHA: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru CD
*** RECOMMENDED "In the oil-boom cities of the 1960s Peruvian Amazon, the chicha style was loosely inspired by Colombian cumbias but incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban guajiras, and the psychedelic sounds of surf guitars, wah-wah pedals, farfisa organs, and moog synthesizers." Excellent comp!
v/a SI, PARA USTED: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba Vol. 2 CD
*** "Cuban jams from the days of Castro, updated with funk, fuzz, and some revolutionary fervour. The music ranges from son, rock, jazz, and funk, and abounds with psychedelic influences, electronic experimentation, and a heavy dose of soul."
v/a TINY MIX TAPES: Darfur CD
*** "It's been over six years since the War in Darfur officially began. The UN states that up to 300,000 lives have already been lost, with an additional 2.7 million driven from their homes. But while figures continue to rise, awareness of the conflict has declined. This extremely limited-edition CD/LP compilation features 11 exclusive tracks from Jim O'Rourke, Balroynigress, WHY?, Frog Eyes, Burning Star Core, Xiu Xiu, Mount Eerie, Wooden Wand, The Flying Luttenbachers with Henry Kaiser, nmperign and Dan Deacon. 100% of the profits will be donated to the International Rescue Committee."
BEASTIE BOYS Ill Communication 2xCD
*** Already sold out! More on the way!
BOREDOMS Seadrum/House Of Sun CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK!
CHICKS ON SPEED Cutting The Edge 2xCD
*** Fifth album. "The result of two years of productive creativity created by using the Objekt Instruments; amplified rocks, a high-heeled shoe guitar, a sax going through a guitar amp, plucking a gutted piano, and the inspiration for the album title, scissors."
CLUTCH Strange Cousins From The West CD
*** New!
CUNNINLYNGUISTS Strange Journey Vol. 1 CD
*** New!
THE DEAD WEATHER Horehound CD
*** "The Dead Weather is Alison Mosshart (THE KILLS), Jack Lawrence (THE RACONTEURS), Dean Fertita (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE), and JACK WHITE on drums and vocals."
FRANCO & LE TPOK JAZZ Francophonic Vol. 1 2xCD+BOOK
*** "Francophonic finally gives Franco his due. Vol. 1: 1953-1980 comes out on the 70th anniversary of the artist's birth. From Sterns -- 'one of the world's finest disseminators of African music,' according to The New York Times."
JANE Berserker CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "PANDA BEAR and SCOTT MOU doing "mechanical robo dance jams like Detroit and Chicago and the Germans but with less 0s and 1s and more souls." Super good, kinda' hard to describe.
ABNER JAY One Man Band CD
*** "The ultimate one-man-band wild man from the 1960s -- banjo, guitar, drums, harmonica, and voice at the same time -- and the most unusual music talent the world has ever seen and a true southerner. Subjects range from LSD to 'what's six inches long and has two nuts on the end' -- you got to hear it to believe it. A true glimpse at some real Americana."
LINDSTROM & PRINS THOMAS II 2xLP+CD / CD
*** "This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release by Oslo's cosmic-disco kings, a distinctively more organic, psychedelic, live and loose record featuring elements of Italo, Krautrock and disco-influenced productions."
MGMT Time To Pretend CD
*** MGMT's first release ever -- six exclusive jams!
MOKIRA Persona CD
*** "Constructed entirely in analog; the warming hiss of tape, the decomposing buzz of a monosynth, and the nostalgic twitch of the Roland TB303, Mokira has heard his fair share of Cluster and Harmonia records, but his sound is just as rooted in psychedelic rock and even Basic Channel-era dub techno as Germanic ambience."
POPUL VUH Coeur De Verre CD
*** "The soundtrack to Werner Herzog’s 1976 film is one of the true Popul Vuh masterpieces, often citied as the finest of Popol Vuh’s works. Coeur De Verre is based on traditional East Indian classical music on a slow and concentrated blissed out trip through the spiritual and emotional psyche of the human heart."
NINA SIMONE Gifted & Black / Live At Berkeley CD
*** Two albums on one disc!
SON VOLT American Central Dust CD
*** "Jay Farrar has delivered what may be his finest work yet, carrying on the tradition of the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Rolling Stones of Exile on Main Street, et al."
OMAR SOULEYMAN Dabke 2020: Folk & Pop Sounds Of Syria CD
*** "The second volume of Northeast Syrian dabke music from legendary vocalist Omar Souleyman and his group, culled from dozens of cassettes recorded in Syria from 1999-2008."
TALIBAM! Boogie In The Breeze Blocks CD
*** "The Brooklyn duo's first ESP Disk release is ensemble playing that goes beyond personal choice to capture a mood and the deep anthropology of the strange beauty of contemporary opposing and debt-maxed-out stimuli."
WOLF EYES Always Wrong CD
*** "Coming forth from the piles of tape loops and effects, the bulk of tables reeling with electronics have been shed. This clarity never sacrifices intensity as paradoxically this is the most organic of the full lengths but also the harshest and most dissonant."
*** "Jazz pianist, Krzysztof 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."
v/a LEGENDS OF BENIN CD+BOOK
*** Analog Africa presents Legends Of Benin, a collection of super-rare and highly danceable masterpieces recorded between 1969-1981. What you are about to hear is distinctively Benin -- a thick brew of agbadja, soul, cavacha, funk, Afrobeat, and Afro-Latin sounds all mixed in with heavy traditional rhythms."
v/a LOCAL CUSTOMS: Downriver Revival CD+DVD
*** BACK IN STOCK! "Between 1967 and 1981 in Ecorse, Michigan, Felton Williams chronicled gospel, group soul, garage-punk, northern, jazz, and funk and issued them on the Solid Rock, Compose, and Revival labels. Compiled here are 24 recordings and a DVD of the over 200 sound recordings and a 30 minute featurette on the making of Downriver Revival."
v/a ROOTS OF CHICHA: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru CD
*** RECOMMENDED "In the oil-boom cities of the 1960s Peruvian Amazon, the chicha style was loosely inspired by Colombian cumbias but incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban guajiras, and the psychedelic sounds of surf guitars, wah-wah pedals, farfisa organs, and moog synthesizers." Excellent comp!
v/a SI, PARA USTED: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba Vol. 2 CD
*** "Cuban jams from the days of Castro, updated with funk, fuzz, and some revolutionary fervour. The music ranges from son, rock, jazz, and funk, and abounds with psychedelic influences, electronic experimentation, and a heavy dose of soul."
v/a TINY MIX TAPES: Darfur CD
*** "It's been over six years since the War in Darfur officially began. The UN states that up to 300,000 lives have already been lost, with an additional 2.7 million driven from their homes. But while figures continue to rise, awareness of the conflict has declined. This extremely limited-edition CD/LP compilation features 11 exclusive tracks from Jim O'Rourke, Balroynigress, WHY?, Frog Eyes, Burning Star Core, Xiu Xiu, Mount Eerie, Wooden Wand, The Flying Luttenbachers with Henry Kaiser, nmperign and Dan Deacon. 100% of the profits will be donated to the International Rescue Committee."
BEASTIE BOYS Ill Communication 2xCD
*** Already sold out! More on the way!
BOREDOMS Seadrum/House Of Sun CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK!
CHICKS ON SPEED Cutting The Edge 2xCD
*** Fifth album. "The result of two years of productive creativity created by using the Objekt Instruments; amplified rocks, a high-heeled shoe guitar, a sax going through a guitar amp, plucking a gutted piano, and the inspiration for the album title, scissors."
CLUTCH Strange Cousins From The West CD
*** New!
CUNNINLYNGUISTS Strange Journey Vol. 1 CD
*** New!
THE DEAD WEATHER Horehound CD
*** "The Dead Weather is Alison Mosshart (THE KILLS), Jack Lawrence (THE RACONTEURS), Dean Fertita (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE), and JACK WHITE on drums and vocals."
FRANCO & LE TPOK JAZZ Francophonic Vol. 1 2xCD+BOOK
*** "Francophonic finally gives Franco his due. Vol. 1: 1953-1980 comes out on the 70th anniversary of the artist's birth. From Sterns -- 'one of the world's finest disseminators of African music,' according to The New York Times."
JANE Berserker CD
*** RECOMMENDED BACK IN STOCK! "PANDA BEAR and SCOTT MOU doing "mechanical robo dance jams like Detroit and Chicago and the Germans but with less 0s and 1s and more souls." Super good, kinda' hard to describe.
ABNER JAY One Man Band CD
*** "The ultimate one-man-band wild man from the 1960s -- banjo, guitar, drums, harmonica, and voice at the same time -- and the most unusual music talent the world has ever seen and a true southerner. Subjects range from LSD to 'what's six inches long and has two nuts on the end' -- you got to hear it to believe it. A true glimpse at some real Americana."
LINDSTROM & PRINS THOMAS II 2xLP+CD / CD
*** "This is the highly-anticipated second full-length release by Oslo's cosmic-disco kings, a distinctively more organic, psychedelic, live and loose record featuring elements of Italo, Krautrock and disco-influenced productions."
MGMT Time To Pretend CD
*** MGMT's first release ever -- six exclusive jams!
MOKIRA Persona CD
*** "Constructed entirely in analog; the warming hiss of tape, the decomposing buzz of a monosynth, and the nostalgic twitch of the Roland TB303, Mokira has heard his fair share of Cluster and Harmonia records, but his sound is just as rooted in psychedelic rock and even Basic Channel-era dub techno as Germanic ambience."
POPUL VUH Coeur De Verre CD
*** "The soundtrack to Werner Herzog’s 1976 film is one of the true Popul Vuh masterpieces, often citied as the finest of Popol Vuh’s works. Coeur De Verre is based on traditional East Indian classical music on a slow and concentrated blissed out trip through the spiritual and emotional psyche of the human heart."
NINA SIMONE Gifted & Black / Live At Berkeley CD
*** Two albums on one disc!
SON VOLT American Central Dust CD
*** "Jay Farrar has delivered what may be his finest work yet, carrying on the tradition of the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, the Rolling Stones of Exile on Main Street, et al."
OMAR SOULEYMAN Dabke 2020: Folk & Pop Sounds Of Syria CD
*** "The second volume of Northeast Syrian dabke music from legendary vocalist Omar Souleyman and his group, culled from dozens of cassettes recorded in Syria from 1999-2008."
TALIBAM! Boogie In The Breeze Blocks CD
*** "The Brooklyn duo's first ESP Disk release is ensemble playing that goes beyond personal choice to capture a mood and the deep anthropology of the strange beauty of contemporary opposing and debt-maxed-out stimuli."
WOLF EYES Always Wrong CD
*** "Coming forth from the piles of tape loops and effects, the bulk of tables reeling with electronics have been shed. This clarity never sacrifices intensity as paradoxically this is the most organic of the full lengths but also the harshest and most dissonant."
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