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Tape | 2017 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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There's no band that can lay claim to being the true best in the business,
except VIDEO. Crawling from the musical wasteland that is Texas,
their intentions are simple: they want to own the world. While the band
features members of Bad Sports, Wiccans, Radioactivity, and the Wax
Museums (just to name a few), VIDEO stands on its own as one of the
most powerful and visceral bands active today. Combining equal parts
snotty punk, hard rock, and melodic dissonance, VIDEO are pioneers of
their own subgenre, Hate Wave. Going well beyond the confines of paint
by numbers punk, and generic, flaccid garage rock, VIDEO forges a new
cult like movement. So pay attention, consumers, and don't miss out on
the best thing going today. Long Live The New Faith, Long Live VIDEO.

* Ads at Aquarium Drunkard, Stereogum, and Pitchfork.
* Publicity by Daniel Gill, Forcefield PR
* Radio Promotion by Syndicate College Radio campaign
* Top markets include Denton, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, New York,
Detroit, Philly, Tulsa, Milwaukee, and Chicago.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Opening
2. The Entertainers
3. New Immortals
4. Drink It In
5. Nothing Lasts Forever
6. Shackles
7. No Art
8. Never Enough
9. Out of My Hands
10. I Will Wait
11. The End of It All

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The Afghan Whigs

Congregation

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Cleopatra)

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Afghan Whigs' third album, Congregation, was released in 1992, and has sold over 46,000 copies. This cassette version is the first time Congregation has been available on cassette since its original release in the 1990s.

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Queensrÿche

Frequency Unknown

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Planes Mistaken For Stars

Prey

Tape | 2016 | EU | Original (Deathwish)

11,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Holo Pleasures / California Dreamin'

Elvis Depressedly

Tape | 2016 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Tape | 2016 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Since its initial, limited release, Elvis Depressedly's Holo Pleasures EP has been a sought after relic for old and new fans alike. Run For Cover will rerelease the EP Holo Pleasures / California Dreamin' on all formats on June Third, three years since the release of Holo Pleasures. Reissued and expanded, the release's working title was "Holo Pleasures II," but in reality, the California Dreamin' EP works as a companion to Holo Pleasures rather than a sequel. Taken from the same sessions as Holo Pleasures, the formerly unreleased 6 song EP ventures into different territory while maintaining the same dreamlike dizziness and warmth of it's partner EP. Airy synthesizers, distant drums and cooing vocoders provide an intricate and fascinating backbone to the groovy, trance-inducing songs that are seen by the band as a bridge between the fuzzy indie pop of Holo Pleasures and the more laid-back grooves of their 2015 LP, new alhambra. The double EP provides a unique experience to both long-time and first-time listeners of Elvis Depressedly that a standard reissue of older material wouldn't achieve.

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Superheaven

Jar

Tape | 2016 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Superheaven spent the past few years honing their grunge buzzing, and desperate sad sound across four EP's, showcasing and perfecting a talent for writing both jarringly heavy and delicately emotional songs. With high-anticipation, the Pennsylvania four-piece deliver JAR, their debut full-length. Engineer & producer Will Yip's massive production knocks you on your ass from the very first drum hit and snarling guitar riff. The stadium-sound drums, plus pulsing bass and walls of buzzsaw guitars are all mixed with the size and clarity of major label grunge breakthrough records like Nirvana's Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream. Superheaven have delivered a towering rock record and an early contender for album of the year.

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Pity Sex

White Hot Moon

Tape | 2016 | EU | Reissue (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ann Arbor's Pity Sex built the world of White Hot Moon, their second album, inch-by-inch. The group, formed in 2011 by childhood friends and lifelong collaborators Sean St. Charles (co-lyricist/drums) and Brennan Greaves (vocals/guitar), came together explicitly to try its hand at writing pop songs. St. Charles and Greaves were putting their hardcore band to rest, enlisting Britty Drake (co-lyricist/vocals/guitar) and Brandan Pierce (bass) to round out Pity Sex's line-up. Now, the band is using the foundation of 2013's celebrated Feast of Love as the framework for something bigger, stronger, and altogether more monumental. Coming off of tours with Ceremony, Eskimeaux, and Colleen Green_including a run in Australia_the band dove into the studio with Feast of Love producer Will Yip to harness that momentum into an album to showcase Pity Sex's growth. And if White Hot Moon wears its ambition on its sleeve, that's by design: the band looked to wide-screen albums by Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth for inspiration in finding a bigger sound. That shows: Drake and Greaves spin huge webs of sound, anchored in shoegaze but branching off in a dozen directions, from fuzzed-out power-pop ("Bonhomie") to shimmering balladry ("Dandelion") and back again, while St. Charles and Pierce lock into step subtly counterintuitive rhythms and floor-shaking low-end.

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Mitski

Puberty 2

Tape | 2016 | US | Original (Mexican Summer)

Release: 2016 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ask Mitski Miyawaki about happiness and she'll warn you: "Happiness fucks you." It's a lesson that's been writ large into the New Yorker's gritty, outsider-indie for years, but never so powerfully as on her newest album, 'Puberty 2'. "Happiness is up, sadness is down, but one's almost more destructive than the other," she says. "When you realise you can't have one without the other, it's possible to spend periods of happiness just waiting for that other wave." On 'Puberty 2', that tension is palpable: a both beautiful and brutal romantic hinterland, in which one of America's new voices hits a brave new stride.

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Allah-Las

Calico Review

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2016 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

The Shins

Wincing The Night Away

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2016 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Whitney

Light Upon The Lake

Tape | 2015 | US | Reissue (Dead Oceans)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Featuring members of Smith Westerns & Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the ten songs on this record sound like they could have been written at any time in the last 50 years

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Mitski

Bury Me At Makeout Creek

Tape | 2015 | US | Reissue (Run For Cover)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Since releasing Bury Me at Makeout Creek in November 2014, Mitsku has received international acclaim for her distinct, arresting sound and profoundly reflective lyrics.

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Turnover

Peripheral Vision

Tape | 2015 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Virginia Beach's Turnover has never been a band afraid of telling the truth. The emotional honesty poured out over a number of anthemic releases has been a proven formula of success for the band, but on their sophomore LP Peripheral Vision, the band treads into deeper water. Working again with Magnolia producer Will Yip (Title Fight, Circa Survive), Turnover's latest record shows a band maturing to create their best effort: an ethereal, reverb-drenched soundscape blending elements of hazy dream pop and the delicate emo rock of yesteryear. Songs like "Hello Euphoria" and "Like Slow Disappearing" highlight the new calmer, more subdued approach to songwriting, matched by Austin Getz's somber, confessional lyrics that echo throughout songs as if his words were haunting every measure. Peripheral Vision solidifies the idea that Turnover is a band with it's finger on the pulse of it's generation: growing and learning with every release, but never failing to provide a relatable, cathartic experience for anyone listening.

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Petal

Shame

Tape | 2015 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Petal has always been a deeply personal project for songwriter & lead singer Kiley Lotz. Shame, the band's debut LP three years in the making, is a honest and perceptive exploration of the album's namesake. These twelve tracks recall the elastic indie rock of Death Cab For Cutie and Pedro the Lion - sometimes somber, sometimes upbeat, but always beautifully & thoughtfully crafted. The range of songs and emotions on Shame are notable: tracks like "Heaven" and "Camera Lens II" are indie-pop pleasures brimming with nostalgic remembrance. One of the album's brightest moments comes on "Nature," a brave song lyrically and vocally, as Lotz sings unaccompanied over a singular drum beat, proclaiming fearlessly, "I want to be part of the nature you were born from." The most rewarding part of listening to Shame is realizing that as Kiley Lotz looks inwards and honestly reveals what she sees through her songs, she shows everyone else that the anxieties, doubts and longings that come with the territory of love are universally felt.

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Cloakroom

Further Out

Tape | 2015 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Further Out, the anticipated debut full length from the reclusive Indiana trio Cloakroom, can be defined best as an exploratory sonic mission. From the album's opener, "Paperweight," the crushing force of a wall of distorted bass and pounding drumming collapses to uncover the airy, reverb-soaked vocals of guitarist Doyle Martin, who's carrying a sullen burden that seems just as weighed down. From the headbanging heaviness of "Moon Funeral" to the ethereal moments of songs like "Starchild Skull" and Mesmer," Cloakroom's output is the end result of researching seemingly dissimilar elements like atmospheric post-rock, punishingly slow stoner metal, and cathartic emo and how their best qualities can work into a final, organic sound, masterfully navigated by the expert and completely analog production of Matt Talbot. Further Out boasts the timelessness of a classic record: it is expansive and exploratory while still reflective and referential to the astral tendencies of predecessors like Hum and Jesu. Further Out, available now in two easy volumes.

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Adventures

Supersonic Home

Tape | 2015 | US | Original (Procrastinate! Music Traitors)

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Supersonic Home, the anticipated debut LP from Pittsburgh's resident musical wunderkinds Adventures, is an ambitious blend of powerhouse influences: these ten songs reimagine of the best parts of 90's alt-rock and emo and infuse them with the cathartic energy of punk. However, Adventures delivers much more than just the sum of these parts. Throughout upbeat anthems like opener "Dream Blue Haze" and pensive, melancholic retreats like "Tension and "Long Hair," the constant vocal tandem of Reba Meyers and Kimi Hanauer radiates above every infectious pop-rock riffs and the warm, rhythmic backbone of bass and keyboard. No matter what draws you in to listen to Adventures, there is something undeniably relatable in these songs about honestly dealing with self-doubt, troubled hearts, and the everyday struggle to feel content that will make you keep coming back to Supersonic Home.

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Brand New

Leaked Demos 2006

14,99 €*

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2015 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Nirvana

Bleach

Release: 2015 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tigers Jaw Yellow Cassette Edition

Tigers Jaw

Tape | 2013 | US | Reissue (Run For Cover)

Ode To Dawn Wiener: Embarrassing Love Songs

Release: 2013 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tigers Jaw is the second full-length by American emo band Tigers Jaw. It was released 2008. Five young friends from Scranton, PA known as Tigers Jaw play their brand of upbeat yet melancholy indie-rock. The subtle yet massively clever lyrics combine with music that moves with such youthful exuberance even the most jaded listener will look back to their more careless days. The debut from Tigers Jaw may wear is influences on its sleeve, but instead of a repetitive list of sound-alike bands, themes such as death, friendship, and growing up are tackled from an endearing and hopeful perspective that is almost impossible not to relate to.

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Nicole Dollanganger

Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Tape | 2013 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nicole Dollanganger has been quietly crafting her own world since 2012. Over a number of self-released albums recorded mostly in her own bedroom and bathroom, her signature style of gothic folk is inspired by countless influences, none more than the archetype of the love song. Dollanganger's signature lyricism is front-and-center - usually accompanied by barely more than a few lonesome chords, narratives are idyllic, yet haunting - dream-like, yet startlingly real.The thesis of "Ode to Dawn Wiener" is as straightforward as its subtitle, but over ten songs it becomes clear that there is much more to these songs than what they offer at the surface.

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Pity Sex

Feast Of Love

Tape | 2012 | US | Reissue (Run For Cover)

Release: 2013 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Walking the razor's edge between overdriven navel gazing bliss and perfect pop sensibility, Ann Arbor's Pity Sex have crafted a breathtaking debut LP in 'Feast of Love' that's both awesomely beautiful and deftly evocative. Massive, harmonically distorted guitars and airy dual male/female vocals are hallmarks of Feast of Love, all drenched in warm, dreamy reverb. Most impressive however, is how the band utilizes pop conventions - both vocal and instrumental melody, and a strong and pounding rhythm section - while delving deep into the ethereal power of textured soundscapes. Guitars fuzz and flange, weaving between distinct, identifiable parts and simple brushes of colored noise. The voices similarly drift between carrying delicate melodies and delivering evocative feeling. Calling on the infectious, hooky inclinations of the Pixies, dreary melodies of the Breeders and sonic mass of My Bloody Valentine, Pity Sex's Feast of Love twists and churns with these beautiful yet fleeting vignettes captured in sound.

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Teen Suicide

I Will Be My Own Hell

Tape | 2012 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Release: 2012 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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teen suicide's first & only proper album, `i will be my own hell because there is a devil inside my body', has been a sought after release for many collectors after it's ultra-limited vinyl release in 2012. Now, Run For Cover Records will be reissuing my own hell, with remastered audio, expanded artwork and 8 never-before-issued bonus tracks. Across the album's 10 songs, the band displays a knack for different sounds and styles. Intimate, keyboard driven tracks like `cop graveyard' and `grim reaper' sit beside more energetic full-band outings like `dead bird skeleton and `give me back to the sky', the latter even adding an evocative viola, piano and choral arrangement to it's chaotic center. It's to the band's credit that their more outré moments feel necessary, not distracting. What becomes clear upon listening to `my own hell' is that beneath the dreamy haze & noisy apathy of teen suicide's recordings exist ernest, extremely well-written pop songs that reflect and express the uncertainty and desperation of reality

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mewithoutYou

Ten Stories

Tape | 2011 | US | Original (Run For Cover)

Release: 2012 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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mewithoutYou returns with their 5th studio album. Helmed by producer and friend of the band Daniel Smith (Sufjan Stevens) and mixed by Brad Wood (Sunny Day Real Estate), Ten Stories is an allegorical collection of songs that, at first listen, follows a winding narrative about a circus train crash in 19th century Montana. But long-time fans of this band know that although we are immediately introduced to a talking elephant, fox and tiger, there is always more than meets the eye. The Run For Cover Records reissue of Ten Stories includes reimagined and expanded pack- aging by longtime collaborator Charlie Wagers, as well as new colors of vinyl. Includes download code.

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Citizen

Young States

Tape | 2008 | US | Reissue (The Flenser)

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2012 is the year Michigan's Citizen went from an underground midwest band to an explosive nationwide force to be reckoned with. Young States is Citizen's debut EP, pressed on vinyl for the first time, showcasing this young quintet's penchant for writing heartrending yet impossibly catchy songs.

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Have A Nice Life

Deathconsciousness

Tape | 2008 | US | Original (Arista)

Release: 2008 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Have A Nice Life released their debut double-album Deathconsciousness in 2008 to a whimper and critical non-interest; six years later, the band followed it up with 2014’s stunner The Unnatural World. In the meantime, Deathconsciousness has become a cult classic whose seamless blend of shoegaze, post-punk, new wave, industrial and noise influences inspires fanatic obsession. Rhythmic, primal and expansive, Deathconsciousness offers a meditation on death, loss and unrequited love, with repeated listens revealing new layers of depth and meaning.

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Patti Smith

Dream Of Life

Release: 2008 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2006 | US | Reissue (Needlejuice)

Lemon Demon

Dinosaurchestra

Release: 2006 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2005 | EU | Reissue (Sonic Blew)

The Cribs

The New Fellas

Release: 2005 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical

Tally Hall

Tape | 2005 | US | Reissue (Needlejuice)

Tape | 2003 | US | Reissue (Revelation)

Release: 2005 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Translucent white cassette shell Dolby B noise reduction A download code is included.

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Elliott

Song In The Air

16,14 €* 18,99 € -15%

Tape | 2000 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2003 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Song In The Air is Elliott’s third fulllength album. But for all of its beauty, energy, and human spirit, Song In The Air is not Elliott’s moment of finding “the answer.” What we have is a record that shows us the value of the moment of asking the question...of looking at a thing and figuring on it. Elliott’s songs glow, spiral around, get messed up, come back home, get really sad, get worked up, fight against melancholy, are pissed off... they are “alive.” Song In The Air is the first record that Elliott made with the addition of Benny Clark on guitar and Jason Skaggs on bass.

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Karate

Unsolved

Tape | 2000 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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As Warped Tour pop-punk and American Apparel indie rock dominated the strange post-Y2K guitar-band milieu, Boston's Karate delivered an engrossing shot of rock that constantly shifted between several shades of subterranean sounds. The quiet moments on Karate's millennium busting fourth album carry much of that old, unbridled intensity, braided into subdued jazz melodies and slowcore restraint. Karate's transition into rock maturity bore supple fruit with Unsolved, presented here with three previously unreleased songs.

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Duster

Contemporary Movement

Stratosphere 25th Anniversray Edition

Release: 2000 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A muffled cry into the technological darkness, Contemporary Movement slid into the world right as the MP3 was seeping out of college dorms. A 39-minute drift into the void, drenched in Cold War-era reverb and then submerged in four track hiss for good measure. Duster constructed a Brutalist masterpiece on the outskirts of a suburban mall, as if to say, "We were here.""Music for dark spaces and closed eyelids, deeply psychedelic but without sprawl, ambient music with a serrated edge of punk."_The Ringer

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Duster

Tape | 1998 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Challenge For A Civilized Society

Tape | 1998 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Tape | 1998 | US | Reissue (Revelation)

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Unwound's paranoid and pulsating sixth album, Challenge For a Civilized Society explores the pre-Y2K technological dread of modern punk living. Producer Steve Fisk threads Justin Trosper's stabbing, discordant guitar in and around Sara Lund's consolidated drum attack and Vern Rumsey's relentless, throbbing bass. A vicious and sinister penultimate LP from the '90s most misunderstood band.

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Elliott

U.S. Song

18,99 €*

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Elliott’s debut full-length, U.S. Songs, came with a lot of hype in the independent music scene, as their previous single had garnered much positive press. Aggressive guitars storm out of the gates with the track “Miracle,” and for the rest of the album the band never lets up. For people wanting to understand indie rock music, Elliott is a worthy point of entry, encompassing emotional heights and depths along with the tight musicianship that is expected from a genre known for wearing its heart on its sleeve.

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Tape | 1996 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Repetition

Release: 1996 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dead-eyed post-punk from Olympia's reigning noise-niks. Repetition rejects the major label signing spree of the mid-'90s entirely, training its hulking focus on haircut hardcore, white belt Jiujitsu, and frenzied feedback. The soundtrack to a fantasy Halloween candy heist, now on vinyl for the first time since 1996.

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Tape | 1995 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1995 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Meeting at the halfway point between Bleach and Damaged, Unwound's 1995 self-titled album arrived years after the original trio of Vern Rumsey, Justin Trosper, and Brandt Sandeno made their Avast Studios debut. Compiling their EPs for Kill Rock Stars and Gravity Records with five more session outtakes, Unwound was released on Rumsey's Punk In My Vitamins as the band began flirting with the mainstream. Witness a band's prehistory as it plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise.

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Tape | 1995 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

The Future Of What

Tape | 1994 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1995 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Their third album in as many years, 1995's The Future of What is an unrelenting, constructivist masterstroke. The Olympia trio's signature sound_grinding bass, syncopated drums, and fragmented guitar over measured yelps_ratchets past the thread into a stripped-out metallic slurry. Equal parts noise and adrenaline, the album opens with a simple question: "Where's your energy?" It's been 25 years and we're still searching for the answer.

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Codeine

The White Birch

Tape | 1994 | US | Reissue (Joyful Noise)

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A white ship sailing in a sea of blackness, Codeine's swan song arrived in 1994 amid grunge's ascension to alt radio's godhead status. John Engle's guitar alternates between crystalline and sludge, and Stephen Immerwhar's distorted bass floats on top of punishing drums from newcomer Doug Scharin (Rex, June of 44), resulting in nine perfect meditations on the loneliness and uncertainty of early adulthood. "Codeine's unyielding numbness creates its own kind of warmth _ the feeling of cold water running for so long that it suddenly feels hot." _ Spin

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The Folk Implosion

Take A Look Inside

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Folk Implosion's fan favorite album is available on cassette for the first time!They say there's always something special about the first time and this record is that first time for the Folk Implosion. The band left the acoustic guitars and fragmentary sketch modus operandi of their earlier cassette behind to focus on an eccentric version of home studio craft, held together by a few cheap microphones (including a Radio Shack PZM) and a Tascam cassette 4-track recorder sequestered under the eaves of a 3rd floor, Cambridge Massachusetts double-decker house apartment. Wood floors and Christmas lights were as much a part of the vibe as an Ampeg VT 40 guitar amp and a small chord organ. The duo would wait until the downstairs neighbor went to work in the morning and then would play until the tunes snapped like a high-pitched snare drum. The setup would close down just before the neighbor came home from work, keeping the peace long enough to see the project through to completion.Once tracked, the band snuck into Fort Apache studios with Tim O'Heir (producer of Sebadoh's 'Bakesale' LP) early one morning, freeloading off the Sebadoh sessions that were set to get going that afternoon. Tim mixed the songs through a very hi-fi Neve board in a matter of hours with the Tascam sitting right on the giant board like a tugboat keeping time with an oil tanker. The duo hoped that the spirits of ancestors like The Troggs, Devo, Al Green, and The Bee Gees would be pleased with the scent of tribute that arose from the ashes of the pyre. Today, they are pleased to see the Slaps and the Sputniks on view again nearly 30 years later.

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Tape | 1993 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Fake Train

Wish 30th Anniversay Edition Limited Lost Wishes Cassette

Release: 1993 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A pulsing cluster of wiry feedback, lurching bass, and single stroke rolls, Fake Train entangles the energies of frustrated backpack emo, faded Riot Grrrl back issues, and their own dash of teen spirit and unleashes it all in an earsplitting 10-song assault.

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The Cure

Tape | 1992 | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 1992 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 1992 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Codeine

Barely Real

Alive Record Store Day 2021 Edition

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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After the scrapped Dessau sessions in 1992, Codeine returned with an EP of icy and effervescent tracks. Clocking in at a brisk 25 minutes, the six-song 12" features drummer Chris Brokaw's final recordings with the group, plus noisy guitar from Bitch Magnet's Jon Fine and a solo piano arrangement from Bastro's David Grubbs. Remastered from the original analog tapes and recreated in painstaking detail, Barely Real is the slowcore classic your therapist warned you about. "As far away from traditional rock & roll heat as a post-stellar universe is to the Big Bang." _ The Quietus

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Pearl Jam

Tape | 1991 | EU | Reissue (Epic)

Tape | 1991 | EU (Radiation)

Release: 1991 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2021 Drop 2 release limited to 6300 copies.

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Dinosaur Jr

Green Mind

9,99 €*

Tape | 1990 | US | Reissue (Numero Group)

Release: 1991 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition of 350 only copies on cassette! Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s, issuing three highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records, who issued “Green Mind” in 1991 as the alternative American rock scene the band had long been part of exploded globally. Produced by a stripped down line-up of the group (in fact, J Mascis himself plays almost everything), the album and Sire’s international reach took Dinosaur Jr’s reputation to a new level, aided by the singles ‘The Wagon’ and ‘Whatever’s Cool With Me’, a non-album EP of new material and live recordings, all of which are included here alongside a previously unreleased live recording capturing the group at the Hollywood Palladium in June 1991. Critically lauded on release, “Green Mind” remains one of the band’s strongest collections, and a firm fan favourite.

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Codeine

Frigid Stars

Tape | 1988 | US | Reissue (Goofin)

Release: 1990 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The drowsiest and earliest inklings of the slowcore movement can be traced to Codeine's 1991 debut. Combining the Louisville scene's relaxed tempo with doom metal's distorted slurry, the album is a depressing masterpiece of hushed vocals, noisy guitar, and punishing drums. Remastered from the original analog tapes and recreated in painstaking detail, Frigid Stars LP is the NYC trio's fuzziest and most affecting work. "A deft musical approximation of the sound of water turning to ice, the guitars are so weighed down with distortion that they struggle to march from one chord to the next." _ Pitchfork

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Sonic Youth

Daydream Nation

Tape | 1982 | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1988 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Daydream Nation was Sonic YOUTH’s sixth full-length, their first double-LP, and their last for an indie label before signing with Geffen. Widely considered to be their watershed moment, the album catapulted them into the mainstream and proved that indie bands could enjoy wider commercial success without compromising their artistic vision.

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R.E.M.

Chronic Town

14,99 €*

Release: 1982 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Green Day

Wfmu Broadcast 1992

Tape | US (C30c60c90go!)

2Tape | US (C30c60c90go!)

Release: US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Professionally re-mastered original broadcast with background liners, interviews and rare archival photos.

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Pearl Jam

Fox Theatre 1994

35,99 €*

Release: US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Pearl Jam, live at the Fox Theatre, Atlanta on 3rd April 1994. Performed shortly after the band started work on Vs., and just as they embarked on their bitter battle with TicketMaster, this epic show finds them on breathtaking form, playing a cross-section of fan favorites, with a typically intense vocal performance from Eddie Vedder and some scorching guitar from Mike McCready. Originally broadcast on Kroq 106.7 FM, it’s presented here in full as a Double CS together with background notes and images. [2 cassette set]

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Stone Temple Pilots

Centrum, Worchester 1994

Tape | US (C30c60c90go!)

16,79 €* 23,99 € -30%

Tapes Not Dead Volume 2 [Uv Reissue]

Release: US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stone Temple Pilots live at the Centrum, Worcester, MA on August 22nd 1994. Taken aback by the huge success of their 1992 debut album, Core, and drained by the heavy touring that ensued, this San Diego band almost fell apart before recording its follow-up, Purple. Issued in June 1994, it debuted at #1 in America, cementing their star status. This superb concert was broadcast on syndicated radio two months later, and captures the quartet at the height of their powers, before singer Scott Weilands drug problems derailed them.

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V.A.

Tape | US | Reissue (Tapehead City)

Riviera Theatre Chicago 1995

Release: US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Originally released in 2019, Tapes Not Dead Vol.2 is getting a UV reissue! Featuring bands that release their music on cassette which include Juliana Hatfield, Antarctigo Vespucci, Culture Shock, Thelma and the Sleaze, Warm Drag, Clown Sounds, The Bobby Lees, The Advertisers, Gymshorts, The Loving Paupers, Dragon inn 3, The Prize Fighters, Jumpstarted Plowhards, Mount Sharp, Shellshag, Adult Magic, Glasses, Worlds Fair, Living Room & Tanya Donelly.

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The Smashing Pumpkins

Tape | US (Rewind)

17,59 €* 21,99 € -20%

Tape | US | Original (Tapeheadcity)

Release: US

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"Smashing Pumpkins Live Riviera Chicago 95" captures a live performance by the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins at the Riviera Theater in Chicago in 1995. Known for their distinctive sound, emotional intensity, and captivating live shows, The Smashing Pumpkins' concerts were an essential part of their musical legacy.The setlist for the album showcases a mix of tracks from different albums, highlighting the band's range and their ability to transition between melodic and intense moments.

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V.A.

Tapes Not Dead Volume 5

Release: US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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ere it is! Volume 5 of the "Tapes Not Dead" series!!!! I'm super excited about how this years came out! I think it's one of the best yet! 21 awesome songs from bands and artists of today that release their music on cassette personally curated by yours truly.. Charlie Tapes. One of our main objectives as a store/label has always been to introduce new music in hopes you find something you really like. Tapes Not Dead is our mixtape to you!

Volume 5 also includes the ongoing Tapehead City comic series about a cassette who becomes a monster and befriends a girl named Keeks.

200 limited edition yellow copies were made using Fox Rtm911 which is one of the best performing tapes currently being manufactured.

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