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Release: 2005 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1998 | US | Reissue (Bikini Kill)

Bikini Kill

The Singles

24,99 €*

...And Then I Wrote Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 1998 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bikini Kill Records is excited to reissue The Singles, on both vinyl and compact disc. This is the first time that it has been released as a 12-inch (special note for all you vinyl fanatics, we managed to keep it at 45rpm for better sound quality)! The Singles was initially released in 1998 as a CD only compilation of all of Bikini Kill's 7”s. Once called "their defining document" by Pitchfork it includes Bikini Kill's legendary collaboration with Joan Jett on the New Radio (1993) single as well as the long out of print Anti Pleasure Dissertation (1995) and I Like Fucking (1995) singles.

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Willie Nelson

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Jackpot)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1971 | US | Reissue (Capitol)

Don McLean

American Pie

35,99 €*

Release: 1971 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Hold / Still Black Vinyl Edition

Suuns

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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There's Nothing Wrong With Love

Built To Spill

LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Up)

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 1991 | US | Reissue (Elektra)

Kyuss

Wretch

53,99 €*

Release: 1991 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 1992 | US | Reissue (Bikini Kill)

Bikini Kill

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This is the 20th anniversary reissue of Bikini Kill’s debut 12-inch EP.

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Mogwai

2LP | 2011 | UK | Original (Pias)

Release: 2011 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Grönland)

Neu!

Neu! 86

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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2LP | 1989 | US | Reissue (Sub Pop)

Nirvana

Bleach Deluxe Edition

Release: 1989 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Reggae & Dancehall

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Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons

Blonde Redhead

LP | 2005 | Reissue (Touch & Go)

29,99 €*

Release: 2005 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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2LP | 2024 | Original (Universal)

Lava La Rue

Starface

45,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

Kooler Than Jesus Black Vinyl Edition

LP | 1990 | US | Reissue (Wax Trax!)

29,99 €*

When The Poems Do What They Do

Release: 1990 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Expanded Edition - Standard Black Vinyl

Remastered from the original analog tapes, Expanded version of classic 1989 industrial dance track “Kooler Than Jesus” with non-album tracks “Devil Bunnies” and “Do You Fear…The Inferno Express (Live)”.

This new expanded version also contains the 1990 additional classic singles “A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover... 'Cuz It's Hot”, and “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan”.

Available on vinyl for the first time since 1990. Run time approximately 34 min.

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Aja Monet

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Drink Sum Wtr)

37,99 €*

Body Of Light / I Am A Cloud

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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redux packaging.aja monet's poems are a work of gravity. They are a fundamental for which all things are attracted, considered upon and enacted towards. Her work moves, constantly, between origin and outcome, allowing them to exist in converse. In her debut album when the poems do what they do, we glimpse her indefatigable commitment to speak. Those thematic origins of this album at times center around Black resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy.In when the poems do what they do aja monet appears as a woman of letters and storm, her poems do not roar in pentameter - but rather in storm surge because, "Who's got time for poems when the world is on fire?!." And this work isn't one to pull apart into one liners, these are poems of things felt. There is a fullness here that can't be encapsulated in even the boundaries that language offers. aja monet is a griot, a storyteller, a chronicler, and your grandmother telling you about her first love all at once. These are baby making poems - literally the spring enacting upon the cherry trees. These are poems of urgency and want and the rallying cry to demolish the insidious systems from which our futures seem to be wrought, in other words, "If we had a sense of humor we'd be more radical. More migrant than citizen we'd breathe the air clean and ration our resources...we would melt ALL the guns." You will find yourself readying arms because of these poems, and simultaneously mourning the unstoppable loss of names already destined to be immortalized. aja monet crafts a work as she always does, that can be entered from many doors. These aren't poems for poets, but poems for everyone.She is joined in effort on this album by musicians Christian Scott (trumpet), Samora Pinderhughes (piano), Elena Pinderhughes (flute), Luques Curtis (bass), Weedie Braimah (djembe) and Marcus Gilmore (drums). Together creating music that is insistent and unrelenting. There are songs reminiscent of jazz club virtuosity and melee, others of a healing balm in gilead, and the...

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The Dead Tongues

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Psychic Hotline)

35,99 €*

Unfinished Business Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Across the last 15 years, Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongueshas emerged as one of modern folk's most distinct voices. Asidiosyncratic and spectral as the songs have sometimes been,Gustafson has always tied his visions and verses to the kinds ofhooks you tuck away like talismans, pulled out in case ofemergency. Dust, Unsung Passage, Desert: The Dead Tongues'albums remain some of the more compelling and curious worksin their field on this side of a century. The latest edition to TheDead Tongues' catalog, the song-centric and magnetic Body ofLight and the discursive and wonderfully elliptical I Am a Cloud,is 16 complete tunes split across interweaving and disparatealbums.The albums feature performances by Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak,Bon Iver), Mat Davidson (Twain), Matt Douglas (The MountainGoats), Joe Westerlund (Califone, Megafaun), Jeff Ratner (Bingand Ruth), and more. Gustafson wanted to dedicate the studiotime to not just recording songs but also making somethingnew, with new improvisations.The two albums, released digitally as distinct standalonereleases, join together in the physical format as a beautiful,deluxe, double album. The 2LP package features a meticulouslyembossed cover, and gorgeous custom inner-sleeves for eachalbum.

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Snowy White

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Snowy White)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Genclik Ile Elele Black Vinyl Edition

Mustafa Özkent

LP | 1973 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

Release: 1973 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tactical Neural Implant Blue Vinyl Edtion

Front Line Assembly

LP | 1992 | US | Reissue (Wax Trax!)

35,99 €*

Release: 1992 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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LP | 2022 | Original (Ripple Music)

Freedom Hawk

Take All You Can

Release: 2022 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

Roger Fakhr

East Of Any Place

The Electric Prunes Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"East of Any Place,” out December 1st via Habibi Funk, is a treasure trove of songs discovered alongside Rogér Fakhr's acclaimed 2021 album, "Fine Anyway." These tracks, hidden for decades and only passed between a handful of people, offer a glimpse into Rogér’s musical genius and the vibrant scene of Lebanon during a period marked by civil war and social upheaval. This release serves as a companion to "Fine Anyway," feat studio tracks that didn't make it into the previous album.

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The Electric Prunes

LP | 1967 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

Release: 1967 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Life Under The Gun Transparent Curacao Vinyl Edition

Militarie Gun

LP | 2023 | DE | Original (Concord)

Release: 2023 / DE – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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This House Is Made Of Corners Pink Vinyl Edition

Brigitte Calls Me Baby

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (ATO)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Give My Regards To The Dancing Girls

Stef & The Sleeveens

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Sweet Time)

9,99 €*

What People Call Low Self-Esteem

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Two punk inspired pop nuggets about having a good time. Track A inspired by the pandemic and track B Inspired by Jonathan Richman. New Nashville punk outfit led by Dublin-born songwriter Stefan Murphy who toured extensively & released records under the moniker The Mighty Stef. The Sleeveens are comprised Ryan Sweeney (Cheap Time / Hans Condor / Sweet Time Records) on drums, Eli Steele of Sweet Knives on guitar, and Jamie Mechan on bass. Mechan also engineered & produced the record at his 302 Sounds studio in Mt Juliet, TN.

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Awakebutstillinbed

LP | 2018 | UK | Reissue (Tiny Engines)

Release: 2018 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Silver Apples Smoke Colored Vinyl Edition

Silver Apples

LP | 1968 | US | Reissue (Jackpot)

29,99 €*

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Asian Man)

Release: 1968 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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New 24 bit /96 kHz transfer taken from the original master tapes. Limited Smoke Colored Vinyl w/ Deluxe Silver Foil Jacket.

Formed in 1967 as a psychedelic electronic duo featuring Dan Taylor on drums and Simeon on a homemade synthesizer consisting of 12 oscillators (and an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second hand electronic junk), SILVER APPLES quickly gained a reputation as New York’s leading underground musical expression. Their pulsating rhythmic beats with the use of electronics laid the groundwork for what would become“Krautrock” Silver Apples was released in 1968 and still remains an innovative and revolutionary album. Their highly influential sound has influenced countless bands from Stereolab, Beastie Boys, Blur and more. Edition of 500 copies.

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Teens In Trouble

17,99 €*

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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From Raleigh, NC, Teens IN Trouble is the solo project for singer/ songwriter Lizzie Killian. Comes on pink vinyl. Limited to 500. One time pressing.

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Trident Wolf Eclipse Silver + White Marbled Vinyl Edition

LP | 2018 | UK | Reissue (Versity Rights)

Release: 2018 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Wild Hunt Oxblood Red Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2013 | UK | Reissue (Versity Rights)

30,99 €*

Release: 2013 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | US | Original (Palilalia)

Bill Orcutt

Jump On It

LP | 2023 | US | Original (Woodsist)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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"It's been ten years since Bill Orcutt released A History of Every One, a compendium of hacksaw renditions of American standards on acoustic guitar—and since ten years is a blink of an eye, you are forgiven for not immediately realizing that we've gone an entire decade waiting for Jump On It, the next Orcutt solo acoustic record. As those of us of 'a certain age' will tell you (ad nauseam), a decade is a blink of an eye containing an infinity of experiential moments, and if this record is any gauge, the weight of those experiences have squashed Orcutt's rough edges, feathered his stop-motion timing into a languid lyrical flow, and snapped the shackles tethering his instant compositional skills to the imperative to deconstruct guitar history. In short, Jump On It is a collection of canonical, mature acoustic guitar soli to contrast against the fractured downtown conceits of previous acoustic releases. For those paying attention to the arc of Orcutt's electric records, which chart a course from Quine's choppiness to Thompson-ian/ Verlaine-ian flow, it should be no surprise that the ten-year gap between acoustic records should expose a similar underlying journey. But what's maybe more surprising is that Jump On It , with its living-room aesthetics and big reverb, packs a disarming intimacy absent from the formal starkness of Orcutt's earlier acoustic outings. Although you might sense the looming human in the audible breath whispering intermittently between chords (a physical flourish reminiscent of the late Jack Rose), such documentarian signposts are the exception rather than the rule. Not quite refuting (yet not quite embracing) the polish of revered watershed records by Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, or Bola Sete, Jump On It treads a path between the raw and the refined, exemplified in tracks such as 'The Life of Jesus' and 'In a Column of Air' that alternate swaying chords with Orcutt's trademark angular quicksilver runs (cut brickwall short). While you won't mistake Jump On It for incidental music, at least not if taken at full strength, stray passages radiate a conversational beauty that would please the most dissonance-adverse listener. Strangely, some of the melted lockstep grooves found in Jump On It evoke nothing other than Music for Four Guitars. While many of the linear runs are clearly improvised, and the phrasing distinctly slurred, intuitive and non-mechanical, the strummed chords hint at a cellular construction similar to Jump On It 's electric predecessor. (Orcutt states that he prefers to keep his strategies obscure—but that implies there is in fact a strategy). Whatever the case, I also hear Satie in Music for Four Guitars, and I hear him here too, hidden within Jump On It 's lilting repetition, which I easily imagine stretching to an infinitely-distant horizon. Like each of Satie's three Gymnopedies, each facet of Jump On It is a tiny miniature bound in a slim volume, an earworm you might savor again and again upon awakening or before drifting off. Each track is a key to a memory, a building block in a shining anamnesis leading to the recollection that hey, we're all humans in a shared cosmos, and music is one way we might make that universe go down easy. And who wouldn't jump on that?"—Tom Carter. Recorded Spring/Summer 2022 at the Living Room, San Francisco. Mixed and mastered by Chuck Johnson.

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John Andrews & The Yawns

Love For The Underdog

Live At The Roundhouse Record Store Day 2023 Edition

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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John Andrews is something of an open secret in a certain corner of the music scene: a versatile musician and animator. A film school drop out whose work hat-tips tradition as much as outsider anti-aesthetics. He’s spent over a decade on the DIY circuit, playing early house shows alongside then up-and-coming peers Weyes Blood and Daniel Bachman. Today he is still out there projecting his sketchy hand-drawn animations during his performances in coffee shops, small galleries and non-traditional venues. Andrews’ painterly approach now introduces the listener to his version of New York City, the place he was bound to end up after years of dwelling in Pennsylvania farm towns and New Hampshire barns. There is handmade vibrancy to the world he’s imagined here: intimate moments seen from the interior, looking outward from hole-in-the-wall restaurants, theaters and the fragments of peace found within the restless and dirty street corners.

Love For The Underdog, his aptly titled fourth release with the Woodsist label, was tracked live to tape in various studios and apartments across the Empire State with help from his bandmates in Cut Worms’ touring outfit, Max Clarke, Keven Lareau and Noah Bond. Buoyant melodies are supported by timeless string arrangements, translated from Andrews’ head to page with the help of friend Simon Hanes. The string quartet follows the tradition of Francoise Hardy, Harry Nilsson, Margo Guryan and Belle and Sebastian, giving the whole thing a cinematic ambience with stark shadows of an Edward Hopper painting. The lyrics tie together narratives of cynical heroes and troubled lovers. Put on the record and sink into well-worn red velvet theater seats, when the lights go down and the flickering of projectors run the title: Love For The Underdog, indeed.

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Midlake

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Bella Union Uk)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Shedding Of Skin Black Vinyl Edition

Protector

LP | 1991 | EU | Reissue (High Roller)

The Youth Are Getting Restless Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 1991 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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High Roller Records, reissue 2023, black vinyl, ltd 250, high gloss cardboard cover, A4 lyric sheet, insert printed on uncoated paper, poster, mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel/ Temple of Disharmony

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Bad Brains

LP | 1990 | US | Reissue (ORG Music)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Contraszt!)

Release: 1990 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Youth Are Getting Restless is a live album from Bad Brains, recorded at the Paradiso Theater in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1987 by the Vpro. The show was part of the band's I Against I tour. This reissue marks the sixth release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records label imprint. In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains' recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.

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Ragana

You Take Nothing

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Contraszt!)

Ragana

Wash Away

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wanda)

Grindhouse

Sex Punk Power

18,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Drunken Sailor)

Generacion Suicida

Regeneracion

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Rundling)

Rummelsnuff & Asbach

Hinterwäldler

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Church Road)

Grivo

Omit

21,59 €* 23,99 € -10%

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Analog Africa)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Emerging like and ornate relic, Austin-based power trio Grivo combine slow, methodical hooks and warm tube amplifiers to artfully re-establish the line between heavy guitars and downtempo pop. Grivo's tones and effects are utilised as active compositional elements, crafting and pacing their infectious riffs to allow the saturated guitars and bruising low-end to fully bloom. Within the tidal sound waves and bleak timbre, Grivo forges a distinctive personal connection that challenges the modern definitions of doom metal and shoegaze.

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V.A.

Perú Selvático

34,99 €*

An Abundance Of Strawberries

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Less than a hundred miles inland from the capital city of Lima lies the great Peruvian jungle, an untamed land of impenetrable forests and endless winding rivers. In its isolated cities, cut off from the fashions of the capital, a unique style of music began to develop, inspired equally by the sounds of the surrounding forests, the roll of the mighty Amazon and Ucayali Rivers, and the rhythms of cumbia picked up from distant stations on transistor radios. With the arrival of electricity, a new generation of young musicians started plugging in their guitars and trading in their accordions for synthesizers: Amazonian cumbia was born.

Powered by fast-paced timbale rhythms, driven by spidery, treble-damaged guitar lines, and drenched in bright splashes of organ, Amazonian cumbia was like a hyperactive distant cousin of surf music crossed with an all-night dance party in the heart of the forest. While many of the genre’s greatest tracks were instrumental, and others were simple celebrations of life in the jungle, the goal of every song was to keep the party going.

Radio stations in Lima remained unaware of the new electric sounds emanating from the jungle, but a handful of pioneering record producers ventured over the mountain passes to the cities of Tarapoto, Moyobamba, Pucallpa – even Iquitos, a city reachable only by boat or plane – and lured dozens of bands to the recording studios of the capital to lay down their best tracks. Although many became local hits, few were ever heard outside the Amazonian region … until now. With eighteen tracks from some of the greatest names in Amazonian cumbia, Perú Selvatico is both the improbable soundtrack to a beach party on a banks of the Amazon and a psychedelic safari into the sylvan mysteries of the Peruvian jungle.

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Julia Brown

Tape | 2022 | EU | Original (Joy Void)

13,99 €*

Hardware Limited Picture Disc Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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In every way, Julia Brown's only full-length record An Abundance of Strawberries defies expectations. Their final release, Strawberries was recorded largely after the band had broken up. Rather than scrap a large amount of material, songwriter Sam Ray and violist and singer Caroline White decided to finish the record with a rotating cast of musicians, including the original band members Alec Simke and John Toohey, as well as Sean Mercer, Warren Hildebrand, Alex Giannascoli, Abby Trunfio, and others. Largely eschewing traditional band arrangements, they worked heavily with samples - drum machines, breaks, and bird calls in lieu of traditional percussion, 808s in place of basslines - before layering arrangements of strings, pianos, horns, and omnichord on top alongside lush harmonies and oft-affected vocals. The result is a meticulous record that sounds like nothing and everything at once. Both celebratory and melancholy, it nods toward a lineage of pop and indie-pop artists from Ellie Greenwich to Heavenly and more experimental acts like Fog, Cotton Candy Collective, Spiritualized and Duster.

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Billy F Gibbons

LP | 2021 | US | Reissue (Concord)

Release: 2021 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Let The Festivities Begin (Los Chrismos Bonus Edition)

Los Bitchos

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (City Slang)

32,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Casus Luciferi Silver Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2003 | EU | Reissue (Season Of Mist)

41,99 €*

Release: 2003 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Sworn To The Dark White Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2007 | EU | Reissue (Season Of Mist)

41,99 €*

Release: 2007 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Wedge)

Tinariwen

Kel Tinariwen

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

Admonishing The Bishops

12" | 1993 | US | Reissue (Bulbous Monocle)

Expressions Tell Everything Box Set

Release: 1993 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bulbous Monocle, a new label focused on the legacy of the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and the scene from which it reveled in between the years 1986-1996, is honored to launch the label with arguably the most lauded and concise testament from the band. 1993’s mini-masterpiece Admonishing the Bishops. Originally released on the Matador Records label, this title and most of the “Fellers” discography has been out of print for over 25 years. Now, newly remastered by Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies et.al) this perfect EP is sounding better than ever! “Formed in San Francisco in 1986, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 had the bad luck to display a range of cultural and musical reference points shared by relatively few members of that era’s archconservative “underground culture.” On any given day, you might hear that their records were too manicured or too chaotic, too cerebral or too absurd, too personal or too impersonal, too experimental or too pop. Above all, they were derided as “self-indulgent” by critics who expected artists to tiptoe deferentially around their audience’s blind spots. "To be fair, their early recordings had about as much relation to their in-the-flesh grandeur as a dripping faucet does to Iguazu Falls. Against steep technical odds, Greg Freeman of Lowdown Studio made their LPs work beautifully as aural monuments. But listeners who hadn’t seen the Fellers’ live could be forgiven for finding these albums a bit forbidding. "Which brings us to Admonishing the Bishops — a wholly unexpected breakthrough release comprising four down-home, crowd-pleasin’ tracks engineered by Volcano Suns / Shellac bassist Bob Weston during the Fellers’ epochal tour with Sun City Girls in fall 1992. “The studio was in Steve Albini's basement, and we stayed there at his house for a couple days while we recorded and mixed,” vocalist/guitarist/bassist/banjoist/trombonist/etceterist Mark Davies explains. The relaxed, low-stakes atmosphere — along with the band’s tour-hardened performances and what Mark calls “the joy of getting our minds blown every night” by Sun City Girls — yielded tracks that were polished and approachable without sacrificing any of the band’s complexity or ferocity. "Back in San Francisco, they decided to release these tracks as a 10-inch EP rather than saving them for a full album. Mark notes that bassist Anne Eickelberg spearheaded the project: “She wanted to put out something concise after the somewhat bloated double-LP.” "Upon its release in 1993, Admonishing the Bishops’ concision, clarity and accessibility went over like a duralumin-and-fabric zeppelin. With its 20/20 focus on the band’s songcraft, it’s an ideal introduction for curious neophytes and a natural choice for the first installment of Bulbous Monocle’s highly anticipated Tful282 reissue series. Long-time listeners, meanwhile, will appreciate this reissue’s meticulous remastering by Mark Gergis of Sublime Frequencies. Or else.” – Brandan Kearney, Portland OR 2022

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Love

8x7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Pias/New Land)

95,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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DJango DJango 10th Anniversary Edition

Django Django

3LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Because Music)

46,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Double Double Whammy)

Second Grade (2nd Grade)

Easy Listening

Déjà Vu Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ringing from hi-fi headphones and blown-out boombox speakers alike comes the overloaded guitar genius of ""Easy Listening"", a record of rock ‘n’ roll daydreams and terminal boredom, and 2nd Grade’s long awaited second LP. Like a blue slushy on a hot day, Easy Listening is a sweet respite. Like the Blue Angels touching down on the Las Vegas Strip, Easy Listening is impossible to ignore. And like a janitor mopping up beer on the floor of the Hollywood Palladium in 1972, hours after the Rolling Stones have finished “Ventilator Blues” and climbed onto the bus, Easy Listening knows the glory and cost of escapism, abandon, and the soul of rock ‘n’ roll. Philadelphia’s 2nd Grade (Peter Gill, Catherine Dwyer, Jon Samuels, David Settle, and Fran Lyons) is a band both obsessed with and worthy of rock stardom, and Easy Listening proves their status as virtuosos of the power pop renaissance.
Sonically and lyrically, Easy Listening pays tribute to a guitar lineage linking the Stones to the Flamin’ Groovies, to Redd Kross and Guided By Voices. With its spiraling hooks and handclapped quarter note beat, lead single “Strung Out On You” sounds like an alternate reality post-Radio City Big Star cut. In 2nd Grade’s world, music history is a prism, not a linear progression. Famous teens transcend time on the outro to “Teenage Overpopulation,” a shouted cacophony of names including Tommy Stinson, Lizzie McGuire, and Joan of Arc. The line between the love of an audience and that of a romantic partner is blurred on songs like “Hands Down” and “Me & My Blue Angels.” Across the album, hi-fi and lo-fi styles splice together; playful references and surreal hints of impossibility build a complex, believable world atop a foundation of simple and sticky melodies that resonate on very first listen.

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Novelists FR

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Out Of Line Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Endless Horizon Black Vinyl Edition

Galderia

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Massacre)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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El Mexican Rock And Roll Volume 1

V.A.

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (El Toro)

22,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2010 | EU | Reissue (Music On Vinyl)

Golden Earring

Cut

Release: 2010 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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A Great Big Pile Of Leaves

Pono

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Topshelf)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Expert In A Dying Field Yellow Vinyl Edition

The Beths

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Carpark)

27,89 €* 30,99 € -10%

Vita Mors Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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On The Beths’ new album Expert In A Dying Field, Elizabeth Stokes’ songwriting positions her somewhere between being a novelist and a documentarian. The songs collected here are autobiographical, but they’re also character sketches of relationships – platonic, familial, romantic – and more importantly, their aftermaths. The shapes and ghosts left in absences. The question that hangs in the air: what do you do with how intimately versed you’ve become in a person, once they’re gone from your life?

The third LP from the New Zealand quartet houses 12 jewels of tight, guitar-heavy songs that worm their way into your head, an incandescent collision of power-pop and skuzz. With Expert, The Beths wanted to make an album meant to be experienced live, for both the listeners and themselves. They wanted it to be fun -- to hear, to play -- in spite of the prickling anxiety throughout the lyrics, the fear of change and struggle to cope.

Most of Expert was recorded at guitarist Jonathan Pearce’s studio on Karangahape Road in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) -- and sometimes in the building's cavernous stairwell at 1am -- toward the end of 2021, until they were interrupted by a four-month national lockdown. They traded notes remotely for months, songwriting from afar and fleshing out the arrangements alone, the first time they’d written together in such a way. The following February, The Beths left the country for the first time in more than two years to tour across the US, and simultaneously finish mixing the album on the road. That latter half felt more collaborative, with everyone on-hand to trade notes in real time, until it all culminated in a chaotic three-day studio mad-dash in Los Angeles. There, Expert finally became the record they were hearing in their heads.

Expert is an extension of the same skuzzy palette the band has built across their catalog, pop hooks embedded in incisive indie rock. The album’s title track “Expert In A Dying Field” introduces the thesis for the record: “How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field? How do you know it’s over when you can’t let go?” Stokes asks. “Love is learned over time ‘til you’re an expert in a dying field.”

The rest is a capsule of The Beths’ most electrifying and exciting output, a sonic spectrum: “Your Side” is a forlorn and sincere love song, emotive; while “Silence is Golden,” with its propulsive drum line and stop-start staccato of a guitar line winding up and down, is one of the band’s sharpest and most driving. “When You Know You Know” skews a bit groovier, pure pop and a natural addition to the band’s live set. “Knees Deep” was written last minute, but yields one of the best guitar lines on Expert. There’s a certain chaos across the 12 tracks, the palpable joy of playing music with long-time friends colliding with the raw nerves of pain.

Stokes strings it all together through her singular songwriting lens, earnest and self-effacing, zeroing in on the granules of doubt and how they snowball. Did I do the wrong thing? Or did you? And are we still good people at the end of it? She isn’t interested in villains, but instead interested in just telling the story. That insecurity and thoughtfulness, translated into universality and understanding, has been the guiding light of The Beths’ output since 2016. In the face of pain, there’s no dwelling on internal anguish - instead, through The Beths’ music, our shortcomings are met with acceptance. And Expert In A Dying Field is the most tactile that tenderness has been.

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The Venomous Pinks

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Sbäm)

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Allesfresser Red Vinyl Edition

Hass

LP | 1992 | EU | Reissue (Aggressive Punk Produktionen)

Release: 1992 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2022 | US | Original (Green Cookie)

Ojibo Afrobeat

Ojiboland

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Osees Osees (Thee Oh Sees)

Panther Rotate

LP | 2020 | US | Original (Castle Face)

22,99 €*

Release: 2020 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We'll Go Riding On The Heavens

Quivers

LP | 2015 | US | Reissue (Hotel Motel)

The O'Reillys And The Paddyhats

Release: 2015 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We'll Go Riding On The Hearses is the first album from Australia's Quivers. Much like their latest release, Golden Doubt, the album is a jangle rock beautify, with tons of melodies and harmonies in the best indie pop tradition. Quivers is a band formed in Hobart, Tasmania and We’ll Go Riding On The Hearses was first a tape release before the band moved to Melbourne and released again on vinyl for Australia’s Hotel Motel label.

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Green Blood Green Transparent Vinyl Edition

LP | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Metalville)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Your Neighbors Are Failures

Bitter Branches

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Equal Vision)

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Grimple / Logical Nonsense

A Darker Shade Of Grey

LP | 1994 | US | Reissue (Prank)

LP | 2022 | US | Original (Fdh / Savage)

Release: 1994 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Originally released in 1994 by Photographer Murray Bowles and Filth bassist Lenny Johnson’s collaborative East Bay Menace label, this split combined two of New Mexico’s fiercest hardcore bands on one split LP. East Bay Transplants from Santa Fe, New Mexico GRIMPLE’s sound had become more harsh, caustic and acidic, retaining strong songwriting of their debut LP but shedding some of their pop sensibilities for quick metallic riffing. Their brother band, Santa Fe’s Logical Nonsense had also begun to leans heavier, creatively arranged songs which front harsh guttural vocals and brutal crushing riffs pointing to the sound of their raging follow up LP’s on Alternative Tentacles, and their influences of Extreme Noise Terror, Naplam Death and Neurosis. This album has not been repressed since it’s original pressing in 1994. It was been remixed by Noah Landis from Neurosis / Christ On Parade and re-mastered by BOB Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. The packaging is true to the original but has been painstakingly recreated with slight upgrades, including a new 11x22” insert with band photos and lyrics.

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Sweet Knives

Spritzerita

Vom Bosphorus Bis Zum Rhein Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“From the ashes of Lost Sounds was born Sweet Knives. Originally this project was formed to gather the members of Lost Sounds that remained after Jay Reatard passed away, playing the songs from that band that were not Jay's songs. In place of Jay was JON Grissom, who played in a band named THE Black AND Whites (who both Jay released on Shattered as well and a few other labels worked with including Fdh). After a while Sweet Knives began to write and record new songs and saw releases on both Big Neck and Red Lounge. We are excited that Sweet Knives have a new full length that we will be releasing along with Savage Records (Sweden). This LP will be limited to 300 copies.”

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Ozan Ata Canani & Karaba

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Fun In The Church)

14,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The O'Reillys And The Paddyhats

Dogs On The Leash Orange Black Marbled Vinyl Edition

LP | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Metalville)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Genre: Rock & Indie

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Genre: Rock & Indie

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Moderns

Suburban Life

LP (Busy Bee Production)

22,99 €*

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | EU | Reissue (Skuld Releases)

Cross Stitched Eyes

Decomposition

14,99 €*

Release: 2012 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ästhetik Des Widerstands Black Vinyl Edition

Alarmsignal

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Aggressive Punk Produktionen)

24,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Tape | 2022 | US | Original (Jackpot)

Wipers

Is This Real

15,99 €*

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Teenage Shutdown I'm Down Today

V.A.

LP | 2000 | EU (Crypt)

17,99 €*

Release: 2000 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Enemy Of The Enemy Remastered Edition

Asian Dub Foundation

2LP | 2022 | EU | Reissue (X-Ray Production)

39,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2021 | US | Original (Wax Trax!)

Strike Under

One Eye / Damaged

12,99 €*

Over The Overlords Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Previously unreleased - Recorded live in 1980 for Strike Under's first show on Wzrd. Strike Under of course became the first official Wax Trax! Records release with the Immediate Action EP.

Members went on to play in Naked Raygun, Effigies, Breaking Circus and Pegboy.

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Naked Raygun

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Wax Trax!)

2LP | 2011 | EU | Reissue (Staatsakt)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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We are so happy to be bringing you the first full length album from Naked Raygun in over 30 years. The band has so much history with WAX Trax! Whether it is singer, Jeff Pezzati’s sister being the first official employee of the label, or his brother, Marco working the counter in the original Lincoln Ave. store. Besides being an amazing record - The thing that makes us so happy about the album is the fact that bassist, Pierre Kezdy’s first release on WAX Trax! was Strike Under - Immediate Action, and his last album he recorded before his passing is this current Naked Raygun release. We are truly humbled.

This transparent red edition is limited to 1,500 and won’t be pressed again.

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Ja, Panik

DMD KIU LIDT

Release: 2011 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Levitation Sessions Green Vinyl Edition

Fuzz

LP | 2021 | CA | Original (The Reverberation Appreciation Society)

Release: 2021 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Street Venom Deluxe Edition

Death Valley Girls

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Suicide Squeeze)

24,99 €*

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (Polydor)

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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+ 2014 Debut Album - First Time On Vinyl+ Remixed & Remastered W/ Two Bonus Tracks+ Lp Package Comes With 11" X 17" Folded Poster + Dl Coupon+ First Pressing Limited To 1500 Copies Worldwide On Satan's Fingerprint Splatter Vinyl //With A Name Like Death Valley, One Would Assume Early Cartographers Were Actively Deterring People From Its Boundaries. It's Now Recognized As An Ecosystem With Its Own Unique Beauty And Wonder, Though It's Not Without Its Element Of Danger. That Landscape Is A Fitting Reference For La'sblazing Rock Troupe Death Valley Girls, Whose Particular Blend Of Garage Punk, Proto-Metal, And Communal Music Drapes An Air Of Occult Mystery And White-Hot Energy Over An Underlyingcelebration Of Life And Vitality. Their 2020 Album Under The Spell Of Joy Was The Clearest Distillation Of The Band's Ongoing Mission_creating A Sound That Was Both Riotous And Transcendental, Brimming With Positivity Even As It Navigated Dark Melodies And Rowdy Riffs. That Said, Death Valley Girls Felt Fully Realized The Moment They Appeared On The Scene And Never Lost Track Of Their Initial Daredevil Energy. Their Debut Album, 2014's Street Venom, Was Given Only A Modest Roll-Out Consisting Of A Small Run Of Cassettes, But The Songs Were So Infectious That They Continue To Be Staples In The Band'slive Set. For The Rst Time, Street Venom Is Receiving Its Proper Due With A Deluxe Edition Courtesy Of Suicide Squeeze Records. Death Valley Girls Began When Vocalist/Guitarist/Organist Bonnie Bloomgarden Moved To Los Angeles To Get Clean From Drugs. Figuring That Playing Music Would Be A Positive Distraction, She Put Her Feelers Out For Potential Bandmates And Was Eventually Introduced To Hole Drummer Patty Schemel And Her Guitarist Brother Larry. Bassist Rachel Orosco Was Brought Into The Fold Soon After. "We Spent A Year Messing Around And Jamming `Cause We All Needed To Play And Have Something Safe To Do That Wasn't Aa," Bloomgarden Says Of The Band's Infancy Stage. Not Wanting To Land Showsonly Off The Meri...

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Eric Clapton

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Golden Antenna)

Ropes Of Night

Impossible Space

18,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Day By Day Blue Vinyl Edition

White Flowers

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Tough Love)

World's Most Stressed Out Gardener

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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For Songwriting Duo Joey Cobb And Katie Drew Of White Flowers, One Of The Most Exciting Young Bands In The Uk Right Now, It Was Only On Leaving London To Return To Their Native Preston That The Dark-Hued Dreampop Of Their Debut Album, Day By Day, Began To Crystalize. "There's Something Uniquely Bleak About The North," Says Joey, Speaking From The Abandoned Textile Mill That White Flowers Call Home, "But In That Bleakness There's A Certain Beauty." "We Like The More Alien Sounds" Explains Joey, "Where The Focus Is On Creating Atmosphere." This Is Perhaps Most Obvious On The Album Title Track, One Of The More Sonically Enticing Tracks On The Record With Its Pulsing Drone And Portishead-Esque Rhythm, Or Even 'Night Drive', A Live Favourite That The Pair Take Pride In Building Into A Monstrous Wall Of Sound.'Daylight' Pushes Forward With A Prettiness Matched By Katie's Oblique, Near-Glossolalia Vocal. "We Don't Like It When Things Are Clean Or Overproduced" Explains Katie, "And There's Something Interesting In The Instinctive Nature Of The First Thing You Sing, Because You Don't Really Know What You're Singing Until It Comes Out And It Makes Sense." That Psychographic-Style Process To Writing Informs A Collection Of Songs That Are At Once Both Intuitive And Fully-Formed. The Oldest Song On The Record, 'Help Me Help Myself', Bears Witness To This Approach. Perhaps Their Most Direct And Perfect 'Pop' Song To Date, It Suggests These Songs Were Always There Within, Just Waiting To Be Divined. "We'd Just Started Using Drum Machines And There's Something Of A Naïve Quality To It," Explains Katie, Though Its Naivety Has Now Been Augmented By Jez Williams' Impossibly Diaphanous Production. The Constant Upheaval Of, Well, Everything Has Fed Directly Into Day By Day. "The Songs On The Album Were Written From When We Were Teenagers Up To Our Early 20s, So It's Come Of Age In This Weird Apocalyptic Time," Says Katie. "Everything's Surrounded By Uncertainty" Notes Joey, "But It Isn't All Doom...

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Chad Vangaalen

LP | 2021 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Johnny Cash & Marty Robbins

Release: 2021 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The initial vinyl run Sp1408 is pressed on a clear w/gold, red, blue high melt! 2020 was a terrible year for gardening. It was terrible for peppers, it was terrible for tomatoes, it was terrible for the condition of the soul. But Chad VanGaalen somehow raised a garden all the same: carrots and sprouts and broccoli and a revivifying new album, all of them grown at home. He likes to eat directly off the plant, he says-"I get down on my knees and graze. It's nice to feel the vegetables in your face"-and the 13 songs on World's Most Stressed Out Gardener were harvested with just such a spirit: in their raw state, young and vegetal, at the very moment, they were made. What that means is that the Calgary songwriter's new album is a psychedelic bumper crop. A collection of tunes that does away with obsessiveness, the anxiety of perfectionism, in favor of freshness and immediacy - capturing the world as it was met while recording alone at home over a period of years. "Don't overthink it," VanGaalen told himself again and again, despite the push/pull love/hate of his relationship with songwriting. "I'm always trying to get outside of the song-but then I realize I love the song." This is a record that gleams with VanGaalen's musical signatures: found sound, reverb, polychromatic folk music that is by turns cartoonish and hyperphysical-like ultra magnified footage of a virus or a leaf. Apparently, the LP began life as a "pretty minimal" flute record. (There's only a vestige now, on "Flute Peace"-one of three instrumentals.) Later it became an electronic record "for a while" and finally, "right at the last second," it "turned into a pile of garbage." The good kind of garbage: glinting, useful, free. Music as compost-leaves, and branches ready to be re-ingested by the earth, turned into a flower. Throughout these 40 minutes, VanGaalen floats from mania to solace to oblivion, searching for zen in all the wrong places. "Turn up the radio / I think we're dead," he sings on "Nothing Is Strange"; or, on the inside-out rocker "Nightmare Scenario": "You're stressed out when you should be feeling very well." The singer's mental landscape is rotting and redemptive, beautiful in spite of itself-and his soundscapes reflect this fertile decay. He has been influenced by his instrumental work on TV scores (Dream Corp's third season began this fall), but still "nothing can really replace the human voice," he admits. Like Arthur Russell or Syd Barrett, it's VanGaalen's vocals that shine a path through the swampland-from the cello-lashed "Water Brother" to "Starlight"'s krautrock pipe-dream. These days, VanGaalen cherishes the privacy of the studio, the capacity to wander around, get distracted, and "move at the speed of life." Whereas once he would obsess over mic techniques, now he puts the microphone in the same place every time-trying to capture a song quickly, the idea at its heart. He'll act on his infatuations-for the flute, a squeaky clarinet, his basement's copper plumbing (remade into xylophones for "Samurai Sword")-and then he'll try to get out, "veering away from responsibility," before he overdoes his stay. In the end, it's like gardening. You have to live with your horrible decision-making; the weather's going to fuck you if it wants to; and if you plant a hundred heads of broccoli, "now you gotta eat a hundred heads of broccoli-or watch them go to seed." But mostly VanGaalen just tries to be a deer: "I remember seeing some deer come out in the Okanagan Valley once," he says, "watching them wait for a sunbeam to hit a perfect bunch of grapes-and then eating them right out of the sunbeam. I'd recommend that."

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Gunfighter Ballads

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (No Frills)

20,99 €*

LP | 2020 | EU | Original (Restless Empire)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Throughout the '50s and the '60s, westerns were unbelievably popular and dominated the TV channels. During the time the TV western craze was at its height, a couple of singers took shrewd advantage of the trend. This LP is divided equally between them: Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins both proved to be more western than country, recording traditional cowboy classics like Streets of Laredo (familiar from numerous movies) alongside their own original songs about outlaws and gunfighters.

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The March Violets

Eleven Violet Dances

21,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bliss Signal, Mumdance, Wife

Bliss Signal

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Caroline)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band

Live At Tubby's

2LP | 2020 | US | Original (Grapefruit)

30,99 €*