***Another mysterious collection of chicha and cumbia from the clouds of Peru. This time with a lethal dose of twisted organ! Hand screened jackets!
LP $17.75
02/09/2024
***Reissue of the classic Australian punk compilation of tracks from 1977-1982. Featuring Bodysnatchers, Skunks, Young Identities, Proles, Public ExecutioN, Press, Thought Criminals, Wrong Kind Of Stone Age, Vacant Lot, Sputniks, Just Urbain, Tactics, Quick And The Dead, Z-Cars, Section Urbane, Rejex, and Chosen FeW.
LP $25.25
02/09/2024
In Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet, a dysfunctional group of performance artists undertake a month-long residency at an institute devoted to culinary disciplines. Food is interrogated for its sonic potential as the group mic-up, amplify, distort and transform what they cook in front of an audience. The noise that the characters in the film itself make is driven by food blenders, overflowing cauldrons of gurgling soup and sizzling frying pans (courtesy of The Sonic Catering Band), yet the music that soundtracks the culinary capers is engorged with aching melodies and wordless, airy vocals. Contributors include Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Trost’s band, Roj (formerly of Broadcast), and Nurse With Wound. Flux Gourmet is presented in a lush 2xLP package with an ornate, colorful design and Strickland’s detailed liner notes. Image, color, light and sound are integrated and heightened to delirious levels of hyperreality, much like Strickland’s past works, Berberian Sound Studio and In Fabric. Flux Gourmet very much alludes to his past as a member of The Sonic Catering Band, which he founded back in 1996. The band split on several occasions and got back together to create new pieces for the soundtrack, concocting strange sonic morsels and treating recipes as if they were scores. The lines between what is on the screen and what is on the soundtrack are blurred, with the band (mostly) using the exact same equipment (which they loaned to the production) and recipes as in...
LP $30.00
01/26/2024
MC $6.75
01/26/2024
MP3 $9.90
01/26/2024
FLAC $11.99
01/26/2024
***Nobody has ever done this: Fat Mike curated an intimate evening around a campfire with good friends sharing great songs along with their backstories. It was all recorded live in one take and is now released on Bottles to the Ground. These good friends included Ceschi and Sam King of Codefendants, Chuck of Mad Caddies, Stacey Dee of Bad Cop Bad Cop, many others who will be familiar to fans of punk rock or Fat Wreck Chords-- and of course Fat Mike.
2XLP $26.75
12/01/2023
Lucky number seventeen? Believe it. Those at Brown Acid have been scouring the highways and byways of America for even more hidden stashes of psych / garage / proto-punk madness from the so-called Aquarian Age. There’s no flower power here, though—just acid casualties, rock stompers and major freakouts. As always, the songs have been officially licensed, and all the artists get paid. Some samples of this trip include: Stone Hedge were a seven-piece rock band out of Michigan with a penchant for Creedence and anthropomorphism. “Smokey Bear” is their 1972 tribute to the official mascot of the U.S. Forest Services—not to mention the A side of their sole single—and it recalls the kind of organ-drenched swamp jam that soundtracked many a Burt Reynolds flick back in the day. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, may not be known as a cultural mecca, but they did produce Truth & Janey. This deadly hard rock trio delivered their holy grail full-length, No Rest For The Wicked, back in 1976. “Around and Around” is a Chuck Berry cover that originally appeared on a 1973 single the band released under the earlier name Truth. Originally released in 1973, “High School Letter” is the debut single from San Diego rock squad Glory. This infectious bonehead cruncher features future Beat Farmer Jerry Raney and the original rhythm section of Iron Butterfly in bassist Greg Willis and drummer Jack Pinney. Glory is what they got up to after their former bandmates left for L.A.’s garden of Eden. “Jack the...
CD $12.00
10/31/2023
LP $24.00
10/31/2023
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Imaginational Anthem XII: I Thought I Told You - A Yorkshire Tribute to Michael Chapman
Tompkins Square
***Michael Chapman (1941-2021) released his debut album Rainmaker in 1969 on Harvest. He went on to release over fifty albums and influence many with his evocative songwriting and guitar prowess. From heady jams to expressive ballads to experimental noise, Chapman’s work continues to inspire. Tompkins Square recruited Henry Parker to curate a collection of covers by working musicians from Chapman’s home turf in Northern England. With stunning artwork by local artist Bunty Marshall mapping the important places in Michael’s life, this 12th volume of Tompkins Square’s Imaginational Anthem series is the ultimate tribute to a very dearly missed artist.
CD $15.50
10/20/2023
LP $20.50
10/20/2023
MC $10.25
10/20/2023
***Zum started as a print fanzine but evolved into a standalone record label in 1998. Started by siblings Yvonne (Xiu Xiu, Little Otsu) and George Chen (Common Eider, King Eider, KIT, Chen Santa Maria), they launched the Zum Audio compilation series and started releasing vinyl and CDs from upstart acts in California (including an early single by !!!) and as far away as Canada, Italy, and Australia. Intervening years saw a steady flow of underground artists and associations from the fertile DIY touring circuit and Chen's show promotion efforts in the Bay Area. After taking a hiatus to focus on standup comedy and after a move to Los Angeles, Chen returned to digital and cassette releases. The next phase of the label really took off during the 2020 lockdown with vinyl releases from Body Double, My Heart, an Inverted Flame, The Acharis, and a digital-only Zum Audio Vol 4 compilation. 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of Zum existing as a proper record label. Zum Audio Vol 5 is a double CD format, necessitated by the 2:20 runtime of these tracks. The latest iteration of the comp not only features legacy Zum artists and new blood alike. You get cuts from: GROWING, THE INTIMA, SOMNAMBULISTS, CURSE ALL KINGS, JONATHAN SNIPES, PAUL COSTUROS, SPRING BREEDING, KIM, TROUGH, BAUS, AUX MEADOWS, and many others. 26 tracks in all.
2XCD $17.75
09/22/2023
Glasgow’s Somewhere Press have made quite an impression with their fledgling Somewhere Between Tapes series, providing standout debuts from Chantal Michelle, Man Rei and Alliyah Enyo, whose smudged fusion of William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, choral music and dreampop provided one of last year’s most memorable album debuts. They return with their first label compilation, themed around the Blue Hour, that liminal stretch of time when the sun hangs below the horizon and the world doesn’t seem quite real. It’s a gorgeous evocation of blurred emotions, featuring contributions from Adela Mede, Man Rei, Chantal Michelle, Slowfoam, Dania, Astrid Øster Mortensen and a ruck of new names (to us) that we’ll be no doubt hearing more from. The Blue Hour - that special time at dusk in summer when the light seems to glow soft and blue and the sounds of the world feel muted, has long been a source of inspiration in art, most famously with Guerlain’s indolic 1912 masterpiece L’Heure Bleue, a perfume that’s been described as an olfactory equivalent of an impressionist painting, and which attempted to capture that fleeting, melancholy moment where the smell of flowers also just happens to reach its peak. For this compilation, Somewhere Press invited ten artists to convey the phenomenon, using a prompt from British writer-editor Hannah Pezzack. Each artist was asked to consider the historical and cultural significance of blue, tracking through its ancient association with melancholy, death and terror, to its later relationship with the divine and contemporary malaise. The colour's...
MP3 $9.90
09/22/2023
FLAC $11.99
09/22/2023
***The nyatiti is the eight stringed lyre of the Luo people of Western Kenya and is the best known traditional music in Kenya. This collection of restored and remastered recordings from the early and mid 20th century mark the first time that nyatiti music has been documented and made widely available to a worldwide audience. Nyatiti music’s infectious and hypnotic sounds are unforgettable. The driving beat of the nyatiti rings of far off styles of Western dance and techno music. Nyatiti players are highly respected performers in both rural and urban Kenya are called to show up at weddings, funerals and drinking halls and sing songs in tribute, in remembrance and for people to drink and dance to. Nyatiti music can still be heard to this day all over Kenya, but these recordings represent the unique sound of the first half of the 20th century, and the last visages of the sounds that existed for millennia previous before the music would change to adapt to a changing world. The record features classic players such as Ogola Opot, who would go on to define the Nyatiti sound for the genre’s popular resurgence in the 1970s and 80s. Opot was considered the grandfather of the sound that most Kenyans would associate with nyatiti music. Captain Oluoch, Opondo Mugoye and Okelo Mugubi were all famous players who were asked at some point to sit down and record for many of the fledgling record labels of the time. These recordings and the subsequent remastering...
LP $20.25
09/01/2023
***The first is a series of electronic ambient compilations featuring a list of the best in the genre. Next World Sound Volume One features Thomas Miley and Jane Grey, with cover art by Danielle Eubank. This series will recall the golden era of New Age ambient recordings suitable for meditation, yoga, and general chill.
LP $25.50
08/18/2023
***New jams from Sweeping Promises, Conditioner Disco Group, Germ House, Star Party, Hood Rats,, Billiam, Neutrals, Life Forms,The Darling Buds, Friendzy, plus a few favorites from past Cassette-only Girlsville releases like "Christine" by The Myrmidons, "Almost 24" by The Prissteens, UK Gold's alternate Girlsville comp version of "Off Duty Nuns," UV-TV's "Severed Hand Revisited," and The Maxines "Honestly" are all here and available on vinyl for the first time ever. Proceeds to benefit Feline Rescue, Inc. "Girlsville is punk comp royalty"—Lars Gotrich (NPR Music) CONDITIONER DISCO GROUP (Portland, OR) Post Everything Downtown Disco Rhythm & Funk Treble Punk UK 78, NYC 81, SAN FRANCISCO 2002. Last recording as a full band. SWEEPING PROMISES (Lawrence, Kansas by-way-of Boston) Avant Pop. Angularity with Sharp Hooks, Dancing this mess around with Egyptian Shumba. GERM HOUSE (Warren, RI) "Justin Hubbard’s solo project GERM HOUSE strikes a balance between earnest, lo-fi songwriting and bizarro erudite post-punk...Luke Henley, MAXIMUMROCKNROLL" STAR PARTY (Seattle, WA) Shambolic Noise Pop sounds like something that came out on Subway Organization or 53rd and 3rd Records circa 86-87. HOOD RATS (Montreal, Québec) The real deal - melt your face off punk rock. Music influenced by our dystopian present butting heads with some 80's Hardcore and a little 90's Rip Off Records. Always maximum shredding & guttural pissed off vocals. UV-TV (Queens, NY) Always brilliant Noise Pop favorites. THE MAXINES (Olympia, WA) Garage Rock duo at their Girls In The Garage best with Kel Norman on vocals. THE PRISSTEENS (NYC) Demo from 1999...
LP $21.25
08/11/2023
***Real Steel Volume 1 - Rare 7" singles from the 70s-80s U.S. Hard Rock and Metal Underground. Insanely rare independently released USA metal 45s, many of them completely unknown, all dating from the late 70s and early 80s. This is metal kiddos, not biker rock or psych rock. METAL METAL METAL. These bands are not fucking around, they were thee legit best band in their stupid little burg back then, they totally knew it, and now they are finally busting out all over your face. Eat it and weep.
LP $24.00
07/28/2023
***Real Steel Volume 2 Rare 7" singles from the 80s U.S. Metal Underground. Even more stupidly rare METAL, all sourced from self-released USA singles, with this second volume all from the 1980s. Even more production technique gets thrown at these 45s, so they all totally shred. Some of the best metal vinyl from this decade, and totally obscure until now. If you care at all about your Metal Health, you'll keep this fucker on repeat.
LP $24.00
07/28/2023
Sixteen trips might fry the fragile psyche of the average teenager, but the hoary old heads at Brown Acid boiled their brain pans long ago! As such, Riding Easy is bringing even more hard rock, heavy psych, and garage rock rarities from the North American wasteland of the 1970s. From L.A. to Youngstown, OH, from Toronto to Charlotte, The Sixteenth Trip has got everything covered. As always, original copies of these 45s would cost a pretty penny—if one could find ’em in the first place. And by now one knows the drill: This ain’t no bootleg. All songs are officially licensed. This sixteenth installment kicks off with “Shuckin’ and Jiving,” a seven-minute power jam from L.A.’s kings of garage psych, the Seeds. The song appeared as a single in 1972 with “You Took Me By Surprise” on the flipside. It was the only release on Productions Unlimited, a label created by (or for) the Seeds at the tail end of their late ’60s / early ’70s run as Sky Saxon And The Seeds. Get shucked! Macbeth released their one and only 45 in 1978, with the steamrolling “Freight Train” as the b-side to “Didn’t Mean (To Come This Far).” Boasting a thick-ass riff, a tasty stereo-panned guitar solo and at least one space laser sound effect, this one should satisfy fans of Blue Cheer and Grand Funk alike. Macbeth’s bassist, Ned Meloni, went on to play with UFO guitarist Paul Chapman, Virgin Steele guitarist Jack Starr and do a brief...
CD $12.00
07/21/2023
LP $24.00
07/07/2023
***BACK IN PRINT!!! It has been forty years since the release of "Oi – The Album". Four decades of laughter, defiance and working class rebellion. To celebrate its ruby anniversary, GARRY BUSHELL—who put together that very first Oi compilation in 1980—has teamed up with Pirates Press Records to present this superb new album: Oi! 40 Years Untamed. This hard-hitting collection features exclusive, unheard songs from the Oi pioneers, and original tracks from younger, up-and coming bands from around the world. Features tracks from: COCK SPARRER, COCKNEY REJECTS, GONADS, THE BUSINESS, CRASHED OUT, BISHOPS GREEN, STOMPER 98, DOUG & THE SLUGZ, OLD FIRM CASUALS, LAST RESORT, and more.
LP $18.50
05/05/2023
Featuring long-lost gems from ultra-rare 45s and private press singles—plus one previously unreleased banger—Scrap Metal Vol. 2 maintains a steady NWOBHM course. Packed with infectious outliers and supremely talented one-and-done metal warriors from the crucial British movement of the late ’70s and early ’80s (and some killer American obscurities inspired by them), this collection delivers all the fist-pumping, riff-mongering and flashy solos of heavy metal’s golden age. As always, every track has been officially licensed and every artist gets paid. Some examples include: As a late entry into the NWOBHM sweepstakes, JJ’s Powerhouse was formed in Merseyside, England, by guitarist Jon “J.J.” Cox with members of his previous band, Quad. Much like the opener to the original Scrap Metal comp, one can hear early Metallica coursing through this legendary ripper. Coincidentally, this ultra-rare 45 was released in ’83, the same year as Kill ’Em All. Taking their name from a 1978 sci-fi novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Welsh super troopers Storm Queen reveled in animal-print clothing and flying Vs. The Motörhead-meets-Priest anthem “Raising the Roof” is the flipside to their only single, which the band self-released in 1982. Led by guitarist Dave Morse, Storm Queen’s earliest lineup included bassist Bryn Merrick (RIP), who would go on to join The Damned. Roaring out of Birmingham, England, in 1975, Jameson Raid palled around with fellow Brummies Black Sabbath and named themselves after a failed 19th century attack that helped kick off South Africa’s Second Boer War. Their three-song 1979 debut featured the...
CD $12.00
03/17/2023
LP $24.00
02/17/2023
***Third Man Records is excited to announce Southeast Of Saturn Vol. 2. The compilation is a follow up to 2020’s Southeast of Saturn, a collection of music from Detroit’s space-rock/shoegaze/dream pop scene of the ‘90s. The second volume expands upon the Michigan-centric aural delights purveyed on Vol. 1, by including groups from throughout the Midwest. Highlighting groups spanning Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, Vol. 2 works to cement the Midwest's status as a breeding ground for the space-rock and shoegaze subgenres, which more famously burgeoned in the UK. Once again, there are no big names or crossover artists on Southeast Of Saturn Vol. 2. However, for those who know that digging deep in the real and virtual record bins yields the greatest rewards, this 18-track compendium will trigger profound swoons. We've scoured the Midwestern underground, highlighting the evanescent acts of the 90’s such as Star Phase 23 and Sidereal, so you don't have to.
LP $26.95
12/09/2022
***Repressed for the first time since being released in 83, Puke n Vomit is releasing both volumes of what are now considered essential slices of 82 UK/PUNK/Oi! from the legendary No Future Records.The comp feature many exclusive and rare early demo versions of tracks from well known scene defining bands such as Intensive Care, ABH, Impact along with other obscure and lesser known bands such as Patrol, Mania, and On Parole among others.
LP $23.50
12/02/2022
Jewish Arts & Culture Non-profit Reboot presents a vinyl record of the new rescore of the iconic 1921 silent horror film, The Golem. The Golem is the Jewish Frankenstein that inspired the Boris Karloff original and a renowned Jewish fable about the occult and Jewish identity. Featuring original music by Scott Amendola, Steven Drozd (The Flaming Lips), and Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, The Flesh Eaters) / Threshing Floor (Alan Licht, Gretchen Gonzales Davidson, Rebecca Odes, John Olson, Nate Young) / Meg Baird, Charlie Saufley and Jeremiah Lockwood / Universal Eyes (members of Slumber Party and Wolf Eyes) / Michael Morley (The Dead C) / Sharon Gal / Marika Hughes and Shahzad Ismaily / ∈Y∋ (Boredoms) .
LP $19.00
11/25/2022
MP3 $9.90
11/25/2022
FLAC $11.99
11/25/2022
***Number four in Fat Wreck's pioneering cheap-shit punk sampler series. You get unreleased trackage from: NOFX, AVAIL & NO USE FOR A NAME, plus additional fuck-uppage from: SICK OF IT ALL, LAGWAGON, CONSUMED, ATARIS, WIZO, GOOBER PATROL, STRUNG OUT, TILT, FRENZAL RHOMB, SWINGIN' UTTERS, MAD CADDIES, SNUFF and SCREECHING WEASEL.
LP $17.75
11/18/2022
CD $6.00
11/17/2002
LP $17.75
11/18/2022
***A retrospective collection of tracks released on MIKE DONOVAN's (SIC ALPS, PEACERS) San Franciso-based Folding Cassette label circa the early 2000s. Features tracks from BEAR KLAWS, KIT CLAYTON, NETMEN, BIG TECHNO WEREWOLVES, FREEDOM JAZZ, NAM, NVH/CHASNY, SKELETOR, ABK, BANANAS, MIKEY WILD, NO BOSS, and others.
LP $21.25
11/18/2022
***The history of the Blorp Esette, which chronicles the output of the Los Angeles Free Music Society and other entities in its orbit, dates back to 1977, with the release of Blorp Esette Volume One LP (soon to be reissued by Superior Viaduct) and Volume 2 2LP in 1980. Volumes 3 and 4 emerged in 1999, packaged in a boxset with the previous volumes. The Blorp Esette Gazette first appeared with Volume 1 & 2 in 2013. Intended to be an on-going series, it was paused after the passing of Transparency label owner Michael Sheppard who was co-releasing the CDs w/ LAFMS members. While the original Esette is an obligatory who's-who of LAFMS (Doo-Dooettes, Smegma, Le Forte Four), the Gazettes have an even more sprawling reach. Compiled by Ace Farren Ford and Ju Suk Reet Meate, Volumes 3&4 features: Michael Uhlenkott, {AN} EeL, Ace & Duce, Control Unit, Sissy Spacek, Kommissar Hjuler und Frau Mama Baer, Million Brazillians, Lee Rockey, Trance Farmers, Keith Mitchell, Split Second, Mr. Foon, Electric Bill Robinson, Testing Vault, Donkey Flybye, James Dewey, Eric Zann, Threed, Purple Panther Ensemble, Lynn Carey, Collide Burger with Chicken Larry and Patrick Lubow, Dr. Amazon, Io, GX Jupitter-Larsen & Ace Farren Ford, Dan and Letha Rodman Melchoir, Harold Schroeder, Erica Rawlings. Art direction by John Wiese & Ace Farren Ford, with collages from Cody Brant featured throughout the release. Each "issue" of the Gazette features a visual artist (Vol. 1 was Ace Farren Ford, Vol. 2 was Rick Potts).
2XCD $13.75
11/11/2022
Lo and behold, Brown Acid - The Fifteenth Trip is here, and it’s another mind-melting dose of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from the ’60s -’70s. Riding Easy’s crate-digging mining expeditions, and growing network of the original artists keeps on giving with more and more incredible discoveries every time they go back for more. Like they’ve done throughout this series, all of these tracks were painstakingly licensed legitimately and the artists were paid. Make oneself comfortable and prepare for yet another deep, deep dive into the treasure trove of dank, subterranean, wild-eyed and hairy rock ’n’ roll of yesteryear. Some key examples include: As usual, this Trip opens strong, as “Take The Time” swaggers along with switchblade stabs of guitar twang and frantic drumming that sounds like Nick Cave’s ’80s post-punk barbarians The Birthday Party on this 1969 single from the mysterious Boston area band The Looking Glass. Negative Space toil in the dark web of The Seeds, and dwell in the mystic haze of working class suburbs in Camden, NJ circa 1970. Their angry, nasty guitar sounds and frustration-bogged frontman Rob Russen ensure that the aggro fueled “Forbidden Fruit”—in which he confesses his love for his sister-in-law—will hit one right in the face. Truth & Janey might be familiar from their 45-only “Midnight Horseman” single heard way back on the Sixth Trip, and / or their incredible 1976 album No Rest For The Wicked. Their super-driven soul leaning cover of “Under My...
CD $12.00
10/31/2022
LP $24.00
10/31/2022
Here’s just a few of the gems on Brown Acid - The Fourteenth Trip, the much beloved series that is the Nuggets of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock: The Legends’ “Fever Games” is a 1969 fever dream of heavy psych on par with Blue Cheer at their heaviest, featuring an incredible intro with whammy-bar gymnastics through an Echoplex. This Harrisburg, PA power trio, featuring Dan Hartman (Edgar Winter Group, et al) and his brother Dave, also name-checks Jimi Hendrix Experience in the midst of the song’s most blatant Hendrix rip. Perhaps that’s how Fever Games work? Transfer’s velvet smooth groove has an almost proto-punk feel like a mashup of the Velvet Underground and The Flamin’ Groovies. But the lyrics referencing tokin’ reefer and the twanging surf lead situate them closer to their heavy rock brethren. This very rare 1974 self- released 45 is this lone archive of the band’s existence—assume they just kept right on playin’ it cool into oblivion. Cox’s Army deploy the grungy rocker “I’m Tired” which sounds like if Jimi Hendrix fronted Mudhoney. Yes, please! Though they hailed from Aurora, IL, it sounds like there’s definitely some Pacific Northwest in their blood. Particularly in the gritty production, which hints at The Sonics’ “bustin’ outta lo-fi” style. Not much is known about the enigmatic Columbus, OH musician known as Raven, whose “Back to Ohio Blues” closes this edition. The mantra-like droning riff of this eight-minute jam is a Black To Comm-style epic, driven by Raven’s hostile, no-bullshit diatribe until it...
LP $24.00
08/26/2022
CD $12.00
07/15/2022
***Back in print for the first time on vinyl after many years. Initially released on legendary and pioneering Southern California Punk/Hardcore label Smoke 7 Records in 1982. The essential Sudden Death compilation is back, featuring exclusive tracks from JFA, SIN 34, REDD KROSS, MORAL DECAY, CRANKSHAFT, SADIST FACTION, THE SINS,, YOUTH GONE MAD, DEMENTED, NAUGHTY WOMEN, and DEAD YOUTH. This compilation features a who’s who of Southern California Trashy Punk / Hardcore.
LP $24.45
08/19/2022
***Live at the Bootleggers captures a moment in time, and a place in history when community was created around the buying and drinking of illegal liquor…moonshine…white lightening. It was recorded live at a bootlegger’s homebase in Fayette County, Tennessee in 1971 at the behest of LATTIE MURRELL, whom BENGT OLSSON and BILL BARTH had tracked down to document. Besides Murrell, Barth and WILLIAM FLOYD DAVIS, the contributors to this record just happened to be spellin’ with the same bootlegger that evening; they are unknown voices, arising with glory from the soak of moonshine, and then fading back into obscurity.
LP $19.00
08/08/2022
***The classic sought after 1981 American punk compilation originally released on pioneering Southern California label Smoke 7 Records is being reissued on vinyl for the first time. The compilation features some of the earliest recordings from Bad Religion and Red Cross. The comp also contains rare tracks from popular '80s punk bands RF7, Circle One and Disability.
LP $24.45
07/15/2022
Here are just some of the gems from this latest edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost vintage ’60s-’70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid - The Thirteenth Trip: Max, from Montreal, QC—originally known as Dawn, before Tony Orlando & Dawn forced a name change—kick things off with “Run Run” from their lone 1970 single. It’s a hard-hitting rocker with scale climbing crunching guitars and powerful Bonham-esque drumming. “Feelin’ Dead” is extremely heavy blues from this also extremely rare 1974 single by Detroit, MI’s Master Danse, which was only released as a promo 45. Think Led Zeppelin’s “Since I’ve Been Loving You.” Gary Del Vecchio is “Buzzin’” hard, and from what sounds like an in-studio party of yelps and chatter at the start of the song, it seems that the whole band was in on the festivities. The funky blues riff, reminiscent of Led Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker” and rollicking rhythmic changes certainly keep the buzz a rollin’. Finally, Good Humore’s swaggering 1976 rocker “Detroit” is a slick and smooth paen to the Motor City. It most likely doesn’t predate “Detroit Rock City” by Kiss, also released in 1976, and it has more rock’n’roll swing, but it could fit comfortably alongside the era’s arena anthems. “Mining the surprising rich reserves of heavy rock and proto-metal from the ’60s and ’70s, these collections have been crucial to understanding the history of a subgenre of rock that had far deeper roots than most fans realize.” – Paste Magazine
LP $24.00
06/17/2022
CD $12.00
10/31/2021
***A collection of Gizmos covers (from the ’79-to-’81 era), sent in to the Gulcher braintrust by True Believers from around the world. About half the bands herein are fellow Hoosiers (Cowboys, Gentleman Caller, Last Four Digits, Mysteries Of Life, Phil & Michael Combo, Aaron Poehler, Vess Ruhtenberg, Walking Ruins), two hailed from Boston via Bloomington (Unattached, Boll Weevils), while eight are of the more far-flung variety, representing Brooklyn (Lame Drivers), Los Angeles (Lucas Aaron), Washington DC (BBQT), Canada (Band From Planet X, Phone Jerks), Sweden (Makeouts), Argentina (Victima Del Vaciamiento), and Peoria, Illinois (Brody Maag Hits). A huge Thank You! to everyone who contributed, as well as to everyone who continues to carry the torch for real rock‘n’roll.
MC $11.00
05/27/2022
MP3 $8.99
06/10/2022
FLAC $9.90
05/27/2022
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Imaginational Anthem XI - Luke Schneider Presents Chrome Universal - A Survey of Modern Pedal Steel
Tompkins Square
***Curated by in-demand Nashville pedal steel maverick and Third Man recording artist Luke Schneider, the eleventh volume of Tompkins Square’s venerable acoustic guitar series Imaginational Anthem features exclusive tracks by legend BJ Cole, as well as leading exponents on the instrument including Susan Alcorn, Luke himself, and British expat / Nashville hotshot Spencer Cullum among others. Nashville native and Merge recording artist William Tyler has written a beautiful detailed history of the pedal steel for the package.
MC $10.25
06/03/2022
CD $15.50
08/12/2022
LP $20.50
12/02/2022
***Fourteen slabs of the heaviest Thai funk and psych rockers ever committed to vinyl. The styles featured on this compilation fall somewhere between luk thung ("song of the countryside") and luk krung ("song of the city"). Bangkok was a melting pot for the evolution of these two genres, the former alluding to musical themes and lyrics aimed at the wider national population and the latter looking westward with a more urban audience in mind. Thai? Dai! collects experiments by both little-known groups and established figures like Plearn Promdan. Even within Thailand the majority of these tunes remain unissued outside of this compilation, making this a truly essential glimpse into the strange underbelly of Thai luk thung in all its unique, original, and outlandish glory; a small snapshot of an otherwise forgotten era, gloriously remastered from the original sources and officially licensed from the original label, Sound of Siam Co. Ltd. Includes performances bySroeng Santi; Plearn Promdan; Rung Petchburi; Rung Fah Puping; Petch Burapa;Teungjai Bunpraruksa; Riem Daranoi; and Jalwal, Annie & Geerasak.
LP $32.45
05/20/2022
***From the mind of Rich Hopkins, co-founder and guitarist of the Sidewinders/Sand Rubies and one of Arizona’s most accomplished rock ’n’ roll exports, comes The Whole Enchilada: The History of Desert Rock 1976-1994. This whopping three-LP + 70-page book + access to film multi-media set, a who’s-who anthology of Tucson, Arizona’s musical trailblazers—and its woefully overlooked—arrives in April from the San Jacinto label. Painstakingly compiled, The Whole Enchilada is a veritable Tucson musical family tree, leading us from from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, from the swoony Bob Meighan Band and the honky tonk of the Dusty Chaps (both whom signed to major labels in the 1970s) to international indie giants Green On Red (Serfers), Howe Gelb’s pre-Giant Sand 1970s electro-rock band Giant Sandworms, Naked Prey, Al Perry and The Cattle—as well as Desert Rock breakouts The Sidewinders, Yard Trauma, Black Sun Ensemble, and many more. With varying styles covering honky tonk, power-pop, country and cow-punk, fusion, punk rock, eclectic and art-damaged, amped up bluegrass, blues and straight up sunbaked rock ’n’ roll, the album is full of pleasant surpirses (unsung country great Ned Sutton, for example), collectible rarities, popular numbers and outright gems you’ll wonder how you ever missed. Accompanying the three-record set is a 70-page companion book with rare photos, obscure histories and anecdotes, and dozens of biographical essays by many of the artists themselves, plus others by writers, journalists, photographers and deejays, placing the reader centerstage at Desert Rock’s halcyon days—compiled by Tucson...
fpo $49.50
05/09/2022
***SHRINKWRAP KILLERS, LOVE SONGS, FLESHIES and THESE BASTARDS present this small token as a tribute to our friend Scott Alcoholocaust. He dedicated decades of his life to the Bay Area music scene, relentlessly booking shows and helping the Bay Area punk scene flourish. Not to mention the thousands of touring bands helped along the way. There's nothing anyone can do to match the scale of what Scott did for us, but hopefully this little slab of wax will be a small reminder of the greatness of Scott. All proceeds will go towards the Scott Memorial Fund.
7" $12.00
03/25/2022
At the dawn of the '80s, The United Kingdom was awash with regional compilations documenting the burgeoning local punk, postpunk, DIY movements that were rampant all over. Rough Trade's seminal, Wanna Buy A Bridge? may have started the fad, but it soon became quicksilver. From Portsmouth ('South Specific'), to Richmond ('The Snoopies Album') to Cardiff ('8 from '80), no local scene was too insignificant. So it should come as no surprise that Buntingford, a small market town in East Hertfordshire, would tag in with one of the strongest, yet most obscure, albums of the era. Comprised of about a dozen or so local youths under different monikers, The Buntingford Long Playing Record sidetracks the punk handle-which was surely a death knell in this bucolic civil parish-but expertly nails a brace of mod, powerpop & DIY tracks. And to a person, it would seem the works here were both their magnum opus & swan song. If this isn't a perfect example of the Protestant Work Ethic in action, I'll gladly eat a spotted dick. Without question, the greatest collection of one & done pop/punk masterpieces from that magical, bygone time. Originally released in 1981, now reissued by the estimable Zaius Tapes label, edition of 250. RIYL; The Messthetics series, the Matchbox Classics label, Johan Kugelberg's top 100 DIY singles list.
LP $22.00
03/18/2022
***Working with two dozen bands and their labels, filmmaker Ben Johnson curated an amazing survey of dynamic underground music as a backdrop to his rock ‘n’ roll indie thriller ‘Fanboy’ (Gnarlsberg Productions via Amazon, 2021). The limited edition colored vinyl double-LP culls together 22 of those songs. Features tracks from Hot Snakes, Deathe Eyes, Big Business, Red Fang, Mr. Tube, The Black Heart Procession, Marsupials, The Cherry Valence, and others. Enclosed download card offers an additional 6 songs (by film stars Xenos, Grammatical B, and Montalban Quintet).
2XLP $26.95
01/28/2022
***In 1970, while the United States was recovering from the tumultuous unrest of the sixties and Southern segregationist George Wallace was between bids for the presidency, a young black preacher and an aging hillbilly bandleader struck up a friendship in a coffee shop in downtown Memphis. For the next decade and a half, record producer Juan D. Shipp and studio engineer Clyde Leoppard embarked on a musical journey that produced some of the most stirring sacred soul music ever laid to tape. Behold the story of Shipp's D-Vine Spirituals record label, told here for the very first time since it's 45 RPM glory days, and see if you don't agree with the original company motto: "D-Vine Is Gospel."
LP $23.75
01/14/2022
***In 1970, while the United States was recovering from the tumultuous unrest of the sixties and Southern segregationist George Wallace was between bids for the presidency, a young black preacher and an aging hillbilly bandleader struck up a friendship in a coffee shop in downtown Memphis. For the next decade and a half, record producer Juan D. Shipp and studio engineer Clyde Leoppard embarked on a musical journey that produced some of the most stirring sacred soul music ever laid to tape. Behold the story of Shipp's D-Vine Spirituals record label, told here for the very first time since it's 45 RPM glory days, and see if you don't agree with the original company motto: "D-Vine Is Gospel."
LP $23.75
01/14/2022
***Repressed for the first time since being released in 1982, Puke n Vomit is releasing both volumes of what are now considered essential slices of 82 UK/PUNK/Oi! from the legendary No Future Records. The comp feature many exclusive and rare early demo versions of tracks from well known scene defining bands such as Violators, One Way System, Attak, Crux along with other obscure and lesser known bands such as Pseudo Sadists, Chaotic Youth, Protest, Hostile Youth among others.
LP $23.50
12/24/2021
***From the vaults of pioneering and seminal Finnish Punk Hardcore Label Propaganda Records. PNV reissues domestically for the first time this amazing compilation from 1983. Features tracks from some of the best Finnish Punk Hardcore bands ever, featuring Kansan Uutiset, Riistetyt, Aparat, Rattus, TampereSS, Protesti, Bastards and many others.
LP $23.50
12/24/2021