WORTHLESS
2019. The third full-length by an odd psychedelic unit from the US, blending elctronica with flashes of luminous Zappa-damaged pomp and big shards of 'Saucerful'-era Floyd guitar zonerism.
STATE CHAMPION
2018. The fourth full-length from "beard rockers" State Champions is of interest to fans of surrealistic indie-pop as well as art-rock.
RUSSELL BRUCE & MEEK NOEL
2018. Issued on vinyl is an interesting collaborative work from two acclaimed experimental guitar players, living out their analogue synth and oscilator dreams.
BLOOD QUARTET
2018. The second LP by Mark Cunningham's Spanish outfit Blood Quartet offers more aggressive post-rock and even includes a few vocal tracks. Musical influences range from noise rock à la Sonic Youth to hazy p..
PFEFFER KWITTER
2018. Experimental noise-rock from an adventurous three-piece. Amidst a Gothic cathedral of reverberating tones are delicately interwoven recordings of trains and thistly electronics creating a palpable foreground a..
FUNKE MAXINE
2018. Hailing from New Zealand, Maxine Funke releases an amazing indie-folk album that is recommended to fans of a.o. Sibylle Baier, Barbara Manning, Myriam Gendron, or Joanne Robertson. This edition is limited to 4..
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
2018. Following split releases with Palberta and Skimask, here is the first vinyl record dedicated entirely to the music of Boston's boss post-core/art-punk trio (New England) Patriots. Fans of a.o. Butthole Surfers..
LANE WILLIE
2018. Presented with new artwork, this is a remastered vinyl reissue of Willie Lane's excellent 2009 solo guitar work, including a contribution from Samara Lubelski on bass.
CREATIVE HEALING
2018. Featuring a.o. members of Hollow Deck, this group from Massachusetts presents an album of edgy, unpredictable underground pop/rock that will please fans of a.o. Captain Beefheart, Slapp Happy, Art Bears and He..
SPIELGUSHER
2018. Spielgusher is a meeting between Minutemen and fIREHOSE (a.o.) bass player Mike Watt and rock critic, performer and writer Richard Melzer, with sporadic additional musical accompaniment by guitarist Hirotaka S..
HURLEY MICHAEL
2018. A fine live-LP of a mid-'90s Michael Hurley performance in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he was joined by bassist Robert Michener and Mickey Bones, a legendary Boston drummer and bones player.
CHADBOURNE EUGENE
2018. A collection of mid-'70s recordings from the innovative guitarist that will make your jaw drop!
DEAD GIRL'S PARTY
2018. Originally released on cassette in 2010, this delivery of experimental no-wave and post-punk is now issued on vinyl. This edition is limited to 300 copies, including a download.
FAUN & A PAN FLUTE
2018. A double-lp of instrumental pieces that mix elements of jazz, prog and post-rock.
MAKO SICA & HAMID DRAKE
2018. 'Ronda' was done at two sessions, scheduled around Hamid's insanely busy work schedule. The first was at Jamdek with Douglas Malone at the board, the second was at Electrical Audio with Taylor Hales. The Elec..
NOYES CHARLES K & OWEN M
2018. Reissue of an exceptional album of improvisations, recorded when percussionist Charles K. Noyes was lured to the Bay Area in the summer of 1979 by Henry Kaiser. Noyes and Owen Maercks had played regularly as a..
NEVILLE STEFAN & GREG MA
2018. Stefan Neville is one of the busier beavers on the North island of New Zealand. Greg Malcolm is one of New Zealand's premier avant garde string-benders. For 'A Nuance' Greg plays strings, tambourine, voice and..
FLAHERTY PAUL & CHRIS CO
2018. Hard to believe it has been 18 years since this set was first issued. What most listeners took away from it was how intensely telepathic the music is. It's all lightning and smoke. These guys were deep inside ..
EMPOOL
2018. Presenting material that detes back to 1976-1977, this is an LP of rare recordings by a Detroit-based prog-noise combo related to Destroy All Monsters and Mission Of Burma.
METABOLISMUS/MONO PAUSE
2018. An intriguing split release! Hailing from Stuttgart in Germany, Metabolismus is a long going project that creates very diverse music, often influenced by kraut and Neue Welle. Mono Pause is a project based in ..
JONES MB
2018. On Matt Jones' 2018 full-length, his basic constructions are still often rooted in electronic pop, but the details that get piled on top of that now require a wide closet of costumery.
ARN ERIC & MARGARET UNKN
2018. For 'Paranza Corta', Eric Arn has chosen to team up with Austrian shapeshifter Margaret Unknown (a.k.a. Max Bogner), for a set of acoustic guitar duets.
DOBBELSTEEN JAN VAN DEN
2018. Dutch experimental musician Jan van den Dobbelsteen releases a set of wild pieces for bells of all sorts. The effect is something like a shoebox version of Charlemagne Palestine's work with carillons, perhaps ..
BANG! BROS
2018. The music on Hard Rocks Vol. 21` is exactly the brilliant, spaced and sprongy, fast edit head wrench we have come to expect of the Bros.
ABRAMS JOSHUA
2018. On vinyl, it's the intriguing 2018 solo-album by avant-garde bass virtuoso Joshua Abrams.
NOGUCHI SHUTARO
2018. This impressive debut-LP by a Louisville-based guitar genius will appeal to those into the more psychedelic sides of a.o. Todd Rundgren and Terje Rypdahl.
COLLIN JON
2018. British guitarist Jon Collin incorporates the distention of Loren Connors alongside the blues figures of Jack Rose and the lyrical melodicism of Robbie Basho. He can also throw in blurts that are pure Derek Ba..
PAPA LORD GOD
2018. The debut-LP by Brisbane's brilliant Greg Hilleard, who we first heard when he was part of the incredible Lost Domain. This solo-album makes us think of a summit between the Gibson Bros and 'Parachute'-era Eug..
FOOM & FOAM
2018. The piece was created back in 2012 as a sort of dub battle showdown, with Foom's turntables and Foam's cassettes and doodads all plugged into a 4-track recorder. The jams here are languidly-paced, in compariso..
NEW PARENTS
2018. Amongst the classic rock instrumental touches on 'Transient Response', the debut album by this Turners Falls-based rural prog-pop quartet, there are short bursts of weirdness that telegraph a 21st Century post..