CENTAURA
2013. Warrior horse-woman of myth or chimerical beast of late 1970s funk? It is simply Centaura, available here for what amounts to the first time. For Atlanta hillbilly impresario Bob Riley, the "Spiral Series..
STEP BY STEP
2018. Soaring falsetto lead from 13-year-old Johnnie Gee, who, alongside brothers Jerome and Dewitt and a handful of kids from their Milwaukee stomping grounds, formed Step By Step in 1969. Gee and company's 1972 sw..
HAPPY RHODES
2018. The first authoritative compilation of American dream pop artist Happy Rhodes, whose singular songwriting and four-octave vocal range emanated from the pastoral confines of upstate New York in the 1980s. Her m..
HAPPY RHODES
2018. The first authoritative compilation of American dream pop artist Happy Rhodes, whose singular songwriting and four-octave vocal range emanated from the pastoral confines of upstate New York in the 1980s. Her m..
HUSKER DU
2017. Presented on FOUR LP's are the punishing earliest recordings from Minneapolis' '80s punk and underground legends Hüsker Dü. Skillfully remastered from original board tapes, demos and session maste..
SHANE JACKIE
2017. A superb collection of recordings from one of Canada's first transgender artists! Jackie Shane, born in a male body, but living a woman's life, was a popular stage personality in Toronto's '60s soul scene. Thi..
VÝBEROVKA
2017. With pop music's volume knob adjusted for deflation in the early '70s, softness begat smoothness. Crewmen arrived from the worlds of jazz, folk, rock and soul, all peddling a product that was sincere, leisurel..
CREATION
2017. The Creation was an excellent British mod/freakbeat unit which, back in the '60s, released two LP's on the German Vogue/Popp label. The band's single 'Painter Man' (covered by a.o. Boney M!) became a hit in..
UNWOUND
2018. An album Maximum Rock 'N' Roll deemed not punk enough to review, Unwound's 1994 sophomore effort was a lethal depth charge aimed at major label grunge and independent hardcore alike. From the off-kilter, verti..
VÝBEROVKA
2016. From his studio in central Bobo-Dioulasso, photographer Sory Sanl documented a nation's transformation from colonial foothold to cosmopolitan oasis. 'Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque In Upper Volta..
BLONDE REDHEAD
2016. Blonde Redhead's long out-of-print early recordings have finally crawled their way out of the '90s basement on this 2CD set. Weighing in at 37 tracks, 'Masculin Féminin' compiles the band's first two al..
BROUK JOANNA
2016. Joanna Brouk was a composer who wrote scores with geometric shapes, a poet who became a pioneer of early electronic music. Her little-known body of work exists at the nexus between ambient, new age, drone, and..
COWELL JEFF
2015. Ten road-weary tales from the wrong side of outlaw country. Jeff Cowell may have huffed the same narcotic air as Townes Van Zandt and David Allan Coe, but hunkered far from the Nashville city limits, nary a Ca..
DENNY SANDY & THE STRAWB
2014. This 2014 vinyl issue collects the original 12 track album, plus a series of outtakes from the 'Vanlose Bio' sessions previously unavailable on vinyl. These historic recordings have every claim to be called th..
DOHENY NED
2014. With no less than a mansion, a state beach, and a three-mile stretch of road bearing his fabled family's name, Ned Doheny easy-glided into the 1970s on a crest of wealth and privilege. Signposting Ned's sojour..
DOHENY NED
2014. With no less than a mansion, a state beach, and a three-mile stretch of road bearing his fabled family's name, Ned Doheny easy-glided into the 1970s on a crest of wealth and privilege. Signposting Ned's sojour..
PURPLE SNOW: FORECASTING THE M..
2013. 'Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound'. In the late 1970s a peculiar sound began bubbling up from the land ofthe 10.000 lakes. Buried beneath 50 solid inches of annual snow, Minneapolis made a sound quite differ..
MIND & MATTER
2013. Jimmy Jam Harris was just 16 when he began writing and arranging for Minneapolis 11-piece Mind & Matter. Boasting a perfectly calibrated vocal quartet, an aggressive rhythm section, and stacks of Rhodes, ..
MIND & MATTER
2013. Jimmy Jam Harris was just 16 when he began writing and arranging for Minneapolis 11-piece Mind & Matter. Boasting a perfectly calibrated vocal quartet, an aggressive rhythm section, and stacks of Rhodes, ..
EXPRESS RISING
2013. A decade ago, Dante Carfagna issued a somewhat anonymous LP under the Express Rising heading. That self-titled affair went in and out of print before 2003s summer gave way to fall, thanks in part to its releas..
IASOS
2013. Inspired by the infinitely numbered harmonies transmitted by Vista, a benevolent being from a distant dimension, Iasos broke ground for a new age of electronic sound manipulation. His was pioneering work-done..
IASOS
2013. Inspired by the infinitely numbered harmonies transmitted by Vista, a benevolent being from a distant dimension, Iasos broke ground for a new age of electronic sound manipulation. His was pioneering work-done..
CIRCUIT RIDER
2012. This is the ultimate burnout biker psych masterpiece. Finally repressed directly from tapes to flawlessly restore the cigarette burns, Harley fumes, and cocaine hangovers of the original ride. This is a 40 min..
LOVO ALFONSO
2012. The son of a prominent Nicaraguan politician, Alfonso Noel Lovo was a choice target for the Sandinista rebels who hijacked his homeward flight from Miami in December of 1971, ultimately putting several rounds ..
LOVO ALFONSO
2012. The son of a prominent Nicaraguan politician, Alfonso Noel Lovo was a choice target for the Sandinista rebels who hijacked his homeward flight from Miami in December of 1971, ultimately putting several rounds ..
VÝBEROVKA
2012. An homage to the prairie state Numero calls home, From Champaign To Chicago is a 19-track survey of Illinois Cheapest Tricks. Reaching back to 1973 and Peoria outliers the Jets and ending in 1987 with Romeovil..
CODEINE
2012. From 1990-1994, New York City's Codeine were making somnambulant waves on a musical landscape reeling from Sub Pop's better known exports. 1991's Frigid Stars LP, 1992's Barely Real, and 1994's The White Birch..
LOS NOMBRES
2012. One part War, two parts Santana, a dash of Motown, immersed in a rich Puerto Rican stock, the Nombres were the undisputed kings of Northern Ohio's rust-belt barrios. Following successive explosions of brown-ey..
VÝBEROVKA
2011. 3CD. From 1958 to 1993, Thomas and Louise Boddie's industrious Boddie Recording Company issued nearly 300 albums and 45s, recorded 10,000 hours of tape, and remained in operation longer than any other studio, ..
FATHER'S CHILDREN
2011. Hailing from the Adams-Morgan neighborhood in Washington DC, in '73 Nick Smith, Billy Sumler, & Ted "Skeet" Carpenter created a lost document of gritty soul, concerned with its own time and place..