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RELEASE DATE: 12/31/2025
Delayed... "B.B. King, the 'King Of The Blues' is an undisputed music icon. In a career spanning seven decades, he sold in excess of 50 million records, won 20 Grammy Awards, and played alongside artists such as Bono, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder. A hard-working musician, King toured the world several times over, taking his extraordinary blues from the margins to the mainstream. His emotional and sophisticated soloing on his Gibson guitar, 'Lucille,' coupled with his subtle vibrato style, influenced a diverse range of artists, including, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Richie Sambora, and even 50 Cent. This fine collection brings together some of King's greatest early blues numbers. From his first hit single, 'Three O'Clock Blues,' timeless tracks such as 'Woke Up This Morning' and 'Everyday I Have The Blues,' the epic double sider 'Sweet Sixteen' finishing with his early sixties classics, 'Someday' and 'Peace Of Mind.' King was a pioneer from the very beginning, with this collection demonstrating just why the British blues bands of the late sixties revered him as a guitar god. King was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall Of Fame in 1984, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987, received the National Academy of the Recording Arts and Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award and awarded the Presidential Medal of the Arts in 1990. In 2006 he received the Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor."
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KR 109LP
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$24.00
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RELEASE DATE: 4/25/2025
Purple Trap, the powerful trio of Keiji Haino (voice, guitar), Bill Laswell on bass, and Rashied Ali (drums), recorded live on stage at The Stone. Recorded in December 2005, this furious live album by what can easily be called a super group remained unreleased till in 2023 Bill Laswell made it accessible in a rough-mixed digital version for his bandcamp subscribers program exclusively. For this vinyl version, the music has been newly mixed by Dirk Dresselhaus (SchneiderTM) and mastered/cut by Ruy Mariné at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin. Purple Trap reunited for this one-off gig as part of a five-day Haino-festival at John Zorn's venue, The Stone, seven years after its only album had been recorded (released on Tzadik in 1999). The six untitled tracks deliver what can be expected from such musical masters: Rashied Ali, iconic free jazz drummer who played with John and Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Rollins, James Blood Ulmer, and countless more, is all drums, from quiet tiny sounds to high-energy rhythm patterns. Keiji Haino, one of the most prolific artists of the Japanese experimental/noise scene for almost 50 years now, switches between truculent guitar splatters and full-on psychedelic outbursts. Bill Laswell, who as producer and musician created a massive body of work in fields as diverse as ambient, world music, funk, jazz (and often hybrids of these), has proven his mastery in improvisation in projects like Massacre, Painkiller or (early) Material and provides the low-end grounding with his signature bass sound, or adds effect-laden ornaments to the whole. An overdue addition to a very small body of work by a clearly under-documented supergroup!
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$15.50
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RELEASE DATE: 4/11/2025
Mercenárias is an iconic band in the history of Brazilian punk and post-punk. They gained global recognition after being included in several compilations outside Brazil. Recommended for fans of The Slits, DNA, Malaria!, Kleenex, and Minutemen, this early recording by Mercenárias is more punk than their albums, but still super catchy. It has been remastered from the original tape and includes an insert with previously unseen photos and a short text by Edgard Scandurra. This is a collaboration release with the Brazilian label Nada Nada Discos. Born in the vibrant alternative scene of 1980s São Paulo, Mercenárias is an iconic band in the history of Brazilian punk and post-punk. Formed by Sandra Coutinho (bass and vocals), Rosália Munhoz (vocals), Ana Machado (guitar), and Edgard Scandurra (drums), the group stood out for their rebellious attitude, incisive lyrics, and raw sound that blended punk, post-punk, and experimental elements. Their debut album, Cadê as Armas? (1986), is considered one of the most important records in Brazilian music history. Three years earlier, they recorded their first demo tape at the studio of the funk/pop band Placa Luminosa. The recording turned out great, it's the best you can wait from a Brazilian punk record: raw, aggressive, yet catchy, well-played and produced.
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MR 7390EP
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$15.50
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RELEASE DATE: 4/11/2025
This 45 comprises two killer pop dancers with plenty of psych fuzz guitars, punchy horns and funky beats: the in-demand Christie Laume's mod anthem "Rouge-Rouge" and Marta Kubisova's "Tak Dej Se K Nám A Projdem Svět," a glorious LP-only song that has never available on a 45 before. Sister-in-law of Edith Piaf (who introduced her to the music business), Christie Laume became a ye-ye style singer in '60s France. Her mod anthem "Rouge, Rouge" (1967) is a great song that never fails in making the dance floor shake, taken from a very rare and in-demand EP. On the flipside comes Marta Kubi?ová, one of the most popular singers in the Czech Republic in the '60s. Her "Tak Dej Se K Nám A Projdem Svět" is a glorious LP-only song from 1969 that has never available on a 45 before. Expect heavy basslines, punchy horns and fuzzy guitars.
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MR 472LP
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$27.00
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RELEASE DATE: 4/11/2025
Mercenárias is an iconic band in the history of Brazilian punk and post-punk. They gained global recognition after being included in several compilations outside Brazil. Recommended for fans of The Slits, DNA, Malaria!, Kleenex, and Minutemen, the group stood out for their rebellious attitude, incisive lyrics, and raw sound that blended punk, post-punk, no wave and experimental elements. This is a compilation of rare tracks from 1983 to 1987, including ten amazing songs that didn't make it onto their two albums; there's also a great early live recording, as well as a "lost" studio session. It has been remastered from the original tapes and includes an insert with previously unseen photos and a short text by Edgard Scandurra. This is a collaboration release with the Brazilian label Nada Nada Discos. Born in the vibrant alternative scene of 1980s São Paulo, Mercenárias is an iconic band in the history of Brazilian punk and post-punk. Formed in 1982 by Sandra Coutinho (bass and vocals), Rosália Munhoz (vocals), Ana Machado (guitar), and Edgard Scandurra (drums), the group stood out for their rebellious attitude, incisive lyrics, and raw sound that blended punk, post-punk, no wave and experimental elements. Their debut album, Cadê as Armas? (1986), is considered one of the most important records in Brazilian music history.
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CSR 294LP
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$31.50
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RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
LP version. Two legendary titans of the extreme metal scene -- Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura/Petbrick) and Shane Embury (Napalm Death/Dark Sky Burial) -- join forces for this unique split of brooding dark ambient, industrial strength noise, and heavy synth-laden electronics, creating what feels like the lost soundtrack to some dystopian fever dream. Setting the tone for this double-headed behemoth with creeping, cinematic dark ambience, Iggor Cavalera's side-long "Neon Gods" unfolds into a brutal sonic nightmare. Equal measures of dread and anguish come together with the occasional reprieve of slow, pulsating drones and almost meditative waves of static. The crescendo of harsh industrial noise with heavy death industrial vocalization is nothing short of pummeling. "Neon Gods" is a bit of a sonic trip, with different layers of atmospheric vibrations, from darkness to light. Shane Embury's "Own Your Darkness" merges menacing, pitch-black dark ambient and hypnotic bass swells with celestial synth lines that subtly lurk around the peripheries. Rising and falling, ebbing and flowing -- until finally the all-encompassing apocalyptic bleakness, the enveloping darkness, closes in around you.
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CSR 294CD
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$15.50
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RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
Two legendary titans of the extreme metal scene -- Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura/Petbrick) and Shane Embury (Napalm Death/Dark Sky Burial) -- join forces for this unique split of brooding dark ambient, industrial strength noise, and heavy synth-laden electronics, creating what feels like the lost soundtrack to some dystopian fever dream. Setting the tone for this double-headed behemoth with creeping, cinematic dark ambience, Iggor Cavalera's side-long "Neon Gods" unfolds into a brutal sonic nightmare. Equal measures of dread and anguish come together with the occasional reprieve of slow, pulsating drones and almost meditative waves of static. The crescendo of harsh industrial noise with heavy death industrial vocalization is nothing short of pummeling. "Neon Gods" is a bit of a sonic trip, with different layers of atmospheric vibrations, from darkness to light. Shane Embury's "Own Your Darkness" merges menacing, pitch-black dark ambient and hypnotic bass swells with celestial synth lines that subtly lurk around the peripheries. Rising and falling, ebbing and flowing -- until finally the all-encompassing apocalyptic bleakness, the enveloping darkness, closes in around you.
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HPS 340LTD-LP
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$43.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Green color vinyl version. Repress of the fifth double album Old Growth. Old Growth is the fifth double album by the Washington, D.C., psychedelic rock band Dead Meadow. It was released in 2008 by Matador Records on CD and LP. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 340LP) and striped color vinyl (HPS 340ULTRA-LP).
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HPS 332LP
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$36.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Repress of the Three Kings album. Three Kings is a combination album and film by the psychedelic rock trio Dead Meadow, first released in 2010 by Xemu Records as a CD/DVD set. The album features live tracks recorded during a hometown gig at the conclusion of a five-month tour in support of previous album Old Growth, accompanied by five new interspersed studio tracks. Also available on green vinyl (HPS 332LTD-LP) and striped vinyl (HPS 332ULTRA-LP).
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HPS 332ULTRA-LP
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$51.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Striped color vinyl version. Repress of the Three Kings album. Three Kings is a combination album and film by the psychedelic rock trio Dead Meadow, first released in 2010 by Xemu Records as a CD/DVD set. The album features live tracks recorded during a hometown gig at the conclusion of a five-month tour in support of previous album Old Growth, accompanied by five new interspersed studio tracks. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 332LP) and green vinyl (HPS 332LTD-LP).
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$27.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
William Tyler is a Nashville guitarist and composer. He spent years woodshedding and touring with Nashville groups like Lambchop and Silver Jews before breaking away to focus on his own version of instrumental guitar music. In the summer of 2022, he was fortunate to have an artist residency at Epicenter in Green River, Utah, a tiny high desert town three hours from anything. One of the other non-profit friends of Epicenter was The Tank in Rangely, Colorado. The Tank itself is a giant and tall disused water tower from the high days of train travel and used to store water to cool train engines and such. Empty for decades, it is now an internationally recognized destination for sound art and almost unparalleled echo/acoustics. William Tyler decided to book recording time there and chose to re-interpret all of the songs of his 2019 album Goes West in a sparse yet cavernous solo acoustic setting: "Something about the frailty and space I wanted the songs to imply was lost in the over-production of the studio record, This felt like a reclamation of the songs and also a symbolic tribute to the stunning, haunted and vast possibilities of the American West, especially at the twilight of American Empire."
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HPS 339ULTRA-LP
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$51.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Black/yellow/orange color vinyl. Repress of the Shivering King And Others double album by Dead Meadow. Shivering King and Others is the third album of Washington, D.C. based band Dead Meadow. It was released on CD and double LP by Matador Records in 2003. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 339LP) and brown (HPS 339LTD-LP).
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HPS 339LP
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$36.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Repress of the Shivering King And Others double album by Dead Meadow. Shivering King and Others is the third album of Washington, D.C. based band Dead Meadow. It was released on CD and double LP by Matador Records in 2003. Also available on brown vinyl (HPS 339LTD-LP) and black/yellow/orange vinyl (HPS 339ULTRA-LP).
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BEAT 109LP
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$28.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
For the first time on vinyl, a pressing of this legendary tape released in 1993 in Colombia, documenting "Ultra Metal," the country's early extreme metal scene. Volume 1 of 2 of the vinyl release of The Colombian Awakening tape, released in 1993 by Schizophrenia Records, a comprehensive collection of face melting, raw recordings from the early Colombian extreme metal scene, with styles ranging from death metal to thrash and grindcore. A savage and powerful document of one of the most intense underground scenes of the era, kickstarted by the infamous Parabellum. A must for fans of underground metal! Includes remastered audio, new cover and a foldout inner sleeve with extensive liner notes. Limited edition of 300 copies. Featuring Aspid, Neus, Holocausto, Attack, Akerrak, Censura, Antagon, Eutanasia, Sarcasmo, Belial, and Averno.
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HPS 340ULTRA-LP
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$51.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Striped color vinyl version. Repress of the fifth double album Old Growth. Old Growth is the fifth double album by the Washington, D.C., psychedelic rock band Dead Meadow. It was released in 2008 by Matador Records on CD and LP. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 340LP) and green vinyl (HPS 340LTD-LP).
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$23.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
"Antigone is Eiko Ishibashi's new album -- a musical masterwork rife with chilling speculations, all calling from inside her own head! For Antigone, her first album of songs with lyrics and singing since 2018's acclaimed The Dream My Bones Dream, Eiko teases out images from a dystopia not unlike the one we've already got. Hers is suffused with a 'scene missing' quality, its continuity laced with sudden, odd details sprung like traps from within her music's smooth, expansive sound. It's a clash of context with Eiko's serene vocals and the well-appointed precision of the soundscape, uncanny, disturbing, not entirely okay. That's it working! And it keeps ticking like clockwork through the whole album. An accomplished keyboardist/multi-instrumental composer and improviser, Eiko consolidates her conceptions throughout Antigone. On her early song-based albums -- 2013's sci-fi-themed Imitation of Life and 2014's poptastic Car & Freezer, listeners sensed an album-oriented direction, built song by song into an inevitable whole. 2018's conceptually-united The Dream My Bones Dream allowed Eiko to tell stories closer to home. Her instrumental works since then -- 2022's For McCoy (Black Truffle) and the soundtracks for Ryusuke Hamaguchi's films, Drive My Car and Evil Does Not Exist -- have seen her diversity of musical ideas operating in an increasingly integrated long-form presentation. With these transformative encounters in hand, Eiko and her band -- drummer Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, bassist Marty Holoubek, Norweigan accordionist Kalle Moberg, Ermhoi on backing vocals, Joe Talia playing percussion and Jim O'Rourke on Bass VI, synths, etc -- bring a wide array of sounds and moods to the songs here, referencing pop, funk and jazz, ambient, electronic and musique concrète in a seamless flow. Antigone is a bittersweet look at our already-alternate reality, Eiko's jarringly personal vision glimpsed through a latticework of ambitious compositions and on-lock production techniques."
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$29.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
"Led by guitarist Tommi Holappa of European desert rock icons Dozer, Greenleaf began as an informal collective of friends making music inspired by their shared love of '70s riff rock. Having transformed into a proper band in 2013, Greenleaf enters 2025 at the forefront of the global heavy scene on the heels of acclaimed latest album The Head & The Habit. Moving into the staggering twenty fifth year of an incredible career, they mark the impressive feat with a special new reissue of their earliest releases. Featuring members of Dozer, Lowrider, Demon Cleaner and more, Greenleaf's first album Revolution Rock was self-released in 2001 and never widely distributed nor repressed since its original 500-copy run. Revolution Rock Deluxe combines that landmark album with Greenleaf's long out-of-print debut EP from 2000 onto a single stunning edition, with all songs fully remastered by Karl Daniel Lidén and the original art and design brilliantly refreshed and updated by Lowrider's Peder Bergstrand. Join Blues Funeral in celebrating a quarter century of milestone riff majesty with Revolution Rock Deluxe, and experience Greenleaf's Big Bang for the first time once again!"
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HPS 339LTD-LP
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$43.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Brown color vinyl version. Repress of the Shivering King And Others double album by Dead Meadow. Shivering King and Others is the third album of Washington, D.C. based band Dead Meadow. It was released on CD and double LP by Matador Records in 2003. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 339LP) and black/yellow/orange vinyl (HPS 339ULTRA-LP).
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$43.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Green color vinyl version. Repress of the Three Kings album. Three Kings is a combination album and film by the psychedelic rock trio Dead Meadow, first released in 2010 by Xemu Records as a CD/DVD set. The album features live tracks recorded during a hometown gig at the conclusion of a five-month tour in support of previous album Old Growth, accompanied by five new interspersed studio tracks. Also available on black vinyl (HPS 332LP) and striped vinyl (HPS 332ULTRA-LP).
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BEAT 113LP
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$28.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Vinyl repress of the sought after second album by Azuzena, queen of Spanish heavy metal. A powerful return to her metal roots originally released in 1989. Originally released in 1989, Liberación has been long out of print. After a disappointing first effort, Liberación meant a return to true heavy metal form by Azuzena, a powerful statement and the great, last album by this legendary woman. Includes two bonus tracks, remastered audio, new cover and a foldout inner sleeve with extensive liner notes. Limited edition of 300 copies.
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DC 939LP
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$27.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
"The fragmented shards from the history of punk rock are still being sourced! Thanks to the rediscovery of a long-lost cache of cassette tapes, Bag People can now be counted, the sounds of their feral stink sitting perfectly in the grime-streaked canon of NYC's early-'80s post-punk/no-wave era. Their lore commences in Chicago's western suburbs. In 1977, Carolyn Master and Diane Wlezien were juniors at Proviso West High and rock 'n rollers, with a particular taste for English rock -- The Who, The Stones, The Kinks, Bowie, T. Rex -- they were wild for it. They put an ad out for a guitarist, Gaylene Goudreau answered, and they clicked right away -- but after a year or so trying to make it in LA as the Runaways-like girl group Lois Lain, they were back in Chicago, disillusioned. Gaylene joined DA!, when, opening for DNA at Tut's one night, her life was changed. She got back with Carolyn and Diane and they started over again, this time as Bag People. Algis Kizys saw them one night in early '82 at Chicago's infamous Space Place, then beat out some kid named Albini in a tryout for the bass spot. Pete Elwyn, working for the weekend at Poppin' Fresh Pies while drumming. Their line-up set, they played on the Chicago scene for a while, with bands like The Cadavers and The Functionally Illiterate. In late 1982, they decamped to Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood. Deep within NYC's atomized urban interior, with deserted and destroyed shit everywhere, dudes selling drugs on every corner, it was a zone of lawlessness and neglect. The amorphous horror of this scene echoes distortedly through these recordings, an onslaught converging Carolyn and Gaylene's scabrous guitar interplay, Algis and Pete's free-roaming rhythm and Diane's nihilistic gutter-siren vocal projections. A few songs were recorded at Hi Five Studio in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. They taped more at the practice space, and a set at CB's but, constantly fucked up on booze and the drugs being hawked around the Lower East Side, the chaos of the times was wearing them thin. By the end of '83, it was apparent that things were falling apart. Pete literally disappeared after Christmas, taking a large part of their recordings with him. They got other drummers, but in July of 1984, they dissolved. It would be nearly forty years before their lost recordings were heard again. After Carolyn finally found Pete (on social media, no less!), Algis drove up to Massachusetts to get them so they could be heard at last."
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HPS 340LP
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$36.50
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Repress of the fifth double album Old Growth. Old Growth is the fifth double album by the Washington, D.C., psychedelic rock band Dead Meadow. It was released in 2008 by Matador Records on CD and LP. Also available on green vinyl (HPS 340LTD-LP) and striped color vinyl (HPS 340ULTRA-LP).
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$29.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
"Novalis were formed in 1971 and started singing in German on their second LP Novalis in 1975. Only their debut Banished Bridge (1973) was in English. In addition to romantic lyrics, they also used works from the classical period. 'Impressionen' from the album 'Novalis' is an interesting arrangement of Anton Bruckner's 5th symphony. Vielleicht Bist Du Ein Clown was released in 1978 on the Brain label, produced by Achim Reichel. It was the band's fifth long-player. The cover was designed by Hipgnosis (Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell), who were also responsible for the covers of Pink Floyd and the Alan Parsons Project. On this album, Novalis have once again succeeded in creating a sound in which all instruments interact in a balanced partnership. Timeless music that still works today. The re-release is limited to 500 copies on colored (random) vinyl."
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$28.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/28/2025
Second and final volume of the vinyl pressing of this legendary tape released in 1993 in Colombia, documenting "Ultra Metal," the country's early extreme metal scene. Second volume completing the vinyl release vinyl release of The Colombian Awakening tape, released in 1993 by Schizophrenia Records, a comprehensive collection of face melting, raw recordings from the early Colombian extreme metal scene, with styles ranging from death metal to thrash and grindcore. A savage and powerful document of one of the most intense underground scenes of the era, kickstarted by the infamous Parabellum. A must for fans of underground metal! Includes remastered audio, new cover and a foldout inner sleeve with extensive liner notes. Limited edition of 300 copies. Featuring Athanator, Imri, Tenebrarum, Crucifixion, Confusion, Cataleptic, Degradeath, Posguerra, and Bastard.
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$24.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/21/2025
"The third and last of the Flamin' Groovies late-'70s albums for Sire, Jumpin' in the Night storms out of the gate with the title song, a top-shelf rocker that brings the muscle of the Flamingo-era lineup of the Groovies to the more style-conscious British Invasion sonics of Cyril Jordan's version. Though Jumpin' in the Night never rocks that hard or that well again, it does sound decidedly tighter and tougher than 1978's Flamin' Groovies Now, and guitarist Mike Wilhelm, a new addition to the Now lineup, is much better integrated into their wall of guitars, with the Groovies sounding more solid than they did a year before. But while Jumpin' in the Night finds the Flamin' Groovies sounding better than ever, the material unfortunately lets them down. It's no wonder why the Flamin' Groovies loved the Byrds -- both were American bands who fell in love with the sounds of British rock and crafted their own variation on the style -- but three Byrds covers on this album is about two too many (especially given how clunky David Wright's drumming sounds on '5D'), and though having the Groovies tackle 'Absolutely Sweet Marie' and 'Please Please Me' sounds good on paper, the audible results are a bit underwhelming. (On the other hand, their cover of 'Werewolves of London' is better than anyone had a right to expect.) The production and engineering by Roger Bechirian is crisp and flattering to the guitars, but lacks the resonance of Dave Edmunds' more layered approach on Shake Some Action and Now. A great band, the Flamin' Groovies often seemed to have a hard time reconciling their best qualities with the record-making process, and Jumpin' in the Night is probably the best example of this dilemma, though it has more than enough worthwhile moments to compensate."
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