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New Releases & Recent Arrivals 9/29/2009

2009-09-29T00:02:00.000-07:00

Compact Discs

V/A - 100 Club Anniversary Singles 6T's (Northern Soul)

7 Worlds Collide - Sun Came Out

Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black

Beatles - Reissues, all of them. But no box sets right now.

Big Pink - Brief History of Love

Karl Blau - Zebra

Breakestra - Dusk Til Dawn

Brother Ali - Us

Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel

Vic Chestnutt - At the Cut

Chromeo - DJ Kicks

Circulatory System - Signal Morning

Guy Clark - Somedays the Song Writes You

The Clean - Mister Pop

V/A - Complete Goldwax Singles Vol. 2

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains

Betty Davis - Is It Love or Desire & Nasty Gal

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe - Brother's Keeper

Digital Leather - Warm Brother

Dodos - Time To Die

Drummer - Feel Good Together

Feelies - Crazy Rhythms & Good Earth

Fresh & Onlys - Grey-Eyed Girls

Gordon Gano & the Ryans - Under the Sun

Lisa Germano - Magic Neighbor

Ghostface Killah - Wizard of Poetry

Bebel Gilberto - All In One

Girls - Album

Grand Archives - Keep in Mind Frankenstein

David Gray - Draw the Line

Health - Get Color

Gary Higgins - Seconds

Bobby Hutcherson - Wise One

Islands - Vapours

Jay-Z - Blueprint 3

Kiila - Tuota Tuota

Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky

Lake - Let's Build a Roof

LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 Remixes

Madonna - Celebration

Rose Melberg - Homemade Ship

Metalocalypse: Dethklok - Dethalbum II

Mew - No More Stories

Monsters of Folk - S/T

Mum - Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know

Muse - Resistance

Om - God is Good

Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head & the Sky (it's good)

Os Mutantes - Haih or Amortecedor

Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars

Paramore - Brand New Eyes

Pastels/Tenniscoats - Two Sunsets

Johnny Paycheck - Nowhere To Run (the beardless early years)

Pearl Jam - Backspacer

Phish - Joy

Polvo - In Prism

Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2

Rain Machine - S/T

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - 11:11

Stone Roses - S/T (remastered anniversary edition)

Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary & LP2 (remastered)

Taken By Trees - East of Eden

V/A - Thai Funk Vol. 2

Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited

Vampires of Dartmoore - Dracula's Music Cabinet (Finder's Keepers)

V/A - Vol. 2- Siamese Soul: Thai Pop (Sublime Freqencies)

Rufus Wainwright - Milwaukee At Last!!! (live)

V/A - Warp 20

V/A - Where the Action Is! L.A. Nuggets

Why? - Eskimo Snow

XX - S/T

Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs

Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost

Vinyl

Anti-Pop Consortium - Fluorescent Black

Antlers - Hospice
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Avett Brothers - Slight Figure of Speech
Big Pink - Brief History of Love
Karl Blau - Zebra
Brilliant Colors - S/T
Caretaker - Persistent Repetition
Carter Family - I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
Greg Cartwright - Live at the Circle
Chromeo - DJ Kicks
Elizabeth Cotton - When I'm Gone (Folkways Reissue)
Dodos - Time To Die
V/A - Eastern Standard Time (Middle Eastern Instrumentals from the 60's)

Fresh & Onlys - Grey-Eyed Girls

Girls - Album

Grass Widow - S/T (new 12" EP)

Health - Get Color
Gary Higgins - Seconds
V/A - Horse Meat Disco
Blind Lemon Jefferson - I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart
Lake - Let's Build a Roof
V/A - Legends of Benin
Rose Melberg - Homemade Ship
MIJ - Yodeling Astrologer
Mississippi Sheiks - Sittin' On Top of the World
Mudhoney - Supefuzz Bigmuff/Mudhoney/EGBDF (cheap & loud reissues)
Om - God is Good
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band - Between My Head & the Sky (it's good)
Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Pens - Hey Friend What You Doing
Polvo - In Prism
Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract
Frank Stokes - Downtown Blues (Monk is continuing to get all Yazoo on us)
Stone Roses - S/T (remastered anniversary edition)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary & LP2 (remastered)
Taken By Trees - East of Eden
Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited
Velvet Underground - Singles 1966-69 (a seven 7" box set on Sundazed)
V/A - Wheedle's Groove (classic Seattle funk compilation, thicker & $$$ than ever)
White Shit - Sculpted Beef EP
Why? - Eskimo Snow
Wilco - A.M.
Lucinda Williams - Happy Woman Blues & Ramblin' On My Mind (Folkways)
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Young Marble Giants - Live At the Hurrah

Hornet Leg

2009-09-28T23:57:00.000-07:00

best record of the year? probably

Artswalk Sale - Oct. 2nd-4th

2009-09-23T19:12:00.000-07:00

New Releases & Recent Arrivals 9/3/2009

2009-09-03T12:20:00.000-07:00

Compact Discs

39 Clocks - Paint It Dark

Andrew W.K. - 55 Cadillac

Apples in Stereo - #1 Hits Explosion

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

David Bazan - Curse Your Branches

Brendan Benson - My Old Familiar Friend

Black Crowes - Before the Frost...

Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer EP

Blue Scholars - Bayani Redux

Cage - Depart From Me

James Carter & John Medeski - Heaven on Earth

Drive By Truckers - Fine Print (Collection of Odds & Ends)

Liam Finn - Champagne in Seashells EP

John Fogerty - Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again

V/A - Vol. 1-Free Spirits (Jazz)

V/A - Funky Frauleins (70's German Grooves)

Groundation - Here I Am

Woody Guthrie - My Dusty Road (very nice box set)

Imogen Heap - Ellipse

Herbaliser Band - Session 2

Inner Circle - State of the World

Insane Clown Posse - Bang! Pow! Boom!

V/A - Kompakt Total 10

Ladyhawke - S/T

Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio

Nick Lowe - Bentford Trilogy Box Set

Barbara Lynn - Here is Barbara Lynn (Water Reissue)

Matisyahu - Light

Megafaun - Gather Form & Fly

Ingrid Michaelson - Everybody

Midnite - Ina Now

Monotonix - Where Were You When It Happened

Willie Nelson - American Classic

Pax Nicholas & the Netty Family - Na Teef Know De Road of Teef (Daptone reissue of rare 70's Afrobeat)

Jim O'Rourke - Visitor

Patton Oswalt - My Weakness is Strong

Ramona Falls - Intuit

Reverend Horton Heat - Laughin' & Cryin' With...

Smokey Robinson - Time Flies When You're Having Fun

Sally Shapiro - My Guilty Pleasure

Sol.illaquists of Sound - No More Heroes

V/A - Sound of Wonder! (70's Pakistani Electronic Lollywood Pop)

V/A - Underwater Peoples

Vivian Girls - Everything Went Wrong

Loudon Wainwright III - High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project

V/A - Wayfaring Strangers: Lonesome Heroes (Numero Loner Folk Collection)

Delroy Wilson - Dub Plate Style

Vinyl

V/A - A Orillas Del Magdelena

Egon - Curse of the Evil Badger (Stones Throw Breaks)

Entrance Band - S/T

Eternal Tapestry - Invisible Landscape

Explorers - Bermuda Telepaths

Eyedea & Abilities - By the Throat

Famous L. Renfroe - Children (Late 60's Seattle Gospel Funk)

James Ferraro - Citrac

Finally Punk - Casual Goths

John Fogerty - Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again

Woody Guthrie - Four Separate LPs from the My Dusty Road set

Japanther - Skuffed Up My Huffy

Neil Landstrumm - Bambaataa Eats His Breakfast

Little Claw - Human Taste

V/A - Lock Groove (20 artists, 1000 lock grooves)

Modest Mouse - No One's First & You're Next

Monotonix - Where Were You When It Happened

Nadja & Black Boned Angel - S/T

Pax Nicholas & the Netty Family - Na Teef Know De Road of Teef (Daptone reissue of rare 70's Afrobeat)

Nudge - As Good As Gone

Odd Clouds - Deceiving Illusion

Om - Live Conference

V/A - Studio One Rockers (Soul Jazz Repress)

Vivian Girls - Everything Went Wrong

Wet Hair - Glass Fountain

Wilco - Summerteeth

Robert Wyatt - Radio Experiment Rome, Feb. 1981

Yolks - S/T

Delroy Wilson - Dub Plate Style

Plus the new Explode into Colors 7" on Kill Rock Stars and a bunch of other 7" as well.

New & Recent Arrivals 8/19/09

2009-08-19T19:00:00.000-07:00

CDs

Antlers, Hospice Blackberry Bushes, Crow Bloody Panda, Summon Blur, Midlife: Beginner's Guide To Blur Box Elders, Alice & Friends Cave Singers, Welcome Joy V/A, Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage Choir Of Young Believers, This is For The White In Your Eyes Eric Copeland, Alien In A Garage Dump Robert Cray, This Time Helena Epsvall & Masaki Batoh, Overloaded Ark Fauz't (formerly Faust), From The Frozen South Fruit Bats, Ruminant Band Gossip, Music For Men Joe Henry, Cotton Candy/Sugar Lips Hornet Leg, Ribbon Of Fear Benny Joy, Vol. 1-5 (Norton rockabilly reissue) Japandroids, Post-Nothing Delbert McClinton, Honky Tonkin' All Night Delbert McClinton & Dick50, Acquired Taste Medeski, Martin & Wood, Radilarians III Modest Mouse, No One's First & You're Next Mount Eerie, Wind's Poem Willie Nelson, Lost Highway Nucular Aminals, S/T Jack Penate, Everything Is New Pine Hill Haints, To Win Or To Lose Pissed Jeans, King Of Jeans Julian Plenti, Is…Skyscraper Robert Pollard, Elephant Jokes Pre, Hope Freaks Jay Reatard, Watch Me Fall Reigning Sound, Love & Curses Six Organs Of Admittance, Luminous Night Robin Trower, What Lies Beneath Luke Vibert, We Hear You Yim Yames, Tribute To Younger Lovers, Newest Romantic

Vinyl 24-Carat Black, Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday 3 Hur-El, Hnrel Arisivi Blaq Poet & Dj Premier, Blaqprint Instrumentals Box Elders, Alice & Friends Bonnie Prince Billy, Chijimi Cave Singers, Welcome Joy V/A, Cazumbi: African Sixties Garage Cold Cave, Love Comes Close Current 93, Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain Drakkar Sauna, 20009 V/A, Dublab Presents: In The Loop 5 Ducktails, Landscapes Girls, Hellhole _Ratrace Glass Candy, Geto Boys Helena Epsvall & Masaki Batoh, Overloaded Ark V/A, Ethiopian Urban Music Vol. 3 Flaming Lips, Soft Bulletin Flipper, Fight (live) Flipper, Love Tlahoun Gessesse, Ethiopian Modern Vol. 4 Hornet Leg, Ribbon Of Fear Jordan O' Jordan, Carbon Cycles Benny Joy, Vol. 1-5 (Norton rockabilly reissue) Koushik, Vol. 5 - Rhythm Trax Madlib & Dudley Perkins, A Lil' Light Instrumentals Meth Teeth, Everything Went Wrong Nite Jewel, Want You Back Mount Eerie, Wind's Poem Pink Noise, Graffiti Youth Pissed Jeans, King Of Jeans Julian Plenti, Is…Skyscraper Robert Pollard, Elephant Jokes Pre, Hope Freaks Purple Rhinestone Eagle, Amorumtali Jay Reatard, Watch Me Fall Reigning Sound, Love & Curses V/A, Vol. 2 - Sensacional Soul Sic Alps, Long Way Round To A Shortcut Six Organs Of Admittance, Luminous Night Strawberry Alarm Clock, Incense & Peppermints V/A, String Of Pearls (new Mississippi Records compilation) Luke Vibert, We Hear You Wolf Eyes, Always Wrong YACHT, See Mystery Lights Younger Lovers, Newest Romantic

7"s: Joey Casio, Broken Water, Explode Into Colors, Sic Alps

Recent Arrivals up to 7/29/09

2009-07-29T18:51:00.000-07:00

CDs 24-Carat Black, Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday AWOL One & Factor, Owl Hours Krazy Baldhead, B Suite Billy Bao, Sacrilege Bibio, Ambivalence Avenue Biz Markie, Ultimate Diabolical V/A, Black Rio Vol. 2: Original Samba 1971-1980 Blaq Poet, Tha Blaqprint Blue Roses, Blue Roses Bowerbirds, Upper Air Broken Water, Demo EP Celtic Thunder, Vagarosa Clark, Totems Flare Crooked Fingers, Forfeit/Fortune Cunninlynguists, Vol.1 - Strange Journey Dead Weather, Horehound Desolation Wilderness, New Universe Bo Diddley, Ride On/Chess Masters 3 1960-61 Dillanthology, Vol. 1 - Dillathology Discovery, LP Drive-By Truckers, Live From Austin TX V/A, Dub Echoes Eyedea & Abilities, By The Throat Fiery Furnaces, I'm Going Away Future Of The Left, Travels with Myself & Another God Help The Girl, S/T Levon Helm, Electric Dirt Michael Jackson, Hello World - Motown Solo Collection Michael Jackson, Stripped Mixes Jenny Jenkins, Sh*t Pie V/A, Legends Of Benin Little Claw, Human Taste V/A, 1988-09: 21 Years Of Acid Jazz Low Anthem, Cassette City Magnolia Electric Co., Josephine Maxwell, Blacksummers' Night Moby, Wait For Me Georgia Anne Muldrow, Umsindo V/A, Panama! 2 - Latin Sounds, Cumbia, Tropical, & Calypso V/A, Poet: A Tribute To Townes Van Zandt Rail Band, 1: Soundiata Rail Band, 2: Mansa Riceboy Sleeps, S/T Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers, S/T Ty Segall, Lemons Shangri-Las, Shangri-Las!!! V/A, Si Para Usted - Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba Sleep Of Oldominion, Hesitation Wounds Son Volt, American Central Dust Sour Owl, S/T Spits, Spits IV Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, Vol. 2 - Under The Covers Rob Thomas, Cradlesong Tiny Vipers, Life On Earth We Were Promised Jetpacks, These Four Walls Wilco, Wilco (The Album) V/A, World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From The Congo 1954-1955 Wye Oak, Knot YACHT, See Mystery Lights Yob, Great Cessation Young Fresh Fellows, I Think This Is LPs Amon Duul II, Yeti Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Loverboy Axemen, Scary! Part III Cecil Barfield, South Georgia Blues Billy Bao, May 08 Bizzy B, Retrospective V/A, Black Rio Vol. 2: Original Samba 1971-1980 Black Time/Ty Segall split James Blackshaw, Glass Bead Game Blue Roses, S/T Blues Control, Local Flavor Sandy Bull, Inventions Butthole Surfers, Live PCPPEP V/A, Buttshakers Vol. 4 Chubby Checker, Chubby Checker (pyschedelic record) Clark, Totems Flare Cultural Decay, Eight Ways To Start A Day Dead Weather, Horehound Desire, II Desolation Wilderness, New Universe V/A, Dirty French Psychedelics V/A, Dub Echoes Eric B. & Rakim, Follow The Leader Faust, So Far Fiery Furnaces, I'm Going Away Serge Gainsbourg/Bridgitte Bardot, Bonnie & Clyde Galaxie 500, On Fire Galaxie 500, This Is Our Music Galaxie 500, Today Gary War, Horrible Parade God Help The Girl, S/T Slim Harpo, Raining In My Heart Hex Dispensers, Winchester Mystery House Jandek, Truth Jaylib, Champion Sound Blind Willie Johnson, If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down Junior Boys, Begone Dull Care Lights, Rites Magnolia Electric Co., Josephine Major Lazer, Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do Blind Willie McTell, Scary Day Blues Metric, Fantasies Moondog, S/T Moondog, More Moondog Moondog, Story Of Moondog Mos Def, Ecstatic V/A, Panama! 2 - Latin Sounds, Cumbia, Tropical, & Calypso Charley Patton, Electrically Recorded - High Water Everywhere Charley Patton, Electrically Recorded - Jesus Is A Dying Bed-Maker Pisces, Dawn Of the Golden Eternity Primus, Pork Soda Red House Painters, Songs For A Blue Guitar Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers, S/T Secret Abuse, Immeasureable Gift Ty Segall, Horn The Unicorn Ty Segall, Lemons Silver Apples, Contact Silver Apples, S/T Songs For Moms, I Used To Believe In The West Spits, Fourth Self Titled Album Summer Cats, Songs For Tuesdays Sun Araw, Heavy Deeds Television Personalities, And Don't The Kids Just Love It Television Personalities, Mummy You Are Not Watching Me Thee Oh Sees, Hounds Of Foggy Notion Thee Oh Sees, Sucks Blood (reissue) V/A, Total Pop! Swedish DIY Punk Peter Walker, Rainy Day Raga Wilco, Wilco (The Album) V/A, World Is Shaking: Cubanismo From The Congo 1954-1955 Zola Jesus, Spoils

New & Recent Arrivals 6/23/09

2009-06-22T15:16:00.000-07:00

Compact Discs Diane Birch - Bible Belt Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds & a Sound Builders & Butchers - Salvation is a Deep Dark Well Chickenfoot - S/T V/A - Destroy That Boy! More Girls With Guitars (Ace) Dinosaur Jr. - Farm A Hawk & A Hacksaw - Deliverance Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (& Other Love Songs) Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - S/T Loop - World in Your Eyes (Reissue) Love is All - Last Choice EP Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do Mars Volta - Octahedron Moderat - S/T Mount Eerie - Dawn (with book) Onna - S/T V/A - Open Strings: 1920's Middle Eastern Recordings & Responses R.E.M. - Reckoning (deluxe reissue) Rail Band - Belle Epoque 3 Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution Serengeti & Polyphonic - Terradactyl Mack Allen Smith - Early Years 1962-1967 Spectrum - War Sucks Regina Spektor - Far Street Sweeper Social Club - S/T Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship Twig Palace - S/T Ween - All Request Live V/A - Well Hung (1970's Hungarian Funk) Woolfy - If Ya Know What's Good For Ya! Vinyl 3 Hur-El - S/T (more Turkish 70's rock) Blank Dogs - Under & Under Busdriver - Jhelli Beam Neko Case - Middle Cyclone Crystals - He's a Rebel Dinosaur Jr. - Farm Doomhawk - S/T (Rumbletowne) Earth - Radio Live Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies Lee Fields & the Expressions - My World Ganglians - Monster Head Room Golden Triangle - S/T Grass Widow - S/T (back in after selling out) Green Arrows - 4-Track Recording Sessions Al Green - Three Classic LP reissues on Fat Possum Headress - Lunes Heavy Winged - Waking, Shaking A Hawk & A Hacksaw - Deliverance Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar (& Other Love Songs) Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - S/T LVIS 1990 - United Groove Merzbow - Hiranya Moderat - S/T V/A - Open Strings: 1920's Middle Eastern Recordings & Responses R.E.M. - Murmur & Reckoning (deluxe reissues) Ronettes - Presenting the Fabulous... Anni Rossi & Whitman - 10" Specials - S/T (fancy reissue) Subhumans - Time Flies/Rats & Worlds Apart Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones Larry Jon Wilson - S/T (Drag City) Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade Yahowah 13 - Magnificence in the Memory

New & Recent Arrivals 6/10/09

2009-06-10T16:38:00.000-07:00

Compact Discs Anastasio/Hart - Time Turns Ecstatic Anti-Flag - People or the Gun Black Eyed Peas - E.N.D. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us British Sea Power - Man of Aran Busdriver - Jhelli Beam Capitol Steps - Obama Mia V/A - Comedy by the Numbers (some kinda McSweeney's thing) Cosmos - Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks (this week's R. Pollard record) Elvis Costello - Secret Profane & Sugarcane Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Demos Crystal Method - Divided By Night Deerhunter - Raiwater Cassette Exchange Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca Dj Shadow - 4-Track Era Bundle Dmitri From Paris - Night Dubbin' Dr. John - Who Was Mac Rebennack? Exciters - Soul Motion (late 60's recordings) Franz Ferdinand - Blood Nanci Griffith - Loving Kind Guru - Guru 8.0 Lost & Found J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid Lee Fields & the Expressions - My World Liechtenstein - Survival Strategies in a Modern World Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II Lonely H - Concrete Class Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King V/A - Memphis 60 V/A - Milky Disco 2 Mos Def - The Ecstatic Nite Jewel - Good Evening Nite-Liters - A-Nal-Y-Sis Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Pisces - Lovely Sight (Numero psych reissue) Iggy Pop - Prelimirairies Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall V/A - Roll Your Moneymaker: Early Black Rock'n'Roll (Trikont) V/A - Rudo Y Cursi Soundtrack Savath & Savalas - La Llama Secret Chiefs 3 - Le Mani Destre... Michelle Shocked - Soul of My Soul Todd Snider - Excitement Plan Sonic Youth - The Eternal Regina Spektor - Laughing With EP Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions V/A - Take Me to the Water (Dust To Digital) V/A - Teenage: Creation of Youth (Trikont) Vieux Farka Toure - Fondo Neil Young - Vol. 1- Archives Zap Mama - Recreation Vinyl 13th Chime - Singles 1981-1983 Beck - One Foot in the Grave (Deluxe re-up) Leonard Cohen - Sundazed reissues of first 5 albums Cosmos - Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks (this week's R. Pollard record) Elvis Costello - Secret Profane & Sugarcane Crystal Method - Divided By Night Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca V/A - Eccentric Soul : Smart's Palace The Field - Yesterday & Today Grass Widow - S/T Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam (sold out already, sorry) Guided By Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars reissue Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II Love is All - Covers EP Mirrors - Something That Would Never Do Mt. Eerie - Live in Copenhagen Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo De Cotonou - Voudon Effect Pine Hill Haints - To Win or To Lose Pygmy Lush/Turboslut - Split Radio City - Class of '77 V/A - Raks ! Raks! Raks! (60's garage from Iran) Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall Riechmann - Wunderbar Rondos - Destroy Entertainment Arthur Russell - Is It All Over My Face 12" Savath & Savalas - La Llama Secret Chiefs 3 - Le Mani Destre... Sonic Youth - The Eternal Omar Souleyman - Highway To Hassake Spacemen 3 - DJ Tones Subhumans - Day the Country Died & From the Cradle To the Grave Trembling Bells - Carbeth Weave! - S/T Witch Hunt - Burning Bridges to Nowhere Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura (reissue)

New Releases & Arrivals 5/20/2009

2009-05-20T23:36:00.000-07:00

In addition to the following, we also got in a bunch of reggae records from Ernie B's and some new soul and jazz vinyl reissues.

Compact Discs

Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women - S/T

Tori Amos - Abormally Attracted To Sin

Big Business - Mind the Drift (finally, after some delay)

Cam'ron - Crime Pays

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Deluxe Reissues of First 4 Albums

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood - Live at Madison Square Garden

Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications

V/A - Complete Goldwax Singles Vol. 1 1962-66

Sugar Pie DeSanto - Go Go Power (Complete Chess Singles)

Steve Earle - Townes

Eminem - Relapse

Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear

The Field - Yesterday & Today

V/A - Goldwax Northern Soul

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Iron & Wine - Around the Well

Kid606 - Shout at the Doner

Brenda Lee - Queen of Rock'n'Roll (Ace)

Jeffrey Lewis - Em Are I

V/A - Limits of Control (new Jarmusch soundtrack)

Jason Lytle - Yours Truly Commuter

Meat Puppets - Sewn Together

Method Man/Redman - Blackout 2

Los Saicos - Saicos (intense 60's Peruvian garage)

Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done My Brother? (Daptone)

Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020 : Folk & Pop Sounds (Sublime Frequencies)

V/A - Thai Funk

John Vanderslice - Romanian Names

Viva Voce - Rose City

White Rabbits - It's Frightening

Vinyl

Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications

Comet Gain - Broken Record Prayers (we're temporarily out though)

Curious Mystery - Rotting Slowly

Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You

Steve Earle - Townes

Flipper - Public Flipper Limited & Sex Bomb Baby

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Iron & Wine - Around the Well

Isis - Wavering Radiant

Jeffrey Lewis - Em Are I

Baris Manco - Dnnden Bugnne (yet another 70's Turkish psych LP)

Meat Puppets - Sewn Together

Monks - Black Monk Time & Early Years (Light in the Attic)

Pulp - This is Hardcore

Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done My Brother? (Daptone)

Thee Oh Sees - Zork's Tape Bruise (already sold out, sorry you missed it)

V/A - The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8 (Thee Oh Sees, Vivian Girls, Blank Dogs, etc.)

Expected Thursday:

Sir Richard Bishop - Freaks of Araby CD & LP

James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game CD

Blank Dogs - Under and Under CD & LP

Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory CD

Flipper - Fight (live) & Love (new album) CDs

George-Edwards Group 38:38 LP (repress, only one copy coming now)

Intelligence - Fake Surfers CD & LP

Llik Your Idols DVD

Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave 7"

Subhumans - Day the Country Died & From Cradle To Grave

Tyvek - S/T CD & LP

New Arrivals for the Week of 5/5/2009

2009-05-04T14:40:00.000-07:00

Compact Discs A-Trak - Fabriclive 45 Acid Mothers Temple... - Lord of the Underground: Vishnu & the Magic Elixir Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild Set 'Em Free Buckwheat Zydeco - Lay Your Burden Down Toni Childs - Keep the Faith Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (Reissue) Double Dagger - More Ben Harper & the Restless 7 - White Lies For Dark Times Isis - Wavering Radiant Jane's Addiction - Cabinet of Curiosities Magik Markers - Balf Quarry Ziggy Marley - Family Time Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa New York Dolls - Cause I Sez So Nomo - Invisible Cities Conor Oberst & Mystic Valley Band - Outer South Peaches - I Feel Cream Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love Rodriguez - Coming From Reality (Light in the Attic reissue) St. Vincent - Actor Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines V/A - Waxploitation Presents Causes 2 Yusuf - Roadsinger Vinyl Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild Set 'Em Free Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Cryptacize - Mythomania Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus (Reissue) El Michels Affair - Enter the 37th Chamber Fly Girlz - Da' Brats From Da' Ville Magik Markers - Balf Quarry Mastodon - Crack the Skye Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa Nomo - Invisible Cities Conor Oberst & Mystic Valley Band - Outer South Peaches - I Feel Cream Alasdair Roberts - Spoils St. Vincent - Actor Bishop Perry Tillis - In Times Like This (Mississippi) Vaselines - Enter the Vaselines (3 LPs) hopefully by Wednesday: Thee Oh Sees - Zork's Tape Bruise Eat Skull - Wild and Inside Cause C0-Motion! - Because Because Because 12" James Ferrraro - Clear & Discovery Krallice - S/T and more... DVD Rentals Curious Case of Benjamin Button Wendy & Lucy Last Chance Harvey Momma's Man hopefully the Monks Documentary too.

New Arrivals SINCE 4/8/2009

2009-04-27T17:19:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's been awhile, here's what we've gotten in: Compact Discs Bob Dylan - Together Through Life Beck - One Foot In the Grave (Reissue w/ lotsa bonus tracks) Booker T. - Potato Hole Cage the Elephant - S/T Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Comet Gain - Broken Record Prayers Crocodiles - Summer of Hate Cryptacize - Mythmania Death Cab For Cutie - Open Door EP Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong Depeche Mode- Sounds of the Universe Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right DJ Premier - Vol. 2- Rare Play John Doe & the Sadies - Country Club Dukes of the Stratosphear (XTC) - 25 o'Clock & Psonic Psunspot (reissues) Various Artists - Eccentric Soul : Smart's Palace (the best eccentric soul comp. since the kids one) Melody Gardot - My One & Only Thrill Grand Duchy (Frank Black & his wife) - Petits Fours Grouch & Eligh - Say G&E! John Hammond - Rough & Tough High Ceiling - Illusions Ben Lee - Rebirth of Venus Thomas Mapfumo - two Water reissues V/A - Marvelous Boy: Calypso From West Africa (Honest Jon's) Medeski, Martin, & Wood - Radiolarians II Metric - Fantasies Micachu & the Shapes - Jewellery Moby Grape - Place & the Time (rarities from the 60's) Mr. Lif - I Heard It Today Mulatu Astatke/Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information 3 NoFX - Coaster Pet Shop Boys - Yes Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian Prince Buster - Sings His Hit Song Ten Commandments (reissue) Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap Pete Seeger - Vol. 1-5 American Favorite Ballads Silversun Pickups - Swoon Simon & Garfunkel - Live 1969 V/A - Soul Jazz Records Singles 2008-2009 Strawberry Window - S/T (unreleased 60's SF psych) Thee Oh Sees - Help Themselves - Free Houdini Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi Derek Trucks Band - Already Live EP Two Fingers - S/T (Amon Tobin) Vinyl Some of these we already sold, but will try to restock: Appleton/Cherry - Human Music Big Star - Cheap reissues of 1st two LPS Dock Boggs - False Hearted Lover's Blues (quality reissue from new label Monk) Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away Breeders - Fate Fatal (ltd. vinyl-only EP) Bob Dylan - Together Through Life Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Crocodiles - Summer of Hate Cryptacize - Mythmania Dan Deacon - Bromst Flipper - Album- Generic Flipper (4Men) George-Edwards Group - 38:38 (Galactic Zoo, probably out for now) Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes (nice 180 gram reissue) Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking & Ritual De Lo Habitual (180 Gram) Junior Kimbrough - First Recordings V/A - Local Customs - Downriver Revival (Numero Group) V/A - Marvelous Boy: Calypso From West Africa (Honest Jon's) Moby Grape - Place & the Time (rarities from the 60's) Mulatu Astatke/Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information 3 NoFX - Coaster Tara Jane O'neil - Ways Away Charley Patton - Electrically Recorded... (quality reissue from new label Monk) Pavement - Live in Germany (only one copy left) Peter Bjorn & John - Living Thing Charlie Poole - Husband & Wife Were Angry One Night (quality reissue from new label Monk) V/A - Pop Ambient 2009 (Kompakt) Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian Rats - Intermittent Signals (Fred & Toody, Mississippi, so limited, almost out...) Jack Rose - Black Dirt Sessions Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me (a few left) Silversun Pickups - Swoon Thee Oh Sees - Help Tosca - No Hassle Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter Wooden Shjips - Dos Wooden Wand - Born Bad Zerfas - S/T (70's Acid Archives-style classic) DVD Rentals Time Crimes The Reader Frost/Nixon The Wrestler Quantum of Solace JCVD Leonard Cohen: Live in London Bride Wars Stranded Seven Pounds

New & Recent Releases For The Week of 4/8/2009

2009-04-08T18:47:00.000-07:00

CDs PJ Harvey & John Parish - Woman A Man Walked By Neil Young - Fork In The Road Leonard Cohen - Live In London Circus Devils - Gringo Eat Skull - Wild And Inside Juan MacLean - Future Will Come Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want V/A - Spiritual Jazz 1968-1977 V/A - Up From The Grave: Northern Cali Garage Venetian Snares - Filth Wooden Shjips - Dos Dan Deacon - Bromst Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock The Thermals - Now We Can See John Scofield - Piety Street Bob Mould - Life & Times Alison Brown - The Company You Keep Cassandra Wilson - Closer To You Ramblin' Jack Elliott - A Stranger Here Tragically Hip - We Are The Same Peter Bjorn & John - Living Thing LPs Circus Devils - Gringo Handsome Family - Honey Moon Flying Lotus - 1983 Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker Venetian Snares - Filth V/A - School Me Vol. 1 1968 (compilation of jazz/funk stage bands) Fever Ray - S/T Wipers - Over The Edge Betty Padgett - S/T Recent DVD Arrivals Doubt Slumdog Millionaire Revisiting "Father" Yod & The Source Family Chris & Don: A Love Story Tell No One Happy-Go-Lucky Synecdoche NY Twilight Let The Right One In MST3k boxset Battle In Seattle

Rainy Day celebrates Record Store Day 2009!

2009-04-04T16:43:00.000-07:00

Rainy Day Records invites you to celebrate national Record Store Day with us, the entire week of April 18th through the 26th (Arts Walk)! For the entire week we'll be having a store-wide sale, with selected items marked down 10%-50%. On April 18th, we'll be having a ticket drawing for the upcoming Leo Kottke concert at the Washington Center, free stuff, and live music including Congratulations. Also stop by during Arts Walk (April 24th) to see Ben Kamen & The Hot New Ringtones, plus more bands soon to-be-announced.

New & Recent Releases For The Week of 3/25/2009

2009-03-25T18:44:00.000-07:00

CDs Indigo Girls Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (MF) Doom Born Like This Decemberists Hazards Of Love Mastodon Crack The Sky Swan Lake Enemy Mine Amadou & Mariam Welcome To Mali Obits I Blame You Royksopp Junior Arthur Russell The Sleeping Bag Sessions Fever Ray Fever Ray Condo F*cks F*ckbook (Yo La Tengo) 1990s Kicks Wolves In The Throne Room Black Cascade V/A It's All Pop! (Numero) Strange Souvenir V/A 100% Dynamite NYC LPs Abner Jay The True Story Of Abner Jay Arthur Russell The Sleeping Bag Sessions Decemberists Hazards Of Love Condo F*cks F*ckbook (Yo La Tengo) Cool Kids Bake Sale Michael Hurley Armchair Boogie Kurt Vile Hunchback Mythical Beast Scale John Robinson & MF Doom Who Is This Man? V/A Train To Nowhere! Unissued Sixties Garage Acetates Vol. 3 V/A I've Had Enough! Unissued Sixties Garage Acetates Vol. 4 Wavves Wavvves V/A 100% Dynamite NYC 7"s Crystal Stilts Love Is A Wave Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Young Adult Friction U.S. Girls Me + Yoko Restocks Alela Diane To Be Still (LP) Beirut March Of The Zapotec (LP) Townes Van Zandt Flying Shoes (LP) Townes Van Zandt Our Mother The Mountain (LP) ...and Ugly Things #28.

The Beachles - Hang On Sloopy

2009-03-12T11:11:00.000-07:00

New & Recent Releases For The Week of 3/11/2009

2009-03-11T17:46:00.000-07:00

CDs Chain & The Gang Down With Liberty...Up With Chains! (Ian Svenonius) Blktop Project Lane Change Cobalt Gin Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds Dracula Boots Monks Early Years 1964-1965 Saros Acrid Plains Seeland Tomorrow Today Strange Boys And Girls Club Wavves Wavvves Long Lost Long Lost Julie Dorion I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day Fela Kuti Music Is The Weapon Steve Earle Live At The BBC Brother Ali Truth Is Here Elvis Perkins In Dreamland Madeleine Peyroux Bare Bones Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique (20th Anniversary Edition) Vinyl Chain & The Gang Down With Liberty...Up With Chains! (Ian Svenonius) A Storm Of Light/Nadja Primitive North Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds Dracula Boots Kylesa Static Tensions Land Of Kush Against The Day Mount Eerie Dawn Strange Boys And Girls Club Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique (20th Anniversary Edition) Ofege Try And Love Rockets Rockets DVD Rentals I've Loved You So Long Role Models Rachel Getting Married Milk Let The Right One In Happy Go Lucky Cadillac Records Battle In Seattle Synecdoche New York

New & Recent Releases For The Week of 3/3/2009

2009-03-04T17:31:00.000-08:00

Check this out: http://revolverusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/bad-beirut-review.html CDs Neko Case Middle Cyclone U2 No Line On the Horizon Black Lips 200 Million Thousand Van Morrison Astral Weeks Live Jeremy Jay Slow Dance Lily Allen It's Not Me It's You J.J. Cale Rolls On Robyn Hitchcock Goodnight Oslo Mirah (a)spera Grandmaster Flash The Bridge Buddy & Julie Miller Written in Chalk Bela Fleck Throw Down Your Heart... Chris Isaak Mr. Lucky Serge Gainsbourg History de Melody Nelson (Light in the Attic reissue) Chicharones Swine County EP Tim Hecker An Imaginary Country Kool Keith Tashan Dorrsett Pretty Things & Philippe DeBarge S/T V/A Local Customs-Downriver Revival (Numero Group) Vinyl Mirah (a)spera Jeremy Jay Slow Dance U2 No Line On the Horizon Beat Happening Jamboree (reissue) Beat Happening You Turn Me On (reissue) Cool Kids 88 12" Cool Kids Black Mags 12" Black Randy & the Metrosquad Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie Townes Van Zandt Our Mother the Mountain Townes Van Zandt Flying Shoes V/A Get Off My Back! & She Was So Bad! (rad Norton vinyl-only garage comps) Jurassic 5 J5 (deluxe reissue) Kool Keith Tashan Dorrsett Sun Araw Phynx

Sanyo TP1012 turntable for sale

2009-02-25T15:38:00.000-08:00

Just in: a Sanyo TP1012 turntable, now refurbished and with a new cartridge. Plays 33s, 45s with included adapter, anti-skate. Ready to go! Come in and check it out. -evan

New Releases For the Week of 2/17/9

2009-02-16T12:33:00.000-08:00

We finally got Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion back in on vinyl! New CDs Beirut March of the Zapotec M. Ward Hold Time Morrissey Years of Refusal Gun Outfit Dim Light Death For the Whole World To See Mi Ami Watersports All the Saints Fire on Corridor X Abe Vigoda Reviver Alela Diane To Be Still Vetiver Tight Knit V/A Dark Was the Night Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up! William Elliot Whitmore Animals In the Dark Trail of Dead Century of Self Mr. Scruff Ninja Tuna New Vinyl Beirut March of the Zapotec M. Ward Hold Time Morrissey Years of Refusal Gun Outfit Dim Light Death For the Whole World To See Mi Ami Watersports Abe Vigoda Reviver Alela Diane To Be Still Vetiver Tight Knit V/A Dark Was the Night Zachary Cale Walking Papers Murder City Devils S/T Murder City Devils In Name And Blood Murder City Devils Empty Bottles Broken Hearts DVD Rentals Religulous Changeling Choke I Served the King of England Flash of Genius

Portable turntables back in

2009-02-11T15:07:00.001-08:00

We finally restocked the ever-popular portable Ion turntable. The Ion is identical to the Numark PT-01, except with USB transfer capabilities. Battery- or plug-powered, it plays 33/45/78's right out of the box, has every output type imaginable, and is great sounding! Come on in and check them out.

-evan

Lost Hasil Adkins Album

2009-02-09T23:01:00.000-08:00

I just saw that this was posted on the HoundBlog (which I highly recommend)--a Hasil Adkins album that was never released: L I N K ! -adam

Used turntables for sale!

2009-02-06T13:04:00.000-08:00

We have a few used turntables for sale here, refurbished and ready to be used: Technics SL-B100: New belt, new cartridge. Plays 33s and 45s, pitch wheel, fully serviced.

Silvertone Four-Speed Stereo System: Cleaned and outfitted with a modern, easily replaceable needle. Built-in stereo speakers, plays 16s, 33s, 45s, 78s, runs on tube electronics, and folds into a nice compact carrying case.

More turntables to come! We also buy turntables, functioning or non-functioning, as well as stereo equipment. Call us at 357-4755 or come in to learn more. -evan

New Releases for Week of 1/27/9

2009-01-28T19:34:00.000-08:00

Compact Discs Bruce Springsteen Working On A Dream Franz Ferdinand Tonight Diplo Decent Work For Decent Pay (compilation of remixes) Wicked Witch Chaos 1978-86 (D.C. "evil psycho machine funk") Telescopes Singles Compilation 1989-1991 KTL IV Pains of Being Pure At Heart S/T J. Tillman Vacilando Territory Blues (Fleet Foxes member's solo thing) Vinyl Bruse Springsteen Working On A Dream Bottin No Static 12" (Italians Do It Better) Diplo & Blaqstarr Get Off (side 2 is a Serato control record) Group Bombino Guitars From Agadez Vol. 2 (newest Sublime Frequencies vinyl-only Tuareg LP, so good & so limited... we're out until Friday) Pains of Being Pure At Heart S/T Pretty Things & Philippe Debarge S/T (good quality reissue, worth the $$$) Ratas Del Vaticano Mocosos Pateticos (Siltbreeeze) Various Blues Artists I Woke Up One Morning In May (newest Mississipi, some of my all-time favorite early blues songs. We're already sold out until next week, but I think Phantom City might have some copies) Plus a couple of Jay Dee 12" reissues and some new dubstep & electronic singles... More new records Friday!

New Releases for Week of 1/20/2009

2009-01-19T19:01:00.000-08:00

Compact Discs Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Antony & the Johnsons The Crying Light A.C. Newman Get Guilty Andrew Bird Noble Beast Bon Iver Blood Bank EP North Mississippi All-Stars Do It Like We Used To Live 96-08 Jane Monheit The Lovers, the Dreamers, and Me Vinyl Bon Iver Blood Bank A.C. Newman Get Guilty Gal Costa S/T (4 Men With Beards) Jorge Ben Forca Bruta (4 Men) DVD Rentals Patti Smith: Dream of Life The Frontrunners City of Ember El Norte (Criterion DVD, finally)

More New & Old Records!

2009-01-15T16:18:00.001-08:00

I can't believe how many records I checked in Wednesday, all in four hours (thanks to Evan for helping this happen, I thought I was gonna kill myself trying to get all of this out to the bin). Here's a rundown: Vinyl Fennesz Black Sea Som Imaginario S/T (nice Brazilian psych) Bachs Out of the Bachs (reissue of rare 60's classic) Cold Sun Dark Shadows (best psych LP dug up in years) V/A Oh Graveyard, You Can't Hold Me Always (Mississippi Label comp. of 60's/70's gospel) Spiritual Singers S/T (70's Congolese gospel, also on Mississippi) Blatz/Filth Shit Split La Otracina Blood Moon Riders Collie Ryan S/T (70's psychfolkwritersongsinger private press re-up type thing, don't know if it's any good) Robert Pollard Crawling Distance Jeremy Jay Love Everlasting 12" plus 7" by Finally Punk, Tyvek, Vibrarians, Angelo Spencer, King Khan, and some Norton oldies. AND, the biggest Get Hip restock of rock/jazz/soul reissues that I have ever received... way too much to list. The bins are stuffed, but they don't seem that way because I just expanded the amount of space devoted to vinyl yet again! Compact Discs Zomby Where Were You in 92? Blatz/Filth Shit Split Robert Pollard Crawling Distance (dude has another Boston Spaceships coming soon too) Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me (restock, get on the bus) V/A Art of the Field Recording Vol. 2 (the newest Dust-To-Digital box set) Also many many many K, Touch & Go (including KRS), and Forced Exposure restocks. I got some cds from Get Hip too, for instance we now have Spacemen 3's Perfect Prescription for the first time in over a year. Because we back-order things, and then they show up. As a surprise. It makes life interesting. Next Week: Animal Collective, Antony & the Johnsons, Andrew Bird, & A.C. Newman... 2009 begins for real. -Adam

New Releases & Arrivals 1/6/2009

2009-01-06T23:24:00.000-08:00

Video Rentals

Pineapple Express

Baghead

Towelhead (I really hope this movie isn't offensive)

The Wackness (I really hope this movie isn't wack)

Plus I bought a used Roger Corman box set cuz this is gonna be a slow DVD month.

Compact Discs

High on Fire Live At the Contamination Fest

Glass Candy Deep Gems (restock)

Loop Heaven's End & Fade Out (restock)

Vinyl

Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion (CD out 1/20)

Mr. Chap Lightworlds (Stones Throw)

Dam Funk Rhythm Trax Vol. 4 (Stones Throw)

Original Soundtrack Breakin' 'N' Enterin' (with Arabian Prince & others)

Nixe S/T (all-woman Dutch punk band from 1980-81, first pressing sold out in 2008)

Also, we got a big Ernie B's reggae order in, and more rad vinyl should be here from Forced Exposure any day now!

Rainy Day's 2008 Best Sellers

2009-01-04T14:06:00.001-08:00

Compact Discs 1. Portishead Third 2. Michael Franti All Rebel Rockers 3. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 4. M.I.A. Kala 5. Black Keys Attack & Release 6. Various Juno Soundtrack 7. Herbie Hancock River: Joni Letters 8. Death Cab For Cutie Narrow Stairs 9. Beck Modern Guilt 10. Lucinda Williams Little Honey 11. Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 8 12. Original Soundtrack Once 13. Emmylou Harris All I Intended To Be 14. Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part One 15. Coldplay Viva La Vida 16. Melvins Nude With Boots 17. Amy Winehouse Back To Black 18. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig Lazarus Dig!!! 19. Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static 20. Robert Plant & Allison Krauss Raising Sand Vinyl 1. Irma Thomas Sings 2. Beatles Abbey Road 3. Wu-Tang Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) 4. Portishead Third 5. Skip James 1931 Sessions 6. Postal Service Give Up 7. Various Artists Juno Soundtrack 8. Townes Van Zandt Delta Momma Blues 9. Various Artists I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore 10. Rats S/T 11. Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 12. Wanda Jackson Live At Town Hall Party 13. Elliott Smith S/T 14. Glass Candy B/E/A/T/B/O/X 15. Townes Van Zandt S/T 16. Suicide S/T 17. A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels... 18. A Tribe Called Quest Low End Theory 19. Thirteenth Floor Elevators Psychedelic Sounds Of... 20. Fleet Foxes S/T

2008 Favorite

2008-12-19T14:23:00.000-08:00

Cold Sun Dark Shadows

It's so rare to find an album from the late 60's/early 70's that you've never heard of and discover that it actually rules. I love psychedelic music, but I also think 99% of it is completely lame. Cold Sun are the rare exception. This is classic. It's better than everything.

New Records and Restocks 12/13/8

2008-12-13T19:23:00.000-08:00

A bunch of records came in this week, mostly restocks of recent things: Vinyl Black Angels Directions To See A Ghost Baron Zen Rhythm Trax Vol. 3 (Stone's Throw) Afrika Bambaataa Planet Rock the Album (4Men Reissue) Black Moth Super Rainbow Drippers Blank Dogs The Fields Blue Sabbath Black Cheer Endless Blockade Final Solution Brotherman OST (Numero) Illa J Yancey Boys Jedi Mind Tricks A History of Violence Erkin Koray S/T Neil Landstrumm Lord For 39 Quid Lindstrom Where You Go I Go Too Nite Jewel Good Evening OCS (Thee Ohsees) 4 Raccoo-oo-oon s/t V/A Eccentric Soul 6- Twinight's Lunar Rotation (4XLP Numero) V/A Dancehall-Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture Vol. 1 & 2 (Soul Jazz) Wavves s/t CDs Blank Dogs The Fields Glass Candy Deep Gems Shop Assistants Will Anything Happen i think that's about all...

Staff picks are happenin' now.

2008-12-13T17:52:00.000-08:00

Check out our staff picks section for best-of lists for 2008. I just posted mine, with Adam's to come soon. -evan

Evan's 2008 picks

2008-12-10T20:37:00.000-08:00

Here commences our new staff picks section! Check back here for our favorites in review and pick lists. I'll start things off with my favorites of the last year. CDs: Matmos, Supreme Balloon (Matador) A classic electronic record recorded with classic synthesizers. Matmos manage to create an album with a sense of both the old and new, without seeming either revivalist or overwrought, and with overall playful atmosphere. People who aren't into electronic music will appreciate this one, too. Philly Sound Get Down -- Philly Funk Instrumentals (Funkadelphia) A top-notch compilation of rare 60's funk grooves from the Philadelphia area. I put this on in the store every so often, and it's a visible customer-pleaser. Totally fun music, and addictive! Thee Oh Sees, The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In (Tomlab) This is a simple album, in a lot of ways, and is enjoyable exactly for that reason. These are terse, fuzzy rock n' roll tunes that spiral outward with a slight echo, just enough to pull you in. LAKE, Oh, The Places We'll Go (K) A local favorite, for good reason! Probably the closest thing to an Olympia supergroup, featuring members of Kickball, Live Active Cultures, #bear, and (formerly) Palisades. Harmonies, horns, and hot beats abound. Cause Co-Motion!, It's Time! Singles & EPs 2005-08 (Slumberland) I caught these folks at the Big Room on Legion in November. Fantastically catchy and endearingly sloppy, they fall shambolically between unruly punk and stop-on-a-dime power pop. Fans of the Undertones and Jad Fair will dig this one. Home Blitz, Home Blitz (Gulcher) Teenage rock n' roll is alive and well, and his name is Daniel DiMaggio, a New Jersey kid who puts out blurts of songs under the name Home Blitz. A rough, unfiltered and ecstatic gem. Cheveu, Cheveu (Born Bad) Cheveu are sort of the sonic equivalent to pulp-fiction -- their sizzly guitars, unrelenting drum machine beats, and suave croon recall the same kind of bright colors and contrasts, and its brutishness. Fans of Chrome and Metal Urbain will definitely be able to appreciate this album. LPs: Alemayehu Eshete, Ethiopian Urban Modern Music, Vol. 2 (Buda Musique) A fantastic collection of hard-hitting Ethiopian funk tunes, fronted by singer Alemayehu Eshete. A fascinating and completely entrancing blend of American soul, funk, and Arabic influences. Superb! Also be sure to check out the Ethiopiques series on CD, put out by the same label. Krysmopompas, Heute Schlafen - Morgan Aufwachen (S-S) A fine debut by a new German band, firmly in the classic 80's Neu Deutsch-Welle (German new wave) style. Economical, stylish, with touches of synthesizer. Not unlike Wire, The Minutemen, or Die Goldenen Zitronen. The Fiery Furnaces, Gallowsbird's Bark (Rough Trade) The Fiery Furnaces' 2007 debut finally makes it to LP. Recorded in a few short days, Gallowsbird's Bark is a kaleidoscopic view into the rich musical world of the Friedberger brother-and-sister duo. While you can sense wafts of American music hall, the Kinks, and English post-punk in the mix, it's unplacably, perfectly all their own. Very recommended! -evan

New Releases 12/9/08

2008-12-08T23:00:00.000-08:00

There won't be too many new CDs for the rest of the year, but we do have Cat Power's Dark End of the Street EP (Double 10" vinyl only) and the new Common CD.

As far as DVDs, the big news is that we now have Lost Season 4 and Batman: The Dark Knight, plus Flow, Man on Wire, and Horton Hears a Who!

New Releases for the Week of 12/2/08

2008-12-01T19:03:00.000-08:00

We really only have one new release this week, which is the CD/DVD edition of the latest installment in the Neil Young Archives series, Sugar Mountain-Live at Canterbury House 1968. It's an enjoyable, low-key solo set, mostly consisting of Buffalo Springfield songs (so you can hear Neil sing the ones Richie sang) and material from his first album (sounding a lot better stripped down here than on the LP, which was over-tinkered with in the studio). You might want to know, however, that the "DVD" is really just an audio DVD of the same recording that's on the CD, but with technically better sound quality. There is no video footage to accompany it, just a picture of Neil and some snow flakes. There is also a fancy five-minute commercial for the Archives box set that Reprise is now promising a 2009 release of. Okay, sure. And the box set will only cover 1963-1972, so we'll have to wait another 20 years for one that digs deeper into the Time Fades Away/Tonight's the Night/On the Beach trilogy and all the great live recordings from that era.

-adam

New Records For Friday 11/28

2008-11-26T21:24:00.000-08:00

New Vinyl Jake One White Van Music Leuzemia S/T (Peruvian punk from '85) Nobunny Love Visions (rerelease) Hammers of Misfortune Fields/Church of Broken Glass Davy Graham Folk, Blues & Beyond (kinda pricey, very limited) V/A Sprigs of Time (Honest Jon's collection of international vintage 78's) Erkin Koray S/T (sorry, sold) Cem Karaca Kardaslar (Turkish Psych) William S. Burroughs Break Through In Grey Room V/A Cazumbi Vol. 1 (African Garage from the 60's... but kinda U.S. in style) Chants R & B S/T (Norton.. back after selling out fast) Elmore Judd Unborn Again 12" (Honest Jon's) The Field- Two different repressed 12" We got both LP volumes the new Soul Jazz Dancehall Compilation but are already sold out... we'll get more as soon as we can. Vinyl Restocks DNA DNA on DNA De La Soul Is Dead V/A England Story Vol. 1 Muslims S/T Nodzzz S/T New CDs V/A Dancehall:The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture (Soul Jazz) Cold Sun Dark Shadows (xpensive but worth it; lost psych masterpiece) Girl Talk Feed the Animals (took us a while) Ocean Pantheon Coffins Buried Death JW Farquhar Form of Female (Shadoks) Sacros S/T (Shadoks) Japanther Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt CD Restocks Deerhunter Microcastle Boston Spaceships Brown Submarine Contents Are Through You Karen Dalton Loop Tapes V/A New Orleans Funk Vol. 2 V/A Goodbye, Babylon Box Set

New Releases for Week of 11/25/08

2008-11-24T18:27:00.000-08:00

Compact Discs Kanye West 808's & Heartbreak (on which he doesn't rap. it's all kinda downbeat, brokenhearted, auto-tuned songs. by songs i mean sung. by a robot.) Killers Day & Age Feist Reminder Deluxe Edition with remixes & so forth REM Murmur Deluxe Edition with complete live show from '83 Ludacris Theater of the Mind and you can now physically buy the David Byrne & Brian Eno collaboration Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. it was only digital before. cds are so much better than iTunes, for real.

Vinyl Nothing today, but Wednesday we will have new shipments from Revolver, Forced Exposure, and Get Hip... so lotsa LPs then. DVDS No new releases for us. Should we have gotten Hancock? Any interest in Still Life?

New Records Thursday

2008-11-20T17:13:00.000-08:00

Just in: Madlib Beat Konducta Vol. 5 LP Nodzzz Nodzzz LP Thee Ohsees Peanut Butter Oven EP Harmony Korine Collected Zines Book (Mr. Lonely is out on DVD now too) plus some Low vinyl reissues, four new Norton 7" including one by King Khan, and restocks on two records I personally like, El Kinto's Circa 1968 and Krysmopompas' Heute Schlafen-Morgen Aufwachen. And the Dead C Dr503 reissue is back again! -adam

Rats Lps!

2008-11-19T17:37:00.000-08:00

Hey folks, we just got in 10 copies of the new reissue of the first Rats record. The Rats were Fred and Toody Cole of Dead Moon/Pierced Arrows' first band together in the early 1980's, and their albums have been out of print forever. I think this pressing may be limited to 500 copies, so we might not get any more. And 5 copies are already sold/spoken for, so you need to act quickly (call or email if you want to reserve one). Oh, and yes, this is yet another Mississippi release, and I believe it's licensed by the Coles as well. -adam

New Releases for Week of 11/18/08

2008-11-17T19:27:00.000-08:00

Kind of a slow music week... just the new Nickelback CD, the new Killers on vinyl (CD next week), and a new Jay-Z 12" single. If you think we missed something important (like the Max Tundra CD that we will get soon), please let us know. There will be some noteworthy DVDs debuting on the new release shelf tomorrow: Wall-E, Tropic Thunder, Gonzo-Life & Work of Hunter S. Thompson, Up the Yangtze, and Encounters at the End of the World. We are also expecting Mr. Lonely any day now. In case you didn't notice, we now have a little box to the left of our site's main page where you can enter your email address and thereby register for our mailing list... which means you'll always receive the latest info on what we get in, including those occasional used vinyl collections that can make your whole week.

we just got a bunch of new stuff...

2008-11-13T17:44:00.000-08:00

new vinyl just in: V/A "fight on, your time ain't long" LP (new mississippi compilation of acoustic pre-war gospel) V/A "49 minute technicolour dream" LP (reissue rubble volume four, very limited) diplo "blow your head" 12" deerhunter "microcastle" LP love is all "a hundred things..." LP (CD too) nite jewel 12" (italians do it better) softboiled eggies "try it again" 12" EP restocks: dead c "dr503" & "eusa kills" LP reissues v/a "bippp" LP jawbreaker "24 hour revenge therapy" plus both volumes of the jean-pierre massiera anthologies plus plus plus we got a bunch of obscure 70's soul reissue 45's and!!! a huge ernie b's reggae order that i will check in tomorrow... oh, and i'm covering for james while he's in hong kong and i've got some used lps that i'm working on, so do stop by... -adam

Goth Records in the 98 cent bin!

2008-11-12T18:55:00.000-08:00

We have a bunch of goth & industrial records that I'm gonna put out Thursday evening, mostly into the 98 cent bin! They are from a heavily played 80's/early 90's collection that was found abandoned in a basement. We bought some lps that aren't too beat up as well... and there are some slightly scratched Cure records and a bunch of trashed Beatles, things like that. So be sure to stop by before it's all gone. -adam