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Astro-Black mythology, astro-timeless immortality! Astro Black has long been known as a cornerstone of the Ra catalog. It is well recorded, features a superb Arkestral lineup, and successfully combines several of the styles in which Sun Ra orbited, from Saturnic jazz to astro-funk. Pressed on colored vinyl at Third Man Pressing and packaged with new cover art with liner notes by Robert Campbell (author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra)!Although Astro Black was obviously professionally...

Pink Elephants on Parade will be available November 15th, 2024. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. When you wish upon a star… that turns out to be Saturn! Previously unheard Ra culled from the archives and compiled based on their association to that children's film corporation with the cartoon rodent. Pressed on earth on pink vinyl! Jazz aficionados and Disney nerds alike will marvel at how seamlessly Sun Ra and his...

The lost tapes have surfaced, bringing with them a walloping new stereo mix! A sonic cocktail of acid garage, blues & psych rock from one of Detroit’s finest – featuring Ted Nugent! Dominated by gritty head-swirlers and heavy, fuzz guitar licks, their debut is considered to be an early innovator of heavy metal. Their five and a half minute version of “Baby Please Don’t Go” is an absolute acid garage classic with some fantastic feedback and great guitar sustain. Nugent creates some serious...

CROW MUSIC Surging brass and organ-laden funk wonderment! Combining gritty blues with nasty, hard-charging garage rock Crow was formed in 1967. After winning a recording session with Columbia from a battle of the bands contest in Des Moines, Iowa, the band recorded five demos: Evil Woman, Time to Make a Turn, Busy Day, and White Eyes. Columbia didn’t offer the band a contract, but Dunwich signed the band. Recording their first electrifying album, Crow Music, in 1969, Crow delivered their very...

A tote bag featuring the following five LPs: Gabor Szabo - The Best Of Gabor Szabo - Red Vinyl • A STUNNING RECREATION OF THE ORIGINAL GATEFOLD JACKET WITH A HIGH GLOSS FINISH! • PRISTINE RED RTI VIRGIN VINYL! • MASTERED BY BOB IRWIN, CUT BY KEVIN GRAY, AND PRESSED AT RTI FOR OPTIMUM AURAL PLEASURE!Includes his stunning cover of Left Banke classic "Walk Away Renee."Exotic jazz guitar mastery! Gabor Szabo’s singular style and authentic sound is on full display across a set of...

The Jazz Passengers (ft. Elvis Costello & Debbie Harry) - Individually Twisted - Peach Vinyl Rock icons Deborah Harry and Elvis Costello join NYC avant garde collaboration The Jazz Passengers for a perfectly matched ‘96 album. The Passengers’ always entertaining grooves pair with Harry and Costello’s unmistakable vocal textures for exquisite originals and fresh takes on jazz standards, including the can’t-miss duet “Doncha Go ‘Way Mad”! Of course the vocalists get all the ink, but...

The Sonics - Introducing The Sonics - Black Vinyl The Sonics - fronted by Gerry Roslie's banshee vocals - blow-torched the mists of Seattle in 1966 like the fiery exhaust from a jumbo-jet. With their trademark scorched-earth guitar sounds, they created a mind- numbing assortment of Sonics' classics: "You Got Your Head On Backwards," "Like No Other Man," "Psycho," "The Witch" and simultaneously reinvented garage rock powerhouses like "I'm A Man," "Diddy Wah Diddy" and much more.This blistering...

Donovan - Barabajagal - Black Vinyl In addition to being one of Donovan's edgiest and most ambitious releases, 1968's Barabajagal was the most commercially successful album of his career, reaching #4 in the U.S. and remaining on the Billboard album chart for more than a year. With instrumental backup by the Jeff Beck Group (including Rod Stewart and Ron Wood) on several tracks, as well as an all-star cast that includes Madeline Bell, Aynsley Dunbar, Lesley Duncan, Nicky Hopkins, John Paul...

Something Weird - The Best Of Doris Wishman - Black Vinyl + DVD Doris Wishman was one of the most prolific female filmmakers that most people have never heard of. The pint-size sleaze queen helmed a variety of oddball exploitation classics that featured unique gimmicks and unusual, sometimes shocking subject matter. The Best Of Doris Wishman features audio from theatrical trailers, original theme songs, as well as some jazzy incidental library music from legendary exploiteers in the Something...

This title will be available on September 13th, 2024. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock.SPECTRAL STOMPERS AND GRAVEYARD GROOVES! • The unholy follow up to the wildly successful Something Weird Greatest Hits!• The wildest spook show trailers from the SW vault on LP or CD both with a bonus DVD! • Cut by Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive) and pressed on colored vinyl at Third Man! Something Weird has exhumed a crypt...

Leaving music fans checking the bins since MTV’s 1984 spotlight on “Draggin’ The Bottom,” this double LP presents multi-media artist Julia Heyward’s debut release of T-Venus’ art rock forty years after the buzz started! All in a gatefold jacket featuring art and liner notes from Julia! "My first visual music output was my video album 360 collaborating with Don Christensen and Jody Harris, who had been in the Contortions and also were in the Raybeats. I would produce the visuals over time often...

Preorder now! This title will be available October 4th, 2024. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. From Quinteros’ early rockabilly singles to his San Fran folk rock with the Au-Go Go’s, this collection highlights his Brent singles along with unissued material, acetates, demos & outtakes! Includes a booklet with liner notes & an interview with Eddie! Eddie Quinteros was one precocious kid. Before he was old enough to...

Preorder now! This title will be available October 4th, 2024. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. From Quinteros’ early rockabilly singles to his San Fran folk rock with the Au-Go Go’s, this collection highlights his Brent singles along with unissued material, acetates, demos & outtakes! Includes a booklet with liner notes & an interview with Eddie! Eddie Quinteros was one precocious kid. Before he was old enough to...

Katharine Whalen of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame, makes a triumphant return with her Jazz Squad featuring Austin Riopel on guitar, Danny Grewen on trombone, and the great Griffanzo on piano. This time the chanteuse delivers an entire album of breezy west coast jazz sounds in the form of a tribute to Chet Baker. It was around 1996 when Katharine Whalen first made her grand entrance onto culture’s collective radar as the sultry, yet effervescent voice of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, where she remained...

Katharine Whalen of Squirrel Nut Zippers fame, makes a triumphant return with her Jazz Squad featuring Austin Riopel on guitar, Danny Grewen on trombone, and the great Griffanzo on piano. This time the chanteuse delivers an entire album of breezy west coast jazz sounds in the form of a tribute to Chet Baker. It was around 1996 when Katharine Whalen first made her grand entrance onto culture’s collective radar as the sultry, yet effervescent voice of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, where she remained...

The haiku of the soul becomes transparent through Manoshi Chitra Neogy’s Word Art. As an acclaimed poet who seamlessly and powerfully melds vision and poetry resulting in an alternative thought provoking and sensual art form, Wood Orchid. Coined and conceived in the vast sky country of New Mexico, her poetry becomes a sculpted tapestry of a visioned nuance of the art of word. Seeking to sculpt the echo of the soul, Neogy’s Word Art is the cry of the feminine mystique and the fire of the divine...

Leaving music fans checking the bins since MTV’s 1984 spotlight on “Draggin’ The Bottom,” this double LP presents multi-media artist Julia Heyward’s debut release of T-Venus’ art rock forty years after the buzz started! All in a gatefold jacket featuring art and liner notes from Julia! "My first visual music output was my video album 360 collaborating with Don Christensen and Jody Harris, who had been in the Contortions and also were in the Raybeats. I would produce the visuals over time often...

This title will be available August 23rd, 2024. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. The haiku of the soul becomes transparent through Manoshi Chitra Neogy’s Word Art. As an acclaimed poet who seamlessly and powerfully melds vision and poetry resulting in an alternative thought provoking and sensual art form, Wood Orchid. Coined and conceived in the vast sky country of New Mexico, her poetry becomes a sculpted tapestry...

Dreamy prog rock from former garage-rockers Royal Aircoach!These originally unreleased tracks showcase Goodoak & Greene’s hook-driven melodies, searing electric solos, and shimmering, layered harmonies. After Royal Aircoach disbanded in 1970, lead guitarist/vocalist Bobby Greene and songwriter/guitarist Ed Goodoak were the remaining two of five members in the band. Former drummer Gil Van Geyte and bass player Alan Gagnon went off to college, eventually to work in the corporate world. Keyboard...

Blisterin’ bleach blonde garage punk from Long Beach’s Emperors! Previously limited to a handful of singles, this full length LP includes all of their material, including 4 unissued tracks! From the maniacal laughter on “Laughin’ Linda” to their foot-tappin’ cover of the Zombies’ “You Make Me Feel So Good” it’s easy to see why this group of teens were hailed as Long Beach’s favorite group. Susan Gilmore, an Emperor fan, recollects, “The highlight of the dances were when they played. While...

Blisterin’ bleach blonde garage punk from Long Beach’s Emperors! Previously limited to a handful of singles, this full length LP includes all of their material, including 4 unissued tracks! From the maniacal laughter on “Laughin’ Linda” to their foot-tappin’ cover of the Zombies’ “You Make Me Feel So Good” it’s easy to see why this group of teens were hailed as Long Beach’s favorite group. Susan Gilmore, an Emperor fan, recollects, “The highlight of the dances were when they played. While...

The label that ignited the Dutch post-punk scene! Homogeneity be damned, these early Plurex tracks are a head-turning snapshot of what was happening in the late ‘70s Netherlands underground! Includes an interview with Plurex founders and all of the singles from 1978-‘80! Some of the bands would never release another record, but for the label and many of the artists there was yet more history to be made, not least of which was Minny Pops’ ascendance to seminal status, and Plurex’s emergence at...

The label that ignited the Dutch post-punk scene! Homogeneity be damned, these early Plurex tracks are a head-turning snapshot of what was happening in the late ‘70s Netherlands underground! Includes an interview with Plurex founders and all of the singles from 1978-‘80! Some of the bands would never release another record, but for the label and many of the artists there was yet more history to be made, not least of which was Minny Pops’ ascendance to seminal status, and Plurex’s emergence at...

The Mighty Monarch of Exploitation Cinema! These audacious adults-only radio adverts and trailers showcase all original counter-culture compositions from Friedman’s freaky frontal lobe! Includes a DVD! Always a carny at heart, Friedman gravitated towards the sleazy independent film world, where he started a new company and ushered in a decade of his greatest films. Always brimming with bodaciously bare beauties and copious carnality – which became his tawdry trademark. From 1964-1975, he wrote...

The Mighty Monarch of Exploitation Cinema! These audacious adults-only radio adverts and trailers showcase all original counter-culture compositions from Friedman’s freaky frontal lobe! Includes a DVD! Always a carny at heart, Friedman gravitated towards the sleazy independent film world, where he started a new company and ushered in a decade of his greatest films. Always brimming with bodaciously bare beauties and copious carnality – which became his tawdry trademark. From 1964-1975, he wrote...

The Mighty Monarch of Exploitation Cinema! These audacious adults-only radio adverts and trailers showcase all original counter-culture compositions from Friedman’s freaky frontal lobe! Includes a DVD! Always a carny at heart, Friedman gravitated towards the sleazy independent film world, where he started a new company and ushered in a decade of his greatest films. Always brimming with bodaciously bare beauties and copious carnality – which became his tawdry trademark. From 1964-1975, he wrote...

Trying to define what it is that makes Dr. John special is much like trying to define the word "soul'—you can surround it. But nailing it down is a whole ‘nother smoke. You can point to his sense of history, how he's never forgotten from whence he came, how his music always returns to his roots, even honoring the proud heritage of his native New Orleans. You can dissect his technique, marveling at the adroitness of the hands right and left; admiring the strong second line; respecting the...

This extended edition boasts 6 tracks making their vinyl debut, plus an extended alternate of the title track!  “Although it’s unlikely, one gets the sense that Dr. John poured a drink, lit a cigarette, cracked his knuckles and just started to play. It Is this charming saloon quality that makes Brightest Smile so special.” - Eric Snider (Jazziz, 1984) "Trying to define what it is that makes Dr. John special is much like trying to define the word "soul'—you can surround it. But nailing it...

Mama Cass & Denny Doherty, future Lovin’ Spoonful guitarist Zal Yanovsky and “Summer Rain” hit songwriter Jim Hendricks makeup this folk-pop supergroup! Before each member found their way to stardom, The Mugwumps were born - the very same Mugwumps that the Mamas & the Papas sang about in “Creeque Alley!” To flip it upside down once more, this treasure was recorded pre-Papas and pre-Spoonful, yet it didn't hit shelves until after they each found success.  "This was the first folk-rock...

Mama Cass & Denny Doherty, future Lovin’ Spoonful guitarist Zal Yanovsky and “Summer Rain” hit songwriter Jim Hendricks makeup this folk-pop supergroup! Before each member found their way to stardom, The Mugwumps were born - the very same Mugwumps that the Mamas & the Papas sang about in “Creeque Alley!” To flip it upside down once more, this treasure was recorded pre-Papas and pre-Spoonful, yet it didn't hit shelves until after they each found success.  "This was the first folk-rock...

A new Sun Ra LP touches ground in the earthly bins, 50 years after its creation! Sun Ra is still trying to get our attention 50 years after dispatching this transmission. Humanity's path since then makes his message even more urgent today. Years after Herman Poole "LeSony'r Ra" Blount "left the planet" he's still trying to reach us, to wake us up and to change our destiny. Sun Ra and the Arkestra weren't a traditional studio band, and every star in the vast galaxy of their discography reflects...

A skaterdater-surfin’ safari-watusi dancin’ beat! Released at the crest of surf rock, Drums À Go-Go contains searing guitar work (just listen to “Casbah!”) – not to mention some of the most insanely indelible drum breaks – on record.  Drums À Go-Go was released at the crest of surf rock, and it contains some of the most searing guitar work (just listen to “Casbah”!) – not to mention some of the most insanely indelible drum breaks – on record. While the title track hit #118 on Billboard’s...

A skaterdater-surfin’ safari-watusi dancin’ beat! Released at the crest of surf rock, Drums À Go-Go contains searing guitar work (just listen to “Casbah!”) – not to mention some of the most insanely indelible drum breaks – on record. Cut all analog! Drums À Go-Go was released at the crest of surf rock, and it contains some of the most searing guitar work (just listen to “Casbah”!) – not to mention some of the most insanely indelible drum breaks – on record. While the title track hit #118 on...

A skaterdater-surfin’ safari-watusi dancin’ beat! Released at the crest of surf rock, Drums À Go-Go contains searing guitar work (just listen to “Casbah!”) – not to mention some of the most insanely indelible drum breaks – on record. Cut all analog and pressed on colored vinyl! Drums À Go-Go was released at the crest of surf rock, and it contains some of the most searing guitar work (just listen to “Casbah”!) – not to mention some of the most insanely indelible drum breaks – on record. While...

Interwoven Hammond organ riffs, heavy electric guitar and melodic bass lines give Nucleus an edge – their odd time signatures make it an aural lobotomy! Pressed on white vinyl! The origins of Nucleus lay in late ‘60s Toronto combo The Lords Of London. They were a popular live attraction and appeared at the Canadian National Exhibition alongside The Guess Who and Kensington Market, as well as US bands like Moby Grape. Though they had minor Canadian hits, a US breakthrough never came, and by...

Back on LP for the first time since its 1970 release! Their sole album boasts members of the Wrecking Crew along with three Motown producers, all experimenting with a commercial psychedelic sound that defined the end of an era. Sitar head-swirlers, sunny, melodic harmonies and a country folk influence all blend together to bring listeners Truth! Originally signed by People Records, an imprint created by Motown producers Mickey Stevenson, Clarence Paul, and Leon Ware, Truth’s debut (and only...

Back on LP for the first time since its 1970 release! Their sole album boasts members of the Wrecking Crew along with three Motown producers, all experimenting with a commercial psychedelic sound that defined the end of an era. Sitar head-swirlers, sunny, melodic harmonies and a country folk influence all blend together to bring listeners Truth! Originally signed by People Records, an imprint created by Motown producers Mickey Stevenson, Clarence Paul, and Leon Ware, Truth’s debut (and only...

15 sizzlin’ surf guitar cuts recorded at the crest of the genre! Brothers Richard and Thomas Frost, more known for their work as Powder, shred through these surf-rockin’ standards – all tucked away until now! Turning in a smoking rendition of studio guitarist Jan Davis’ “The Fugitive,” later covered by the Ventures (and much later, Laika & the Cosmonauts), they also lay down a hot version of “Opus Twist” – also by way of the Ventures, written by Tommy Allsup and J.I. Allison of the Crickets....

15 sizzlin’ surf guitar cuts recorded at the crest of the genre! Brothers Richard and Thomas Frost, more known for their work as Powder, shred through these surf-rockin’ standards – all tucked away until now! Turning in a smoking rendition of studio guitarist Jan Davis’ “The Fugitive,” later covered by the Ventures (and much later, Laika & the Cosmonauts), they also lay down a hot version of “Opus Twist” – also by way of the Ventures, written by Tommy Allsup and J.I. Allison of the Crickets....

A lost solo piano record from the Night Tripper! Originally put to tape in ‘82 & ‘83 for the Clean Cuts label, these tracks have remained unheard until now. Two numbers feature the doc's raspy growl while his solo piano navigates us through the rest of the train ride, past touches of blues, jazz, and foot stompin’ boogie-woogie jive. It's the kind of magic that can only come from a dusty tape box. The CD includes two CD-only bonus tracks! In 1981, Dr. John began recording his first of two solo...

A lost solo piano record from the Night Tripper! Originally put to tape in ‘82 & ‘83 for the Clean Cuts label, these tracks have remained unheard until now. Two numbers feature the doc's raspy growl while his solo piano navigates us through the rest of the train ride, past touches of blues, jazz, and foot stompin’ boogie-woogie jive. It's the kind of magic that can only come from a dusty tape box. The CD includes two CD-only bonus tracks! In 1981, Dr. John began recording his first of two solo...

Songs for a Freaky Hollywood Hotel! Influenced by ‘50s/’60s cocktail culture, the exotica of Martin Denny and a passel of other mid-century thrift-store denizens, Combustible Edison’s music already seemed like the lost soundtrack to some early-’60s Hollywood farce. With its woozy beatnik jazz and seductive bongo beat, this hip-swiveling score gets a first ever vinyl release! “That might be our Magical Mystery Tour,” says Combustible Edison bassist Nick Cudahy of his band’s experience creating...

A lost solo piano record from the Night Tripper! Originally put to tape in ‘82 & ‘83 for the Clean Cuts label, these tracks have remained unheard until now. Two numbers feature the doc's raspy growl while his solo piano navigates us through the rest of the train ride, past touches of blues, jazz, and foot stompin’ boogie-woogie jive. It's the kind of magic that can only come from a dusty tape box. The CD includes two CD-only bonus tracks! In 1981, Dr. John began recording his first of two solo...

With words as weapons and public infrastructure as his blank slate, John Fekner’s City Squad are always questing for the ineffable, even as they yearn for concrete change. Make no mistake, Idioblast is a serious party where everyone is welcome. Released in 1984, Idioblast is a lost classic, a future shock narrative ahead of its time, and yet completely of its era, like few artifacts before or since. The cover tips you off from the jump—a crude but effective collage featuring classic Fekner...

The outsized sounds emerging from the Excelsior Mill organ captured here constitute a unique chapter in the Sun Ra story, a dizzying phantasmagoria that offers a whole new view on what Ra could do. It might thrill you; it might unnerve you; it might strum your heartstrings; it might spook the living daylights out of you. Most likely you’ll experience all of the above before the jolting musical jeremiad is done. Contains the entire uncut show! When you’re Sun Ra, you don’t need synthesizers to...

The outsized sounds emerging from the Excelsior Mill organ captured here constitute a unique chapter in the Sun Ra story, a dizzying phantasmagoria that offers a whole new view on what Ra could do. It might thrill you; it might unnerve you; it might strum your heartstrings; it might spook the living daylights out of you. Most likely you’ll experience all of the above before the jolting musical jeremiad is done. Pressed on violet vinyl!  When you’re Sun Ra, you don’t need synthesizers to...

NY Psychedelic Art Rock! Touted as the “new Doors,” Ars Nova’s second release shows the band genre-bending jazz and heavy psychedelia in a style that’s their own. Shifting from a largely classical centric sound, this was the group’s last album before going their separate ways. Pressed on pink vinyl! Sunshine & Shadows takes the baroque-meets-psych sound of the debut and turns a bit more to the psych side. The stately brass interludes are gone, but horns still figure prominently in the mix....

Preorder now! This title will be available June 14th, 2024. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. NY Psychedelic Art Rock! Touted as the “new Doors,” Ars Nova’s second release shows the band genre-bending jazz and heavy psychedelia in a style that’s their own. Shifting from a largely classical centric sound, this was the group’s last album before going their separate ways. Pressed on pink vinyl! Sunshine & Shadows takes...