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Inimitable Post Punk Insurgents! The John Cale produced '79 Model Citizens EP is finally available again, and with it comes unheard live recordings from Hurrah, Max's, and CBGB! "Model Citizens, attacking their instruments with poetic yet strangely ironic frenzy, reflect the frightened, scattered, painful (yet edge-of-ecstatic) world of the moment." (NY Rocker) There were four Model Citizens – Steve Alexander, Eugenie Diserio, Tomek Lamprecht and Gloria Richards. Like so many dedicated...

Inimitable Post Punk insurgents! The John Cale produced '79 Model Citizens EP is finally available again, and with it comes unheard live recordings from Max's & Hurrah! "Model Citizens, attacking their instruments with poetic yet strangely ironic frenzy, reflect the frightened, scattered, painful (yet edge-of-ecstatic) world of the moment." (NY Rocker)  This short lived vanguard outfit now gets its due on red vinyl, with an insert featuring liner notes from Tim Page.There were four...

A bongo comp with unissued Jill Kroesen, Tak Shindo, and Sun Ra!?!? Bongo Bongo Bongo! The mere uttering of the word conjures up dreams and images of parties, beaches, tropical vacations, beatniks and poets, goatees and cha-cha heels, drinking espresso in coffee shops, and of the freedom of the road while getting your kicks on Route 66. Fuzzy dice, bongos in the back. Bongo Rock! Bongo Fury! Bongo Madness! Beat on a pair of bongos and watch the party begin! SOME SKIN is designed to get that...

Preorder now! This title will be available March 17th 2023. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. A bongo comp with unissued Jill Kroesen, Tak Shindo, and Sun Ra!?!? Bongo Bongo Bongo! The mere uttering of the word conjures up dreams and images of parties, beaches, tropical vacations, beatniks and poets, goatees and cha-cha heels, drinking espresso in coffee shops, and of the freedom of the road while getting your kicks...

Beatnik Brilliance? Beat-sploitation? Beats me! Before Sesame Street or Yo Gabba Gabba made art for kids that their parents understood on a whole other level, there were Hip Fables. Pop prose originally put to pulp by the pen of Steve Allen circa the ‘50s, which inspired a popular album and even a book titled Hip Fables (Simon & Schuster). The original recording featured Steve Allen on the piano accompanied by King Cool himself, Chicago DJ and Impulse! recording artist Al Jazzbeaux Collins! In...

This is the Parallax Edition of the Prophet album. It has a unique jacket designed from tear outs from the Sequential Prophet VS keyboard manual that Ra played for this (and possibly only this) album! These will have a unique color exclusive to this run. It will be something special but we're leaving it up to the creatives at the pressing plant. It shall follow suit with our first Parallax Edition in having reversed labels but they will be stamped like we did on this variant. These will be...

Featuring what may be his only recordings on the Prophet keyboard, these once lost performances expand the omniverse of Ra across a stellar set of lengthy cuts! All recorded in a single day and finally making their terrestrial debut! Includes notes from Ranthropologist Brother Cleve and two CD-only bonus tracks! What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves. Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, under their various guises, the...

Featuring what may be his only recordings on the Prophet keyboard, these once lost performances expand the omniverse of Ra across a stellar set of lengthy cuts! All recorded in a single day and finally making their terrestrial debut, pressed on colored vinyl and packaged with a Prophet keyboard brochure plus notes from Ranthropologist Brother Cleve! What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves. Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his...

Preorder now! This title will be available December 2nd 2022. Please note that orders containing any items that are on preorder will ship in full when all items are in stock. Sax Driven NYC No Wave Post Punk! Finally the recorded studio work of Bill Ylitalo as Otto Kentrol and Faceless has been assembled! Featuring hard to find post punk & no wave cuts, four track demos, and previously unissued gems. Sax, strange electronic instruments, recitative vocals and sporadic bass, guitar and drums,...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com.It can be purchased here. • Back in print after a decade! Bringing with it covers of The Lemonheads, Carole King, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Tom Waits! • Gatefold jacket chock-full of new liners from Jim Allen in conversation with Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide) • Cut by Kevin Gray and spread over two LPs to give it the sonic awe it deserves! One of the most endearing and underappreciated...

• Back in print after a decade! Bringing with it covers of The Lemonheads, Carole King, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Tom Waits! • Gatefold jacket chock-full of new liners from Jim Allen in conversation with Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide) • Cut by Kevin Gray and spread over two LPs to give it the sonic awe it deserves! One of the most endearing and underappreciated acquired tastes in contemporary music, the New York band Clem Snide makes what can be...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com.It can be purchased here. • A seminal early aughts LP gets a much deserved expanded edition loaded up with bonus covers of Velvet Underground and Nico. • Back in the bins after a ten year absence and finally allowed to breathe and sound as good as it deserves with a Kevin Gray cut double LP! • Gatefold jacket chock-full of new liners from Jim Allen in conversation with...

• A seminal early aughts LP gets a much deserved expanded edition loaded up with bonus covers of Velvet Underground and Nico. • Back in the bins after a ten year absence and finally allowed to breathe and sound as good as it deserves with a Kevin Gray cut double LP! • Gatefold jacket chock-full of new liners from Jim Allen in conversation with Eef Barzelay (Clem Snide) More than two decades later, Your Favorite Music undergoes another...

A jingle powerhouse solo or in tandem with Tom Dawes (Cyrkle) as TwinStar Music, Ginny Redington penned earworms like “Coke Is It!”, “We’re American Airlines”, and a smorgasbord of recognizable gems from the 70s and 80s. Many are collected here, many she sang herself, and many are loaded with Synthesizer goodness! Open wide! Even if Ginny Redington had not met Tom Dawes, you’d still have known her work as a jingle composer. You have to figure there weren’t that many women even pursuing a...

A jingle powerhouse solo or in tandem with Tom Dawes (Cyrkle) as TwinStar Music, Ginny Redington penned earworms like “Coke Is It!”, “We’re American Airlines”, and a smorgasbord of recognizable gems from the 70s and 80s. Many are collected here, many she sang herself, and many are loaded with Synthesizer goodness! Open wide! Even if Ginny Redington had not met Tom Dawes, you’d still have known her work as a jingle composer. You have to figure there weren’t that many women even pursuing a...

A heady and adventurous experience with ever-shifting elements of jazz, fuzz guitar, blues rock and psychedelia! Graffiti’s origins can be traced back to 1967 and the dissolution of The Hangmen, a popular Washington DC area garage rock act well noted for the proto-punk stylings of their singles “What A Girl Can’t Do” and “Faces.” Singer Tony Taylor, a late addition to the band’s lineup, recruited guitarist George Strunz to the group and soon announced the band would pursue a more psychedelic...

One voice, one guitar, one tranquilized trip! Isaacson’s voice is rich and warm, with hints of weary and optimism. His delivery, reminiscent of Gordon Lightfoot or Cat Stevens, holds steady against the backdrop of his textured and restrained guitar playing. An interpreter of sound, his takes on these familiar originals are introspective, well thought variations that he truly makes his own. Fresh from the attic of the acid archives, this first ever reissue of this ‘71 gem features unissued...

90s French pop nirvana, on LP for the first time! Autour de Lucie’s follow-up to their geographical barrier busting debut sees the band incorporating subtle keyboards and electronic beats to their well-established sensuous dreamy pop charm. “Autour De Lucie’s self-titled debut album was a strong collection of French-language rock-pop, but their follow-up, “Immobile,” is nothing short of exquisite. Vocalist Valerie Leuillot’s angelic vocals cover a greater range this time around, and musically...

Over 25 years after their buoyant & breezy electro-acoustic debut busted language barriers showing that French language music could build a buzz on all sides of the Atlantic, Autour de Lucie’s debut finally gets the vinyl treatment! “From the opening bird calls and ringing-bell guitar chimes of captivating lead track "L'accord parfait," Paris' demure Autour de Lucie serves notice that winning Anglo-style pop need not be a slave to language or geographical barriers. Gorgeous and luxuriously...

Tell folks you have a collection of fuzz pedals... or if you had a guitar you'd definitely have a fuzz pedal with our first ever BeatRocket t-shirt! Hand screened in North Carolina on a black Bella Canvas brand shirt.

There's little that says, "I have very weird taste in music" like space rockin' a Modern Harmonic shirt!  Hand screened in North Carolina on charcoal grey Bella Canvas brand shirt.

The first ever collection of Jill Kroesen’s wildlyinventive & often dystopian compositions from ‘72 through ‘84. Includes her art rock masterpiece Stop Vicious Cycles, her coveted ‘80 single, an equal amount of unissued treasures, and copious liner notes. Finally Jill Kroesen on2LP or 2CD! Her voice is large, unique, and charismatic. Her presence is charming and flirty. One can’t help but be drawn in. When she sings about fascism and dictators and bad boyfriends,...

The first ever collection of Jill Kroesen’s wildlyinventive & often dystopian compositions from ‘72 through ‘84. Includes her art rock masterpiece Stop Vicious Cycles, her coveted ‘80 single, an equal amount of unissued treasures, and copious liner notes. Finally Jill Kroesen on2LP or 2CD! Her voice is large, unique, and charismatic. Her presence is charming and flirty. One can’t help but be drawn in. When she sings about fascism and dictators and bad boyfriends,...

One jam-packed CD of unique female gazes, into a micro-scene with the NYC Downtown art scene circa late ‘78 -‘85, through the lenses of a variety of feminist perspectives on post-punk and true art-punk! An ultra-violet time machine to a micro-scene viewed and heard through the curation of Emmy-award winning, twin artists, Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn AKA TwinArt. This magnificent journey features their music with Taste Test, (lyrics by Joan Durand and music by David DeSario) they created as...

Two LPs of unique female gazes, into a micro-scene with the NYC Downtown art scene circa late ‘78 -‘85, through the lenses of a variety of feminist perspectives on post-punk and true art-punk! An ultra-violet time machine to a micro-scene viewed and heard through the curation of Emmy-award winning, twin artists, Ellen Kahn and Lynda Kahn AKA TwinArt. This magnificent journey features their music with Taste Test, (lyrics by Joan Durand and music by David DeSario) they created as video...

Successfully blending melodic West Coast pop, latin rhythmic grooves, and progressive rock, Gypsy is a true hidden gem. Comprised of Minnesota natives Enrico Rosenbaum (vocals/guitar), James Johnson (vocals/guitar), James Walsh (vocals/keys), Doni Larson (bass), and Jay Epstein (drums), Gypsy migrated to LA and became the house band for Whiskey-A-Go-Go. Taking over the gig from Chicago, Metromedia Records signed the band after spotting them in the club. Recalling groups like Spirit, ELO,...

Successfully blending melodic West Coast pop, latin rhythmic grooves, and progressive rock, Gypsy is a true hidden gem. Comprised of Minnesota natives Enrico Rosenbaum (vocals/guitar), James Johnson (vocals/guitar), James Walsh (vocals/keys), Doni Larson (bass), and Jay Epstein (drums), Gypsy migrated to LA and became the house band for Whiskey-A-Go-Go. Taking over the gig from Chicago, Metromedia Records signed the band after spotting them in the club. Recalling groups like Spirit, ELO,...

Kitty Ford sprang to life inside Associated Recording Studios (familiarly known as “Associated”) in 1961. Located on 7th Avenue in New York, Associated was a two-minute walk from the famous Brill Building, epicenter of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s. Kitty Ford was the alter ego of singer Mimi Evans. who was married to musician, singer and songwriter Paul Evans (“Midnight Special”). Before she married, Mimi was the popular country and rockabilly...

Kitty Ford sprang to life inside Associated Recording Studios (familiarly known as “Associated”) in 1961. Located on 7th Avenue in New York, Associated was a two-minute walk from the famous Brill Building, epicenter of the American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s. Kitty Ford was the alter ego of singer Mimi Evans. who was married to musician, singer and songwriter Paul Evans (“Midnight Special”). Before she married, Mimi was the popular country and rockabilly...

“A door would open up and I would just go through it, and I just kept doing that for all my life." — Mimi Roman That is how Mimi Roman, at 87, tells us of her life, including her time as a successful country singer in the 1950s and early 60s. But it took talent and a strong, beautifully distinctive voice for those doors to open, and to go far once on the other side. It also took guts and plenty of stamina for a 20-year-old Jewish cowgirl from Brooklyn to make her way to country music...

“A door would open up and I would just go through it, and I just kept doing that for all my life." — Mimi Roman That is how Mimi Roman, at 87, tells us of her life, including her time as a successful country singer in the 1950s and early 60s. But it took talent and a strong, beautifully distinctive voice for those doors to open, and to go far once on the other side. It also took guts and plenty of stamina for a 20-year-old Jewish cowgirl from Brooklyn to make her way to country music...

Two thundering slabs of thumpers from the Dunwich Records catalog. Features the Shadows Of Knight, The Luv’d Ones, Things To Come, The Banshees, and absolutely no crumbs! Pressed on colored vinyl! Chicago was home to one of the most vibrant American rock ‘n’ roll scenes of the mid-sixties and the most prolific outlet for Chicago’s rockin’ teen sound between 1966-67 was Dunwich Records. From its very first commercial release, “Gloria” by the Shadows of Knight, to classics by the Del-Vetts, the...

Out of Columbus, Ohio, comes a raucous punk band sure to make your head spin! Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, a name sure to catch your eye (and hopefully make you squirm), was conjured up by Ron House after his departure from The Great Plains. Teaming up with guitarist Bob Petric (who sadly passed away in March 2021, though his blistering riffs won’t be soon forgotten), bassist Craig Dunson, and drummer Ted Hattemer, TJSA first performed at local Columbus haunt, Stache’s, after the opening...

Back in print, now on yellow vinyl! Sultry Tjader jazz! Vibraphone legend Cal Tjader’s fusion of different genres and styles was an acute influence on Carlos Santana (and Latin rock as a whole). On Solar Heat he stirs in tastes of Exotica, Funk, and of course Latin and Jazz elements on this 1968 set of jazzed-up pop chestnuts and original bossas like the delicious “Fried Bananas.” Pressed at RTI, on colored vinyl! A STUNNING RECREATION SOLAR HEAT OF THE ORIGINAL GATEFOLD JACKET!PRISTINE ORANGE...

Celebrate Twink’s rightful status as a pillar of British psychedelia across this saucer that spans his illustrious career. Featuring iconic songs from the seminal Think Pink album and beyond, this first ever collection was carefully concocted by Twink himself! Available on colored vinyl or CD, both including track-by-track reflections from the artist. Twink is known largely from his time with The Pretty Things, Pink Fairies and his iconic underground 1970 debut Think Pink. Produced by Mick...

Celebrate Twink’s rightful status as a pillar of British psychedelia across this saucer that spans his illustrious career. Featuring iconic songs from the seminal Think Pink album and beyond, this first ever collection was carefully concocted by Twink himself! Available on colored vinyl or CD, both including track-by-track reflections from the artist. Twink is known largely from his time with The Pretty Things, Pink Fairies and his iconic underground 1970 debut Think Pink. Produced by Mick...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

The Dance’s Groundbreaking Post-Punk Art-Funk Makes US Landfall Modern Harmonic is proud to give The Dance’s complete catalog a reissue, most of which despite its ‘80s NYC panache and its NME buzz, has never been released in the States. In Lust (1981) and Soul Force (1982), both of which were originally released internationally on Statik Records, finally make landfall domestically. Joining those two coveted post-punk platters is Do Dada, which takes its name from a cult classic track on their...

This record is available exclusively through vinylmeplease.com.It can be purchased here. With Blacknuss, it’s as if Kirk is taking listeners on a trip – from the top forty world of Soul Train to the roots of soul in gospel music and back in Africa. It is a remarkable musical-cultural shift in perspective and one that carries the listener with it. Exploding with near chaotic energy, this album makes a great soundtrack to a party about to teeter out of control. Cut all analog! Dreams run...

With Blacknuss, it’s as if Kirk is taking listeners on a trip – from the top forty world of Soul Train to the roots of soul in gospel music and back in Africa. It is a remarkable musical-cultural shift in perspective and one that carries the listener with it. Exploding with near chaotic energy, this album makes a great soundtrack to a party about to teeter out of control. Cut all analog! Dreams run threadlike through the life and mythology of Roland Kirk. In one dream, The Creator spoke to him...

All Analog Roland Kirk, Pre-Rahsaan?! Sightless, peerless, multi-instrumentalist, Roland’s Kirk’s 1967 debut for Atlantic is a monster of a live set from ‘65 featuring pianists Lonnie Liston Smith and Jaki Byard, bassist Major Holley and drummer Charles Crosby- all put to tape in Atlantic Studios NYC. Cut all analog, pressed on orange vinyl! Think of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and a series of images flick through one’s mind. There he is, black beret and shades blowing three saxophones at once, next...

Ra to the Rescue is one of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon. There's a reason, and it has nothing to do with quality content (or lack thereof). When Ra and his business partner Alton Abraham launched their pioneering independent Saturn label in Chicago in the late 1950s, and on thru the 1960s—by which time Ra had moved to New York—each new album was carefully curated, titled, packaged with a printed, illustrated sleeve, and promoted in ads and catalogs. By the 1970s, when Ra and his band...

Elusive, it’s both a great adjective to describe the uber rare 1968 promo-only EP that contained “7-Up The Uncola” by Tom Dawes and his band The Cykle, it’s also the name of the perfume that this master tunesmiths penned a jingle to for Avon cosmetics. Those tracks, rare as they are, are two of the few Tom Dawes jingles that made the jump from the television to our turntables… until now! Elusive: The Tom Dawes Jingle Workshop collects more than fifty jingles penned by the Cyrkle frontman both...

Elusive, it’s both a great adjective to describe the uber rare 1968 promo-only EP that contained “7-Up The Uncola” by Tom Dawes and his band The Cykle, it’s also the name of the perfume that this master tunesmiths penned a jingle to for Avon cosmetics. Those tracks, rare as they are, are two of the few Tom Dawes jingles that made the jump from the television to our turntables… until now! Elusive: The Tom Dawes Jingle Workshop collects more than fifty jingles penned by the Cyrkle frontman both...