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Permanent Records Update 1.24.12
HEEEEY YOOOU GUYS!
All the snow on the ground here in Chicago has us feeling a little goonie. But in LA we scored the equivlant of One Eyed Willie's hidden treasure in the form of VINYL so we've shipped some over to Chicago to share the wealth. Now all Permanent Records locations are groud zero for F-U-N! So grab yourselves a Babyruth and let's talk about some tunes…
You may have scoped or tried to scope out our "Best of 2011" E-Zine last week. Our good pal Alejandro slimmed that puppy's filesize down by 95%, so now even those of you still rocking dial-up internet can grip a read of what we dug the most last year. Enjoy!
http://www.permanentrecordschicago.com/zine/PREX-BEST-OF-2011.pdf
While we're on the subject of our Best-of lists we crunched some numbers to determine the albums mentioned the most across all of our staff lists. Consider this Permanent's "Best Of The Best" 2011 albums (in alphabetical order):
- Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva (Poon Village)
- Bitchin Bajas - Water Wrackets (Kallistei)
- Brotman & Short – Heights (Cold Dick)
- Cave – Neverendless (Drag City)
- Feeling Of Love - Dissolve Me (Kill Shaman / Born Bad)
- Jealousy – Viles (Moniker)
- Kitchen's Floor - Look Forward To Nothing (Siltbreeze)
- Lumerians – Transmalinnia (Knitting Factory)
- Men - Leave Home (Sacred Bones)
- The Night Beats - The Night Beats (Trouble In Mind)
- Obnox - I'm Bleeding Now (Smog Veil)
- Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP (In The Red)
- Total Control - Henge Beat (Iron Lung)
- Wume – Distance (Rotted Tooth)
TIRED OF MISSING OUT ON THE BEST NEW LIMITED EDITION RELEASES?
Something we offer at Permanent that we've never mentioned in an update before is, for lack of a better term, a personal shopping service.
For a few of our regulars, we simply reserve all the releases we think they'd consider must owns, send a list for approval on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, and we ship them all together to save on shipping costs. The few folks we do this for have stuck with us for a while now (multiple years in a couple cases) and they are always super pleased with the records we choose for them. The best part is this arrangement is that these regulars rarely miss out on the best and most limited edition records. Also, this service takes all the work of deciding what to get and not get before any given record is sold out is all on us.
If this is something you're interested in discussing with us further, please drop us a line anytime and we'll work out the specific details.
In addition to stocking up on all the best new releases, we also restocked a bunch of amazing records that we gabbed on and on about in previous updates. Some key examples include the following:
LP - Scorpion Violente - Uberschleiss
LP - Birthday Party - Peel Sessions 1980-82
LP - St Vincent - Strange Mercy
LP - Atlas Sound - Parallax
LP - Wounded Lion - IVXLCDM (Limited Green Vinyl)
CD - Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Deluxe Edition)
7in - Bruce Lose - What's Your Name
7in - Mountain Cult - Mountain Cult EP
Tape - German Army - Body Linguist
These are all back in stock in quantity and come with our highest recommendations.
Both the LA and Chicago shops have filled up the Used Recent Arrivals Bins and they are packed with loads of awesomeness… We're talking LPs, 7"s, and CDs! Come on by and flip through some bins, we're sure you'll find something(s) worth hauling home!
As always we are looking for used product that any of you are looking to part with. We are always PAYING TOP DOLLAR for used LPs, CDs and 7 inches. Bring'em on in and we'll slap you some skin (and some CASH MONEY)!
Looking for previous updates to satiate your appetite for the best of the best in recent releases? Look no further than the Permanent Records Weekly Update Archive link right here: http://ymlp.com/archive_guhbhmwgjgu.php
FUN STUFFS!
Better grab some ear plugs:
PURLING HISS TOUR DATES!
1/31 Cleveland OH Happy Dog w/ Puffy Areolas
2/1 Columbus OH Newport Music Hall w/ Dr. Dog
2/2 Lawrence KS Granada Theatre w/ Dr. Dog
2/3 Boulder CO Boulder Theater w/ Dr. Dog
2/4 Salt Lake City UT Urban Lounge w/ Dr. Dog
2/6 Phoenix AZ Crescent Ballroom w/ Dr. Dog
2/7 Solana Beach CA Belly Up Tavern w/ Dr. Dog
2/10 Los Angeles CA The Music Box w/ Dr. Dog
2/11 San Francisco CA Regency Ballroom w/ Dr. Dog
2/13 Portland OR Crystal Ballroom w/ Dr. Dog
2/14 Seattle WA Neptune w/ Dr. Dog
2/17 Minneapolis MN First Avenue w/ Dr. Dog
2/18 Chicago IL Vic Theatre w/ Dr. Dog
2/19 Cincinnati OH 20th Century Theatre w/ Dr. Dog
3/1 Millvale PA Mr. Small's Theatre w/ Dr. Dog
3/3 Nashville TN War Memorial Auditorium w/ Dr. Dog
3/4 Atlanta GA The Buckhead Theatre w/ Dr. Dog
3/24 Philadelphia PA Electric Factory w/ Dr. Dog
3/25 Philadelphia PA Electric Factory w/ Dr. Dog
This Week's Featured Items
LP - Hookworms - Hookworms - Import - $15.99 -
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Curiouser and curiouser! The fine folks at Faux Discx bring us this Carlton Melt-ed slab of trippy psych goop from the UK. Sometimes you put on a record, and then, after the initial "whoa man" blast, you look over at it and see cartoon heatwaves rising off your turntable, and this is such a platter. You'll hear wailing guitar swoops a plenty in the finest Moon Duo tradition, but UK'ed up a little with some very live drumming and energetic but echoverbed-out male/female vocals that sound like somebody's Bis ringtone going off in the middle of a Spacemen 3 concert. Faux Discx has the scoop within a scoop:
"Faux Discx is over the moon to announce that we’ll be pressing Hookworms’ debut release on 12” vinyl. Hookworms features 4 songs and clocks in at around 27 minutes. Sun Ark (who issued the release on tape last month) said this about it:
“Hookworms fling themselves headlong into classic 80’s/90’s psych-rock like they’re trying to break something. Hailing from Leeds and cramming themselves giddily within the well established formal properties of the genre, they walk the scorched road behind Loop, Spectrum, and any other titan of two-chord songs who’s ever slowly wah-ed a chord until they saw colors. Most excellent burners!”
Which pretty much nails it. Hookworms will be a 500 only pressing on heavyweight vinyl, housed in a beautiful reverse-board sleeve featuring artwork by guitarist Jonny Wilkinson. This is a split release with Nottingham’s Gringo Records and should be out late October / early November if all goes to plan. More info on an exact release date when I know it."
Only available in quite limited quantity, there's sure to be a longjam of people looking for this as soon as it goes out of print. Don't pass it up, or you'll be so full of Jealousy you'll want to Purl Hiss. Recommended.
LP - Funk Police - Hot We Are Funk We Play - Import - $16.99 -
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Freeze! Hands in the air dirtbag! France's Funk Police are here to jail your ass to the dance floor. Like some brilliant combination of Liquid Liquid, ESG and Adrian Sherwood fronted by a Damo Suzuki/Alan Vega reverbed lunatic, the Funk Police pump out glue wave post punk booty movers. This record is unstoppable fun that will break your brain if you think to hard on it, so might as well just get in to the groove, boy you gotta prove your love to the Funk Police. The folks at Avant! records are behind this release and they seem as baffled as we are by what they've unleashed on the masses:
"Yep, the French, again! Looks like there’s no way not to deal with these guys for us at Avant!... After the Waiting For The Cheerleaders To Get Drunk 7'' by The Feeling Of Love and that little gem that has been the Scorpion Violente LP, we are really glad to release one more piece of insanity outta Metz/Strasbourg. Funk Police is Guillaume from AH Kraken/The Feeling Of Love, Nafi from Scorpion Violente/The Dreams/The Anals, and their old mate Thierry (previously in Dust Breeders and Flowers Of Darmstadt) and they bring the typical no-wave blind fury of La Grande Triple Alliance Internationale De l'Est all over some smoky dark funk grooves. Like nowadays Slits, Pop Group or Public Image Ltd., Funk Police steal black rhythms from an hypothetical rainforest and hurl them into their concrete jungle, while James Brown and James Chance stand there nodding. Throbbing bass, sharp upbeat guitars and schizoid vocals over the haunting tribal drums. Ten damp tracks on 33rpm black vinyl with stunning artwork by Sylvie P.!"
With killer cuts like "Back Inside You", "Coco Dance", "Horsefag", "Now I Can Funk" and "Red Blood Black Boobs" you know "Hot We Are Funk We Play" is a head scratching party starter. The Funk Police lay down the law with 10 cuts of bonkers bass line driven dancey post punk lunacy. If you've been digging any of the French bands affiliated with these guys (Anals, Dreams, Scorpion Violente, Feeling Of Love, Dust Breeders) or the likes of Cheveu, early Boredoms, 80's NYC dance punk / no wave than you best cop (sorry, couldn’t resist) this one now-like. This one's got lights out underwear dance party written all over it. This thing is deliriously recommended.
2xLP - Incredible Kidda Band - Too Much Too Little Too Late - Import - $24.99 -
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For every punk band that "made it" in the late-Seventies, there were scores and scores of "never-rans" who were maybe great or even just OK bands that never made a ripple in the music consciousness outside of their regional scene. FINALLY we have the reissue (of the reissue) of possibly the greatest unsung bands of the British punk scene, The Incredible Kidda Band, courtesy of our pals at Red Lounge Records! Seriously folks - sit down for a second and let us bend your ear for a minute about how great this double LP collection is - we're talking GRADE-A power pop, no frills, no pretension. No joke, this is TWO albums worth of musical GOLD - these dudes were working class blokes that could be laughing and fighting at the local pub before heading off to the practice space to write some hits. Don't be fooled though, behind that tough exterior hides a charming buncha lads with a serious sensitive streak. Take the punky-pop-isms of Clash, The Jam, The Nerves, The Undertones and jam them together with the addictive enthusiastic glam hooks of The Bay City Rollers and Mud and meld it with the pub-rockin' of bands like Mott the Hoople and Brinsley Schwartz and you start to get a good idea of what the Kidda Band sounds like. It simultaneously sounds like every one of these bands at the same time sounding like no one else! We just about shit our shorts when we saw that this one was getting the reissue treatment - musically, this 2xLP set is almost identical to the 2xLP set released by Detour records in 2000 (which quickly went out of print and has been fetching collector's prices for years!) adding one bonus 1977 demo of "She's A 50", repackaged with classier artwork supervised by Graham “Kidder” Hammonds in a SWEEEEEET glossy gatefold with publicity pics of the band and live shots. ESSENTIAL reissue here folks - grab this one before it's gone (again). RECOMMENDED with a capitol "R"!! Incredible, INDEED!
10" - Outdoorsmen - Shit Will Happen If You Use Your Stupid Brain - Import - $14.99 -
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LIMITED TO 500 COPIES!!
Swirling, lysergic psychedelic pop from this East Coast quartet, mysteriously named MMOSS! Psychedelic music has had a real resurgence in the past few years, ranging from heavier (and headier) jammers, to lighter, more pastoral acid-folk - MMOSS sits comfortable in the middle riding that same crest of a wave that fellow voyagers The Paperhead ride; sounding simultaneously contemporary and nostalgic at the same time. There are whiffs of the pounding, explosive garage-isms of more contemporary psych-warriors like The Gris Gris, Brian Jonestown Massacre and the aforementioned Paperhead, but also a more sensitive harmony-laden pop approach a'la The Byrds, Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, and even Jethro Tull (yep there's some RIPPING - but tasteful flute courtesy of band-member Rachel Neveu). Even the headier, more experimental moments of the 13th Floor Elevators, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones (circa 'Satanic Majesties'-era) occasionally pop up, dancing alongside the sunnier moments of, say Spacemen 3. It's not sweetness and light these boys (and girl) are peddling here - we'd half expect to see members of MMOSS playing the May Day celebrations in front of the Wicker Man! Pastoral, yes - but these are fields that are maybe turning brown, dying off and whose crops have failed the farms. Brown acid stuff, people. Watch out! This one slipped under the radar from last year, but after it popped up on a staff-member's 'Best Of' list, we swiped some up from Burger Records tout de suite (who released it on vinyl after selling out of a few runs of the cassette) and are passing along the goodness to you fine folks! Terrific stuff and a solid and compelling listen all the way through! RECOMMENDED by us!
LP - Spectacles - Re-Spectacled - $16.99 -
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A pretty sweet collection from this little-known San Francisco art-punk band fro the early-Eighties, The Spectacles! The goofballs sound like the mutated offspring of Devo, Sparks and The Dickies! Rave Up's got the hardline deets on these guys here's their spiel:
"Previously unreleased studio tracks, recorded in 1980, by this fairly obscure San Francisco new wave/artpop band that might remind you of early DEVO or PERE UBU with its angular, slightly dissonant melodies and tight musicianship. Front cover art by Winston Smith; back cover includes photos and a band bio. Italian import."
HEAVY Devo vibe cruising thru these grooves, or even a whiff of (recent Permanent label artists) The Psyclones - if you love the Spuds and their ilk, you're Mothersbaugh'nd to love this (oof - sorry 'bout that). Definitely the best remedy for your itchy, swelling brain! RECOMMENDED!
LP - Victim - All Our Dreams Are Gone - $15.99 -
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For this disc of fiery, melodic punk from the Irish combo you can blame the Victim! These guys were at ground zero of the emerging punk scene in the UK and were one of the first Irish punk bands to start to make ripples in England (they even toured the UK with The Damned in 1979!). This collection comes to us from the folks at Rave Up Records and here's the more detail oriented factoids they have to offer:
"Formed in Belfast in mid-1977, this early Irish punk band was responsible for turning the legendary Harp Bar into a punk venue, appeared in the "It Makes You Want to Spit" UTV documentary and the "Shellshock Rock" film, played the Deeply Vale Festival in Manchester, and became only the 2nd band to release a single on the Good Vibrations label. This 13-track LP includes the songs from their first three 7" releases plus 6 more studio tracks, with an extensive band bio on the back cover. Italian import."
A pretty choice collection - sounds pretty similar to alot of the UK stuff from the time like fellow countrymen (and Good Vibrations labelmates) Protex, Rudi, or The Undertones as well as (early) Damned or The Buzzcocks! Keep an ear open for the band's absolutely SAVAGE cover of Bowie's "Hang On To Yourself" - Whoah! RECOMMENDED, ya punx!
LP - Rusted Shut - Hot Sex - $12.99 -
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We're long time fans of Texas' Rusted Shut here at P-Rex HQ's and we haven't had the "Hot Sex" EP around lately so we decided to bring some back around and just kind of highlight this here sonic weapon of a record, so's that maybe any of yous that aren't familiar with Rusted Shut could get on board with the heinous cacophony that lives in these grooves. Originally recorded in 1998 during the sessions that brought you the "Rehab" full length, "Hot Sex" EP is 4 cuts of ear rupturing, roach killing, paint cracking noise rawk misanthropy that will leave you deafer, dumber and disoriented. Fans of Drunks With Guns, Brainbombs, The Dead C and hearing loss should definitely check this out. If listening to jet engines being sodomized by a super nova is your idea of good time then isn't it about time you had some "Hot Sex"? Originally released by the fine folks at Dull Knife Records in 2008, "Hot Sex" is a timeless teaser of lethal sonics with your eardrums dead center in the crosshairs. Painfully Recommended.
LP - D. Vassalotti - Book Of Ghosts - $13.99 -
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The Athens-based Vinyl Rites label brings us this debut solo longplayer by Tampa scene stalwart David Vassalotti. It's a broad, genre-jumping but nonetheless cohesive collection of noise-destroyed pop songwriting and sound montage in the tradition of Jim Sheppard, Guided By Voices, Dan Melchior, and John Bellows. Vinyl Rites is rightfully pumped about it, as you can read:
“DAVID VASSALOTTI has been cutting his teeth for 10 years in various bands around the Tampa area. Most recently he's been half of MERCHANDISE and a quarter of NEON BLUD, before that he was one of the primary song writers in CULT RITUAL, and all this time he has had 5+ other projects on deck. Very rarely do we drop the ex-members card at Vinyl Rites, but having that kind of musical pedigree is pretty unbeatable. His first solo LP is wildly different from the aforementioned groups, although it shares some of the bedroom sensibilities that Merchandise espouses so well. Luckily for all of us, great song writing transcends genre and with Book of Ghosts he explores more of the Creation Records and 4AD back catalog. His musical hombre ZZ compares it to Felt and Trans-era Neil Young. It seamlessly goes from intensely personal singer-songwriter numbers to huge and lush shoe-gazing darkness, from New Order pop to This Mortal Coil downers. Not only our favorite release on Vinyl Rites yet, but it's also the most hauntingly beautiful recordings we've heard in years.”
We get excited around these parts whenever somebody's got one foot planted firmly in the Camp Pop Singer/songwriter and the other toe dipping into the waters of Avant-Noise Blastout Lake. We're psyched to welcome Mr. Vassarotti into that club with this total charmer of an LP. Recommended.
2xLP - Geraldine Fibbers - Butch (Out of Print) - $24.99 -
BUYWAREHOUSE FIND OF THIS LONG OUT-OF-PRINT 1997 DOUBLE LP ON SYMPATHY FOR THE INDUSTRY. THIS RECORD SELLS AT EVANGELISTA SHOWS FOR $40!
"Butch isn't so much the work of a band crossing readily between musical realms as coming down firmly on the rock side with definite country touches. On that level, however, it's a great effort, with Carla Bozulich more than once returning to her more strident Ethyl Meatplow roots, at least in terms of overall volume if not industrial beats. "Toybox" is a massive, brawling monster of a track, where Nels Cline's guitar and Kevin Fitzgerald's blasting drums set the pace even as Jessy Greene's violin slices through the mix like a demented banshee. Throughout the album all the band members pull off some amazing performances -- it's little surprise Cline continued to work with Bozulich in Scarnella based on his sometimes aggressive, sometimes calm contributions. Perhaps the most surprising touch is the inclusion of a cover of Can's Krautrock classic "Yoo Doo Right," but much like fellow Californians Thin White Rope, the Fibbers work their own magic on the song, with Bozulich commandingly leading everyone through a fierce take. Little on the album is quiet, but there are songs where taking a softer touch at points comes up trumps, like the sweet, seaside push of "Trashman in Furs," which is able to sound epic without having to hammer it home. When the band lets go and gets completely down-home, like on the enjoyable romp "Folks Like Home" and the slow singalong "Pet Angel," it's among Butch's best moments." - Allmusic.com
LP - Stormtrooper - I'm A Mess - $16.99 -
BUY"This British band first formed and disbanded in a fury in 1975, just before the birth of punk, recording a 4-song demo(universally rejected by labels) and playing one live show before calling it quits. The band reformed 2 years later, and 2 of those demo tracks were released on the Solent label with a total of 3000 pressed. Tony Parsons, reviewing the record in NME, called it "about as musical as the sound of a commuter being shoved under a tube train at rush hour," and Jon Savage in Sounds had something similar to say about this garagey early mixture of heavy metal, hard rock and hard punk. More studio recordings were made, though they remained unreleased until now. Cover art includes photos, band bio and vintage press clips. Italian import." - (Rave Up)
LP - Plod - Neo City - $16.99 -
BUY"This band (aka "The Mighty Plod") formed in Colchester UK in 1972, with lots of influence from glam acts of the day, especially SLADE, SWEET, and THE NEW YORK DOLLS. Five studio tracks were recorded in 1975, including their best-known song
"Neo City," which some 25 years later became recognized as one of the lost gems of the glam era. Cover art includes photos and a band bio. Italian import." - (Rave Up)
LP - Big Pink - Future This - $14.99 -
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"The Big Pink's new album, Future This, is released today. Named after a skateboard company’s slogan from the 80s, it's an apt title.
Recorded over the summer of 2011, with ideas flowing, they worked with producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence & The Machine, Friendly Fires) to help them match their high ambitions. The end result is a perfect realisation of the band's initial intentions to marry their more outre influences with a pop sensibility. The 10 tracks add more shades to The Big Pink palette, commanding attention throughout with its genius gently sinking in like all good records should.
Future This is completed with artwork by celebrated artist KR (the man behind Krink) using his distinct paint style to ‘krink' the album's sleeve and give them a fresh update on the legacy of 4AD record design, and hark back to the skateboarding influences that shape the record's title." - 4AD
LP - Howler - America Give Up - $13.99 -
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From the city that brought you the Replacements and the ears that brought the world The Strokes and The Smiths, Rough Trade Records is excited to announce the forthcoming debut album from HOWLER. America Give Up is set for release on January 17, 2012.
Howler is the brainchild of 19-year-old frontman Jordan Gatesmith. Last winter, Gatesmith had been playing guitar for the Minneapolis band, Total Babe. But the overwhelming desire to create his own songs, in his own band, prompted him to hole up with his laptop and a guitar and within weeks he had written the tracks that became the genesis for the band’s debut EP This One’s Different. Almost as quickly he found the people to play them with. Joining Jordan in Howler are Ian Nygaard (guitar), France Camp (bass), Max Petrek (keyboards) and Brent Mayes (drums).
The band began playing out in Minneapolis and it wasn’t long before Rough Trade Records founder Geoff Travis heard about Howler, saw them play, and signed them to the label. This sudden onslaught of attention began in the UK, with glowing praise from the NME and BBC radio, followed by a month long U.S. tour, and the recording of America Give Up. “Irreverent and drenched in the classics” is how Travis describes them. - Rough Trade
LP - Peaches - Teaches of Peaches - 2012 Reissue $13.99 -
BUY"Wow, all I can say is that is about time this happened. Finally Peaches all time classic first album The Teaches of Peaches is available in the preferred vinyl format. Sure there was the Kitty-Yo version and then there was the ridiculous 5x12” version that XL did a few hundred of, but you’d have to either be rich or so old that you’re not even into sex anymore to own those! This one’s for the kids. And maybe for the creepy people into the kids into this." - XL Recordings
LP - Various - Intended Play Matador Sampler - $1.99 -
BUY"Matador Records & True Panther Sounds 2012 Intended Play Sampler hits shelves this January. This (insanely) budget-priced vinyl sampler showcases new tracks and now-classics from Matador/True Panther circa 2011-2012, and much like the Cherry Red sampler from which this LP finds inspiration, is destined to rank at #1 on all retail charts.
Featuring unreleased tracks from: THE YOUNG (Austin, TX – Matador debut Spring 2012), CEREMONY(Oakland, SF – Hysteria 7”coming January 2012, LP March), LEE RANALDO(of Sonic Youth, from Between the Times & The Tides, March 20 2012), PERFUME GENIUS (sophomore album, Put Your Back N 2 It, February 2012), STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS(unreleased track from Mirror Traffic sessions) … and the newest addition to the True Panther roster, TANLINES.
The album also features 2011 favorites, GIRLS (from album-of-the-year-contender Father, Son, Holy Ghost on True Panther), KURT VILE (from Smoke Ring for May Halo DELUXE), ESBEN & THE WITCH (Hexagons EP, first time on vinyl) & COLD CAVE (exclusive re-mix/re-master from CHERISH THE LIGHT YEARS favorite).
Revisit your favorites from 2011, and get a preview of 2012 from your friends at Matador Records & True Panther Sounds FOR UNDER TWO DOLLARS.
1 THE YOUNG - Don't Hustle For Love*
2 KURT VILE - Life's A Beach
3 GIRLS - My Ma
4 CEREMONY - Hysteria*
5 TANLINES - Track TBA*
6 LEE RANALDO - Off The Wall*
7 FUCKED UP - Into The Light
8 ESBEN & THE WITCH - Hexagons II
9 PERFUME GENIUS - All Waters*
10 COLD CAVE - Confetti (radio edit)
11 STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS - Polvo*" - Matador
LP - Karen Dalton - 1966 - $19.99 -
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BUY"KAREN DALTON was a remote, elusive creature. A hybrid of tough and tender with an unearthly voice that seemed to embody a time long past. As is often the case with such fragile beings, she instinctively understood that the only way to survive the harshness of the world around her, was to keep herself hidden. So it comes as no great surprise that she rarely sang in public or ventured into the unnatural setting of a recording studio. Only twice, for 1969's It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best and then again for 1971's In My Own Time, was she coaxed from her habitat into the studio. Other times she made music in casual settings, sitting around a kitchen table or wood burning stove with her friends, singing and playing until daybreak. In 1966, Carl Baron brought his reel to reel over to her remote cabin in Summerville, Colorado and recorded one of those exquisite musical evenings. Karen and RICHARD TUCKER were rehearsing for a gig when Carl hit the "Record" button. The result is a 45-year-old tape, carefully exhumed, documenting Karen at her most raw and unfiltered. On it are Fred Neil and Tim Hardin songs we've never heard Karen give voice to before, as well as traditional songs she uncannily makes her own, including a devastating version of ‘Katie Cruel’, that is so powerful, it is as if the ghost of Katie Cruel seeped into her blood. This recording is a window to her Summerville cabin opened, allowing us to eavesdrop on Karen Dalton at her most pure and unaffected. CD Booklet containing beautiful, unseen photos (including Karen with Fred Neil and Tim Hardin), and a 3500 word essay by Ben Edmonds (MOJO, & currently working on a biography of Tim Hardin). LP housed in tip-on jacket, with 4 page heavy insert, exclusive color portrait, and download card." - Delmore Recordings
LP - Michael Chapman - Rainmaker - $18.99 -
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BUY"On the heels of last year’s superb reissue by Light In The Attic of MICHAEL CHAPMAN’s 1970 classic album Fully Qualified Survivor, comes his 1969 debut Rainmaker (originally released on the seminal Harvest label). Like the ‘FQS’ album, Rainmaker is a psychedelic-guitar-folk delight. The album kicks off with one of Chapman’s best known songs “It Didn’t Work Out”—which features a stellar cast of legendary English musicians of the era; Guitarist “Clem” Clempson was in the prog-band Bakerloo (soon after playing with Chapman he’d join jazz-rockers Colosseum and then Humble Pie) Drummer Aynsley Dunbar (his resume includes John Mayall, Eric Burdon, David Bowie, Frank Zappa and Lou Reed), bassist Alex Dmochowski (long time Dunbar comrade) were both in Dunbar’s Retaliation. Organ player Norman Haines was in Locomotive (another obscure, but legendary progressive English band of the day). A true stylist in his own right, Chapman holds a middle line between John Martyn and Bert Jansch with the provocative electric rock of Martyn juxtaposed against the traditional folk so wonderfully espoused by Jansch. Another highlight is Chapman's lyrical/vocal style, which would appeal to fans of Roy Harper. Along for the ride on other songs are acoustic bassist Danny Thompson (Pentangle, John Martyn, Nick Drake) and electric bass player Rick Kemp (later to join Steeleye Span). All of the proceedings were produced by Gus Dudgeon who also did Chapman’s “FQS” album as well as David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” single—and a ton of the early work of Elton John. CD features three previously unreleased tracks, PLUS three rarities. LP pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in deluxe tip-on sleeves. Both formats feature new liner notes by BYON COLEY and rare photos, etc." - Light In The Attic
LP - Expensive Looks - Dark Matter - $13.99 -
BUY"ALEC FIELD grew up in New York on a steady diet of Chicago house, disco, old Motown stuff and a smattering of his parents’ psych records, as well as “trashy ’90s dance.” Dark Matters is his debut LP as EXPENSIVE LOOKS. It flows continuously across nine tracks, touching on elements of all the music he grew up on: hypnotic house, textured minimalism, and the gorgeous moment of musical epiphany that happens when a beat drops out and all that’s left is the aural equivalent of taking a deep breath and staring at the stars. It’s a dance record with the sort of scrappy, open heart that can only come from someone like Feld. Expensive Looks is all encompassing, it draws from all genres without border, pulling everything into one warped but pointed mass." - Group Tightener
LP - A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen - $13.99 -
BUY"NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! Received a 7.3 rating from Pitchfork. A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN is the first installment of the new collaboration between STARS OF THE LID member ADAM WILTZIE and composer DUSTIN O’HALLORAN. The duo agreed to leave their normal home studio comfort zone and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, and to hunt down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began in one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in west Berlin on a 1950s imperial Boesendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last final session in a private studio deep in the norther cusp of Italy on a handmade Fazioli piano, and the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara, Italy, with the assistance of FRANCESCO DONADELLO. All songs were processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to live dangerously, realizing that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic replicating ingemination. In “Requiem for the Static King Part 1” (created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous) they have taken the age old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of mellow bliss. Of the 13 minute track “Symphony Pathétique,” Wiltzie says “after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing.” Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR and violinist PETER BRODERICK. A Winged Victory for the Sullen is not a side project. This is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of." - Kranky
LP - Junior Kimbrough - You Better Run - The Essential Junior Kimbrough - 2xLP - $17.99 -
BUY"NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! A career-spanning collection of tracks from one of the most influential and original blues musicians in the past fifty years, JUNIOR KIMBROUGH. Hailed by such folks as U2's Bono and Iggy Pop as a primal force in American music, Junior never reached the mass audience that he deserved while alive, but his music endures and continues to be discovered by music fans from all walks of life." - Fat Possum
LP - Calvin Keys - Shawn-neeq - $22.99 -
BUY"Originally released on the influential label Black Jazz in 1971, guitarist CALVIN KEYS’ debut is a stone classic waiting to be re-discovered. The funky, deep grooves and Calvin’s singular guitar stylings, coupled with the heady collaborative feel that inhabits so many early ‘70’s jazz recordings, are all on beautiful display. Calvin’s musical roots originate in his hometown of Omaha, NE, playing with legends like Eddie ‘Cleanhead’ Vinson. Shortly after the release of his debut LP Shawn-Neeq, Calvin was hired to tour and record with Ray Charles. By the mid-70’s, Calvin was working steadily with legendary pianist Ahmad Jamal on the road and in the studio. Since settling in the Bay Area in the mid-70’s, Calvin has recorded numerous solo albums and played with many greats, including Taj Mahal, Bobby Hutcherson, Big John Patton and Dr. Lonnie Smith. In 2007, fellow-Midwesterner and big fan Pat Metheny included the song “Calvin’s Keys” on his album Day Trip. Calvin will perform ‘Shawn-Neeq’ with his trio in its entirety in support of this reissue on Tompkins Square!" - Tompkins Square
CD - German Army - German Army - $7.99 -
BUY"German Army is a side project of Paul Kneejie (The Pope, Submissions, Bipolar Bear) and Greg Toumassian. German Army is an experiment in ambient and atmospheric jungle minmal music. It’s dark, rhythmic, druggy, and enchanting. Recommended if you like Factums, The Dreams, etc. Check out their video of “Pulling Lashes” on the home page. This is a split release with AM Discs. Limited to 100 copies, professionally printed and replicated. Sure to go fast, and pretty damned cheap." - Kill Shaman
7in - Femsickliver - Skirts EP (Limited to 102) - $6.99 -
BUY -
LISTEN
This single is a fat lip with a black-eye from the buckeye state. An uber limited goober R N' R 7" in the tradition of Harry Pitts Band, Mucky Pup and Billy and the Boingers. Google them scum stats collector dorks! We'll let Richie from Termbo fill you alls in on the whole story:
"(only 102 pressed, 4 different covers - 25 each - and probably 2 very ltd covers in the future - really surprised rich laxed on the scum stats!)
Jesus Christ. After the 'Weed Whore' flexi-thing blew minds and o-rings here at Termbo HQ I received news Femsickliver was getting an "official" vinyl release in the near future. And the future is now. Femsickliver are Clevo's modern day answer to The Mentors, only not as good looking. Punk rock'n'roll that's actually not all that sloppy, there are some hot guitar licks and whoever else comprises the all-star cast of this band are certainly gamers. The real treat here is the vocal performance of one Russ Romance. Hearing him deliver songs like "Blowjob Only" and "Jerkoff Vacation" is worth the cover charge. Free of good taste and class, it's half stand-up comedy and half offensive punk rock in the tradition of GG, Dwarves and other similarly cretinous acts. "Skirts" is the new hit, but the reprisal of "Weed Whore" is still the main attraction. I'm thankful this modern classic is now available to a slightly larger audience with the release of this slab. It'll make you laugh, and maybe cry. With maniacal intro from none other than Paulito Trichecho himself. Scum stats: undisclosed pressing quantity, two sleeve variants, one of the Barely Legal variety and one drawn by renowned outsider artist Steven Peffer. - Termbo(RK) (Ehah! Records // figure it out yourself)"
These are gonna be gone like yesterday so get while the gettings gross. Recommended.
7in - Nervous Gender - Gestalt - $3.99 -
BUY -
LISTEN GREEN VINYL
For fans of synth-punk and minimal wave, the band Nervous Gender should need no introduction. The band formed in LA in the late-Seventies, having allegiances to bands in the burgeoning LA Punk scene as well as the industrial scene at the time (the band opened for legendary acts like SPK, Psychic TV and Einstürzende Neubauten) and proceeded to alienate every single one of them with their confrontational and provocative attitude and stage presence. Sounds like our kinda band! Two of the original members have re-formed the band and created this single right here, released by the Test Tube label - here's the skinny, straight from the source:
"The return of one of the most extreme synthpunk bands ever, this presents 2 new tracks from the pioneering late-'70s, early '80s Los Angeles group including original members Edward Stapleton and Michael Ochoa, with more recent addition Joe Zinnato. A little something to offend everyone, pressed on green vinyl with fine 3-color artwork."
We tend to be skeptical of "reunion" records, but we gotta say, this one took us completely off guard! A completely solid record that sounds very contemporary - these dudes come from a band with a solid pedigree, but it sounds like they still pay attention to what's what these days and haven't stopped listening to edgy music. Dare we say this one is... vital? Whatever the case may be, it's unequivocally recommended! Set phasers to stun and get one!
As the label behind this release, Margin Mouth, states:
"This band is not easily classifiable. Too weird to be garage rock, not hostile enough for punk. But luckily Sopors aren’t concerned with genres, just making twisted tunes that're meant for the shadows of your musical mindset. I don’t hear direct influences, but rather certain regions that I'd believe they came from. A little Australia here, a little Texas there, all elements cremated and the ashes released from the Golden Gate Bridge."
We totally agree with that sentiment. To put it in more Permanent terms, think Tyvek meets Milk Music and you're on the right brain train. We recommend fans of skilled, yet lo-fi DIY get on board with Sopors. We're riding shotgun.
7in - Mark Lanegan - Grave Diggers Song - Import -
BUY"Limited, numbered US edition of THEE rock’n’roll jam of 2012. The first track from the Mark Lanegan Band’s new album Blues Funeral is a relentless monster, the kind of single where you just keep putting the needle back to the start of the song over and over. However, the b-side is almost as essential. Burning Jacob’s Ladder was originally included in some video game (can’t remember which one, sorry) but thankfully gets a more valid release." - Matador
Tape - Moonrises - Moonrises - $4.99 -
BUY -
LISTEN PRO DUBBED EDITION OF 200
The Priority Male label once again knocks it out of the cosmos with their release of Moonrises self titled cassette. Moonrises is a new project by Chicago psych guru, schizo axe-weilder Plastic Crimewave along with keyboard sorceress Ms. Libby Ramer and drum warlock Ben B. Billington. Together this cosmic trio have laid a scorcher of white hot psychedelic space rock to tape. We're talking bubble and gurgle organ melodies, chanted male/female vocal interplay and ultra manic guitar scree backed by nonstop jazzy pummeling drum work that lifts off and doesn't stop. This trance inducing slice of stratosphere snorting sonicisims will have you hovering in the garden of the edens expressway in no time. 8 cuts of interstellar space ritual that kicks on the afterburners to thrust you ever further towards new galaxies. If you like Acid Mothers Temple, Fabulous Diamonds, Gunslingers, Flying V's, the color clear and the solar system that get on board cuz when the sun sets, the Moonrises! Recommended.
Tape - Heavy Times - Jacker - $4.99 -
BUY -
LISTEN KILLER 2011 LP NOW ON CASSETTE THANKS TO PRIORITY MALE! ! !
"This is a pro-dubbed version of the CD/LP on Chicago garage king HoZac; an aggressive pop-production that meshes the urgency of the Wipers with the leady sarcastic undertones of bands like the Pixies and Pavement. The thing made a billion year-end lists and I actually feel like I'm beating a dead horse trying to describe the record. Read the HoZac write-up here:
As Chicago’s most lethal band of the fast-rising noise pop neurotics, Heavy Times have carved out a uniquely hypnotic sound that’s hard to pin down but easy to fall for, and fast. Crushingly melodic vocal hooks cleverly interwoven with static-filled harmonies no one’s prepared for, all executed with a snarling blow to the pleasure receptors. Their massive, almost cavernous grungy pop will escape most realistic comparisons, but as the scuzz starts to feverishly build and disseminate on each successive track of ‘Jacker,’ it becomes quickly evident that the songs that frame these livid bursts of punk energy are always worth waiting for. Once these mammoth choruses kick into gear, and just as the guitars explode, it’s an endorphin-rushing experience that stands all hairs on end, and will knock you back unexpectedly. This is a band that carefully divides its power, bringing the hammer down right where it needs to hit, and locking into a euphonic wave of impossibly catchy, spidery guitar lines that soar and dive with the best of ‘em so well, you’ll swear you’ve heard these chords somewhere before. What’s more is that Heavy Times have just as much of a hand on blasting your eardrums into oblivion as they do on their signature mega-melodic wall of vocals, washing like a golden glaze over each track with an enchantingly harmonic howl, that clearly defines their hyperactive Wipers-soaked sound to the core." - Priority Male
Tape - Solid Attitude - Die Bart Die - $2.99 -
BUY -
LISTEN Here are the last few DIY tour copies of the upcoming Night People C20 "Die Bart Die!" by Iowa City's Solid Attitude. We repeatedly wet ourselves over Solid Attitude's 7" EP on Rotted Tooth and this scuzzy little thing follows suit. No listed song titles, just cut after cut of snot nosed Stooge-ian lo-fi punk blues played with enough bile and malcontent to clog up your speakers. Both sides of this vile little ripper of a cassette are filled with sex howl scum rock chock fulla mangled guitar molestation, frantic throw and go rhythms and snarling vocals that are some sort of depraved hybrid of Blag Dahlia and Darby Crash. Simple and sultry as a blackjack to the dome, Solid Attitude have a catchy pop sensibility that will have you tappin' your toes during your next hold up. So grab a chain, hit the streets and DO THE BARTMAN! Recommended.
Tape - Deeper Peace - Deeper Peace - $4.99 -
BUY -
LISTEN LIMITED TO 150 COPIES!!
“Deeper Peace” is a solo outing from MMOSS member Doug Tuttle and a mind melting journey of psychedelic proportions! A mish-mash of tape-collage sound bytes (not too dissimilar to how those early GBV records are constructed) and more "straight ahead" pop numbers (i.e. verse/chorus/verse/chorus) chopped together to assemble two-side-long music pieces. Hints of Tuttle's main band MMOSS's hippie-garage leanings creep up here and there, along with hints of what they pull from; Syd Barrett, Gris Gris (even Thee Oh Sees' more acoustic incarnation) - but there's a undercurrent of weird folky/gypsy meanderings, with Tuttle employing an array of guitars, sitars, flutes, whistles, bells, shakers and layers of rich vocal harmonies. We get a heavy Manson-family vibe for some reason too - not necessarily in how the songs sound, but how they FEEL; dark, cult-ish and off-kilter. Throw this on at your next Black Mass mixer and watch the Pagans geek out to it! RECOMMENDED.
Recommended Restocks
LP - Scorpion Violente - Uberschleiss (Import)
LP - Birthday Party - Peel Sessions 1980-82
LP - St Vincent - Strange Mercy
LP - Atlas Sound - Parallax
LP - Wounded Lion - IVXLCDM (Limited Green Vinyl)
CD - Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo (Deluxe Edition)
7in - Bruce Lose - What's Your Name
7in - Mountain Cult - Mountain Cult EP
Tape - German Army - Body Linguist
Thanks so much for taking the time to read these updates. It's really great to know that regardless of all the media hype over the past several years claiming that MP3's are taking over the world that tangible forms of music live on and this "industry" isn't as gloom and doom as they make it out to be. We're happy to be a store and a label and we hope that it shows. And not to end on a sappy note, but we just wanted to say we heart you guys and look forward to sending this update every week. If you like what you read here, please tell others. Spread the gospel, brothers and sisters!
New Release Recap
| Format - Artist - Title | Price | Status |
|---|
| LP - Hookworms - Hookworms - Import | $15.99 | featured |
| LP - Funk Police - Hot We Are Funk We Play - Import | $16.99 | featured |
| LP - Incredible Kidda Band - Too Much Too Little Too Late - Import - 2xLP | $24.99 | featured |
| 10in - Outdoorsmen - Shit Will Happen If You Use Your Stupid Brain - Import | $14.99 | featured |
| LP - MMOSS - i | $10.99 | featured |
| LP - Spectacles - Re-Spectacled | $16.99 | featured |
| LP - Victim - All Our Dreams Are Gone | $15.99 | featured |
| LP - Rusted Shut - Hot Sex | $12.99 | featured |
| LP - D. Vassalotti - Book Of Ghosts | $13.99 | featured |
| CD - Big Pink - Future This | $11.99 | |
| CD - Howler - America Give Up | $8.99 | |
| LP - Big Pink - Future This | $14.99 | |
| LP - Calvin Keys - Shawn-neeq | $22.99 | |
| LP - Expensive Looks - Dark Matter | $13.99 | |
| LP - Geraldine Fibbers - Butch (Out of Print) | $24.99 | |
| LP - Howler - America Give Up | $13.99 | |
| LP - Junior Kimbrough - You Better Run - The Essential Junior Kimbrough - 2xLP | $17.99 | |
| LP - Karen Dalton - 1966 | $19.99 | |
| LP - Michael Chapman - Rainmaker | $18.99 | |
| LP - Peaches - Teaches of Peaches - 2012 Reissue | $13.99 | |
| LP - Plod - Neo City | $16.99 | |
| LP - Stormtrooper - I'm A Mess | $16.99 | |
| LP - Various - Intended Play Matador Sampler | $1.99 | |
| 7in - Femsickliver - Skirts EP (Limited to 102) | $6.99 | featured |
| 7in - Nervous Gender - Gestalt | $3.99 | featured |
| 7in - Sopors - Sopors | $4.99 | featured |
| 7in - Mark Lanegan - Grave Diggers Song - Import | $4.99 | |
| Tape - Moonrises - Moonrises | $4.99 | featured |
| Tape - Heavy Times - Jacker | $4.99 | featured |
| Tape - Solid Attitude - Die Bart Die | $2.99 | featured |
| Tape - Deeper Peace - Deeper Peace | $4.99 | featured |
* All New Releases should be considered in-stock as of this update unless noted otherwise.
Sale! Sale! Sale!
| Format - Artist - Title | Price |
|---|
| CD - Avey Tare - Down There | $9.99 |
| CD - Big Pink - Future This | $11.99 |
| CD - Bob Desper - New Sounds | $7.99 |
| CD - Dark Castle - Surrender To All Life Beyond Form | $8.99 |
| CD - Flower Travellin Band - Makeup - Import 2xCD | $16.99 |
| CD - Hatchback - Zeus And Apollo | $9.99 |
| CD - Health - Get Color | $7.99 |
| CD - Kate Bush - The Dreaming | $8.99 |
| CD - Kids On A Crime Spree - We Love You So Bad | $5.99 |
| CD - Lungfish - Unanimous Hour - Remaster | $7.99 |
| CD - No Joy - Ghost Blonde | $8.99 |
| CD - Nurse With Wound - Who Can I Turn To Stereo etc 2xCD | $14.99 |
| CD - Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - The 1st Album - 1973 | $11.99 |
| CD - Oxbow - King Of The Jews | $11.99 |
| CD - Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong | $8.99 |
| CD - Pearls Before Swine - The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings | $12.99 |
| CD - Qluster - Fragen | $11.99 |
| CD - Residents - Meet The Residents | $8.99 |
| CD - Rob - Funky Rob Way | $11.99 |
| CD - Robert Pollard - Lord Of The Birdcage | $9.99 |
| CD - Shinki Chen - Shinki Chen And Friends | $11.99 |
| CD - Teeth Of The Sea - Orphaned By The Ocean | $11.99 |
| CD - These Trails - These Trails | $9.99 |
| CD - US Christmas - The Valley Path | $9.99 |
| CD - Various Artists - Wallahi Le Zein - Wezin, Jakwar And Guitar | $13.99 |
| CD - Willie Wright - Telling The Truth (CD + 4.72" vinyl) | $10.99 |
| CD - Zomby - Dedication | $8.99 |
| 7in - Dean Carter - Rebel Woman/I Got A Girl - Import | $9.99 |
| 7in - King Kennytone And His Western Toppers Band - Dancing Time With | $8.99 |
| 7in - Uzi Rash - I Saw You | $4.99 |
| 7in - Young Widows - Future Heart | $3.99 |
| LP - A Storm of Light - Untitled - Latitudes | $10.99 |
| LP - Anika - Anika | $11.99 |
| LP - Bass Drum Of Death - GB City | $11.99 |
| LP - Black Lips - Arabia Mountain | $10.99 |
| LP - Black Vatican - Oceanic Feelin' | $10.99 |
| LP - Boris - New Album | $21.99 |
| LP - Cola Freaks - Cola Freaks | $8.99 |
| LP - Coolin System - The Coolin System | $12.99 |
| LP - Cramps - Tales from the Cramps | $14.99 |
| LP - Eddy Current Suppression Ring - So Many Things - 2xLP | $17.99 |
| LP - Electric Crush - Dropouts In A Drug Haze | $8.99 |
| LP - Fabulous Diamonds - II | $10.99 |
| LP - Gruberger Brothers - Greetings from Reading PA | $11.99 |
| LP - Hatchback - Zeus And Apollo | $14.99 |
| LP - Herbcraft - Ashram To The Stars | $9.99 |
| LP - Heresy Of The Free Spirit - A Prayer For Light | $9.99 |
| LP - Karl Hector And The Malcouns - Tamanrasset | $15.99 |
| LP - Magic In Threes - Magic In Threes | $12.99 |
| LP - Mastodon - Blood Mountain - Colored Vinyl | $14.99 |
| LP - Matthew Friedberger - Old Regimes | $9.99 |
| LP - Nucular Aminals - Nucular Aminals | $9.99 |
| LP - Overkill ('83 Demo) / Anthrax ('83 Demo) - Thrashed From The Start Volume 3 | $13.99 |
| LP - Regal Degal - Speckled Fruit | $9.99 |
| LP - Rob - Funky Rob Way | $14.99 |
| LP - Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing | $11.99 |
| LP - Ryan Garbes - Sweet Hassle | $9.99 |
| LP - Smegma And Jozef Van Wissem - Suite The Hens Teeth | $9.99 |
| LP - Sorry Bamba - Volume One 1970-1979 2xLP | $12.99 |
| LP - Tamikrest - Toumastin - Import | $17.99 |
| LP - The Manic Depressives/ 0:30 Second Flash - Split | $11.99 |
| LP - Tonton Macoute - Mureedil | $19.99 |
| LP - Ty Segall - Singles 2007-2010 - 2xLP | $17.99 |
| LP - Various Artists - El Sonido De Tupac Amaru - With Bonus 7in | $16.99 |
| LP - Various Artists - Pakistan Folk And Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976 | $19.99 |
| LP - Zodiac Free Arts Club - Floating World | $11.99 |
| Tape - Andre Foisy - After The Prophecy | $4.99 |
| Tape - Anthony And Janas - Easter Sea | $3.99 |
| Tape - Chandeliers - Dirty Moves | $4.99 |
| Tape - Droughts - Stopping A New Start Again | $3.99 |
| Tape - Fine Hoods - New Sensations | $3.99 |
| Tape - Graffiti Monsters - Live At Shea Stadium | $1.99 |
| Tape - Hogsong - Weedhead Humanoid | $3.99 |
| Tape - Joel PPO - Relationship Status | $3.99 |
| Tape - Landlords - Wheelchair Night | $4.99 |
| Tape - Psychic Steel - Ofsteme | $4.99 |
| Tape - Queening - Slow Protection | $3.99 |
| Tape - Sida - Sida (Import) | $6.99 |
| Tape - TeePee / The Dreams - split cassette | $3.99 |
| Tape - Unlucky Atlas - A- RespiteB- Measure | $4.99 |
| Tape - Young Moons - Music From The Manor | $3.99 |
* All Sale Items should be considered in-stock as of this update unless noted otherwise.
Quality Used Goods (Chicago)
Please Note: These titles are just a small sample of many of the choice used LPs we swap into the recent arrivals bin each week!
| Format - Artist - Title | Price |
|---|
| 10in - Experimental Audio Research - Experimental Audio Research (2nd Press on Clear Vinyl) | 19.99 |
| LP - Bardo Pond - Dilate (2XLP) | 29.99 |
| LP - Blessure Grave - Judged by Twelve, Carried by Six | 11.99 |
| LP - Caroliner Rainbow - Rings on the Awkward Shadow (2xLP) - includes insert | 14.99 |
| LP - Cherry People - Cherry People (mono) | 24.99 |
| LP - Curtis Mayfield - Curtis | 19.99 |
| LP - Daniel A.I.U. Higgs - Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot | 29.99 |
| LP - Didjits - Backstage Passout | 14.99 |
| LP - Elvis Costello - This Years Model (orig.with inner sleeve) | 14.99 |
| LP - Elvis Costello - This Years Model (orig.with inner sleeve) VG | 11.99 |
| LP - Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (RARE orig. mono CL 1986, looks rough, plays great) | 11.99 |
| LP - Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love (Reprise 6281 Stereo) | 19.99 |
| LP - Ganglians - Still Living 2xLP (Includes Insert) | $14.99 |
| LP - Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It... (Includes Inserts) | 14.99 |
| LP - Marvin Gaye - Anthology (3xLP Motown collection) | 14.99 |
| LP - Masshysteri - Var Del Av Stan | 11.99 |
| LP - Mount Eerie - Dawn (Includes Booklet) | 11.99 |
| LP - Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps (w/ printed inner lyric sheet) | 14.99 |
| LP - Neil Young - Harvest (with orig.insert and inner sleeve) | 14.99 |
| LP - Raccoo-oo-oon - Raccoo-oo-oon | 11.99 |
| LP - Rolling Stones - Aftermath - (Digitally Remastered) | 14.99 |
| LP - SPK - Digital Ambigua Gold and Poison | 11.99 |
| LP - Tele:Funken/Flying Saucer Attack Split - Distant Station | 14.99 |
| LP - The Who - Tommy - (No Inserts) | 11.99 |
| LP - Throbbing Gristle - 2nd Annual Report ("Fetish" Records Reissue) | 19.99 |
| LP - Various Artists - The Decline Of Western Civilization (Original with Printed Inner) | 39.99 |
| LP - Who - Magic Bus / My Generation 2xLP | 19.99 |
| LP - Woods - Acoustic Family Creeps | 14.99 |
* All Used Items should be considered in-stock as of this update unless noted otherwise.
Quality Used Goods (L.A.)
Please Note: These titles are just a small sample of many of the choice used LPs we swap into the recent arrivals bin each week!
| Format - Artist - Title |
|---|
| Avengers - s/t |
| Cabaret Voltaire - Live YMCA |
| Clint Run / Lydia Lunch - Stinkfist |
| Country Teasers - Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire |
| Elvis Presley - s/t |
| Etron Fou Leloublan - Les Sillons De La Terre |
| Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief |
| Genesis - Trespass |
| Gregory Isaacs - Slum In Dub |
| Holly Golightly - The Good Things |
| Jackie-O Motherfucker - Assignment |
| King Errison - Drums of Nassau |
| Kurt Vile - The Hunchback EP |
| Michael Bundt - Just Landed Cosmic Kid |
| Neu! - Neu! 75 |
| Nobunny - Love Visions |
| Pelican - Australia |
| Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash |
| Society of Seven - Pot Pourri |
| Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising |
| Suicide - Second Album |
| The Carter Family - Travelin' Minstrel Band |
| The Fourth Way - Werwolf |
| The Hives - Guilty! |
| The Rolling Stones - Get Out Of Our Heads |
| The Runaways - Waitin' For The Night |
| The Staple Singers - Why |
| The Weakends - s/t |
| Thee Oh Sees - Cool Death of Island Raiders; Sucks Blood; Zork's Tape Bruise |
| Tortoise - Standards |
| VA - Fear of Smell |
| VA - Jungle Exotica |
| Zoombombs - Welcome Back, ZOOBOMBS! |
| zoviet-france - Shouting At The Ground |
* All Used Items should be considered in-stock as of this update unless noted otherwise.
* You can now use the Web Shop to check out the list of releases in every newsletter.
* Web Shop quantities are updated daily. If you search our store and still can't find what you're looking for you are welcome to send us an email.
* Live in the Chicago area and want to put something on hold? You can now purchase in-stock items via the web store, fill in your customer information, and choose Store Pick-up as your shipping option. Then just swing by the store with a photo ID and proof of purchase for store pick-up. We will hold items for up to two weeks.
* Automated International Shipping is NOW available via our Web Shop.
* Interested in seeing past New Releases and Restock? Click the link below to check out our newsletter archives: http://ymlp.com/archive_guhbhmwgjgu.php
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Quotes are valid for 7 days. Prices are subject to change without notice.
Purchases
Items purchased online, especially LPs and used items of limited press can occasionally be sold out when you place your order. Inventory is updated every 24 but will occasionally have overlap due to limited availability on certain items. An email notification will be sent (in a timely fashion) to let you know if this occurs. All orders have the option to be either held at the shop for pick up at our Chicago location or may be shipped worldwide for additional shipping and handling fees. All US orders will ship USPS Media Mail within 5-7 days of purchase (may be longer if purchased near a US holiday). We use Delivery Confirmation on all US shipping over $10 and can provide tracking numbers on those orders if requested. International orders ship First Class International and can take up to 6 weeks depending upon the customs restrictions for that particular country. No tracking is available on overseas orders. If you are making a large, International purchase, we suggest contacting us to purchase an extra upgrade to USPS International Priority for your package.
Return Policy
Defective merchandise new or used may be returned within 14 days of purchase for REPLACEMENT ONLY. If item is out-of-stock upon return, a STORE CREDIT will be issued for the exact amount of item. NO CASH REFUNDS will be offered. A receipt is required for all returns. Any new items must be in original packaging upon return. There are no returns allowed on special orders, discontinued items, or any new items that have been opened/used in any way. Mail order customers are responsible for any/all return shipping charges unless exceptions have been made. All packages should be returned to:
Permanent Records, 1914 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
Forms of Payment
Right now, we accept credit card payments through our shopping cart interface and PayPal. We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. These are the ONLY forms of payment we accept at this time.
Privacy Policy
Privacy and security of your private information are our top priority. All credit card transactions are protected with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts all sensative information before sending your order to us. We do not sell any personal information to outside sources. Any information voluntarily submitted for ordering/quoting purposes will only be used to fufill that particular order/quote. This information is used for that specific request unless you ask to use it in another manner, such as being added to our weekly email Update. No credit card or payment information will be kept after you order has been processed. In short, your information is safe and secure with us leaving you the freedom to do some carefree shopping!
Shipping
Shipping & handling rates within the continental US are determined by the number of items purchased as well as the location the order is to be shipped to. If you are shopping online, these rates will be calculated during checkout. PLEASE NOTE: If there are any discrepancies on our end due to system errors (ex. too little/too much shipping paid online) we reserve the right to contact the customer to work out the difference, whether it be an amount due or an overage credit that needs to be issued. (This error occurs very infrequently and often works in the customer’s favor.)
All US orders will ship USPS Media Mail within 5-7 days of purchase (may be longer if purchased near a US holiday). We use Delivery Confirmation on all US shipping over $10 and can provide tracking numbers on those orders if requested.
International orders ship First Class International and can take up to 6 weeks depending upon the customs restrictions for that particular country. No tracking is available on overseas orders. If you are making a large, International purchase, we suggest contacting us to purchase an extra upgrade to USPS International Priority for your package. International shipping rates are calculated at time of purchase. The default method is USPS First Class International or USPS Priority International (generally, which ever is cheapest). Please consult the USPS International Rate Calculator for a better idea of the charges. You can use the weights below as a guide to help you determine shipping amounts via the link above. PLEASE USE THE RATE CALCULATOR FOR AN ESTIMATE ONLY. EXACT SHIPPING MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY. Customers should email for an exact shipping quote.
LPs + mailer = 1lb 4oz (single LP only)
7"s/45s + mailer = 6oz (single 7" only)
CDs + mailer = 5oz (single CD in plastic jewel case only)
When sending us an email for a price quote, please include your full name, shipping address, and phone number so we can get you an exact total that includes shipping charges.
Questions/Concerns
Should you have any unanswered questions or incur any problems during your online visit feel free to send us an email or give us a call at 773.278.1744 (Chicago) or 323.739.6141 (LA). We promise to do our best to make your transaction a smooth one, but please keep in mind our webstore is currently in it's infancy. Bear with us!
Thanks and HAPPY SHOPPING!
