Newly Arrived / Restocked Vinyl:
Polar Bear Club – Sometimes Things Just Disappear
Polar Bear Club – The Redder the Better
This is Hell – Weight of the World
Pianos Become the Teeth – Old Pride
Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones
Cruel Hand – s/t 7″
X (Australia) – Home is Where the Floor Is 7″
Touche Amore – s/t 7″
Zero Tolerance - Fuel the Fire 7″
Frontiers – The Plains 7″
Felt – Felt 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez
Guilty Simpson – OJ Simpson
Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
Madlib – Miles Away: The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble
Madlib – Beat Konducta Volume 5: Dil Cosby Suite
Madlib – Beat Konducta Volume 6: Dil Wither Suite
Madlib – Medicine Show 3: Beat Konducta in Africa
Madlib – Medicine Show 5: The History of the Loop Digga
Jaylib – Champion Sound
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Olesi: Fragments of an Earth
Georgie Anne Muldrow – Roses 12″ EP
Invincible – Shape Shifters 12″ EP
Soul Position – Things Go Better With RJ & Al
Last, but not least:
J Dilla – Donut Shop
Serato and Stones Throw have teamed with the J Dilla Estate for the official J Dilla Serato release, Donut Shop. This is 2 discs with six J Dilla tracks, 2 sides with Serato Control Tone (for use with Serato Scratch Live DJ software), and 2 donut slipmats in a package designed by Studio No.1.
The J Dilla tracks consist of three previously unreleased instrumentals selected by J.Rocc from the Dilla archives – “Safety Dance”, “Sycamore”, “Bars & Twists” – and three unreleased instrumental versions of Dilla’s production for Mos Def, Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes, each remastered by Elysian Masters who mixed and mastered J Dilla’s Donuts, The Shining and Ruff Draft albums.
EXTREMELY LIMITED PRESSING
We’ve recently expanded our book selection and we’re offering trade on music-related books if you have some you’re looking to part with. In addition to some used Elvis and Johnny Cash biographies we just stocked and re-stocked:
Why Be Something That You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 by Tony Rettman
In the early seventies, Detroit was the musical hub of America. Everything from the chart topping sounds of Motown records to the vicious proto-punk of The Stooges was being brewed out there and it seemed like there was no end in sight. But by the early eighties, the city was both a physical and cultural wasteland due to major label buyouts of the artists as well as the crippling drug habits of some of the others. Detroit’s most known musical export at the time was the vapid sounds of New Wave heartthrobs The Romantics; this wasn’t good. It took a gaggle of suburban skateboarders, a grade school teacher and a census bureau clerk to wake this city up from its slumber and start one of the first hardcore punk scenes in America.
“Why Be Something That You’re Not” chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late seventies to its demise in the mid-eighties. Through a combination of oral history and extensive imagery, the book proves that even though the Southern California beach towns might have created the look and style of hardcore punk, it was the Detroit scene – along with a handful of other cities across the country – that cultivated the music’s grassroots aesthetic before most cultural hot spots around the globe even knew what the music was about.
The book includes interviews with members of The Fix, Violent Apathy, Negative Approach, Necros, Pagans, Bored Youth, and L-Seven along with other people who had a hand in the early hardcore scene like Ian MacKaye, Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson.
Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-’83
Touch And Go Fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and launched in Lansing, MI in 1979, and documented the burgeoning scene in the midwest as well as the rest of the country. This 576 page book compiles all 22 issues of the ‘zine and features new introductory essays by punk icons like Tesco Vee (The Meatmen), Henry Rollins (Black Flag), Keith Morris (Circle Jerks), Corey Rusk (Necros), John Brannon (Negative Approach) and many more.
Society Verse by Ross Farrar
“Society Verse” is a 128 page book by Ceremony vocalist Ross Farrar. Featuring the lyrics to all of the band’s songs, with anecdotes and stories from throughout the band’s history so far. Also features poems, original photographs and a short essay about Rohnert Park, the subject of the band’s latest album.
Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound by Brian Peterson
Although some define hardcore as a specific sound, most believe it’s more than that; a set of varying ideas, ethics, principles, attitudes and, yes, music, that converge to form a community. “Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution In Ethics, Politics, Spirit, And Sound” by Brian Peterson provides some answers, but also brings up a whole new set of questions for those who’ve been drawn to the scene’s political, social, ethical and spiritual ideas amidst the screamed vocals and abrasive chords. “Burning Fight” features commentary from approximately 150 people involved in the nineties hardcore scene as well as oral history articles about straight edge, politics, vegetarianism and interviews with a variety of influential bands such as Avail, Burn, Earth Crisis, Inside Out, Integrity, Los Crudos, Spitboy, Strife, Texas Is The Reason, Unbroken and more. 503 pages.
All Ages: Reflections on Straight Edge by Beth Lahickey
“All Ages: Reflections on Straight Edge” takes an in-depth look at the second wave of American Hardcore — the music that borrowed from the likes of Minor Threat, Black Flag and SSD — bands like Youth of Today, Slapshot, Bold, Underdog, Side by Side, Gorilla Biscuits, Judge, Inside Out, Chain of Strength, No for an Answer and Supertouch. Most of these bands were awesome and unique and have yet to be documented accurately outside of their own recordings until now. The personalities and opinions expressed in this book are as varied as the music these people have since created. So many of the people who at one time held similar beliefs have since then explored virtually every direction in life imaginable and they candidly discuss their experiences in “All Ages.”
The Anti-Matter Anthology by Norman Brannon
While much ink has been spilled over 1980s punk and hardcore mythology, very little has been done to document the era that followed. Indeed, it’s a glaring omission. In the 1990s, punk rock entered its adolescent stage and began reevaluating its own music, politics, and traditions. And before long, the result of this collective soul-searching became clear: If hardcore wanted to remain relevant in the new decade, it was going to have to rebel against itself. “The Anti-Matter Anthology” is perhaps the first published book dedicated to this transition.
Features interviews with:
* Farside
* Glen E. Friedman
* Into Another
* Jawbox
* Judge
* Ian Mackaye
* Mouthpiece
* Quicksand
* Zack De La Rocha
* Rancid
* Samiam
* Shelter
* Sick Of It All
* Elliott Smith
* Snapcase
* Sunny Day Real Estate
and more!
Besides punk rock histories and musical biographies we’ve got a small collection of vintage magazines for sale, including some Rolling Stone magazines from 1969 and some Kurt Cobain memorial stuff.
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