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Cold Waves Of Color 5

Color Tapes

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! The fifth volume of the well received compilation series of 1980s electronic tracks from the Color Tapes label. As with the other volumes you can find great examples of cold wave, minimal wave and synth electronics made by obscure British bands such as BERSERK IN A HAYFIELD, DISINTEGRATORS, LIVES OF ANGELS, VOID, ECHOPHASE, SILICON VALLEY, MODERN ARTS, THE LORD—and a rare track by post-ALTERNATIVE TV avant-garde band THE GOOD MISSIONARIES. Includes the non-LP bonus track—a previously unreleased remix of Void's "Transvision." Housed in digipacks.

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Hexadic Iii

Drag City

***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.6 rating from Pitchfork. If we subscribe to the current ISO 8601, then 2018 is Hexadic year three—the third annum since we were introduced to a new wave in combinatorial theory with powerful potentialities for music composition. The book, The Hexadic System, was written by SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE's BEN CHASNY, who demonstrated the possibilities of the system with two albums of Hexadic composition, as well as touring the music and chairing talks on the process and uses of THE SYSTEM around the United States and Great Britain. This third installment of the Hexadic series had been planned from the beginning—inviting others outside of Ben Chasny’s Hexadic headquarters to make music using THE SYSTEM. Features music from MOON DUO, JENKS MILLER, MEG BARID & CHARLIE SAUFLEY, TASHI DORJI, RICHARD YOUNGS, PHIL LEGARD, and STEPHEN O'MALLEY, TIM WYSKIDA & MARC URSELLI.

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Silk To Dry The Tears

100% Silk

Sorrow’s only silver lining is the selflessness it inspires in others. The nightmare of last year’s fire in Oakland left so many of us shredded, shattered, and speechless. But a communal compassion surged up in response, with artists, allies, and acquaintances from all over the globe re-connecting and re-committing to the power and potential of independent music as a healing, unifying force. So many SILK friends and family reached out expressing the desire to contribute creatively to a relief effort that it was obvious the emotion needed an outlet. Silk To Dry The Tears collects 31 such songs from a spectrum of 100% Silk alumni and affiliates, threaded across four sides of fogged house, fantasy acid, nocturnal electronics, sleepwalker pop, and rhythmic reveries of varied internal states. Totaling nearly 170 minutes, it’s a sprawl and a statement, shared in the spirit of inclusion, endurance, and empathy. Music brought us together; music will keep us together. Mastered by Matt Tammariello. Design by Britt Brown.  50% the profits will be donated to Safer DIY Spaces, an Oakland-based coalition offering guidance, financial assistance, and labor to non-traditional creative community spaces.

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Heed The Call

Vostok

Aotearoa, New Zealand, nineteen-seventy-something, the bottom of the South Pacific—the largest Maori and Polynesian population in the world and a nation wanting to groove. Approximately three million people, two islands, hot summers, muddy winters, one TV channel until 1975, and all radio was AM. A constant supply of international soul, funk, and disco releases were available, but things got really interesting when local artists found their soul on vinyl. Heed The Call! collects the best New Zealand material from the afro-tastic days of 1973 to 1983. Artists include Mark Williams, whose “House For Sale” became a sought-after Northern Soul single, the (three) Yandall Sisters (two of whom are pictured behind Mark WiIlliams on the cover), a teenage Tina Cross, Dalvanius and Prince Tui Teka—all of these became household names in New Zealand. This collection mines some overlooked nuggets from their respective catalogs alongside lesser known acts like The Pink Family, with their non-secular floor sizzler “Don’t Give Your Life Away,” the gritty gospel soul of Sonia & Skee, and many others.  These are the songs that drove a country from black and white to technicolor, and, being a scene born in total isolation, it took turns that weren’t heard anywhere else. This is funk, soul and disco if Studio 54 had been set up within five minutes of a dairy farm, a rugby club and a marae, and it finally let people dance.

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Brown Acid - The Fifth Trip

Riding Easy

***BACK IN STOCK!!! The hits just keep coming—for this fifth lysergic journey, Riding Easy assembles ten heavy slabs of obscure rock the likes of which have never been seen before… not in this form, anyhow. And as usual, the tracks from these impossibly rare records have all been fully cleared through the artists themselves. Great lengths were gone to in order to get the best possible master sources, the worst case scenario being an original 45. The legendary Captain Foam kicks off this trip like an anvil to your skull with a rollicking stomper sounding like The Who with Matt Pike’s thunderous guitar tone. “No Reason” wasn’t easy to find, but lo and behold, the super sleuths located him and got his blessing to include the A-side of his sole single. Good luck finding an original copy of the record. It’s rarer than raw beef—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The other nine tracks continue the onslaught in typical Brown Acid form: George Brigman’s charmingly disjointed bedroom-fi production of “Blowin’ Smoke,” Finch’s way out of time and place grungeadelic anthem “Nothing In The Sun,” Cybernaut’s heavy prog, Fargo’s hallucinogenic BBQ-sauce soaked “Abaddon,” Mammoth’s fittingly beefy eponymous riff-monger, Flasher’s “Icky Bicky” boogie, Ohio-based screamers Lance, Zebra’s gritty rendition of “Helter Skelter” and finally, the mysterious and previously unheard Thor appears here exclusively and for the first time ever with their unknown 45 track “Lick It.”

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Lasst Die Alten Sterben Soundtrack

Swisspunk

***The soundtrack to Juri Steinhart's Swiss indie film Lasst Die Alten Sterben (Let The Old People Die) featuring classic Swiss punk tracks from NASAL BOYS, BASTARDS, SPERMA, TNT, THE SQUIRT, SIDA, DIETER MEIER & FRESH COLOR, VORWARTS, FLURIN GIGER, and others Compiled by Swiss punk expert LURKER GRAND (author of Hot Love # 1). Housed in gatefold jackets with large poster and 16-page fanzine (English). Limited to 100 copies for North America.

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Trax Test (excerpts From The Modular Network 1981-1987)

Ecstatic Recordings

Trax Test’ is the first ever survey of Italy’s pioneering, visionary and influential label and mail art collective Trax, which ran from 1981 - 1987 as a network for the creation of collaborative projects. The collective included a pre-NWW Colin Potter and some of the earliest work from Masami Akita aka Merzbow, but also had deep connections with the art world; a few trax members went on to become famous designers and artists - Ettore Sottsass of hugely influential Memphis Group even guests on vocals on the last track of the compilation. The whole selection here is rare as heck and sorely in-demand by collectors, much of it now making its vinyl premiere some 30 odd years after the fact.  With credit due to compilers Vittore Baroni of Trax and Ecstatic’s avowed wave fiend, Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving) - who was also behind the ‘Mutazione (Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988)’ compilation - ‘Trax Test’ is a portal to the international scene which laid the grassroots for a proliferation of electronic music over the proceeding decades - a pioneering part of the infrastructure for independent music distribution which could be said to pre-echo the myriad social networks and platforms which exist for sharing music today.  As Frans De Waard astutely points out in the 16-page booklet, there were no ‘templates’ for this thing back then - as opposed to the forms of Soundcloud, Spotify or YouTube nowadays - meaning artists did everything DIY: from cutting, pasting and...

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Cold Waves Of Color 4

Color Tapes

***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! Fourth volume of the completely sold out electronic compilation series from the 1980's Color Tapes label. As with the other volumes you can find great examples of cold wave, minimal wave and synth electronics made by obscure British bands such as DISINTEGRATORS, MYSTERY PLANE, BESERK IN A HAYFIELD and LIVES OF ANGELS—all recorded between 1980-1985, vestiges of the 1980's UK cassette underground scene. Comes with poster insert and reproduction of issue 3 of Color Tapes' own in house Purple Twilight fanzine from 1985 that features articles on INSANE MUSIC, SPACE BROTHERS and Lives Of Angels. Housed in a digipak with 28-page booklet.

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Horrendous New Wave

Lumpy

***Sixteen no name new wave bands from the minds of many celebrated cretins across america and beyond, such as Joe Suss (Nancy, Muff Divers), Rik (Pigs, Mongoloid), Jake Robertson (Ausmuteants, Leather Towel), Arielle McCuaig (Janitor Scum, Glitter), Andy Peterson (Gibbous, Trauma Harness), Cody Phifer (HairLong n Freeky, Nosferatu), BB Eye and many many more! Curated by yours truly, with screen printed jackets, art by Janitor Scum.

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Brown Acid - The Fourth Trip

Riding Easy

If you thought Riding Easy was getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with their last Trip, you were dead wrong. They’re only just getting rolling. The well of privately released hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal 45s is deep and nowhere near tapped out. Most of these records, barely released and never properly distributed, were never easy to find, unless you’re willing to dig. Hard calluses have formed from handling the shovel and sifting through a lot of dirt, but here are another ten tremendous tracks to share with all the heavy heads out there. This volume brings together eight insanely rare and skullcrushingly heavy 45s as well as two previously unreleased bangers. The records included on this volume vary in rarity, but at least two of them were virtually unknown until Riding Easy discovered them. You’ll win the lottery before you find copies of all of the original 45s in even the best record stores. Many of those included in this volume are owned only by the members of the bands and some of the band members don’t even have personal copies. That’s just how hard these guys hit it back in the day! It’s lucky some of these guys are still alive and well enough to give permission to use their masters. Brown Acid is here to stay—plug in, turn up, and freak out, this is what rock ’n’ roll is all about!

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Bloodstains Across Virginia

Prompt Critic Productions

***BACK IN PRINT!!! Note new price. A collection of rare and classic Virginia punk circa 1978-1983. Features tracks from ZITS, PREVARICATORS, LAMOUR, NOYS, BARRIERS, BEEX, INSINUATIONS, NAROS, CHUMPS, CITIZEN 23, RATICLES, NEXT OF KIN, and RICKY AND THE WHITE BOYS. Fifteen cuts in all.

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Shake Yo Shimmy Vol. 1

Feral Kink

***A most ass rippin’ set of '50s & '60s gospel / soul / R&B scarcities programmed most boldly to set your ass ablaze! Features cuts fom THE PILGRIM WONDERS SINGERS OF TOLEDO OHIO, THE PILGRIM JUBILEE SINGERS, REV. LONNIE FARRIS & HIS GOSPEL FLAMES, LITTLE "WALKIN'" WILLIE & HIS SWINGING BLUES MEN, SAMUEL PATTERSON, JOHNNY TALBOT, PIANO RED, THE SOUL SEEKERS, THE CYMBALS, ANDY WILSON, IKE TERRY & HIS LYRICS, THE ZIRCONS, CHARLES LATTIMORE, WILBERT HARRISON and EARL BROWN & HIS BAND.

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The Hired Hands: A Tribute To Bruce Langhorne

Scissor Tail Editions

Compiled by Dylan Golden Aycock, Loren Connors, and Suzanne Langille, The Hired Hands is an homage to one of the greatest and most infamous guitarists alive, Bruce Langhorne. His music has influenced and touched a lot of lives over the years, either through his soundtrack work with Peter Fonda or his studio work in the 1960s as the go-to hired hand for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Odetta, and many others. Browsing his wikipedia page, one is informed of the volume of work he accomplished throughout the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Scissor Tail Editions was lucky enough to release Langhorne’s score to Peter Fonda’s 1971 anti-western The Hired Hand on vinyl in 2012. Artists were asked to cover or reinterpret a song of their choice from the soundtrack. No rules were made on whether the music should be derivative of a certain song — if the soundtrack inspired a mood, then the artist could use their intuition. Langhorne has come on hard times in recent years, having suffered a stroke that prevents him from playing the guitar. A large percentage of the profits for this tribute go to Langhorne and his family.

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Sensate Silk

100% Silk

To commemorate the label’s catalog centennial 100% Silk spread its threads coast to coast and station to station for 11 faded blazers and future classics from a fresh cast of characters spanning Okayama to Berlin, England to Echo Park, Boston to British Columbia. Despite such distances the rhythms run parallel: lithe, low-lit, lush, and lost in sense memory. Sensate Silk swirls 75 minutes of smeared neon house, glitter decadence, skyscraper shuffle, flatliner acid, lovesick loops, mutant pulse, rave reverie, and tactile electronics into an expansive voyage of motion, mood, and meaning. Roster includes: Keita Sano, Cromie, Sage Caswell, Inoue Shirabe, Jack Novin, Donny, Badia, PARC, Helios Mode, Nackt, Westcoast Goddess. Defend the dream; feel the feeling. Mastered by Alex Nagle.

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Frequency Of The Truewave Vol. 2

Nervous Intent

***This is the newest edition of the well-received compilation tape series from Nervous Intent Records. The tracks chosen for the Frequency of the Truewave comps are curated carefully by the label, with a listening flow more akin to classic mixtapes than standard compilations made up of random oddities from the bands. All the bands operate on the punk/hardcore/post-punk spectrum, happen to be fronted by women, and are unified by a common raw, powerful, and distinct vision grounded in truewave/punk aesthetics and ethics. Features PRIESTS, SHOPPING, CROOKED BANGS, STREET EATERS, RAGANA, NO BABIES, MOZART, TROIKA, COMPOSITE, LIE, NAIVE, DAISY WORLD, STRANGE FACES, SPLIT FEET, STEEL CHAINS and VIOLENCE CREEPS.

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I Said No Doctors

Dymaxion Groove

***A 2xLP compilation of the most groundbreaking artists of current and past decades who have redefined sound by creating and destroying musical instruments to fit a specific sonic character and method of music-making. Features exclusive tracks from SILVER APPLES, DAVID GRUBBS, OVAL, SENYAWA, JAD FAIR, DAN DEACON, SLUMBERLAND and more. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl with download.

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Sin Alley Part 1

Big Daddy

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Ho-dad Hootenanny Too!

Crypt

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Strummin’ Mental Part 1

Link Wraycords

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Strummin’ Mental Part 2

Link Wraycords

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Jungle Exotica Vol. 1

Strip

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Jungle Exotica Vol. 2

Strip

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Las Vegas Grind Vol. 6

Strip

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All Tore Up

Tore Up

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Twistin’ Rumble Vol. 3

Twistin Rumble

***The third in this new series of reissue insanity. Features sixteen cuts of soulstomp, twist-party lunacy, garage, and R&B circa 1960-1968. Check it—NICK & THE JAGUARS, LONNIE BROOKS, JOE WILLIAMS, BILLY EMERSON, SMOKEY JOHNSON, HOWIE CASEY, MICKEY BAKER, THE JAMS, POOR BOYS, BIG AL DOWNING, and others.

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Twistin’ Rumble Vol. 4

Twistin Rumble

***The fourth in this new series of reissue insanity. Features sixteen cuts of soulstomp, twist-party lunacy, garage, and R&B circa 1960-1968. Dig it—ROUND ROBIN, PRESTON EPPS, ROYAL PREMIERS, LOS DINAMITAS DEL TWIST, GOLDEN CATALINAS, OSCAR & THE MAJESTICS, SHARDELLS, ARDELLS, DEBELAIRES, BIRDS OF PARADISE, and more.

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Back From The Grave Vol. 1 & 2

Crypt

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Back From The Grave Vol. 7

Crypt

***32 blastin' cuts of ultimate wailing 60s punk INSANITY! Remastered and in a deluxe gatefold sleeve with updated linernotes and photos!

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Back From The Grave Vol. 9 & 10

Crypt

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Last Of The Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 3 & 4

Crypt

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Last Of The Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 5 & 6

Crypt

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Last Of The Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 7 & 8

Crypt

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Back From The Grave Vol. 8

Crypt

***Boom, baby BOOM! Remastered, with updated liner notes and photos and in a swank gatefold sleeve!

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Teenage Shutdown - She's A Pest

Teenage Shutdown

***18 upbeat, almost-"polished", jaunty garage dance swingers!

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Brown Acid - The Third Trip

Riding Easy

***"We continue down the wormhole of hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal here on The Third Trip with a set of tunes so obscure they can't be seen without a third eye. Most of these tracks were recorded in shack-sized studios, privately pressed for promotional purposes, and tossed out like last night's half empties only to later be discovered to be half-full, if not overflowing with greatness. The majority of these tracks are from the good ol' US of A with two exceptions, Ash-labelmate New Zealanders, Chook, and the mighty Limeys, Factory. As they say, first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest.

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Puissance 13 + 2 (the Power Of 13 + 2)

Lion Productions

***Amazing sessions by the cream of underground French prog and psych bands, first released in 1971 on Thélème, a boutique label owned by MAGMA bassist and Barclay Records manager LAURENT THIBAULT. When Thibault founded Thélème, he wanted to set up a prestige outfit. He had this in mind when he set out to fulfill his ambition of presenting a panorama of the French rock scene by gathering the best groups in France together on one double-album, to be recorded at the legendary Chateau d'Hérouville studio, live in the courtyard with no overdubs. Thibault had hoped that labels would allow their best acts to appear. Philips offered Magma (the version of ‘Mekanik Kommando’ appearing on Puissance is the first ever conceived or recorded by the band) and CATHERINE RIBEIRO; Barclay allowed ALAIN MARKUSFELD to participate; LE CHANTDU MONDE LET VOYAGE appear. The band CATHARSIS said yes; so did CONTREPOINT, discovered by Magma’s René Garber. Thélème artists included ERGO SUM, MOR, ZABU and SOLITUDE. Two guests from America were recommended by Le Chant du Monde: folk-singers ROGER MASON and STEVE WARING. And happily SPECTRE, a band featuring legendary Hérouville engineer DOMINQUE BLANC-FRANCART brought the monster prog jazz funk synth madness of 'Arkham'. Brilliant! One-time pressing of 500 copies housed in a special textured linen finish gatefold jacket. Includes a lush, 4-page booklet of notes, band info and rare photos.

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Perpetual Dawn - Year One

Tigerbeat6

Perpetual Dawn is an underground all-night techno club in Los Angeles that combines the free spirit and “anything goes” vibe of European clubs like Berghain and Bangface with the vivacious and much needed L.A. illegal warehouse party scene spearheaded by Droid Behavior, VSSL, Mount Analog, Rhonda, and Far Away. Composed of rad songs from the raddest acts who’ve performed at Perpetual Dawn since inception in June 2015, this compilation’s got dance-floor jams from Peaking Lights Acid Test, Personable (M. Geddes Gengras’s live techno project), Kid606, Map.Ache (Geigling/Kann Records), Kit n C.L.A.W.S (Kit Clayton and Brian Hock), KRON, and Dntel. Meanwhile, Xiu Xiu, Mark Van Hoen (Locust), Yann Novak, Baseck, Sana Shenai, Golden Hits, Live for Each Moon, and S&ndC&stl& provide freakedout experimental electronics and blissed-out ambient jams. This is an undeniably special place where you can kick back, see friends, and lose yourself on the dance floor—where you can be who you want to be, and come away feeling alive. Every night has a different theme ranging from tributes to Alejandro Jodorowsky, Warp Records or Carl Sagan to a celebration of Instagram-age narcissism or a lazer-filled, all black-light night.

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Imaginational Anthem Viii - The Private Press

Tompkins Square

***Tompkins Square label presents the 8th volume of Imaginational Anthem, the acclaimed series focusing on acoustic guitar, particularly in the American Primitive vein. Volume 8, compiled by hardcore record collectors MICHAEL KLAUSMAN (former used LP buyer for NYC's recently shuttered Other Music) and BROOKS RICE, features some of the best and most obscure private press guitar records virtually no one has heard. In fact, so-called guitar soli expert, Tompkins Square owner JOSH ROSENTHAL, had never heard of a single artist on the comp (except for PERRY LEDERMAN, whose track was Josh's sole contribution to the collection). Amidst the obscure entries are bits of rock-star lore; JOE BETHANCOURT was supposedly given a sitar by an admiring Jimi Hendrix, and Perry Lederman was reportedly responsible for teaching Bob Dylan how to fingerpick. But the true joy of this collection is derived from discovering incredible acoustic guitar performances completely lost to time. Until now.

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Gizmo Nation

Gulcher

Hey Gizmos fans! Hope you dig this collection of Giz-covers we collected over the past couple years. We've got versions of all 15 tunes from the three EPs by the original 1976/1977 Gizmos + a couple bonus tracks. Thanks to everybody who contributed! And hey, thanks to everybody who EVER covered a Giz-tune by whichever version of the band! Wave the flag, clap yer hands, dive that muff, pump it, have a good time!

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Start Your Own Fucking Show Space

Famous Class

***Received a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork. A document of the final month of programming from the Brooklyn DIY venue Death By Audio before its eviction in November of 2014. Presented in chronological running order, Start Your Own Fucking Show Space features live recordings from 26 bands over the venue’s final month. Artists include A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, THEE OH SEES, TY SEGALL, NOTS, FUTURE ISLANDS, PROTOMARTYR, PARQUET COURTS, LIGHTNING BOLT, DOWNTOWN BOYS, DEERHOOF, DAN DEACON, TED LEO, and many many more. This is not a nostalgic cry for the good old days, it’s an invitation to start anew. Start Your Own Fucking Show Space! Seriously…we need it. Packaged in heavyweight double gatefold jackets and printed Euro sleeves listing the date and line-up of every one of the 1,890 shows in the venue's history. Download included.