NEW RELEASES / NEW RE-ISSUES
Animal Collective: Centipede Hz
Cat Power: Sun
Divine Fits: A Thing Called Divine Fits
Bruce Springsteen: Bound for Glory - The Rare 1973 Broadcasts (Import 2LP)
Swans: The Seer

NEW ARRIVALS / BACK IN STOCK
Charles Bradley: No Time for Dreaming
Aloe Blacc: Good Things
Bill Callahan: Apocalypse
Dead Boys: Young, Loud and Snotty
Eddie Hazel: Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs
Flying Burrito Brothers: Burrito Deluxe
Funkadelic: America Eats Its Young
Germs: GI
Grimes: Visions
Metallica: Kill ‘Em All
Michael Kiwanuka: Home Again
Mothers of Invention: Original Mothers Of Invention
Primate: Draw Back a Stump
Jeru the Damaja: Wrath of the Math
Queen: Sheer Heart Attack
Queen: News of the World
Wilson Pickett: The Exciting Wilson Pickett
Little Richard: Here’s Little Richard (Import LP+CD)
Sonic Youth: s/t
Stereolab: Mars Audiac Quintet
Thin Lizzy: s/t
*plus many more

COMING SOON… (RE-STOCKS AND RELEASES)
Antlers: Hospice
Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes
Grizzly Bear: Shields
Menomena: Moms
Blue Mitchell: Bantu Village
Thee Oh Sees: Putrifiers II
The Raveonettes: Observator
Ray Stinnett: A Fire Somewhere
Red Crayola: The Parable of Arable Land
Gabor Szabo: Macho
Bernard Wright: Nard
*plus many more

FEATURED VINTAGE ARRIVALS
Gordon Bok: A Tune for November
The Boris Gardner Happening: Is What’s Happening
Alice Cooper: School’s Out
Nicolai Dunger: The Vinyl Trilogy (3LP Box Set)
Dark Meat: Universal Indians
The Gladiators: Proverbial Reggae
The Love Generation: s/t
The Magnificent Men: s/t
Nick Plytas / Anne Pigalle: Hot Sagas
Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped
V/A: Highs in the Mid-Sixties Vol. 12 (Texas, Part Two)
*plus many more

FEATURED NEW ARRIVALS / RE-STOCKS
Cat Power: Sun (Matador)
Six years between albums would be a lifetime for many artists, but Cat Power’s Chan Marshall managed to pack a couple of lifetimes’ worth of experiences between The Greatest and Sun. A happy relationship, health issues and writer’s block were among the many things that kept her away from music during that time, and with a life that full, it’s no wonder that this album, Marshall’s seventh set of original songs, is so different than the one that came before it. Instead of working with veteran musicians, she wrote, recorded, and produced Sun on her own, added electronic instruments to her repertoire, and enlisted Cassius’ Philippe Zdar to help with the mixing duties (which he did with a minimum of interference). While it’s miles away from The Greatest’s retro-soul, Sun isn’t Cat Power-goes-electro, either; anyone fearing relentless house beats or an onslaught of cheesy synths should have their fears calmed by the beautiful opening track “Cherokee,” where a few tasteful keyboards rev up the yearning chorus, and skittering beats fit right in with the guitar and piano. The song also introduces Sun’s remarkably spare production aesthetic, which sounds all the more striking coming after The Greatest’s lushness; even if this album is more consciously modern-sounding than its predecessor, it’s also a lot less slick. Actually, the willingness and ability to mix, bend, and blend old and new sounds that Marshall shows here isn’t such a far cry from the more sonically adventurous moments on Moon Pix and especially You Are Free; she’s just expanding on that instinct and adding a more hopeful songwriting bent.

Swans: The Seer (Young God)
Michael Gira claims that Swans’ The Seer took 30 years to make: “it’s the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined.” This is not hyperbole. Two years after My Father Will Lead Me Up to a Rope to the Sky, The Seer is the most sprawling, ambitious, thoughtfully conceived and tightly performed recording in the band’s catalog — also not hyperbole — over two discs, two hours, and 11 tracks. And it is not an endurance test, but an argument for compulsive listening. It’s an exquisitely wrought journey through post-rock, electronic soundscapes, haunting acoustic songs, punishing noise, and (lots of) percussion.

Bruce Springsteen: Bound for Glory - The Rare 1973 Broadcasts (Let Them Eat Vinyl)
This appropriately titled 2LP-set from Let Them Eat Vinyl collects previously unreleased early broadcasts circa 1973 from Bruce Springsteen and company that consists of rare versions of early material and a lone cover of Duke Ellington’s “Satin Doll.” Culled from two separate performances, the first LP was recorded largely acoustic at WBCN-FM Boston on January 9th, 1973 and features Bruce and three members of the soon to be christened E- Street Band in studio sans an audience while the second LP was recorded live at the Main Point venue in Bryn Mawr on April 24th, 1973 and features a full band. Bound for Glory is a truly thrilling early document of ‘The Boss’ in two different settings, each complete with his signature intensity, humor, and live performance authority.