Ariel Pink w/ Haunted Graffiti – Can’t Hear My Eyes 45 $4.25
Majesty Crush - I Love You In Other Cities: Best... CD $15.00
Various - Art of Field Recording Volume Two Boxset $61.00
Marissa Nadler - Ballads of Living & Dying LP+45 $17.75
Boredoms - 77 Boa Drum [deluxe] DCD+DVD $110.00
Susanna – Flower of Evil CD $16.25
Gourds - Haymaker! CD $14.25

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Mattias Hellberg & The White Moose - Out of the Frying Pan...
(Playground Music) CD $16.25 ON SALE: $15.00
Listen: Why is it so? • Final Call
Jim's Pick: New album from Mattias Hellberg (Hederos & Hellberg, Nymphet Noodlers, Hellacopters, etc) with a retrofit rhythm section setting an throwback tone. From spliff-fueled sixties garage-rock period pieces (think Dungen, TSOOL, Hipwhips, The Works) to a handful of sweltering, sun-baked, seventies-styled psychedelic jams, laced with some Maximum White Moose Jazz. Unwind, uncork, undress and yes, light that candle. [more detail]

Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave (Mexican Summer)
LP+45 $17.50 Listen: Pistol Dreams
Limited domestic vinyl version of righteous Swedish acoustic folk troubador's debut album includes a 7" with the 4 songs from his debut CD5. "Dylanesque" sure, but TMOE really gives it a primal, elemental twist, channeling the spirits of Son House, Charlie Patton and occasionally Nick Drake. Those of you waiting for the import CD version...we appreciate your patience, not sure if/when we'll see it at this point. [more detail]

The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion
[import version] (Akashic-WMS) DCD $27.50
Listen: Universal Stalker • Ra88 • Saturation Wanderers
Last copies in stock... A Triumphant Return To Form! You give TSOOL an inch, they'll make a mile, and here they've been allowed three years to conjure a double-album of sprawling rock tracks, with their epic psychedelic anachronisms in full effect. These are the kind of songs that made them icons in the first place in our book. Been a long time...glad to have you back. [more detail]

Roy : Unbunny, Swervedriver, The Band, Meneguar...
Paul : Notwist, Dr. Dog, Matthew Sweet, Bon Iver...
Angie : Beaujolais, Toadies, Neilson Hubbard, Montys Loco...
Jim : Motorpsycho, TSOOL, The Twilight Sad, Paper...
Geoff : The 1900s, Fleet Foxes, Ric Menck, Three Hour Tour...
Intern Jim : Why?, Beck, Okkervil River, The New Year...

Check out all of our favorite 2008 releases & re-issues here.

Various - Fading Yellow Vol. 8 (Flower Machine) CD $15.00
Various - Fading Yellow Vol. 9 (Flower Machine) CD $15.00
Listen V.8: Raw "What To Do" • Harvey Andrew "England..."
Listen V.9: Christian "She" • Pussyfoot "Hasty Words"
Essential Obscurities: These legendary pop-psyke comps are much $ought after by collectors, but we are able to obtain the two most recent volumes (along with restock on Vol. 6) direct from the label. Think Nuggets, Rubble and Psychic Circle, but all 60s and 70s Psych-Pop and Pop-Sike, all the time! [more detail]

The 1900s - Medium High EP (Parasol) MCD $6.00
Listen: Collections • Age of Metals
Parasol Label Group Presents: Our beloved Chicago psych-pop troupe's sneaky, new, rush-released limited edition, seven-song mini-album features nu, alt, instr and unrel. The sprightly yet melancholy "Collections" and and the mood-ring darkening "Age of Metals" from their recent 7" vinyl single, a couple radical reworkings of known tracks, plus a couple unknown, but now known gems. Limited to 750 copies, don't hibernate on this! Visit the Medium High release page for a free mp3.

Wavves - Self-Titled (Woodsist) CD $11.25
Listen: California Goth • Wavves
Primordially lo-fi, So Cal fuzz-pop and acid-punk that is so incredibly wanton and wooly that it becomes otherworldly, or you become weightless, or grow fur and claws, or something! Intoxicating naivety and alarming production values cram this big round peg into a small square hole somewhere between Times New Viking, The Beach Boys, and, fook it, Flying Saucer Attack. [more detail]

Mark Kozelek – Finally CD $12.00
DM Stith – Curtain Speech CD5 $3.50
Miss Lana Rebel – All I Need CD $12.00
Cat Power – Dark End of the Street 2x10” $14.00
Triffids – Treeless Plain [expanded re-issue] CD $15.00
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust DLP $20.00
Arrington De Dionyso – I See Beyond the Black Sun CD $11.50
Pavement - Brighten The Corners... [expanded] DCD $16.50

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Headlights - Remixes (Polyvinyl) CD $12.50
Listen: Cherry Tulips (TJ Lipple remix)
Nifty new remix album from local/global indie-pop sensations Headlights, an intriguing reconnaissance of 13 of the band's songs, sweetly and expertly remixed by folks like The Album Leaf, Aloha's TJ Lipple, Spinnerty and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, among others. Limited, hand-numbered to 1000! [more detail]

Slipstream – Mantra CD $16.25
Nobunny – Love Visions CD $11.50
Shindig! – Shingdig! Annual Number One BOOK $18.75
Loop – Heaven’s End [expanded re-issue] DCD $18.00
Twilight Sad - Here, It Never Snowed, Afterwards… CD5 $9.00
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain...Canterbury... 1968 CD+DVD $20.50

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FM3 - Buddha Machine 2 (FM3) CD $23.00
Brown: / Gray: / Maroon:
Listen: Loop 01: Mao • Loop 02: Piano
The plastic box chockfulla meditative drones that fits in your shirt pocket is back, welcome version 2.0 of this cute/cool little Eno-endorsed ambient music generator! Now with nine new drones, improved sound quality, and a hands-on pitch-bend control dial, it lets you noodle around with your choice of expanded ambient pallettes. Comes in three new colors and a sturdier housing. [more detail]

Stone Breath – Knotwork CD $12.50
Pelle Carlberg – The Lilac Time CD $17.50
The Black Watch – After the Gold Room CD5 $2.25
Japanther – Tut Tut, Now Shake Your Butt CD $11.75
Feist – The Reminder [expanded re-issue] DCD $19.00
R.E.M. – Murmur [expanded 2008 re-issue] DCD $28.00
Los Campesinos! – We’re Beautiful, We’re... CD+DVD $15.25
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens… CD $15.00

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Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reserveation [expanded re-issue]
(Sony/Creation) CD $16.75
Listen: The Other Jesus • Last Day On Earth
The overtly pop, fuzz-rock pinnacle from dread-locked British dervishes who took calm, cool, collected shoegaze to its illogical, visceral, monumental conclusion. Now available in a handsome digi-package, bolstered with bonus tracks, liner notes. This comes in on import, but we’re really looking forward to the Hi-Speed Soul label’s similarly expanded U.S. re-issues of Raise and Mezcal Head in early 2009. [more detail]

José González - Live At Park Ave: 01 March 2008
(Mute) MCD $11.00 Listen: The Nest
Limited edition, live mini-album (9 tracks, 30 minutes) from our fave Swedish-Argentine troubadour, recorded at Park Avenue CDs last March. José and his trusty guitar and a roomful of enthralled fans. You can hear his foot tapping, keeping time. If you haven't seen him live, a intimate and spellbinding set I can assure you, then this might tide you over. [more detail]

Dim Dim – Whip CD $13.25
Legends – Seconds Away CD5 $5.25
Of Montreal – Jimmy 45+DVD $16.25
Deerhunter – Microcastle LP+CD $11.50
Lorna – Writing Down Things To Say CD $11.00
Activities of Dust – New Mind CD+DVD $13.50
Apples In Stereo – Stephen, Stephen 45+DVD $16.25
Belle & Sebastian – BBC Sessions [deluxe] DCD $15.50
Isobell Campbell+Mark Lanegan – Sunday at Devil... CD $15.25

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Friska Viljor - Tour de Hearts (Crying Bob) CD $15.00
Listen: Old Man • Oh No
Second album from Swedish duo-turned-sextet. Manic, soulful pop that comes across immediately lovable and loveably immediate, with loads of jangling guitars, sweet harmonies and a seriously tricked-out bells-n-brass section. Think Broder Daniel meets Shout Out Louds meets Bergman Rock (bob hund) and/or Beirut, Elephant 6 phenoms, Devotchka, Bright Eyes... [more detail]

Mellow - Perfect Colors (Atmospheriques) CD $26.00
Listen: Perfect Colors • Fantastic
Not new, but long overdue, an outright neo-psychedelic masterpiece from French electro-pop-alchemists Mellow, released in 2004, only as an import. Fans of fellow Franco-poppers like Air, Daft Punk and even Phoenix will cozy-up, but there’s more to Mellow’s dream-pysch opuses. Like plush, proggy baroque-pop complexities that recall Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd, along with the nodding, narcoticized ruminations of the Spacemen 3 extended family. [more detail]

Vetiver - More of the Past EP CD5 $6.25
Guitar – SaltyKisses [re-issue] CD $12.50
Flaming Lips – Christmas On Mars CD+DVD $24.50
Bubblegum Lemonade – Doubleplusgood CD $12.50
Earth – Bees Made Honey… [deluxe vinyl] DLP $25.00
New Order – Low Life [expanded re-issue] DCD $23.00
Acid Mothers Temple – Glorify Astrological... CD $13.25
Pitchfork 500: Guide to the Greatest Songs… BOOK $13.00
Love Is All – A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night CD $11.50

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Frida Hyvönen - Silence Is Wild (Secretly Canadian)
CD $11.50 Listen: Dirty Dancing • Enemy Within
Latest from our fave Swedish songstress, now in heavy rotation on the Parasol carousel. Silence Is Wild is more like Frida’s symphony-backed Songs for…Pudel than her starker debut Until Death Comes. Blending supremely intimate songwriting, rife with innuendo and insinuation, with a baroque sumptuousness courtesy Bear Quartet guitarist and producer Jari Haapalainen. [more detail]

Norma - Book of Norma (Novoton) CD $13.00
Listen: Waste • You Go, We Follow