Tractor Kings - Homesick
(Spur Records) CD $10.00 ON SALE: $9.00
Listen: Drop the Fight • Never Comin' Back
Parasol Label Group Presents: Homesick is the long-awaited third album from local space cowboys Tractor Kings, led by Illinois alt.country icon Jacob Fleischli and his assembled hombres. Purveyors of echoing folk-rock, rollicking rave-ups and Cosmic Americana ballads connect the dots with a harrowing cover of Dylan's "Masters of War". Eleven songs that inhabit a flickering psychedelic underworld of reverbs, delays, strings and an evangelical pedal steel. We don't call it 'rural cathedral' for nothing. Visit the Homesick release page for a free mp3.

Matthew Sweet - Sunshine Lies (Shout Factory)
CD $12.50 ON SALE: $11.50 Listen: Byrdgirl • Let's Love
New this week: The brand new album from esteemed popsmith Matthew Sweet is a pretty Parasol affair if you ask us, featuring Ric Menck on drums, Richard Lloyd on guitar and Under The Covers collaborator Susanna Hoffs on guest vocals. Speaking of which, do you own the Pillowcase EP? With Sunshine Lies Matthew offers up a taste of his 90s heyday, incorporating some gritty garage stylings and dreamy pop orchestrations that have us all a-drool here. [more detail]

The Verve – Forth CD $11.00
Tussle – Cream Cuts CD $14.50
Neu! – Neu! [re-issue] CD $15.00
Merzbow – Dolphin Sonar CD $13.25
Pop Levi – Never Never Love CD $15.25
The Week That Was – Self-Titled CD $15.25
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too CD $14.50
Rocket From the Crypt – All Systems Go 3 CD $14.00

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Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam/Lego My Ego (Mint) DCD/DVD
$21.00 Listen: Coney Island Cyclone • Car Wash Hair
Those seducers, bonged-out lovers and fine-eager seekers shall rejoice, mightily, as Mercury Rev’s cosmically epic, psych-fried, 1991 debut (featuring the menacing whimsy and lysergic lyrical talents of shaggy, moaning man-mountain David Baker) is now available in reassuringly re-expanded re-issue form thanks to a long-awaited rendezvous with the original Lego My Ego bonus disc and a previously unreleased DVD. [more detail]

Neilson Hubbard - I Love Your Muscles
(Media Creature) CD $9.50 Listen: I Love Your Muscles
Finally an official, nationwide release for former Parasol recording artist (and This Living Hand and Strays Don’t Sleep dude) Neilson Hubbard’s latest solo album, the follow-up to Why Men Fail (2000) and Sing Into Me (2003), and every bit worth the wait! While the title seems smirky, the songs are anything but: aching melancholy pop that is as intimate and heart-rending as anything that precedes them in his canon. Pure pathos from one of the sweetest men on Earth. [more detail]

Rodriguez – Cold Fact CD $16.00
Ulrich Schnauss - Stars CD5 $6.25
Lykke Li – Youth Novels CD $13.75
31 Knots – Worried Well CD $12.50
Tindersticks - Hungry Saw CD $12.50
Caesars - Strawberry Weed CD $12.50
Stereolab – Chemical Chords CD $13.25
The Fiery Furnaces – Remember DCD $15.00
Jaguar Love – Take Me To The Sea CD $10.00
Death Vessel – Nothing Is Precious Enough CD $12.50
The Music Tapes – Music Tapes for Clouds & Tornados CD $13.25

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Quinn Scharber & The... - Being Nice Won't Save Milwaukee
(The Bus Stop Label) CD $12.00 Listen: Latest Flame
Our pals at The Bus Stop Label are on a roll… Check out their latest release, the debut from Milwaukee garage-pop combo Quinn Scharber & The… Yep, that’s right, not a typo: & The… Makes ya think, don't it? Likened to Big Star, Wilco, Guided By Voice, The Replacements, and Teenage Fanclub; hearts worn proudly on their sleeves. [more detail]

Dianogah – qhnnnl CD $15.00
Minisnap – Bounce Around CD $12.25
Jesu & Battle of Mice – Split CD $15.25
Atlas Sound - Atlas Shrugged 45 $4.00
Bongripper – Hate Ashbury TAPE $4.50
Zach Hill – Astrological Straits DCD $16.25
Acid Mothers Temple/Cosmic Inferno - Sapporo '08 CD $15.50

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The 1900s - Everybody's Got A Collection (Parasol) 45 $3.50
Listen: Everybody's Got A Collection
Parasol Label Group presents: Chicago psych-pop troupe The 1900s follow-up their Cold & Kind full-length and their debut EP with this brand new 7" vinyl phonograph single, featuring two non-album tracks: a slightly remixed and remastered version of the jaunty "Everybody's Got A Collection", with the dreamy, noir-ish, never-before-heard "Age of Metals" on the flip. White wax in a black jacket.

Clinic – Funf CD $12.00
Oxford Collapse – Bits CD $12.50
Ida – My Fair, My Dark CD5 $8.75
The Faint – Fasciinatiion CD $12.00
Conor Oberst – Self-Titled CD $14.00
Oneida – Preteen Weaponry CD $11.50
Carla Bruni - Comme Si de Rien N'Etait CD $17.00
Thee Oh Sees – Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion CD+DVD $15.75

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Crystal Stilts - Self-Titled (Woodsist) CD $10.25
Listen: Crippled Croon
Saturday Shift: Recent singles collection from awesome NYC lofi garage-pop freaks that sunk its hook and won't let go, plus it's on the weird and wooly Woodsist label, so it's automatic. Echoing and gothy, like Joy Division with a twist of Pin Group fuzz-fusion, naïve and sweet like Beat Happening shaded with The Razorcuts. Garage odes! Moody dirges! Woozy ballads! [more detail]

One Day As A Lion – Self-Titled CD5 $8.50
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future CD $20.50
Neil Halstead – Oh! Mighty Engine CD $13.50
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista CD $16.25
James Jackson Toth – Waiting In Vain CD $14.50
Josephine Foster – This Coming Gladness CD $16.25
Karen Dalton - Green Rocky Road: Loop Tapes… CD $16.25
Sonic Youth/Gustafsson/Merzbow - Andre Sider... CD $10.00

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Motorpsycho - Haircuts: Motorpsycho On Film (Stickman)
2-DVD $39.00 On Sale: $34.00 Watch: Haircuts Trailer
Jim's Pick: Hot on the heels of their mind-expanding Little Lucid Moments, this long-awaited two DVD set starts with 21 music videos spanning the Norwegian psych-rock-pop-prog band's genre-defying 20-year career; plus documentaries, live footage, and various other surprises, 5 hours and 45 minutes in total! Please note: This DVD set is European PAL format, but plays on your home computer and laptop DVD drives, along with home DVD players produced in the last 5 years... [more detail]

CSS – Donkey CD $12.50
Dr. Dog – Fate CD $14.00
Vapnet – Döda Fallet CD $16.25
Thee Oh Sees – Sucks Blood CD $12.25
Faun Fables – Tables Forgotten CD $11.00
Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling CD $11.50
Brendan Canning/BSS - Something For All of Us CD $16.00
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Just Like Kicking Jesus CD5 $9.25
U2 - Boy - October - War [deluxe expanded reissues] DCD $28.50

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{{{Sunset}}} - The Glowing City (AutoBus) CD $9.75
Listen: The World Is Awaiting • When Perfect Flames Expire
Saturday Shift: New sojourn from Austin's ex-Sound Team hymnalist Bill Baird, and he really gets his Eno on. More fully (sur)realized than the dreamy, sub-tropical Bright Blue Dream from earlier this year...prolific much? Totally cosmic orch-pop impressionism that brings balance to the force, harmony to the spheres, and Christmas in July. Will {{{{Sunset}}} have 2 albums in my top ten for 2008? Looks likely! [more detail]

Wire – Object 47 CD $15.25
Benjamin Wetherill - Laura CD $14.25
Herman Dune – 123 Apple Tree CD5 $6.25
Daedelus - Love to Make Music To CD $16.25
Einsturzende Neubauten – Jewels CD $16.25
Dark Captain Light Captain – Circles CD $10.00
Damon & Naomi – More Sad Hits [re-issue] CD $10.00

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Ratatat - LP3 CD $13.25
Melvins – Nude with Boots CD $15.00
Sunny Day Sets Fire – Summer Palace CD $11.50
Architecture In Helsinki – Like It Or Not CD5 $7.25
Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul CD $13.75
Patti Smith & Kevin Shields – The Coral Sea DCD $19.00
A Shoreline Dream/Ulrich Schnauss – Neverchanger CD5 $5.50
The Dutchess & The Duke – She’s the Duchess, He’s... CD $10.75

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Beaujolais - Love At Thirty (Parasol Records)
CD $10.00 On Sale: $9.00
Listen: Friday The Thirteenth: The Loft • Birthday Card