HAWKWIND Levitation (Atomhenge) 3cd 40.00

HAWKWIND P.X.R.5 (Atomhenge / Cherry Red) cd 23.00

HAWKWIND Quark, Strangeness, And Charm (Atomhenge / Cherry Red) 2cd 30.00

HAWKWIND Space Ritual (EMI) 2cd 33.00
Back in stock, slightly higher price, still so worth it!!
Two discs of sonic mayhem beamed from space through a hazy cloud of pot smoke. Hawkwind are seriously kicking my [Andee's] ass. This is a double live disc of Hawkwind at their best (that would be Lemmy-era). Taking the studio cuts and stretching them out, twisting them all out of shape and turning them into endless jams, looping and repetetive and hypnotic. Once the rhythm section locks into their motorik groove, the rest of the band just follows, through a swirling morass of drug addled psychedlia and into another plane altogether. Never has a band made me want to get high so much. [This from a guy who's completely straight-edge.] I already almost feel high just listening, when I'm all stretched out, eyes closed, stereo turned up as loud as it'll go, my whole body vibrating from the sound, my mind drifting off. Like a faster, meaner, hippier Spacemen 3 but with better drugs, or Loop or Godflesh or Circle or any band that tries to transport you through repetition and subtle shift. Simple riffs spread out into a warm landscape of fuzz and thrum, while flutes and saxophones and tweaked wah wah guitars ride wildly atop the mayhem. So so so so good. Hawkwind make music to take drugs to make music by better than almost anyone else. This reissue contains the original live double album plus 3 bonus tracks.
MPEG Stream: "Born To Go"
MPEG Stream: "Down Through The Night "

HAWKWIND Space Ritual Sundown V. 2 (Abstract Sounds) 2cd 14.98

HAWKWIND Space Ritual: Collectors Edition (EMI) 2cd 19.98
Two discs of sonic mayhem beamed from space through a hazy cloud of pot smoke. Hawkwind are seriously kicking my [Andee's] ass. This is a double live disc of Hawkwind at their best (that would be Lemmy-era). Taking the studio cuts and stretching them out, twisting them all out of shape and turning them into endless jams, looping and repetetive and hypnotic. Once the rhythm section locks into their motorik groove, the rest of the band just follows, through a swirling morass of drug addled psychedlia and into another plane altogether. Never has a band made me want to get high so much. [This from a guy who's completely straight-edge.] I already almost feel high just listening, when I'm all stretched out, eyes closed, stereo turned up as loud as it'll go, my whole body vibrating from the sound, my mind drifting off. Like a faster, meaner, hippier Spacemen 3 but with better drugs, or Loop or Godflesh or Circle or any band that tries to transport you through repetition and subtle shift. Simple riffs spread out into a warm landscape of fuzz and thrum, while flutes and saxophones and tweaked wah wah guitars ride wildly atop the mayhem. So so so so good. Hawkwind make music to take drugs to make music by better than almost anyone else.

HAWKWIND The Text Of Festival (East World) cd 12.98

HAWKWIND The Text Of Festival (Let Them Eat Vinyl) 2lp 23.00
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HAWTHORNE, MAYER A Strange Arrangement (Stones Throw) cd 12.98
Mayer Hawthorne is the pseudonym for Ann Arbor native and multi-instrumentalist/DJ /producer, Andrew Cohen, who began recording as the retro-soul heavy Mayer Hawthorne as a sort of joke.
When Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf first heard it, he thought he was listening to reedits of some obscure late sixties soul singles, not realizing Cohen had laid down all the tracks himself. Cohen is definitely channeling the same retro soul vibe that the Daptone label is putting out, and listening to this, he's got all the right soul references down from The Dells, The Delfonics, The Stylistics and The Moments, with the benefit of great song writing hooks. His first single, "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out", released on a red heart shaped 45 is probably the most groovy breakup song we've ever heard (It ironically get played a lot at weddings!). But our favorite track is the second single, "Maybe So, Maybe No", that shows that his hip blue-eyed soul persona is no mere shtick, but a viable modern soul force to be reckoned with.
MPEG Stream: "Maybe So, Maybe No"
MPEG Stream: "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out"
MPEG Stream: "Green Eyed Love"

HAWTHORNE, MAYER How Do You Do (Universal Republic) cd 13.98
One of the most intoxicating male voices we've heard in so long belongs to Mayer Hawthorne. On How Do You Do, he makes the leap from the indie Stones Throw to the big time, now finding a home on Universal, but luckily his soulful music is not compromised one bit. In fact when we first heard Mayer Hawthorne a couple years ago we had a feeling he could get HUGE. Looks like maybe we were right.
His blue eyed soul shines nice and bright on this new outing and shows off both his ability to create such a seductive mood, while also his super strong song writing chops. Equally influenced by amazing singers like Al Green, Dusty Springfield, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson as well as sweet sounding west coast pop like The Beach Boys, The Monkees, Herman's Hermits and The Louvin Spoonful, there's just no denying he creates make-out jams that sound so damn good, and thus he's amassed a pretty awesome list of bigtime fans which include Dam-Funk, Peanut Butter Wolf, and even Snoop Dogg who appears on "Can't Stop", a totally killer track on How Do You Do. Speaking of amazing guests, legendary psych-funk guitar god Dennis Coffey plays on two tracks as well.
The only thing we don't love about this record is the album cover and the marketing campaign that Universal has launched in support of it. We understand that they want to make him a huge star, but truthfully Hawthorne is so much more talented then what major labels like to push as the next big thing.
He is not just a pretty face and voice, he wrote and produced every track on the album, and his sense of arrangements and pop structure are so spot on. But like we we were always told, you can't judge books or records by their covers, cause what's inside is what really counts, and the songs on How Do You Do are pure proof.
MPEG Stream: "A Long Time"
MPEG Stream: "Can't Stop ( Feat. Snoop Dogg)"
MPEG Stream: "Stick Around"

HAWTHORNE, MAYER How Do You Do (Universal Republic) lp 17.98
One of the most intoxicating male voices we've heard in so long belongs to Mayer Hawthorne. On How Do You Do, he makes the leap from the indie Stones Throw to the big time, now finding a home on Universal, but luckily his soulful music is not compromised one bit. In fact when we first heard Mayer Hawthorne a couple years ago we had a feeling he could get HUGE. Looks like maybe we were right.
His blue eyed soul shines nice and bright on this new outing and shows off both his ability to create such a seductive mood, while also his super strong song writing chops. Equally influenced by amazing singers like Al Green, Dusty Springfield, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson as well as sweet sounding west coast pop like The Beach Boys, The Monkees, Herman's Hermits and The Louvin Spoonful, there's just no denying he creates make-out jams that sound so damn good, and thus he's amassed a pretty awesome list of bigtime fans which include Dam-Funk, Peanut Butter Wolf, and even Snoop Dogg who appears on "Can't Stop", a totally killer track on How Do You Do. Speaking of amazing guests, legendary psych-funk guitar god Dennis Coffey plays on two tracks as well.
The only thing we don't love about this record is the album cover and the marketing campaign that Universal has launched in support of it. We understand that they want to make him a huge star, but truthfully Hawthorne is so much more talented then what major labels like to push as the next big thing.
He is not just a pretty face and voice, he wrote and produced every track on the album, and his sense of arrangements and pop structure are so spot on. But like we we were always told, you can't judge books or records by their covers, cause what's inside is what really counts, and the songs on How Do You Do are pure proof.
MPEG Stream: "A Long Time"
MPEG Stream: "Can't Stop ( Feat. Snoop Dogg)"
MPEG Stream: "Stick Around"

HAYAINO DAISUKI Invincible Gate Mind Of The Infernal Fire Hell... Or Did You Mean Hawaii Daisuke? (Hydra Head) cd ep 13.98
The easiest way to describe Hayaino Daisuki is like this: they're the band we always wished existed. Imagine classic eighties metal but about 100 times as fast and furious, or maybe a blasting grind version of power metal, or Iron Maiden crossed with Discordance Axis. That last one being particularly appropriate, seeing as Hayaino Daisuki is the new band of former DA screamer Jon Chang, even though the band do everything in their power to disguise who is in fact in the band, the first record purported to be a bunch of teenage metal girls, this one has a huge booklet with comics and interviews and lyrics, but very little actually band info.
But it hardly matters, once you lay ears on this stuff, you'll be totally and utterly obsessed, it may be only 12 minutes, but if you play it ten times in a row it's 120 minutes, and we DARE you to try to just listen to this once. Music this heavy and fast and furious and brutal should not be this catchy. The riffs are incredible, the drumming insane, the vocals of course are untouchable, and the wild leads and constant shredding harmonies is what pushes this over the top. What more do you need to know than 'Iron Maiden meets Discordance Axis'? Absolutely nothing. But if you're looking for something that totally shred and slays, is crazy catchy, you'd be hard pressed to find something more perfect than this. It's either the most melodic and hook filled shredding grind record ever, or the most blasting brutal grinding power metal record ever. Either way, this totally destroys, and is quickly becoming our favorite 12 minutes of music this year. Now 24 minutes. Now 36 minutes. Now 48 minutes...
MPEG Stream: "Ghosts Of Purgatory"
MPEG Stream: "Blood"

HAYRIDE AND HARVEY MILK F*#k You Guys (Superfluous Umlaut) 7" 5.98
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2006 was most definitely the year of Harvey Milk. A year most of us had been waiting for forever! A live DVD, a double disc reissue of Courtesy And Good Will Toward Men, a brand new fucking album!! Some tours, a bunch of live shows. We've basically been in downtuned sludge rock Nirvana. And as if that weren't enough, now we've got a brand new 7" from the boys, a split with Hayride, a band they shared another split with way back in 1992.
The Harvey Milk track is an oldie, recorded at home way back sometime in the early nineties, a riffy mathy dirgey masterpiece. Very lo-fi, with the vocals buried WAY down in the mix, but it's a killer, roiling and churning, a slow motion groove, like the Melvins covering ZZ Top at 16 rpm. Essential if you're a HM nerd, and if you're not, what the hell is wrong with you?!?
Hayride, we assume are also from Athens, and unlike Harvey Milk, they sound like it. Sort of jangly and mathy, what you might imagine R.E.M. would sound like if they had recorded for Touch And Go. Some June Of '44, even some Interpol with the deep dramatic vocals. But with plenty of jangle and math rock riffage.
But no matter how cool Hayride are, the 'Milk is the reason to pick this up.
Super limited, already out of print it seems. We were one of the only stores to get copies, and while we did get a bunch, they won't last...

HAYVANLAR ALEMI Guarana Superpower (Sublime Frequencies) cd 17.98
This amazing, previously vinyl only, Sublime Frequencies release, finally available on cd!!!
Ethiopiques meets Torch Of The Mystics? Cambodian pop meets Turkish psych rock? Freaked out surf rock meets Saharan guitar music? Howabout all of the above...?
The very first release on the Sun City Girls' Sublime Frequency label from Istanbul-based instrumental psychedelic surf / space rock band Hayvanlar Alemi, their first proper album, and their first record readily available outside of Turkey.
The thing that makes this Hayvanlar Alemi record work in the context of Sublime Frequencies, is that it borrows from a super varied set of sounds, from all sorts of musics, each track here sounding like it could possibly be from some other SF release, twanged out desert psych, moody Eastern garage pop, fuzzy druggy almost krautrock style drift, a few of the tracks even sound like they could be some Sun City Girls Torch Of The Mystics B side! But somehow these guys make all those different sounds work, this whole record holds together perfectly and flows like a proper album, a super expansive and sonically rich collection of modern psychedelia, beholden to all the various musics that came before.
The sound on Guarana Superpower is definitely exotic, lush, with Eastern melodies, simple hypnotic percussion, long droning tones, looped motorik grooves, plenty of buzz, and jangle, and crunch, rhythms that veer from spare and skeletal to wild and splattery, songs drift from tranquil shimmer to meditative buzz to occasional blasts of full on chaotic freaked out in-the-red psychedelia, but even in the midst of those noisy squalls, the instrumentation is distinctly Eastern, the result some fantastical Eastern psychedelic noise rock. It's during those moments that the Torch Of The Mystics comparisons become even more apt. The record is of course rife with references to traditional Turkish folk music, Turkish classical music, sixties and seventies Turkish psych rock, as well as all the above mentioned NON Turkish sounds and influences, all filtered through a modern avant rock sensibility. There are a few tracks of surfy, bluesy garage rock stomp as well, but again, even those jams are infused with a vibe and energy that is way more Eastern than Western. So good. And such a perfect fit for Sublime Frequencies...
MPEG Stream: "Mega Lambada"
MPEG Stream: "Mavi Sepet"
MPEG Stream: "Karpuzkafa 777"
MPEG Stream: "Guve Diskosu"

HAYVANLAR ALEMI Guarana Superpower (Sublime Frequencies) lp 21.00
Ethiopiques meets Torch Of The Mystics? Cambodian pop meets Turkish psych rock? Freaked out surf rock meets Saharan guitar music? Howabout all of the above...?
The very first release on the Sun City Girls' Sublime Frequency label from Istanbul-based instrumental psychedelic surf / space rock band Hayvanlar Alemi, their first vinyl lp, and their first record readily available outside of Turkey.
The thing that makes this Hayvanlar Alemi record work in the context of Sublime Frequencies, is that it borrows from a super varied set of sounds, from all sorts of musics, each track here sounding like it could possibly be from some other SF release, twanged out desert psych, moody Eastern garage pop, fuzzy druggy almost krautrock style drift, a few of the tracks even sound like they could be some Sun City Girls Torch Of The Mystics B side! But somehow these guys make all those different sounds work, this whole record holds together perfectly and flows like a proper album, a super expansive and sonically rich collection of modern psychedelia, beholden to all the various musics that came before.
The sound on Guarana Superpower is definitely exotic, lush, with Eastern melodies, simple hypnotic percussion, long droning tones, looped motorik grooves, plenty of buzz, and jangle, and crunch, rhythms that veer from spare and skeletal to wild and splattery, songs drift from tranquil shimmer to meditative buzz to occasional blasts of full on chaotic freaked out in-the-red psychedelia, but even in the midst of those noisy squalls, the instrumentation is distinctly Eastern, the result some fantastical Eastern psychedelic noise rock. It's during those moments that the Torch Of The Mystics comparisons become even more apt. The record is of course rife with references to traditional Turkish folk music, Turkish classical music, sixties and seventies Turkish psych rock, as well as all the above mentioned NON Turkish sounds and influences, all filtered through a modern avant rock sensibility. There are a few tracks of surfy, bluesy garage rock stomp as well, but again, even those jams are infused with a vibe and energy that is way more Eastern than Western. So good. And such a perfect fit for Sublime Frequencies...
As always, this is a super limited one time vinyl pressing, nice thick vinyl, housed in a heavy old school style tip-on jacket.

HAYVANLAR ALEMI Yekermo Sew (Sublime Frequencies) 7" 9.98
We already know that any Sublime Frequencies release is gonna be desirable - and not just 'cause it's undoubtedly limited in edition, especially the vinyl variety. But this one's really rad. A 45rpm 7" single from modern day Turkish psych band Hayvanlar Alemi, whose SF full length Guarana Superpower had us likening 'em to a surfy Sun City Girls steeped in the Anadolu pop playbook of the late '60s/early '70s, in other words they're the descendants of the likes of Mogollar, 3 Hur-el, Baris Manco, and Sublime Frequencies labelmate Erkin Koray, mixed with many other psychedelic influences.
The B side here is a cool unreleased improv jam, live in the studio in their hometown of Ankara. But it's the A side that makes this a double whammy for international groovy music lovers - it's a heavily rocked up, killer cover of the classic song by Ethio-jazz legend Mulatu Astatke! Even if you don't know it by name, chances are you'll recognize it when you hear it.
Now we'd like to hear Hayvanlar Alemi do an entire Ethiopiques album...

HAYWARD, CHARLES Double Agent(s), Live In Japan Volume 2 (Locus Solus) cd 20.00
Live duets from ex-This Heat member Hayward with Keiji Haino, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Otomo Yoshihide and Peter Brotzman.

HAYWARD, CHARLES Near + Far, Live In Japan Volume 3 (Locus Solus) cd 20.00
Charles Hayward of This Heat performing live in Japan. Accompanied on several tracks here by Jin Harada, Makoto Nomura, Otomo Yoshihide, Akira Toyonaga, Kazuhisa Uchihashi & Tatsuya Yoshida.

HAYWARD, CHARLES / NUS / DAVID SHEA Bari, Italy - October 1996 (Sub Rosa) cd 16.98

HAYWARD, RICK s/t (Sunbeam) cd 16.98

HAZARD, GRANT Genus Euphony (QPM) cd 14.98
Some of you may know Grant Hazard from Oakland-based band The Very Hush Hush, whom we have carried records from in the past. For his first solo effort, Hazard gives us an instrumental cd of icy cool but beautifully melodic ambience. Comprised mostly of minimalist solo piano inflected with spacious textures and droning loops, Hazard's classically-trained musicianship serves him well in recalling the dulcet tones of impressionist composers such as Debussy and Satie, the modern day minimalism of Brin Eno and William Basinski, and touches of the dark-natured cinematic temperaments of Bohren & der Club of Gore. Limited to 500 copies. An excellent debut!
MPEG Stream: "Marionette"
MPEG Stream: "Trepanning"
MPEG Stream: "Shards"

HAZLEWOOD, LEE 13 (Smells Like) cd 14.98
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One of Lee's rarest records (it saw just a limited release in Sweden only), this 1972 gem is full of horns and upbeat songs about, according to Lee, "pimps, whores, pushers, dopers, gangsters, and bottom of the human-chain shitheels. Now you're probably thinking I'm writing about major record companies and their unscrupulous executives, but this time, you're wrong! I'm describing the characters in my cd '13'" Recommended!

HAZLEWOOD, LEE A House Safe For Tigers OST (Light In The Attic) cd 16.98
Light in The Attic continues their awesome Lee Hazlewood archival series with this rarest of rare releases, a 1975 soundtrack to the last (and least known) of the many films for Swedish television Hazlewood made with longtime collaborator Torbjorn Axelman. Half surrealist anecdote and half documentary, A Room Safe for Tigers is a bizarre self-portrait of the artist as he embarks on a new life in a new land. Filmed on the island of Gotland, Hazlewood shoots various scenes with the local townsfolk, running a marathon, trying to convince Swedish children to take sides against Nixon, and seeking protective spells from a witch. The centerpiece of the soundtrack, the song "Soul's Island", reads like a pastoral response to the Nancy & Lee classic, "Some Velvet Morning" with its epic orchestral sweeps and never-ending fade out. There are a couple of revisitations from the back catalog, namely "The Nights", a spoken-sung epic about Native American genealogy and genocide and an early Shackletons' cover, "Little Boy Blue". But the bulk of the release is material never released before including instrumentals, some country-funk numbers and a strange duet with Axelman as he recites all of Hazlewood's lines in Swedish. As seen with the last archival release, The LHI Years, Hazlewood's less heard '70s Swedish output was just as vital and essential as the famed sixties material he was best known for. Kudos to Light in The Attic for continuing to make the work of this eccentric American voice more widely available.
MPEG Stream: "Souls's Island"
MPEG Stream: "A House Safe For Tigers"
MPEG Stream: "Absent Friends"

HAZLEWOOD, LEE A House Safe For Tigers OST (Light In The Attic) lp 22.00
Light in The Attic continues their awesome Lee Hazlewood archival series with this rarest of rare releases, a 1975 soundtrack to the last (and least known) of the many films for Swedish television Hazlewood made with longtime collaborator Torbjorn Axelman. Half surrealist anecdote and half documentary, A Room Safe for Tigers is a bizarre self-portrait of the artist as he embarks on a new life in a new land. Filmed on the island of Gotland, Hazlewood shoots various scenes with the local townsfolk, running a marathon, trying to convince Swedish children to take sides against Nixon, and seeking protective spells from a witch. The centerpiece of the soundtrack, the song "Soul's Island", reads like a pastoral response to the Nancy & Lee classic, "Some Velvet Morning" with its epic orchestral sweeps and never-ending fade out. There are a couple of revisitations from the back catalog, namely "The Nights", a spoken-sung epic about Native American genealogy and genocide and an early Shackletons' cover, "Little Boy Blue". But the bulk of the release is material never released before including instrumentals, some country-funk numbers and a strange duet with Axelman as he recites all of Hazlewood's lines in Swedish. As seen with the last archival release, The LHI Years, Hazlewood's less heard '70s Swedish output was just as vital and essential as the famed sixties material he was best known for. Kudos to Light in The Attic for continuing to make the work of this eccentric American voice more widely available.
MPEG Stream: "Souls's Island"
MPEG Stream: "A House Safe For Tigers"
MPEG Stream: "Absent Friends"

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Cake Or Death (Ever) cd 16.98
The man with the give 'em hell attitude towards life takes the same approach towards death on what is widely reported to be his farewell record. Suffering from renal cancer, and getting his affairs in order, Hazelwood, the gravelly-voiced singer and producer of some of the most exciting and weirdest country-tinged pop, refuses to wax poetic about his inevitable fate. Full of rollicking new numbers, some duets with non-famous friends, and a couple of visits back to his two best known hits with Nancy Sinatra, "Boots" (featuring Duane Eddy on guitar) and "Some Velvet Morning" (with counter vocals sung by Lee's granddaughter, Phaedra, who thought the song was about her), this is not the kind of record that Hazelwood's fans would have ultimately wanted which would have him harkening back to his late sixties heavy reverb sound, or the sad lonesome burn of songs like "My Autumn's Done Come" recently featured on Air's Late Night Tales compilation. Instead this is a cheerfully black-humored ode to a man who has defined everything on no one else's terms but his own, remaining every bit of a nutter all the way to the very end.
MPEG Stream: "The First Song of The Day"
MPEG Stream: "Anthem"
MPEG Stream: "Boots (Original Melody)"

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Cold Hard World: The Lonesome Sounds Of Lee Hazlewood (Killed By Lee) lp 14.98

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Cowboy in Sweden (Smells Like) cd 13.98
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Here's what our pals at Revolver Distro say: "Free to ramble in the post Boots days, a newly minted Lee Hazlewood (legendary NANCY SINATRA/DUANE EDDY collaborator/songwriter) struck out for Europe, sampling Spain, France and Germany before landing in Sweden, a locale which would inspire some of his strongest work. His key artistic associate in Sweden was the film director TORJORN AXELMAN, and together the two masterminded the film and album project Cowboy In Sweden. The album went gold in Sweden and was a precurser to their next collaborative masterpiece, A House Safe For Tigers. Now reissued by Smells Like to give you Lee's trademark singular synthesis of cowboy rambles, rock rhythms and symphonic pop. Joined by vocalists NINA LIZELL and SUSIE JANE HOKOM (of the INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE BAND led by GRAM PARSONS) who lend their heavenly voices to the sophisticated humor and raw subject matter of Hazlewood's material. Eleven songs of hard luck tales, pragmatic politics and love odes fueled by dark, poetic lyrics and esoteric images declaimed with wit, irony and wry honesty. One of Hazlewood's finest and most original offerings-a true gem in uncut form."

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Farmisht, Flatulence, Origami, ARF!!! and Me (Smells Like) cd 13.98
Yes, this is a *new* Lee Hazlewood album, his first domestic release of new material in over 20 years! Lee and the Al Casey Combo tackle a bevy of standards, including "Makin' Whoopee" and "Try A Little Tenderness". The liner notes, fixating on Lee's imaginary (we hope) "scotch bus", are even stranger & funnier than the record... but it's too bad the music is nowhere near as good as it was when Lee was in his prime.

HAZLEWOOD, LEE For Every Solution There's a Problem (City Slang) cd 16.98
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In conjunction with the release of "Total Lee! The Songs of Lee Hazelwood," "For Every Solution There's a Problem" presents a collection of previously unreleased songs, some in their rawer demo form and some fully fleshed out productions. There's some low key Hazelwood classics here, especially the oh-so-dark opener "Dirtnap Sories," the aaalmost country of "Buying Back," and a late but worthy entry into the Lee + Lady duet canon recorded in the 'nineties and featuring "Melissa," a singer whose last name is unremembered by the musicians and producers involved. There's some goofy moments ("Dolly Parton's Guitar"? Hmm..), but if you're a Lee lover, this is a nice collection. As with the tribute album, Lee comments on every track in the liner notes.
RealAudio clip: "dirtnap stories"
RealAudio clip: "dolly parton's guitar"

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Love and Other Crimes (LHI) cd 17.98
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Vintage Lee Hazlewood, the man who Nancy Sinatra says "wrote three quarters of the songs I'm performing" (but always refused to marry her).

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Poet, Fool, or Bum (LHI) cd 17.98
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Vintage Lee Hazlewood, the man who Nancy Sinatra says "wrote three quarters of the songs I'm performing" (but always refused to marry her).

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Requiem For an Almost Lady (Smells Like) cd 13.98

HAZLEWOOD, LEE The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides (Light In The Attic) cd 16.98
A fantastic compilation of Hazlewood tracks from his late-sixties/early seventies output when the country-pop production genius found himself in Stockholm and recorded some of his most weirdly romantic and beautifully bummed out records. Most of the tracks come from 1969's Cowboy and The Lady (with Ann Margaret), 1970's Cowboy in Sweden (with Nina Lizell and Suzi Jane Hokum) and the most awesomely embittered break-up record ever, Requiem for an Almost Lady from 1971. But fans familiar with those albums might not have everything here, including rare B sides and an unreleased track, "I Just Learned How To Run". The burnt out surrealist western influence came about largely from his collaborations with Swedish filmmaker Torbjorn Axelman who Hazlewood worked with throughout the seventies. Yet these albums were sometimes a bit much on their own, having a flair equally for epic wanderlust as they did for cornball humor. But by taking the best tracks from these albums, it really puts a spotlight on Hazlewood's druggy pop genius, and shows that his best years weren't behind him with Nancy Sinatra and his amazing output for Reprise. Anyone that dug those Water reissues a while back (The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood and Lee Hazlewoodism: It's Cause And Cure) should pick this up too. A compilation that we couldn't heap more praise upon if we tried.
FYI, there was a vinyl version of this that came out on Record Store Day; of course, it's long gone, but we do hear that they plan to repress it sometime...
MPEG Stream: "Califa (Stone Rider)"
MPEG Stream: "Leather & Lace"
MPEG Stream: "If It's Monday Morning"
MPEG Stream: "Nobody Like You"
MPEG Stream: "I Just Learned To Run"

HAZLEWOOD, LEE The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides (Light In The Attic) 2lp 26.00
NOW REPRESSED AND BACK IN STOCK ON FANCY DOUBLE VINYL!!! If you missed out on getting this when it was first released on vinyl a few months back for this year's Record Store Day, you've got another chance, whoo-hoo!
A fantastic compilation of Hazlewood tracks from his late-sixties/early seventies output when the country-pop production genius found himself in Stockholm and recorded some of his most weirdly romantic and beautifully bummed out records. Most of the tracks come from 1969's Cowboy and The Lady (with Ann Margaret), 1970's Cowboy in Sweden (with Nina Lizell and Suzi Jane Hokum) and the most awesomely embittered break-up record ever, Requiem for an Almost Lady from 1971. But fans familiar with those albums might not have everything here, including rare B sides and an unreleased track, "I Just Learned How To Run". The burnt out surrealist western influence came about largely from his collaborations with Swedish filmmaker Torbjorn Axelman who Hazlewood worked with throughout the seventies. Yet these albums were sometimes a bit much on their own, having a flair equally for epic wanderlust as they did for cornball humor. But by taking the best tracks from these albums, it really puts a spotlight on Hazlewood's druggy pop genius, and shows that his best years weren't behind him with Nancy Sinatra and his amazing output for Reprise. Anyone that dug those Water reissues a while back (The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood and Lee Hazlewoodism: It's Cause And Cure) should pick this up too. A compilation that we couldn't heap more praise upon if we tried.
MPEG Stream: "Califa (Stone Rider)"
MPEG Stream: "Leather & Lace"
MPEG Stream: "If It's Monday Morning"
MPEG Stream: "Nobody Like You"
MPEG Stream: "I Just Learned To Run"

HAZLEWOOD, LEE The Many Sides of Lee (LHI) cd 17.98
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Vintage Lee Hazlewood, the man who Nancy Sinatra says "wrote three quarters of the songs I'm performing" (but always refused to marry her). This has one of the best of 'em all: Lee's self-relexive version of "These Boots are Made for Walking" wherein he punctuates his singing (Nancy's voice isn't missed here) with narrative comments like: "and then [producer] Billy Strange said we'd better fade this out or we'll all get arrested..." (on "The Many Sides of Lee").

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Trouble Is A Lonesome Town (Smells Like) cd 13.98
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Two more long overdue re-issues from this legendary producer, author of Nancy Sinatra's songs, owner of gravelly voice well suited to 'Trouble is....', the narrated suite about a fictional town.

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Trouble Is A Lonesome Town (Light In The Attic) cd 15.98
Light In The Attic continues its deep digging into Lee Hazlewood's LHI archives with a beautiful and welcome reissue of Hazlewood's 1963 recording debut, Trouble Is A Lonesome Town. Lying somewhere between Johnny Cash and a bohemian Porter Wagoner, Hazlewood takes the listener on a travelogue of a tiny backwater called Trouble and its crazy cast of colorful characters. A sort of country novelty record, it's Hazlewood's deft handling of song-writing, narrative delivery and musical production that gives it a lasting quality that elevates it beyond kitsch. This expanded reissue comes with 15 bonus tracks of Hazlewood's singles and productions from the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties that paint a fuller portrait of the legendary artist in his early years, including tracks with Duane Eddy. Beautifully packaged with an 8 page booklet featuring a previously unpublished interview from 1998. Fans of the other LITA Hazlewood reissues should jump on this!
MPEG Stream: "Long Black Train"
MPEG Stream: "Peculiar Guy"
MPEG Stream: "The Girl On Death Row"

HAZLEWOOD, LEE Trouble Is A Lonesome Town (Light In The Attic) 2lp 28.00
Light In The Attic continues its deep digging into Lee Hazlewood's LHI archives with a beautiful and welcome reissue of Hazlewood's 1963 recording debut, Trouble Is A Lonesome Town. Lying somewhere between Johnny Cash and a bohemian Porter Wagoner, Hazlewood takes the listener on a travelogue of a tiny backwater called Trouble and its crazy cast of colorful characters. A sort of country novelty record, it's Hazlewood's deft handling of song-writing, narrative delivery and musical production that gives it a lasting quality that elevates it beyond kitsch. This expanded reissue comes with 15 bonus tracks of Hazlewood's singles and productions from the mid-fifties to the mid-sixties that paint a fuller portrait of the legendary artist in his early years, including tracks with Duane Eddy. Beautifully packaged with an 8 page booklet featuring a previously unpublished interview from 1998. Fans of the other LITA Hazlewood reissues should jump on this!
MPEG Stream: "Long Black Train"
MPEG Stream: "Peculiar Guy"
MPEG Stream: "The Girl On Death Row"

HE 6 Go Go Sound '71 Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Beatball) cd 24.00
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Recently, we reviewed Brazil's Modulo 1000... Before that, Thai Beat A Go Go volume 2. And the Lemmy-goes-to-India sounds of Sam Gopal. And the Juan dela Cruz Band from the Phillipines. And Turkish music galore. And all those incredible Cambodian Rocks comps. Et cetera, et cetera. Yup, we've had a lot of vintage heavy rock and psych reissues from all over the world now, but this is maybe the first time we've gotten our hands on something from Korea (and hopefully not the last -- we'd love to get Sanullim discs too, someday).
Recorded in, yay, 1971, pressed in a ridiculously limited (promotion only) quantity of 300 copies each, and subsequently all but forgotten, these two records by Korean psychedelic groovesters the HE 6 are some gems indeed! With the exception of the closing side-long seventeen minute cover of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (which faithfully does indeed include the obligatory drum solo as per the original version, along with what sounds like a police siren and also an added *flute* solo!) all the tracks on the two albums Go Go Sound '71 vol. 1 and Go Go Sound '71 vol. 2 included here are instrumental jams -- numbered themes with titles like "Theme 2. 4/4 for Guitar" and "Theme 3. Running Human". And even "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is mostly instrumental of course.
Listening to the other tracks on this disc it makes sense that they would choose Iron Butterfly's opus as the sole tune to cover. Like that tune, all of their originals are extended jams led by fuzzed-out electric guitar and Hammond organ. In addition, the aforementioned flute gets a workout too. (Yet another victory for the flute, so often mistakenly perceived as diminutive instrument! But the flute can certainly hold its own in this heavy, groovy, acid-rock band.) And it's crucial to mention that HE 6's rhythm section is darn tight! Indeed, this stuff's funky enough that we're sure they were probably just as much influenced by James Brown's band The JB's as they were by the likes of the Vanilla Fudge and Iron Butterfly. If not so obscure, we're sure this would have been plundered by DJs looking for the swank breaks... who knows, maybe hip hop producers in Korea have done so? So, very much recommended to all you folks into these sorta swinging '60s/'70s sounds -- especially if you dig the Cambodian Rocks and Thai Beat comps!
'Tis an expensive import, but the packaging helps justify the price: a gorgeous heavy-duty mini-LP styled gatefold sleeve, complete with a booklet featuring extensive liner notes (in English!) and photos, plus you even get two colorful HE 6 stickers! Nice.
MPEG Stream: "Theme 1. Introduction Music"
MPEG Stream: "Theme 5. The World of 6/6"

HE IS LEGEND 91025 (Tribunal) cd 12.98

HE TENDS TO TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SKY s/t (Redwood) 2cd 15.98

HEAD AND THE HEART, THE s/t (Sub Pop) cd 13.98
Anyone here looking for black buzz or grimnoise or punked out heaviness or bizarre metal, should turn back now. Cuz as much as we love that stuff, and sure we subsist on a steady diet of buzz and howl, pound and crunch, but one most definitely can't survive on that stuff alone. And most of us here, if you dig past the buzzy droney exteriors, will find a heart of pop. Which is exactly why we've been loving this, the debut from Seattle folk pop outfit The Head And The Heart, who apparently sold 10,000 copies of this record on their own before Sub Pop swooped in to repackaged and reissue this. Which is a good thing, cuz we would have never heard it otherwise. The first track is all it'll take to convince you if this is your cup of tea or not, a sub two minute chunk of dreamy folky strum, with gorgeous vocal harmonies, simple acoustic guitar strum, some sweet piano, all woven into a perfect little chunk of folky pop, that sounds like it would fit somewhere between Fleet Foxes, Iron And Wine and Belle And Sebastian, there's maybe even a little Decemberists in there too. And some classic power pop a la The Zombies, The Kinks, Beach Boys, etc. The vibe is definitely pop, leaning a bit toward old timey pop, mixing in lots of classic twang and folk, the vocal harmonies are a little bit gospel-y, the songs slipping from brooding and ballady to rollicking and rocking, to soaring and bombastic, hooks a plenty, but also plenty of moody atmosphere. It's hard to say exactly what it is about this record that hooked us, but it did, big time, and we find ourselves listening to it more than we thought we would, so much so, that a few of these songs have gotten lodged solidly in our heads, and show now sign of leaving any time soon, which is just fine with us!
MPEG Stream: "Cats And Dogs"
MPEG Stream: "Coeur D'Alene"
MPEG Stream: "Ghosts"
MPEG Stream: "Down In The Valley"

HEAD AND THE HEART, THE s/t (Sub Pop) lp 17.98
Anyone here looking for black buzz or grimnoise or punked out heaviness or bizarre metal, should turn back now. Cuz as much as we love that stuff, and sure we subsist on a steady diet of buzz and howl, pound and crunch, but one most definitely can't survive on that stuff alone. And most of us here, if you dig past the buzzy droney exteriors, will find a heart of pop. Which is exactly why we've been loving this, the debut from Seattle folk pop outfit The Head And The Heart, who apparently sold 10,000 copies of this record on their own before Sub Pop swooped in to repackaged and reissue this. Which is a good thing, cuz we would have never heard it otherwise. The first track is all it'll take to convince you if this is your cup of tea or not, a sub two minute chunk of dreamy folky strum, with gorgeous vocal harmonies, simple acoustic guitar strum, some sweet piano, all woven into a perfect little chunk of folky pop, that sounds like it would fit somewhere between Fleet Foxes, Iron And Wine and Belle And Sebastian, there's maybe even a little Decemberists in there too. And some classic power pop a la The Zombies, The Kinks, Beach Boys, etc. The vibe is definitely pop, leaning a bit toward old timey pop, mixing in lots of classic twang and folk, the vocal harmonies are a little bit gospel-y, the songs slipping from brooding and ballady to rollicking and rocking, to soaring and bombastic, hooks a plenty, but also plenty of moody atmosphere. It's hard to say exactly what it is about this record that hooked us, but it did, big time, and we find ourselves listening to it more than we thought we would, so much so, that a few of these songs have gotten lodged solidly in our heads, and show now sign of leaving any time soon, which is just fine with us!
MPEG Stream: "Cats And Dogs"
MPEG Stream: "Coeur D'Alene"
MPEG Stream: "Ghosts"
MPEG Stream: "Down In The Valley"

HEAD HITS CONCRETE Summer 2004 Tour ep (Plastic Airlines) 7" 3.50
We reviewed a cd by these Canadian grinders a long ways back, a furious twisted atonal slab of spazzed out math grind, that reminded us of Drop Dead or Crossed out all tangled up with the Locust and as we said before sounded quite a bit like your head hitting concrete. Well we managed to get a small handful of these tour only singles, and it's more of the same. But here, the sound is even more convoluted, chaotic, spastic, angular off kilter riffing, freaked out drumming, super dense and dizzying arrangements, with long drawn out stretches of droney repetitive chug, peppered with bits of lightning fast blasts, the guitar constantly slippery and slithery, the chords unhinged, the notes seeming to twist and warble, almost like a slide guitar, but this woozy weirdness gives the whole records a super unhinged feel. Reminds us a whole lot of some long lost Gravity band, which is a VERY good thing indeed. (and we just might have a few copies of the HHC cd in stock, check elsewhere on the site). LIMITED TO 200 COPIES.

HEAD HITS CONCRETE Thy Kingdom Come Undone (Crimes Against Humanity) cd 10.98
Can't think of a much better description for Head Hits Concrete than...well...um...your head hitting concrete. This Canadian noise grind juggernaut is a massive metallic sledgehammer, sounding a bit like some unholy union of Drop Dead, Crossed Out and more spastic contemporaries like the Locust or the Daughters. Relentlessly buzzing and thrashing, but with all sorts of squiggly guitar harmonies and weirdly ear twisting atonal melodies and full on blasts of utter chaos as well as the occasional burst of classic metal riffery, albeit dressed in spazz/grind clothing. Then just mix in song titles like "The Anal Cavity Is Coming Up Roses", "I Shit God", "We Love E. Coli", "The Pastor's Cock Is In My Mouth (Hooray!)" and you've got one of the coolest, heaviest, sonically fucked records in recent memory. 47 songs in 60 minutes. Yes.
MPEG Stream: "The Anal Cavity Is Coming Up Roses"
MPEG Stream: "The Practical Impossibility Of Denying Emotion"
MPEG Stream: "The Pastor's Cock Is In My Mouth (Hooray!)"
MPEG Stream: "I Shit God"

HEAD SHOP, THE s/t (World In Sound) cd 21.00

HEADACHE Discography (Life Is Abuse) cd 10.98
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Found just TWO of these tucked away in the closet, we got em way back in 2005, and for whatever reason, we never got around to reviewing it, which is a shame cuz this is some crazed kick ass stuff. A sort of manic twisted post punk, thrash pop, or something, from back in the nineties, angular, crusty, chaotic, noisy, atonal crunchy buzzy guitars, wild octopoidal drumming, super melodic basslines, unhinged vocals that flit from keening croon, to punk rock yelp to banshee wail, it's really hard to describe these UK weirdos, we'd say if you dig Crass and Rudimentary Peni and that sort of crusty punk rock, but mixed with some over the top, almost proggy aspirations, with the songs devolving into mathy freakouts, or soaring punkprog epics, then these guys are right up your alley. Hard to believe more people haven't freaked out over these guys, cuz this stuff is baffling and brilliant, noisy, dense, loose, epic, twisted and heavy. And way recommended. Sadly we only have 2 copies.
Killer packaging too, a cool cd sized softcover book, with full color covers, and inside pages and pages of lyrics, drawing, photos and collages. The cd contains the group's only LP, their only 7", a demo tape and a bunch of comp and unreleased tracks!
MPEG Stream: "Agaa"
MPEG Stream: "Empty"
MPEG Stream: "I Was So High, I Thought I Saw God"
MPEG Stream: "Relics"
MPEG Stream: "Fears"

HEADDRESS Lunes (No Quarter) cd 13.98
Texas trippers Headdress have been stirring up quite the fuss lately. First Mexican Summer reissues their out of print Turquoise cd-r on wax, and now Brooklyn's infamous No Quarter offers up their most recent effort, an unexpected leap into new territory for this psych/folk turned heavy drone duo. Seems these former folkie nomads have traded their knapsacks and peace pipes for distortion pedals and tube amps, not sure if it's for the better as we really loved the airy country atmospheres the old Headdress did so well. Lunes begins with a buzzing drone that lingers on and on as layers of tremolo organ and distant electric guitar creep in and out. The band have definitely dropped their Brightblack influence and instead traded it for other, heavier influences like Earth 2 or Nadja, not exactly a bad thing, though it seems their new droneyness is a bit flat and lacks the depth of other drone outfits. Their signature shoegazy, dreamy vocals don't appear until the third track, accompanied by a repetitive twangy riff that plods on and on into infinity, like watching the sun fall behind a never-ending horizon, definitely our favorite track on the album as it reflects what really makes this band unique in our eyes. Complete with trippy psychedelic artwork in a nice looking cd gatefold package, don't miss out on this slow burning drift into the golden summer sun.
MPEG Stream: "Seethrough"
MPEG Stream: "The Lost White Brother"

HEADDRESS Lunes (No Quarter) lp 13.98
Texas trippers Headdress have been stirring up quite the fuss lately. First Mexican Summer reissues their out of print Turquoise cd-r on wax, and now Brooklyn's infamous No Quarter offers up their most recent effort, an unexpected leap into new territory for this psych/folk turned heavy drone duo. Seems these former folkie nomads have traded their knapsacks and peace pipes for distortion pedals and tube amps, not sure if it's for the better as we really loved the airy country atmospheres the old Headdress did so well. Lunes begins with a buzzing drone that lingers on and on as layers of tremolo organ and distant electric guitar creep in and out. The band have definitely dropped their Brightblack influence and instead traded it for other, heavier influences like Earth 2 or Nadja, not exactly a bad thing, though it seems their new droneyness is a bit flat and lacks the depth of other drone outfits. Their signature shoegazy, dreamy vocals don't appear until the third track, accompanied by a repetitive twangy riff that plods on and on into infinity, like watching the sun fall behind a never-ending horizon, definitely our favorite track on the album as it reflects what really makes this band unique in our eyes. Complete with trippy psychedelic artwork in a nice looking cd gatefold package, don't miss out on this slow burning drift into the golden summer sun.
MPEG Stream: "Seethrough"
MPEG Stream: "The Lost White Brother"

HEADDRESS Turquoise (Totem Songs) cd-r 11.98
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Formerly known as Worship (they released a small cd-r pressing under that moniker), the elusive group who now answer to the name Headdress continue their dusk lit creep through the enchanted wilderness. On Turquoise they craft a beautiful loosely woven tapestry of ivy-like guitar tendrils, lichen-encrusted percussion, solemn mossy male vocals that reside somewhere between Jandek and M. Ward. The album's fifth song "Babylon" sounds strangely like a deconstructed folk rendition of America's "Horse With No Name". Whether intentional or not, the glinting familiarity of the latter's central melody adds to the existing subtle hallucinatory atmosphere of the proceedings. The crowning jewel of rough hewn Turquoise though is the sixth track titled "Moon Of Shedding Ponies". It's a frayed, meditative instrumental populated with generous turns of a rainstick and what sounds like howling wolves or banshees.
If you dig the rustic, abstracted psych-folk sounds of Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice and the many bewitching branches of the Jewelled Antler Collective, don't miss this!
MPEG Stream: "Babylon"
MPEG Stream: "Moon Of Shedding Ponies"