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05/31/2026

Been a great first week NYC, thanks for having us. Who should play at the shop next?

05/30/2026

Was anyone here alive during that time when grunge killed hair metal?

Who were the bands everyone in the scene knew, but the rest of the country never heard of? The Unwound, Fugazi, Hated, or pre-Nevermind Nirvana of ‘80s Los Angeles hair-metal?

Bound for Hell: On the Sunset Strip documents the earlier, weirder, more underground version of the L.A. glam scene, the bands that existed before hair metal became an MTV product. Artists that were trying pyrotechnics at clubs on the Strip but never quite got to do them on the big stage.

Long-haired kids congregated in parking lots, living for s*x, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. Ditching school and driving around sunny SoCal with powder under their noses drinking beer with KLOS and KMET cranked up. Movies like River’s Edge, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, and later Detroit Rock City made it seem like an entire generation spent their youth bouncing between house parties, record stores, and questionable life decisions, but this collection makes it seem like that’s how it really was.

Bound for Hell captures that early ’80s L.A. world as it actually was: drunk and h***y headbangers in shiny leather and fire, kicking through crowds to claim their one big shot. It captured an era that was hard to describe unless you were there. Some of the bands were big around Los Angeles, others barely escaped their neighborhood, but luckily the 144 page book captured all of the hair spray, leopard print, and drawn on tattoos from the era. The book also traces the strange interconnected web of musicians who bounced between bands and somehow stayed relevant long after the scene collapsed. For example, Black ‘n Blue’s Tommy Thayer eventually landed a two-decade run in KISS.

And just as a teaser, not a spoiler, my favorite story involves a 1984 performance at the Roxy. During Bitch’s “Be My Slave,” where Betsy “Bitch” Weiss dragged a fan onstage, put him on a leash, hypnotized him, and had him crawling around the stage, a real-life inversion of Spinal Tap’s satirical mockery. Honestly, more bands should consider adding a hypnotist to their lineup.

When you don’t have all of the CDs in time for announce day so you make do...Today we are announcing the third chapter i...
05/12/2026

When you don’t have all of the CDs in time for announce day so you make do...Today we are announcing the third chapter in the Magnolia CD Bundle which includes Codeine’s Dessau, Headsparks by Seam and Macha Loved Behead, Bedhead Loved Macha.

NUM900: Codeine - Dessau
After the success of Codeine’s Frigid Stars LP, the trio of Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, and Chris Brokaw booked time at Harold Dessau Recording in June 1992 to track an eight-song sophomore album. A few days and a couple of unexplainable high-pitched frequencies later, the record was scrapped, shelved, and forgotten about. Brokaw left the band shortly after, and these songs were re-tracked in various iterations for Codeine’s final LP. On its 30th anniversary, we unearthed these recordings, restoring the original White Birch to the band’s exacting standards with producer Mike McMackin. A slowcore masterpiece hidden in plain sight.

NUM910: Seam - Headsparks
In the wake of Bitch Magnet and current of Superchunk, Sooyoung Park and Mac McCaughan formed a raw version of Seam in the summer of ’91. With bassist Lexi Mitchell, the trio banged out an album and two singles worth of shambolic dream pop in the sweltering Chapel Hill heat. Ten songs of talk-whispered vocals, sloshing guitar solos, scattered snare rolls, Velocity Girl’s Sarah Shannon, and the original version of Codeine’s slowcore classic “New Year’s,” on LP for the first time in 30 years.

NUM933: Macha Loved Bedhead – Bedhead Loved Macha
A eulogy to a band and a millennium, the year 2000’s collaborative Macha Loved Bedhead has been remastered from the original analog tapes and finally makes its way to the mother format. Recorded long distance by Wichita Falls-born brothers Matt and Bubba Kadane and Josh and Mischo McKay, this five-song, 34-minute EP combines gamelan, slowcore, and a cover of Cher’s “Believe” pecked out on a touch tone phone into a seamless meditation on life at the end of the American century.

Only available as a collection of 3 right now, but if we have any left over, we will put up individual CDs soon. And we’re always down to take requests for CDs you want to see in the next bundles so let us know.

Before emo really broke into the mainstream, they disbanded leaving behind two albums, a handful of singles, and a reput...
05/11/2026

Before emo really broke into the mainstream, they disbanded leaving behind two albums, a handful of singles, and a reputation that only grew with time. In 1997, four kids from Texas somehow ended up in meetings with the A&R teams behind Whitney Houston, 2Pac, and Eminem, fighting over a band whose biggest song sounded like a nervous breakdown wrapped in feedback.

Mineral always felt intensely private, like reading someone’s diary late at night. Their music wasn’t polished catharsis, it was messy and chaotic. Chris Simpson’s voice cracked through songs about shame, faith, love and loneliness, while the band built towering walls of distortion underneath him.

Their debut The Power of Failing remains one of the defining emo records of the time due to the rawness that perfectly matches its emotion. Full of beautiful guitars, aching melodies, and confessional lyrics, Mineral was a band that understood that vulnerability could and should be loud.

In 1998 they released EndSerenading, a more reflective collection of songs that was recorded with Mark Trombino before the band broke up. The album traded some of the desperate urgency for atmosphere and restraint, however it still unfolded like a slow-motion emotional collapse.

About to pawn his guitar for rent money, Edward Larry Gordon heard an inner voice stop him. In a split-second he walked ...
05/09/2026

About to pawn his guitar for rent money, Edward Larry Gordon heard an inner voice stop him. In a split-second he walked out with an autoharp and a new name. That was the birth of Laraaji and the moment an overlooked folk instrument got launched into another dimension.

Laraaji ripped off the chord bars, dismantling its rules, rejecting its folk-song limitations in favor of open pentatonic, modal, and meditative tunings shaped by his piano background. His next step was electrifing it. He added DeArmond pickups, MXR Phase 90s and Electro-Harmonix phasers, he used drumsticks, chopsticks, mallets, brushes, and even prepared-string techniques inspired by John Cage. The autoharp became less of an instrument and more of a portal.

What emerged were shimmering drones, metallic rhythms, trance-inducing vibrations, and a completely new sonic language forged on the streets of Washington Square Park and inside deep states of meditation. Laraaji created a space where listeners didn’t just hear the music, they entered it.

Laraaji’s story explores the idea that transformation sometimes arrives disguised as intuition. The breakthrough isn’t always in forcing the plan forward, sometimes it’s in following the strange pull sideways, beyond self-consciousness, toward something cosmic.

Brushed drums, meditative guitars, Rhodes piano, hushed vocals, and melodies that drift slowly and intimately - The Amer...
05/08/2026

Brushed drums, meditative guitars, Rhodes piano, hushed vocals, and melodies that drift slowly and intimately - The American Analog Set refined a sound that is entirely their own. From the warm pulse of “Punk as F**k” to the hypnotic calm of “Know By Heart,” the understated glow of Promise of Love, and the textured evolution of Set Free, these records remain a masterclass in subtlety, patience, and atmosphere.

After over two years in the making, it’s finally here: Destroy Destroy Destroy, the complete second chapter from the band. This 6xLP boxset collects Know By Heart, Promise of Love, Set Free, the Everything Ends in Spring EP, plus two additional discs of singles, B-sides, alternate versions, and outtakes from their dreamy post-Y2K era. Wrapped up with a 36-page booklet filled with photos, handwritten notes, and archival ephemera, this boxset captures the world this band has built through their music.

Listen now to Last Time Here, a live companion piece to The Album Leaf’s One Day I’ll Be On Time era. A time where Jimmy...
05/07/2026

Listen now to Last Time Here, a live companion piece to The Album Leaf’s One Day I’ll Be On Time era. A time where Jimmy LaValle’s early-2000s sound blurred its post-hardcore roots into something softer, lonelier, and deeply reflective. The live recordings drift between delicate droning guitars, fuzzy synths and driving beats as memories fade into the atmosphere. The Deluxe edition includes both One Day I’ll Be On Time and Last Time here, available for pre-order now and ships later this month.

DAHLIA SEED: NOW ON NUMERO New Jersey’s Dahlia Seed existed for just four years between 1992 and 96, but left behind a b...
05/06/2026

DAHLIA SEED: NOW ON NUMERO

New Jersey’s Dahlia Seed existed for just four years between 1992 and 96, but left behind a body of work that still feels seismic. A band shaped by chaos and commitment, mid-tour breakdowns, canceled shows, blown-out voices, and songs written bi-coastally between New York and Seattle, they pushed forward like true DIY lifers until their final, sold-out farewell at Maxwell’s in Hoboken.

Survived By is their defining statement. Recorded in just three days at Studio Red in Philadelphia running on no sleep, cheap food, and pure adrenaline, the album captures everything that made Dahlia Seed singular. Their explosive dynamics, towering guitars, and songs that somehow stay melodic no matter how hard they hit were perfected with this collection of songs.

Without ever losing intensity, the center of the band sees singer Tracy Wilson using her voice as a commanding and unfiltered tool, shifting from a scream to something almost serene in a split second. Her lyrics are sharp, minimal, and unforgettable, etched into the songs as much as the riffs themselves.

Later that year, the band released Please Excuse All the Blood post-breakup, collecting singles, live recordings and unreleased tracks including their final sessions as a band offering a wider view of a band that never quite fit into one label but all of them—punk, indie rock, hardcore, emo, at once.

If you missed this run of Everyone Asked About You shows (or dropped any of the pictured objects while stage diving/crow...
05/05/2026

If you missed this run of Everyone Asked About You shows (or dropped any of the pictured objects while stage diving/crowd surfing), fear not, we’ve added the tour exclusive run of Never Leave CDs to the site. Anyone missing half a shoe?

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