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Loitering on the same Berkeley streets that birthed Green Day, Operation Ivy, and Crimpshrine, Pot Valiant (AKA Vagrants) developed their own style of Gilmangaze in the early-’90s Compiled here are the band’s Lookout and Sunny Sindicut 7”s, Transaudio LP, comp tracks, and three previously unissued songs Remastered from the... -
The next installment of our "Eccentric" single LP compilation series, in the same style as our Eccentric Funk and Eccentric Disco releases A simple digestable run-down of our favorite genre specific tracks Eccentric Deep Soul by...
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Queer tweemo from the pop fringe of Little Rock, Arkansas’s thriving ’90s DIY scene Paper Airplanes, Paper Hearts gathers Everyone Asked About You’s complete recorded works, including the Let's Be Enemies LP and their two and a half 7"s released between 1997-2000 Remastered from the original DATs for maximum nostalgic...
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"An antidote to the tough-guy hardcore spreading from CBGB’s, emo outliers Native Nod’s unique genre juxtaposition of damaged art-rock, daring/naive songwriting, and raw, poetic vocals have set them apart from the glut of early-’90s...
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Silver Vinyl Real people music recorded at a Quaker Boarding school in the mid-'70s Mixing soft psych, vocal jazz, and sunshine soul, Shira Small and her high school music teacher Lars Clutterham created a peerless artifact of outsider magic Imagination, wonder, the existential dread of Vietnam and math class and getting...
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Jimmy Jam Harris was just 16 when he began writing and arranging for Minneapolis 11-piece Mind & Matter Boasting a perfectly calibrated vocal quartet, an aggressive rhythm section, and stacks of Rhodes, Rolands, and Hammonds, the danceable act failed to win favor with frigid Midwest audiences Tracked in 1977, this bundle of...
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Following on the somnambulant heels of When I See The Sun, our massive, near-complete Codeine overview, comes What About The Lonely, an eight-track LP recorded at the group’s live zenith Captured direct from the mixing board at a stop on Codeine’s November 1993 swing through the Midwest, opening for Mazzy Star, this document...
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Northern soul floor fillers of the Eccentric variety Compiling 17 handpicked gems from across the Numeroverse, this album keeps the faith for both newcomers and veterans alike Soaring vocals, driving beats, and syrupy strings… expect a blend of classic Motown-inspired sounds with a unique British flair that is sure to get your...
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The only album to soundtrack both late-‘70s Minneapolis lounges and a Travis Scott x Dior fashion show Recorded in a host of living rooms with only a Fender Rhodes piano, a Donca Matic Mini Pops drum machine, and Senrick’s wide-eyed, 20-year-old voice, the 1977 LP disappeared into the wild and joined the Wendigo in Minnesota...
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Three years we told the world about Columbus, Ohio’s secret soul history, Numero returned to the scene of the crime for further exploration Victim: Clem Price and George Beter’s no-rep custom studio Harmonic Sounds and its Prix imprint Built around a few stray boxes of demos, including Penny & the Quarters’...
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Fueled by the financial drippings of number runners and boosted by Hall-of-Fame running back Jim Brown, Cleveland, Ohio’s Way Out Records offered asylum for a rising crop of rogue soul men, rust-belt vocal ensembles, and trial-by-fire producers Helmed by a friendly consortium of hustlers, police officers, and gridiron giants,...
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The 20th volume of our flagship Eccentric Soul series has all the boxes checked: Gun-toting, skip-tracing record producers, child stars, rip-offs, the “World’s Greatest Bail Bondsman,” swindles, soaring falsettos, and a dwindling rust-belt cityscape offering mere glimpses of hope before the record industry escaped for the...
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"Recorded in various basements and professional studios around Chicago between 1980 and 1984, the Apart Demos documents 12 intimate and stripped-down sketches, demos and unreleased tracks by Andre Gibson and the Universal Togetherness Band as they pivoted to solo careers From heartfelt tributes to lovers adorned by a silky...
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A new denim jacket, just in time for Spring The tenth volume of Numero’s elaborately packaged Cabinet of Curiosities series, L80s finds the group exploring the far-flung corners of the global downtempo underground This 12-song mix tape weaves icy hot coldwave, Sausalito seafood jazz, Glaswegian goth, makeshift Madonna,...
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Even in this age of near-total Internet accessibility, Charlie Megira is a modern mystery A casual search turns up little aside from a few cryptic articles His brief career unfolded during a changing of the guard in the music industry, opening on the death of the compact disc and ending just prior to Spotify’s IPO For an artist...
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While Duster went into hibernation in the year 2000, Clay Parton’s four-track never stopped rolling Recorded alone at home over several years, Birds To The Ground is an album of 30-something, post-9/11 malaise Under his Eiafuawn (Everything Is All Fucked Up And What Not) acronym Parton hides beneath layers of fuzzy and clean...
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Limited Northwind Splatter Vinyl Isolated at the rural fringe of Northern California, Bailey’s Nervous Kats took Shasta County by storm in the early ’60s Combining surf, rock n’ roll, exotica, and R&B, the Kats were a teenage dream draped in Magnatone amplifiers and crisp white polo tees Their self-titled—and...
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Known by genre aficionados as one of the greatest singers and most riveting stage presences in soul music, Jackie Shane has remained largely unknown outside Toronto, where her career briefly flowered in the 1960s Beyond her unmistakable gift of the gab, Shane is a pioneer of transgender rights, born in a male body but unabashedly...
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Teenage melancholy from the original Miami Sound Machine Backed by the infamous FAMU Marching 100 Band and Frank Williams’ crack shot players The Rocketeers, I Am Controlled By Your Love compiles sides from Helene Smith’s ’60s tenure with the Deep City, Lloyd, Reid, and Blue Star labels A sweltering album of 12 deeply...
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A tortured songwriter and struggling addict who jolted the tired Chicago DIY scene with his own brand of primal despair, Trey Gruber and his band Parent were on track to join the ranks of Twin Peaks, Mild High Club, and Whitney His death in 2017 at the age of 26 brought it all to a halt In his final years Trey wrote and recorded...
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Eventually crowned Queen of the Norfolk Sound, Barbara Stant was just a teenager when she auditioned for Shiptown impresario Noah Biggs in 1970 A dozen sides were tracked throughout the decade, producing a body of work that stretched from deep soul to northern soul to sister funk By 1978 disco was in overdrive, Noah Biggs...
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Whatever sense of unity bound a hodgepodge of underground American punk sounds in the 1990s like a Duct-tape wallet began to come unglued by the end of the decade A couple years into the new millennium and the emo scene that once had enough space for a band as brazen in their fusion of slowcore, jazz, and post-hardcore as...
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From the most affordable studio on Chicago’s west side comes a document of unknown and remarkably eccentric soul music, all produced in late-night sessions after day jobs and family dinners had ended With little more than a Hammond organ, a piano, and a two-track tape machine, Gene Cash's one-room enterprise quickly became a...
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In the past it’s been called Terminus, The Gate City Of The South, Dogwood City, The City Too Busy To Hate, more recently The ATL, and always Hotlanta But despite also being called the Black Mecca, Atlanta produced a relatively small batch of black records Citizens of the greater metropolitan area can tell you about...
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A '70s homemaker stuck between the studio and a getting dinner on the table, Joyce Street eked out an arresting countrypolitan discography in the margins of an otherwise traditional American life With lyrics drawn from the pages of her diary, Street's stirring Mississippi warble led her into the fly-by-night world of custom...
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Explore the Duster universe on the far superior 45RPM format This deluxe triple 7” box contains Duster’s first single—1997’s Transmission Flux (including “Stars Will Fall” & “Orbitron”), 1998’s Apex, Trance-Like (featuring “Four Hours”), plus Stratosphere’s painfully absent “Echo, Bravo” and the...
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Meeting at the halfway point between Bleach and Damaged, Unwound's 1995 self-titled album arrived years after the original trio of Vern Rumsey, Justin Trosper, and Brandt Sandeno made their Avast Studios debut Compiling their EPs for Kill Rock Stars and Gravity Records with five more session outtakes, Unwound was released on...
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With no less than a mansion, a state beach, and a three-mile stretch of Los Angeles road bearing his surname, Ned Doheny easy-glided into the 1970s on a crest of notoriety Signposting Ned’s sojourn through the LA recording industry were Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Chaka Khan, Graham Nash, “Mama” Cass Elliot,...
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As progenitor and contemptuous poster boy for the music that came to be Cosmic American, Gram Parsons found himself mired in a recording career spent mostly in scouting the perimeters of chart success “He hated country-rock,” Parsons collaborator Emmylou Harris would later reflect “He thought that bands like the Eagles were...
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As the hippie movement hurtled towards its imminent demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived...
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The diminutive Peter Barclay was that guy in early ’90s Oakland, the eccentric with the most style, the most talent, the local magician This self-taught musical wizard recorded at home and produced two barely-released albums, 1990’s dreamlike Acceptance and 1992’s synth pop What Kind Of World, winning over the few who heard...
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Chisel’s hook-laden 1997 swan song Set You Free presaged the turn of the century garage rock revival, surfacing in the purgatory between second-wave emo and Internet 20 Set You Free by...
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The definitive collection of Laraaji's earliest works, Segue To Infinity compiles his 1978 debut Celestial Vibration and six additional side-long studio sessions from previously unknown acetates from the same period Numero Group are thrilled to announce Segue To Infinity, a 4-LP boxed set containing the earliest-known...
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After Belgian electro-samba wunderkinds Antena split at the end of 1985, singer Isabelle Antena immediately shed her cold wave crown for a sophisticated pop princess tiara On 1986’s Martin Hayles-produced En Cavale, echos of Madonna and city pop abound, with a lipstick stain of L80s Euro dance and spilled cosmopolitan’s worth...
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Dusty, down-home country folk by west coast troubadour Allan Wachs - impossible, or at least dead expensive, to pick up 2nd hand - all treated to Numero’s faithful remastering and reproduction values “Cosmic American Music from the far flung reaches of rural Oregon Issued in 1979 on Allan Wachs’ own True Vine imprint,...
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Rex’s seminal 1996 sophomore album C, now on deluxe double vinyl for the first time Every one of C’s 66 minutes is a delightful exploration at the intersection of slowcore and alt-country, weaving heartfelt Americana, stately strings, progged-out rhythms and crashingly heavy climaxes into captivating epics Remastered from...
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Underground rock festered and splintered as it spread through the US in the mid-’90s, the alternative boom giving rise to microcosmic regional scenes singularly focused on feral powerviolence or screamo songs about breakfast Boston’s Karate emerged as a force that could grip a national youth movement whose disparate tastes...
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After a 19-year hiatus, Duster came back with their self-titled chef-d'oeuvre in 2019 Recorded in band member Clay Parton's garage (aka Low Earth Orbit), the record bears all the hallmarks of the band's early work: gaunt basslines, spindly guitars, and melancholy lyrics that lurk in the background Duster by...
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The bastard love child of Elvis and Lux Interior, Israeli guitarist Charlie Megira brewed a heady amalgam of ’50s trash rock, surf-y tremolo, and reverb-drenched goth during his all-too-brief 44 trips around the sun He recorded seven albums worth of material in 15 years, primarily issued on CD-R, most of which is now unreadable...
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Daddies don’t always come home for Christmas From the snow-covered plains of Wisconsin’s Driftless region to the palm-lined avenues of Los Angeles, the loneliness of the holidays is a universal theme, best expressed by tear-in-the-beer country music hopefuls Sung and strummed (and plucked) by an unlikely assortment of...
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"You and Me” by Penny & the Quarters simply refused to stay lost For 40 years, the song sat silent in a box of reels before heartthrob Ryan Gosling selected it to star in 2010's indie weeper Blue Valentine The power of the track set off an international treasure hunt in pursuit of the mysterious artists behind it Since then,...
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Draped in a flag of patriotic shame, the Hated stormed onto the scene just as DC’s Revolution Summer was swerving out of control Channeling Bad Brains’ Black thrash and Hüsker Dü’s zen approach to hardcore, Dan Littleton, Erik Fisher, Colin Meeder, and Mike Bonner synthesized their own version of what became emo in 1985...
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It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album jacket for best results Exotica! The soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden,...
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Screaming suburban blues straight from the pages of HeartattaCk magazine, Current exploded out of the early-’90s Midwestern emo scene in a fit of DC hardcore-inspired rage Spread across three LPs, Yesterday’s Tomorrow Is Not Today compiles the quartet’s lone album, two EPs, split 7"s with Indian Summer and Chino Horde,...
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At the turn of the century and after three albums, Karate’s tenure within the insular east coast indie rock scene had expired, but the band was just getting started Collected here is the band’s spacious, adventurous, and sometimes difficult second half presented in fastidious detail This five LP box includes the trio’s...
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At the turn of the century and after three albums, Karate’s tenure within the insular east coast indie rock scene had expired, but the band was just getting started Collected here is the band’s spacious, adventurous, and sometimes difficult second half presented in fastidious detail This five LP box includes the trio’s...
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Heavy metal Glam Hard rock Make your own fuckin' call, you poser We're not gonna do it for you Bound for Hell is early '80s LA rock as it actually was: a California cataclysm of drunk and horny headbangers, dressed in sharp, shiny, leather androgyny and fire, kicking crowds in the teeth to clear the way to that one big shot...
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Feral art rock from the gritty depths of ’90s Manhattan Japanese-Italian guitar symphonies for 120 Minutes refugees and Keith Haring enthusiasts alike Blonde Redhead’s self-titled 1995 debut, in print as a definitive single LP for the first time since… ever “These songs combine a raw need, a ready access to neediness,...
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