Punk/Metal
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So Alone is the debut solo studio album by Johnny Thunders, then leader of The Heartbreakers and formerly lead guitarist for New York Dolls. Johnny Thunders released his debut solo studio album, So Alone in 1978. The album opens with a loud, spirited rendition of the Chantays' 1962 surf rock...
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The Ramones ignited the punk-rock movement with their eponymous 1976 debut album, revitalizing rock and roll at one of its lowest ebbs with attitude, energy and a loud, fast new sound. By cutting music down to its bare essentials – four chords; a simple, catchy melody; a sped up tempo...
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First ever reissue of Alternative TV's Action Time Vision, compiled in 1980 and featuring the group's 7-inches from 1977 to 1979. Including bonus track "You Bastard" and new liner notes by ATV singer Mark Perry, the founding editor of punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue. What Mark Perry says: "It wouldn't be...
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The Youth Are Getting Restless is a live album from Bad Brains, recorded at the Paradiso Theater in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1987 by the VPRO. The show was part of the band's I Against I tour. This reissue marks the sixth release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad...
$49.99
Compilation of classic tracks from across The Fall's career now available as a 3 x Vinyl set 140 gram white vinyl in a gatefold sleeve and featuring extensive sleeve notes....
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The Rough Trade Singles collects The Fall's four singles recorded for this influential label in 1980 and 1983 – How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' / City Hobgoblins, Totally Wired / Putta Block, The Man Whose Head Expanded / Ludd Gang and Kicker Conspiracy – none of which appeared on any...
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A fortieth anniversary edition of ‘...If I Die, I Die’, the 1982 debut studio album from Irish post-punkers Virgin Prunes. Produced by Wire lead singer Colin Newman, it was the sound of a feverishly creative yet inherently unstable unit pulling in many different directions but, somehow, making it...
$36.99
This collection of ten very classy sounding Balearic pop songs actually consists of unreleased material from 1989-1991, a fact you'd never have guessed from merely listening to it. Brenda is a UK based singer and producer, and during the 80s frontperson of Brenda and the Beachballs (whose 'Theme From A...
$49.99
Screaming suburban blues straight from the pages of HeartattaCk magazine, Current exploded out of the early-’90s Midwestern emo scene in a fit of D.C. 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...
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Hardcore punk band Turnstile returned in 2018 with their sophomore album, Time & Space. It includes the singles "Real Thing", "Generator", "Moon" and "I Don't Wanna Be Blind". This major label debut follows the success of their breakout record Nonstop Feeling. Time & Space features additional vocals from Sheer Mag's...
$24.99
Weird, enigmatic, and unarguably wonderful would be three ways to describe the names that have been brought together on this reissue of part of a compilation series that first landed on cassette via the VP231 imprint as the 1980s got into gear. A collector's item in the truest sense, Alternative...
$44.99
In celebration of its 40th anniversary, The Slits' landmark debut album, Cut, is being reissued on 180g vinyl LP via Island Records. Overseen by reggae producer Dennis Bovell, Cut was originally released in September 1979 and remains one of the post-punk era's most seminal releases. The record gained instant notoriety...
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Brand new edition of Soul Jazz Records’ massive deluxe 400-page Punk 45s cover art book edited and compiled by Jon Savage (author of the seminal book on punk, England’s Dreaming) and Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records). This new edition comes with a new introduction from Bobbie Gillespie, founder...
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Carla dal Forno resurfaces with the news of plans to release her third album, Come Around, via her own Kallista Records imprint. Now, based in the township of Castlemaine, Central Victoria, the Australian artist returns self-assured and firmly settled within the dense eucalypt bushlands. Dal Forno grapples with ideas of...
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Legendary Tacoma, Washington mathcore/hardcore/metal band Botch’s second and final full-length album We Are the Romans was originally released in 1999 to critical acclaim, eventually becoming one of the most ground-breaking and influential albums during a pivotal shift in heavy music. The special re-issue of their seminal album includes new...
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FUGAZI’s beloved Margin Walker recorded in December of 1988. Six tracks—”Margin Walker,” “And The Same,” “Burning Too,” “Provisional,” “Lockdown,” and “Promises.”...
$36.99
Repress on blue vinyl. Comprehensive compilation of this seminal mid-seventies U.K. band featuring Epic Soundtracks, Nikki Sudden, Richard Earl and Jowe Head. 'International Rescue' includes various 7"s, songs from their albums plus unreleased tracks, new mixes and previously unreleased material. The Swell Maps were influential for U.S. bands like Minutemen,...
$99.99
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 L.A. rock as it actually was: a California cataclysm of drunk and horny headbangers, dressed in sharp, shiny, leather androgyny and fire, kicking crowds in...
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The Chameleons (arguably the best band to come out of Manchester) with their critically acclaimed classic third album, Strange Times. Recorded on the legendary Geffen label, it sees the band’s atmospheric post punk anthems with soaring guitars and driving rhythms at...
$32.99
The landmark, debut album from Queens of the Stone Age is back in print for the first time in 10 years, restored to its original sequence with the original, long out-of-print artwork by Frank Kozik. Featuring obi-strip designed by longtime collaborator Boneface and pressed on standard black and limited-edition Opaque...
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This seminal, eponymous post-punk album by Japanese group Aunt Sally, fronted by experimental singer Phew, was first released by the iconic Vanity Records label in 1979. Over the past forty-plus years, Phew has forged a singular path through a wide range of styles - from free improvisation to...
$34.99
Out-of-print for nearly a decade, POISON IDEA's landmark 1986 debut album RETURNS in all its well-deserved glory. TKO could not be more delighted to FINALLY be able to present this newly remasterd edition of Kings Of Punk: inarguably one of the most important Hardcore Punk LPs of all time. AND...for...
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A slightly more experimental Swans album that still has its roots in their industrial sound. Atmospheric and uncomfortable to listen to, but a must for those who really like extremely heavy industrial music or those who like dense atmosphere and tone, as this album will appeal quite a bit.
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$36.99
Emotional Rescue returns to what it does best by unearthing musical gems of the British post punk scene with a double pack compilation of Bristol’s short lived Recreational Records. Teaming up with Bristol Archive Records, 10 songs are remastered, reissued and cut loud for DJs and collectors. What is most...
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Art-funk pioneering siblings ESG’s 2002 ‘come-back’ album returns on vinyl to celebrate 33 1/3 years of Fire LPs. Originally issued some 20 odd years after their massively sampled DJ ’s favourite, Come Away With ESG album, this one catches the Scroggins sisters barely changed from their original sound, still dealing...
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Husker Du really hit its stride on this sprawling 1984 release. Zen Arcade established the band as one of the leading lights on the American indie scene. The 23 songs are loosely linked to a narrative structure about a young man who leaves home, only to discover the world to...
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2022 marks 20 years since the passing of the legendary Joe Strummer. While best known as the frontman for The Clash, between 1999-2002 Strummer produced some of his most exciting work alongside The Mescaleros.
Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years is...
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In the late '70s Greg Sage formed his punk rock band Wipers. Even though most of his devoted fans consider it a trajesty that his name isn't as known as the bands that were inspired by him (Nirvana a.o), the misunderstood and underrated musician was happy to remain in the...
$34.99
"A collection of amazing recordings made for the BBC by the almighty Slits at the peak of their power. Ranging from the DIY punk sound they helped shape in their beginnings to more experimental tracks on the later recording this record is an absolute delight to anybody even remotely...
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The first ever vinyl collection that includes all the collectable 7” singles from this amazing Dutch Power Pop / New Wave band. The collection not only compiles all three Dutch only 7” singles released between 1980-1981 but also unreleased studio recordings from the same period. De Cylinders feature a 6-piece...
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Russian Circles latest album, Gnosis, eschews the varied terrain of their past work and bulldoze a path through the most tumultuous and harrowing territory of their sound. As was the case for so many artists in the age of COVID, the obstacles of geography and isolation forced Russian Circles to...
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Reissue. Originally recorded for a radio broadcast in Holland in 1983 in front of a very selected audience (ten in all), Total Sound represents a great snapshot of Sad Lovers and Giants live on stage. Here the band, caught just before the split, delivers an outstanding performance based on a...
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Punk-rap spearhead Wu-Lu reps for South London in ’22 with a strong debut album, proper, for Warp after making waves with his self-releases and drops on CURL and Touching Bass.
Hailing from a fecund scene south of the Thames, Wu-Lu naturally weaves influences ranging from punk rock and rap to jungle...
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There’s a sick irony to how a country that extols rhetoric of individual freedom, in the same gasp, has no problem commodifying human life as if it were meat to feed the insatiable hunger of capitalism. If this is American nihilism taken to its absolute zenith, then God’s Country, the...
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In this time of strife, insanity and confusion, only one band is depraved enough to offer themselves up as herald. Like sin-eaters if sins had to be ingested from a very small spoon, Viagra Boys have consumed the utterly incomprehensible chaos of our era and distilled it into 12 immaculate...
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Pelican’s debut album Australasia, originally released in late 2003 by Hydra Head Records, is a landmark record in the shifting tides of heavy music that took place at the turn of the millennium. 20 years since its release and with several sold out represses, Australasia is a proven essential for...
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Founded in Australia by Michigan native, guitarist Deniz Tek and vocalist Rob Younger, Radio Birdman was one of the crucial forebears of underground, high-energy punk. Blending the Motor City sound of bands like The Stooges and MC5 that permeated Tek’s youth, with elements of surf-rock, Radio Birdman developed a sound...
$42.99
They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top is the first installment of the new Liars reissue series, where every two months an album from the back catalog will be released on limited edition recycled color vinyl. The campaign kicks off with Liars’ debut album,...
$27.99
INVALID's cassette-only debut, Do Not Resuscitate, came out on their hometown label Cruel Noise Records early in 2020 and, for me, it was love at first listen. Invalid plays hardcore in the tradition of Black Flag’s Damaged, deploying sophistication and craft not to show off, but as tools that allow...
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Expanded version of the classic 1984 third album by legendary punk/blues band The Gun Club. This super deluxe edition includes a second LP featuring Live at Scorgie's 1984, recorded live in Rochester, NY. The package also includes a limited-time download card for the never-before-seen video 1984 Home Movie: The Gun...
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London three piece black midi present their third album, Hellfire. Written in isolation in 2021 almost immediately after its predecessor, black midi pick up right where they left off. Building on the melodic and harmonic elements of Cavalcade, and expanding on the brutality and intensity of their debut (Schlagenheim), Hellfire...
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A journey to the center of tinnitus and inebriation! TJSA's debut album caterwauled like a drunk banshee through the final decade of the most prosperous century on Planet Earth. A local rock band that conquered the world in its own modest fashion, Bait And Switch perfected a homegrown approach to...
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Soon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno-produced No New York, a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance’s group Contortions had already evolved—getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster. Despite the loss of keyboardist Adele Bertei and bassist Geoge Scott (who refused to sign a new...
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The legend of CRIME looms large among punk aficionados the world over. Formed in the mid-1970s, the band’s dual-guitar sound, confrontational image and sleazed methodology still serve as inspiration decades later. With only a handful of singles released during their active lifespan, CRIME’s legacy grew significantly as archival recordings began...
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London three piece black midi present their third album, Hellfire. Written in isolation in 2021 almost immediately after its predecessor, black midi pick up right where they left off.
Building on the melodic and harmonic elements of Cavalcade, and expanding on the brutality and intensity of their debut (Schlagenheim), Hellfire is their most thematically cohesive and intentional album yet....
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Exploding onto the scene with a handful of releases behind them, Pere Ubu’s ‘The Modern Dance’ stunned the music world and quickly began appearing on ‘Most Influential’ album lists. "Pere Ubu originally formed as a studio project drawing on a body of musicians who were involved in the Cleveland underground...
$22.99
FINALLY REISSUED!!! The long gone 8th album by the all time greatest DIY rock n roll band DEAD MOON is back in print after more than 20 years. Carefully remastered and featuring new artwork!!!
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Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Micro-Phonies’, as originally remastered in 2013, now reissued on Turquoise vinyl. ‘Micro-Phonies’ is Cabaret Voltaire’s most sleek dance record, featuring charting singles ‘James Brown’ and ‘Sensoria’. Released in 1984, the record gained its reputation as the Cabs’ most mainstream album. Their partnership with Peter Care on video for...
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