Captain Beyond - Self-Titled (Fontana/Island) CD $10.00
Listen: Myopic Void • Thousand Days of Yesterdays
Saturday Shift: First CD in the player today ain't new in any way, shape or form, but a proverbial blast from the past in the form of proggy, early-'70s supergroup Captain Beyond (featuring members of Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple), which has been totally frying our mynds in recent weeks. Maybe it's the heat (or the humidity) but we've been pleasantly overwhelmed by CB's baroque guitar-rock alchemies, symptoms include glassy eyes and shit-eating grins. [more detail]

Mary Onettes – Dare CD5 $6.50
Sleepy Sun – Embrace CD $12.75
Spectrum – War Sucks CD5 $9.00
Legends – Over & Over CD $12.25
The Clean – Mashed [live] CD $12.25
Ganglians – Monster Head Room CD $12.00
Among the Oak & Ash – Self-Titled CD $12.25

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David Kilgour & Sam Hunt - Falling Debris (Arch Hill)
CD $12.25 Listen: Chord • Every Time It Rains Like This
Our New Zealand shipment has arrived. New 2009 album by NZ Rock Godfather Dave Kilgour (The Clean, amongst others) find him paired up with Kiwi poet laureate Sam Hunt. Hunt supplies the lyrics and Kilgour the voice and tunes, backed breezily by his band, The Heavy Eights. There’s a hint of Dylan, of Lloyd Cole and even some Go-Betweens déjà vu. An excellent addition to Kilgour’s previous solo work, ie: effortlessly dreamy folk-pop. [more detail]

Died Pretty - Free Dirt [expanded re-issue] (Aztec Music)
DCD $25.00 Listen: Blue Sky Day • Ambergris
Finally restocked! One of the all time classic Australian indie albums. Sydney jangle-rockers Died Pretty's magnificent 1986 debut in deluxe, expanded form, adds three early singles, the Next To Nothing EP and ten unreleased demos/live tracks. Expect fiery, cinematic guitar-n-organ rock frosted in psychedelia; of the 80s, but as urgent and grand today as it was 20+ years ago. For fans and era explorers alike. [more detail]

Pelican – Ephemeral LP $13.50
Chocolat – Self-Titled CD $11.75
Sonic Youth – Eternal CD $13.25
Joan of Arc – Flowers CD $12.50
Love Is All – Covers EP 12” $9.50
Quest for Fire – Self-Titled CD $13.00
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca CD $12.50
Liechtenstein – Survival Strategy CD $10.00
Illinois - The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe CD
Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange CD5 $7.50

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White Swan Black Swan - Self-Titled (Arch Hill)
DCD $12.25 Listen: Zona Rosa • Super 8 Movies
Our New Zealand shipment has arrived. First up, a pair of mini-albums from White Swan (Sonya Waters) and Black Swan (Arch Hill label honcho Ben Howe) that slink and sway through a slew of echoing neo-folk and lambent psychedelia, bringing to mind Mazzy Star, The Triffids (truly), Nick Cave and even our own Horse's Ha. Highly recommended. [more detail]

Surf City - Self-Titled (Morr Music) CD5 $7.00
Listen: Headin' Inside
Special offer: The debut EP from the hottest new band in New Zealand at a special price. Surf City's spectacularly solarized noise-pop-drone brings to mind Classic Kiwi Sounds like The Chills and The Clean, with nods to Animal Collective, Jesus & Mary Chain, even the Zombies! Six songs. Made of awesome. Highly recommended. [more detail]

Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - When Sweet Sleep Returned
(Tee Pee) CD $15.00
Listen: Kolob Canyon • Two Stage Rocket
Mindbending: The latest album from San Fran's best psych band, which could be the best throwback psych album of the year. Friendlier and more peaceful-eyed than Austin's Black Angels, more expansive and retro-fit than Frisco brethren Wooden Shjips, with just a touch of Crystal Antlers ferocity (more ferocious on previous album, Ekranoplan). [more detail]

Deastro – Moondagger CD $11.00
Sounds – Crossing the Rubicon CD $12.25
Träd Gräs och Stenar – Homeless Cats CD $16.25
Acid Mothers Temple – Are We Experimental CD $16.25
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Can’t Hear My Eyes 45 $4.25
St. Christopher - Lost at Sea: The Sarah Recordings CD $18.75

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The Coral Sea - Firelight (Red Clover) CD $10.00
Listen: More Than You Know • I Know You'll Find A Way
The Coral Sea gets their DIY on and self-releases the follow-up to their righteous 2006 Hidden Agenda release, Volcano & Heart. Led by the silver-voiced Rey Villalobos, The Coral Sea continues to attain and explore a gorgeous shoegaze-guitar apogee that finds them in the same rarified atmospheres as Mercury Rev, Slowdive, Sigur Ros and The Verve, with a dash of Pixies-styled bombast. [more detail]

Wand – Hard Knox CD $10.00
Viva Voce – Rose City CD $12.50
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest CD $12.25
Blank Dogs – Under & Under CD $14.25
Bachelorette – My Electric Family CD $13.25
Sunn0))) – Monoliths & Dimensions CD $13.50
Telescopes – Singles Compilation #2 CD $13.25
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix CD $12.25
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us CD $13.00

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Clues – Self-Titled CD $16.25
Passion Pit – Manners CD $13.25
Iron & Wine – Around the Well DCD $12.50
White Rabbits - It's Frightening CD $12.25
Curious Mystery – Rotting Slowly CD $11.50
Apostle of Hustle – Eats Darkness CD $15.25
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications CD $15.00
Bellini – The Precious Prize of Gravity CD+LP $12.25
Elfin Saddle – Ringing the Bell for the Begin Again CD $16.25
Various - The World's Lousy With Ideas Vol. 8 LP $17.00

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Comet Gain - Broken Record Prayers
(What's Your Rupture?) CD $12.75
Listen: Jack Nance Hair • Beautiful Despair
We’re not sure how we avoided falling in love with Comet Gain back in the day, when we really should have, but this collection of singles and odds-n-sods might be one of our favorite album of The Spring, The Year and then some; and makes us even more mortified that we’re jumping on this band’s wagon so very late. A collection of CG’s gloriously noisy pop recorded during the last decade, available on CD and now deluxe DLP vinyl in a gatefold Stoughton jacket. [more detail]

Bricolage – Self-Titled CD $14.25
Wooden Birds – Magnolia CD $12.00
The Church – Untitled #23 CD $13.75
Meat Puppets – Sewn Together CD $15.00
Mark Kozelek – Lost Verses Live CD $13.50
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – The Snake LP $17.75
Cats On Fire – Our Temperance Movement CD $12.25
The Projects – Word Of Love Broadcast In Code CD $13.25

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Frank Lenz - Strictly Background [OST] (Velvet Blue)
CD $13.75 Listen: God I Need a Map • Childhood Dreams
New This Week: Frank Lenz (Pedro the Lion, Starflyer 59, The Headphones, Richard Swift, Lassie Foundation, and esteemed solo artist) has out done himself this time! He wrote and performed the entire soundtrack to a feature film called Strictly Background. It's indie rock heart and soul and even funk with a glossy, polished production. Plenty of songs and loads of gorgeous filmscore-noir exotica. For fans of ELO, Flaming Lips, Elliot Smith, Stereolab... [more detail]

St. Vincent – Actor CD $13.25
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos 45 $4.75
Double Dagger – More CD $13.00
Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love CD $11.50
Hopewell – Good, Good Desperation CD $12.50
Vaselines – Enter the Vaselines [retrospective] DCD $15.00
Connor Oberst & Mystic Valley Band – Outer South CD $14.00
Nick Cave+Bad Seeds [expanded re-issues] CD+DVD $16.25

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Akron Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Dead Oceans)
CD $11.50 Listen: Everyone Is Guilty • They Will Appear
Mega- and meta- indie-prog fancifulness that somehow manages to evoke questions like “Primus?”, "Fela Kuti?", "Tortoise?" and “Queen?” while retaining good ol’ American guitar rock grit-n-bluster and a Sly hipswinging funk…all in the first song! We could fill the page with name-dropping but suffice it to say the genre-defying Family has filled the proverbial kitchen sink with proverbial kitchen sinks. [more detail]

Thee Oh Sees – Help CD $14.25
Bardo Pond – Peri LP+CD $21.50
Ape School – Self-Titled CD $15.25
Woods – Songs of Shame CD $12.00
Crocodiles – Summer of Hate CD $15.00
The Disciplines – Smoking Kills CD $13.00
Sweet Trip – You Will Never Know Why CD $12.25

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Okkervil River – Pop Lie CD5 $3.50
Pterodactyl – Worldwild CD $11.50
Black Kids – Wizard of Ahhhs 10” $6.75
Radiohead - vinyl re-issues… 12" $12.75
Andrew Bird & Loney Dear – Split 45 $4.75
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career CD $11.50
Kurt Vile & The Violators – Hunchback EP CD5 $12.25
Dukes Of Stratosphear – 25 O'Clock [expanded] CD $16.25
Dukes Of Stratosphear – Psonic Psunspot [expanded] CD $16.25

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Wooden Shjips - Dos (Holy Mountain)
CD $13.50 Listen: For So Long • Motorbike
Frisco psych-juggernaut Wooden Shjips (the j is there to smoke, I gather) for gets their mezmer on and their mantra ohm; infusing their quasi-terrestrial zoom- trance- kraut- drone-rock with a groove as oiled and coiled as cobras. Dos maybe ain't as heavy as their slew of singles previous, but the whole cosmic trip is evolved to a point where your glad the songs are so stark and serrated. [more detail]

Metric – Fantasies CD $13.75
Fire On Fire – Orchard CD $13.50
Silversun Pickups – Swoon CD $13.75
The Life & Times – Tragic Boogie CD $13.50
Life On Earth – Space Water Loop CD $16.25
The Handsome Family – Honey Moon CD $11.50
Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want CD $14.25
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle CD $12.50
Sun City Girls - Napoleon & Josephine: Singles Vol. 2 CD $15.00

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Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio (Fonal)
CD $15.00 Listen: Mulberg • Riddarholmen
Jim's Scandinavian Pick: The follow-up to their kaleidoscopic debut... Helsinki's Shogun Kunitoki do instrumental strobe-prog and lambent psychedelia on antique synths, electronics and a classic drum set (or two). A sound by which all other instrumental strobe-prog-psych-rock shall be judged. A searing shower of cosmic rays, an icy drift of diamonds, a mystical kraut of rock. [more detail] Vinyl version is a picture disc that when played and viewed under a 10 hertz strobelight offers multiple animation loops.

Grails – Acid Rain DVD $14.25
Doves – Kingdom of Rust CD $15.25
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns CD $15.00
Thermals – Now We Can See CD $14.25
Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean CD $11.50
Superchunk – Leaves in the Gutter CD5 $7.25
Arcade Fire – Mirror Noir [deluxe 2 disc] DVD $24.00
Antony & The Johnsons – Epilepsy Is Dancing CD5 $5.50

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Crystal Antlers - Tentacles (Touch & Go) CD $12.50
Listen: Andrew
After a brilliant debut EP Crystal Antlers return with another potent dose of high-energy psych-soul squall, fuzz pedals set to stun, Sexual Chocolate in full-effect. Echoing soul-psych epiphanies, where every measure is crescendo and climax; favoring acid-fried melodies over outright noise-for-noise-sake. A righteous kicking-out-of-the-jams going on here; think Stooges, Union Carbide Productions, Les Savy Fav, Comets On Fire, Wooden Shjips and A Place To Bury Strangers. [more detail]

Crystal Stilts – Love Is A Wave 45 $4.25
Adam Franklin – Spent Bullets CD $16.25
Pansy Division – That’s So Gay CD $15.25
Peter Bjorn & John – Living Thing CD $15.25
Interbellum - Over All of Spain the Sky is Clear CD $5.50
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Young Adult Friction 45 $4.25
PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By CD $15.00

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Fever Ray - Self-Titled (Mute) CD $15.25 Sale: $14.00
Listen: If I Had A Heart • When I Grow Up
Solo opus from Karin Dreijer of acclaimed Swedish sibling duo The Knife (and prior to that indie-rockers Honey Is Cool). Minus brother Olaf, Karin’s Fever Ray has excised The Knife’s campy, dance vibes and stitched up those incisions with the eeriest, most alluring/repellant electro-psych intimacies this side of Xiu Xiu, with her trademark androgynous and schizophrenic vocals as spectral and otherworldly as anything in her career. [more detail]