January brings another great batch of new vinyl from Thrill Jockey Records.  The first new one is “Sahel Folk” from Sidi Touré.  Here you’ll find more of the amazing music that has been coming out of Mali lately (think Amadou & Miriam).  I really like this direction for the label, and this album is beautiful.  [...]

Monster Rally gets giant love around here, but that should be obvious (he released a tape on our label awhile back).  Fresh from Gold Robot Records, his new “Coral” LP is sounding as awesome as anything he’s done.  The “tropical Madlib” continues to serve up 2-3 minute blasts of sample-heavy sunburn peel.  This one comes [...]

It seems like it’s been awhile since we covered any Stones Throw releases, but let’s be clear, they’ve still been cranking out the goods.  First up in the new batch is the “Psych Funk Sa-Re-Ga!” compilation from the always-impressive World Psychedelic Classics crew (they’re also behind the Psych Funk 101 and Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas [...]

Portland two-piece Brainstorm just dropped a brand new 7″ packed with infectious energy.  “Beast In The Sky” collects two songs full of pop experimentation, giving slight nods to everything from African Highlife to progressive rock.  This is a little bit like a heavier Vampire Weekend record (especially the b-side), only not as played out.  You [...]

Now-Again just dug up more amazing old music to reissue.  Rikki Ililonga & Musi-O-Tunya’s “Dark Sunrise” collects three albums by the godfather of “Zamrock”, a Zambian genre full of nods to funk, psych, and pop.  The set comes with three LPs, each an exact reproduction of an important Ililonga album (Wings of Africa, Zambia, and [...]

Hmmm… this is interesting. So while Numero Group was working on tracking down tunes for a new compilation they are working out – featuring “Chicago-by-way-of-Puerto Rico Salsa, Latin funk, Guaguanco, Guajira, Merengue, Bolero, and Rumba” – they happened across a storage spaced filled with 152 copies each of 12 different original 45s from the Ebirac [...]

There’s a brand new slab of wax from dub-drone master Forest Swords up for preorder.  If you’re not already listening to Mr. Swords religiously, get on it, it’s pretty amazing shit (check out the video below).  The new “Rattling Cage / Hjurt” two-song 7″ is limited to 300 copies and will cost you £5.   There’s [...]

Does what it says on the tin. Insound has tons of records, you have lots of empty shelf space. If you don’t, then you need to buy some new shelves and place an order at Insound where the entire store is 15% off for an entire week using coupon code “swjune15″ – insound.com.

Timely reissue of this classic joint from ’74. What the world needs now more than anything is more spiritual Rastafarian music, and you can thank the folks at Dug Out for pulling this record out of obscurity and into the light where it belongs. It’s hard to argue with the writeup from Honest Jon’s (they [...]

The final word from Torsten Profrock producing as T++, and now leaving the highly respected moniker behind. A double pack of 12″ vinyl on the always reliable Honest Jon’s imprint out of England; four lengthy electronic tracks that defy sub-categorization. What we do know is that the breakbeats are “shot through with the contorted samples [...]