EYE WEOOEM (P.A.M.) book 14.98
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Okay, Bore-fanatics, we only have a handful of these and we will NOT be getting more. A brand new book of original art from Boredoms frontman Eye Yamataka, in the style of the graphics of all the many Boredoms and related (UFO or Die, DJ Hellshit & MC Carhouse, DJ Pica Pica Pica etc.) releases over the years. All the colorful, splattery, scribbly, chaotic collaged weirdness we've come to love! It's kinda like children's art, by a very punk rock little kid, on drugs. Eye's "Bore Flag" logo is a repeated motif. Released through Australian imprint P.A.M., these are gorgeous full color 36 page perfect bound books, 5 1/2" by 8 1/2", quite cool. And again: EXTREMELY LIMITED. Once this batch is gone, they are gone for good!

F.T.Y.K.P. Number Five magazine 4.50
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Awesome local black metal zine from the folks in Bone Awl. This is seriously grim, cult, underground shit. The name of the zine alone should give you your first clue, an acronym for Fall To Your Knees Pissing. Oof. Loads of amazing interviews, bleak and nihilistic and bizarre, including tons of bands you've never heard but probably need to! Bands featured include Pest (from Germany), Ashdautus, Goatlord, Nuit Noire, Vpaahsalbrox, Finnish black metallers Dead Reptile Shrine (the weirdest black metal band ever, whose records are out of print, but we are trying desperately to track down, even if it means re-releasing it ourselves!), Tudor from the Czech Republic, a bunch of record reviews and even a cool little Goatlord photocopied poster style insert!

FAHEY, JOHN How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life (Drag City) book 19.98
Wow. A whole book of "stories" from a man known not just for his inventive guitar prowess but for the, uh, imaginative liner notes he often provides his releases with. From true tales of an unusual musician's unusual life to possibly more fictional ancedotes, Fahey's style is a mixture of ranting and humor and surreal insight. In other words, a must-read! 191 pages, softbound.

FELDMAN, MORTON Give My Regards To Eighth Street: Collected Writings Of Morton Feldman (Exact Change) book 15.95

FERRIS, D.X. 33 1/3 Series: Reign In blood (Continuum) book 10.95
We've only read the first half so far, but c'mon, it's Reign In Blood, one of the greatest thrash metal records ever. And music obsessives, you should already be reading this series, up close and intimate looks at not bands, but your favorite records, interviews with the bands, the fans, and all sorts of awesome behind the scenes drama!
Anyway, Reign In Blood is still an amazing record two decades later, and metal bands are still finding influence there, some WAY more than others.
This volume digs deep into maybe the most influential 29 minutes of metal EVER. Interviews with the bands, the producers, the engineers, the roadies, and most interestingly, the fans, a who's who of rock luminaries including: Tori Amos, Phil Anselmo, Page Hamilton of Helmet, Danzig, Jack Endino, Larry from Pelican, Angela from Arch Enemy, Kurt from Converge, Charlie from Anthrax, Sean from White Zombie, Matt from High On Fire, Gene Hoglan, rapper Ill Bill, Nergal from Behemoth, Buzz from the Melvins, Ripper Owens, Devin Townsend, Kat VonD, all the dudes from Mastodon, and tons more.
So far a super fun read, most of the series is, we've probably read about half of 'em, but as soon as we finish this review, first thing we do when we get home is to finish reading about REIGN IN BLOOD!

FISCHER, TOM GABRIEL Are You Morbid? (Sanctuary Publishing) book 19.95
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Subtitled: Into The Pandemonium Of Celtic Frost. And that's what this is, cult '80s metal band Celtic Frost frontman Tom G. Warrior's tell-all autobiography. An unexpected book, to be sure! But it's a fascinating story, telling the whole strange saga from Tom's youthful metal fantasies as a teenage Swiss headbanger in the Venom-inspired (and since acclaimed as seminal) black metal band Hellhammer, to the heyday of subsequent band Celtic Frost touring America, and on to their major label glam rock disaster "Cold Lake", and beyond. The book reminds us a lot of Klaus Kinski's infamous autobiography, the same wealth of embarrassing personal information, the same obsession with sex (although in the case of the decidely nerdy Tom G., it's more often than not that he recounts tales of NOT having sex with groupies). Frost were the sort of band (despite their "evil" image) that wouldn't make it on stage on time not 'cause they were all blasted on drugs, but because their bassist was still at the comic book store! Anyway, this is a very entertaining book, with a lot to say about the absurdity of the record industry as well as the absurdity of Tom's 'avant-garde' metal band! Celtic Frost fans will of course find much of interest (did you know that their unreleased final record was going to be produced by Jesse Johnson of Prince proteges The Time?? or that Ken Russell asked them to do the soundtrack to "Lair of the White Worm" but they didn't have time? Or that Tom liked to record raps busting on his record label, unfortunately not released on their rarities compilation?) and other readers might well become fans as well, just because Tom is so smart and strange... Recommended!

FO A RM Issue no. 1 magazine 6.00
This is the first issue of FO A RM, a magazine dedicated to "resonances among diverse mediums," [sic] essentially meaning sound art and its conceptual neighbors. The first issue presents writings on the subject of 'utility' from a range of approaches, from anthropology, experimental poetry, sound theory, and cultural reportage as well as several cross-genre works. FO A RM no. 1 includes new writing by sound-artist and researcher Giancarlo Toniutti, essays by composer Matthew Marble, works by noisician GX Jupitter-Larsen and sound-artist Seth Nehil. In addition, an original ode by prolific master Robert Kelly, instructional poems by mARK oWEns, and investigational works by Alicia Cohen, Holley Blackwell and Ashley Edwards, among others.

FO A RM MAGAZINE No. 4 magazine + cd 12.00
This magazine is chock full of fairly unreadable pseudo-intellectual music journalism, BUT is well worth the price of admission for the interview with Phill Niblock and a disc with an exclusive Niblock track!

FORDE, MARIA A Cautionary Calendar About Junk Food zine calendar 4.00
We've sad it before and we'll say it again. We love Maria Forde. She can draw anything. Famous directors, zombies, vegetables, and eventually, she's gonna draw all of us! You'll be able to see all the various AQ folks rendered in Maria's inimitable style.
But until then, you can count down the days with this bad ass Maria Forde calendar. A Cautionary Calendar About Junk Food you can hang on your wall, small enough to keep in your bag or even your pocket, and packed with awesome drawings. And it's not just the drawings, it's the subject matter. Just like her various series of directors, actors, her choices are unlikely but so so perfect.
So here we have a year's worth of images, legends and misfires of the junk food world: the inventor of Dubble Bubble (originally called Blibber Blubber!), Hostess cupcakes, Frosted Flakes, Lik-M-Aid, the man who invented the process of freezing McDonalds French fries, and helped create Cheez Wiz, the inventor of sliced bread, Baby Ruth bars, one of the possible inventors of the TV dinner, the inventor of Mountain Dew, Gene Hackman as Willy Wonka and more!!!
We're having a snack attack already!

FORDE, MARIA Read This To Get Your Enjoys magazine 4.00
You may remember us pimping our pal Maria Forde's artshow a list or two back, featuring sketches of veggies and things. And if you live in the neighborhood, you for sure have seen her bad ass drawings and paintings of various classic movie stars and starlets, as well as some wicked zombie drawings, which have found their way onto shirts and buttons. We're even discussing having here do a series of AQ employees and AQ favorite records!! She also even painted a portrait of our very own Andee which you can see on the very out of date staff page on the AQ website.
We've had random bits of here art here in the store over the years, she's still quite partial to the zine, and heres are always amazing, super detailed, ultra personal, intimate and funny, fun to read and packed with awesome drawings and weird shapes and ideas.
Read This To Get Your Enjoys is the latest from Forde and her merry band of like minded collaborators, various writers and artists. Packed with stories, and drawings, comics, photos, with gorgeous colored pencil full color front and back, inside and out covers, the front even has a little pocket with a stick of gum for you to chew on while you curl up and dig in. The back cover has a little pocket too, that one has a little tiny mini zine in there, to check out once you've worked your way through. We'd tell you more, but you should just buy it, and discover all the special hidden things inside for yourself. Limited to only 50 copies, each signed and hand numbered, and a total STEAL at only four bucks...

FORDE, MARIA Read This To Get Your Enjoys 2 (self-released) zine + cd-r 8.98
One of our favorite local artists returns with volume two of her Read This To Get Your Enjoys zine. The first one was a huge hit around here (we still have a few left, just ask), killer art, funny stories, even a piece of gum! Local folks might know Maria Forde from her drawings of movie stars and directors that have graced walls, shirts and buttons, across the street at video shop Lost Weekend, her art an impossible blend of playful childlike wonder, super technical focus, and poignant whimsy for sure.
This time around, for number two, everything is a little bit bigger and better. Full color covers, inside and out, lots of contributors, an extra full color mini-zine insert, and even a cd-r mix tape.
And just like mixtapes, we never get tired of zines, super personal and intimate, cleverly laid out, creatively designed, sometimes super sleek and smooth, other times more scribbly and lo-fi, found letters, photos, doodles, elaborate illustrations, it's easy to tell from looking at Read This... that Maria and her crew love the form and are helping it to thrive and flourish. We could describe each piece and part, but it's sort of pointless, if you're into zines, and cool art, and like us don't get nearly enough small press bliss, pick this up. Funny, weird, sad, melancholy, goofy, playful, earnest, heartfelt, beautifully drawn, and lovingly assembled. Plus a bad ass disc, in a little pocket inside the back cover, filled with killer hip hop from one of the zine's contributors, part of his answer to the question posed to him as to why he makes hip hop. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a song must be worth a million.
Just like the first issue, WAY recommended.

FORGOTTEN PATH Issue #2 - 2009 Winter magazine 11.98
Finally issue number two of Forgotten Path, one of the very few metal mags going that's focussed almost exclusively on the grim, the kvlt and the obskure. This long in the works issue features a handful of faves, as well as a whole mess of new-to-us groups that will no doubt require further investigation.
1349, Abigor, Skyforger, Angantyrm, Besatt, Blood Stained Dusk, Chthonic from Taiwan, Impiety, Hekel, Berserk, Fearbringer, should be enough for most metalheads, but then there's Pagan Heritage, Har Shatan, Paroxysmal Descent, Black Messiah, Argus Megere, Argharus, Niroth, Linvsnekad, Elhaz, Hellbox, Bloodthirst, Krater, Thygrim and more!
Super thick, glossy cover, tons of reviews too (300+ of shows, records, festivals) and of course as with all things grim and kvlt, it's LIMITED, each copy hand numbered!

FORGOTTEN PATH Issue 1 2007 magazine 9.98
Sure there are plenty of metal magazines, Terrorizer, Decibel, Metal Maniacs, etc. But there are very few that focus on the true grim kvlt underground. Oaken Throne obviously, and now Forgotten Path, from Lithuania, which has both of its cloven hooves planted firmly South of Heaven.
In this first issue, there are interviews with AQ faves Woodtemple, Finnish legends Horna, the slightly more mainstream Agalloch, as well as way more obscure groups like: Absonus Noctis, Imperium Dekadenz, Nae' Bliss, Mordhell Stutthof, Nocturnal Depression, as well as a bunch of bands we had never heard of including Forest Of Fog, Andaja, Aaskereia, Godless Cruelty, Nebular Mystic.
In addition to all that, tons of demo reviews, album reviews, loads of killer photos, the whole thing nicely laid out, on thick glossy paper, slightly oversized we've had issue one for a while now, and we're still working our way through it. And as with all magazines like this, you know they're on to something, when we already have a list of new bands and records to track down. Can't wait for issue two!

GALACTIC ZOO DOSSIER #6 (Drag City) magazine + 2cd 16.98
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Plastic Crimewave's immense, amazing psychedelic music zine (almost also a comic book 'cause it's all hand lettered and drawn, and does indeed include some underground comix, as well as a feature on "psychedelic superheroes"), the one and only Galactic Zoo Dossier, returns with issue number six!! This time, you'll find interviews with quite an odd/interesting assortment of folks: Vanilla Fudge, Keith Rowe (ex-AMM), John Renbourn, and Pip Proud. Plus features and bits on psychsters old and new and heavy and obscure including Acid Mothers Temple, Debris, Stackwaddy, Rodriguez, Edgar Broughton, Uriah Heep, The Lemon Drops, Exuma, The Outsiders, etc.
And, beyond the 'zine, you get the second set of Crimewave illustrated "Damaged Guitar Gods" trading cards -- including John DuCann (Atomic Rooster), Michael Yonkers, Wally Gonzalez (Juan De La Cruz), Davy Graham, Dorothy & Helen Wiggins (The Shaggs), Erik Brann (Iron Butterfly), Erkin Koray, BoAnders Persson (Trad Gras Och Stenar) and dozens more. Pretty darn cool. Plus, that's not all: there's also a freakin' double cd compilation entitled Ascension Days When We Rise: Ultra-Rare Avant/Psych/Garage 1960's-1990. It features Acid Mothers Temple, The Heads, Six Organs Of Admittance, Miminokoto, The Hototogisu, Oneida, Michael Karoli, and a bunch more, some we've never heard of before but are eager to check out. This 'zine is just such a "turn on" regarding the underground sounds obsessed about within. Something about everything in the magazine being handwritten not only gives it more of an organic, '60s psych vibe but also utterly underscores how much of a labor of love this is, just how incredibly ENTHUSIASTIC Plastic Crimewave and Co. are about this stuff. Right on.

GALACTIC ZOO DOSSIER #7 (Drag City) magazine + 2cd 15.98
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Yay! It's another gigantic, illustrated issue of Galactic Zoo Dossier, all hand-drawn and lettered, always a treat for those into psychedelic rock and weird folk and underground comix and that whole scene, which is like, most AQ customers. The 100+ pages include interviews with the Incredible String Band's Clive Palmer, Ed Askew, Gary Panter, Kevin Coyne, Mammatus, Residual Echoes, etc.
Also features on The Stooges, Chicago funk mob Rasputin's Stash, psychedelic soul, The Nice, hippie horror flicks, Giorgio Moroder, the British acid blues underground, Sonny Bono, Tiny Tim and tons more... and a hall of fame of "Dark Psychedelic Classics" including LPs by Crushed Butler, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, and Billy Joel's Attila (yes!).
Plus, several more sheafs of GZD's trademark trading cards, 72 cards in all, this time divided between "Astral Folk Godesses" such as Brigitte Fontaine and Kim Jung Mi and "Damaged Guitar Gods" (Set Three), examples being Vincent McAllister and Martin Pugh...
AND, this comes with not one but TWO bonus cds as the soundtrack to this issue. One of 'em, entitled Teenage Meadows Of Infinity, is stuffed with "rare psychs and stomps" from both bonafide psychedelic heroes and unknown obscurities of the past, among them The Stooges, Blossom Toes, Gollum and Teska Industrua. The other disc, From The Ashes Perfect Attainment Shall Be, consists of "modern freaked sounds" from the likes of Vincent Black Shadow, Acid Mothers Temple, Plastic Crimewave, Ed Askew, Devendra Banhart, Charalambides, and more!
Good grief. Mindblowing.

GALACTIC ZOO DOSSIER Compendium (Drag City) magazine + cd 17.98
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Chicago-based 'zine Galactic Zoo Dossier proclaims itself "America's Leading Journal Of The Psychedelic Underground". Could be. The 'zine obviously has fans at Drag City, 'cause they've just issued this massive "Compendium" compiling the first four out-of-print issues of GZD along with bonus stuff. It's a full sized, perfect-bound, 144 page tome chock a block with articles, art and interviews. You can read about Silver Apples, Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Electric Prunes, Funkadelic, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simply Saucer, Ash Ra Temple and much much more... Done by fans with the aim of enlightening others about the music they love, it's really very educational. There's history lessons here about everything from "pedal steel and fuzz guitar" to "early drone-rock" and even "psychedelic jerk-offs". Be aware, ALL the text is hand written, with comic book style art. Kinda looks like a cross between Cometbus and a psychedelic coloring book. Pretty cool, tho for me personally, my advice for future issues would be to get a computer or typewriter or something. The handwriting is totally legible but it still makes me tired reading it just 'cause I can't help thinking of how hard it would be to write all that stuff out!
AND there's a cd with tracks collected off of the magazine's Galactic Zoo cassettes, containing tracks by a crazed collection of psychonauts, among them Fursaxa, Plastic Crimewave, Magnog, Un, and...uh...well we haven't heard of many of these, though I think quite a few are related to the magazine's editor and friends. 25 tracks in all.

GANGSTA RAP COLORING BOOK (Last Gasp) coloring book 8.95
All your favorite gangsta rap icons here lovingly rendered in black and white, and ready for your magic markers, crayons, and colored pencils. Pretty funny and a sure hit novelty item that is probably only available for a limited time. Now all gussied up with way more rapperss, a full color cover, nicer paper stock, and some extra notes and things...

GAS (WOLFGANG VOIGT) Gas (Raster-Noton) book+cd 49.00
Maybe even more anticipated that the recent Nah Und Fern box set from Gas, compiling all of the previously released Gas records, is this, a book of art from the man behind gas Wolfgang Voigt, which beside being beautiful and packed with variations on the foresty images that graced all the Gas records, also comes with a 5 track disc featuring rare, old, unreleased Gas tracks, which have the Gas faithful in a frenzy. More on the music in a second.
The book itself is quite striking. A slightly blurred shot of a forest, tinted deep red, it could be the cover of a lost Gas album (which in some ways it is), the band name embossed in a deep red metallic ink, Voigt's name on the back. Inside is a selection of photos, which seem to be from the same shots that produced the record covers, all shot of trees and branches and leaves, close up, from afar, they would look amazing all blown up on a gallery wall, but manage to be pretty dang striking here too.
Even sans cd, this would make a pretty excellent coffee table art book. But there is a cd, and as we mentioned before, it does in fact include nearly an hour of unreleased Gas, soŠ
Five tracks, all ten minutes or longer, each a deep dark gritty drift, almost completely eschewing the beats that would find their way into later Gas albums, these tracks explore deep billowy black ambience. A few have some glitch and crackle, but never does it evolve into that murky thump Gas does so well, instead, it sounds like water dripping, or ice melting, while the leaves and branches sway in the background, one track is super lo-fi and raw, with an industrial machinelike loop beneath the glistening musical mumble, underpinned by deep string swells, and haunting melodies, but that track is quickly followed by something much darker and elegiac, a brooding longform shimmer, like a string quartet slowed waaaaaay down, and blurred into soft shifting shapes. The closer is the most pastoral of the bunch, almost like it could be the music for some sort of nature show, slow panning shots of glaciers glistening in the sun, leaves falling in slow motion, time lapse films of wildflowers blooming then withering, clouds drifting across a deep blue sky, the only thing keeping it from going to far in that direction, is the soft patina of fuzz, the buried buzz, the looped mesmer, the barely audible glitch, all the things that make it distinctly GAS.

GIANT ROBOT Issue #47 magazine 5.98
Another killer new issue of Giant Robot, the magazine of "Asian pop culture and beyond!" Always an amazing read, jam packed with killer stories and eye popping photos. And tons of far out shit you can't or wouldn't read about anywhere else. This month they've got: a sampling of Martin Giant Robot's Asian themed t-shirt collection, the Know1edge clothing line, a whole bunch of kick ass toys and jewelry and clothing, Cassandra Nguyen and her giant plush squids, book and comic book reviews, SoCal surfer Kio Inagaki and his Yellow Rat clothing line, poet Beau Sia, flammable household items as improvised weapons, Una Kim and her Keep line of sneakers, Linda Linda Linda: the saga of an all girl garage band, Mountain Mountain collectable toys, The Host director Joon-Ho Bong, the Nice Rainbow Film production studio, tennis pro Paradorn Srichaphan, the Suicide Bomb Button!, tons of record reviews, modern new wave noise rockers VHS or Beta, post Versus rock combo +/-, artist Long Nguyen, Journey From The Fall director Ham Tran, a Vietnam film diary, Installation artists Pattara Chanruechachai and Pratchaya Phinthong, anime reviews, Japanese TV reviews, comics and somehow even more!!!

GIANT ROBOT MAGAZINE #17 magazine 3.95
Margaret Cho on the cover, a ramen taste test, a big interview with mainland Chinese film director Chen Kaige (who made Farewell My Concubine), ska/rocksteady/reggae legend Byron Lee (I never knew he was half Chinese!), Dave Pajo of Tortoise, Slint, and Papa M, Jeff Chinn and the Bruce Lee museum, street food in Vietnam, lactose intolerance in Asians, and so much more. Glossy, substantial.

GIANT ROBOT MAGAZINE #18 magazine 3.95
Issue 18 of one of the most fun reads around. Ron Rege, the artist behind the "Boys" comic that old pal Michael Drivas sold me from his killer store in Minneapolis, captures the specialness of GR best in this letter to the editor: "The whole 'here's what we like' tone, combined with the fact that the focus is on Asian stuff, makes it accessible to everyone. You may be into video games, or comics, or punk or techno or... but chances you like, or are curious about, some Asian stuff. You guys plow right into what could be a whole serious mess of race issues head on... fearlessly, with a smile, without hardly ever mentioning it."
In this issue, 100% Japanese American 'Optic Nerve' comics artist Adrian Tomine, J Church guitarist/Lost Weekend video slinger/Valencia regular Lance Hahn, comics artist/AQ-fave J. Otto, Martin goes to Mexico, Chinese filmmkaer Zhang Yimou, Lois, Looper, Arling & Cameron, Kid Koala, Sara Tanaka from Rushmore, the Asian girl Power Ranger, and lots more. As always, highly recommended.

GIANT ROBOT MAGAZINE Issue 39 magazine 4.95
Almost to the fortieth issue mark, and those Giant Robot Mag folks are showing no signs of slowin' down. Not a grey hair in sight, from what we can see (mind you they're in L.A. while we're here in SF, and admittedly our eyesight isn't bionic). In recent years they've increasingly drawn their subject matter from the latter half of their subtitle (it's 'Asian Pop Culture And Beyond', by the way), but that hasn't deterred the GR devotees. Head honchos Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong like cool stuff, and like to share their latest faves and interests with their readers. Issue #39 features their Giant Robot Awards for 2005, artist Souther Salazar, fimmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, king cobra fights (yes, that means the actual snakes, not the beer or its drinkers), skateboarder Daewon Song, and their usual plethora of reviews covering all sorts of music, books and other neat treats. Psst, will someone please get us one of those Domokun photo holders? Sooo rad! FYI: As of next year, the mag will be going bi-monthly... that means six issues instead of twelve.

GIANT ROBOT MAGAZINE issue #42 magazine 4.99
Newest issue of one of our favorite magazines around. Music and toys and food and shows and records and clothes all with a distinctly and uniquely Asian American bent. This time around: a guided tour of modern Manilla, how to start your own boy band, Ugly Dolls!, an interview with director Ronny Yu, an interview with LOUDNESS!!! and tones of reviews and fiction and comics and cool little bits of trivia, and sidebars about random edibles and buyables and oh my, just one of the most fun to read magazines EVER!

GIANT ROBOT MAGAZINE Issue 43 magazine 4.99
Congratulations and bestest wishes to Giant Robot co-captain Martin Wong on his recent nuptual-ization! Whoo hoo! But the extracurricular excitement hasn't slowed down the production of his and Eric Nakamura's great Asian pop culture mag (nor that of their stores nor their restaurant)! This month we have heaping helpings of killer toys, comix, drawings as well as book reviews, record reviews, a trip to the South Pole, the paintings of Rachell Sumpter (one of which adorns the cover), a look at killer NY based Reed Space design and boutique, Asian American film fests, SooYoung Park of Seam and Bitch Magnet, boy bands in Hong Kong, the cool and creepy artwork of Louie Cordero, an interview with legendary tattoo artist Ed Hardy, Japanese toy auctions and more and more and more!!!!

GLASPER, IAN The Day The Country Died: A History Of Anarcho Punk 1980 - 1984 (Cherry Red) book 19.95
We only just started reading this but holy crap is it awesome. An in depth exploration of the UK anarcho punk scene. Which means, for those of you unclear on the concept, groups like Crass, Poison Girls, Flux Of Pink Indians, Rudimentary Peni, Icons Of Filth, Dirt, Subhumans, Conflict, Citizen Fish, Amebix, Chumbawamba (before they sold out!!), Zounds, The Mob, Kukl, Lack Of Knowledge, Disrupters, Flowers In The Dustbin, Antisect, Epileptics, Faction and more more more.
It's a little difficult for us to read this personally, as aQ pal Lance Hahn from J-Church was working on his own Anarcho-crust book when he passed away, but besides that, there's really no reason to not buy this, read up on all these amazing bands, and then buy all their records.
Covering the scene during the years 1980-1984, The Day The Country Died is packed with tons of photos, exclusive interviews, scene histories, discographies, we were 30 pages in when we got to Flux Of Pink Indians, maybe one of our favorite bands from that scene, and we had our Flux records out, reading and listening. And it's not just about the bands, and the records, it's the movement, the politics, pretty inspiring for sure.
Like we said, we only just started it, but we're digging this book BIG TIME, and apparently it's a companion to Glasper's other book, Burning Britain, so we'll probably have to track that one down too!

GLOMP 8 #8 (Boing Being) book 26.00
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You know in cartoons, when you get excited or scared, and your head spins around, your eyes pop out on big long springs, smoke shoots out of your ears, the top of your head pops up like a little geyser, your mouth opens and out comes that car horn AHOOOOOOGUH!!! AHOOOOOOGUH!!! That's exactly what will happen when you have a gander at this here book of freakish Finnish art. That's right, you heard us, FINNISH. Which means, a bunch of your favorite Finnish forest folkies are present, indulging their visual side, which is as tripped out and psychedelic as their musical sides. A gorgeously massive, Technicolor, mind blowing pen and ink freakout. If you close your eyes when you listen to Avarus or Uton or Paavoharju or Islaja this is probably the sort of stuff you see. 232 pages, perfect bound, FULL color, 21 Finnish artists, including Piirustuskerho (which includes pretty much all Avarus and Kemialliset Ystavat people), Roope Eronen, Reijo Karkkainen (Le Dernier Cri), Kasper Stromman (Napa) and loads more. From creepy simple squiggles to dizzying abstract magic marker scapes to haunting water colors to amazingly strange illustrations, all of them, brief little glimpses into some beautifully mysterious and beautiful otherworld. Ghostlike little girls, bizarre creatures, crazy characters, weird warped landscapes. Wow. No, seriously we're talking WOW WOW WOW! A lot of the text is in Finnish but is translated in footnotes! It almost doesn't matter anyway, the pictures are so head spinningly beautiful they tell the stories just fine on their own.
These books had a bit of a rough trip from Finland, so the spine and the edges show some slight wear, but not so much that it really matters at all. Once inside, you'll get swallowed whole by all the pretty colors and lost forever in a swirling world of wonderful weirdness.

GLOMP 9 #9 (Boing Being) book 35.00
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We're so immersed in Finnish underground music all the time, that we sometimes forget there's probably a whole lot of other amazing underground stuff going on over there as well. Like say, ART ferinstance. Well last year we got a crash course in Finnish underground art with a hefty eye popping tome called Glomp. And it happened to be the eighth Glomp, but the first one we had ever set eyes on and we were smitten, BIG TIME. So were all of you as we couldn't keep it in stock, and it ended up going out of print pretty dang fast.
Thankfully, it's time for another hair raising, eye popping, head spinning, other-body-part-doing-something-else-that-body-part-doesn't-normally-do installment of crazy, gorgeous, funny, sad, poignant, confusing, fantastical and fucked up Finnish underground art in the form of Glomp #9! And just like the first one it's amazing. And even though much of the text is in Finnish, it doesn't detract from the loveliness or far-out-ness or just plain old simple beauty of this amazing artwork. And for all you Finnish music freaks (like us), tons of the artwork here is by folks who do time in bands like Avarus, Anaksimandros, Kemialliset Ystavat and loads more. Just like #8, the stuff inside is all over the map, from gorgeous and bizarre photographs, to gorgeous super detailed Renee French like pencil drawings, to super abstract paintings, to garish sculptures, confusing collages, tons of comic strips, most you don't even have to understand Finnish to get (although most of the text is subtitled with English footnotes!). Our favorite is probably the recurring strip by Tommi Musturi, the trials and tribulations of a strange doughy white pill shaped being with pink lips and a tubular nose, who wanders Frank-like through strange and dangerous worlds. But all of it is just so amazing. Finnish freaks will definitely want this, but anyone into cool weird hard to find art books will definitely go crazy for this too. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES WORLDWIDE. Of that thousand we have a super limited amount, and if people go as crazy for this one as they did for the last one, they won't be around for long...

GRIFFITHS, DAI 33 1/3 Series: OK Computer (Continuum) book 9.95
A look behind the scenes at the making of Radiohead's epochal OK Computer album. As with all the books in the 33 1/3 Series, it's a completely fascinating read. Sort of like the way MOJO articles are always totally awesome and readable even if you -think- you don't care about the artist. But if you DO love OK Computer, this is obviously essential.

GROOVES issue #9 magazine 4.95
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Read about Amon Tobin, Christian Fennesz, Mum, Negativland, Suicide, Rosy Parlane, Wobbly, Ikue Mori, Goodiepal, and lots more in this ninth issue of the ever thicker and slicker "experimental electronic music magazine" Grooves. Music *and* gear reviews fill out the pages, making this good reading for both electronica consumers and producers.

GROOVES issue 4 magazine 3.00
"Experimental electronic music magazine." Their fourth issue, and now they've got a fancy color cover and use Pantone coated inks, a fact mentioned on the cover for some reason and repeated here for no reason. Lots of info on your fave cutting edge electronica artists, from IDM stuff to turntablism. DJ Krush, DJ Shortee/DJ Faust, Chessie, Tarwater, Third Eye Foundation, Kit Clayton, Plone, Stewart Walker all get features, among others. Plus a zillion reviews, ads from all the hip labels/stores/mailorder places, and photos of said fave electronica artists (often a short haired white guy sitting on the ground, as in the three photos found on three successive pages depicting Accelera Deck, TEF, and Kit Clayton). Looks great, lots of info, getting better and better all the time.

GROOVES MAGAZINE Issue 12 magazine 4.95
All kinds of electronic music get covered between the covers of Grooves magazine, a which is up to number 12 now and just getting bigger and better each issue. This time, Plastikman, Meat Beat Manifesto, Electric Birds, AGF, Mice Parade, Sami Kovikko, Diverse, Randy Yau, Tod Dockstader, Aelters, Christopher Willits, Dean Roberts and many more get written about or interviewed. Music consumers and gearheads both should be sated by the reviews and the ads found here.

GURDJIEFF, G.I. Harmonic Development: The Complete Harmonium Recordings 1948-1949 (Basta) 3cd + book 60.00
Oh boy! This is another one of those releases that pushes all of our overwhelming music obsessive buttons, like the Conet Project, The Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv 1900-2000 box, the Yahowa 13cd box, the 50 cd Merzbox, the Ayler Holy Ghost box...
Compiled and produced by Gert-Jan Blom of the Beau Hunks, Harmonic Development brings to light the long lost harmonium performances of the fascinating Georg Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866-1949) whom some of you will know much better as a thinker and philosopher than a musician. This release consists of a beautifully designed 140 page softbound book filled with tons of photos and historical and personal minutae, accompanied by two compact discs of music in a digipack AND an additional disc of mp3's (that brings the total amount of music to over 19 hours!!) as well as a cool MPEG video of Gurdjieff home movies. Holy crap! So first, who was G.I. Gurdjieff? Well, the simple version is that Gurdjieff was an early twentieth century Russian mystic (and retired hypnotist), who drew inspiration from Sufism, and was fascinated with music. Gurdjieff had composed for piano for some years, but late in life he acquired first a wire recorder, and then a tape recorder, to document his improvisations (his "moosic") on the harmonium, a sort of pump organ, that produces a sound that is rich and full, a sort of lush, wheezing melodious moan, haunting and otherworldly. This collection gathers up recordings from the forties, from the last few years of Gurdjieff's life, and feature loads of intimate performances, several talks, and lots of ambient chit chat. It seems that Gurdjieff would perform a piece, slow and sad and gorgeously dreamy, enveloping all of his listeners in the mood, and when he was finished, he would then crack jokes and make small talk. Many of these performances feature this strange juxtaposition of almost religious intensity, and breezy lighthearted banter, which was somehow another part of his unique world view. We've yet to delve completely into the book, but even on their own, the discs are wonderful and completely mesmerizing, offering up hours of droney, mysterious harmonium music, but all sorts of ambient sounds and snippets of conversations as well, giving these recordings almost the same sort of vibe as the Conet Project, a distant dark mystery, as if these sounds were pulled from the ether, captured from another world and another time. At once recognizable, but at the same time totally alien.
And as you enjoy the hours of recordings, you can peruse the book which contains a preface by Robert Fripp, information on the unearthing and restoration of the recordings, track notes, transcriptions of the talks, as well as recollections of Gurdjieff's final year from a host of friends and students, among them the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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GURDJIEFF, G.I. & THOMAS DE HARTMAN Oriental Suite (Basta) 4cd+book 113.00

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HAILS & HORNS #5 magazine 4.95

HAILS & HORNS MAGAZINE Issue No. 1 magazine 4.95
There's always room in the world for a new music magazine, especially one obviously undertaken with a passion for the music covered inside, well written and interestingly laid out. And we're always in need of a new metal magazine for sure. Considering Terrorizer is so hard to get, Decibel can be a bit too snarky and ironic sometimes, and Metal Maniacs is a good read, but ultimately really light weight. So we're pleased as punch that there's a new metal mag on the block. The appropriately titled Hails & Horns. This is issue number one, so we can assume they're still feeling their way around, but even so, this is a pretty great magazine heavy on the metalcore for sure, but plenty of death/black/thrash/doom as well, and jam packed with tons of articles. It feels really thin, but open it up and it's a bit hard to believe how many bands are covered. There's only a few pages of reviews in this first issue, instead the focus is on metal news and articles and interviews with band after band after band. On the cover, Underoath. Inside, an interview with Tom Araya of Slayer, a look at the Finnish metal / black metal scene, a history of the West Memphis Three (three kids imprisoned for supposedly murdering three local children, but more realistically imprisoned for being goth rock weirdos / individual thinkers) and an update on recent developments in the case, columns from Bill Ward of Black Sabbath and Kurt Ballou from Converge, in the studio with Norma Jean, Misery Signals and more, as well as articles about / interviews with Poison The Well, Ministry, Summoning, Rammstein, In Flames, Amorphis, Children Of Bodom, Behemoth, Cathedral, Atreyu, Sepultura, Fall Of Troy, Arch Enemy and a whole lot more.
Plus every issue will come with a cd featuring new and unreleased songs. This time around: Goatwhore, Satyricon, Misery Index, Torche, Shadows Fall, Underoath, Arch Enemy, Cattle Decapitation, Unearth, Eighteen Visions, Artimus Pyledriver and lots more.
Not bad for five bucks!

HEAVY METAL FUN TIME ACTIVITY BOOK (ECW PRESS) magazine 9.95
From the same folks who brought us the Gangsta Rap Coloring Book, comes something for the metalhead in your life. And since metalheads need WAY more stimulation that gangsta rappers, this one is not merely a coloring book, but a full fledged ACTIVITY book. You know what that means, connect the dots, mazes, all sorts of things. But in the hands of these guys, the usual kidstuff gets an awesomely irreverent, goofy and seriously metal makeover. After an appropriately goofy (and metal) intro from Andrew W.K., you can expect such fun time activities as a hair metal crossword puzzle, color Rob Halford, Motorhead connect the moles, heavy metal sudoku (it's all 6's), Spinal Tap maze, White Zombie word find, New Orleans band scramble, Dimebag Darrell's goatee connect the dots, Ronnie James Dio's "Holy Diver" metal-libs, Ozzy maze, Slipknot numbers game, Led Zeppelin symbol match and loads more.
Full color cover with cool glossy clear pentagram over a devil horned hand, as well as testimonials on the back from Andrew W.K., Brendon Small (Metalocalypse) and of course Ronnie James Dio.
The perfect metal stocking stuffer...

HENGST, CLIFF AND SCOTT HEWICKER Good Times: Bad Trips (Gallery 16 Editions) book 25.00
Ever had a bad trip? And no, not just an "oh I'm freaking out man" sort of trip, we're talking the sort of trip that sticks with you forever. The first time, the worst time, the best worst time, sex, death, injury, mayhem and misery, well our very own Scott Hewicker and his partner Cliff Hengst have been collecting tales of these bad trips from a who's who of artists and musicians, friends and family, even AQ employees and have finally compiled them all into one volume, this here gorgeous hardcover book entitled Good Times: Bad Trips, and not only packed with stories, but with all sorts of original and found artwork to accompany these far our freaked out tales of drugs and debauchery. 
The contributors include Devendra Banhart, local luminary John Dwyer, our very own Irwin Swirnoff and our very own Lauren Robertson, Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel from Matmos, John Koch from Troll, Ezra Feinberg from Citay, Alexis Georgopoulos from Arp, Wayne Smith from Aero-Mic'd, Nathan Burazer from Tussle, Jack Hanley (of Jack Hanley Galleries) as well as loads of artists and writers like Chris Johanson, Shaun O'Dell, Keegan McHargue, Leslie Shows, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy... the list goes on and on and on. 
The thing is, it almost doesn't matter who wrote which story, so much so that the credits are tucked away, way in the back of the book, so the stories are just that, stories, removed from their authors, not overly writerly, instead conversational, like hanging out drinking and telling tales, where most bad trip stories actually get told. And these are some seriously demented stories. Some are super funny, some are really intense and brutal, some are so ridiculous they sound made up, others are more mundane, but resonate as experiences most of us have shared. It's an amazing read. A killer collection of short stories, all of them fascinating, tales of stolen jet skis, yellow food banquets, secret upper crust sex societies, deflowered virgins, brain loops, dead body mannequins, emergency room freakouts, smoking out with Lee Scratch Perry, football player rapists, midnight calls to Mom, industrial strength lasers, heart murmurs, talking crows, living nude books, grey music, naked hippies, sex with surrealists, skin rashes, mouths full of dough, Cher costumes, stolen Harry Potters, boom box kicking, fake pistols, guitar masturbating, mother meltdowns, Tesla coils and so so so much more. 
Gorgeously designed and laid out, plus the book is jam packed with eye popping art, paintings, drawings, collages, photographs and ephemera, all suitably warped and trippy, beautiful and bizarre, collected, found or created by Hewicker and Hengst. And all housed in a super swank, full color 136 page hard cover book. Each one signed by the artists!! Absolutely recommended. And a limited run of only 1000 copies, so buy now or be prepared to sell a kidney or take out a second mortgage on your house to pick one up on eBay later...

HI HOW ARE YOU? THE DEFINITIVE DANIEL JOHNSTON HANDBOOK book 18.00
Wow, a true Daniel Johnston fan's wet dream. The psychically frail, sensitive, talented artist/musician hailing from Texas has been a cult figure for years, and this book has got it all: from biographical info to full color drawings fom Daniel's sketchbooks, to an investigation into the mythological characters that populate his work, to song lyrics and more. Pretty damn comprehensive. Over 100 pages with 500 illustrations and photos. The book is also very well designed and nice to look at, not an amateur effort at all. By Tarssa Yazdani.

HILL, ZACH & HOLY SMOKES Masculine Drugs - Destroying Yourself Is Too Accessible (Suicide Squeeze) book + cd 17.98
Okay fans of Hella and their musical buddies, here's something a little different for y'all! Zach Hill (the drummer for that Sacramento math rock band as well as Nervous Cop and Team Sleep among others), has corralled the likes of Pinback's Rob Crow and the Flying Luttenbachers' Jonathon Hischke for his Zach Hill & The Holy Smokes album Masculine Drugs, on which much dissonant noise fuckery ensues. One of its highlights is certainly the fifth song "Getting In The Head Of Your Galaxy" which offers some trademark Crow vocals and melodicism amid the cacaphony. But Hill didn't stop there! He also wrote and illustrated a paperback book called Destroying Yourself Is Too Accessible: Old Children's Ramblings For The New And Improved Child And Hypocritically Desterous Hippy to accompany the cd. Each page (of which there are 138) features an abstract pen'n'ink drawing along with a brief (1-3 sentences) entry. The cd lives in a plastic pocket at the back of the book.
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HIT IT OR QUIT IT Issue #17 magazine 3.95
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AQ-pal Sasha Frere Jones on A Certain Ratio, !!!, El-P, Sightings, Cex, DAT Politics, Radio 4, lotsa reviews. Chris Ryan (smart smart smart) on hip hop.

HIT IT OR QUIT IT MAGAZINE Issue #18 magazine 4.95
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The long awaited return of the sweetly snotty super opinionated rock mag Hit It Or Quit It, helmed by booker / scribe / rocker / indie mainstay Jessica Hopper. This issue features The Hold Steady on the cover, inside: Thursday, Mountain Goats, Dinosaur Jr., Pelican, Spoon, Miranda July, M.O.P., Stones Throw Records, comics, bunches of record reviews and loads more. Two different covers too!

HULTKRANS, ANDREW 33 1/3 Series: Forever Changes (Continuum) book 9.95
Back in stock! This amazing series of books seems like just what we (and all you fellow music geeks) have been waiting for. A whole mess of amazing records, Love's Forever Changes, the Smiths' Meat Is Murder, Neil Young's Harvest, Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and loads more. All written about by folks who love them, or whose lives were changed by said records. An unlike most music writing, these novella length tomes are not about the artist so much as specifically about the records, the making of, the thinking behind, and all the stuff surrounding the creation of these essential albums.
Unlike Joe Pernice's fictional approach to the Smith's Meat Is Murder reviewed last list, Andrew Hulktrans dives factually deep into Forever Changes, Love's masterpiece from 1967. Very deep. Hulktrans is the former editor of Bookforum and it shows. This reads a lot like a book review, dense, insightful, rife with psychology, philosophy and musicology. No Rolling Stone style pop journalism here. The Watts Riots, The Sunset Strip Riots, Vietnam are all examined as crucial pieces of the curious puzzle that is Arthur Lee, a paranoid outcast convinced that his death was imminent. And driven to make Forever Changes before it was too late.

HUXTABLES, THE s/t (self-released) cdr + dvdr + zine 5.00
Back in stock!
A synopsis of this self-titled debut by The Huxtables themselves: "In the beginning, there were two sweaters, a drum sweater and a guitar sweater. We attempted to win but lost a battle of the bands at our high school. At that point, we finally became a real family. Of course the guitar and drums are the parents and the drawings, video, bass and keyboards are the kids, uncles and aunts. On this recording, half of its songs are from a small concrete closet in Washington DC. At one point the closet was storage space for an up-right bass. We finished the album in a kitchen in Boston while in a tussle with the police. What they did to us in that kitchen forced us to become a collective notion and stop being a band. New songs are being worked out and the collective's future album will be called The Mere Pressure Of My Hand." The Huxtables are two 17 year old boys from New York who make art and music that's noisy, naive, raw and a little bit silly. But awesome and fun!
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I AM SPOONBENDER 'Telepathic Antiquity' Poster (2nd North American Tour, 2003) (IAS) poster 4.98
These limited edition posters were designed by IAS (imaginatively illustrated by Cup!) for their 2nd North American tour, 2003. 'Hair Is Real', indeed. Very few copies remain. 11"x17" heavy paperstock.

I AM SPOONBENDER antique fork design sticker (IAS) sticker 0.50
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The original IAS sticker design! 8"long by 1.5"wide vinyl sticker with silver band name and shiny black antique fork design on matte black background.

I AM SPOONBENDER band logo sticker (IAS) sticker 0.50
2" high by 5"wide vinyl sticker with white band name and silver logo on matte black background.

I AM SPOONBENDER Spoonbender Sleep Research Team: 'Hypnotic Trance Pamphlet' - Series 1 (Seismic Seance) card set 9.98
'You have been suggested': This is the 1st of 3 in a series of what I Am Spoonbender call 'Hypnotic Trance Pamphlets' -- sort of an 'Oblique Strategies' for the memetic engineering mindset. Ten 2" by 3" cards unique to each series, imprinted with an array of provocative IAS word/image concepts, thoughts and musings enclosed in a hand-numbered red vellum envelope. Tres sublime. Each edition will be limited to 333 copies. When I snap my fingers, you will not snooze on this...

I AM SPOONBENDER Spoonbender Sleep Research Team: 'Hypnotic Trance Pamphlet' - Series 2 (Seismic Seance) card set 9.98
This is the 2nd series of 'Hypnotic Trance Pamphlets' by the Spoonbender Sleep Research Team (the printed-word annex of I Am Spoonbender). Enclosed in each metallic anthracite-hued paper, die-cut envelope are ten 2" by 3" cards (unique to each series), imprinted with an array of provocative IAS word/image concepts, thoughts and musings. Think a sort of 'Oblique Strategies' for the memetic-engineering mindset, although this set has some sociomagico narrative-generating possibilities... mix 'em up! Tres sublime! As with the 1st (and forthcoming 3rd edition), these are limited to 333 hand-numbered copies. Hypnotico! Arouseo! Awakeup!

I AM SPOONBENDER W/ KID 606 AND SLAVES/PLEASURE FOREVER 'Telekinetic Disassembly' 2001 Show Poster (IAS) poster 4.98
These limited edition posters were designed by IAS for their first ever headlining show at SF's Great American Music Hall. Very few copies remain. 11"x17" cardstock.

I AM SPOONBENDER W/ MAN OR ASTRO-MAN? 'Inner Space Vs. Outer Space' (Noise Pop 2000 Poster) (IAS) poster 4.98
These limited edition posters were designed for IAS by Spacebase (aka Justin Wright, the man behind those recent Expo 70 cdrs!) for the Noise Pop 2000 show at the Great American Music Hall. Very few copies remain. 11"x17" cardstock.