Ah, the live album: often a tool for bands looking to wiggle out of contracts or perhaps, squeeze a few more pennies from a loyal fanbase. Rare is it a work of art. Inspired by these singular instances (Grayfolded, The Grateful Dead; Sonic Death, Sonic Youth; In Search of Spaces, Flying Saucer Attack) C. Spencer Yeh, the lone constant of the long-running Burning Star Core project, conceptualized Papercuts Theater: one long piece (broken into four movements) culled from over sixty live performances, spanning years and continents. These formerly disparate relics of time and space now exist as one: a sonic document of the present.

Tracklisting: Parts I - IV

Released: March 2010

"Operator Dead..." finds Burning Star Core (led by violinist C. Spencer Yeh) as an extremely loud four piece who waste no time and get right down to business creating massive, looping, head-splitting drones and titanic walls of sound. Calculated and controlled; the intensity builds and builds only to crash down into free-noise, psychedelic fury, sounding something like the universe imploding in on itself, only captured inside a run down Kentucky recording space.

Tracklisting: When The Tripods Came, Operator Dead… Post Abandoned, Me & My Arrow, The Emergency Networks Are Taking Over

Released: May 2007

Saturnus Reality is the Finneagan's Wake of Finnish rock documentaries, a fabulous cul-de-sac in stream of consciousness. The film's subject is Circle, the prolific Finnish experimentalists hailing from Pori, but it is a self-ironic vicious circile of a film that focuses on the curious world of the band and it's musicians.

Originally released in 2002, "Sunrise" is perhaps the ultimate psychedelic, kraut-metal record. Mind-melting riffs and trance-inducing rhythms nicely complimented by Mike Ratto's exotic, Rob Halford-like vocals (sung in his native Finnish). Circle's songs are built around cold, hard repetition, and while "Sunrise" is as diverse as the group's influences, the recurring theme remains their trademark circular sound.

Tracklisting: Nopeuskunigas, Satulinnut, Hautain Takaa, Vaanen Valtiatar, Kylan Suurin Miekka, Rautakotka, Paholaisratsastaja, Lokki

Released: October 2007

Circle from Finland are one of the leading psych-rock bands playing today, releasing records and touring for over a decade now. “Katapult” is perhaps their darkest and most primitive album to date. Founding member Jussi Lehtisalo handles the majority of vocals duties with a gruff, low-end growl. The music is heavy and atmospheric with repetitive riffs and haunted keyboards which create a twisted, spooky mood. Influenced by equal parts 60’s psychadelia and Venom - “Katapult” is perhaps the most diverse and groundbreaking Circle album yet.

Tracklisting: Saturnus Reality, Torpedo Star Throne, Black Black Never Never Land, Understanding New Age, Tree on the Higher Mountain, Four Points of the Compass, Fish Reflection, Skeletor Highway, Snow Olympics

Released: September 2007

Four song EP featuring guest vocals by Bruce Duff (Jesters of Destiny).

Tracklisting: Earthworm, Connection, Taking it Back, Coda

Released: March 2006

Perhaps the most mellow (and greatest?) Circle album ever! New wave of Finnish Psychadelic Folk!

Tracklisting: Havuporti, Luikertelevat, Ydinaukio, Jaljet

Released: September 2005

NYC improv heavy instrumental from ex-members of Storm and Stress, Antioch Arrow and Bitch Magnet.

Tracklisting: Mix the Races, The Horse, Eat it High School

Released: October 2005

Debut album by Coconuts recorded in NYC by Mike Fellows.
"A slow creepy crawl through twilight lit back alleys... dense, repetitive, atmospheric and strangely alluring." - Mess and Noise
"Dark and Beautiful" - Vice

Tracklisting: 1. Silver Lights 2. Lost Bitches 3. Dark World 4. When She Smiles 5. Dean's Blues

Released: March 2010

Tracklisting: 1. City Lights 2. Sad Sinner 3. Bats 4. Two Like Us 5. Learn To Lose

Released: April 2012

Tracklisting: 1. No One But You 2. What I Saw 3. Don't Make Me Wait 4. End of the Day 5. Bluebird 6. Always Say Goodbye 7. O' Heart 8. I Stand Alone 9. Come Here My Love

Released: October 2010

An album of folk songs that represent the American malaise. Sure, Doug Paisley is Candian (Toronto, to be exact) but so was Neil Young and four-fifths of The Band and that didn't stop them from tapping into the collective psyche of the continent. It would be bold of us to say this debut is on the level of the aforementioned, but truthfully it does recall an era of songwriting that was more simple, more honest, more modest. A time before ipods and myspace, when making a good album was simply enough.

Tracklisting: What About Us?, Broken in Two, Digging in the Ground, A Day is Very Long, Last Duet, We Weather, Take My Hand, Wide Open Plain, Take Me With You

Released: January 2009

Currently unavailable

Tracklisting: Ripped on Fascist Ideas, Geometry of Murder, German Dental Work, Divine and Bright, Dissolution 1

Released: November 2001

Remixes by Mogwai, Sunn O))), Justin Broadrick, Autechre, Jim O’Rourke and Russell Haswell

Tracklisting: Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Tibetan Quaaludes, Thrones and Dominions, Coda Maestosain, Harvey

Released: March 2005

2xLP comes with download card.

Tracklisting: 1. The Savagist 2. Taking Out The Trash 3. The Artemus Ward 4. Imprecations 5. Occult Banker 6. On Cryology 7. General Admission 8. The Montgomery Manuscript

Released: February 2013

Tracklisting: 1. Empty Eye 2. Tarmac City 3. Slow Creep 4. Mighty Fine Pie 5. Top Dollar Speaks His Mind 6. Pack Your Bags 7. New Shoes 8. A Life Worth Leaving

Released: July 2010

New York City four piece that started out as an “old man hobby” and turned into the best psychedelic rock and roll band in the city (maybe country, possibly world). Endless Boogie jam, then jam some more. They lock in grooves so tight there’s no escape- like entering a black hole, that last second stretches out forever. Their debut album clocks in at 79 minutes. That’s right. The only thing keeping them from living up to their name is the physics of the compact disc. 2xLP features one extra track and an mp3 download.

Tracklisting: Smoking Figs in the Yard, The Manly Vibe, Bad River, Executive Focus, Gimme the Awesome, Steak Rock, Coming Down The Stairs, Jammin’ With Top Dollar, Low-Lifes

Released: June 2008

Tracklisting: 1. Nightsong 2. Lace 3. Moonbeams 4. Ride 5. Your Name 6. Again 7. Grace & Lies 8. Keeper 9. Rest

Released: July 2012

Justin Broadrick has always made music which could one day serve as a soundtrack to the end of the world, should we ever need one. Whether with Godflesh or Jesu - themes of urban decay, corporate greed and post-modern malaise often set the bleak tone. Final, his longest running project, is no different. Started in 1982, it has often run parallel to, and served as a undefinable and more experimental interpretation of his more recognizable work. Reading All The Right Signals Wrong is a new full-length album recorded at Avalanche Studios in the UK.

Tracklisting: Right Signal, Wrong Signal, Stop at Red, Green

CD bonus tracks: Right Signal (alt mix), Wrong Signal (alt. mix), Stop at Red (alt. mix), Green (alt. mix)

Released: August 2009

Lunes is the second album by the Texas psychedelic duo Headdress. Written in the desert but recorded during an endless New York City winter, the album is a dark meditation on Americana. Guitarist Caleb Coy and organist Ethan Cook sculpt a cold, expansive sound made ripe for these turbulent times. It’s the blues shaped by the avant-compositions of La Monte Young and Dylan Carlson. It's drone rooted deep in the American tradition.

Tracklisting: Seethrough, Tip of the Pyramid, The Lost White Brother, EEEEE, The End

Released: June 2009

Tracklisting: Thunder Runner, Baltimore, Canary Island, Bee Keeper, Strangers, New Illusion, Wheel On Fire, Francis, Don't I Know You, You Won't See Me

Released: July 2013

Tracklisting: 1. Summer 2. Neverride 3. Powers 4. Way of the Crow 5. You Don't Have To Be 6. Misguided 7. Remembering 8. Poor As Him 9. The Friend

Released: March 2012

Tracklisting: Goatlips, Call Me Jesus, Nurser, The Man Who Never Was, Dangler, Y Toros, As If By Remote, A Warm Annoyance, Karl, Outro, A Passing State of Well Being, Beatrice the Coyote, Laddio’s Money (Death of a Popsong), Wallkill Creek Survival, The Going Gong, In Search of Bolocko

Released: November 2002

Tracklisting: 1. Sought & Hidden 2. New Bold Ruler�s Joy 3. Back Home In Bogenbrook 4. Blues For Eight Belles 5. Fraught With Hornpipe 6. Eight Belles Dreamt The Devil Was Dead 7. The False True Love 8. Affirmed

Released: November 2011

Tracklisting: I Saw A Peacock With A Fiery Tail, Bonnie Cuckoo, When I Was Taken, Follow My Bangalory Man, Gypsies, Far From Home, Stool-Ball, A Gift, A Ghost / Monday Alone, There Are Men In The Village of Erith, Henry Was A Worthy King, What Did I Dream

Released: April 12, 2011

2nd album from this Circle side project. Extremely minimal psychadelic soundscapes.

Tracklisting: Komaron Runner, August, Dark Tember, Skyline, Love Unfiltered, Who Were You?

Released: June 2003

As rock bands go, The Psychic Paramount is a rigorously all-in proposition. They make impact a state of being rather than a discrete event. As single-minded as the music may seem at first strike, it exists at higher elevations -- of decibel, intensity, motion, color, temperature -- and spills freely over the walls of genre, magma into new land. It is punk in its fury, noise in its rash extremity, and progressive in form. II is their 2nd studio album.

Tracklisting: Intro / SP, DDB, RW, N5, N6, Isolated, N5 Coda

Released: February 2011

Origins and Primitives is not the new studio album (expect that to arrive eventually) but rather documents the formation of the group's sound with a collection of home recordings. Far from the 'in the red' sound of Gamelan, Origins and Primitives explores the quieter side of The Psychic Paramount with pulsing guitar tones, looped feedback and mellow electroacoustic compositions.

Tracklisting: Solo Electric Guitar with Pre-Recorded Drums, Echoh Air, The Eye Glass/Sex Operation, Microphone II, Auxiliary Threads, Enat/Voat, Microphone III, E5, Dsinter Blues Recorder, Interior 17, A Porous Mineral Drifting with a Rainmaker, Melancholy I, The Perfect Request, Soocerer

Released: November 2006

Debut album from this NYC power trio. Loud, heavy and noisy. Instrumental psych that may melt your speakers.

Tracklisting: Megatherion, Para5, Echo Air, X-Visitations, Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural

Released: July 2005