Exotica

How does one listen to The Spooky Scary Band? At night, in the woods. Or in a dark room while the wind howls outside. Perhaps while “praying”, or while doing other, quiet things. Or, with eyes covered in leaves, while lying in the mud on a chilly, October

From the makers of Hillbillies In Hell...A Celebration of Spiritual Triumph over Terrestrial Adversity. Originally cut on Homespun, Private-Press and Vanity labels across the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, this collection features voices almost never heard

The year is 1989. The American wing of a major Japanese Music Instrument company runs an ad, inviting users of their products to submit homemade recordings of original Halloween songs for a “Yama-Halloween” album. Hundreds of hopeful musicians, songwriter

Another 18 slices of rott n' roll records from Weirdsville, USA!! 'Ain't nobody here but us monsters!' I shouted out in desperation. 'Monsters? There are no monsters here!' came the reply out of the darkness, 'These are my children! My babies!!' And with

Mystery colored vinyl (a unique and kooky mix-up from an exotic palette) and limited edition of 600 copies only! From the mystical realms of a secluded ancient island, rising from the icy spray of the forbidden northern waters, comes the haunting, savage

This is going to be the scariest spoken word record you’ve ever heard. We’re not joking…and neither is Vincent Price. The star of such horror classics as House of Wax, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, and Theatre of Blood (and, of course, narrator of Michael Ja

A disciple of mambo innovator Perez Prado, the Cuban-born Modesto Duran was a pivotal figure in Latin dance music’s transitionary mid-century period. His gentle slaps can be heard across dozens of 1950s mega-sellers, from Esquivel to Belafonte, Eartha Kit

The sublime, seductive sound of the smooth and sultry songstress. "Sometimes me and the opposite sex just don't get along. I mean, we do and we don't. Take this last one. She and I were getting on just fine. We went to the movies, I took her to shows, I t

The curtain rings down on 2023, and so much more, with the proverbial “Opus You Didn’t Know You Were Waiting For”—a new musical from Erik Paparozzi and Gregg Turkington—and the first-ever Drag City Christmas/Holiday album—Neil Hamburger Presents Seasonal

As anyone who worked in a record store from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s can relate, the two Shimmy Disc albums released by the Rev. Fred Lane were the weirdest, most bizarre, abstractly enigmatic releases any of them had ever heard. From the dadaist t

Originally released in 2005 on Mike Cooper's Hipshot Cd-r label, and reissued here for the first time on vinyl, Spirit Songs deserves to be regarded as a true rediscovered gem, remixed and remastered by Mike Copper himself. Spirit Songs comes as a highly