Devo
Hardcore Vol: 2 (2LP) [ Superior Viaduct / 2 LP - released 20/May/2013 ] Devo's Hardcore documents the group's beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, Devo formed as a conceptual art project armed... |
Spacemen 3
Dreamweapon (Double LP) [ Superior Viaduct LP / 2 LP - released 20/Apr/2018 ] August 1988, Spacemen 3 embark on one of the strangest events in the band's already strange history. Billed as "An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music" (although consciously omitting the sitar), the group would play in the foyer of Watermans Arts... |
Spacemen 3
Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / 2 LP - released 22/Jun/2018 ] In the swirl of kaleidoscopic recordings that is Spacemen 3's discography, Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To occupies a pivotal position - one at the nexus between their garage beginnings and expansionist future. Spacemen 3 capture the... |
Peter Gutteridge
Pure (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 8/Dec/2023 ] In the swirl of underground music emerging from Dunedin, New Zealand in the 1980s, Peter Gutteridge stands as one of the era's most intense and shadowy figures. Despite being a founding member of The Clean and The Chills, Gutteridge would eschew... |
This Kind Of Punishment
In The Same Room (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] With This Kind Of Punishment, Graeme Jefferies and Peter Jefferies produced some of most adept DIY sounds to emerge from New Zealand's 1980s post-punk scene. After their phenomenal self-titled debut and classic A Beard Of Bees, the brothers would... |
Alice Coltrane
Universal Consciousness (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 10/Jul/2015 ] Originally released on Impulse! in 1971, Universal Consciousness is a major turning point in Alice Coltrane's momentous career. While her previous albums pushed the limits of spiritual free jazz and featured much of her late husband's band, Universal... |
The Avengers
American In Me (7") [ Superior Viaduct / 7in - released 29/Nov/2019 ] Few first wave California punk bands burned as brightly as The Avengers. Formed in San Francisco during 1977's Summer of Hate, they swiftly ascended to the top of the West Coast scene and earned the coveted support slot for The Sex Pistols' final... |
Bert Jansch
Birthday Blues (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 9/Jun/2017 ] Bert Jansch's freewheeling fifth album, Birthday Blues, occupies a unique place in his solo discography. Released in 1969, the same year Basket of Light propelled Pentangle into the UK pop charts, Birthday Blues almost sounds like a Pentangle LP... |
Bert Jansch
Rosemary Lane (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 9/Jun/2017 ] By the time Rosemary Lane was released in 1971, Bert Jansch had covered a great deal of territory on numerous albums as a solo artist, collaborations with John Renbourn and records by the band in which he and Renbourn sang and played guitar,... |
Craig Leon
Nommos (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 1/Jul/2013 ] First appearing incongruously on John Fahey's Takoma label in 1981, Nommos remains enshrouded in impenetrable mystery - from its understated artwork to the rich assemblage of analog synths contained inside. According to Head Heritage, Nommos is the... |
Destry Hampton & The Wolves From Hell
Angel Of Madness (7") [ Superior Viaduct / 7in - released 1/Jul/2013 ] There is no sense in trying to outdo Angel of Madness, Destry Hampton's bona fide cult classic. Caught up in the international punk zeitgeist, Hampton laid down his une saison en enfer in late '77 in the North Beach district of San Francisco with a... |
Ennio Morricone
Un Uomo Da Rispettare (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 24/Mar/2017 ] Un Uomo Da Rispettare translates to "A Man to Respect," which can easily be said of Ennio Morricone himself - the unparalleled maestro of the soundtrack. This 1972 crime film stars Kirk Douglas as a master safecracker at a crossroads in his life,... |
Factrix
Scheintot [ Superior Viaduct / CD - released 25/Jun/2012 ] Arguably the most prescient band of the entire late 70's San Francisco underground, Factrix released just one 7-inch and two pioneering LP's in the early '80s. Formed in 1978 by Cole Palme (one-time member of the LAFMS group Airway) and Bond Bergland... |
Factrix
Scheintot (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 25/Jun/2012 ] rguably the most prescient band of the entire late 70's San Francisco underground, Factrix released just one 7-inch and two pioneering LP's in the early 80's. Formed in 1978 by Cole Palme (one-time member of the LAFMS group Airway) and Bond Bergland... |
Factrix / Cazazza
California Babylon (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 4/Jun/2012 ] California Babylon is a far more sparse and caustic offering than Factrix's debut, Scheintot, documenting their live collaboration with notorious artist Monte Cazazza, who along with recording for Throbbing Gristle's Industrial label also coined its... |
The Fall
Hex Induction Hour (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 9/Dec/2016 ] Hex Enduction Hour was originally conceptualised as the death knell for The Fall. Beleaguered by career uncertainty and guided by vague premonitions of collapse, Mark E. Smith declared that one full hour was needed to thoroughly and perhaps finally... |
The Fall
Room To Live (LP) [ Superior Viaduct LP / LP - released 9/Dec/2016 ] On Room To Live, The Fall take the hurried, all-or-nothing approach of their preceding Kamera Records releases to extreme ends. Forged via Mark E. Smith's continual disassembling of players and focus on previously unrehearsed material, the album... |
Faust
The Faust Tapes (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 7/Sep/2018 ] Faust stand among the most influential creative forces to have emerged from Germany in the late '60s and early '70s. Along with Can, Agitation Free, Neu! and others, they rejected the Anglo-American norms of rock 'n' roll to start a back-to-basics... |
Gun Club
Fire Of Love [ Superior Viaduct / CD - released 11/Nov/2014 ] Fire Of Love is the no-nonsense debut from blues-punk legends The Gun Club. Formed in 1979 - when singer Jeffrey Lee Pierce taught a young Kid Congo Powers to play guitar - the band injects the Delta blues, rockabilly and '60s garage with their own... |
Ike Yard
Ike Yard (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 31/Jul/2020 ] Ike Yard remain a legendary band of early '80s New York City - at once immensely influential, yet obscured by a far-too-brief initial phase. Their debut EP, the dark and absorbing Night After Night, sounds almost like a different group, so rapidly... |
John Coltrane / Alice Coltrane
Cosmic Music (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Cosmic Music features two tracks ("Manifestation" and "Rev. King") by John Coltrane's legendary final quintet that were recorded in San Francisco on February 2nd, 1966 and two more ("Lord Help Me To Be" and "The Sun") from Alice Coltrane's very first... |
John Frusciante
Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt (2LP) [ Superior Viaduct / 2 LP - released 17/Nov/2017 ] Niandra LaDes And Usually Just A T-Shirt is the first solo record by John Frusciante. Between 1990 and 1992 the guitarist made a series of 4-track recordings, which at the time were not intended for commercial release. After leaving the band Red Hot... |
Liquid Liquid
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Martin Rev
Martin Rev (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 12/Apr/2013 ] In 1980, shortly after Suicide's second full-length, Martin Rev released his first solo album on preeminent No Wave label Infidelity (Lust/Unlust). Uninhibited by the trappings of a collaborator, Rev was freed to explore his most experimental and pop... |
The Mekons
The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strnen (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 21/Jun/2019 ] After two singles for Fast Product, Leeds art-punk collective The Mekons signed with Virgin Records in 1979. The band would have to borrow gear from their mates Gang Of Four to record their major label debut. In classic Mekons style, the album's back... |
Monitor
Monitor [ Superior Viaduct / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] An errant project of suburban Los Angeles art collective World Imitation Productions, Monitor was the sonic outlet of four young artists grappling with their terror and amazement in the convergence of the late 1970s punk scene and Southern... |
Monitor
Monitor (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 29/Apr/2013 ] An errant project of suburban Los Angeles art collective World Imitation Productions, Monitor was the sonic outlet of four young artists grappling with their terror and amazement in the convergence of the late 1970s punk scene and Southern... |
Mx-80
Hard Attack (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 15/Mar/2013 ] MX-80 Sound is one of the real oddities in American music. Their debut album, Hard Attack (released in the UK on Island Records), found little-to-no audience in the States upon its release in 1977, yet remains a key document of the mid-'70s... |
Ornette Coleman
To Whom Who Keeps A Record (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 26/Feb/2016 ] In the late 1950's, Ornette Coleman set the jazz world on fire. From his own unique playing style to his fundamental deconstruction of harmony and complete rethinking of group performance, Coleman at once confounded critics and inspired a new... |
Peter Jefferies
Electricity (2LP) [ Superior Viaduct / 2 LP - released 12/Sep/2014 ] ELECTRICITY the second solo album from the New Zealand legend and former member of This Kind Of Punishment, Peter Jefferies. While his solo debut, 1990's THE LAST GREAT CHALLENGE IN A DULL WORLD, has drawn comparisons to classic... |
The Pin Group
Go To Town (LP) [ Superior Viaduct LP / LP ] The Pin Group went back into the studio in January 1982 to record their third and final classic release. Featuring an expanded five-piece lineup with Mary Heney on guitar/vocals and Peter Fryer on viola, Go To Town is a work of taut perfection.... |
Scientist
In The Kingdom Of Dub (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 14/Dec/2018 ] Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for 40 years. His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby's studio in Kingston. Brown quickly ascended the... |
Scientist
Introducing Scientist - The Best Dub Album In The World (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 12/Feb/2016 ] Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for nearly 40 years. His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby's studio in Kingston. Brown quickly... |
Spacemen 3
For All The Fucked-Up Children Of This World We Give You Spacemen 3 (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 22/Jun/2018 ] In 1984, Spacemen 3 made their first-ever recording session and sold a few cassettes at now-legendary, incendiary gigs. Growing out of the dual guitar attack of Jason Pierce and Pete Kember, the band's three-piece line up with Natty Brooker on drums... |
Spacemen 3
Playing With Fire (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 6/Jul/2018 ] Spacemen 3 began assembling their third album, 1988's Playing With Fire, at perhaps the freest, most confident point in their career. Recording began with the band road-tested and rugged, even amidst the functional volatility that famously motivated... |
Spacemen 3
Recurring (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 31/Aug/2018 ] 1990's Recurring, the fourth and final studio album by Spacemen 3, is often considered the introduction of two brilliant solo projects (Spectrum and Spiritualized) rather than the work of a functioning band. While Spacemen 3's departing statement... |
Steve Reich
Drumming [ Superior Viaduct / 2 CD - released 13/Jul/2018 ] Steve Reich's Drumming is regarded as one of the most important musical works of the last century. Distilled through his studies of African percussion in Ghana during 1970 and Balinese gamelan music, Reich revolutionized our understanding of... |
Steve Reich
Drumming (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / 2 LP - released 13/Jul/2018 ] Steve Reich's Drumming is regarded as one of the most important musical works of the last century. Distilled through his studies of African percussion in Ghana during 1970 and Balinese gamelan music, Reich revolutionized our understanding of... |
STEVE REICH
Reich: Four Organs / Phase Patterns (LP) Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Art Murphy, Steve Chambers [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 26/Feb/2016 ] Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid-1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained... |
Suicide
First Rehearsal Tapes (LP) [ Superior Viaduct / LP - released 17/Nov/2017 ] "On Suicide's First Rehearsal Tapes, recorded in 1975, Alan Vega and Martin Rev create minimalist aural structures, traces of which would surface on their eponymous debut album, released on the Red Star label in late 1977. "These songs are not a... |