The Dominators (Book)
**72 pages full-color perfect bound book zine** Our new ultra-limited edition full-color perfect bound book zine of pure uncensored filth. Is Pornography addictive? Some say, “yes” others say, “hell no”. Here at GrimRoar & S:.S:.C:. Books, we say “wh…
Planet Earth About To Be Recycled (Your Only Chance To Survive Is To Leave With Us)
Heaven’s Gate, an American cult founded in 1974 by Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite, was known by various names over the years, including Human Individual Metamorphosis, Bo and Peep, and Total Overcomers Anonymous. The group advocated extreme s…
Mass Against Rock Music
Elizabeth Clare Prophet's "Mass Against Rock Music" comprises recordings that document Prophet's spiritual campaign against the negative influences of rock music. These masses were hypnotic drone chants aimed at promoting spiritual protection and pur…
Sounds Like Work
*150 copies limited release* Sounds Like Work, a long-lost soundscape composition by South Australian composer and scholar, Chester Schultz, is made available by De la Catessen Records, for the first time since its private cassette release in 1978. D…
Ka I Ki
Huge Tip! Limited LP (w/ download card), 300 copies. A site-specific sound piece created by Akio Suzuki, a master of sound art, with a transcendent echo space. Since the 1960s, Akio Suzuki, a pioneer of sound art, has focused on "listening" and has …
Surrealism And Anarchy
*Edition of 50 copies* Ron Sakolsky is a rainforest renegade with a predilection for surrealist oystercatchers. Since this interview, he has published 2 books: Dreams of Anarchy and The Anarchy of Dreams: Adventures at the Crossroads of Surrealism an…
I Telephoned God
*Edition of 50 copies* Gary Cummiskey is a poet, short story writer and publisher living in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and collections, the latest being Animal eyeball (with Paul Warren) (Dye Hard Press) …
Newton
** 30 collector's editions, each of which will be sent directly by the artist, as a work of mail art, in a unique packaging for each copy made specifically for this occasion **Xing presents the LP NEWTON by Cesare Pietroiusti, fourteenth release of t…
Harkening Critters
Forms Of Minutiae presents 'Harkening Critters', the label’s second non-profit compilation of field recordings and soundscape compositions highlighting, this time, the incredible variety of animal signals.
Space As An Instrument
** Gatefold sleeve, Obi ** One of the universal experiences of life on Earth is staring, neck craned, at the cosmos. The vastness of one's internal life meets the vastness of space, and in that moment those perspectives fuse in a state of wonder and …
Nan Goldin. Memory Lost/Sirens
Repress of the Soundtrack to Nan Goldin’s Memory Lost and Sirens. Produced and composed by Mica Levi, Soundwalk Collective & Franz Schubert for Nan Goldin. Contains a black 180g heavyweight vinyl, housed in a linen-laminated sleeve. Repress of 500 co…
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
Surveying the range of Sun Ra’s extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought “space music” to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world.
A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin
A twisting path through Austin’s underground music scene in the twentieth century’s last decade, narrated by the people who were there.
Arvo Part: Sounding the Sacred
*2024 stock* Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred focuses on the representati…
The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave
*2024 stock* How the creative use of pop music in film—think Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Now—has shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s. Quick: What movie do you think of when you hear “The Sounds of Silence”? Better yet, what song …
Robert Ashley
*2024 stock* This book explores the life and works of Robert Ashley, one of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley's innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Behrman, formed …
A Disco Pogo Tribute (Book)
Hardback cover. 250 pages, richly illustrated. Aphex Twin: A Disco Pogo Tribute compiles interviews, essays and features from various music journalists, all exploring Richard D. James' decades-long career. Like Daft Punk, the people behind Disco Pogo…
Interviews with American Composers: Barney Childs in Conversation
*2024 stock* In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not …
At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz
In At the Vanguard of Vinyl, Darren Mueller examines how the advent of the long-playing record (LP) in 1948 revolutionized the recording and production of jazz in the 1950s. The LP’s increased fidelity and playback capacity allowed lengthy compositio…
Keywords In Sound
*2024 stock* In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keywo…