May 8, 2010

good morning germany

watch this great bbc documentary about krautrock and then come over to repo and buy some records!
krautrock documentary

March 18, 2010

RIP Alex Chilton

Record Store Day 2010



It is that time of year again...time to pin your name to the Record Store Day titles of your choice. I don't know if we can stress enough how important it is for us to get pre-orders for these titles. They really seem to fly off of the shelves and pop up on ebay for silly prices. We want to make sure that our loyal and loved regular customers don't miss out. So we give you the option of reserving them. Here is a list of scheduled releases thus far...more to come I am sure, so stay tuned.

Against Me! I Was A Teenage Anarchist 7"
Album Leaf There is a Wind 12"
Apples In Stereo
3CD/3LP
Arthur Russell Calling Out of Context 2LP
Avenged Sevenfold Unholy Confessions LP
Band Of Skulls Live at Ringerprints EP Cdep
Beach House Zebra 12"
Beastie Boys
12"
Bird & The Bee Interpreting the Masters Vol. 1 : Hall & Oats LP
Black Keys Tighten Up/Howlin' For You 7"
Black Moth Super Rainbow Eaters LP
Bon Iver/Peter Gabriel Don't Talk to Me/Flume 7"
Bonobo
12"
Bruce Springsteen
10"
Buddy guy A Man and the Blues LP
Budos Band/Sharon Jones
7"
Charlotte Gainsbourg Heven Can Wait 7"
Citizen Cope Side A CD
Citizen Cope Rainwater CD
Coco Rosie Lemonade/Surfer Girl 7"
Coconut Records
7"
Coheed and Cambria
7"
Cypress Hill Rise UP LP
Da Exclamation Point LP
Daedelus Righteous 12"
Dan Zanes Hello Dolly/I am what I am 7"
Dave Holland 5x7 7"
Dave Matthews-Tim Reynolds
7"
Deerhoof Apple LP
Deerhoof Green LP
Deftones Rocketskates 7"
Devo Duty Now For the Future CD
Devo Fresh/What We Do 12"
Devo Duty Now For the Future LP
Doc Watson S/T LP
Doors People are Strange 7"
Dum Dum Girls/Male Bonding Pay For Me/Before Its Gone 7"
Elvis Costello Live at Hollywood High 7"
Elvis Presley That's All Right 7"
Fanfarlo You are one of the few 7"
Flaming Lips and Stardeath… S/T LPw/CD
Flogging Molly Devil's Dance Floor/Paddy's Lament 7"
Fucked UP Daytrotter Session 7"
Fun/Aim and Ignite
12"
Godsmack
7"
Gogol Bordello We Comin' Rougher 7"
Goldfrapp Head First LP
Gorillaz White Flag 10"
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Live in Skowhegan CD
Graham Jones Last Shop Standing BOOK
Great Lake Swimmers
CD
Ha Ha Tonka Walking on the Devil's Backbone 7"
Happy Birthday Shampoo/Alien 7"
Hundred in the Hands
7"
Infected Mushroom
CD
Jakob Dylan & Courtyard Houds See You in the Spring 7"
Jamie Lidell
7"
Japandroids Post Nothing LP
Jeff Beck Emotion & Commotion 180g LP
Jimi Hendrix Live at Clark University 7"
Joan Baez S/T Lp
Joe Strummer & Mescaleros Global A Go-Go 2LP
Joe Strummer & Mescaleros Streetcore LP
John Fahey The Yellow Princess LP
John Lennon Singles Bag 7" Box
Josh Ritter
LP+CD
Joy Division LP Box Set 4LP
Juicehead Rotting from the Inside 7"/color
Julian Casablancas 11th Dimension-Long Island Blues 7"
La Roux bulletproof 7"
LCD Soundsystem Pow Pow 10"
Let's Wrestle/Love Language I'm So Lazy/Brittany's Back 7"
Luna Coil Shallow Live-Acoustic at Criminal Records 7"
Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs Box Set 10"
Manchester Orchestra Live CD
Mary Onettes The Night Before The Funeral 7"
Mastodon Blood Mountain 180g 2LP
Mastodon Blood Mountain LP
Menomena/Helio Sequence
7"
MGMT Siberian Breaks 12"
Mississippi John Hurt Today LP
Modest Mouse Moon and Antartica LP
Monsters of Folk S/T 2LP
Mountain Goats Life of the World to Come DVD
Muse Exogenesis: Symphony 12"
Nada Surf If I Had a Hi-Fi CD
Neil Young Heart of Gold/Sugar… 7"
Neko Case Middle Cyclone LP
Of Montreal Back to School 7"
Omar Rodriguez Lopez
LP
One AM Radio Credible Threats 7"
One Eskimo Live EP CD
Owl City
7"
Pantera Cowboys From Hell 180g 2LP
Pantera Far Beyond Driven 180g 2LP
Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power 180g 2LP
Paolo Nutini Live at Preservation Hall CDep
Passion Pit Little Secrets 7"
Pavement Quarantine the Past: Best of Pavement 2LP
Peter Gabriel/Magnetic Fields The Book of Love/Not one of Us 7"
Plants & Animals La La Land LP
Queens Of The Stone Age Feel Good Hit of the Summer 10"pic
Ramones Ramones mania (blue/green) 2LP
REM Chronic Town 12"
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River True Love Cast Out All Evil LP
Rx Bandidts Live CD
Sea Wolf Get to the River Before It Runs Too Low EP 12"
Seasick Steve Diddley Bo 7"
Sex Pistols Great Rock & Roll Swindle LP
Sick Puppies Live and Unplugged CD
Soft Pack The Soft Pack 7" Box Set
Sonic Youth Confusion Is Sex 180g White Vinyl LP
Sonic Youth EVOL 180g Pink Vinyl LP
Sonic Youth Hits Are For Squares 2LP
Sound Garden Hunted Down/Nothing to Say 7"
Steel Train Turnpike 7"
Superchunk Misfits & Mistakes 7"
Taylor Hawkins/Coattail Riders Red Light Fever LP
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists The Oldest House/North Coast 7"
Tegan & Sara AOL Sessions 7"
Telekinesis Dirty Thinng/Non-Toxic 7"
Them Crooked Vultures Mind Eraser, No Chaser LP
Thermals/Cribs
7"
Tom Waits Mule Variations 11th Anniversary LP
Tutu & the Pirates Sub-Urban Insult Rock for the Anti-Lectual LP
TV On The Radio Dear Science LP
V/A SubPop 20: Casual Nostalgia Fest CD
V/A On the Radar CD
V/A I need that Record DVD
V/A We Fun DVD
V/A B Music comp Radio Galaxia LP
V/A B Music comp Bird Songs 10"
V/A-Blonde Redhead,Big Pink… Fragments from Work In Progress 12"
V/A-Damien Juardo, Woven Hand… It Happened Here LP
Velvet Underground Live 1969 Vol. 1 w/Lou Reed 180g LP
Velvet Underground Live 1969 Vol. 2 w/Lou Reed 180g LP
Weezer
CD
White Lies The Remix EP CDep
Wilco Kicking Television Live 180g 4LP
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Skeletons 7"
Yeasayer O.N.E 12"

August 9, 2009

CD SALE!!! Stock up on these classic titles...

Agent Orange Living In Darkness REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Aphex Twin Drukqs REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Bad Religion Recipe for Hate REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Bjork Vespertine REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Black Sabbath Black Sabbath REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Black Sabbath Master of Reality REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Black Sabbath Paranoid REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Black Sabbath Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Black Sabbath Sabotage REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Black Sabbath Volume 4 REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Breeders, The Last Splash REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Built to Spill Keep it Like a Secret REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Built to Spill Perfect From Now On REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Circle Jerks Golden Shower of Hits REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Cure, The Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Cure, The Pornography REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Depeche Mode Some Great Reward REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Depeche Mode Music For the Masses REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Depeche Mode Violator REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Devo Q: Are We Not Men REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Dinosaur Jr. Ear-Bleeding Country REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Dinosaur Jr. Where You Been REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Echo and the Bunnymen Ocean Rain REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Echo and the Bunnymen Songs to Learn and Sing REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Fear The Record REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Flaming Lips Hit to Death In the Future REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Flaming Lips Clouds Taste Metallic REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Flaming Lips Transmissions From the… REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Flaming Lips, The Zaireeka REG: 24.99 SALE: 17.99
Jesus and Mary Chain 21 Singles REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures REG: 24.99 SALE: 17.99
Kinks, The Aurthur REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Kinks, The Lola Vs. Powerman… REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Kinks, The Village Green Preservation REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Kyuss Blues for the Red Sun REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Love Best Of REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Love Forever Changes REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
MC5 Greatest Hits REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Melvins Houdini REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Misfits, The Walk Among Us REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Morrison, Van Astral Weeks REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Morrissey Best of Morrissey REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
My Bloody Valentine Loveless REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
New Order The Best of New Order REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
New Order Singles (2CD) REG: 24.99 SALE: 17.99
New Order Substance REG: 24.99 SALE: 17.99
Pogues, The Hell's Ditch REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Pogues, The If I Should Fall From Grace REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Pogues, The Peace & Love REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Pogues, The Red Roses For Me REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Pogues, The Rum, Sodomy & the Lash REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Raconteurs, The Broken Boy Soldiers REG: 13.99 SALE: 10.99
Ramones Leave Home REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Ramones Road to Ruin REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Ramones Greatest Hits REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Ramones Ramones Mania REG: 13.99 SALE: 10.99
Ramones Hey! Ho! Let's Go! REG: 24.99 SALE: 17.99
Rancid Indestructible REG: 13.99 SALE: 10.99
Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Replacements, The Tim REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Sex Pistols, The Nevermind the Bollocks REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Smiths, The Strangeways, Here We Come REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Smiths, The Hatful of Hollow REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Smiths, The Louder Than Bombs REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Smiths, The Meat Is Murder REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Smiths, The The Queen is Dead REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Smiths, The The Smiths REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Stooges, The The Stooges REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Talking Heads Fear of Music REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Talking Heads Little Creature REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Talking Heads True Stories REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Talking Heads Talking Heads '77 REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Talking Heads The Best of REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Talking Heads Stop Making Sense REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
Talking Heads The Name of This Band… REG: 24.99 SALE: 17.99
Television Marquee Moon REG: 18.99 SALE: 11.99
The Kinks Something Else REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Tom Tom Club Tom Tom Club REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Velvet Underground Loaded REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Waits, Tom Closing Time REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
Waits, Tom Heart Of Saturday Night REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Waits, Tom On Heartattack and Vine REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Waits, Tom Small Change REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Ween Chocolate and Cheese REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
White Stripes, The The White Stripes REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
White Stripes, The Elephant REG: 13.99 SALE: 10.99
White Stripes, The Get Behind Me Satan REG: 13.99 SALE: 10.99
White Stripes, The White Blood Cells REG: 13.99 SALE: 10.99
X Under the Big Black Sun REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
X Wild Gift REG: 9.99 SALE: 6.99
X Los Angeles REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Young, Neil Comes a Time REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Young, Neil Harvest Moon REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Young, Neil Live Rust REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Young, Neil On the Beach REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Young, Neil Rust Never Sleeps REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Young, Neil Tonight's the Night REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99
Young, Neil Unplugged REG: 11.99 SALE: 8.99

February 5, 2009

Customer Picks No. 3

This is Jake. We love him...

The Hold Steady, Stay Positive. Dudes have been awesome pretty much since jump and yet missing their shows always seems like a good idea at first ($28 at the Electric Factory?). This jawn makes me feel consistently stupid for doing so. Seriously, Craig Finn should get shot outside Hot 97 for spitting lyrics like these. They've always been conspicuously aware of their place in the rock matrix, making sure to give props to their forebears and influences, but on this album they've made steps toward diversification by incorporating punk rock into their world view. By repping HC dudes like Husker Du and 7 Seconds they're trying to move beyond all that "world's greatest bar-band" half-praise and demonstrate their full commitment to rocking people's faces off. In Finn's almost obsessive referencing of the past he's like a Midwestern Nas, minus the whole imaginary-drug-kingpin thing but with better beats. And solos! Sweet, sweet guitar solos arching heavenward to ball-tap Jesus. I don't think I'll ever get tired of listening to this. And hopefully they'll start a heavy "in '88 you was gettin' chased in your building" beef with with like Vampire Weekend or something.


EROC, EROC 1-4. Though not the harshest Krautrock releases, these are probably the strangest in terms of stylistic variety. Covers the distance between "Peking O" freakout stuff and the more deliberate, heavy keyboard Michael Rother post-NEU! stuff. All four of these albums rule so hard. They also have funny liner note pictures. And sometimes sound like a German Swell Maps. Really silly, unexpected and forehead-smacking. Accordion jams, reverb experiments, glass-breaking noises, uncomfortable orgasm noises, children singing... all awesome! The fourth album is the best album I got in all of 2008, especially the unholy quartet of songs coming in the middle of its second half; "Detleft Ist Weg", "Die Kinder Zeihen Fort", "Der Prophet" and "Sonntagsfahrt" gracefully transition from dorky proto-hip-hop to dorky big drum "Owner of a Lonely Heart"-kinda thing to the undisputed champion of minimalist funk to a tune perfect for a jaunty ride on the sun, respectively. Breathless! Seriously, "Der Prophet" is so smooth it's illegal. I heard some jerk on the train say that he had "the most diverse musical taste ever... from Carrie Underwood to Atreyu". These EROC albums were probably made to hospitalize that kid. Buy them!

Endless Boogie, Focus Level. Non-stop post-ZZ Top-rock. These guys are pretty old, which is cool, and rock on each riff for a really long time. Like Circle's extension of Priest/Motorhead biker-rock on Sunrise, dusty Billy Gibbons-isms are expanded to incredible lengths and effect. Probably the only record whose FFO recommendation lists both Mogwai and George Thorogood. But they're freaking zillions times better than each. Best part: "Gimme the Awesome". Song circles around amiably but with definite purpose until bursting out with great volume. One of the best builds since Electric Wizard's "Funeralopolis", which is totally crazy because that song is the greatest.

Kreator, Pleasure to Kill. This didn't get reissued this year or anything but I didn't get it until around October or so so I'll count it anyway. It basically puts together most of the coolest aspects of thrash and early black metal, so you can have the imprecise, wind-tunnel blastbeats and unearthly vocals of the black stuff but with the low end of thrash! Like if you could hear the bass on a Bathory record! Kreator rocks super hard. Playing "Under Pressure", "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" and the title cut from this album at the same time is a very worthwhile experience.

Om Shanti Om. Probably the funniest and funnest movie I've seen in the last seven months. If you don't know your Prem Chopra from your Johnny Lever most of the jokes won't really seem very funny but the film has such a chillin' attitude that it's easy to overlook the barrage of in-jokes and cameos. Plus, Shah Rukh Khan, the king of '90s Indian cinema, is back in action and ready to rock to a ridiculous extreme in this movie. The dude is ripped like Hulk Hogan's shirt. It's insane. Aaaaaand, the film features an incredible song called "Dard-E Disco", meaning "the pain of disco". Or maybe "the disco of pain". Either way it's the best. Somewhat like a slicker Lindstrom.

Steinski, What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006. Given that this is predominantly a samples and scratching record it could follow that his jams succeed or fail solely on than the sum of their parts. And since he's dropping in samples of super-sweet stuff like Rufus Thomas, Gilbert Gottfried, "Stop in the Name of Love" and, best of all, "Break Dance Electric Boogie" it's easy to get down with this jawn from a parts-to-whole standpoint. Yet when we engage this comp more holistically it totally holds up, qualitatively speaking. Like the best modern mash-up stuff, shit's got a really smooth internal flow, avoiding the feeling that he's just artlessly clumping samples, no matter how neat, into a piecemeal ball. I told my dad about this record and he said, "Oh, so it's like that Girl Talk guy?" Go my dad! The stuff on the first disc that Steinski rocked without Double D has a couple embarrassing moments, most notably a track with Chuck D that sounds like the trailer music for a late '90s rave movie. But the first tracks are so sweet that who cares?

February 2, 2009

RECORD STORE DAY




Celebrate RECORD STORE DAY on April 18th, 2009 with Repo Records.

Exclusive CDs, 7" singles, and posters...get 'em while they last...only on April 18th!

Including:

Matador Record Store Day Limited Edition Vinyl:

Pavement: Live in Germany [Cologne, 1997]

Pay No Mind 7"

A1: Sonic Youth: "Pay No Mind" (Beck cover)
B1: Beck: "Green Light" (Sonic Youth cover)

Hang Them All 7"

A1: Jay Reatard: "Hang Them All"
B1: Sonic Youth: "No Garage"

December 21, 2008

Customer Top 5 no. 2


Our new customer top 5 list is by another one of our favorite customers, Sal.
Do you like the photo of him?? I took it. This was my inspiration...





WINDY WEBER: I Hate People
(Blueflea)
"Windy Weber, known for being half of the ambient drone duo WINDY & CARL, has recorded a solo album. It is quite different from what you may be thinking it has none of the soothing characteristics you may be expecting & instead is full of heavy & brooding music. It’s comprised of two tracks Sirens, coming in at 24 minutes, is instrumental & is filled with the sound of guitars crying, rising & falling like waves crashing on the rocks. Sirens is ominous, and haunting. It is not music to sleep to, but instead could make you tense & anxious. The second track is Destroyed. It is 32 minutes long, and comprised of 3 suites. The first being layers of vocals, woven together to make a chorus of breathing & breathlessness, layers to make you feel as if you may be drowning in the sea..whether that sea be the ocean, or the sea of life, the day to day world in which you must deal. The second suite becomes noisy, agitated, rumbling & distorted guitars, bass & feedback, and makes you sit on the edge of your seat wondering what is about to happen. The third suite takes you to the end of the album with it’s subsonic frequencies & strange unrecognizible sounds. This is not music for the faint of heart ."

V/A Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted: Baghdad, 1925-1929 (Honest Jon)
"This is the second in Honest Jon's series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. In the mid-1920s, The Gramophone Company -- soon before it became EMI -- employed two or three Europeans to criss-cross Iraq. They logged regional demographics, assessed the German competition, and checked out the scores of record shops and hundreds of musical venues. In Kerbala, its man fearfully disguised himself as an Arab. This was the groundwork for three sessions, conducted in Baghdad in the second half of the decade, which produced nearly 1,000 recordings. Business was good -- the first group of records, though deemed aesthetically unsuccessful by the Company, immediately produced 12,000 sales to just two outlets in the city. Drawing on the full range of these Baghdad recordings, it is a wondrous, deeply poignant glimpse of social living since obliterated, in which ethnicities, faiths and traditions appear woven richly and meltingly together, however precariously. There is dance music featuring Arab folk singers from the countryside, backed by professional Jewish musicians in Iraqi styles popularly termed "Egyptian," and perfected in nightclubs where the first duty of the secular women singers on this album was prostitution. Also including some Arabic word-play, in a nod to the musical form of the Arabic mawwal, a Hebrew hymn is kick-started with a cry of "Allah!," most likely from one of the Jewish performers. There are pieces from Bahrain and Kuwait; sometimes mixed together in one performance -- the different dialects are far-flung. There are beautiful, high and lonesome Kurdish violin improvisations; and some unaccompanied circular breathing on a zourna so unearthly it seems to cross late Coltrane with Sun Ra. All the songs are characterized by searing emotion and crises of feeling, many by erotic urgency. As with the other titles in the series, the recordings have been startlingly restored at Abbey Road; and they are presented with full translations, rare photographs (in this case, several performers), and notes -- including an extensive interview with a citizen of Baghdad throughout this period, who knew many of the musicians here personally."

TOWNES VAN ZANDT: Delta Momma Blues & Flying Shoes
(
Fat Possum)

"This is another strong collection from Townes Van Zandt, and not a dud in the bunch. The melodies here are strong, the lyrics full of Van Zandt's razor-sharp insight, and the production is sparse and to the point, bringing to mind the inconspicuous polish of High and Low and In Between. The feel here is a balance between folk and country, with Van Zandt's voice and guitar up front, letting the songs speak for themselves. The tunes are full of heartbreak and hopelessness, making it a great album to put on during, or right after, the breakup of an affair."

THE DEAD C: Secret Earth
(Ba Da Bing)

"Along the axis of The Dead C's recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh '70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius."



CURRENT 93: Dogs Blood Rising & Nature Unveiled
(Durtro/Jnana)

Current 93's seminal first two albums have been reissued!!