Music
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Vinyl - Dead Oceans (Secretly)
$90I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
- Bob Dylan, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" ('62)
With the label name lifted from the lyrics of the sprawling folk ballad Dylan wrote in the summer of '62, Dead Oceans has grown to embody not just the passing but the claiming of the torch.. Its diverse make-up of artists pushes forth a modern re-imagining of the supposed indie-rock canon - an expansion and re-definition of what the "indie" genre even is, and what it can be.
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232
Vinyl - Jagjaguwar (Secretly)
$110Across the twenty-year history of Jagjaguwar, an independent record label named, curiously, using a Dungeons & Dragons character-name-generating computer program, we find this idea of ritual as conjoining practice. We see it early on when Jagjaguwar joins forces with another Midwestern label. We see it in how these labels then find community with other like-minded record labels. We see it in the familial relationships between Jagjaguwar artists. And we see it in collaborations among Jagjaguwar artists.
In Ross Gay's Dilate Your Heart, each track is a conversation between artists. The sprawling, heartbreaking and relentlessly thankful "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude" is given a gorgeous, slowly creeping bed of vines by Jagjaguwar artist Bon Iver.
Included in this tote:
- Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space LP
- Ross Gay - Dilate Your Heart (Opaque Green Vinyl LP)
- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - This is a Mindfulness Drill LP
- Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? 2xLP
233
Vinyl - Secretly Canadian
$80In a lot of ways, it started in basements.
Bloomington, Indiana, sometime in the mid-Nineties. A long-since-lost Billboard article painted the Midwestern college town's scene as the next Seattle, a promising incubator for up-and-coming bands. But for all the mainstream attention bubbling on the surface, it was the energy humming beneath that beckoned. The romanticism and seemingly-endless possibilities of rock 'n' roll thrived, the basements concrete harbors for weirdo, arty kids, young and in love with the idea of what music could be.
Included in this tote:
- Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship (*Secretly Canadian's 25th Anniversary limited edition opaque blue vinyl with exclusive anniversary cover art)
- Serpentwithfeet - Deacon LP
- Fave Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha LP
- Current Joys - Voyager 2xLP