Though not released until 1983 the Avengers' self-titled record (aka The Pink Album) features the band's recorded output from 1977-78, from the glorious first wave of punk rock. The Avengers were San Francisco's preeminent punk band, led by Penelope Houston's snarling vocals and Greg Igranham's distorted guitar riffs, and one of the first anywhere to feature a female lead singer. Reissued on 2xCD and 180g LP. The 2CD version includes previously unreleased live and studio material. Click the image above for more info or to purchase a copy. "The Avengers were San Francisco's best punk band, in moments the best in the republic: fabulous songs, a snarling, confrontational presence, a primitive sound that could go anywhere." - Greil Marcus

Formed in 1978 out of the ashes of the group, The B-Sides (whose members included Stuart Goddard, who would soon be known by the pseudonym Adam Ant), The Monochrome Set released both their debut LP, Strange Boutique, and its follow-up, Love Zombies, in 1980. Highly influential British post-punk reissued on CD and 180 gram vinyl (coming soon, preorder now). Click on the images to purchase.

First Step is the debut album from Faces, formed out of the ashes of The Small Faces, with a young Rod Stewart, fresh off of his work with the Jeff Beck Group, replacing Steve Marriott on lead vocals. With a more rustic and rural rock sound than before, Faces debut features the classics "Flying" and "Three Button Hand Me Down". Reissued here on 180g vinyl, recreating the original US version that erroneously listed the group as "Small Faces". Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

No Other was a unviversal critical and commercial failure at the time of its release in 1974, but the years have been kind to it. Gene Clark, some 7 years removed from his time with The Byrds, wrote the songs in the quiet seclusion of his Mendocino home but recorded in the cocaine excess of '70s Los Angeles, and the result is the perfect amalgam of those two poles of Clark's personality. Sadly, his return to L.A.'s hedonism resulted in the dissolution of his marriage, but the tragedy sounds so damn good. A California singer-songwriter classic back in print on vinyl with reproductions of the original insert and poster. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Folksongs & Ballads, by Tia Blake, is a very rare and sought after record, released only in France in 1971 and never before available on CD. A stunning selection of songs performed in a stripped down setting with Tia's achingly beautiful vocals taking center stage. A truly wonderful album, reissued here on CD with new notes from Tia herself, along with vintage photos, and bonus tracks taken from rehearsals and a scrapped CBC session that features the only known recordings of Tia's original songs. AMAZING. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Reissued here on 180 gram vinyl are three classic LPs from legendary Manchester prog group, Van Der Graaf Generator. All released in a 2 year period from 1970-1971, these thre albums capture Peter Hammill's group at their peak. Click on the images for more info and to order copies.

Reissued here on 180 gram vinyl are two more classic electric era Miles Davis double live LPs, previously available only in Japan. Both are taken from the same show in Osaka, 1975, an epic show capturing electric Miles at the height of his powers. Absolutely stunning. Click on the images for more info and to order copies.

New Blues And Gospel is a collection of the final recordings of Rev. Gary Davis before his death in 1972. A master of the Piedmont style, this collection of country and gospel blues really shows his strength as a guitarist, even for a man in his seventies. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Trying To Get Home is an LP compilation, original released on Biograph in the '70s, of Blind Willie McTell's legendary 1949 sessions for the Regal label. Stunning mid-period blues sides from McTell. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Originally released on Testament, Traveling Through The Jungle is one the first releases to EVER document the fife and drum bands of the American South. Recorded in the '40s, '50s, and '60s by the likes of Alan Lomax this LP includes tracks from the legendary Otha Turner, Sid Hemphill, and more. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Originally released in 1977, Dark Magus is a killer electric era Miles Davis live recording from 1974. Previously released only in Japan, this is one of the harder to find Miles titles from the '70s. Shredding jazz-rock from the master. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Originally released in 1994, I Could Live In Hope is the debut album from Minnesota's slo-core pioneers, Low. Previously available only on CD, this is the very first time it's been released on vinyl, in a beautiful double 180 gram LP package. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Reissued here on 180 gram vinyl are Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's 1980, and 1982 releases. Though perhaps not as legendary as their earlier albums, these are still the work of a singularly twisted genius. Click on the images above for more info and to place an order.

Originally released in 1971, Live-Evil is electric era Miles Davis at its absolute finest. A killer double LP mixing studio recordings and live sessions at The Cellar Door in Washington, D.C. Four sides of vinyl that explore the furthest reaches of jazz. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Reissued here on 180 gram vinyl are Cohen's 1977 and 1984 efforts, respectively. Death Of A Ladies Man' was produced by the legendary Phil Spector and features such classics as "Don't Go Home With Your Hard-on". Various Positions includes siginficant vocal contributions from the lovely Jennifer Warnes, as well as the oft-covered classics "Hallelujah" and "Dance Me To The End Of Love". Click on the images above for more info and to place an order.

Originally released in 1989, Oh Mercy is the first in a series of Dylan albums to be produced by the legendary Daniel Lanois (Brian Eno, U2). Featuring his instantly recognizable production, one of the finest batches of Dylan songs in many years, and a swampy vibe due in no small part to its recording location (New Orleans), Oh Mercy is definitely one of Dylan's finest efforts of the last 30+ years. Finally back in print on LP, this time on 180 gram vinyl with a deluxe tip-on jacket. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Originally released in 1995 on Virgin Records' Vernon Yard subsidiary, this is the second album from Alan Sparhawk and Co. Produced by the legendary Kramer, Long Division really solidified the band's "Slo-core" sound. A fantastic collection of downer vibes, this still holds up as one of Low's finest albums. Click here for more info or to purchase a copy.

Originally released in 1996, Mic City Sons, is the 3rd and final album from Elliott Smith's Heatmiser. Here, some 2 years before the release of XO you can really hear the roots of that album's gorgeous, orchestrated pop. Long out of print on LP and often commanding 3 figure price tags on eBay, Plain Recordings is pleased to reissue this fine album on 180 gram vinyl. Click here for more info or to purchase a copy.

Released in 1995, the debut from Ben Folds Five is a stunning mix of Tin Pan Alley, piano based power pop, new wave, and alternative, from a witty and earnest songwriter. Still going strong some 15+ years later, now you have a chance to hear the humble beginnings of the Ben Folds Five on 180 gram vinyl. Click here or on the cover image for more info or to purchase a copy.

Back in print on vinyl for the first time since their initial releases in 1993 and 1995 are the first two albums from Nottingham, England's Tindersticks. Essential '90s indie chamber pop/soul from Stuart Staples & co. Absolutely stunning and beautiful moody songs from the master of '90s chamber rock. On 180 gram vinyl. Click on the images for more information.

Originally released by Caroline in 1991, the same year as Nevermind, Hole's debut album was produced by Kim Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming. The Village Voice named it their "Album Of The Year", and it remains a cult favorite to this day. Reissued on 180 gram vinyl. Click here or on the image for more info and to purchase a copy.

Sutro Park has acquired the rights to an extensive blues catalog and their first reissue installment sure is a doozy. Junior Kimbrough's debut album, recorded in 1979, and available now on vinyl for the first time EVER. R.L. Burnside's first electric recordings, also from 1979, smoke. And, the incredible 1966 recordings of Fred McDowell with the Hunter’s Chapel Singers of Como, Mississippi. Raw blues at its finest, all on deluxe 180 gram vinyl with beautiful tip-on jackets. Dig in. Click on the images for more info and to purchase.

Finally back in print on LP are 3 of Nina Simone's finest studio recordings. Simone was, above all, an absolutely stunning interpreter of other's songs, and these 3 albums showcase some of her finest cover versions, including Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne", the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody", the Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun", Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles", and a whole mess of Bob Dylan. Amazing jazz, soul, blues and pop from an American treasure. Click on the cover images for more info and to purchase.

Percy Mayfield is a forgotten American treasure. The composer of such classics as "Please Send Me Someone To Love" and "Hit The Road Jack", this is his 1966 LP recorded for Ray Charles' Tangerine label. A wonderful R&B album from a classic songwriter, and killer vocalist, in print on LP for the first time since its initial release. 180 gram vinyl. Click on the image for more info and to order.

Band leader Bobby Gillespie described his 1997 classic as "an anarcho-syndicalist speedfreak road movie record!" A return to the fine form displayed on their 1991 classic, Screamadelica (also available from Plain Recordings), 1997's Vanishing Point is a stunning mixture of alternative/brit-pop and acid house dance music. No other band sounded like Primal Scream, before or after. Click the image for more info and to purchase a copy.

Originally released in 1992, this is the 4th album from the Reid brothers legendary group. Shortlisted for the 1992 Mercury Prize, Honey's Dead contains the classic single "Far Gone And Out". Click the image for more info or to purchase.

Originally released in 1982, The Days Of Wine And Roses is, arguably the most important and greatest album in the history of L.A.'s Paisley Underground scene. However you wanna slice it, the album is a all-time U.S. underground/alternative classic and, up until now, was a really hard pull on vinyl. Not anymore thanks to this deluxe reissue with 180g LP and a tip-on jacket. Click the image for more info or to purchase.

Wee Tam and the Big Huge were released simultaneously in 1968, a a 2LP set in the UK, and individually here in the US. We've meticulously reproduced the US editions and they look and sound great. Considered by many to be their finest work, this is certainly the most accessible and song oriented the band had ever sounded. Classics. Click on the images for more info or to purchase.

Over 50 years since his discovery by ethnomusicologists Dr. Harry Oster and Richard Allen in the prison farm of Angola, Louisiana, what is it that makes the blues as sung and picked by Robert Pete Williams such a singular listening experience, unequaled elsewhere in that musical form? As Peter Guralnick, in his Feel Like Going Home book writes: It's difficult to approve the banalities of most blues singers after listening to Robert Pete Williams. More than anyone else he shatters the conventions of the form and refuses to rely upon any of the cliches, either of music or of lyric, which bluesman after bluesman will invoke. Instead he sings blues which reflect a unique and personal vision; he makes each song unmistakably his own.

Jimmy Scott is one of Jazz music's all-time great vocalists. Falling In Love Is Wonderful is his long out of print classic released in 1962 for Ray Charles' Tangerine label. Featuring Ray Charles on piano, this album was at the heart of a lawsuit between Tangerine and his previous label, Savoy, which resulted in the album being pulled from the shelves mere weeks after its initial release. As a result, this title was nearly impossible to find on vinyl, until now. Click on the cover image for more info and to purchase a copy.

More killer funk-psych from the masters of the genre. George Clinton's final releases for the Westbound include their 7th studio album (Let's Take It To The Stage) and an album of outtakes and previously unreleased tracks (Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic). More stellar P-Funk from the twisted mind of Dr. Funkenstein. Click on the album covers for more info or to purchase copies.

Jason Pierce formed Spiritualized in 1990, following the break up of his previous band, Spacemen 3. Their debut came out in 1992 followed by Pure Phase in 1995 and Ladies And Gentlemen... in 1997. Ladies and Gentlemen... has been available for a few months now from Plain but we just got the first two on double LP and they SOUND GREAT. Absolutely fantastic psychedelic space-rock. Click on the cover images for more information and to purchase.

Reissued here on vinyl LP are first two LPs from Sparklehorse, the late Mark Linkous' primary project. Amazing, subdued indie-folk-rock with a downer side. Really incredible titles that were previously next to impossible to find on wax. Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot comes with a bonus 7" and both come with download cards for HQ MP3s of the entire album. Click the covers for more info or to buy.

Finally, after some test pressing delays, the 4 Men With Beards reissue of Bridget St. John's debut LP, "Ask Me No Questions", is available and it SOUNDS GREAT. Originals on John Peel's Dandelion imprint fetch crazy money, so those with a tight budget and a love for great British singer-songwriters can breath easier. 180 gram vinyl, with a deluxe tip-on jacket. Click on the image for more info and to order.

Just in, 3 absolute classics from across the pond reissued on 180 gram vinyl with deluxe tip-on jackets from Stoughton. The Kinks "Kinda Kinks" has been reissued in all its MONO glory with the original UK tracklisting. Also available now are two Brit-Folk burners, "Folk Roots, New Roots" is the album that started it all, and "Stormbringer" is one of the best of the genre, even if it was recorded in Woodstock, not London. Click on the images for more info and to order.

Runt is stoked to announce, via our Plain Recordings imprint, the CD and 180g LP reissue of Royal Trux' classic, 1995 release, "Thank You". Produced by longtime Neil Young collaborator, David Briggs, in his final production credit before his untimely death, "Thank You" is the greasiest slab of rock and roll to come out of the '90s indie-rock scene. Click on the cover image for more info and to purchase a copy.

Just in time for the holidays, Runt has six great new vinyl reissues. Two, by Bridget St. John, were originally released on John Peel's Dandelion Records. She's one of the great underheralded singer/songwriters of the late 60s, early 70s, Brit-folk movement. And, there's no better place to start than her 2nd, and best, LP "Songs For The Gentle Man", though "Thank You For..." is no slouch either. Two classics lovingly brought back to life by the 4 Men With Beards label. The other 4 LPs come from the vaults of the legendary Smithsonian Folkways label and include the incredible calypso-jazz of Rupert Clemendore & John Buddy Williams, the proto-hip-hop of Street And Gangland Rhythms, the spoken word/funk of Sarah Webster Fabio, and the Eastern-tinged out-jazz of East New York Ensemble de Music. Click on the images above for more info or to order.