East of Underground, Hell Below box set This box set makes joining the Army seem cool. #Crate Digger

Kourosh Yaghmaei's Iranian psyche gets reissued A collection thought to have been destroyed by Islamic fundamentalists. #Crate Digger

Norman Jay MBE is master selector Keep your amateur summer mixes. We're riding with a legend. #Crate Digger

Excepter's 2003-2004 "Streams" surface Back in the day, when Excepter played Lit Lounge on the reg. #Crate Digger

Oh look, Teargas & Plateglass's 2007 Black Triage is now streaming Digging up some ancient rhythms. #Crate Digger

Dylan Baldi's dedication to The Cleve The sonic reducering, the Dave Thomasing, the tomb rocketing. #Crate Digger

Madlib digs up some unreleased Jaylib Salvaged from a fire that nearly destroyed the master tapes. #Crate Digger

Strange Games & Funky Things Vol.5 The series that made Gilles Peterson feel less white. #Crate Digger

Prince Paul unearths unreleased horrorcore Never thought I'd see the day I got nostalgic for horrorcore. #Crate Digger

Bob Blank and Blank Tapes; a NY original Bob Blank is one of New York City's first indie-to-Grammy success stories. #Crate Digger

I miss you Hiretsukan In my opinion, Hiretsukan was one of the best hardcore bands in the history of New York, but undoubtedly they were one of the best of the late 90s, early 00s. #Crate Digger

Blockhead digs up old Aesop Rock Blockhead has a new blog, sorta. He's got a stellar business plan to build his readership: dig up unreleased Aesop Rock demos from the early 00's and ... #Crate Digger

Butthole Surfers live in 1989 Holy shit, indeed. Thanks to Rocket Remnants for pointing us in the right direction to a two hours plus live recording of Butthole Surfers at the peak... #Crate Digger

Parts and Labor's early days Parts and Labor's earliest recordings. #Crate Digger

Strange Breaks & Mr. Thing BBE is a label that sets the funky precedent, so it's no surprise that Strange Breaks & Mr. Thing Vol.II is a fantastic voyage through the the thi... #Crate Digger

Forge Your Own Chains with Damon and The Strangers Considering they're situated in California, it would've been easy for Now & Again to create a psychedelic comp from the 60s and 70s. A quick jaunt... #Crate Digger

The unending influence of Malcolm McLaren's hip-hop project 1983. Malcolm McLaren follows up his highly influential career managing (creating) first the Sex Pistols, then Bow Wow Wow, with his own solo album, D... #Crate Digger

Quentin digs through crates again, no one complains We normally couldn't give a shit about a movie soundtrack, but this is the guy who made Nancy Sinatra's "Bang Bang" into a household track and slipped... #Crate Digger

70s German analog love Over at Incomplete Tales, Gravalax took an essay that John Elliot of Emeralds wrote for Self-Titled about some of the German analog synth dreamers in ... #Crate Digger

Helado Negro is The Selector (pt. 3) Everything about Helado Negro's Awe Owe sounds like the Tropicalia wet dream that Devendra Banhart wishes he had. The album that we’re voting “mos... #Crate Digger

Helado Negro is The Selector (pt. 2) You want a tip as to how to get through the dog days of summer? Get the debut album from Helado Negro, called Awe Owe. Everything about it sounds li... #Crate Digger

Judy Garland out of her damn mind! Society has allowed and often encouraged outrageous behavior from creative types. As a society we will go to greater lengths to tolerate these fetishe... #Crate Digger

Helado Negro is The Selector (pt. 1) You want a tip as to how to get through the dog days of summer?  Get the debut album from Helado Negro, called Awe Owe.  Everything about it sounds ... #Crate Digger

After Danzig shows you his book collection, he might try to rape you In his London Dungeon located in New Jersey.  And when he's finished, maybe he could do the upcoming Friends With Benefits? (Thanks Monitor Mix) #Crate Digger

Suicide sounding happy about stuff in 1979 This long version of "Dream Baby Dream" was originally on a 12" on Ze Records, and later licensed to Island Records, but Germany's Strut Records recen... #Crate Digger

Wu-Tang on the radio, 1997 Method Man: "You know my man, Tone?" British Kid: "Who's that?" Method Man "Dial tone." Click! Tim Westwood got his show hijacked by the RZA, Method M... #Crate Digger

Jade Stone & Luv In terms of lost gems that went way under the radar in the cultural void that was the period between 1970 and 1979, Jade Stone & Luv's only album... #Crate Digger

Casino Music, "The Beat Goes On" Nothing says "dude" more than a couple of French guys recording a dirty synth cover of this Sonny and Cher classic (...right?). Those were the sort o... #Crate Digger

Dudes From the 1981 landmark Decline of Western Civilization documentaries to the groundbreaking punk-drama Suburbia, and even into the early 90s when she d... #Crate Digger

The Replacements live in Minneapolis, 1985 I know I recently said that Pere Ubu sound like the Midwest - all post-industrial, bent-out-of-shape weirdness - but the very heart and soul of Midwes... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: Tall Dwarfs "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" It was reported the other day that Flying Nun Records founder, and one-half of the seminal New Zealand lo-fi duo Tall Dwarfs, Chris Knox, had a stroke... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: Pere Ubu, "Birdies" From time to time, we have Impose e-mail pow-wow's where we brainstorm new ideas to keep you happy.  Sometimes myself and associate editor Blake Gill... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: Selda, "Ince Ince" I'm putting out a challenge to try to find me another guitar riff like the opening to Selda's 1975 "Ince Ince."  This masterpiece has found a rebirth... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: Deep Puddle Dynamics Freestyle 1999 Slug, Dose One, Sole and Alias all sounding like 20-year old battle rappersLong ago Kevin Beacham hosted the Time Travel Radio show on WNUR 89.3 in Ch... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: Black Rio 2 Since the music of the Brazilian Tropicalia has been co-opted by major corporations for commercial use, it's about time the next great musical movemen... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: UGK, Trill Azz Mixez First of all, I have to give immense props to SouthPeezy at mauricegarland.blogspot.com for making this post happen, and more importantly, making ever... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: Jello Biafra, "Swine Flu" from 1991 Rocket Remnants dug this one out from their own collection (as they do often), because it might come in handy to have some swine flu relevant pick up ... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: RZA Samples Vol.1 Ivan over at HipHopIsRead has posted a great sample set based on RZA's early-to-mid nineties production. This sample set, if you are unfamiliar with t... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: Jermaine Jackson + Devo collaborate, Rick James growls on the other side Devo collaborated with Jermaine Jackson in 1982 for this track, "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy." Apparently, there is a completely different version float... #Crate Digger

Crate Digger: Mighty Sparrow lusts for Mr. Walker's money in 1968 Download rarities I couldn't find anywhere else on the internet.[Above: We apologize for the pixels.] Mighty Sparrow, a.k.a. Slinger Francisco, is one... #Crate Digger