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• 50 Cent – Get Rick Or Die Tryin’ (Deluxe Collector’s Edition on Translucent Red Vinyl with Marvel Cover and 3D Lenticular ‘Iron Man’ Print)
• 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ (Reissue on Translucent Red Vinyl with Marvel ‘Iron Man’ Cover)
• Anal Trump – The First 100 Songs (Screen Printed ‘Drain The Swamp Green’ Colored Vinyl)
• Angels & Airwaves – We Don’t Need To Whisper (2 Lp Limited Edition on Red/Pink Haze Vinyl with Gatefold and Etched D-Side, Limited to 1000)
• Angels & Airwaves – I-Empire (Limited Edition on Orange Haze Vinyl with Gatefold Jacket, Limited to 1000)
• Coldplay – The Butterfly Package (Live in Buenos Aires/Live in Sao Paulo/Head Full Of Dreams) (3 Lp 180gram Gold Vinyl with Concert DVD and Documentary DVD)
• Genius/GZA – Liquid Swords (2 Lp Reissue on Translucent Seaglass Colored Vinyl with Marvel Variant Cover)
• Delvon Lamar Organ Trio – Live At KEXP
• LCD Soundsystem – oh baby (Lovefingers Remixes) (12″ Single)
• LCD Soundsystem – I Used To (Dixon Rework b/w Pulse v.1) (12″ Single)
• John Legend – A Legendary Christmas
• LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out (Reissue on Red Vinyl with Marvel ‘Punisher’ Lenticular Cover and Comic Book)
• LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out (Reissue on Red Vinyl with Marvel ‘Punisher’ Cover)
• Los Sospechos – Postales (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Van Morrison – The Prophet Speaks (EU Pressing with Gatefold)
• Lido Pimienta – La Papessa (Pale Yellow Vinyl with Gatefold)
• The Posies – Frosting On The Beater (1993) (2 Lp Reissue Remastered from Original Tapes)
• The Salsoul Orchestra – Christmas Jollies (Reissue on Red Vinyl)
• Shame – Songs Of Praise (One-Time Pressing Limited Edition Picture Disc)
• Sufjan Stevens – Lonely Man Of Winter (7″ Limited Edition on Green Translucent Vinyl)
• Richard Swift – The Hex
• Richard Swift – The Novelist / Walking Without Effort
• Masakatsu Takagi – Marginalla
• Tallawit Timbouctou – Oylwane (Reissue, Limited to 500)

As 2018 comes to a close, we’ve put together a short little “Best Of” list, despite the fact that we’ve still got another 30 days left of the year. Whether you’re looking for recommendations, holiday gifts or just wanna lurk our activities, we gotchu!

First up, we’ve got a list of some of our best sellers from this last lap around the sun. Following that, some of our employees put together lists of their favorite new releases / reissues / whatever.

We’d like to close out 2018 by thanking YOU for your support! We’ve got some of the best customers in the entire world and we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. Cheers to another great year!

Shuga’s Best Sellers of 2018

• Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
• Billie Eilish – Party Favor / Hot Line Bling 7″
• Denzel Curry – TA1300
• Mitski – Be The Cowboy
• Death Grips – Year of the Snitch
• Twin Peaks – Sweet ’17 Singles
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food
• Deeper – Deeper
• Post Animal – When I Think Of You in a Castle
• Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
• Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
• Panda Bear – A Day With The Homies EP
• Gorillaz – The Now Now
• Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
• Leon Bridges – Good Thing
• Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
• Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Wasteland
• Sleep – Leagues Beneath
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup
• MGMT – Little Dark Age
• The Voidz – Virtue
• Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
• Enuff Z’nuff – Diamond Boy
• EDEN – Vertigo
• Andrew WK – You’re Not Alone
• AJR – The Click

 

STAFF PICKS

KEVIN ALLEN

• JPEGMAFIA – Veteran
• Deeper – Deeper
• Klaus Johann Grobe – Du Bist So Symmetrisch
• Part Time – Spell No. 6
• Jerry Paper – Like A Baby
• IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance
• John Maus – Addendum
• REZN – Calm Black Water
• Bongripper – Terminal
• Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples
• Palm – Rock Island
• Broncho – Bad Behavior
• Triathalon – Online
• Joey Purp – Quarterthing
• Princess Nokia – A Girl Cried Red
• Lala Lala – The Lamb
• Molly Burch – First Flower
• MGMT – LDA
• ORB – The Space Between
• Preoccupations – New Material
• Post Animal – When I think of You In A Castle
• Paul Cherry – Flavour

Best Reissues

• Wire – 154
• The Beatles – White Album box set  (Specifically the white album demos)
• The Scientists – Weird Love
• Haruomi Hosono – Omni Sight Seeing
• Haruomi Hosono – Hosono House

Best Live Shows

• John Maus – Lincoln Hall 2/18
• Deeper – Empty Bottle 5/18
• IDLES – Lincoln Hall 9/14
• Joey Purp – Thalia Hall 9/23
• Toro Y Moi – Thalia Hall 11/6
• My Bloody Valentine – Riviera Theater 7/28
• Wand – The Hideout 6/18
• Post Animal – Lincoln Hall 4/27

 

Akeem Asani

*In Alphabetical order*

• Amnesia Scanner – Another Life
• Marie Davidson – Working Class Woman
• DJ JM – Costra Nostra EP
• Fire-Toolz – Skinless X-1
• Tim Hecker – Konoyo
• Kate NV – для FOR
• Kero Kero Bonito – Time n’ Place
• Μ-ziq –  Challenge Me Foolish
• Machine Girl – The Ugly Art
• Mr Twin Sister – Salt
• Objekt – Cocoon Crush
• Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of
• Rezzett – Rezzett
• Happy Rhodes – Ecotrophia
• Skee Mask – Compro
• SOPHIE – OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES
• Vessel – Queen of Golden Dogs
• Toxe – Blinks
• Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love
• W00DY – Relentless Kickdrum

 

David Green

New Releases

 

Rachel Flynn

• Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, & Lucy Dacus – boygenius
• Lucy Dacus – Historian
• Mitski – Be The Cowboy
• Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
• Princess Nokia – A Girl Cried Red
• Rico Nasty – Nasty
• Sasami – Not The Time/Callous
• Snail Mail – Lush
• Soccer Mommy – Clean
• Soccer Mommy – Henry/I’m On Fire
• Kali Uchis – Isolation

• Cardi B – Invasion Of Privacy
• Frankie Cosmos – Vessel
• Drinks – Hippo Light
• Ruins – 2

Reissues

• Bikini Kill – Singles
• Saâda Bonaire – Saâda Bonaire
• The Breeders – Safari
• Jeremy Enigk ‎– Return Of The Frog King
  
• Hatsumo Hosono – Philharmony
• Ben Kweller – Sha Sha
• Wire – Pink Flag / Chairs Missing / 154

• Cigarettes After Sex – Crush / Sesame Syrup (7″)
• Khraungbin – Christmas Time Is Here (7″ Limited Pressing on Green Vinyl)
• August Burns Red – Winter Wilderness (10″)
• James Booker – The Lost Paramount Tapes (1973) (Reissue)
• Apollo Brown & Joel Ortiz – Mona Lisa
• Chris Cornell – Chris Cornell (Limited Edition 180gram Compilation with Die-Cut Slip Case and Gatefold Jacket)
• Drake – Scorpion (2 Lp with Gatefold Jacket)
• DJ Shadow- Live In Manchester: The Mountain Has Fallen Tour (2 Lp with Booklet and Gatefold Jacket)
• Brian Eno – Discreet Music (1975) (180gram Reissue)
• Brian Eno – Ambient 1 Music For Airports (1978) (180gram Reissue)
• Brian Eno – Ambient 4 On Land (1982) (180gram Reissue)
• Gucci Mane- Trap House (First Time on Vinyl)
• Idles – Joy As An Act Of Resistance (Black Vinyl Repress)
• Insomnium – Since The Day It All Came Down (Limited Reissue on Clear Vinyl)
• Insomnium – In The Halls Of Awaiting (Limited Reissue on Translucent Blue Vinyl)
• Insomnium – Above The Weeping World (2 Lp Reissue on Translucent Orange Vinyl)
• Insomnium – Across The Dark (Limited Reissue on Translucent Silver Vinyl)
• Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings (2 Lp with Gatefold Jacket)
• Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness – Upside Down Flowers (Limited Indie Exclusive Pressing on Yellow Vinyl)
• Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness – Upside Down Flowers (Black Vinyl Pressing)
• Mumford & Sons – Delta (Black Vinyl Pressing with Gatefold Jacket)
• Primus – Pork Soda (1993) (180gram Reissue with Gatefold Jacket)
• Primus – Brown Album (1997) (180gram Reissue with Gatefold Jacket)
• The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet (2 Lp 180gram Pressing with Etched D-Side and Flexi Disc with Mick Jagger Interview)
• Rolling Stones – Voodoo Lounge Uncut (1994) (3 Lp with 10 Previously Unreleased Performances)
• The Runaways – The Best Of The Runaways (Compilation)
• Travis Scott – Astroworld (2 Lp)
• Joseph Shabason – Anne (Limited Edition on ‘Whale Blue’ Colored Vinyl)
• The Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / No Past. No Future. No Sun(Indie Exclusive Mystery Vinyl)
• Spontaneous Overthrow – All About Money (Numero Group Reissue)
• Ramin Djawadi – Westworld: Season 2 (Selections From The HBO Series)
• Various – Disney Ultimate Hits (Compilation)
• Various – Brainfeeder – X (4 Lp Compilation Box Set with Die-Cut Logo)
• Ryley Walker – The Lillywhite Sessions (DMB Cover) (2 Lp)
• Joseph Washington, Jr. – Merry Christmas To You From Joseph (Numero Group Limited Reissue on Metallic Gold Vinyl)
• Asnakech Worku – Asnaketch (1975) (2 Lp Reissue)

• Gregg Allman – Midnight Rider / These Days (All-Analog 12″ Single  Limited Edition Reissue)
• The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album) (2 Lp 50th Anniversary Stereo Remaster Edition on 180gram Vinyl)
• The Beatles – The Beatles (White Album) (5oth Anniversary Stero Remaster 4 Lp Box Set on 180gram Vinyl with Demos and Studio Sessions)
• Boygenius (aka Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus) – Boygenius EP (Black Vinyl Pressing)
• Charles Bradley (with The Manahan Street Band) – Black Velvet (Indie Exclusive on Purple with Black Splatter Vinyl)
• Chelsea Wolfe – Live at Roadburn 2012 (limited Pressing on Transparent Violet Vinyl)
• Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (Mirror To Mirror) (Limited Edition Reissue on White Vinyl)
• Cybotron – Enter (1983)
• Direct Hit – Crown Of Nothing
• Emperor – Anthems to The Welkin at Dusk (Reissue on Green Vinyl)
• Emperor – In The Nightside Eclipse (1994) (Limited Edition Reissue on Blue Vinyl)
• J Fernandez – Occasional Din (Translucent Amber Vinyl)
• Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra – The Capitol Studios Sessions (Import Pressing with Gatefold Jacket)
• Grapetooth – Grapetooth (180gram Black Vinyl Pressing)
• Hanson – Snowed In (1997) (Reissue on ‘Christmas Tree Green’ Vinyl, Limited to 1200)
• Shirley Horn – Softly (Indie Exclusive on White Vinyl, Limited to 300)
• Iron Raegan – Dark Days Ahead (Etched B-Side)
• Lando Chill – Black Ego
• LeATHERMØUTH ‎– XØ
• Lil’ Peep – Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 (Deluxe Pressing on Pink and Black Vinyl)
• Lil’ Peep – Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 2
• The Living End – Wunderbar (Limited Edition 1st Pressing on Colored Vinyl)
• Lost Boy ? – Paranoid Fiction
• The Men – Hated: 2008-2011 (2 Lp with Download)
• Michèle Mercure – Beside Herself (with 12-Page Booklet and Download)
• Muse – Simulation Theory
• Planningtorock – Powerhouse
• Psycroptic – As The Kingdom Drowns (Limited Edition Pressing on Clear with Orange & Black Splatter Vinyl)
• Public Memory – Demolition
• Queen – Jazz (180gram Half-Speed Remastered Pressing)
• RAYS – You Can Get There From Here (Limited Red Vinyl)
• RAYS -You Can Get There From Here
• The Revivalists – Take Good Care (Indie Exclusive on Opaque Red Vinyl with Bonus 7″)
• The Revivalists – Take Good Care (Black Vinyl with Bonus 7″)
• Sludge – Gastronomicon (Limited Edition Pressing on Randomly Colored Vinyl)
• Stephen Steinbrink – Utopia Teased (Limited Edition Transparent Mint Green Vinyl)
• Stereolab – Pang! (1992) (Limited Edition Reissue on Clear Vinyl)
• Stereolab – The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music (1993) (Limited Edition Reissue on Clear Vinyl)
• Sufjan Stevens – Songs For Christmas (5 Lp Box Set)
• Typesetter – Nothing Blues (Yellow Vinyl, Limited to 600)
• Various – Confessin’ The Blues Vol. 1 (Limited Edition Compilation)
• Various – Confessin’ The Blues Vol. 2 (Limited Edition Compilation)
• Wicca Phase Springs Eternal – Secret Boy (Reissue)
• Emilie Zoé – The Very Start
• Emilie Zoe – Dead End Tape (Reissue)

7″ Singles

• Ghost Funk Orchestra – Walk Like A Motherfucker / Isaac Hayes (7″ on Orange Vinyl, Limited to 550)
• The Gripsweats – Gripsweats Theme / Intermission (Limited Edition 7″ on White Vinyl)
• Thelma Jones – I Can’t Stand It / Only Yesterday (7″)
• The Parliaments – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (7″ Reissue)

 

• A Certain Ratio – The Graveyard and The Ballroom (Limited Edition Reissue on Orange Vinyl)
• Arcade Fire – Arcade Fire EP (Reissue with Gatefold Jacket)
• audiobooks – Now! (in a minute)
• Blink-182 – Enema Of The State (1999) (Deluxe Reissue on Blue Vinyl with 28-page Booklet and Gatefold Jacket, Limited to 1500)
• Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox – Essentials II
• Dave Brubeck – Time In (1966) (EU Reissue)
• Club Dread – Majestic (Clear Vinyl)
• Bob Dylan – More Blood, More Tracks (The Bootleg Series Vol. 14)
• Ginla – Codex
• Gravity Pairs – Beacon (Limited Edition ‘Clouded Pink’ Colored Vinyl)
• Hiss Golden Messenger – Poor Moon (Remastered Reissue with Liner Notes)
• Hiss Golden Messenger – Bad Debt (Remastered Reissue with Liner Notes)
• Hiss Golden Messenger – Haw (Remastered Reissue with Liner Notes)
• Kids See Ghosts (Kanye West & Kid Cudi) – Kids See Ghosts
• King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Float Along Fill Your Lungs (Reissue on ‘Easter Yellow’ Colored Vinyl)
• King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Eyes Like The Sky (Reissue on ‘Halloween Orange’ Colored Vinyl with Reimagined Artwork)
• King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Oddiments (Reissue on ‘Grimace Purple’ Colored Vinyl with Gatefold Jacket and Redesigne Artwork)
• King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – Willoughby’s Beach (Reissue on ‘Redish’ Colored Vinyl with Reimagined Artwork)
• King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – 12 Bar Bruise (Reissue on ‘Doublemint Green’ Colored Vinyl with Reimagined Artwork)
• JD McPherson – Socks (Indie Exclusive on Colored Vinyl)
• The Moody Blues – In Search Of The Lost Chord (180gram 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
• Georgia Anne Muldrow – Overload
• Opeth – Garden of the Titans (Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre) (2 Lp on ‘Green with Black Splatter’ Vinyl, Limited to 500)
• PAINT – Paint (With Oversized Newsprint Poster)
• The Prodigy – No Tourists (Indie Exclusive on Clear Violet Vinyl)
• Marlena Shaw – The Spice Of Life (1969)
• Moonface (Spencer Krug) – This One’s For The Dancer & This One’s For The Dancer’s Bouquet
• Colin Self – Siblings (One-Time Pressing with Hand Staped Jacket and 12-Page Booklet, Limited to 400)
• Sugar Ray – Greatest Hits (Remastered from Original Tapes)
• Thought Gang (David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti) – Thought Gang (Limited pressing on Steel Colored Vinyl)
• Tigers Jaw – Tigers Jaw (10th Year Anniversary Deluxe Reissue on Colored Vinyl with 7″ Flexi, Zine, and Download)
• Touché Amoré – 10 Years / 1000 Shows (Recorded Live at Regent Theater) 92 Lp with Gatefold Jacket)
• Traveling Wilburys – The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (Limited Edition 30th Anniversary Picture Disc Reissue)
• VCMG – Ssss (Reissue on Orange Vinyl, Limited to 500)
• Various – LP Sampler Vol. 1 (Limited to 2000)
• Various – LP Sampler Vol. 2 (Limited to 2000)
• Willie Hutch – Foxy Brown (Original Motion Picture) (150gram Reissue)