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Announcing: Unwound: Kid Is Gone
Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993’s Fake Train ripped through, they’d been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material...
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Upgrade your homemade Numero Bincard
Our friends at Stranded in Oakland recently sent us their own handcrafted bin divider… it’s pretty impressive. We love it when anyone has to employ carpentry skills to display our oeuvre. However, for...
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Watch the video for Express Rising’s “Horse Opera”
We’re still a month away from the release date of Express Rising (2), but Dante Carfagna wanted to floss his vintage cave postcard collection and we thought ya’ll deserved another sip of the juice....
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Unwound: Kid Is Gone Pre-order (With bonus LP!)
We just got photos of our upcoming Unwound: Kid Is Gone 3LP box and they sure are pretty. Chipboard, high density black ink, kraft-wrapped jackets… it’s too much. Check it out: Then, Henry Owings came...
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Purple Snow: The Pre-Order
In the late 1970s, a peculiar sound began bubbling up from the land of 10,000 lakes. Buried beneath 50 solid inches of annual snow, Minneapolis made a Sound quite different than what the pop world...
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This now exists: Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label
In 1969, after three years as Soul Sister #1 to James Brown’s touring entourage, Marva Whitney came home to Kansas City, putting Ellis Taylor’s Forte label back at full fighting strength. She’d calmed...
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Coming to an LP bin near you: Nikki Sudden & Jacobites
In founding the post-punk prefacing Swell Maps, Nikki Sudden and his drumming brother Epic Soundtracks charted new territory for racket and corrosive guitar. But after folding Swell Maps at the dawn of...
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In stores today: Unwound: Kid Is Gone
After a year of tearing out our hair and losing our hearing, the first Unwound box arrives at finer retailers today. We’ve detailed the track list elsewhere, but as you might be able to tell from the...
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Introducing Mind & Matter and Jimmy “Jam” Harris (Age 18)
Storm chasers anticipating Purple Snow: Forecasting The Minneapolis Sound have no doubt noticed another menacing storm system in the form of Mind & Matter: 1514 Oliver Avenue (Basement). Recorded...
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Return of the Twelve Days of Numero
Starting Friday, Numero will be rolling out our Twelve Days of Numero sales. We use this as an opportunity to discount a few items within our ever sprawling catalog, as well as throw a few monkey...
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The Numero Group To Release Scharpling & Wurster: The Best Of The Best Show...
20 HOURS OF PHONE CALLS OVER 16 CDS! FOLD-OUT MAP OF NEWBRIDGE, NJ! USB DRIVE OF ENTIRE SET + FOUR HOURS OF ADDITIONAL CALLS! 108-PAGE HARDCOVER BOOK WITH THE DEFINITIVE SCHARPLING & WURSTER...
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The Best Of The Best Show on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Last Thursday, Tom Scharpling, Jon Wurster, and The Best of The Best Show box set made their conjoined national television debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers. After a long day of press around midtown...
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Numero Moving Sale: Pre-2015 Catalog Wholesale Prices
Behold—the former site of the Success Bottling Works, the future site of the Numero Group. We, like you, hate moving. There’s never enough boxes, renting a truck is miserable (89 cents a mile?!?), and...
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Your Orders Are Happening (We Promise)
First of all, we want to thank EVERYBODY for helping lighten the load here at Numero HQ. We gave you folks an extremely rare opportunity to dig deep into our back catalog for an outrageous rate and...
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NUMERO STAFF TOP 10 of 2015
Do you have a favorite Numero Group record from 2015? The Numero Group’s staff numbskulls wrestled for a while, took a vote (making the wrestling sort of pointless), and came up with this Top Ten list,...
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A Place Called Bad: The Complete Works of OZ Punk Pioneers, The Scientists...
“The Scientists proved to me that rock ‘n’ roll could be played by gentlemen in fine silk shirts half unbuttoned and still be dirty, cool and real.” —Thurston Moore “They wrote fantastic singles and...
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know (But Were Afraid To Ask) About the Numero...
Following a series of successful pop up stores in New York, Chicago, and London, we recently opened a Factory Outlet in our south side Chicago warehouse. Now we’re taking the Outlet on the road for a...
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Record Store Day 2017: Numero Style
It’s that time of the year again. Wait, that’s exactly how we started this off last year. We’ve run out of ideas, folks. From here on out it’s going to be one rehash after another, as we trot out both...
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Factory Outlet Roadshow
After a long winter hibernating in our converted Chicago bottling factory, The Numero Group will emerge this April for another series of pop stores. Last fall found us going road blind in the expanse...
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