NEW FROM DIVORCE

Jerry Granelli - 1313 LP
Jerry Granelli has lived a mythic life. He drummed in some of the biggest jazz outfits of the 50s-60s, including Vince Guaraldi Trio and the Denny Zeitlin Trio. Like many of his peers, Granelli could have played it safe and made a comfortable career doing traditional jazz into his old age, but instead he dove into the new worlds of free and psychedelic music that were opening up around him during the hippie era in San Francisco. In the early 60’s he led one of the first free jazz bands in America. They did a three month opening spot for Lenny Bruce and toured extensively through Europe with the Grateful Dead, playing completely wild and spontaneous sets night after night, often to the scorn of unsuspecting audiences. A few years later he joined Light Sound Dimension (LSD), an outfit that paired marathons of free, amplified jazz with projection painting, effectively launching the first ever psychedelic light and sound event at the San Francisco Art Museum in 1967. LSD was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. >>more

Grand Trine - Sunglasses 12"
The Sunglasses EP finds Montreal's leather clad, psych delinquents Grand Trine injecting the energy of rock with the liberating sonic adventurism of the avant-garde. They do it with violence, piss, life, bleakness and primitivism. And they do it well. Led by agitated frontman Tobias Rochman (formerly of Be Bad) and featuring free jazz sax player Cabral Jacobs, this 5 song EP captures that primal four-on-the-floor frenzy epitomized by proto-punk outfits like the Stooges, MC5, Electric Eels, and early Velvet Underground, bands that lit the spark for the initial punk movement. >>more

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New Arrivals

PAUL METZGER - Uses for Infinity
V/A - Fanajana
LOREN CONNORS - Hell's Kitchen Park
PEACHES/EFFI BRIEST/ALAN VEGA
VELVET UNDERGROUND - S/T
TUNNG - ...And Then We Saw Land
EDDIE DETROIT - Immortal Gods
BLACK CRUCIFIXION - Promethean Gift
MAYHEM / EMPEROR - Split
HALFLINGS - Self Esteem
ROT - Sociopathic Behavior
AVAIL - Live at the King’s Head Inn
INFAUST - Epistrophy
LITURGY - Dawn of Ash
BIG STAR - #1 Record
BIG STAR– Radio City
BLUE CHEER - Vincebus Eruptum
DON CHERRY – “mu” First Part
OS MUTANTES - Mutantes - Wedding Dress Cover
SUICIDE– Suicide
UGLY DUCKLINGS – Somewhere Outside
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART – Lick My Decals Off Baby
ERIC DOLPHY – Out To Lunch
BLACK TAMBOURINE - S/T
HAUNTED GEORGE - American Crow
MICHAEL HURLEY - Armchair Boogie
MOON DUO - Escape
MOUNT CARMEL - S/T
THEE OH SEES - Warm Slime
PUFFY AREOLAS - In The Army 1981
U.S. GIRLS - Introducing U.S. Girls
WOODEN SHJIPS - Vol. 2
ZOLA JESUS - Stridulum
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History

Divorce started releasing short run, DIY albums way back in 1999. The label grew from a dissatisfaction with the ‘music industry’ and its overemphasis on music as a consumer product. Whether it is punk, noise, avant-rock or bent-folk, we try to be diverse, putting out whatever music truly pleases us. And although efforts are made to be financially sustainable, Divorce is all about exposing great music, not about taking in fistfuls of cash. We are slowly growing through the years. Releases are being issued in bigger runs, many of the current bands/artists tour regularly, good things are being written about the albums, and our distribution is beginning to have reach. But despite the changes, we continue to model Divorce on the spirit and ethic of the DIY label tradition.t

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Divorce is distributed by:

Scratch (Canada)
Revolver USA (USA)

Certain titles are also available from the following distros and stores around the world:

Cheap Thrills (Montreal, Canada)
Rotate This! (Toronto, Canada)
Drone Records (Germany)
Norman Records (UK)
Experimedia (USA)
Forced Exposure (USA)
Floridas Dying (USA)
Aquarius Records (USA)
Escalator Records (Japan)
Conspiracy Records (Belgium)
SS Records (USA)
Hanson Records (USA)
Timelag Records (USA)
Tomentosa Records (USA)
Bistro Distro (USA)
Release The Bats (Sweden)
Gilgongo Records (USA)
RRRecords (USA)
Housepig Records (USA)
Misanthropic Agenda (USA)
Yehonala Tapes (Germany)