Ergot Records

Ergot Records Record label & store. Records, tapes, and related books bought & sold. No holds or shipping on newly posted used arrivals.

32 E. 2nd St.

East Village, NYC

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Great LPs by Pharoah Sanders, Jaco Pastorius, Don Cherry, The Last Poets, Mal Waldron, Jan Hammer, Michael White, Joe Ha...
05/30/2026

Great LPs by Pharoah Sanders, Jaco Pastorius, Don Cherry, The Last Poets, Mal Waldron, Jan Hammer, Michael White, Joe Harriott, John Coltrane, Hermann Szobel, Sam Morrison, and more all out at noon today. The bins are loaded! 🌞 🌾 ✨

Heavy hitting musique concrète, early electronic, and avant-garde LPs from the likes of Bernard Parmegiani, Roland Kayn,...
05/29/2026

Heavy hitting musique concrète, early electronic, and avant-garde LPs from the likes of Bernard Parmegiani, Roland Kayn, Pierre Henry, Ivo Malec, Arne Nordheim, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Morton Subotnick, Stockhausen, Xenakis, and many ➡️ many more going out today alongside ➡️ a handful of scarce books on the topic. 🌾 ✨

Country, bluegrass, blues, and other music for uplifting gourmandizers 🌾 ✨
05/23/2026

Country, bluegrass, blues, and other music for uplifting gourmandizers 🌾 ✨

Morton Feldman, Joan La Barbara, George Bertok, Maclise/Conrad/Smith, Terry Riley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Moss, Wi...
05/21/2026

Morton Feldman, Joan La Barbara, George Bertok, Maclise/Conrad/Smith, Terry Riley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Moss, William Blake, and another handful of ‘Poetry Out Loud’ LPs among today’s new arrivals. 🌾 ✨

Stereolab, Stars of the Lid, Rachel’s, June of 44, Mogwai, múm, and Air among today’s new arrivals. 🌾 ✨
05/17/2026

Stereolab, Stars of the Lid, Rachel’s, June of 44, Mogwai, múm, and Air among today’s new arrivals. 🌾 ✨

Just a dozen of the many original artyfacts going out today 🌾 ✨
05/16/2026

Just a dozen of the many original artyfacts going out today 🌾 ✨

RIP David Henderson. Writer and poet David Henderson was a co-founder of the Black Arts Movement, the author of an accla...
05/15/2026

RIP David Henderson.

Writer and poet David Henderson was a co-founder of the Black Arts Movement, the author of an acclaimed biography of Jimi Hendrix, and the voice reciting the poem on the title track of Ornette Coleman’s incredible 1972 LP ‘Science Fiction.’ He was also, plainly and simply, the man. We had the honor of welcoming him to the shop for a reading—in 2022—celebrating the legacy of and the renewed availability of their discography. For about a year after, while he still lived in the neighborhood, David became a fixture at the shop, popping by here and there to trade us stories about Sun Ra and Sly Stone for demonstrations of industrial music (which he did not like). Rest easy, David.

Last night’s archive is up now and its playlist—featuring all new and newly reissued music available at the shop—follow...
05/15/2026

Last night’s archive is up now and its playlist—featuring all new and newly reissued music available at the shop—follows below:

Paperclip Minimiser - TT A1


Haykal, Julmud, Acamol - Sahbi Yisoon
.abb

Marc Leclair - 114e Jour


Mammo - Vikareworks

Marc Leclair - 236e Jour

Mammo - 4.1

Robert Leiner - To places you’ve never been


EDC - EDC1 3


Shinichi Atobe - Phase 2


Devon Rexi meets John T. .Gast - Breathstep


Bergsonist - Femme


Jeff Bruner - Magic Mbira


Who Cares? - Discipline
Who Cares? - Vale Of Tearsbandily

Stephen Cogle / Peter Stapleton - Thirteenth Floor
.granpa

Sofia Jernberg - Gurgle


Stephen Cogle / Peter Stapleton - Shade

Variant - Someplace Else

05/15/2026

This little purrl of a record has been out for over a month, and with Umm Kulthūm mania finally subsiding here on 2nd St. it’s about time we show it some love.

Following an appearance on last year’s excellent ‘Going back to sleep…’ compilation on A Colourful Storm, Naarm/Melbourne group Who Cares? make their debut proper on this eponymous four-track 7” EP. It opens with an acoustic three-chord strum, crude drums, and the line “Pussycat pussycat where have you been?,” prompting immediate thoughts of The Vaselines from this listener. But there’s something more sinister at work here, a darkness rather than an oblique sexuality lurking in the brooding apocalyptic drone that envelops the song and much of the record. Pink Reason, Current 93, and especially the resigned melancholy of Sibylle Baier are more appropriate touchstones.

We had the pleasure of playing the EP in the shop for , who gave us a little bit of insider Oz knowledge pertaining to closing tune “Hard Yakka,” a term which is both Australian slang for strenuous labor and an Aussie clothing company that specializes in workwear. At under ten minutes, ‘Who Cares?’ is anything but hard work, leaving one wanting more like a great Guided By Voices song and showing great promise for a full-length statement we hope is around the corner. Another home run for after 2024’s Dregs LP, and further proof that there is something quite potent brewing in the land down under.

Just a little bit of jazz today… Blue Notes are all very well-loved but serviceable Plastylite monos. 🌾 ✨
05/14/2026

Just a little bit of jazz today… Blue Notes are all very well-loved but serviceable Plastylite monos. 🌾 ✨

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Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Thursday 11am - 7pm
Friday 12pm - 8pm
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