| Jammyland/Hospital Productions |
Jammyland
Small, packed reggae-only store that's heavily into dub. When I was there the guy working was extolling the virtues of his all-time favorite, dub kingpin Lee Scratch Perry. CDs, vinyl, 45s, and some great T-shirts.
Hospital Productions
In the back of the store there's a hole in the floor that you use to climb eight steps down to Dominick Fernow's Hospital Productions store. This is the real deal, the true "underground" here--stocked with home-packaged CD-Rs, cassettes, CDs, singles, and LPs. Though you can buy a record etched into a coke mirror and a CD packaged in a zip lock bag chock full of some Swiss guy's dump (no, really) this place is so clean you could assemble microchips in this sterile music-packed dungeon.
While I'm guessing much of the music denies categorization the terms noise rock or outsider music probably help but it seems much of the music falls somewhere in the experimental/free-form end of the black metal pool. If you're really curious you can back order issues of Arthur magazine at the mag's web
site (http://www.arthurmag.com) and read Byron Coley & Thurston Moore's column, which Fernow's also involved in. You can also check out the
Hospital Productions
web site (see below). I defy you to find another record store on the planet where Sunn and Napalm Death are too commercial while bands like Crib Death, Ash Pool, and Filthy Turd are the chart toppers.
Address
60 East Third Street
Location
Between 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue
Hours
12:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Sunday-Thursday
12:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday
***** JAMMYLAND *****
Telephone
(212) 614-0185
Email
info@jammyland.com
Web
***** HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS *****
Telephone
(212) 614-9652
Email
info@hospitalproductions.com
Web
