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GEDGE, DAVID	Go Out And Get 'Em, Boy!: Tales From The Wedding Present: Volume One Of The Official Autobiography	Book	SCOPITONES	SCOPITONE 077BK
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/29/2021 The first instalment of David Gedge's long-awaited "memoir-in-comic-book-form". The stories featured in this stunning 176-page, matte-laminated, hardback book have previously only been available to readers of the Tales From The Wedding Present comic book series. This collected edition comes with forty pages of never-before-seen additional material and an introduction by Ian Rankin. David has written this autobiography together with long-time musical associate Terry de Castro, and the stories are illustrated by virtuoso artist Lee Thacker. It's in chronological order, beginning with David's childhood in England and South Africa and continues up to the inception of The Wedding Present. On the way we learn about some of the romantic experiences that may have informed his writing, how he first met his hero -- the legendary BBC presenter John Peel -- and the true story behind the classic Wedding Present song "My Favourite Dress". "An autobiography of The Wedding Present would be great on its own. An autobiography in beautiful graphic novel form? Even better!" --Dan Vebber (writer, The Simpsons). "This is brilliant! It's like the storyboard for a Wedding Present biopic." --Marc Riley (Broadcaster, BBC). "This is a Wedding Present fan's dream come true. Pure unfiltered Gedge; the inside track on what makes him tick and anecdotes aplenty. Essential!" --Mike Gayle (author). 176-page, hardback graphic novel.

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MANLEY, MYLES	Cometh the Softies	LP	ART FOR BLIND	AFB 066LP
$23.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/15/2021 Cometh the Softies by Myles Manley is a singularly thrilling mix of pop-song craftsmanship, outré rhythms and tightly-woven rock band dynamics. Originally conceived as Myles Manley's tongue-in-cheek contribution to the centenary of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising, the project began as a set of folk songs written to jittery MPC500 backing. With Christopher Barry and Solamh Kelly enlisted as bandmates to reinterpret these frenetic beats, the music took a new breath of life, the lyrical focus widening to broad questions of identity and belonging. Ridicule by regimes of nationalism, capitalism, and sexuality is evoked via the sing-song language of playground taunts, so too is an underlying transcendent mischief. The trio toured the UK and Irish DIY scenes extensively, sculpting the minimalistic and spirited live sound which is recorded faithfully on the album. The result is a music that acknowledges the anxiety of the listener in these desperate times, proffering a joyous clatter, and a thumb of the nose at bullying specters. Originating in Sligo on the north west coast of Ireland, Myles Manley is a singer/songwriter who has been releasing music as "popstar" Myles Manley since 2012. With incisive and idiosyncratic songcraft, and a unique vision of the Irish experience, Myles Manley first distinguished himself with critically acclaimed releases Greatest Hits 2012-2013 (2013) and More Songs (2015). "an eye and ear for the twisted pop nugget ... adventurous live shows ... audacious ambition ... already showing a very impressive set of heels" --Irish Times

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WIRE, THE	#443 January 2021	MAG	THE WIRE	WIRE 443
$10.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/15/2021 "2020 Rewind, our mammoth annual survey of the last 12 months in underground music across 30 pages of charts and comment. This year has been the hardest on record for everyone working in underground music. The Rewind issue offers you the chance to share your stories of survival and your plans for the future in what is traditionally The Wire's biggest selling issue of the year. So whether you're a label, musician, festival, venue, institution, online platform or shop, the Rewind issue offers the perfect opportunity to remind our readers of how you survived in 2020 and give them advance notice of your plans and ambitions for 2021. Full details of the adverts we offer, as well as our newly revised tech specs, can be found here. Also, as ever at this time of the year, we're offering special discounted rates if you opt to advertise in both our January and February issues. Contact one of us in the advertising team (Shane, James or Astrud) for more information. The Rewind issue includes our 50 new releases of the year and 50 archive releases of the year, along with specialist genre charts covering all bases from avant rock to jazz & improv via modern composition, hiphop, global and more. Plus: our crack team of critics and contributors, as well as some of 2020's most active musicians, reveal the things that helped them survive the year of covid."

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ZWEIKOMMASIEBEN	Zweikommasieben #22	MAG	PRASENS EDITIONEN	MAGAZIN 022
$20.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 1/15/2021 A number of contributions in the new issue of zweikommasieben relate to the past in some shape or form, and they conjure it in different ways. An approach that seems adequate, since the year 2020 might have given momentum to a nostalgic way of looking at the world. In an interview, the Australian duo CS + Kreme talks about how they still feed off the energy of an alchemic jam they had at the very beginning of their collaboration. Similarly, Johanna Hedva takes on the past in her artistic practice and speaks about how she understands performances as "the communion with the dead, with the past." But how could what has passed become productive and how can we meet the reproach of nostalgia? Tracing connections between memories and the present provides a possible answer, as one comes across in an interview with Kamixlo. There, the artist recapitulates the long temporal reaches of the process that culminated in his latest album. The traces from the past can lead us back into the present, as they have changed the now, and following down these tracks might lead to the discovery of new pathways into the present. Yet, one should not dismiss the comforting innocence of a passing recollection. British DJ and producer Mark Lawrence aka Mala presents such examples when he talks about the early parties organized by DMZ in Brixton. And so does Chinese artist Yikii, when she tells anecdotes about her school days. The reading of this issue, then, should be both an occasion to appraise the potential of the past in the present as well as for innocently savoring a nostalgic memory or two. All content in EN and parts in DE, NL, as well as PL. 152 pages; 208x287 mm; edition of 2000.

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WIRE, THE	#442 December 2020	MAG	THE WIRE	WIRE 442
$10.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/11/2020 "Veteran Canadian metal experimentalists Voivod talk to Joseph Stannard about sci-fi theories, channelling Crimson, Floyd and Foetus, and working with brass on their recent The End Of Dormancy EP; pathbreaking pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn tells Peter Margasak about her latest quintet with Mary Halvorson and others; London rooted Japanese duo Keiko Yamamoto and Rie Nakajima aka O YAMA O take the Invisible Jukebox test, and much more."

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CLAY, OTIS	Trying To Live My Life Without You	LP	FAT POSSUM	FP 1331LP
$17.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/4/2020 2020 repress. "As an LP, Trying to Live My Live without You falls a wee margin short of masterpiece level, but as it plays the flashes of brilliance tally more than a few. And frankly, I wouldn't want to not have any record that finds Clay pleading 'please somebody take your hand and slap some sense into me.' It's a wonderful little moment of soul candor, easily reflective of what makes his music worthwhile. Hopefully the neglect of his earlier material will soon cease, but until then anyone looking for an introduction into the work of Otis Clay should consider this as their first destination." --The Vinyl District

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UGLY THINGS	#55	MAG	UGLY THINGS	UT 055
$9.95 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 12/4/2020 "In this issue we detail the history of the Magic Fern, one of the key bands in Seattle's psychedelic music scene in 1966-68. Photographer Eric Hayes shares his journey through the 1960s, along with some remarkable rare photos of the Yardbirds live onstage in 1966, and the Stones in the studio in early 1969 -- their last sessions with Brian Jones. David Holzer provides new insight into Brian's musical expeditions in Morocco and the making of the talismanic album Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka. Tim Stegall talks at length with Bun E Carlos about the early days of Cheap Trick -- the first installment of a two-part feature. Phil Milstein explores the origins of the Velvet Underground's name. Also: an appreciation of dark country master Porter Wagoner, Scandinavian beat merchants the Beachers (once billed as 'Sweden's ugliest group'!), King Records R&B icon Otis Williams, Bay Area garage band the Mockers (whose members included a teenage Carlos Santana), enigmatic DIY folkie Scott Seskind, South America's Los Shakers, UK psych icons July, Budapest beat group Hungaria, and the wild saga of ace Swedish garage revivalists the Crimson Shadows. And of course, acres of reviews of all the latest reissues and rock 'n' roll related books."

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PAZ/DAN EPSTEIN, EILON	Stompbox Vintage & Rarities: 333 Cool, Crazy and Hard to Find Guitar Pedals	Book	STOMPBOX	STB 002-BK
$100.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/20/2020 "A companion book to Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists. Created by Eilon Paz & Dan Epstein. Photographer Eilon Paz and writer/editor Dan Epstein -- the team behind Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists -- have scoured the globe in search of some of the rarest, weirdest and most iconic stompboxes in existence. Vintage & Rarities: 333 Cool, Crazy and Hard to Find Guitar Pedals features lustrous, exquisitely-detailed photographs of primitive fuzzboxes, one-off prototypes, whimsical boutique creations and elaborate multi-effects units -- many of which have never been seen before, even by hardcore collectors. Vintage & Rarities also features profiles of 25 pedal collectors from around the world -- including legendary musicians Adrian Belew, Henry Kaiser and David Torn, Beastie Boys producer Mario Caldato Jr., and celebrated pedal builders Oliver Ackermann (Death By Audio), Mike Piera (Analog Man) and Josh Scott (JHS) -- all of whom share their personal tales of stompbox addiction, while offering additional insight into these fascinating devices."

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JOHNSON, RICHARD	Grudge For Life: A Book About Ramleh	Book	FOURTH DIMENSION	FD RJBK
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/20/2020 During the past few years, material has been gathered concerning the group Ramleh for a book focusing on their beginning as one of the UK's leading power electronics mainstays to their becoming a more outward-bound rock group given to blending sprawling psychedelia, noise, post-punk, intense electronic music and far more besides, in addition to occasionally nodding to their earlier sound. Initially founded by Gary Mundy and Bob Strudwick after being inspired by punk, avant-garde, and industrial music, as well as the complete restart accorded by Whitehouse, Ramleh soon tore apart the templates with a sound and vision entirely their own. Mostly sidelined in the decades since, the group, now driven by Gary and Anthony Di Franco, has proven itself to be one of the most versatile and downright headstrong to have arrived from a time when dozens of such groups went almost as fast as they appeared. Like the very best of them, however, they not only kept going despite the odds, but also continued to push themselves artistically and explore new places just when an audience was starting to take notice. The idea of fitting snugly into a particular style was never on the agenda, irrespective of the group's having created a sound completely their own to work within. With the advent of the digital age, Ramleh deservedly gained a comparatively wider audience and are now often seen critically acclaimed or cited as an inspiration by other groups. Partly for these reasons, a book felt like a natural step to take in order to help pin down one of the more interesting narratives to have arisen from such realms of music, and indeed some of the ideas behind it. Collecting around 356 pages centered on a lengthy and conversational interview with Gary Mundy that looks back at Ramleh's inception and moves through the group's work until and including The Great Unlearning album, plus some of the peripheral projects, Grudge For Life: A Book About Ramleh also includes additional interviews and insight from Anthony Di Franco, Stuart Dennison, the late Simon Morris, Teho Teardo, Stephen Meixner, Steve Pittis, William Bennett, Kate MacDonald, Juntaro Yamanouchi, Richard Rupenus, and others. Besides also including a discography including extensive personal notes from Gary and Anthony and some other bonus material, there are pages dedicated to reprinted ephemera and some previously unpublished photos. Richard Johnson, responsible for conducting the interviews and collating the material, has released albums by both Gary and Anthony on his Fourth Dimension Records imprint. He has also produced a book devoted to his Grim Humour fanzine, plus during more recent years has contributed to several magazines. Book B5 hardback.

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PAZ, EILON	Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists	Book	STOMPBOX	STB 001-BK
$108.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 11/20/2020 "A stunning, 514-page photography and interview coffee-table book about the guitar pedals of the world's greatest guitarists. First limited edition includes over 100 interviews. Created by Eilon Paz. Edited by Dan Epstein and James Rotondi. Foreword by Ed O'Brien (Radiohead). Stompbox: 100 Pedals of the World's Greatest Guitarists, is a photographic showcase of the actual effects pedals owned and used by Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Frank Zappa, Alex Lifeson, Andy Summers, Eric Johnson, Adrian Belew, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Ed O'Brien, J Mascis, Lita Ford, Joe Perry, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Vernon Reid, Kaki King, Nels Cline and 82 other iconic and celebrated guitarists. These exquisitely textured fine-art photographs are matched with fresh, insightful commentary and colorful road stories from the artists themselves, who describe how these fascinating and often devilish devices shaped their sounds and songs."

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HOWARD, FRANK	The Other Side of Madness (1971)	BLU-RAY/CD	FILM DETECTIVE	FB 1008BR
$28.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "The 1971 documentary concerning the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders committed by the gang known as the Manson Family. The Other Side of Madness (1971) returns nearly 50 years after its initial release! An avant-garde retelling of the infamous Manson Murders, The Other Side of Madness brings audiences closer to the events than most filmmakers have dared to go, with real life footage of Spahn Ranch and music performed by Charles Manson. Directed by Frank Howard and produced by Wade Williams, this hypnotic film served as one of the first 'Helter Skelter' recreations, filmed so close to the time of the events that Manson and his followers had yet to be sentenced for the vicious crimes." Included musical CD with songs written and performed by Charles Manson.

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GORDON, HERSCHELL	The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast	7xBLU-RAY	ARROW VIDEO	AV 321BR
$93.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "Fourteen of the Godfather of Gore's finest attractions, restored from original and best surviving vault materials. High Definition Blu-rayTM (1080p) presentation of the features and extras seven blu-ray discs."

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WIRE, THE	#441 November 2020	MAG/CD	THE WIRE	WIRE 441
$10.00 IN STOCK "The Wire Tapper 54 -- attached to the cover of every copy of the November issue will be a CD of the latest in our ongoing series of underground music anthologies, featuring 16 new and archival tracks by Qasim Naqvi, Legowelt, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Meridian Brothers, Byron The Aquarius, Thabang Tabane, Eugene Ughetti, Sophia Loizou, and more. Meanwhile, inside the issue, William Basinski talks to Dan Barrow about his new tape loop opus Lamentations and playing saxophone with Henry Grimes; Gudrun Gut and Thomas Fehlmann, the first couple of Berlin electronica, test each other's mettle in the Invisible Jukebox; Mosi Reeves meets underground hiphop heroes Homeboy Sandman, Quelle Chris and Aesop Rock; and more."

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BREWER, JON	Chuck Berry: The Original King Of Rock 'n' Roll	BLU-RAY	MVD VISUAL	MVD 3426BR
$23.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Blu-ray version. "In this highly anticipated, official Fully Authorized feature documentary, the absolute instigator of Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry is truly revealed, with exclusive access, including first ever, contributions from Mrs. Berry and the Berry family. Despite his iconic status, and reverence for his talent by rock's heroes John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, Steve Van Zandt, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper) all featured, Chuck Berry was at heart, a family man. He was a prolific craftsman of word and chords; an undisputed and stunning combination of talent and charisma. Award-winning Film maker Jon Brewer (BB King The Life of Riley, Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark), lends new insight to the man known as the Father of Rock n Roll in new and exclusive interviews , exclusive access photos and footage of Chuck Berry, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, ELO, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley and Etta James along with Jon Brewer trademark re-enactments set to original Chuck Berry tracks. Aside from celebrating the gift of Chuck Berry's music and vision to Americana and indeed rock n roll as a yet to be discovered genre, he had an immensely mis-understood story and this documentary film gives viewers the opportunity to appreciate the vast catalogue of music alongside the inside accounting from his family and contemporaries, lending new insight to a magnificent character who had to tolerate life as a wealthy black man in 1960s America."

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BREWER, JON	Chuck Berry: The Original King Of Rock 'n' Roll	DVD	MVD VISUAL	MVD 3452DVD
$19.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "In this highly anticipated, official Fully Authorized feature documentary, the absolute instigator of Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry is truly revealed, with exclusive access, including first ever, contributions from Mrs. Berry and the Berry family. Despite his iconic status, and reverence for his talent by rock's heroes John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, Steve Van Zandt, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper) all featured, Chuck Berry was at heart, a family man. He was a prolific craftsman of word and chords; an undisputed and stunning combination of talent and charisma. Award-winning Film maker Jon Brewer (BB King The Life of Riley, Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark), lends new insight to the man known as the Father of Rock n Roll in new and exclusive interviews , exclusive access photos and footage of Chuck Berry, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, ELO, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley and Etta James along with Jon Brewer trademark re-enactments set to original Chuck Berry tracks. Aside from celebrating the gift of Chuck Berry's music and vision to Americana and indeed rock n roll as a yet to be discovered genre, he had an immensely mis-understood story and this documentary film gives viewers the opportunity to appreciate the vast catalogue of music alongside the inside accounting from his family and contemporaries, lending new insight to a magnificent character who had to tolerate life as a wealthy black man in 1960s America."

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KRAFTWERK	Ready Player Two	DVD	SMOKIN SESSIONS	SMD 039DVD
$14.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 10/9/2020 "Formed in 1970, Kraftwerk's contribution to the development of electronic music remains unsurpassed. Having inspired everyone from Bowie to Joy Division to Radiohead, this mysterious collective has also proven responsible for entire genres to emerge -- electronica, techno and synth-pop to name but three. This DVD reviews the career and music of Kraftwerk, from their inception in the late 1960s through their most celebrated period in the mid-1970s, culminating with their resurgence during the 1980s. The film further explores how Kraftwerk both fitted into and pulled away from the electronic wing of what is often lazily referred to as 'Krautrock'. Showing respect too for many of the groups' German contemporaries from a similar impulse, and tracing the unfolding of electronics in German contemporary music generally, this program presents a fascinating story previously untold on film. Featuring exclusive and extensive interviews with ex-Kraftwerk members -- Karl Bartos and Klaus Röder, German ambient and electronic musicians - Dieter Moebius (Kluster/Harmonia), Hans Joachim Rodelius (Kluster/Harmonia), Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream/ Ash Ra Tempel and Solo), Wolfgang Siedel (Eruption), Conrad Schnitzler (Kluster/ Solo), Klaus Löhmer (engineer, Kraftwerk album) and many others. Also boasting further contributions from Electronic music experts and writers, and rare studio and live footage of the band, these all together make for perhaps the best film on the subject ever to emerge."

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POE, AMOS	Subway Riders	DVD	MVD VISUAL	MVD 3691DVD
$19.00 IN STOCK "A 1981 drama from 'No Wave' director Amos Poe shot in New York City. A psychotic street saxophonist lures victims into dark city spots with his haunting music -- then shoots them. Seedy characters, including a cop with a junkie wife, an upstairs sax-hating prostitute and other lost souls litter the landscape. Features Cookie Mueller (Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living) Susan Tyrell, (Cry Baby, Forbidden Zone)."

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POE, AMOS	Unmade Beds	DVD	MVD VISUAL	MVD 3689DVD
$19.00 IN STOCK "See Debbie Harry in this 1976 drama from 'No Wave' filmmaker Amos Poe. This is the story of Rico in New York City, who imagines he lives in Paris during the time of 'New Wave' filmmaking. He's a photographer who thinks he's an outsider, so he uses his camera like a gun, loading it with bullets of film. He seeks reality to fulfill his fantasy. but, he's also a romantic, and this is his downfall, especially when he falls in love with the adorable Blondie. When Rico falls in love, the delicate balance of the world he has made for himself is disrupted."

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WIRE, THE	#440 October 2020	MAG	THE WIRE	WIRE 440
$10.00 IN STOCK "Sun Ra Arkestra -- as the intergalactic orchestra releases its first studio album in over 20 years, John Morrison talks to its leader Marshall Allen in Philadelphia about preserving Sun Ra's cosmic legacy. Plus, an astral traveller's guide to Sun Ra on film and video, and news of the latest recordings from the archive. The Primer -- Fugazi and associates. As Washington's hardcore standard bearers continue their legacy through new bands Coriky and The Messthetics, Joe Thompson of Hey Colossus provides a user's guide to recordings from Rites Of Spring and Fugazi through to their many solo projects."

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POE, AMOS	The Foreigner	DVD	MVD VISUAL	MVD 3690DVD
$19.00 IN STOCK "This is a 1978 New York drama from 'No Wave' director Amos Poe. European Max Menace arrives in New York City on an unknown mission. Boredom sets in as he waits for his assignment. Alienation thrusts him into entanglements with women, weirdos and creeps. Their unstructured lives echo the purposely-meandering storyline. The Foreigner is about the reality of being meaningless in a hostile city."

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GRIM HUMOUR	Highlights & Lowlights 1983-1987	Book	FOURTH DIMENSION	GH 8393BK
$26.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 9/18/2020 Grim Humour ran between 1983 and 1993 and proved itself one of the most popular UK fanzines throughout this time due to its documenting many groups, large and small, who initially arrived from the punk/post-punk world and its cousins in industrial or electronic music, whilst coupling this to an interest in horror films, underground cinema, literature, graphic novel/comics and more esoteric areas. Although the passions for matters beyond music grew as the 'zine itself grew, the early editions captured here in what is to be the first of two book volumes reflect the work of several teenage friends so devoted to the music they enjoyed they felt compelled to delve further into it. Naive, impassioned, and underpinned by a modicum of sarcasm that got cranked higher in later editions, Grim Humour perfectly balanced deference with irreverence when it came to music. Throughout the approximately 300 pages collected here, original pages are reprinted alongside re-edited interviews, reviews and other such features from the first ten editions of the 'zine, published between 1983 and 1987. Also featuring new text exclusive to the book by some of the groups, as well as a number of essays by those either involved with the 'zine or who avidly read it, this book serves as a (perhaps cracked) snapshot of a time when independent music didn't necessarily mean "indie". Comprising interviews with Killing Joke, Abbo (UK Decay), And Also The Trees, Crass, Virgin Prunes, Death In June, Portion Control, Nick Cave, Sonic Youth, Coil, The Leather Nun, The Damned, The Fall, Fools Dance (featuring Simon Gallup of The Cure), Big Black, Head Of David, Alternative TV, and many others, this book helps illustrate just how far punk and its own darkened tendrils actually reached in an age when fanzines and their concomitant cousins in mail art, cassette labels and suchlike helped fill in the gaps the music weeklies simply couldn't. This will be of interest to all who grew up through this era and still have a place for it in their hearts, besides those with a lot of interest in any of the groups featured. 300 pages; A4 softcover.

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FRIEDKIN, WILLIAM	Cruising	DVD	ARROW VIDEO	AV 309DVD
$19.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL "Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) directs Al Pacino as an undercover cop pitched into New York's seedy underbelly in Cruising. New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city's underground bars. Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) tasks young rookie Steve Burns (Pacino) with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows -- but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process. Taking the premise and title from reporter Gerald Walker's novel, Cruising was the subject of great controversy at the time of its release and remains a challenging and remarkable movie to this day, with Pacino's haunted lead performance as its magnetic centrepiece."

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SWANS	Where Does A Body End?	DVD	MVD VISUAL	MVD 4075DVD
$15.00 IN STOCK "Where Does a Body End? is an intimate portrait of the band SWANS, from their roots as a brutal, confrontational post-punk band that emerged from the same early 1980s era NYC that gave us Sonic Youth (and, somehow, Madonna) through their ill-fated bid at mainstream success in the '90s indie-rock gold rush, through breakups and chaos (on and offstage) to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips back through their most popular songs. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since its formation in 1982 -- singer, songwriter Michael Gira. With unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs, the film brings us along the path they needed to carve for themselves. The film is many things, a musical history, a time-capsule, a tour diary, a concert film, but mostly it's the story of a life in the arts, frequently difficult, spanning decades without a safety net, creating the work because Gira says 'What else am I going to do?' As bandmate Thor Harris notes, 'Michael is not a fearless person, but he is a fearless artist.'"

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SWANS	Where Does A Body End? (Deluxe Edition)	2xBLU-RAY	MVD VISUAL	MVD 3893BR
$24.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Deluxe edition; 156 minutes of bonus material. "Where Does a Body End? is an intimate portrait of the band SWANS, from their roots as a brutal, confrontational post-punk band that emerged from the same early 1980s era NYC that gave us Sonic Youth (and, somehow, Madonna) through their ill-fated bid at mainstream success in the '90s indie-rock gold rush, through breakups and chaos (on and offstage) to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips back through their most popular songs. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since its formation in 1982 -- singer, songwriter Michael Gira. With unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs, the film brings us along the path they needed to carve for themselves. The film is many things, a musical history, a time-capsule, a tour diary, a concert film, but mostly it's the story of a life in the arts, frequently difficult, spanning decades without a safety net, creating the work because Gira says 'What else am I going to do?' As bandmate Thor Harris notes, 'Michael is not a fearless person, but he is a fearless artist.'"

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SWANS	Where Does A Body End?	BLU-RAY	MVD VISUAL	MVD 4099BR
$19.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 9/11/2020 "Where Does a Body End? is an intimate portrait of the band SWANS, from their roots as a brutal, confrontational post-punk band that emerged from the same early 1980s era NYC that gave us Sonic Youth (and, somehow, Madonna) through their ill-fated bid at mainstream success in the '90s indie-rock gold rush, through breakups and chaos (on and offstage) to their odds-defying current status as one of the most accomplished and ambitious bands in the world, one whose concerts are more like ecstatic rituals than nostalgic trips back through their most popular songs. SWANS has always been a collection of singular performers, but there's been one constant since its formation in 1982 -- singer, songwriter Michael Gira. With unfettered access to hundreds of hours of Gira/SWANS archives of never-seen-before recordings, videos, and photographs, the film brings us along the path they needed to carve for themselves. The film is many things, a musical history, a time-capsule, a tour diary, a concert film, but mostly it's the story of a life in the arts, frequently difficult, spanning decades without a safety net, creating the work because Gira says 'What else am I going to do?' As bandmate Thor Harris notes, 'Michael is not a fearless person, but he is a fearless artist.'"

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