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| HEADPRESS 2.2
Welcometo HEADPRESS 2.2, the second HEADPRESS journal to appear in a digitalformat as well as a collector edition. Once again, the collector edition is hardback, fully illustrated, full colour, stamped, numbered and generally sumptuous. Content-wise, we pick up were we left off, with some of the most blinding, provocative prose going, lovingly cradled by a few of the more striking visuals this side of November 9th.
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|  | SUN RA
From the mid 1950s until his death in 1993, Sun Ra led "The Arkestra", an ensemble with an ever changing line-up that sometimes numbered as many as thirty musicians living and playing together under the despotic tutelage of Sun Ra himself. Their music touched upon the entire history of jazz, from ragtime to swing, bebop to free jazz,while the band also pioneered the use of new forms, including electronic music, space music and free improvisation. But Sun Ra’s legendary status was earned as much for his eccentricities as for his unique artistic vision...
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| DISCOMBOBULATED
A deranged gonzo romp from Las Vegas to Moscow, Shanghai to Bolton, this book features fifty unbelievably true tales of high living and low-cost slumming, with a celebrity cast that never knew what hit them... Featuring Kylie Minogue, Take That, Paul Oakenfold, Fatboy Slim, Coolio, gangster Dave Courtney and many more.
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|  | THE RUMFORD ROGUES
In Artificial Intelligence, the closer we get to the human brain, the more chaotic and subversive the observed system becomes, as if it knows what we are after.
This is a modern comedy about Artificial Intelligence and the state of present-day society.
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| |  | TRASHFIEND
From low budget horror films to grisly comic art, from lurid movie magazines to late-night creature features, from campy monster toys to exploitive poster art, TRASHFIEND takes a loving look at “disposable” horror culture from the 1960s and 1970s.
Over two glorious decades the horror film waged war on good taste, exploiting every taboo and bursting every envelope along the way. TRASHFIEND is the definitive guide to the chaotic, creative and endlessly entertaining golden age of horror cinema.
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|  | SANCTUARY T-SHIRTS
Headpress Sanctuary t-shirts are pre-washed 100%, supersoft, heavyweight 250g quality cotton. A classic retro shape, and vintage wash from Skinnifit, for a lived-in look, designed to fade over time but won't wear out fast.
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|  | BAD MAGS VOL 2
Following the enormous success of the instant cult classic BAD MAGS Vol 1, the hotly anticipated BAD MAGS Vol 2 picks up where its predecessor left off, scraping the nasty depths of magazine and tabloid pop lit.
In fact BAD MAGS Vol 2 is probably even more SHOCKING, KITSCH, SEXY and OUTRAGEOUS. Chapters are divided into subject categories for easy reference, such as SEXPLOITATION, SHARON TATE and CHARLES MANSON, ED WOOD JR, OUTLAW BIKERS, the OCCULT, the MOB and PUNK. Packed with even more RARE and INCREDIBLE IMAGES than BAD MAGS Vol 1, BAD MAGS Vol 2 is guaranteed to SHOCK, ASTOUND and EXCITE readers.
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|  | IT'S ALL GOOD
A John Sinclair Reader + CD
IT’S ALL GOOD illuminates John Sinclair’s legendary period as acultural revolutionary and political prisoner, manager of the MC5, Chairman of the White Panther Party, producer of the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival and director of the Detroit Jazz Center.There’s evidence too of Sinclair’s years at WWOZ Radio in New Orleans, where he was voted the city’s favorite DJ.
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| EXCLSUIVE AUDIO
IT'S ALL GOOD includes an exclusive thirteen tracks of audio, which features music performances by John Sinclair, Wayne Kramer (MC5) and others.
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|  | HEADPRESS 28
“THIS EDITION OF HEADPRESS HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED BY THE HEADPRESS PANTHERS!”
Edited by John Sinclair, HEADPRESS 28 marks the fortieth anniversary of the original White Panthers movement and heralds the launch of the “HEADPRESS PANTHERS,” which celebrates the union with historical counterculture figure, social reformer and living legend, John Sinclair, to spread “THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO UNPOPULAR CULTURE,” thus promoting free speech through independent writing and art without boundaries.
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|  | BAD MAGS VOL 1
The flip side of popular culture as seen through magazines and tabloids
BAD MAGS collects the colourful and sometimes shocking news-stand publications of the 1960s through to the 1980s. Chapters are divided into subject categories for easy reference, such as sexploitation, Ed Wood Jr, and outlaw bikers.
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|  | KEEP IT TOGETHER!
Cosmic boogie with the Deviants and Pink Fairies
This is the remarkable story of London’s communal bands of the 1960s and 1970s, from the perspective of two of its most crucial exponents.
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|  | CHELSEA HOTEL MANHATTAN
Extreme living in New York’s Chelsea Hotel, from the Beats through Punk, and on into the present day.
Chelsea Hotel, home to many famous authors, artists and outlaws down the years. Andy Warhol shot Chelsea Girls there and welsh poet Dylan Thomas died there, having reputedly inspired the young Zimmerman to change his name to Bob Dylan.
CHELSEA HOTEL MANHATTAN is the first factual book on the building and features conversations with William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Gerard Malanga, Herbert Huncke, Victor Bockris and others.
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|  | HEADPRESS 27
The first edition of Headpress to appear in two years. In celebration of its release, and the anthropological milieu that Headpress has helped to create in sixteen years of publication, HEADPRESS 27 is markedly different from other Headpresses in that it is a fine collector’s item work-of-art in full glorious colour. More | Buy | | + Headpress 26 | [top] |
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