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In the style of the Classic 70s point battling card game, get ready to to pit your favourite UK Post-Punk groups against one another!

The punk rock defectors (Public Image Ltd, Magazine), the proto-goths (The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division), the cacophonous (Throbbing Gristle, This Heat), the lo-fi heroes (Marine Girls, Young Marble Giants), the avant-funksters (The Pop Group, A Certain Ratio), the shambolic (The Raincoats, Swell Maps), the political (Au Pairs, Gang of Four) and many many more.

Each of the 30 cards features original artwork and facts about the band.

So get ready to have your musical palatte confounded and let battle commence with the categories of ‘Commercial Smash, ‘Abrasiveness, ‘diy Ethos’, ‘Avant-Jazz-Funk-Dub-Fusion’ and ‘Peel Sessions’.

Professionally printed, 32 card set (inc. instructions) 330gsm, laminated, casino quality, Trump size cards (100mm x 62mm), packaged in a printed slip box.

In the style of the Classic 70s point battling card game, get ready to to pit your favourite original UK punk groups against one another!

The filthy (The Sex Pistols, The Stranglers), the furious (Sham 69, Crass), the shambolic (The Fall, The Slits), the style-icons (The Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees), the pop-maestros (The Jam, Buzzcocks), the Oi! boys (Cockney Rejects, U.K. Subs), the lo-fi heroes (The Desperate Bicycles, Subway Sect) and many many more.

Each of the 30 cards features original artwork and facts about the band.

So fasten your safety pins, spike up your hair and let battle commence with the categories of ‘Sneer Factor’, ‘Peel Sessions’, ‘Filthy Lucre’, ‘Fashion Punks’ and ‘Live Fast Die Young’.

Professionally printed, 32 card set (inc. instructions), 330gsm, laminated, casino quality, Trump size cards (100mm x 62mm), packaged in a printed slip box. Professionally printed, 32 card set (inc. instructions) 330gsm, laminated, casino quality, Trump size cards (100mm x 62mm), packaged in a printed slip box. Contains some rude words

In the style of the Classic 70s point battling card game… Welcome to Twin Peaks and its eccentric array of residents and visitors.

From the good and evil to the downright weird… you’ll meet a murdered homecoming queen, wisecracking FBI agents, malevolent spirts, high school students looking for trouble, a dancing dwarf, a riddling giant, a super strong wannabe cheerleader, a one-armed man, a lady who talks to a log and many more.

Each of the 30 cards features original illustrations and facts about the characters.

Battle it out with the categories of ‘Not What They Seem’, ‘Black as Midnight’, ‘Back in Style’, ‘A Glass of Warm Milk’ ‘From Another Place’ and ‘Damn Fine!’

Professionally printed, 32 card set (inc. instructions) 330gsm, laminated, casino quality, Trump size cards (100mm x 62mm), packaged in a printed slip box.

This is an unofficial fan-made product!

At a towering 6’7” tall with deep, haunting vocals to match, Peter Steele’s unique persona perfectly lended itself to the gothic atmospheres and doom-laden riffs that Type O Negative was best known for. This 4” articulated Type O Negative ReAction Figure of frontman Peter Steele is inspired by the cover art from the band’s 6th studio album Life is Killing Me album, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2023, and comes with a bass guitar accessory, detailed with a real chain guitar strap. This Peter Steele ReAction Figure will be a bloody good addition to any collection- get yours today!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: bass guitar accessory with chain guitar strap detail
• Package Dimensions (in): 9"x6"x1"
• Weight: 0.19 lb

Super7 continues to pay homage to the one and only The Notorious B.I.G. with the new 7” scale, articulated Deluxe action figure. Inspired by the legendary hip-hop storyteller’s iconic east coast style, this figure features intricate sculpt and premium paint detailing, comes with sunglasses, microphone, gold chain accessories, all packaged on a blister cardback. If you don't know, now you know- this Notorious B.I.G. Deluxe figure is a must-have for any hip-hop collection!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: Sunglasses, Microphone, Gold chain
• Package Dimensions (in): 11.3" x 2.56" x 6.02"
• Product Dimensions (in): 7
• Weight: 0.6 lb

From The City of Brooklyn Zoo, Ol’ Dirty Bastard is back again! The new 7” scale, articulated O.D.B. Deluxe figure is inspired by the cover art from his platinum-selling solo debut album Return to 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, features intricate sculpt and premium paint detailing, and comes with microphone and ID card accessories, all packaged on a blister cardback. While the artist himself is gone all-too-soon, this Ol’ Dirty Bastard Deluxe figure can live on in your collection of legendary hip-hop artists!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: Microphone & ID Card
• Package Dimensions (in): 11.3" x 2.56" x 6.02"
• Product Dimensions (in): 7
• Weight: 0.2 lb

Bill Direen is a legend of the New Zealand underground. He has given us poetry, novels and a catalog of important and challenging underground music. Weaned on a garage band youth in the late '60s, Direen started producing 7" records in the early '80s, all of them total stunners. These releases—Six Impossible Things, Die Bilder, Soloman's Ball and High Thirties Piano—were self-financed and distributed through Flying Nun. 100 Years Of Darkness, his latest book, is a homage to a century of films and film music. The front cover boxes represent film aspect ratios (1.17:1 up to 2.35:1) as used worldwide between 1888 and the present. The films are drawn from many countries, such as Japan, U.S.A., France, Germany, Russia/Ukraine, Vietnam, Sweden, Italy, Spain, New Zealand, Lebanon. Since some of the films may not have been commercially distributed in all countries, the chosen films are carefully listed in a detailed index of sources at the close, which corresponds to the order of the poems as listed in the contents. This makes it easy for film and music lovers to find the films' directors and years of first appearance, and eventually see them for themselves. It is very limited in an edition of 200 and beautifully printed with textured jackets in the spirit of vintage Black Sparrow Press books.

Record Time No 2 hits the bargain bins and neglected corners of the local record store to find great records that are still affordable to average folks. And, as with the first issue, we dig into the back stories of these records and artists, with a focus on good writing. This time around we do a deep dive into the life and career of Ray (Rae) Bourbon, a pre-Stonewall drag artist and comedian; jazzman Charles Lloyd's "wilderness" albums; Catalan folk legend and politico Lluis Llach; oddball rockers the Hampton Grease Band; finding the South African country music holy grail; Canadian cabaret rocker Louis Furey; the weird world of Polka; hard rocking should-have-been-huge Birtha; actor & music pusher Jack Webb; Sex Pistols and Pistols-inspired novelty records; patron saint of smart asses Rick Johnson; and more! Contributors this time are TOM Hyland, Owen Maercks, Stella Beratlis, Steve Silverstein, Nathanel Amar, Adam Taub, Nate Knaebel, Laurent Bigot, Mike Trouchon, Greg Pshaw, Johnny Sunshine, Dennis Worden, Fred DE Vries, Stan Appleton, Billups Allen, and Todd Trick Knee, with guest appearances by Lali Donovan, Larry Hardy, Tony Coulter, and Dana Katharine. Edited by S Soriano.

A unique insight into, and record of, the 20th century’s most exciting and productive period of rock poster art and graphic design.

Rock Graphic Originals: Revolutions in Sonic Art from Plate to Print ‘55–’88 presents counterculture’s psychedelic poster art from its beat origins to its stadium rock zenith. Portfolios of 30+ poster artists – Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Mouse Kelley and Hapshash amont them – are laid bare for all to see. For the first time, the sketchbooks and paste-ups, the printing plates and colour separations are unveiled to reveal the layers of process integral to the design of each poster.

Rock Graphic Originals is packed with more than 750 examples of posters, artworks and logos, created for the bands that epitomise their era, their sound and their scene – in San Francisco and the west coast, Detroit and New York, Swinging London and revolutionary Paris. Rock legends promoted in the posters include Big Brother and the Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Buckley, the Yardbirds, Cream, Led Zeppelin and many more.

Barry Miles – cultural commentator and founder of International Times – contextualizes the exquisitely curated pages. Punctuated with special features on the socio-political phenomena that permeated the music and artwork of each period – underground clubs, head shops, obscenity trials, legalize pot rallies, acid tests and violent protest – the story is completed by personal insights from the artists themselves.

'Gig posters, magazine covers and band visuals from the golden age of rock' The Herald, Music Books of the Year

About the Author: Peter Golding, musician and creator of the world’s first ‘designer jean,’ began collecting rock ’n’ roll art in 1967, naming his collection ‘Inspirational Times.’ As part of the sixties and seventies fashion movement, Peter Golding’s famous ACE boutique in London’s Chelsea brought him into regular contact with the biggest names in rock ’n’ roll, and he went on to create one of the most comprehensive collections of rock ’n’ roll graphics. He curated the first exhibition for ‘Inspirational Times’ in London in 2003, was a major lender to the Tate Liverpool exhibition ‘Summer of Love’ in 2005, and more recently contributed to the V&A’s 2016–17 exhibition ‘You Say You Want a Revolution.’

Barry Miles is the bestselling author of numerous biographies and countercultural histories. He was a founding contributor to International Times, a regular contributor to NME from 1975 to 1978, and editor of Time Out from 1978 to 1979.

Format:Paperback Size:31.5 x 21.8 cm Extent:224 pp Illustrations:750 Publication date:25 October 2018 ISBN:9780500293539

Formed in the late ‘80s, hip-hop group 3rd Bass gained recognition for their clever wordplay and socially-conscious lyrics, which helped distinguish themselves in an era dominated by gangsta rap! This 2-pack of 3rd Bass ReAction Figures includes articulated, 3.75” scale figures of the group’s frontmen Prime Minster Pete Nice and M.C. Serch, and comes with walking cane and wad of cash accessories. If you miss out on this 3rd Bass ReAction Figure 2-pack you’re definitely going to get The Gas Face!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: Walking cane and wad of cash
• Product Dimensions (in): 3.75"
• Weight (lbs): 0.2 lb

Lyricist, rhythm guitarist, and frontman Joe Strummer was hardly one to shy away from breaking cultural taboos and is renowned for his top-of-the-chart punk anthems that challenged the establishment! The latest 3.75” scale, articulated Joe Strummer ReAction Figure is inspired by his style in the early ‘80s and comes with a boombox accessory. Rock your collection of punk icons with this Joe Strummer ReAction Figure!

• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Accessories: Boombox
• Package Dimensions (in): 9"x6"x1"
• Weight: 0.2 lb

Score a slam dunk for your National Basketball Association collection with Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls. Recruit this player to your basketball collection as Pop! Michael Jordan (Rookie Season) in his red jersey. Vinyl figure is approximately 12 cm tall.

Score a slam dunk for your National Basketball Association collection with Grant Hill of the Detroit Pistons. Recruit this player to your basketball collection as Pop! Grant Hill (Rookie Season) in his blue and red jersey. Vinyl figure is approximately 9.5 cm tall.

Score a slam dunk for your National Basketball Association collection with Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks. Recruit this player to your basketball collection as Pop! Jason Kidd (Rookie Season) in his white jersey. Vinyl figure is approximately 9.1 cm tall.

Recruit John Stockton of the NBA’s Utah Jazz to your basketball collection! In his purple alternate uniform, Pop! John Stockton is sure to be a slam dunk on your personal roster. Vinyl figure is approximately 10 cm tall.

No need for rap.

Around 2008, a generation of producers in Germany and all over Europe realized that their hip-hop beats could stand alone. Without any vocals but with a new-found confidence in instrumental music. Among those producers were now household names like Suff Daddy, Dexter, Brenk Sinatra, Twit One, Shuko, Hulk Hodn, Hubert Daviz, Bluestaeb, S. Fidelity, Flako, Flofilz and many more…

They went from beat tapes to full vinyl releases that attracted more and more attention and connected the local scene with a worldwide movement. Suddenly, those beatheads stepped out of the shadows and found themselves in the center of attention – on stage and with their faces on the record cover.

(Prod. by) is a photo book that captures the essence of this beatmaker decade by compiling its most iconic record covers, private snapshots and never-before-seen material from the vaults of photographer Robert Winter.

The final layout of the book can vary from the shown previews!

For fans, Boxer is a profound personal meditation. Life decisions have been based on it. Relationships have been created and dissolved by it. For the band that recorded it, Boxer symbolizes a do-or-die moment; a final, give-it-everything-you've-got effort to make it work.

Released in May 2007, The National's fourth full-length is the album that saved them. It's where the Ohio-via-Brooklyn five-piece found the sound, success, and spiritual growth to become one of the most critically acclaimed bands of their time. Obsessively researched and featuring intimate interviews with the fighters who were there in the ring, Ryan Pinkard captures a transformative chapter in The National's story, revealing how their breakthrough album is deeply intertwined with their personal lives, the New York indie rock renaissance of the early aughts, and a generational experience in America.

Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, Computer World, was also their most influential album, paving the way for a range of new musical styles and genres. This book explores the band's revolutionary sonic template, and their lyrical obsessions in detail.

An analysis of the bands work reveals a unifying theme, overlooked by other writers, of movement and transition. While many remarked on the prevalence of travel within Kraftwerk's art: Autobahn (1974) – cars, Trans-Europe Express (1977) – trains, The Man- Machine (1978) – space, and Tour De France (1982) – bicycles, Francis contends that this is a surface manifestation of a deeper theoretical subtext in their work. Movement is really a reflection of the concept of transition, through time and space, from one physical, emotional, or existential state of being to another. The book explores transition, as expressed on Computer World, via theories of post-humanism, cybernetics and the anthropology of transnationalism.

Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as "neo-soul," a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibilities; an amalgam of soul, rock, jazz, gospel, hip-hop, and Afrobeats. D'Angelo sets to music his own pleasures and insecurities as a man-child in the promised land. It was both a tribute to his musical heroes: Prince, Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, J Dilla ... and a deconstruction of rhythm and blues itself.

Despite nearly universal acclaim, the sonic expansiveness of Voodoo proved too nebulous for airplay on many radio stations, seeping outside the accepted lines of commercial R&B music. Voodoo was Black, it was definitely magic, and it was nearly overshadowed by a four-minute music video featuring D'Angelo's sweat-glistened six-pack abs. "The Video" created an accentuated moment when the shaman lost control of the spell he cast.

The OSTKREUZ agency was founded in the midst of the upheavals that took place in East Berlin in 1990. For Dream on - Berlin, the 90s, nine OSTKREUZ photographers worked together with curators Annette Hauschild (OSTKREUZ) and Boaz Levin (C/O Berlin Foundation) to cast a modern-day eye over their extensive archives as seen from today’s perspective. As documentarists operating at the apogee of photojournalism, they tracked the changes that the city underwent. They observed the shifts in society and the challenges facing a city that had previously been divided by a wall as it grew together, capturing all this in powerful, personal images. The essays reflect this on a variety of levels: Janos Frecot’s examination of the changes in the urban space; Jens Balzer’s description of Berlin’s potential as a centre of creativity and culture; and Anne Rabe’s very personal view, as a young East German writer, of today’s Berlin.

OSTKREUZ is an independent, Berlin-based agency that is run by twenty-four photographers.

348 pp.
250 b/w and color illustrations
thread-sewn hardcover

Leipzig September, 2024
ISBN: 9783959058520

Width: 20 cm
Length: 24 cm

Language(s): English

Editor
Boaz Levin, C/O Berlin Foundation, Annette Hauschild, Kathrin Kohle, OSTKREUZ

Designer
Marc Naroska

Text
Jens Balzer, Janos Frecot, Boaz Levin, Veronika Epple

Photographer
Sibylle Bergemann, Annette Hauschild, Harald Hauswald, Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, Jordis Antonia Schlösser, Anne Schönharting, Maurice Weiss

Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), or “German New Wave,” was made extraordinarily popular in the 1970s and 1980s by the likes of Nena's "99 Luftballons" and Trio's "Da Da Da"-and then left as quickly as it came. Conventional wisdom among artists dictates that it's better to burn out than fade away, but this doesn't tell the full story of NDW-the reason for its rapid rise and fall, the historical context that necessitated the genre, and where the energy of the NDW movement went after its end.

The genre has international influences but still demonstrates a uniquely German desire to build a new, sanitized identity in the aftermath of World War II. Originally quite subversive and underground, NDW became exponentially more mainstream until it could no longer sustain itself creatively. And rather than disappearing, it helped give rise to the post-Cold War rave craze and is still an important touchstone in music history.

Claudia Lonkin is a historian of popular music and culture based in the United States.
Her research focuses on global music trends in the 1970s and 1980s, examining congruences and points of contrast between scenes in Europe and the Americas. She has been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies and Punk & Post-Punk.

168 pages
197 x 127 mm

With zero regard for human life, the sentient renegade robot Czar Noir has a reputation for sowing chaos and destruction, and lives up to the title “The Dark Czar”! Based on Czarface and MF DOOM’s collab album, Super What?, this highly articulated, 7” scale Czarface ULTIMATES! Czar Noir figure looks like malevolence incarnate with its jet-black color scheme with metallic, blood-red details. Featuring intricate sculpt and premium paint detailing, this figure also comes with multiple interchangeable heads and hands, interchangeable forearm missiles, and a removable soft goods cape. Czar Noir is currently at large- you can put an end to his rampage by adding this made-to-order ULTIMATES! figure to your collection today!

Accessories:
• 3x Interchangeable Heads
Neutral head
Screaming head
Laser eyes head

• 9x Interchangeable Hands
2x Open hands
2x Fists
2x Claw hands
2x Transparent claw hands
1x Left fist

• Double arm missile
• Single arm missile
• Soft goods cape

Details and Specs:
• Product Material/Process: Injected Plastic & Paint
• Product Dimensions (in): 7"
• Weight (lbs): 2.0 lb

In the magazine: Marshall Allen, Frank Chickens, Water Damage, IVTKYGYG, Seo, Callahan & Witscher, Kamilya Jubran, Invisible Jukebox: Pharmakon, Global Ear: Riga, Unlimited Editions: Reading Group, The Inner Sleeve: Eleni Poulou on Irdial, Epiphanies: David Borden on Bob Moog, and in the reviews sections: Blood Incantation, FaithNYC, Alan Lamb, Music From Elsewhere, Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co, MC5, BARK!, Stick In The Wheel, and more.

On the CD: 16 new tracks by Sealionwoman, Niton featuring John Butcher, Masayoshi Fujita featuring Moor Mother, Deaf Squad x Flowdan, Tristan Perich & Ensemble 0, and more.

Second edition of the long-out-of-print book which Bun B declared ".... defines Houston hip-hop." Includes 32 new pages of never before seen photos and text, Northside/Southside Houston maps, and a complete index of the timeline and oral history of the scene. Houston Rap is an immersion into the everyday life of the Houston hip hop community. The second edition, hardcover 304 page book features the photography of Peter Beste, who spent 9 years documenting the culture alongside writer Lance Scott Walker. Houston Rap profiles noted artists such as Bun B of UGK, Z-Ro, Big Mike, K-Rino, Willie D of the Geto Boys, Lil’ Troy, and Paul Wall, alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C, and Big Hawk. The book also features community leaders, rappers, producers, businessmen, and family members, all providing important insight into a great American cultural narrative, and the second edition features even more details into this astonishing and influential scene.