Orange Juice Box Set: Coals To Newcastle
The boxset is made up of six audio compact discs and one DVD that contain the band’s complete discography and other studio recordings as well as a collection of their BBC sessions. Coals To Newcastle contains 16 previously unreleased tracks with another 23 tracks previously unavailable on earlier re-issues.
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The Rolling Stones 1964-1969 – Limited Edition Remastered Vinyl Box Set [Box Set, Limited Edition, Original Recording Remastered]
The Rolling Stones 1964-1969 Vinyl Box Set is a limited edition numbered collection that encompasses the Stones’ early UK releases. The box set includes nine remastered Rolling Stones studio albums, two remastered EPs, plus two ‘Big Hits’ collections. The albums and EPs included are The Rolling Stones (EP), The Rolling Stones (UK), Five by Five (EP), The Rolling Stones No. 2, Out Of Our Heads (UK), Aftermath (UK), Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)(UK), Between the Buttons (UK), Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)(UK), Let It Bleed and Metamorphosis. The first five titles in the set are presented in their original mono format, affording, for the first time in years an opportunity for fans to enjoy remastered versions of the tracks “I Can’t Be Satisfied,” “Time Is On My Side” (Version 2) and “Down the Road Apiece” as originally released. It’s the first vinyl reissue in decades for The Rolling Stones (EP), The Rolling Stones, Five by Five (EP), The Rolling Stones No. 2, Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) andThrough the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2). Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) is included with its original octagonal cover and artwork intact. Metamorphosis is a component of the set; the album was first released in 1975 but is wholly comprised of tracks recorded from the early-to-late sixties. The inclusion of the band’s original two `Big Hits’ collections was mandated by the fact that UK album releases in that era most often did not include contemporaneously released hit singles. Be to sure to also check out the companion to this release, The Rolling Stones 1971-2005 Vinyl Box Set . Both box sets are a must-have addition for any Stones collector.
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Yeasayer: Odd Blood [Vinyl]
It’s a good thing Yeasayer is mostly full of shit. In the run up to the release of its second album, the Brooklyn band claimed it was partially inspired by the theory of Singularity, which hypothesizes that artificial intelligence will eventually overtake that of the human mind. If that were actually true, and the group had gone ahead and constructed a concept album about man versus machine, Odd Blood wouldn’t be the florescent joy that it is. It certainly starts out hinting at some larger idea which might possibly involve revolting computers: opener “The Children” features garbled vocals and a clanging, industrial stomp, and is easily the worst song of the ten. But by the end of the record, frontman Chris Keating is singing about he and his girl “making love ’til the morning light” over a clattering clap-along chorus, and the experience as a whole is less a pseudo-scientific think-piece than it is the soundtrack to the romantic sci-fi drama John Hughes never got to make…on acid…(read more)
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Exit Through The Gift Shop [DVD]
By the end of the film you’ll be scratching your head trying to separate “Art” from well… everything else. Exit Through The Gift Shop is an insightful commentary on street art, and how easily it can go from countercultural movement to a social status symbol sold to the highest bidder.
The film centers on LA vintage boutique owner and confused francophone Thierry Guetta, an overweight man in his mid 40’s, with a face full of hair and a shaky command of the English language (often to comic effect). Guetta is obsessed with recording his every waking moment, which he accomplishes with the aid of a handheld camera. Guetta’s obsession with filming combined with an enthusiastic but ultimately delusional sense of the world takes him on a journey from amateur cameraman, to bogus graffiti documentarian, to self-proclaimed street artist and overnight sensation.
As the first to turn a camera on the world of illicit street art, Guetta was in a unique position to document a majority of the world’s greatest street artists. Influenced by his relationships with Banksy, Shepard Fairey and others, Guetta eventually finds himself motivated to create his own art. Putting the camera down at the suggestion of his role model/friend, Banksy, Guetta takes to the LA streets, reflecting back the style of the artists he so assiduously documented. Like a happy little puppy having just been tossed a new bone, Guetta begins plastering Los Angeles with building-sized stencil portraits of his newfound persona “Mr. Brainwash”.
Inspired to create an event around his art, Guetta’s prolific plastering was ultimately outshone by his self-sponsored solo exhibit of over 200 pieces. The pieces are, in some cases, massively derivative and, some might say, knockoffs and caricatures of his friends’ and mentors’ work. Instead of developing his body of work over time, Mr. Brainwash mass produces his pieces on a factory-style assembly line, staffed by several unfortunate “assistants”. When Mr. Brainwash’s solo show grosses over a million dollars in sales, it leaves the art world in a wake of questions and confusion. Was what just happened art, commerce, self-promotion? Or something far more insidious? And what implications does Mr. Brainwash’s success have for the art world?
Exit Through The Gift Shop is amazing, humorous and insightful; much credit is due to the director, artist and long time social prankster, Banksy. In the end, Guetta may have us all brainwashed.-David Jackowski
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Bowie, David – Rare And Unseen [DVD]
Most famous for his alter-ego, the ostentatious, androgynous “Ziggy Stardust”, Bowie has continually reinvented his music and image. He has had numerous top ten hits in the US & UK, most notably China Girl, Space Oddity, Under Pressure and more. Told through archive interviews (originally thought lost) and rare and unseen footage, this DVD is a worthy addition to any Bowie collection. Items genuinely unseen and never before appeared on DVD including film from the ITN archive. Includes lost and now restored TV interviews from the past and rare film of the singer talking about his career.
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Stones in Exile [DVD]
In the spring of 1971 the Rolling Stones departed the UK to take up residence in France as tax exiles. Keith Richards settled at a villa called Nellcôte in Villefranche-sur-Mer and this became the venue for the recording of much of the band s masterpiece Exile On Main Street . Stones In Exile tells the story in the band s own words and through extensive archive footage of their time away from England and the creation of this extraordinary double album, which many regard as the Rolling Stones finest achievement.
Bonus Features
Extensive additional footage including interviews with all the band members, footage from C…sucker Blues and Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts returning to Olympic Studios and Jagger s country house Stargroves where a lot of the early work on the album was done.
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When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors [DVD]
Of course that’s Johnny Depp narrating When You’re Strange, the 2010 documentary about the Doors: who else but Hollywood’s biggest fan of counterculture history? The film’s other prominent attraction is the treasure trove of heretofore unscreened footage from the band’s heyday, including backstage material, film-school stuff, and a curious project shot by (and starring) Jim Morrison after the group had broken through. That color footage, which When You’re Strange returns to throughout its running time, has a bearded, zonked Morrison driving through the Southwest desert, on the road to who knows where. For fans, this footage is fascinating to watch, although the actual narrative of the band’s rise and flameout will be very familiar if you already know the story. And even for newbies, the breathless, grandiloquent nature of writer-director Tom DiCillo’s approach will likely be a bit off-putting. Made with the participation of band members Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, and John Densmore, the movie adopts a general air of sadness about Morrison’s substance abuse, noting that a band intervention led to but one week of sobriety for their lead singer/shaman. It’s not all gloom: footage of Morrison wading through a pre-concert crowd catches some of the giddy promise of his unpredictability, which seems so in tune with the era. Those fresh glimpses of an icon make this film worth seeing, even if you’ve traveled down this road before. –Robert Horton
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child [DVD]
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child is a respectfully vivid, accurate, and entertaining homage to a painter who led a radical life and left an ambitious body of work behind after his premature death. The film opens with 1986 footage of Basquiat being interviewed in a hotel room by friends Becky Johnston and director Tamra Davis. For Basquiat fans, this film will prove essential viewing to flesh out an understanding of downtown New York’s art scene in the 1980s, and to see Basquiat’s pivotal role in this. While Downtown 81 is an awesome fictionalized portrait of Basquiat and his crew, and Julian Schnabel’s feature Basquiat serves as tribute via Schnabel’s dramatic artistic interpretation, Radiant Child offers the best possible documentary coverage of Basquiat’s triumph and demise. This feature-length film, constructed after Davis unearthed her 10-years-buried Basquiat footage to make a 20-minute short, then buried that another 10 years because of her strong wish to avoid exploitation, contains so much footage of Basquiat painting, partying, and being his charismatic self that one trusts it immediately. Additionally, Davis has interviewed every affiliated gallerist, among them Diego Cortez, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger, Tony Shafrazi, Annina Nosei, and Jeffrey Deitch, not to mention all of Basquiat’s surviving close friends, including Schnabel, Fab 5 Freddy, Glenn O’Brien, Maripol, and Thurston Moore. The film, organized chronologically to chart Basquiat’s move out of Brooklyn to Manhattan, his beginnings as an itinerant street artist named Samo, his rise to gallery stardom, and his struggles at the end, marks time by showing paintings throughout that commemorate moments in Basquiat’s life. While the film obviously ends on a melancholy note as a warning about sudden fame and fortune, this film is ultimately more than a documentary about one man. It is a well-made testament, from the actual participants’ perspectives, about what conspired in New York to allow Basquiat to shine. For viewers who recall those times, it may feel nostalgic; for viewers who glorify 1980s New York, this film will solidify New York’s greatness; viewers who are artists may identify most, as one experiences a glimpse of a New York lifestyle that has come and gone. Radiant Child is not only a riveting story but a valuable archival resource, yet another fantastic release from the stellar distributor, Arthouse Films. —Trinie Dalton
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The original Pam Glew tote bag labelled ‘Pam Glew limited edition’
Made of Cotton calico, and good for shopping, scruches up small so you can always be nice to the environment,
MATERIAL: Cotton calico, dyed using traditional pigment dyes
SIZE: 38w x 43h – handle length 63cms
PRINT AREA: 28 x 28cms
LIMITED EDITION OF: 200
They are fairtrade accredited, so the cotton is from farmers who have decent working conditions and get a better price for their work.
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Vinyl Junkies: Adventures in Record Collecting by Brett Milano
Vinyl junkies are special. They hunt down Brazilian pressings of favorite artists, know the difference between vinyl and styrene, and call a 3,000-LP collection “modest.” Milano’s interviews aim to nail down what vinyl addiction means. Thurston Moore thrives on the renegade, archival nature of collecting. As a teenager, Peter Buck hitchhiked 15 miles to get an LP the night of its release. R. Crumb speaks fondly of rare, flexible 78s. Most of Milano’s subjects believe the thrill is in the chase: seeking personal Holy Grails is often more rewarding than playing them, and comfort is knowing a certain record is finally in one’s collection. The book works best when Milano lets his subjects do the obsessing, and if what being a collector means remains as elusive asTheir Satanic Majesties Request with the original 3-D cover, at least we learn that, as former Cramps drummer Miriam Linna says, “You play someone a great record and they don’t react to it, you know it’s time to get them out of your house.” Carlos Orellana (Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved)
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Like It Was Yesterday: The Photographs of Brad Elterman
Crank up the hi-fi and grab a copy of Like It Was Yesterday: the rowdy new volume of work from original trend-setting hipster and photog-guru Brad Elterman. It’s officially out this Decemeber 2, in all its signed, 500-limited-edition, seventy-two page glory.
Pop culture aficionados, prepare to be transported back to the long gone but not forgotten rock-and-roll renaissance of the seventies and eighties. Elterman takes you there through his personal collection of fifty-five provocative black & white and color glossies that evoke his golden rule of concerts: “There’s Always a Party.”
This is a collection of raw, candid, often intimate snapshots of celebrities at a point in time when celebrity meant something very different than it does today. Brad’s unadulterated images manage to capture and transcend something beyond the guise of the lens: a loner slacker Joey Ramone in a parking garage; a workaholic David Bowie hustling to his car at 6am; Joan Jett sharing some fries, a randy Steve Jones jerking off in a swimming pool. These are moments that can never be reproduced in a studio, but they can be revisited in photos … like it was yesterday.
We found two hard-cover copies available on Amazon for $150 here Like It Was Yesterday
. And it is also available from LEADAPRON Los Angeles. This is sure to become a collector’s piece, so grab one!
Lost in the Supermarket: An Indie Rock Cookbook
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Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography Book.
“The photographs in FULL BLEED introduce the characters who would personify and capture a culture: There’s the aspiring artist Neck Face and a young videographer named Spike Jonze; a bundled bridge-and-tunnel teen-ager who would become skate icon Mike Vallely; and Harold Hunter, a prominent skater and L.E.S. personality, picked by director Larry Clark to star in the movie “Kids.” The book captures the sensation of flight and movement within heavy, confining spaces, and the sweeping colors of the boards, the graffiti, and the riders as they fly between the gray sky and grayer pavement. “(THE NEW YORKER)
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Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978
One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyon. Immediately transfixed by their grace and athleticism, he knew he had found an amazing subject. Although not a skateboarder himself, for the next three years Holland never tired of documenting skateboarders surfing the streets of Los Angeles, parts of the San Fernando Valley, Venice Beach, and as far away as San Francisco and Baja California, Mexico. During the mid-1970s, Southern California was experiencing a serious drought, leaving an abundance of empty swimming pools available for trespassing skateboarders to practice their tricks. From these suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that created the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached blonde hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders are masterfully captured against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape in LOCALS ONLY. LOCALS ONLY features more than 120 large-format color images plus a Q+A format interview with the artist. (Amazon)
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Life: Keith Richards
“By turns earnest and wicked, sweet and sarcastic and unsparing, Mr. Richards, now 66, writes with uncommon candor and immediacy….He gives us an indelible, time-capsule feel for the madness that was life on the road with the Stones in the years before and after Altamont; harrowing accounts of his many close shaves and narrow escapes (from the police, prison time, drug hell); and a heap of sharp-edged snapshots of friends and colleagues…But Life…is way more than a revealing showbiz memoir. It is also a high-def, high-velocity portrait of the era when rock ‘n’ roll came of age, a raw report from deep inside the counterculture maelstrom of how that music swept like a tsunami over Britain and the United States. It’s an eye-opening all-nighter in the studio with a master craftsman disclosing the alchemical secrets of his art. And it’s the intimate and moving story of one man’s long strange trip over the decades, told in dead-on, visceral prose without any of the pretense, caution or self-consciousness that usually attend great artists sitting for their self-portraits….Mr. Richards has found a way to channel to the reader his own avidity, his own deep soul hunger for music and to make us feel the connections that bind one generation of musicians to another. Along the way he even manages to communicate something of that magic, electromagnetic experience of playing on stage with his mates, be it in a little club or a huge stadium.” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times )
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Bowie: A Biography by Marc Spitz
Despite the plethora of existing books about the British glam rocker (e.g., David Buckley’s Strange Fascination), Spitz, formerly of Spin magazine and the author of a look at the punk band Green Day (Nobody Likes You), concentrates on the complex evolution of Bowie’s music to deliver an evenhanded, critically thorough, while still reverential life of the Thin White Duke. Born David Jones in the Brixton suburbs of London in 1947, Bowie treaded the musical edges from blues to mod to rock-and-roll, moving from band to band in his teens and trying out different personas. Assuming the name of an American frontiersman who died at the Alamo, Bowie took his cues from influences as diverse as Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground, and Marcel Marceau, playing with mime, theater, fashion and sheer showmanship. In the beginning, record companies didn’t know how to classify him, with albums likeSpace Oddity, The Man Who Sold the World and Hunky Dory; it was The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Spiders from Mars, depicting Bowie’s red-haired rooster haircut and bisexual persona, that sparked the public’s fancy. Phenomenal success ensued, and even in his most cocaine-fueled paranoid period during the mid-1970s, Bowie never stopped changing himself, constantly experimenting with new forms, be they Kabuki, disco, New Wave, punk or Brit pop. Spitz concentrates on the heady years culminating in Scary Monsters and underscores the deafening void that Bowie’s recent silence has left in the music world. (Oct. Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.)
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The Beats: A Graphic History
Well researched and earnest, this book might work best as a superficial Cliffs Notes on the beats, but in no way does it inspire or open the mind as the works of the authors covered do. Much of this volume feels like leftovers from coauthor Pekar’s American Splendor, and one wonders if that magazine’s “drab and normal” style of illustration is appropriate for the more adventurous/experimental/flamboyant beats. Nor does it help that the art used on the best-known authors (Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs) feels rushed, with little detail and little variation. Because Joyce Brabner’s script about “Beatnik Chicks” takes a genuinely critical eye to an aspect of the beats others prefer to ignore—their rampant sexism— it’s probably the best and most passionate writing in the collection, with Jerome Neukirch’s art for the bio of proto-beat Slim Brundage being the artistic standout illustrations. Lance Tooks, Peter Kuper and Nick Thorkelson also make strong contributions, while Jeffrey Lewis’s story on poet/musician Tuli Kupferberg is a wonderful puzzle piece to work through; it’s the most ambitious entry and may be the truest to the artistic vision of the beats themselves. (Mar.Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.)
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The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collections of Photography (Taschen’s 25th Anniversary Special Editions)
This survey features more than 400 works from the Polaroid Collection along with essays by Hitchcock, who illuminates the beginnings and history of the Polaroid Corporation.
The Boombox Project: The Machines, The Music, And The Urban Underground Book
The Boombox Project is a vibrant look into the old school icon that helped shape the underground music movements of the 70’s and 80’s. Through this book, photographer Lyle Owerko collects more than just amazing images of these mythical machines (though there’s plenty of those in here as well), he also offers an oral history of the boombox from a hip-hop standpoint via memories from people who lived it like Fab 5 Freddy, LL Cool J, Lisa Lisa, Kool Moe Dee, Adrock of the Beastie Boys, and others. The stories are accompanied by plenty of vintage photos from the time period of people dancing around, chilling with, and just listening to their boombox, as well as a stunning collection portraits of these once ubiquitous machines. Feautres 100 color and b&w photos and illustrations, plus foreword by Spike Lee. 160 pages total, hardcover. (turntable lab)
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Nixon x Beams Plugs
There is an epedemic of young kids wearing too much neon and highlighter fashions at music festivals these days. It’s horrible, however when you get Nixon and Japanese retailer Beams collaborating, the result is bright colors done with class. If you want a pair of these crazy looking headphones, head over to Tokyo and get amongst the kids of Shibuya and Harajuku who also do loud clor ways with class. (Monster Children)
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Ricoh GX R Interchangeable Unit Camera
If you want to see shit being done right, you look to Japan. This has been my motto for years and this little puppy is no exception to the rule. The Ricoh GXR is an interchangeable unit camera system that swaps out lenses and image sensors when you get bored of spying on your hot neighbor in the shower. With more snap together parts than Voltron, you’ll feel like optimus prime just took a hot dump in your hand. (Monster Children)
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Lomo Spinner 360 Camera
The mad camera scientists at Lomo have done it again, taking a regular 35mm panoramic camera and removing all the boundaries, allowing the lens to turn 360 degrees around the handle. The resulting effect is a super panoramic image (takes up about 4.5 standard 35mm frames, so a roll of 36 frames will hold 8 360 degree images) with super trippy effects. For instance, holding the camera in front of you garauntees that you’ll be in the photograph (this can be avoided by holding the camera above your head while you shoot). Really though, the best thing you can do is check the example images included here to see what this thing is capable of. The camera includes three aperture settings (sunny, cloudy and closed), a bubble-level on top to help ensure level and even landscape shots, and has a shutter speed equivalent to about 1/125 of a second. Another great contraption from Lomo for all of the film addicts out there who are looking for creative ways to make images. (turntable lab)
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Crosley Revolution: Portable USB Turntable
We took the record player “out of the box”. Crosley’s Revolutionâ„¢ turntable truly fits the word in every way. Where other turntables take up space, this one dances around a desk without ado. Where other record players must be kept in their designated place, the Crosley Revolutionâ„¢ practically begs to join you on every journey. And where other turntables tangle you in a web of wires, the Crosley Revolutionâ„¢ effortlessly pairs with any FM radio for cordless, clear sound. It is a turntable of firsts-the first battery-powered Crosley turntable, the first with a platter smaller than a teacup saucer, and the first with a wireless transmitter for cord-free enjoyment. Users can tote this two-speed turntable with them to vinyl swaps or to a friend’s house. Featuring a USB hookup for easy analog-to-digital transfer, the Crosley Revolutionâ„¢ will allow users to free their favorites from the grooves for digital enjoyment across a variety of devices. This small but mighty turntable also features a headphone jack, passive audio out, and a dynamic full range speaker.(turntable lab)
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Chill Pill Mobile Speakers
Chill Pill speakers are highly portable, pocket-sized speakers that can be transported in “pill” form (ingeniously held together by magnets). When you want to play music, simply pull apart the pill and untwist the tops to release the mini-subwoofers. In addition, all the needed cords (stereo plug, USB input) are built into the speakers with their own coil system.
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