Headpress

Independent publisher since 1991. We publish the stuff you love. Film. Music. Strangeness.
Headpress is @DavidKerekes2 and @harbottlestores.

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[Andy Cowan @vinylslam]

Hidden, uncredited, on the B-side of Mercury Rev’s first CD single Car Wash Hair is Untitled, a 30-minute bad acid comedown of scathing guitar loops and low sine waves, soured by repeated screams of “I want to be inside you”. New blog: https://t.co/OZtScamOZQ

[Andy Cowan @vinylslam]

Performed at New York’s Baseball Hall of Fame on a bat-shaped guitar, Centerfield’s broad appeal put Creedence Clearwater Revival songwriter John Fogerty back in the game. Its riff-based homage helped A-side Rock And Roll Girls into the US charts, 40 years ago this month.

[Andy Cowan @vinylslam]

Released #OTD 60 years ago, Who’ll Be The Next In Line was a passive-aggressive tune about broken hearts. The nagging, nervous flip of Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy, it continued the Kinks tradition for B-sides better than their A-sides (and later gained top billing in the US).

[Andy Cowan @vinylslam]

A game-changer that set the pop-disco template for the remainder of Hot Chocolate’s career, You Sexy Thing didn’t initially float the boat of super-producer Mickie Most. He made it B-side of Blue Night #OTD 50 years ago before having a change of heart.

[Hayes Hudson @FrightFan]

Book Review: FASCINATION: THE CELLULOID DREAMS OF JEAN ROLLIN by David Hinds from @Headpress Publishing

https://t.co/7Hob2UP0xx

[Andy Cowan @vinylslam]

North Carolina songwriter Ben Folds didn’t delete the expletives with his uninhibited piano take on Dr Dre’s Bitches Ain’t Shit, B-side of Landed. Released 20 years ago, it quickly became a live favourite. Wary of getting ‘cancelled’, Folds excised it from his sets in the 10s.

[FAB Press @FAB_Press]

SONIC SEWER Pre-Orders go live Weds 12 Feb. The time sales start (inc. limited 10% Discount Bundle Deal, featuring the top packages for all 3 books) will be announced 12 hours in advance exclusively via our Newsletter. Sign up at the bottom of any page at https://t.co/3fsiJHueiL

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@Oxford_Tube Yes, thank you!

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#arttrashterror countdown! Chris Alexander's interview with Nicky Henson features in ART! TRASH! TERROR! "This script comes through the letterbox one day from my agent and I was already a motorcyclist..." #psychomania #cultfilm

[Andy Cowan @vinylslam]

The greatest song of hope was initially given B-side status. A Change Is Gonna Come came to Sam Cooke fully-formed, following an altercation at a whites-only motel. That incident reprised itself with tragic consequences prior to its release, 60 years ago, on the flip of Shake.

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#arttrashterror countdown! Chris Alexander has picked his nine unforgettable episodes of The Twilight Zone in the pages of ART! TRASH! TERROR! but there are so many possibilities...

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#arttrashterror countdown! They both put their own stamp on the role, but if you *had* to choose, which version of Maniac is your favourite, the original with Joe Spinell or the remake with Elijah Wood?

[Prof Neil Martin @ThatNeilMartin]

An occasional book recommendation to those who love a book recommendation. I didn't quite know what to expect of this- well, I did. I expected some trashy bloggers treatment of grim sites of death written in the glib style of Hello. BUT. It was an informative revelation.

[Headpress @Headpress]

It's also definitely worth checking out this wide-ranging interview with @SongsofMaldoror about his work: https://t.co/MoNbNhFuwz

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*NEW ON THE BLOG* @harbottlestores reads @SongsofMaldoror's Flowers Blooming Fire and reminisces about transgressive fiction of the 1990s and early 2000s.

https://t.co/icU0UFjZQB

[Headpress @Headpress]

#arttrashterror countdown! With less than a week to go until the release of Chris Alexander's ART! TRASH TERROR!, which Nic Cage are you today?

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Fabulous review of Heidi Honeycutt's I Spit On Your Celluloid in the latest @cine_excess Journal! Read it and an excellent set of articles on Demons, Darkness and the Abject here:

https://t.co/jVQuqXyfmm