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Roy Stuart has been at it again, traipsing around Paris from luxury apartments to the streets, capturing men and women defiantly acting out their sexual fantasies. From peek-a-boo panties to same-sex petting to more “indiscreet” activities, Stuart’s titillating mises-en-scene challenge us to break loose from traditional moral codes.

Featuring not only young, perky-bodied women but also females of a certain age, these images are more hardcore and more daring than anything Stuart has ever produced. Also included are a rare interview with Stuart and images from his first feature film, giving a taste of what Stuart’s future offerings will bring us (he plans to devote himself solely to the moving picture after this, his final book).

I heard about Kasabian via The Independent, of all places. But lines like…

“Rock’n'roll lost its imagination and electronica had no soul, so we married the two together,” explains the songwriter Sergio Pizzorno, before struggling to spit out the word “innovation” to some laughter from his bandmates. “If you can sing a song with an acoustic guitar, then it’s a song, but it’s up to you to see how far you can take it,” he adds, referring to Kasabian’s open-ended recording methods, where each member might play any instrument, just like Primal Scream (”Old rockers, aren’t they?”).

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Catchy singles such as “Reason Is Treason”, “Club Foot” and the soon-to-be-reissued “Processed Beats” have been well received, but the band’s image has been skilfully manipulated, with impressive graphics and the occasional inspired video. The clip for “Club Foot”, filmed in an old army base in Budapest, managed to conflate Cold War dissidence with the ancient rock-as-an-opposition-force thing. But it looked good, and even ended with a dedication to Jan Palach, the Czech philosophy student who immolated himself in protest at the Soviet invasion of 1968.

… piqued my interest enough to pop over to Amazon and was it worth it or was it worth it. These lads are incredible.

Songs like Club Foot, Processed Beats, Reason is Treason and L.S.F. are catchy, uptempo and damn good.

The dual disk DVD/CD also has the videos for Reason is Treason (which is spectaclarly surreal), Club Foot and L.S.F. (which I enjoyed for all the obvious reasons) as well as a couple of ‘Making Of…’ videos and a short film.

All in all, Kasabian are a great band with a great first album to their name.

It’s here!

The funniest Rom-Zom-Com of all time is now out on video and if you get your skates on, you can take advantage of the offer currently running over at Sendit and get the original Dawn of the Dead thrown in for free.

The original (but not untampered with) Star Wars Trilogy is released on September 20th and, to celbrate, Sendit have 100 sets of memorabilia to give away.

Click here to enter the draw, and may the Force be with you.

This is too much. You’ve seen the film, now get the soft toy!

Starstore has a set of Alien vs. Predator movie plushes, including an alien, a predator, the alen queen and a facehugger.

Scare your kids for Christmas.

I laid my hands on the latest album from Swedish punks, The Hives last Thursday and have been listening to it incessantly ever since.

I’m no music reviewer, so I’m not goint to try. Instead, here’s what Amazon said:

Refreshingly though, even under the yoke of a major label, the Hives play their rock & roll like a fuse burning short. “Abra Cadaver” is a two-minute blast of Stooges worship that joyfully confirms the band’s pledge to straight-up garage–and intriguingly, it finds lead singer Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist sounding more like the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas than ever, albeit Casablancas with blood on his shoes and skin under his fingernails. Meanwhile, there’s myriad moments where the Hives demonstrate themselves to be far more than a boozy bar-band: “No Pun Intended”, which wields a curious complex chord progression you’d perhaps expect from Fugazi, or “Diabolic Scheme” a taut, mid-paced number bedecked with stabbing violin sweeps straight out of a Hammer horror.

The Hives are such a wonderfully over the top antidote to the self important blandness that infects most modern pop and rock that I’d probably love them on principle. It’s a huge bonus, therefore, that their music is so listenable.

September 20th 2004 marks the Quarter Century of unarguably one of the greatest albums of all time. The Clash and London Calling constantly receive accolades from the media, industry and music buyers alike and this, the bands 3rd album is regarded as a groundbreaking masterpiece by many.

This deluxe edition, in digipak, with full-colour booklet and slipcase cover, includes the original album and a second CD of material found by Mick Jones–including all the album tracks plus 2 bonus tracks that did not feature on final album–”Lonesome Me” and a cover of Dylan’s “The Man In Me”. The bonus DVD includes 32 min doc, directed by Don Letts, and previously unseen footage of the band during recording of the album at Wessex Studios. A booklet includes previously unseen photographs by legendary rock photographer Pennie Smith.

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Long standing editor of Vanity Fair, and hailed as the King of New York, Graydon Carter has turned his attention from Hollywood’s finest to spearheading his own campaign to change the face of America by having George Bush removed as president. In writing What We’ve Lost Carter is determined to activate the liberal masses to prevent Bush from a second term as President. Examining the failings of the Bush administration, the book ‘is about the fragile state of US democracy, looking at what this administration has done to the environment, the judiciary and civil liberties. It is different from the other books out there. I am not a liberal ideologue; I am very much a libertarian.’ This book will spell out in detail how the Bush administration is dramatically changing America, and by extension, the world. Electing Bush was seen by the world as a mistake. Re-electing will be seen as a hostile act.

And, via The Independent, here are some numbers.

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