Goodhood Talking Heads with Frank Carter

Rattlesnakes, Gallows and Rose of Mercy head honcho, artist and all-round legend Frank Carter came by the store, just before he jumped into the tour bus with Sex Pistols. We hung out with him on the shop floor talking all things sobriety, the fashion scene, connecting with fans via tattooing, and more.

BIKINI KILL - THE SINGLES

If you know, you know. If you don't, Bikini Kill were a feminist punk band that were considered revolutionary for their political and social agenda and all round no fucks given attitude. The band pioneered the riot grrrl movement, they urged women and girls in the audience to move up to the front of the stage, write political zines and talk openly about sexual violence. On top of that, they made some excellent music and have left a long lasting legacy behind them. This record is a reissue (initially released on CD in 1998), released on a 12 inch vinyl for the first time, kept at 45rpm for better sound quality. A collection of their best music, a must-have in our book.

GOOD VIBES 116 - ANDREW THOMSON

Words from Thomson:

"I was due to do this mix for Goodhood early in the pandemic and started to really overthink it to the point where I got lost in the sauce and gave up on repeated attempts. I recently managed to put together something that I think pays tribute to an important period of time for me. Living in London between 2010-13 was formative in many ways. Plastic People played a big part in that. I also enjoyed the Ace Lobby Sunday Sessions between 2016-19 and wanted to represent these periods somehow.

The finished mix also has a nod to some of my favourite mixes in recent years by Public Possession, Chances with Wolves, Total Freedom and Pedrodollar. There’s a bit of a summer vibe and incidentally has two tracks with rain in the title, which prob says something about the summer that never was. It’s always summer somewhere though, right?"

TAPEWORKS: ART AND DESIGN OF 80s EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Selected cassette tape and vinyl artwork from experimental electronic music of the 1980s. Touching on industrial, noise, new wave, minimal, drone, sound art, ambient and more. A visual archive of the xerox scanned imagery, disorderly type and hand illustration used to present the decade's boundary-pushing music and abstract compositions - endless inspiration for musicians, graphic designers, artists...