***Basic Strategies for Going out shares the two Peel Sessions recorded by Huggy Bear in 1992 and 1993. Eight tracks total, two previously unreleased songs, a revelatory early version of “Her Jazz” and a fanatical gaiety throughout. For a band that so wholeheartedly invested in opposition, the chance to go up against the stifled decorum of the BBC pushed Huggy Bear to a nitroglycerin blaze. From the outraged to the rousing to the coy to the hell-bent, Basic Strategies for Going Out reveals the extremes reachable by a band at ferocious work. Released by arrangement with the BBC, Basic Strategies was mastered by Fred Thomas from the original session recordings. It is the first Huggy Bear recording issued since 1994, and at present their only commercially available release.
10" $29.45
02/13/2026
***Huggy Bear was a UK riot grrrl band that existed from 1991-1994. Outcast and outraged, they made a howling, squalling mess of punk, all the menace and freedom of flocking birds. The handful of records, zines, and memories that document this brief, bonfire lifespan sketch a blueprint for how to be in the world, for how to understand the forces of capitalism and patriarchy and capitulation and still resist. 30 years later, the band’s shortlived and highly influential run is revisited in Killed (of Kids), a 352-page full-color book by band members Niki Elliott, Karen Hill, Jo Johnson, Chris Rowley, and Jon Slade. Killed (of Kids) reproduces all seven zines made by the band during their lifespan alongside photos, correspondence, flyers, and ephemera from their three-year existence. This archive is joined by new text drawn from two years of interviews with the band members, carefully assembled into an extensive dialogue about intention, surprise, distress, and encouragement. Edited by Ethan Swan, designed by Matthew Walkerdine.
BK $38.50
11/29/2024