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Your Band Sucks
What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
**• A New York Times Summer Reading List selection • A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 *•*A Business Insider Best Summer Read • An Esquire Father’s Day Book selection • A New York Observer Best Music Book of 2015 •
A memoir charting thirty years of the American independent...
Picturing Prince
An Intimate Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
PICTURING PRINCE sees the late icon's former art director, STEVE PARKE, revealing stunning intimate photographs of the singer from his time working at Paisley Park. At least half of the images in the book are exclusively published here for the first time; most other images in the book are rare to...
Dreadnaught
King of Afropunk
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
A no-holds-barred memoir of legendary Dead Kennedys and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer D.H. Peligro, Dreadnaught chronicles Peligro from his pre-DK years growing up in a deprived St. Louis ghetto to San Francisco with Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, and Klaus Flouride-from Los Angeles with the Chili Peppers...
by Sara Powell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, once famously said that he'd "rather be dead than sing "Satisfaction" when (he's) forty-five." However, Jagger will turn sixty-nine years old this year, the same year the Rolling Stones are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary as "the greatest rock...
by Scott Heim
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
The First Time I Heard The Smiths is Part IV in an ongoing series where musicians and writers tell their stories of first hearing the music of an iconic artist or band. In this fourth volume (following the first three installments, which covered Joy Division/New Order, Cocteau Twins, and David Bowie),...
Barred for Life
How Black Flag's Iconic Logo Became Punk Rock's Secret Handshake
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Cataloging the legacy of the American punk rock pioneers Black Flag, this photo documentary uses stark, contrasting portraits to share the stories of the die-hard fans who wear the iconic four-barred logo tattooed on their skin. From doctors to homeless punks, stories range from the intensely personal...
Left of the Dial
Conversations with Punk Icons
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Featuring interviews with leading figures of the punk underground, including Ian MacKaye, from Minor Threat and Fugazi; Jello Biafra, from Dead Kennedys; and Dave Dictor, from MDC, this book probes the legacy of punk's sometimes fuzzy political ideology, its homegrown traditions, and its rupturing...
Spitboy Rule
Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it wasn't easy. Misogyny, sexism, abusive fans, class and color blindness, and all-out racism were foes, especially for Gonzales, a Chicana and the only person of color in the band....
by Larry Meagher
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Paul McCartney's music is part of the sonic tapestry that is modern culture - and there's never been anyone quite like him. His life began ordinarily enough. He was born June 18, 1942, the son of a cotton merchant (who moonlighted as a musician) and a nurse. James Paul McCartney grew up in lower middle-class...
Women Drummers
A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In 1942, drummer Viola Smith sent shock waves through the jazz world by claiming in Down Beat magazine that “hep girls” could sit in on any jam session and hold their own. In Women Drummers: A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country, Angela Smith takes Viola at her word, offering a comprehensive...
by Ms. Jenn Pelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In 1979, from the basement of a London squat, the Raincoats reinvented what punk could be. They had a violin player. They came from Portugal, Spain, and England. Their anarchy was poetic. Working with the iconic Rough Trade Records at its radical beginnings, they were the first group of punk women...
Going Underground
American Punk 1979–1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
An illustrated and wide-ranging survey of the underground U.S. punk scene in the 1980s The product of decades of work and multiple self-published editions, Going Underground, written by 1980s scene veteran George Hurchalla, is the most comprehensive look yet at America's nationwide underground punk...
Lady Gaga
Out of the Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
An in depth look at the music from Lady Gaga, that analyzes each track and details her songwriting abilities, talent and lifestyle. Follow Lady Gaga's life story from her childhood through to her successful world tours. This unauthorized book is a perfect read for all fans and admirers of the one and only, Lady Gaga.
by Alix Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Smart, spunky, and pretty, Britney Spears is a teenage singing sensation People called "a mix of Debbie Gibson's wholesomeness and Alanis Morissette's grit." Her Baby One More Time album hit #1 on the Billboard chart right out of the starting gate. It may seem like success came overnight...