Soft Skull Press: 132 books
by Paul Krassner
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
The pieces in Pot Stories for the Soul are funny, whimsical, bizarre, poignant, informational, shocking, and, yeah, soulful. They are about love, hate, escape, reality, the paranormal, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Michelle Phillips, Hunter Thompson, Abbie Hoffman, Wavy Gravy and peanut butter. Ultimately,...
by Justin Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
As an adolescent, Justin Pearson moved with his mother from Shit Creek Phoenix, AZ” to sunny San Diego after his father was murdered on Halloween. There, he fell in with a subculture of young musicians playing some of the most original and brutal music in the world. Turns out the chaos of Pearson’s...
Curb Service
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Cruising nighttime byways for an adrenaline fix, Scot Sothern first patronized the marketplace of curbside prostitution surfing the prurient whims of a young man. He dove to the murky depths of sexual obsession and resurfaced five years later, shell-shocked and without excuse. While there, trusty...
Another Place You've Never Been
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Long-listed for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "A wonderful debut . . . Undeniably moving and emotionally true." —Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review)
Most of us have experienced what it’s like to know what someone is going to say right before they say it....
Totally Wired
Postpunk Interviews and Overviews
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
With his critically acclaimed Rip It Up and Start Again, renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds applied a unique understanding to an entire generation of musicians working in the wake of punk rock. Spawning artists as singular as Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Specials, Siouxsie and the Banshees,...
Route 19 Revisited
The Clash and London Calling
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Twenty-eight years after its original release, The Clash’s London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of lasting qualitative or historical significance.” It topped polls on both sides of the Atlantic for the best album of the seventies (and eighties) and in publications...
Bring the Noise
20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop’s most provocative artists-Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead-with...
Madonna and Me
Women Writers on the Queen of Pop
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For nearly 30 years, Madonna has been at the center of the media spotlight. She has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, launched her own record label, headlined an Oscar-award-winning film, authored bestselling books for both adults and children, inspired global street-fashion trends, and...
Energy Flash
A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Ecstasy did for house music what LSD did for psychedelic rock. Now, in Energy Flash, journalist Simon Reynolds offers a revved-up and passionate inside chronicle of how MDMA (ecstasy”) and MIDI (the basis for electronica) together spawned the unique rave culture of the 1990s.
England, Germany,...
Rock and Hard Places
Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Andrew Mueller is Australian by birth, a Londoner by choice, a wanderer by nature, and a journalist by profession. Unable to decide between being a rock critic, travel writer, or foreign correspondent, he hit upon the novel, if time-consuming, solution of trying to be all three at once. In Rock and...
by John Ross Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
What’s your damage?
In 1989, Michael Lehmann’s black comedy Heathers drew a line in the sand, rebuffing the sweetness and optimism of John Hughes’ more popular fare with darkness and death. Launching the careers of Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, Heathers became a cult classic, ranking...
Buskers
The On-the-Streets, In-the-Trains, Off-the-Grid Memoir of Two New York City Street Musicians
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Frustrated by the indifference of the music industry and the stacks of homemade CDs gathering dust in their closets, brothers Heth and Jed Weinstein made the radical decision to bring their music directly to the masses. They began playing on street corners, in subway stations, and wherever else they...
Too Much to Dream
A Psychedelic American Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Growing up in the suburbs of Boston and raised on secular Judaism, Cocoa Puffs, and Gilligan’s Island, Peter Bebergal was barely in his teens when the ancient desire to finding higher spiritual meaning in the universe struck. Already schooled in mysticism by way of comic books, Dungeons & Dragons,...
51/50
The Magical Adventures of a Single Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
51 dates. 50 weeks. That was the social experiment Kristen McGuiness—single, living in LA, and entering her thirties newly sober—embarked upon. McGuiness thought facing her struggle with alcoholism would be the hardest part, with love coming easily afterwards. It didn’t. Rethinking her previous...