Ecw Press imprint: 239 books

Far and Wide

Bring That Horizon to Me!

by Neil Peart
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

35 concerts. 17,000 motorcycle miles. Three months. One lifetime. Now in paperback In May 2015, the veteran Canadian rock trio Rush embarked on their 40th anniversary tour, R40. For the band and their fans, R40 was a celebration and, perhaps, a farewell. But for Neil Peart, each tour is more...

Best Seat in the House

My Life in the Jeff Healey Band

by Tom Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused. But...
by Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014

"Last Year's Man" is excerpted from Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music ... From Hank Snow to The Band, available as a print or ebook. Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously...

Bon: The Last Highway

The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC’s Back In Black

by Jesse Fink
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

The death of Bon Scott is the Da Vinci Code of rock In death, AC/DC’s trailblazing frontman has become a rock icon, and the legend of the man known around the world simply as “Bon” grows with each passing year. But how much of it is myth? At the heart of Bon: The Last Highway is...

A Brief History of Oversharing

One Ginger’s Anthology of Humiliation

by Shawn Hitchins
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Musings from a “one-man flash mob” (Toronto Star) Comedian Shawn Hitchins explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays. Hitchins doesn’t shy away from his failures or celebrate his mild successes — he sacrifices them for an audience’s amusement. He roasts his...

Director’s Cut

My Life in Film

by Ted Kotcheff
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

With six decades in show business, legendary director Ted Kotcheff looks back on his life Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at CBC Television. Discovering his skills...

Taylor Swift

Every Day Is a Fairytale: The Unofficial Story

by Liv Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010

Chronicling the meteoric rise of one of today's hottest musical stars, this comprehensive biography of Taylor Swift reveals how she conquered the pop and country music charts, earned a shelf full of awards, and broke multiple chart records?all before she turned 20. Beginning with her childhood in...
by Michael Barclay, Ian A.D. Jack, Jason Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

"Two Solitudes" is excerpted from Have Note Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995, available as a print or ebook. Published in autumn 2001, Have Not Been the Same became the first book to comprehensively document the rise of Canadian underground rock between the years 1985 and...

Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers

The Rise of Motörhead

by Martin Popoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

“Motörhead, remember me now, Motörhead, alright!” Lemmy, Phil, Fast Eddie and the Rise of Motörhead is the first book to celebrate the classic-era Motörhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, “Fast” Eddie Clarke, and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor. Through interviews with all of the principal...

In the Black

My Life

by B. Denham Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly’s personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where Black Canadians have faced systematic discrimination. He arrived from Jamaica to attend university in...
by Kaitlin Tremblay
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017

A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline “87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder.” These...

Along the Shore

Rediscovering Torontos Waterfront Heritage

by Jane Fairburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

Along the Shoreexamines the Toronto waterfront, past and present, through the lens of four lakefront communities and districts — the Scarborough shore (including the Bluffs), the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore (New Toronto, Mimico, Humber Bay, and Long Branch). Each retains a direct and immediate...

Edison’s Concrete Piano

Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes, and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors

by Judy Wearing
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009

Not even geniuses get it right the first time . . . An “entertaining” look at the failures of great inventors (Booklist).   To achieve great things, you have to be willing to take risks—and as Edison’s Concrete Piano reveals, some of the most famous names in history experienced plenty...

It Doesn’t Suck

Showgirls

by Adam Nayman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

A new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it’s time for a good hard look back at the sequined spectacle. A salvage operation on a very public,...
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