Rollins, a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, shares his wry and raucous detailed tour diaries that provide a blistering account of a six-year career with the band.
Sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, PLEASE KILL ME is a history of the birth of punk rock told by many of the people involved. Starting with the Velvet Underground, one of the bands that provided inspiration for the movement, Legs McNeil and co-author Gillian McCain interview members of the New York Dolls and the MC5, as well as Iggy Pop, ...
A former record label owner and radio DJ offers the first history of hardcore, a musical response to the angst of punk and new wave. Photos & illustrations.
A renowned music journalist celebrates the futuristic spirit of the post-punk bands and their endless innovations to recreate the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.
?The mid-1970s was England's darkest, dreariest hour. The UK was sliding deeper into unemployment, reeling from strike after strike, power cuts, the three-day work week, and IRA bombs. It was time for a new order and in London's restless streets a handful of snotty young men, feisty females, and first generation Jamaican musicians created the UK's ...
This riveting biography chronicles the 21 years of Sid Vicious's anarchic life, from his disturbing childhood and early exposure to drugs to his infamous stint as bass player for the Sex Pistols, from his obsession with violence and self-mutilation to his death from a drug overdose in New York's Chelsea Hotel.
Contents Introduction by Marc Bayard Preface by the author Why Punk: Background comparisons with previous art movements; some defining characteristics of punk. Media Misrepresentations: How television, glossy magazines, and mindless mass media have done their best to defang the beast. Skinheads: Who they are, where they're from and do they have to ...
Updated with six more interviews and a new introduction, the expanded edition of We Owe You Nothing brings the definitive book of conversations with the underground's greatest minds up to 2007. New interviews include talks with bands like The Gossip and Maritime, a conversation with punk legend Bob Mould, and more . . . in addition to the classic ...
Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound? Greil Marcus delves into the afterlife of punk as a much richer phenomenon - a form of artistic and social rebellion that continually erupts into popular culture. In more than 70 short pieces written over 15 years, Marcus ...
Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow, Dee Dee Ramone catapults readers into the raw world of ...
Part oral history, part autobiography, ROTTEN is John Lydon/Johnny Rotten's memoir of a South London working class childhood that blossomed into full punk rock rebellion, with the aid of a cast of characters who have since taken their place in music history--Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, Siouxsie Sioux, Billy Idol, and Chrissie Hynde, to ...
Born Paul Beahm to a mother between husbands and a Swedish sailor father he never met, Darby Crash had suffered the loss of his stepfather and his elder brother to a heart attack and a drug overdose, respectively, by the time he was 11. Highly intelligent yet chronically self-destructive, and also an obsessive David Bowie fan, Crash attended an ...
Fifty black-and-white photos are included in this story of the band that was as trashy as last weeks garbage and as all-American as the eagle on their logo. "If there were a Punk Rock Hall of Fame . . . the Ramones would be the first inducted."--Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.
Lux Interior (Erick Purkhiser) and Poison Ivy Rorschach (Kristy Wallace) formed The Cramps in the late 1970s. They quickly gained acclaim, notoriety, and hitmaker status for campy, sexy studio LPs like "Songs the Lord Taught Us" and "Gravest Hits, " as well as for their legendary, over-the-top concerts that brought to mind circus freak shows. This ...
In a uniquely graphic, outsized, full-color design that incorporates more than 200 photographs--many previously unpublished--Punk traces the rise of punk as both a music and a worldwide movement. 175 color photos, 25 b&w photos.
Julian Cope's highly acclaimed autobiography and its long-awaited sequel in one extraordinary volume. When Julian Cope published 'Head On' in 1994 he received astounding reviews: "Visceral, ballsy, bitchy, brutal, beautifully written. Book of the year. Made my heart burst". -- The Observer "...an enthralling saga of bitchiness, betrayal and ...
Re-creating the complete story of the Punk phenomenonincluding where it came from and what it turned intoPunk is a massive and visually stunning record of five years that changed the world: 1975-1979. Collecting the testimony of more than 260 artists, record producers, designers, and journalistsincluding John Cale, Debbie Harry, Joe Strummer, ...
The dumbest band with the dumbest tunes - but still they transcend all other groups as the ground zero of rock, reduced to its crudest essence. This, their first album is a brutal combination of 60s pop and garage punk with adolescent tales of girls and sniffing glue.
The characteristically unconventional West Coast punk rock explosion, which occurred around the same time as that of New York, gets its own chronicle with Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen's WE GOT THE NEUTRON BOMB, a gritty oral history of the rise of California punk. Unsurprisingly, many of the same cast of characters who populate the annals of New ...
This title presents a handbook of the potent skinhead cult. It traces the development of the skinhead movement in England, describes the characteristics and behaviour of these gangs, and explains their attitudes towards school, the police, and the government.
"Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo" tells the story of a cultural moment that's happening right now-the nexus point where teen culture, music, and the web converge to create something new.While shallow celebrities dominate the headlines, pundits bemoan the death of the music industry, and the government decries teenagers for their ...
Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of 'new wave' in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads, and the Dead Boys, this account is the definitive story ...
This is a book about movements in culture that in conventional terms, in terms of power, rulership, recognized events, and certified masterpieces, barely left a trace. Yet in terms of how people actually live, how they walk and talk, left traces that linger in the minds and voices of countless people all over the world. 80 halftones.
Thirty years ago, a bunch of angst-ridden British kids kicked off the AnarchyTour in the UK and unwittingly started a revolution. From the Sex Pistols andThe Clash to green Day, this fully illustrated chronicle from "MOJO" magazineserves up punk in all its glory.
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