Punk category: 246 books
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...
Everything Is Combustible
Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Legendary Rock and Roll guitarist. Founding member of Television. Masterful storyteller. Written in Lloyd's inimitable, frequently humorous style, Everything is Combustible chronicles, through vignettes, Lloyd's colorful early life, starting in Pittsburgh and soon moving to New York City, and...
by John Reed
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Madness were true originals who mixed ska and reggae rhythms with social comment and music hall humour to become a British group like no other. They were the most successful UK singles band of the 80s, offering a larky down-to-earth take on Thatcher’s Britain through hits like ‘My Girl’, ‘One...
The Clash
The Only Band That Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
When considered in a broader social context, The Clash stand as one of the most important musical acts in rock history. Original punks who transcended the music’s minimalist origins, The Clash lived and breathed the idea that they could change the world with their art.
In The Clash: The Only...
A Distorted Revolution
How Eric's Trip Changed Music, Moncton, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In this narrative history and memoir, journalist, musician, and Monctonian Jason Murray follows the rise of the band that put the Maritimes on the map.
Eric's Trip was a band defined as much by its DIY ethos as its low-fi, discordant music. The four-piece formed in an early-'90s Moncton basement...
Berlin Calling
A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Berlin: Interest in Berlin remains extremely high as one of the great cutting-edge cultural centers of the world.
First of its kind: There is no English-language book on Berlin that tells the city’s story through the subcultures of the 1980s and 1990s.
Veteran reporter: Hockenos writes...
Nerve Endings: Selected Lyrics
Selected Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Since forming the seminal art rock band Throwing Muses while still in her teens, Kristin Hersh has been at the forefront of alternative music, acclaimed for her raw, visceral and poetic songwriting.
Here, collected for the first time, are the lyrics to one hundred songs, curated by the woman...
Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine
Insight into Primus and the World of Les Claypool
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
10,000-copy first printing (and we expect to sell many more)
Akashic is in its 8th printing (over 20,000 copies) of "South of the Pumphouse" by Les Claypool, the lead singer of Primus. This book should sell even better, as it is much more what the average fan would be interested in.
The...
Triptych
An Examination of the Manic Street Preachers Holy Bible
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The UK alternative rock band, Manic Street Preachers, were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling...
by Professor or Dr. Jovana Babovic
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Sleater-Kinney's 1997 album Dig Me Out is built on Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein's competing guitars, Janet Weiss's muscular rhythms, and layered vocals that teeter between an urgent, banshee-like vibrato and a lower accompaniment. Dig Me Out was the band's third studio album, but the first one...
Hard-Core
Life of My Own
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
As a homeless child prodigy, Harley Flanagan played drums for bands at Max’s Kansas City and CBGBs, and was taught to play bass by the famed black band Bad Brains, and drank with the notorious Lemmy of Motörhead. Most famously, Harley became a member of the famous hardcore band The Cro-Mags, and disputes accusations of stabbing two band members.
Listening to the Future
The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In Listening to the Future, Bill Martin sets the scene for the emergence of progressive rock and examines the most important groups, from the famous to the obscure. He also surveys the pathbreaking albums and provides resources for readers to explore the music further.
"Written with the...
by William English
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
They tried to make her go to rehab. She said no. “All my life I have been loud to the point of being told to shut up. The only reason I have had to be this loud is because you have to scream in my family to be heard”.These are words from an essay written by Amy for her application into the Sylvia...
by Dennis Munday
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
The Jam Chord Songbook presents the words and chords of seventeen of their greatest hits.
Each is presented with Guitar chord diagrams and full lyrics. With just a hanful of simple, easy-to-learn chords, now you can sing and play your favourite Jam hits on guitar in no time at all.
Song...