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The Aesthetic Of Our Anger - Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music (Paperback): Matthew Worley The Aesthetic Of Our Anger - Anarcho-Punk, Politics and Music (Paperback)
Matthew Worley
R609 R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
A Crafty Cigarette - Tales of a Teenage Mod (Paperback, 2nd edition): Matteo Sedazzari A Crafty Cigarette - Tales of a Teenage Mod (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Matteo Sedazzari; Foreword by John Cooper Clarke
R170 R160 Discovery Miles 1 600 Save R10 (6%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Cheap Shots - A Photographic Look at Underground Bands Through the 80s and Beyond (Hardcover): Chris Barrow Cheap Shots - A Photographic Look at Underground Bands Through the 80s and Beyond (Hardcover)
Chris Barrow; Foreword by Ben Weasel
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Featuring never-before-seen photographs of U2 on their first US Tour, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Danzig, The Descendants, Fugazi, The Damned, The U.K. Subs, and many, many more Since 1981, Chris Barrows has taken pictures of bands at their concerts, backstage, and behind the scenes. From U2 during their first tour in 1982 to Captain Sensible of The Damned on his knees in an alley licking a dominatrix's thigh high vinyl boots, or Lee Ving standing on railroad tracks at night, Barrows' intimate and stirring portraits of bands stripped down and unguarded will be a wonderful addition to any music fan's collection.

Twilight of the Gods - A Journey to the End of Classic Rock (Paperback): Steven Hyden Twilight of the Gods - A Journey to the End of Classic Rock (Paperback)
Steven Hyden
R443 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R58 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
MDC Al Schvitz - Double Life in Double Time (Paperback): Alan Schultz MDC Al Schvitz - Double Life in Double Time (Paperback)
Alan Schultz
R411 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Working for the Clampdown - The Clash, the Dawn of Neoliberalism and the Political Promise of Punk (Hardcover): Colin Coulter Working for the Clampdown - The Clash, the Dawn of Neoliberalism and the Political Promise of Punk (Hardcover)
Colin Coulter
R2,309 Discovery Miles 23 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together a range of writers from different academic disciplines and different locations to provide an engaging and accessible critical exploration of one of the most revered and reviled bands in the history of popular music. The essays collated here locate The Clash in their own explosive cultural moment of punk's year zero and examine how the group speaks from beyond the grave to the uncanny parallels of other moments of social and political crisis. In addition, the collection considers the impact of the band in a range of different geopolitical contexts, with various contributors exploring what the band meant in settings as diverse as Italy, England, Northern Ireland, Australia and the United States. The diverse essays gathered in Working for the clampdown cast a critical light on both the cultural legacy and contemporary resonance of one of the most influential bands ever to have graced a stage. -- .

Cruel To Be Kind - The Life and Music of Nick Lowe (Paperback): Will Birch Cruel To Be Kind - The Life and Music of Nick Lowe (Paperback)
Will Birch 1
R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

CRUEL TO BE KIND is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromising life as a songwriter and entertainer, from his days at Stiff Records, to becoming the driving force behind Rockpile, to the 1979 smash hit 'Cruel To Be Kind'. Nick's original compositions have been recorded by the best in the business, from enfant terrible of the New-Wave, Elvis Costello, to 'The Godfather of Rhythm and Soul', Solomon Burke; from household names, including Engelbert Humperdink, Diana Ross, and Johnny Cash, to legendary vocalists such as Curtis Stigers, Tom Petty, and Rod Stewart. His reputation as one of the most influential musicians to emerge from that most formative period for pop and rock music is cast in stone. He will forever be the man they call the 'Jesus of Cool'. 'Nick's poise as a singer, his maturity, and his use of tone is beautiful. I can't believe it's this guy I've been watching since I was a teenager' Elvis Costello, 2013 'The master of subversive pop' Nick Kent, NME, 1977 'Nick Lowe is such a f*cking good songwriter! Am I allowed to say that?' Curtis Stigers, 2016

The Raincoats' The Raincoats (Paperback): Jenn Pelly The Raincoats' The Raincoats (Paperback)
Jenn Pelly
R350 R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Save R71 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 to actively call themselves feminists. In this short book - the first on the Raincoats - author Jenn Pelly tells the story of the group's audacious debut album, which Kurt Cobain once called "wonderfully classic scripture." Pelly builds on rare archival materials and extensive interviews with members of the Raincoats, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Hole, Scritti Politti, Gang of Four, and more. She draws formal inspiration from the collage-like The Raincoats itself to explore this album's magic, vulnerability, and strength.

Rotten (Paperback, New edition): John Lyden Rotten (Paperback, New edition)
John Lyden
R531 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Your Hidden Symmetry - How Your Birth Date Reveals the Plan for Your Life (Paperback): Jean Haner Your Hidden Symmetry - How Your Birth Date Reveals the Plan for Your Life (Paperback)
Jean Haner
R510 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R60 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

On the day you were born, you were imprinted with a plan and purpose-elegant patterns that can be read to see who you really are and what your true calling is. And, like your own personal tide table, the ebbs and flows of each phase of your life were set into motion on the day of your birth. Based on ancient Chinese principles of balance and health, this book gives you a rich understanding of your hidden symmetry: the intricate inner design that influences who you are and how your life unfolds. This book is not about astrology or numerology; it is based on thousands of years of research about how time moves in natural patterns and profoundly affects your life. You can use this knowledge to discover the themes running through your life experience, tap into your core strengths, find lasting love, and do your best work in the world. Jean Haner shows you how to ride the waves instead of fight the current of your life, learn how to make best use of what's coming in future years, and understand why things happened as they did in the past. Jean will guide you to discover who you really came here to be, recognise the true nature of everyone you meet, and break free of old limitations-and create a life of conscious vitality, joy, ease and love! 'The wisdom Jean Haner presents in Your Hidden Symmetry has been valuable in my own life over the years. I highly recommend it as a way to love and accept yourself, as well as the way your life is unfolding. I'm delighted to contribute the affirmations in this book to support your journey!' Louise L. Hay, the New York Times best-selling author of You Can Heal Your Life 'Your Hidden Symmetry will help you to know yourself, accept yourself, and be true to who you really are. Jean Haner presents an ancient wisdom for living and authentic life. Her work is a gift to the world.' Robert Holden, Ph.D., author of Shift Happens! and Loveability 'With grace and wisdom born of an innate understanding of the human spirit, Jean will gently guide you down the path to profound self-understanding in this heartfelt book. Highly recommended!' Denise Linn, author of Soul Coaching and Sacred Space

Mutations - The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk (Paperback): Sam McPheeters Mutations - The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk (Paperback)
Sam McPheeters; Introduction by Tobi Vail
R520 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R111 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Inaugural pick for the Pitchfork Book Club GQ's One of the Best Books to Read Right Now How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. And if someone has a strong belief about what punk is, odds are they have even stronger feelings about what punk is not. Sam McPheeters championed many different versions. Over the course of two decades, he fronted Born Against, released dozens of records and fanzines, and toured seventeen times across the northern hemisphere. In this collection of essays, profiles, criticism, and personal history, he examines the diverse realms he intersected--New York hardcore, Riot Grrrl, Gilman street, the hidden enclaves of Olympia, and New England, and downtown Los Angeles--and the forces of mental illness and creative inspiration that drove him, and others, in the first place.

The Bobby Joe Ebola Songbook - A Humor Miscellany Containing Lyrics & Guitar Chords For Over 80 Songs from the Band's... The Bobby Joe Ebola Songbook - A Humor Miscellany Containing Lyrics & Guitar Chords For Over 80 Songs from the Band's Complete Discography (Paperback)
Dan Abbott, Corbett Redford
R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Want to be an obscure comedy band? Now you can 'The Bobby Joe Ebola Songbook' features easy-to-learn lyrics and chords to over 80 songs by the infamous satiric duo, Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits, along with hilarious illustrations. With savage humour they dispense 'helpful' rock'n'roll tips for making amazing things happen on little or no budget.

Wire's Pink Flag (Paperback, New): Wilson Neate Wire's Pink Flag (Paperback, New)
Wilson Neate
R299 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this book, Wilson Neate gets beneath the surface of a punk band with a difference. In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-commentary on the punk scene and was far more revolutionary musically than the rest of the competition. Few punk bands moved beyond pared-down rock 'n' roll and garage rock, football-terrace sing-alongs or shambolic pub rock and, if we're honest, only a handful of punk records hold up today as anything other than increasingly quaint period pieces.While the majority of their peers flogged one idea to death and paid only lip service to punk's Year Zero credo, Wire took a genuinely radical approach, deconstructing song conventions, exploring new possibilities and consistently reinventing their sound. This is a chord. This is another. This is a third. Now form a band, proclaimed the caption to the famous diagram in a UK fanzine in 1976 and countless punk acts embodied that do-it-yourself spirit. Wire, however, showed more interesting ways of doing it once you'd formed that band and they found more compelling uses for those three mythical chords."33 1/3" is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.

Meal Deal With The Devil - A Horrible Little Listen Along Book (Paperback): Dan Abbott, Corbett Redford Meal Deal With The Devil - A Horrible Little Listen Along Book (Paperback)
Dan Abbott, Corbett Redford
R528 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Meal Deal with the Devil' combines a five-song CD from the devious San Francisco Bay Area musical satirists, Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits, with an accompanying read-along storybook, bringing their twisted humour to the page.

Dance Prone (Hardcover): David Coventry Dance Prone (Hardcover)
David Coventry 1
R530 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R142 (27%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'A raw and raging celebration of music . . . astounding.' Megan Bradbury 'Funny, filthy, erudite, and rude.' Carl Shuker 'A magnificent novel.' Alan McMonagle During their 1985 tour, two events of hatred and stupidity forever change the lives of a band's four members. Neues Bauen, a post-hardcore Illinois group homing in on their own small fame, head on with frontman Conrad Wells sexually assaulted and guitarist Tone Seburg wounded by gunshot. The band staggers forth into the American landscape, traversing time and investigating each of their relationships with history, memory, authenticity, violence and revelling in transcendence through the act of art. With decades passed and compelled by his wife's failing health to track down Tone, Conrad flies to North Africa where her brother is rumoured to be hiding with a renowned artist from their past. There he instead meets various characters including his former drummer, Spence. Amongst the sprawl and shout of Morocco, the men attempt to recall what happened to them during their lost years of mental disintegration and emotional poverty. Dance Prone is a novel of music, ritual and love. It is live, tense and corporeal. Full of closely observed details of indie-rock, of punk infused performance, the road and the players' relationship to violence, hate and peace. Set during both the post-punk period and the present day, Dance Prone was born out of a love of the underground and indie rock scenes of the 1980s, a fascination for their role in the cultural apparatus of memory, social decay and its reconstruction.

Try This At Home: Adventures in songwriting - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Paperback): Frank Turner Try This At Home: Adventures in songwriting - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER (Paperback)
Frank Turner 1
R396 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R37 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* The brand new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Road Beneath My Feet. Taking 36 songs from his back catalogue, folk-punk icon Frank Turner explores his songwriting process. Find out the stories behind the songs forged in the hedonistic years of the mid-2000s North London scene, the ones perfected in Nashville studios, and everything in between. Some of these songs arrive fully-formed, as if they've always been there, some take graft and endless reworking to find 'the one'. In exploring them all, Turner reflects with eloquence, insight and self-deprecating wit on exactly what it is to be a songwriter. From love songs and break-up songs to political calls-to-arms; songs composed alone in a hotel room or in soundcheck with the Sleeping Souls, this brilliantly written memoir - featuring exclusive photos of handwritten lyrics and more - is a must-have book for FT fans and anyone curious about how to write music.

Dark Waves - The Synthesizer and the Dystopian Sound of Britain (1977-80) (Hardcover): Neil O'Connor Dark Waves - The Synthesizer and the Dystopian Sound of Britain (1977-80) (Hardcover)
Neil O'Connor
R2,921 R2,060 Discovery Miles 20 600 Save R861 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the 1970s, the synthesizer spurred many fundamental shifts in the mechanisms of music-making. Along with the popularization of the musical aesthetics established by both the punk and post-punk movements, the synthesizer led to ground-breaking effects and processes. Dark Waves examines the role of the synthesizer in shaping the dark and dystopian sound of electronic music in 1970s Britain and is the first collected musicological analysis of The Normal, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and John Foxx. Many of these acts, dark in content, presentation and manner, would go on to influence the more commercial sound of 1980s synth pop, which in turn shaped mainstream electronic music today.

Year Of The Monkey (Paperback): Patti Smith Year Of The Monkey (Paperback)
Patti Smith 1
R417 R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Save R44 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, with no design yet heeding signs, including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey." For Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.

Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from Southern California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places - this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment. But as Patti Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope of a better world.

Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Paperback): Ronen Givony Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Paperback)
Ronen Givony
R305 R276 Discovery Miles 2 760 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Two and a half decades on, Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1993-94) is the rare album to have lost none of its original loyalty, affection, and reverence. If anything, today, the cult of Jawbreaker-in their own words, "the little band that could but would probably rather not"-is now many times greater than it was when they broke up in 1996. Like the best work of Fugazi, The Clash, and Operation Ivy, the album is now is a rite of passage and a beloved classic among partisans of intelligent, committed, literary punk music and poetry. Why, when a thousand other artists came and went in that confounding decade of the 90s, did Jawbreaker somehow come to seem like more than just another band? Why do they persist, today, in meaning so much to so many people? And how did it happen that, two years after releasing their masterpiece, the band that was somehow more than just a band to its fans-closer to equipment for living-was no longer? Ronen Givony's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is an extended tribute in the spirit of Nicholson Baker's U & I: a passionate, highly personal, and occasionally obsessive study of one of the great confessional rock albums of the 90s. At the same time, it offers a quizzical look back to the toxic authenticity battles of the decade, ponders what happened to the question of "selling out," and asks whether we today are enriched or impoverished by that debate becoming obsolete.

Sex Pistols - The End is Near 25.12.77 (Hardcover): Kevin Cummins Sex Pistols - The End is Near 25.12.77 (Hardcover)
Kevin Cummins 1
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Christmas Day 1977, a day to be spent with family and loved ones, unless of course you'd decided to spend it with The Sex Pistols. The punk band, at the centre of a tabloid frenzy and banned from just about every venue in the country, had booked themselves into a small club in Huddersfield to perform a benefit in support of striking West Yorkshire fire fighters. That evening, the band took to the stage to perform what would become their final UK gig. There to capture the chaos was photographer Kevin Cummins. No stranger to The Sex Pistols, he'd been there at that gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall just 18 months previously. Kevin incurred the fury of his own family to forgo Christmas in order to travel across The Pennines to document the event. Every frame Kevin shot is here, for the first time, in this book of more than 150 colour and black and white photographs, each beautifully capturing Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook as they play together for the last time in their home country. Just weeks later The Pistols would break up and a year later, Sid would be dead. "You've had the Queen's speech. Now you're going to get the Sex Pistols at Christmas. Enjoy." - Johnny Rotten

Teaching Resistance - Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom (Paperback): John Mink Teaching Resistance - Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom (Paperback)
John Mink
R694 R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Save R90 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Cruel To Be Kind - The Life and Music of Nick Lowe (Paperback): Will Birch Cruel To Be Kind - The Life and Music of Nick Lowe (Paperback)
Will Birch 1
R400 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Brilliant biography of an undersung late-blooming treasure . . . subtly profound as well as wickedly entertaining, this biography does its subject scintillating justice' Mojo Cruel to Be Kind is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromising life as a songwriter and entertainer, from his days at Stiff Records, to becoming the driving force behind Rockpile, to the 1979 smash hit 'Cruel To Be Kind'. Nick's original compositions have been recorded by the best in the business, from enfant terrible of the New-Wave, Elvis Costello, to 'The Godfather of Rhythm and Soul', Solomon Burke; from household names, including Engelbert Humperdink, Diana Ross, and Johnny Cash, to legendary vocalists such as Curtis Stigers, Tom Petty, and Rod Stewart. His reputation as one of the most influential musicians to emerge from that most formative period for pop and rock music is cast in stone. He will forever be the man they call the 'Jesus of Cool'. 'Nick's poise as a singer, his maturity, and his use of tone is beautiful. I can't believe it's this guy I've been watching since I was a teenager' Elvis Costello, 2013 'The master of subversive pop' Nick Kent, NME, 1977 'Nick Lowe is such a f*cking good songwriter! Am I allowed to say that?' Curtis Stigers, 2016

Revenge of the She-Punks - A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot (Paperback): Vivien Goldman Revenge of the She-Punks - A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot (Paperback)
Vivien Goldman
R520 R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Save R69 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes-identity, money, love, and protest-to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a book that reads like a vivid documentary of a genre defined by dismantling boundaries. A discussion of the Patti Smith song "Free Money," for example, opens with Goldman on a shopping spree with Smith. Tamar-Kali, whose name pays homage to a Hindu goddess, describes the influence of her Gullah ancestors on her music, while the late Poly Styrene's daughter reflects on why her Somali-Scots-Irish mother wrote the 1978 punk anthem "Identity," with the refrain "Identity is the crisis you can't see." Other strands feature artists from farther afield (including in Colombia and Indonesia) and genre-busting revolutionaries such as Grace Jones, who wasn't exclusively punk but clearly influenced the movement while absorbing its liberating audacity. From punk's Euro origins to its international reach, this is an exhilarating world tour.

The Last Of The Hippies - An Hysterical Romance (Paperback): Penny Rimbaud The Last Of The Hippies - An Hysterical Romance (Paperback)
Penny Rimbaud
R354 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R37 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Columbus Memoirs and Other Tales (Paperback): Nick Toczek, Matt Webster The Columbus Memoirs and Other Tales (Paperback)
Nick Toczek, Matt Webster
R316 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Save R23 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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