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As cofounder of legendary rock band Sonic Youth, best-selling
author, and celebrated artist, Kim Gordon is one of the most
singular and influential figures of the modern era. This personally
curated scrapbook is an edgy and evocative portrait of Gordon s
life, art, and style. Spanning from her childhood on Californian
surf beaches in the 60s and 70s to New York s downtown art and
music scene in the 80s and 90s where Sonic Youth was born. Through
unpublished personal photographs, magazine and newspaper clippings,
fashion editorials, and advertising campaigns, interspersed with
Gordon s song lyrics, writings, artworks, private objects, and
ephemera, this book demonstrates how Kim Gordon has been a role
model for generations of women and men.
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl
growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the
setting for one of the most important movements in rock history.
Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while
moving from spectator to creator in experiencing the power and
mystery of a live performance. With Sleater-Kinney, Brownstein and
her bandmates rose to prominence in the burgeoning underground
feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture
in the 1990s. They would be cited as "America's best rock band" by
legendary music critic Greil Marcus for their defiant, exuberant
brand of punk that resisted labels and limitations, and redefined
notions of gender in rock. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is an
intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent
family life into a world where music was the means toward
self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein
chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era's
flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including
experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of
the popular television series Portlandia years later. With deft,
lucid prose Brownstein proves herself as formidable on the page as
on the stage. Accessibly raw, honest and heartfelt, this book
captures the experience of being a young woman, a born performer
and an outsider, and ultimately finding one's true calling through
hard work, courage and the intoxicating power of rock and roll.
Everywhere you look, musicians are creating, recording, and selling
their music without the help of big-name studios, producers, or
labels. This book offers tangible-and visually stunning-proof that
self-recording is a path to artistic freedom. Each chapter takes on
a specific aspect of self-recording through original interviews
with musicians and all new photography, revealing the joys and
complications of recording music on one's own terms. You'll learn
how some of your favorite musicians charted their path to
self-recording and how they use emerging technologies to make
exceptional music. The book features intimate shots of artists
recording in living rooms, backyards, and garages-such as Eleanor
Friedberger, Mac DeMarco, Vagabon, Tune-Yards, Yuka Honda, and
more. The first book devoted entirely to the practice of
self-recording, Mirror Sound charts a way forward for any musician
who aspires to make their own music and those who just love to
listen.
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Portlandia: Season 3 (DVD)
Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Kyle Maclachlan, Sam Adams, Kumail Nanjiani, …
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The third season of the US sketch comedy show starring Fred Armisen
and Carrie Brownstein. The sketches are set in the fictional city
of Portlandia, a comic rendering of Portland, Oregon, and feature
Kyle MacLachan as the city's mayor. Guest stars to appear in the
show include Aimee Mann, Selma Blair, Heather Graham, Tim Robbins,
Gus van Sant and Jeff Goldblum. The episodes are: 'Winter in
Portlandia', 'Take Back MTV', 'Missionaries', 'Nina's Birthday',
'Squiggleman', 'Off the Grid', 'The Temp', 'Soft Opening',
'Alexandra', 'No-Fo-O-Fo-Bridge' and 'Blackout'.
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