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RELEASE DATE: 6/27/2025
Hardcover. 51-pages. "Gabba Gabba We Accept You is a children's picture book that tells the story of how a kid who was bullied and felt like a misfit grew up to become a hero to so many as lead singer of The Ramones. This story speaks to one of the greatest silent majorities in the world -- all the kids who feel a little off. It contains an essential message that the world of punk rock has always meant to communicate. The challenging passages of life that brought Jeffrey Ross Hyman to the place where he became Joey Ramone provide a natural lesson to young folks navigating their way through the complexities of growing up. Working in collaboration with visual artist Lucinda Schreiber, Jay Ruttenberg guides the story of Gabba Gabba We Accept You in unexpected directions, with Lucinda's lyrical illustrations and colorful design opening the sense of possibility in what feels like the path less traveled on every page. About the inspiration for this book, Jay says: 'My daughter just turned 11, so I've spent recent years in children's book land. I think I've read her 97 books about Abraham Lincoln and 12,984 about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It occurred to me that a lot of the life lessons I've been trying to teach her weren't learned through my family or school, but through punk stuff: the importance of being your own person, following your own radar instead of a group's, embracing uniqueness, etc. The Ramones, and in particular Joey, seemed like the perfect embodiment of that. So my big hope for the book is that it tells the story of Joey Ramone, but also, in kind of the biggest way, of what punk rock means, and how it might help a little kid wade through difficult social waters and be their own unique person." Gabba Gabba We Accept You speaks in well-grounded and wise verbal and visual language to inform and affirm children -- young ones and the adult children, alike -- that their individual personalities have an inspired and inspiring place in the world. In the process of becoming and being a person, there's no one set of rules. The sooner we all know that, the sooner we'll find ourselves in a much better place."
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RELEASE DATE: 6/24/2025
Paperbound, 407 pages. "Edited by Lawrence Kumpf, Charles Curtis. Text by Éliane Radigue, Dagmar Schwerk, Daniel Sillman, Anthony Vine. A detailed look at the elusive work of a French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition. This volume is an exploration of the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue (born 1932), whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis and composition on tape has long evaded straightforward interpretation. Combining key texts, newly translated primary documents, in-depth interviews and commissioned essays, this compendium probes her idiosyncratic compositional practice, which both embraces and confounds the iterative nature of magnetic tape, the subtleties of amplification and the very experience of listenership. Chief among these entries is an in-depth overview by cellist Charles Curtis examining the composer's earliest experiments in feedback techniques and analog synthesis, her eventual turn to works for unamplified instruments and live performers, and her unique aesthetic of time and presence. Detailed conversations provide crucial windows into her working methods at different points in her career. Sketches for unrealized work, contemporary reviews, programs and ephemera are collected together for the first time. The anthology concludes with a roundtable discussion working out the knotty paradoxes of Radigue's continued 'ethos of resistance.'"
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RELEASE DATE: 6/24/2025
Delayed until March/2025... "A massive photographic archive of Lee 'Scratch' Perry's legendary recording studio. A 600-page tribute to one of the most famous locales in music history, Black Ark is a detailed inventory of photographs and writings from the Black Ark Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, where producer Lee 'Scratch' Perry created music from 1973 onward. The eclectic and constantly evolving decoration of the studio provides an enduring visual counterpart to Perry's expansive musical catalog. From mural paintings to shape-shifting assemblages of records, instruments, found objects, posters and newspaper clippings, the artworks layer upon one another as they intertwine with the studio building itself. Perry created his own dense and diverse world in which to work: memorialized in this volume before the Black Ark disappears for good. The photographic documentation of the studio in the spring of 2021 was supplemented by efforts to secure and preserve Perry's works, objects and recordings as part of a joint project with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Black Ark reflects the rhythm and layering effects of collage both in its content and the materials used to craft the book. Perry was involved in the development of this publication until his death in August 2021. The book closes with memorial essays from Ishion Hutchinson, David Katz, Kodwo Eshun, and John Corbett. Lee 'Scratch' Perry (1936-2021) was a musician and producer best known for pioneering the dub genre in the 1970s. He worked with well-known Jamaican artists such as Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Heptones, the Congos, and Max Romeo. In 2003 he won a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album."
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RELEASE DATE: 6/10/2025
Paperback. 480 pages. "The legendary French filmmaker's labyrinthine memoir, first published by Exact Change in 2002 as a CD-ROM, now reconfigured into book form after a laborious process initiated by the artist before his death in 2012. Filmmaker, photographer and writer Chris Marker never adhered to the conventions of a particular art form. Each of his films, from La Jetée to Sans Soleil, pushes the boundaries of its medium, merging at times with the essay, political manifesto, personal letter, art installation and even, finally, a computer game. For Immemory, first published in 1998 (French) and 2002 (English), Marker used a CD-ROM to create a multi-layered, mixed-media memoir. The reader investigates 'zones' of travel, war, cinema and poetry, navigating through image and text as if physically exploring Marker's memory itself. The result is a veritable 21st-century Remembrance of Things Past, an exploration of the state of memory in our era. With it, Marker both invented a literary form and perfected it, just before the digital format he chose for the experiment was quickly rendered obsolete. Immemory: Gutenberg Version reinvents this unique work for the printed page, a project the author dreamed up, titled, and began working on with Exact Change before his death. Now finally realized, it brings this seminal work into the present and future through a time-tested, durable format of the past: the book. Chris Marker (1921-2012) served in the French Resistance, and then the US Air Force, during World War II and worked as a journalist while honing his film career. He received international acclaim with La Jetée in 1962, and became a critical voice in film theory and production as well as a widely admired 'cult' artist, a filmmaker's filmmaker."
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RELEASE DATE: 5/30/2025
NTSC/All-Region. 8 discs. Includes 128-page booklet. Color/B&W. Stereo/Mono. Works collected from 1975-2022. "For five decades, Michael Smith's performance art has inhabited bland domestic spaces; mass media and its promise to keep viewers company; and failing business ventures that misread the moment. Through art installations, theater, video, television and live performances, Smith's comedic work lives inside the identity models that both constitute and disassociate our shared experience. His two performance personae, Mike and Baby Ikki, plumb the depths of American culture to perform the discrepancies between what is promulgated by controlling interest and what actually exists in reality of day-to-day worlds. Like culture itself, Smith's is forever in and out of time. Mike's Box is an immersive eight-disc DVD collection of his work up until now. In the 1970s, the idea of the American everyman was rarely questioned. The '50s postwar aspiration for blessed conformity had been a primary objective of the powers that be, continually hammered into everyone's home via that ubiquitous box, the TV set. Although developments in the late '60s offered a new appraisal of everyday life, it was apparent that this approach was not easily processed by the general population, and the status quo remained intact. It felt increasingly urgent to reevaluate old world values with those surfacing in an alienated youth culture. As this alienation continued to grow, it appeared that this was the primary issue that everyone could agree upon. Enter Mike, who, along with his contemporaries on the NYC art scene of the 1970s and '80s (a sprawling group spread across disciplines, including but not limited to Laurie Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Andy Kaufman, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, and the many freaks feeding the nascent Saturday Night Live franchise), was inclined to disengage the frame of reference from the traditional rarified 'white cube' context, and instead insert his practice in relation to everyday life and the institutions exerting control over it. Mike's Box covers Smith's career from the '70s to the present, collecting his infamous and prescient performances, installations and videos (many only previously seen at galleries and museums within the fine art context), as well as forms more accessible to a general audience: comedy shows, cable access programs and musical theater. Mike's Box also contains the complete collaborative video work of Smith with both Joshua White and Doug Skinner, as well as his team-ups with William Wegman, Seth Price, Mike Kelley and many others. It is accompanied by a richly illustrated book that includes an essay by Tim Griffin, and features documentation from shows exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Museo Jumex, along with filmed conversations between the artist, curators and collaborators."
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RELEASE DATE: 5/27/2025
Delayed further... until early 2025.."Pioneering media artist and concrete poet Ferdinand Kriwet's 1971 cult artist's book in a facsimile edition. A monumental, three-volume encyclopedia of alphabetically organized images, Ferdinand Kriwet: Stars was first published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1971. In the 1960s, German author and media artist Ferdinand Kriwet (1942-2018), inspired by concrete poetry and its interest in the visual quality of linguistic signs, began to approach the literary medium of the book in a new way. Imagining new ways of reading that resisted linearity, Kriwet experimented with alternatives, encouraging a rapid back-and-forth between the pages of the book and the texts and images on them. In Stars, he treats images like words and arranges them in alphabetical order in an epic encyclopedia format. For years, Stars has only been available, at considerable cost, in antiquarian book catalogs. This new facsimile edition of Ferdinand Kriwet: Stars brings Kriwet's pioneering vision and his seminal book back into print." 416 pages. 2.5 pounds. 5.50(w) x 8.75(h).
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RELEASE DATE: 5/2/2025
"This is a 32-page perfect bound book of photographs by Fredrik Nilsen documenting three months in 1976 when members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, aka the LAFMS, occupied studios in the 35 South Raymond building in what was then the derelict district of Old Town Pasadena. Some images were taken as promotional photos for their upcoming infamous performances at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California in July of that year. Others show the general mayhem that transpired in an ultra-creative moment in the history of this experimental sound art collective. The LAFMS was officially founded in 1975 and continues to this day in various collaborating ensembles and individuals. Depicted are legendary sound artists including Joe and Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, Dennis Duck Mehaffey, Chip Chapman, Juan Gomez, and Harold Schroeder."
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RELEASE DATE: 4/18/2025
Paperback, 200 pages, illustrated, 13x19.5 cm. Existing for a few short years (1984 - 1988), él records was perhaps the most "cult" of the UK so-called "indie" labels. él records was created in 1984 by Mike Alway. Alway was A&R man for Cherry Red signing artists such as Everything But the Girl, The Monochrome Set, and Felt. Alway left Cherry Red to help run Blanco Y Negro (an offshoot of WEA) but soon felt constrained but the conservativism of the commercial music sector and left to set up his own label. él was once described as "the most innately English record label there has ever been" and yet had a global appeal. Alway's mercurial approach was to take complete control of the repertoire, the philosophy of the label's releases and even the titles of songs in the manner of pop impresarios of the past. He became a curator, selecting, shaping and overseeing the records issued on él. He employed songwriters proficient in classical pop techniques such as Nicholas Currie (AKA Momus) and Philippe Auclair (AKA Louis Philippe) who in addition to issuing their own records wrote, arranged and performed for other él artistes and used creative talents such as photographer Nick Wesolowski and designer Jim Phelan to create the él "look." él had a unique flavor eschewing the traditions of rock and indie music of the mid 1980s, exhibiting instead a taste for 1960s bubbelgum and chamber pop, the European chanson tradition, Latin rhythms and film scores (one of él's key players was child prodigy Simon Turner who wrote music for the films of Derek Jarman). The ethos of the label was decidedly un-macho and many of él's key artists were female. Él's first single "I, Bloodbrother Be" by Shock Headed Peters was an uncompromising gay anthem. Alway saw él as a celebration of elegance and beauty, in his own words, "a pop world beyond leather jackets and jeans". While record sales were disappointing, this unique blend was critically acclaimed in the UK and popular in America and mainland Europe while in Japan él had a profound effect, directly influencing the Shibuya-kei phenomenon that included Pizzicato Five, Cornelius, and Kahimi Karie. Bright Young Things is the first book to tell the fascinating story of él, one of the most influential indie labels of all time.
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RELEASE DATE: 4/11/2025
Krautrock as an escape from post-war Germany. Krautrock Eruption is a rousing counter-narrative to the usual depictions of Krautrock, written by Wolfgang Seidel, member of Conrad Schnitzler's band Eruption and co-founder of Ton Steine Scherben. Seidel's groundbreaking book, which includes unique historical photographs, paints a vivid picture of the old Federal Republic of Germany, with all of its contradictions and struggles. What is now celebrated as Krautrock emerged in this environment, and at the time was an attempt to contribute the soundtrack to the revolution. As a fly on the wall, Seidel recounts the squats, demos and first concerts of bands such as Cluster, Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel. Just as precisely and vividly, he recapitulates the influence of minimal music composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, the origins of many Krautrock musicians in jazz and the role of the synthesiser. Wolfgang Seidel delivers a captivating account on Krautrock that dispels many of the founding myths of the first genuinely German pop culture, which above all did not want to be German. In addition, the book is supplemented by a discography of the 50 most important Krautrock records, written by music journalist and Krautrock expert Holger Adam. Translated from German by Alexander Paulick (member of influential Düsseldorf-based avant-garde band Kreidler). Paperback, 186 pages, 7.5 oz, dimensions: 7.5" x 5".
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RELEASE DATE: 4/4/2025
144 pages. Perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. "Featuring a spectacular cover story on exalted psychedelic outsiders Plasticland. Also, the final installment of the Subway Sect story by guitarist Rob Symmons and his reemergence decades later with the Fallen Leaves. Also featuring Part Two of an expansive conversation with Ed Kuepper about the early years of the Saints, a fascinating interview with Paul Rudolph (about his years with the Deviants, Pink Fairies, and Hawkwind, and playing on Eno's early solo albums), the wild saga of Armand Schaubroeck from '60s garage greatness with the Churchmice to proto-punk menace in the 1970s, Duncan Fallowell's brilliant account of Iggy & the Stooges live in '73, the Southbound Freeway from '60s Detroit, the peculiar tale of Ya Ho Wha 13 and the Source Family, Cyril Jordan on the Kinks -- and lots more, including, as always, an expansive and essential review sections covering all the latest vinyl and CD reissues, and rock 'n' roll-related books."
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"Includes Wire Tapper 67 CD. Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise. By Esi Eshun; Ingrid Laubrock: The New York based reedist creates settings for koans and poems as part of a unique new compositional practice. By Stewart Smith; Bastard Assignments: The radical new music ensemble get lost in the woods with their satire of the English countryside. By Robert Barry; Infinity Knives: From Tom And Jerry to sociopolitics, rapper Tariq Ravelomanana keeps it unreal. By Lucy Thraves; Cleaners From Venus: Martin Newell's songcraft and wordplay across many DIY albums evidence a uniquely wired mind. By Mike Barnes; Lukas De Clerck: Brussels musician extends ancient pipe instruments into the present moment. By Antonio Poscic; Penelope Trappes: Australian artist voices griefs past and present. By Spenser Tomson; Ciaran Mackle: Sample manipulator twists folk song into cubist forms. By Daryl Worthington; Invisible Jukebox: Jeff Mills: Will Detroit techno's great conceptualist be a wizard IDing The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Chal Ravens; Unlimited Editions: Robert Ridley-Shackleton's Cardboard Club cutouts; The Inner Sleeve: Loraine James on Circa Survive's On Letting Go; Global Ear: Osaka's proto-industrialists revitalise the city's experimental music scene. By Jere Kilpinen; Epiphanies: Golem Mecanique rewinds to a treasured VHS tape of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone; Against The Grain: Mosi Reeves takes on underground hiphop's gender imbalance."
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All articles presented in English. Includes "Mary Lou Williams" by Anton Spice, "Tomeka Reid" by Michael Mikesell, "Horace Silver" by Seymour Wright, "Wind Up & Julius Eastman" by Marc Medwin, "Esmond Edwars at Prestige" by Francis Gooding, "Contemporary Ethio-Jazz" by Nathan Hamelberg,
"Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp" by Phil Freeman, "Arooj Aftab" by Rob Garratt, "John Surman" by Bret Sjerven, "Punk Jazz with Benjamin Herman" by Danny Veekens, "Discaholic Column" by Mats Gustafsson, Odysseus Festival 2024 photo report, reviews, and more. 128 pages, 170 x 240 mm in size and printed on 140g Edixion paper with laminated 300g Invercote covers.
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Paperbound, 252 pages. "A collection of writings by the mathematician and composer linking notions of continuity and construction across math, minimalist music and contemporary art. Noted mathematician and composer Spencer Gerhardt presents Ticking Stripe, a groundbreaking collection of essays linking notions of continuity and construction across the boundaries of math, art, music and philosophy. Gerhardt offers new, deeply informed analysis of the 1960s New York avant-garde, viewed through the lens of trailblazing artists such as La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Catherine Christer Hennix, Henry Flynt, and Tony Conrad. Ticking Stripe pairs the spirit of L.E.J. Brouwer -- a mathematician who sought to reconstruct the continuum in his own philosophical terms called intuitionism -- with the ambitions of pioneering minimalists who combined continued constructions, idealized processes of introspection and conceptual world-building with a host of philosophical, scientific and spiritual concerns. Informed by his own work as a mathematician and composer, Gerhardt explores the depths of these disparate traditions, finding unlikely areas of commonality."
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"On the cover: In February New York based artist and sonic therapist Devi Mambouka will release her second album as Masma Dream World. The long awaited follow-up to 2020's Play At Night, Please Come To Me will be released via Nabil Ayers' Valley Of Search label. For The Wire Mambouka discusses ritual, healing and 'music for the shadow world' with Emily Pothast; Sound Art with Stones Sound: artists like Glasgow-based Cypriot Antonia Kattou and the UK's Simon James, aka The Simonsound, as well as critical architectural practices such as Bethlehem-based AAU Anastas, use stone as a focal point for an interrogation of geopolitics. Bobby Jewell reports; Caxtrinho: As Caxtrinho, Brazilian singer and guitarist Paulo Vitor Castro's turbulent, psychedelic strategies against samba and bossa nova made a formidable impression with last year's album Queda Livre. By Derek Walmsley; Louis Laurain: The experimental cornetist has brought his free and extended techniques to ensembles like the The Umlaut Big Band and Lumpeks as well as collaborations with Éliane Radigue, Stephen O'Malley and, most recently, Pierre Bastien with whom he's releasing a new album via Brighton's Rose Hill records. By Clive Bell; Invisible Jukebox: Lydia Lunch From downtown NYC to The Lydian Turn podcast, legend in her own lifetime Lydia Lunch takes on The Wire's blind listening test. Tested by Claire Biddles; Global Ear: Tijuana; Unlimited Editions: Pointless Geometry; Inner Sleeve: Jules Reidy; Plus, one page profiles of Chris Cundy, Able Noise and Polonius."
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Hardcover. 12.6" L x 9.8" W (2.75 lbs). 192 pages. "Edited with text by Erin Christovale. Foreword by Ann Philbin. Text by Franya J. Berkman. Interviews by Ashley Kahn, Erin Christovale. Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazz. This volume unpacks the cultural legacy of musician, spiritual leader, wife and mother Alice Coltrane. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum, the book takes its title from Coltrane's 1977 autobiography and devotional text, Monument Eternal, in which she reflected on her newfound spiritual beliefs and the path to healing and self-discovery. Coltrane was 'ahead of her time,' as her son, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, says: she was 'one of the first people to move outside the mainstream, and certainly one of the first female, Black, American jazz musicians to record her own music in her own studio, and to release music on her own terms.' Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal explores themes including spiritual transcendence, sonic innovation and architectural intimacy. The project juxtaposes works from 19 contemporary American artists with pieces of ephemera from Coltrane's archive -- including handwritten sheet music, unreleased audio recordings and rarely seen footage -- to honor her cultural output and practice. Alice Coltrane was born in Detroit in 1937 and took up music at an early age, beginning piano lessons at seven years old. In 1967 her husband, saxophonist John Coltrane, gifted her a harp, on which she went on to record seminal albums including Journey in Satchidananda and A Monastic Trio, making her one of the very few harpists in the history of jazz. Coltrane moved to Southern California in 1972 and founded the Sai Anantam ashram. She lived and worked in Los Angeles, where she died in 2007 at age 69. This book was published in conjunction with Hammer Museum."
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"Jim Franks is not a professional baker, because there are no such things as professional bakers. He is also not your father and never will be, nor is this a cookbook full of stories and recipes. Jim Franks is a baker and a poet who's written a love story about bread, which is to say he's written a life story about listening, learning, trying, failing, adapting, and above all, caring. Through humor, history, relentless curiosity, and refreshingly unsentimental poetry, Existential Bread teaches there are many ways to bake a loaf just as there are many ways to live a life." Paperback; 5.5" x 8.25" / 170pp "Existential Bread is a collected bakers' common sense from Jim Franks, one of the most knowledgeable people about modern baking in the United States today." --Matt Kedzie, Owner-Baker of Starter Bread "Part love letter, part philosophical manifesto, Jim Frank's book is an earnest and charming exploration of our human relationship with bread and what it takes to make it." --Fiona Cook, Author of The Wheel of the Year "In a world of samey-samey, this book is different. Jim Franks doesn't want you to make his bread (by providing glossy photos and detailed recipes); he wants you to make your bread (by sharing his practice and what he has learned). In a world of 'shoulds' and 'bottom lines,' Existential Bread creates space while providing structure for you to fall in love with the ancient act of making bread. Plus, it's a very fun read." --Abra Berens, Author of Ruffage, Grist and Pulp
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"On the Cover: The Velvet Underground -- Lost in Sound -- Multiple features on your favorite band, with rare images and cool ephemera throughout. Here Come The Tapes: A Guide To The Velvet Underground's Live Tape Stash by Tyler Wilcox. Plus, full length reviews of new reissues of cassette tapes by ur-VU drummer Angus MacLise, and a lengthy appreciation by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Light in the Attic's excellent pre-VU Lou Reed set. Killer Content: "TV on the Radio and the Magic Negro Myth." Martin Douglas on the band's visionary debut LP, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes -- and the lessons we haven't learned 20 years later. This piece is such a standout, wait until you read it. Punk Diary: Excerpts from Hat & Beard Press' I Feel Famous: Punk Diaries 1977-1980, written by a then-17-year-old Angela Jaeger. This diary was renowned for years and has finally seen the light of day, with multiple images to support it. Sweeping Promises: A very visual look at the great, shimmering guitar-pop band. Their visual aesthetics so perfectly accompany their sound, and that's discussed in detail for the first time. 12XU: Fred Thomas' engrossing talk with Gerard Cosloy about the third major record label he's run, and why it matters. This is the third in a series of columns on record labels. Razor Braids: Raucous, hilarious, uncompromising -- an introduction to the Brooklyn-based band who you're sure to hear more from soon. Antietam Loves Sleepyhead: Two of our favorite bands from the 1980s on how to keep the love alive. Antietam was formed in Louisville in 1984 out of the ashes of the Babylon Dance Band. They soon moved to NYC And released a series of beloved records for Homestead. Sleepyhead formed in 1988 in the basement of their NYU dorm and released beloved albums for the likes of Slumberland. The Sonics: An in-depth look at the fun, new documentary film on the Pac NW garage pioneers. Departmentstore Santas: Wonderful interview with the folks behind the major 1984 self-released DIY effort, At The Medieval Castle Nineteen 100-Year Lifetimes Since, a record on par with the best efforts by Desperate Bicycles, Homosexuals, and V3. Joy Guidry: Ana Gavrilovska on the beautiful music of the contemporary jazz bassoonist. Plus our regular, excellent columns by Mimi Lipson, Lucy Sante, Andy Zax, and others, including the debut of Desert Island owner Gabe Fowler's "Customer Profiles" column..."
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12 punk rock bedrooms displaying and listing memorabilia from each of the top punk bands. "The bedroom wall and what to cover it with has always been a dilemma through the ages as we reveled in our teenage/rebellious glory. Posters, flyers, ticket stubs badges tour programs and record sleeves. Items we gathered, begged and stole were carried home after sweaty nights in clubs and pubs. Tape and blu tack in hand we tried to find a place to add our new additions. I always thought it would be great to show the punk rock items of what I call 'the class of '76' groups I had gathered over the years in a bedroom setting. Each room could have a different theme. Blondie, Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Damned, Generation X, The Jam, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Stranglers, and maybe a mixed Punk Room with all the above and some smaller bands to fill out the story. Maybe I could then put all that in a book to show the beauty of it all. So I did and here it is. I hope all this madness might bring back some fond memories for you as you flick through these pages." --Mal-One
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Restocked. In Straight Up, Without Wings, Joe McPhee surveys sixty years in creative music. Starting with his trumpeter-father's influence and formative years in the U.S. Army, McPhee recounts experiences as a Black-hippy-cum-budding-musician based in upstate New York, perched at an ideal distance from Manhattan's free jazz demimonde of the 1960s and its loft scene of the 1970s. A natural storyteller, revealing never-told tales and reveling in the joys of noise, McPhee puts the influence of -- and encounters with -- Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Albert Ayler into the context of an independently-minded young player, ravenous for experience, dealing with the crucible of racism, seeking to break out beyond the bounds of a regional Hudson Valley scene that he knows like the back of his hand. The memoir draws forward through thrilling passages in Europe and across the United States, as McPhee gains momentum, as his music becomes the impetus for multiple record labels, as he collaborates with figures from Peter Brötzmann to Pauline Oliveros, and as he eventually goes on to inspire musicians far and wide. Written as an oral history, deftly conducted by Mike Faloon to preserve McPhee's unique narrative voice, Straight Up, Without Wings includes "reflections" by eight musicians from across the protagonist's rich history. Photography: Ziga Koritnik, Ken Brunton, John Corbett. First printing, edition of 1000. 166 pages. Dimensions: 8.5" x 6" x .5".
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WIRE 491-2
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"On the cover: 2024 Rewind -- The Wire's essential guide to the highs and lows of the last 12 months in underground music and culture, including our Top 50 Releases of the Year and Archive Releases of the Year charts, both compiled from the votes of more than 60 of our critics and contributors. Other features include cultural reflections from our roster of writers, our specialist columnists' charts and analyses from avant rock to noise, and essays on some of 2024's talking points including the revival of the CD, new compositional potentials of noise, and genre naming in the vortex of social media. Elsewhere in the issue: YATTA -- The New York based, Sierra Leone born multidisciplinary artist has just released their latest album Palm Wine via PTP. Five transient, introspective years in the making, it is their most personal release to date, reflecting on their relationship to tradition, family history, story-telling and the idea of home. By Stephanie Philips. Musica Ex Machina: At Lausanne's EPFL Pavilions, the exhibition Musica Ex Machina: Machines Thinking Musically plots a history of algorithmic and computational thought in music from the Middle Ages to the present day citing a range of theories and compositions from Schoenberg to Coltrane, George Lewis to Jennifer Walshe. Robert Barry visits it to ponder the saga of mechanical music. Bridget Hayden: The DIY multi-instrumentalist and singer is known for her involvement with expansive ensembles like Vibracathedral Orchestra and Folklore Tapes as well as duos with Bill Nace and Roy Claire Potter. Todmorden's Basin Rock label will release her new solo album, Cold Blows The Wind, in January. By Lucy Thraves. Plus one page profiles of Oranssi Pazuzu, Sakina Abdou, Stuart Argabright and Everlovin'."
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DAMBOOK 005BK
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"Hardback in slipcase with 7" vinyl. Out of print since its initial 2012 very limited first edition run. Contains exclusive 7" featuring previously unreleased 1983 interview with Barney Sumner conducted by the author. Over 400 unique-to-this-publication photos of the band and 200 plus images of rare memorabilia. No one has ever documented the early live career of a truly iconic band in such detail. Dec Hickey saw every New Order UK gig between Feb '81 and June '84 -- some fifty plus nights! Forewords by Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. Introductions by Moby and . Paul Morley. Moby: 'Up until about 10 minutes ago I thought that the depths of my Joy Division/New Order obsession were untouched/unmatched. Then I looked through this book. Ah boy, I'm beaten. And in awe.' Paul Morley: 'I can very much understand someone having an obsession with New Order. It was inevitable that a fan, a loyal, attentive follower, of such a group on such a meticulous label releasing records packaged with such scrupulous suggestive care would themselves be particularly obsessive. The fan(atic) symbolizes the idea that without obsession, life is nothing. For the fan, New Order are an ideal object of desire, the perfect pop group -- in the form of a perfect puzzle, an actual sign of fluid intelligence -- to obsess over, to collect, analyze, interpret, treasure, and ultimately possess.'"
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UT 067
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"On the cover: English musical/comedy/Dada geniuses the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, their riotous story based on interviews with the three surviving band members. And Australian '70s punk rock and roll heroes the Saints: Part One of an amazing interview with Ed Kuepper. Also featured: the tragic tale of '60s West Coast mystery group Weird Herald, Part 3 of Rob Symmons' revelatory Subway Sect memoirs, Canadian '60s garage/psychsters the Fringe, and the pre-history of one of the greatest post-sixties psychedelic bands, Plasticland. And lots more, including the indispensable review sections covering all the latest vinyl and CD reissues, and rock 'n' roll-related books."
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EAT 020BK
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"Robert Pollard's amazing collages in a full-color 238-page book."
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WIRE 490
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"On the cover: AR Kane. Overlooked in their late '80s Mk 1 era and unsung for years after their 1994 split, the duo of Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala heralded many landmark developments in '90s music: most famously dreampop, shoegaze and post-rock. Through their embrace of dub, soul and club-forward forms they also impacted the development of trip hop, ambient dub and even, obliquely, house music's explosion into the charts. With last year's release of the AR Kive box set and a return to live activity, they talk to early supporter Simon Reynolds about what to expect next. Inside the issue: Yatta, Sun Yizhou, Cuntroaches. Invisible Jukebox: Sun Araw."
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DGV 2004BK
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"A limited deluxe box set of Dust & Grooves Volume 1 (10th Anniversary Edition) and Dust & Grooves Volume 2. Over 1000 full color pages, featuring over 270 of the world's greatest vinyl collectors, including: Questlove, A-Trak, Gilles Peterson, DāM FunK, Floating Points, Four Tet, Peanut Butter Wolf, Quantic, DJ Spinna, Kid Koala, Don Letts, Rich Medina, King Britt, Andy Votel, Colleen Murphy, Shawn Lee, Mayer Hawthorne, The Gaslamp Killer, and bass maestro Ron Carter. Included in the box set: Hardcover slipcase with foil stamping; 18x24" 'Sleeve Face' poster by Dust & Grooves."
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