Punk, new wave & indie

Punken. Förorten. Samhället. Närvaro. Alienation. Explosion. Ebba Grön. Tant Strul. Grisen skriker. Imperiet. Vi skränar. Manglar på elgitarrerna och gör låtar med två ackord, ropar vad vi känner och tänker. Gör narr av samhället, ser teatern, räd...

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Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted&...

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I den kinesiska astrologin var 2016 Apans år, ett år som för Patti Smith präglades av avsked till människor som stått henne nära. Ett år då hon bevittnade vännerna Sam Shepards och Sandy Pearlmans kamp med sjukdom och död. Båda hade hon lärt känna...

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Omvärlden reagerade omedelbart när Patti Smith började med sitt fenomenala instagram-konto 2018. Det började med några enkla selfies - idag har hon en miljon följare. Bland bilderna återfinns hennes barn såväl som vardagliga stilleben av stjärnans...

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»Den bästa bok som skrivits om punkhistorien.« Jan Gradvall »En av de bästa rockböcker som någonsin skrivits« Time Out Please Kill Me är den definitiva dokumentationen av den uppkäftigaste, mest respektlösa, vanvördigaste, mest nihilistiska av pop...

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A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. 'A quiet, occasionally hilarious, ultimately devastating book . . . the most moving ...

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Världens kanske just nu snabbast växande band är 5 Seconds Of Summer. Deras medryckande poppunk har på mycket kort tid fått fans över hela världen att explodera i hängivet glädjerus. I boken får du veta det mesta om Ash, Cal, Mike och Luke de nya ...

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Following the success of their instantly iconic double LP, London Calling, The Clash set out to do something triply outrageous. Named after the Nicaraguan rebels who successfully overthrew an authoritarian dictator, Sandinista! consists of 36 song...

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Första boken i trilogin, Den tredje punkarn, gavs ut på annat förlag. Den fick Selmapriset 2019. Sammantaget spänner romansviten över 1970-, 80- och 90-talen. Arne Wickander, "Tre böcker, 575 sidor, om punkarna från Bollmora. Nån skulle göra ...

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Rockhistorien är full av ögonblick som har ritat om kartan fullständigt. Söndagen den 15 maj 1977 är ett sådant datum. Det var då amerikanska Ramones ställde sig på Jarla¿t¿eaterns scen i Stockholm, gasade igång med Loudmouth och skrev svensk rock...

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They were unlike any other band in the punk scene they called home. NoMeansNo started in the basement of the family home of brothers Rob and John Wright in 1979. For the next three decades, they would add and then replace a guitar player, sign a r...

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This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers ...

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This collection includes Glen E. Friedman's most iconic images of Minor Threat, as well as many never-before-seen photographs. JUST A MINOR THREAT is a book of Glen E. Friedman's most outstanding photographs of the Washington, DC, band Minor Threa...

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En citatbok, med några av de bästa texterna ur svensk punk och new wave, 1978 - 1987. Är du trött på att läsa samma gamla citat, ofta ur svunnen tid varje gång du söker lite visdom eller inspiration!? Kloka ord, ibland uppstår de ur nödvändighet e...

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The ultimate blow-by-blow account of Sweden's legendary death metal underground, based on exclusive interviews with members of Nihilist/ Entombed, In Flames, At the Gates, Dismember, Grave, Hypocrisy, Opeth, Unleashed, Marduk, Morbid, Mob 47, Dera...

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Along with Factory, Mute, and Creation, Some Bizzare was the vanguard of outsider music in the 1980s. The label s debut release reads like a who s who of electronic music, featuring early tracks from Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Blancmange, and The Th...

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SOON TO BE A LIMITED SERIES DIRECTED BY DANNY BOYLE _____________________ Foreword by Chrissie Hynde Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones an...

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A SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 #2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A RESIDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers ...

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Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock n roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was the New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of the Heartbreakers, to his sudden and mysterious death...

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Punk 45! is introduced (and co-edited) by Jon Savage, author of the acclaimed definitive history of punk, England's Dreaming. Contributors include Peter Saville, Richard Hell, Richard H Kirk, Seymour Stein, Geoff Travis, Martin Moscrop, Glenn Bran...

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The definitive book on Australian punk and post-punk music, long unavailable, now reissued in a much-expanded new edition with 175 photos. Stranded offers the inside story of the emergence of the Saints, the Birthday Party, the Laughing Clowns, th...

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Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat t...

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The only book to consider Oi! as a distinct genre within punk rock, What Have We Got? is the story of a musical movement that became a national concern in the eighties and still divides opinion today. Drawing on new interviews with Sham 69, Angeli...

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The Ballad of Speedball Baby is the thrilling, extremely funny, and heart-wrenchingly vulnerable story of Ali Smith's coming of age in '90s New York as she commits to the messy, exhilarating life of a musician and must survive the slings and arrow...

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In 1977, Gérard Hervé Polisset ventured into Stockholms nightlife to document what turned out to be the first punk wave in Sweden. This book is a collection of 60 portraits from that year by Gérard Hervé Polisset. The portraits are accompanied by ...

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»Den bästa bok som skrivits om punkhistorien.« | JAN GRADVALL »En av de bästa rockböcker som någonsin skrivits.« | TIME OUT »Ingen bok serverar en mustigare version av punkens födelse i New York Berättelser om sex, droger och musik som får en att ...

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As the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder and faster than their '76-'77 predecessors, not to mention more aggressive and political, the likes of Dis...

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From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hel...

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Mats Pettersborg kommer från Flen, präglat av statarmentalitet och jantelag, skrot, synd, skam och mänskligt avfall. En plats där man måste skrika för att överrösta en plågsam tystnad. Mellan hat och försoning speglar en uppväxt i Blåblendbältets ...

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Wolfgang Flr was a member of Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987, contributing to albums such as Autobahn (1974), Radioaktivitt (1975), Trans-Europa Express (1977), Die Mensch-Maschine (1978), Computerwelt (1981) and Electric Caf (1986). He continues to r...

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