Punk, new wave & indie

»Berättar hela den galna historien.« | ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE »I ve put it all down, every bit from the heart. I m going out on a limb here, so watch my back.« | BILLY IDOL En av de tidigaste punkarkitekterna soundet, stilen, ilskan vars putmun oc...

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

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Se på vår fina stad, jag blir inte glad, den verkar död. Så inleds Linköpingsbandet IQ 55:s debutsingel Livet är en bluff. Före 1977 var Linköpings musikliv präktigt, torftigt och anpassat för en medelålders publik. Allt det förändrades med punken...

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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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Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as "America's most significant punk band." Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has produced 18 studio albums, become a long-running...

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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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'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of the players remain, and here they tell their ...

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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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Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was convinced of the existence of a state of supreme...

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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 turned...

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A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT SMITH The definitive collection of renowned photographer Tom Sheehan's images of The Cure - with photographs seen here for the very first time. Spanning three decades, more than 20 sess...

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Under några intensiva år i slutet av 1970-talet vände Fiendens Musik upp och ner på den svenska rockscenen. Bandet tog sitt namn i polemik mot de vänstergrupper som hävdade att all rockmusik var just fiendens - i det fallet USA-imperialismens - mu...

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'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up' Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne moved to New York and became part of the 60s art scene surrounding Andy Warhol's Factory. Jayne's story follows the arc of LGBT liberation in the US -...

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Proggarna flyttade ut på landet. Raggarna fick förtidspension. På 1980-talet tar punken över. Den växer fram direkt ur betongen. En punkare i varje trappuppgång. Ett punkband i varje höghus. Repningar. Spelningar. En ständig ström av aktivitet och...

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

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, Our Band Could Be Your Lif...

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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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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018** WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spr...

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Den 12 oktober 2016 kom den senaste formationen av The Cure tillbaka till scenen på Scandinavium i Göteborg. Och kvällen kom att bli en karaktäristisk uppvisning av deras storhet: ett nästan tre och en halv timmes maraton av 34 låtar, från andra s...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, 'Our Band Could Be Your Li...

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Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter, an artist, a free-thinker, a post-modern style pioneer and a lifelong spiritual seeker: a true punk icon. But this rebel queen with the cheeky grin was also a latter-day pop artist with a wickedly perceptive g...

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In a no-nonsense guide on how to cope with mental-health issues, Harper explains what's going on in our skulls, and talks us through the process of retraining our brains to respond appropriately to the non-emergencies of everyday life.

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ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME" The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self. It began in a bedro...

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Stealing All Transmissions is a love story. It's the story of how The Clash fell in love with America, and how America loved them back. The romance began in full in 1977, when select rock journalists and deejays aided the band's quest to depose th...

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This is the definitive autobiography of John Lydon, one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols - the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970s...

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