Punk, new wave & indie

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 ...

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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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'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so' The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, ...

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SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. In 197...

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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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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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SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a gir...

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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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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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Hur var det för The Rude Kids att spela i folkparkerna just efter att deras Raggare is a bunch of motherfuckers hade släppts? Vad tyckte släkten om Perverts onanihyllning Ronka? Vad tänkte rikspolischefen på när han en gång skrev punk-klassikern K...

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Raw, brazen and totally intense, Fucked Up + Photocopied is a collection of frenetic flyers produced for the American punk scene between 1977 and 1985. Many were created by the musicians themselves and demonstrate the emphasis within the punk scen...

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Raised in Queens, where he worked as a plumber while honing his guitar skills, Johnny Ramone eventually became a founding member of The Ramones, one of the most influential rock bands of all time. Often called the first punk rock outfit, their sta...

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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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The image of Jordan in her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up is one of the most iconic in pop history. But nobody knows what was really going on behind those watchful eyes when Anarchy hit the UK. How did a ballet-mad girl from sleepy S...

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Based upon work and materials compiled for the acclaimed and now much sought after 2007 Cramps biography A Short History of Rock'n'Roll Psychosis, Journey To The Centre Of The Cramps goes far beyond being a revised and updated edition: Completely ...

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What Britain refined, America defined. Assembled by two key figures at the heart of the movement and told through the voices of musicians, artists, iconoclastic reporters and entrepreneurial groupies, Please Kill Me is the full decadent story of t...

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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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Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-ba...

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Ever been thrown off the bus in the middle of a Swedish forest or asked to play at one of the UK's biggest music festivals with musicians you've just met who are covered in blood? If so you've probably been in The Fall. Dave Simpson made it his mi...

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Appearing in early 70s New York City as primal prototype street punks, Suicide are now hailed as one of the most important and influential groups of the 20th century, inspiring that decade's major musical movements but too feared and shunned to be...

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TOTAL CHAOS is the first book telling Iggy Pop's story of The Stooges from his own words. Grammy winning editor and avid music historian Jeff Gold spent two days at the rock legend's home sharing pictures and memorabilia from his collection. Featu...

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Punk protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon. The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogues' notorious frontman from outcast to national treasure has never been told - until now. A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan viv...

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Blondie, Ramones, The Clash, Jam, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Ultravox, Runaways. Listan kan göras lång över de artister som under en tolvmånadersperiod i slutet på 1970-talet uppträdde på Dad's Dancehall i Malmö. Sven Lindström, tidigare musiksk...

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Everyone recognises the iconic photo from the cover of the Ramones' self-titled album of 1976. But how many have seen the image, taken with the same roll of film, of Dee Dee excitedly chasing his bandmates out of shot with a stick? This compilatio...

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The ultimate guide to one of the most revered periods and movements in American rock history. The 1980s are one of the most ridiculed and parodied epochs in popular musicwhat with all the skinny lapels, synthesizers, spandex, and Aqua Net. However...

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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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Formed by Howard Devoto in late 1977 and brought together some of the finest and most innovative musicians of the era in the core line-up of Devoto, John McGeoch, Barry Adamson, Dave Formula and John Doyle. Independent of prevailing popular styles...

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

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The Sex Pistols, The Damned and The Clash were the originators of British punk rock. In 1976, they were a three-pronged attack on the self-satisfied rock elite and the inspiration to a new generation of music fans: the fans that would define the f...

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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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