Punk, new wave & indie

Drabbande och vackert om ett år fyllt av avsked, sorg och kärlek 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 S...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Selected as Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, i paper, Metro and Harper's Bazaar 'Magical' GUARDIAN 'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of ...

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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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'Brilliant biography of an undersung late-blooming treasure . . . subtly profound as well as wickedly entertaining, this biography does its subject scintillating justice' Mojo Cruel to Be Kind is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromisin...

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1977 gav sig Gérard Hervé Polisset ut i Stockholmsnatten för att dokumentera det som kom att visa sig vara den första punkvågen i Sverige. Denna bok samlar 60 av Gérard Hervé Polisset porträtt från det året. Musikjournalisten Håkan Lahger fick tre...

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The ultimate visual history paying tribute to one of punk's most iconic bands Formed in 1977, the Misfits deeply influenced the genres of punk rock and metal alike by blending their music with horror film themes and imagery. This is their visual s...

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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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The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parents divorced and his mother Patricia remarried a jazz musician. Flea's stepfather frequently invited musicians to his house for jam sessions which spa...

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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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With one foot in the world of French touch house music that defined the late 1990s and the other in the world of post-punk pop that grew from Joy Division and New Wave, Phoenix have evolved from an edgy French band to one of the most influential i...

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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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Camouflage debuterade 1985 med en kritikerrosad fullängdare. En flygande start som ledde till spelningar och turnerande. Intensiva år som också kantades av jakten på skivkontrakt och en namnkonflikt. Möt Camouflage, Vänersborgs stolthet, världsber...

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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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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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Forty years after its inception, punk has gone global. The founding scenes in the United Kingdom and United States now have counterparts all around the world. Most, if not all, cities on the planet now have some variation of punk existing in their...

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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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THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT CAME TO ME. NO MATTER HOW THEY GOT HERE, THEY DID THE F***ING JOB. Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on music; he's left it battered and bruised, too. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, here for the first time...

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What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic. Viv Albertine has always been obsessed with the truth: the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. But ...

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_____________________ Foreword by Chrissie Hynde Without the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols, the band that eventually went on to be...

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Håkan Sandells dikter - så som de stod publicerade i tidiga antologier och punk-fanzines, dikthäften, tidskrifter - och från outgivna manuskript. Förordet är författat av Thomas C Ericsson som själv höll i en av dessa underjordiska tidskrifter. Ha...

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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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Punk has been romanticised and embalmed on TV, in books and on the catwalk. Punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and Johnny Rotten its sneering antichrist. 17 year later, John Lyndon (aka Rotten) looks back at himself, the Pistols, and the 'no futur...

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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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A compelling visual portrait of a time, place, and subculture that raised a middle finger to modern society Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-80 is an unrivalled collection of visually striking ephemera from Britain's punk subculture. It presents 5...

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Ripped and Torn was one of the first punk fanzines, and continued long after others like Sniffing Glue had stopped. Ripped and Torn began in in Glasgow in November 1976 and carried on into the next wave of punk. It ran for eighteen issues, all of ...

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