• Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

    This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties--when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, always challenging, and immensely influential. This sweeping chronicle of music, politics, drugs, fear, loathing, and faith has been recognized as an indie rock classic in its own right. Among the bands profiled: Mission of Burma, Butthole Surfers, The ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0316787531
    • ASIN: 0316787531
    • ISBN: 9780316787536
    • Brand: Little Brown and Company
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • The Five

    Robert McCammon's first contemporary novel in nearly two decades, The Five tells the story of an eponymous rock band struggling to survive on the margins of the music business. As they move through the American Southwest on what might be their final tour together, the band members come to the attention of a damaged Iraq war veteran, and their lives are changed forever. This is a riveting account of violence, terror, and pursuit set against a credible, immensely detailed rock and roll backdrop. It is also a moving meditation on loyalty and friendship. Written with wit, elegance, and passionate ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00DA6XHEW
    • ASIN: B00DA6XHEW
    • Manufacturer: Tor Books

  • I'm In the Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie

    "A fascinating scrapbook documenting a time in the life of a female musician. . . Tales of tours, blowouts, relationships with names such as The Cramps, Pantera, Ramones, Alice Cooper, Kyuss, Monster Magnet, Marilyn Manson, Coffin Joe and Danzig make this book essential as a time capsule of a certain era in the world of hard rock." ―Uber Rock Art rock? Noise rock? Punk-metal? Alternative? White Zombie may have been unclassifiable, but it didn't stop them from carving out a place for themselves in music history. The band became a multiplatinum, two-time Grammy nominee with the release of the... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1593762992
    • ASIN: 1593762992
    • ISBN: 9781593762995
    • Manufacturer: Soft Skull Press

  • Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

    Empirically proving that—no matter where you are—kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498).With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brother brought home Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil. The fifth-grade Chuck wasn't quite ready to rock—his hair was too short and his farm was too quiet—but he still found a way to bang his nappy little head. Before the journey was over, he would sl... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0743406567
    • ASIN: 0743406567
    • ISBN: 9780743406567
    • Brand: Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California

    In 1979, punk was over . . . but by 1981, hardcore was born. As teenagers in 1981, David Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded We Got Power!, a fanzine dedicated to the first-generation hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, and Hüsker Dü at the height of their powers. Meanwhile, their amazing photographs captured the dilapidated houses, abandoned storefronts, and disaffected youth culture of the early Reagan era. Never before seen, except in crude ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 193595007X
    • ASIN: 193595007X
    • ISBN: 193595007X
    • Brand: Brand: Bazillion Points
    • Manufacturer: Bazillion Points

  • Ramones

    The authorized story of an American band who shaped the history of music for generations. Today's new music-makers are looking back at the bands that broke the ground, and the Ramones are it: the original high priests of punk, the stars of rock 'n roll high school, the royal avatars of rock, raunch, and rebellion. 60 photographs and illustrations.

    • ASIN: 0312093691
    • ASIN: 0312093691
    • ISBN: 0312093691
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel

    "A wild roar of a novel . . . Writing about music is tricky. Ninety-nine percent of the time hearing the actual song or going to the actual concert is far more revealing than any paragraph describing it. But Jackson pulls off this near-impossible feat, pulling the reader past the velvet ropes into the black-box theaters and sweaty, sticky-floored stadiums." ―Marisha Pessl, The New York Times Book ReviewAn epidemic of violence is sweeping the country: musicians are being murdered onstage in the middle of their sets by members of their audience. Are these random copycat killings, or is somethi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374537666
    • ASIN: 0374537666
    • ISBN: 0374537666
    • Manufacturer: FSG Originals

  • Ripped (The REAL series Book 5)

    The fifth book in the New York Times new adult series that began with Real. A ripped rock star with attitude. An ex-girlfriend with a reckless plan.Pandora assumed getting her heart broken by her bad boy ex could only happen once--until Mackenna Jones comes back to town for the biggest concert of his career. They say girls are getting pregnant just thinking about the Crack Bikini tour and it's destined to be a huge hit. Oh, it'll be a hit alright--when Pandora comes out swinging. She and her friend Melanie are determined to humiliate him onstage. But when they're caught by security ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00EMDPZRO
    • ASIN: B00EMDPZRO
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

  • For The Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records

    The story of Metal Blade Records is the story of Brian Slagel-a metal-obsessed Southern California kid who launched a fanzine and landed a record store job before cobbling together what he assumed would be a one-off compilation of fledgling bands from the L.A. scene. Released in 1982, the Metal Massacre LP included the debut recordings of local groups such as Steeler, Malice, Ratt, and Metallica. In the wake of the album's unexpected success Slagel virtually stumbled into creating a proper record label, issuing the first releases by Bitch, Armored Saint, and Slayer the following year. For The ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1947026003
    • ASIN: 1947026003
    • ISBN: 1947026003
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: BMG Books

  • Mayhem: Mayhem Series #1

    When college freshman Rowan Michaels meets gorgeous, up-and-coming rock star Adam Everest, she knows a player like him is the last thing she needs after her ex-boyfriend shattered her heart. But she can't stop thinking about the kiss they shared on his tour bus.On the first day of school, Rowan is stunned when Adam saunters into her French class. He's soon failing miserably, and, on a whim, she offers to tutor him. But Adam doesn't recognize her as a makeup-free, glasses-clad college student—a far cry from the beautiful, mysterious "Peach" he met at his concert.During a wild weekend on tour ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00L1AJUKE
    • ASIN: B00L1AJUKE
    • Manufacturer: Avon

  • Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest

    Through the life stories of the author's grandfathers, father, uncles, and cousins, Deadfall documents the dramatic changes in the logging industry since the early 1900s. The book focuses on the influence of international timber giant Weyerhaeuser Company in the Pacific Northwest, yet its themes resonate from Alaska to the American Southeast--wherever timber is king. While spurning nostalgia for logging's glory days, Deadfall attempts to view a future for today's timber workers.

    • ASIN: 0878424210
    • ASIN: 0878424210
    • ISBN: 0878424210
    • Brand: Brand: Mountain Press Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Mountain Press

  • Off Your Rocker (The Rock God Series Book 1)

    This book is for mature audiences 18+ It contains explicit language, drug use and sexual content. When Delia (Lia) Norman meets Rock Royalty Colter (Colt) Slade unexpectedly after her boyfriend of 4 years breaks up with her, sparks fly immediately. Lia's ex always told her she was dull and boring, she was no fun at all, and he was right. Colt tells Lia to do something exciting - be spontaneous. So she moves out of her comfort zone and goes on tour with the most famous rock group in the world 'Slayed'.How will Lia deal with being pushed out of her comfortable life and into a world of chaos, pap... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00NWFG7K2
    • ASIN: B00NWFG7K2

  • Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life

    Traces how the author, a pop-culture journalist and reluctant fan of indie rock, grew up in the shadow of a Dylan-obsessed father, reevaluated his personal music listening habits after his favorite band broke up in 2004, and spent a night of drunken revelry at the side of one of his heroes. 30,000 first printing.

    • ASIN: 0743277082
    • ASIN: 0743277082
    • ISBN: 0743277082
    • Brand: Brand: Simon n Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir, with Recipes

    Part memoir, part cookbook, and all rock and roll, Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how musician Freda Love Smith's indie-rock past grew into her family- and food-centric present. Smith, born in Nashville and raised in Indiana, is best known as the drummer and co-founder of bands such as the Boston-based Blake Babies, Antenna, and the Mysteries of Life. Red Velvet Underground is loosely framed around cooking lessons Smith gave to her eldest son, Jonah, before he left for college. Smith compares her son's experiences to her own—meeting Juliana Hatfield and starting the Blake Babies, ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1572841753
    • ASIN: 1572841753
    • ISBN: 1572841753
    • Manufacturer: Agate Midway

  • Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (33 1/3)

    In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexuals teaching in public schools gave way to the madness of the Jonestown massacre and the murders of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk at the hands of their former colleague, Dan White.In the year that followed this season of insanity, it made sense that a band called Dead Kenne... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1623567300
    • ASIN: 1623567300
    • ISBN: 1623567300
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Academic

  • Personnel: Ruben Blades; Angel "Papo" Vasquez, Reinaldo Jorge, Leopoldo Pineda (trombone); Oscar Hernandez (piano); Arturo Ortiz (synthesizer); Mike Vinas (bass); Robert Armeen (drums); Roger Paiz (bongos); Edwin "Eddy" Montalvo, Marc Quinones (congas); Ralph Irizarry (timbales).Recorded live at The Lonestar Roadhouse, New York, New York on October 29 & 30, 1989.One year after the release of ANTECEDENTES, Ruben Blades and his Son Del Solar played to a packed, smoky Lone Star Roadhouse in Greenwich Village, New York, and LIVE! is the electrifying result. With its characteristic emphasis on keyboards and percussion rather than horns, Son Del Solar is at its best, making Blades' lyrical masterpieces groove hard with a tropi-pop luster. At the congas sits session man Marc Quinones who, only a few years later, would introduce Latin percussion into that Southern blues rock totem, the Allman Brothers Band.The spirited rendition of "Decisiones" became a subsequent salsa club favorite, with the keen wit of its verses and fiercely catchy chorus. "El Padre Antonio" and "Buscando America" are each given long, hearty treatments, with Ruben calling out his stirring verses of Pan-American unity in epic fashion. An up-tempo "La Cancion Del Final Del Mundo" addresses the threat of nuclear war with deceptively good cheer, while 1978's "Pedro Navaja" slowly builds into a trombone-fueled anthem. Ruben's pithy banter with the audience makes the set a special treat for Spanish speakers.

    RUB‚N BLADES Y SON DEL

    • UPC: 3462396

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    • UPC: 55946571

  • Our Band Could Be Your Life : Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991

    An authoritative, behind-the-scenes look at thirteen bands that bridged punk and grunge, from Sonic Youth and Minor Threat to the Replacements, explores how these bands refused to conform to the mainstream and created their own

    • UPC: 1786463
    • Rating: 4.0

  • WU-TANG CLAN - NEW YORK, Licensed Original Artwork, Refrigerator MAGNET, 2.5" X 3.5"

    Get your high quality refrigerator magnet from the famous rap and hip hop group. Decorate your freezer door, locker or any metal surface. Made of heavy duty and strong magnetic material that won’t come off

    • UPC: 980183486
    • Model: VIKM2655
    • Color: BeigeTANG NEW YORK

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