Category: Music Books

Reviews: Music Books, Print

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, 20th Anniversary Edition By Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain Grove Press Original Release: 1996 20th Anniversary Edition: August, 2016 It’s hard to believe that there is a 20th anniversary edition of Please Kill Me, not because it doesn’t deserve it, but because, holy fuck, it’s been […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on September 14th, 2016

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Reviews: Music Books, Print

Brendan Mullen with Don Bolles and Adam Parfrey Publisher: Feral House Copyright: April 15, 2002 Paperback: 312 pages Lexicon Devil is another book in the now crowded oral history genre of books chronicling music. Published in 2002, (7 years befpre Brendan Mullen’s death) the project combines and builds on two separate attempts to chronicle the […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on April 18th, 2014

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386 pages, perfectbound IT / Harper Collins I came into this book being predisposed to dislike Peter Hook, or “Hooky” as he is known, based solely on the portrayal of him in the movie Control, notably the scene where he’s dissecting the Buzzcocks name. He addresses that very same scene in his book, annoyed that […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on March 4th, 2014

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Author: David Markey and Jordan Schwartz Publisher: Bazillion Points Books Copyright: 2012 288 pages, hardcover Why am I even writing another review? I thought my ego was checked enough that I didn’t need my name associated with yet another cool artifact like this book. And I don’t really care to inform anyone of the book […]

Posted by: Dr Brad on January 9th, 2014

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Author: Michael Veal Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Wesleyan University Press Copyright: 2007 Jamaica is a like a tiny wire connecting the heavy cultural polarities of Africa and North America, and it glows red-hot. Dub by Michael Veal is more than a thorough history of the influential musical form, it is a fascinating primer on the […]

Posted by: Dr Brad on February 1st, 2008

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Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs by Brendan Mullen with Don Bolles and Adam Parfrey, Publisher: Feral House Copyright: April 15, 2002 Paperback: 312 pages This is not what you’d expect a punk rock book would be. With LEXICON DEVIL the reader climbs into a time-travel capsule […]

Posted by: Dr Brad on November 12th, 2007

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Johnny Green & Garry Barker Faber and Faber, Inc. 238 pages perfect bound 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ISBN: 0571199577 Copyright Date:1999 Review Date: 6/12/06 A Riot of Our Own is a short memoir (238 pages) of life on and off the road with the Clash. If you’ve read anything about the Clash you’ll […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on June 12th, 2006

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Jade Dellinger and David Giffels SAF Publishing ISBN: 0946719497 Copyright Date: 2003 Review Date: 2004 This is the definitive textbook on Devo that covers their history from prenatal Petri dish to discarded bag of bio-waste buried in a landfill. From a rubber Ohio wasteland to kings of the world, to hiding in a foxhole in […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on September 27th, 2004

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Todd Taylor Gorsky Press Copyright Date: 2004 Review Date: 2004 An Excellent collection of interviews and essays from the head honcho at Razorcake. Interviews range from the likes of Maximum R&R founder Tim Yohannon, and bands like Smogtown, NOFX, Dilinger Four, as well as other writers like the Reverend Norb, subversive Winston Smith, human rights […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on May 27th, 2004

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Smart Art Press ISBN 1-889195-44-8 Copyright Date: Review Date: 2003 Like a god springing from the split head of Zeus, the early L.A. punk scene spontaneously came into it’s existence influenced by the emergence of punk world wide. For every book covering the genesis of the New York scene there are probably at least two […]

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on September 27th, 2003

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