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"An idiosyncratic review of the most exciting modern music--new wave to no wave, hardcore to hip-hop."--Jacket.
Author : Ira A. Robbins
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN :
"An idiosyncratic review of the most exciting modern music--new wave to no wave, hardcore to hip-hop."--Jacket.
Author : Ira A. Robbins
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1983
Category : New wave music
ISBN :
Author : Ira Robbins
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2022-01-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780984253975
Fifty years on a rock and roll soapbox.
Author : Ira A. Robbins
Publisher :
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Popular music
ISBN :
Author : Dave Thompson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879306076
Provides profiles of solo performers, bands, producers, and record labels from the alternative rock movement, ranging from the mid-1970s to the present, and includes discographies, album reviews, and photographs.
Author : Doug Brod
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306845210
A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands—KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz—laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s. It was the age when heavy-footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard-rock landscape. But that all changed when into these dazed and confused mid-'70s strut-ted four flamboyant bands that reveled in revved-up anthems and flaunted a novel theatricality. In They Just Seem a Little Weird, veteran entertainment journalist Doug Brod offers an eye- and ear-opening look at a crucial moment in music history, when rock became fun again and a gig became a show. This is the story of friends and frenemies who rose, fell, and soared once more, often sharing stages, studios, producers, engineers, managers, agents, roadies, and fans-and who are still collaborating more than forty years on. In the tradition of David Browne's Fire and Rain and Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us, They Just Seem a Little Weird seamlessly interweaves the narratives of KISS, Cheap Trick, and Aerosmith with that of Starz, a criminally neglected band whose fate may have been sealed by a shocking act of violence. This is also the story of how these distinctly American groups-three of them now enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-laid the foundation for two seemingly opposed rock genres: the hair metal of Poison, Skid Row, and Mötley Crüe and the grunge of Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and the Melvins. Deeply researched, and featuring more than 130 new interviews, this book is nothing less than a secret history of classic rock.
Author : Robert Christgau
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN :
This is a guide to the rock albums of the 1980s with quotes from over 3,000 reviews.
Author : Eric Weisbard
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN :
America's premiere alternative music magazine presents a book of outrageously opinionated reviews of the essential albums of punk, new wave, indie rock, grunge, and rap. Its abundantly illustrated, full-color pages provide in-depth and informative record reviews on the widest possible scale of alternative music. National ads/media.
Author : Jim DeRogatis
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307487407
Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and defined the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk. He was treated as a peer by such brash visionaries as Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Captain Beefheart, The Clash, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries. Let It Blurt is a scrupulously researched account of Lester Bangs's fascinating (if often tawdry and unappetizing) life story, as well as a window on rock criticism and rock culture in their most turbulent and creative years. It includes a never-before-published piece by Bangs, the hilarious "How to Be a Rock Critic," in which he reveals the secrets of his dubious, freeloading trade.
Author : Miriam Linna
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 9781940157115
music biography of Texas musician who was found dead in his car in 1966 under mysterious circumstances