The Minutemens Double Nickels On The Dime

Author : Michael T. Fournier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441122168
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime written by Michael T. Fournier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this book focuses purely on their music - the punk ethic and the remarkable, enduring songs that comprise this, their greatest achievement. Including extensive interviews with Mike Watt and many others close to and inspired by the band, this is a great tribute to a classic piece of American underground music. Included are extensive interviews with Mike Watt, the band's bass player, as well as interviews with several artists, musicians, studio owners, and fanzine writers who have been devoted followers of the band for years.

Author : Michael Azerrad
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316247189
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Band Could Be Your Life written by Michael Azerrad and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life 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 re-energized American rock with punk'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 is an indie rock classic in its own right. The bands profiled include: Sonic Youth Black Flag The Replacements Minutemen Husker Du Minor Threat Mission of Burma Butthole Surfers Big Black Fugazi Mudhoney Beat Happening Dinosaur Jr.

Author : Ari Surdoval
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735482323
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Nickels written by Ari Surdoval and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim is an aimless teenage boy caught between the trauma of his past and the emptiness of his future. But a chance meeting with Cara, a tough young outsider determined to outrun her own pain and loss, sparks a flicker of hope. Will they be able to transcend the crushing limits placed on them in late 1980s rural America?

Author : Michael T. Fournier
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826427871
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime written by Michael T. Fournier and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds some light on the band's remarkable music and, on this particular album, the blending of several styles into something that will never be replicated.

Author : Ian S. Port
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501141767
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Loud written by Ian S. Port and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history” (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound—Leo Fender and Les Paul—and their intense competition to convince rock stars like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton to play the instruments they built. In the years after World War II, music was evolving from big-band jazz into rock ’n’ roll—and these louder styles demanded revolutionary instruments. When Leo Fender’s tiny firm marketed the first solid-body electric guitar, the Esquire, musicians immediately saw its appeal. Not to be out-maneuvered, Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, raced to build a competitive product. The company designed an “axe” that would make Fender’s Esquire look cheap and convinced Les Paul—whose endorsement Leo Fender had sought—to put his name on it. Thus was born the guitar world’s most heated rivalry: Gibson versus Fender, Les versus Leo. While Fender was a quiet, half-blind, self-taught radio repairman, Paul was a brilliant but headstrong pop star and guitarist who spent years toying with new musical technologies. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s—including bluesman Muddy Waters, rocker Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton—adopted one maker’s guitar or another. By 1969 it was clear that these new electric instruments had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable. In “an excellent dual portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), Ian S. Port tells the full story in The Birth of Loud, offering “spot-on human characterizations, and erotic paeans to the bodies of guitars” (The Atlantic). “The story of these instruments is the story of America in the postwar era: loud, cocky, brash, aggressively new” (The Washington Post).

Author : Tyler Sonnichsen
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9789811526732
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground written by Tyler Sonnichsen and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kim Cooper
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 082641690X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea written by Kim Cooper and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Author : Kevin J.H. Dettmar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623562864
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gang of Four's Entertainment! written by Kevin J.H. Dettmar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following hard on the explosion of British punk, in 1979 Gang of Four produced post-punk's smartest record, Entertainment! For the first time, a band wedded punk's angry energy to funk's propulsive beats-and used that music to put across lyrics that brought a heady mixture of Marxist theory and situationism to exposing the cultural politics of everyday life. But for an American college student from the suburbs-and, one expects, for many, many others, including British youth-Jon King's and Andy Gill's mumbled lyrics were often all but unintelligible. Political rock 'n' roll is always something of an oxymoron: rock audiences by and large don't tune in to be lectured to. But what can it mean that a band that made pop songs as political theory actively resisted making that theory legible? Coming to terms with the impact of Entertainment! requires us to take the mondegreen-the misunderstood lyric-seriously. The old joke has it that the title of R.E.M.'s debut album should have been not Murmur, but Mumble: true, so far as it goes. But that's the title, too, of rock 'n' roll's Greatest Hits compilation-and that strategic inarticulateness itself, which creates such an important role for the listener, has an important politics.

Author : Jordan Schwartz
Publisher : Bazillion Points LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781935950073
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Got Power! written by Jordan Schwartz and published by Bazillion Points LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As teenagers in 1981, David Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded We Got Power, a fanzine dedicated to the hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text and cameras captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, Youth Brigade and many others at the height of their precocious punk powers. In the process, the duo's amazing photographs also captured the dilapidated suburbs, abandoned storefronts and dereliction of the era - a rubble strewn social apocalypse that demanded a youth uprising!

Author : Andrew Earles
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760346488
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gimme Indie Rock written by Andrew Earles and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music journalist Andrew Earles provides a rundown of 500 landmark albums recorded and released by bands of the indie rock genre"--