• A New York Times Summer Reading List selection • A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2015 • A Business Insider Best Summer Read • An Esquire Father¢s Day Book selection • A New York Observer Best Music Book of 2015 • A ...

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.

Salvos from The Baffler Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland. STEVE ALBINI The Problem with Music WHENEVER I TALK to a band who are about to sign with a major label , I always end up thinking of them in a particular context . I imagine a trench ...

Now, in addition to reproducing (and restoring) original interviews and pages from the zine itself, xXx Fanzine re-interviews countless bands and musical prime-movers including Ian MacKaye, Keith Morris and members of Agnostic Front, Bad ...

(Book). This book features interviews and articles from issues 11 to 20 of Tape Op , an independently published magazine founded in 1996.

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Borrowing the notion of “teardown” from reverse-engineering processes, in this book a team of five researchers have playfully disassembled Spotify's product and the way it is commonly understood.

This collection gathers the best of its writing to explore such peculiar developments as the birth of the rebel hero as consumer in the pages of Wired and Details; the ever-accelerating race to market youth culture; the rise of new business ...

"An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." —Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic There¢s a reason today¢s ubiquitous pop hits are so hard to ignore—they¢re designed that way.

In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer¢s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations ...