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, about four feet wide and ...
"Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands 'ever threatened, ...
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.
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 ...
"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.
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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.
(Book). This book features interviews and articles from issues 11 to 20 of Tape Op , an independently published magazine founded in 1996.
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 ...
A thorough history of Slint, and the Louisville scene that surrounded the band, leading up to and focusing on the creation of their masterpiece, Spiderland.