Punks and Presley. Dylan and Def Lep. MC5 and musik maschines. Plus a few other odds ’n’ sods to round out another quiet summer week. Read all about ’em:
Rebel Grrrls: The Real Story Of Women And Punk
By Molly Tie
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “From the gritty streets of 1970s London to the sun-soaked beaches of 2000s California, Rebel Grrrls: The Real Story Of Women And Punk is a raw and exhilarating exploration of rebellion and identity, seen through the eyes of its fans. This book goes beyond the musicians, spotlighting the women who defied small-town limitations, challenged family expectations and shaped the scene from the inside out. Molly Tie examines what the movement has meant to millions of fans, setting their experiences within a wider cultural and political landscape. What is it like to be a woman at a gig? Which bands and songs truly reflect the female experience in a male-dominated space? And how does our connection to alternative music change when powerful figures face allegations of abuse? Spanning every era from the British explosion and American hardcore to riot grrrl, pop-punk, emo, ska and today’s activist revival, Tie reveals how women in the movement have fought to be heard, proving that, at its best, punk is about refusing to stay silent.”
Bust A Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, And The Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop
By Peter Relic
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The greatest untold story in the history of hip-hop, this is the first-ever complete account of the scene, street-savvy stars, and daring record label that launched West Coast hip-hop into the American mainstream and produced the hits that dominated the ’80s and ’90s — with previously unseen material, photos, and exclusive interviews. In 1987, hip-hop was at a tipping point: Coastally, commercially, and creatively. New York City ruled the culture, while its hottest record label Def Jam was king. Yet out in L.A., a new crew was ready to challenge for the crown, and their fresh spin would upend the industry as the decade reached its peak.”
MC5: Every Album, Every Song
By Richard Butterworth
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Of all the loud, rebellious rock groups forged in the white heat of Motor City, MC5 were the most uncompromising. A high-octane force of nature, saluted now as punk pioneers, MC5 were streetwise Detroit factory rats, assembly-line escapees who lit the touchpaper on some of the most combustible rock ’n’ roll ever heard. It’s 1968. An incendiary debut album fuses the raging pungency of free jazz with dislocated cosmic blues and brutally confrontational garage rock. A second will strip the music bare and become an ur-text for Britpunk. A third, exuding maturity and professionalism, will be widely praised. Yet by 1972, their advance ruptured by accident, deception and often self-sewn misadventure, MC5 are done. Despite the tendency to self-ignite, the distractions of activist tomfoolery and management seeking only a soundtrack to sedition, MC5’s aim was pure: to get down, party and blow every other rock’n’roll band into insensibility. Now Richard Butterworth dissects MC5’s chaotic, magnificent history, their records and the fevered countercultural ecosystem that spawned them: the speedfried music; the bristling posture; the duplicitous record deals; the corrosive drugs. And, of course, the significance of MC5’s infamous catchphrase. So right now, it’s time to … kick out the jams, (brothers and sisters).”
Def Leppard: Every Album, Every Song
By Scott Robinson
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In the beginning, there was Led Zeppelin — and Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple — the progenitors of British heavy metal, a musical form that wildly expanded the terrain of rock in the early ’70s. And as that decade progressed, it began to mutate, as Judas Priest fused heavy metal’s intensity and dark emotion with unbridled theatricality and the power of twin guitars. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was underway. Five young men from Sheffield — some of them still in school — took that new sound and infused it with large doses of the glam they’d grown up on — T. Rex, Queen, Davie Bowie — and blazed a trail into the ’80s, leading NWOBHM into the new era of MTV. Taking the name Def Leppard, they brought unprecedented energy and innovation to every song, to every show, then partnering with legendary producer Mutt Lange to become heavy metal’s apostles to top 40 radio — delivering an astonishing string of hit singles and multi-platinum albums while setting new standards for arena rock. They’re still rocking the world today, a dozen albums in, touring the world and never resting on their laurels. Heavy metal, NWOBHM, hair metal have all come and gone — but Def Leppard remain.”
A Voice From The Wings: From Dingwalls To The Clash
By Barry Myers
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “A Voice From The Wings traces the path of Barry ‘Scratchy’ Myers, from a music-obsessed youth, through his days on student radio, to being blown away by the punk explosion and would lead to him working with his favourite band, The Clash, as their tour DJ. A document of the times, this is a very personal and honest account of his road trip as a DJ, up to his departure from The Clash camp, that’s peppered with diary entries and illustrated with over 100, mostly previously unseen photos, along with a hoard of memorabilia that has survived the rigours of the years.”
Bob Dylan: A Year And A Day
By Daniel Kramer
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Daniel Kramer’s classic Bob Dylan portfolio captures the artist’s transformative “big bang” year of 1964–’65. Over the course of a year and a day, Kramer’s extraordinary access to Dylan on tour, in concert, and backstage, allowed for one of the most mesmerizing photographic portfolios of any recording artist and a stunning document of Dylan breaking through to superstardom. Highlights include the Lincoln Center Philharmonic Hall concert with Joan Baez; the Bringing It All Back Home recording sessions; and the now-famous concert at Forest Hills, when Dylan’s controversial transition to electric guitar exemplified his constant, cryptic state of becoming. As much a document of a seminal period of rock ’n’ roll history as of Dylan himself, the pictures also feature such compelling friends and collaborators as Baez, Johnny Cash, Allen Ginsberg and Albert Grossman. Bob Dylan: A Year And A Day presents a curated selection of more than 100 images, including outtakes from the Bringing It All Back Home album cover shoots. With stories throughout the book by Kramer, this is at once an intimate and evocative testament to a seminal photographer, to a particular point in time, and to an exceptional, mysterious artist at the moment his career went global.”
Elvis And The Birth Of Rock And Roll
By Alfred Wertheimer, Robert Santelli & Chris Murray
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Elvis who?” was photographer Alfred Wertheimer’s response when, in early 1956, RCA Victor asked him to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memphis. Little did Wertheimer know that this would be the job of his life: Just 21 years old, Elvis Presley was ― as we now know ― about to become a legend. A fly on the wall in Presley’s presence, Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Elvis that year, creating a penetrating portrait of a man poised on the brink of superstardom. Extraordinary in its intimacy and scope, Wertheimer’s Elvis project immortalized a young man in the very process of making history. Elvis And The Birth Of Rock And Roll collects Wertheimer’s most remarkable Elvis shots from that magical year, along with a selection of his historic 1958 pictures of the star being shipped off to an army base in Germany. Each chapter is illustrated with a poster by Nashville’s Hatch Show Print, one of the oldest letterpress print shops in America, which created many early Elvis posters in the 1950s.”
Music-Machines: A Transatlantic History Of German Electronic Music
By Sean Nye
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In Music-Machines, author Sean Nye traces a fascinating and distinctly American interpretation of 20th-century German electronic music. Covering a series of crucial historical moments, Nye provides both a new and alternate history of the extraordinary impact that electronic music from Germany had in the U.S., including the receptions of elektronsische musik, Krautrock, goth-industrial, Eurodance, techno, trance, and minimal. This first comprehensive history of German-American exchanges in electronic music explores the political and social dimensions of American constructions of Germanness in electronic music. Nye interprets the music in relation to technology, art, and musical style, encouraging readers to delve into what that reveals about its relationship to nation, race, gender, and sexuality. Through such interpretations, Music-Machines presents a cultural arc of these constructions of Germanness and electronic music. Nye sets this German-American exchange within larger questions of music and transnationalism, tracing key intersections between German and US cultures while also reflecting on other musical and cultural influences on German electronic music, Music-Machines also places the evolution of electronic music in its broader historical context, demonstrating the ultimate intertwining of America’s popular music with the Cold War history of West Germany and the post-1989 history of the Berlin Republic. In this way, Music-Machines sets the frame not only for the study of German electronic music, but the ways in which this electronic turn emerged in American perceptions of German identity.”
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