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Review: DANCE OF DAYS: TWO DECADES OF PUNK IN THE...
DANCE OF DAYS: TWO DECADES OF PUNK IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL MARK ANDERSON AND MARK JENKINS Soft Skull Press Street: 08.01.03 Bringing you every single detail you’d want to know about the DC scene from around 1976 to the mid 90s, Dance of Days is a 400-page account of what life and punk was like
Review: BLAB! VOL. 15 – MONTE BEAUCHAMP
BLAB! VOL. 15 MONTE BEAUCHAMP Fantagraphics Books Street: 11.24.04 It might seem fairly easy to put together a provocative compilation of graphic and comic art. Yet, like a good mix CD, editions such as these must be well-paced, possess some semblance of continuity and narrative cohesion and offer only the finest quality material. With a
Review: 924 GILMAN THE STORY SO FAR… – BRIAN EDGE
924 GILMAN THE STORY SO FAR… COMPILED BY BRIAN EDGE Maximum Rock N Roll Street: 12.01.04 For me there are very few truly pure musical places in the world today. At the top of my list are Sun Studios in Memphis, CBGB’s in New York, and maybe the purest, 924 Gilman in Berkley. It was
Review: PLEASE FEED ME: A PUNK VEGAN COOKBOOK – NIALL...
PLEASE FEED ME: A PUNK VEGAN COOKBOOK NIALL MCGUIRK Soft Skull Press Street: 11.15.04 This cookbook is just as much a photographic and historical tour of punk in Dublin as it is a collection of delicious vegan recipes. Why punk? As author Niall McGuirk explains, “Together, we would change the world. We saw music as
Review: THE TROUBLE WITH MUSIC – MAT CALLAHAN
THE TROUBLE WITH MUSIC MAT CALLAHAN AK Press Street: 02.01.05 Who better than a seasoned musician to give us a leftist critique of the corrupt corporate music industry? As a rallying cry to independent musicians and freethinkers everywhere, Mat Callahan, guitarist for world-beat combo The Looters, felt it due time for such a diatribe and
Guitar Wolf Eulogy
Guitar Wolf Eulogy (An e-mail from Billy Nord from Narnack Records) It’s with deep and saddest regret to announce this latest news. Last night (3/30) Billy, aka Bass Wolf, passed away of natural causes. He was 38. The band had just returned from their month-long US tour, and fortunately Billy did get to spend
