Seeing the Metal Blade name associated with a band is as good as a guarantee that it’s the real deal, and this book shows what it took to make that a reality.
The video game world has no shortage of iconic characters. Rarely do those familiar faces originate from the same company, except when it comes to Capcom.
Duff McKagan is one hell of a nice guy. And he’s also one lucky son of a bitch. These are the two main things you take away from It’s So Easy (and other lies).
It’s a testament to the writing that this is good enough to read from beginning to end, discovering new artists as you go, just to hear the author’s take.
The story of Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie, and in a broader context, the story of the sleazy reality of the music industry in the mid-to-late ’70s.
Wisely avoiding being simply a rundown of high scores, the creators divide into logical categories and bundle together facts in bright, inviting layouts.
Metallica would soon take over the world, but here, they were a bunch of dirty, long-hairs drinking, playing fast, and living out their lean years with vigor.
Originally published in 1975, Mystery Train is seemingly the last Marcus volume that is neither awash in academic incomprehensibility nor about Bob Dylan.
It makes up its own rules, and it’s a helluva lotta fun. “Call someone up who’s kinda cool and ask’m ‘what’re yer fave nine unpunk things to do in a punk way.'”
If you care about Priest or the germination of metal, you wanna see this. Popoff is a deep crate digger in the hard rock and metal world, a lifer’s lifer.
Cool idea, a whole pile of enthusiastic metalheads getting together to celebrate the hard power “traditional” metal legacy of Germany’s Keep It True Festival.
D.X. Ferris did dozens of interviews and wrote a meticulous history of Slayer’s Reign In Blood, with sociological context bios and impact on the metal world.
The Pagans howled great high-octane rock and roll. The writing is plain spoken, sensible, and focused. Like reading Burroughs’ Junkie or Bruce Caen’s Hollywood.
Nikki Sixx published a book called The Heroin Diaries and this is the soundtrack. A lot of inspired lyrics, but none so beautiful as “Accidents Can Happen.”
A film guide whose focus is rock & roll-based movies. A reference guide for folks in search of music-based feature films, bio-pics, documentaries, and the like.
A brief, breezy history of the sport’s beginnings, its descent as a result of TV, and its rebirth as the sport for the PBR-swilling rockers and Goth girls.