Jam-packed with reviews of outré shit. Care to know where you can get comics that feature angels pissing on vomiting clowns? Well, that would be on page 60.
When women or turtles aren’t falling into John’s lap, he’s got someone out to get him. Appearances by Death, a very cute two-headed chick, and salty wit.
This deluxe coffee-table volume (which is heavier than the last few Metallica albums) is a collection of materials originally printed in their fan newsletter.
An engineer/mixer/producer in L.A. about to begin a project with a major-label bidding war band decides it might be enlightening to chronicle his experiences.
Wearing only a robe and slippers, you’ve locked yourself out the tour bus parked (illegally) in Paris. What do you do? If you’re Mike Ruffino, you get a drink.
Part band-bio (Slichter was the drummer for Semisonic) and part music-biz expose, this book has the potential to appeal to several distinct groups of people.
Who’d’ve thought a stick figure drawing could make you laugh out loud? If your sense of humor is sick, twisted, and extremely cynical, get this book right now.
Martin Popoff returns, ranking hot slabs of molten steel by votes taken amongst the genre’s participants (bands, journalists, label heads, PR staff, etc.).
Besides making me smile, laugh, giggle, and nod my head in agreement, What Is Goth? made me want to read more Voltaire. Search out his Oh My Goth! as well.
Once I began to view the book as a story and not a typical rock book, my initial question was answered. Stapinski may not be a rock star, but she’s a terrific, funny writer, and a good storyteller.
Generation S.L.U.T. (which stands for “Sexually Liberated Urban Teenager”) is a fictional story, mainly about American youth and sex, but it hits harder on issues of teenage suicide, drugs, violence, politics, and war.
Turn On Your Mind is an expanded reprint of DeRogatis’s out-of-print first book, which was originally published in 1996 with the title Kaleidoscope Eyes.
Part Alterna-Lifestyle Guide for the Idiotic Public, part Make Fun of Hipsters for their Unoriginality, The Hipster Handbook scores perfectly on all fronts.
Out to correct glaring omissions in Greil Marcus’ Lester Bangs reader, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, like his love for early heavy metal pioneers.
Sleazegrinder asked bands to contribute their most outrageous tour story, then compiled the best into the perfect book for the crapper in any house of rock.