JRNLS 80S Lee Ranaldo; Paperback
186 pages (2001), Used
Sonic Youth spent most of the 80s sleeping on floors, driving used vans, touring across a neurotic America and the globe beyond. Before they became part of the national bloodstream, they created an underground swell, encouraging adventurous listeners to jack into their matrix of pantonality, feedback, and chiming scree. All the while, Lee Ranaldo was drinking in the landscape, the clubs, the people; recording a journal of this wild ride. Very cool indeed.....
200 LETTERS TO PARIS Paris Welch; Paperback
(2009) 228 pages, Used
Set from 1983 through 1986, 200 Letters to Paris follows an all-American, Italian boy from Maspeth, Queens as he squats his way through England and West Berlin. Having "worked for the mob" making subs and mopping floors in his teens, he knows the value of a buck and becomes a 'capitalist anarchist.' In Brixton, Paris starts a squat and builds the desperate city's first anarchist bar. Eventually growing tired of English accents, being damp and making grubby punkers egg sandwiches for 10 pence, he leaves for West Berlin. Through collected letters from family and friends, Paris faces life's universal hypocrisies with whipping wit, compassion and the charm of a spoiled brat in a leather jacket and pink mohawk. Forward by Stu Spasm of Lubricated Goat.
STOCKHAUSEN ON MUSIC; Paperback
(2000) 220 pages, Used
A collection of essays by Karlheinz Stockhausen on his early life, composing methods, and the structure of his modern music, compiled by Robin Maconie. 'The leading German composer of electronic music presents his theories of composition and performance...Penetrating philosophical and spiritual observations...the book includes a chronological list of Stockhausen's works and a discography.' -Publisher's Weekly
GANGS AND THEIR TATTOOS: Identifying Gangbangers on the Street & in Prison; Paperback
(2000) 176 pages, Used
In this book, Bill Valentine, author of Gang Intelligence Manual, shares the latest intelligence on the predominant street and prison gangs and other disruptive groups, with particular emphasis on their identifying tattoos. Supplementing the text are scores of detailed illustrations by Correctional Officer Robert Schober that replicate some of the most common tattoos worn by members of each of the groups discussed. This groundbreaking work makes a substantial amount of previously classified information available to the general public for the first time. In addition to presenting the latest intel on white, black, Hispanic and Asian gangs, it also includes new information on groups such as the White Afrikaner Resistance Movement and the Russian Mafia, which add to the mounting challenge faced by those laboring to hold the line against the menace posed by gangs, hate groups and organized crime.
MUERTE!: Death in Mexican Popular Culture (2000); Paperback
Feral House 102 pages, Used
Luxuriously illustrated with scores of rare images and in lurid full color, this is one of the first books in the English language to examine the Mexican tabloid obsession with the dead. The art from the book will be shown in galleries in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
A magnificent investigation into murder, mayhem and massacre within Mexican pop culture and its cultic worship of death. -- Dr. Anil Aggrawal, Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
EVERFRESH: BLACKBOOK: The Studio & Streets: 2004 - 2010
256 PAGES (2010), Used
Everfresh Studio is one of Australia’s most influential street art collectives. Based in Melbourne, Everfresh Studio's members include some of the most respected, innovative, and widely recognized underground artists in Australia: Makatron, Meggs, Phibs, Prism, Reka, Rone, Sync, and Wonderlust. Illustrated with striking and candid photography, this collection provides a rare and exclusive insight into Everfresh Studio’s street art culture. Showcasing the artwork of some of Australia’s best-known street artists, the process is laid out, from initial sketch to finished product. Written by the artists themselves, this account also reveals the tools, materials, and adrenaline-fuelled nature of the most public of art forms—graffiti.
PUNK '77: an Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock 'N' Roll Scene, 1977 by James Stark, Paperback
1999 James Stark 95 pages, Used
PUNK 77 covers the beginnings of the San Francisco Punk Rock scene through the Sex Pistols concert at Winterland in January, 1978, in interviews and photographs by James Stark. James was among the many artists involved in the early punk scene. His photos were published in New York Rocker, Search & Destroy and Slash, among others. His posters for Crime are classics and highly prized collectors items. Contains over 100 photos, including many behind-the-scenes looks at the bands who made things happen: Nuns, Avengers, Crime, Screamers, Negative Trend, Dils, Germs, UXA, etc. Interviews with the bands and people on the scene give intimate, often darkly humorous glimpses of events in a Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil) style. (Incredibly Rare book)
ATLANTA: Hip Hop and the South (2010); Hardcover
Michael Schmelling 224 pages, Hardcover
Since the late 1990s, Atlanta has become a dominant center of hip-hophome to mega-selling artists like OutKast, T-Pain, and T.I., and host to an electric mix of superstars, aspiring young rappers, and inspired fans. In Atlanta, photographer Michael Schmelling documents the artists, the fans, and the musical vitality of a city that is always redefining hip-hop. Featuring more than 160 photos, from up-and-coming rappers to club kids to multiplatinum artists, Atlanta also includes essays on the city's hip hop culture by writer Kelefa Sanneh, interviews with key Atlanta figures like Gucci Mane, Andr 3000, Big Boi, Shawty Lo, Ludacris, and The-Dream, and a download mixtape of unreleased tracks.
USUGROW: Love and Hate from JP (Upper Playground), Hardcover
96 pages, 2007, Hardcover
Love Hate from JP Japanese artist Usugrow creates his own fresh, distinctive takes on classic subjects such as skulls and horror characters with bold lines and meticulous detail inspired by everything from tattoo flash, skateboarding, and gang graffiti to Japanese caligraphy, watercolor painting, and corporate logos, with skillful use of black and white, and a stunningly beautiful, unique, lettering style. Imagine Hokusai raised in the Barrio. Love Hate From JP collects Usugrows paintings and works on paper, as well as personal photographs taken throughout his career.
FIGMENT (All those shapes - Melbourne Graffiti); Magazine
200 pages, Independent Magazine; Used
Figment is a Melbourne street art / graffiti / urban art book produced by Street Art collective all those shapes. 200 pages of adventures from around Melbourne; Fitzroy, Collingwood, Northcote, Brunswick East, Preston, Brunswick, Footscray, the inner suburbs of Melbourne, abandos and railway. While most of the art in this book no longer exists, the book itself is no more a figment of my imagination, but something real; if only for a while. From simple lines to intricate patterns, figment contains character and characters, words and metaphor, graffiti street-art paste-ups stickers, humour despair decay, colour & dark, stories, shapes, mystery with Leagues, Makatron, Merda, Nock, Rapoela, Vexta, Snotrag, Dvate, Bailer, Kid Zoom, Mymo, I & The Others, Nails, Reka, Be Free, Urban Cake Lady, Shida, Mio, Junky Projects, Philthy, Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Alice Pasquini, Kofie, Nelio, Lucy Lucy, Barek, Kaff-eine, Slicer, Itch, Drewfunk, Twoone, Ghostpatrol, Miso, Mishap, Simz, Stabs, Al Stark, Stormie Mills, Ears, Happy, Will Coles, Maumau, plus many more and many unknowns.....325 images many in full landscape A4. Get inspiration, ideas get syked. Piece together adventures as you would walking the streets, randomly.
RUBBING MIRRORS Brigitte Lewis (Melbourne); Paperback
Queer/Gay interest/Lesbian, Used
Welcome to a brave new world where cunt is a beautiful word and social critique is the cutting norm. Let Alexis take you by her short nailed hand and thrust you fingers first into the dark corners of Melbourne's lesbian scene. The divide between sex and love has always been a tightrope line. She'll make you swoon make you laugh most of all she'll etch herself into your mind long after the last page is turned. Trust us you'll never look back she doesn't. Independent Melbourne paperback....
MA'CLAIM: Finest Photorealistic Graffiti (2006); Paperback
Akut 153 pages, Used
Ma'claim is a German crew known the world over for spraying some of the finest photorealistic graffiti to come out a can. The Ma'Claim crew consists of four people who formed the team in 2001: Akut, Case, Rusk and Tasso. Their signature is their photo realistic graffitis and how their fresh ideas combine with traditional designs. Not many graffiti crews can claim to have worked their way up to the top of a world-wide movement like these guys.....
