The Ugly Australian Underground documents the music, songwriting, aesthetics and struggles of fifty of Australia’s most innovative and significant bands and artists currently at the creative peak of their careers. The book provides a rare insight into the critically heralded cult music scene in Australia.
The author, Jimi Kritzler, is both a journalist and a musician, and is personally connected to the musicians he interviews through his involvement in this music subculture. The interviews are extremely personal and reveal much more than any interview granted to street press or blogs.
They deal with not only the music and songwriting processes of each band, but in some circumstances their struggles with drugs, involvement in crime and the death of band members.
Unprecedented in scope, this book is the definitive story behind the most explosive and influential art form of the last 100 years. The book traces the evolution of the style from its early freight train days to its big-city boom on the streets of New York City and Philadelphia to its modern-day influences, and features profiles and behind-the-scenes stories gleaned from over three-years' worth of interviews with graffiti's most prominent names as well as its lesser-known pioneers. Authors Roger Gastman and Caleb Neelon provide an insider's perspective on the most popular trends and styles that have dominated the scene for the last 50 years, and provide a thorough examination of the regional differences among major American hubs - New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Chicago - and under-the-radar scenes in cities, like Washington, D.C., Boston, Miami, New Orleans, and Albuquerque.
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN GRAFFITI is packed with over 1000 photographs-the majority of which have never before been seen - from more than 200 photographers, most of whom also created the artwork. The authors have spent the better part of the last five years interviewing key figures in the graffiti world throughout America - from the bedrock cities of New York City, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles to the lesser-known, but equally important hotspots of Cleveland, Baltimore, and Phoenix. Approximately 90 percent of the art in this book has never been published, and was sourced directly from the artists who lived the scene, giving the book a raw street vibe as authentic as the history it documents.
The foreword is by legendary graffiti artist, Taki 183. Considered one of the founding fathers of the graffiti arts movement, Taki 183 has never before contributed writing to any book or newspaper/magazine article on the subject. Next year, 2011, marks the 40 anniversary of the 1971 New York Times article written on Taki 183-"Taki 183 Spawns Pen Pals"-that ignited the movement in New York City and cast Taki 183 as the world's first famous graffiti artist. His official Web site is http://taki183.net.
When punk first broke in the UK in 1976, music journalist John Ingham was on hand to document the very heart of the scene. Struck by the music, fashion and sheer iconoclasm of a little-known outfit called the Sex Pistols, Ingham conducted the first interview with the band, partied with its members and even bailed Sid Vicious out of jail; he also witnessed and documented the group’s evolution at legendary gigs shared with other pioneering punk bands in their earliest days, including the Damned, the Clash, Subway Sect and more. The result is Spirit of 76: London Punk Eyewitness, a revelatory collection of photography and fly-on-the-wall reportage showcasing the punk movement from its most raucous, bewildering beginnings. Containing the only color photos from British punk’s first wave alongside Ingham’s inimitable prose, this volume constitutes a rare from-the-trenches report on the UK punk explosion from one of its original participants. Here is the story of a year made up as it happened, lived with excitement and the belief that you could make the future whatever you wanted it to be.
“I think Volvox is really outside of most things and most categories. That’s what attracted me to them immediately. You know, what are we listening to? What is this? Who are these people? That’s the stuff that I love and they were just outside of everything, outside of the experimental scene for sure. Even though people in the scene were supportive of them and loved them. I just think they were very very different. It was just very strange.” - Oren Ambarchi
Volvox were one of the most extraordinary bands ever to emerge from Melbourne, or in fact anywhere else. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, during their short existence (1991 to 1996) they never played outside of said city. Luckily for you dualpLOVER and SPILL have taken it upon themselves to re-issue their back catalog in an effort to preserve the recorded history of one of Australia’s true outsider outfits and to help its legacy grow outside of the few who saw them play or brought the original cassettes.
Describing the unsettling nature of the Volvox sound is somewhat difficult without pointing out one unmistakable feature, the vocals style of Anthoney Riddell (aka 'Lester Vat'), their all-stumbling neurologically damaged front-man, whose infamous fall at the Redfern squats in the late 80s left him in a coma for months, and then with a significant movement disorder. However unlike other bands that have had physically or mentally-impaired members, his involvement was in no way token. Anthony was actively involved in the Sydney noise scene long before his accident, most notably with his project The Good Chamber who some Sydneysiders may remember through the Cosmic Conspiracy tape label. The bands line up also included Dave Taskas (GRONG GRONG) , Glenn Norman, Christine Thirkell + various guests.
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“Juxtapositions: BBC documentary on sex addiction, vintage S&M magazine, True Detective magazines, and citation of an academic publication dealing with suicides among people living near railway lines. This fall I think you’re riding for—it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind.”
Simon Morris was born in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1968. In his fourth book for Amphetamine Sulphate he plays a rock journalist whose sensory floodgates have been forced open wide due to grief and loss. We explore the nature of time, the differences between epiphany and apophenia, buried childhood memories, the 1980 and 1981 output of Queen and how it shadows the death of John Lennon. For fans of PKD and Pynchon. Adults Only.
Morris’s masterpiece, no doubt about it. The nostalgic and melancholic tone really resonated with me, and the writing itself was very striking. All of this made for a very haunting and powerful reading experience. It was similar in tone and execution to the incredible Sea of Love, but with significantly more doom and gloom shadowing everything. It all felt very final (and unfortunately proved to be). A beautiful, albeit somber, reading experience.
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“It was over. There was no making up for it. There was nothing I could do. All of this right after Phillip gets out of the psych ward for trying to off himself. What a nightmare. How could things possibly get any worse? I had learned by now never to ask that question.”
Join your lusty host Meg McCarville for a hellishly undivine comedy as she leads you through a quartet of blazing infernos in modern America. Witness in horrified fascination the madness and drug-fuelled obscenity to be found in the decaying streets, crackhouses and trailer parks of Chicago, Oakland, Miami and New Orleans. There’s a terrifying cast of barbaric denizens that Meg has met, fucked (voluntarily or otherwise) and finally fled from in a degraded odyssey of self-discovery and preservation. We’re not in the business of issuing trigger warnings at Amphetamine Sulphate, but for just this one time we STRONGLY advise readers to exercise all due caution before embarking upon this particular pilgrim’s progress. Those brave enough, however, will be rewarded with the hard-earned wisdom of a born survivor and most incorrigibly independent woman.
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The Federation of Light is just one of many Councils that are involved in Earth's Ascension Process. One of its specialties includes manifesting highly integrated and systematic technologies of consciousness which assist in the rapid manifestation of one's Divinity. They establish a solid, fifth dimensional, energetic foundation!
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The Federation of LightThe beings at Starbuilders are emissaries of The Federation of Light, a council of over 1,000 E.T. masters that source from different dimensions, various locations in space and points in time. They are the only incarnated beings on the planet who represent this particular Council! When in human form they function as portals through which transdimensional energies, models of reality and technologies enter into the Earth Plane!The Federation recently participated in Ascension work on a similar planet in the Orion Sector. Malenchen and Maruna were involved during the pre-transition phase. Zal and Zol were present at the time of the Ascension and witnessed the birth of a star.
The Federation of Light is just one of many Councils that are involved in Earth's Ascension Process. One of its specialties includes manifesting highly integrated and systematic technologies of consciousness which assist in the rapid manifestation of one's Divinity. They establish a solid, fifth dimensional, energetic foundation!
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