Category Archives: Books
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The latest in rock star memoirs, is a welcome but most unexpected entry. Everything But The Girl front-woman Tracey Thorn’s Bedsit Disco Queen takes us through her 30 year careerfrom her first band (Marine Girls), through her heyday with Everything But The Girl up to the release of her 2 solo LPs and starting a family.
Along the way, she candidly dishes on her rise to pop stardom and anecdotes of her run-ins with Morrissey, Lenny Kravitz, George Michael Paul Weller, Massive Attack and Todd Terry and more.
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Gary Numan’s recent collaboration with the techno duo MOTOR has just been release as an exclusive 3-track remix EP made available through Beat Port. The EP feature 3 versions of the track Pleasure In Heaven, including the Drumcell Remix and the Xhin Remix to go along with the original version.
If a few new remixes isn’t enough for you, then get ready for an official retrospective book titled Gary Numan: Now..And Then to be released by Artrocker on November 26th. The book covers the past, present and future of Gary’s music. The digital book contains exclusive interview videos and readers will also be given access to an exclusive download of a remix album called Dead Moon Falling which contains a full reworking of his recent Dead Son Rising album. Continue reading →
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Santa’s got a brand new bookbag…and it’s filled with wonderment from the magical land of Manchester. As we profiled earlier, there are tons of great books about beats out there. A recent entry includes a memoir, In The Pleasure Groove, from Duran Duran’s John Taylor. This Christmas, however, you may want to ask Santa for new books about The Smiths and Joy Division! Continue reading →
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You may be a total music nerd or a casual fan, in either case it’s hard to deny that a look behind the scenes of the world of music is never boring. Not every book on the subject is a tell-all bio of the musicians involved either, there’s a library worth of both fiction and true life tales from behind the scenes – whether it’s the DJ decks, the record store counter, the pages of the rock rag or backstage during the evolution of an era of music. Strangeways’ booknerds set aside some of their summer to review some of those reads for you. Here is our summer homework – the book report on books about beats.
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John Taylor, the bassist of Duran Duran, has written an autobiography and it’s almost out for release. The book is titled “IN THE PLEASURE GROOVE: LOVE, DEATH AND DURAN DURAN” and will be available soon.
The books covers everything; drugs sex and rock and roll. Taylor talks about his former drug addiction and how he changed from the experience. In the autobiography you’ll learn everything about his life from the girls, to the music videos and most importantly the music. Continue reading →
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n a year full of exciting reunion shows from the likes Of The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pulp, Mazzy Star perhaps none raised more eyebrows than The Stone Roses reunion. After 16 years apart, the band is embarking on a string of sold-out European dates while fans await North American dates and a possible new album.
With all of that going on, author John Robb has updated his classic bio on the band. The Stone Roses: The Reunion Edition is fully revised and updated, with brand new chapters and exclusive details on their reformation; this is the definitive, most revered account of the band, from a journalist and musician who was there from the beginning.
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Do you remember the first time your heard a song that changed your life? What about your first experience with an artist that has become one your lifelong musical heroes? You are not alone! This initial ‘Auralgasms’ if you will, happen to other musicians and writers as well.
Novelist Scott Heim (We Disappear and Mysterious Skin) is so intrigued by this concept, that he has endeavored to publish 5 e-books on the subject; brief, conversational first-person accounts by musicians and writers about the first time they heard a specific iconic band. The first 5 books deal with David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, Kate Bush, and Joy Division/New Order.
Heim has collected over 200 essays for his books from Members of bands like Throwing Muses, Mercury Rev, Lamb, Electrelane, Swervedriver, Lush, Shudder To Think, The Wedding Present, Gang Gang Dance, Curve, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Slowdive, ’til tuesday, Engineers, American Analog Set, Earlimart, Stereolab, Babes In Toyland, Laika, Antony & the Johnsons, Pale Saints, Maps, Catherine Wheel, Clan of Xymox, The Teardrop Explodes, Microfilm, B-Movie, The Aluminum Group, Hood, Spiritualized, Isan, Trespassers William, Film School, Guided By Voices, as well as individual musicians like Harold Budd, Annette Peacock, Tiffany Anders, Annie Barker, and John Grant, plus several novelists, journalists, and poets.
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