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finding nobody 07.22.2007 09:44 PM

Chronicles does get boring! Try to skip a few pages and finish it! I'm glad I did!

Everyneurotic 07.22.2007 09:54 PM

i'll get it back and finish it.

Tokolosh 07.26.2007 05:21 AM

 

Hanne Darboven / John Cage : a dialogue of artworks

Overview of exhibition of Darboven's Tafeln, II and Cage's Ryoanji drawings. Includes illustrations of both series and essays by Joachim Kaak and Corinna Thierolf.

sonicl 07.27.2007 07:59 AM

 


Inner City Sound, edited by Clinton Walker
paperback, 192 pages, with 285 photographs
ISBN: 1-891241-18-4


The classic document of punk and postpunk music in Australia.

The bands that spearheaded the late ’70s punk scene in Australia -- the Saints, the Birthday Party, Radio Birdman and the Go-Betweens -- are among the most important of their time. Inner City Sound is the classic account of the explosive development of that scene. Original articles from fanzines and newspapers, together with almost 300 photographs, vividly portray the creative ferment of the period and the dozens of bands that sprang up in the wake of the pioneers, including the Scientists, Severed Heads, Sunnyboys, Hunters and Collectors and many more.

Inner City Sound was first published in late 1981, as the postpunk scene was approaching its zenith, but soon fell out of print. It became a lost classic, so sought after that it has been bootlegged like the rare singles listed in its discography, and its influence was so seminal it actually helped shape the Australian indie rock scene of the following decade.

With this new edition, Inner City Sound is back in print for the first time in over 20 years. Editor Clinton Walker has added 32 extra pages of articles, photos and discographical data, which take the story through to its real resolution around 1985, when Nick Cave, the Go-Betweens, the Triffids, and others began to break through internationally.

Its DIY graphics, high-octane prose and many rare images make Inner City Sound a crucial part of the culture it portrays.

“One of the seminal texts of Australian music writing.”--Ian McFarlane (Encyclopedia of Australian Rock)

“I grew up with Inner City Sound, lived vicariously through its pages. It gave me a firsthand account of a period in music that was vibrant, innovative and filled with wonderful characters.”-- Richard Kingsmill (Triple-J)

“An essential educational tool and a powerful weapon in fighting the aggressive ahistoricalness of the popular culture machine. Get a copy.”-- rocknerd.org

jon boy 07.27.2007 09:12 AM

a book about astronomy.

Silent Dan Speaks 07.27.2007 01:49 PM

The Crying of Lot 49.

nomowish 07.27.2007 11:29 PM

I was reading Liv Ullman's Changing....

Friday I bought 33 1/3's Loveless book

drrrtyboots 07.27.2007 11:31 PM

Glamorama, planning to read Lunar Park next. I'm on a Bret Easton Ellis binge.

Bertrand 07.28.2007 03:20 AM

A translation of Arto Paasilinna's Hurmaava Joukkoitsemurha, where a bunch of suicidal men and women gaily travel to their common death, constantly postponing it.

schizophrenicroom 07.28.2007 03:23 AM

the raw shark texts

nomowish 07.28.2007 02:22 PM

I just want to say that 33 1/3's Loveless book isn't as great as the album.

sellouteater 07.28.2007 02:50 PM

 

Tokolosh 08.07.2007 08:43 AM

 

A quick read on the way to work. Weird!

 

Just started this one at lunch break.

demonrail666 08.07.2007 08:48 AM

The Daydream Nation 33 1/3 book. gonna read it in bed tonight. just got it this morning.

Alex's Trip 08.07.2007 09:21 AM

 


It's for school.

youthoftomorrow 08.07.2007 02:57 PM

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories

Dead-Air 08.07.2007 08:33 PM

Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds

Sonic Youth 37 08.07.2007 08:38 PM

I need to start reading In the Wake of the Plague for college

SynthethicalY 08.07.2007 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sellouteater
 


I like this book, even if it is cliché to like it.

terminal pharmacy 08.07.2007 09:32 PM

day of the trifffids


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