LITERATURE

Paddy Shennan Celebrates Post-Punk Obsession In New Book “Not JUST About The Fall”

Former Liverpool ECHO journalist Paddy Shennan releases Not JUST About The Fall: 50 Adventures in a Post-Punk Paradise via Earth…

6 months ago

Tricky Business By Ruby Dee Phillipa (Earth Island Books)

Ruby Dee Philippa’s Tricky Business is a brilliant, unfiltered continuation of her vivid portrayal of San Francisco’s early 1980s punk…

6 months ago

“Heavy Sounds In The West” By Hans Verbeke And Onno Hesselink (Earth Island Books)

Heavy Sounds in the West is one of those rare instances where music history insists on dragging a place into…

7 months ago

Paddy Shennan Celebrates The Unsung Heroes Of Music In “Not JUST About The Fall”

Sunday Times bestselling ghostwriter Paddy Shennan turns his focus to the lifeblood of music: the fans. In his new book…

7 months ago

“My Altercation: The Bandung Melodic Punk Scene 1995-2008” By Prabu Pramayougha (Earth Island Books)

Punk rock histories are usually told through the familiar capitals: London, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. Maybe Berlin, maybe Tokyo if…

7 months ago

“Days And Days: The Story About Sunderland’s Leatherface And The Ties That Bind” by Chris MacDonald (Little Rocket Records)

Leatherface never courted recognition. They didn’t fit in the tidy categories that music magazines love to draw, and they never…

8 months ago

“My Life Song By Song: The Story Of Dr. Strange Records” By Bill ‘Doc’ Plaster

Some record stores serve their purpose while the other are almost institutions that shaped the generations of music enthusiasts. Dr…

8 months ago

Earth Island Books To Release “Reston Hardcore: An Oral History Of Jam For Man And Beyond” By Andy Keiler

Northern Virginia in the `80s and `90s was the greatest independent music scene that almost nobody has ever heard of.…

8 months ago

Earth Island Books To Release “Night Comes Down” By Bob Short

For some, Punk was about a handful of big‐name bands who built careers fighting about their supreme importance in the…

8 months ago

“An Anarchy Of Demons” by Charlie Harper (Earth Island Books)

A punk memoir rarely arrives with the peaceful authority of someone who has lived through every twist of the genre’s…

9 months ago

“What If We Were Water” By Ricky Frost (Earth Island Books)

In What If We Were Water, Ricky Frost presents a poetic chronicle of trauma and healing, arriving like a necessary…

9 months ago

Paul Case’s “Spent” Launches This Wednesday

Paul Case’s ‘Spent’ is a searing mix of poetry and prose hurled straight at the heart of late capitalism. Navigating…

12 months ago