A selection of current books about music…
“When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 1960s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running UFO, the coolest club in London; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd.”
White Bicycles came out earlier this year and has been hailed as a fantastic journey back to the music scene of the 1960s - and also a a great read. Naturally, there’s also an album of the same name featuring the bands from the book. Sounds like a great pair to buy together.
“Once a confessional form of punk rock that was as emotional as it was loud, emo is now an undeniable cultural phenomenon with its own accompanying language, style, and ideology.
By tracing the scene’s angst-y roots from William Shakespeare to bands who dress like William Shakespeare (cough—Panic! at the Disco—cough), coauthors Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley have created the definitive handbook for the heart-on-your-sleeve set.
Touching on topics such as fashion and the Internet, music and movies, and eating habits and adulthood, Everybody Hurts successfully identifies what it means to be emo in the present tense.”
Very recently released, Everybody Hurts is a guide to -and sympathetically humorous look at - emo culture. If you consider yourself emo or know someone who does, give this book a try for a fun read.
And a few quick mentions:
Darker Than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake by Trevor Dann
Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed by Paul Trynka
Babylon’s Burning: From Punk to Grunge
by Clinton Heylin
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