Thousands and thousands of books stacked today in hundreds of literary paraditas already located in the streets of Catalonia. Since we love the festival of Sant Jordi here you have a small selection of some of the music books that we consider worth reading. From biographies (the Slash has awesome pint) to a review of the history of New Wave or grunge from different perspectives. Here is everything for everyone.
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge
Everybody Loves Our Town portrays the era of grunge from the point of view of musicians, products, managers, executives from record labels, music directors, photographers, journalists, publicists, owners of music bars, roadies and people who lived nearby. The book explains the whole story: from the founding of the Deep Six bands to worldwide success of the big four of grunge (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains) and the plummeting of this movement.
Buy at Amazon.es by 11, 29 euros | Everybody Loves Our Town
New Wave & Post-Punk
The editor Juan Manuel Corral has logged bring together a number of specialists in musical chronicle in this NEW WAVE & POST-PUNK. Depeche Mode Franz Ferdinand, is reviewed from the birth of New Wave and Post-Punk, with groups as unique as Public Image Limited, Joy Division and Gang Of Four, to the commercial hatching championed by The Police, The Smiths and The Psychedelic Furs, ending with the current Indie Interpol, The Rapture or Radio 4.
Packed with anecdotes, complete with numerous unpublished photographs and an indispensable appendix consisting of the discographies of the most representative groups, the book traces the diveros genre of New Wave, either Dark Music, Techno Pop, Ska or Industrial Terrorism emphasis on the stamps as Virgin, Stiff Records or Vinyl Factory shaped in the pulse of style.
Buy T & B for 21.50 euros Editors | New Wave & Post-Punk
Slash
Born in England but raised in Los Angeles, in the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that were the early seventies. His adolescence was spent in the streets, discovering the drink, drugs, rock music and women, while acquiring a remarkable reputation as a BMX racer. But his whole world changed the day he first held the battered guitar with one string he found hidden in the closet of his grandmother. Now, having sold over 100 million records with Guns N 'Roses and after having earned a reputation as one of the best guitarists in the world, Slash has decided to tell for the first time, the group's history from within: their education, years of hardship, the creation of the songs that defined an era, the madness of success and, ultimately, the devious and deranged way to self-destruction that ended killing them.
But this is not just the story of Guns N 'Roses, but also a personal chronicle full of triumphs and tragedies, that of a life marked by the effort to escape his demons, drowning in vodka, heroin, cocaine, and porn stars that he was to step out. Slash has survived it all: addictions, lawsuits, street riots, overdoses, decay and destruction, to find an outlet in the evolution of his music, from Snakepit to Velvet Revolver. Slash is all that can be expected of man, the myth, the legend: funny, honest, fresh and abracadabra ... in a word, excessive.
Buy at Amazon.es for 8 euros | Slash
Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt
Butch Walker, artist named by Rolling Stone as one of one of the best American composers, this book shares the history of his career.
From the days when he worked with the band "one hit wonder" Marvelous 3 to its current role of producer has led him to work closely with Katy Perry, Weezer, Avril Lavigne, Panic! At The Disco or Pink. The road to success has not been easy. "Drinking With Strangers" takes you to the studio and on stage, giving an approximation of life defined by the raw talent, determination and various ridiculous hairstyles that have characterized Butch over the years.
Buy on Amazon.com for 20.51 euros | Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt
Letters To Kurt
On 8 April, went on sale "Letters To Kurt," a book that compiles a series of letters to Eric Erlandson (Hole musician) wrote to his friend Kurt Cobain. It speaks both to the musical career of former Nirvana member to fame, sex and suicide that took the life of Kurt had just prematurely.
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