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Book Reviews1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | 0-9| A| B| C| D| E| F| G| H| I| J| K| L| M | | N| O| P| Q| R| S| T| U| V| W| X| Y| Z| Below are some recently posted reviews.  RSS Feed
Mostly True
By Bill Daniel, 168 pgs.
By Steve Hart
In Mostly True, hobo train-riding graffiti legends Bozo Texino and Herby are featured a window into train and graffiti culture.
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Bicycle!: A Repair & Maintenance Manifesto (second edition)
By Sam Tracy, 248 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
A book like Bicycle! is meant for anyone who works on bikes regularly.
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Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation
By David Novak, 304 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
Japanese noise artists—that is the subject of Japanoise; a subject the author concedes is small, but interesting.
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Unsinkable (How to Build Plywood Pontoons & Longtail Boat Motors Out of Scrap)
By Robnoxious
By Steve Hart
A few features on how to build a pontoon boat and a DIY bike trailer adventure stories.
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Spit and Passion
By Cristy C. Road, 157 pgs.
By Craven
Brings you into the claustrophobic closet and desperate longing of a pubescent lesbian girl trying to find something of herself in anything and finding not much anywhere.
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Seventeen Television Stories
By Justin Maurer
By Steve Hart
Brutal characters in his mostly-true (?) stories. Small book, with seven short stories.
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Pussy Riot! A Punk Prayer for Freedom
150 pgs.
By Kevin Dunn
The complexity (and revolutionary potential) of Pussy Riot and Westerners’ partial understanding of the phenomenon is the over-arching and unspoken theme of Pussy Riot! A Punk Prayer for Freedom, recently published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
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People’s Apocalypse, The
Edited by Jenny Forrester and Ariel Gore, $15.95
By Steve Hart
An anthology of apocalyptic stories, visions, and nightmares, how-to articles and fictional stories.
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Lord of Garbage
By Kim Fowley, 146 pgs.
By Sal Lucci
Here we have Fowley’s autobiography, the first book in a promised trilogy. Cool rock’n’roll nostalgia from a fringe player.
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Free Pizza for Life: Or, The Early Days of Plan-It-X Records
By Chris Clavin
By Steve Hart
Free Pizza is a long story of friends, roommates, love interests, scammers, jail-time, heartbreak, traveling, playing in bands, and free pizza.
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Dew Dew, Dew Its
By Hiro-nobu Tanaka
By Todd Taylor
Hiro’s power is in his dynamics of dualism—like hot/cold water (not a current of warm/tepid water). Sweat-saturated shows/ abject boredom.
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Better If You Don’t Come Back
By Joseph DeMough
By Steve Hart
This is a fun novel about skating and smoking dope, getting a job, and being a teenager and not being in control of your life.
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Barred for Life
By Stewart Dean Ebersole, 322 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
A plethora of photos of people with their tattoos of The Bars... The book is about more than just the tattoo; it’s about how The Bars has affected so many people.
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Nomeansno: Going Nowhere
By Mark Black, 93 pgs.
By Ty Stranglehold
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Beginning of the American Fall, The
By Stephanie McMillan, 141 pgs
By Kurt Morris
McMillan has her finger on the pulse of the movement and does a commendable job of not only providing a personal point of view but also giving an educational experience as to what Occupy was about.
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Annotated Boris, The: Deconstructing the Lyrical Majesty of Boris the Sprinkler
By Rev. Nørb, 288pgs
By Dan Ozzi
Written by Boris frontman Rev. Nørb, this book is 288 pages, jam-packed with facts about every single song the band ever released, including lyrics and their meanings, back stories about the songs, and tales of tours and printing records.
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Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me
By Harvey Pekar, 172 pgs.
By Jim Woster
Woven among Pekar’s personal history and his meditation on Israel is the history of Israel that I’ve long been waiting for: from Abraham to more-or-less the present day; when the First and SecondTemples were destroyed; when Israel fought which wars and what was gained from them.
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Best of Punk Magazine, The
Edited by John Holmstrom and Bridget Hurd
By Billups Allen
Extended essays about the timeline of the production preempt every few issues. These stories add context and tone about the scene that really makes the story of Punk come to life. I found these segments informative and entertaining.
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We Got Power: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California
By David Markey and Jordan Schwartz, 288 pgs.
By Jimmy Alvarado
When the histories are all written and the guilty parties are all long gone, We Got Power may not be deemed one of the most influential periodicals of the 80s punk era, but it was a fun read, and a great example of how shit got done in the days before “face time” replaced “talking.”
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Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘N’ Roll Group
By Ian F. Svenonius, 200 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
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Minus Times Collected, The
Edited by Hunter Kennedy, 435 pgs.
By Dave Brainwreck
That The Minus Times is a labor of love comes through in every facet of the magazine, and his solid cast of recurring contributors seem to mostly be from the fringe.
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Last One to Die
By Michael Essington, 204 pgs.
By Jimmy Alvarado
For a scene that purportedly disdained “rock stars”, so little attention has been given to chronicling, the gaggles of punkers and punkettes who bought the records, attended shows, and were the lifeblood of “the scene.”
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The Annotated Boris: Deconstructing the Lyrical Majesty of Boris the Sprinkler (
By Rev. Nørb, 288 pgs
By Todd Taylor
This isn’t literary fiction. Boris The Sprinkler was a real band and Nørb has a photographic memory and astonishing recall. He wrote his memories down. In book terms, that’s called a memoir.
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Hip Hop Apsara
By Anne Elizabeth Moore, 96 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
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Trans-Siberian
By Bart Schaneman, 84 pgs.
By Kurt Morris
If one wants to get a basic idea of what it is like to travel the Trans-Siberian, staying at hostels, and meeting locals along the way, then this is certainly worthwhile reading.
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