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We Sing A New Language is the first definitive account of Thurston Moore 's work across many hundreds of collaborations, solo recordings and guest appearences.

Published to coincide with the release of the new documentary The War Is Never Over, this is the first ever in-depth study of Lydia Lunch s work.

Recreates the short and tempestuous times of Nirvana through the musicians and producers who played and interacted with the band.

Cobain on Cobain places the reader at the key moments of Kurt Cobain's rollercoaster ride, telling the tale of Nirvana entirely through his words and those of his bandmates as they unleashed the whirlwind that would consume them for the last half of their five-year career.

Core members of the legendary British experimental band Coil tell its story in the present-tense, as events unfold across their twenty-year history. Between 1983 and 2004 the legendary British experimental band Coil established themselves as shape-shifting doyens of esoteric music whose influence has grown spectacularly in the years since their untimely end. With music that could be dark, queer, and difficult, but often retained a warped pop sensibility, Coil’s albums were multi-faceted repositories of esoteric knowledge, lysergic wisdom and acerbic humor. In Everything Keeps Dissolving, core members John Balance and Peter Christopherson tell Coil’s story in the present-tense, and from their personal perspectives, as events unfold across their twenty-year history. Accompanied by their various collaborators, Coil describe the fertile eruption of ideas, inspirations, and stray tangents that informed their lyrical and musical visions—as well as those dead paths and castoff concepts that didn’t take root. No only a worm’s eye view of Coil, these interviews provide insight into the late twentieth century’s evolving British cultural underground as channeled through two of its most astutely mercurial minds.

"Over a span of some three and a half decades, Michael Gira's Swans have risen from chaotic origins in the aftermath of New York's No Wave scene to become one of the most acclaimed rock-orientated acts of recent years. The 1980s' infamous 'loudest band on the planet' morphed repeatedly until collapsing exhausted, broken, and dispirited in the late 1990s. Swans returned triumphantly in 2010 to top end-of-year polls and achieve feted status among fans and critics alike as the great survivors and latter-day statesmen of the underground scene. Throughout, Gira's desire has remained to create music of such intensity that the listener might forget flesh, get rid of the body, exist as pure energy--transcendent--inside of the sound. Through these pages, the musicians responsible tell the tale of one of the most significant bands of the US post-punk era. Drawing on more than 125 original interviews, Swans: Sacrifice And Transcendence is the ultimate companion to Swans and their work from the 1980s to the present day."--Amazon.com.

Mnohokrát přerušovaná existence kapely Swans Michaela Giry, přesahující čtyři desetiletí, se vyvinula od chaotických začátků kořenících v dozvucích newyorské new wave scény počátku osmdesátých let, až k tomu, že se stala jednou z nejuznávanějších experimentálních postrockových kapel současnosti. Její složení se často proměňovalo a na konci devadesátých let se zdálo, že vysílením padla úplně. V roce 2010 se Swans, označovaní jako „nejhlasitější kapela planety“, vítězoslavně navrátili na tvůrčí vrchol i přední místa hudebních anket. Získali si opětovně jak své fanoušky, tak kritiky, jakožto zasloužilí a hlavně přeživší zlaté éry celé undergroundové scény. Po celou tu dobu se Gira řídil svou vnitřní touhou vytvářet natolik intenzivní hudbu, aby posluchač zapomněl na své fyzično. Tak, aby se pokud možno, při poslechu zbavil svého těla a existoval jen jako pouhá čistá — transcendentní — energie uvnitř zvuku. Na stránkách této knihy vyprávějí zúčastnění hudebníci příběh celých Swans, ojedinělé kapely americké postpunkové éry. Text vychází z více než 125 původních rozhovorů a představuje čtenářům a posluchačům nejdetailnějšího průvodce historií Swans a jejich tvorby od osmdesátých let až po dnešek. Vyžaduje koncert, abyste si z boku vyřízli kus masa a opekli ho? Pokud ne, tak Gira nemá zájem.