Mark Batty Publisher, 36 West 37th Street, Suite 409, New York, NY10018, Usa
www.markbattypublisher.com
This is a nice hardcover book about – you guessed it – Street Art in Valencia, the third biggest city in Spain. The author Luz A. Martin took plenty of photos of street art in her hometown. And she did also asks 7 of the more popular artists (End, Escif, Graffilia, Julieta, Nero, On_ly, Sam3) from Valencia the same five questions. Intersting to see the differences in the answers, but also some similarities. My main problem with this book is: I don’t think she documented outstanding or super interesting street art, sorry. Some of the work is of course great, but a lot of it I would not put in a book. Now the question would be: is there no “better” street art in Valencia, or did Martin just selected what I don’t like too much? Well, at least one gets a good short story about the city and its history and you get to see a lot of really well done photos of (sometimes not so interesting) street art. With the book comes a download code for free texture images download. 150 pages in english and spanish. (dolf)
34,95 US $
Isbn 978 0982075463
I wish I could have been there back then, at the same time I’m glad I was not there – so many of my imaginations would have been destroyed. By the time I saw Black Flag in Germany they “developed” their music style… not in my favour. Anyway, the book is a very good information source if you are interested in the story of Black Flag and ongoings in Los Angeles/Usa and of course the SST label. Chick is a “outsider” (meaning, he was not there back then), but did a pretty good job researching, unfortunally he could not talk to Ginn and Rollins… but both are quoted very many times. With a lot of the other members Stevie did speak, so there is tons of first hand information. If they all remember correctly after all this time… Read about how the band got together, the line up changes, the reasons for those, how SST was born – or became a record label – how the scene was back then, how Black Flag went on tour… it is all there. Not in “oral history style” but written by Chick with many quotes. And, well written I must say! Sometimes, when he talks about albums or songs or describes the music or the live performance, he exaggerates the use of words – I think, but for the rest, it is a lot of facts. You “get to meet” all the members and you can understand what role they played, how they thought and their thoughts about the band. Sometimes the retrospective is more interesting, since more distance is involved. All in all one gets a good picture of the band and its characters.. for example Henry Rollins, who is quoted from one of his books (Pissing in the Gene Pool) “I am a soldier and I travel through the jungle. I know what I’m about and I’m the only one who understands my trip. I hate having to explain myself, it’s like trying to build a house of air…. I have no explanation to give anyone.”- I guess after saying something like this no explanation is required anymore. Ginn also seems to be a total control/ego artist following his own trip. Which in general is fine, as long as the trip is a fine one, I doubt that. But hey, was I there? No. Do I know all these people. No. Maybe it is/was all a big joke, maybe not. So onward with the book, it has 400 pages, after a introduction come 12 chapters, basically chronological history of the band, in the end Acknowledgements, Bibliography and a selected Disography. There is also a bunch of great b/w photos to be looked at. Great band, great book, recommended when you are intersted in the bandhistory. (dolf)
14,10 Euro
Isbn 978 1847726209
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The Yuppicide video retrospective – http://unartignyc.com/2010/06/02/yuppi/ – covers the band’s complete lifespan from the late 80’s to the ‘last’ show in the 90′s and the current 2010 reunion. This retrospective – 32 videos !!! – would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of Yuppicide’s own Jesse Jones, who alongside Patrick Baclet/Out of Vogue provided exclusive liner notes for the videos and also opened up his personal archive from which the retrospective draws most of its footage.
Also Jan from Trust Fanzine conducted and compiled interviews with Don Fury/Producer & Recording Engineer, Pavlos Ioanidis/WreckAge Records and all four members of Yuppicide. A German translation of these interviews appeared in the June/July 2010 issue of Trust Magazine.
This is a nice well crafted book from the german photographer Christoph Lampert and shows a selection of collected photographs from 1989 – 2008. Most of the text is in english, half of the photos are b/w (“Classic Years”) the rest is 4c (“Digital Years”) and all the photos are accompanied with text from one of the band members (or the author). Wow, especially from those bands from the 80is it certainly was not so easy to track those people down. The author managed to do so. As most of these books it starts with a foreword (by the publisher) and a intruduction (by the author). The first photo is a shot of HDQ 1989 in Hamburg – glad to see that TRUST-sticker on Dickie Hammonds guitar, that made me smile. Next are 3 shots of Youth of Today from 1989 and I have to comment on what the non-atheist Ray says. “YOT was one of the first Hardcore bands to head over to Europe. …There was no real touring circuit for bands.” This is the proof that not taking drugs does not necessarly help your memory. There have been many bands on tour before YOT and YOT used the already existing touring circuit, in other words, they jumped in a warm bed. Anyway, that is what you get, nothing can be done…. I wish people would get their facts straight. YOT is long gone.. Berlins Jingo De Lunch are next, followed by great shots from: So Much Hate, Soulside, RKL, Kina, False Prophets, Walter Elf, Life but how to live it, The Plot, Mega City Four, Nirvana and Tad – all these pictures are from 1989 and are classics. 1990 starts with Rubbermaids, Boxhamsters, 2 Bad, No Means No, Bad Religion, Samiam, Blyth Power, Sons of Ishmael, The Vernon Walters, Fugazi, All, Spermbirds, Victims Family. 1991 starts with a nice shot of Danbert, Alice and Lou aka Chumbawamba, Crowd of Isolated, Gorilla Biscuits, Nausea. 1993 features D.O.A. and Verbal Abuse. 1995 The Queers, 1996 Boris the Sprinkler and Snuff –Dackelblut and all of a sudden we are in 2000 with photos of Fun People, the Fixtures, Good Riddance, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, 2001: Flag of Democracy, Shock Treatment another jump to 2006: The Skreppers, The Thermals (now the digi years start), Mcrackins, 2007: The Rifles, Cursive, Zsk, The Creepshow, The Peacocks, Distemper, Deadline, Ignite, The Gaslight Anthem, Zatopeks, Deep Eynde, Uncommon Men from Mars, Crushing Caspars, Turbostaat, 2008: Mascow, Fake Problems, Peter Pan Speedrock, Gogol Bordello, Eläkeläiset, Far from Finnished, No Use for a Name, Pepper, Die Ärzte, Bug Girl, Anti Flag, The Business, The Bottrops, The Turbo A.C.s, Brutal Polka, The Real Mckenzies and Dritte Wahl (the last 6 bands all from a bigger fesival). The book starts so amazing and ends a bit dissapointing…. While the first 3 years Christoph takes photos of all these great bands from a certain scene in almost chronological order, it is getting less documented after 1991 and the band selection in the end seems to be random and has certainly nothing to do with the first three years. But, this book claims not to be a documentary of the scene, but a documentary of the photographic output of Christoph Lampert – so you get what you get… big gaps from 1989 to 2008 and to the end more and more random bands. And while in the beginning the words of the musicians are great fun to read and bring back nice memorys and the fact that our scene back then did change something and meant a lot. Later on you can tell the bands (not all!) have nothing to say and just babble some rubbish from touring or some storys – again, nothing one can do. But I personally whished the band selection in the end would have been more in tune with all those bands the book starts with… but, again – it is Christophs history. Anyway, it is still a great book and the first 3 years are worth getting it – if you are into books like this. At the end of the book is a photo index of all the photos with date/venue and city plus bandcontact – perfect. And, to top it all off there is a coloured 7″ in the book with unreleased live songs by: Vernon Walters, Soulside, Samian and Pascow.. I would not get it for the 7″….. but it is a nice bonus. 180 pages on nice coated paper, hardcover and limited to 444 copies. 29,80 euro
(dolf)
[Trust # 141 April 2010]
Telos Verlag, Im Sundern 7-9, 48157 Münster
www.telos-verlag.de
Isbn 978-3-933060-26-6
Das Buch ist gleichzeitig begleitender Katalog zu der gleichnamigen Ausstellung. Das Ausstellungsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Tod in der Geschichte der Rockmusik. So natürlich auch das Buch. Die Ausstellung hab ich nicht gesehen, also liegt das Hauptaugenmerk auf dem vorliegenden Buch. Paperback mit Farbcover und über 200 farbigen Abbildungen auf 267 Seiten. Verschiedene Autoren schreiben in 18 Kapiteln zum Thema. Hier seien mal die beiden fürs TRUST relevantesten rausgepickt: “No Sun, No Fun, No Future – Zur Todesthematik in Punk- und Independent Musik” und “Tod und Sterben im US-Hardcore – als provokative Gesellschaftskritik und als spielerische Ästehtisierung und Gewissheit der Morbidität” andere Kapitel heissen dann z.B. “Tod und Sterben in der neuen Rockmusik” oder “Rock’N'Roll is here to stay – Selbstmord und Todessehnsucht in der Rockmusik” usw. usf. Es handelt sich um ein “wissenschaftliches Buch”, das heist die Autoren analysieren, interpretieren, vermuten, beweisen und schreiben vor allem sehr viel. Beim Lesen des Buches war mir so neutral zu Mute, zum einen stand da nichts wirklich neues drin, langweilig war es auch nicht, vieles “wusste” man schon oder es wurde wieder in Erinnerung gerufen… Klar, gibt es im Punk Texte zum Thema Tod und es gibt verschiedene Gründe warum Bands sich mit dem Thema beschäftigen bzw. wie sie sich damit beschäftigen, viel Provokation, auch logisch. Ebenso das sich “alle” damit beschäftigen, weil halt viele junge Leute Rockmusik machen und sich – auch – mit dem Thema beschäftigen. Drogen, Alkohol können ja auch immer mal wieder zum Tod führen. Oder man ist so an der Gesellschaft verzweifelt das man nur noch sterben will… dazu kann man immer prima was aufschreiben. Kann man machen, muss man aber nicht. Zumindest war das mein Eindruck und viel mehr gibt’s da auch nicht zu sagen….
Vielleicht ganz hilfreich wenn man zum Thema eine Arbeit schreiben möchte…… kost 16,80 Euro. (dolf)
[Trust # 141 April 2010]
The last 3D book I saw was probably “Loud 3D” back in the early eighties, that showed punk bands… but that is another story…. This book comes in a cardboard-slipcase with a little textile coating. More textile coating on the actual book, it is fully covered (it’s a style concept, matching book/slipcase), with embossed title. You can tell, productioncosts was not a question for this nice project (thanks to Carhartt, I guess…. ). Let me quote from the authors website: “SKATEBOARDING.3D is about space in a phenomenological sense and about human beings creating their own construction of reality within these spaces. With the example of skateboarding-culture I bring up for discussion a hybrid space that is in between virtual and real – a ‘Postvirtual Space’.” Hmm, reading the texts in the book with titles like “Diaphanous zones and layered images” (Deppner), “Bodies in space – the photographs of Sebastian Denz (Honef), “Savestates from a postvirtual space” (Jänger interviews Denz), does not really help me to understand more… of course I understand the project but have to say the writing is much, much overloaded with academic analysis, foreign words and a general word acrobatic. So lets concentrate on the stuff where acrobatic counts – skating. There are so many amazing 3 D photos in this book, I already forgot about the text. There is 21 figures (people) in 21 scenes skating. First I thought: “dude, I don’t wanna see dudes with their boards standing, I wanna see them in action”, but in the whole context it makes sense. For the project a unique 8 x 10 inch large-format-stereo-apparatus was developed and built by a friend. On the exhibitions (yes, they exist too, it is a real project…) you can see some of the professional skaters in the ‘real hyper-reality’ of life-sized high-resolution 3D-images!
All the photos are excellent, you can see the spatial effect so well, especially mindblowing are the Scenes 3, 11 and 15 – it is as 3D as it gets. In the end you get a Index that introduces the skaters, their trick and where and when it was shot. The book is large 35 x 25 so you have big photos you can look at. There is four 3D glasses included so you and your friends can experience the experience at the same time. And I suggest you do, this is a very unique project and book. 49,95 Euro (dolf)
[Trust # 141 April 2010]
BYO Records, P.O. Box 67606, Los Angeles, CA 90067
www.byorecords.com
What a treat! This is probably the most elaborate book I ever saw! Apart from the coffeetable appearance, hardcover, LP-Album size format, 100 pages, nicely coated, full coloured. This book comes with a double red-vinyl LPs integrated in the book, as well as a full length DVD with the documentary movie and a CD with all the music on it – integrated as well. The book is written by the Stern brothers, three of them and shows not only the story of the label and the band, but also goes back in the family history to their childhood and moving from Canada to California. You learn about how and when they got involved with music, their surfer-life, the beginning of the LA punk scene, Skinhead Manor, find out about the shows the brothers set up and what they went thru. Get reminded on the great movie ‘Another State of Mind’ and its making… just about everything a book like this should have: other band members have written in, tourstorys… tons of pictures and illustrations! Over half of the book is pure punk rock and hardcore LA-style. Later comes the Royal Crown Revue in game, as well as That’s It! Well, I guess that is part of their story and has to be in there too… back with Youth Brigade and the label and Punk Rock Bowling. At the end a nice Discography of all the albums so far. Did I mention there is 31 Songs on the album by a lot of BYO bands doing covers of their favourite BYO bands, good idea. Came out great, top bands, top songs, top layout, top everything. And all this for only 44,90 Euro – amazing!
Remember: “… youth really is an attitude, not an age.” (dolf)
[Trust # 141 April 2010]
Man kennt ja diese Songbooks, sehr kompakt für die Hosentasche, mit Plastic-Einband. Drin sind die ganzen notierungen (also Noten) von allen FURT-Songs für die Gitarre, mit Texten. Das haben die Dinger ja alle, dieses hier aber hat noch massig anderen Stuff, so werden neben Farin (ja, der auch bei den Ärzten spielt…) alle Bandmitglieder interviewed oder in Steckbriefen vorgestellt, es gibt massig Fotos, Diskographien, Autogrammkarten und alles andere was man sich als Fan von einer Band wünscht. Ob das nun jeder wissen will oder gar muss ist ja wieder eine andere Frage, welche hier aber auch gar nicht gestellt wird. Weil, wenn jemand sich das Buch holt ohne Fan zu sein… der ist selber Schuld. Über 200 Seiten für 14,95. (dolf)
[Trust # 141 April 2010]
Ventil Verlag, Augustinerstr. 18, 55116 Mainz, www.ventil-verlag.de
Isbn 978-3-931555-57-3
Gut fünf Jahre sind vergangen seit dem letzten Kochbuch, da kann man dann schon mal wieder ein neues machen. Es haben sich wieder viele leckere vegane/vegetarische Rezepte bei Uschi und Joachim angesammelt, verständlich erklärt diesmal mit ein paar farbigen Abbildungen. Das Buch ist wieder unterteilt in mehrere Abschnitte: “salate, suppen, sattmacher, kochen bis die ärzte kommen, soja tofu seitan und co, schneller gekocht als gekauft, für zwischendurch, spanish delight”. Das verwirrt zu Anfang… Nach einem Vorwort zum Thema, sowie Tipps geht es auch schon wieder los. Rezepte für den Alltag. Wie immer leicht nachkochbar, diesmal gibt’s auch ein paar hübsche farbige Ilusstrationen. Bewährt seit Jahren, ab mit dem Ding in die Küche, wo es hingehört.
Nicht unerwähnt sollte bleiben das jedes Rezept mit einem Tipp zum Koch-Soundtrack aufwartet.
Paperback knapp 200 Seiten mit Titelbild von Ole. Kostet 9,90 Euro.
(dolf)
[Trust # 141 April 2010]
Verlag Edition AV, Postfach 1215, 35423 Lich
Isbn 978-3-86841-021-1
Erstmal die Fakten: Boff war und ist Mitglied von Chumbawamba, dies ist die deutsche Übersetzung von seinem bereits 2003 auf englisch erschienenen Buch “footnote*” (bei Pomona). Über 250 Seiten, Paperback. Im Prinzip beschreibt der Autor seine Lebensgeschichte, das ist teilweise sehr unterhaltsam und nachdem er Punk entdeckte und in der Band angelangt war auch spannend. Vom Anarcho-Kollektiv zur Top 1 Band (immerhin haben die ein paar Mio. von dem Tubthumping Album verkauft – zur Erinnerung), was so aber auch nicht stimmt, weil, ein Kollektiv waren sie ja auch noch als Popstars. Nun, Boff benötigt viele, viele Seiten um seine Geschichte zu erzählen, also werde ich hier nicht vesuchen das in einer kleinen Rezension zu tun. Nur soviel, es ist gut geschrieben (und übersetzt, auch wenn ich das Original nicht kenne…), man bekommt einen klasse Einblick in die Geschichte von Chumbawamba und was so hinter den Kulissen abgeht, sowie natürlich in die Gedankenwelt von Boff. Alles sehr authentisch und für Fans der Band in jedem Fall zu empfehlen. Wenn du Chumbawamba noch nicht kanntest, ist dies ein guter Weg mal zu ihnen zu finden. Kurzweilig und ohne Bilder. 18.- Euro (dolf)
[Trust # 141 April 2010]
Atlas Loosing Grip, Death Before Dishonor, Discoporate Records, Tombs, Dazed, Sniffing Glue, Turbostaat, C.Aarme sowie ein fettes Yuppicide Spezial!!!
Wie gewohnt gibts natürlich ehrliche reviews von Platten, Zines und Büchern sowie ausgesuchte (NEU!!!) Tour/Gigtermine, geile Konzertfotos und oberschlaue Kolumnen – das ganze eingebettet in das neue Hammer-Layout.
Der Inhalt diesmal:
Atlas Loosing Grip, Death Before Dishonor, Discoporate Records, Tombs, Dazed, Sniffing Glue, Turbostaat, C.Aarme sowie ein fettes Yuppicide Spezial!!!!
Wie gewohnt gibts natürlich ehrliche reviews von Platten, Zines und Büchern sowie ausgesuchte (NEU!!!) Tour/Gigtermine, geile Konzertfotos und oberschlaue Kolumnen – das ganze eingebettet in das neue Hammer-Layout.
Am 26.06. findet zum 14 mal die Endless Grind oldschool Skatboardsession am Bremer Schlachthof statt. Ab 12 Uhr gibt es Street-, Pool-, Hoch- und Weitsprung Contests. Begleitet von DJs die Punkrock und Skateclassics auflegen und der Band Bombodrom am Pool. Es wird eine sehr hohe Trustmitarbeiterdichte pro Quadratmeter erwartet
Den TRUST Index, der bisher nur als Excel-Tabelle zum downloaden bereit stand, gibt es jetzt auch als Onlinedatenbank. Mit Cover und einer Anzeige, ob das Heft noch als Backissue verfügbar ist. Ihr findet den Index in der gleichnamigen Rubrik im Menü oder einfach hier klicken. Viel Spass beim Stöbern!
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