Though they existed as a band for only five short years, The Smiths created a body of work that continues to endure some 30 years later. In the span of just Biblio Files
The Smiths
by Nalinee Darmrong
August 8th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Though they existed as a band for only five short years, The Smiths created a body of work that continues to endure some 30 years later. In the span of just
Ramones at 40
by Martin Popoff
July 11th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Perhaps you’ve heard that this year is the 40th anniversary of punk and about the events being staged to mark the occasion. With history never moving
Under the Big Black Sun
by John Doe with Tom DeSavia
May 5th, 2016 | by Jamie Pietras | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Eclipsed in popular consciousness by their distant cousins in New York and London, LA’s punk progenitors forged an eclectic scene where
Trouble Boys
by Bob Mehr
April 28th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
There are countless tales of rock & roll dreams busted by excessive indulgences, personal ghosts, and/or muddied relationships. But while there are tragedies
Popkiss
by Michael White
March 9th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Although these days the term has been rendered virtually meaningless, there once was a time when “indie” held a good deal of cultural currency in
Chapter and Verse
by Bernard Sumner
January 26th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Between movies (the biopic Control and Grant Gee’s 2007 Joy Division documentary), tours by Peter Hook & The Light, a new New Order album
1-2-3-4
by Anton Corbijn
August 10th, 2015 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
In a world where we’re constantly bombarded by an endless array of food porn, cat pics, and selfies, it’s probably safe to say that photographic images don’t
The Underground Is Massive
by Michelangelo Matos
June 29th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
America has always had a strange relationship with electronic music. Although house and techno were born in the States, the genre has always been far more
New Order
by Kevin Cummins
April 13th, 2015 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
In recent years, it seems like there has been no shortage of books to emerge from the Joy Division/New Order camp. A compendium of the notebooks of deceased
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg
by Marky Ramone
March 5th, 2015 | by Nate Knaebel | published in Biblio Files | Leave A Comment »
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life As a Ramone certainly isn’t a literary-minded memoir in the vein of Patti Smith’s award-winning Just Kids or Kim Gordon’s recently