Echoes: A Memoir Continued
Echoes is the follow up book to Bunnyman, Sergeant's first memoir. Where Bunnyman covered Sergeant's childhood up to the formation of Echo and Bunnyman, Echoes covers the early days of the group through the release of their first albums and first tour. Echoes tells Sergeant's first hand account of the Bunnymen's rise to world-wide prominence and all the adventures and travails that accompanied the journey.
Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control
Just as Nashville was where Civil Rights icons like John Lewis, James Lawson, and Diane Nash began, Nashville is also where a network of racial terrorists began. Worse, in Nashville, we see how the differing agendas of local police and the FBI allowed these bombers to escape prosecution until decades later, if at all.
Sweetheart Party
A very limited edition collection of art by Marlos E’Van. “Third Man gifted Marlos a Third Man Photo Studio x Retrospekt Polaroid camera to which the artist would take on many travels for the past 2 years documenting life, death, birth, people and places. Somewhere along the journey, Marlos decided 2 bring this collection of experiences back to the people in the form of their new book, SWEETHEART PARTY!”
Stray Dogs
This coming-of-age thrill ride of a story by the former 60ft Dolls frontman would make any Quentin Tarantino screenplay envious. TMB’s first exclusive novel by a British author! “This novel is fierce, catchy and fullof hooks.”— Jon Langford, The Mekons
The White Stripes Complete Lyrics
The Complete White Stripes Lyrics collects all the original lyrics written for the group, and includes never-before-seen and rare photos, rough drafts, and alternate lyrics. The 300+ page hardbound book features essays by Hanif Abdurraqib, Ben Blackwell, and Caroline Randall Williams.
The Last Vanishing Man
Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on. American violence and masculinity are topics that weave through Matthew Cheney’s stories, as characters of various genders and sexualities get scarred by the wounds of manhood. "I can't recommend Cheney’s Last Vanishing Man highly enough."— Samuel R. Delany
Needles and Plastic: Flying Nun Records, 1981–1988
In this remarkable tale of creativity and chaos, do-it-yourself innovation and extraordinary attempts at world domination, Matthey Goody tells the inside story of one of New Zealand – and the world’s – great independent music labels, Flying Nun Records introduced groups such as The Clean, The Verlaines. and Tall Dwarfs to the world. Hundreds of full color & black and white photos illustrate the story in this high quality paperback art book!
Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop (NEW UPDATED AND REVISED PAPERBACK)
TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of the Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop (UPDATED AND REVISED) features more new, never before seen photos plus an additional chapter from legendary vocalist of Black Flag, Henry Rollins. TOTAL CHAOS is the definitive oral history via Iggy Pop of his legendary group The Stooges. The 9.5" x 7" high quality paperback art book features hundreds of full color photos of one of the USA’s most influential bands.
MONOLITHIC UNDERTOW: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
From Neolithic beginnings to bawdy medieval troubadours, Sufi mystics to Indian raga masters, cone shattering dubwise bass, Hawkwind's Ladbroke Grove to the outer reaches of Faust and Ash Ra Temple; the hash-fueled fug of The Theatre of Eternal Music to the cough syrup reverse hardcore of Melvins, seedy VHS hinterland of Electric Wizard, ritual amp worship of Earth and Sunn O))) and the many touch points in between, Harry Sword’s Monolithic Undertow explores the history and power of the drone music.
Somebody to Love:The Story of Valerie June’s Sweet Little Baby Banjolele
Once upon a time, a sweet and tiny little instrument — a banjolele¬ — was given to a singer named Valerie. It was so small that Valerie thought it was a toy. Find out the whole story of how the baby banjo and Grammy-nominated musician Valerie June came to know each other, overcome self-doubt and fear, write songs, and eventually travel the world Grammy-nominated musician Valerie June. Full color illustrations by Marce Avelar.
Trouble the Waters:Tales from the Deep Blue
World Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist anthology, Trouble the Waters, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Pan Morigan, and Troy L. Wiggins gathers a tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to Memphis to Copenhagen to London, including Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, Sheree Renée Thomas, and other breakout beautiful voices. The stories and poems are connected by theme: water, the most vital of elemental forces.
TENEMENT KID: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream
Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Bobby Gillespie’s vivid and evocative new memoir traces the Primal Scream frontman’s path from a post-war Glasgow tenement to the release of Screamadelica, the band’s psychedelic award-winning masterpiece that helped usher in the 1990s.
BUNNYMAN: Post-War Kid to Post-Punk Guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen
The first authorized biography by a member of Echo and the Bunnymen: This is the true story of one small boy, me, Will Sergeant, navigating the 60’s and 70’s, a woolly-back (hick) spawned one drunken night on the outskirts of a Nazi pocked and battered Liverpool, growing up with the spectre of WW2 still creeping about most adults padlocked minds. I head into the winter of discontent to become a post-punk trailblazer worshipped all over the world as a god. Well? An inventive and influential guitarist of some note at the very least. “Will Sergeant is a true original.” — Robert Smith, The Cure
Standing on the Verge & Maggot Brain
Written in response to the classic Funkadelic albums Standing on the Verge of Getting it On and Maggot Brain, and featuring visual art by Kevin Neireiter and Nicholas Galanin (of Sub Pop’s Ya Tseen), the light and darkness of Funkadelic’s music is focused in the radiances and shadows of Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka’s poems of self-exploration.
The Offing
Soon to be a major a motion picture featuring Helena Bonham Carter, The Offing by Benjamin Myers (author of the Walter Scott Prize winning novel The Gallows Pole) is set in the United Kingdom directly after WWII and tells of the intense and uplifting relationship between a working class, English teenage boy and a hard drinking, foul-mouthed, German, bohemian recluse named Dulcie. The surprise ending can only be described as terribly beautiful.
It Came From Memphis: Updated and Revised
Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when dominant society simply ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. Like no other music history, It Came From Memphis by Robert Gordon dishes its tuneful tale with a full context of social issues. From institutional racism to cowboy movies, from manic disc jockeys to Quaalude motorcycle gangs, this story is as unvarnished a history of rock and roll as ever has been written. Stars pass through— Elvis, Aretha, Jerry Lee—but the emphasis is more on the singular achievements of artists like Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. The updated and revised edition 25th Anniversary edition more than 80 new photos, an updated text featuring more voices, a new foreword, and afterword. “Superb.” —The New York Times
Third Man Records Coloring Book
Take an adventure with Manny, Third Man’s Nashville storefront mascot, as he hangs out in Third Man’s shop, sees live music on Record Store Day, visits space, and learns how the (fastest) record was made! A coloring book for kids and adults of all ages!
Nine Bar Blues
Two time World Fantasy Award Winning author Sheree Renée Thomas’ debut collection of speculative fiction short stories. “A whirlpool of poem and story, a ‘wild and strangeful breed’ of cosmology … " —Tyehimba Jess
And What Would You Say If You Could?
Nashville Youth Poet Laureate Haviland Whiting ‘s collection And What Would You Say if You Could? leads us on a journey of history, grief, beauty, and what it means to come of age as a Black woman in this country.