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.
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.
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.
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
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
The Blue Series Book: The Story Behind the Color, Volume One
Ever wonder about Jack White’s process in the studio, or the experiences of artists like Beck, First Aid Kit, Tom Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Stephen Colbert, Michael Kiwanuka , Insane Clown Posse, and many more who recorded with him? The stories are right here in interviews of the artists by Third Man Records co-founder Ben Blackwell.
Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop (Hardcover)
Third Man Books is excited to announce one of the most anticipated books of the year about one of the most influential bands of all time…The Stooges. TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop is the first time the story of this seminal band has been told entirely in Pop’s own words. This is the original, HARDCOVER edition.
Life Is A Rip-Off: The Complete Book
LIFE IS A RIP OFF: THE COMPLETE BOOK is 404 pages and 12 months of record reviews—one record a day, every day, for one year. Yes, John “Inzane” Olson aka Inzane Johnny of Wolf Eyes aka American Tapes did this, and Third Man Books published it.
Life Is A Rip-Off: The Zine Part One
Life is a Rip Off Part One is a chapbook collection of record reviews by the one, the only, thee John “Inzane” Olson aka Inzane Johnny aka American Tapes aka 1/3 of the band Wolf Eyes.
Language Lessons: Vol 1
Third Man Books inaugural publication, The Language Lessons boxset, includes two LPs and a 300+ page hardcover book with over 20 award winning musicians, poets and authors. The boxset features music and writing by contributors such as Richard Hell, Destruction Unit, Ken Vandermark, Paul Wine Jones, Carlton Melton, C.D. Wright, Adrian Matejka, Frank Stanford, Steve Stern, Sampson Starkweather, besmilr brigham, TJ Jarrett, Sommer Browning, Dale Ray Phillips, Tav Falco, Chet Weise, and more! “Language Lessons truly breaks ground by placing these established academic-literary writers alongside spoken word artists, punk rockers, and folksingers.” —Rain Taxi