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\nWhat’s almost as good as records falling from the sky? Record Store Day!!!<\/p>\n
As one of our favorite days of the year spins closer and closer, we’ve decided to spotlight our music books in celebration! We’re offering a special deal for record stores:<\/p>\n
We’ve got some new releases and some old staples:<\/p>\n
\nCrate Digger: An Obsession With Punk Records<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Crate Digger:\u00a0<\/strong>The record-obsessed Bob Suren (Sound Idea Distribution + Burrito Records) tells stories of a life framed by punk records in this popular new release,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records<\/em><\/a> Punk USA:\u00a0<\/strong>Known best as the label that put Green Day on the map, Lookout Records has been the breeding ground for hundreds of fascinating records that inspired a generation. This book, an instant hit, documents the label\u2019s rise and fall from 1987-2006.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Henry & Glenn Forever<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The greatest love story ever told depicts punk and metalheads Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig in their domestic life together. Together with their neighbors Hall & Oates they have myriad adventures and deal with each other\u2019s issues as a pair! Then came four issues of the 32-page comic, each filled with three short stories. Each issue also comes in two different covers, a regular and a variant. If you get a combination of 40 or more total issues (including any of the other books on this page!), we can ship \u2018em with a free display box<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Glenn couldn\u2019t understand how complicated it was getting so we released a trade paperback that collects all four issues plus 100 additional new pages.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Punk in NYC\u2019s Lower East Side 1981-1991<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Scene Histories:\u00a0<\/strong>Framed around Reagan Youth, the second generation of punk in New York\u2019s Lower East Side that thrived while being ignored by the media and ended like all good things\u2014with a riot in Tompkins Square.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Rock & Roll of San Francisco’s East Bay, 1950-1980<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Much is written about rock n roll in San Francisco, but not as much is documented about what was happening on the other side of the bay for the first thirty years. Cory M. Linstrum uncovers it all thirty years later.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Snake Pit:\u00a0<\/strong>Ben Snakepit (Ghost Knife, J Church, and The Sword) has documented every single day of his life in three comic book panels since 2001, instantly becoming an underground classic.<\/span><\/p>\n Snakepit Gets Old<\/a><\/em>. We\u2019ve got also copies of his collections from\u00a02007<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a02008<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Burn Collector:\u00a0<\/strong>You might remember Al Burian as punk\u2019s wandering storyteller of humor and dark humor from when he played in Challenger or Milemarker or, if you\u2019re old u\u2019re old, Hellbender. Clearly we can\u2019t shake the guy.<\/p>\n In 2003 we published his Black Flag- quoting graphic novel,\u00a0Things Are Meaning Less<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0We’ve published two issues of his\u00a0Burn Collecto<\/strong>r zine, first\u00a0#14<\/a>\u00a0then\u00a0#15<\/a>.<\/p>\n Beyond The Music: How Punks are Saving the World with DIY Ethics, Skills, & Values<\/a><\/p>\n Featuring interviews with leading figures of the DIY punk underground, this book outlines how punks are saving the world, despite contradictions, challenges, and having to overcome cultural and social norms, as well as punk\u2019s spotty history.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maps To The Other Side: The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Sascha Scatter (Choking Victim)<\/strong>\u00a0spent his life adventuring all over the globe, playing in bands and starting seed libraries before founding The Icarus Project, the first member-run mental health advocacy organization. This is his story.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n God, Forgive These Bastards<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Rob Morton of Plan-it X Records\u2019 The Taxpayers wrote this biography of a college baseball pitcher turned homeless street sage in a redemption tale of pain and forgiveness.<\/p>\n Bobby Joe Ebola:\u00a0<\/strong>Longtime Bay Area band with a cult following, Bobby Joe Ebola has teamed up with Horrible Comics\u2019 Jason Chandler to produce a parody of Little Golden Books (complete with a CD), Meal Deal with the Devil<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scam: The First Four Issues<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Scam:\u00a0<\/strong>Trainhopping, generator punk shows, stealing electricity from lamp posts, squatting, selling plasma, tagging trains, wheatpasting, and dumpstering as seen through the lens of a young punk. \u201cTotally, totally essential for anyone with anything approaching a punk rock bone in their body.\u201d \u2014Boing Boing<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Making Stuff and Doing Things: A Collection of DIY Guides to Just About Everything<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cDIY guides to doing just about everything under the sun\u2014from playing guitar to making toothpaste\u201d \u2014Last Hours Mag\u201cIf there is a book you get this year this is it…the Time-Life series for punks all in one volume, for one low-low price!\u201d \u2014Hanging Like a Hex\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n How and Why: A Do-it-yourself Guide<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n What do you do when you wake up from the dream? Get some blueprints for projects towards a better world! An all- grown-up do-it-yourself handbook with easy-to-use info on bicycles, home and garage, gardening, homeschooling your children, musical instruments, and more.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If It Ain’t Cheap, It Ain’t Punk: D. un I. t Y.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Plan-it X Records has been a vision of hope and inspiration since 1994 and this is the label\u2019s story of ups and downs as told through the 2006 festival in Bloomington, IN<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Between Resistance & Community: The Long Island Do-it-yourself Punk Scene<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPunk\u2019s not dead\u2014it\u2019s just cleaned up its act and living in mom\u2019s basement. These well-spoken kids with creative haircuts describe their own basement-band scene as \u201cbuilding community-based movements.\u201d A timely snapshot of contemporary punk\u2019s new sincerity.\u201d \u2014Village Voice<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n X Ray Visions: A Look Inside Portland’s Legendary X-Ray Cafe<\/a> \u201cAccepting of almost all cultural expression or character type that wasn\u2019t mean-spirited, the X-Ray championed a kind of inspired amateurism and a participatory environment that\u2019s unlikely to be equaled for audacity or fun. In the words of one former regular, \u2018the X-Ray was the cat\u2019s potato.\u2019 And so is this film.\u201d \u2014The Oregonian<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Using dozens of first-hand interviews, photos, and original artwork to offer a new perspective on a group who would become mired in controversy almost from the get-go. It applauds the band\u2019s key role in transforming punk rhetoric, both polemical and musical, into something genuinely threatening\u2014and enormously funny. The author offers context in terms of both the global and local trajectory of punk and, while not flinching from the wildly differing takes individual band members have on the evolution of the band, attempts to be celebratory\u2014if not uncritical.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s the story of The Clash’s love affair with America that began \u00a0began in 1977, when select rock journalists and deejays aided the band\u2019s quest to depose the rock of indolence that dominated American airwaves. This history situates The Clash amid the cultural skirmishes of the 1970s and culminates with their September 1979 performance at the Palladium in New York City. This concert was broadcast live on WNEW, and it concluded with Paul Simonon treating his Fender bass like a woodcutter’s ax.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules and took it further, putting out their own records, films and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks that were dutifully covered by the world\u2019s press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A photo documentary cataloging the legacy of Punk Rock pioneers Black Flag, through stories, interviews, and photographs of diehard fans who wear their iconic logo, The Bars, conspicuously tattooed upon their skin. An extensive tour of North America and Western Europe documents dedicated fans bearing Bars-on-skin and other Black Flag iconography. Nearly four hundred “Barred” fans lined up, smiled\/frowned for the camera, and issued their stories for the permanent record.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Rudimentary Peni frontman, this is a gothic horror novel about severe mental distress and punk rock. A diary written by psychiatrist Dr. Rodney H. Dweller, concerning his patient, Nathaniel Snoxell, brought to him in 1979 because of several attempted suicides. Snoxell gets involved in the anarchist punk scene, and begins recording songs and playing gigs at anarchist centers. In 1985, the good doctor himself \u201cgoes insane\u201d and disappears. This semi-autobiographical novel from Rudimentary Peni singer, guitarist, lyricist, and illustrator, Nick Blinko, plunges into the worlds of madness, suicide, and anarchist punk. H. P. Lovecraft meets Crass in the squats and psychiatric institutions of early 1980s England.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Left Of The Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons<\/a><\/p>\n Featuring interviews with leading figures of the punk underground: Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat\/Fugazi), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Dave Dictor (MDC), and many more. Ensminger probes the legacy of punk\u2019s sometimes fuzzy political ideology, its ongoing DIY traditions, its rupture of cultural and social norms, its progressive media ecology, its transgenerational and transnational appeal, its pursuit of social justice, its hybrid musical nuances, and its sometimes ambivalent responses to queer identities, race relations, and its own history. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pre-paid orders over\u00a0$250 get a 50% discount on all the titles in this post!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Order fifteen or more books, get a free display box! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s almost as good as records falling from the sky? Record Store Day!!!<\/p>\n As one of our favorite days of the year spins closer and closer, we’ve decided to spotlight our music books in celebration! <\/p>\n We’re offering a special deals on all our most popular music titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,27],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-punx"],"my_excerpt":"What's almost as good as records falling from the sky? Record Store Day!!!\r\n\r\nAs one of our favorite days of the year spins closer and closer, we've decided to spotlight our music books in celebration! We're offering a special deal for record stores:\r\n\r\nWe've got some new releases and some old staples:\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/punkusa_copy0.jpg\")
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\nLast year we reissued his first book for its 10 year anniversary:\u00a0The Snakepit Book<\/a><\/em>
\nSnakepit: My Life in a\u00a0<\/a><\/em>Jugular Vein<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>covers his hardest rocking years and includes a CD of punk tracks that he listens to in the comics<\/p>\n![\"snakepit](\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/img_3533.jpg\")
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Punk Classics from PM Press<\/h2>\n
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\nDead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/stealing.jpg\")
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\nStealing All Transmissions: A Secret History of The Clash<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/screen_shot_20150107_at_4.45.22_pm.jpg\")
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\nBarred For Life: How Black Flag’s Iconic Logo Became Punk Rock’s Secret Handshake<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/images\/primal.jpg\")
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<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\nNew Releases<\/h2>\r\n
\r\n\r\nCrate Digger: An Obsession With Punk Records<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nCrate Digger:\u00a0<\/strong>The record-obsessed Bob Suren (Sound Idea Distribution + Burrito Records) tells stories of a life framed by punk records in this popular new release,\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPunk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records<\/em><\/a>\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\nPunk USA:\u00a0<\/strong>Known best as the label that put Green Day on the map, Lookout Records has been the breeding ground for hundreds of fascinating records that inspired a generation. This book, an instant hit, documents the label\u2019s rise and fall from 1987-2006.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\nClassic collections<\/h2>\r\n
\r\n\r\nHenry & Glenn Forever<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe greatest love story ever told depicts punk and metalheads Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig in their domestic life together. Together with their neighbors Hall & Oates they have myriad adventures and deal with each other\u2019s issues as a pair!\r\nFirst, there was the book that started it all:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nThen came four issues of the 32-page comic, each filled with three short stories. Each issue also comes in two different covers, a regular and a variant.\r\n#1\u00a0 #1<\/a>, #2<\/a>, #3<\/a>, and #4<\/a>\r\n\r\nIf you get a combination of 40 or more total issues (including any of the other books on this page!), we can ship \u2018em with a free display box<\/a>.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span> <\/a> \r\nHenry & Glenn Forever & Ever<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\nGlenn couldn\u2019t understand how complicated it was getting so we released a trade paperback that collects all four issues plus 100 additional new pages.\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPunk in NYC\u2019s Lower East Side 1981-1991<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>\r\n\r\nScene Histories:\u00a0<\/strong>Framed around Reagan Youth, the second generation of punk in New York\u2019s Lower East Side that thrived while being ignored by the media and ended like all good things\u2014with a riot in Tompkins Square.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Rock & Roll of San Francisco's East Bay, 1950-1980<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nMuch is written about rock n roll in San Francisco, but not as much is documented about what was happening on the other side of the bay for the first thirty years. Cory M. Linstrum uncovers it all thirty years later.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSnake Pit:\u00a0<\/strong>Ben Snakepit (Ghost Knife, J Church, and The Sword) has documented every single day of his life in three comic book panels since 2001, instantly becoming an underground classic.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSnakepit Gets Old<\/a><\/em>.\r\nLast year we reissued his first book for its 10 year anniversary:\u00a0