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In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centerpiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain ballads and legends from the dawn of country music performed their classic hits. Most of the musicians who showed up have long since passed, but Nashville stars Ricky Skaggs and Marty Stuart survive. Highways and Heartaches takes listeners on the rural circuit Skaggs and Stuart traveled.

In extensive interviews with scene pioneers and mainstays, including Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional), Geoff Rickly (Thursday), Frank Iero (My Chemical Romance), Gabe Saporta (Midtown/Cobra Starship), and Max Bemis (Say Anything), veteran music journalist Michael Tedder has crafted a once-in-a-generation exploration of emo and The Scene that is as forthright as it is tenderly nostalgic, taking to task the elements of toxic masculinity and crass consumerism that bled out of the early 2000s cultural milieu and ultimately led to the implosion of emo's first home, MySpace.

The Pixies in Boston. Nirvana in Seattle. The Red Hot Chili Peppers in Los Angeles. While these alt-rock bands are world-renowned today, at the dawn of the '90s they were still largely defined by local music scenes. Before the mediation of MTV, VH1, or Apple Music, fans connected directly to alt-rock groups through word of mouth or via small local radio stations.

In de westerse kunst- en cultuurgeschiedenis beslaat de Renaissance bovenal de periode tussen 1400 en 1600. De confrontatie met de denkbeelden uit de antieke wereld bracht een wedergeboorte van de kunsten teweeg en was een breekpunt met wat men lang beschouwde als de ‘donkere middeleeuwen’. Tegenwoordig zien we de voortekenen van een renaissance al vanaf de late 12e eeuw opdoemen, met de herontdekking van de klassieke oudheid en de opkomst van het humanisme.

A las puertas del vigésimo quinto aniversario de la muerte de Frank Sinatra, se edita por primera vez en España, con una nueva introducción del autor, el sentido recuerdo que, a modo de semblanza, compuso Pete Hamill (confidente y compañero de correrías a quien Sinatra trató de convencer, sin suerte, para que escribiera sus memorias) cuando la noticia de la muerte de «La Voz» le sorprendió en la sala de embarque de un aeropuerto.

Hast auch du Angst vor der Dunkelheit? Dann sei beruhigt. Denn diese Folge bringt Licht ins Dunkel und eine Menge Fakten rund um “Iron Maiden”. Als Gast begrüßt Andy Brings den Schlagzeuger Johnny Dee (Britney Fox), der sich mit den Giganten des Rocks bereits die Bühne teilen durfte und die Band maßgeblich bei der “Somewhere in time”-Tour in Osteuropa und den USA unterstützt hat. Wolfgang Rott komplementiert die Runde. Seit dreiundzwanzig Jahren promotet er “Iron Maiden” in ganz Europa und verdankt der Presse seinen Spitznamen “Mister Heavy Metal”.

The music of Yes indelibly shaped the original sound of progressive rock. But the true tale of this landmark band goes well beyond headline-making albums like Fragile and Close to the Edge. In this book, Kevin Mulryne tells the absorbing story of the final Yes album of the 1970s, Tormato, uncovering myriad fascinating twists and turns for the first time.

A Look at the History of the Emo and Indie Music Era. Explore the cultural, social, and psychological factors surrounding the genres.

Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as "California Dreamin'," the iconic folk music single that catapulted the Mamas & the Papas into rock and roll history. In All the Leaves Are Brown, author Scott Shea details how John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Michelle Phillips, and "Mama Cass" Elliot became standard-bearers for California counterculture, following their transformation from folk music wannabes to rock sensations and chronicling the tumultuous events that followed their unexpected success.

Take a walk through almost any neighborhood in Manhattan and you’ll likely pass some of the most significant clubs in American music history. But you won’t know it—almost all of these venues have been demolished or repurposed, leaving no record of what they were, how they shaped music scenes, or their impact on the neighborhoods around them. This Must Be the Place examines how these scenes came together and fell apart—and shows how these communal artistic experiences are not just for rarefied geniuses but available to us all.

Rockin' in the Ivory Tower takes a close look at two smaller universities, Drew in New Jersey and Stony Brook on Long Island, to see how the culture of rock music played an integral role in student life in the late 1960s.

In October 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d'Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only one of its members survived the Holocaust. Yet their story survives, thanks to Aleksander Kulisiewicz. An amateur musician, he was not Jewish, but became friends with d'Arguto in Sachsenhausen. D'Arguto tasked him with a mission: to save the musical heritage of the victims of the Nazi camps.

Алексей Марков — российский музыкант, экономист и писатель, сумевший продать свой бизнес и преумножить капитал на финансовых рынках. Автор нашумевших хулиганских книг "Хулиномика", "Жлобология" и "Криптвоюматика". Человек, который может позволить себе заниматься музыкой и ездить по миру с гастролями. От подвала до стадиона — История успеха музыкальной группы, фронтмэном которой является Алексей Марков. Группа отжигает по всему миру от Сантьяго до Владивостока, сверхтехнично исполняя легендарный альбом Metallica 1999 года – "S&M" с симфоническим оркестром.

В продолжении Хождения по звукам еще 33 истории о популярной музыке — по количеству оборотов, которые проделывает за минуту долгоиграющая пластинка. Это истории и о суперхитах, повлиявших на индустрию и изменивших ход современной культуры, и о недооцененных артистах, наконец-то занимающих на страницах этой книги заслуженное место по соседству с их более успешными коллегами. За альбомами, песнями, гитарными соло и электронными битами встают судьбы их авторов, в свою очередь, складывающиеся в пестрый и захватывающий портрет времени — шестидесяти лет культурной истории человечества.

"Leute fragen mich immer wieder, wo der Blues denn eigentlich begann, und alles, was ich sagen kann, ist, dass, als ich ein Junge war, wir immer auf den Feldern gesungen haben. Es war kein richtiges Singen, na ja, eher so Schreien, aber wir machten unsere Songs über Sachen, die uns damals tatsächlich passierten, und ich denke, das war die Zeit, als der Blues begann." (Son House 1965) Es ist heute unumstritten, dass der Blues einen gewaltigen Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der modernen Rock- und Popmusik genommen hat.

As a humble barman at the M25 Orbital raves, Kirk Field witnessed the moment acid house exploded. Inspired by media lies to start writing the truth about what he saw unfolding, Kirk became a 'raving' reporter for the clubbers' bible Mixmag, covering the historic parties from the inside and sending sweat-soaked dispatches from distant dancefloors as the scene expanded across Europe and beyond. With a cast of characters, Kirk's whirlwind account of the golden age of clubbing tells the story of what really happened in the 'naughty '90s'.

Es gibt keine Grenzen mehr: Das glaubt man jedenfalls am Beginn der Neunzigerjahre. Die Berliner Mauer fällt, die Welt rückt zusammen, und sie vernetzt sich. Die ersten Knoten des World Wide Web werden geknüpft, die ersten Suchmaschinen programmiert. In Berlin wird Techno zum Soundtrack der Wiedervereinigung, Neonfarben beherrschen das Bild, Piercings und Tätowierungen erobern den Mainstream, das Arschgeweih gerät zum stilistischen Symbol der Dekade. Aber unter der heiteren Oberfläche brechen alte Konflikte auf, Gespenster aus der Vergangenheit kehren zurück.

American roots music, also known as Americana music, can be challenging to categorize, spanning the genres of jazz, bluegrass, country, blues, rock and roll, and an assortment of variations in between. In The Downhome Sound, Mandi Bates Bailey explores the messages, artists, community, and appeal of this seemingly disparate musical collective. To understand the art form's intended meanings and typical audiences, she analyzes lyrics and interviews Americana artists, journalists, and festival organizers to uncover a desire for inclusion and diversity.

Moby, the biggest selling electronica artist in history, ponders the question: why did so many people hate my guts? His surreal new documentary Moby Doc documents his brutal childhood, his rise and fall from pop stardom, and the drugs and booze that nearly did him in. Andrew Goldman interviews “Master of Chaos” music manager Allen Kovac, who shares all the grisly details of managing Mötley Crüe, Meatloaf, Duran Duran … and Richard Marx.

Gegenstand der neusten Folge ist die Gruppe, welche nicht bloß über 100 Millionen verkaufte Alben zählt, sondern auch durch ihre aufwendige Kostümierung und ihr charakteristisches Make-Up Kultstatus erreicht hat. Natürlich geht es um: the Starchild, the Demon, the Spaceman, the Catman, the Fox und the Ankh Warrior. Kurz und prägnant: KISS! Im ultimativen Nerdtalk beweisen Andy Brings und sein Gast Kevin Kuhn (DIE NERVEN), dass sie wortwörtlich „made for loving” KISS sind.