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posted Friday, October 23, 2026
A Curious Presence is a spellbinding, inquisitive journey into the nature of the unseen for anyone as curious about the afterlife as they are about life. Hauntings happen. But why? Are they caused by ghosts, or something else? What is a ghost, anyway? After centuries of ghost-hunting by experts and amateurs alike, are we any […]
posted Thursday, October 22, 2026
Queercore is a cultural history book that explores the origins and legacy of the queer underground punk movement. It officially got its name in the mid-1980s when G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce named it in their revolutionary zine J.D.s, but the movement began years earlier with bands like Wayne County and the Electric Chairs, Nervous Gender, […]
posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Cognitive Dissident may begin in the music biography tradition, but it quickly becomes something deeper. Borne out of years of conversation and collaboration between Matt Johnson (the creative force behind THE THE) and writer Jason Wood (Executive Director at the BFI), it expands into a work that is philosophical, cultural, and socio-political in scope. The story traces Johnson’s childhood growing up […]
posted Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Genres High and Low shows an understanding of art writing not as secondary or derivative but as an inventive practice in its own right. Drawing on Philip Monk’s extensive writing history, Genres High and Low includes essays from the mid-1990s to the present on Canadian and international artists; on the American avant-garde and underground culture of the 1960s […]
posted Thursday, October 15, 2026
Tonight the Music Seems So Loud is at once a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of Britain’s most beloved musicians and an account of a strange and turbulent period of British history. In his unconventional and enthralling book, Sathnam Sanghera, the bestselling author of Empireland explores the connection between music and politics, exposes what secrecy does to the soul, […]
posted Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Welcome to Your Life is a deeply personal memoir from Roland Orzabal, founding member and primary songwriter for the iconic English band Tears for Fears, known for their smash hits “Shout,” “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” “Mad World,” and “Pale Shelter.” Weaving themes of identity, love, and the complexities of fame, Welcome to Your […]
posted Tuesday, October 13, 2026
In Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits, author Zoë Howe tells the story of this remarkable band through interviews with band members, their friends, and their collaborators, including Don Letts, Dennis Bovell, the Raincoats, Budgie, PiL guitarist Keith Levene, the Pop Group’s Gareth Sager, and many more. Wild, defiant and creative, The Slits were […]
posted Saturday, October 10, 2026
A former Olympian recounts her experiences as a young gay athlete and coach in the 70s and 80s, turning discrimination into celebration. When Betty Baxter was hired to coach the Canadian women’s volleyball team in 1980, she was met with a media frenzy as the first woman in the position. Then her career was cut […]
posted Thursday, October 8, 2026
Our Secrets Are the Same explores a bond that has encompassed stratospheric highs and humbling lows, marriages and divorces, fatherhood, fickle fame, tricky inter-band dynamics, and the occasional explosive bust-up. The book explores key songs, places, years, and events in the Simple Minds story as told by band members, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill. This […]
posted Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972–74 uncovers lost archives and stories, drawing on new interviews with Stooges guitarist James Williamson and pianist Scott Thurston, and sheds fresh light on the band’s creative process. Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges is arguably the most aggressive, dynamic album in rock history, and inarguably one of […]
