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  • Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

    by Viv Albertine ...
    SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • To Throw Away Unopened

    by Viv Albertine ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty.To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

    by Viv Albertine ...
    Narrated by Jasmine Blackborow ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 29 min

    SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar.A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    To Throw Away Unopened

    by Viv Albertine ...
    Narrated by Jasmine Blackborow ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    'Fierce, direct, unashamed. She masks nothing ... Scythes through the myths, the distortions, the adornments and finds the rich, distinctive stories underneath.' The Sunday Times'A chronicle of outsiderness ... Searingly honest ... A painstaking and painful dissection of familial fallout .' The ObserverWhat was I fighting for? Even n... ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Bedsit Disco Queen

    How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

    by Tracey Thorn ...
    Narrated by Tracey Thorn ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 21 min

    I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records.Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Girl in a Band (10th Anniversary Edition)

    A Memoir

    by Kim Gordon ...
    *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***Updated and expanded with new material from the author and new foreword from Rachel Kushner**For many, Kim Gordon is the epitome of cool: vocalist, bassist/guitarist and founding member of Sonic Youth—one of the most successful bands to emerge from the post-punk New York scene—despite being famously reserved.Ten years ago, Gordon distilled that coolness into her ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bedsit Disco Queen

    How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

    by Tracey Thorn ...
    I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records.Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on ... Read more

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  • Please Kill Me

    The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

    by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain ...
    The twentieth anniversary edition of the "utterly and shamelessly sensational" history of punk music—featuring new photos and an afterword by the authors ( Newsday).A contemporary classic, Please Kill Me is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • England's Dreaming

    by Jon Savage ...
    WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARDINCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARRAward-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s.A pop-culture classic full of anecdote, insight and exclusive interviews, England's Dreaming tells the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid decline of the last great ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Naked at the Albert Hall

    The Inside Story of Singing

    by Tracey Thorn ...
    In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty, sometimes while battling acute stage-fright.Part memoir, part wide ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

    A Memoir

    by Carrie Brownstein ...
    From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music.Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one the ... Read more

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  • Morrissey And Marr: The Severed Alliance

    by Johnny Rogan ...
    The Severed Alliance is one of the most controversial rock biographies ever written. Universally acclaimed by critics its contents outraged Morrissey who denounced the book and called for the death of author Johnny Rogan saying Personally I hope Johnny Rogan ends his days very soon in an M3 pile-up . This paperback edition features a provocative preface as well as many important amendments to the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD