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Verve Pipe celebrates with holiday concert
What better way to celebrate the holidays than with a few hundred music lovers. That’s what alternative rockers the V erve Pipe have in store Friday for the group’s second annual Holiday Homecoming Concert at the Magic Bag in Ferndale.
Sonic Youth “Silver Rocket” Blast First Records

No Thanks: 70s Punk Rebellion $49.85 …

Greatest Hits $17.98 The Kinks’ early singles set a new standard for raucousness. “Louie Louie” chord progressions and monosyllabic declarations of lurve (love definitely isn’t a strong-enough word) drove “You Really Got Me,” “All Day and All of the Night,” and “I Need You.” Only maniacal cackles from guitarist Dave Davies could’ve heightened their simple eloquence–and he provided even those before his solos on “Got…

My Summer of Hate $3.00 Four friends in their early 20’s use their punk band to fight crime and vandalism in their neighborhood. What begins with the best of intentions ends up pulling the band into the White Power movement….

Ubisoft Rocksmith Real Tone Cable $22.95 RocksmithTM Real Tone Cable…

Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture $22.50 Stop. Pause. Fast-forward. Rewind. It has become part of our vocabulary when talking about the momentum of our lives…Since Phillips launched the compact audio cassette at the 1963 Berlin Radio Show, our relationship with music has never been the same. Portable, inexpensive, and durable―the new format was an instant success. By the early 1970s, we were voraciously recording music onto blank ca…

Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY (Critical Media Studies) $27.98 This book describes the emergence of DIY punk record labels in the early 1980s. Based on interviews with sixty-one labels, including four in Spain and four in Canada, it describes the social background of those who run these labels. Especially interesting are those operated by dropouts from the middle class. Other respected older labels are often run by people with upper middle-class backgrounds. …