One of the most important events in modern music remains the late 80s cross-collision of rock and hip hop.Aerosmith/Run DMC, Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, Public Enemy and Anthrax, Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, De La Soul and Third Bass, and the 318 hip hop records that sampled Billy Squier's “The Big Beat exemplify the era. Rap records sampled rock bands, elevating sampling into an art form, while influencing all other forms of popular music. One of the themes th...

In When Rock Met Reggae**, Steven Blush takes a spirited, cross-genre perspective in this "illuminating chronicle" (Booklist) of the crossover of Jamaican, British, and American sounds that changed the face of popular music.** Library Journal notes that "Blush’s nimble outline of the interplay between reggae and British punk will appeal to music fans.”Brin...

Disco began as a gay, black, and brown underground New York City party music scene, which alone was enough to ward off most rockers. The difference between rock and disco was as sociological as it was aesthetic.At its best, disco was galvanizing and affirmative. Its hypnotic power to uplift a broad spectrum of the populace made it the ubiquitous music of the late '70s. Disco was a primal and gaudy fanfare for the apocalypse, a rage for exhibitionism, free of moralizing. Disco was an...

The definitive history of a key period in rock 'n' roll, from new wave to no wave, punk to punk revival, from the bestselling author of American Hardcore." New York Rock is the ultimate illustrated account of Rock's role in New York City." —Chris Frantz, Talking HeadsNew York—For fifty years it was both crucible and stage set for the greatest popular art of our time.Rock—Glitter Rock, Punk/New Wave, Post-Punk/No Wa...

"American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"-Paper magazineSteven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classicsdistributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, thirty new interviews, flyers, a new chapter ("Des...

Disco began as a gay, black, and brown underground New York City party music scene, which alone was enough to ward off most rockers. The difference between rock and disco was as sociological as it was aesthetic.At its best, disco was galvanizing and affirmative. Its hypnotic power to uplift a broad spectrum of the populace made it the ubiquitous music of the late '70s. Disco was a primal and gaudy fanfare for the apocalypse, a rage for exhibitionism, free of moralizing.1978...

The feral memoir of Harley Flanagan—New York hardcore pioneer, Cro-Mags founder, and survivor of the Lower East Side. Hard-Core is the memoir of Harley Flanagan, founder of the Cro-Mags and one of the most recognizable figures in New York’s punk and hardcore scenes. Raised in the chaotic Lower East Side of the 1970s, Flanagan grew up surrounded by musicians, artists, and countercultural figures before becoming a teenage fixture at venues like CBGB and Max’s Kansas City. By age eleven he wa...