Ian Christe's Blog, page 87
August 1, 2013
Sirius XM Bloody Roots Hammers Out 30 Years of Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All
Above: “Bang That Head That Does Not Bang”–Rich “Banger” Burch, R.I.P. (photo by Brian Lew from Murder in the Front Row )
BLOODY ROOTS HAMMERS OUT 30 YEARS OF METALLICA’S KILL EM ALL
Week of August 3, 2013
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On July 25, 1983, a small independent record label released Metallica’s debut album, Kill ‘Em All. From humble beginnings, the album became a cornerstone of the emerging thrash metal movement, and has gone on to sell almost 10 m...
July 29, 2013
Sirius XM Bloody Roots of Los Angeles Hardcore
Above: Black Flag, from WE GOT POWER!
BLOODY ROOTS OF LOS ANGELES HARDCORE
Week of July 27, 2013
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Before there was thrash metal, there was hardcore punk, a dangerous, intense sub-breed of punk rock that clashed with police everywhere and turned music upside down. While glam bands paraded down Sunset Strip, greater Los Angeles became home to the nastiest breed of disaffected hardcore punks, bands like Black Flag, Circle Jerks,...
July 18, 2013
Five Years of Bazillion Points: Hot Party in Brooklyn 7/30
During the final week of July 2008, a truck pulled up outside the Pencil Factory Building and unloaded five tons of SWEDISH DEATH METAL books. Five years, 15 titles, 1500 late nights, and 500 tons of paper later, we invite you to celebrate the miraculous survival of an extremely small (and a small bit extreme) independent book publisher.
Join us July 30 at 7PM for a festive atmosphere summoned with the social alchemy of librarians, death metal fans, bookstore believers, and literate punks. For...
Sirius XM Bloody Roots of Progressive Metal: The 1990s
Sirius XM Bloody Roots of Progressive Metal: The 1990s
w/guest Jeff Wagner, author of Mean Deviation
Sat 7/20, 6PM ET
Sun 7/21, 2PM ET
Tues 7/23, 3PM ET
Thurs 7/25, 6PM ET
By popular demand, we are revisiting the second session of this three-partmaster class inprogressiveheavymetal. Host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”) welcomes guest Jeff Wagner, author of Mean Deviation: Four Decades of ProgressiveHeavyMetal. Scanning the1990sfor signs of intelligentmetal,BloodyRootshits the jackpot with Dream...
July 16, 2013
TOUCH AND GO/DETROIT ROCK CITY: Summer Road Show w/Tesco Vee + Steve Miller
Good news sweaty people of Chicago, Indy, Cleveland, Detroit, and assorted gritty Michigan towns—your summers have been spared!
Literary punk rock frontmen Steve Miller and Tesco Vee, veterans of the unbridled musical sounds that made the Midwest famous, will appear together at a series of sweltering hot July and August events to talk about Miller’s new oral history, Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Five Decades of Rock ‘N Roll in America’s Loudest City (Da Capo). The two will also...
July 15, 2013
Sub Pop Records Co-founder Will Publish SUB POP U.S.A. Anthology in 2014
Underground music fanzines have been at the heart of almost every Bazillion Points release. The majority of our authors at one point or another published some kind of homemade periodical, even Andy McCoy! Our We Got Power!, Touch and Go, and Metalion books are based largely on reprints of classic early ’80s zines. In each case, the zines opened portals to historic happenings. Coming 2014, our Sub Pop USA digs further into the DIY regional scenes of the 1980s, and charts the growth of a “netwo...
Sirius XM Bloody Roots: Taste of Hellbent for Cooking
Above: Hellbent for Cooking author Annick Giroux w/contributing chef Mille Petrozza of Kreator
BLOODY ROOTS TASTE OF “HELLBENT FOR COOKING”
w/Special Guest Annick “Morbid Chef” Giroux
Week of July 13, 2013
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Launching Year 10 of Bloody Roots and celebrating five years of Bazillion Points metal books, “Death to false meals” is the battle cry this week. Host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”) welcomes guest Annick Giroux, author of HE...
July 3, 2013
Sirius XM Bloody Roots of Swedish Death Metal With Guest Daniel Ekeroth
All through July, Bloody Roots launches its tenth year of weekly metal history lessons and celebrates five years of Bazillion Points Books with shows spotlighting heavy books from the Bazillion Points shelf. First off, Daniel Ekeroth’s classic report on the world’s most intense death metal scene!
BLOODY ROOTS OF THE HISTORY OF SWEDISH DEATH METAL
With Special Guest Daniel Ekeroth
Week of July 6, 2013
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Thurs 7/11 9PM ET
For this week’s heavy metal histo...
Who Let the Long-Haired, Distortion-Crazed Seattle Rockers Loose on 1980s Europe?
Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman did, that’s who. The evidence of Mudhoney, Nirvana, and Tad romping across Italy, West Germany, Switzerland, France, England, and the rest of Western Europe is forthcoming in October via Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989, by Sub Pop Records cofounder Bruce Pavitt. In the meantime, we’re throwing these cards into book orders from Bazillion Points. We’re also sending a box over to the Sub Pop Mega Mart store temporarily set up during Sub Pop’s Silver...
Watch Black Flag, Adolescents, Saccharine Trust Vets Reading WE GOT POWER!
Filmmaker/author David Markey (Lovedolls Superstar; 1991: The Year Punk Broke) has released a fantastic full-length video of the historic 2013 punk lit reading at Book Soup L.A. by several contributors to WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California book (Bazillion Points, 2012), by Markey and Jordan Schwartz.
Turns out, these punk veterans have a lot to say, and hearing them read their own pieces from the book brings another dimension to the pain and power in their aweso...
