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A visual collection of hardcore punk graphics, flyers, and poster art done by Hafiz. A taste of counterculture history in Singapore and beyond between 2015-2020. Capturing the raw and unapologetic energy that defines a community that thrives on the DIY ethos of music and art.

64-page zine format booklet.
Printed in Singapore.
Email: hafizbastard@gmail.com

TROPIKA DISTOPIA Zine

5.5" × 8.5".
228 pages.
Black and White.
Printed in the USA.
22 rare & never-before-seen photographs (Michael Dubin, Paul Drake).

 

Red Letter Days is the debut novel from Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, The Terrible Twos). 

Red Letter Days follows the life of a musician growing up, on the road, and pursuing his dream of being a successful musician. Taken from journal entries from 1990–2000, the book is a collection of short vignettes about Pryor’s experiences crisscrossing the country (and the continents) with the band and the cast of characters he meets along the way told via first-person accounts of his most memorable moments.

About the Author 

You already know Matt Pryor as the frontman for the long-running acts The Get Up Kids and The New Amsterdams as well as an accomplished solo artist. His first book Red Letter Days is an intimate glimpse into his life from 1990–2000. “This was never meant to be a book about emo or even the band in particular, I didn’t want to write about the ‘scene.’ That is already well documented,” he explains. “I just wanted to write a book to see if I could do it. It’s the same way I felt when I was sixteen and I wanted to make an album: I don’t really have a reason, it’s just something I wanted to do.”

The result is a collection of short vignettes about Pryor’s early life, his struggle with childhood Diabetes and what it was like crisscrossing the country (and the continents) with his band in the days before iPhones and texting. It’s a snapshot of a time period that feels nostalgic yet familiar. “Every one of the stories in the book is one that I’ve told backstage, at a bar or on a porch,” Pryor says. “I just wanted to translate them from an oral tradition to a written one.” From playing shows in nontraditional venues to detailing the cast of characters he meets along the way, Red Letter Days gives insight into how Pryor processed this time period through first-person accounts of his most memorable moments.

“I have found—and this is fairly recently—that things I write don’t really hit me like that until later,” Pryor responds when asked about how it felt to revisit this era on an emotional level. “In the moment I just think that’s a cool song, lyric or story; it seems to be that I can only really connect on that level once I’ve had some distance from it.” Whether you were at one of those sweaty all ages shows in the ’90s or have only discovered his music recently, Red Letter Days is a document of that era told in a conversational tone that is as entertaining as it is endearing. (As told by Jonah Bayer)

About the Publisher

Washed Up Books is an independent publishing imprint founded in 2017 by Los Angeles-based music historian Tom Mullen. Their previous titles include Anthology of Emo Volume 1 and Anthology of Emo Volume 2. Tom Mullen is also the founder of Washed Up Emo, a podcast with over 200 interviews with notable musicians with the emo genre. He’s spent time at Equal Vision, Vagrant, TVT, EMI, Atlantic, Universal, and Sony, where he was a 2016 Clio and Cannes Lions winner for his work with Bob Dylan. In 2007, he founded Washed Up Emo, a destination for the entire history of emo. The site has been featured in The New Yorker, AV Club, Pitchfork, Billboard, Spin, Paste, Village Voice, Stereogum, Chicago Reader, Noisey, and Brooklyn Vegan.

MATT PRYOR - Red Letter Days (Soft Cover)

Contributors: Jason Atomic, Gaye Black, Mike Diana, Krent Able, Anthony Ausang, Savage Pencil, Corinne Halbert, Paul ‘Mutartis’ Boswell, Dennis Franklin, Andrew Labanaris, Laughing Indio, Rachael Gater, Nico de la Mort, Anna Piera di Silvestre, Billy Chainsaw, Carlo ‘Uranus’ Quispe, and many more.

“Black metal is the essence of Satan forged into shining steel, a gruesome axe that shines its dismal, eerie gleam in the night when no other lights shine anymore.” (Satanic Warmaster – Werwolf)

How many shades of black exist in this world? None so dark as the darkest soul of the Black Metal: A Coloring Book! Now, for yourself but definitely NOT your young minions, Black Metal: A Coloring Book is a perfect way to enjoy the pantheon of Black Metal Gods.

We introduced you to the Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground, co-written by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlindin in 1997. About which, Rolling Stone said, “Lords of Chaos provides a comprehensive look at this particular subculture and the unpleasantness left in its wake.”  We followed up with Dayal Patterson’s seminal, Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult and the upcoming Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story.

Black Metal: A Coloring Book will disturb and entertain you.

Black Metal: A Coloring Book

Feral House Coloring Books for Adults

Preface By Joe Petagno

This adult coloring book about the recently deceased rock legend Lemmy Kilmister, famous for his hard metal and hard living, features drawings from many of his fans as well as many personal stories of the guitarist and vocalist’s life and work with the bands Hawkwind and Motörhead—and the liters of whisky he consumed at West Hollywood’s famous Rainbow Bar.

Included in the book is work by Joe Petagno, who painted the cover of Motörhead’s renowned Orgasmatron album.

Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead: Color the Ace of Spades

ROTTEN TIMES Fanzine Issue Two is finally out! With sick photos and rad interviews with punk/hc/emo/post-hc from Singapore (& some Malaysia)!

Featuring:
Fuse
Destiny
Recover
Subsonic Eye
Pseudo Reality
Kudis
Wenjie & Firstblood Productions
ConfinedXspace (Labuan Island Malaysia) Recall fest w/ Ibliss, No Good, Traumatic Disorder, Orang Planet
Sean Sundaran (Wreckonize, Losing End, Tariot etc)
C.I.T.O.C (artist)

ROTTEN TIMES - Fanzine Issue Two

Label: White Rabbit Books

Fully approved biography of 'the Wizard', the Dorset-doom metal band who for over two decades have set the bar for heaviness. 

'Electric Wizard is heavy, man - we don't sing about love and flowers' - Jus Oborn

In 1993, in the market town of Wimbone Minster in Dorset, England, the heaviest band in the world was born.

Led by guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, Electric Wizard began as an untameable power trio. They inhaled the iniquity of their lives and vomited it out in colossal waves of doom metal, synthesising the forbidding local landscape, biker culture, video-nasties, black magic rituals and titanic doses of psychedelics. In 1997 they released their revolutionary second album, Come My Fanatics... Then, after triumphant and calamitous tours of the USA and following the release of arguably the heaviest rock album ever recorded, 2000's Dopethrone, Electric Wizard all but imploded, destroyed by the very reality they were fighting against.

However, when guitarist Liz Buckingham joined Oborn on guitar for We Live, they drew a magic circle around themselves in a new line-up that went on to explore deeper occult horrors on modern doom classic Witchcult Today onwards.

Come My Fanatics is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the subculture the band has absorbed and, in turn, created. From seventies exploitation cinema, through the writers of Weird Tales magazine and a panoply of the marginal and downright sinister, to the band's own live ceremonial happenings - this is Electric Wizard's world. We're just dying in it.

Dan Franklin has written about metal and heavy music for over ten years. He is a contributor to music and pop culture website The Quietus. His first book HEAVY was published in 2020.

DAN FRANKLIN - Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard Book (Hardcover)

Featuring photos and interviews with 11 bands/artists/organizers, from punk to emo to metal, old to new, Singapore to Malaysia. Contributions from rad local/regional photographers. 56 pages full color nice paper.

Featuring: Doldrey, Sial, Overthrown, Forests, Eat Shit and Die, Spirits, Heel, Darah, Entropy, Deekshiiit (artist), Delta Trichome (organizers)

ROTTEN TIMES - July 2023 Fanzine

In 1987, off-the-grid punk agitator Larry Livermore began documenting the burgeoning DIY East Bay punk rock scene with the newly founded Lookout Records. He had no idea this little label, first run out of his solar powered cabin in the Northern California mountains, then a cramped room in the backstreets of Berkeley, would rise to international prominence, introducing the world to the likes of Green Day, Operation Ivy, and a host of other artists.

How To Ru(i)n A Record Label documents the author s experiences from Gilman Street to Bialystok, Poland, as he built Lookout from the ground up, only to find himself losing control of the label a mere ten years later, and abruptly walking away from the multi-million dollar company when it was at its peak of success.

Throughout that time, however, he was central to the influential scene that gave birth to Gilman Street, Maximum Rocknroll, and a new generation of independent music that has had an everlasting effect on both the underground and mainstream. In the process, he just might even have found himself. Longtime Lookout Records fans will find this book answers all the questions they ever had about the rise and fall of this genuine punk rock institution, and for the uninitiated, this is a document of a time and place where the love of music brought together a bunch of misfits to create a community.

How To Ruin a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records

322 pages with a 3/4 dust jacket

RÅPUNK documents the Swedish raw punk scene between 1981 and 1989. Inspired by bands like DISCHARGE, CRASS and  DEAD KENNEDYS, the second wave of Swedish punk bands launched a furious, unique musical and visual onslaught that still affects and influences punk fans worldwide.

The book captures the spirit of this era by featuring rare and never before seen photos of bands  like ANTI-CIMEX, ASOCIAL, AVSKUM, DISARM, HUVUDTVÄTT/HEADCLEANERS, MISSBRUKARNA, MOB 47, MODERAT LIKVIDATION, RAPED TEENAGERS, RÖVSVETT, SKITSLICKERS, SVART PARAD, SVART SNÖ, SWANKERS PMS, TOTALITÄR and many, many more. It also documents the people — who by going to gigs, organising demonstrations, producing fanzines and releasing tapes and records — all represented different creative and ideological but equally important parts of the scene. 

RÅPUNK also features a great number of fanzines, posters, record and cassette artwork — all representing and encapsulating the scene’s raw, expressive and important Do It Yourself design aspect. 

Written by DAVID ANDERSSON  — a member of the scene as a singer in IDENTITY and zine maker of BUBBEL-BAD — with a foreword by legendary NAPALM DEATH singer LEE DORRIAN, who toured Sweden at the time, and was one of the few promoters to bring the Swedish råpunk bands to the UK. The book fills a previously blank area on the map as this is the first time the Swedish raw punk scene of the 1980s gets a visual documentation in book form. 

RAPUNK - The Birth Of Swedish Hardcore 1981-1989 Book

by Legs McNeil (Author), Gillian McCain (Author)

“Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.”—Time Out New York

“Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity.”—The New York Times

“No volume serves juicier dish on punk’s New York birth . . . Tales of sex, drugs and music that will make you wish you’d been there.”—Rolling Stone

A contemporary classic, Please Kill Me is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive account of that explosive era. This 20th anniversary edition features new photos and an afterword by the authors.

“Utterly and shamelessly sensational.”—Newsday

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk 20th Anniversary Edition

Tattooist/artist ERROR has just dropped his book, containing his brilliant artwork and painting. You'll probably have seen his work around the punk world

Now available at the store!

ERROR Art Book

Anthology of Emo Volume 1 & 2 Book (Softcover)
Edited and Introduction by Tom Mullen (Washed Up Emo)
Foreword by Andrew Sacher (Brooklyn Vegan)

Interviews with:

- Dan Didier & Davey Von Bohlen (The Promise Ring / Maritime / Vermont)
- Norman Brannon (Texas Is the Reason / New End Original / Shelter)
- Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional / Further Seems Forever / Twin Forks / Vacant Andys)
- Mike Kinsella (American Football / Owen / Cap'n Jazz / Joan of Arc / Owls / The One Up Downstairs / Their/They're/There)
- Chris Leo (The Van Pelt / The Lapse / Native Nod / Vague Angels)
- Caithlin De Marrais, Kaia Fischer & William Kuehn (Rainer Maria)
- Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids / The New Amsterdams / The Terrible Twos / Radar State)
- Eric Richter (Christie Front Drive / Antarctica / The 101 / Golden City)
- Blair Shehan (Knapsack / The Jealous Sound / Racquet Club)
- Chris Simpson (Mineral / The Gloria Record / Zookeeper / Mountain Time)

In 2017, after 100+ interviews with artists and those involved with the emo and hardcore scene for the critically acclaimed Washed Up Emo Podcast, Tom Mullen, on the 10th anniversary of WashedUpEmo.com, introduced Anthology of Emo. The book, which sold out in less than a year, compiled the best stories from the podcast and features rare and unseen photos and ephemera.

The follow up, Volume 2, continues what the first volume started with interviews with heavyweights in the music genre including Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat World), Chris Conley (Saves the Day), Bob Nanna (Braid), authors and scene veterans Trevor Kelley and Leslie Simon, and the final interview of emo scene legend, Jon Bunch (Sense Field) prior to his untimely death in 2016.

For a word that’s often misunderstood, the Anthology of Emo series is an informative companion and faithful guide to the genre of emo.

ANTHOLOGY OF EMO VOLUME 1 & 2 Book

ANTHOLOGY OF EMO VOLUME 1 & 2 Book Bundle