Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} C'est La Guerre Early Writings 1978-1983 by Byron Coley C'est La Guerre: Early Writings 1978-1983 by Byron Coley. Coley was born in Manhattan in 1956. He has written extensively about underground culture since the mid-70s. His work for Forced Exposure and Spin made him legendary. This book shows it all started years earlier at NY Rocker and Take It! Since then he has published poetry, writen liner notes for hundreds of records, spewed for more �zines than anyone could ever remember and contributed to various anthologies. His previous book was �No Wave� with Thurston Moore. C�est la guerre is a perfect snapshot, via letters and early articles, of a time of great changes in american music, that of the emergence of new kinds of wild rock, punk or noise, that would extend the explorations of free jazz or of great innovators like Captain Beefheart. Some of the articles included are about David Bowie, Robert Fripp, Fred Frith, Devo, H�sker D�, Suicide, Lydia Lunch, Jim Morrison, The Meat Puppets and the minutemen. Foreword by Mike Watt. Cover drawn & silkscreened by Simon Boss�. 142 pages, Bilingual (English/French), translated by Marie Frankland (John-Glassco Translation Price 2007). 6.5 x 6.5 inches. « Byron used to come by SST Records, where I was living at the time. He would help the label with college radio ads. I would ask him about a band or an artist because it seemed that there wasn't anything or anyone in the world of music he wasn't conversant about. » Some reviews of the book can be found here. Only a few copies left! Price * : Canada $ 18.00 / Eur. � 16.00 / US $ 18.00 * Includes shipping. Third Factory/Notes to Poetry. Posts Tagged ‘ Jonathan Franzen ’ Attention Span 2011 | Michael T. Fournier. Mike Brook | Hotel Homo Sapiens | Fronch |2010. Dry as a desert and pithier than a biology lab, Mike Brook’s debut novel serves up the tale of Ike Lightningfoot, a hotel employee who spends most of the novel locked in the basement of the hotel that serves as the title’s namesake—and also as a commentary on the state of tourism, the digital age, and colonialism. Aaron Cometbus | Cometbus #54: On Tour With Green Day . | self-released | 2011. It’s incredible to think that Aaron’s been at it for thirty years. There were a few in the middle of the last decade where it appeared the fanzine which bears his name would be permanently stalled at issue 49 as he started publishing tiny novels—and power to him for that—but the day when I find a new issue remains a national holiday for me. The new issue is one of the most poignant I can remember: his old Gilman Street friends take him on tour to Southeast Asia, where he contemplates the ways in which their relationships—and successes—have changed them over the years. Of course, using old friends also allows Cometbus, in his inimitable style, to also reflect on himself and the ways he’s changed. Arresting and engaging—he hasn’t lost a step. Byron Coley | C’est La Guerre: Early Writings 1978-1983 | L’Oie De Cravan | 2011. I caught the last issue of Forced Exposure on the newsstand and promptly had my mind blown. Byron Coley’s writing was (and is) a blend of encyclopedic knowledge and direct, acerbic wit, which I’ve since sought out (and occasionally stolen from) with fanboy urgency. L’Oie De Cravan’s collection compiles Coley’s early writings about—among others—Devo, the Minutemen and Suicide, from his early days writing for Take It! and the New York Rocker. It’s no Forced Exposure rerelease—a treatment similar to the one ‘Touch And Go’ fanzine was given in 2010 is overdue—but it’s a joy to watch Coley’s turns of phrase and immediacy develop in his early work. Jonathan Franzen | Freedom | Farrar | 2010. The smallest (biggest) bit of minutiae, and show of nuance, in Franzen’s novel was a conversation between Walter Berglund—nominally the book’s main character—and Richard Katz, the aging rocker-turned-alt.country-icon, about the former’s imminent move to Washington DC: nothing good has ever come out of that town, the men agree—except for Bad Brains and Ian MacKaye (co-owner of Dischord Records, frontman on straightedge bulwarks Minor Threat, and singer/guitarist of Fugazi). Later, Berglund, when thinking of name for a youth initiative, briefly considers using “Youth Against Fascism,” a song by Sonic Youth, as its namesake. Both men agree it’s one of the band’s best. When reading, I got the joke immediately: of course a bunch of music geeks think that song is one of Sonic Youth’s best—it’s the one song in the band’s catalogue featuring guest guitars by (wait for it!) Ian MacKaye. Well done, Mr. Franzen! James Joyce | Ulysses | Vintage | 1933. Got that one out of the way. David Markey, dir. | Reality 86’d | We Got Power Films | 1986/2011. The director of ‘1991: the Year Punk Broke’ and ‘Desperate Teenage Lovedolls’ also played drums in Painted Willie, one of the bands in SST Records’ bloated late 80’s stable. Painted Willie—along with Greg Ginn’s side project Gone—toured the United States in 1986 on what turned out to be Black Flag’s final tour. For years, rumors swirled regarding ‘Reality 86’d,’ the film Markey shot while on tour. Greg Ginn, Black Flag’s guitarist (and owner of SST) blocked the film’s release, citing fuzzy legal reasons, adding to the film’s apocryphal status. One day in May, the film surfaced online—Markey says he was inspired to post it on Vimeo by a Henry Rollins column which lambasted Ginn for never paying royalties to bands on his label— and disappeared just as quickly. (Enterprising surfers can track it down, I’m sure.) ‘Reality 86’d’ has always been a great story. As a movie, it’s not too shabby, either. Plenty of Super-8 performances with soundboard mixes, tour jokes, and road montages, as well as footage of the well-oiled last Black Flag lineup (with rhythm section Anthony Martinez and C’el). The rawness of the footage serves the band—and their aesthetic, and legacy—well. Medications | Completely Removed | Dischord | 2010. Sufficiently mathy to keep me scratching my head when I try to figure out time signatures; sufficiently poppy to induce head-bobbing, with virtuoso sung (not shouted) vocals in the midst. Patti Smith | Just Kids | Ecco | 2010. I wasn’t expecting much—as with Talking Heads and Elvis Costello, I missed the developmental stage I probably needed to really grok Patti Smith’s albums. But wow! Smith’s late 60’s New York City navigation full of sentiment without resorting to the ‘-al,’ with a cast of characters familiar in name but fully developed through Smith’s observations. Mike Watt | “Hyphenated-Man” | Clenchedwrench | 2011 dos | dos y dos | Clenchedwrench | 2011. Quite a year for Mike Watt: “Hyphenated-Man” intertwines a typically weird set of concepts (characters in a Bosch triptych become the cast of ‘Wizard of Oz’) in his third rock opera, the first since 2004’s ‘Divine Comedy’-inspired rumination on illness ‘The Secondman’s Middle Stand.’ “Hyphenated-Man” is written in the style and spirit of the Minutemen, Watt’s early 80’s punk band which ended tragically with the death of singer/guitarist D. Boon in 1985. Watt used Boon’s Telecasted to write the songs on the new record—his departed friend’s presence is stamped all over the album, which blazes through 30 songs in 48 minutes. Easily Watt’s best and most cohesive work since 1984’s ‘Double Nickels On The Dime,’ due in no small part to the musical agility and endurance of his backing band, the Missingmen (guitarist Tom Watson, formerly of Slovenly, and drummer Raul Morales). As if that’s not enough, Watt and Kira, late of Black Flag, released their first album as dos since 1996. It’s an odd concept, to be sure—two bass players, no drums, half-sung vocals—but the duo successfully wrestle each other for both dominance and the listener’s attention with ping-pongy blurts and rumbles which occasionally approach something resembling structure. Billy Wimsatt | Please Don’t Bomb The Suburbs | Soft Skull | 2011. The artist formerly known as Upski bust through with ‘Bomb The Suburbs.’ Since then, he’s advocated for philanthropy via the ‘Cool Rich Kids Movement,’ the dissolution of prisons, and in his latest, not working in the non-profit/lefty sector. The old chestnut about “fucking shit up from the inside” is explained as credibly as I’ve ever heard it. C'est La Guerre: Early Writings 1978-1983 by Byron Coley. Poems of resistance against death and the dead squares. After years of collecting and reading the stuff, Byron Coley started writing poetry in 1998 as a reaction to the death vortex seemingly surrounding everything in his life at the time. From that moment on, he wrote lots of poems, mainly published in chapbooks, broadsides, and underground magazines: all almost impossible to find. Defense Against Squares is the first major collection of Byron Coley's poetry to be published. It features odes to personal heroes such as Jack Rose, Lou Reed, and Captain Beefheart, poems against the rotten world of George Bush and words of resistance against all squares. Introduction by Kim Gordon. Cover drawing by Charles Burns. 166 pages. Bilingual, French translation by Marie Frankland (John-Glassco Translation Award 2007). Format 22.5 x 12 cm. Out of print for us but still available at Forced Exposure online store. Price * : �puis� * Includes shipping. Pay by cheque OR Bric-a-brac & The small hours Myriam Gendron. 7 " vinyl record. Bric-�-Brac and The small hours, two songs that are not on the vinyl pressing of the album No so deep as a well l. Words by Dorothy Parker. First production of �Oie de Cravan Records� co-released with Feeding Tube Records. 500 copies. Sleeve hand printed by Kiva Stimac of Popolo Press. Lyrics included. Listen to Bric-�-brac :Here "Following her acclaimed 2014 debut LP, Not So Deep As a Well (FTR 146-3LP), Montreal's Myriam Gendron has created musical settings for another pair of Dorothy Parker poems -- 'Bric a Brac' and 'The Small Hours.' The slow, sensuously beautiful combination of Myriam's voice and guitar, combined with dolorous genius of Parker's words is as intimate as ever. The pairing is seamless and natural, conveying an instant warmth that is a wonderful way to see out the winter, hailing the spring on our doorstep, with hints of the endless circle of seasons to follow. With a letterpressed sleeve and insert by the brilliant Kiva Tanya Stimac of Popolo Press, this record is a rare and special object." --Byron Coley, 2015 !0 dollars + 2 dollars postal fees. Price * : Canada $ 12.00 / Eur. � 14.00 / US $ 12.00 * Includes shipping. Pay by cheque OR Le petit guide du Plan Nord Michel Hellman. This whole book is not drawned but built in the most amazing way : using finally cut garbage bags! These bags were brought back from the Great North of Quebec where they are often used to sniff glue. Michel Hellman uses these to built incredible images of beauty and despair of the Great North. Cut-out strip. 7 x 7 inches. 54 pages. Price * : Canada $ 18.00 / Eur. � 17.00 / US $ 18.00 * Includes shipping. Pay by cheque OR Fantastic Plotte Julie Doucet. This is the complete (almost complete) content of the Dirty Plotte fanzine. with original french and english versions (with translations). It is the new version of the D&Q book L�ve ta jambe mon poisson est mort that has long been out of print but with lots more : fanzine covers and stuff. Comics. Bilingual, With presentation text by Julie Doucet. 2014. 7 1/2 x 10 inches. 144 pages. Price * : Canada $ 22.00 / Eur. � 26.00 / US $ 22.00 * Includes shipping. Pay by cheque OR Aiming for the gut Mivil Desch�nes Jean-S�bastien Larouche. Mostly in quebecer english, this book is the insane fire of poetry burning at it's craziest. Images and texts join here to create something quite unique but somehow remeniscent of the work of Raymond Pettibon. Drawings & text. Color and Black & White. Silkscreened cover by Simon Boss�. 6,5 x 6.5 inches. 118 pages. Check out their blog, right here : A/F/T/G. Price * : Canada $ 16.00 / Eur. � 16.00 / US $ 16.00 * Includes shipping. Pay by cheque OR Dix po�mes d'Edgar Poe traduits par Alice Becker-Ho Edgar Poe. Ten poems by Edgar Poe, translated by Alice Becker-Ho (Alice Debord). There is no need to present Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). This book is a very unique translation of ten of his poems (the most famous one being Annabel Lee) that had been previously translated by St�phane Mallarm� in a precious style very remote from the spirit of Poe. Alice Becker- Ho's translation is both precise and moving. The selection here and the translation are obviously haunted by the theme of the lost of the loved one, central to Poe and to the translator. Poetry. Bilingual english/french edition. 15,5 x 23 cm. Hand stiched, 40 uncut pages on ivory paper. 700 copies April 2013. Price * : Canada $ 14.00 / Eur. � 14.00 / US $ 14.00 * Includes shipping. Pay by cheque OR Hourra pour Shane/ Hurrah for Shane Shane Brangan. Hurrah for Shane is a desesperate prose-poem. Writen in a simple hallucinated style the book is presented here in a english-french bilingual edition. The publisher received this text from Barcelona around 1991 from the writer whom he never met. Shane Brangan is of Irish origin and apparently has writen this text in London in 1987, Part of our "Le fer & sa rouille" collection of hand sowed books in a limited numbered edition of 200. 12.5x18.5cm. 24 uncut pages under a mustard cover. Price * : Canada $ 14.00 / Eur. � 13.00 / US $ 14.00 * Includes shipping. Meltzer’s Night at the Opera. In this brief review of the Ellen Willis anthology, Brian Joseph Davis writes: “When Richard Meltzer, a one-time student of Allan Krapow, invented rock criticism as an art prank — applying the jargon of aesthetics usually reserved for the Met Opera to a review of The White Album –— he was only half joking. The serious part of his game, that pop music was a … Continue reading Meltzer’s Night at the Opera. Promoting Your Bad Self. From Logan K. Young’s review of the Byron Coley anthology, which I linked to the other day: But, of course, [Coley] didn’t start out that way. “This is an example of my writing at its shittiest,” reads the preface to his NY Rocker ‘82 review of the Dü’s Land Speed Record. (Literally, he spends half his word count waxing how the French would shove shrapnel … Continue reading Promoting Your Bad Self. Nostalgia With Its Finger on the Trigger. Summer 2011 Music Questionnaire, in California magazine, featuring Jeff Chang and Greil Marcus, among others. Sample: Q: “What songs transport you back to your student days at Berkeley?” Marcus: “None. I don’t really listen, or hear, music that way, as a nostalgic trigger.” (via The Discography) Continue reading Nostalgia With Its Finger on the Trigger. Roots of Metal. Sandy Pearlman, reviewing the Stones’s Got Live if You Want It! in issue #8 of Crawdaddy! (March 1967): On this album the Stones go metal. Technology is in the saddle — as an ideal and as a method. A mechanically hysterical audience is matched to a mechanically hysterical sound. Side two of the album is a metal side. Most mechanical. It has the historic “Last … Continue reading Roots of Metal. Early Coley. A review of Byron Coley’s C’est la guerre: Early Writings: 1978-1983 (published by L’Oie de Cravan, in both English and French), at Blurt Online. And to further mark the occasion, an interesting interview with Coley at Vice magazine. Q: So back when this stuff was being written, did you think you’d still be writing about music 30 years later? A: I remember talking to Richard … Continue reading Early Coley. Kael Biography, Oct. 2011 (link updated) Reading Books About Hüsker Dü. Hüsker Dü’s Propulsive Liberation (Reviews of two new Dü books by Christgaü — including one co-written by Mould and Michael Azerrad — in the New York Times) “Three dec​ades later I still feel lucky to have experienced that transmutation of wrath into flight. Not only did Hüsker Dü generate an impressive recorded legacy during their eight years on earth, they were ferocious live — as … Continue reading Reading Books About Hüsker Dü. Byron Coley. Byron Coley is an American music critic who wrote prominently for Forced Exposure magazine in the 1980s, [1] from the fifth issue until the magazine ceased publication in 1993. Prior to Forced Exposure , he wrote for New York Rocker , Boston Rock , and Take It! Coley is one of the first writers to have extensively documented indie rock from its inception to the present day. Coley was a contributing writer and the Underground Editor at Spin in the 1980s and '90s, and currently writes for Wire and Arthur with Thurston Moore. He also runs Ecstatic Yod, a record label and shop based in Florence, Massachusetts. [2] Coley has contributed liner notes to albums by the Flesh Eaters, Borbetomagus, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., The Dream Syndicate, Big Boys, Yo La Tengo, John Fahey, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Flaherty/Corsano duo, Urinals, and numerous others. He has also appeared in documentaries about musical artists Half Japanese, Minutemen, Jandek, The Holy Modal Rounders and Borbetomagus, in each extolling the genius of the subject matter. When he wrote the Flesh Eaters' entry in the Spin Alternative Record Guide , Coley stated that he considers A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die the best rock album ever recorded. For the 2007 Deluxe Edition of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation , he contributed to the liner notes with a reflective essay on the legendary album. Coley is also a published poet and occasionally gives public readings of his (and others') works. He also wrote a biography of Chuck Norris that was published in 1986. [3] He also published a quickie bio of Mötley Crüe under the pseudonym "Billy Dwight" (an in-joke). In 2010, Coley became involved with Feeding Tube Records in Northampton, Massachusetts, a record store where he sells rare items from his personal collection. In 2011, Coley published the first collection of his reviews, C'est la guerre : Early writings 1978-1983 , in a bilingual edition put out by Montreal publisher L'Oie de Cravan. Related Research Articles. Carlton Douglas Ridenhour , known professionally as Chuck D , is an American rapper, author, and producer. As the leader of the rap group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav, Chuck D helped create politically and socially conscious hip hop music in the mid- 1980s. The Source ranked him at No. 12 on their list of the Top 50 Hip-Hop Lyricists of All Time. Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. 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