Hip Hop

From https://theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/book-your-own-fucking-life-the-pre-internet-guide-that-connected-the-indie-scene/ -: " the pre-internet guide that connected the indie scene...Maximum Rock N Roll helped pull together all these threads into a 1992 guide named Book Your Fucking Life – and it changed the entire musical world. The magazine’s manifesto is laid out at the beginning of the guide, and points towards the kind of social networking that now runs rampant. Back then it seemed innocent and filled with possibilities. The burgeoning “DIY movement” is described as vibrant. This guide is filled with hope. “Over these past years the DIY movement has grown at an unprecedented rate, in some cases fueled by profit-making trends, but for the most part on a real grass-roots level. The national and international communication within the DIY movement is what has kept it strong over the years. Through the efforts of certain individual and fanzines, people have been able to make concrete connections between people of similar interests and have created an entire underground economy based on the spreading of our own living culture and ideal. Bands have been able to promote themselves, book tours, put out records without bowing down to the corporate music industry. That is the essence of DIY. People helping other people without an eye for profit, only for creating a better world and having some fun. Networking has played a major role in making all this happen. That is why we present “Book Your Own Fucking Life” for just this tool.' Listings are by city, state, and country and were crowdsourced.

Interviews with An Albatros, Benoît Pioulard, Cigar-Box Guitars, Brazilian Girls, Pit Er Pat, These Arms are Snakes, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Vivian Girls, Parts & Labor, Helms Alee, O'Death, The Small Stakes, Yo Majesty, Young Widows, Jarboe, The Patrón Tequilla Express, Take-Away Shows, The Art of Screaming, Fucked Up, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Love is All, Yacht, Moon and Moon, Impure Wilhelmina, Trash Talk, Mercury Rev, Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Boutique Guitar Effects, Crime in Choir, Nick Cave, Lighting Design, Green Touring, Past Lives, DIY Ventures, The Bad Plus, Serena-Maneesh.

Interviews with Carolina Chocolate Drops, League of Electronic Musical urban Robots, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Open Sound New Orleans, Gord Hill, Tim Barry, Netflix vs. the Little Guy, Mark Jenkins, J.G. Thrilwell, Mike Patton, Konono No. 1, Wu Fei, The Tango Saloon, Super/Prime, Jorge Chamorro, Ben Perowsky's Mood Orchestra, Matmos, Cougar, God of Shamisen, KEnan Bell, Trentmoller, Ben Goldberg, Trans Am, Helen Money, Scout Niblett, Kap Bambino, Rita J. Mammoth Grinder, Pierced Arrows, Phantogram, Krallice, Liars, Jesse Morris, Cory Allen, Richard Colman, The Locust, Tobacco, Mexicans with Guns, Daedelus, RJD2, Castrah, Vockah Redu, Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore, Boris, Cleric, Dangers, Daughters, Tim Fite, The Magnetic Fields, Met-Banana, Mr. Hnome, Raise the Red Lantern, White Hills, White Mice, Rudi Zygadlo.

Interviews with Crystal Antlers, TV Segall, Angel Deradoorian, Dysrhyhmthia, James Blackshaw, Burning Fight, Sir Richard Bishop, Ian Svenonius, Matana Roberts, Om, Replikas, Thee Oh Sees, Wolves in the Throne Room, Poison Arrows, Gian Squid, Helado Negro, Health, Lydia Ortiz, Serengeti & Polyphonic, Viva Voce, Loop 2.4.3, Dark Castle, Gallows, Double Dagger, Vieux Farka Touré, James Spooner, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Jeremy Enigk, Quantic, Spindrift, Sunn O))), The Pine Hill Haints, Pirates Press, Simone Shubuck.

Interviews with Alash, Black Cobra, A Place to Bury Strangers, Califone, Ahleuchatistas, Mount Eerie, Why?, Fuck Buttons, Converge, Harvestman, João Orecchia, Vicious Cycle, Ballpark Organists, Miss Aniela, Themselves, Kid Koala, Rufa & the April Fishes, Blackout Film Festival, Vick Chenutt, Syntaks, Adam Cruickshank, Vernon Chatmanm, Jason Adasiewicz, Tortoise, Sound Design, Joe Gideon & the Shark, Soul Revival, God God Dammit Dammit, Baroness, Justin Walsh.

Interviews with Dalek, Staff Benda Bilili, Dan Deacon, Locrian, Justin Townes Earle, N.A.S.A., Digital Leather, Fever Ray, P.O.S., Ocean, Fire on Fire, William Elliott Whitmore, Sonnenzimmer, True Widow, Kylesa, A. Armada, Chinese Dub Orchestra, Mi Ami, Independent Publishing Resource Center, The Drones, Richard Pinhas & Merzbow, French Miami, Whino, Bob Log III, Zu, Ripo, Jerseyband, Tombs, Anavan.

One in a series of chapbooks published of writers at the Guild Complex. Varied poems, offering inspirational looks at love, culture, personal history, and the power of hip hop.