TONY RETTMAN. Why Be Something That You’re Not / Detroit Hardcore 1979 – 1985 (Revelation) 16.00 EUR. In the early seventies, Detroit was the musical hub of America. Everything from the chart topping sounds of Motown records to the vicious proto-punk of The Stooges was being brewed out there and it seemed like there was no end in sight. But by the early eighties, the city was both a physical and cultural wasteland due to major label buyouts of the artists as well as the crippling drug habits of some of the others. Detroit's most known musical export at the time was the vapid sounds of New Wave heartthrobs The Romantics; this wasn't good. It took a gaggle of suburban skateboarders, a grade school teacher and a census bureau clerk to wake this city up from its slumber and start one of the first hardcore punk scenes in America.
"Why Be Something That You're Not" chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late seventies to its demise in the mid-eighties. Through a combination of oral history and extensive imagery, the book proves that even though the Southern California beach towns might have created the look and style of hardcore punk, it was the Detroit scene - along with a handful of other cities across the country - that cultivated the music's grassroots aesthetic before most cultural hot spots around the globe even knew what the music was about.
The book includes interviews with members of The Fix, Violent Apathy, Negative Approach, Necros, Pagans, Bored Youth, and L-Seven along with other people who had a hand in the early hardcore scene like Ian MacKaye, Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson.
Paperback: 256 pages, 6.5" x 9.25".

CHUCK NORRIS #5. 2.00 EUR. En español. 44 páginas en formato A5. Un revista divertida para las masas, que incluye noticias, comics, y articulos varios. Entre estos podemos hallar algunos titulados “Como follarse a una tia sin preñarla o pillar una enfermedad”, “Las tendencias de los Mendigos”, “Historia de España” y muchos más. Además hay comics, críticas de los discos de Maquina total (indispensables en toda colección de discos que se precie de tal), Perdidos (desvela en primicia los posibles finales de la mítica serie). Como poster central trae un mapa de España. Indispensable.