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Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️
Mar 27, 2024
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Shameless self promotion alert -- my new book (published by the good folks at HoZac) is officially out on Friday and some of the advance press is now starting to land, which is fun to see. (You can order it here, if you're so inclined: https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/)
Our friends at Flood Magazine were among the first to write it up and decided to feature a book about EPs by.... posting a playlist of some of my/contributors' favorite songs from their favorite EPs. Sounds about right!
"His new book An Ideal for Living: A Celebration of the EP, both makes a case for the format’s legitimacy and backs that claim up with a fairly bulletproof top-25 EPs list for every decade dating back to the 1950s. From the Joy Division release referenced in the book’s title to the iconic Simon & Garfunkel collection depicted on the book’s cover and well beyond, duBrowa is intent on helping readers understand the value of these truncated tracklists as being much more than an afterthought in an artist’s oeuvre."
BONUS POINTS FOR THE USE OF THE WORD OEUVRE. :)
May 30, 2024
📚🔥 Three and a Half Minutes of Fame is out now — and I’m proud as hell for it to be part of the Earth Island Books family.
These aren’t just books.
They’re battle scars.
They’re tour diaries, zines, stage dives, squat gigs and broken drumsticks, all wrapped up in pages.
To be published alongside absolute bangers like:
🖤 The Scene That Would Not Die
🔥 The Fire Still Burns
🇬🇧 A Country Fit For Heroes
🩸 The Dark Chronicles
🎤 This Is My Everything
🧠 Billy Childish: A Short Study on Art, Punk and Dyslexia
🎶 Every Record I’ve Ever Owned
🎨 Arthole by Steve Lake
…is wild. It’s community. It’s legacy. It’s punk as f**.*
Thanks to Earth Island for believing in my story – and in all the stories that usually get overlooked.
If you’ve ever lived for the next gig, the next chord, the next half-drunk idea in a van with no heater – this one’s for you.
@PERFECTLYIMPERFECT
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1994. Dookie drops, and suddenly punk was everywhere – on MTV, on the radio, in the charts. What used to get you funny looks in a pub was now playing over the speakers in supermarkets.
It was wild, surreal, and honestly? Kind of thrilling.
While Green Day were going global, Travis Cut were tearing around the UK in a clapped-out van, playing every floor, toilet venue and back room we could find. The stakes weren’t the same – but the energy was. We were all caught up in that moment, when it felt like anything could happen.
Three and a Half Minutes of Fame is my attempt to bottle that era. It’s not about fame in the way you think – it’s about believing in something loud and fast and real, even when the world doesn’t care. It’s about chasing noise, finding your people, and hanging on for dear life while punk flirted with the mainstream.
That moment in time – part chaos, part glory – is in every page.
📘 Out now from Earth Island Books.
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The man responsible for dozens of Teenage Symphonies to God
"Sad songs about happy things" (the first time, as a kid, I can recall the sweet/sour combo of melodies that could make you cry attached to songs about endless, bottomless love)
I've long since lost track of how many weddings and funerals I've attended that have featured this song; suffice it to say, "a lot."
God only knows what we'd been without him 🙏🏻
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“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
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