Subject: Featured Music/Pop Culture/Art Titles
Black Music
The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, BLUES PEOPLE, and latest selection in the AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series. This collection of essays by Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones includes a new introduction by the author and Q&A by Calvin Reid.
Dance of Days: Updated Edition
Updated 2009 edition of this evergreen punk classic—with a new chapter, additional photos, and other original material!
From a Basement in Seattle
Pearl Jam’s longtime in-house designer, Brad Klausen, presents his first book of visually stunning poster art. With introductions by Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam.
Hard Art, DC 1979
Pulitzer prize–winning photographer Lucian Perkins captures four electrifying punk shows in Washington, DC, in 1979, with narrative by Alec MacKaye and an essay by Henry Rollins.
HNIC
Prodigy, from the legendary hip-hop group Mobb Deep, launches Akashic’s new Infamous Books imprint with a story of loyalty, vengeance, and greed.
Infinity Blues
World-famous singer-songwriter Ryan Adams reveals his prodigious talents as a poetry and fiction writer.
Letters to Kurt
A poetic elegy for Kurt Cobain from the man who created the band Hole with Cobain’s wife, Courtney Love.
LyricPop 8-Book Bundle
For a limited time, purchase a set of the first 8 titles in our LyricPop series of children’s picture books for just $50 (plus shipping)!
Nelson George Two Book Set
For a limited time, purchase both The Lost Treasures of R&B and The Plot Against Hip Hop together for only $15!
Please Take Me Off the Guest List
Please Take Me Off the Guest List is the latest in a series of creative collaborations by New York City artists and friends Zachary Lipez, Nick Zinner, and Stacy Wakefield.
Simon’s Cat Bundle
For a limited time, purchase both Simon’s Cat in Kitten Chaos and Simon’s Cat vs. the World for only $20!
Simon’s Cat Off to the Vet . . . and Other Cat-astrophes
In this brand-new book we see Simon’s Cat face any feline’s most dreaded scenario: heading to the vet.
Simon’s Cat vs. the World
This year, the world’s favorite cat faces his biggest series of challenges yet, as he takes on the whole globe!
Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group
Washington, DC–based rock ‘n’ roll antihero Ian F. Svenonius provides an unparalleled and exquisitely provocative how-to guide for rock bands.
This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake – limited edition package w/exclusive 12″ vinyl
International best-selling rock band Garbage’s gorgeous new coffee-table book chronicling the span of their twenty-two-year career, This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake, is available here as part of a limited edition package, featuring an EXCLUSIVE 12" record and a copy of the book. This limited edition collectible book and record bundle is completely sold out!
Unstrung—Limited Edition Preorder with Exclusive Lyric Chapbook
Iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot offers up essays and stories in his darkly funny and subversive debut collection, Unstrung, combined in this LIMITED EDITION PREORDER with an exclusive, 100-page lyric chapbook, Selected Lyrics.
THIS PAGE IS FOR THE LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE OF UNSTRUNG AND THE EXCLUSIVE LYRIC CHAPBOOK, SELECTED LYRICS.
We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews Expanded Edition
Revised and expanded edition of the punk classic (more than 15,000 copies sold), with six new interviews.
What Else Is in the Teaches of Peaches
An outrageous and provocative photograph book of cult music hero Peaches, with text from Peaches, Yoko Ono, Elliot Page, and Michael Stipe.
You Have to Fucking Eat
The long-awaited sequel to the #1 New York Times best-selling classic Go the Fuck to Sleep.