BC Book Prize winner (Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Prize)

In his latest book, bestselling author, musician, and cultural historian Aaron Chapman looks back at the most famous music entertainment venues ...

A new edition of the colourful history of Vancouver's Penthouse Nightclub, which celebrates its seventieth anniversary in 2017.

The after-hours watering hole for the famous and infamous, the Penthouse ...

By the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color: a stunning graphic novel on the downfall of a rock legend.

Jul Maroh burst onto the scene in 2013 with Blue Is the Warmest Color, a tender, bittersweet graphic ...

The punk band D. O.A. , established in 1978, is considered one of the founders of hardcore punk, alongside such other seminal groups as Black Flag and Minor Threat. Their raw, melodic sound, which drew ...

Hard Core Logo is an epistolary novel that portrays a punk rock band reunited for one last shot at glory.
Adapting a scrapbook approach, consisting of monologues, conversations, letters, interviews, ...

In Performance Bond, Wayde Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of Black culture.

With poetry ...

Joe Keithley, aka Joey Shithead, founded legendary punk pioneers D. O.A. in 1978. Punk kings who spread counterculture around the world, they've been cited as influences by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green ...

As lead singer of the two-person band Mecca Normal, Jean Smith is regarded as one of the forerunners of the Riot Grrrl movement-unapologetic, in-your-face music by women rockers who are front and center, ...

A hip-shakin', pelvis-twistin' trip through Elvis World. Includes quotations from the King and those who knew him, as well as trivia about the Man from Memphis. Long live the King!
Before Elvis there ...