Underground: Cursed Rockers and High

The essential illustrated bible of independent music!

Although not widely known, each of these artists has changed the history of music. So, to celebrate the incredible contributions of these unsung heroes, Arnaud Le Gouëfflec and Nicolas Moog have brought their stories to vivid life.

Discover the sensitive and manic-depressive genius Daniel Johnston; the Peruvian queen of exotica, Yma Sumac; the improbable blind and homeless Moondog; the classy bargain hunters of The Cramps; the legendary Patti Smith; and many, many more.

A veritable illustrated bible of the underground music scene, this anthology of 50 biographies invites you to discover little-known maestros and creators of underheard masterpieces. This is a book for the simply curious, as well as the connoisseur!

Includes:

Moondog
Daniel Johnston
Colette Magny
The Residents
Sun Ra
Tall Dwarfs
Kevin Coyne
Yma Sumac
Sky Saxon
Jonathan Richman
Éliane Radigue
John Fahey
Raymond Scott
Boris Vian
Giant Sand
Chris Black
XIXA
Golden Boots
The Cramps
Merrell Fankhauser
Lydia Lunch
Can
Neu!
Kraftwerk
Faust
Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Alex Chilton
Nico
Billy Childish
Nurse with Wound
Eugene Chadbourne
Crass
Captain Beefheart
Brigitte Fontaine
Lee Hazlewood
Kim Fowley
Dub
Patti Smith
Un Drame Musical Instantané
Black metal
Les Légions Noires
Townes Van Zandt
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Peter Ivers

Arnaud Le Gouëfflec is 47 years old and has many stories to tell. His career as an author, as atypical as it is prolific, is characterized by a refusal to let himself be locked into a genre. Both a novelist and comic book scriptwriter, he is also a singer and songwriter. The common denominator: writing, fueled by various sources of fascination, from noir to serial novels to Fantômas, from SF to pataphysics, from comics to rock.

Nicolas Moog is a French cartoonist and author. He is also a musician (vocals, guitar, banjo, double bass, double bass, percussion) in several neo-blues formations such as Thee Verduns, and performs regularly on stage in Europe and the United States of America.

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Underground: Cursed Rockers and High Priestesses of Sound

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