Spin Greatest Hits

The official book celebrating the 25th anniversary of SPIN magazine From its first issue in 1985, SPIN has cultivated a reputation for brilliant writing and broad musical coverage, including genres and artists long abandoned by its competitors. From punk to electronica, goth to gangsta rap, emo to garage rock, and hip-hop to indie rock, SPIN has covered it all and featured interviews with leading artists through every musical wave of the last 25 years. SPIN: Greatest Hits brings together some of the classic stories that have appeared in the magazine, each with a new introduction by the author offering historical perspective on the article. Compiles the best articles from well-known writers such as Chuck Klosterman, Jonathan Ames, Elizabeth Gilbert, and David Hajdu Features the best SPIN interviews with Lou Reed, Noel Gallagher, Chuck D, and other influential musicians Includes hilarious sidebars such as "Six Extreme Metal Bands That Could Be Mistaken for Flavors of Herbal Tea," "Six Misguided Attempts to Falsify Rock History," and more Packed with great writing and information spanning a quarter-century of iconic music and musicians, SPIN: Greatest Hits is an essential keepsake for music fans and lovers of pop culture.

The official book celebrating the 25th anniversary of SPIN magazine From its first issue in 1985, SPIN has cultivated a reputation for brilliant writing and broad musical coverage, including genres and artists long abandoned by its competitors. From punk to electronica, goth to gangsta rap, emo to garage rock, and hip-hop to indie rock, SPIN has covered it all and featured interviews with leading artists through every musical wave of the last 25 years. SPIN: Greatest Hits brings together some of the classic stories that have appeared in the magazine, each with a new introduction by the author offering historical perspective on the article. Compiles the best articles from well-known writers such as Chuck Klosterman, Jonathan Ames, Elizabeth Gilbert, and David Hajdu Features the best SPIN interviews with Lou Reed, Noel Gallagher, Chuck D, and other influential musicians Includes hilarious sidebars such as "Six Extreme Metal Bands That Could Be Mistaken for Flavors of Herbal Tea," "Six Misguided Attempts to Falsify Rock History," and more Packed with great writing and information spanning a quarter-century of iconic music and musicians, SPIN: Greatest Hits is an essential keepsake for music fans and lovers of pop culture.

Music's top journalists celebrate "Spin" magazine's 20th anniversary with original essays tracing the history of alternative rock.

(Drum Recorded Versions). 17 exact drum transcriptions of the most popular hits from Neil Peart's playing for Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Rush. Includes: The Big Money * Closer to the Heart * Distant Early Warning * Fly by Night * Force Ten * Freewill * Limelight * New World Man * Red Barchetta * Spirit of Radio * Subdivisions * Time Stand Still * Tom Sawyer * The Trees * Working Man * 2112 (I Overture & II Temples of Syrinx).

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Learn to play 17 Rush classics by studying the note-for-note guitar transcriptions of every note Alex Lifeson played on 17 Rush classics. The transcriptions are presented in notes and tab and also include lyrics. Songs include: The Big Money * Closer to the Heart * Distant Early Warning * Fly by Night * Force Ten * Freewill * Limelight * New World Man * Red Barchetta * Spirit of Radio * Subdivisions * Time Stand Still * Tom Sawyer * The Trees * 2112-I Overture * 2112-II the Temples of Syrinx * Working Man.

(Bass Recorded Versions Persona). 17 exact bass transcriptions of the most popular hits from Geddy Lee's playing for Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Rush. Includes: The Big Money * Closer to the Heart * Distant Early Warning * Fly by Night * Force Ten * Freewill * Limelight * New World Man * Red Barchetta * Spirit of Radio * Subdivisions * Time Stand Still * Tom Sawyer * The Trees * 2112-I Overture * 2112-II the Temples of Syrinx * Working Man.

From the author of Axis and Vortex, the first Hugo Award-winning novel in the environmental apocalyptic Spin Trilogy... One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk--a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world's artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they'd been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside--more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future. Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who's forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses. Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans...and immediately get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the settling of Mars. Then Earth's probes reveal that an identical barrier has appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun--and report back on what they find. Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The author recounts his more than 6,500-mile journey across America, during which he visited the sites of famous rock star deaths and experienced philosophical changes of perspective.