for the content, two for the presentation, The design of the book itself is pretty lackluster, which is especially disappointing considering how much of the audience is presumably people who care a lot about design.
This exclusive volume presents the best features and radically designed pages of the's most uncompromising document of alternative music, style, and pop culture.
Founded in, Ray Gun was the only magazine wherein a diehard culture seeker could find information on alternative music and the streetinspired style that really mattered.
Punk rock had torn pop music to shreds and created a hunger for an original lifestyle beyond mainstream culture, and Ray Gun was its graphic chronicler: across its pages blasted a visual feast made up of eradefining artists such as Sonic Youth or Iggy Pop, musicinspired art, and a complete redefinition of sartorial style.
The magazine's original art director, David Carson, and his peers who followed, created an entirely new visual culture that shattered the limitations of graphic design.
Ray Gun was as radical as the lifestyle it reported on, deeply committed to visually representing an alternative culture as a
new way of seeing and being in the world.
With overfullcolor photographs, Ray Gun: The Bible of Music and Style gathers the most outrageous pages from the magazine that helped to shape the 's.
This epic anthology features exclusive photographs and articles on rock legends such as R, E. M. , HenryRollins, Jane's Addiction, The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, U, Marilyn Manson, Smashing Pumpkins, NineInch Nails, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, Bjork, Morrissey, PJ Harvey, Beastie Boys, Soundgarden, Beck and an exclusive interview with David Bowie.
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