STRANDED: Australian Independent Music, 1976–1992 (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Clinton Walker BOOK drone Preserved In Torment lays the

Preserved In Torment lays the listener to waste with the band’s monolithic siege and impossibly heavy riffs and relentless mid-tempo drum barrages creating the aural equivalent of being trampled beneath the hooves of some unstoppable army

she first discovered her facility with the grammar of punk upon co-founding The Bags as a teenager in the late ’70s (an endeavor that saw her featured in Penelope Spheeris’s seminal punk documentary

” He tells me the instrumentation reflects Slavic shamanistic tradition

sounds almost like a different group

The second to last gig of Joy Division 's history and probably one of the best live recordings from them

STRANDED: Australian Independent Music, 1976–1992 (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Clinton Walker BOOK drone Preserved In Torment lays the1st edition. 428 pages, paperback. The definitive book on Australian punk and post punk music, long unavailable, now reissued in a much expanded new edition with 175 photos. STRANDED offers the inside story of the emergence of the Saints, the Birthday Party, the Laughing Clowns, the Go Betweens, Nick Cave, the Moodists, the Scientists, and many more great Australian bands, told by a writer who witnessed it all first hand. Much misunderstood on its