I Hope You Are All Happy Now: Photographs by Nick Zinner
St. Martin’s Press

This book right here, this is real immersionism. Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs has been compulsively taking photos for the last few years, all through the speed-of-light ascent of his band, the touring, the drinking, the fellow bands, and the hotel beds. Like a good photojournalist, Zinner totally puts you in the midst of the scene. He shoots every crowd from the stage. He shoots every bed he sleeps in. He shoots the broken-down van and the tedium backstage. He shoots his bandmate Karen singing, partying, hanging out, and going nuts. I Hope You Are All Happy Now is the printed equivalent of what Bon Jovi was trying to do with the “Wanted Dead or Alive” video. The glamorous perils of the road, the burnout, and the moments of joyful spazzing... It’s all here.

CYNDI TARRA




Aesthetic Surgery
Taschen

Now this is how you cover a topic. Exhaustively and with copious amounts of photographs. This huge book from Taschen has lots of before-and-after photos of plastic surgery, interviews with the top cosmetic surgeons from all over the planet, theoretical musings on the malleability of the human body, and lots of gory pics of chunks of cut-up noses and asses. The topic of cosmetic surgery is now closed forever—there is nothing further to say.

BWILL BWASS



Mike’s Flyers
Troubleman Unlimited

Ah, here is some of that NYHC anthologizing that we’ve been craving. Mike Simonetti of the Troubleman Unlimited record label digs through his closet and finds flyers from every show you wish you could have gone to in the lates 80s and 90s. Fuck, fliers were primitive and retarded. Do you still have a stack saved somewhere in your closet?

LUCKY PENNY