{"product_id":"9781399618373","title":"Still in a Dream - SIGNED EDITION","description":"\u003ch2\u003eINDEPENDENT RETAILER SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eSIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH BONUS FANZINE '50 LOST TREASURES'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Simon Reynolds\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eMusic: styles \u0026amp; genres | Rock \u0026amp; Pop music | Punk, New Wave \u0026amp; Indie | Music industry\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 18\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e June 2026 by Orion Publishing Co (White Rabbit) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 416 pages \u003cbr\u003e234mm x 153mm | 0g\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock and grunge that reverberated through the late Eighties into the early Nineties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCapturing the musical exhilaration of the era along with the alienation of youth during a period of ascendant conservative politics and glitzy mainstream pop, Still in a Dream celebrates a golden age of guitar reinvention, a second psychedelia of mind-blowing sounds pioneered by bands like My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth. In Britain, groups like Cocteau Twins and Slowdive escaped into shimmering dreamworlds while American underground rockers like Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement blended apathy and urgency into thrilling noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA propulsive and personal account from a journalist who covered this music in real time from the frontlines, Still in a Dream vividly recreates a period that was the last blast for the analogue culture of vinyl records and music papers, before the Internet changed everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56711619150199,"sku":"9781399618373","price":20.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/SIAD_indies_edition_1080_x_1350.png?v=1770798419","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781399618373","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}