THE SLEEP COMIC BOOK
Third Man Books is excited to present the authorial debut of Al Cisneros, founder, bass player, and lyricist for landmark bands Sleep and OM. The Sleep Comic Book, illustrated by Dave Kloc and Arik Roper, begins the saga of The Marijuanaut. An adventure which takes the reader to Planet Iommia, encounters with The Weedian, and introduces the traveller to Iommia’s deeper reverential practices, all this and more that resonates within the universe that Cisneros's lyrics created from the riff filled lands of Sleep’s discography.
Neil Young: Reflections in Broken Glass (Updated and Revised)
An unpretentious, effective profile by an author unafraid to voice her own opinions. In 1966 a young singer-songwriter drives an old battered hearse 2000 miles from Canada to L.A to seek his fortune. Sixty years later he is still making music, the survivor of an astonishing career that has taken in the Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Crazy Horse, numerous collaborations and a staggering number of albums. Written by the legendary rock writer Sylvie Simmons.
Ring Shout on Saturn
Sheree Renée Thomas’s electrifying collection, transports readers on a cosmic journey where ancient African Diasporic wisdom meets expansive Afrofuturist visions. From a prophet building a starship from salvaged dreams on a Martian farm to children breaking generational curses through powerful moonsongs, these tales explore themes of transformation, survival, and the enduring quest for liberation.
I AM AN EYE I DON’T KNOW WHY
I AM AN EYE I DON’T KNOW WHY is the first children’s book written and illustrated by Flaming Lips front person Wayne Coyne.
Made On Earth for Rising Stars: The Electro-Harmonix Story
Made On Earth For Rising Stars is the definitive visual history of Electro-Harmonix from 1968 till now — a massive book exploring everything from circuit designers to those seeking to cure death, from flying machines to mass ESP experiments. Featuring Jack White, J Mascis, John Mayer, Wes Borland, Billy Corgan, Bill Frisell, Nels Cline, Adrien Belew, Vernon Reid, and more.
YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots: The Original Story by the Flaming Lips written and Illustrated by Flaming Lips founder and front person, Wayne Coyne, tells the definitive story behind the band’s seminal record.
Mojorhythm
MOJORHYTHM is book one of the the three book The Root and Sky Series of short stories.
The award-winning Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues, returns with a new collection steeped in Hoodoo, fantasy, magic myths, and lore. These tales resonate with the magic and mystery, the deep rhythms and blues of the soul's passage through life and beyond.
Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, China Miéville, Connie Willis, and numerous others. Moon Songs is the first one-volume selection from Emshwiller’s entire career, with stories from 1958 to 2012. Another admirer, Kelly Link, wrote the collection's foreword.
Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writing Vol 1
Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writings Volume 1 compiles lyrics from White's solo recordings including No Name, The Raconteurs, Dead Weather, and collaborations. Also featured will be exclusive and rare photos of White, selected poems and writing by White, and essays contributed by Adrian Matejka, dream hampton, and Ben Blackwell. Jack White Collected Lyrics and Selected Writings Volume 1 with The White Stripes Complete Lyrics (2023), definitively collect White's extensive and acclaimed lyrical work.
Twin Lead Lines
Twin Lead Lines, the remarkably original debut from poet and musician Lou Turner, is born of overlaps: those of ancestry and chosen family, of show business and DIY paths of artmaking, and of listening deeply to others and oneself.
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On? and the Last Days of the Motown Sound
The story behind the groundbreaking album by one of Motown’s most important artists.
HOLLYWOOD DREAM: The Thunderclap Newman Story
This is the story of one of the most unlikely combos in popular music history, and of the four disparate characters who formed its core: Pete Townshend, principal songwriter and guitarist for The Who; his best friend and driver, the singer/songwriter/drummer John ‘Speedy’ Keen; a fifteen-year-old wunderkind guitarist named Jimmy McCulloch; and finally, an enigmatic telephone engineer who also happened to be a brilliant improvisational jazz pianist: Andy ‘Thunderclap’ Newman.
Outside the Joy
Poems that sear with lyric clarity about grief, love, survival, and wonder amid personal loss and environmental collapse.
Echoes: A Memoir Continued
Echoes is the follow up book to Bunnyman, Sergeant's first memoir. Where Bunnyman covered Sergeant's childhood up to the formation of Echo and Bunnyman, Echoes covers the early days of the group through the release of their first albums and first tour. Echoes tells Sergeant's first hand account of the Bunnymen's rise to world-wide prominence and all the adventures and travails that accompanied the journey.
Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond their Control
Just as Nashville was where Civil Rights icons like John Lewis, James Lawson, and Diane Nash began, Nashville is also where a network of racial terrorists began. Worse, in Nashville, we see how the differing agendas of local police and the FBI allowed these bombers to escape prosecution until decades later, if at all.
Sweetheart Party
A very limited edition collection of art by Marlos E’Van. “Third Man gifted Marlos a Third Man Photo Studio x Retrospekt Polaroid camera to which the artist would take on many travels for the past 2 years documenting life, death, birth, people and places. Somewhere along the journey, Marlos decided 2 bring this collection of experiences back to the people in the form of their new book, SWEETHEART PARTY!”
Stray Dogs
This coming-of-age thrill ride of a story by the former 60ft Dolls frontman would make any Quentin Tarantino screenplay envious. TMB’s first exclusive novel by a British author! “This novel is fierce, catchy and fullof hooks.”— Jon Langford, The Mekons
The White Stripes Complete Lyrics
The Complete White Stripes Lyrics collects all the original lyrics written for the group, and includes never-before-seen and rare photos, rough drafts, and alternate lyrics. The 300+ page hardbound book features essays by Hanif Abdurraqib, Ben Blackwell, and Caroline Randall Williams.
The Last Vanishing Man
Magic stops. Men vanish. Worlds end. Life goes on. American violence and masculinity are topics that weave through Matthew Cheney’s stories, as characters of various genders and sexualities get scarred by the wounds of manhood. "I can't recommend Cheney’s Last Vanishing Man highly enough."— Samuel R. Delany