Bridge Nine is helping Iodine Recordings celebrate the release of their new book by Thomas Rackow, Free Stickers with Every Order: A History of Hardcore Stickers ($39.95), by hosting a very intimate performance in our warehouse with two bands featured in its pages. We can't tell you who it is yet, but if you've checked out our other shows with bands like Agnostic Front, Ten Yard Fight, H2O, New Found Glory, and American Nightmare, you know it's going to be special. It's happening on Saturday, March 7th.
Free Stickers with Every Order is the first book dedicated entirely to the visual and cultural legacy of hardcore punk stickers. Spanning North America from the early 1980s to the present, this 250-page deluxe hardcover presents a carefully curated archive of rare and often long-lost stickers — collected over decades and contextualized through firsthand interviews with key figures from bands including 7 Seconds, Quicksand, Earth Crisis, American Nightmare, Hot Water Music, Bane, Integrity, Agnostic Front, and more. The book stands as a focused time capsule of hardcore’s DIY ethos, visual language, and community, told by those who were there.
This next event is so outrageous and one-of-a-kind that we can't just sell tickets as we have in the past. Iodine is making copies available for pre-order from the Bridge Nine store in Beverly, Massachusetts. Come down in person, pre-order the hardcover, 250-page book for $39.95, and your name will be added to the will-call list. Books for Bridge Nine's customers will be available at the show on 3/7, so you'll be getting your copy more than a month before anyone else! Reserve your spot before they're gone. You're not going to want to miss this.
