Bøger af Mike Damante

Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise chronicles the music of the Warped Tour generation that launched bands like Paramore and My Chemical Romance into superstardom. Music journalist Mike Damante covered the genre for one of the largest media companies in North America, and has compiled the stories of 1990s-2000s emo and pop-punk explosion as told by himself, the bands, publicists, and the fans who never stopped listening. Featuring interviews with blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, Descendents, Dashboard Confessional, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte, Alkaline Trio, The Get Up Kids, Motion City Soundtrack, Saves The Day and others. Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise is a new anthem for your underground.

Above the Fold and the Fringe: How UAPs Became Mainstream News goesbehind the scenes of the infamous New York Times article, and examinesthe history of UAPs in news media, and explores the significance ofthe impact these stories can and have had. With interviews from thejournalists behind some of the biggest UAP stories like the New YorkTimes Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, POLITICO's Bryan Bender, KLAS-TV's George Knapp, Popular Mechanics Tim McMillan, and others, learn how the news industry works, and get insight into some of the>This book also looks at some of the important figures who have culturally andhistorically changed the conversation on UAPs for the better withexclusive interviews with Jacques Vallee, Luis Elizondo, WhitleyStrieber, Tom DeLonge, William Shatner, Jeffrey Kripal, Colm Kelleher, and military witnesses.

For three pumpkin-spice loving friends, Halloween season isn't just a time of a year, but a way of life. Not everything is fun and games as their town has many deep, dark secrets that have been hidden for years. One fateful night when a revenge prank against the school's number one mean girl goes wrong, the three girls are thrust into a paranormal mystery that will challenge their friendship and change their lives forever. After a horrifying night in an abandoned pumpkin patch, nothing will be the same again.

"Punk rock and UFOs: True Believers" by author and journalist Mike Damante is a call to arms to the common populace and UFO community to come together to better understand the unexplained. "Punk rock and UFOs: True Believers" is the follow-up to the non-fiction release "Punk rock and UFOs: Cryptozoology meets Anarchy" (2016), which looked at cryptozoology and Ufology as an underdog science. "Punk rock and UFOs: True Believers" tackles topics like process of belief, religion, mythology, popular culture, disclosure, media, technological advances, science, the unexplained, the UFO phenomena becoming mainstream all in a thought-provoking package aimed at the common reader, as well as the UFO community. New theories, research, reports, and questions try to connect the unknown in ways accessible to the UFO newbie, as well as any veteran ufologist. The book features quotes from some of the biggest names in UFO research, academia, pop culture and even punk rock. Who are these people who dedicate their time and resources to research UFOs? Who are these regular people researching extraordinary things, and what are the commonalities with those who aren't initiated in the beliefs of the unknown? In a time where UFOs are slowly creeping more and more into the mainstream consciousness, it is important that we as society WANT to know the truth, and are actively seeking it. 'True Believers' is that wake-up call that looks to bridge the gap between the UFO research community and the mainstream. The book was written to simultaneously synergize both groups to engage in a higher-level consciousness. It was written for you; the true believer.

Mythological gods. Dragons. Magicians. Inter-dimensional beings. UFOs. Goblins. Secret government programs. Psychic abilities. These can't be real?Or can they?Punk rock and UFOs: Stranger Than Fiction aims to normalize the paranormal through current pop culture, mythology, fiction and its connection to unexplained phenomena. The book features insights and exclusive interviews from around academia, journalism, television and film, pop culture, science, and UFO studies like Tom DeLonge, Leslie Kean, Kevin Day, Sean Cahill, Jeffrey Kripal, Peter Levenda, David Marquez (DC Comics), Rick Strassman, Diana Pasulka, and others.