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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorUnder the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
John Doe, Tom DeSavia · 277 pages
Explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary west coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting the voices of people who were there.
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
Jack Boulware, Silke Tudor · 489 pages
Punk Rock: An Oral History
John Robb, Henry Rollins · 562 pages
Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change, and this work talks to those who cultivated the movement, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented oral history of punk in the United Kingdom. From the Clash, Crass, Henry Rollins, and John Lydon to the Sex Pistols, the Stranglers, and the Buzzcocks, this reference features more
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain · 525 pages
A contemporary classic, **Please Kill Me** is the definitive oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, the Ramones, and scores of other punk figures lend their voices to this decisive account of that explosive era.
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Mark Yarm · 592 pages
A tribute to the Pacific Northwest's grunge genre draws on the observations of individuals at the forefront of the movement from Soundgarden and the Melvins to Nirvana and Pearl Jam, citing such influences as the rise of Seattle's Sub Pop record label and the death of Kurt Cobain.
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
Jeff Alulis, NOFX · 357 pages
"The first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands."--Back cover.
Rip it Up and Start Again
Simon Reynolds · 664 pages
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the vide
Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and EMO
Andy Greenwald · 320 pages
Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo tells the story of a cultural moment that's happening right now-the nexus point where teen culture, music, and the web converge to create something new. While shallow celebrities dominate the headlines, pundits bemoan the death of the music industry, and the government decries teenagers for their morals (or lack thereof) earnest, heartfelt bands
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Greil Marcus · 496 pages
Explores the avant-garde history of twentieth-century Europe through the lifestyle and music of the Sex Pistols.
Industrial Culture Handbook
V. Vale, Andrea Juno · 140 pages
Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music
Marisa Meltzer
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
Craig Marks, Rob Tannenbaum · 608 pages
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Sara Marcus · 367 pages
A history of Riot Grrrl, a radical feminist movement that was started in the 1990s by young women who were fed up with sexism and harrassment and decided to make some noise.
12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America
Noel E. Monk, Jimmy Guterman · 238 pages
Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis · 465 pages
Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, against all odds, have become one of the most successful bands in the world. Though
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman · 335 pages
Dance Of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital
Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins · 420 pages
"Washington DC's creative, politically insurgent punk scene is studied for the first time by local activist Mark Andersen and arts writer Mark Jenkins. The nation's capital gave birth to the most fertile and influential punk underground of the 1980s and 90s. Dance Of Days recounts the rise of trailblazing artists such as Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Fugazi and Bikini
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Viv Albertine · 432 pages
The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon
The Clash, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon · 384 pages
I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir
Mickey Leigh · 418 pages
When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Fast and frenetic in their leather jackets and torn jeans, the Ramones gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, influenced countless bands, and inspired the counterculture for decades to come. Born Jeffry Hyman of Queens, New York, Joey Ramone was the quirky, extraordinary lead s
Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
Chris Salewicz · 660 pages
The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis soul, cowboy justice, and '60s protest, the overtly political band railed against war, racism, and a dead-end economy, and in the process imparted a conscience to punk. Their eponymous first record and London Calling still rank in Rolling Stone's top-ten best alb
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
John Lydon · 544 pages