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Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group
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Hide books by the same authorScar 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
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.
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
John Lydon · 544 pages
Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture
Leslie Simon, Trevor Kelley · 304 pages
Lips Unsealed: A Memoir
Belinda Carlisle · 276 pages
The front woman for The Go-Go's, one of the most iconic bands of the 1980s, takes a spellbinding look at life in the fast lane of the rock world and explores her struggles with weight, sobriety, spirituality, and self-esteem.
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.
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
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
John Powell · 264 pages
John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers questions about harmony, timbre, keys, chords, loudness, musical composition, and many more in this intriguing and original guide to acoustics.
Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen
Al Jourgensen · 278 pages
A memoir from the hard-living rock musician and producer, who survived prolonged drug addiction--twenty-two years of chronic heroin, cocaine, and alcohol abuse--before cleaning up, straightening out, and finding new reasons to live.
The Real Frank Zappa Book
Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso · 352 pages
Recounts the career of the rock music performer.
Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle
Simon Ford · 300 pages
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Chrissie Hynde · 344 pages
Chrissie Hynde, leader of the Pretenders, is one of the most widely imitated figures in rock: sexy, unflappable, vulnerable yet tough, a groundbreaking songwriter and performer. In these pages, Chrissie gives us her story. We see her all-American 1950s childhood in Ohio, and her teenage self falling for the rock music of the 1960s. We follow her to London, where she takes a job with NME and makes
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
Will Hermes · 384 pages
“Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory where all the major styles of modern music were reinvented—all at once, from one block to the next, by musicians who knew, admired, and borrowed from one another. Crime was everywhere, the government was broke, and the city’s infrastructure
The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon
The Clash, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon · 384 pages
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Laura Jane Grace · 313 pages
The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.
Industrial Culture Handbook
V. Vale, Andrea Juno · 140 pages
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Chuck Klosterman · 258 pages
"Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real differen
Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music
Stephen Fry, Tim Lihoreau · 318 pages
We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews
Daniel Sinker, Steve Albini · 346 pages
Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life
John Sellers · 224 pages
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