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Dance Of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital

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Kurt Cobain · 288 pages

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12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America

Noel E. Monk, Jimmy Guterman · 238 pages

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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.

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Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman · 335 pages

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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.

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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

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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

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The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon

The Clash, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon · 384 pages

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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.

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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

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Violence Girl

Alice Bag · 381 pages

Autobiography of Alicia Armendariz, who adopted the punk name Alice Bag, and became lead singer for The Bags, early punk visionaries who starred in Penelope Spheeris' documentary The Decline of Western Civilization.

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Under 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.

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American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Steven Blush · 380 pages

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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.

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We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews

Daniel Sinker, Steve Albini · 346 pages

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Rebel Girl

Kathleen Hanna · 320 pages

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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

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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

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The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon

John Joseph · 428 pages

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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

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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.

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