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12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and Americaby Jimmy Guterman, Noel MonkISBN 0688112749 (0-688-11274-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: '12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America'Book summary:In the mid-seventies, the Sex Pistols, the most controversial rock-and-roll band ever, erupted out of London, offending everyone from members of Parliament to the rock establishment it sought to unseat. With its raw, anarchic sounds, aura of sex and violence, outrageous behavior, and concerts that frequently degenerated into near-riots, the band changed the rules of rock-and-roll forever. Add to that the early death of band member Sid Vicious, by heroin overdose, and you have all the ingredients for a legend.
In January 1978, the Sex Pistols came to the United States for a twelve-day tour, mostly of cities in the Deep South. 12 Days on the Road is an extraordinary moment-by-moment re-creation of that wild adventure by Noel E. Monk, the Sex Pistols' American tour manager, and veteran journalist Jimmy Guterman. Here is a sensational, "explosive chapter in the history of rock" (Booklist) that is also "a touching and improbable tale of innocence and exploitation" (Kirkus Reviews).
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20th Century Rock and Roll: Punkby Jerry LuckyISBN 1896522270 (1-896522-27-0)
Softcover, Collectors Guide Pub
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American Hardcore: A Tribal Historyby Steven Blush, George PetrosISBN 0922915717 (0-922915-71-7)
Softcover, Feral House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Hardcore: A Tribal History'Book summary:[via]Hardcore punk was an underground tribal movement created with anger and passion but ultimately destroyed by infighting and dissonance. This oral history includes photographs, discographies, and a complete national perspective on the genre.
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And I Don't Want to Live This Lifeby Deborah SpungenISBN 0449911411 (0-449-91141-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And I Don't Want to Live This Life'Book summary:For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible story of an infant who never stopped screaming, a toddler who attacked people, a teenager addicted to drugs, violence, and easy sex, a daughter completely out of control--who almost destroyed her parents' marriage and the happiness of the rest of her family.
"Honest and moving...Her painful tale is engrossing."
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Babelby Patti SmithISBN 0425042308 (0-425-04230-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babel'Book summary:Contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings. [via]
Banned in D C: Photos and Anecdotes from the Dc Punk Undergroundby Cynthia Connolly, Leslie ClagueISBN 0962094404 (0-9620944-0-4)
Softcover, Sun Dog Propaganda
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Cinderella's Big Score: Women Of The Punk And Indie Undergroundby Maria RahaISBN 1580051162 (1-58005-116-2)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capitalby Mark Jenkins, Mark AndersenISBN 1888451440 (1-888451-44-0)
Softcover, Akashic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital'Book summary:Our nation's capital's churning, politically-insurgent punk scene is studied for the first time, by D.C. activist Mark Andersen. D.C. spawned Straight-Edge Hardcore, the ascetic rejection of the world's addictions and dysfunction, as well as Emo-Punk, the tendency to rage with an emotive, howling melodicism. Andersen and Jenkins focuses on Ian MacKaye, Dischord Records, and Bad Brains as well as obscure but influential bands like No Trend and Overkill.
Possible Cross Promotional Opportunities with Dischord Records, who may release a musical accompaniment/compilation CD, and a special Music Media campaign. [via]
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The Death of Speedyby Jaime HernandezISBN 1560970030 (1-56097-003-0)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Despite Everything : A Cometbus Omnibusby Aaron CometbusISBN 0867195614 (0-86719-561-4)
Hardcover, Last Gasp of San Francisco
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Dharma Punx: A Memoirby Noah LevineISBN 0060008954 (0-06-000895-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoirby Lisa Crystal CarverISBN 1932360948 (1-932360-94-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoir'Book summary:In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small-town New Hampshire to tour Europe at 18, becoming a teen publisher of fanzines, a teen bride, and a teen prostitute. Spin has called Suckdog's album Drugs Are Nice one of the best of the '90s, and the book includes photos of infamous European shows. Yet the book also tells of how Lisa saw the need for change in 1994, when her baby was born with a chromosomal deletion and his father became violent. With lasting lightness and surprising gravity, Drugs Are Nice is a definitive account of the generation that wanted to break every rule, but also a story of an artist and a mother becoming an adult on her own terms.[via]More editions of Drugs Are Nice : A Post-Punk Memoir:
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El Sid: Saint Viciousby David DaltonISBN 0312187130 (0-312-18713-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyondby Jon SavageISBN 0312288220 (0-312-28822-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond'Book summary:Englands Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the Pistols through layers of rich detail, exclusive interviews, and rare photographs. This fully revised and updated edition of the book covers the legacy of punk twenty-five years later and provides an account of the Pistols' 1996 reunion as well as a freshly updated discography and a completely new introduction.[via]More editions of England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond:
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Flies on the Ceilingby Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert HernandezISBN 1560970715 (1-56097-071-5)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flies on the Ceiling'Book summary:Fifty issues--collected into 15 volumes that total 2,000 pages--the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets is an enormous achievement that helped to create a new audience for comics. Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relationships, rather than on traditional comic-book 'action', the stories collected in this volume, and the rest of the series, show how the comic format can be used to create characters and situations as detailed and compelling as in any novel.
Reviewers have compared Gilbert Hernandez's work--set in the fictional Latin American town of Palomar--with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robert Altman. Reading his brother Jaime's work--most of which focuses on a group of Southern California Mexican American women--is like reading Tolstoy, if only Tolstoy had written about twenty-something punk girls. Love and Rockets has certainly earned its legendary reputation among the comic-book cognoscenti, and deserves to be read by an even wider audience. Welcome to the world of Los Bros Hernandez. [via]
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From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk Worldby Clinton HeylinISBN 0140179704 (0-14-017970-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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From The Velvets To The Voidoids: The Birth Of American Punk Rockby Clinton HeylinISBN 1556525753 (1-55652-575-3)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From The Velvets To The Voidoids: The Birth Of American Punk Rock'Book summary:Exhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene's roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of "new wave" in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Television, Blondie, the Ramones, the MC5, the Stooges, Talking Heads, and the Dead Boys, this account is the definitive story of early American punk rock. Extraordinarily balanced, it tells the story of the music's development largely through the artists' own words, while thoroughly analyzing and evaluating the music in a lucid and cogent manner. First published in 1993, this was the first book to tell the stories of these then-little-known bands; now, this edition has been updated with a new discography, including imports and bootlegs, and an afterword detailing the post-1970s history of these bands. Filled with insights from interviews with artists such as Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, David Byrne, Patti Smith, and Richard Hell, this book has long been considered one of the essential reads on rock rebellion.[via]More editions of From The Velvets To The Voidoids: The Birth Of American Punk Rock:
Get In The Vanby Henry RollinsISBN 1880985764 (1-880985-76-4)
Softcover, 2 13 61
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Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flagby Henry RollinsISBN 1880985241 (1-880985-24-1)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag'Book summary:A day-by-day journal from the journals of the ever-volatile Henry Rollins on tour from 1981 to 1986 that captures the irrationality and violence of punk specifically, and the stresses of being on the road in a rock band generally. [via]
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Go Nowby Richard HellISBN 0684832771 (0-684-83277-1)
Softcover, Scribner
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Godspeedby Lynn BreedloveISBN 0312313632 (0-312-31363-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Hairstyles Of The Damnedby Joe MenoISBN 188845170X (1-888451-70-X)
Softcover, Akashic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hairstyles Of The Damned'Book summary:[via]Hairstyles is an honest depiction of growing up punk on Chicagos south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling.
Joe Meno won the 2003 Nelson Algren Literary Award and is the author of Tender as Hellfire (St. Martins, 1999) and How the Hula Girl Sings (HarperCollins, 2001). His online fictional serial, The Secret Hand, is published through Playboy Magazine. His short fiction has been published in TriQuarterly, Bridge, Other Voices Washington Square, and has been broadcast on National Public Radio. He lives in Chicago, and he is a columnist for Punk Planet magazine.
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Hard Core Logoby Michael TurnerISBN 1551520338 (1-55152-033-8)
Softcover, Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd
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Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies & the Truth About Realityby Brad WarnerISBN 086171380X (0-86171-380-X)
Softcover, Wisdom Pubns
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Hopeless Savagesby Jen Van Meter, Christine Norrie, Chynna Clugston-ISBN 1929998759 (1-929998-75-9)
Softcover, Oni Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hopeless Savages'Book summary:Collecting the second mini-series, Ground Zero follows Zero on the dangerous path of her first love - the scoldings, the reprimands, and worst of all, the groundings. Her teenage life is turned upside down as the Hopeless-Savage house is invaded by TV crews. [via]
Hopeless Savages Vol. 2: Ground Zeroby Jen Van Meter, Bryan O'Malley, Christine Norrie, Chynna Clugston-, Andi WatsonISBN 1929998996 (1-929998-99-6)
Softcover, Oni Press, Incorporated
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I Need Moreby Iggy PopISBN 1880985438 (1-880985-43-8)
Softcover, 2 13 61
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I Need More: The Stooges and Other Storiesby Iggy Pop, Anne WehrerISBN 0943828503 (0-943828-50-3)
Hardcover, Karz-Cohl Pub
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992by Greil MarcusISBN 0674445775 (0-674-44577-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992'Book summary:By now, first-generation rock critic Greil Marcus is better known as the author of highbrow pop-culture tomes (Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes) than as a workaday, keep-it-pithy critic. This collection of columns and short pieces (most rewritten to varying degrees for the book) churned out for New West, Artforum, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone presents the erudite Marcus as a periodical commentator subject to deadline and word-count pressures. As such, it gives a history-as-it-happens perspective on the music scene rather than a sweeping overview, meaning it's perhaps less provocative than Marcus's more recent efforts, but it's also more readable. Invigorated by the emergence of the Sex Pistols, Marcus delighted in chronicling the music and behavior of the first wave of punk provocateurs. Here are pieces on the import of the Pistols, the Clash, Elvis Costello, the Gang of Four, and (closest to the author's heart?), the Mekons, presented largely as they were originally written, with the din still ringing in the scribe's ears. --Steven Stolder [via]
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on Punk, 1977-1992by Greil MarcusISBN 0140149406 (0-14-014940-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on Punk, 1977-1992'Book summary:This is a chronicle of the punk years that includes critical writings on the performers and music and follows what the author calls the punk sensibility of "dread, release, negation, empowerment and excitement as it developed from about 1975 to the present". [via]
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Kiss This : Punk in the Present Tenseby Gina ArnoldISBN 0312155212 (0-312-15521-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Last Gang in Townby Marcus GrayISBN 0805046410 (0-8050-4641-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0674535812 (0-674-53581-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century'Book summary:Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist!" shouted singer Johnny Rotten--where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise.
This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands--demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life--seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris--based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Centuryby Greil MarcusISBN 0674535804 (0-674-53580-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in London in 1975 and dead within two years, which sparked the emergence of the culture called punk. "I am an antichrist!" shouted singer Johnny Rotten-where in the world of pop music did that come from? Looking for an answer, with a high sense of the drama of the journey, Marcus takes us down the dark paths of counterhistory, a route of blasphemy, adventure, and surprise.
This is no mere search for cultural antecedents. Instead, what Marcus so brilliantly shows is that various kinds of angry, absolute demands--demands on society, art, and all the governing structures of everyday life--seem to be coded in phrases, images, and actions passed on invisibly, but inevitably, by people quite unaware of each other. Marcus lets us hear strange yet familiar voices: of such heretics as the Brethren of the Free Spirit in medieval Europe and the Ranters in seventeenth-century England; the dadaists in Zurich in 1916 and Berlin in 1918, wearing death masks, chanting glossolalia; one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God; the Lettrist International and the Situationist International, small groups of Paris--based artists and writers surrounding Guy Debord, who produced blank-screen films, prophetic graffiti, and perhaps the most provocative social criticism of the 1950s and '60s; the rioting students and workers of May '68, scrawling cryptic slogans on city walls and bringing France to a halt; the Sex Pistols in London, recording the savage "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God Save the Queen."
Although the Sex Pistols shape the beginning and the end of the story, Lipstick Traces is not a book about music; it is about a common voice, discovered and transmitted in many forms. Working from scores of previously unexamined and untranslated essays, manifestos, and filmscripts, from old photographs, dada sound poetry, punk songs, collages, and classic texts from Marx to Henri Lefebvre, Marcus takes us deep behind the acknowledged events of our era, into a hidden tradition of moments that would seem imaginary except for the fact that they are real: a tradition of shared utopias, solitary refusals, impossible demands, and unexplained disappearances. Written with grace and force, humor and an insistent sense of tragedy and danger, Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself.
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Locas: a Love & Rockets Bookby Jaime HernandezISBN 156097611X (1-56097-611-X)
Hardcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Love & Rockets, Book 9by Los Bros HernandezISBN 1560970723 (1-56097-072-3)
Hardcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Readerby Lester BangsISBN 0375713670 (0-375-71367-0)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader'Book summary:Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murrays smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste fellow rock critic John Morthland has compiled a companion volume to Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, the first, now classic collection of Bangss work. Here are excerpts from an autobiographical piece Bangs wrote as a teenager, travel essays, and, of course, the music pieces, essays, and criticism covering everything from titans like Miles Davis, Lou Reed, and the Rolling Stones to esoteric musicians like Brian Eno and Captain Beefheart. Singularly entertaining, this book is an absolute must for anyone interested in the history of rock. [via]
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Make the Music Go Bang! : The Early L. A. Punk Sceneby Don Snowden, Gary LeonardISBN 0312169124 (0-312-16912-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Music for Mechanicsby Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime HernandezISBN 093019313X (0-930193-13-X)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlistby David Levithan, Rachel CohnISBN 0375835318 (0-375-83531-8)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist'Book summary:It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, whos just walked in to his bands show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure set against the backdrop of New York Cityand smack in the middle of all the joy, anxiety, confusion, and excitement of a first date.
This he said/she said romance told by YA stars Rachel Cohn and David Levithan is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers, both recovering from broken hearts, who are just trying to figure out who they want to beand where the next great band is playing.
Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this is a love story youll wish were your very own. Working together for the first time, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have combined forces to create a book that is sure to grab readers of all ages and never let them go.
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991by Michael AzerradISBN 0316787531 (0-316-78753-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991'Book summary:It was a musical revolution that happened in the midst of Reagan's 80s: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations and other subversives who re-shaped and re-energized American rock music with punk rock's revolutionary do-it-yourself credo. The music that resulted was deeply personal, always challenging and immensely influential. This book traces the arc of the American indie underground in the 1980s, from obscure beginnings to the point a decade later when the mainstream sat up and took notice. Beginning with the pioneering and notorious punk band, Black Flag, the story continues with the Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Husker Du, the Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr, Fugazi, Mudhoney and Beat Happening, among others. Without major label support, these bands depended on resourcefulness, creativity and an all-powerful sense of community. [via]
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Philosophy of Punkby O'HaraISBN 1873176430 (1-873176-43-0)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise!by Craig O'HaraISBN 1873176163 (1-873176-16-3)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise!'Book summary:[via]Contents
Introduction by Marc Bayard
Preface by the author
Why Punk: Background comparisons with previous art movements; some defining characteristics of punk.
Media Misrepresentations: How television, glossy magazines, and mindless mass media have done their best to defang the beast.
Skinheads: Who they are, where they're from and do they have to do with punk anyway.
Intra-Movement Communication: Fanzines-communcation from the Xerox machine to the underground.
Anarchism: An alternative to existing systems. What it is and why it is embraced by punks all over the world. The failure of "bought and paid for" politicians has ensured a counterculture receptive to the idea that we would be better off without these vampires.
Gender Issues: Sexism, feminism and open homosexuality.
Environmentalism and Ecological Concerns: The ideas and techniques of Earth First, ALF, and others have found a comfortable home in the punk scene.
Straight Edge: A movement that went from being a minor threat to a convervative, conformist no threat.
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Please Feed Me : A Punk Vegan Cookbookby Niall McGuirkISBN 1932360093 (1-932360-09-3)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkby Gillian McCain, Legs McNeilISBN 0140266909 (0-14-026690-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk'Book summary:Though Britain's notorious Sex Pistols shoved punk rock into the face of mainstream America, the movement was already brewing in the U.S. in the 1960s with bands like the Velvet Underground and Iggy and the Stooges. Through hundreds of interviews with forgotten bands as well as the ones that made names for themselves--including Blondie and the Ramones--Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain chronicle punk rock history through the people who really lived it. Please Kill Me is a thrash down memory lane for those hip to punk's early years and an enlightening history lesson for youngsters interested in the origins of modern "alternative" music. [via]
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punkby Andre Malraux, Gillian McCainISBN 0802142648 (0-8021-4264-8)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk'Book summary:Though Britain's notorious Sex Pistols shoved punk rock into the face of mainstream America, the movement was already brewing in the U.S. in the 1960s with bands like the Velvet Underground and Iggy and the Stooges. Through hundreds of interviews with forgotten bands as well as the ones that made names for themselves--including Blondie and the Ramones--Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain chronicle punk rock history through the people who really lived it. Please Kill Me is a thrash down memory lane for those hip to punk's early years and an enlightening history lesson for youngsters interested in the origins of modern "alternative" music. [via]
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Pranks!by Vale ValeISBN 0965046982 (0-9650469-8-2)
Softcover, RE/Search
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pranks!'Book summary:A prank is a trick, a mischievous act, and a ludicrous act. Although not regarded as poetic or artistic acts, pranks constitute an art form and genre. Here, pranksters such as Mark Pauline, Monte Cazazza, Jello Biafra, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, Henry Rollins, John Waters and Henry Rollins challenge the sovereign authority of words, images and behavioral convention. Some tales are bizarre, as when Boyd Rice presented the First Lady with a skinned sheep's head on a platter. This iconoclastic compendium will dazzle and delight all lovers of humor, satire and irony. A great quotations section is also included.[via]More editions of Pranks!:
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Pranks: Re/Search, No 11by J.G. Ballard, V. ValeISBN 0940642107 (0-940642-10-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pranks: Re/Search, No 11'Book summary:A prank is a "trick, a mischievous act, a ludicrous act." Although not regarded as poetic or artistic acts, pranks constitute an art form and genre in themselves. Here pranksters such as Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Monte Cazazza, Jello Biafra, Earth First!, Joe Coleman, Karen Finley, John Waters and Henry Rollins (and more) challenge the sovereign authority of words, images & behavioral convention. This iconoclastic compendium will dazzle and delight all lovers of humor, satire and irony. [via]
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Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subcultureby Lauraine LeblancISBN 0813526515 (0-8135-2651-5)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dungby Lester Bangs, Greil MarcusISBN 0679720456 (0-679-72045-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung'Book summary:Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications. [via]
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : An Anthologyby Lester Bangs, Greil MarcusISBN 039453896X (0-394-53896-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Punkby Chris Sullivan, Stephen ColegraveISBN 1560257695 (1-56025-769-5)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Punk'Book summary:Recreating the complete story of the punk phenomenon including where it came from and what it turned into Punk is a massive and visually stunning record of five years that changed the world: from 1975 to 1979. Collecting the testimony of more than 260 artists, record producers, designers, and journalists including John Cale, Debbie Harry, Joe Strummer, Maureen Tucker, Gerard Malanga, Lou Reed, Johnny Rotten, Danny Fields, Legs McNeil, Bob Gruen, David Byrne, Iggy Pop, Tommy Ramone, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Cherry Vanilla, and Malcolm McLaren, former manager and ringleader of the Sex Pistols Punk brings to life the profound effect punk music had on global popular culture in the words of those who created it. With reverberations in style, fashion, attitude and philosophy, the birth of punk music released the greatest shockwaves in the popular culture since The Beatles. Punk tells the story through the words of the people who were closely tied to the mania and through hundreds of contemporaneous color and black-and-white photographs.[via]More editions of Punk:
Punk Diary: 1970-1979by George GimarcISBN 0312110480 (0-312-11048-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolutionby Chris Sullivan, Stephen ColegraveISBN 156025369X (1-56025-369-X)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Ramones: An American Bandby Jim BessmanISBN 0312093691 (0-312-09369-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992by Greil MarcusISBN 0385417217 (0-385-41721-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984by Simon ReynoldsISBN 0143036726 (0-14-303672-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984'Book summary:[via]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 video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.
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Rottenby John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent ZimmermanISBN 031211883X (0-312-11883-X)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rotten'Book summary:"Much has been written about the Sex Pistols. Much of it has either been sensationalism or journalistic psychobabble. The rest has been mere spite. This book is as close to the truth as one can get ... This means contradictions and insults have not been edited, and neither have the compliments, if any. I have no time for lies or fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die."
So writes author John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, in his introduction to the book Rotten, an oral history of punk: angry, honest, and crackling with energy. Seventies punk has been romanticized by the media and the up-and-coming punk bands of today, but the sneering, leering disaffection of that time has been lost. Now, Lydon candidly and at times, dare we say it, fondly looks back at himself, the Sex Pistols, and the "no future" attitude of the time. Rolling Stone calls Lydon a "pavement philosopher whose Dickensian roots blossom with Joycean color," and the San Francisco Chronicle calls Rotten an "invaluable [book] ... sheds welcome light on that short period of great music and spasmodic cultural change."
Bollocks you say? Read, sneer, and enjoy or die. [via]
Shibboleth: My Revolting Lifeby Penny RimbaudISBN 1873176406 (1-873176-40-6)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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Sister Safety Pinby Lorrie SprecherISBN 1563410508 (1-56341-050-8)
Softcover, Firebrand Books
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Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessoryby Mark Perry, Terry Rawlings, Mark PettyISBN 1860742750 (1-86074-275-0)
Softcover, Music Sales Corp
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Subculture, the Meaning of Styleby Dick HebdigeISBN 0415039495 (0-415-03949-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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Softcover, Methuen - Subculture, the Meaning of Style: ISBN 0416708501 (0-416-70850-1)
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The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 1931561648 (1-931561-64-8)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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Valenciaby Michelle TeaISBN 1580050352 (1-58005-035-2)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Valencia'Book summary:You don't have to be part of the emerging postpunk subculture of queer urban girls to relish this smooth ride of a novel, like Kathy Acker on Prozac on a sunny day, in which many exciting things happen without affecting much of anything, and one of the most profound moments is a mild, drug-induced insight into the meaninglessness of life. Michelle, the main character, is a person for whom blue hair is as big a style change as blue pants. She lurches between women, more in love with the idea of love than with Iris or Willa or Gwynne or Petra. Her work experiences are equally brief, although she can't bring herself to actually quit jobs. She just stops showing up. "Are you going to work?" her current lover asks one morning.
No, I was not going to work. I was an artist, a lover, a lover of women, of the oppressed and downtrodden, a warrior really. I should have been somewhere leading an armed revolution in the name of love and no, I was not going to work. Willa didn't work. I mean, she did, but it's a stretch to call it work. She bartended at a dyke bar a few nights a week, drank free beer, and bummed all her cigarettes.... All week she was free, writing angsty brilliant poems, drawing comic books, painting gigantic painful pictures, you know, living. I wanted to live.
Michelle Tea's characters are a peculiar fin-de-siècle blend of jaded idealists and thoughtful egotists: sex workers, poets, and mad hatters who end up making breakfast for roomfuls of stoned strangers. The occasional flash of clarity doesn't alter the basically anarchic nature of Tea's meandering narrative, so much like the tales of an incidental figure from Valencia, a loud redhead named Iggy who told stories "so incredible you wondered if they were true but ultimately didn't care because you were so enraptured by her grand gestures and re-enactments." --Regina Marler [via]More editions of Valencia:
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Vegan With a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free, Recipes that Rockby Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Geoffery TischmanISBN 1569243581 (1-56924-358-1)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vegan With a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free, Recipes that Rock'Book summary:In Vegan with a Vengeance, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, host of the community access vegan cooking show The Post Punk Kitchen, brings the do-it-yourself, community-driven ethos of punk rock into the kitchen. Her cooking philosophy embraces being kind to animals (all recipes are completely animal-product free) and your walletwhile being creative and having fun in the process. She emphasizes staying clear of corporate brand-name foods, and says that cooking should be an innovative, experimental, and completely real experience. This one-of-a-kind cookbook offers 125 recipes for all meals of the day, from stuffed mushrooms to tofu pizza, gingerbread cupcakes to pasta with "alfreda sauce," and is full of tips and tricks on how to keep your diet vegan, inexpensive, and liberated.[via]More editions of Vegan With a Vengeance: Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free, Recipes that Rock:
We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punkby Marc Spitz, Brenden MullenISBN 0609807749 (0-609-80774-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet The Collected Interviewsby Daniel SinkerISBN 1888451149 (1-888451-14-9)
Softcover, Akashic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet The Collected Interviews'Book summary:Cultural Writing. Includes interviews with Jello Biafra, Black Flag, Noam Chomsky, and Steve Albini, among others. PUNK PLANET is indespensible reading for anyone and everyone who is at all interested in vital music that has yet to be co-opted, commodified, or covered to death in the mainstream press. Passionate music writing for the right reasons -- Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times/ author of Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs. In principle, the idea doesn't seem that outrageous: Why not create a magazine about music and politics that doesn't have its hands tied behind its back from the start, freed from the shallowness and trend mandates of official media, the insularity and disciplinary bifurcations of academia, and the ideological blinkers that held back Maximum Rock n Roll? Simple, right? So try thinking of anyone but PUNK PLANET who's pulled it off -- Eric Weisbard, Village Voice. [via]
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Wigwam Bamby Jaime HernandezISBN 1560971207 (1-56097-120-7)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wigwam Bam'Book summary:Fifty issues--collected into 15 volumes that total 2,000 pages--the Hernandez brothers' Love and Rockets is an enormous achievement that helped to create a new audience for comics. Notable for their strong female characters and their focus on relationships, rather than on traditional comic-book 'action', the stories collected in this volume, and the rest of the series, show how the comic format can be used to create characters and situations as detailed and compelling as in any novel.
Reviewers have compared Gilbert Hernandez's work--set in the fictional Latin American town of Palomar--with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Robert Altman. Reading his brother Jaime's work--most of which focuses on a group of Southern California Mexican American women--is like reading Tolstoy, if only Tolstoy had written about twenty-something punk girls. Love and Rockets has certainly earned its legendary reputation among the comic-book cognoscenti, and deserves to be read by an even wider audience. Welcome to the world of Los Bros Hernandez. [via]
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Verschwende Deine Jugend: Ein Doku-Roman uber Den Deutschen Punk Und New Waveby Jurgen TeipelISBN 3518397710 (3-518-39771-0)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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