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  • Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

    • ASIN: 0316787531
    • ISBN: 9780316787536
    • Brand: Little Brown and Company
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties--when a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives reenergized American rock with punk rock's do-it-yourself credo and created music that was deeply personal, often brilliant, alw... [Read More]

  • The Five

    • ASIN: B00DA6XHEW
    • Manufacturer: Tor Books

    Robert McCammon's first contemporary novel in nearly two decades, The Five tells the story of an eponymous rock band struggling to survive on the margins of the music business. As they move through the American Southwest on what might be their final tour together, the band members come to the attention of a damaged Iraq war veteran, and their lives... [Read More]

  • I'm In the Band: Backstage Notes from the Chick in White Zombie

    • ASIN: 1593762992
    • ISBN: 9781593762995
    • Manufacturer: Soft Skull Press

    "A fascinating scrapbook documenting a time in the life of a female musician. . . Tales of tours, blowouts, relationships with names such as The Cramps, Pantera, Ramones, Alice Cooper, Kyuss, Monster Magnet, Marilyn Manson, Coffin Joe and Danzig make this book essential as a time capsule of a certain era in the world of hard rock." ―Uber Rock Ar... [Read More]

  • Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

    • ASIN: 0743406567
    • ISBN: 9780743406567
    • Brand: Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    Empirically proving that—no matter where you are—kids wanna rock, this is Chuck Klosterman's hilrious memoir of growing up as a shameless metalhead in Wyndmere, North Dakotoa (population: 498).With a voice like Ace Frehley's guitar, Klosterman hacks his way through hair-band history, beginning with that fateful day in 1983 when his older brothe... [Read More]

  • We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California

    • ASIN: 193595007X
    • ISBN: 193595007X
    • Brand: Brand: Bazillion Points
    • Manufacturer: Bazillion Points

    In 1979, punk was over . . . but by 1981, hardcore was born. As teenagers in 1981, David Markey and his best friend Jordan Schwartz founded We Got Power!, a fanzine dedicated to the first-generation hardcore punk music community in their native Los Angeles. Their text captured the early punk spirit of Black Flag, the Minutemen, Social Distortion, S... [Read More]

  • Ramones

    • ASIN: 0312093691
    • ISBN: 0312093691
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    The authorized story of an American band who shaped the history of music for generations. Today's new music-makers are looking back at the bands that broke the ground, and the Ramones are it: the original high priests of punk, the stars of rock 'n roll high school, the royal avatars of rock, raunch, and rebellion. 60 photographs and illustrations.... [Read More]

  • Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel

    • ASIN: 0374537666
    • ISBN: 0374537666
    • Manufacturer: FSG Originals

    "A wild roar of a novel . . . Writing about music is tricky. Ninety-nine percent of the time hearing the actual song or going to the actual concert is far more revealing than any paragraph describing it. But Jackson pulls off this near-impossible feat, pulling the reader past the velvet ropes into the black-box theaters and sweaty, sticky-floored s... [Read More]

  • Ripped (The REAL series Book 5)

    • ASIN: B00EMDPZRO
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

    The fifth book in the New York Times new adult series that began with Real. A ripped rock star with attitude. An ex-girlfriend with a reckless plan.Pandora assumed getting her heart broken by her bad boy ex could only happen once--until Mackenna Jones comes back to town for the biggest concert of his career. They say girls are getting pregnant... [Read More]

  • For The Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records

    • ASIN: 1947026003
    • ISBN: 1947026003
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: BMG Books

    The story of Metal Blade Records is the story of Brian Slagel-a metal-obsessed Southern California kid who launched a fanzine and landed a record store job before cobbling together what he assumed would be a one-off compilation of fledgling bands from the L.A. scene. Released in 1982, the Metal Massacre LP included the debut recordings of local gro... [Read More]

  • Mayhem: Mayhem Series #1

    • ASIN: B00L1AJUKE
    • Manufacturer: Avon

    When college freshman Rowan Michaels meets gorgeous, up-and-coming rock star Adam Everest, she knows a player like him is the last thing she needs after her ex-boyfriend shattered her heart. But she can't stop thinking about the kiss they shared on his tour bus.On the first day of school, Rowan is stunned when Adam saunters into her French class. H... [Read More]

  • Deadfall: Generations of Logging in the Pacific Northwest

    • ASIN: 0878424210
    • ISBN: 0878424210
    • Brand: Brand: Mountain Press Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Mountain Press

    Through the life stories of the author's grandfathers, father, uncles, and cousins, Deadfall documents the dramatic changes in the logging industry since the early 1900s. The book focuses on the influence of international timber giant Weyerhaeuser Company in the Pacific Northwest, yet its themes resonate from Alaska to the American Southeast--where... [Read More]

  • Off Your Rocker (The Rock God Series Book 1)

    • ASIN: B00NWFG7K2

    This book is for mature audiences 18+ It contains explicit language, drug use and sexual content. When Delia (Lia) Norman meets Rock Royalty Colter (Colt) Slade unexpectedly after her boyfriend of 4 years breaks up with her, sparks fly immediately. Lia's ex always told her she was dull and boring, she was no fun at all, and he was right. Colt tells... [Read More]

  • Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life

    • ASIN: 0743277082
    • ISBN: 0743277082
    • Brand: Brand: Simon n Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Traces how the author, a pop-culture journalist and reluctant fan of indie rock, grew up in the shadow of a Dylan-obsessed father, reevaluated his personal music listening habits after his favorite band broke up in 2004, and spent a night of drunken revelry at the side of one of his heroes. 30,000 first printing.

  • Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir, with Recipes

    • ASIN: 1572841753
    • ISBN: 1572841753
    • Manufacturer: Agate Midway

    Part memoir, part cookbook, and all rock and roll, Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how musician Freda Love Smith's indie-rock past grew into her family- and food-centric present. Smith, born in Nashville and raised in Indiana, is best known as the drummer and co-founder of bands such as the Boston-based Blake Babies, Antenna, and the Myst... [Read More]

  • Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (33 1/3)

    • ASIN: 1623567300
    • ISBN: 1623567300
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Academic

    In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban on homosexuals teaching in public schools gave way to the ... [Read More]

  • CXone American Rock Band Best Coast Cotton V-Neck T Shirt For Womens Black M

    • ASIN: B01CJJAZL8
    • Brand: CXone
    • Size: Medium

    The T-Shirt Printed Using Digital Direct Printing. Made Of 100% Cotton And Printed With Eco-friendly Ink.It Is A Machine Washable Tops

  • CXone American Rock Band Best Coast T Shirt For Women Black XL

    • ASIN: B01CJJ9MV2
    • Brand: CXone
    • Size: X-Large

    The T-Shirt Printed Using Digital Direct Printing. Made Of 100% Cotton And Printed With Eco-friendly Ink.It Is A Machine Washable Tops

  • Cheetah Chrome

    • ASIN: B004GHOHUC
    • Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

    Here is the autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, one of the greatest punk bands ever. It’s a tale of success--and excess: great music, drugs (he overdosed and was pronounced dead three times), and resurrection. The Dead Boys, with roots in the band Rocket from the Tombs, came out of Cleveland to dominate the NYC punk... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: B01FLKWEL6

  • Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich

    • ASIN: 1932360409
    • ISBN: 1932360409
    • Brand: Brand: Soft Skull Press
    • Manufacturer: Soft Skull Press

    One of a handful of Jews in the WASPish enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, and still under 100 pounds in his junior year of high school, Tabb was routinely kicked around by the other kids—one blind, another one with one arm—as well as his father. "Playing Right Field" refers to an early experience of the author and his brother, Lloyd, who playe... [Read More]

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