Top 10 Important Albums in Punk Music History

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  • Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982

    • ASIN: B01N3UTBYY
    • Manufacturer: Three Rooms Press

    Finalist, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword ReviewsPunk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming immersed in the early pun... [Read More]

  • Beastie Boys Book

    • ASIN: 0812995546
    • ISBN: 0812995546
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

  • No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0735225176
    • ISBN: 0735225176
    • Manufacturer: Viking

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A memoir as fierce, freewheeling, and passionate as her music."--O, the Oprah magazineA memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFrancoIn her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the p... [Read More]

  • Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

    • ASIN: 1451687788
    • ISBN: 1451687788
    • Brand: TOUCHSTONE
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    The “entertaining and enlightening” (Stephen King) final word on the genius and mischief of the Ramones, told by the man who created the beat behind their iconic music and lived to tell about it.When punk rock reared its spiky head in the early seventies, Marc Bell had the best seat in the house. Already a young veteran of the prototype America... [Read More]

  • Just Kids

    • ASIN: 0060936223
    • ISBN: 9780060936228
    • Brand: Ecco Press
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

  • Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

    • ASIN: 1936239124
    • ISBN: 1936239124
    • Manufacturer: Feral House

    The proximity of the East L.A. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on the 101 freeway, but the cultural divide is enormous. Born to Mexican-born and American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement. Alicia adopted the punk name Alice Bag, and bec... [Read More]

  • Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

    • ASIN: 0306825368
    • ISBN: 0306825368
    • Brand: DA CAPO
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBased on a decade of research and reporting--as well as access to the Replacements' key principals, Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson--author Bob Mehr has fashioned something far more compelling than a conventional band bio. Trouble Boys is a deeply intimate portrait, revealing the primal factors and forces that shaped one ... [Read More]

  • Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Life

    • ASIN: 0061148768
    • ISBN: 0061148768
    • Brand: Lindberg, Jim
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    Jim Lindberg is a Punk Rock Dad. When he drives his kids to school in the morning, they listen to the Ramones, the Clash, or the Descendents and that's it. He goes to all the soccer games, dance rehearsals, and piano recitals, but when he feels the need, he goes into the slam pit at punk shows and comes home bruised and beaten—somehow feelin... [Read More]

  • Disco's Out...Murder's In!: The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.'s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang

    • ASIN: 1627310185
    • ISBN: 1627310185
    • Brand: Feral House
    • Manufacturer: Feral House

    Famous for its revolutionary aspects in musical, political, sexual identity and consumerist ideas, punk rock also has its lesser-known gangster ethos as well, explained here by players in the various punk gangs.The Los Angeles, Orange County, and South Bay punk scenes, populated by blue collar kids who responded to the violence and aggression of p... [Read More]

  • The Art of Punk: The Illustrated History of Punk Rock Design

    • UPC: 752748344105
    • ASIN: 0760344108
    • ISBN: 0760344108
    • Brand: Brand: Voyageur Press
    • Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

    Punk rock gave birth to an art movement that was little appreciated at the time but soon became influential around the globe. This is the first book to chronicle the art of punk style, from concert posters and flyers to fanzines and record sleeves, T-shirts, buttons, comic books, and much more. The story begins with the godfathers of punk—the Ve... [Read More]

  • Chris Stein / Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk

    • ASIN: 0847843637
    • ISBN: 0847843637
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Rizzoli

    INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistOn the occasion of Blondie’s fortieth anniversary, Chris Stein shares his iconic and mostly unpublished photographs of Debbie Harry and the cool creatures of the ’70s and ’80s New York rock scene. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, Chris Stein photographed the downtown New York scene... [Read More]

  • NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories

    • ASIN: 0306824779
    • ISBN: 0306824779
    • Brand: Perseus Books Group
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

    The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, their own story in their own wordsNOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands. Fans and non-fans ... [Read More]

  • Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 1250065992
    • ISBN: 9781250065995
    • Brand: Thomas Dunne Books
    • Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books

  • It's So Easy: and other lies

    • ASIN: 1451606648
    • ISBN: 9781451606645
    • Brand: Simon Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

    A founding member of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver—and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee—shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his personal crash and burn, and his phoenix-like transformation.In 1984, at the age of twenty, Duff McKagan left his native Seattle—... [Read More]

  • White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race

    • ASIN: 1844676889
    • ISBN: 1844676889
    • Brand: Verso
    • Manufacturer: Verso

    From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way.White Riot is the definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book bri... [Read More]

  • Stranded in the Jungle: Jerry Nolan's Wild Ride: A Tale of Drugs, Fashion, the New York Dolls and Punk Rock

    • UPC: 888680094379
    • ASIN: 1495050815
    • ISBN: 1495050815
    • Brand: Hal Leonard
    • Manufacturer: Backbeat

    Here is the story of an often overlooked, one-of-a-kind rock 'n' roll musician and the historic times he lived in. In spite of numerous opportunities for success, he became a tragedy.Jerry Nolan came out of New York in the 1970s as part of two of the most influential and infamous bands of the time, the proto-punk New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders'... [Read More]

  • Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

    • ASIN: 0399184767
    • ISBN: 0399184767
    • Brand: Riverhead Books
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music. Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northw... [Read More]

  • I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir

    • ASIN: 1439159750
    • ISBN: 9781439159750
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

    “A powerful story of punk-rock inspiration and a great rock bio” (Rolling Stone), now in paperback.When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Unforgettable front man Joey Ramone gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, and the band influenced the counterculture for dec... [Read More]

  • I Am Ozzy

    • ASIN: 0446569909
    • ISBN: 0446569909
    • Brand: Grand Central Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    "They've said some crazy things about me over the years. I mean, okay: 'He bit the head off a bat.' Yes. 'He bit the head off a dove.' Yes. But then you hear things like, 'Ozzy went to the show last night, but he wouldn't perform until he'd killed fifteen puppies . . .' Now me, kill fifteen puppies? I love puppies. I've got eighteen of the f**king ... [Read More]

  • 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]

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