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Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining...
Fargo Rock City
A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
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...
Home Before Daylight
My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today.
Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in...
by William English
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Freddie Mercury fronted the legendary rock group Queen. With songs such as "Don't Stop Me Now", "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "I want To Break Free", it's no wonder he was voted the greatest male singer of all time. This is his story. The unofficial Freddie Mercury Biography.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
An Oral/Visual History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
This is the book fans have been waiting for since Mother’s Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik first hit the charts: The first (and only!) official Red Hot Chili Peppers story—an oral and visual autobiography from one of the world’s greatest rock groups. Together, Anthony Kiedis, John Frusciante,...
All Shook Up
How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did it signify? As Glenn Altschuler reveals in All Shook Up, the rise of rock 'n roll--and the outraged reception...
by Jessica Jayne
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
There is only one King of Rock ‘n Roll, and this Elvis Presley. The story of how a poor kid from a poor area become one of the biggest stars in history is a fascinating and extraordinary one - and you can get all the details in this revealing book. From his earliest attempts at singing in public,...
The Rap Year Book
The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
New York Times Bestseller - Washington Post Bestseller - Pitchfork Book Club selection
The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical landscape, and comes right up to the present. Shea...
W.A.R.
The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
A journalist who had unprecedented access to Guns n' Roses at their peak delivers a big, brash history of the band's charismatic, fantastically talented and idiosyncratic leader—W. Axl Rose
Even in the world of rock and roll, a figure like Axl Rose doesn't come along very often. Mercurial...
by Henry Rollins
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form the basis of Get in the Van. Rollins's observations range from the wry to the raucous in this blistering account of a six-year career with the band - a time marked by crazed fans, vicious cops, near-starvation,...
Twilight of the Gods
A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
National Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of 2018 * A Billboard Best of 2018 * A New York Times Book Review "New and Noteworthy" selection
The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers...
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Drooling fanatic, n. 1. One who drools in the presence of beloved rock stars. 2. Any of a genus of rock-and-roll wannabes/geeks who walk around with songs constantly ringing in their ears, own more than 3,000 albums, and fall in love with at least one record per week.
With a life that’s spanned...
by L.P. Maxa
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
SWEETER THAN HONEY
From the time he first met her, Luke Matthews knew Lexi Grant was the girl for him. He joined a band to impress her. He became a famous drummer to win her heart…only to have his bandmate win it instead. Watching the two together was torture, so Luke fled. Spent months in...
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart
A Groupie Grows Up
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Updated to include the escapades of the last 16 years of the "queen of the groupies," this rollicking, piquant, and sometimes heartbreaking follow-up to I’m With the Band documents Pamela Des Barres' struggles with postmodern marriage and motherhood. Covering the middle-passage years...