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No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980 by Thurston Moore Publisher Comments No Wave is the first book to visually chronicle the collision of art and punk in the New York underground of 1976 to 1980. This in depth look at punk rock, new wave, experimental music, and the avant-garde art movement of the 70s and 80s focuses on the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality by Brad Warner Publisher Comments This is not the average Zen book full of feel-good stories designed to lull readers into beautiful dreams of peace and wonder--it's a book written in an open, accessible style with biting humor that spares no one.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Hardcore : Tribal History (01 Edition) by Steven Blush Publisher Comments A former record label owner and radio DJ offers the first history of hardcore, a musical response to the angst of punk and new wave. Photos & illustrations.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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CBGB & OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock by David Byrne Publisher Comments CBGBUs influence and legacy is honored with 200 photos of some of the most celebrated artists in music history. It includes an Introduction by Hilly Kristal, an Afterword by David Byrne, and additional commentary by numerous performers and patrons.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus Publisher Comments Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of Riot Grrrl — the radical feminist uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s and included incendiary punk bands Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, Heavens to Betsy, and Huggy Bear. A dynamic... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge by Mark Yarm Publisher Comments Twenty years after the release of Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, the definitive word on the grunge era, straight from the mouths of those at the center of it all. Grunge, the raw... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price: $26.50 New - Trade Paper
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Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley by Brendan Mullen and Roger Gastman Publisher Comments The Masque was the grimy Los Angeles basement club where West Coast punk first coalesced in the crucial years from 1977-1979. Live at the Masque is comprised of more than 300 pages of photographs that offer a snapshot of a classic, vanished moment on the... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Desperate Measures by Frank Kozik Publisher Comments In presenting his best work from the mid-1990's to the present, we see how popular visual artist Frank Kozik elevates low culture to high art. His work, originating in the Austin, Texas, punk scene, manipulates pop culture and subculture icons in... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Totally Wired: Post-Punk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds Synopsis In the follow-up to "Rip It Up and Start Again," renowned music journalist Reynolds interviews 32 of postpunk's most innovative personalities alongside an "overview" section of further reflections from Reynolds on postpunk's key icons and crucial scenes.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs Mcneil Synopsis A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the first oral history of the most nihilist of all pop movements. Iggy Pop, Danny Fields, Dee Dee and Joey Ramone, Malcom McLaren, Jim Carroll, and scores of... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments This is a secret history of modern times, told by way of what conventional history tries to exclude. Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself. "Hip, metaphorical and allusive"...--Gail Caldwell, Boston Sunday Globe.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad Publisher Comments It was a musical revolution that happened right under the nose of the Reagan Eighties: a small but sprawling network of bands, labels, fanzines, radio stations, and other subversives who reshaped and reenergized American rock music with punk rock's... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Anti-Matter Anthology: A 1990s Post-Punk & Hardcore Reader by Norman Brannon Synopsis Anti-Matter offers a fascinating and earnest glimpse into the lives of the artists themselves: A straight-edge punk icon admits to straying from his teetotal principles. A multiplatinum rock star divulges the point that his own celebrity brought him to... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Sonic Youth: Sensational Fix by Sonic Youth (con) Publisher Comments The iconic postpunk band Sonic Youth is famed for blurring musical genres, veering from thundering rock to dismantled experimentalism, and expanding the possibilities of the electric guitar. What we're doing is always inventing itself. I have no... (read more) Your price: $85.00 New - Hardcover
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Punk is Dead: Punk is Everything! by Bryan Ray Turcotte Publisher Comments Punk is Dead exposes the lasting impact of Punk on visual culture worldwide. Hundreds of flyers, photos, set lists, vintage fashions and other ephemera from all of your favorite bands are jammed into this menacing volume. Punk is Dead is massive... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Young Flesh Required: Growing Up with the Sex Pistols by Alan G Parker Publisher Comments When the late great Sean Body, founder of Helter Skelter, commissioned this book he wanted the style to be that of 'two mates having a chat over a pint'. Parker, with O'Shea, has captured that brief brilliantly in a book that features many unique... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs by Don Bolles Publisher Comments "Lexicon Devil is, pure and simple, the finest volume on punk to have seen the light of print. (Yes, folks: that includes Please Kill Me.) Great book!"—Richard Meltzer Production has started on the documentary feature based on the book.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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