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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller Publisher Comments A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio with CD (Audio) by Ben Fong Torres Publisher Comments This lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests and more. The book features interviews with such renowned radio personalities and programmers as Casey... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks Publisher Comments Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR andndash; Spin - USA Today andndash; CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post andndash; VEVO - The Boston Globe - The San Francisco Chronicle You will receive one of the two covers. We... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Best Music Writing 2011 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) by Alex Ross Publisher Comments Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the years most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so its appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll: Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock 'n' Soul Eccentrics (Refiguring American Music) by Jake Austen Publisher Comments For nearly twenty years, the much-beloved music magazine Roctober has featured work by some of the best underground cartoonists, exhaustive examinations of made-up genres such as “robot rock,” and an ongoing exploration of everything Sammy... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Sonic Boom!: The History of Northwest Rock, from Louie Louie to Smells Like Teen Spirit by Peter Blecha Publisher Comments In this epic exploration of the Pacific Northwest's esteemed garage rock traditions, Peter Blecha, Seattle's rock 'n' roll archaeologist, skillfully weaves together the untold tales behind the rise of the region's early dance halls, recording studios... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music by Anthony Decurtis Publisher Comments The ultimate illustrated history of rock & roll--comprehensive, authoritative, and fully updated with coverage of the most important new sounds and artists of the 1980s and `90s.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Punk '77: An Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock N' Roll Scene, 1977 by James Stark Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. PUNK '77 is told in a mosaic of anecdotes, rants, gossips, and self-aggrandizements by the prototypical punks, scenesters, musicians and artists who lived the explosion of the San Francisco punk scene circa 1977, ending with the Sex... (read more) List Price $16.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hippie (04 Edition) by Barry Miles Publisher Comments New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price. Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustrations and filled with the history, politics, sayings,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll by Gillian G Gaar Synopsis Gillian G. Gaars critically acclaimed, breakthrough book, the first full history of women in rock and pop ever written, became an instant classic upon its publication in 1992. Arranged chronologically and told with impassioned detail, Shes A Rebel charts... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents by Mikal Gilmore Publisher Comments The 1960s and 1970s represent a rare moment in our cultural history -- music was exploring unprecedented territories, literature was undergoing a radical reinvention, politics polarized the nation, and youth culture was at the zenith of its influence... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Grunge by Thurston Moore Publisher Comments More than a decade after his death, alienated, awkward, heavily eye-lined Kurt Cobain continues to sit front and center in the arena of popular culture, as the subject of books, music, fashion, gossip, and inspiration for major motion pictures and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.74 Sale - Hardcover
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Rock and Hard Places: Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows by Andrew Mueller Review Praise for I Wouldnt Start from Here “The best foreign correspondent of his generation.” —P.J. ORourke “I am regularly lost. I ask people all the time for directions. They send me to places I never could have imagined . . . I usually... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - 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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam by Mark Levine Publisher Comments “We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal.” —Reda Zine, one of the founders of the Moroccan heavy-metal scene “Music is the weapon of the future.” —Fela Kuti An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Trouser Press Guide to 90s Rock by Ira Robbins Publisher Comments The Trouser Press Record Guide has been hailed by music fans and the record industry as "the bible" of nonmainstream rock, stretching across the stylistic boundaries of punk, grunge, indie-pop, techno, noise, avant-garde and ska into hip-hop, new country,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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