 | Ghost Notes by Art Edwards
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $10.74 "Ghost Notes is a worthy contribution to the pantheon of rock novels. This is a savvy, sharp, insiders view of the rise and fall of a band and what can be lost and found along the way.
-Mark Lindquist, Author of Never Mind Nirvana and The King of Methlehem
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 | Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $6.88 The 80s indie rock bible. The chapter on the Butthole Surfers alone is worth the asking price. A must-read for anyone who espouses the principles of DIY.
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 | The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 No other novel comes so close to reproducing the rhythms of rock 'n' roll. Light and funny, it's better than the 1990 movie based on it.
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 | Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman
Buy new: $9.89 / Used from: $4.44 An appropriate subtitle might be: "In Defense of Glam Metal." Klosterman pulls out all the stops to show how bands like Poison, Guns 'n' Roses, and Motley Crue got the shaft while 90s grunge bands moped their way to critical success.
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 | The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Tom Perrotta's narrator battles the eternal musician dilemma: when is it time to leave your rock dreams in the past, if ever? A thoughtful, funny tale written by a contemporary fiction mainstay.
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 | England's Dreaming, Revised Edition: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage
Buy new: $17.21 / Used from: $6.42 Sex Pistols: The Whole Story--no, much more than that. From the political and social climate of 1970s England, to the origins and analysis of punk rock fashion, to the rise and fall of punk's most famous band, Savage pens an exhaustive and fascinating tale of the birth of a cultural movement.
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 | High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 A London music junkie tries to make order of his life, but finds it much more unruly than his record collection. Always funny, Hornby reaches into the nineties zeitgeist and pulls out a gem.
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 | Wilco: Learning How to Die by Greg Kot
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $4.93 Kot chronicles the career of singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy, focusing on the recording and release of Wilco's masterpiece *Yankee Hotel Foxtrot*. A remarkable tale of how artful rock can survive the meat-grinder of the music business, even in the 21st century.
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 | Great Jones Street (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don DeLillo
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.57 Bucky Wanderluck, rock messiah, has the ear of the pop music world, but does Bucky have anything left to say? DeLillo explores urban decay through Bucky's spiritual ennui.
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 | Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
Buy used from: $6.72 Get the story straight from the major players. Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain compile a thoroughly engrossing collection of quotes and anecdotes from and about the legends of New York punk.
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 | Stuck Outside of Phoenix by Art Edwards
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $14.05 "A nice nostalgia trip for the grunge generation, and a good story for garage band romantics of any age."
-Thomas Bell, Creative Loafing, Atlanta
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