Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day

7 best books like Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day (Jack Boulware): Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music, Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small

Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

Author	Jim DeRogatis
ISBN	0767905091

Let it Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder or wrote better–more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the...

We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

Author	Brendan Mullen
ISBN	0609807749

Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and...

A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash

Author	Johnny Green
ISBN	0571199577

Johnny Green was a footloose slacker who loved punk rock, stumbled into being a roadie for the Sex Pistols, then tripped again into a job pushing sound equipment for the Clash and driving their beat-up van to performances in the mean industrial towns of England. Disaffected youth anointed the Clash...

Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash

Author

Pat Gilbert

The only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock ‘n’ roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash’s music, which swiftly evolved...

From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World

Author	Clinton Heylin
ISBN	0140179704

Clinton Heylin's From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock was a captivating read that, not unlike Patti Smith's autobiographies or Greil Marcus's study of the world of Bob Dylan's Basement Tape sessions with The Band, transported me as I read it to another historical time and...

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

Author	Ellen Willis
ISBN	0816672830

In 1968, the New Yorker hired Ellen Willis as its first popular music critic. Her column, Rock, Etc., ran for seven years and established Willis as a leader in cultural commentary and a pioneer in the nascent and otherwise male-dominated field of rock criticism. As a writer for a magazine with a circulation...

Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label That Got Big and Stayed Small

Author	John Cook
ISBN	1565126246

Merge Records defies everything you’ve heard about the music business. Started by two twenty-year-old musicians, Merge is a lesson in how to make and market great music on a human scale. The fact that the company is prospering in a failing industry is something of a miracle. Yet two of their bands...