The Trouser Press Record Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Music

5 best books like The Trouser Press Record Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Alternative Music (Ira A. Robbins): 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, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World, Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music, Role Models

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...

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...

Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music

Author	Irwin Chusid
ISBN	1556523726

Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel...

Role Models

Author	John Waters
ISBN	0374251479

Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and happily horrify readers everywhere. Role Models is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown,...