Best Punk Rock Biographies - April 2024

Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982

Finalist, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword ReviewsPunk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming immersed in the early punk rock scene. From backrooms of Max’s and CBGB’s to the Tropicana Hotel in Los Angeles and back, Punk Avenue is a tour de force of stories from someone at the heart of the era. With brilliant, often hilarious prose, Marcade relays first-hand tale... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N3UTBYY
• ASIN: B01N3UTBYY
• Manufacturer: Three Rooms Press

Beastie Boys Book

• ASIN: 0812995546
• ASIN: 0812995546
• ISBN: 0812995546
• Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A memoir as fierce, freewheeling, and passionate as her music."--O, the Oprah magazineA memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFrancoIn her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, honest, passionate, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's eventful and radical journey to the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735225176
• ASIN: 0735225176
• ISBN: 0735225176
• Manufacturer: Viking

Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

The “entertaining and enlightening” (Stephen King) final word on the genius and mischief of the Ramones, told by the man who created the beat behind their iconic music and lived to tell about it.When punk rock reared its spiky head in the early seventies, Marc Bell had the best seat in the house. Already a young veteran of the prototype American metal band Dust, Bell took residence in artistic, seedy Lower Manhattan, where he played drums in bands that would shape rock music for decades to come, including Wayne County, who pioneered transsexual rock, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, who ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451687788
• ASIN: 1451687788
• ISBN: 1451687788
• Brand: TOUCHSTONE
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Just Kids

• ASIN: 0060936223
• ASIN: 0060936223
• ISBN: 9780060936228
• Brand: Ecco Press
• Manufacturer: Ecco

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

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 the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement. Alicia adopted the punk name Alice Bag, and became lead singer for The Bags, early punk visionaries who starred in Penelope Spheeris' documentary The Decline of Western Civilization. Here is a life of many crossed boundaries, from East L.A.'s musica ranchera to Hollywood's punk rock; from a viole... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1936239124
• ASIN: 1936239124
• ISBN: 1936239124
• Manufacturer: Feral House

Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBased on a decade of research and reporting--as well as access to the Replacements' key principals, Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson--author Bob Mehr has fashioned something far more compelling than a conventional band bio. Trouble Boys is a deeply intimate portrait, revealing the primal factors and forces that shaped one of the most brilliant and notoriously self-destructive rock 'n' roll bands of all time.Beginning with riveting revelations about the Replacements' troubled early years, Trouble Boys follows the group as they rise within the early '80s American underg... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0306825368
• ASIN: 0306825368
• ISBN: 0306825368
• Brand: DA CAPO
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Life

Jim Lindberg is a Punk Rock Dad. When he drives his kids to school in the morning, they listen to the Ramones, the Clash, or the Descendents and that's it. He goes to all the soccer games, dance rehearsals, and piano recitals, but when he feels the need, he goes into the slam pit at punk shows and comes home bruised and beaten—somehow feeling strangely better. While the other dads dye their hair brown to cover the gray, Jim occasionally dyes his blue or green. He pays his taxes, serves jury duty, votes in all major elections, and reserves the right to believe that there's a vast Right W... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061148768
• ASIN: 0061148768
• ISBN: 0061148768
• Brand: Lindberg, Jim
• Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

Disco's Out...Murder's In!: The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.'s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang

Famous for its revolutionary aspects in musical, political, sexual identity and consumerist ideas, punk rock also has its lesser-known gangster ethos as well, explained here by players in the various punk gangs.The Los Angeles, Orange County, and South Bay punk scenes, populated by blue collar kids who responded to the violence and aggression of punk songs and shows. A number of them formed punk gangs that got into beatings, drug dealing and murder. Among them, no gang was more notorious than La Mirada Punks, or LMP.Says LMP chieftain Frank the Shank after getting arrested by police for murde... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1627310185
• ASIN: 1627310185
• ISBN: 1627310185
• Brand: Feral House
• Manufacturer: Feral House

The Art of Punk: The Illustrated History of Punk Rock Design

Punk rock gave birth to an art movement that was little appreciated at the time but soon became influential around the globe. This is the first book to chronicle the art of punk style, from concert posters and flyers to fanzines and record sleeves, T-shirts, buttons, comic books, and much more. The story begins with the godfathers of punk—the Velvet Undergound, MC5, the Ramones, New York Dolls, and Patti Smith—and the distinctive aesthetic these bands launched thanks to impresarios like Andy Warhol. Punk broke big in 1976 and 1977 with American and British groups such as the Sex Pistols, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0760344108
• UPC: 752748344105
• ASIN: 0760344108
• ISBN: 0760344108
• Brand: Brand: Voyageur Press
• Manufacturer: Voyageur Press

Chris Stein / Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk

INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 FinalistOn the occasion of Blondie’s fortieth anniversary, Chris Stein shares his iconic and mostly unpublished photographs of Debbie Harry and the cool creatures of the ’70s and ’80s New York rock scene. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, Chris Stein photographed the downtown New York scene of the early ’70s, where he met Deborah Harry and cofounded Blondie. Their blend of punk, dance, and hip-hop spawned a totally new sound, and Stein’s photographs helped establish Harry as an international fashion and music icon. In photos and st... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847843637
• ASIN: 0847843637
• ISBN: 0847843637
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories

The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, their own story in their own wordsNOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands. Fans and non-fans alike will be shocked by the stories of murder, suicide, addiction, counterfeiting, riots, bondage, terminal illness, the Yakuza, and drinking pee. Told from the perspective of each of the band's members, this book looks back at more than thirty year... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0306824779
• ASIN: 0306824779
• ISBN: 0306824779
• Brand: Perseus Books Group
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Press

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir

• ASIN: 1250065992
• ASIN: 1250065992
• ISBN: 9781250065995
• Brand: Thomas Dunne Books
• Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books

It's So Easy: and other lies

A founding member of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver—and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee—shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his personal crash and burn, and his phoenix-like transformation.In 1984, at the age of twenty, Duff McKagan left his native Seattle—partly to pursue music but mainly to get away from a host of heroin overdoses then decimating his closest group of friends in the local punk scene. In L.A. only a few weeks and still living in his car, he answered a want ad for a bass player placed b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451606648
• ASIN: 1451606648
• ISBN: 9781451606645
• Brand: Simon Schuster
• Manufacturer: Touchstone

White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race

From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way.White Riot is the definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey, Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen, and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.

• ASIN: 1844676889
• ASIN: 1844676889
• ISBN: 1844676889
• Brand: Verso
• Manufacturer: Verso

Punk Rock Dad : No Rules, Just Real Life

Punk rock star Lindberg shares his laugh-out-loud stories on raising three daughters while trying to stay true to his inner adolescent. This book shows those parents who still have a rebellious spirit how to raise

• UPC: 6003738
• Rating: 3.0

My Damage : The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor

9780306825804

• UPC: 55804262

Punk Rock Blitzkrieg : My Life as a Ramone

"The inside story behind one of the most revered bands in music history during the early days of punk rock in New York, from legendary drummer Marky Ramone. Rolling Stone ranked the Ramones at #26

• UPC: 46509016

Hardcore Zen : Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

9781614293163

• UPC: 45965060
• Rating: 4.667

Best in the World: The Unauthorized Biography of Phil Brooks (WWE Superstar CM Punk) - eBook

"Best in the World: The Unauthorized Biography of Phil Brooks" is a first of its kind look at the man behind CM Punk.Painting an extraordinarily candid portrait of a deeply complex individual, this controversial and

• UPC: 480787049

Tranny : Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

The transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides an honest account of her search for identity and her true

• UPC: 55773819

Playlist: The Very Best Of Corrosion Of Conformity

Playlist: The Very Best Of Corrosion Of

• UPC: 34643892

The Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep (CD)

Best Of Faces: Good Boys When They're

• UPC: 853920

Wave Of Mutilation: The Best Of Pixies (Vinyl)

2 x LP Black Vinyl pressing on 4AD.

• UPC: 34452770

Part Time Punks: The Very Best of

Part Time Punks: The Very Best Of

• UPC: 29521587