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The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground Week by Week
by Vince Aletti
[DJHistory.com]
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
by Michael Azerrad
[Back Bay/Little, Brown]
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'n'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock'n'Roll
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
by Lester Bangs
[Anchor/Serpent's Tail]
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
by Joe Boyd
[Serpent's Tail]
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
by Lloyd Bradley
[Viking/Penguin]
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton
[Grove/Avalon Travel]
Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage
by John Cage
[Wesleyan University]
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by Jeff Chang
[Picador/Ebury]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
by Richard Cook and Brian Morton
[Penguin]
Krautrocksampler: One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik - 1968 Onwards
by Julian Cope
[Head Heritage]
Master of Reality
by John Darnielle
[Continuum]
Miles: The Autobiography
by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
[Simon & Schuster/Picador]
Chronicles: Volume One
by Bob Dylan
[Simon & Schuster/Pocket]
The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
by Evan Eisenberg
[Yale University/Pocket]
A Year with Swollen Appendices
by Brian Eno
[Faber and Faber]
Fuck You Heroes: Photographs 1976-1991
by Glen E. Friedman
[Burning Flags/Consafos]
Music Downtown: Writings From the Village Voice
by Kyle Gann
[University of California]
The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life
by Simon Goddard
[Reynolds & Hearn]
Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson
by Alan Greenberg
[Da Capo]
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by Peter Guralnick
[Back Bay/MOJO]
Decoded
by Jay-Z and Dream Hampton
[Spiegel & Grau/Virgin]
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
by Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Jeff Mao, Gabe Alvarez, and Brent Rollins
[St. Martin's]
The Voice of New Music: New York City 1972-1982
by Tom Johnson
[Het Apollohuis]
The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way
by Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond
[Ellipsis London]
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta
by Chuck Klosterman
[Scribner/Simon & Schuster]
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
by Steve Knopper
[Free/Simon & Schuster]
Hip: The History
by John Leland
[Harper Perennial]
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
[Plume/Penguin]
The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
by John Litweiler
[Da Capo]
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock'n'Roll Music
by Greil Marcus
[Plume/Omnibus]
The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
by Greil Marcus
[Picador]
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties
by Ian MacDonald
[Chicago Review/Vintage]
Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap
Ed. Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers
[Cooper Square/Plexus]
Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
by Jimmy McDonough
[Anchor/Vintage]
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
[Grove/Abacus]
A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer
by Richard Meltzer
[Da Capo]
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
by Greg Milner
[Faber & Faber]
Ask: The Chatter Of Pop
by Paul Morley
[Faber & Faber]
Great Pop Things: The Real History of Rock and Roll from Elvis to Oasis
by Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death
[Verse Chorus]
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss
[HarperCollins/Regan]
Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture / Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
by Simon Reynolds
[Soft Skull/Picador; Routledge/Little, Brown]
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
by Simon Reynolds
[Penguin/Faber & Faber]
Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
by David Ritz
[Da Capo/Omnibus]
Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album
by Matthew Robertsom
[Chronicle/Thames & Hudson]
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
[Picador/Harper Perennial]
The Wu-Tang Manual
by the RZA
[Riverhead/Plexus]
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
[Vintage/Picador]
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
by Jon Savage
[St. Martin's]
Love Is a Mixtape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
by Rob Sheffield
[Three Rivers/Piatkus]
Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
by Peter Shapiro
[Faber & Faber]
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
by John F. Szwed
[Da Capo]
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II to Hip-Hop
by Dave Tompkins
[Stop Smiling/Melville]
Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
by David Toop
[Serpent's Tail]
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence and Memory
by David Toop
[Five Star/Serpent's Tail]
Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock'n'Roll
by Nick Tosches
[Da Capo]
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
by Elijah Wald
[Oxford University]
The SPIN Alternative Record Guide
by Eric Weisbard and Craig Marks
[Vintage]
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
by Ellen Willis
[University of Minnesota]
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
by Carl Wilson
[Continuum]
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