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Most Read This Week Tagged "Punk"

Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In
I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both
No One Left to Come Looking for You
Goth: A History
Lou Reed: The King of New York
Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
A Cigarette Lit Backwards
Punk Rock Karaoke
The High Desert
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene, 1989-1999
‎Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983
Sandinista!
The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth
Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
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Punk Books

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Just Kids
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag
We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
American Hardcore: A Tribal History
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
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Lists

Backstage Pass by J.D. DeCostaPlease Kill Me by Legs McNeilEverybody Loves Our Town by Mark YarmWho Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon by Ian HalperinServing the Servant by Danny Goldberg
PUNK / ALT / GRUNGE / STRIP + SCENE MEMOIRS
16 books — 2 voters
22 daydreams by Chris RoseWood, Talc And Mr. J by Chris RoseThe Porn Detective by Stevie TurnerGrit by Karl WigginsOnce Upon a Road Trip by Angela N. Blount
Fave Autobiographical Books
63 books — 33 voters

Camp Spirit by Axelle LenoirThe Sandman, Vol. 1 by Neil GaimanDeath by Neil GaimanThe Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1 by Kieron GillenKim & Kim, Vol. 1 by Magdalene Visaggio
Queer Comic Books With Punk/Goth Characters
26 books — 7 voters
Komoreby by Su VidaThe Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1 by Gerard WayMall Goth by Kate LethThe Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1 by Kieron GillenHack/Slash by Tim Seeley
Goth/Alternative main characters
23 books — 10 voters

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,438 books — 1,341 voters
Angela's Arm by Roland AllnachThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. DickVALIS by Philip K. Dick
The (never official) World/Inferno Friendship Society book list
45 books — 3 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Punk”

Exene Cervenka
“ never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you. ...more ”
― Exene Cervenka, Adulterers Anonymous
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Jello Biafra
“ Don't hate the media; become the media. ...more ”
― Jello Biafra, Become the Media
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Groups Tagged "Punk"

Splatter Punk All fans and authors that love Splatter Punk in all its gruesome and intense violence and sex
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Band Obsessed Music lifts the souls of everyone. Music is like medicine, so many types, so many names, yet it …more
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Tell us your stories about teen angst and music.
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