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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
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White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
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Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
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Summary & Study Guide Silence; Lectures and Writings by John Cage
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette
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Krautrocksampler: One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik
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Master of Reality
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Miles: The Autobiography
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Chronicles, Volume One
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The Recording Angel: Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
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A Year With Swollen Appendices
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Fuck You Heroes: Glen E. Friedman Photographs, 1976-1991
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Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice
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Songs That Saved Your Life: The Art of The Smiths 1982-87
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Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
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The Voice of New Music: New York City, 1972-1982 - A Collection of Articles Originally Published in the Village Voice by Tom Johnson
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The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
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Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
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Hip: The History: How the Quest for Authenticity Shaped Twentieth-Century American Pop Culture from Bohemia to Madison Avenue
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The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
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Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
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Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap
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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer
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Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
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Ask: The Chatter of Pop
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Great Pop Things: The Real History of Rock 'n' Roll from Elvis to Oasis
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture
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Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye
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Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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The Wu-Tang Manual
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
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Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
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How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
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Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
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Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll
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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
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Spin Alternative Record Guide
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music
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Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
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There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll
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Dangerous
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
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Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records
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Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
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Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
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I'll Take You There
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Definitely Maybe
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Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression
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A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man
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