Treat Me Like Dirt captures the personalities that drove the original Toronto punk scene. This is the first book to document the histories of the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head, along with other bands (B-Girls, Curse,...
Punk rock musicians
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Author:Worth, LizSummary: -
Author:Ozzi, Dan, Grace, Laura JaneSummary:Illuminated by Laura Jane's never-before-published journal entries, Tranny reveals the struggles and victories that Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of the cult punk rock band Against Me!, experienced in her quest for gender transition...
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Author:Denton, RebeccaSummary:Seventeen-year-old Frankie is obsessed with what everyone else is thinking. She can keep up with the chat-from feminism to boys with tattoos-but when it comes to her own ideas, it's not so easy to hide her lack of confidence. With...
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Author:Worth, LizSummary:Sole survivor of a suicide pact, Ang has fallen into an underground music scene obsessed with the idea of the end of the world. But when the end finally does come, Ang and her friends don’t find the liberation they expected. Instead,...
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Author:Black, MarkSummary:Invisible Publishing's Bibliophonic Series returns, this time focusing on unsung Canadian punk rock heroes NoMeansNo. NoMeansNo: Going Nowhere, will look at a band whose career has spanned three decades, 14 albums and produced an...
- Author:McPheeters, Sam.Summary:
How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social...
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Author:Craine, Nick, Crosbie, LynnSummary:Joe Dick, Billy Tallent, John Oxenburger, and Pipefitter are Hard Core Logo — Vancouver’s legendary, but now defunct, punk band.Joe Dick coaxes his former bandmates to overcome personal differences and reunite for a benefit concert for...
- Author:Sanford Blades, SusanSummary:
Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle--the future of "no future"--and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen look-alike, meets Damian, the...
- Author:Ruland, Jim, Bad Religion (Musical group)Summary:
With a unique blend of melodic hardcore and thought-provoking lyrics, Bad Religion paved the way for the punk rock explosion of the 1990s. They showed the world what punk could be, and they continue to spread their message one song, one...
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Author:Grisham, JackSummary:An American Demon is Jack Grisham's story of depravity and redemption, terror and spiritual deliverance. While Grisham is best known as the raucous and provocative front man of the pioneer hardcore punk band TSOL (True Sounds...
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Author:Egan, JenniferSummary:Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose...
