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Looking forward to this. A couple of stunners due to come out this autumn including books on Prince, David Bowie, Patti Smith, and the exploration of rock and punk music.

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Salon's Must-Read Music Books Fall 2017

From memoirs to rankings, here are the best titles on rock, rap and country hitting the market this season.

Reveal: Robbie Williams

Chris Heath and Robbie Williams

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An intimate, funny and frank account of the moments behind the music, of the truth behind the...

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Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl’s Journey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Wanda Jackson and Scott Bomar

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Wanda Jackson's debut single, "You Can't Have My Love," reached the Top 10 while she was still a...

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Bowie: The Illustrated Story

Pat Gilbert

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David Bowie released an incredible 27 studio albums, beginning with his eponymous 1967 debut and...

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Hit So Hard: A Memoir

Patty Schemel

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A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer...

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What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography

Bruce Dickinso

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The first print run of the UK hardback edition will have black sprayed edges. In order to guarantee...

Music biography

Brian Fallon recommended track Town Called Malice by The Jam in Gift by The Jam in Music (curated)

Gift by The Jam

1982 | Rock

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Town Called Malice by The Jam

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"This song started the whole idea that punk rock can be married to soul and R&B music. This sort of started the whole idea of the record for me."

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POST- by Jeff Rosenstock

6.7 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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POST- is the third solo album by American singer-songwriter Jeff Rosenstock. It was released on New...

Tinderbox by Siouxsie & The Banshees

7.7 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Tinderbox is the seventh studio album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was...

Simon Cahn recommended Out of the Blue (1982) in Movies (curated)

"A fantastic film by Dennis Hopper. A great portrait of punk-rock youth culture in the early eighties, in which, here again, you’re hypnotized by the performance and voice of Linda Manz."

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Seventeen Seconds by The Cure

8.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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The classic Cure album from 1982 digitally remastered. Comes complete with an 8 page booklet...

Frank Turner recommended Everything Sucks by The Descendents in Music (curated)

Everything Sucks by The Descendents

1996 | Metal, Punk, Rock

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"Kurt Cobain talked about punk a lot even though everyone spoke about Nirvana being a grunge band, which I found quite confusing at the time. So I asked a friend of mine’s uncle about what punk was and I went out and got the first Clash record and the Sex Pistols. I was kind of into that, and then the '90s American skate punk thing arrived in my life. It’s a complex record, but it’s a really fun, poppy record at the same time Green Day and The Offspring were the gateway bands and I got heavily into NOFX, Pennywise and all that stuff, but the record that really sticks with me is Everything Sucks. It’s fast, it’s hard, it’s heavy but it’s also melodic as well. It’s a complex record, but it’s a really fun, poppy record at the same time. I listened to it yesterday. It’s a masterpiece of punk rock. It was my gateway into underground punk rock"

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