12 best-selling music books like You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series) by Bruce Adams

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You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series)

By: Bruce Adams

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins …

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1. La casa

By: Paco Roca

4.45

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A lo largo de los años el dueño llena de recuerdos su casa, testigo mudo de su vida. Y aquél es tam… read more

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2. England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

By: David Keenan

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Based on several years' worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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3. Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth

By: David Browne

3.50

Format: 31 pages,

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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4. Black Hole

By: Charles Burns

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon… read more

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5. Black Wings Has My Angel

By: Elliott Chaze

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in n… read more

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6. Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

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7. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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8. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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9. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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10. Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.43

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The FIFTH BOOK in the best-selling Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Br… read more

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11. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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12. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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13. Spaceships Over Glasgow

By: Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Braithwaite's Spaceships Over Glasgow book and Bruce Adams's You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series)

  • music
  • nonfiction
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14. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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15. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

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16. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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17. Regreso al Edén

By: Paco Roca

4.43

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A partir de una foto familiar de 1946 en la antigua playa de Nazaret de la capital valenciana, Paco… read more

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18. High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape

By: Marc Masters

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle ch… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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19. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records

By: Jim Ruland

4.03

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker D… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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20. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

By: Miki Berenyi

4.46

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series)

By: Bruce Adams

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the 1990s, Chicago was at the center of indie rock, propelling bands like the Smashing Pumpkins … read more

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  • nonfiction

15 Top nonfiction books like You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music (American Music Series) by Bruce Adams

Transform Your Habits

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground

David Keenan

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth

David Browne

3.50

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Girl in a Band

Kim Gordon

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

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Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Werner Herzog

4.25

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Meantime

Frankie Boyle

3.54

Transform Your Habits

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Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

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Alan Partridge

4.27

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