13 Top nonfiction books like Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag by Henry Rollins

Cover of Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag by Henry Rollins

Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

By: Henry Rollins

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag by Henry Rollins , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad

1. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

By: Michael Azerrad

4.22

Format: 522 pages, Paperback

This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of… read more

Similar categories in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • punk
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spir…"

-Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

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2. American Hardcore: A Tribal History

By: Steven Blush , George Petros

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Hardcore punk was an underground tribal movement created with anger and passion but ultimately dest… read more

Similar categories in Steven Blush's American Hardcore: A Tribal History book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • punk
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Yeah I have an attitude. You weren't subjected to what I was subjected to, so don't try to tell me how I am."

-Steven Blush, American Hardcore: A Tribal History

Cover of NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories by Jeff Alulis, NOFX, Billy Joe Armstrong

3. NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories

By: Jeff Alulis , NOFX , Billy Joe Armstrong

4.55

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times be… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Alulis's NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • punk
"From 111 Mike " I never travel with drugs because I don't want to get caught at the airport, so if I ever have any coke or ecstasy left over after night of partying I tuck it in the pages of the Bibl…"

-Jeff Alulis, NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories

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4. Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

By: Henry Rollins

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form… read more

Similar categories in Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • punk
Cover of Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad

5. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

By: Michael Azerrad

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Neve… read more

Similar categories in Michael Azerrad's Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

By: Charles R. Cross

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still… read more

Similar categories in Charles R. Cross's Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"One of these days, I'm going to astral project myself up into the skies," he boasted. "I'll be going to the stars and the moon. I want to fly and see what's up there. "I want to go up to the sky," he…"

-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

"They drove to the parking lot of Garfield High School, where Jimi pointed to the windows on the building and told Carmen what classes were held there. The building had a pull that had him returning w…"

-Charles R. Cross, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

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7. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

By: Steven Pinker

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitu… read more

Similar categories in Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • nonfiction

8. The Room

By: Hubert Selby Jr.

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time criminal surrenders himself to sadistic fantasies of hatr… read more

Similar categories in Hubert Selby Jr.'s The Room book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

Cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

9. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

4.19

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more

Similar categories in Legs McNeil's Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • punk
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

10. White Line Fever: The Autobiography

By: Lemmy Kilmister , Janiss Garza

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of music's most notorious frontmen leads a headbanging, voyeuristic odyssey into sex, drugs, an… read more

Similar categories in Lemmy Kilmister's White Line Fever: The Autobiography book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

11. England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond

By: Jon Savage

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment t… read more

Similar categories in Jon Savage's England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

12. Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

By: Deborah Curtis , Jon Savage

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is an account of the mesmerising life and tragic death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Divis… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Curtis's Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

13. Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

By: Steven Tyler

3.93

Format: None pages,

"I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-… read more

Similar categories in Steven Tyler's Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

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14. Lords of Chaos

By: Michael Moynihan , None

3.68

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

The book focuses on the scene surrounding the extreme heavy metal subgenre black metal in Norway in… read more

Similar categories in Michael Moynihan's Lords of Chaos book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Nationalism is the political manifestation of a folk's collective unconscious; heathenism/ satanism is the spiritual manifestation. Both ascend from the same source. Its therefore no coincidence that…"

-Michael Moynihan, Lords of Chaos

"Heavy Metal has been forced to create its own underworld. It plays by its own rules, follows its own aesthetic prerogatives… Metal is no longer a staple of FM radio, nor are record labels publishing …"

-Michael Moynihan, Lords of Chaos

15. Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

By: Laura Jane Grace

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME" The provocative transgender advocate and … read more

Similar categories in Laura Jane Grace's Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

16. The Mind's Eye

By: Oliver Sacks

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about… read more

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17. 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

Similar categories in Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

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

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

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

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

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

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

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

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

18. Autobiography

By: Morrissey

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder … read more

Similar categories in Morrissey's Autobiography book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

Cover of The Rest Is Noise Series: Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius (Time for a Rhyme) by Alex  Ross

19. The Rest Is Noise Series: Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius (Time for a Rhyme)

By: Alex Ross

3.81

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘Th… read more

Similar categories in Alex Ross's The Rest Is Noise Series: Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius (Time for a Rhyme) book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sonic Life: A Memoir by Thurston Moore

20. 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

Similar categories in Thurston Moore's Sonic Life: A Memoir book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • punk
Cover of Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland

21. 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

Similar categories in Jim Ruland's Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records book and Henry Rollins's Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

  • music
  • punk
  • nonfiction

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Michael Azerrad

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American Hardcore: A Tribal History

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3.97

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NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories

Jeff Alulis , NOFX , Billy Joe Armstrong

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Bob Spitz

4.09

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4.04

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4.11

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