13 Top music books like Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story by Jesse Valencia

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Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story

By: Jesse Valencia

3.73

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are probably best known for their leader Anton Newcombe’s incendiary p…

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1. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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2. A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

3.00

Format: None pages,

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story

By: Paul Whitelaw

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

In the eight years since their first release, Belle and Sebastianhave grown from a secretive cult c… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

5. The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is mo… 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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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

7. Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands

By: None

3.33

Format: 153 pages,

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8. 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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9. No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.55

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more

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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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10. The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan

3.80

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Vol… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The thing about being misunderstood is that it diminishes your enjoyment of life"

-Bob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song

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11. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

By: Bono

4.20

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

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12. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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13. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more

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14. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

By: Eve Babitz

4.10

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more

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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."

-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

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15. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

By: Mark Lanegan

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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18. Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir

By: Kid Congo Powers

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experience… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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19. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

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20. In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre

By: Joel Gion

4.39

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are one of the great contemporary cult American rock and roll bands. A… read more

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  • music
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21. Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story

By: Jesse Valencia

3.73

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are probably best known for their leader Anton Newcombe’s incendiary p… read more

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13 must-read nonfiction books like Keep Music Evil: The Brian Jonestown Massacre Story by Jesse Valencia

Transform Your Habits

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story

Paul Whitelaw

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Girl in a Band

Kim Gordon

3.67

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19 Top nonfiction books like Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie

Transform Your Habits

Telling Stories

Tim Burgess

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

3.81

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