American Hair Metal

By Steven Blush

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American Hair Metal is an extravagantly visual tribute to the spandex, rouge and eyeliner days of ’80s glam rock glory.

American Hardcore

A Tribal History

By Steven Blush

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Provocative sociological snapshots reveal the apocalyptic desperation of a singular time in American history.

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth

The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears

Edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay

Reveals the light and dark sides of bubblegum music, telling bitter tales of litigious back-stabbing, pistol-wielding producers, and the perversities behind the jingles.

Choosing Death

The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore

By Albert Mudrian, Introduction by John Peel

Initially circulated through an underground tape-trading network by scraggly, angry young boys, death metal and grindcore spread faster than a plague of undead zombies as bands rose from every corner of the globe.

The Covert War Against Rock

What You Don’t Know About the Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, John Lennon, and The Notorious B.I.G.

By Alex Constantine

The FBI’s counter-insurgence program COINTELPRO and the CIA’s illegal domestic OPERATION CHAOS were both designed to stop the dissent that rock music reflected.

Lexicon Devil (Limited Edition Hardcover)

The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs

By Brendan Mullen, with Don Bolles and Adam Parfrey

Thieves, surfers, skinheads, nymphettes, chickenhawks, skateboarders, Scientologists, boho artists, under-age sado-masochistic punk kids, and TV stars confront and hustle each other in a late ’70s L.A. history that reads like bowdlerized chapters of Hollywood Babylon that have finally come to light.

Lexicon Devil (Softcover)

The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs

By Brendan Mullen, with Don Bolles and Adam Parfrey

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Thieves, surfers, skinheads, nymphettes, chickenhawks, skateboarders, Scientologists, boho artists, under-age sado-masochistic punk kids, and TV stars confront and hustle each other in a late ’70s L.A. history that reads like bowdlerized chapters of Hollywood Babylon that have finally come to light.

Lords of Chaos

The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground

By Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind

Award-winning exposé features hundreds of rare photos and exclusive interrogations with priests, police officers, Satanists, and leaders of demonic bands who believe the greater evil spawns the greatest glory.

Orgasmatron

The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno

By Joe Petagno, Foreword by Lemmy Kilmister, Introduction by Steffan Chirazi

Orgasmatron: The Heavy Metal Art of Joe Petagno goes where no art book has ever gone before.

Russ Columbo and the Crooner Mystique

By Joseph Lanza and Dennis Penna

Combines a remarkable collection of Columbo’s letters, diary entries, scrapbook clippings, and other personal effects—all woven with an intimate biography that also pleads the case for romantic balladeers.