England's Dreaming
by Jon Savage | 
12 Days on the Road
by Noel Monk |
Dance of Days
by Mark Andersen | 
E Street Shuffle
by Clinton Heylin | 
Our Band Could Be Your Life
by Michael Azerrad |
We Got the Neutron Bomb
by Marc Spitz |
American Hardcore
by Steven Blush |
This is Uncool
by Garry Mulholland |
Where Did Our Love Go?
by Nelson George |
Lexicon Devil
by Brendan Mullen | 
Please Kill Me
by Legs McNeil | 
Black Metal
by Dayal Patterson | 
How Music Works
by David Byrne | 
Rip it Up and Start Again
by Simon Reynolds | 
The Joy of Music
by Leonard Bernstein | 
Mystery Train
by Greil Marcus |
The Wrecking Crew
by Kent Hartman | 
Comfortably Numb
by Mark Blake | 
The Beatles
by Bob Spitz | 
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
by Mark Yarm |
In a thorough chronicle of the American underground punk and New Wave rock scene, noted music critic Heylin explores the origins and evolution of this fiery music phase of the '60s and '70s--from the Velvet Underground to the Ramones to the Talking Heads.