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  • Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

    The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll

    by Lester Bangs ...
    Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste

    A Lester Bangs Reader

    by Lester Bangs ...
    Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being the first truly Catholic band to Anne Murray’s smoldering sexuality. In Mainlines, Blood Feasts, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Lit Riffs

    Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected connection between an impressionable young man and an aging, alcoholic hooker, the diverse, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

    by Lester Bangs ...
    Narrated by Ramiz Monsef ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 22 min

    Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs—the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s—edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus. ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Love Is a Mix Tape

    Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

    by Rob Sheffield ...
    “The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck KlostermanMix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ... Read more

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  • The Fortress of Solitude

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE.From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus ... Read more

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  • Shock and Awe

    Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century

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  • Somebody to Love?

    A Rock-and-Roll Memoir

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  • Ten Legendary Blues Songs You Should Know About

    Blues Music, #1

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  • Composed

    A Memoir

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    A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her upbringing in Southern California as the child of country ... Read more

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