NOW
Some New Kind of Kick:
A Memoir
Kid Congo Powers
with Chris Campion
Hachette Books
2022
Summer 2023 Title
THEN
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'N' Roll
Ian S. Port
New York: Scribner 2019
December 2019 book
Phone chat with author at meeting
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
Joe Hagan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017
September 2019 book
Phone chat with author at meeting
The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5 & My Life of Impossibilities
Wayne Kramer
Da Capo Press, New York, 2018.
May 2019 book
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Tim Mohr
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018
Phone chat with author at meeting
February 2019 book
Lou Reed: A Life
Anthony DeCurtis
New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2017
August 2018 book
I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom's Highway
Greg Kot
New York: Scribner, 2014
May 2018 book
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
Bob Mehr
Da Capo Press, 2016
February 2018 book
Under the Big Black Sun: a personal history of L.A. Punk
John Doe with Tom DeSavia and friends
Da Capo Press, 2016
November 2017 book
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of
Rock's Darkest Day
Joel Selvin
Dey Steet Books, 2016
Author at meeting
September 2017 book
Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Richard Balls
Soundcheck Books, 2014
July 2017 book
Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group
Dennis Dunaway and Chris Hodenfield
St. Martin's Press, 2015
January 2017 book
Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways
Evelyn McDonnell
Da Capo Press, 2013
Skype with author at meeting
September 2016 book
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James and
The Shondells
Tommy James with Martin Fitzpatrick
Scribner, NY, 2010
July 2016 book
Girl in a Band: A Memoir
Kim Gordon
HarperCollins, 2015
April 2016 book
Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love
John Einarson
Jawbone Press, US and USA, 2010
Skype with author at meeting
January 2016 book
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir
Viv Albertine
New York, N.Y., Thomas Dunne Books,
St. Martin's Press, 2014
October 2015 book
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Joe Boyd
London: Serpent's Tail, 2006
July 2015 book
Freak Out! My Live with Frank Zappa
Pauline Butcher
London: Plexus, 2011
Skype with author at meeting
May 2015 book
Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones
Paul Trynka
New York: Viking, 2014
Event: Brian Jones Night at City Lights Booksellers
March 2015 book
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever
Will Hermes
New York: Faber and Faber, 2011
January 2015 book
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
Robert Gordon
New York: Bloomsbury, 2013
Skype with author at meeting
November 2014 book
A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash
Johnny Green and Garry Barker
NY: Faber and Faber, 1999 WITH
Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star
Ian Hunter
Independent Music Pr. Ltd. 1974 / 1996
August 2014 books
Recombo DNA: The Story of Devo, Or How the 60s Became the 80s
Kevin C. Smith
Author at meeting
Jawbone UK and US, 2013
July 2014 book
Ghosts Behind the Sun: Splendor, Enigma & Death: Mondo Memphis Volume 1
Tav Falco
Creation Books, 2010
April 2014 book
A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett
Rob Chapman
Da Capo Press, 2010
February 2014 book
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage: A Chicana Punk Story
Alice Bag
Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, c. 2011
Skype with author at meeting
November 2013 book
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
Peter Hook
New York, It Books, 2013
August 2013 book
Tony Visconti: The Autobiography: Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy
Tony Visconti with Richard Havers
HarperCollins Publishers, 2007
June 2013 book
Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island
Greil Marcus (editor) - new preface by Greil Marcus
March event with Greil Marcus at Stranded
April 2013 book
Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend
(previously published as Dear Boy)
Tony Fletcher
January / February 2013 meetings
X-Ray: [the authorized autobiography]
Ray Davies; with a new introduction by Ray Davies
October 2012 book
Black Monk Time
Thomas Edward Shaw and Anita Klemke
Carson Street Publ. (1995)
August 2012 book
Punk ’77: An Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock n’ Roll Scene 1977
James Stark (RE/Search Publications – expanded 3rd edition)
with
We Got the Neutron Bomb (Untold LA Punk)
Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen
May / June 2012 meetings
Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
Chris Salewicz
March 2012 book
Apathy for the Devil: A Seventies Memoir
Nick Kent
January 2012 book
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Lester Bangs
October 2011 book
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Leggs McNeil with Gillian McCain
August 2011
Just Kids
Patti Smith
June 2011 book
Life
Keith Richards
April 2011 book
