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There's more to music than just the vinyl at Record Culture. A good read on the crazy life of a band, a step back in time in music history, or a glossy look through the fashions and culture of scenes gone by is equally rewarding.
  • A Furious Devotion: The Life Of Shane Macgowan book
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    £16.00

    A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan

    Richard Balls

    Punk protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon. The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogues' notorious frontman from outcast to n...

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    £16.00
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  • Typical Girls The Story Of The Slits Book
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    £13.00

    Typical Girls: The Story of The Slits

    Zoe Howe

    Wild, defiant and startlingly inventive, The Slits were ahead of their time. Although they created some unique hybrids - dub reggae and pop-punk, A...

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    £13.00
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  • White Glove Test Louisville Punk Flyers book
    £30.00

    White Glove Test: Louisville Punk Flyers

    Mike Bucayu

    Clipped, collaged, and photocopied, meticulously hand-painted and lettered, or designed on a glowing computer screen in the early days of desktop p...

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    £30.00
  • Read And Burn A Book About Wire
    £15.00

    Read & Burn: A Book About Wire

    Wilson Neate

    Read and Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of Wire, one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire we...

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    £15.00
  • Teenage Kicks My Life As An Undertone book
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    Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone

    Michael Bradley

    Michael Bradley joined his school friend's group in Derry, Northern Ireland in the summer of 1974. They had two guitars and no singer. Four years l...

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  • Dream Baby Dream Suicide A New York Story book
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    £19.00

    Dream Baby Dream

    Kris Needs

    Appearing in early 70s New York City as primal prototype street punks, Suicide are now hailed as one of the most important and influential groups o...

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    £19.00
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  • She Bop Lucy O'Brien book
    £14.00

    She Bop

    Lucy O'Brien

    Since She Bop was first published in 1995, digital downloading has transformed the music landscape. But has issue of gender inequality changed too?...

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    £14.00
  • Young Punks book
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    £24.00

    Young Punks

    Sheila Rock

    As the 1970s drew to a close and changes in music, fashion and attitudes collided to form Punk, Sheila Rock was right at the heart of the electrify...

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    £24.00
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  • Lydia Lunch The War Is Never Over book
    £14.00

    Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over

    Nick Soulsby

    Before #MeToo, before Riot Grrl, there was Lydia Lunch. A central figure in the No Wave scene of the seventies as founder of the seminal Teenage Je...

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    £14.00
  • The Clash FAQ book
    £15.00

    The Clash FAQ

    Gary J. Jucha

    Founded by guitarist Mick Jones and fronted by the legendary Joe Strummer the Clash had the charisma of Elvis the integrity of the Beatles and the ...

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    £15.00
  • Burning Down The Haus book
    £11.00

    Burning Down The Haus

    Tim Mohr

    THE SECRET HISTORY OF PUNKS IN EAST GERMANY.It began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broa...

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    £11.00