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Totally Jerkin' As with any culture literature has always tagged along and poked its head around. Next is the history of emo stuffed into 311 pages. Spin journalist, Andy Greenwald, explores the world and the history of the emo movement in his book entitled “Nothing Feels Good,” Starting from Minor Threat and Sunny Day Real Estate, and then ending up nearly a decade later with Brand New and Taking Back Sunday, For any fan of true Punk Rock this next book is for you. Read how America has sucked since the beginning. “A People’s History of the United States” is the complete, true history of the United States. This book might be a bit hard to find, because I believe it's illegal to own. This has the complete history from Columbus to Desert Storm. You can read how Reagan fucked us over, and how we were shitty to the Indians (or Native Americans). From this book I learned that Republicans truly are the root of all evil, and the Bush administration has always sucked.
Last but certainly not least would be “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa-Puffs,” written by Spin journalist Chuck Kolsterman. Kolsterman goes through the last two decades of his life experiences. This book is utterly hysterical, I was a bit to young for his detailed view on John Cusack’s “Say Anything”, or his analysis on the MTV’s first Real World (yeah I was six.) However, I enjoyed his intimate monologues of his adventures throughout life, and his argument that Vanilla Sky was a good movie (though I’m still not convinced.) Austin James
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From the Indie scene to the Hardcore scene authors and musicians have produced several books. These books show you the minds of people who belong are in the scene and the outsiders looking in. So this my official book review. To start with you need to respect your roots, go back to the days of Nirvana and the Smiths and you’ll find the convictions an adolescent named Charley. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is the melodramatic story of a boy named Charley and his adventures throughout his freshman year of high school (You know that really really awkward year in your life). Author Steven Chbosky has taken a collection of letters that Charley sent to a girl he met at a party, and has organized them into a modern coming of age story. These letters show the ups of downs of a teenager who thinks a bit differently then most of the kids his age. Charley portrays the alternative lifestyle to a T. With mix tapes, awkward first times with girls (well, boys too I guess), The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the background, and fun drug interactions, this is a must read.
he covers almost every aspect of the scene, and gives the reason for the birth of emo. Though a long book, and all concentrated on the emo movement, he is still not able to give a clear definition of the word emo. He states that though an entire genre of bands have been produced in the recent history, not one of them has declared themselves as an emo band. 
Next is the perfect masterpiece for fans of Indie rock. “Revolutions on Canvas”is collection of musician's personal thoughts and poetry. This book can’t be found at your local Barnes and Nobel or Amazon.com, you can pretty much only buy this book at shows. Artists like Fat Mike (NOFX,) Joshua Partington (Something Corporate,) and Russ Rankin (Good Riddance) have contributed to this collection. This book shows us the deep, interesting, and even dark side of some of the scene’s biggest musicians. My favorite one was by Mark Kluepfel (Action Action), it goes like this: Technology will kill me, So will poor penmanship (and spelling and grammar, well and also logic.) This book is way awesome and for eight bucks it was totally worth it.