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• The Future of Rock and Roll

  97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence

  James, Robin, 1978-

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  In her account of 97X WOXY, Cincinnati's original independent modern rock station (and where many DJs now at Inhailer first got their start), scholar and editor Robin James examines the station and community less as a historical scene than as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 2026 Inhailer Indie 500 countdown airs this Memorial Day weekend

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  Read Inhailer Radio's blog for more information about the Indie 500 countdown. You do not need to be in Cincinnati to listen. "Inhailer Radio is excited to announce the airing of the 2026 Indie 500 countdown, happening Memorial Day weekend, from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trouble With Normal/Boone Stigall Collection - DBRL Community History Archive

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  In the spirit of DIY and local music communities, Daniel Boone Regional Library digitally hosts the following zine collection, part of the Community History Archive. "The Trouble With Normal" was an underground music 'zine started by Boone Stigall…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beautiful Ones

  Prince

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  Along with creating music that infused pop, dance and rock to delirious effect, Prince also broke with industry convention, ditching his contract with Warner Bros. to pursue his art more on his terms. Prince's memoir, "The Beautiful Ones" was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Woman's Work

  Essays on Music

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  Women have always been central to rock and punk (and popular music in general) as James's "The Future of Rock & Rock" and music writers like JJ Skolnik stress. Yet media coverage, as Skolnik has pointed out, very often overlooks women's historical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shout, Sister, Shout!

  the Untold Story of Rock-and-roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

  Wald, Gayle, 1965-

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• Girl in a Band

  Gordon, Kim, 1953-

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• Just Kids

  Smith, Patti

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• Even the Good Girls Will Cry

  a '90s Rock Memoir

  Auf der Maur, Melissa,

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• Revenge of the She-punks

  a Feminist Music History From Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

  Goldman, Vivien

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• The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman

  Stratis, Niko,

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  Plus a quick shout out to Dad... Rock.

• Black Punk Now

  Fiction, Nonfiction, and Comics

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  Though the historic and enduring impact of punk and post punk is impossible to overstate, more than any particular sonic elements, it's perhaps the genres' Do It Yourself practice and attitude that rings loudest, in zines, in independent and local…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Too Much Too Young

  the 2 Tone Records Story : Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation

  Rachel, Daniel,

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• Burning Down the Haus

  Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  Mohr, Tim

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• This Is Reggae Music

  the Story of Jamaica's Music

  Bradley, Lloyd, 1955-

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  Rock (and folk) music history were indebted to African American blues. Likewise modern rock (new wave, grunge, ska, alternative) and beyond drew, to varying degrees, from punk and post punk (and vice versa, and it's not really that linear, either,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Can't Stop Won't Stop

  a Hip-hop History

  Chang, Jeff,

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• Sufferah

  the Memoir of a Brixton Reggae-head

  Wheatle, Alex, 1963-

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• The War on Disco

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  Recommended on air by WOXY scholar and now Inhailer DJ, Robin James, PBS's documentary on disco in the U.S. traces the popular dance craze from its origins in clubs that also served as queer and Black spaces. The doc follows its popularity as disco…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Punk, Post Punk, New Wave

  Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face, 1978-1991

  Grecco, Michael

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  New wave, also like disco, is known for being danceable and frequently LGBTQ-led. Books on or by new wave performers in particular (at least in this collection) are a little more sparse ...

• Remain in Love

  Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

  Frantz, Chris, 1951-

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