Toxic Shock Records: A Story of Love, Loss, and Loud Music
by Bill Sassenberger

192 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books

This is a love story of a love toxic unlike the title and the name of the record label that would come from this love story. Bill Sassenberger, owner of the aforementioned label and Tuscan’s Toxic Ranch, mentor to hundreds of music aficionados, writes his own story about his relationship with Julianna Towns — amazing musician who walked into his record store one day and stayed in his life. They would come to start a record label, discover musicians and nurture musicians throughout the world, through her illness and health. This is a story of their love that synchronizes with the history of punk rock, and a musical revolution that their lives would become part of.