Music-Genres & Styles-Punk

Rock out and color with the official Tenacious D coloring book - 80 pages of awesome art and epic fun that will blow your mind! "This is the greatest coloring book ever made." - Jack Black. The Tenacious D coloring book contains 80 pages...

A squat in West Berlin, a farmhouse in Fellegara, a garret in Reggio Emilia, a cellar in Bologna - where is Affinità - Divergenze Fra Il Compagno Togliatti e Noi really from? This book traces the tangled geographies behind one of Italy's most enigmatic...

Author: Alexandros AnesiadisISBN-10: 1916864961ISBN-13: 9781916864962Publisher: Earth Island BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2026Pages: 646Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.65lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.76d

London Calling: The Clash in the Capital maps the band's London in gigs, studios, squats and streets - the city where punk took shape and The Clash found their voice. Follow Jones, Strummer, Simonon and Headon from early sightings at Hyde Park and the...

In the 1970s, sappy love songs and prog rock had sucked the life out of people--the Sex Pistols acted to put it back. Their raucous stage performances both engaged their mass of followers and stirred their media detractors into a frenzy. This collection of...

A discussion of the 1970s British punk scene, this book foregrounds the participation of women as performers and songwriters in early British punk, and examines how women in the scene crafted expressions of social alienation that were informed by the intersection of classism and...

The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists features over 200 of the funniest, craziest lists - from the Most Offensive Songs to Stupidest Band Names, from Punk Sell-Outs to Fashion Don'ts - culled from historical archives and generated by celebrity guests. Contributors include rock...

The definitive story of The Clean in their own words. Now, you said it was yesterday, yesterday's another day Heading round in make believe, I don't know if it's you or If it's me oh, I don't know, I don't knowTally ho, tally ho!...

Spearmint - "Sweeping the Nation" (Hitback records). Email to mail@spearmint.net 11.30 21/12/13. Hi, I've just finished the first draft of my book about the five years I spent promoting various genres of local music during 2002/2007 in and around Chorley, Blackburn and Preston, Lancashire....

THE WOOL CITY ROCKER fanzine ran for just three years. Over its fourteen published issues, it expanded from being the voice of the vibrant and varied Bradford independent music scene at the juncture between punk and new wave, to being the essential guide to...

Author: J. Hunter BennettISBN-10: 1648414265ISBN-13: 9781648414268Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2026Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d

A discussion of the 1970s British punk scene, this book foregrounds the participation of women as performers and songwriters in early British punk, and examines how women in the scene crafted expressions of social alienation that were informed by the intersection of classism and...

Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning brings together a collection of international authors to explore the possibilities, practices and implications that emerge from the union of punk and pedagogy. The punk ethos-a notoriously evasive and multifaceted beast-offers unique applications in music education and beyond,...

WE'VE GOT A BIGGER PROBLEM NOW is the next in the incredible series of Glen E. Friedman's books of photographs that he has released from his archives over the last five years. The subject this time is the Dead Kennedys, the infamous punk band...

The definitive musical history of the influential Raw Power era of Iggy and the Stooges. Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges is arguably the most aggressive, dynamic album in rock history, and inarguably one of the most influential. Looking past the myths and...

The irresistible story of a one-man cultural phenomenon. Minister for the Counterculture, Mancunian mainstay and alternative national treasure John Robb has lived a life in music. In this book he charts his adventures on the cultural frontline, chronicling the making of a DIY icon....

Before TikTok. Before Instagram. Before "adulting" had a name... there was just a mad dream, a battered van, and the kind of tour no one was expected to survive.Shaun Morris didn't set out to become a legend. He just wanted to escape small-town boredom...

The Best of Mass Movement: The Digital Years Volumes I & II are the result of a crazy five year period that saw Mass Movement reluctantly enter, and make its mark on the digital age. They are a testament to the power of the...

It was never supposed to last or be anything other than an underground punk rock fanzine. But fate had other ideas and for the last two twenty two years, Mass Movement has been navigating its own singular course through the often strange and always...

Punk bands have produced an abundance of poetic texts, some crude, some elaborate, in the form of song lyrics. These lyrics are an ideal means by which to trace the developments and explain the conflicts and schisms that have shaped, and continue to shape,...

Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles County, California, in 1979 by Rozz Williams. Williams was eventually joined by guitarist Rikk Agnew of the band Adolescents, with James McGearty on bass guitar and George Belanger on drums. This lineup was...

Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music, edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb, is a collection of writings on music that is considered aggressive throughout the world. From local underground bands in Detroit, Michigan to bands in Puerto Rico...

A squat in West Berlin, a farmhouse in Fellegara, a garret in Reggio Emilia, a cellar in Bologna - where is Affinità - Divergenze Fra Il Compagno Togliatti e Noi really from? This book traces the tangled geographies behind one of Italy's most enigmatic...

MORRISSEY SUCKSA Love Letter to the Artist Who Ruined His Own LegacyWe get it-you loved The Smiths. So did we. But let's be real: Morrissey hasn't exactly made it easy to keep loving him. Once the crowned Prince of Poetic Misery, he's somehow transformed...

What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of...

Explores the notion of authenticity in three Southeast Asian countries with a high degree of cross-border mobility where the boundaries between the local and international are blurredAuthor: Julian C. H. LeeISBN-10: 178660020XISBN-13: 9781786600202Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/23/2016Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.20h x...

Joanna Newsom, Will Oldham (a.k.a. 'Bonnie Prince Billy'), and Devendra Banhart are perhaps the best known of a generation of independent artists who use elements of folk music in contexts that are far from traditional. These (and other) so called 'new folk' artists challenge...

Photography focusing on the band Crime - one of the most important early punk bands. Featuring over 100 photographs with text to set the scene, Stark depicts Crime as a band who took care to make sure their look was right. It was not...

Originally published in 1985, One Chord Wonders was the first full-length study of the glory years of British punk rock. The book argues that one of punk's most significant political achievements was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industries as...

You're Crazy, Volume Three is a collection of thirteen personal accounts, lyrics, and short stories written by punk rockers who have walked through darkness and lived to tell. All of the writers have experienced trauma, addiction, and mental health struggles. As you read these...

Vivienne Westwood was a conundrum. Softly spoken yet forthright, she straddled the worlds of fashion, politics, social justice and sartorial observation. Viewed globally as a quintessentially English figure, with an irreverent edge, she was a visionary who was obsessed with history and lived as...

Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-1988 (Expanded Edition) by David Insurrection Anarcho-Punk: Music and Resistance in London 1977-1988 is the distillation of over three years' work. It's the story of an often overlooked scene. Anarcho-punk in the 1980s truly rocked the boat. Much...

You Can't Cheat Karma: The Punk Quiz Book by Martin PunktiliousWhether it's Johnny Rotten's parents hamster, or Mark E. Smith's granny on bongos, Kathleen Hanna's lap dancing persona, or Billy Childish's mum's cycling club, You Can't Cheat Karma: The Punk Quiz Book will have...

This book is a collection of essays about how punk rock and hardcore music saved lives. The essays are personal, variable, vulnerable and unapologetic. The bands covered include 7Seconds, Broadways, Butthole Surfers, Coheed & Cambria, Damned, Dead Milkmen, Dead Kennedys, Gorilla Biscuits, MC5, Minor...

THE KINGS OF COWPUNK​Raised on a diet of No-Doz, donuts and diesel emissions, this is the story of Nine Pound Hammer - Kentucky's seminal cowpunk band. Go behind the songs and the scenes with Scott Luallen, Blaine Cartwright, Earl Crim, Mark Hendricks, Ruyter Suys,...

'Poems About Love and Punk Rock', by Joe McNally, blends poetry, memoir, and punk storytelling rooted in Southern California. As a member of Voodoo Glow Skulls, he toured widely and shared stages with Offspring, No Doubt, Blink 182, Rancid, NOFX, and Sublime, and he...

Originally thought to be lost forever, McCracken's personal notebook--used during the creation of The Used's seminal 2004 album In Love and Death--resurfaced unexpectedly online and was safely returned to him after two decades. This intimate, long-lost artifact--comprised of handwritten lyrics, poems, sketches, and personal...

Author: Al CarrollISBN-10: 1648415253ISBN-13: 9781648415258Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2026Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

The first volume of the almanac January-June of the rock music and events of the new wave and post-punk decade '77-'87 and beyondAuthor: Michael KrilichISBN-13: 9798231287246Publisher: APS BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2025Pages: 494Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.50lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.99d

Situating the band and its groundbreaking debut within the context of The Troubles, this book explores the band's complicated and controversial relationship with the Belfast punk scene, a scene that actively defied violent social divisions to create important non-sectarian spaces through which an "Alternative...

I Once Saw Them in the Back Room of a Pizza Joint is a collection of poetry from indie punk and hardcore fan Brian Elliott, spanning decades of show memories with a clever and contemplative beatnik style.Author: Brian ElliottISBN-13: 9798990790230Publisher: Silk Rhode BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Power Chords is 'a life set to music. Beautifully told'. Specifically the lived experience of punk. How it changed people. Why it changed people. Why a 'new wave' of protest art was necessary then - in 1976 - and why it is necessary now....

Punk Rock changed the world! Here's the what, why, and how of it all in a compact, easy to read book! In this book the author goes over the punk rock era and describes how the era changed music, fashion, politics, and the music...

Not JUST About The Fall: 50 adventures in a post-punk paradise by Paddy Shennan Sunday Times best-selling author (well, ghostwriter) Paddy Shennan pays tribute to the forgotten heroes of the music industry - the fans! No one is JUST a music fan.Being a music...

Manic Street Preachers were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally acknowledged to be their most enduring and fascinating work, and one of the most compelling...

Author: Bill RichISBN-10: 1734638125ISBN-13: 9781734638127Publisher: @Rth*le PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2025Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.19lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.88d

Subject: PUNK (Second Edition) is my All Access Pass into the heart of punk rock. It's three decades solid of my life with a camera in hand - sneaking into shows with a fake I.D., being a published journalist as a young teenager, photographing...

Vainglorious: A Punk In The House is the no-holds-barred true story of Stevie Hulme - aka Stevie Vayne - an English Punk Rock 'n' Roll Rebel, House Music Legend, Ibiza Insider, and working-class anti-hero turned music industry executive.From the backstreet gutters of Leeds to...

Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.' Meanwhile, in the estimation of philosopher Alain Badiou, a significant political event will always...

Author: J. Hunter BennettISBN-10: 1648415911ISBN-13: 9781648415913Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2025Pages: 17Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 0.10h x 0.10w x 0.47d