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...

This is a comprehensive collection that captures the art and spirit of hardcore punk through authentic show flyers. This book preserves the gritty, DIY culture of the '80s hardcore scene, highlighting how these hand-drawn, Xeroxed, and pasted flyers became iconic symbols of a cultural...

Punk Flyer Archive 1990-2000 picks up where its predecessor left off, chronicling the next turbulent decade of punk's evolution. With hundreds of images, including both classic and obscure bands, this 350+ page volume captures the scene as it splintered and globalized.Author: D'Arcy Rix-HayesISBN-10: 1069156817ISBN-13:...

From personal anecdotes to philosophical inquiries, 'What Punk Taught Me' gathers essays from fifteen different contributors whose lives have all been touched upon by punk culture in some meaningful way. Many years after hearing their first blast of distorted punk guitar as a youth...

From school punk to modern day film producer, Richard Jobson has lived a full and colourful life. A harrowing incident as a child left him suffering with epilepsy but he was a mere fifteen-year-old when he launched the punk rock band The Skids in...

Five young men in their early twenties, carrying backpacks and guitars, climbed onto the bus in Mendoza, Argentina, that was to take them over the Andes to Santiago de Chile, where they would play the last show of their South American tour, and then...

Treat Me Like Dirt captures the personalities that drove the original Toronto punk scene. This is the first book to document the histories of the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head, along with other bands (B-Girls, Curse, Demics, Dishes, Forgotten Rebels, Johnny & the G-Rays,...

The most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement told through firsthand accounts Punk rock has been on the front lines of activism since exploding on the scene in the 1970s. Punk Revolution! is a reflection on this cultural...

Author: MekonsISBN-10: 1959163000ISBN-13: 9781959163008Publisher: Verse Chorus PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2026Pages: 180Format: Paperback

An updated issue of what has become the acknowledged seminal work on punk. Cain was at every major gig and interviewed all of the acts at the time. He was viewed as an 'insider' and his access was unrivalled. This new edition includes a...

From personal anecdotes to philosophical inquiries, 'What Punk Taught Me' gathers essays from fifteen different contributors whose lives have all been touched upon by punk culture in some meaningful way. Many years after hearing their first blast of distorted punk guitar as a youth...

Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood is who we are, our cover is blown. This Is a Message to Persons Unknown is the first book to explore the history of the legendary band Poison Girls, from their first gigs in...

The story of the Centro Iberico, a legendary music venue of the UK's postpunk era, has been fragmentary and disjointed, its tangled twelve-year history never properly documented before now. Its tale spans the Spanish Civil War as we follow an anarchist hero who spilt...

'An Anarchy of Demons' is the long anticipated autobiography by U.K. Subs' legendary leader Charlie Harper. Charlie's fascinating story is told in his own unique style, taking the reader through his early years as a 'war baby', his time at boarding schools for misfit...

A wild and uncensored glimpse behind the curtain into the mad world of life as a touring stand-up comic.Drawing on countless hours of in-depth interviews with some of the most influential and respected comedians to ever grab a mic, Doing Time offers a deep...

Punk: the filth and the fury. But it was so much more than that.In The History of Punk Music, author Stephen Palmer depicts the punk rock explosion of 1976-77 in tired, bored, and socially stratified Britain. Emerging from the litter-strewn streets of London, punk's...

An audacious and inspiring debut social history that explores how entrepreneurial members of the tight-knit hardcore punk scene within the vibrant heart of Boston cashed in on one baseball's greatest rivalries. For eighty-six years Boston Red Sox baseball fans lived in the shadow of...

This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum. This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and...

A wide cast of musicians and artists provide surprising and thought-provoking insights into punk rock from the lens of spirituality and liberation. Punk Spirit! is an oral history that examines this movement from many unique perspectives, bringing together well-known and cutting-edge bands including Sex...

The story of The Cure: a tall tale of a truly unique British band. The Cure's story is a fantastical pop fable, but their trajectory has not been one of unbroken success. Along the way, their uneven, uneasy pop odyssey has taken in fierce...

Flesh and blood are what we are, flesh and blood is who we are, our cover is blown. This Is a Message to Persons Unknown is the first book to explore the history of the legendary band Poison Girls, from their first gigs in...

The collected run of the groundbreaking and iconoclastic zine. From 1977 to 1979, Search & Destroy chronicled the birth of San Francisco's punk scene with an intensity and vision that transformed music journalism. Now, for the first time, every issue of this seminal publication...

The image of Jordan in her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up remains one of the most iconic in pop history. Yet few truly understood what was happening behind those watchful eyes when anarchy hit the UK.How did a ballet-obsessed girl from sleepy...

'The Altercation Archives' collects some of the punk periodical's most compelling conversations ever put to tape. Featuring never-before-seen live photos and in-depth interviews with the likes of Henry Rollins, Mike Patton, Cock Sparrer, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, NOFX, Fugazi, Misfits and dozens more, plus...

Unscripted Moments: Conversations with Propagandhi (2020-2025) by Greg Soden Propagandhi formed in 1986 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada and are now based in Winnipeg. Their outspoken influence and consistency in anti-fascist, animal-friendly, gay-positive, and pro-feminist ideas have inspired thousands of hardcore, thrash metal...

Author: Ashley Rowe PalafoxISBN-10: 1648413927ISBN-13: 9781648413926Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2025Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Not Just Bits Of Paper is a portal into a world now diminished, a world where the importance of specific bits of paper cannot be overstated. Not that these bits of paper had any intrinsic purpose beyond the sole reason they were produced for...

TRICKY BUSINESS is book two of the BAG OF TRICKS trilogy: a compilation of short stories about San Francisco punks in the early 80's.Continue to share the adventures of The Shits, Val, Sophie, Amy, Babs, Annie, Carla, Marco and other denizens of the punk...

THE ROAD is an illuminating selection of photographs spanning iconic punk rock guitarist Brian Baker's many years of global touring with Bad Religion, Dag Nasty, and other bands. The images are intelligent and arresting, reflecting time spent both inside and outside the bubble of...

Author: Charlie HarperISBN-10: 1916864716ISBN-13: 9781916864719Publisher: Earth Island BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2025Pages: 480Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.98lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.30d

Guitargonaut (gĭ-tär′gə-nôt)An adventurer engaged in a quest. With a guitar. And a constantly evolving idea of how to play it.Sluggo started rock bands and toured the world for four decades; 1980-2020.These are stories of what he found out there.Each chapter mostly revolves around individual...

The Home Recording Handbook by Martin Newell is part memoir, part love letter to pop music.It is 170 pages expressing the Godfather of Lo-fi's dedication on music making with an independent spirit."This is not a home recording handbook," says Martin Newell of his unhandily-titled...

Starting in 1981 via Minor Threat's revolutionary call to arms, the clean and positive straight edge hardcore punk movement took hold and prospered during the 1980s, earning a position as one of the most durable yet chronically misunderstood music subcultures. Straight edge created its...

Known for its glamorous 1970s punk rock scene, New York City matched the grim urban reality of the 1980s with a rawer musical uprising: New York hardcore. As bands of misfits from across the region gravitated to the forgotten frontier of Manhattan's Lower East...

Author: George McKayISBN-10: 0190859563ISBN-13: 9780190859565Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 616Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.58lbsSize: 9.95h x 7.19w x 1.71d

Letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world. Author: Pussy RiotISBN-10: 1558618341ISBN-13: 9781558618343Publisher: Feminist PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2013Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d

Author: Ben SnakepitISBN-10: 1648415628ISBN-13: 9781648415623Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackSize: 8.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Growing up as a rebellious teenager in the suburbs of Los Angeles, hanging out at gigs and gaining access to the now-legendary bands of the era, Marla Watson is now unleashing her rarely seen hardcore punk photography from the early 1980's in this new...

Selected by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Seize the Green Day is an inside look at one of the world's greatest bands, Green Day. Stunned by their music in 2004, baby-boomer Niki Lee fought agoraphobia to travel from Baltimore to Berlin following...

Author: Yungblud, Ryan O'SullivanISBN-13: 9798886560251Publisher: Z2 ComicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 120Format: Paperback

Formed in 1988, and with 14 albums to their name, Manic Street Preachers are an established feature of British rock landscape. So much so, that it's easy to mistake the band's ongoing presence as an inevitability. Long before their narrative's traumatic fissure - the...

U.K. PUNK 1976-1980: ITALIAN EDITIONS. A Collector's GuideUnique printed sleeve, 'special' series, juke box editions and more!All the Italian releases of U.K. Punk, Mod/Power pop, Oi!, NWOBHM and New Wave singles 1976-1980.Author: Roberto MontagnaISBN-13: 9798882140495Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/29/2024Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.00h x...

The Politics of Punk probes the conscience of punk music by going beyond the lyrics and slogans of the pithy culture war. Creating a people's history of punk's social, aesthetic, and political features, the book features original interviews with members of Dead Kennedys, Dead...

Not Just Bits Of Paper is a portal into a world now diminished, a world where the importance of specific bits of paper cannot be overstated. Not that these bits of paper had any intrinsic purpose beyond the sole reason they were produced for...

This book tells the story of the iconic band formed by Howard Devoto when he left the Buzzcocks. This revised and updated edition brings the story bang up-to-date.Already tired of the thrash and unrelenting nature of punk rock, Devoto wanted to combine the elements...

Turning revolt into style: The process and practice of punk graphic designis a comprehensive analysis of punk aesthetics and the subculture's key watchwords of do-it-yourself, autonomy, and authenticity in relation to the professional practices and technological conventions of the graphic design and print industries...

Author: John R. DavisISBN-10: 1647126355ISBN-13: 9781647126353Publisher: Georgetown University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 264Format: Paperback

Toxic Shock Records, Assassin of Mediocrity: A Story of Love, Loss and Loud Music by Bill Sassenberger.This is a story of a lifetime spent in the trenches of the mercantile class. Yes, it's been said before, but punk rock did change our lives. You're...

Author: Reid ChancellorISBN-10: 1648413994ISBN-13: 9781648413995Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 192Format: PaperbackSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

SWIZ WAS A WASHINGTON, D.C.-BASED hardcore punk band that existed from April of 1987 through August of 1990, cutting their teeth and carving their place in the scene that birthed trailblazers and contemporaries Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dag Nasty, Fugazi, Ian MacKaye, Dave Grohl,...