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...

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

Inspired by the legendary works of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, Detroit writer Ryan Bartek traveled the USA to create his own heavy metal / punk rock road saga of extreme journalism. 1 year, 35 States, 600+ hours on Greyhounds &...

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:...

Praise for the Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die exhibition: "A fascinating look at how punk and new wave music met the eye" New York Times"An absolute joy" Financial Times The largest unique collection of printed memorabilia from the punk and post-punk...

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

This Is Cleveland Clash, an 80-page full color graphic novel, takes readers on a young punk's real-life epic adventure meeting Joe Strummer and The Clash in 1979, when The Clash performed a legendary concert at Cleveland's Agora Theatre, with Bo Diddley as the opening...

Poly Styrene was many things: a pop star, a punk, a songwriter, a single mother, a woman of colour, a Hare Krishna convert and an artist, but she is best known as the singer of X-Ray Spex. Dayglo! is the definitive statement on Poly...

This book explores the possibility of drawing upon a punk ethos to inspire and invigorate sociology. It uses punk to think creatively about what sociology is and how it might be conducted and aims to fire the sociological imaginations of sociologists at any stage...

1977 is usually associated with West German terrorism, but it witnessed another cultural watershed: punk music. A new reckoning with the legacy of political and aesthetic spaces, this book argues the centrality of punk music for understanding crises of state and terrorist violence, American...

Author: Ruby Dee PhilippaISBN-10: 1916864848ISBN-13: 9781916864849Publisher: Earth Island BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2025Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.74d

The scene that bulldozed the path from prog and glam to punk and new wave, pub rock was a short-lived phenomenon in the U.K., emerging amidst the bloated landscape of prog rock and an increasingly oppressive economic outlook. In the U.K. in the early...

An intimate insider's account of New York's most radical cultural revolution and the women who obliterated every barrier in their path In 1975 a young queer singer from Cleveland meets Nan Goldin and joins her in New York's bombed-out downtown, where something unprecedented is...

Through rare access to the Violent Femmes and their archives, this book investigates the creation of such iconic songs as "Blister in the Sun", "Kiss Off", "Add it Up" and "Prove My Love", as well as the album's recording process. The self-titled debut from...

Reston Hardcore: An oral history of jam for man and beyond by Andy KeilerNorthern Virginia in the 80s and 90s was the greatest independent music scene that almost nobody has ever heard of. Drawing inspiration from the raw energy of DC hardcore and the...

Night Comes Down by Bob ShortIf nothing is true and Gods and Morality are banished, is everything permitted?For some, Punk was about a handful of big‐name bands who built careers fighting about their supreme importance in the general scheme of things. For most of...

The last word on the movement that shook the world.Punk: The Last Word is a powerful reimagining of punk--not just as a sound or style, but as a radical, DIY philosophy rooted in defiance, truth, and individuality.Cultural insider and Wag Club founder Chris Sullivan...

Looking at the evolution of punk from its inception in 1975 to 2020, Listen to Punk Rock! Exploring a Musical Genre delves into the lasting impact of the genre throughout society today.This book provides readers with a fuller picture of punk rock as an...

A friends-to-lovers love story between a drummer and his best friend. Can you ever truly ever love without baring all of your soul? All her life, Naomi had to keep secrets to survive. Even from her best friend, the very sexy drummer of the...

Michael Bradley joined his school friend's group in Derry, Northern Ireland in the summer of 1974. They had two guitars and no singer. Four years later the Undertones recorded 'Teenage Kicks', John Peel's favourite record, and became one of the most fondly remembered UK...

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,...