Music-Genres & Styles-Punk

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...

"Zoë is why I became interested in the Slits again...it's about time the Slits got the respect they deserve."-- Viv AlbertineWild, defiant and startlingly inventive, The Slits were ahead of their time. Despite their innovative fusion of genres--from dub reggae to punk, African rhythms,...

The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its "no future" sloganeering, punk has had a rich and complex life in German art and letters, in German...

A Transnational History of Punk Communities in Poland is a multi-regional study of the history and contemporary condition of two Polish punk communities: the one in Warsaw and surrounding areas, and the Upper Silesian region: both rich in varied and sometimes conflicting punk traditions....

The Sex Pistols exploded onto the music scene in 1976, paving the way for the deluge of punk rock that would change the face of modern rock music forever. Their debut album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols, proved one of the...

Punk and industrial culture in late '70s and early '80s San FranciscoSpanning music, art and literature, the industrial and punk scenes of San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s were diverse but united by a DIY, anti-authoritarian attitude. Photographer Ruby Ray was...

How Does It Feel is a different kind of autobiography. Instead of a linear narrative, Jim Lea - the final member of the fabled four-piece to tell their story - opens his heart in vignettes about not just his time in Slade, but his...

Author: Michael PearsonISBN-10: 1935950789ISBN-13: 9781935950783Publisher: Bazillion Points LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2026Pages: 80Format: Hardcover

Moss Icon have been hailed as emo pioneers. Their 1993 album Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly has garnered well deserved praise. Rolling Stone named it one of the "40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time," and declared that the album "still sounds ahead of...

POW! is the fascinating memoir of a precocious English teen in the early 1980s who published a music magazine, interviewed many of the era's top artists, befriended rock stars, ran a record label, appeared on television, played in a band and found first love...

4play... is a 66,000 word Punk Rock auto-biography about four Southport bands 'Trevor' used to be in; 1980 -1985. Let's take a look at the Southport Punk-scene some thirty odd years ago after 1976 when Punk showed its ugly head; being Loud, proud, in...

In 2013, Ryan Dyer arrived in China with little idea of what lay beneath the surface of its music scene. Within a week, he found himself at an underground show featuring the band Rectal Wench. That night opened the door to a world few...

Between 1977 and 1980, Britain was a country and culture in flux. The threat of nuclear war, mass unemployment, and strikes made it a particularly gloomy period historically. Within this, a growing number of electronic music acts were using technology and the synthesizer to...

In this narrative history and memoir, journalist, musician, and Monctonian Jason Murray follows the rise of the band that put the Maritimes on the map. Eric's Trip was a band defined as much by its DIY ethos as its low-fi, discordant music. The four-piece...

As Rad Dad editor Tomas Moniz says in issue 19's first essay, "Parenting has taught me a lot about dealing with things I'd rather not deal with." This is the Rad Dad "heavy topics" issue; its pages are concerned with talking to your kids...

"Did you ever feel you were put on this planet to achieve just one thing?"For Bruce E. Norris, that one thing was becoming a Rock-n-Roll Star.I Rode the Rock Train is the raw, funny, and heartfelt memoir of a man who spent over thirty...

If you ever plan to visit Blackpool, make sure it's in the first days of August. Not that all of a sudden the sea turns light blue due to the rays of golden sun, but the fact is that the town really is more...

Shonen Knife-an all-female punk trio from Osaka, Japan-cultivated a global fan base that has included the likes of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. Their 1998 album Happy Hour, filled with tunes about delicacies ranging from sushi to banana chips, encapsulates the...

In Toronto's vibrant music, art and fashion scene of the 1970s and 1980s, Carole Pope made her mark with the new wave band Rough Trade, which produced bold, boundary-breaking music delivered with a sexy punk edge. "High School Confidential," the band's breakthrough hit, did...

'All Good Cretins Go To Heaven: The Enduring Spirit of the Ramones' by Jenn L. BeckwithIn 1974, a music revolution began with a band in New York City's Bowery neighbourhood. They played in a small near-empty bar to an audience that included the ex-Marine...

From the snarling urgency of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and Ramones to the art-school cool of Talking Heads, Blondie, and Devo, each ad reveals how music, design, and attitude collided in print. This book showcases rare promotional art for bands like Joy Division,...

A definitive music photography collection featuring 60% previously unseen images and interviews to one of the world's most iconic rock bands - with a foreword by Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer, Chad Smith. The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Road Trippin' is a rare and...

Time-travel to the punk scene of 1970s New York and beyond--as seen through the eyes of its chief reporter known as "the original punk" who gave the movement its name. Part memoir and part cultural history, Resident Punk offers a no-holds-barred expose chronicling the...

Witness the rise, fall, and rise again of the original titans of horror punk in "Orbit: The Misfits" by Joe Paradise and Martin Gimenez. Compiled from decades of rumors overheard in NJ record shops, this graphic biography is a retrospective of one of the...

Author: Mike MagrannISBN-13: 9798990026476Publisher: Diwulf PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2023Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Enter the embryo of the Florida hardcore music scene, a time and place where Andrew Jackson led the springtime parades. The years: 1981-1984; the band: Hated Youth who found inspiration watching Road Warrior serially at the local movie house, terrorizing college girls and little...

Author: Mark Hoppus,Dan OzziISBN-10: 006331892XISBN-13: 9780063318922Publisher: Dey Street BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2026Pages: 400Format: Paperback

This account of Melbourne porno-grindcore band Blood Duster's 1993 debut album Fisting the Dead positions the "pure evil filth" album as a subcultural object at odds with Australia's cosmopolitanism. With track titles invoking explicit language and lurid imagery, Fisting was deliberately offensive. Drawing on...

Life's a Gamble is the autobiography of iconic singer-songwriter Pauline Murray. It recounts her journey from a small mining village in northeast England, through to gaining national recognition as the frontwoman of her band, Penetration, and how she became a key member of the...

I Just Can't Stop It is the honest and compelling autobiography from British Music Legend, Ranking Roger. As the enigmatic frontman of the multicultural band The Beat, Ranking Roger represented the youthful and joyous sound of the post-punk 2 Tone movement. As well as...

As a member of Big in Japan, The Slits and, most famously, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Creatures, 'Budgie' was an era-defining drummer in the much-mythologised post punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. But before he was Budgie, Peter Clarke...

Meal Deal With The Devil combines a tongue in cheek classic storybook with a five-song CD EP (including two "story songs") from the devious San Francisco Bay Area musical satirists Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits. The CD comes with a read-along storybook,...

Manor Threat, Ben Snakepit's latest collection of daily diary comics, takes place in the town of Manor, a suburb of Austin, Texas. Ben buys a house with his wife and adjusts to slow-paced country living. He also turns 40 and gets a new job,...

The Fall, led by Mark E. Smith, were one of the most intriguing, influential, and prolific post-punk groups in British popular culture. Always Different, Always the Same: Critical Essays on The Fall is a thorough and critical account of the group, engaging with the...

People keep daily diary comics for different reason. For the progenitor of the format, Ben Snakepit, it has become sheer habit, drawing his life into three panels every day since Dec 23, 2000. That and documenting the events of his life into a macro-digestible...

In a sense, despite turning the big 3-0, Ben Snakepit captures the same spirit in the comics he draws to summarise each and every day of nearly the last decade of his life. In his second collection condensing the last three years we see...

Author: Matthew WorleyISBN-10: 1009661280ISBN-13: 9781009661287Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2026Pages: 406Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d

A critical refashioning of punk to suggest it emerges from within the long-term historical experience of las Américas in all their plurality. A collage-like juxtaposition of punk perspectives from across the entire hemisphere and via divergent contributions. 71 b/w illus. PUNK! Las Américas Edition...

Punk is notorious for its loud music, aggressive attitude, and safety-pinned style. Less well known is the radical value system that has emerged hand in hand with the sound and aesthetic. Since the 1970s, punks have built their music, fashion, and lifestyles around core...

This is a bibliography of academic publications that explore the Punk in terms of music and subculture. The book covers the scientific use of Punk in sectors such as Economics, Medicine, Business, Psychology, Art, Sociology. This book is a guide for scholars, students or...

The first book of its kind in English, Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk explores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its "no future" sloganeering, punk has had a rich and complex life in German art and letters, in German...

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...

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots: The Original Story by the Flaming Lips written and Illustrated by Flaming Lips founder and front person, Wayne Coyne. Coyne decided now was the time to definitively tell the tale of Yoshimi's struggle versus the Pink Robots and quest...

Transatlantic knowledge of the queer underground punk scene that ultimately became queercore developed through the spirit of DIY resistance that guided earlier feminist artists as queer musicians pushed back against the homophobia and sexism that remained pervasive in hardcore punk. Queercore officially got its...

It's 1977, and punk rock has just hit Liverpool. The legendary Eric's club is home to the city's rebels, posers and misfits. It's a place of attitude, adventure and new possibilities, and it changes lives. Some become pop stars; Penny Kiley becomes a music...

Author: Iain KeyISBN-10: 1915858372ISBN-13: 9781915858375Publisher: Spenwood Books LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2025Pages: 336Format: Hardcover

Author: Malcolm WyattISBN-10: 1915858240ISBN-13: 9781915858245Publisher: Spenwood Books LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2025Pages: 384Format: Hardcover

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots [Special Edition] is a hardcover book signed by its author, illustrator, and Flaming Lips frontperson, Wayne Coyne. Coyne decided now was the time to definitively tell the tale of Yoshimi's struggle versus the Pink Robots and quest for love...

The story of the reinvention of punk rock's most misunderstood subgenre, featuring Algernon Cadwallader, Title Fight, Modern Baseball, and the dozens of other bands who saved emo from implosion. Emo didn't start with the rise of bands like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical...

Flyover Country? Fly over THIS. This is the story of how postpunk crashed into the Midwest and rewrote the rules.When most people think postpunk, they picture London or Manchester—lThe Cure, PiL, Joy Division--or the coasts, from Minutemen in California to Bush Tetras in New...