Music-Genres & Styles-Punk

Rolling Stone Best Music Books of the Year "Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans--it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."--Town & Country"Riveting"--New York Post"A masterful achievement." --Booklist (starred review)On the 50th anniversary of...

Just as a mixtape brings together disparate songs to give voice to its curator's musical mindset, in Where Next, Columbus? Thomas Michael Swensen juxtaposes different types of cultural production to explore how Native America and punk coexist, inform each other, and together articulate their...

"A fascinating insight into the boredom, ambition, conflicts and genius behind one of the best bands ever." -- Total Guitar MagazineThe Ramones, pioneers of punk rockThe Ramones cut an unforgettable swathe through decades of popular music. With politically charged anger, raw sounds and ferocious...

A riotous look at the intersection of politics, protest, and punk--and what it means to turn to art for survival.Since its inception, punk has defied convention. Angry, unruly, and equipped with an "anti" ethos--anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian, anti-corporation, and anti-conformity--it became a rebellion bound in leather...

Author: Colin BurrowesISBN-10: 1648416020ISBN-13: 9781648416026Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2025Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.20d

WANDERLUST and WELCOME MATS "the Broccoli Chronicles", the Sequel to TOXIC SHOCK Records Assassin of Mediocrity Book by Bill Sassenberger. Cover artwork by Brian Walsby. Layout design by Welly Artcore. Back cover art by Vince Ransid. "Social media gets a bad rap these days...

"Bizarre movies have always held a strong fascination for me, so too the places where such movies come from. Having spent years living in the bowels of the Lower East Side and arranging screenings for the rabid assaults of the Cinema of Transgression, North...

"This is an irresistible book that will spark a thousand arguments--and that's just on the day it's published. I'm already making my list. I haven't had so much fun with a work of criticism in years."-- Greil Marcus, author of The History of Rock...

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Blondie, the iconic rock band's titular debut album, and their career from their beginnings on NYC's Lower East Side to their most current tour with rare and never-before-seen photographs by legendary rock and roll photographer, Bob Gruen. When Blondie...

The first book of lyrics by TV Smith, member of seminal punk band The Adverts and solo singer-songwriter. Foreword by Henry Rollins, member of Black Flag and The Rollins Band, actor, and writer. TV Smith: "I'm always being asked it: what comes first, the...

In Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its iconic place in First World urban culture, Anglo popular music, and the Euro-American avant-garde, situating it instead as a crucial element in Peru's culture of subversive militancy and political violence. Inspired by José...

Author: Fredd CarrollISBN-10: 1972440012ISBN-13: 9781972440018Publisher: Left Eye Lazy PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2026Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

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 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...

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:...