Music-Genres & Styles-Punk

An oral history of women's role in the Southern California punk rock scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Interviews include musicians, performers, journalists, photographers, DJs, fans, and scenesters.Author: Stacy RussoISBN-10: 1595800921ISBN-13: 9781595800923Publisher: Santa Monica PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2017Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x...

Punk Faction BHP '91 to '95 is a collection of alternative lifestyle and punk rock fanzines that cover a range of subjects that were important to the youth of the 1990s and are still relevant to the alternative scene of today. Containing short stories...

With exclusive access to Strummer's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, music journalist Chris Salewicz penetrates the soul of an rock 'n roll icon. The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae,...

San Francisco is a city of contradictions. It is one of the most socially liberal cities in America, but it also has some of the nation's worst income inequality. It is a playground for tech millionaires, with an outrageously high cost of living, yet...

The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of England's most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order--a story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for...

The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person who's somehow defective, and the revolt against shame and self-loathing. The fans, argues Donna Gaines, got it right away, from their own experience of alienation at...

The punk band D.O.A., established in 1978, is considered one of the founders of hardcore punk, alongside such other seminal groups as Black Flag and Minor Threat. Their raw, melodic sound, which drew comparisons to The Clash and The Ramones, has always been matched...

The Beach Boys: All The Songs is a detailed look at the recorded output of this most unique and influential popular music group. From the 1962 debut Surfin' Safari through to 2012's That's Why God Made the Radio -- the first record Brian Wilson...

Rock'n'Roll Decontrol is the huge Vol. 2 collection of Do-It-Yourself punk flyers and photographs by noted punk author and musician David Ensminger that spans thirty years of underground music. Ensminger was the editor for Left of the Dial; currently a writer for Razorcake, Trust,...

Rock'n'Roll Decontrol is a huge collection of Do-It-Yourself punk flyers and photographs by noted punk author and musician David Ensminger that spans thirty years of underground music. Ensminger was the editor for Left of the Dial; currently a writer for Razorcake, Trust, Maximum Rocknroll,...

It's 1994. The music industry is mourning Kurt Cobain, Right Said Fred have re-emerged as an 'ironic' pop act and John Major is the country's prime minister. Nothing is as it should be. Emma, a working-class rock music fan from Hull, with a penchant...

THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY STUDIO TRACK FROM THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS. Established in 1976 at the fore London's punk rock insurgence, The Clash would outlast their peers while creating some of the most influential albums in rock 'n' roll history. Author Martin Popoff...

This new volume in the acclaimed Global Punk series extends the critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns impacting punk scenes around the world, with international contributors, ranging through topics from digital technology and new media to gender, ethnicity, identity and...

A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore's growing pains during the commercial boom of the early 90s and mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they sell out and find mainstream fame, or break beneath the weight of it all Punk rock found itself at...

A warmly humorous insider's account of The Specials by bass player Horace Panter.Author: Horace PanterISBN-10: 033044073XISBN-13: 9780330440738Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2008Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.75h x 5.17w x 0.85d

TERRORIZER WAS THE WORLD'S LEADING EXTREME MUSIC PUBLICATION FROM ITS LAUNCH IN 1993 TO ITS UNTIMELY DEMISE IN 2018. IAN GLASPER WAS ONE OF THE FEW CONSTANTS DURING THE MAGAZINE'S TWENTY-FIVE YEAR REIGN OF TERROR, AND THEIR MAIN CORRESPONDENT FOR PUNK, HARDCORE AND THRASH...

In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade �zines and three chord songs...

PUNKROCK LOSANGELESMore than 80 photographs from the Seminal Age of Punk Rock Music in Los Angeles. Featuring The Bags, Nervous Gender, The Screamers, The Know, The Go-Gos, The Alleycats, X and more!"There are some truly wonderful shots in here. Everything from live performance shots...

This memoir is the fascinating and revealing story of Graeme Jefferies--one of the most inventive and influential musicians to emerge from New Zealand's vibrant independent music scene in the 1980s. Time Flowing Backwards spans over three decades of Jefferies career spent with bands Nocturnal...

Back by popular demand in a new paperback edition, Punk is Dead exposes the lasting impact of punk on visual culture worldwide. Hundreds of flyers, photos, set lists, vintage fashions and other ephemera from all of your favorite bands are jammed into this menacing...

The punk explosion of the mid-1970s unleashed an amazing wave of creativity, both musically and graphically. As punk's DIY, cut-and-paste ingenuity gave rise to groundbreaking designers like Jamie Reid and Neville Brody, the picture sleeve became an essential aspect of any new single. Featuring...

In this biography of the Ramones, Dick Porter tells the story of one of the most important bands ever, fashioning a punk rock history in the process. The book covers the Ramones' residency at CBGB's and the New York punk scene, and relates all...

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." Karl Marx might have been thinking of punk rock...

Author: Eric SandyISBN-10: 1648410642ISBN-13: 9781648410642Publisher: Microcosm PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2022Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Regurgitator's second full-length album, Unit (1997), was produced in a DIY warehouse studio at a time when this was unusual for a major label band. The album went three times Platinum in Australia and won five esteemed ARIA Awards in 1998, including Album of...

Critical engagement with local, national and trans-global contemporary punk scenes across countries and regions including New Zealand, Indonesia, South Africa, Siberia and the Philippines. Includes thematic discussions on the evolution and adaptation of subcultural styles, punk demographics and the notion of punk identity. 50...

Both more and less than a band, Pussy Riot is continually misunderstood by the Western media. This book sets the record straight.After their scandalous performance of an anti-Putin protest song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the imprisonment of two of its...

As religion has retreated from its position and role of being the glue that holds society together, something must take its place. Utilising a focused and detailed study of Straight Edge punk (a subset of punk in which adherents abstain from drugs, alcohol and...

Author Jeremy Dale believes that too many businesses create an environment that encourages mediocrity and corporate norms that deliver lukewarm results at best. In The Punk Rock of Business, Dale offers a road map away from average and towards innovation through a mindset rooted...

To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970s wearing a T-shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of determined nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering...

Described by Darin Strauss as "Nick Flynn meets Karl Ove Knausgard" and "a book of relentless compassion" Songs Only You Know--Sean Madigan Hoen's debut--is an intense, sprawling memoir equal parts family tragedy and punk rock road trip. Songs Only You Know begins in late...

"So Real It Hurts is the perfect title for this collection. It's a mission statement. A few bleeding slices straight from the butcher shop. A sampler from an enormous archive of work that will, no doubt, be pored over by grad students, book lovers,...

From National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, the heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses,...

Previously unpublished photographs of the Sex Pistols' final UK gig Taken by Kevin Cummins, preeminent photographer of British bands over the last four decades Introduction by writer and broadcaster Paul Morley Short video for the title here On Christmas Day 1977, the Sex Pistols...

Are you a profound follower of punk music?2018 was a prolific year for new albums across the punk rock spectrum, and we have selected the top 43to help you find both the innovative and original artists making great music today.From the author of the...

Based on detailed interviews with band members, Red Set considers the music, art and politics that shaped Gang of Four and how the band, in turn, left an indelible mark on popular music. In the autumn of 1976, two young British Fine Arts students...

Coloring book highlighting the golden era of punk rock from mid 1976 through the summer of 1977. 62 pages of carefully researched and meticulously drafted images presented for the avid punk rock / coloring book enthusiastAuthor: Gary EllisISBN-10: 1717401058ISBN-13: 9781717401052Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

As if being an awkward, bullied 15-year-old weren't enough, suddenly "Fergie" Ferguson can see ghosts. Well, one ghost specifically... a certain punk rocker named Sid. Sid's spirit had been trapped in London's Heathrow Airport for forty years, until the day he met Fergie. Sid's...

Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976.Author: Subcultures NetworkISBN-10: 1526139073ISBN-13: 9781526139078Publisher: Manchester University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2019Pages: 344Format:...

A collection of humorous, shocking, and surprising tales about touring from some of underground music's most celebrated musicians.Author: Tony PatinoISBN-10: 1475132646ISBN-13: 9781475132649Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2012Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.39d

On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be "bored with the USA, +? but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. Mick Jones' licks on songs such as "Hate and War+? were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of...

From rap to folk to punk, music has often sought to shape its listeners' political views, uniting them as a global community and inspiring them to take action. Yet the rallying potential of music can also be harnessed for sinister ends. As this groundbreaking...

In The Clash: The Only Band That Matters, respected music critic Sean Egan examines The Clash's career and art through the prism of the uniquely interesting and fractious UK politics of the Seventies and Eighties, without which they simply would not have existed. Tackling...

Unlike studies that consider punk as subculture and style, this innovative book maps the field of punk-rock labels. Using the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu, it describes the social life of the field and the struggles of punks to live up to their ideals.Author: Alan...

This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of...

Puncture began as "a magazine of punk culture" in 1982 in San Francisco. Its first issues, collected in this book, capture perfectly the spirit and style of early punk fanzines. Desktop publishing lay some years in the future; these zines were kitchen-table cut-and-paste jobs,...

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Note-for-note transcriptions of the 17 searing songs from this LA punk band's live album. Includes: Another State of Mind * Ball & Chain * Cold Feelings * The Creeps * Don't Drag Me Down * Let It Be Me * Prison...

In March 1977, John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon of the punk band the Sex Pistols looked over the Berlin wall onto the grey, militarized landscape of East Berlin, which reminded him of home in London. Lydon went up to the wall and extended his middle...

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...

Michael Essington's memoir recounts his lifelong romance with rock 'n' roll music, and how his passion for music led to him to spin depraved yarns about the reckless lifestyle he led as a Los Angeles punk in the early 80s. This collection serves as...