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The Story of Crass
PM Press 2009; US$ 16.00In-depth interviews with the main movers in the punk rock movement?Crass members Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant?detail the face of the revolution founded by these radical thinkers and artists. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules by putting out their own records, films, and magazines and setting up a series of situationist... more...
Get in the Van
2.13.61 2009; US$ 13.00As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form the basis of Get in the Van . Rollins's observations range from the wry to the raucous in this blistering account of a six-year career with the band - a time marked by crazed fans, vicious cops, near-starvation, substance abuse, and mind numbing all-night... more...
Girls to the Front
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99?For a Second Wave feminist like myself, Girls to the Front evokes wonderfully the way the generation after mine soaked up the promise and the punishment of feminist consciousness....A richly moving story.? ? Village Voice writer Vivian Gornick Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement?the radical feminist punk... more...
From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry
Soft Skull Press 2010; US$ 14.95As an adolescent, Justin Pearson moved with his mother from ?Shit Creek Phoenix, AZ? to sunny San Diego after his father was murdered on Halloween. There, he fell in with a subculture of young musicians playing some of the most original and brutal music in the world. Turns out the chaos of Pearson?s bands ? The Locust, Swing Kids, and Some Girls ?... more...
Magazine
Northumbria University Press 2010; US$ 9.95With biographies of individual band members and exclusive, previously unseen photographs, this unique account presents a riveting insight into the world of the punk band Magazine. Placing the band in the context of the Manchester music scene, this volume charts Magazine?s progress between 1977 and 1981 as well as the members? activities since its... more...
Route 19 Revisited
Soft Skull Press 2010; US$ 17.95Twenty-eight years after its original release, The Clash?s London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a ?recording of lasting qualitative or historical significance.? It topped polls on both sides of the Atlantic for the best album of the seventies (and eighties) and in publications as wide-ranging as Rolling Stone , VIBE , Pitchfork... more...
Spray Paint the Walls
PM Press 2011; US$ 16.00Black Flag were the pioneers of American Hardcore, and this is their blood-spattered story. Formed in Hermosa Beach, California, in 1978, they made and played brilliant, ugly, no-holds-barred music for eight brutal years on a self-appointed touring circuit of America’s clubs, squats, and community halls. They fought with everybodythe... more...
You're Wondering Now
Cherry Red Books 2011; US$ 10.94The Specials turned the world of pop music on it's head in the late 1970's, fusing their multi cultural and West Indian tinged rhythms with a punk aesthetic which has endured to this day. One of the key bands of any time and place, their legacy endures, as evidenced by the popularity of their recent reformation. "You're Wondering Now", written by... more...
Bring the Noise
Soft Skull Press 2011; US$ 16.95Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture, juxtaposing the voices of many of rock and hip hop?s most provocative artists?Morrissey, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, P.J. Harvey, Radiohead?with Reynolds?s own passionate analysis. With... more...
Treat Me Like Dirt
ECW Press 2011; US$ 13.95This gritty chronicle illustrates the emergence of punk rock in Toronto for the first time. The visionary bands that brought the original scene to life—and who still maintain loyal fans across North America—are documented in detail, from the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head to the B-Girls, Forgotten Rebels, Johnny & the G-Rays,... more...









