Arts / Music / Punk

Patti Smith: America's Punk Rock Rhapsodist

by Eric Wendell

In Patti Smith: America’s Punk Rock Rhapsodist, musician and historian Eric Wendell delves into the volatile mix of religious upbringing and musical and literary influences that gave shape to Smith’s lyrics,...

The Clash: The Only Band That Mattered

by Sean Egan

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,...

Anger Is an Energy

by John Lydon

From the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.

John Lydon is an icon—one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the...

American Hardcore: A Tribal History

by Steven Blush & George Petros

The iconic, best-selling punk history receives over 125 new images and thirty new interviews.

Gods of the Hammer: The Teenage Head Story

by Geoff Pevere

'Teenage Head changed the face of music in this country. I would not be who I am today without their first record ... In 1979 they were the only band that mattered.'

- Hugh Dillon

In the late 1970s and early...

The Punk Rock Las Vegas Survival Guide: Beer, Bowling and Debauchery Las Vegas Style

by Bob Oedy

The Punk Rock Las Vegas Survival Guide is a Las Vegas travel guide for punks. Punks from all over the globe travel to Las Vegas on Memorial Day weekend for an annual pilgrimage of live shows and tournament bowling....

Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy: The Emergence of DIY

by Alan O'Connor

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...

Hit So Hard

by Patty Schemel

A stunningly candid portrait of the Seattle grunge scene of the '90s and a memoir of an addict during the last great era of rock 'n' roll excess, by Hole drummer Patty Schemel

Patty Schemel's story begins with...

Green Day

by Bob Gruen

Celebrating 25 years of Green Day, from renowned photographer Bob Gruen

It’s been 25 years since the breakthrough album Dookie put punk rock pioneers Green Day on the musical map, and renowned photographer...

Scream With Me

by Jeremy Dean, Tom Bejgrowicz & Shepard Fairey

The ultimate visual history paying tribute to one of punk?s most iconic bands 

Formed in 1977, the Misfits deeply influenced the genres of punk rock and metal alike by blending their music with horror film...

Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer For Freedom

by Pussy Riot

Letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world.

Punk Crisis

by Raymond A. Patton

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...

Everything Is Combustible

by Richard Lloyd

Legendary Rock and Roll guitarist. Founding member of Television. Masterful storyteller. Written in Lloyd's inimitable, frequently humorous style, Everything is Combustible chronicles, through vignettes, Lloyd's colorful...

Hard Core Logo

by Nick Craine & Lynn Crosbie

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Nick Craine’s searing graphic novel about a legendary Canadian punk band, based on the feature film by Bruce McDonald and the novel by Michael Turner.

Joe Dick, Billy Tallent,...

Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night

by Richard Cabut & Andrew Gallix

This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development....

Brave Punk World

by James Greene Jr.

Punk rock may have started in the United Kingdom and United States but it certainly didn’t stay in either country. The genre flew around the globe like a contagion, touching off simultaneous movements in nearly...

First in the World Somewhere: The True Adventures of a Scribbler, Siren, Saucepot and Pioneer

by Penny Pepper

Penny Pepper has led an extraordinary life. She is a writer. Poet. Punk. Pioneer. Activist. And she also happens to be disabled. In her absorbing memoir, which spans the mid-1980s up until the millennium, Penny...

My Riot

by Roger Miret & Jon Wiederhorn

Gangs of New York meets Mean Streets in this brutally honest memoir about surviving the treacherous 1980s Lower East Side and finding refuge and a voice in music.

Filled with danger, drugs, and abrasive music,...

Bu San Bu Si

by J.W. Henley

Bu San Bu Si—"not three not four." To the Taiwanese people, it's an idiom used to describe the punks, lowlifes, and losers of society—the ones who don't fit in, and never will. It's what they would call...

Spoke

by Scott Crawford

"The pictures, which include some posed portraits but are mostly concert shots, are the chief attraction. They freeze moments of adolescent release, vein-bulging intensity and sweaty communion that fuses performer...