Arts / Music / Punk

Punk Rock: An Oral History

by John Robb & Lars Fredriksen

Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change, and this work talks to those who cultivated the movement, weaving together their accounts to create a raw and unprecedented...

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,...

Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia

by Adam Lerner & Wes Anderson

Mark Mothersbaugh is a legendary figure for fans of both street art and music culture. Cofounder of the seminal New Wave band DEVO, he was a prolific visual artist before the band's inception moving seamlessly...

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.

Punk Rock and the Politics of Place: Building a Better Tomorrow

by Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl

This book is an ethnographic investigation of punk subculture as well as a treatise on the importance of place: a location with both physical form and cultural meaning. Rather than examining punk as a "sound"...

Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980¿1984

by IAN GLASPER

The product of years of research, travel, and countless conversations, Burning Britain is the true story of the UK punk scene from 1980 to 1984 told for the first time by the bands and labels that created it....

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 Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho Punk 1980¿1984

by IAN GLASPER

In this revealing history, author, historian, and musician Ian Glasper explores in minute detail the influential and esoteric UK anarcho-punk scene of the early 1980s. Where some of the colorful punk bands from...

Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: The Early Years

by Alex Ogg, Winston Smith & Ruby Ray

Despite releasing records only on independent labels and receiving virtually no radio play, Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of the late 1970s and early 1980s....

Rotten

by John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman & Kent Zimmerman

"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon

Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement,...

Punk Rock Warlord: the Life and Work of Joe Strummer

by Dr Barry J Faulk, Professor Brady Harrison, Professor Stan Hawkins & Professor Lori Burns

Punk Rock Warlord explores the relevance of Joe Strummer within the continuing legacies of both punk rock and progressive politics. It is aimed at scholars and general readers interested in The Clash, punk culture,...

Cheetah Chrome: A Dead Boy's Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock

by Cheetah Chrome & Legs McNeil

Here is the autobiography of Cheetah Chrome, lead guitarist of the Dead Boys, one of the greatest punk bands ever. It's a tale of success--and excess: great music, drugs (he overdosed and was pronounced dead...

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....

Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues

by James Fearnley

The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and...

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

by Masha Gessen

Look out for Masha Gessen's new book, THE FUTURE IS HISTORY, coming October 2017

The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies

On February 21, 2012, five young...

Punk Aesthetics and New Folk: Way Down the Old Plank Road

by John Encarnacao

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...

The Primal Screamer

by Nick Blinko

A gothic horror novel about severe mental distress and punk rock, this narrative is written in the form of a diary kept by a psychiatrist, Dr. Rodney H. Dweller, concerning his patient, Nathaniel Snoxell, brought...

My So-Called Punk

by Matt Diehl

When it began, punk was an underground revolution that raged against the mainstream; now punk is the mainstream. Tracing the origins of Grammy-winning icons Green Day and the triumphant resurgence of neo-punk...