"Hairstyles" is an honest depiction of growing up punk on Chicago's south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. Joe Meno won the 2003 Nelson Algren ...
Fueled by the music of revolution, anger, fear, and despair, we dyed our hair or shaved our heads ... Eating acid like it was candy and chasing speed with cheap vodka, smoking truckloads of weed, all in a vain attempt to get numb and stay numb. This is the story of a young man and a generation of angry youths who rebelled against their parents ...
With 25 punk-inspired patterns - including the famous Mohawk hat Depeche Mode front man Martin Gore wears on stage - "Punk Rock Knits" is the perfect knitting book for teenagers and twenty somethings. Original patterns include a Mini Mod felted tote, Moral Panic schoolboy necktie, Feel the Pain wrist cuffs, Ready Steady Go argyle miniskirt, a ...
Sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, PLEASE KILL ME is a history of the birth of punk rock told by many of the people involved. Starting with the Velvet Underground, one of the bands that provided inspiration for the movement, Legs McNeil and co-author Gillian McCain interview members of the New York Dolls and the MC5, as well as Iggy Pop, ...
Indie rock music has been gaining steam for decades, starting in the early 1980's with bands like Sonic Youth and the rest of the downtown New York scene. In the early 1990s, the music of bands like Pavement, Guided By Voices and Radiohead brought tons of new converts to the scene. In the 2000s, indie rock literally exploded across all media, ...
For decades adolescents have turned to poetry to give voice to the raw emotion that characterises those tender years. In recent years, though, the form has lost its sheen as Generation X has bled into Generation Y and poets have grown up, losing touch with their rebellious past as epitomized by Arthur Rimbaud and Allen Ginsburg. But the ounders ...
He's a grad student in the Ivy League. He's also a private investigator trying to find a runaway teen. Now, he's in over his head. Up against punk junkies, antique book thieves, and murderous betrayal, Neal Carey has his work cut out for him to save Allie--and get back above ground for good. Martin's Press.
Photographs by Ken Miller of people who inhabit the dark side of America. Pictures of skinheads, electroshock patients, addicts, and prostitutes are accompanied by text from novelist William T. Vollman, who often covers similar themes in his fiction
In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small-town New Hampshire to tour Europe at 18, becoming a teen publisher of fanzines, a teen bride, ...
?The mid-1970s was England's darkest, dreariest hour. The UK was sliding deeper into unemployment, reeling from strike after strike, power cuts, the three-day work week, and IRA bombs. It was time for a new order and in London's restless streets a handful of snotty young men, feisty females, and first generation Jamaican musicians created the UK's ...
Contents Introduction by Marc Bayard Preface by the author Why Punk: Background comparisons with previous art movements; some defining characteristics of punk. Media Misrepresentations: How television, glossy magazines, and mindless mass media have done their best to defang the beast. Skinheads: Who they are, where they're from and do they have to ...
Things are slowly coming together for Nana Osaki. The guitarist and drummer from her old band have joined her in Tokyo and she's finally found a ripping new bass player to replace Ren Honjo. The Black Stones are back and they're ready to kick some ass. Nana Komatsu, however, can't shake her old nemesis, the Demon Lord. She's stuck in a dead-end ...
Nana K. is going home - for an awesome Trapnest concert! She drags Nana O. along, convinced that somehow Ren will sense his ex-flame in the audience. But life is never that easy, and Nana O. isn't sure if she even wants Ren back. As for Nana K., is she prepared for Trapnest to come down off the stage and into her life, or will her fan-girl ...
There are few people in our lives who have as much influence on us as our mother and father, brothers and sisters. Family ties are the earliest ties that bind, setting the tone for the paths we will take in our future. So what if your father is Dirk Hopeless and your mother Nikki Savage, a superstar couple from the days of punk rock? When you're ...
The 25th anniversary celebration of the Love and Rockets series continues with the second of three volumes, collecting the adventures of the spunky Maggie, her annoying best friend Hopey, and their circle of intimates.
Two Russians and an American in a Black Sea resort are seen first as insects, then as humans, in this satirical allegorical fantasy of the last days of the Soviet Union inspired by Karel Capek's classic play "The Insect Comedy".
Re-creating the complete story of the Punk phenomenonincluding where it came from and what it turned intoPunk is a massive and visually stunning record of five years that changed the world: 1975-1979. Collecting the testimony of more than 260 artists, record producers, designers, and journalistsincluding John Cale, Debbie Harry, Joe Strummer, ...
For fifteen-year-old Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, social-club lager, cut-throat Teds and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweet - until he is beaten up and thrown in the Grand Union Canal with his best mate Smiles.Fast forward to 1988, and Joe is ...
For 15-year-old Sam, his middle-class suburban life feels like a prison. Mistaking lust for fate, Sam becomes obsessed with Clay, a 17-year-old surfer. The tumult of Clay's search for identity propels him, with desperately confused Sam in his wake, through the hardest decisions and obstacles of their young lives.
The characteristically unconventional West Coast punk rock explosion, which occurred around the same time as that of New York, gets its own chronicle with Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen's WE GOT THE NEUTRON BOMB, a gritty oral history of the rise of California punk. Unsurprisingly, many of the same cast of characters who populate the annals of New ...
A collection of new stories from the alternative comic series created by three Mexican-American brothers from Southern California. It was the first comic series to give a voice to minorities and women in the medium's then 50-year history. This collection features all-new stories.
Juliet meets her Juliets in this raw look at punk, young love and the sometimes cloudy road to adulthood. Mosh Pit, a compelling story of rebel girls in the modern city, stars Simone - torn between her loyalty to her rebellious heart - throb Cherry and her feelings for Carol, streetwise and distant enough to be alluring. This edgy young adult ...
Anxious to get into a Tokyo groove, both women are on the prowl for a funky and cheap place to live. But inexpensive apartments in Japan's capital city are hard to find. Thank goodness each Nana has a clique of cool friends willing to help out. Too bad these friends are a little wiggy!
In this spiritual memoir, a formerly troubled and self-destructive young man relates how he transformed his life through mindful meditation and spiritual growth. Noah Levine's ten-year quest takes him from a 12-step program to journeys to the East, and to San Francisco, where he studies Buddhism and teaches meditation to incarcerated youths.
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