Rollins, a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, shares his wry and raucous detailed tour diaries that provide a blistering account of a six-year career with the band.
Combining unique access to Green Day with a seasoned journalist's nose for a great story, Spitz gives the complete account of the band, from their earliest days to their most recent explosion of popularity and critical acclaim. 16-page photo insert.
A former record label owner and radio DJ offers the first history of hardcore, a musical response to the angst of punk and new wave. Photos & illustrations.
A raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell. The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones. Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back. Now Emily's all grown up with a punk band of ...
?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 ...
Joe Strummer's untimely death at the age of fifty in December 2002 took from us one of the truly unique voices of modern music. The quintessential Rude Boy, punker, rebel musician, artist and activist, Strummer wrote some of the most important and influential music of the last century including "Guns of Brixton," "The Washington Bullets," ...
Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow, Dee Dee Ramone catapults readers into the raw world of ...
Born Paul Beahm to a mother between husbands and a Swedish sailor father he never met, Darby Crash had suffered the loss of his stepfather and his elder brother to a heart attack and a drug overdose, respectively, by the time he was 11. Highly intelligent yet chronically self-destructive, and also an obsessive David Bowie fan, Crash attended an ...
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, ...
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 ...
So you want to be a rock 'n' roll star? Maybe you should listen to what Dee Dee Ramone has to say first. In Legend of a Rock Star the myth of the rock 'n' roll good life is destroyed once and for all. Touring is hell, and Dee Dee should know, after fifteen plus years with the legendary Ramones, he's back on the road with a new band and a new set ...
It has been over twenty-five years since punk rock transformed the landscape of music and popular culture, but the significance of the era continues to endure. Whether you take your Year Zero from The Stooges in 1969 or the heady bile of The Clash and Sex Pistols, it's impossible to overstate the importance of punk. This book examines the songs ...
Iggy Pop transcended life in Michigan to become the RGodfather of Punk." Although his struggles with drug addiction, mental illness, and his problematic question of commercial success were well known, his groundbreaking style profoundly influenced the genres of punk, glam, and New Wave.
British punk rock was always much more than the back-to-basics musical movement of its American counterpart, being driven as much by social imperatives and politics as by purely artistic motives. In ENGLAND'S DREAMING, John Savage's brilliant, analytical study of the music and the forces that created it, he sees punk as a reaction against both the ...
Rebels With a Cause is an in-depth account of Green Day's 20-year journey from their scrappy high school band days to international stardom. It's a punk-roots journey told through incisive interviews and first-hand accounts that expose as much about the music scene as the band members themselves. From their 1994 major label debut album Dookie to ...
Joey Keithley, aka Joey Shithead, founded legendary punk pioneers D.O.A. in 1978. Punk kings who spread counterculture around the world, they've been cited as influences by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Rancid and The Offspring; have toured with The Clash, The Ramones, The Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Nirvana, PiL, Minor Threat and others; ...
Predating the Undertones by almost a year, Stiff Little Fingers were the most successful of the first generation of Belfast bands to take the 1976 advent of the Sex Pistols, the Damned, and the Clash as a clarion call for their own mini-revolution. As their founder, Jake Burns, relates in this entertaining book-length interview with longtime band ...
Since he first came to public attention in the 1970s, Richard Hell has made a spectacular if specialized reputation for himself in every conceivable medium -- from music, painting, and photography, to fashion, design, and writing. A man with a vision, Hell was the Prophet of Punk: the originator of the spiked haircut; ripped, drawn-on, safety ...
Gary Valentine, the bassist for punk-rock band Blondie from their inception in 1975 until his acrimonious departure two years later, recounts his story against a prototypically seedy 1970s New York background in NEW YORK ROCKER, a memoir of his misspent youth and its aftermath. The evocatively rendered New York punk rock scene of Valentine's late ...
As the lead signer of Punk band "Pennywise", Jim Lindberg spends his evenings screaming to thousands of kids to screw authority, and then goes home and tries to maintain some sense of authority over his young three daughters. Every father will be able to relate to Lindberg's hilarious parenting misadventures and struggle to figure out how to ...
Celebrating friendships that have been bound together by music since 1979, Horgan's largely unpublished images were taken as friend and participant on the music scene, rather than as a journalist, and are both an exceptional contribution to the history of punk and a true reflection of punk values.
WE'RE DESPERATE collects portraits from the punk movement as experienced in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Jocoy's photographs, alongside commentary by Sonic Youth guitarist Thuston Moore, designer Marc Jacobs, and Exene Cervenka of the LA punk outfit X, make this a history not only of the music, but also of the age, its big names, and the crazy ...
The influence of The Sex Pistols has stretched way beyond their short, violent and notorious career - not only did they define punk, through the vision of their manager Malcolm McLaren and lead singer Johnny Rotten, but by the time of the Jubilee in 1977, they had initiated an explosion of angry music, graphics, fashion and media. This book is ...
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