Punk category: 246 books
Spoke
Images and Stories from the 1980s Washington, DC Punk Scene
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The photos and oral history the legendary punk bands Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Fugazi, and others will immediately catch the attention of punk fans worldwide.
The documentary film Salad Days, produced by Scott Crawford, inspired this book. Salad Days has been one of the most successful films...
Sex Pistols
The Pride of Punk
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The Sex Pistols exploded onto the music scene in 1976, paving the way for the deluge of punk rock that would change the face of modern rock music forever. Their debut album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, proved one of the most important rock albums of all time, fusingslammed rock...
Punk Rock and the Politics of Place
Building a Better Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
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" or a "style" as many previous works have done, it investigates the places that the subculture...
"Do You Have a Band?"
Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this...
Punk Elegies
True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex, and Trial by Angel Dust
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Punk Elegies arrives like a chemically unstable mixture of Richard Yates and Damon Runyon. Set along Hollywood Boulevard at the birth of punk and the death of the 1970s, the thirty-three melancholic, comic laments of Punk Elegies are a mesmerizing concoction of delusion and revelation. A cultural moment,...
See a Little Light
The Trail of Rage and Melody
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The long-awaited, full-force autobiography of American punk music hero, Bob Mould
Bob Mould stormed into America's punk rock scene in 1979, when clubs across the country were filling with kids dressed in black leather and torn denim, packing in to see bands like the Ramones, Black Flag, and...
Lonely Boy
Tales from a Sex Pistol
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who, with his schoolmate Paul Cook, formed the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols and who was its original leader. As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of...
by Zoë Howe
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Wild, defiant and startlingly inventive, The Slits were ahead of their time, embodying the creative fire of punk music and rebellion like few others.
Although they created unique hybrids - dub reggae and pop-punk, funk and free jazz - they were dismissed as being unable to play. Their lyrics...
Capitol Contingency
Post-Punk, Indie Rock, and Noise Pop in Washington, D.C., 1991-99
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Capitol Contingency chronicles a unique time in a uniquely vibrant music scene: Washington, D.C., 1991-1999. Punk was broken; the Internet had yet to engulf society; the major label compact disc marketing system was in its greatest -- and final -- era of dominance before its file-sharing-imposed collapse....
Punk Rock
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
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 oral history of punk in the United Kingdom. From the Clash, Crass, Henry Rollins,...
by Mark Perry, Danny Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
“1977 is the Queen's jubilee year, well let's make it our year as well. Let's get out and do something. Chuck away the f•••••g stupid safety-pins, think about people's ideas instead of their clothes. This "scene" is not just a thing to do in the evening. It's the only thing around...
by Kieron Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
From rank outsiders to pop stardom a decade later, The Damned blazed an anarchic trail through punk rock to achieve massive chart success. A beacon for the Sex Pistols and The Clash to follow, they flung down the musical gauntlet in 1976 with Britain’s first punk single ‘New Rose’.
Smashing...
by Bob Oedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Punk Rock Las Vegas Survival Guide is a Las Vegas travel guide for punks. Thousands of punk rock music enthusiasts from all over the globe travel to Las Vegas on Memorial Day weekend for an annual pilgrimage of live shows and tournament bowling. They begin planning for the next year as early as...
by Zachariah Bennet Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
I spent years pursuing a career in SkaPunk music. This never panned out. I then enrolled in college...I figured that I didn't know enough about something I wasn't privy to. College only served to confuse and frustrate me more...so I wrote a book about my thoughts.
To those that don't know,...