The Story of Crass

George Berger

Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules...

Sober Living for the Revolution

Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics

Gabriel Kuhn

Straight edge has persisted as a drug-free, hardcore punk subculture for twenty-five years. Its political legacy, however, remains ambiguous—often associated with self-righteous macho...

The Dance of Days

Two Decades Of Punk In The Nation's Capital

Mark Anderson

Bad Brains, Dischord Records, Ian Mackaye, Straight-Edge, Emo, Riot Grrl, Henry Rollins, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Revolution Summer, Rites Of Spring, Bikini Kill, Positive Force, Dag Nasty, No Trend,...

Empty the Sun

A Novel

Joseph Mattson

"Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles." Thus begins the...

Imarginacion

La poetica del hip hop como desmesura de lo politico

Bocafloja

Twenty-five poemas y un ensayo integran esta primera publicación del joven rapero mexicano "Bocafloja" quien desde el hip hop se ha convertido en una de las propuestas musicales alternativas...

Touch and Go

The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79–'83

Dave Stimson

Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979. Major fanatics of the new punk happenings in the late 70s, TV and DS set...

A Heartbeat and a Guitar

Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears

Antonino D'Ambrosio

In this acclaimed book, writer and filmmaker Antonino D'Ambrosio tells the astonishing story behind Johnny Cash's little-known folk protest record, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American...

I Mix What I Like!

A Mixtape Manifesto

Jared Ball

Blending together elements from internal colonialism theory, cultural studies, political science, and his own experience on the mic, Jared Ball positions the so-called "hip-hop nation" as an...

Deadly She-Wolf

Assassination at Armageddon (book and cd)

Fred Ho

Before "the old Fred Ho" died on August 4, 2006 of advanced colo-rectal cancer (before "the new Fred Ho" emerged), he had created an amazing body of radical, popular avant garde operas and...