Armed with Anger

How UK Punk Survived the Nineties

Ian Glasper

The fourth installment in Ian Glasper's legendary journey into the heart of UK punk and hardcore explores the punk underground's transformation as the gritty 1980s gave way to the 1990s Glasper...

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...

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...

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,...

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 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...

Silent Pictures

Pat Graham

Fugazi. Bikini Kill. Modest Mouse. These groundbreaking bands and their peers not only shaped the face of today's underground music scene, but also established a thriving subculture based on...

What's the Use of Walking if There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?

Black Hoboes & Their Songs

Gene Tomko

Another wonderful slice of history, political, cultural, and social history. Better yet, it comes 'illustrated' with a CD, with 25 original recordings. Plus, of course, the work is full of the...

The Devil's Son-In-Law

The Story of Peetie Wheatstraw & His Songs

Paul Garon

Blues-singer, songwriter, piano and guitar player, William Bunch (1902–1941) was well-known as Peetie Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law and the High Sheriff from Hell. Long recognized by...