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American Hardcore: A Tribal History

by Steven Blush

Angrier and less pretentious than the drug-addled punk and new wave music genres, hardcore was an underground tribal movement created with passion but ultimately destroyed by infighting and dissonance. Among the important figures who emerged from hardcore are Henry Rollins, Dave Grohl (of Nirvana and Foo Fighters), Ian MacKaye (of Fugazi), and the Beastie Boys. Hardcore's legacy, however, continues to... (more)

Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

by Henry Rollins

As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form the basis of Get in the Van . Rollins's observations range from the wry to the raucous in this blistering account of a six-year career with the band - a time marked by crazed fans, vicious cops, near-starvation, substance abuse, and mind numbing all-night drives. Rollins decided to revise this edition by adding a... (more)

Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound.

Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound.

by Brian Peterson

The Past The Present 1982-2007

by Marc Hanou,Jean-Paul Frijns

Dharma Punx

by Noah Levine

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 and the unfulfilled promise of the sixties. As with many... (more)

The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise

by Craig O'Hara

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 do with punk anyway. Intra-Movement Communication: ... (more)

Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital

Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital

by Mark Andersen

"A truly compelling narrative . . . a powerful piece of cultural reporting." -- Washington Post Washington, D.C.'s creative, politically insurgent punk scene is studied for the first time by local activist Mark Andersen and arts writer Mark Jenkins. The nation's capital gave birth to the most influential punk underground of the '80s and '90s. Dance of Days recounts the rise of trailblazing artists such as Bad... (more)

All Ages: Reflections on Straight Edge

by Beth Lahickey

"All Ages -- Reflections on Straight Edge" takes an in-depth look at the second wave of American Hardcore -- the music that borrowed from the likes of Minor Threat, Black Flag and SSD -- bands like Youth of Today, Slapshot, Bold, Underdog, Side by Side, Gorilla Biscuits, Judge, Inside Out, Chain of Strength, No for an Answer and Supertouch. Most of these bands were awesome and unique and have yet to be ... (more)

Racing Fear (Sidestreets)

by Jacqueline Guest

Trent and Adam were best friends and rally racing buddies until a terrible accident, when Adam was at the wheel, puts Trent in the hospital. After a long separation, the teens try to pick up their friendship where it left off, but Adam's guilty feelings and Trent's odd behaviour make it tough. Why is Trent hanging around Marcus, a guy he says he can't stand? And why isn't his Ritalin working anymore? When Adam... (more)

Do or Die

by Darren Coleman

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone

by Stephanie Kuehnert

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 her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother... (more)

Hardcore Hardboiled

by Todd Robinson

Drawn from Robinson's online magazine Thuglit , these 25 mostly solid crime stories will largely appeal to those with a taste for explicit violence. (For others, one description of mutilated genitalia is likely to be more than enough.) The best entries rely on subtlety and spare character portraits to make their point, like Mike MacClean's McHenry's Gift, the account of a drug runner's legacy with a vicious twist... (more)

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