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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land 250 Camera, Smith started posting selfies with her phone, portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, her daily coffee, the books...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Punk's not dead in rural West Virginia. In this blistering literary debut, it screams from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus--identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia. To them, school (and pretty much everything else) sucks. But what can you expect when you're the only punks in town? When the brothers start their own band, their lives begin to change: they meet friends,...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of the fanzine Shotgun Seamstress, a legendary DIY project that centered the scope of Blackness outside of mainstream corporate consumerist identity"--
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with the task of sorting through her mother's affairs. In that process she came across one fatally curious item: a bag labelled 'To throw away unopened'. This auspicious moment lies...
10) New dark ages
Author
Series
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It is a dangerous, divisive time in America. A far-right political candidate is seeking the presidency and stirring up hatred against minorities. The X Gang, meanwhile, have lost one of their friends to that presidential candidate - and are encountering manifestations of hate practically everywhere they go. With his band, the Hot Nasties, about to embark on its first North American tour, and several recent murders in the punk scene linked to its...
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An uncompromising examination of American identity. In an effort to be "black enough," a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his white bandmates call "black stuff." After remaining silent during a racist incident, the unnamed narrator has his Black Card revoked by Lucius, his guide through Richmond, Virginia, where Confederate flags and memorials are a part of everyday life. Determined...
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Black Punk Now is an anthology of contemporary nonfiction, fiction, illustrations, and comics that collectively describe punk today and give punks-especially the Black ones-a wider frame of reference. It shows all of the strains, styles, and identities of Black punk that are thriving, and gives newcomers to the scene more chances to see themselves"--
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary west coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting the voices of people who were there. The book shares chapter-length tales from the authors along with personal essays from famous (and infamous) players in the scene.
18) Fall through
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Graphic novel about an underground punk band caught in a loop of an eternally repeating tour -- from National Book Award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell. At first glance, Diamond Mine seems to have emerged in 1979 as Arkansas's first punk band. Instead, this quartet is revealed to be interdimensional travelers from 1994, guided -- largely against their will -- by vocalist Diana's powerful spell embedded into their song "Fall Through." As Diamond...
19) Gimme danger
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the legendary punk band, The Stooges.
Author
Series
Microcosm volume 345
Publisher
Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Punk rock and mental health have been intertwined since the very beginning. Nervous breakdowns, anxiety, seeking acceptance, attempting to overcome internalized demons, and reacting to harmful and oppressive systems -- punk rock embodies and emboldens all our feelings and experiences, positive and negative. Hardcore Anxiety charts and tracks punk movements from the '70s till today, from small towns to stadiums, from the struggles in our heads to...
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