Revised and expanded edition of the punk classic with six new interviews and a new introduction, bringing the definitive book of conversations with the underground's greatest minds up to 2007. New interviews include talks with bands like The Gossip and Maritime, a conversation with punk legend Bob Mould and many more. Punk Planet has consistently explored the crossover of punk with activism, reflecting the currents of the underground while simultaneously challenging the bleak centrism of today's popular culture.
Music fans will love this book, and so will fans of independent thinking.” —Flagpole “A wholly unique vision wrought not by consensus but by cultural cynicism and never-say-die musical populism.” —Magnet
Here are conversations with figures as diverse as Jello Biafra, Kathleen Hanna, Henry Rollins, Excene, Sleater-Kinney, Ian MacKaye and many more, providing a unique perspective of American punk rock and all that it has inspired.
But because you was colored, honey, this town had no place for you, nothing for you to do. MULATTO GIRL So one day, sitting on old Mrs. Latham's back porch polishing the silver, working for two dollars a week, I asked myself two ...
from the Air Force in the early '70s, the Hudson family settled in a Maryland suburb just across the line from Southeast DC. Paul Hudson was an outstanding athlete and a creative thinker, but his free-spirited approach brought him into ...
6/Glitterhouse) A collection of instrumental solo guitar pieces by the cream of the underground, circa 1991: Sonic Boom, Kurt Ralske, Kathy Korniloff, Jeffrey Evans, Wayne Coyne, J Mascis, Dean Wareham, Mark E. Robinson, Marc Gentry, ...
“A Pair of Brown Eyes” and “Sally MacLaenne” describe Irish pub culture. The speaker of “A Pair of Brown Eyes” is drowning his sorrows in drink after his girlfriend dumped him when he is chatted up by an old man, who one-ups his sorrows ...
... LaBelle's fourth and final cookbook to date emerged from the Wal- Mart line and between the first and second season ... Desserts LaBelle: Soulful Sweets to Sing About, which she co- wrote with Laura Randolph Lancaster and chef and ...
... WE OWE YOU NOTHING: PUNK PLANET The Collected Interviews (Expanded Edition) edited by Daniel Sinker 402 pages, trade paperback, $17.95 “This collection of Q&As consistently engages . . . and successfully functions as a detailed document ...
A guitarist fires off riffs. A drummer pounds out primal rhythms. Fans scream along to a booming chorus. These are the sounds of rock. When rock 'n' roll first shook up young audiences, parents and politicians screamed in protest.
In Corporate Rock Sucks, music journalist Jim Ruland relays the unvarnished story of SST Records, from its remarkable rise in notoriety to its infamous downfall.