Punk

Apart from herpes and Lulu - everything is eventually swept awayJust one shimmering pearl of wisdom from pop-star and polymath James Maker, whose worldly observations will (like …

"Read and Burn" is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of Wire, one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, …

Forty years after its inception, punk has gone global. The founding scenes in the United Kingdom and United States now have counterparts all around the world. Most, if not all, …

After the first full-fledged punk singles arrived in 1976, many punks threw out nearly all their records released before then--all but music containing the seeds of punk. This was …

The moving, Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age memoir of music, outsiders and the relationships that make us.

Humour, as much as any other trait, defines British cultural identity. It is 'crucial in the English sense of nation,' argues humour scholar Andy Medhurst; 'To be properly English …

Art school Britain in the 1960s and 1970s - a hotbed of experimental DIY creativity blurring the lines between art and music. In Blank Canvas, multi-genre musician turned …

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.Avant-Gardes in Crisis claims that the avant-gardes of the late …

"e;American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"e;Paper magazineSteven Blush's "e;definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk"e; …

Manic Street Preachers were and remain one of the most interesting, significant, and best-loved bands of the past thirty years. Their third album The Holy Bible (1994) is generally …