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Punkademics: The Basement Show in the Ivory Tower - Zack Furness (Editor)
The basement show in the ivory tower...

In the thirty years since Dick Hebdige published Subculture: The Meaning of Style, the seemingly antithetical worlds of punk rock and academia have converged in some rather interesting, if not peculiar, ways. A once marginal subculture documented in homemade 'zines and three chord songs has become fodder for dozens of scholarly articles, books, PhD disser...
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Movement Music Pack - Archie Green (Editor), David Roediger (Editor), Jared A. Ball, Franklin Rosemont (Editor), Craig O'Hara, and Salvatore Salerno (Editor)
Whether you're a musician, an aspiring musician, or just interested in the musics of protest, this pack will give you a broad overview of the political significance of hip-hop, punk, and folk music, both in theory and in practice. A great gift for the radical musician in your life! Included titles are: Jared Ball's I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto; Craig O'Hara's The Philosophy of Punk: More ...
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Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond, 1977–1981 - Gary Pig Gold (Editor) and Liz Worth
This gritty chronicle illustrates the emergence of punk rock in Toronto for the first time. The visionary bands that brought the original scene to life—and who still maintain loyal fans across North America—are documented in detail, from the Diodes, Viletones, and Teenage Head to the B-Girls, Forgotten Rebels, Johnny & the G-Rays, and more. Full of chaos, betrayal, failure, success, and pure rock...
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A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse - Colin Foran (Illustrator) and Margaret Killjoy
From the horse's mouth:
"So you've decided to survive the Apocalypse. Congratulations! Your fierce unyielding Determination has already put you Head and Shoulders above your Competition. And your Appreciation of the less subtle Technologies and Yesteryear shall put you even farther above. Hundreds of Meters above, in fact, ifyou manage to get yourself a Dirigible!

"Consider this Book to be your boo...
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Talk-Action=0: An Illustrated History of DOA - Joe Keithley
Canadian band, DOA, established in 1978, is considered one of the founders of hardcore punk, alongside such other seminal groups as Black Flag and Minor Threat. Their raw, melodic sound, which drew comparisons to The Clash and The Ramones, has always been matched by the band's acute political sensibility. Known for its uncompromising and outspoken anarchist viewpoints, DOA has been active on behalf of many i...
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Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79–'83 - Dave Stimson (Contributor), Tesco Vee (Contributor), and Steve Miller (Editor
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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 out to chronicle, lambaste, ridicule, and heap praise on all they arbitrarily loved or hated in the music communities in the US and abroad.

In laughably minuscule press runs by today s standards, Touch a...
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Burn Collector #15 - Al Burian
The expatriated Al Burian reflects on a year spent living in Berlin, Germany. His wildly free-range topics include: freedom, happiness, animal liberty, Aristotle, modern dentistry, riots as rituals, uncomfortable proximity to drunken teenagers, and how to best color co-ordinate an outfit that includes a Black Flag T-shirt and a baby stroller. Plus: "when you realize the freedom," an illustrated essay by Anne...
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Hard Core Logo - Michael Turner
Hard Core Logo is an epistolary novel that portrays a punk rock band reunited for one last shot at glory.

Adapting a scrapbook approach, consisting of monologues, conversations, letters, interviews, photographs, and related paraphernalia (including posters, invoices and contracts), Hard Core Logo tells the story of Joe Dick, an unrepentant, true-blue punk rocker, whose no-holds-barred ...
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From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry - Justin Pearson
As an adolescent, Justin Pearson moved with his mother from "Shit Creek Phoenix, AZ" to sunny San Diego after his father was murdered just before Halloween. There, he fell in with a subculture of young musicians playing some of the most original and brutal music in the world. Turns out the chaos of Pearson's bands — The Locust, Swing Kids, and Some Girls — is nothing compared to the madness of hi...
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Shut Up & Love the Rain - Robnoxious (Illustrator)
In Shut Up and Love the Rain, Oakland-based zinester Robnoxious takes along his path from early sexual exploration to his current sex-positive, constantly-deprogramming, über-healthy queerness! Rob's writing and comics show us that experimentation should start early, that guilty pleasures needn't be guilty, and that talking it over and being honest with each other will lead to nothin' but good. O...
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