Have you ever wondered what it was like growing up on the Lower East Side of New York, hanging out with your friends and…
Every city with a great music scene has a great venue associated with it … New York had CBGBs; Los Angeles has The Whisky;…
When compared to my music collection, I’ve read surprisingly few books on punk. Five, to be exact—including the one under discussion. And yet, a…
Composer and producer Brendan Canty remembers his favorite concert well. “[It was] just unhinged and surprising, and welcome, and immediately seared into my memory…
The careers of Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and, to a lesser extent, Starz, have been linked going back to the late ‘70s. In Doug…
Without Bad Religion, it’s hard to believe many outsides of California would have ever heard bands like Rancid, The Offspring or NOFX. Beside the…
At this point, it’s probably easier to list off all of the 1980s metal musicians that haven’t written a memoir rather than try and…
It should come as little surprise to anyone who has read Steve Gorman’s engrossing and deeply personal memoir of his time with The Black…
The Los Angeles punk scene has been documented in a slew of cinematic documentaries and books, including 2016’s Under the Big Black Sun: A…
“And now, I’m happy to say that if you have a naked coffee table in need of a book, the Buttholes have you covered…
