Punk

Ian Glasper
With a backdrop of Thatcher’s Britain, punk music became self-sufficient and considerably more aggressive, blending a DIY ethos with activism to create the perfectly bleak soundtrack to the zeitgeist of a discontented youth.

Ian Glasper
The true story of the UK punk scene from '80–84 told by the bands and record labels that created it; profiling bands like Vice Squad, Angelic Upstarts, Blitz, Anti-Nowhere League, Cockney Rejects, and more obscure groups.

David Ensminger
Left of the Dial features interviews with leading figures of the punk underground: Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Dave Dictor (MDC), and many more.

Stewart Dean Ebersole
This photo documentary catalogs the legacy of American Punk pioneers Black Flag, through stories, interviews, and photographs of diehard fans who wear their iconic logo, The Bars, conspicuously tattooed upon their skin.

John Robb
Ranging through punk's widely debated roots in the late 1960s to its enduring influence on the bands, fashion, and culture of today, this history brings to life the energy and the anarchy as no other book has done.

Nick Blinko
This semi-autobiographical novel from Rudimentary Peni singer, guitarist, lyricist, and illustrator Nick Blinko, plunges into the worlds of madness, suicide, and anarchist punk.

G.W. Sok
With a foreword by John Robb, this book showcases the lyrics of G.W. Sok from The Ex.

Stevie Chick
Black Flag’s hardcore story from the inside, drawing on exclusive interviews with the group’s members, their contemporaries, and the bands they inspired. "A gory-gobsmacking read!"

Al Burian
Burn Collector compiles the first nine issues of Al Burian's sporadically published and widely acclaimed personal zine. A re-release of the cult classic, with a new introduction by the author.

Robin Bell
Covering a span of 30 years, More Than a Witness documents the origins, activism, and musical events of the punk/activist organization Positive Force DC.

Editor: Gabriel Kuhn
Since straight edge's origins in Washington, D.C. it has been linked to radical thought and action by countless individuals, bands, and entire scenes. Sober Living for the Revolution traces this history.

Jasper Pattison and Pete Isaacs
Two documentaries about punk-ska band Citizen Fish who live in South West England and spend large chunks of life playing their one-off brand of music to people who don't.

George Berger
Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant.