Marc Spitz

Brendan Mullen

An intriguing study of the Los Angeles punk scene during the late 1970s captures the energy, anarchism, and rebellion of the period and offers a close-up look at the bands--Germs, X, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks, among others--the DJs, club owners, music journalists, groupies, and other survivors of the era. Original. 15,000 first printing.

The Untold Story of L.A. Punk

We Got the Neutron Bomb

Adam Parfrey

Don Bolles

"Lexicon Devil is, pure and simple, the finest volume on punk to have seen the light of print. (Yes, folks: that includes Please Kill Me.) Great book!"—Richard Meltzer Production has started on the documentary feature based on the book.

The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs

Lexicon Devil

Roger Gastman

Features street art from Berlin, where unknown local heroes and famous international street artists share a common canvas. This book focuses on popular techniques such as stencils, cutouts, markers and wheat paste. It also includes 17 interviews, which give information about the artists backgrounds and methods.

Nightmare in Punk Alley

Live at the Masque

Taking us back to late ’70s and early ’80s Hollywood—pre-crack, pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan—We Got the Neutron Bomb re-creates word for word the rage, intensity, and anarchic glory of the Los Angeles punk scene, straight from the mouths of the scenesters, zinesters, groupies, filmmakers, and musicians who were there. “California was wide-open sex—no condoms, no birth control, no morality, no guilt.” —Kim Fowley “The Runaways were rebels, all of us were. And a lot of people looked up to us. It helped a lot of kids who had very mediocre, uneventful, unhappy lives. It gave them something to hold on to.” —Cherie Currie “The objective was to create something for our own personal satisfaction, because everything in our youthful and limited opinion sucked, and we knew better.” —John Doe “The Masque was like Heaven and Hell all rolled into one. It was a bomb shelter, a basement. It was so amazing, such a dive ... but it was our dive.” —Hellin Killer “At least fifty punks were living at the Canterbury. You’d walk into the courtyard and there’d be a dozen different punk songs all playing at the same time. It was an incredible environment.” —Belinda Carlisle Assembled from exhaustive interviews, We Got the Neutron Bomb tells the authentically gritty stories of bands like the Runaways, the Germs, X, the Screamers, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks—their rise, their fall, and their undeniable influence on the rock ’n’ roll of today.

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