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Violence Girl
- Print Reviews
- January 5, 2012
With a razor-sharp memory and conversational writing style, L.A. punk pioneer Alice Bag recounts her musical obsession.
Dance of Days
- Print Reviews
- March 22, 2010
Akashic Press expands, redesigns, and re-releases Mark Anderson and Mark Jenkins‘s invaluable DIY learning tool, Dance of Days. Even better, it’s just as energizing as the first read. What were YOU up to at age 16?
Our Noise
- Print Reviews
- January 5, 2010
Scott Adams finds this compelling history of Merge Records, the underdog label that beat the odds and succeeded, to be insanely readable.

Precious Metal
- Print Reviews
- November 20, 2009
Albert Mudrian‘s Hall of Fame lineup of heavy metal Decibel masterpieces is the stuff of teenage delinquent dreams.
Grunge Is Dead
- Print Reviews
- July 31, 2009
Greg Prato’s new oral history of Seattle music (or “grunge” to you and me, bucko) strikes the right balance between bratty humor and pathos, thinks Matthew Moyer. And was the bassist from Guns N’ Roses really in the Fastbacks? Read on,,,
Population: 1
- Screen Reviews
- April 23, 2009
Apocalyptic sci-fi, Busby Berkeley, and the proto-punk of the Screamers collide head-on in this reissue of Rene Daalder’s lo-fi, hilarious, and terribly sad musical. Is that a twelve-year old Beck making a cameo?

Punk’s Not Read…
- Print Reviews
- May 20, 2002
…but James Mann offers a review of two books on the subject that should be: Steven Blush’s American Hardcore: A Tribal History and Mark Spitz and Brendan Mullen’s We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk.

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