Bazillion Points

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, over 500 heavy metal bands emerged in Great Britain. Some of them, such as Iron…

Taking bits from different countercultures (veganism from the hippies, healthy living from the Mormons, punk music from…

Known for its glamorous 1970s punk rock scene, New York City matched the grim urban reality of the 1980s with a rawer…

With a personal Foreward by rocker Skin, What Are You Doing Here reveals the dual-outsider dilemma of black women…

This book is a behemoth! It explores the origins of underground heavy metal bands. Collecting hundreds of unseen early…

This photo-heavy book captures the early 1980's San Francisco metal scene, where headbangers turned their noses up at…

This is a story about living without a safety net and getting away with it. Teenage punk rock milkman Ross Lomas…

Choosing Death is widely recognized as the definitive history of extreme music subgenres. For this revised and expanded…

From disenchanted Catholic schoolgirl and glam maniac to instigator on the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Nancy Barile…

Punk rock arrived in Texas in 1978 along with the Sex Pistols' tour, and stayed for good—and Pat Blashill has been…

From the deepest depths of punk rock's primordial wastelands...through the stygian goth swamps of the 1980s, and on into…

In 1979, punk was over . . . but by 1981, hardcore was born. As teenagers in 1981, best friends David Markey and Jordan…

Experiencing Nirvana is a photo journal and an inside look into a crucial eight-day period in the touring life of the…

In 1979, Bruce Pavitt moved to Olympia, WA, and began programming a show called Subterranean Pop on local community…

Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, launched in Lansing in 1979 to chronicle,…