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Anarcho-Punk
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Punk Websites and Blogs
Below is a list of punk-related websites and blogs, focusing on research, music and culture...
Intellect Books
Personal Punk
Please Kill Me
Post-Punk
Punk Rocker
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Punk Scholars Network
The Punk Site
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Punk Books from around the World!
Below is a huge list of punk books from around the world...I’m sure this list isn’t complete, but it’s certainly a good place to start!
12 Days on the Road
100 Nights at The Roxy
1988-89: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion
A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982
A Field Guide to Post-Punk and New Wave
A Field Guide to Punk
A Riot Of Our Own
A Wailing of a Town: An Oral History of Early San Pedro Punk and More 1977-1985
Adventures in Reality: The Complete Collection book
All Ages: Reflections On Straight Edge
American Hardcore: A Tribal History
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
Archie Meets Ramones #1
Armed with Anger: How UK Punk Survived the Nineties
Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge
Banned in D C: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground
Blunt
Boy on Fire - The Young Nick Cave
Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
Cheetah Chrome: A Dead Boy's Tale: From the Front Lines of Punk Rock
Chelsea Horror Hotel
City Baby: Surviving in Leather, Bristles, Studs, Punk Rock, and G.B.H
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Dance Of Days- Two Decades Of Punk In The Nation’s Capital
Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital
Dancing with Myself
Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus
Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film
Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
Do You Have a Band? : Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
Face It: A Memoir
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement
Fucked Up Reader
Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag
Gimme Something Better
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
God Save Sex Pistols
Going Underground: American Punk 1979-1992
Hardcore California: A History of Punk and New Wave
Here's the Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks
Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones
Home is where the Arty Is
I am the Voice Left From Drinking
I am the Voice Left From Rehab
I Need More
I Slept With Joey Ramone
I Swear I Was There: Sex Pistols, Manchester and the Gig That Changed the World
I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol
I, Doll: Life and Death with the New York Dolls
I, Shithead: A Life in Punk
I'm Not Holding Your Coat
In The Fascist Bathroom
In The Gutter
Independence Days: The Story of UK Independent Record Labels
Inner City Sound: Punk and Post-Punk in Australia, 1976-1985
Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash
Just Kids
L.A. Punk Rocker
Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons
Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs
Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley
Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones
London Calling
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
Making a Scene: New York Hardcore in Photos, Lyrics, and Commentary REVISITED
Malcolm McLaren: The Sex Pistols, the Anarchy, the Art, the Genius-The Whole Amazing Legacy
Marky Ramone: Punk Rock Blitzkrieg
Modern Machines: Punk Interviews From The Void
My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor
My World: Ramblings of an Aging Gutter Punk
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
New York Dolls: Photographs by Bob Gruen
No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984
No More Heroes: A Complete History of UK Punk from 1976 to 1980
Not Another Punk Book
Not Just Bits of Paper
NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990
Oh So Pretty: Punk in Print 1976-1980
On The Road With The Ramones
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
Passion for Punk
Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982
Pretty Vacant: A Punk History
Product 45 Australian Punk / Post-Punk Record Covers
Punk a Photographic Journey: 2004-2007
Punk an A-Z
Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
Punk Diary, 1970-1979: The Ultimate Complete Day-By-Day Reference Guide to Punk
Punk Girls
Punk is Dead: Punk is Everything!
Punk: Loud, Young and Snotty
Punk Press: Rebel Rock in the Underground Press 1968-1980
Punk Revolution NYC: The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls And The CBGBs Set
Punk Rock
Punk Rocker
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone
Punk Rock Warlord: the Life and Work of Joe Strummer
Punk Rock: An Oral History
Punk Rock: So What?
Punk Shirts: A Personal Collection
Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout! Records
Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock, in Their Own Words
Punk: An Aesthetic
Punk: The Definitive Record of a Revolution
Punk: The Whole Story
Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music
Ramones
Ramones: An American Band
Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail: Can a Punk Rock Legend Find What Monty Python Couldn't?
Raw Power: Iggy & The Stooges
Redemption Song: The Ballad Of Joe Strummer
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot
Rip It Up And Start Again
Ripped and Torn: 1976 - 79 The Loudest Punk Fanzine in the UK
Ripped, torn and cut - Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976
Rotten: No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish
See A Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody
Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols: 90 Days at EMI
Sex Pistols: Chaos!
Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine
Sex Pistols: The End is Near 25.12.77
Sex Pistols: The Graphic Novel
Sex Pistols: The Inside Story
Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk
Shiboleth
Shockwave
Sid and Nancy: Love Kills
Sniffin' Glue The Bible
Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace
Song By Song
Spirit of 76: London Punk Eyewitness
Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag
Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change
Stranded
Stranded in the Jungle
Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Tales From The Punkside
Tales of the Emergency Sandwich - Punk Rock Tour Diaries
The Ballroom - A tell all Memoir
The Best of Punk Magazine
The Bible Of Punk Rock Poster Art
The Big Beat: the Roadrunner magazine Anthology
The Boy Looked At Johnny
The Clash
The Clash: Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Headon
The Clash: The Complete Guide to Their Music
The Day the Country Died: A History of Anarcho-Punk, 1980-1984
The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop
The Encyclopedia of Punk
The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon
The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists
The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets
The Punk
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The Roxy, Our Story: The Club That Forged Punk in 100 Nights of Madness Mayhem and Misfortune
The Scene That Would Not Die: Twenty Years of Post-Millennial Punk In The UK
The Sex Pistols - 1977: The Bollocks Diaries
The Sex Pistols Invade America: The Fateful U.S.
The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story
The Story Of Crass
The Truth of Revolution, Brother: An Exploration of the Philosophy of Punk
There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts
Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die: Punk And Post-Punk Graphic Design
Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83
Trapped In A Scene: UK Hardcore 1985- 1989
Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History Of Punk In Toronto And Beyond 1977-1981
Typical Girls The Story of The Slits
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
Urban Australia and Post-Punk - Exploring Dogs in Space
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation
We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America
We Can Be The New Wind
We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews
What Every Child Needs To Know About Punk Rock
Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985
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Punk Fanzine Archives from around the world.
A punk fanzine or ‘zine’ is a DIY publication related to the punk subculture and hardcore punk music genre. Often primitively or casually produced, a fanzine can feature punk literature, such as social commentary, poetry, news, gossip, music reviews and articles about punk rock bands or regional punk scenes.
Below is a list of punk fanzine websites and archives from around the world, as well as related publications, papers, articles and books.
Archive.org - Zines
Bacteria Netherlands - 70s and 80s Dutch zine archive and International Zine Archive
Bored Teenagers - A collection of UK punk fanzines (covers) from the late 1970
Brob Tilt's zine-world - (fan)zines that are interesting, historical, meaningful, influential, funny, intelligent, surprising, peculiar and inspiring
Circulation Zero - West Coast Punk Music Zines from the 1970-80s: Damage, Slash & No Mag.
Contextual Dissemination - Punk fanzine archive, 1977 onwards - The sole purpose of this website is to make underground, out-of-print, punk zines accessible to anyone doing research.
Digital Fanzine Preservation Society (DFPS). A collection of hardcore and punk music fanzines remastered and collected on the DFPS blogspot by Nagus from 2009-2011.
Essential Ephemera - UK Punk Literature & Images 1976-1984
Florida Punk, Indie, and Hardcore Archive - Florida Punk Flyers, Posters, Fanzines, and Photographs sponsored by Visual Vitriol.
Gary Storm Songs - Punk and New Music Fanzines – Late 1970s to Early 1980s
Grrrlzine Network - Here you can find rebellious feminist zines: grrrl and lady zines, riot grrrl zines, transgender zines, zines by grrrls of color, lesbian/queer zines and many others!
HeartattaCk - An internationally distributed punk zine with a strong bent towards hardcore punk and anti-consumerism. It was published by Kent McClard and Lisa Oglesby from March 1994 through June 2006. In the final years of its publication it remained one of the most popular zines available.
International Institute of Social History - The world's leading institute in socio-economic history
Punk in the East - Punk in the East is a digital collection of original punk photographs, gig ticket, posters, clothing and ephemera from Norwich, Norfolk and across East Anglia. As content continues to come in it is fast becoming the largest digital UK punk archive to be found anywhere on the internet.
Punk Journey: The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene (Australia) - punk fanzines from 1977 - 1987.
Punk Planet Archive - Punk Planet was a punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen.
Punk Rocker Fanzines - Sites for Sore Eyes
Rockmine : The Fanzine Archive - A Fanzine & Fan Club Magazine Archive.
Swedish Punk Fanzines - A site about collecting punk, hardcore and black metal records and Swedish punk zines.
Talkin’ Bout Fanzines - Fanzines from the Southend Area of the UK
UK Zine Library - 100s of(mostly)UK Zines from late 70s to early 90s, scanned and downloadable archive.
Weed - UK punk / post-punk fanzines 1980-1986.
Zineopolis - Art Zine Collection
Definition of a fanzine
Punk zine - Wikipedia
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Zine
Related Publications/Archives:
Like Punk Never Happened - Brian McCloskey's Smash Hits archive from 1978, through to July 1985.
Monash University Library recently acquired a small collection of important punk zines, fanzines, and magazines to add to the Rare Books Collection.
Punk Globe - not a fanzine but a long running magazine that offers a free DIY website for people to get the latest news, reviews, articles, interviews plus much more.
Punk Magazine - Punk was a music magazine and fanzine created by cartoonist John Holmstrom, publisher Ged Dunn, and "resident punk" Legs McNeil in 1975. Its use of the term "punk rock", coined by writers for Creem magazine a few years earlier to describe the simplistic and crude style of 60's Garage rock bands, further popularized the term.
Roadrunner - Roadrunner was a rock magazine published in Adelaide between 1978-83. Its founding editors were Stuart Coupe and Donald Robertson, who worked together on the single-issue Punk zine Street Fever in December 1977. Though primarily focused on Australian and overseas rock music, it also covered areas of the burgeoning counterculture and issues such as punk. The final edition of December 1982 / January 1983 was published in Sydney. To accompany the release of this collection in May 2017, publisher Donald Robertson penned a history of the magazine. It is available here: The History of Roadrunner.
State Library of Victoria - The State Library of Victoria has the largest public collection of zines – independent, not-for-profit, and often hand-made publications – in Australia.
Related Books:
Adventures in Reality: The Complete Collection book - Put together by Alan Rider, Adventures in Reality, was a fanzine from Coventry in the early 1980s.
Mass Movement: The Digital Years, Volume 1 and 2 - A compilation of the best interviews and features from the second half of Mass Movement’s digital period.
Punk Faction BHP '91 to '95 - A collection of BHP fanzines that cover a range of subjects that were important to the youth of the 1990s and are still relevant to the alternative scene of today.
Ripped and Torn: 1976 - 79 The Loudest Punk Fanzine in the UK - Ripped and Torn was one of the first punk fanzines, and continued long after others like Sniffing Glue had stopped.
Ripped, torn and cut - Pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976 - A book that offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976.
Search & Destroy #1-6: The Complete Reprint - Search & Destroy, a zine self-published from 1977-1979 by V. Vale, was a thorough anthropological survey of an emerging social-change movement: the San Francisco punk scene.
Sniffin' Glue The Bible - An edited compendium of the first 10 issues of Mark Perry’s seminal Punkzine Sniffin’ Glue.
Sniffin' Glue: The Essential Punk Accessory - It was the most influential rock magazine of its time. It was called Sniffin' Glue and it's about to be recreated as a book
The Best of Punk Magazine - A book that includes high-quality reprints of hard-to-find original issues, as well as rare and unseen photos,essays, interviews, and even handwritten contributions from the likes of AndyWarhol, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Lester Bangs,Legs McNeil, Lenny Kaye, and many more.
Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83 - Touch and Go fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Lansing, Michigan, in 1979.
We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews - The first compilation of the riveting and provocative interviews of Punk Planet magazine, founded in 1994 and charging unbowed into the new millennium.
Related PDFs:
A Destabilising Pleasure: Representations of Alternative Music in Irish Fanzines
Art-Zines, The Self-Publishing Revolution: The Zineopolis Art-Zine Collection
Bay Area Dadazines and Punk Zines in 1970s San Francisco: Interactive, Ephemeral, Live
Before Blogs There Were Zines: Berman, Danky, and the Political Case for Zine Collecting in North American Academic Libraries
CATALOGING AND DESCRIPTION OF FANZINE AND ZINE COLLECTIONS IN AMERICAN ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Doing it ourselves: Countercultural and alternative radical publishing in the decade before punk (2018)
Flood the market with alternative writing! – Fanzinesrepositories in Europe
FROM PROTEST TO RESISTANCE: British anarcho -punk 'zines (1980-1984) as sites of resistance and symbols of defiance
Global Network Zines - The Public Face of Mail Art
Hands-on Communication: Zine Circulation Rituals and the Interactive Limitations of Web Self-Publishing
In the Ruins of Zine Pedagogy: A Narrative Study of Teaching with Zines
London Punk Fanzines 1976-1984: The Celebration of the Every Person
"Minor Threats" (Radical History Review)
Music fanzine collecting as capital accumulation
Punk, Politics and British (fan)zines, 1974-84:'While the world was dying, did you wonder why?
Punk ‘zines – ‘symbols of defiance’ from the print to the digital age
Punk’s Not Dead: Resurrecting Punk Fanzines at Michigan State University Libraries
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Punk Films and Videos from the UK, USA and Canada
A ton of films, documentaries and videos have been made about the punk subculture in both the UK and the USA, spanning back to 1976 until the present day. Below is a huge list of punk films, documentaries and videos that you can watch for free - Enjoy!
25 Years of Punk Documentary
A Band Called Death - Before There Was Punk
A Brief History of Horror Punk - Anarchy in the World
A Brief History of Post-Punk - Anarchy in the World
A HISTORY LESSON Punk Rock in Los Angeles in 1984
A Unique Punk Landscape
Adam & the Ants - Banshees & other Creatures
AFROPUNK: The Movie
Anarchism in America (1983) - Documentary on the American Anarchy Movement.
Another State of Mind
BBC Archive - Punk
BBC The Story of Skinhead - Don Letts
Before 1976 Revisited: How Punk Became Punk
Black Flag Reality 86'd
Brass Tacks PUNK documentary Manchester 1977
By Any Means: A Brief History of Black Flag: Part 1 - 1976-1980, Part 2: 1980-1986
Bunchofuckingoofs (BFG) New Music 1989
CBGB'S DOCUMENTARY 1978
Circle Jerks - My Career as a Jerk
Clockwork Orange County
Crass - Steve Ignorant on Crass. Un-Cut
Crass - There is No Authority But Yourself
Dancing in the Streets - No Fun
Dead on Arrival - The Punk Documentary That Almost Never Was
D.O.A. A Rite of Passage (1981)
Ears, Eyes and Throats: Restored Classic and Lost Punk Films 1976-1981
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Eyeballs (Dead Kennedys)
Greetings from New York 1983
History of Punk: Sound of Rebellion
Islington Squatter Punk Documentary, 1983
Live Fast Die: The GG Allin story
London Ontario Punk Rock Documentary - Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Made in Belfast
Made in Huddersfield
Never Mind The Baubles - Christmas '77 with The Sex Pistols
NOT DEAD YET - Toronto 83 Hardcore Punk Scene
OFF!'s Keith Morris talks about his time in Black Flag & Circle Jerks
One Nine Nine Four: 90's Punk Rock
Punk : ??? - A (very) DIY documentary
Punk '76
Punk 76-79 (the Vancouver scene) - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Punk And Disorderly
Punk & The New Wave 1976-1978 ~ The Way They Were
Punk & The Pistols 1995
Punk Attitude
Punk Britannia Part 1 (1972-1976)
Punk Britannia Part 2 (1976-1978)
Punk Britannia Part 3 (1978-1981)
Punk feature on 'Review' - Ulster TV - 1978
Punk In Drublic Documentary
Punk in London
Punk The Early Years (1978)
Punk's Not Dead
Riot Grrrl: The '90s Movement that Redefined Punk
Ramones - Rock Milestones
Rock Family Trees: Banshees and Other Creatures
Rock Family Trees - New York Punk - Parts 1, 2, 4,
SLC Punk Full Movies - 1 & 2
Sex Pistols - Live in The USA
So Cal punk documentary
Somewhere to Go: Punk Victoria
Sounds of the 70s - Punk (Anarchy on the BBC)
Step Up and Be Vocal (Queer Punk)
StreetPunk - The Movie (2000)
Suburbia (Full Movie)1984
Surfpunks L.A. punk doc Dutch TV 1981
The Art of Punk - Black Flag - Art + Music
The Art of Punk - Crass - The Art of Dave King and Gee Vaucher
The Art of Punk - Dead Kennedys - The Art of Winston Smith
The Blank Generation (1976)
The Clash - bbc4 documentary
The Culture Show "Girls Will Be Girls" BBC 2 Women in Punk
The day the country died - history of anarcho punk
The Decline of Western Civilization 1981
The Decline of Western Civilization - Part 2: The Metal Years
The Decline of Western Civilization - Part 3: Gutter Punks
The Disrupters, The story of a Punk band
The Exploited
The Final 24 - Sid Vicious
The London Weekend Show Punk Rock
The Shape of PUNK CINEMA
The Slog Movie
The Year of Punk Documentary London Weekend Television
Under The Influence: 2 Tone Ska
Under The Influence: New York Hardcore
Urban Struggle
Visual Vitriol; The Art Of Punk
Where Did Punk Start?
X - The Unheard Music Documentary
You Weren't There
Related Articles:
Ears, Eyes and Throats: Restored Classic and Lost Punk Films 1976-1981
Related Websites:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_punk_films
Related Books:
Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film / Video preview of the book.
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Punk Exhibitions from Around the World!
There have been a number of major retrospective exhibitions in the USA, the UK, Australia and some European countries over the past few years that have featured a selection of punk artefacts from private archives, including photographs, video footage, posters, flyers and clothing. These exhibitions, often held at high profile galleries and museums, confirm that ‘historical punk’ maintains its place of relevance in the contemporary world,
Below are some of these exhibitions:
USA:
A Punk Rock Primer: L.A. 1982-1992 - Incredibly intuitive snapshots of Minor Threat, Henry Rollins & Black Flag, T.S.O.L., The Damned, Christian Death, GBH, Kommunity FK, Social Distortion, Alice Bag, and some of the first ever shows by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Alternative Voices - 1980s Punk San Francisco: Photographs by Jeanne Hansen.
From Bop Apocalypse to Blitzkrieg Bop
Punkfest Cornell: Anarchy in the Archives - A week-long celebration of punk music and history in Ithaca, N.Y.!
Punk Lust: Raw Provocation 1971 - 1985 - The Museum of Sex presents this exhibition as a survey, looking at the way Punk culture used the language of sexuality–both visually and lyrically–to transgress and defy.
The Punk Photography of Linda Aronow - Still photos taken by Linda Aronow that managed to capture the most iconic bands of the day over multiple gigs spanning over a decade.
Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986 (New York) and Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986 (Michigan) - An exhibition that explores the unique visual language of the punk movement from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s through hundreds of its most memorable graphics–flyers, posters, albums, promotions, and zines.
Welcome to 1984//2020: Punk on the Western Front - An exhibition that keeps the spirit of rebellion alive by “presenting the timeless generational phenomenon of punk culture through its visual art style, moments in its musical history, disorderly fashion and anti-conformist ideologies.
X: 40 Years of Punk in Los Angeles - An exhibition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Los Angeles punk rock band X.
Visual Vitriol - Eugene, Houston, New Mexico
Visual Vitriol; The Art Of Punk
UK:
Doing metal, being punk, doing punk, being metal - A collaboration between the Punk Scholars Network and the International Society for Metal Music Studies to explore the hybridity, crossover and difference in punk and metal subcultures - as part of the Punk Scholars Network 5th Annual Conference and Postgraduate Symposium and first Metal Punk Conference.
Punk - An exhibition of vintage press prints that document the rise of punk culture in 1970s Britain.
Punk.London - An exhibition by the Museum of London celebrating 40 years of punk in London, including oral stories from 19 individuals who had all been there to witness the birth of punk. The exhibition also included: Collecting Punks - current and former punks offer a 'Show and Tell' of objects, photographs and stories from their punk days and Filming Punks - two new documentary films, Punks parts one and two, which feature interviews with former punks.
Punk Rock!! So What? - An exhibition featuring a range of punk graphic and visual material spanning the past forty years, demonstrating connections, stylistic conventions, patterns of engagement and the evolution of punk’s visual language and identity across diverse regions and cultures.
Europe:
Punk Graphics - An exhibition at the ADAM Design Museum of Brussels.
PUNK. Its Traces in Contemporary Art - An exhibition that traces a journey through the influence of punk in contemporary art and echoes the importance of its presence as an attitude and as a referent for many creators.
Australia:
High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion - High Risk Dressing / Critical Fashion looked at the ideas and community coalescing within contemporary fashion practice today through the lens of the Fashion Design Council (FDC).
Know your Product - An exhibition, which focused on the complicated overlaps between music, art and other cultural practices, was an early attempt to make sense of what had been going on in Brisbane ‘youth culture’ in the late 70s and early 80s.
Melbourne><Brisbane: punk, art and after - An explosive interaction between art and punk music in the mid-1970s, which drove a charged decade of creative activity between Melbourne and Brisbane.
Nick Cave The Exhibition - In 2007, iconic Australian musician, songwriter and author Nick Cave became the subject of his own exhibition: Nick Cave: The Exhibition, created by Nick and The Arts Centre Melbourne.
On Air - 40 Years of 3RRR - Celebrating 40 years of Melbourne independent radio in the first-ever exhibition showcasing Triple R, Australia’s largest and most successful community station.
Paper Tigers - An exhibition of the 1970s celebrating Sydney’s dynamic poster art and public protest movements, from the late 1960s through the ’70s to the early ’80s.
Punk Journey: St Kilda + Beyond - An exhibition with a strong focus on St Kilda as the historical epicentre of the vibrant Melbourne Punk scene from 1977-1987.
St Kilda's Alright - The Fred Negro Experience - A retrospective and contemporary exhibition consisting of a visually rich pastiche of paintings, drawings, memorabilia, photos, history, film and music – celebrating the history and contribution of one of St Kilda’s most iconic artists and residents (Fred Negro).
Related Sites:
Punk exhibition at the Museum of London
Punk into Post Punk
Related Articles:
Linda Aronow
Punk never dies: celebrating the revolutionary art of an era
San Francisco’s Punk Pioneers
Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics 1976-1986
Related PDFs:
'Is There Anyone Out There?' Documenting Birmingham's Alternative Music Scene 1986-1990
Punk in the Provinces
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Punk Museums and Archives from around the world!
Punk is a subculture with a long history and like all subcultures there is a need to preserve artefacts like posters, flyers, photos, fanzines and music so that future generations of punks and non-punks alike can appreciate the vibrant and visual subculture that is punk.
While some individuals and organisations will have private collections of their own that they lend out from time to time for exhibitions and the like, there are a limited number of actual punk museums and archives around the world that are dedicated to documenting and preserving punk in either a physical or online space.
Punk Museums:
CBGB (website) - Founded on the Bowery in New York City by Hilly Kristal in 1973; CBGB was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and new wave bands like the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, Misfits, Television, Patti Smith Group, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Cramps, and Joan Jett.
L.A. Punk Museum - The Punk Museum is a grouping of like-minded artists brought together by Tequila Mockingbird, To Recreate the Art, Sound, and Feeling of the 80s punk community. Sister museums include New York Punk Museum and San Francisco Punk Rock Museum.
The Icelandic PUNK Museum - The Icelandic Punk Museum in downtown Reykjavik is located in a former underground public toilet. It was started by John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols) and opened in 2016. The museum chronicles the rise of Icelandic punk music in the 1980s through photography, video clips and listening stations.
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Punk Archives
Below is a list of official public punk archives from around the world, which could not exist without the generosity of many individuals who have lent and donated items from their own private collections.
Cuban Punk - an online archive that sheds light on a subculture that offers an underground perspective of Cuban social history.
D.C. Punk Archive - In support of the mission to collect, preserve and provide access to primary source materials that documents the history and culture of local Washington, D.C. punk.
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Audio).
Punk 77 - A history of UK Punk Rock from 1976-79: Featuring an A-Z of punk bands from Adam and The Ants to The Sex Pistols to X Ray Spex, fanzines, features, women in punk, rare record sleeves, audio clips, fashion, punk rock lyrics, interviews and loads of pictures
Punk in the East - A digital collection of original punk photographs, gig ticket, posters, clothing and ephemera from Norwich, Norfolk and across East Anglia. As content continues to come in it is fast becoming the largest digital UK punk archive to be found anywhere on the internet.
Punk Journey: The History of the Melbourne Punk Scene - a multimedia website consisting of archival material from the Melbourne (Australia) punk, post-punk and hardcore punk scenes between the years 1977-1987.
Punk Music and Culture in the UCLA Library - UCLA Library Special Collections created its Punk Archive to document punk music and lifestyle as it has developed and been expressed in Los Angeles both within and outside of the traditional LA/Hollywood punk narrative.
Southend Punk Rock History 1976 - 1986 - A detailed site containing information on the Punk Rock explosion as experienced by Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK. The site contains detailed band bios, a local punk rock history timeline, fanzines and the punks themselves.
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Punk at the Library
Punk Archive Saved
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The Long Island Punk Music Archives (LIPMA) Project
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David Ensminger and Visual Vitriol
David Ensminger is a writer, musician and punk historian based in Houston, Texas. His work includes writing for Maximum Rock n Roll, Houston Press, Thirsty Ear, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. He has also written a number of books about punk music including:
Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation - a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art.
Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons - Featuring interviews with leading figures of the punk underground, including Ian MacKaye, from Minor Threat and Fugazi; Jello Biafra, from Dead Kennedys; and Dave Dictor, from MDC, this book probes the legacy of punk's sometimes fuzzy political ideology, its homegrown traditions, and its rupturing of social norms.
The Politics of Punk: Protest and Revolt from the Streets - David Ensminger probes the conscience of punk by going beyond the lyrics and slogans of the pithy culture war. He paints a broad, nuanced, and well-documented picture of the ongoing activism and outreach inherent in punk.
Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock, in Their Own Words - In this exhaustive anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene.
Modern Machines: Punk Interviews From The Void - Featuring conversations with noted countercultural underground music icons by author, photographer, and drummer David A. Ensminger.
See more about David Ensminger and his projects at his blog: Visual Vitriol
https://www.economist.com/prospero/2011/10/12/the-q-and-a-david-ensminger-punk-historian
Visual Vitriol; The Art Of Punk (Video)
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Australian punk and post-punk films and videos
Australian punk has been a much-explored niche over the past decade, with several feature films, videos and documentaries being made on this vibrant subculture..
Below is a list of films and videos made about the Australian punk and post-punk scene from the late 1970s onward...
Age of Rage: The Australian Punk
Revolution - Through music, photos, archival footage and commentary, this film examines how Australian punk ideology, music, social issues, community, violence, drugs, and a ferociously independent DIY ethos transformed Australian lives.
Alternative Animals CD ROM - An Interactive Documentary of the Australian Punk Scene 1976 - 1979
Australia's New Tribes #1 and #2 - A video about Australian subcultures in the mid 1980s
Big Risk - A short film shot in Melbourne in 1978 featuring Negatives, News, Boys Next Door
City Fringe - A documentary about Australian subcultures in 2009, featuring interviews and a punk gig recorded at the Arthouse Hotel
Distorted: Reflections on early Sydney punk - A video about the early Sydney punk scene
Dogs in Space - A 1986 Australian film set in Melbourne's ‘Little Band’ post-punk music scene in 1978. It starred Michael Hutchence as Sam, the drug-addled frontman of the fictitious band from which the film takes its name.
Melbourne Punk Pub Crawl (1995/96) - Inspired slightly by 1970s UK punk filmmaker, Don Letts, filmmaker Dick Dale took along his Super 8 film camera to the Annual Melbourne punk pub crawl - an annual event that has been held on grand final day every year since 1983
Post-Punk Mix Tapes #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - A selection of short films and video clips from the Melbourne punk and post-punk scene, as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival
Punkline - A short avant film about the Crystal Ballroom, St Kilda in 1980
Rock in a Hard Place - A documentary about 30 odd years of underground, original music in Adelaide, South Australia
Tribes of Melbourne - Tribes of Melbourne is a 1980's documentary on the Melbourne punk scene
Why Do People Hate Us? - A film about Smeer- an ageing punk musician and tattooist who was in Melbourne hardcore band Depression in the 1980s
For more Melbourne (Australia) punk-related videos and film clips go to https://vimeo.com/showcase/6782152
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No Wave Cinema and the Cinema of Transgression.
No wave cinema was an underground filmmaking movement that flourished on the Lower East Side of New York City from about 1976 to 1985. Sponsored by and associated with the artists group Collaborative Projects or ‘Collab’, no wave cinema was a stripped-down style of guerrilla filmmaking that emphasized mood and texture above other concerns – similar to the parallel no wave music movement.
This brief movement, also known as New Cinema (after a short-lived screening room on St. Mark’s Place run by several filmmakers on the scene), had a significant impact on underground film.
No wave cinema spawned the Cinema of Transgression - a term coined by Nick Zedd in 1985 to describe a New York City-based underground film movement, consisting of a loose-knit group of like-minded artists using shock value and humor in their work.
Key players in this movement were Zedd, Kembra Pfahler, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Casandra Stark, Scott B and Beth B, Tommy Turner, Richard Kern, and Lydia Lunch, who in the late 1970s and mid-1980s began to make very low-budget films using cheap 8 mm cameras.
Zedd outlined his philosophy on the Cinema of Transgression in The Cinema of Transgression Manifesto, published under the name Orion Jeriko in the zine The Underground Film Bulletin (1984–90).
In 2010, French filmmaker Céline Danhier created a documentary film titled Blank City. The film presents an oral history of the no wave cinema and Cinema of Transgression movements through interviews with Jarmusch, Kern, Buscemi, Poe, Seidelman, Ahearn, Zedd, John Waters, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, hip-hop legend Fab 5 Freddy, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Jack Sargeant. The soundtrack includes music by Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, James Chance and the Contortions, Bush Tetras and Sonic Youth.
Watch:
Films by the Cinema of Transgression
Blank City (2010)
Kidnapped No Wave Cinema 1978
The Art of Sonic Youth: The New Wave Out of No Wave Documentary
No Wave Now: Lydia Lunch on the cultural history of No Wave
The Blank Generation (1976)
Cinema of Transgression and No Wave Cinema
Websites:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Wave_Cinema
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Transgression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Your_Idols_(film)
https://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/1985-the-cinema-of-transgression-manifesto-is-published/
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A new documentary is to to be made about 'Glamour Girl' Anya Phillips - a designer who brought beauty to New York's 1970s punk scene and tragically died from cancer in 1981 at age 26. Read more below...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/glamour-girl-anya-phillips-brought-beauty-new-york-s-1970s-n695466
https://www.facebook.com/Homage-to-Anya-Phillips-206028506122192/
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Punk Journey: The History of the Melbourne punk scene is a multimedia website consisting of archival material from the Melbourne punk, post-punk and hardcore punk scenes between the years 1977-1987.
The website, which is essentially an online museum, consists of material that is often rare in nature and includes written documentation, interviews, photos, flyers, video footage and MP3 tracks.
To date Punk Journey is the most comprehensive research project to focus exclusively on the history of the Melbourne punk scene from 1977 onwards.
Pages include: Bands, Art, Fanzines, Theatre, Media, Record Labels, Punkettes and Venues among others... as well as lots of links to books, articles, music, films and other Australian punk projects.
Punk Journey is a work in progress and has been created with love by Melynda von Wayward. It is a major historical and cultural document and well worth exploring.
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Punk & Post-Punk (Journal) is a peer-reviewed journal for academics, artists, journalists and the wider cultural industries. Placing punk and its progeny at the heart of interdisciplinary investigation, it is the first forum of its kind to explore this rich and influential topic in both historical and critical theoretical terms.
https://www.intellectbooks.com/punk-post-punk
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From its rather humble beginnings, the Punk Scholars Network has transformed into an international forum for academic and scholarly debate, conferences, publications, talks and public exhibitions.
From the 12th – 19th December 2020, the Punk Scholars Network will be holding their 7th annual conference and postgraduate symposium - a virtual, online, global conference spanning eight days.
Punk is a truly global phenomenon that manifests in myriad ways in different scenes, political regimes, cultural contexts and individual experiences. Punk is many things to many people and seldom remains static over a lifetime. Increased globalisation, changes in connectivity and technology, and shifts in both capitalism and populism have impacted punk for better and worse. International and intranational punk scenes and connections are growing and finding commonality and conflict through music, education, mutual aid, performance, political activism and human behaviours. The global Coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the differences people face accessing resources and how governments respond. How have, and how will, various local punk scenes respond to this crisis, and what does their response tell us about punk as a global phenomenon?
The current Punk Scholars Network Series Global Punk has attempted to capture the spread and variance of punk across the world (Bestley, Dines, Gordon & Guerra 2019, 2020; Bestley, Dines, Gordon, Grimes & Guerra 2021). Gabriel Kuhn’s (2019) work on Straight Edge punk experiences has been based upon interviews with straight edge punks around the world, exploring different aspects of their experiences, attitudes, and activism. The journal Punk & Post-Punk regularly features contributions from punk scholars in a variety of geographical locations and settings. With these efforts, and others, serving as a base we are seeking to hold an entirely virtual conference that explores, examines and critically engages with punk scholars around the globe. Each PSN region will be responsible for one day over an eight-day period and will include some academic papers or panels responding to this call for papers.
Taking global punk seriously as a theme means considering the variety of experiences within local, national and international punk communities. This conference takes place against the backdrop of increased political authoritarianism and a noticeable rise in racial and religious intolerance across the world more generally, and under the guise of responses to the global pandemic more specifically. We must consider what impact these issues have – good and bad – on punk scenes and individuals. To do this together, we are asking to what extent is punk a helpful means or a hindrance in considering identity and ‘being’ within wider social problems, dynamics, and understandings?
In line with the broad view being taken on the theme of global punk and in keeping with the PSN’s wide ranging academic reach, we are seeking contributions from a range of interdisciplinary areas, including, but not limited to: cultural studies, musicology, ethnography, art and design, humanities, performing arts, and the social sciences. Papers and panels could cover the following themes, (list is by no means exhaustive):
Globalisation of new media, communications, social networking, internet
Ethnographic considerations of scene/space and borders
Political appropriation: re-definitions of ‘anarchism’, ‘ecology’ and anti-authoritarianism
What role does exogenous and endogenous appropriation have in punk politics, resistance and allegiance around the world?
In what ways does gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, disability, class, religious beliefs, and cultural norms shape punk around the world?
Notion of local/national/international ‘scene’, tribes, counterculture/subculture
Importation and exportation of punk as a commodity, statement, academic discourse
Music and the performer: creativity, authorship, identity, problems with definition, crossing musical boundaries.
Reception: DIY culture, activism.
Lifestyle: crustpunk, squatter, vegetarianism, animal rights, straight edge etc within different cultural contexts.
The art of punk: record covers and associated graphic styles.
https://www.punkscholarsnetwork.com/blog/punk-scholars-annual-conference-2020
PROSTITUTION at the ICA: A Punk Art Exhibition?
Also check out the KISMIF Conference - an international academic/cultural/artistic event based in the city of Porto (Portugal) and focused on discussing and sharing information about underground cultures, DIY practices, urban arts and other related topics - https://www.kismifconference.com/about/
(2019) KISMIF An Approach to Underground Music Scenes Vol.4
(2016) DIY CULTURES, SPACES AND PLACES. 17-22 July 2016
(2016) Keep it Simple, Make it Fast! Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes
(2015) KISMIF curated.pdf
(2014) KISMIF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Underground Music Scenes and DIY Cultures
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