Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day (平装)

基本信息出版社:Penguin (Non-Classics); Original (2009年9月29日)平装:512页正文语种:英语ISBN:0143113801条形码:9780143113805产品尺寸及重量:21.6 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm ; 440 gASIN:0143113801

商品描述内容简介An oral history of the modern punk-revival's West Coast Birthplace

Outside of New York and London, California's Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world.Gimme Something Better

brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra's bid for mayor, the rise ofMaximum RocknRollmagazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco's Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley's Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor,Gimme Something Betterchronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.作者简介Jack Boulwareis the author ofSan Francisco Bizarro, and was a columnist atSF Weeklythroughout the 1990s. His writing has appeared in many publications includingThe New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, PlayboyandMojo.

Silke Tudorwas born in the Bay Area and reared on punk. She was a columnist atSF Weeklyand theVillage Voice.