Punk & Post-Punk

From the filth and the fury to the elegant extravaganza, Peter Gravelle, the many named photographer, has remained in the shadows of punk rock, low culture and high fashion, deflecting attention while steadily producing an epic body of iconic work. The Death of Photography...

Josef K are the great lost post-punk band. Taking their name from the haunted protagonist of Franz Kafka's existentialist novel The Trial, they posed for photographs before brutalist and gothic architecture and produced visionary, often incendiary music that felt like the product of perpetual...

This wonderful body of photographs was created by Syd Shelton for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For Shelton, this work was a socialist act, what he calls a “graphic argument,” on behalf of marginalised lives. His practice of...

From founding Creation Records to discovering Oasis, How to Run an Indie Label offers a no-holds-barred rampage through gigs, clubs, boardrooms, drugs and booze that shows the wild spirit of the UK indie music scene.Music is like no other business. It's about being at the...

The ‘Warzone Collective’ began in 1984 in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland when a few local punks decided to consolidate their efforts and get their own venue, practice and social space. In 1986 the Collective opened its first premises in Belfast called ‘Giros’....

The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis with both fact and opinion. In the 1990s, there was only one real punk rock band still...

One of Britain’s best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming! documented the musical landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986. An immensely evocative read this book perfectly encapsulates the excitement and unprecedented potential of the DIY era. Fully illustrated throughout, The Best of Jamming! includes numerous stand-out...

This is the illustrated story of super-stylist Caroline Baker – the woman who shaped modern street fashion. It explores Baker’s highly influential career – in her own words alongside stunning images by celebrated photographers including Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Saul Leiter and Guy Bourdin.  Baker...

charts the life and career of Sex Pistols legend Glen Matlock through the lens of his most formative songs - from the ones that influenced him as a child to the ones he wrote and played on as a star.Sharing insider tales of the...

Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer and DJ Dave Haslam's wonderfully evocative memoir. It is a masterful insider account of the Hacienda, the rise of Madchester and birth of the rave era, and how music has sound-tracked a life and a generation.In the...

Ray Cappo (b.1966) was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City in the ’80s, where his band Youth of Today played to packed clubs and touched thousands of people across the...

Greg Graffin (b. 1964) is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as "America's most significant punk band." Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has produced 18 studio albums, become a long-running global touring powerhouse, and has...

Rare & Collectible All copies signed by Bill Smith Bill Smith and his Studio have been designing record covers since 1976. In those five decades they have worked with over 200 bands and artists, creating hundreds of album covers, singles bags, and CD covers....

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the inhabitants of a small, roughly one-square-mile area of lower Manhattan were smashing the status quo of music, art, film, performance, and sexuality. These profound transformations were set in motion by a tightknit community of theatrical performers, playwrights, poets, musicians, video-makers, visual artists,...

The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s. A story of money, sex, stardom, screaming fans and forgotten ideals, Like Punk Never Happened is Dave Rimmer's witty, authoritative, fast-moving and provocative...

An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk rock scenes. Kid Congo Powers has been described as a "legendary guitarist and...

An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which...

Don Letts - filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father - has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London's punk and reggae scenes earning his reputation as the 'Rebel Dread'. In There and Black Again, Letts...

From June 1992 to March 1995, in the midst of the AIDS crisis in NYC, an extraordinary theatrical collective emerged from the queer underground. Blacklips Performance Cult, initiated by ANOHNI and joined by a cabal of fellow artists, drag queens, punks, nightlife veterans and...

Featuring 100 of the coolest artists from the last five decades, A Guide to Music's Cult Artists reveals the influencers and tastemakers who have helped to shape the contemporary music scene. Award-winning illustrator and comic artist John Riordan profiles cult musicians from genres including punk, indie,...