Punk, New Wave & Indie

It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbi...

Penny Pepper has led an extraordinary life. She is a writer, an activist, a punk pioneer. She also happens to be disabled. In her absorbing memoir,...

The image of Jordan with her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up is one of the most iconic in pop culture. From the counter of Malcolm McL...

This is the story of a music-obsessed boys journey from his bedroom in Hitchin to the heart of nineties London just as Britpop is about to explode....

Since forming the seminal art rock band Throwing Muses while still in her teens, Kristin Hersh has been at the forefront of alternative music, accl...

Punk rock culture in a preeminently average town Synonymous with American mediocrity, Peoria was fertile ground for the boredom- and anger-fueled f...

Praise for the Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die exhibition: A fascinating look at how punk and new wave music me...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids 'Magical' GUARDIAN 'A gripping tale of the search for meanin...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Selected as Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, i paper...

Belfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. The book explores what it was like...

The image of Jordan in her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up is one of the most iconic in pop history. But nobody knows what was really ...

Apart from herpes and Lulu - everything is eventually swept away Just one shimmering pearl of wisdom from popstar and polymath James Maker, whos...