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Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics - Gabriel Kuhn (Editor)
Straight edge has persisted as a drug-free, hardcore punk subculture for twenty-five years. Its political legacy, however, remains ambiguous—often associated with self-righteous macho posturing and conservative puritanism. While certain elements of straight edge culture do feed into such perception, the movement's political history is more complex.

Since straight edge's origins in Washington, D....
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Black Music - LeRoi Jones and Amiri Baraka
In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's literary consciousness with the short story collection Tales of the Out & the Gone. Now, this reissue of Black Music—long out of print—features a highly provocative and profoundly insightful collection of essays on jazz criticism, the creative process, and the development of a new way forward for black ...
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Maximum Rock N' Roll
Finally, AK has gotten with the program, and we now carry the monthly bible of the international underground punk community. Like clockwork for the last 20 years, MRR provides a monthly dose of 152 pages packed with letters, columns, interviews, hundreds of record, book, zine and movie reviews, essays, articles, news and analysis of all aspects of the independent punk and hardcore scene. Indispensable.
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A Black & White Statement: The Story of the Rondos - Rondos (Music By)
Between 1978-80, the Rondos played 50 live shows. They released their records on their own independent label, King Kong Records, and together with three other bands (Rode Wig, Tändstickor Shocks, and Sovjets) formed the Rotterdam music collective "Red Rock," with whom they shared gigs, equipment, and rehearsal space. Punk for the Rondos obviously meant more than "entertainment," hence their slogan "Punk...
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Flight: The Mythic Journey of a Person Displaced - Katt Hernandez (Music By) and Erik Reuland (Artwork by)
Flight was originally performed as a shadow theater piece depicting the picaresque journey of a youth displaced by war, attempting to escape and transcend persecution. The wordless half-hour show featured a unique montage-based technique of shadow storytelling; illuminating scrolling landscapes; and intricately-cut scenes of shipwrecks, refugee camps & burning house. The hair-raisingly beautiful, semi...
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The Story of Crass - George Berger
Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules and took it further, putting out their own records, films and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks that were dutifully covered by the world's press. Not just another iconoclastic band, Crass was...
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This Land: An Environmental Justice Folk Recording - Joshua Marcus (Music By)
A collaborative songwriting project focusing on environmental and social justice issues, This Land was produced by Philadelphia folk singer Joshua Marcus in cooperation with various community action groups in the eastern United States.

In the tradition of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, Joshua Marcus has arranged and recorded seven folk ballads for the present day. With topics like mountaintop...
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Chatterbox: Biography of a Bar, San Francisco 1986–1990 - Alfie Kulzick (Director)
This is the story of a small neighborhood bar that was located in the Mission district of San Francisco from April 1986 to November 1990. Most of the clientele were in their 20s and 30s and had blue collar jobs. Little did they know they were living in the last decade when a 40-hour work week was optional; where musicians could live cheap, eat cheap, drink cheap, rehearse cheap and play live all around the c...
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Burning Fight: The Nineties Hardcore Revolution in Ethics, Politics, Spirit, and Sound - Brian Peterson
Picking up where eighties hardcore punk innovators left off, nineties hardcore sparked profound change and debate across musical, social, spiritual, and political landscapes. Many of the ideals that were ingrained in hardcore since its beginning were taken in new and often controversial directions. Inspired by the music and the community that developed around the scene, many immersed themselves in hardcore's...
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Best Of Intentions: The AVOW Anthology - Keith Rosson
This 280 page tome collects the entirity of Avow zine issues #11 through 16 and selected entries from the first ten issues as well. Avow is a collection of artwork and stories. Keith owes a few nods graphically to Aaron Cometbus but does a lot of his own ink drawings to develop more on creating his own style. He has done unique artwork for Microcosm, Submission Hold, Against Me!, HeartattaCk zine, and plenty...
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