Book Reviews
Paranoize Fanzine
Clearly we are very late to the party here as Paranoize is now on it’s 57th issue, but this is essential reading for anybody that thinks that the NOLA Metal/Hardcore scene begins and ends with…
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Wild Spaces – S.L Coney (Titan Books)
All the best horror stories are the ones that lull you into a false sense of security with vivid descriptions of idyllic dreamlike surroundings, that quickly disperse into some sort of nightmare scenario. It’s an…
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The Magic of Terry Pratchett
When: October 12th Where: Bloomsbury Theatre, London Marc Burrows, the man who wrote The Magic of Terry Pratchett – a book on Pratchett’s life and works that preceded the official biography by Rob Wilkins by…
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My Punk Rock Life – Marla Watson (Earth Island Books / Punk Rock Life Press)
For a lot of the malcontents and outsiders who stumble into and find the punk scene, it isn’t just another rung on the ladder of life that we linger on for a while, and then…
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Theta House – Jim X Dodge (Earth Island Books)
Author Jim X Dodge really makes this book writing gig look easy. You take a bunch of characters that we can identify with in some form, you put them in a perilous situation and voila,…
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Directions to the Outskirts of Town (Paperback) – Welly Artcore – Earth Island Books
Despite being featured on the Mass Movement Presents podcast, it’s high time that we had a full review as DTTOOT came out in 2021 but c’est la vie. DTTOOT is a North American tour diary…
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If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Walla Walla: The Wacky History Of Adrenalin O.D. (Paperback) – Dave Scott Schwartzman (DiWulf Publishing)
The ‘Kings of New Jersey Thrash’, Adrenalin OD were one of the few bands to inject a large dose of humour into their lyrics at a time when Hardcore often veered between po-faced seriousness and…
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A Hardcore Heart: Adventures In A DIY Scene – David Gamage (Earth Island Books)
We all love this thing called punk rock. We’ve all made the pilgrimage up and down the various motorways that connect our great cities, to watch or even play alongside our favourite bands. The prospect…
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The Best Of Raising Hell: Leeds, UK 1982-1990 (Amorphous Press)
The U.K Punk and Hardcore scene stretches far and wide across our fair isles with disgruntled punks forming bands in every single nook and cranny of good ‘ole blighty. But there are certain cities and…
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Silence is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans – Ian Glasper (Earth Island Books)
Without doubt my favourite Anarcho band, in both the breadth of their musical creativity and the lack of pretension and preachiness in Dick Lucas lyrics. Subhumans have been consistently popular throughout their 40-year ‘career’ and…
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Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years Of Subhumans
Anarcho legends Subhumans are the latest subject of of a deep dive courtesy of punks most informed writer Ian Glasper. His newest newest labour of love is now available to pre-order. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/subhumans Formed in Wiltshire,…
