Bazillion Points

I’m Not Holding Your Coat – My Bruises and All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion – Nancy Barile (Bazillion Points)

Another entry into the pantheon of books about the 80s USHC scene? Well not quite… Unlike many retrospectives of this era, Barile’s book is more a personal, biographical account of her formative years as a…


Teen Movie Hell: A Crucible of Coming-Of-Age Comedies From Animal House to Zapped! – Mike ‘McBeardo’ McPadden (Bazillion Points)

Like most folks my age, I spent an inordinate amount of time during my teenage years and early twenties mired in a glut of video nasties and what my Ma used to call “boobie movies”….


Texas is the Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk – Photography by Pat Blashill & Words by Richard Linklater, David Yow, Adriane “Ash” Shown, Donna Rich, Teresa Taylor & Pat Blashill (Bazillion Points)

Some books, imbued with an absolute sense of time and subject matter, pull you into their pages and make you wish that you were, or had been, part of the story that they tell. Texas…


Straight Edge: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History – Tony Rettman (Bazillion Points)

First things first, I’m not Straight Edge. Never have been and almost certainly never will be. But, for the last three decades I’ve had an ongoing love affair (in purely musical sense of course) with…