The first wave of published histories of punk focused on the well-known bands and the larger cities, but since that time there has been an explosion of new information about smaller scenes and the bands that helped make those scenes. Of course, many zines in the past balanced a focus on the local with links to national and international punk, often via scene reports. However, the proliferation of personal websites, blogs, and social media outlets created opportunities for individuals to share their personal connections to historical punk and for people around the globe to learn about collecti ..read more

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Punk & Post-Punk 12.2 is available now Contents • Kieran Cashell – The afterlife of punk: Evental sites of punk 77 • Justus Grebe – Presentism, dystopia, negative solution: Three forms of the punk chronotype ‘no future’ • Minerva Campion – Punk and decolonial thinking in Bogota, Colombia • Matthew Smith – Young, loud and snotty: Punk, rebellion and the movies • Rupert Loydell – Seeing what they want to see: An interview with Michael Bracewell • Rupert Loydell – Totally inspired by punk: An interview with Martin Bowes and Alan Rider   Book Reviews Emily Owens – Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk ..read more

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PSN US/Canada Conference Schedule: August 8 & 9, 2023 Keynote speaker: Liz Mason (Quimby’s Bookstore/Caboose Fanzine ..read more

Punk & Post-Punk 12.1 is now available online. Print copies to follow shortly. Contents • Russ Bestley – Editorial • Kieran Cashell – Autonomy and agency: The event of punk • George Grinnell – On punk friendship and the limits of community • Elizabeth Newton – Criticism as punctuation in the Riot Grrrl backlash • Nikola Vojnović – Subcultural event tourism: A case study of Monte Paradiso HC/Punk festival in Pula (Croatia) • Rupert Loydell – Multi-channel diffusion: An interview with Robert Hampson • Russ Bestley – ‘You Make Me Sick’: An interview with Puss Johnson and Steve Eagle ..read more

PANK! – (German) language in zines, punk art and punk rock „Haste ’ne Macke?!“ (Engl. „you nuts?!“) – That is how Nina Hagen begins her song "Pank", which she recorded in 1978, self-ironically written the way Germans usually pronounce the English word "Punk". Youth slang, everyday language, humor, and directness characterize early German punk songs in the late 1970s—a departure from internationalized and slick mainstream pop lines à la ABBA. Political communication was also further radicalized in German punk rock. When the Hamburg band Slime loudly postulated in 1980 that they didn’t want any ..read more

Punk & Post-Punk 11.3 is now available online. Print copies to follow shortly. Contents • Russ Bestley – Editorial • Brigitta Davidjants – Women’s experience in Estonian punk scenes during the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet society • Antonio Pineda Cachero & Jorge David Fernandez Gomez –  ‘No way: Eskorbuto for PM!’ Punk music and anarchist ideology in Eskorbuto • Adam J. Goldwyn – The rhetoric of recovery in Social Distortion’s White Light, White Heat, White Trash • Paul Fields – Just a noisy hall, where there’s a nightly brawl, and all that punk: The proble ..read more

As part of the Punk Scholars Network 9th Annual Conference and Postgraduate Symposium, we are lucky enough to have the celebrated artist Gee Vaucher in conversation with author and academic Rebecca Binns. Join the session on-line via Zoom: TINYURL.COM/PUNK22 ..read more