A nice write-up from the folks at Reason magazine — complete with a video clip from the TV show Quincy, on the evils of punk rock!

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A really good audio podcast of our interview with Erik Jorgensen on Portland’s KBOO.
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Here’s an email interview with music website The Dumbing of America:
TDOA: In the book, you indicate that the punk scene in SF is still vibrant. What bands should people outside of San Francisco be listening to?
JACK: I have no idea. It’s up to them. Go fucking check it out!
SILKE: Who the fuck am I to tell you ...more

A very nice review: ”endlessly fascinating and frankly addictive masterpiece of safety-pin journalism.”
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Here’s a feature story about the book: ”…a sweeping oral history likely to remain the definitive tome on the topic.”
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Here’s a story about our SF Library event, words and photos by Becky Wilson: “Dan Afflicted knocked the power, lights and P.A. out for the event so the reading became a punk rock accapella event!” Thanks Ginger!
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Listen to this crazy and unhinged radio show about the book, with guests Penelope Houston (Avengers), Blag Dahlia (Dwarves), Spike Slawson (Swingin’ Utters, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes), and Walter Glaser (MRR & Gilman). Includes lots of music, and at least one imitation of Jello Biafra!
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Here’s another podcast from Green 960 progressive radio, with host and award-winning journalist Peter Laufer, who was going to have us on for an hour, but it was the very next morning after our Gilman show, and we had the wrong address and were waiting in front of a building two blocks away, wondering why nobody was answering the buzzer, ...more

This was one of our more hilarious interviews, on San Francisco’s ultimate punk radio station, KUSF-FM. DJ Jet showed up hung over enough to be legally drunk, clutching an empty Mason jar. She still has no idea what it was doing in her bed! With music from Dead Kennedys, Neurosis, and more. Click the third hour to hear it all.
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Jello Biafra remembers being barely 21 and running for mayor of San Francisco against Dianne Feinstein, whom he calls “a mean, hateful witch who didn’t even bother to hide her contempt for the disadvantaged.” Billie Joe Armstrong remembers former fans wearing “Kill Green Day” T-shirts after his band signed with a major label: “There was almost a socialist aspect to ...more