Gimme Something Better
The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
" [An] endlessly fascinating and frankly addictive masterpiece of safety-pin journalism." -- Austin Chronicle
An oral history of the modern punk-revival's West Coast Birthplace
Outside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra?s bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco?s Fab Mab…
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September 29, 2009Jack Boulware is an author, writer, and freelance columnist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, Playboy, Maxim, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and SF Weekly. He is the cofounder of San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival, and the author of Sex, American Style and San Francisco Bizarro.
Gimme Something Better
Jack Boulware and Silke TudorSilke Tudor’s writing has appeared in the Village Voice, Spin, and Tattoo Savage. She worked for ten years as a columnist and nightlife editor at SF Weekly, where she produced the annual SF Weekly Music Awards. She lives in New York City.