LITERATURE

BOOKS

  • PUNK

 MAY IT COME QUICKLY, LIKE A SHAFT SUNDERING IN THE DARK
Carissa Van Den Berk
Bloodlink

The second installment of the revolutionary fable. The young anarcho-punkers Penelope and Eugene get mixed up in a bombing and killing of 13 police officers, and the resulting Haymarket-style frame-up...and it just gets better from there... The second in a two part adventure novel, following on from Yours For The Revolution.

Price: 85kr

YOURS FOR THE REVOLUTION
Carissa Van Den Berk
Bloodlink Records

Young anarcho-punkers, Penelope and Eugene, hit the road. Along the way, they encounter an extraordinary woman named Liberty, who invites them to become part of a movement dedicated to organizing workers and changing society for the better. The State, however, has other ideas and attempts to frame them in Philadelphia for assassinating the mayor and bombing City Hall.

Price: 85kr

PAMPHLETS

  • PUNK

 BONDAGE UP YOURS Experiences of female punks in the nineteen ninties
M. Liptrot
Active Distribution

This thick pamphlet was originally produced for a postgraduate degree, it is nevertheless an excellent collection of interviews with women involved in the (UK) punk scene. Along the way, it discusses a brief history of women in punk, the conventional image of femininity, experiences of discrimination, the affiliation process, the everyday lives of female punks, the female role within punk, feminism and sexism within punk, and a whole lot more. Eminently readable, and food for thought (and enjoyment) for a lot more folks than just the punks!

Price: 15kr

MAGAZINES // JOURNALS // PERIODICALS

  • PUNK

 Profane Existence #57

July-September 2008 issue is even more packed than ever, featuring interviews with the bands WARCOLLAPSE, AGAINST EMPIRE, MAN THE CONVEYORS ARMISTICE, AND KURSK. Features include RNC 2008 welcoming events, The Green Scare updates, Attica Prison uprising remembered, Got Your Back interview, Maygun's vegan recipe sections with summer food and drinks, columns, letters, tour dates festivals and events, and reiveiws, reviews, reviews! This also comes with our cusotmary compilation CD featuring more than an hour of killer hardcore punk from 1977 to present.

Price: 35kr

PROFANE EXISTENCE #50/51 double issue + Skuld Releases Discography Sampler CD Six months in the making, the highly anticipated PE 50/51 double issue a whole lot more than just twice the usual magazine, clockin in at a very hefty 196 pages!, but includes a Skuld Releases anniversary CD as well! Band interviews in this issue are with IMPERIAL LEATHER (Sweden), @PATIA NO (Venezuela), RUIN (UK), SICK TERROR (Brazil) and MASS GENOCIDE PROCESS (Czech). Replacing the featured artist fot this issue is a special focus on Skuld Releases, including an interview and extensive discography information. There is also a NAUSEA tour diary, written by roadie Jim Martin, featuring tons of pictures from US, Canadian, and European outings, giving an insightful and often hillarious look this long-departed band. Other features include a massive photo spread and summary report on second CLIT-Fest gathering (a festival aimed at smashing sexism in punk held in Minneapolis during July of 2005), a photo documentary on Nicaragua, an biographical article on Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo, and more. Regular sections included in this issue are the return of Dave Trenga's By Any MEDIUM Necessary, focusing on the religious right's so-called "culture of life," The INjustice System pisoner focus pages, a massive installment Naked Maygun's Vegan Recipe guide, plus tons of columns and more reviews than you can shake a stick at! And last but not least is the Skuld Releases discography CD, containing a sampling of music output from 1991 to present, with tracks from among others CONTROPOTERE, AMEBIX, HELLKRUSHER, DIRT, ACCION MUTANTE, EXTINCTION OF MANKIND, DETESTATION, OPERATION, OI POLLOI, LOST WORLD, ANTI-PRODUCT, KAFKA PROSESS, AUR-ROTTEN, JENIGER, HARUM SCARUM, FROM ASHES RISE, LA FRACTION, CRESS, TRAGEDY, HIBERNATION, CONTRAVENE, PROTESTERA, FLEAS AND LICE.

Price: temp. sold out

PROFANE EXISTENCE #49

Bands featured in this issue include BORN/DEAD, VOETSEK, MUTINY SCHIFOSI and FxPxOx.This issue's featured artist is photographer and Slug and Lettuce editor Christine Boarts-Larson, whose interview and gallery is more than 20 pages long and contains almost 100 photosgraphs! There is also an extensive article on the recent ¡La Rivolta! festival in Boston (modeled loosely on the CLIT Fest in Minneapolis) written by Erika Ransom of THE PROFIT$. There is also an extensive history of the Italian Anarchist Federation and newspaper Uminta' Nova, plus Naked Maygun's regular vegan recipes section. This is all in addition to the usual columns, letters and extensive review sections.

Price: 40kr

PROFANE EXISTENCE #47

Price: 35kr

PROFANE EXISTENCE #46

Price: 40kr

PROFANE EXISTENCE #45 +CD

Punk against sexism issue.

Price: temp. sold out