“It may have taken over 30 years, but punk music and fashion, once a grim specter threatening Western civilization (or at least adult eardrums and aesthetic sensibilities) have gone totally mainstream,” writes Nick Gillespie in a review of the oral history of punk in the Bay Area, Gimme Something Better . Was it worth all the shouting, screaming, vomiting—and the gloriously insane episodes of Quincy, M.E. ? View this article

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New at Reason: Nick Gillespie on the Profane, Pointless…and Profound Impact of Punk Culture

