March 5, 2010
"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.?
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