The First Definitive Overview of the dawn of PUNK. Skip the safety pins and plunge into this! Four CDs gather 100 songs from a wide-ranging cast of characters. It's got proto-punks like the New York Dolls and Iggy Pop; key figures like the Ramones, X, The Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Television, Wire, Gang of Four, New York Dolls and The Clash; as well as artists like Talking Heads and Blondie, who quickly outgrew the punk label. A thoroughly researched 116-page booklet includes liners, rare photos, track-by-...   [ read more ]

4xCD $64.99

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Essential Logic, fronted by former X-Ray Specs member Lora Logic, blend jazz, punk, beat poetry, and squalling. They're Captain Beefheart meets the Raincoats, but they're also as sweet as ABBA or the Seekers. This double disc contains previously unreleased tracks, songs long out of print, the old, and the new, and a scattering of other recordings that highlight Lora's rampantly spiritual, smooth, funny, and occasionally shocking musical personality.

2xCD $16.99

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VINYL FORMAT. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Perhaps the most utopian aspect of the U.K. punk scene was that it offered creative, articulate young people the opportunity to express themselves, and to kick up an exuberantly noisy racket in the process. X-Ray Spex certainly came from this wing of the movement, the brainchild of two female schoolmates who re-christened themselves Poly Styrene and Lora Logic. X-Ray Spex was far from the only female-centered British punk act, but they were arguably the best, combin...   [ read more ]

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