Few of the punk rockers who were around during the early days of the Hollywood scene remained unchanged by the inexorable confluence of cultural and sexual frustrations that spontaneously erupted in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Some people lost their minds, and more than a few lost their lives, while the rest spent much of the following decades trying to find healthful ways to safely recapture, or at least approximate, the white-hot intensity and euphoric rush of creativity from punk's seemingly endless party. Iris Berry and A. Razor emerged from the chaos, if not exactly unscathed, with something better than scars; they each have new memoirs on their new imprint, Punk Hostage Press, that blend poetic insight with baleful punk prose. In his... More >>>