GOING UNDERGROUND: American Punk 1979-1989, Second Edition Book

The years between 1979 and 1989 are where American punk stopped being a provocation and became a culture, and almost none of it made the mainstream history books.

George Hurchalla was there. Going Underground is the product of decades of obsessive documentation, covering the sprawling network of hardcore scenes, regional scenes, weird outlier scenes, and the DIY infrastructure that held all of it together across the country. This isn't a book about Black Flag and Minor Threat with some filler around them. It's the deep cut version, the one that covers the bands from the cities nobody was paying attention to, the zines, the venues, the internal arguments. Hurchalla writes as someone who lived it, and the second edition expands on the original with more material and more voices. For anyone serious about the alternative and punk underground, this is the reference you actually want on your shelf.

Paperback. Second edition. Published by PM Press.