IN CHINA WITH GREENDAY Book

Aaron Cometbus has been writing about the punk underground in longhand, in tiny notebooks, since before most people knew what a zine was. That he ended up on a stadium tour in China with one of punk's most complicated success stories is the kind of irony the scene has always run on.

Cometbus brings his signature raw, observational prose to a trip that shouldn't make sense on paper, a longtime DIY lifer embedded with Green Day as they navigate a country grappling with Western rock for the first time. It's a road book, a culture-clash document, and a meditation on what punk means when the context strips everything familiar away. If you've ever read an issue of Cometbus zine, you already know he's one of the sharpest writers the alternative underground has produced. If you haven't, start here.

Paperback memoir. A genuine piece of punk literary culture, not just a band tie-in. Available now at ALT CVLT in Frankston.