SIXTH book IN THE SERIES coming soon!
BOOKS BY PUNKS. FOR PUNKS.
Here you’ll find the in-your-face attitude, the clothes, the fashion, the sex, the music as hard as nails and fast as lightning.
LA Punk Rocker: Stories of Sex, Drugs and Punk Rock that will make you wish you’d been there. This is what billy idol had to say…
about L.A. Punk Rocker…
“Pretty wild chapter on me…maybe u shouldv’e written my book, good luck with it..BFI.”
Fifteen stories from the eighties set in Los Angeles, written by LA Punk Queen Brenda Perlin and her friends who lived every moment of an electric era in the City of Angels. That unique and precious time when punk rock was more than just a rebellion.
Punk Rocker is the much anticipated sequel to “L.A. Punk Rocker”: top author Brenda Perlin’s best-selling punk anthology.
Here you will find a collection of short stories from those who were there in the early days. Hard core musical anarchists who saw it all, heard it all, did it all – and survived to tell their stories.
Along with Brenda and the West Coast punks, Punk Rocker features rebels, writers, commentators and street kids from all over America – talking about the music, the fashion, the attitude, the passion, the lifestyle and, of course, the bands who made it all happen.
Meet people who discovered punk’s new dawn – and those who were there for its sunset, in the ramshackle mausoleum of the Chelsea Hotel.
Backstage, in the clubs, in the gigs, in hotel rooms with the band, on the streets –Brenda was there. She saw it all. And so did her friends.
Punk Rocker. If you missed it…what are you waiting for?
L.A. Punk Snapshots in Color: Before they became huge international stars, Billy Idol, The Clash, IGGY POP, THE DAMNED,…
…BAD RELIGION, T.S.O.L., AND MANY…THE L.A. CIRCUIT.
L. A. Punk Snapshots gives readers a window into the world of punk rock and its fans during the 1980s in Los Angeles. As the fledgling punk scene unfolded, sixteen-year-old Brenda Perlin was there to capture history with her camera. Before they became huge international stars, Billy Idol, The Clash, Iggy Pop, The Damned, Bad Religion, T.S.O.L., and many other acts played the L.A. circuit; and Perlin was there behind the scenes. Truly paradoxical, young, naïve Perlin infiltrated the punk world, and the result is a collection of photographs that is sure to please any music fan.
Crime and PUNKishment: Stories and Exclusive Interviews with Rodney Bingenheimer, Jack Grisham, Palmolive of the Slits, Linda Ramone,
…and captain sensible.
When punk first burst into the public consciousness, it caused the establishment to take fright. Suddenly, anarchy was no longer crouching in the shadows, but out on the streets offering disempowered and disenfranchised youth a rallying flag and a new identity.
In ‘Crime and Punkishment’, Brenda Perlin and her collaborators catalog in words and pictures those days of hope and rebellion – sometimes in surprisingly touching ways. For black was not always bleak, representing as it did membership of a new family, a tribe who rejected the yoke of normality and blandness.
Read and remember!
“Why are you still banging on about punk rock?” someone asked me recently. “That stuff’s been dead for over forty years, hasn’t it?”
Dead? Really? Well, maybe dead in the sense that a vampire is dead, i.e., it’s a creature of the night and shuns the sunshine.
But – leaving aside the fact that The Damned are still alive and performing – the strain of rebellion that characterized much of the movement is still with us. It has simply evolved, in much the same way that punk itself had its roots in garage rock (and the availability of cheap guitars!). One only has to watch the news to see that the spirit of anarchy and struggle against the System continues.
So maybe it’s time to re-visit those days of stripped-down, anti-establishment music. Though, for some of us, we’re not really paying a visit to the past: a part of us never really left it to begin with.
ARTwork BY DOC IVAN
meet the punklord
Brenda Perlin is an independent contemporary fiction author of six titles and numerous short stories.
Ever since she was a child, Brenda has been fascinated with the writing process, writing on napkins in coffee shops every chance she got.
Her first series, the Brooklyn and Bo Chronicles, captures the soul-wrenching conflicts of a couple struggling for fulfillment against those who would keep them apart. Next, Brenda ventured into the realm of animal rescue, Alex the Mutt, which explores the journey of love and loss of a beloved dog.
Her latest novel, PUNKS, comes after Crime and PUNKishment, L.A. Punk Rocker and Punk
Rocker, anthologies where authors wrote about the music scene in the late seventies to the early eighties: a time when she was in Hollywood meeting famous bands and enjoying the new music scene. L.A. Punk Snapshots, her first photography book, shares quotes from famous and not-so-famous music enthusiasts and old photographs from the early punk scene in Los Angeles.
While Brenda is still listening to her favorite bands from the eighties, Billy Idol remains the ultimate King Rocker, and music is her drug of choice.
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interviews
- june 2024 ~ CANVASREBEL INTERVIEW
- MAY 2023 ~ HAUS OF MORNING INTERVIEW
- five questions ~ AllMusicBooks Interview
- APRIL 2016 ~ INTERVIEW WITH CRISTOPH FISCHER
- APRIL 2016 ~ INTERVIEW WITH CRISTOPH FISCHER
- AUGUST 2015 ~ The Wizard’s Cauldron
- 2016 ~ TONEDUFF SESSION interview
- November 2025 ~ An Inspired Chat with Brenda Perlin of Orange County
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