Legs McNeil

Time-travel to the punk scene of 1970s New York and beyond—as seen through the eyes of its chief reporter known as “the original punk” who gave the movement its name. Part memoir and part cultural history, Resident Punk offers a no-holds-barred exposé chronicling the iconic and unforgettable music scene that would become defined by bands like the Ramones, Blondie, Television,...

What Britain refined, America defined. Assembled by two key figures at the heart of the movement and told through the voices of musicians, artists, iconoclastic reporters and entrepreneurial groupies, Please Kill Me is the full decadent story of the American punk scene. It spans the early years of Andy Warhol's Factory to the New York underground of Max's Kansas City...