Live...suburbia!

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A collection of stories and images of the post 1960s subcultures that define America. It is kids taking their wheels to empty pools, listening to British Punk and creating their own rebellious, street music known as Hardcore, it is skinheads wearing sneakers and moshing in warehouses. This is a new approach in compiling a book; Tumblr, Facebook, Flickr and thousands of blogs documenting subcultures have helped in its creation. But the actual focus is real people's archives and memories of these various subcultures which create an authentic experience.

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"It's like a personal, pictorial history book of everything Boston punk kids have been doing for the last 30 years...It's kind of like a BHC version of the Up movies and will probably be on the coffee table or cistern of every person you know come Christmas."
-Vice

"Suburban skate punks shred the coffee table."
-Dazed & Confused

"It's a visually compelling journey into a simultaneously disturbing and sentimental netherworld where being isolated from others usually means just one thing: dying to get out."
-Flavorwire

"A sick collection with tons of throw back pics and personal stories of the post-1960s subcultures and how it unfolded before us."
-Heel Bruise

"[...] it reads like your cool, older friend's account of all the things you never got to experience. Only this time it's illustrated with a killer collection of photographs and great art direction."
-ESPN.com

"It's an awesome book with stories about everything that mattered to me growing up."
-Shepard Fairey

Author Bio

Anthony Pappalardo is the co-author of Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music published by MTV in 2008. He also wrote for Slap magazine from 1997 to 2002. Pappalardos writing has been published in Alternative Press, Mass Appeal, and Magnet. He currently records music as the Italian Horn and lives in Brooklyn, New York.