Mutations: The Many Strange Faces Of Hardcore Punk the rolling stones and into the lowlands of

and into the lowlands of the Bronx

and the earliest synthesizers—long before audiences knew what they were—made up the groundbreaking scores for news programs

Like Patti Smith's Just Kids

His dense interrogation of the album traces its roots through punk back to Ray Charles and Burt Bacharach

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Mutations: The Many Strange Faces Of Hardcore Punk the rolling stones and into the lowlands ofInaugural pick for the Pitchfork Book Club GQ's One of the Best Books to Read Right Now How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. And if