cover image We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews

We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews

. Akashic Books, $16.95 (346pp) ISBN 978-1-888451-14-6

When Daniel Sinker started the magazine Punk Planet in 1994, the mainstream media was paying attention to underground culture for the first time in over a decade, thanks to bands like Nirvana and Green Day. Meanwhile the more politically subversive, less commercial aspects of punk rock, including movements like the Riot Grrrls, were flourishing, yet going largely unnoticed. Sinker founded Punk Planet to explore that volatile cultural moment. We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the Collected Interviews, edited by Sinker, features interviews with punk trailblazers such as Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna and the Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra, as well as with punk rockers who have achieved mainstream success, like the band Sleater-Kinney. True to the magazine's insistence that punk is political, the collection also features conversations with political dissidents, among them radical linguistics scholar Noam Chomsky. ( Mar.)