AGE 12: THE KIDS ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS

Punk rock was a puzzling thing to a twelve-year-old stuck in the Upper Midwest in 1977. The mainstream news media loved to report on its presumed excesses, while the college newspaper record reviewers reveled in it. But there was nowhere one could actually, y’know, hear it. The only snippets of punk rock anyone I knew had ever heard were incidental bits of live music in the background of news show footage. The verdict on the playground, gleaned from these brief exposures was that punk rock was “just a bunch of noise.” I was curious: What does “noise” sound like, exactly? No one could describe this “noise” with any manner of clarity; the best description I could come away with was that punk rock was a bunch of people who couldn’t play their instruments making noise and screaming. It sounded stupid, I guessed.

Author: Rev N0rb
Illustrator: Alex Barrett
Publisher: Razorcake Press
Page Count: 32pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Notes: saddle-stitched, b/w
Date of Publication: 2019