RIP IT UP COMPILATION OUT NOW ON V2: LINK
unk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by summer 1977 it had become a parody of itself.
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 is a celebration of what happened next--bands
like Joy Division, Gang of Four, Wire, Contortions, Talking Heads, The Fall, Cabaret Voltaire,
The Human League--who dedicated themselves to fulfilling punk's unfinished musical revolution.
Based on over 125 interviews, Rip It Up offers a panoramic survey of the seven year period
following punk, taking in everything from PIL to ABC to SST to ZTT, and dealing with genres
including industrial, 2-Tone, synthpop, and goth. The UK edition, published by Faber & Faber,
is OUT NOW and available from amazon.co.uk and other UK online booksellers. The American edition
will be published by Penguin in March 2006.
