Melissa Plotsky and Kid Congo Powers talk about the music fan-turned legendary musician’s crazy and wondrous punk coming-of-age story, Some New Kind of Kick.

This week’s compendium of five carefully selected albums are all connected by a change encounter with Julius C. Lacking … maybe it was the tags, or perhaps the artwork, but the results are clear.

Swing From The Sean Dealer (In The Red). Review by Julius C. Lacking.

Poisonous Times (Kill Rock Stars). Review by Jen Cray.

Matthew Moyer is glad that Holly George-Warren and the other compilers of this coffeetable-riffic collection of punk photos fetishize image as much as he does.

Get Well Soon (Gold Standard). Review by Stein Haukland.

…but James Mann offers a review of two books on the subject that should be: Steven Blush’s American Hardcore: A Tribal History and Mark Spitz and Brendan Mullen’s We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk.