Punk Love

'Punk Love' is a photographic tour of Washington, DC during the birth of the straight-edge movement in 1979. Photographs feature such bands as Minor Threat, DOA,Teen Idles, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, and more. All photos are presented with extensive captions, and descriptions by the photographer, Susie J. Horgan.

The book is introduced by Ian McKaye and Henry Rollins. MacKaye's band Minor Threat was the seminal DC hardcore punk band. Dischord, the record label MacKaye started and still runs, is artistically impeccable. And his current band Fugazi is it's own legend. Fugazi are about as big as a band can get without signing to a corporate label and about as independent and principled as a band can be without living in a closet.

In 1980, contributor Henry Rollins was a teenager living in Arlington,Virginia, just over the river from Washington, DC. He worked as the shift manager for a Haagen-Dazs ice cream shop near Georgetown University, and was a huge fan of a Southern California punk rock band called Black Flag. One day, Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye (who later formed Fugazi) drove to New York City to see Black Flag play at the Peppermint Lounge. They played later at a small club down the street, and Rollins jumped on stage and took the mike for a song.A few days later, Rollins was called back to New York to audition for the band. Rollins spent the next six years riding in vans, sleeping in the back of trucks, getting beaten and mauled on stage, and fronting the most primal rock and roll band in the history of the world. Since 1986, Henry Rollins has enjoyed a more pleasant lifestyle and career as an actor, writer, poet, and frontman for the Rollins Band.